The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 16, Ed. 1 Friday, January 13, 1956 Page: 3 of 12
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FRIDAY, JANUARY IS, 1956
THE THRESHER
Three
Fine Arts
'Charlie's Aunt' Better
Show Than Hamlet's Pop
By Helen Morris
For your last pre-Final fling,
I heartily recommend Charlie's
Aunt to you. Although Herbert
Kramer's second production at
the Playhouse is as Roussel says
"pure corn", it is thoroughly de-
lightful, and extremely funny.
William Pierson, enjoyed by
many in the film, Stalag 17,
proved himself again a master
of comedy as Charlie's Aunt.
From the moment he first
i Charlie's Aunt
actor knew what he was doing.
And he did. At a fast and fu-
rious pace he donned and doffed
wig and skirts relishing in the
affections of pretty young girls,
who thought him to be dear old
Charlie's aunt, and coyly ac-
cepted and refused numerous
proposals for marriage.
Improvement Over Ham!et
Walter Massey and George
bounded on stage as a dashing
young Oxford student, I felt this
Martin, both seen in Hamlet
gave a more convincing per-
formance this time as the Ox-
ford students whose love affairs
formed the plot of the play.
Frank Hammerton and David
Sheldon's performances also
showed decided improvement
over their Hamlet roles.
My one reservation is a per-
sonal dislike of actors speaking
in unison, and again Mr. Kramer
had characters dash on stage
and breathlessly utter the same
line at the same time. This
somewhat grated on my nerves.
If. Charlie's Aunt is a truer
indication than Hamlet of Mr.
Kramer's talents, I predict a
good season for the Playhouse.
He put into this comedy all the
fun possible, and yet remained
in good taste. His actors were
well chosen for their parts, and
on a whole the characterizations
were good.
Let's Go
So, why don't you go down to
the Playhouse and see what
scrapes the Oxford students
manage to get themselves into.
They are infinitely moi'e excit-
ing than riots—or finals. .
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LIBRARY NEEDS
ENGINEER MAGS
The library needs two copies
of the Rice Engineer for May,
1954. This is volume 2, number
4. These are bound for the ar-
chives and permanent files.
Cast Is Chosen
As Faculty Show
Begins Rehearsal
The yearly Gilbert and Sulli-
van operettas are now being re-
hearsed under their director, Ar-
thur Hall of the Department of
Music. Their two performances
will be Trial by Jury and Cox
and Box, the former being a re-
peat performance.
The organizational meeting
took place December 11 during
which tryouts for leads were
Scheduled. There has been only
one rehearsal so far, the char-
acters for the operettas having
been chosen as follows:
Cox and Box: Dr. Peckham,
Dr. Marsh, and Mr. Morehead.
Trial by Jury: Dr. Wischmey-
er, and Mrs. Hope Daugherty.
The Rice Gilbert and Sullivan
Society is a purely amateur or-
ganization, although the per-
formances themselves are far
from amateurish. After witness-
ing dignified Rice professors' lec-
tures week after week, it will be
quite a break for Rice-ites to see
more than the mental or intel-
lectual side of their educators
and view - them in a very new
atmosphere, that of the THEA-'
TRE!
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Open Reading For
'Henry IV' Parts
Shakespeare tryouts will be
held February 13, for Henry IV,
Part I, and everyone is urged to
come to the tryouts. Shakespeare
is scheduled for April 28-29, and
for the first time the Rice Play-
ers are doing a full-length play.
For such an undertaking many
more people will be needed than
ever before, for large pai'ts, small
parts, costume making, lighting,
etc.
Last night tryouts were held
for a reading of The Iliad, which
will be given February 19. This
and Shakespeare ai'e the produc-
tions for this semester.
Miss Morinvs Artistry
Proved With Symphony
Miss Erica Morini's perform
ance of the Tchaikowsky Violin
Concerto with the Houston Sym-
phony last Monday evening was
entirely gratifying. She played
with complete authority, giving
the rather worn concerto a quite
fresh reading and encouraging
the orchestra to play somewhat
better than it usually does. Miss
Morini was able to rediscover for
the audience (and perhaps for
the orchestra, too) many pas-
sages that have become, and
usually remain, unrewarding
cliches. This, I think, is sufficient
proof of her artistry.
The x-est of the program did
not, however, benefit from Miss
Morini's presence. Mr. Bernard
Herrmann began with a rough
and erratic playing of Weber's
Overture to "Die Freischutz" and
concluded with an unengaging
(though fairly adequate) per-
formances of Vaughn Williams'
"A London Symphony" (which
gets longer and duller every
time I hear it.) The symphony is
not trite enough to be bad (or
amusing), just content to be
aggressively mediocre.
Two things: must the orches-
tra practice so loudly and fever-
ishly during the fifteen minutes
before the overture? A warm-up
period surely does not need to
be competitive. Finally, congra-
tulations to the audience who (in
spite of the funeral school of
concert-goers) had enough cour-
age to applaud what moved them;
the first movement of the con-
cert evidently did.
—J. D. Y.
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The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 16, Ed. 1 Friday, January 13, 1956, newspaper, January 13, 1956; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth231016/m1/3/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.