tl19630426-000 "'Judas Maccabeas' ApTil 28 4 p.m. SH Aud. Preregistration Next Week For Schedule See Registrar Vol. XV, No. 21 State Teachers College, Towson 4, Maryland April 26, 1963 'Macabre' Art Exhibit Opens With Coffee Baltimore artist Joan Erbe's Paintings will be exhibited in the Living Art Gallery of the Student Centre from Sunday, April 28 through May 30. The oPening includes a coffee hour from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday. Miss Erbe was born in Baltimore and studied with Leonard Bahr and Louis Bouche. Many important and regional shows have exhi-bited her work including The Corcoran Gallery, The Li-brary of Congress, The Peale Museum, The Berkshire Fes-tival and St. John's College. Miss Erbe has gained wide recognition as one of the lead-ing artists in the Middle-Atlan-tic area. Her paintings are in-cluded in many private and pub-lic collections and they have won numerous prizes and awards. During the last nine years she has had twelve one-man shows in Baltimore and Washington. The most recent of these was held in 1961 and 1962 at the WA galleries in Washington. Leslie Ahlander, art critic of the Washington Post has said: Joan Erbe is an artist of unusual talent and ability ... as a draftsman she is superb ... often macabre and shocking, her 'Pictures reveal such a feeling (Continued on page 4) Sunderland Wins Bi-State News Award A story on Towson State's 1962 cress-country championship has won a second place for Lowell Sunderland, former Tower Light editor, in the Maryland-belaware Press Association's an-nual newspaper writing contest. ""The Year The Tigers Ran Away With A Title"" appeared in the November 28 edition of The County News Week, a Towson weekly paper. The story was entered in the best sports story contest for Weekly newspapers in the state. It was the third straight sports award for Sunderland front the Press association, and his fourth Writing citation. The other a wards were won while he was eMployed by the Capital-Gazette Press in Glen Burnie. Sunderland is a senior English major. KABUKI ADVERTISEMENT � Miss Gail Lehman poses in the authentic costtune and make-up of an Oiran characer after giving a lecture on the Kabuki theater for Dr. David Firman's Geography of Eastern Asia class. Although a good advertisement for the Glen Players' show tonight, Miss Lehman was actually illustrating that audio-visual aids are succesful on the college level. ""Touch Of May"" Will Feature Highwaymen, May Day Events ""That Touch of May"" is the theme of this year's May Week-end May 3 through 5, which will add a new touch with a special program on Sunday, featuring the Highwaymen. The weekend will begin Friday night, May 3, with the traditional jam session prefaced by a pep rally on the blacktop in front of the gym. The session will begin at 8:30 p.m. and will take place in the gym. ""Hummers"" must be worn on the gym floor. Saturday starts with the Queen's Luncheon honoring Miss Sophia Dematatis, queen, her maid of honor Pat Ryan, and the court. At 1:30 the procession across Newell Field (or in Stephens Hall Auditorium in case of rain) will take place. The Student Centre Board is sponsoring a reception for the queen and her court in the Stu-dent Centre at 3 p.m. There are also several athletic meets sched-uled for that afternoon. The traditional May Dance will end Saturday's activities 9 p.m. to midnight in the gym. In addition to the usual Friday and Saturday events, the SGA is sponsoring the Highwaymen, a folk singing group, on Sunday, May 5. Tickets will be given out in the Alcove the week of April 29. There are 1100 tickets available and they are free to all students. One guest ticket is allowed for each student. The purposes of the tickets are. (Continued on page 4) Blood Donors A blood mobile unit will be on campus Tuesday, April 30, is part of The Circle K blood donation program, in accordance with the American Red Cross. The entire program will be set up at the Anita S. Dowell Health Center. Donors under 21 who plan to donate a pint of blood must have parents' written permission. Kabuki Drama Set For S-8 Premiere Ey PATRICIA NADOLNY TL News Editor ""Benton The Thief,"" a Japan-ese play directed by junior Dawn Wilhelm, will be given tonight, April 26, in S-Eight at 8:30 p.m. The direction and presentation of the play are part of the Ad-vanced Drama course. The course is conducted by Dr. C. Richard Gillespie, head of the drama department and advisor to the Glen Players. ""Benton the Thief"" is a Kabuki-type play. ""Kabuki is one of the popular types of Japanese drama today,"" Miss Wilhelm explained. ""It is a type of drama which is very old and stems from a very long tradition in Japan,"" she continued. ""In the Kabuki plays,"" Miss Wilhelm stated, ""women are never used in the cast except when the play consists of all women."" The plot of ""Benton The Thief"" begins when a few members of a band of thieves decide to rob a prosperous material shop. They disguise themselves for the rob-bery. The plot is simple, but the extraction of the money by the thieves proves to be very intri-cate and unique. Peace Corps Schedules New Tests Peace Corps Placement Tests are scheduled for the Saturday, April 27, 8:30 a.m. Peace Corps Director Sar-gent Shriver reminded stu-dents that there are 4,000 new opportunities in the Peace Corps, with training slated to begin in June, July and Aug. In order to process question-naires and place candidates in these projects, the Peace Corps should have questionnaires and test results as soon as possible. The examination are given at designated US Civil Service Commission testing centers. A new test consisting of a half-hour section on gen-eral aptitude and another section of the same length on modern language aptitude will be given for the first time on April 27. Candidates who have any background in French or Spanish (Continued on page 4) A nobleman will be played by Michael DeMaio, the princess by Henry Harmon. Both are students from the Maryland Institute of Art. Towson's own John Siford will play a samauri warrior. Joe Senatore will play the store proprietor. Two store clerks will be portrayed by Lawrence Weinholdt and Brian Gonzales. ""My main goal is to get across the idea of the many skills shown in Kabuki, such as the tradition of various movements in Kabuki, and its esthetic ap-peal,"" Miss Wilhelm commented. ""One of the problems in directing a play such as this is that it may seem foreign to an occidental audience,"" she said. ""I am interested in seeing the reaction of the audience Friday night,"" Miss Wilhelm concluded. High Flying Sea Gull' Soars In S-8 A play by Anton Chekhov, ""The Sea Gull,"" will be pre-sented by The Glen Players in the new theatre, Studio Eight, on May 10 and 11, and May 14 through 18. Towsonites will have a choice of seven nights to see the play. Studio Eight, formerly called S-Eight, has been used for all student productions. In March, scenes from Shakespeare's ""Twelfth Night"" was given in the three quarter round. ""The Sea Gull"" will be presented in the full round and will be the first major Glen Player production in the new theatre. ""The Sea Gull is a highly realistic play, and for this rea-son it will be interesting to see it done in the round. ""The major interest is in the characters. There is not a great deal of suspense in the plot � in fact the plot is almost de-emphasized,"" Dr. C. Richard Gillespie, director, stated. ""We feel that Studio Eight will benefit the audience. There will be raised, comfortable seats. The audiencce will have no trouble hearing the actors,"" he further commented. "
