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' “Winterset” Casting Complete; ‘ Tragedy Opens Nov. 15 in Guion By TOMMY HOLBEIN Battalion Feature Editor Casting- for “Winterset” was completed last night, and the Ag gie Players under the direction of C. K. Esten began preliminary re hearsals for the great American tragedy. Play opens Nov. 15 in Guion Hall. The production, a three-act play ^ 'taking place on a riverbank in New York City under a large bridge, will feature 20 players on the stage, with a large backstage crew 4 as well. Cast of Twenty Persons having roles in the play include John Paxon as Trock; Rich ard Reisser, Shadow; Ray Simmons, Garth; Marlene Rushing, Mirianne; Harry Gooding, Esdras; Sam Cely, t the hobo; Libby Alexander, as the first girl; and Gale Wilson as the second girl. Other members of the cast in clude Jack Gladwell, playing Judge Guant; David White as Mio; Ger ald Fletcher as Carr; Juan Lobo as Herman; Alferdo Garcia, Lucia; Bob Hammons, a sailor; Dudley Griggs, a radical; Mike Yates, a sergeant, and two men in blue serge, Charlie Hearn and Dave Woodard. On the backstage and promotion crews are Don Reynolds, who is in charge of lighting; Charles Hearn, Joe Donaldson and Dave Woodard, Reggie Lundergan, and June Eis ner, sets; Props, Mrs. R. Gibbs, and publicity, Tommy Holbein. These parts were assigned after AGGIE KART-WAY (Every Ride A Race) BRYAN’S M MILE GO-KART RACE TRACK Highway 21 East—Across from Coulter Field Open Everyday from 1 P. M. until Midnight RACES EVERY SUNDAY AFTERNOON On Sept. 24th the MSC Presents i CONCERT AT GUION HALL 3:30 P. M. $1.50 Per Person DANCE IN MSC BALLROOM 10:00 P. M. $2.00 Stag or Drag DANCE To The Music of the Famous JAZZ JACKS Colored Combo SATURDAY NIGHT PERRONE’S LOUNGE “Bryan’s Finest” M Mile East of BAFB West Hiway 21 three days of reading parts, trying out for roles in the Music Hall. Director Esten recently acquired an office in the Hall, and presently has the office stocked with drama equipment. Hard Work Ahead Last night’s rehearsal began a series of rigid and enduring, yet enjoyable and enlightening sessions for the Players, who plan to per form “Winterset” in Guion Hall the week of Nov. 15-21. Between now and then, stage crews will begin designing sets, in cluding elaborate props like a simu lation of the Brooklyn Bridge, a skyline of New York City, and a flowing river. Each actor is responsible for his or her own costume, although a costume staff will assist in acquir ing the proper attire for the indi vidual roles. The Players begin by reading their parts, taking the lines slowly with Esten directing them on dic tion and action on stage; as their lines improve and become learned, the characters they are portraying become living persons within them. Finally, the day of dress re hearsal comes, and by this time the props are finished, and the large, empty Guion Hall stands as a challenge to all on the stage. And the next night, or within two or three days, the cast is perform ing in front of an audience; this is when their hard'worli qiid efforts become fully worthwhile. Another Play’Sobji Following the November pro duction of “Wintep,§$’, the Players will barely have time to tidy up after their cast party,’ held on the after the stepping into another play, “The Fourpos- ters,” which will be directed by Harry Gooding. “The Fourposters” will be a dif ferent type of show from “Winter- set”, and will be performed with the audience to the direct front of the actors. The play will be performed “in the round”, with audience sur rounding three sides of the stage, or acting area. Location will be the Lower Level of the Memorial Student Center, where “The Ten der Trap,” “How He Lied To Her Husband,” and “The Man of Des tiny” were performed last spring. Players Have Quality The Aggie Players in years past have made a name for themselves as being an outstanding college drama organization with show aft er show of true professional quali ty on their record. Esten has always seen that the Players work on plays of higher than average calibre, and they have proven the ability to success fully master these plays on many occasions. “Work Is Pleasure . . The Aggie Players have a large amount of struggle and sacrifice ahead of them, preparing for open ing night on Nov. 15, but along with the work will come rewards worth much more than the effort put forth to gain them—as a mem ber of the Players put it. 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J l«[ I ■ j>*HI II ■ II UKrtL-*’ 108 N, Bryan Phone TA 2-1541 tllii 111- . : J'';'' IfJfer** Jg , CV: V r, * Corps Practices March-In One of the Corps of Cadets’ 36 outfits passes before the make-shift reviewing stand yesterday afternoon in a prac tice review held in preparation for tomorrow night’s march- in preceding the Texas Tech home opener at Kyle Field. WEEKLY SCHEDULES Area Churches Announce Services Bethel Lutheran Church Worship services are scheduled for two periods, 8:15 and 10:45 Sunday morning with the sermon topic being “The Christian Part in Missions.” Sunday school and Bible classes get underway at 9:30 a.m. The annual Lutheran Aggie Welcome Dinner is scheduled at the Triangle Banquet Room Wed nesday evening at 7. St, Thomas’ Chapel Holy Communion will be held at 8:00 a.m. followed at 9:15 by a family service, morning prayer and the sermon by the Rev. Al fred Johnson. Church school will get under way at 9:45 followed at 11:00 a.m. with the morning prayer and a sermon by the Rev. Johnson. YPSL is scheduled for 6:00 p.m. followed at 7:00 by the evening prayer. During all weekdays, a daily evening prayer will be given at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday services at the church start at 6:30 a.m. with Holy Communion and breakfast. At 10 a.m., Holy 'Communion and Healing Service will be held. A Canterbury program will be held at 7:30 p.m. following the evening prayer. Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church Services begin with the first worship service at 8:15 followed by Bible classes for all at 9:30. A second worship service will be held at 10:45 a.m. A welcoming dinner on the church lawn will be held Sunday at 5:00 for all new Lutheran Ag gie couples and students in the dormitories. Following the supper hour, the congregation will have a short song service as a part of the Jubilee Year celebrations marking the founding the Amer ican Lutheran Church. A meeting of the Sunday School staff is slated for Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. for an orientation in new materials and group study. On Wednesday night the Lu theran Student Assn, meets for supper in the Lutheran Student Center at 6 p.m. and afterward will see a film entitled, “Boundary Lines/’ At noon Thursday a faculty- staff discussion group is sched uled. Each member is asked to bring a sack lunch. Church of Christ Activities open with Bible School at 9:45 Sunday morning followed at 10:45 with a Worship TYPEWRITERS Rental — Sales Service — Terms DISTRIBUTORS FOR: Royal and Victor Calculators & Adding Machines CATES TYPEWRITER CO. 903 S. Main TA 2-6000' Service. Topic of the sermon fgr the morning will be “Make Life. Worth Living.” At 6:15 Younl:; 1’eople’s Cj^kses will be held and an Aggie class 6:30. < - !i 1V:, Evening worship services begin at 7:15 with the sermon topic, “The Paradox of the Cross.” A ladies’ Bible class is sched uled for Tuesday morning at 9:45. Mid-Week Services will be held at the church at 7:15 Wednesday. BODES (G:c /; ’ . ■ f-rm. Fsfc 1) the student to meet his necessary expenses for term-time and vaca tions, but those who can afford to supplement it to a modest ex tent from their own resources are advised to do so. Candidates may apply either from the state in which they have their ordinary private domicile, home or residence, or from any state in which they have received at least two years of college train ing. Rhodes’ Qualifications In making appointments the committees of selection will have regard to the qualities laid down by Cecil Rhodes in which he de fined the type of scholar he de sired. The scholar must have literary and scholastic ability and attain ments; qualities of manhood, truthfulness, courage, devotion to duty, sympathy for and protection of the weak; kindliness, unselfish ness and fellowship. The scholar must also have ex hibition of moral force of char acter and of instincts to lead and take an interest in his fellows, as well as physical vigor as shown by fondness for and success in sports. Thirty-two Scholarships are as signed annually to the U. S. The state of the Union are grouped into eight districts of six or seven states each for the purpose of making these appointments. There is competition every yeah in every state. t : '' Committee In Each State In each state there is a Com mittee of Selection which may ncmiinate two candidates _ to appear .before: kbe-i District. ,Committee. Edbh : District'.Oommitlee $hen se- MPts’|r6m ; The'twelve to -fourteen .candidates ..so nominated not more tMm fSduibriren/wHo wSll 'represent tneir states as Rhodes Scholars at Oxford. In'oraer to place all candidates on an equal basis, the Rhodes Trustees will pay round trip trans portation and Pullman fares (but not hotel expenses) of candidates nominated by State Committees THE Friday, September 23, 1960 BATTALiON College Station, Texas Page 3 Candidates Travel While Ike’s at UN By The Associated Press While President Eisenhower sought world support for U. S. aims before the United Nations Thursday, the men who would succeed him bid anew for votes at places and on themes far from the U. N. Assembly. A plowing contest at Sioux Fails, S. D., provided the back ground against which Democratic nominee John F. Kennedy out lined the program he says can lift lagging farm income—if it is applied with “work and sacrifice and discipline.” Nixon in Midwest The Republican candidate, Rich ard M. Nixon, rode the Midwest range, too, in Missouri' and Illi nois, praising the record of the Eisenhower administration but promising improvements. And he accused the Democrats of backing a “do-it-with-mirrors” economic philosophy. The Republicans suffered a fresh campaign casualty at South Bend, Ind., when Henry Cabot Lodge, the vice-presidential nom inee, ran afoul of an automobile door. A finger on his right hand to the place, of meeting of the Dijw trict Committee from the indi vidual’s place of residence in the state from which he is ^applying, or from the university where he may be a student, whichever is less. Each candidate’s expense ac count must be approved by the Secretary of Qje District Commit tee. Candidates must pay their own expenses in appearing be fore State Committees. Applicants, from A&M will be placed. in District WI, Which in cludes Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas. was painfully mashed when an aide slammed the door on it. Finished Speech Grimacing occasionally, Lodge got through a 30-minute speech and then was taken to a hospital where X-rays disclosed no frac ture. A splint was applied, how ever, and he pushed ahead with his campaigning. On an Aug. 17 campaign sortie into the South, Nixon bumped his left knee on a car door at Greens boro, N. C., and the apparently minor injury developed into an infection which sent him to a hos pital and delayed the start of his intensive campaigning for 11 days. Kennedy advanced a six-point program pledging the pursuit of income parity for farmers; close ly managed production controls geared to crop output rather than acreage; expanded use of surplus foods for the needy at home and abroad; an extended, locally ad ministered soil conservation pro gram; revised and eased farm credit procedures and special at tention to the needs of farmers having gross income below $2,500 annually.' j The Massachusetts senator left -unanswefed many questions as to detailed operatioh of his plans. But in broad outline they appear to differ from present policies mainly on the fundamental ques- tibhs of is&ihtajSiing the parity price fconceptfpn-ywhich attempts to fellite ‘ffu’jii income to produc tion postST-and' continuing produc tion cbn^i'ols'j,) The Eisenhower ad ministration’s long-range aims have been to move from both these ideas. Nixon assured an applauding ’crowd of 10,000 at St. Joseph, Mo., that “however good things are, we want them better for tomor- l^sga r m § ESTABUS rim ■AT HiS How to Keep a Free Press FREE Seldom does Freedom of the Press disappear in one annihilating blow. In countries where the Press has been chained, there was first a period when it failed to realize and resist the beginnings of its end — the first encroachments on its free dom. There were powerful interests which wanted certain facts “kept out of the news papers.” There was pressure here and press ure there to have the truth withheld, j Before the Press of any nation succumbs 1 to tyranny, there always has been a period of i failure to speak out, / Here in America there is only the limita^ tion of national security - the necessity to protect and preserve confidential military and scientific information — which can be accept* ed by a Press that is determined to stay free. ] America’s newspapers have made, and will continue to make, a conscientious effort to] protect that security — at the same time keep* 1 ing the people informed as fully as possible' on all matters concerning their welfare. So long as American newspapers pursue that policy fearlessly, our Press, our people and our country shall remain free of tyranny, ^ 4 aj|i 1716 SAN ANTONIO STREET...GREENWOOD7*2023...AUSTIN,TEXA$