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College news, December 11, 1964
Bryn Mawr College student newspaper. Merged with Haverford News, News (Bryn Mawr College); Published weekly (except holidays) during academic year.
Bryn Mawr College (creator)
1964-12-11
serial
Weekly
8 pages
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North and Central America--United States--Pennsylvania--Montgomery--Bryn Mawr
Vol. 51, No. 10
College news (Bryn Mawr College : 1914)--
https://tripod.brynmawr.edu/permalink/01TRI_INST/26mktb/alma991001620579...
Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2012 with funding from LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation.
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COLLEGE NEWS :
“Merry Widow” Waltzes in
For Two Weeks in Phila.
The Music Theatre of New
York’s Lincoln Center will offer
2.-twoeweek. engage™ont.of Franz
Lehar’s ‘“‘The Merry Widow’ be-
‘ginning Monday, December 14 at
the Forrest Theatre in Philadel-
Patrice Munsel and Bob Wright
will perform the starring roles
of Sonia and Prince Danilo in-
the pr Ne
‘During (its five-week run in New
York, the Music Tuaeire-beoke
every existing Broadway box=~
office record, Its highest weekligg
gross reached the sum of $98,-
400.
’ Now in its first season, the
Music. Theatre is formed. on a
non-profit basis. Richard Rodgers
serves as president and producing
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Dec. 11, 12, 13
GORDON BOK
‘Songs of the Sea ~
Bok Workshop, Sun., 4:00
NATE SUSSM Sa
Classical Guitar
Dec. 18, 19, 20.
LEN CHANDLER
One of America’s Angry
Young,Men of Song
Closed Christmas and
° “New Years Weekends
Jan. 8, 9, 10
JOHN KILBY SNOW & SON |
Authentic, Old-Time Aufoharpist
Jan, 15, 16, 17 ‘
TOM PAXTON
The ‘Rambling Boy’’ Sings
Ly His Own Songs
Fri. & Sat.-2 Shows-9, 10:45
___ Sun. Afternoon — 4:00
Hoof and Supper from 5:30
Sun. Evening- 1 Show- 7:30
director of the group.
The company plans to present |
in -the- future: dott few. < card estab-
lished musical plays.
‘First produced in 1907; ‘*The
Merry Widow’? is famous for its
Merry Widow Waltz, its ‘*Vilia,”’
and its cancan,
Supporting members of the cast
include Mischa Auer, Sig Arno,
Frank Porretta, J6éan Weldon,
Joseph Leon, Wood Romoff, and
Robert Goss, —
~Girele-in-the-Square
To Give Production
Of ONeill’s Desire ~
DESIRE. UNDER THE ELMS,
Eugene O’Neill’s dramatic mas-
terpiece, will be presented by
the Circle-in-the-Square theater
company Saturday, December 12,
at 8:30 p.m. in Roberts Hall;
Haverford College.
Circle-in-the-Square produc-
tions have presented over 30
plays in New York and in com-
munities throughout the United
States, TROJAN WOMEN, its latest
production, received the Drama
‘Critic Circle’s Award, the’ first
time an off-Broadway play has
been. given this prize. Its produc-
tion of DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS
received high praise from New
York critics: “Granite power!’?
according to Taubman of the New
York Times. “I do recommend
it,’? said Walter Kerr of the New
York Herald Tribune.
Tickets are $3.00 each. Tickets
and information may be obtained
by writing Box Office, Haverford
College, Haverford, Pa, A check
or money order and a_ stamped
self-addressed envelope should be
enclosed.
~
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and beautiful...a moving
nt story of.a man who
deeply wants a world
without malice and hate
and is doing something
about it.”—N. Y. Times
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Our 75th Year of Service
COMPANY
Led me
December 11, 1964
Cartoonist Al Hirschfeld- gives his impression of Patricia Munsel, Bok Wright (left) and Sig Arno,
who appear in ‘‘The Merry Widow."" ~~
"Americanization ‘Ef Emily’ Plot looks
“Bey ond Traditional Wartime Romance
“The oan of Emi-
ly,’’ beginning an indeterminate
run at Philadelphia’s Fox Thekter,
cannot be classed as the standard .
‘twartime romance” that a super-
ficial review of the plot might
indicate,
The American Naval officers
it deals with.are not fighting men,
but those who vacillate between
various capers’ in their desk jobs
to amours in London’s Westches-
ter Hotel, These men often exhibit |
only dubious devotion to the mili-
tary duty the screen tends to
glorify excessively, The hero, in
fact, played by James Garner, an
expert ‘‘dog robber,’’ or supplier
of luxuries for his commanding
officers, is .an avowed coward,
and seems an especially unlikely
subject for romance, especially
where Julie Andrews, a “‘prig-
gish” war widow and driver for
+the American forces, is concerned,
It appearg¥" however, that this
anti-glorification of war and war-
time fomangs y'succeeds in produc-
ing one of e truer and subtler
pictures of war seen on the screen
in quite a while; eventually, the
upstanding Miss Andrews sees in
Garner’s cowardice a more con-
structive and positive attitude to-
wards ‘war ‘and peace, than might
be found da, the greatest show of
valor,
BeSides
‘*Emily” reveals, and because of
them, it’ is often an extremely
funny movie, .as well as an honest
because
traveli |
Cut it out.
Sheraton-Park Hotel _
Washington, D.C. 20008
Motor Inns. Good Deal!
Name
Taking another
ho-hum vacation ~.
e you think. |
is expensive?
COLLEGE RELATIONS DIRECTOR
Dear Sheraton: Please rush me ‘an application for a
free.Sheraton Student. ID Card.,! understand it will get
me ‘discounts on room rates at Sheraton Hotels &
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these truths which
one, It would be tedious to detail
the many absurdities in the plot
which also concerns American in-
tra-service rivalries and the im-
pending arrival of D-Day. The
same could be said for the movie’s
frankness, although this .always
remains within the bounds of good
taste. Miss Andrews, making an
expert transition from the’ slightly. — ‘
saccharine ‘‘Mary Poppins,” is en,
able to exclaim, ‘*God! I hope I
don’t get pregnant!’? - and get
away with it in the course of her
liaison with Garner, In many lesser
movies, a mere innuendo would be
inexcusable.
An excellent supporting cast,
including Melvyn Douglas, Joyce
Grenfell, and James Coburn, does
justice to Martin Ransohoff’s di-_
rection and Paddy Chayesfsky’s
screenplay, which may.be overly
replete with references toHershey —
“bars, but is always warm, witty
and above all, human,
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