tl19540310-000 " 'Cyrano' to be Best Production in Years Employing the most elaborate costumes, sets and largest cast in years, the Glen Player's production of ""Cyrano de Ber-gerac"" will be presented Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights of next week. Aroused interest in outside colleges, theater and television circles as well as the Towson campus, promises capacity audi- Jack Lynch, Don Knox rehearsing dueling scene for ""Cyrano"" ences for the third Glen Player's Production of the 1953-54 season. A drop and wing effect with five set changes and four backdrops will be used for the five-act play. In addition to the regular scenery, a Practical tree and balcony were also designed by Mildred Bottner, a Jun-ior College freshman and Maryland Institute student; head of the scenery committee. Costumes for the 50-player cast are being handled by Mildred Bres-sler and Margaret Sakers. In an attempt to stem the rising tide of realism in the late nine- Tax Exemptions for Education Sought in Bill The following are the remarks of the Honorable Abraham J. Multer (D), 14th District of New York on the Floor of the House of Repre-sentatives, concerning a bill which stated that expenses for college ed-ucation should be tax deductible. .""My bill is directed primarily to give relief to those parents who are Paying more than $600 personal exemption per child for the educa-t'un of their children. I have had the experience, and I will get no Personal benefit from this bill be-cause I have put both my boys through college without any such exemPtion, and many of my col-leagues have done the same thing. ""We know if you are sending them to a college away from home You are lucky if you can do it for as little as $2,500 per year per child. You get all of $600 a year eXeMption. ""So I am l not talking for myself about this. I am talking for all of the. Parents of this country, and I think illy: have now gotten to the be- lieve 41, this country where we ""'at just a primary education is necessary, and a secondary or high school education is necessary, ewheildshh oluld, if possible give every this� country an opportunity to get a college education. This bill will go a long way to- Ward bringing that about by mak-i ng it possible for these parents, Wi.11� is they can: get this tax re-lief through the colleges and uni- versities of our country. The colleges and universities of 0. tir country need help, too, because lf they cannot continue to get stu-dents to pay the tuition, they are going to be in a bad way. As a matter of fact, many of them are already suffering from lack of stu-dents. teenth century. Edmund Rostund wrote ""Cyrano de Begerac"". His at-tempt to bring poetry back into drama, however, was not as suc-cessful as the later playwrights, Maxwell Anderson and T. S. Eliot in ""Winterset"" and ""Murder In The Cathedral"". This movement, in some opinions, has moved too far the extreme, with the result that authors are being criticized for emphasizing too much poetry without drama. Richard Mansfield, the first American to do ""Cyrano"", used the Gertrude Hall version which was the first English translation, writ-ten in 1898. The second famous interpretation of ""Cyrano"" was done by Walter Hampton who used the Bryan Hooker version, which Jose Ferrer also portrayed in the recent movie. The Towson production is using the Hall Version which makes ""Cy-rano"" less aggressive and more poetical. This version is more dif-ficult to play than the Hooker in-terpretation. ""Cyrano de Bergerac"" is classed as a romantic-tragedy. In addition to the tragic element, many comic scenes are employed, the most famous being the ""moon-scene"". Mr. Fallon, director of the show, produced ""Cyrano de Bergerac"" at Hartwick College, Oneida, New York, four years ago. TOWER I rfli c======"" LIGHT March 10, 1954 STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE, TOWSON, MD. Vol. 7, No. 14 News Briefs Dr. Volpel Dr. Marvin Volpel spoke recently to a group of elementary school teachers from Baltimore on the topic ""Problem Solving Techniques in Arithmetic."" Clean-up Day Saturday, March 27 has been designated as Campus Clean-up and Arbor Day. Dr. Winfred Hathaway is heading the committee and Dean Kenneth Browne is assisting him. Delores Deardorff, Dick Litsinger, Bob Kane, and Fred Ritter are on the committee. A barn dance is be-ing planned for that evening for those who have helped during the day. Chest X-Ray Tuesday and Wednesday, March 23 and 24, the Tuberculosis Associ- Continued on pg. 6, col. 3) Organist Featured Here in Assembly Mr. DeWitt Wasson, the organist at Mount Vernon church, located in Baltimore, presented an organ re-cital at State Teachers College, Tuesday, March 10. Appearing with Mr. Wasson was the Towson College String Quartet, which performed ""Sonata No. 15"" by Wolfgang Mozart. Members of the quartette were Toby Wagner, Arlene Wolf, Judy Wright, and Pat Orye. Dr. Ester Lloyd Jones, noted edu- �Gator and director of the Guidance Laboratory at Columbia University will be the guest speaker on the State Teachers College campus Tuesday, March 23. Dr. Jones is a graduate of Northwestern Uni-versity where she was president of the Student Government Associa-tion. She received her Ph.D. at Columbia University. Dr. Jones is also a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and Kappa Delta Pi. Her name ap-pears in the Who's Who in America. She recently wrote a book en-titled Personnel Work and Deeper Teaching. The majority of her time is spent training people at Colum-bia in guidance and personnel work in schools and colleges. Kappa Delta Pi Plans to Send Students to Purdue Convocation Kappa Delta Pi, the honor Ira- Rhodes, Helen Lindsay, Ann Kil-ternity on campus is making plans gour, Dottie Taliaferro, and Peggy to send delegates to the 19th Bi- Cross respectively. The group will Annual Convocation at Purdue Uni- be gone Wednesday through Sun-day. The advisors who are attend-ing are Dr. Ruth Smith, Dr. Bern-ard Joslin, and Mr. Robert Gifford. Because the fraternity lost many of its officers in the February graduating class, it was necessary to elect additional ones. The follow-ing people were elected: Pattie Losco, 1st vice-president; Tony Marchione, 2nd vice-president; Jean Lumm, assistant secretary; and Ann Kilgour, assistant treasurer. Bill Myers, president of Kappa Delta Pi versity. It will be held March 11, 12, and 13. The group is sending a delegate, The GI Bill having practically an alternate delegate, and five 1.1111 out, and our parents of the other representatives who are Bill (Continued on pg. 6, col. 4) Myers, Doris Exline, Barbara To students: Students unable to take their duty in the Student Cen-tre, should inform Dean Mur-phy at least 24 hours before the duty hour so that ar-rangements can be made. Frosh Present Class Dance This Saturday All Irish eyes will be a-smilin' when the Class of 1957 present its Freshman Dance, ""Shamrock Ttime"" in the gym-nasium, Saturday evening, March 13 from 9-12 p.m. The theme of ""Shamrock Time"" was given to the dance since St. Patrick's Day is lurking just around the corner. The dance is a semi-formal, no corsage affair. Ray Scott and his orchestra, who have dis- these judges were not known at the tinguished themselves at other time the paper went to press. State Teachers dances this year, will provide the music for a per- Artist Union feet evening of fun. As is custom-ary, students of Towson will be ad-mitted by presenting their activi- Features Exhibit ties cards; tickets for outside dates may be purchased for $1.00 on the On exhibit now in the Student ground floor of the Administration Lounge is the new show of the Artist Union of Baltimore. Building. Mike Franko is the over-all chair- The purpose of this organization man for the class dance. Working is to ""unite for their general bet-with him are many enthusiastic and terment, all artists engaged in the cooperative members of the Fresh- practice of graphic and plastic man Class. Committees were arts, and also to encourage a wider formed to facilitate arrangements distribution and understanding of for the dance. Chairmen of the art for all."" publicity and decorations commit- Annually, the Art Union of Balti-tee are Angelo Marchione and more brings an exhibit to Towson. Chris Sagos. Heading the refresh- It sponsors many traveling shows ment committee are Doris Thomas around Baltimore to the libraries and Evelyn White; Nancy Ayers and museums. This year, for Tow-has been appointed to arrange for a son, the organization, arranged a host and hostess; Vivian Jarrell show which has not yet been and Lu Beth Bevans are the chair- shown at any other place in the men of the ticket committee; and city. Chuck Raynor was appointed All of the paintings on display chairman of the clean-up corn- are for sale. They were hung by a mittee. member of the Artist's Union and Highlighting the dance will be will be at Towson until March 24. the choosing of a ""Mr. and Miss The next exhibit to come to Tow- Shamrock"". Judges for this special son will be one of recent American feature will be members of the wood cuts from the Museum of faculty; however the names of Modern Art. '54 Summer School Program Expands On the basis of numerous re- plus a $2.00 registration fee for quests from nearby school systems summer courses. These changes are additional courses are being made comparable to those that have been available to teachers in the field made during the past five years for through additional courses offered the special summer program at during the year and through an ex- Towson. pansion of the summer session. Briefly these courses are planned Absences at Notre for the following groups: (1) In-dividuals with college degrees, but Dame under Review lacking education courses that would qualify them for certificates More than 475 Notre Dame honor to teach in the elementary schools students may be absent from class of Maryland�this is the group an unlimited number of times, ac-that has been enrolled in our cording to a new University regula-special summer program; (2) tion announced here recently by the Teachers in service who do not Rev. Philip S. Moore, C.S.C. vice-have a college degree and wish to president in charge of academic apply for admission or return to affairs. their study here at Towson; (3) Undergraduates named on the Teachers or prospective teachers Dean's Honor list as having aca-who may be recommended for study demic averages of 88% or better here by their city or county ad-may skip class without penalty, ministrative officers, but who may respon-sible for any class work or tests but will be held personally not be candidates for a college de-gree. missed by being absent, Father Moore explained. Present students of the college, This policy of non-compulsory at-who have permission from the Ad- tendance at classes has always per-missions and Standards Committee tamed in the University's Gradu-to make up courses failed or to ac- ate school and is being extended to celerate their program, may regis- undergraduate honor students and ter for summer courses here this to students in the College of Law. summer. Permission for accelera- Until now, students lost credit for tion will be granted to only a very a course if they were absent more few individuals with superior re- times than the number of semester cords. hours credit given for the class. In effect, students forfeited credit for The summer session will open June 21 and close July 30. a course if they were absent, ex-cept when sick, more than three Any students permitted to regis- times in a semester. ter for fewer than 12 semester ""Our experience has shown that hours of work in a regular term the good student, who is not under will pay $7.00 per semester hour (Continued on pg. 6, col. 2) "
