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Bates College SCARAB The aB tes Student Archives and Special Collections 5-15-1940 The aB tes Student - volume 68 number 05 - May 15, 1940 Bates College Follow this and additional works at: http://scarab.bates.edu/bates_student Recommended Citation Bates College, "The aB tes Student - volume 68 number 05 - May 15, 1940" (1940). The Bates Student. 781. http://scarab.bates.edu/bates_student/781 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Archives and Special Collections at SCARAB. It has been accepted for inclusion in The aB tes Student by an authorized administrator of SCARAB. For more information, please contact [email protected]. 1 Interruptions Make Rehearsals Enjoyable B>. L. S. KEMP '42 ..roes on for a "little way and then The plays the thins, of course. I Miss Schaetfer says: "Bassanlo, hen a11 tne work on stand U Z 264 the p'ay w | P straight; you look like aD 't done and over with and it's at old man, all bent over". Bassanio (Les ented to the audience. That's Thomas) looks deeply hurt, goes V0L BATES COLLEGE, LEWISTON, MASTE, WEDNESDAY, HAT 15, 1910 PRICE: 19 CEJTTS IteiTyou want to see it. But let it through elaborate contortions until he - CTt*^, I * said that rehearsals, also, are in- is absurdly straight and post-like and restinK to watcn* then gets into the correct posture. Your reporter had the pleasure of. Again the lines go on, until the di- Campus Prepares For sending several rehearsals of* ""The rector decides she isn't quite satisfied 'Merchant Of Venice' "aerchant ,._..» ofnf VeniceVenice". There is a icer- with their arrangement on the stage. air of cheerful informality about "I have an idea," she says as she Dad's Day Saturday .'hem «hat is "ccessar,ly miss:nS at skips up the aisle to the stage. Care- I the actual performance. In the first fully she has them stand in different Fathers Will Attend Opens Tomorrow Night lace. the cast as a whole never ar- places and goes nuwn the hall to see Players Give Matinee 0 Coffee, Film And ! !. s exactly on time. That would be how it looks. "Don't like it" Is the de- Performance Saturday 22 Students Take I asking too much. A few appear early, cision, and they go back to their orig- Northeastern Meet BRING PORTIA, SHYLOCK TO LIFE v inal positions, which she decides are A Saturday matinee perform- and are gi en the tasks of sweeping On Saturday the second annual Part In Year's '.he best after all. the sta<re. putting various articles of Dad's Day will be held at Bates to ance of "The Merchant of Venice", what-not in various places, and doing Soon Gratiano (Ralph Tuller), who Biggest Production which all sons are urged to invite planned to accomodate all those speaks "an infinite deal of nothing", whatever else is needed to make their fathers. Plans have been made who have been unable to secure "The Merchant of Venice", last and thins? ready for rehearsal. Then, af- is rattling on about how he "wants '*o most ambitious production this year by the Clason Key to make this year's seats for the regular evening t r the early-birds have worked their ' play the fool". It is a very amusing program just as successful as was by the Robinson Players, will be ' speech but the others on the stage shows on Thursday and Friday winas almost off others put in an last year's. staged tomorrow and Friday evening's have heard it so often they don't has been announced by Director appearance, obviously happy to find The program planned by the com- at 8 o'clock in the Little Theatre of laugh very convincingly. "Laugh as they have delayed Just long enough mittee seeks to give the dads an op- Lavinia Schaeffer. Hathorn Hall. though you meant it," Miss Schaef- w escape working. Rehearsal starts. portunity of enjoying a day of college This presentation, scheduled for Featuring Cassie Poshkus '40 as fer says. "He's your good friend and with anybody handy reading the parts life with their sons. Arrangements the Little Theatre at 2:30 p. m., Portia and John Marsh '43 as Shylock, he's awfully witty and you really like of those not yet present. By this time have been made for the fathers to the performance marks the climax of his jokes. Show us you like them." will be open to all season t'eket the first scene has been gone through, visit classrooms and discussions in the several weeks of arduous work by Gratiano goes through his speech holders. All high school students everyone has arrived, and the scene Is morning. At noon, a faculty reception actors, directors, and a large number again, and this time the laughter is are to be admitted for 25c, other done again. to the fathers at Chase Hall is plan- of back-stage assistants. Miss Schaef- Saliirinn Worries convincing. ned, to be followed by a father and tickets being sold for the regular fer has estimated that producing the About Wet Paint Must Make son banquet at the Commons which is admission price. "Merchant" has required more effort It's not so much the acting that Effective Groupings scheduled for 1:00 o'clock. In the af- Tickets will be sold at the door. than any play she has worked on since 8 makes rehearsals interesting, as it Or take for another example the ternoon the fathers will be admitted he has been at Bates, with the excep- js the interruptions. Take the very scene in which Portia (Caasie Posh- to the Bates-Northeastern track meet. tion, of course, of the 75th Anniver- first .-cone for example. Salarino kus) and Nerissa, her waiting maid The day will close with a coffee and sary Pageant of a year ago. (John Anderson) is sitting on a set (Rowena Fairchild), are in Portia's movies in Chase Hall Lounge. This is the first Shakespearian play of steps. In the middle of a speech he room discussing the various suitors. Since it is necessary for the com- presented at Bates since 1936, when Jumps up and worriedly asks Miss. During the scene Portia is seated, mittee to know approximately how "Much Ado About Nothing" was given Seniors Choose 12 CASSIE POSHKUS JOHN MARSH Schaeffer if the paint on the steps is while Nerissa is arranging a necklace many fathers will attend in order that by the 4-A Players under the direction dry. Miss Schaeffer is sure she j an,i t;ara on her. Miss Schaeffer has preparations may be made to accom- of the beloved Prof. Robinson. For doesn't know. Someone says it is; to determine just where Nerissa must odate them, all students who expect Class Day Speakers several years it had been the custom someone says it isn't; someonebe at a certain time so that her to have an annual Shakespearian Play their dads to be present are asked to Twelve seniors have been chosen to says it certainly ought to be by now. speeches might be most adequately but the tradition was discontinued get in touch with Brud Witty, Don take part in the annual Class Day Then Salarino decides it really is dry delivered, and has to decide at Just Damon Is Lone Entry four years ago. Now, with Miss Maggs, or some other member of the Exercises to be held this year on the and sits down again. The rehearsing |Continu*i on fug* v<*u} Schaeffer completing her second year Clason Key as soon as possible. Chase afternoon of Saturday, June 15, ac- Hall reservations may be made with cording to an announcement by Earle In Mayorality Race as director, however, a new custom Don Russell or members of the Clason may arise—a Shakespearian play at Zeigler, chairman of the Class Day With the 1940 edition of the annual year that one candidate led a tractor Key for those fathers who wish to Commencement. The "Merchant" is to Committee. mayoralty campaign only a week off, parade around the campus walks. Five Budding 'Medicos' Make remain for either Friday or Saturday l>e given during Commencement Week Frank Coffin will be in general only one candidate has so far ap- "Spectacular" has always been the night, or the boys may put up their in addition to the performances of to- charge of proceedings in his position peared in the field. 1 yword for mayoralty candidates' Plans For Graduate Study fathers in their own dorms. morrow and Friday evenings. as toastmaster. Roy Briggs. marshal, The Room 13 (West Parker! party, capers. The Clason Key has sent out gen- In addition to Marsh and Miss Posh- An increasing number of seniors ate work include Douglas Bragdon .wo-time winners of the annual race, Rules for the campaign, as put eral invitations to all fathers but ur- will lead the class to the exercises. kus, the cast includes: Charles Buck have made plans to continue their ed- who will continue in the Biology and have proposed the candidacy of Ar- forth by the StudeuB Council, and ges all men to Invite their dads per- Other selections are: Class Oration, '41 as Solarino: Rowena Fairchild '41 ucation at various graduate schools Botany field at Harvard Graduate thur Damon '42. With the successful posted for would-be candidates are as sonally and hopes to see as many as Leonard Clough; Class History, Ber- Bassanio: Ralph Tuller '42 as Gra- for the next year.