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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (June 30, 1966)
Carnival Theatre to Open Friday with Musical Comedy “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum," first pro duction of the 1966 season of Carnival Theatre at the Univer sity. will open at 8:30 p.m. Fri day in the Carnival Theatre am phitheatre on the south side of the University Theatre. The best in vaudeville, bur lesque. and Roman comedy is said to be contained in this well - known musical comedy. It was written by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart from comedies of the early Roman playwright Plau tus. who was supposed to have "borrowed" his plots from the Greeks. Director Paul R. Waldo, grad uate student in theatre, thinks the show is "one of the tightest and brightest musicals going.” Music and lyrics are by Stephen Sondheim, composer of "West Side Story." The season-opener will run through next Friday, with the Thursday performance to be staged at the University Thea tre. Bert Morton, Carnival Thea tre's musical director, will be in charge of vocal direction and Da vid Young wdll conduct the or chestra. Nicola Cutter, Eugene, is choreographer, and Dave Smith, assistant director. Charles E. Blankenship. Twenty - nine Palms. Calif., is costume design er. The set was designed by Waldo and Faber DeChaine. associate professor of speech. Pseudolus is the inventive Ro man slave about whose zany ad ventures the plot revolves. Nash took part in 1964 Carnival Thea tre production. Hero, the young master for whom Pseudolus attempts to se cure the beautiful virgin Philia in order to win his own freedom will be portrayed by Randall Beal. Chilton Cunningham of Ann Arbor, Mich., has been cast as Philia. 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Hoover Letters In UO Magazine Five previously unpublished letters, written by the late Presi dent Herbert C. Hoover, appear in the spring issue of Call Num ber, semi-annual publication of the University Library. The letters, written to Nell May Hill of Independence, Ore., are part of a collection of the Henry Hill letters at the Uni versity Library. The first three of the letters were written while Hoover was a student at Stanford University, the last two during the summer after he graduated. In the last of the letters pre sumed to have been written in 1895. young Hoover writes of the possibility of a position on the faculty of the University, noting that ’‘Although I should very much like to have it, I have no influence with Oregon politicians and hardly see how I could get it otherwise.” 'Saucery Sorcery# Comes Tuesday The Student Union Board is sponsoring a program called "Saucy Sorcery Show” at 8 p.m. Tuesday in the SU Ballroom. C. Shaw Smith, along with his family, make up the cast of this hour and a half stage show. Smith, who holds a master's degree in English from the Uni versity of North Carolina, has had experience both in military troupes and on circuits of U.S. college and university campuses. Smith’s act includes himself, 17-year-old Shaw Jr., 16-year-old Curtis, 13-year-old Nancy, 11-year old Graham, and Mary Mig who is 6. His wife, Nancy, provides musical background for the eve ning of conjuring and comedy. Although Smith’s experience is toward entertainment for adults, “Saucy Sorcery” is meant to ap peal to students, faculty, and fam ily groups. Shaw states about the show, “Frankly, we think the show is cute, corny, and friendly.” Don't Sit and STARVE Have Tino's Deliver You a Delicious PIZZA Free Delivery Every Day 6 p.m.-12 p.m. ITALIAN DINNERS Orders To Go Phone 344-2453 or come to Tino's Pizza Parlor 1491 Willamette Open 5 p.m.-l a.m. Closed Mondays Lots of Parking Cast as Proteans are Joe Bak er, Robert Cage. Floyd Bippes, and Peter Simpson. Debby liallu day and Bonnie Scott will play palace guards. Tickets, priced from $2 to $3. are on sale for "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum” at the Carnival Theatre Box Office, Ext. 1781. Box office hours will be noon to 5 p in through June 30, and noon to 9 p.m. daily except Sunday, begin ning July 1. Over 50 outstanding theatre artists have been assembled to form the 1966 Carnival Theatre company. ‘‘Excitement '66" is the theme this year of the semi-pro fessional summer stock theatre. DeChaine will be managing di rector. Scenic designer will be Anthony L. Kadlec, assistant pro- i fessor of speech, who will also direct a play. A professional actor and direc tor who has atken part in a vast number of legitimate theatre, Broadway, and motion picture productions, will be both an ac tor for this summer's Carnival Theatre. He is William Cottrell, who has worked with such thea trical greates as Charles Laugh ton and Peter Ustinov. Also directing will be Don Fibiger and Waldo. Hollywood stars of “The Way West,” motion picture currently being lilmed near Eugene, will be on hand Friday for the open ing night. Other productions which will be performed are, "After the Fall," “Slow Dance on the Killing Ground,” "She Loves Me,” “The Private Ear" and "The Public Eye” and "The Roar of the Grcasepoint — The Smell of the Crowd.” morofl vu onvi TMMTii mOTOR-VU DFUl/6-in THEATRE Open 8 p.m. • Show Dusk Phone 746-9286 TONIGHT Our Man Flint JAMES COBURN LEE J. COBB CO-FEATURE APACHE RIFLE Audey Murphy Student Criticizes Counsel System The appointment of court law yers for indigent* should reflect the Western ideal of equal Jus tice, states Harvard law student Michael Moore in the June issue of the Oregon Law Review, the University’s School of Law quar terly. Moore, who conducted research for the article in several Oregon counties, criticizes today's ap pointed-council system for its lack of uniformity and failure to con sistently give the indigent the same opportunities for good counsel as the “rich man." The Review also contains sev eral articles by the University law WHY PAY MORE? Haircuts to your order Just $1.75 2 blocks from campus Fairmont Barber Shop Corner 19th A Agate Next to Del Hoff's students and former students. Contributors in this issue are: Du vid (’. IlauKcberg, Michael I). Montgomery, graduates, and third year students, William It. Freck, John Knecland, and Margaret Ann Willoughby. 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