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January 20,1960 THE SKYSCRAPER Page Three You're Not Begging/ Ladies; Publicity Director Assures F by Leo Flanagan Recently, I was conversing with a Mundelein girl about the coming Stu dent Benefit starring Fred Waring. I was surprised by the girl's attitude. She said, Most of us have had the idea since our high school days that we're just begging when we try to sell tickets to these shows. Let me assure you, ladies, you're not begging Begging implies that you're asking for something for noth ing. What you're doing or should be doing, is selling You have a com modity entertainment approxi mately two and one-half hours of it. In exchange for this commodity you're asking for an extremely just compen sation. Give people the facts, ladies, just the facts. Quote Variety's reviews of the show as the finest and most wholesome entertainment now on tour. Tell about the 25,000 of stereo equipment Waring has with him and the full production numbers he's do ing now, for the show's not just the orchestra sitting and the singers standing. Stereo Festival has mo tion and color. Frankly, there's no reason why each of you can't sell at least three tickets to this show and easily Most of your parents will want to attend, so there are two. I would imagine that there might be a man-type friend interested in going, so that's another. And how Why Support Benefit? Reasons Show Purpose In the past nine years, the annual benefit has netted over 66,400 for Mundelein. This money has been used to maintain and improve current fa cilities. In particular, funds from the last two benefits have refurnished the study hall and redecorated the student lounge. But this student-contributed money has another important purpose. Cer tain business groups, such as the As sociated Colleges of Illinois, donate money for the advancement of educa tion to various colleges. However, when investigating a school's request for aid, one of the first questions asked is, What have your alumni and stu dents done to support the school? If these groups have shown active interest, industry will be more willing to make a sizeable contribution. Thus, the benefit, in addition to providing monetary aid, gives the school the op portunity to display students' willing ness and cooperation and therefore increase chances of receiving outside aid. The Fred Waring Benefit, therefore, will not only be entertaining and help ful to the school; it is absolutely nec essary for, although tuition is 500, it costs more than 842 to educate each student. about the favorite aunt and uncle or grandma and grandpa? And unless I've been mislead by the pretty faces and bright personalities I've seen in the last four months, I'm sure you have friends away from the college. How about them ? And there's one more ticket potential that should be as sure a sale as selling me on a new diet yourselves Don't ask people to buy tickets as a favor to you, ask them to buy a two and one-half hour favor to themselves. STAMPS Did you get any Christmas cards? If you did, please turn the stamps in to the bookstore. They'll then be sent to the missions to pro vide funds for much-needed mis sionary activities. ather Downey, Visiting Lecturer, Dies at Loyola Father John P. Downey, S.J., asso ciate professor of philosophy at Loyola and for many years a teacher at Mun delein, died Jan. 4 at the University's Lake Shore campus. Funeral services, held Jan. 7 at St. Ignatius church, were attended by many faculty mem bers, alumnae and former students. Father Downey died shortly after his return to the Jesuit residence after teaching his Monday morning class on the downtown campus. About three hours before his death he visited with Mundelein friends while enroute to Loyola via his usual short-cut, the first floor corridor. Father Downey began teaching at Mundelein in 1945, the year he came to Loyola. He taught at the College until 1959 when he was hospitalized by a heart attack. Leading Figures Greet New Year With Startling Plans for Future Happy New Year In keeping with this traditional resolution-making sea son, some of our leading figures have come up with these resolutions for a fresh start in '60. SENATOR WAYNE MORSE, (D, Wash) has resolved to overcome his natural reticence and assert himself more strongly in the coming sessions of Congress. Khrushchev's favorite resolu tion is to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that a Russian named Vladimir Dyzniak invented the original Dyzniland. Jack Paar promised himself that this year he would definitely realize his secret ambition: to emcee an af ternoon kiddie show, Howdy Doody Returns. FIDEL CASTRO delighted Ameri can capitalists by pledging to shave off his beard on a Gillette commercial and use the proceeds to take a good will tour of the U.S. Mayor Daley has decided to run for re-election on the platform: Chicago has more wastebaskets per square mile than any other city in America. Other resolutions made over the holidays include that of Jack Kerouac to compose an ode to the portrait Whistler's Mother, which gave him the inspiration to start his literary ca reer, and that of Louisiana's Governor Earl Long to run for President on a favorite son ticket and solve the prob lem of the Democratic nominations. PERHAPS THE MOST UNIQUE resolution was that of Van Cliburn, who resolved to take guitar lessons and join the Kingston Trio. Casey Stengel surprised everyone by vowing to move the Yankees to Milwaukee this season. The most welcome resolution (and this one is on the level) was heard from Shawnee on the Delaware, where Fred Waring was heard to promise Mundelein the best benefit perform ance ever. Meet One of the Pennsylvanians, Fred Waring's Daughter, Dixie (See Picture on Page 1) If Fred Waring is heard whistling it's not too Dixie while in Chicago with his Stereo Festival for Benefit night, Economics Club Renewed Members of the Economics depart ment are reactivating their club, Nu Theta Epsilon for second semester ac tivities. Lynn Rezek and Dorothy Strobl are co-chairmen appointed to re-establish this club on campus. They are study ing the club's constitution. 'Look Homeward Angel1 Loses Strength as Play By Roberta Maday C IM A Y I N fi tne annua' Skyscraper Ball, Moira Coleman, senior, is l-LimHAIliU crowned Queen by Marilynne O'Dea '59, last year's Queen. The Ball, sponsored by the Student Activities Council, was held in the Four Georges Room of the Ambassador West, Dec. 30. surprising. For Fred's extremely proud of one talented mem ber of his Pennsylvanians. She's Dixie Waring, his only daughter and the old est of his five children. ALTHOUGH DIXIE didn't become a full-fledged Pennsylvanian until 1957, her first public appearance dates back to 1949 when, with her brother, Fred Jr., she was part of a set staged by their father on a television series. Later, she attended Pennsyl vania State College, where, ma joring in home economics, she di rected her sorority glee club which won the Penn State Inter- fraternity Council Sing in con secutive years. Jobs at a nursery school, at a chil- drens' home in San Diego, and as a social worker in Denver came after graduation. Then, at the insistence of Fred Jr., she auditioned for the Pennsylvanians, an experience, she assured everyone, which was her most embarrassing mo ment. Today, in addition to her musi cal work, she most enjoys clown ing with her father and brother, reading and writing poetry, and caring for her rather unusual pets, three skunks and a cat. DIXIE'S ULTIMATE GOAL is mar riage and children. But until the right man comes along, Dixie is happy to be either with the Warings at Shaw* nee-on-the-Delaware or with the Pennsylvanians, delighting audiences throughout the country. No stage adaptation of Thomas Wolfe's autobiographical novel Look Homeward Angel could probe into the mind and heart of the central charac ter to the extent that the 600-page book does. However, Ketti Frings' selection and condemnation of the essential events in the novel provide two and one-half hours of entertainment by bringing to life the book's memorable characters. MUCH OF THE DIALOGUE is taken verbatum from the book, al though some is created by the play wright to furnish background de scribed by Wolfe. There are two scenery changes in this three-act play, recently showing at the Blackstone Theater. Acts One and Three are set outside the wooden barn-like boarding house owned by- Eliza Gant. Act Two takes place at W. O. Gant's stone-cutting shop where an Italian Carrara marble statue is seen the Angel that is to someday marke Gant's grave. The locale is Altamont, North Carolina, and the costuming, casual dialogue, and sound of a gramaphone give the audience the feeling that it is summer, about 1916. The play's primary character, Eu gene Gant (Michael Ebert) is a lanky perceptive youth who has lived in the imaginary world of books and now longs for a college education to ex tend and verify what he knows only vicariously. Eugene is more thought than action and does not leave the strongest impression. IT IS HIS MOTHER, Eliza Gant, (Miriam Hopkins) who is most vivid. Her every action confirms what she is a calculating property-mad board- Christmas Cycle To Be Closed By Student Mass On Tuesday, Feb. 2, the day which marks the official close of the Christ mas cycle, Father William Clark will celebrate the second Student Mass of 1960 at noon in Stella Maris Chapel The High Mass will be sung by parti cipating students. NO LESS than three feasts fall on Feb. 2. One of the oldest feasts of Our Lady, the Purification, celebrates the ceremony of her purification on the 14th day after Christ's birth, in obedience to the Mosaic Law. This is also the feast of the presen tation of the Divine Child in the tem ple. In the hands of His mother, Our Lord offered Himself to His Heavenly Father as Mediator and Victim for the redemption of the world. CANDLEMAS DAY is the third title given Feb. 2. The blessing of candles takes place on this day, re calling the words of Simeon as he held the Child: A light of revelation to the Gentiles. ing house proprietress. Eliza consist ently calls her husband Mr, sends Eugene to the train station with hand bills to conjure up business, makes her married daughter a servant to her boarders, and attempts to seize her husband's shop to help feed her board ing house personalities. When Eu gene says Nothing in this house is ours; everything belongs to those ten ants, he expresses the tacit feelings of the family. Every movement and word of Helen Gant Barton (Paula Hous ton) is restrained. This heightens the audience's awareness of the conflict between Helen and Eliza. Helen is greatly in need of heavy slatherings of praise, for her work is unnoticed. Only Helen comes anywhere near to understanding W. O. Gant (Gilbert Green). From the moment his raving is heard off stage until the death of his son Ben (Lee Richardson) quiets him somewhat, he is the result of a man dominated by the consuming vi tality of his wife. When he is not drunlo and cursing the activities of his family as a travesty on nature, he is proposing the unanswerable Why?. SEVERAL CHARACTERS display contrasting and at times comical man nerisms. In a few asides Ben confides in his dead twin brother. Laura James (Barbara Stanton), whom Eugene idealizes so that she will fit into his dream world, is six years his elder. She declares her love for him and then impulsively decides to go home to an old boyfriend. Mrs. Fatty Pert (Florence Sundstrom) has so capti vated Ben that only she is welcome at his death bed. These people not only help the progression of the play, but also have a definite influence on Eu gene. The play is in no way equal to the quality of the book. Look Homeward Angel is Eugene's story, but the play does not convey this; all activity seems to revolve around Eliza and Gant. This is understandable because Eugene is introspective and that type of person is difficult to dramatize. The play eliminates Eugene's college years and so the chron ology of the play does not follow that of the book. In the play Ben's death is the event preceding the climax Eugene's decision to break from his family and go to school whereas in the novel Eu gene is already in college at the time of his brother's death. The effect that the loss of Laura James has on Eugene is not seen in the play because it is not until years later that he feels and understands the void her absence has created in him. THE PLAY is realistic until the end when a communication between Eugene and his dead brother takes place. The message is distinctly Thomas Wolfe. Escape .... You are your own world, says Ben. Eugene replies, Yes, and then I'll be able to make some order out of this chaos. Seniors Prepare Final Projects Visions of graduates not only in clude the upcoming Senior Compre hensives, but senior projects as well. These supplementary independent study programs are necessary in most divisions for graduation. MODERN LANGUAGE SENIORS intending to study recordings of po etry and drama of various languages include Charlene Pappen, German; Sister Mary Julia, B.V.M., Spanish; Judith Gedmin and Sister Mary St. Emmett, B.V.M., French. After a thorough study of the tapes, a student report will be sent to the Modern Language Association to wards the revision of a MLA ma terials list. Senior economics majors' re search papers, now in the rough draft stage, include Arlyne Cline's Some Economic Factors Which Influence the Wages of Skilled Workers and Sue Haglund's The Economic Power of Unions as Found in the United Steel Workers of America. The Role of Profit Sharing in Re ducing Labor-Management Tension will be covered by Lynne Rezek. The price systems of Russia and the United States will be compared in Donna Flynn's Planned and Con trolled Price System vs a Free and Uncontrolled Price System. ANOTHER FOREIGN TOPIC for the economics papers is Judy Juszak's The Role of the Underdeveloped Na tion India's Economic Progress Since 1947.
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