tl19530311-000 "'Gioconda Smile' Has STC Premier ""The Gioconda Smile"" will have its Baltimore premier at STC on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, March 19, 20, and 21 by the Glen Players. Included in the cast are Virginia Cosgrove, Carolyn Weil, Nancy Hiner, Don Knox, Bill Ellis, and Dick Lyston. Also in the perfor-mance are Sue Pringle, Leona Harber, Warren Mitchell, and Dave Ford. Aldous Huxley, ""one of Amer-ica's foremost essayists and short story writers,"" is the author of the play as well as the story from which it was adapted. It is a product of the first World War, and although he wrote the original story in the 1920's, he did not revise and produce the play in its present form until 1948 when it played on Broadway with Basil Rathbone and Jessica Tandy in the leading roles. A change in Huxley is evidenced in this play when it is compared to his earlier shorter work. The cynical disillusioned quality which appears in the story has been dis-charged. The present play has been changed to one of ridding one-self of conceit and egocentric ten-dencies to become more aware of the responsibilities one has to his fellow man. Since the play has three differ-ent sets and contains many diffi-cult characterizations, Mr. Fallon considers this ""the most ambitious effort of the group this year."" It also follows the pattern of the planned objective of the Glen Players ""to present a varied pro-gram of plays throughout the year."" ""Antigone"" represented classical tragedy; ""The Man Who Came To Dinner"" represented American comedy; and ""The Gio-conda Smile"" represents melo-drama -- three distinct types of drama. Many of the organizations of the surrounding communities may be Bill Ellis, male star of ""Gioconda Smile"". interested in this production since it is a premier. Special rates of fifty cents per person will be charged to high school students who wish to attend. Cossack Chorus, Dancers Give Evening Performance Platoff Don Cossack chorus and dancers group will give the second in the series of the three evening performances at Towson Monday evening, March 23, at 8:15, in the auditorium. American Scene Becoming as familiar on the American scene as turkey or base-ball, this famed group will present a program varying from the ""hal-lowed anthems"" of the Greek Or-thodox Church to ""boisterous"" regimental songs and gay peasant dances. The Cossacks sang their first concert together twenty-two years ago in the Cathedral in Pra- Marshals In New Membership Drive Marshals are now in the midst of their annual membership drive. The drive is held at the begin-ning of the second semester be-cause the rules for eligibility, ac-cording to the constitution, state that attendance at STC for one semester is required. In previous years the Marshals' main duties were to assist the registrar's office by giving out at-tendance cards at the assemblies and to act as hosts and ushers for various school functions. This year the Marshals have in-cluded in their list of activities: soliciting donors for the Blood Drive, greeting visitors at the dif-ferent State Department Meetings, and distributing tickets for the symphony, as well as ushering on the evening of the performance. Prospective members indicate their interests on the blanks given to them upon entrance to the col-lege. Anyone interested must at-tend two meetings prior to his election into the organization. These two meetings will be held at the end of this month. The Initia-tion Tea, at which time the new Members are inducted, is March 30 at 3:30 in Richmond Hall Par-lor. gue. They were exiles from the Don River country and were gathered together by Nicholas Kostrukoff, present director, who left Russia in the Revolution. Beginning their musical wan-derings at this time, they settled in the United States in 1939 when they were asked to sing at the San Francisco Exposition. Tours for Troops They have been here ever since except for five overseas tours to sing for American troops. The Cos-have been here ever since ex-cept for five overseas tours to sing for American troops. The Cos-sacks, now all American citizens, have given over 1,700 concerts in America and over 5,500 concerts throughout the world. The SGA will distribute tickets to the student body this week. One ticket will be given to each stu-dent. Exceptions will be made for the married students, who will al-so receive a ticket for their hus-band or wife Additional tickets may be purchased at the door for one dollar. TOWER ,, -4% , r,-1 I _ - LIGHT Vol. '7, No. 13 STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE, TOWSON March 11, 1953 News Briefs Mr. Hellerich Mr. Hellerich of the History De-partment had an article printed in the February issue of The Ma-ryland Teacher which was entit-led ""Is There Room for Religion in Our State College?"" Student Leaders Student Leaders Manua/ was distributed to all student leaders, faculty members and to some staff members. According to Faye Davis, SGA president, this is not a finished piece of work and any-one having any comment or criti-cism concerning the manual should contact the leadership workshop group. Dr. Kaplan Dr. Louis Kaplan, executive di-rector of the Baltimore Hebrew College, was a guest speaker of Dr. Hartley's History of Educa-tion class last week. He addressed the class on the subject of ""He-brew Education, a Continuing Force Through the Centuries."" President Hawkins President Hawkins recently served as chairman of the AACTE Evaluation Committee which visit-ed Millersville State Teachers College. Dr. Scott and Miss Reed-er were also members of the com-mittee. '54 Editor Bernie Yaffe, of the junior year has been elected Editor-in-chief of the 1954 yearbook. He will soon choose his staff. Freshman Class Slate Dance For Saturday ""Pastel Premiere,"" the Fresh-man Class dance, will help to ""usher in the spring season"" on the STC campus this Saturday, March 14, from 9 to 12. The dance is a semi-formal af-fair. Making music for the eve-ning will be Frank Welsh and his Guidance Man Explains Plan Childcraft, a child guidance plan, will have a representative on campus next Thursday afternoon to discuss with anyone interested the opportunities of working with children throughout the summer. Childcraft, began several years ago at a White House Conference, which was called to study the problems of child training and guidance. Experts at the confer-ence agreed ""that parents should be helped in rearing their chil-dren to become happy, successful, well adjusted adults."" More than 50 leading spe-cialists in 35 American Univer-sities and child guidance centers compose this plan. Childcraft is endorsed by churches, schools, li-braries and press. Anyone inter-ested in this type of summer work should talk to the representatives of this company at 3 p.m. in room 116. History Editors Announce Annual Oratorical Contest Eleventh annual Tournament for Orators for the nation's high school and college students has been announced by the history ed-itors of the Baltimore News'-Post. The Baltimore area will com-prise schools in Delaware, South-ern Pennsylvania, Maryland, the District of Columbia, West Vir-ginia, and North Carolina. Five-hundred dollar bond and a free trip to West Point and New York will be awarded to the stu-dent who wins first place with les-ser bonds awarded to the next five runners-up. Students may enroll directly with the history editor of the News-Post since Towson is not conducting its own eliminations. The deadline for all entries is Ap-ril 4; fill in the blank at the bot-tom of the page as an entry blank. John Marshall, the Chief Justice of the United States has been cho-sen as the subject for this year's Oratory Contest. If a student de-sires, he may focus on just one aspect of Marshall's achievements instead of trying to cover the en-tire subject. The oration must be original and delivered without re-ference notes in six minutes or less. Eliminations will begin April 13 and contestants will be notified by the contest director of the time and place of competition. Noted judges will be chosen by the di-rector. Ibrotoricc;1 � Enrollment (Since our college cannot con- I duct its own eliminations, fill in and mail this individual en-try coupon, for your participa-tion, before April 4.) I wish to enroll in the Tour-nament of Orators for Senior High School and College Stu-dents and agree to abide by the rules as published by the Baltimore News-Post and Sun-day American. Name Address Zone .... School Grade ... My school will not conduct its own eliminations. Mail to ""Oratorical Contest Director,"" in care of this news-paper, immediately. You will be notified when to appear for the eliminations. L _ orchestra plus a vocalist. Stu-dents of the college will be ad-mitted by presenting their activi-ties cards; tickets for outsiders may be purchased in the alcove for $1.00. Chairmen of the dance commit-tee are Julia Pohlman and Joan Robinson. Audrey Bortner is pub-licity chairman with Margie Sad-ler heading the decorations com-mittee. Chairman of the refresh-ment committee is Doris Fisher; ticket committee, Eugene Thomp-son; program committee, Barbara Carruthers; chaperone committee, Doris Yingling; and clean-up com- Joan Robinson, Julie Pohlman Co-chairman of Freshman Dance. mittee, Carolyn Upton. Definite plans for the decora-tions for the dance could not be disclosed at the time that this ar-ticle was written, however, the Frosh promise the college ""a uni-que dance."" Julia Pohlman and Joan Rob-inson both feel that the dance will be a great success. They have stated, ""we hope the student body will come out on March 14 and support the 'Pastel Premier' with the same enthusiasm that it has for previous dances."" Adviser of the Class of 1956 is Mr. Paul E. Desautels. 4 Staff Members Attend CU Meet Four members of the TOWER LIGHT will represent Towson at the Columbia Scholastic Press As-sociation in New York through Sa-turday March 14. The delegates who were elected by the staff include: Mary Lou Louthan, Editor-in-chief; Dean Pickens, Managing Editor; Fran-fly Torino, News Editor; and Gus Peters, Feature Editor. They will be accompanied by Mr. Paul West, TOWER LIGHT Adviser. The representatives will attend classes in and around Columbia University. Newspaper editors conduct four classes a day; two morning sessions and two after-noon sessions. The primary aim of the conven-tion is to exchange systems and ideas with newspapers from other teachers' colleges throughout the United States. The convention will feature a competition between the different school papers in regard to make-up, writing style, and content. "
