Western Washington Collegian - 1952 November 14

              COLLEGIAN
Vol. XLVII - No. 7 Western Washington College, Bellingham, Washington No. 14, 1952
Primary Board
Elections Give
12 Top Scores
Primary elections for new Board
of Control members were held Wed­nesday
and Thursday. Twelve of
the fifteen candidates filing for po­sitions
will be in the final elections.
The twelve students in the run­ning
are: Megon David, Corinne
Lund, Marilyn Hall, Ross Scott,
Neill Mullen, Ed Angevine, Don
Wallace,, Rita Goldade, Dwight
Andrus, Bob Porter, Elaine On-dracek,
and Bonnie Dale.
The present twelve candidates will
be voted on November 25 and 26.
The four elected will serve four
quarters each on the Board of Con­trol.
Artist-Lecture
To Be Opera
"La Serva Padrona," an opera by
Pergolesi, is the attraction of the
Artist and Lecture series for Tues­day,
November 18, at 10 a. m., in the
college auditorium.
"La Serrva Padrona" means the
master's servant, and the story con­cerns
a wealthy bachelor and his
maid-servant who desires to make
him marry hei.
Opera Theatre productions is un­der
the direction of Stanley Chap­pie,
head of the department of
music at the University of Wash­ington.
Music will be furnished by
.a, string quartet consisting of mem­bers
of the university orchestra.
ICC Revue Soon
November 19 is the date set for
the Interclub Council revue. The
revue will be held in the Auditor­ium-
Music building beginning at
7:30.
The revue is planned by all the
clubs on the campus. It is present­ed
to acquaint the new students
with the scope and activity of cam­pus
clubs. The revue will open with
some of the clubs presenting skits
on the auditorium stage. The re­maining
clubs will hold displays in
various rooms.
X-Rays Required
Two hundred students at WWC
did not have their chests X-rayed
when the unit was on the campus.
Anyone who did not have the
X-ray is requried to check with the
nurse. The test is compulsory for
all students.
FACULTY VISITS SCHOOLS
Tours of visitation to t h e 150
WWC students in their first year
of classroom teaching are under
way this week. Forty-six faculty
members sare visiting schools in 17
counties of the state, including nine
schools in Eastern Washington.
A tense moment in scene II of "Uncle Harry." Left to right: Virginia
Nelson as Lucy; Charles Dennis as Uncle Harry; Harriet Lord as Hester;
Carol Resher as Lettie. Uncle Harry decides on double elimination of
sisters by murder and drouble cross.
Uncle Harry Commits
Perfect Crime; All
Parts Create Chills
By DAVE GAY
"Poor Uncle Harry!" that's the theme that runs throughout the
Division of Drama fall quarter play being presented in the auditorium,
making its final showing tomorrow night. Essentially a drama, one can
nevertheless detect, at times, a vein of extremely subtle humor in the
presentation. .fr—
Annual Banquet Last Wednesday
The faculty banquet was held
in the Crystal Ballroom of the
Leopold Hotel, Wednesday evening,
November 12, at 6:30 p. m. Dean
C. W. McDonald served as toast-master.
Dr. Donald MacPhail responded
to Miss Leslie Hunt's welcome to the
new faculty. Purpose of the ban­quet
was to foster better acquaint­ance
between faculty members.
Entertainment was provided by
the college string quartet directed
by Dr. Frank D'Andrea. Students
comprising the quartet were: Anne
Battey, first violin; Donna Nugent,
second violin; Maureen Gustafson,
viola; Suzanne Palmer, 'cello.
Members of the committee for the
banquet were Ralph Thompson,
chairman; Dr. Sene Carlile, Miss
Katherine Casanova, Miss Linda
Countryman, Miss Pearl Merriman,
Miss Evelyn Odom, Wilbur Sheri­dan,
Mrs. Ethelyn Sisk, Alexander
Zawacki, and John Porter.
fDateline...
DATELINE
November 1*—College play, "Uncle
Harry," 8:15 p. m.
November 15—"Uncle Harry," 8:15
p. m.
November 18—Artist and Lecture
series, Opera Theatre, "La Serva
Padrona," by Pergolesi, Stanley
Chappie, director.
November 19 Club revue, A-M
building, 7:30 p. m.
November 20—Basketball game at
UBC.
November 21 — Student assembly,
talent show, 10 a. m.; basketball
game here with UBC, 8 p. m. Rec
hour sponsored by MRH.
Registration Dates
Set for Students
All students are urged to be
prompt for pre-registration on as­signed
date. Classes will begin reg­istering
as follows: graduates and
seniors, November 13; juniors, No­vember
14; sophomores, November
17; and freshmen, November 19.
Changes in registration will be per­mitted
December 15-18. Consult last
week's Collegian for procedure. Fin­al
registration will be January 5.
Student Talent Show
To Be Next Week
"Student talent tryouts are be­ing
held now for the show to be
presented Friday, November 21, at
the regular student assembly,"
stated Paul Dodsworth, ASB vice
president. "The show should prove
to be an interesting and entertain­ing
program."
Any type of act or routine may
be presented, and prizes are offered.
The acts will be judged by an ap­plause-
meter. The first tryouts were
held Wednesday, and further an­nouncements
for tryout times and
winners will be in the official bulle­tin.
Another talent program will be
held later in the year, so that those
not participating in the first assem­bly
may take part.
See Uncle Harry
get double trouble
with
DOUBLE CROSS
Tonight and
Saturday Night
at8:15
Uncle Harry Quincy, a frustrated
middle-aged younger brother is pre­sented
competently and sometimes
forcefully by Charles Dennis. Den­nis
appears to reel himself a part
of the character, using gestures and
facial and vocal expressions with
facility. He speaks with such pre­cise
enunciation, however, that his
lines much of the time are rather
clipped and terse, slightly detracting
from the part.
GASPS INCLUDED
Virginia Nelson, playing Uncle
Harry's ex-fiancee, "Lucy," offers
very easy and natural acting, using
emphasis and modulation to ad­vantage.
Uncle Harry's two old maid
sisters, Lettie played by Carol Res-ner,
and Hester, played by Harriet
Lord, also make the most of their
parts speaking normally and using
gestures and movements in a man­ner
which makes them seem to live
their parts. In one incident, Hester
utters a strangling cough t h at
should launch a thousand gulps in
the audience.
Debaters Enter
CPS Tourney
Five members of Western's De­bate
squad journeyed to Tacoma
last Friday for the first tourna­ment
of the 1952-53 intercollegiate
forensic season, held at College of
Puget Sound.
Participation in the two-day prac­tice
tourney were freshmen, Mary
Lou Frye and Gordon Pfister; jun­iors,
Cliff Marco and Floyd Jack­son;
and one senior, Lyla Mclvor.
Events offered, besides the tradi­tional
Oxford-style debate, were
discussion .oratory, extemporaneous
speaking, after-dinner speaking, and
oral interpretation of literature.
Top ratings were earned in ex­temporaneous
speaking and discus­sion.
A good showing was made in
after-dinner speaking and oral in­terpretation.
Pointing out that the
group was relatively inexperienced,
Debate Coach Paul Herbold ex­pressed
optimism over the possibili­ties
for a good year of intercolleg­iate
forensics.
Stilted speech hampers the boys
down at the Blue Bell tavern,
D'Arcy played by Jack Rose and
Albert played by Richard David, as
it does John Schermerhorn playing
Blake the tavern keeper. Bill Ahb
jumps in to the part of Ben with
both feet, over-playing it at times,
but nevertheless forcefully portray­ing
the local druggist who feels
himself a"*notch above "the boys"
and quite a roue. Ramona Cass
ably portrays the petite barmaid
at the Blue Bell, although she is a
little stiff in speech as is Charles
Hughes as George Waddy, engineer,
who serves mostly as a backdrop
for Lucy, and stimulation to Uncle
Harry.
MAID OUTSPOKEN
Donna Wray as Nora, the Quin-cy's
maid, speaks and acts in the
open straightforward manner as if
she had "been with the family for
30 years" as she says in the play.
Mr. Jenkins, a red-headed English­man
who somewhat unwillingly lis­tens
to Uncle Harry's tale of woe,
is played by Bob Lucas a little too
emphatically.
Maribeth German ably presents
the stolid type of matron. Mr. Bur­ton,
the cold, efficient hangman
(ah—public servant, please!) is por­trayed
well by Cliff Marcoe giving
the character a self-effacing zeal
which could almost allow it to be
labeled "creepy." As the governor,
Jim Simon portrays calm efficiency
and respect of routine ("There's no
precedent for it!") as crisp and
austere as the setting of the Gov­ernor's
office.
SETS MADE
The sets, made under the tech­nical
direction of Mark W. Fland­ers
provide fitting background for
the antics of the cast in the three
different scenes of activity. All in
all, Laurence Brewster, director of
the play, and all the others connect­ed
with it have presented a very
palatable and interesting produc­tion
that commands audience at­tention.
Well over half of the cast, nine
of the fifteen, are freshmen; this
could herald increasingly fine
theatrical presentations at Western.
Board Stands Behind Lappy's
Decision - No Further Protest;
Further protesting of the Whit-worth
game will not be made ac­cording
to members of the Board of
Control. The Board at the meeting
last Wednesday voted to stand be­hind
Coach Charles Lappenbusch in
his decision not to make a formal
protest to the league officials.
In Lappy's words, "The official's
mistake was a natural one which
any official could have made." If
the protest had been made, and the
league decided to hold a play-off,
which is the procedure in such a
case, the game could not be sched­uled
until December, affecting the
condition of the players involved.
The board granted funds to MRH
to hire live music at the mixer No­vember
21. It also granted money
to the Safety council for a delegate
to the Governor's Safety meeting
November 20-21, and additional
funds to cover food and registration
fees for two more delegates to at­tend
the Evergreen conference in
Ellensburg this week-end.