The Megaphone (Georgetown, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, November 30, 1962 Page: 1 of 4
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The combined Southwestern Uni-
versity A Cappella Choir and Chor-
us will present selected portions
of - Handel’s MESSIAH on De-
cember 2 at 4:30 p.m. in Lois
Perkins Chapel.
The MESSIAH, Handel’s most
successful and best-known oratorio,
was composed in the year 1741 in
twenty-four days. The words were
compiled and adapted from the
Bible and a Prayer Book by Char-
les Jennens. The present edition
agrees at every point with Han-
del’s original score with ' most
careful exactitude.
The interpreter’s task is to seize
the vital conception of the art-
work, to blend it with his own ego
and the views of his period in his-
tory, and thus to imbue it with life
and effectiveness. This is what de-
cides whether the production is a
work of art. True greatness is
I ntegrationists Halted
In Georgetown Courtroom.
Mr. George Handel of
thinking.
‘Messiah” fame is pictured
Men Of Art Guild Show
Exhibit In Theater Gallery
In a ruling made Monday, Judge
Truman Roberts of Hamilton turn-
ed “thumbs down” on an injunction
which sought to restrain the School
Board from building a new Negro
school.
The Judge said, in effect, that
the testimony he heard here sev-
The 1962 circuit show of the
Men of Art Guild of San Antonio
will be on exhibit in the gallery of
the Alma Thomas Fine Arts Cen-
ter at Southwestern University un-
til Dec- 18, announces Robert L.
Lancaster, director of the gallery
and head of the art department-
The exhibit includes 22 works
(paintings and sculpture) of 17 San
Antonio artists, including Jesse Al-
mazan,. William Bristow of the
Trinity University art department,
Cecil Casebier, Philip Evett of
Trinity Art Department, George
Jaros, Leopoldo Gonzales, Jesse
Medellin, Alberto Mijangos of the
Mexican Consulate, George Pinca,
Maurice Schmidt of Our Lady of
the Lake art department, Jim Stok-
er of Lanier High-School art de-
partment, William Thomas, Jim
Valone who is chairman of art de-
partment at Trinity University and
formerly head of art department
at Southwestern University, Alden
Waitt (retired General), Douthitt
Wilson, Arthur Yourzik, and Gibbs
Miliken of Witte Museum.
Among the Guild members ex-
hibiting are commercial artists,
painters, teachers, designers, prin-
ters, government personnel, busi-
nessmen. The group has exhibited
in Mexico, in Texas and other
states.
Civil WaiNarrative
Slated for SU Stage
Mrs. Hayes Speaks
On; English Literature
After the October and November
meetings of Invitation to Learning
having been dedicated to History &
Physics respectively, an interesting
and not too well known example of
XIV century English literature will
be discussed at the next meeting.
Mrs. Elizabeth G. Hayes, assistant
Professor of English at South-
western, will be the speaker at the
meeting on Wednesday, December
5, at 7 p.m. in the Faculty Lounge.
Mrs. Hayes has nearly completed
the requirements for a Ph.D. de-
gree at the University of Texas,
and at Invitation to Learning she
will discuss the subject of her Doc-
toral dissertation “Sir Gawain and
the Green Knight.” This is a rather
controversial masterpiece of the
alliterative school of poetry of the
northwest of England. Compos-
ed by an anonymous poet, it is con-*
temporary with the works of Chau-
cer and Langland.
eral weeks ago proved that the
proposed new school building would
•be used and was necessary to the
system — whether the system was
integrated or segregated.
The favorable ruling for the
School Board was the second in
recent months which has thwarted
a group known as the Committee
for Better Schools. The Committee
has attempted to restrain the
School Board from building the new
Negro school saying that such con*
struction would perpetuate segrega-
tion.
In July, Judge.JCL B. Wood denied
the Committee’s temporary re-
straining order, but on the perma-
nent injunction, Judge Wood volun-
tarily removed himself from the
bench and asked Judge Roberts to
substitute for him.
Following Monday’s decision,
School Board president, C. J. Doer-
ing, said the Board would take no
action for at least 30 days — at
which time, if no appeal is made,
the ruling will become final and
the Board can discuss the selling of
bonds.
“We are gratified but not sur-
prised by Judge Robert’s decMon,”
Mr. Doering said. “The School
Board has no other alternative, un-
der the law, but to go through with
its building plans as approved by
the voters since the School Board
itself has no authority to order
integration.”
achieved only when a creation con-
tinually begets ever-new, ever-
changing values, and brings to
each successive generation new re-
velations. Handel’s MESSIAH is
great for this reason.
SU’s 60-voice combined choir,
conducted by John D. Richards
(Dean of the SU School of Fine
Arts), will present an interpreta-
tion of certain selections of the
MESSIAH. Jerald Hamilton, guest
organist from Austin, will accom-
pany the choir.
Soloists include Mrs. Thomas
Douglass, Mrs. George Dunkin,
Mrs. George Nelson, and Professor
Wendell L. Osborn of Georgetown
and Marvin Soward who is Minis-
ter of Music at First Methodist
Church in Austin.
The public is invited to attend
the performance.
Dr. John W. F. Dulles
Is Assembly Speaker;
Dr. John W. F. Dulles of the Uni-
versity of Texas will be the guest
speaker at the monthly assembly of
students and faculty at Southwest-
ern University at 10:00 a.m. in the
Alma Thomas Theatre on Tuesday,
December 4.
Dr. Dulles joined the University
of Texas faculty this year as Pro-
fessor of Latin American Studies
and Systems Adviser on Interna-
tional Programs. He is currently
preparing for next semester a De-
partment of History course on
Modern Brazil.
A graduate of Princeton, Har-
vard, and University of Arizona,
Dr. Dulles holds the B A., M.B.A.,
B. S. and Met. E. degrees.
He has worked in Mexico with Cia.
Minera de Penoles and Cia. Meta-
lurgica Penoles, S.A. (subsidiaries
of American Metal Climax), in
smelter and refinery operations, as
head of the Ore Purchasing De-
partment, director of the Commer-
cial Division, Assistant General
Manager and Executive Vice Pres-
ident, respectively.
Another “off-beat” production
will follow in the wake of WAIT-
ING FOR GODOT when the Mask
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and Wig Players bring to the
Southwestern University stage two
performances of JOHN BROWN’S
BODY by Stephen Vincent Benet.
This unusual production, under the
direction of Angus Springer (Head
of SU’s Department of Speech and
Drama), may be seen December
6-7 with the curtain at 8:00 p.m.
(The play will be presented at Mc-
Murry College to Abilene on De-
cember 4 as an exchange produc-
tion.)
As one of the narrators of the
play says in the prologue, “JOHN
BROWN’S BODY is not a play in
the conventional sense, but an
epic.” The Mask and Wig Players
will simply take the poet’s words—
I* V _ without the benefit of period cos-
tumes or realistic scenery — and
try to disclose the nature of the
-----—,u4es Hut move through the
speech and music alone
shall the .^endeavor be made to
bring home to the audience at
least a part of the vast, tragic vis- the story and play; the various
sion the author had of our country
at the most agonizing moment in
its history : the Civil War.
thorough research befobe beginning
this piece of work. “It is worthy,”
he said once, “to assemble facts,
to put truth in the face of legend,
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to investigate impartially, to throw
new light on an old problem."
-The historian Samuel Eliot Mo
rison, writing in 1930 to ask per-
mission to quote from JOHN
BROWN’S BODY in his own THE
GROWTH OF THE AMERICAN
REPUBLIC, told him that the
poem’s historical narrative was ac-
curate in every detail. Douglas
Southall Freeman, author of ROB-
ERT E. LEE, was full of admira-
tion. “He could have fortified even
his casual adverbs with footnotes,”
said Freeman.
The story of the production’s two
heroes — Jack Ellyat from the
North and his counterpart, Clay
Wingate, from the South — are the
threads that hold the work togeth-
er. Many people, both real and im-
aginary, such ds John Brown, Ab-
Vaham Lincoln, sea captains, sol-
diers, and slaves, will crowd the
stage. Two heroines emerge, Mel-
ora VilaS and Sally Dupre, whose
lives are bound up in the lives of
the two heroes. »
, Three actors and one actress tell
im-
parts. They are Alan Share, Stew-
art Slater, Bill Springer, and San-
dbar Efliotfct^n addition to the prin-
Benet went through $ sound and cipal actors, a chorus sings a num-
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ber of battle songs and love songs
and speak in unison. A double-
quartet, which sings much of the
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Stu Stater, Allen Share, Sandra/Elliott and Bill Springer rehearse for the Mask
Wig’s performance of “John Brown’s Boddy”.
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