Vol. 2, No. 5
CHAPEL HILL, N. G, THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1960
Published Weekly
Playmakers "One More Waltz' Opens
5 To Attend
Democratic
Convention
Five UNC students will attend
the Democratic National Conven
tion in Los Angeles as "political
interns."
The students are being sponsor
ed by the Political Studies Pro'
gram of the UNC Department of
Political Science.
The students are Michael Childs
Of Wilson, Tom Efird of Gastonia,
M. Glen Johnson of Frankfurt, Ky.,
Jeffery Lawrence of Washington,
D. C, and Robert Silliman of New
ton, Mass.
Chosen in a campus-wide com
petition on the basis of their aca
demic excellence and promise for
future leadership, the students' ex
penses will be paid by the pro
gram. While in Los Angeles, Efird and
Johnson will work in the head
quarters of Senator John F. Ken
nedy of Massachusetts, the front
running Democratic candidate.
Childs and Lawrence will be at
tached to the headquarters staff
of Senator Lyndon B. Johnson of
Texas. Silliman, the lone Republi
can intern, will attend the Con
vention as an interested but nu
tral observer.
The interns Will not only work
in the candidates' headquarters,
but will attend some sessions of
the Convention. They will also
keep in close touch with the North
Carolina delegation.
The purpose of the internship,
as explained by Professor Donald
R. Matthews, Director of the Pro
gram, is "to supplement class
room instruction by actual expos
lire to the political world, thereby
stimulating greater interest in, and
understanding cf, American demo
cracy at work." The program is
supported by a grant from the
Maurice and Laura Falk Founda
tion of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
The same group of interns has
been working in Washington on
the staffs of Congressmen and
Senators since late May. Childs
has been working in the office
of Congressman L. H. Fountain
(D., N.C.); Efird, in the office of
Congtessman Ken Hechler (D.
W. Va.); JoLnson, in the office
of Congressman Ed Edmundson
(D. Okla.); Lawrence in the office
of Congressman Byron Johnson
(D., Colo.); and Silliman, in the
office of Congressman Peter Fre
linghuysen (R., N. J.).
While in Washington, the in
terns have had many opportuni
ties to interview important figures
in national politics. Among those
interviewed so far have been Con
gressman Harold Cooley of North
Carolina, Chairman of the House
Agriculture Committee; Dean
Acheson, former Secretary of State
under President Truman; Senator
Russell Long cf Louisiana; Justice
Brennan of the U. S. Supreme
Court and many others. In Wash
ington, the interns have been un
der the direction of Mr. James
Rowe, a native of Charleston, S. C.
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REHEARSAL This is a scene from a rehearsal session of
the Carolina Playmakers' production "One More Waltz." The comedy,
which opens tonight and runs through Friday night, was written by
Isabella Davis and is being directed by Kai Jurgensen.
(Photo by Ron Cunningham)
UNC Chorus
To Present
Concert
The 35 members of the UNC
Summer School Chorus will pre
sent a concert in Hill Hall Tuesday
at 8 p.m. The concert is open to
the public.
The group will be conducted by
Edward L. Kottick, graduate as
sistant in the UNC Music Depart
ment. Robert Steelman will be the
accompanist. He is a graduate
student in the Music Department.
The program will consist of
works by Purcell, Lasse, Palestr
ina. Billings, Gershwin, Schwartz,
Loesser and . Fine. The selections
on the first half of the program will
be accompanied by the Renais
sance Ensemble, a group formed
especially for this performance.
Featured on the second half of
the program will be three fuguing
tunes by William Billings, an
American contemporary of Mozart
and Haydn. Billings' hymns, writ
ten in New England, combine the
archaic flavor of sixteenth-century
counterpoint with typically
American straight-forwardness and
zest.
Kottick, the conductor, holds de
grees from New York University
and Tulane University. He has
been assistant director of UNC
bands for the past year, in addition
to conducting the UNC Brass En-"
semble, and teaching brass in
struments in the Music Depart
ment. Before coming to Chapel Hill,
Kottick received a Masters de
gree at Tulane, where he also
played trombone in the New Or
leans Philharmonic Symphony
Orchestra, the New Orleans Opera
Company Orchestra and the Cres
cent City Summer Pops Orchestra.
Soprano Sings
In Hill Hall
This Sunday
Soprano Barbara Faulkner will
give a concert this Sunday at 8
p.m. in Hill Hall.
The concert is open to the pub
lic without charge, and is spon
sored by the UNC School of Music
and the Summer School Activities
Council.
In 1958 Miss Falukner won the
Southern Regional Finals of the
Metropolitan Opera, and in na
tional competition in New York
she won the Euclid McBride Me
(See Soprano Sings, P. 7)
NATURE GIRL This pretty Carolina coed
decided to gel real close to old MWher Nature,
by sitting down in the Arboretum and inspect
Jurgensen Is
Production
Director
Kai Jurgensen, professor in the
Department of Dramatic Art at
Chapel Hill, is directing "One More
Waltz," a new original play by
Isabella Davis. Jo Jurgensen, wife
of the director, plays Bell Ott, the
leading female role, while his dau
ghter Karen, plays a child, Elean
or Ott.
Last year the Jurgensens were
in Copenhagen where Kai was a
Fulbright Professor at the Uni
versity of Copenhagen. Recently
Jurgensen has played Volpone in
"Volpone" here. Among the plays
directed by Jurgensen are "Oedi
pus Rex," "Peer Gynt," and "The
Lark." He attended the Univer
sity of Montana as an undergradu
ate, then spent two years at The
Royal Theatre in Copenhagen. Aft
er this he attended the University
of North Carolina, where he be
came a teacher.
Mrs. Jurgensen played Kate in
"Kiss Me Kate' and Abbe in "De
sire Under the Elms." She has
studied dance with Martha Gra
ham, Jose Limon, and Carles
Wiedeman. She was graduated
from Duke University.
This is Karen's first part, ex
cept for one appearance in a TV
play. Mrs. Jurgensen's first act
ing was done during her senior
year at Duke. She explained, "That
was the year everybody cut their
hair, the director needed long
hair, so I got the part." "Kai,"
she continued, "began acting while
in high school in Montana. He was
fresh" from Denmark, and they
were giving a Chekov play. The
director chose Kai because of his
accent, even though it was a far
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Tonight
"One More Waltz," a light
comedy in three acts by Isabella
Davis of Chapel Hill, will be pre
sented July 7 and 8 at 8:30 p.m.
at the Playmakers Theatre. It will
be the major Carolina Playmaker
production of he summer. Admis
sion is $1.
Mrs. Davis, wife of Lambert
Davis, director of the UNC Press,
has lived in Chapel Hill since 1948.
She is the mother of three children.
Although Mrs. Davis has written
plays before, while living in Char
lottesville, Va., she has only re
cently ' regained her interest in
playwriting, and "One More
Waltz" is her first Chapel Hill
production. Last fall she enrolled
in Foster Fitz-Simons' acting class
and last spring in Tom Patterson's
playwriting course at the Uni
fersity. She has acted in Mr.
Fitz-Simons' production of Volpone.
VI in the part of Lady Woodbe.
Mrs. Davis is optimistic about
the reception of "One More
Waltz," although she admits it is
not '"hilarious" comedy nor was it
intended to be. She looks for her
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f. :
BSU Continues
Forum Series
The Baptist Student Union will
continue a program series on
"Loving God" at the group's week
ly supper forum at 5:45 this after
noon in the BSU center, 151 East
Rosemary St.
The Rev. James 0. Cansler,
BSU director, will speak on "The
Place and Meaning of Service in
the Christian Faith" as the fourth
topic of the series. Supper will
precede the program.
In addition to the Thursday eve
ning supper forum, the BSU holds
a vesper service and an open
house at 9 p.m. each Sunday in
the center.
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