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1 Taylor Five Selected For Venture To Formosa Five Taylor university basketball p'ayers have been selected to tour Formosa this summer in the proposed "Venture for Victory." Don Granitz, Howard Habeggar, Norman Holmskog, Forrest Jackson, and John Nelson will accompany Coach Don Odle, alum "Ye Shall Know the Truth" nus Norman Cook, and the former Wheaton basketball star, Bud Vol. XXXVI — No. 19 Taylor University, Upland, Indiana March 18, 1952 Schaeffer, on a tour which will combine exhibition basketball and Christian evangelism. These five fellows were chosen by the steering committee consisting of President Lilliputs May Enjoy Shakespeare Evan H. Bergwall; Rev. Maurice Dean Recognizes Beery, president of the Alumni Ed. Note - - Here are the viewpoints of two Echo staff writers on the miniature Shakes Honor Students association; Prof. Ralph Cum- pearean theater. mings; Coach Odle; Don Jacob- Because outstanding scholastic sen, president of the junior class; and John Nelson, vice-president of by Joanne Phillippe by Lois Inboden achievement deserves recognition, the Dean's office is inaugurating the Varsity T-club. With $4.00 worth of balsam True genius is always humble and sometime unrecognized by the Dean's Honor List on which Formosa is an island one-fourth wood, 3 tubes of glue, 42 hours of those who are more pretentious. Taylor's own trailer court holds will appear the names of students the size of Indiana, with a popula time, and a large share of inge attaining an average of 2.6 or bet tion of 11 million people. Two at nuity, Charles Grover has con a spark of that kind of genius in the person of Charlie Grover. ter for the semester. tractions which are drawing large structed a miniature Elizabethan Charlie made the miniature Elizabethan theater Dr. Hil For the first semester 1951-52, crowds on the island are basket theatre and presented it to the bish has been proudly displaying to her Shakespearean classes. the following students are deserv ball games and evangelistis serv English department. The pride is certainly justifiable; the little theater is one of the ing of this recognition: Pat Bac ices. Dick Hillis, Youth for Christ Mr. Grover, a senior majoring nicest pieces of workmanship Taylor will ever claim. chus, Pauline Breid, Gail Brenne- representative on Formosa, is in history, followed only a picture It all started last semester when Charlie approached Dr. Hilbish man, Gerald Close, Richard Cof- making arrangements for the and a diagrammed floor plan as in the class of Shakespeare's comedies and announced that he was felt, Dottie Cunningham, Stewart Taylor party. In a letter to Coach patterns in building his model. Cuthbretson, Mary Dalh, Mary Odle, Hillis says: going to make a miniature theater. Dr Hilbish, having some slight Davis, Allen Dufegha, Albert Fur- Fuel for your fire: Since Oc Let us draw nearer and make acquaintance with college students and their consistent behavior, bay, Pauline Getz, Carl Gongwer, tober 1950 we have averaged 4 a closer inspection of the play smiled perfunctorily and said that would be very nice—and promptly Charles Grover, Richard Hoyer, house itself. Nine windows sep meetings every day. Brother, beat forgot the statement. If she had known that Charlie was carrying Mansfield Hunt, Lois Inboden, that record any place in the arated by red timbering open on Maurice Irvin, Eunice Jones, Car nineteen hours and working forty-eight hours a week, she would no world. God has given a harvest of each side of the octagonal build men Justice, James Lantz, Marie over 72,000 souls. Again, over ing. Look! on the highest point doubt have dismissed the idea Merk, Marilyn Micklewright, Rob 20,000 souls are in our free nine of the slanting red roof, the sooner still. But, sure enough, one ert Neely, Doris Oswalt, Joanna day Charlie appeared with a small months' Bible study and memory theatre emblem is raised. It must Phillipe, Lorimer Potratz, Janice course. Our graduates from the octagon shaped Shekespearean Rose, Elinor Speicher, Hugh be two or three o'clock in the af course have averaged winning theater which he calls the "Wood Sprunger, Richard Steiner, Mari ternoon, for a motley crowd is three apiece to Christ which en O." It represents the combina Suzuki, James Weiss, Gordon streaming under the Old English means that before the 20,000 have tion of some thirty-two precious Wickstrom, Mary Lee Wilson and sign which proclaims "The Wood graduated they will have won hours, the example of just two Darleen Yoder. en '0"\ Shall we join them? over 60,000 to Christ. '"Ah," you protest, "but the door pictures of the old Globe theater, a little balsam wood and red is only an inch high!" Well, for "The difference between For paint, much patience and some of Lyceum Brings mosa and other harvest fields is the moment, we are only peanut- the same divine creative gleam sized ourselves; so come, take the that this one is already ripe. that began with the Lord himself Duo This Friday Come help us gather it." brass handle, and open the red long ago when he looked at his The Lyceum series presents Mr. Odle has also received the fol door. first work of art and found it lowing cablegrams from the gov Where shall we sit? For half good. and Mrs. Fritz Magg, cellist and ernor of the island and from Mad pianist from Indiana university, a crown we may join the arrogant ame Chiang Kai-shek: The little theater is almost an on Friday, Mar. 21 1952. dandies arranging their seats be exact replica of the Globe theater Fritz Magg, in residence at the "As governor of Formosa, I as hind the low railing on the front of Elizabethan fame. That was Indiana University School of Mu sure you a warm welcome. Your of the stage. For two shillings, Lord Chamberlain's theater in sic, is a member of the Berkshire team will help in our great task we may choose standing room in which the versatile Shakespeare Quartet which was on Taylor's of moral and spiritual reconstruc the three-storied covered gallery was stockholder, producer, actor campus last fall. Mr. Magg has tion." - K. C. Wu which extends around the six and playwright. The Globe was studied in the Conservatory of Vi "In behalf of Free China I ex walls opposite the stage. Shining octagon-shaped with a thatched enna as well as in Cologne and in our palms are two bright roof. The inner court, or pit, was tend a hearty welcome to your Charles Grover shows the model Paris under Gruemer and Alex- Christian basketball ambassadors pence - - we will remain in the of the Elizabethan playhouse to open to the sky. Here was the anian. In 1934 he became the first stage, extending out into the pit. to visit Taiwon."-Madame Chiang open-air pit. Rough, jostling lab Dr. Hilbish. cellist of he Vienna Symphony un The "groundlings," or common Kai-shek orers surround us, while fruit ped der such top conductors as Fuert- dlers push* by loudly hawking folks, watched the play from the wangTer, Bruno Walter and Weiri- Ellsworth Culver, brother-in- hoots of the uninhibited pit. pit, while the aristocracy used their wares. Here and there gartner. The cellist won first law of Norman Cook, one of the "Have done with your speeches, three tiers of galleries. "Culture throughout the crowd may be prize in the International Compe members of the party, writes, sirrah!" shouts one vociferous vultures" of Elizabethan days seen a masked face; yet, despite tition for Cello in Vienna in 1937. "The largest stadium on the is critic, accompanying' his words paid fancy prices to sit by the this method of concealment, few In 1938 he came to the United land is here in Taipei seating with a handful of orange peels. edge of the stage so they could ladies have ventured to attend States where he worked with the 8000. We'll be able to fill it each Yet the playwright subtly inter throw peanuts to the actors. the performance. New Friends of Chamber Music time you play." weaves poetic passages into his (Taylor isn't so modern!) in New York for two years before Coach Odle says that this ven Backstage, the actors, seated at drama, as well as murders and All these details except the joining the Gordon Quartet dressing tables are applying last- thatched roof may be seen in the ture is ". something that's go witchcraft, else his endeavors (which later became the Berkshire ing to help Taylor university more minute touches before their mir would meet with yawns of bore replica. Tiny staircases connect Quartet). rors (tinfoil). Yes, there are only the galleries. The inner and upper than anything else in recent dom from the elite seated upon Mrs. Natasha Magg, wife of years." Another member of the actors; one would expect the stages behind the main stage are the stage. Fritz Magg, is a graduate from steering committee, Prof. Ralph young boys who take the place Several hours having been pass equipped with purple corduroy the Academy of Music of Vienna. curtains. Above all these stages Cummings, agrees that it is "won of actresses to be quaking with ed in amusement of the throng, Mrs. Magg has studied with the is the "hut," a sort of cupola with derful publicity and good recruit stage fright, but many roles as the play nears an end. As there famous Austrian pianist, Emil von ment." understudies and leading charac windows at such a celestial height Sauer. She holds the Rubinstein is no final curtain to be drawn, so as to be fitting for the appear The committee is now beginning ters have hardened their nerves.

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