The Megaphone (Georgetown, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 27, Ed. 1 Friday, May 1, 1964 Page: 1 of 4
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John Ciardi, SR Poety Editor,
As Forum Comm. Special Lecturer
The Union Forum Committee with
the cooperation of the Student Sen-
ate and the University Administra-
tion will present Professor John
Ciardi, poetry editor of the SATUR-
DAY REVIEW and Holmes Visiting
Professor of Poetry and Poet in Res-
idence a,t Tufts University, in the
Main Lounge of the Student Union
Building on Tuesday, May 5, at
2:00 p.m.
Seating accommodations for ap-
proximately 750 poisons have been
arranged and a discussion period
with questions and answers will
follow Gardi’s lecture in die Main
"Lounge. A reception for Professor
Gardi in the Faculty Lounge will
conclude the afternoon event,' with
an official welcoming committee on
hand at the reception.
Outgoing Chairman of the Union
Forum Committee Lynn Robinson
will introduce John Ciardi to his
audience at 2:00 p.m.
John Gardi is best known as poe-
try editor of the SATURDAY RE-
VIEW and as author of 22 books of
articles and poems. His weekly ar-
ticles in the SATURDAY REVIEW
appear under the title “Manner of
Speaking.”
. A native of Boston, Massachusetts,
Professor Gardi was graduated
from Tufts University in 1938 and
received his M. A. degree from the
University of Michigan. There also
he won a Hopwood Award in Poetry.
■ Following three years of service in
the AAF in the aerial offensive over
Japan, Ciardi returned to the Uni-
versity of Kansas, where he had
taught prior to World War II, and
there hie married Judith Hostetter.
f The fall of 1946 found Ciardi as
an instructor and later assistant pro-
cessor of English at Harvard. In
1953 he went to Rutgers and then in
1961 resigned his Rutgers professor-
ship in order to put more time into
bis writings, into his work as poetry
editor of SATURDAY REVIEW, and
into a busy cross-country schedule
of lectures.
v. HOMEWARD TO AMERICA, IN
THE STONEWORKS, LIVE AN AN-
OTHER DAY, AND HOW DOES A
POEM MEAN? are but several of
his published works. His latest pub-
lished title is DIALOGUE WITH AN
AUDIENCE which is a collection of
his ‘Manner of Speaking” articles
• out of SATURDAY REVTEIW.
His books of poems for children in-
clude I MET A MAN; YOU READ
TO ME, I’LL READ TO YOU: and
JOHN J. PLENTY AND FIDDLER
DAN, THE MAN WHO SANG THE
SILLIES, THE REASON FOR THE
PELICAN, and SCRAPPY THE
JPUP.
Perhaps his most laborious work
is his translation of Dante’s DI-
VINE COMEDY, of whidi “Puiga-
torio” has already been published.
*
He is working now on his transla-
tion of “Paradiso” and has already
spent a total of eighteen years on
his Dante translations.
John Ciardi is currently the
Holmes Visiting Professor of Poe-
try and1 Poet in Residence at his
alma mater, Tufts University, He is
a member of Phi Beta Kappa and
has received from Tufts University
a Litt. D degree.
, After receiving in 1956 a Prix de
Rome prize, lie spent the year study-
ing at the American Academy in
Rome. The Blumenthal Prize, the
Eunice Tietjans Award, die Levinson
Prize and the Harriet Monroe Me-
morial Award have all been
ented Ciardi for his poems.
In addition, Ciardi has. lectured at
* the Salzburg Seminar in * American
Studies and he is a member of the
‘National Institute'of Arts and Let-
ters, a Fellow of the American Aca-
§' demy of Arts and Sciences, and a
past president of the National Col-
lege English Association. He has
been Director of Bread Loaf Writ-
ers' Conference since 1955.
The' last ten of John Gardi’6 books
He published in 1963, along with
Reid and Perrin as co-editors, a text
book, POETRY, A CLOSER LOOK.
In January of this year, he deliver-
ed a book of poems to Rutgers Uni-
versity Press.
Professor Ciardi has Tiosted the
CBS TV Network weekly show “Ac-
cent,” one of TV’s most highly rated
discussion programs.
Gardi has contributed poems
and articles to ATLANTIC MONTH-
LY, HARPERS, GLAMOUR, LAD-
IES HOME JOURNAL, SATURDAY
EVENING POST, NEW YORKER,
and many other literary journals
here and abroad.
He is listed in WHO’S WHO,
CELEBRITY REGISTER, and
TWENTIETH CENTURY AMERI-
CAN AUTHORS.
The Chairman of the Union For-
um Committee responsible for secur-
Jolm Gardi is Lynn Robinson. Mrs.
Shelia Campbell is Union Program
Director.
Manougian Speaks
At Union Lecture
By JOHN WALLACE
“Personal Recollections of the
Arab - Israeli War in Palestine until
1948” is the political - historical sub-
ject of the last INVITATION TO
LEARNING lecture of the year, to
be delivered by Mr. Manoug Man-
ougian, part-time instructor of
mathematics at Southwestern, next
Wednesday, May 6, at 7:00 p.m. in
the Faculty Lounge of the Union
Building.
The sponsor of the lecture series
is Dr. F. E. Gaupp.
In addition to his teaching position
at Southwestern, Mr. Manougian
teaches as well freshman mathema-
tics at the University of Texas,
where he is presently studying for
his Fh.D. degree.
Bom in Jerusalem, Palestine, in
April of 1935, Manougian was edu-
cated in Jerusalem and was grad-
uated from St. George’s High School
in 1954. Following his graduation,
he continued to teach at St. George’s
for two years.
Mr. Manougian first came to the
United1 States in 1956 on a scholar-
ship to the University of Texas.
He was graduated in 1960 with the
Turn to WAR, Page 4
PROFESSOR JOHN CIARDI
)t JHegapfjone
VOLUME LVII
Georgetown, Texas
Friday, May 1, 1964
Number Twenty-Seven
Mangum. Directs The Green Pastures With
Mask And Wig Players And A'Cappella Choir
The Mask and Wig Players and the
A’Cappella Choir of Southwestern
University are presenting as the
final dramatic offering of the season
a joint production of THE GREEN
PASTURES by Marc Connelly. The
final performance will be given in
the Alma Thomas Theatre this even-
ing, May 1, at 8:00 p-.m.
According to Connelly, ‘THE
have been published since he resign
his Rutgers professorship in 1961.
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Mix together generously one Lord (Drexel Riley),
one Gabriel (Larry Lowman), and one angel (Linda
Simmons) with 82 more characters and the finished
package is director Ed Mangum’s production of THE
GREEN PASTURES, a play by Marc Can nelly. Curtain
for this last dramatic production of the year is 8:00
p.m., this evening, in the Alma Thomas Theatre. The
play is jointly presented hy the Mask and Wig Players
and A'Cappella Choir.
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GREEN PASTURES is an attempt
to present certain aspects of a living
religion in the terms of its believers.
The religion is that of thousands of
Negroes in the deep South. With
terrific spiritual hunger and the
greatest humility, these untutored
black Christians — many of whom
cannot even read the book which is
the treasure house of their faith —
have adpated the contents of the
Bible to the consistencies of their
everyday lives.”
In the Southwestern University
production, the director, Edwai\
Mangum of the university faculty,
has universalized this concept by
presenting the story of the Old Tes-
tarhent as seen in the eyes of small
children.
As their Sunday School teacher
tells the story, the children see and
participate in the chronicle of won-
der’s — the three - dimensional
Heaven where the angels have mag-
nificent fish fries, where the Lord
will be the premised Comforter, a
just and compassionate patriarch
who may look like their preacher or
he may resemble one’s grandfather.
And so, through the eyes of tire
children, the audience will see a ten-
der, compassionate, often hilarious,
portrayal of the stories of Adam and
Eve, cf Cain and Abel, of Noah and
the Ark, of Moses and Aaron, and
Old King Pharoh and the court or
the King of Babylon and the Angels
and the Israelites wandering in
tire Wilderness.
To tell this story, a cast of 85,
rcprcsentingva total of some 159
roles, has been in rehearsal since
February. The A’Cappella Choir, un-
der the musical direction of John D.
Richards, Dean of the School of Fine
^nts, has learned a total of 16 mag-
nificant spirituals which the mem-
bers,wiU sing throughout the play
while acting as Angels andi Israelit-
es.
In the leading role of The Lord is
Drexel Riley, Assistant Professor of
Drama, formerly a member of the
Repertory Company of the Dallas
Theatre Center. Riley is a graduate
cf Southwestern, and will be es-
pecially remembered for his splen-
did portrayal of the Stage Manager
in “Our Town.”
Completing the cast are six other
faculty members, eleven children of
professors, drama majors and other
students from almost every depart-
ment of the university.
Van Phillips of Bound Brook, New
.Tprqpy, a drama major at South-wesl-
ern, designed and supervised the
construction and painting of the sets
for the 18 scenes necessaiy to the
story including Heaven with cherubs
floating on clouds, Noah’s Ark, Pha-
roah’s Throne Room, a Cabaret,
several exteriors and interiors.
The costume crew, with Miss
Linda Simmons, sophomore, from
Lexington as chairman, has created
69 angels robes and wings and also
adapted 100 or more other costumes
from the players’ wardrobe.
Dr. Angus Springer, head of the
Drama Department, is acting as pro-
ducer and technical director for the
play and also is a member of the
cast.
Stewart Slater, senior drama maj-
or from Topeka, Kansas is serving
as stage manager. Assistant direc-
tors are Sandra Pennington, junior
frem Georgetown, and Judy Stone,
junior from Austin.
General admission prices for this
spectacular have been set at $1.00
for adults and 50c for public school
pupils. More than 50 high schools in
central Texas have been invited to
attend at a special rate of 35c each
for gioups of 10 or more.
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