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Student Union Theatre

MAY 10,11 and 12.1949 .... ABOUT THE MASQUERS

Masquers, since 1919, have staged about two hundred productions, ploys 1 of all types produced under all sorts of conditions in many styles of acting and settings. At first only a platform stage was available; then the Little Theatre was ' built, in 1927. Large productions were taken downtown to the old Liberty Theatre i| where people on the main floor attended in evening dress. Twelve years ago the ,| Student Union became the center for dramatic life. A year ago the Little Theatre, J renovated, was reoccupied. Today a laboratory theatre is being dreamed of and planned. Directors who later became known over the United States and beyond I

have served' Masquers-among them Alexander Dean, Barnard Hewitt, Maurice

Browne, Carl Glick, John Mason Brown. Student actors and backstage persons have gone into the professional and I

the university theatres. fl

Acting and the producing of plays is hard work, imaginative work, fun. Rewards are many and tangible. Masquers has had an enviable career.

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PRESENT

Lewis W. Carroll’s

“ALICE IN WONDERLAND”

ADAPTED FOR THE STAGE BY Eva LeGallienne AND Florida Friebus ORIGINAL MUSIC BY RICHARD ADDINSELL

DIRECTED BY LeRoy W. Hinze

John Lester A. Wollock VOCAL DIRECTOR TECHNICAL DIRECTOR Eugene Andrie Jane Duffalo CONDUCTOR DANCE DIRECTOR

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CAST (In order of their appearance) (

PART ONE

NARRATION ______EDNA-MARIE THOMPSON ' ALICE______GAYLE DAVIDSON ' ______JOYCE REPLOGLE j MOUSE______CLEM WARD J DODO______-______-______JUNE McLEOD LORY______LOUETTA RIGGS : EAGLET______JOYCE FRIGAARD ■ CRAB______ISABEL GOPIAN j DUCK______IOAN BALDWIN |

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PART TWO

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SYNOPSIS

PART I: Alice at home. The Looking-glass house. White Rabbit. Pool of Tears. Caucus Race. Caterpillar. Duchess. . . Queen s Croquet Ground. By the Sea. The Trial. PART II: Red Chess Queen. Railway Carriage. Tweedledum and Tweedledee. White Chess Queen. Wool and Water. Humpty Dumpty. White Knight. Alice Crowned. Alice with the Two Queens. The Banquet. Alice at Home Again.

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If seems curious that a middle-aged, childless; bachelor’ in (Holy .Orders, who devoted his life to mathematics and symbolic logic, sh'obld have produced the whimsical fancies, the elegant foolery, the' scandajoui word-play, the' devastating burlesque, and the somehow logical nonsense vyhlch makes up Alice.

I have always maintained that any. child's'.book which achieves enduring fame cannot be entirely appreciated -by a .child. 'There must alvyays-be.some over­ plus for the adult only. So in Alice, the adult,'if he is not too-adult,,may find him­ self with joyousness, if not with childish, abandon,^growing bigger qr smaller by nibbling at mushrooms,- and drinking liqbids with the foiled flavor pf-clfefjry-tart custard, pineapple, roast turkey, taffy and hot buttered 'toast. He may hpve plea­ sant association with PoioniouS|-l.ike white'rabbits, with, mice'who dry themselves by reciting the driest history/and with human'eggs whose cravats- arid belts are indistinguishable'. He enjoys-situations, where' babies* turn-into pigs (.not-.,'such a violent metamorphosis, w.hpn you think it over;) and others involving cats with grins and grins without cats fobking like the flbme of a cahdle after; the-candle has gone out. \ x '- ,. j On the other hand; no child, unless he is undesirably precocious, can ap­ preciate fully those fascinatingly terhiBle-pyns.in which wp "uncover the dish to dishcover the fish." Nor can a-child get the force of the’March'Hare's-plaintive insistence that it was the best -butter, nor the White -Queens spmewhat. jesuitical rule: "Jam tomorrow, and jam’yesterday—but never' jam today." He cqnnot- grasp the succinct wisdom, of the (King of Hearts, .(who ceTtaihly should have been a professor of composition ar\d speech)’ "Begin at the beginning ,and go-on till , you come to the end;’then Stop."' 1 (\ v ‘ < ■ ■. ». • 1 ; > Still less'cap he, thoroughly 'enjoy, even if he -pleases, Humpty Dumpty, that generous employer qncf stern' master of words, that tamer of, hot-tempered Yer'3S' that proponent of '.the 'portmqnteau word. .And -least-of’all, uhless he has read the fusty and tedious advice of the .original Fathbr .William, can he .get this de­ licious burlesque, (and trenchant appraisal of-the legal1 profession),: ■ . , In my youth, said his father, I'tqbk to the law,. And argued each case with-my, wjfe < ; -. '. • ■And thd muscular; strength/,wh'rch it’gave to my jaw ‘ Has lasted the; re§t of. my life.,' ’.- - ; , The play-script shows Alice straight; undiluted, and unadulterated) that ,P shall be on hand to welcome!-. Queen Alice with'ninety- times-nine. ' R. H. Jesse.

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