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Vol. XLIV, No. 10 GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY, WASHINGTON, D. C. Thursday, November 29, 1962 SovietWorld-wide Role Star-Studded Performance Topic Of Aid'~ Lecture To Raise Funds For Center , by Ke~/J.tch~ty "Why is there a wall ar6und Berlin?" was the frank : 'C;:;:' , ,.-" eli burn 8 e I a fo n t e question that climaxed the first visit of a Soviet Govern- i'" , ment official to the Georgetown Campus. On Monday night, But Two Of Stars November 19, the International Relations Club presented as their guest speaker Nikifor M. Levchenko, Second Secre To Be Seen Tonite tary of the Soviet Embassy, who discussed the Russian role Tonight from 9 :30 to 11 :30 in world affairs. Following his some of the world's greatest Club Seeks Volunteers speech, the Secretary offered performers will appear via enlightening and entertaining closed-circuit television in Mc From GU Student Body answers to the troubled quer Donough Gymnasium to en For Tag Day Collection ies of world-minded Royas. tertain an audience of Wash- Levchenko solved the final ihgton students and citizens ex pected to number about 4000. This Saturday Georgetown question by frankly admitting, in students will once again be his wall to wall manner, that he, The performance, entitled "An asked to donate their services a representative of the Soviet American Pageant of the Arts", Union, was unfortunately not an features such stars as Marian An to raise funds for the annual authority on East German affairs. derson, Harry Belafonte, Pablo Cerebral Palsy Tag Day. However, he did venture the "ex Casals, Van Cliburn, Danny Kaye Tag Day, which will be planation" that the purpose of the and many others. The proceeds Wall was to protect the Russian from this program, which will be sponsored on Campus by the Wash broadcast to similar sites through satellite. It was seen that the in INTERIOR PERSPECTIVE .•. of the Natural Cultural Center. ington Club, will be held Saturday out the country, will be donated to from 1 to 3 :30 p.m. fluence of the revenge seeking West Berliners was endangering their the Natural Cultural Center. The Last year Hoya volunteers col center is to be erected in Foggy lected a total of $550, almost $200 Eastern inmates: "All kinds of dirty business was going on over Bottom, a short distance down the more than the combined total of Collegium. Musicum. Holds Potomac from Georgetown. other Washington colleges. there." Popular entertainer Don Leace, Those who wish to serve as Assuring Answers volunteers for Tag Day should who appears regularly at the When doubt was thrown on the contact Washington Club president Piano Recital byFennim.ore Shadows, will give a live perform freedom of the post-war elections Ed Koepenick, either in the Club ance prior to the close-circuit Lounge or at EM 5-2750. There in Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia, This Sunday, December 2, the Collegium Musicum of presentation. He will be joined by will be a party at the Mayflower Levchenko was anxious to clarify Georgetown University will present a piano recital in Gaston Georgetown's own Restless Knights. the facts: "I can assure you that Hotel for all fund raisers at 4:00 RaIl by Arthur C. Fennimore of Berwyn, Pennsylvania. The Students to Benefit p.m. it was really a free plebiscite by which the people, of their own de recital, which is open to all free of charge, will begin at 3 p.m. The co-chairmen of the a~air Lounge Committee' sire, were accepted into the free It will also be broadcast live over Georgetown's radio station, here at Georgetown, College senior family of states." The Washington Club, whose WGTB. Randy Maloney and Foreign Serv moderator is Father Neil J. Gar Eyebrows were raised at this ice senior Mark Phillips, point out gan, S.J., is planning several other point. But it was not until the Mr. Fennimore was invited that University students will bene events. A lounge committee, under Secretary justified party line clas to play here at Georgetown on fit both from the performance and the direction of Jack Sheahan, has sification of the western democra from the Cultural Center itself. been busy redecorating the non cies as "imperialistic" that the the strength of his showing They said that the Center's prox residents' recreation area, which is usually reserved Hoya demeanor in the Van Cliburn Interna imity to the Campus will place located in the basement of New broke down into a hearty appreci tional Piano Contest held last great music, drama, and light en North. New equipment, including a ation of the incongruity of the Rus tertainment near at hand and at television set, ping-pong tables, and sian's stand. Although today the month in Fort Worth, Texas. the easy disposal of all Hoyas. magazines, has been acquired, and West has lost the great part of Although the rules of the contest Maloney and Phillips report that more will be added in the future. its colonial empire, the Soviet called for only six finalists. the tickets, priced from $1 to $5, are judges felt that his playing was The club is also planning a Union is the largest empire in the on sale at the Cafeteria and have world. But, with a straight-faced of such caliber along with that of been distributed for sale at the vari· Christmas dance, a parent-faculty the other winners that he was also reception, and the sponsorship of sincerity that would do credit to a ous girls' schools in the area. Late kindergarten instructor, Levchenko allowed to compete in the finals. permissions will be given at George one of the events of the Spring He finished seventh and in addition Wee ken d. President Koepenick explained: "The Soviet Union pro town and the girls' colleges to those vides for regular four-year elec received the Nieman-Marcus award attending the show. summarizes the aims of the Wash of $500 for the best performance ington Club as follows: "Emphasis tions. Those people who wish may Dr. James S. Ruby, Executive chose to become separate and in in the entire contest of Lee Hoiby's this year will be on the service Capriccio which had been especially Secretary of the Alumni Associa project and integrating the day dependent states." tion, has contacted many of the And so it went: Why have there commissioned for the contest. All student into the life of the Cam contestants were required to learn local alumni and expects a large pus." (Continued on Page 6) this piece although they received turnout from this group. their copies only one month before The administrations of the local the competition began. The SatU?· colleges reacted enthusiastically to day Review said that his musical MR. ARTHUR C. FENNIMORE a letter sent by the Pageant com future is as bright as that of any of mittee asking that late permissions the contestants. aegis he won further, more impor be granted to students attending He first came to national promi tant contests leading to an appear· the telecast here. This will allow nence when he competed in the ance with the Philadelphia Orches· students to attend the entire per Merriwether Post National Compe tra last March when he played one formance without any anxiety con tition for young instrumentalists of the most difficult concertos in cerning checks. held here in 1956. At that time he the repertoire, the Prokofiev Sec· The set·up in the gym will be finished second out of a field of ond Piano Concerto. Last June he similar to the seating arrangement over three hundred although he won one of five scholarships at the employed at the Brothers Four con· was only sixteen. International Casals Festival in cert, except that seats will be placed Mr. Fennimore's career began at San Juan, Puerto Rico. The two along the balcony. The performance the age of six, and at nine he won preceding summers he had spent will be beamed onto a twenty-by his first contest. Since then he has studying at the Marlboro Festival twenty screen which can be clearly won area competitions sponsored in Marlboro Vermont. There he seen from any part of the gym. by the General Electric Company played the Beethoven ThiTd Piano Georgetown is one· of six uni and the Central New York Associ Conce?·to with the Marlboro Or versities in the Washington area ation of Music Teachers; he won chestra under Alexander Schneider playing host to the production. Co scholarships to the Chautauqua who also conducts the Casals Fes chairman Maloney expressed the School of Music and the Lake tival Orchestra. hope that the Hilltop's attendance Placid (New York) summer Sym This past week he returned to will be tops in Washington, which phony program. Fort Worth, the scene of the Cli would probably make it the highest Six years ago he began study burn Competition, to play for the in the country. "The proceeds will with the renowned Rudolph Serkin Harmony Club of Fort Worth. be recorded," he stated, "as coming at the Curtis Institute of Music in Among other works he will play from the students themselves, not LEVCHENKO'S ANSWERS . bring "hearty appreciation." Philadelphia. Under Mr. Serkin's is Ravel's Gaspard de la N11it. from the -University." Page Two rRE ROYA Thursday, November 29, 1962 Editorial Capitalistic Laughter The Magic lantern The speech of Mr. Nikifor Levchenko on Monday, No vember 19, was strangely punctuated by titters of laughter Thursday, December 6, will be by Joseph Dunigan the occasion for the last Dean's' which once or twice exploded into gales.