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Raby, Tooze Due Here Albert Raby and Mrs. Fred Tooze are the speakers tentatively slated for the Speak-Easy sessions Nov. 23 and 30. Raby is convener of the Coordinating Council of Community Organi zations which was described by the Christian Sciejice Monitor as the first group that has shown any promise of bringing Negroes together here (Chicago) for a sustained civil rights drive. In a recent interview with Skyscraper reporters, the civil rights leader stated that the organization's purpose is to help solve a variety of prob lems including education, housing and welfare. Following Raby, Mrs. Tooze, as Speak-Easy moderator Stan Dale quips, will speak on booze. The Evanston woman is president of the Women's Christian Temperance Union. In her latest effort, Mrs. Tooze protested the shipment of liquor to servicemen overseas. Her views, ex pressed in the Chicago Tribune, were countered by letters from affected servicemen. Debutante Nears Presentation; Laetare Announces Cast, Crew Laetare Players will present their first of three plays, The Reluctant Debutante, Nov. 20 and 21 in the College Theater. Two weeks ago selections were made of the male leads, student director and production crews. The role of Jimmy Broadbent, father of Jane (Bonnie Czarnecki) and husband of Sheila (Pat Krogman) is played by Carroll Westbrook. Mr. Westbrook is a semi-professional actor, a free-lance writer and ex-publisher. Joe Esposito portrays Da- Vol. XXXVI Mundelein College, Chicago 26, 111., Nov. 17, 1965 President Appoints Board; Faculty Accept Positions Five new faculty members of the academic board have been ap pointed by Sister Mary Ann Ida, B.V.M., president. Sister Mary Anne David, B.V.M., theology de partment acting chairman; Marie Hank, mathematics department; Sister Mary Nadine, B.V.M., bi ology department; Sister Mary Ma rina, B.V.M., chemistiy department chairman, and Sister Mary St. Irene, B.V.M., chairman of the French department, will serve one- year terms on the board. Elected by the faculty to three- year terms are Mrs. John Ewers and Mrs. David Spencer, both of the English department, and Sister Mary Crescentia, B.V.M., chairman of the history department. Currently in the second of their three-year terms are Sister Mary Donald, B.V.M., chairman of the classics department, Mrs. Edward vid Bullock, the attractive mate that Sheila has chosen for Jane and that Mable (Ann Foxen) also fancies for her daughter Cla rissa (Janet Bina). Noel Uzemac, who appeared in the Mundelein student production of Mary, Mary last year, is enacting the charac ter of David Haylake-Johnson, the bounder. Mary Rose Matus, who plays the maid, Mrs. Edgar, is coaching the male leads in speaking with an English accent. Faculty director for the comedy is Miss Mary Penkala, and student director is Arlene Cozzi. Verna Chalupnik and Pat Smith act as co- chairmen of the property crew. Carolyn Schultz heads the costume crew. In charge of the stage crew ard Danae Alexander and Peggy Richard. Where Has Paradise Fled? French Film Explores Arts, Love Les Enfants du Paradis (Chil dren of Paradise), a French drama produced by S. N. Pathe from a script by Jacques Prevert and di rected by Marcel Carn6, will be the second feature of the Foreign Film Forum. The showing will take place Nov. 30 at 6:30 p.m. in the College Theater. Plot Advances The action opens as the leading characters Frederick L e m a i t r e (Pierre Brasseur) and Baptiste Duburau (Jean-Louis Barrault) be gin their theatrical careers. They encounter the beautiful Garance (Arletty), a woman of booths and theaters, who is loved by many men but is remote toward most of them. After intervening to save Garance from arrest for an other's crime Duburau too falls in love with her as does Lamaitre, but Baptiste's genuine love sur passes Lemaitre's infatuation. Lacenaire (Marcel Herrand), another friend of Garance, is an author - turned - criminal. He and other superficial characters sug gest evil by their wicked practices, which adds to the fatalistic and melancholy atmosphere. Tragedy Results The plot advances rapidly. Le- maitre becomes the foremost actor in Paris and Duburau, after mar rying a fellow-artist, becomes the foremost mime. Garance returns to have an affair with her lover, Duburau, and is discovered by his wife, Natalie. Finding Garance gone, Duburau rushes into the street, obsessed by the thought of losing the only woman he has ever loved, and is engulfed by the crowds. Thus the film ends in a shadow of tragedy and frustration. The colorfully detailed back ground of crowded streets which stresses the wandering and sen sitivity of Romanticism plays an integral part in the film due to the photography of Roger Hubert and Marc Frossard. The film is complemented further by music di rected by Charles Munch. Matula of the art department, and Dr. Russell Barta, chairman of the political science department. Sister Mary Eloise, B.V.M., chairman of the economics depart ment, and Sister Mary Cecilia, B.V.M., chairman of the biology department, are in the last of their two-year terms. Filling the position vacated by Mr. James Richards is Mr. Paul O'Dea of the English department. Mr. O'Dea will serve on the board this year. Ex officio members are Sister Mary Ann Ida, B.V.M., president, Dr. Norbert Hruby, vice president, and Sister Mary Ignatia, B.V.M., academic dean. The board, which advises the president on academic matters, is composed of three standing com mittees: the tutorial and liberal studies, continuing education and specialization. The tutorial and liberal studies committee concerned itself with the formulation of the 3-3 program. Its members designed the basic studies program, the tutorial sys tem and academic counseling pro gram. The continuing education com mittee handles the degree com pletion program and last year the specialization committee studied the major sequences and areas of concentrated study. 'Feline' Eartha Confronts Critical Speak-Easy Audience; Investigates Marriage, Theatrics, Viet Nam, Civil Rights by Jennifer Joyce Eartha Kitt, wearing a leopard- print dress which accentuated her feline qualities, perched on a stool and in a purring voice told the Nov. 9 Speak-Easy audience that she was open for questions. A Loyola student mentioned that the current Chicago production of The Owl and the Pussycat, in which Miss Kitt stars, was criti cized for being risqud. Have you ever seen the play? Miss Kitt countered, and proceeded to ask if anyone in the group had gone to the play. One girl raised her hand to testify that the ris- queness was sharp and witty. Another student asked Miss Kitt to comment on a scene in the play in which she embraces the man who plays opposite her. The stu dent referred to an article in Time, which stated that many people leave during this scene. People get uncomfortable when they see two people of a different race embrace, Miss Kitt explained. Her role in The Owl and the Pussy cat, she continued, is interpreted as being risque because I use four- letter words and wear a babydoll nightgown. I don't think it is at all. In response to criticism for the gusto with which she plays the role, Miss Kitt replied that gusto is necessary. I do work awfully hard; you can't be at all lazy. Miss Kitt, when asked about her views on show business in general, contended that people who become popular by making a hit record are not stars . . . they don't work in front of a live audience. She maintained that recording stars should have experience in perform ing before people. Comparing two live-audience situations, the theater and the night club, Miss Kitt pointed out that a star in a night club must be more witty and more aware of audience reaction because of the competition of alcohol and clat tering dishes. The theater, she said, is a more comfortable me dium because the story tends to hold the audience's attention. Commenting on the differences between American and French audi ences, Miss Kitt asserted that the French have a better sense of hu mor, and that a Frenchwoman would think a man insane if he did not flirt. She contrasted the contented Frenchwoman with the American woman who desires material com forts as well as affection from a marriage. You can't have both, she warned. In France the hus band and wife are willing to accept infidelity for the sake of security, the singer added. A student inquired about the ac tress' visit with Albert Einstein at his home in 1955. She reminisced: Skyscraper Photo by Aldine Favaro Eartha Kitt I felt like a little child wanting to learn so much from one meet ing. Einstein, after his initial shock that anyone so young would be interested in him, dis cussed the theater and classical mu sic with Miss Kitt. We also touched on the theory of relativ ity, she added. When students began to direct questions to Miss Kitt about the world situation, she proposed that international crises are dressed up so we don't hear the real story. She attempted to get the real story on the Panama crisis by posing as a Panamanian. (Miss Kitt speaks Spanish fluently). The people whom she questioned claimed that if the U.S. had jailed the stu dent who pulled down the flag, this country's intentions would have seemed sincere. Regarding Viet Nam, the actress advocated the support of U.S. policy. Americans should uphold the government's view because, she protested, we don't know enough about Viet Nam to solve the prob lem ourselves. We've got to have enough . . . faith in our government so our President doesn't look like a com plete nitwit in the rest of the world. Already Johnson is begin- ing to lose face because foreigners do not feel Americans are backing their President, she pointed out. On the domestic scene, Miss Kitt discussed the civil rights issue. She stated: People who grow up today with a prejudiced mind are really sick. Although everyone, the singer said, has a right to ex press his opinion, she cautioned that extreme radicals in the civil rights movement are playing into the hands of the communists. More people get hurt in demonstrations than in wars . . . Rabble-rousers create trouble for the good cause. A Negro student from Loyola protested that demonstrations con front people with a problem which they refuse to face. We didn't get results until we started demonstra tions. Miss Kitt retorted that the southern marches have harmed the Negro cause. There is still just as much pre judice in the South, she asserted. Yet she admitted that in her adult life I hardly know what it (pre judice) is. The Negro student recounted several incidents of discrimination by fellow students and admitted a dislike of white people. Then you're as much to blame as they are, she charged. Every form of raciality has gone through some form of preju dice. I'm not saying that I ac cept it; I don't. Recalling her childhood, the star said that the black kids were pre judiced against me because of my light skin, but I did all in my power to win their love. The problem with prejudice, she continued, is that we (Negroes) don't put ourselves out to the other person. We let our feeling of su periority or inferiority show. Negroes, she suggested, can work out their frustration by the pro per education and the maximum use of voting rights. She urged Negroes to find out more about your country and go and do some thing about it. Every man has the right (to demonstrate) pro vided that he knows what he's do ing.
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1965-11-17 (1)
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