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„.»v..ior<....... Page 4 College Station, Texas Wednesday, February 25, 1970 THE BATTALO Easter For 11 The 1970 is underwi ‘Fiddler’ Cast’s Backstage World Fascinates twists. The camp benefit At 2 p.m. Sunday in Bryan Civic Auditorium, like the 30 minutes before each performance of “Fiddler on the Roof,” 45 actors pass from one world to another. They walk through the stage door, sign in on the bulletin board, pick up their mail and move from the everyday world to the backstage world. Reading letters from home, wires from agents, greeting fel low players including burly star Bob Carroll wb6 plays Tevye in “Fiddler,” they go quickly to their dressing rooftis and begin the ritual which will make them the people of Anatevka, a village in Russia, in 1906 on the eve of the revolutionary period. Carroll, at curtain minus 30 minutes, might be eating a very rare hamburger or brewing coffee in a porttable percolator which is as essential a part of the “Fid dler” star’s dressing table equip ment as his makeup box. At the same time, he may have Neal Thompson, who plays the Fiddler, in to snip his beard— Carroll’s own and very luxuriant. Other “Fiddler” players may be warming up in the hall, apply ing makeup or in the wardrobe room for costume repairs, a stitch here or a little sewing there. At stage left, production stage manager Kenneth Porter is care fully checking his 12-man crew, position of props, sets and lights. Nearby, muscians are tuning up and maybe “catching up on their eating,” smiles Miss Ruth New ton, production coordinator. Preparations for 2:30 and 8:30 p.m. Sunday performances of “Fiddler” before Bryan and Col lege Station Rotary Series pa trons will begin unreeling much earlier Sunday, however. Two of the largest vans allowed on U.S. highways and three buses carrying 60 people will arrive at 7 a.m. Sunday. Some 25 local helpers will be at the auditorium to assist with unloading. Porter and his crews will soon be busy stringing 4y 2 miles of electrical cable for lighting the elaborate scenery by Boris Aron son. Costumes designed by Pa tricia Zipprodt and valued at $160,000 will be readied for the matinee performance. All the costumes were made from brand new fabric before the Harold Prince production tour began. Then they were aged to look ragged, battered and worn. Boots costing $85 a pair were run through a sanding machine to acquire the proper look of wear. None of the buttons on the costumes match, paralleling a Russian custom of the period. Buttons were handed down family to family. At the 15-minute point before curtain, all members of the com pany have careful makeup and costume checks. “There are so many costumes I in ‘Fiddler,’ it’s wise to check them at every performance by the 15-minute mark while there is still time for repairs,” Miss Newton | said. At 0:05, stage manager Barry I Molitch taps on Carroll’s door and says, “Five minutes, Mr. Car- roll.” Carroll replies “Thank you” in the tradition of the theater. Coeds Feeling Unaccepted (Continued from page 1) til a dorm was built, because not enough girls will come to a cam pus without approved housing. “Most parents,” a brunette said, “don’t like it. At least the freshmen should have some sort of supervision.” “I would never send my daugh ter to a school without dorms,” Mrs. Grace Kieffer, sponsor of University Women, said. Howard Vestal, director of management services, said that it was a stated policy of the board of directors that “there are no plans to provide dormitory facil ities for women.” Ford Albritton, member of the board of directors, said that as far as he knew there was no board policy. “We have never acted affirm atively in this area,” he said, but hopefully this will come about in the near future.” The new dormitory complex which will be erected on the prac tice putting green is designed so that it can be used by women students, if it is desirable to do so at the time,” according to Dean of Students James P. Han- nigan. “It doesn’t really matter wheth er dorms are on campus or off,” said one coed, “but it would give us some place to go if they were on campus. As it is now, the only place we can sit down, espe cially in bad weather, is a rest room with chairs and there aren’t too many of those. It would help to have a ladies lounge in the new mall with lockers so you wouldn’t have to carry evei’ythin.g you own to class.” Most coeds said that the rest rooms were too few and too hard to find. Five girls suggested that a map of ladies restrooms be published. Several girls said that some buildings did not have ladies rest rooms at all and those that did have were inconvenient. Hannigan said that the prob lem was one of “a shortage of restrooms, period.” “Male restrooms are being re duced by 50% and remodeled,” he said. “All of the new or renovat ed buildings have adequate facili ties for girls. We’ve added four in the YMCA and there will be a large number in the new Memo rial Student Center and many more in the auditorium.” Another problem is finding make-up and clothes at local stored. “Particularly if you don’t have a car,” one girl said, “it’s hard to find anything here. The Ex change Store doesn’t really carry anything for girls and North Gate merchants only carry old- fashioned make-up.” Several girls said they went home to shop because local stores were “always out of things or don’t even carry them.” Several coeds complained that it was difficult to get dates for big campus events such as the class balls. “Lots of cute girls from A&M sit home,” said one, “while the boys import dates from home. If you do get asked, they wait til the last second, because they’re sure you’ll be around.” “It’s really hard to get dates,” another added. “My roommate and I have three girls staying with us from out of town who have dates to the fish ball, but we don’t.” The girls were undecided about where a coed should not go with out a date. Some said they would not even go to a campus spon sored activity such as a basketball game without a date while others said that they didn’t feel that they needed dates to go places. A majority of the coeds resent ed the term Maggie, and suggest ed the alternate name of Aggie coed. “Maggie reminds me of mag gots or moose,” said one sopho more. “The boys have the wrong conotation, they use it in a de rogatory sense. The term itself is okay, but the meaning is bad.” “It’s just another device to keep girls apart,” one said. “Every where else the coeds are called the same thing as the boys, like Red Raiders. Two coeds said that they had changed their minds about the word. “Most people just mean that you’re one of the gang when they call you Maggie,” they said. Most girls agreed that A&M coeds should be allowed to run for Aggie Sweetheart, but that Texas Woman’s University not be totally excluded. “We’re left out completely now,” a junior said. “There are a lot of good looking girls here and they should be able to com pete with TWU girls on an equal basis. The whole idea of a sweet heart being chosen from another school is a slap in the face.” One senior seemed to sum it up: “We like the school, but it doesn’t like us. We enjoy the tra ditions and have as much spirit as the boys, but we come third here. First the corps, then civil ians and then the girls. We’re not even considered Aggies.” J. C. (Jim) Harris THE BUG SHOP, Inc. 1911 So. College Ave. Bryan, Texas 77801 Phone 822-5383 Bryan's Leading Independent Volkswagen Service Molitch, in turn, knocks on the doors of Miss Laura Stuart, who plays Tevye’s tart-tongued wife Golde; Miss Charlotte Jones, ex- prienced trouper who plays Yente, the Matchmaker, and other mem bers of the company with the “five minute call.” “From that point, every mem ber of the company concentrates on becoming the person he is supposed to be in the show,” Miss Newton explained. The most important words any performer hears, “Places, please,” follows the brief period. The production stage manager, working at a high stand-up desk in the wings, has heard from the house manager that the audience is in, doors closed and the show ready to go. Speaking into the mike of his headset intercom which links him to the orchestra leader, spot men, electrician and others, Poter cues the orchestra leader that he is ready. Then he cues the elec trician, “House to half.” After the audience settles to quietness, the electrician is again cued to “house out,” the lights go out and the conductor’s baton hits the downbeat to the overture. At the final note fades, Porter calls for “house curtain up,” and the electrician, who knows his cues, brings up the lighting indi cated for the opening scene of “Fiddler on the Roof,” a musical so famous it has been played in Finland, Israel, England, Hol land, Australia, Japan, Germany, the countries of Scandinavia and many others. 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