1949-04-06

              Illinois Wesleyan
VOL. 55 BLOOMINGTON, ILLINOIS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 1949
SOLOISTS IN BRAHMS' 'REQUIEM'
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University Chorus To Give
Brahms' Requiem Palm Sunday
On April 10, Palm Sunday, the
Scottish Rite Sunday Evening
club, in cooperation with Illi-nois
Wesleyan university, will
present the University chorus
a ri d orchestra in Johannes
Brahms' Ein Deutsches Requiem,
Opus 45. The 225 voice chorus has
been trained by Lloyd Pfautsch,
director of choral music at Illi-nois
Wesleyan; the 60 piece or-chestra
prepared by Kenneth
Cuthbert, dean of the Illinois
Wesleyan School of Music. Dr.
Cuthbert will conduct the per-formance.
Soloists are Miss Virginia Par-ry,
soprano, a senior from Che-noa,
Illinois, and Albert Basso,
also a senior, from Chandler-ville.
This is the first time that the
Requiem, which compares with
large works such as Beethoven's
Ninth Symphony, has been per-formed
at Illinois Wesleyan.
In its complete form, Ein
Deutsches Requiem, was written
by Brahms between 1857 and
1868. Its inspiration has been
credited to a number of sources,
including Brahms' grief over the
death of Schumann, and as a
memoriam for his stepmother,
who died in 1865.
Unlike most Requiems, which
deal with the sombre side of
death, Brahms' Requiem deals
with the brighter side of death,
and consolation for the living.
The text shows Brahms' thor-ough
knowledge of the German
Bible, and shows unusual sensi-tivity
of treatment. The urgency
and clear beauty of the music
combined with the unusual text
make this one of the loveliest
choral works in existence today.
This performance is free to the
public.
Blackstock Hall To Be
Summer School Dorm
Blackstock hall will be used for
the girls' dormitory during the
summer school duration in-stead
of Kemp hall, as was pre-viously
announced.
It was "D" Day in Blooming-ton
Tuesday as Cecil R. Cone
won the mayoralty race from
Republican nominee Walter L.
Benson by 1500 vote majority.
Student-Faculty
Workshop Will
Meet. April 29
Something new in the way of
student-faculty relations will be-gin
April 29 when a student-fac-ulty
conference or discussion in
workshop form will meet. This
workshop session is being spon-sored
by the Student Welfare
Commission of the Student Un-ion,
which is headed by Carol
Jean Brill.
Gene Montgomery has been
placed in charge of the session,
which will be held in the Me-morial
Center.
Four topics have been selected
to be discussed in this meeting.
They are: philosophy of testing;
techniques of testing; what de-termine
grades; and the cheat-ing
problem.
The purpose of these ques-tions
is to bring about a better
understanding on the part of the
student of the teachers' purposes
and methods of testing and vice
versa; i.e., to allow students to
express to the teachers what sort
of testing program they think
fairest and most purpose-fulfill-ing.
All members of the faculty are
allowed in the meeting. Student
participants will probably con-sist
chiefly of members, of the
Student Union, according to the
plans disclosed by Carol Brill.
Graduate Exams
On Optional Basis
The graduate record exami-nations,
given by the school to
all seniors last year,will be given
aga n this year but on an op-tional
basis requiring payment of
a five dollar fee.
Those desiring to take the ex-amination
should see Dean Guy
by Friday, April 8.
To Present Two
One-Act Plays
In Convocation
In recognition of Holy Week,
April 11 through 17, two one-act
plays of a religious nature will
be presented in convocation next
Wednesday. The plays will be
under the direction of Dorothy
Pierson and Alberta Carter.
"Jean Marie" will be the play
under Alberta Oarter's direction.
Simple costumes will be used in
this French play which is set in
Brittany in 1871. Therese will be
played by Helen Jeah Lauter-bach;
Jean Marie, John Oapasso;
and Joel, Bob Price.
"D. A.'s" play, "The Finger of
God," by Percival Wilde, is of
religious character, done in mo-dern
style. Dale Kassel will take
the part of Strickland, ,a busi-nessman;
Bill Dial will be Ben-son,
a gentleman's gentleman;
and a girl, whose identity is a
mystery, will be played by Gay
Hendrixon.
SU Meetings In
Student Center
From next Monday until the
end of the school year the Stu-dent
Union will have meetings in
the Memorial Center, it was an-nounced
by Jim Lucas, president
of the body.
The meeting will begin unoffi-cially
and informally at 4 p.m.
with refreshments for the mem-bers
of the Student Union and
will start officially at 4:30. It will
be held either in the Green room
or a closed-off space in the
Lounge.
Trustees To Discuss
Plans For Old North
North hall, local landmark and
fire trap, is to be discussed at the
meeting of the University's Board
of Trustees this week. At the
meeting blueprints and ,estimates
for rendering the almost century
old landmark safer from fire will
be presented to the group.
NO. 26
Evans, 'Ferro Receive
Sawyer' Musical Leads
NOTICE
Petitions for positions on the
student publications should be
turned into Bob Nelson Friday,
April 8. The Publications Com-mission
will meet at 10 a.m.
Saturday morning to vote on
these petitions.
Christian Virtue
Outdoes Greed
In Shaw Play
"In this play I have presented
one of the Roman persecutions
of the early Christians, not as
the conflict of a false theology
with a true, but as what all such
persecutions essentially are: an
attempt to suppress a propagan-da
that seemed to threaten the
interests involved in the estab-lished
law and order organized
and maintained in the name of
religion and justice by politicians
who are pure opportunist Have-and-
Holders."
Such were the words of Ber-nard
Shaw at the concluson of
his play, "Androcles and the Li-on."
The play was written in 1916
and pictures Androcles as the
perfect humble Christian. It also
pictures in its other characters
examples of people who think
they are Christians but who are
not, suggesting their counter-part
in today's life.
The American Repertory the-atre,
in the winter of 1946-47,
produced "Androcles" under the
direction of Margaret Webster,
and featured such stars as Er-nest
Treux in the part of An-drocles;
Victor Jory as Ferrovius;
June Duprez as Lavinia; and
Phillip Bourneuf as Caesar.
May 4, 5, and 6 have been set
as the dates for the play's pro-duction
at Illinois Wesleyan. Bill
Duell and Suzanne Brooks have
the leading roles of Androcles
and Lavinia, and Harvey K.
Smith is production director.
SU Treasurer's Report
FINAL REPORT
submitted by Russell Olson on April 5, 1949
Item Income
Dad's Day ------ $ 178.00
Jazz Concert --------- 312.86
Name Band Dance_ 1,596.90
Homecoming -------- 1,598.50
Miscellaneous ------- 1,057.39
Expense Balance
$ 107.50
264.93
2,513.75
1,302.99
665.57
$ 70.50
47.93
-916.85
295.51
391.82
$4,743.65 $4,854.74 $--111.09
Balance at beginning of year-- $ 543.54
Total operating income- ---- 4,743.65
Income plus balance at beginning $5,287.19
Total expenses ------------------ 4,854.74
FINAL BALANCE $---4-3-2--.4--5------
Announce Cast
Of Eighteen;
Choose Dance Group
The cast of Wesleyan's origin-al
all-student musical, "Tom
Sawyer," has been announced.
Bob Evans has the title role of
Tom a:nd Audrey Ferro will play
opposite him as Becky Thatcher.
Heading the rest of the cast
are Bob Price as Huck Finn and
Scott Kell as Sid. Pauline Har-rington
will portray Aunt Polly,
Joyce Knoureck, Amy, and Ro-bert
O'Neill-Butler, Injun Joe.
Jerry Ippel will play Muff Potter,
Bill Wente, Judge Thatcher; Ma-ry
Belyea, Mrs. Thatcher; Jim
Ross, Amy's father; and Norma
Bogard Amy's mother.
Alan Dickerson will take the
part of Dr. Robinson, Leni Kesl
that of Pete; Buck Johnson, Joe;
and the caretaker will be played
by James Basham. Darrell Pier-sol
is the state's attorney; Bill
Wyckoff, the defense; Chauncey
Conklin, the schoolmaster; and
Dors Mauer, the widow Douglas,
The parts of Ben and the sheriff
are as yet uncast.
The dancing group will consist
of Chris D'Amelio, Martha Wyc-koff,
Betty Foutch and Joe Solls.
Rose Stock, Agnes Kramer, Jo-bie
Sayler, Jim Burgess and Em-ma
Hodge will be extras.
Heading bthe committees are
Jim Barnett, stage; Ollie Henry,
lighting; and Cathy Carson, cos-tumes.
Syl Legner will direct the pit
orchestra.
IWU's Choice
Former Dairy Queen of Mc-
Lean county, Mary Sue Wil-liams
of Normal will be Wes-leyan's
first queen candidate
for the Drake Relays to be held
April 29 and 30.
Chosen by the executive
council of Student Union, Sue,
a fireshman, won the nomina-tion
partly on her 3.5 grade
average. She's a member of
Alpha Gamma Delta, WSA, the
League of Women Voters, Al-pha
Lambda Delta, and Na-tional
Honor Society of Thes-pians.