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NEWS Vol. 2, No. 9 CHAPEL HILL, N. C, THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 1960 Published Weekly i Coed Staffs ' Announce New, Appointments Nine new appointments to the Women's Honor Council and the Women's Attorney General staff were approved by the Student Government Board at last week's meeting. Bunny Micolino, Sistie Boat wright, Dana Borden, Mimi Le Elond and Kelsey McGee were appointed to Women's Honor Council. Appointed to the Women's At torney General staff were Mere dith Cromartie and Beverly Des mond. Carolyn Durham and Carol Mason were named as clerks. New appointments to the men's council will be made at today's meeting. President Bob Bingham read a letter from the Rector of the University of Chile, appealing for aid directly from Carolina students to the students at the Chilean university, which suf fered extensively from the re cent earthquakes. Bingham said a committee will be formed to sponsor a drive to raise money to aid the Chilean Students. Class Rings Still On Order Any member of the class of 1961 end any previous class may still order his official Balfour class ring through the Grail Ring Chair man Pat Morgan. He may be in room 408 Connor Dormitory or by phoning 8-9079. Comic Classic Featured As Free Flick "The Captain from Koepenlck" Is this week's free flick and will be shown in Carroll Hall, Thursday at 7:30 p.m. ! The film Is in color and Is di rected by Kautner who directed "The Devil's General" and "The Last Bridge." The short subject will be "Constitution and the flight to Vote." Carl Zuckinayer's classic ' comedy about the biggest hoax ' In history has been turned into a lavish new screen version. This is the true story of poor , cobbler Wilhelm Voigt who, . desperate to obtain a passport denied to him, donned a second hand captain's uniform in a rail road station washroom, com manded a squad of soldiers of the Kaiser's Imperial Army and ordered them to arrest the Mayor of Koepenlck and take him to Berlin. Having proved to an amused Germany that the authority of a uniform counted for more than a man, Voigt voluntarily surrendered and was granted his passport by the Kaiser. i The film is in German dia logue with English subtitles. It won awards for the best feature film, best actor and best director. I. DEAR JEAN After long hours of poring over reams of copy for this week's issue of The News, we've decided that your attrac tive smile is indeed a welcome sight for copy-sore eyes. For those of you who haven't seen her before, she's Jean Desmond of Burl ington. She'U be a sophomore sociology major at W. C. next fall. (Photo by Pete Ness) Playmakers To Present Students' One-Act Plays The production of three new one-act plays, along with the schedule for the coming season, was announced by the Carolina Playmakers this week. ; The one-act plays were written in Prof. John W. Parker's play writing class during the first summer session. The plays will be presented in the Playmaker . Theatre at 7:30 p.m. Monday and Tuesday, Aug. 8 and 9. There will be no admis sion charged. At intermission, Prof. Parker will introduce the young play-' wrights and the audience will be invited to discuss the new plays both from the point of playwrit ing and production. The Broadway musical "South Pacific" will highlight the. fall semester program. The Rodgers and Hammerstein production will open the fall season for the Playmakers on Oct. 28, and will run for three days. Dylan Thomas' "Under Milk Wood" will be presented follow ing the Thanksgiving recess. Some one-act plays will also be presented during the fall se mester. The spring semester program includes Duerrenmatt's 'The Visit," along with some more one-act plays, and "Day of Glory," and "Great Diamond t I- A Robbery." The first play to be presented Monday night is "Footnotes on Salome," a comedy of college life by Cristeen Myers of Brook neal, Va. Edward Robbins of Greensboro will direct. : - "The Thorn Tree," the second play, is a domesticdrama of Piedmont North Carolina by Alary Kiser of Winston-Salem. It will be directed by Arthur Hopper of Birmingham, Ala. "A Farce-Comedy," the third play, depicts Negro voting prac tices in northeastern Carolina. It was written by Gilbert Daley of Raleigh and will be directed by Daniel Liney of Buies Creek, N. C Settings for the plays are being designed by Tommy Rezzuto, technical director of the Caro lina Playmakers. Sets are being executed by the Junior Play makers who are in residence here for the second summer term. For the past 43 years the Carolina Playmakers have re. ceived international renown for their encouragement of new playwrights. Almost 1,000 new scripts have been staged in the Playmakers Theatre on similar occasions. Such writers as Paul Green, (See Playmakers, Page 3) Italian Students See Campus As Guests Eleven Italian students arrived here Tuesday night for a week's visit on campus. Ranging in age from 17 to 24 years old, the students will attend classes and will be the guests of Carolina stu dents in several social events. They will be on campus until August 10. ' While on campus the 11 students are guests of Sum mer Session Student Government and the YM-YWCA. Co ordinator for the group will be newly - appointed YMCA staffer jan student will be accompanied Tom Davis. by a Carolina student, and they A watermelon cutting was held wm g0 to tne Rat in pairs Wednesday night, in honor of Sunday they will attend West the visiting students. . minster Fellowship at 5:30 for The visiting students attended an SUpper, and will see a video taps orientation session Wednesday 0f Edward R. Murrow's "Who morning, went on a tour of the Speaks for the at &:30 campus that afternoon, followed The Italian students visit is a by a swim at Kessmg Pool. part of the "Experiment in Inter Friday afternoon the Cosmo- national Living," an educational politan Club will hold a picnic for travel organization, dedicated to the visitors at the Community the goal of "fostering mutual Church. The picnic will be en- understanding and respect among livened by various forms of enter- peoples of different nations." tainment, including square danc- They will arrive by bus at ing. - Chapel Hill at 7 p.m. Tuesday, - The students will go to the Rath- August 2, coming from Quebec, skeller Saturday night. Each Ital- High Schoolers Here Studying1 Playmaking Forty-three talented high school boys and girls represent ing 13 eastern states from Mas sachusetts to Florida are now in residence on the UXC campus where they are studying various phases of playmaking. The Junior Playmakers pro gram is under the direction of the Department of Dramatic Art and the University Extension Division. Professor John W. Parker of the department of dra matic art heads the program for the 14th year. A staff of eight instructors and counselors supervise this highly concentrated course and laboratory in theater and arts. The Junior Playmakers are either high school juniors or sen iors or high school graduates of the current year. Their average age is 16. All of these students were carefully selected and were awarded scholarships by the Carolina Playmakers to attend this five-week summer session. Already they have over 40 plays or scenes from plays in rehearsal. Their only public per formance is cheduled for Satur day evening, August 27. The public is invited. The Junior Playmakers are housed in Old East Dormitory, the oldest building on the cam pus of the first state university in America, which is located near the Playmakers Theater, scene and costume shops. On Professor Parker's staff are: Mrs. Louise Lamont, teach er of acting; Professor Russell B. Graves and Tommy Rezzuto, teaching history of the theater and stagecraft; Professor Vic tor Michalak of Duke Univer sity, teaching speech; Mrs. Elenor Carter. Mrs. Helen B. House and Mrs. Louise Dixon who are serving on the counsel ing and administrative staff. Montreal and Washington, D. C. The five coeds will live at Spen cer Dormitory. The men will liv in dormitories and fraternity houses. . The students come from several different universities in Italy, and their academic majors are even more varied. Nearly all of the students can speak at least two other languages usually French and English and one speaks German also. One of them, 21-year-old Maria' Masnata, is studying at a school for interpreters, and speaks excel lent French, along with English and her native language. The "leader" of the group 13 Elena Bo, 24, of Genoa. She is a language major and plans to spend her free week in New York. This is her third trip under the experiment. Sandro Canevello, a 23-year-old Genoan, is an economics student, and wants to spend his free weelc visiting "New York's supermar kets, storehouses and Stock Es change." Another Genoan, Giovanni Del. lepiane, 22, is a political scienca major. Gloria Fava, 22, from Ferrara, went to work for her father as a secretary after attending commer cial secondary school. The youngest member of tha group, 17-year-old Antonio Lenner, attends a "third class Scientific High School." He is from Milan. Antonio's brother, Franceses, 21, is study biology. Alberta Leva, 22, is from Lorn bardy, the capital of the province of Lombardy. Alberto is studying economy and commerce and has also been to a textile school. Francesco Pelizza, 23, is a busi ness student from Genoa and also plans to visit New York during his free week. The only geological science st dent in the group is Luisa Preve, 19, of Genoa. She speaks German, French and English in addition ta Italian. Marco De Bianchi plans to visit Florida during his free week. Ha is a 20-year-old economics and commerce student at the Univer sity of Bologna.
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