The Los Angeles Loyolan, Volume 43, Issue 8 - November 22, 1965

Vol. 43— No. 8 LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF LOS ANGELES November 22, 1965 LOYOLA GLEE CLUB PRESENTS FIRST ANNUAL FALL FESTIVAL Mathews Stars In Del Rey's JB By PAT McCLAIN On Friday, December 3 the Del Hey Players will present Archibald MacLeish's highly lauded JB. The Pulitzer prize winning verse drama will be presented in Strub Theater on December 3 and 4 and the fol¬ lowing weekend, December 10 and 11. Performances begin at 8:00 p.m. Donnelly Directs Produced and directed by Mr. William Donnelly, JB retells the Biblical story of Job in a contem¬ porary setting. The play has been hailed as one of the memorable works of the century as verse, as drama, and as spiritual inquiry by Brooks Atkinson of the New York Times. In the play MacLeish exa¬ mines the question of the suffering of man in society. Mathews in Title Role The title role of JB will be played by Ted Mathews. In the role of Mr., Nicholas, who is the Satan image, is veteran Mike Guichard. Playing the god figure of Mr. Zuss will be Sophomore Joe Ashby. Li¬ anne Harvey will take on the role of JB's wife. The play has a for¬ malistic style and will be set in an architectual type representing a traveling circus. Student to Direct A first in the history of the Del Key Players, a student will assist in the directing of the Play. Dave Rock has taken the position of as¬ sistant director to Mr. Donnelly, and occasionally has complete con¬ trol over rehearsals. Under the su¬ pervision of Mr. Donnelly Dave is learning through experience the problems and frustrations of a di¬ rector. A Sophomore, Dave has ap¬ peared in several productions of the Del Rey Players last year and now sees the operation from a new viewpoint. Del Rey Schedule JB is the second of several two act plays being presented by the Del Rey Players this year. The first was The Hasty Heart directed by Mr. A. Martial Capbern. Fol¬ lowing the production of JB will be The Wives Have Not Spoken, to be presented in March, and H.M.S. Pinafore, to be produced in late April. The Players have had great success this season, selling some 250 season tickets. Tickets for the performances of JB will go on sale about a week and a half prior to the opening. It is hoped that the entire student body will be able to see this pro¬ duction as well as all the support¬ ers of Loyola's Del Rey Players. LOYOLANS PICKETING Sheriff Jim Clark address are, from left to right, Pete Boland, Ed Cardenas, Mike Truskol, Tom McGrath, and Al Lingo. Jim Clark Appearance Picketed By SCOPE Loyola's chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference's Summer Community Operation and Political Education (SCOPE) gathered on November 15 when Selma's Sheriff Jim Clark ap peared in Pasadena at the invita¬ tion of the White Citizens Council and the John Birch Society. SCOPE supporters from through¬ out Southern California joined other civil rights groups in a mass protest against Sheriff Clark despite threats of violence that were broadcast throughout the day. The NAACP had forced the Pasa¬ dena School Board to open Clark’s lecture to the general public through last minute pressuring. The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) promptly swarmed the ticket office in an attempt to pack the auditorium with its supporters. By the time Clark arrived, CORE held the majority of the 700 people jammed into the heavily guarded hall. Sheriff Clark tried for fifteen minutes to speak over the shouting crowd before giving up. As Loyola SCOPE Director Pete Boland later commented: “It was ironic that we were outside in the rain demon¬ strating for freedom while CORE was inside blocking Clark from speaking." Loyola’s SCOPE denounced CORE’S actions at Wilson Junior High and consequently remained on the picket lines all evening. CORE'S leaders were unable to intelligently define or enumerate upon their strategy and philosophy of blocking Clark’s address that evening when they were confronted by Loyola SCOPE members SCOPE was the largest single sup¬ port group taking part in the out¬ side demonstration of over 400. Par¬ ticipating with Loyola SCOPE were seniors Tom McGrath, Bill Hamill, Ed Cardenas, Mike Truskol and Joe Platz. Juniors Mike Kane, Larry Maeder, Mike Maloney and Pete Boland. Freshmen Tony Cole, Guy Micco, Tom Kausek, George La joie, John Soltex, Jim Mortarana, Larry Tabat, John Siefker, John Jackson and Al Lingo. SCOPE led the picketers in civil rights songs and hand clappings as anti-demonstrators heckeled and jeered from across the street behind a row of policemen. Whenj Clark left the auditorium SCOPE formed a 100-person arm-in-arm “freedom circle" to pray “We Shall Overcome" before dispersing soaking wet. ORGANIZATIONS COMPETE IN FIVE DIVISIONS The Fall Festival committee has announced definite plans to hold the First Annual Fall Festival of Music on Saturday, December 4, at the Hollywood High School Au¬ ditorium. The Fall Festival, for¬ merly the Spring Sing, will once again be sponsored by the Glee Club. The change of season was made to balance the schedule of school activities between the two semesters. Hollywood High Along with the change in sea¬ son comes a change in location. The switch was made after care¬ ful consideration of the merits of Can a Loyola Lion Ride an Elephant? It was announced at the weekly legislature meeting Wednesday that Loyola University has been invited by California State College at Fullerton to participate in their annual inter-collegiate elephant race. The events woud consist of wind sprints, the hundred yard dash, and various other breath taking feats. The event would cost Loyola about $300.00 for rental and transportation of the elephant. The main topic of the meeting was the request that $150.00 be ap¬ propriated to the Pep Club for the purchase of a new lion’s suit. The old lion's suit was misplaced 2 years ago and Loyola has been borrowing Loyola High School's ever since. It was decided that the newly purchased suit be put into the hands of the current ASLU Pep Club officers to be cared for and stored by them. The blood drive was a success having reached over 108 per cent of its quota. The blood is to be donated to the armed forces in support of the U.S. policy in Viet¬ nam. The Legislature also approved the appropriation of $49.35 to the Fine Arts Circle to cover expenses of the recent production of “Eigh th Henry." Because admission was not charged and the members of the Circle were faced with many bills, it was decided that the ap propriation be granted. During discussion Tony Vulin emphasized the lack of good pub¬ licity at Loyola. Consequently, the Legislature decided to invite the public rela¬ tions representative for Loyola to the next meeting, hoping that with his help, the legislature might ob¬ tain some useful insights on how publicity and public relations might be improved at Loyola. each auditorium. The reasons giv¬ en by the committee for their choice were: (1) the acoustics at Hollywood High are far superior to those at the Santa Monica Civic. This will give the performers an opportunity to sing higher and to adjust more easily, producing a su¬ perior tone. (2) The seating is newer, more comfortable, and per- menant as opposed to the tem¬ porary seating u s e d through¬ out most of the Civic. (3) Holly¬ wood has a Mezzanine and a Bal¬ cony cantilevered over the main floor bringing the audience much closer. (4) In previous years the Civic was made available to the performers only seven hours before performances. Hollywood’s auditor¬ ium will be available to the Festi¬ val representatives and directors any time after November 20. This will give two full weeks to balance mikes, coordinate the lighting, block staging, test acoustics, re¬ hearse stage and house crews, and familiarize the performing groups with the auditorium. (5) The new auditorium has better lighting fa¬ cilities, professional recording equipment, and full double rank pipe organ will be used for the grand finale. (6) We will no longer be forced to use the unionized stage crew which gave little or no cooperation to the performers sug¬ gestions for lighting sound, and staging. (7) The money saved by renting a school auditorium rather than a public facility will be used to provide recordings of the per¬ formance to each group and for superior trophies. Competition Stiff The field of nineteen original en¬ tries was trimmed down last Sat¬ urday. There are five divisions: Mens chorus, womens chorus, mix¬ ed chorus, mixed production, and novelty. The judging is based on blending, tone quality, intonation, interpretation, diction, originality, stage presence, costumes, audience appeal and choreography. Tickets for the Festival will be on sale in the bookstore and in the Lair. They may also be purchased at the door the night of the per¬ formance. THE '65 LIONS Loyolan Sports Editor Brochu outlines the 1965-1966 Lion Basketball prospects in a special report on page 7. wsmS