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VOLUME 41—NUMBER 16
HOUSTON, JEXAS
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1954
Neon Will Flash Tomorrow Night
Charity Drive May Be First
Successful One On Campus
By AL BEERMAN
With the goal of fifteen hundred
dollars in reach, it appeared that
this year's Rice Charity Drive will
become the first completely suc-
cessful drive to take place on the
Rice campus. A total of $1,222.90
had been raised by noon Wednes-
day, and donations from organiza-
tions were expected to put the
drive over the goal aspired to by
those participating.
By noon Wednesday, all previous
records for collections had been
broken, and less than three hund-
red dollars remained to be. collected
by the members of the Rally Club
and the Student Council. Many
organizations which have contribut-
DeMolay In Public
Ceremony Sunday
The Rice DeMolay Association
will hold its public ceremony of re-
dedication next Sunday afternoon
in the Fondren Lecture Lounge at
3:00 PM according to Davis Brown,
president of the group.
Brown will take the part of Mas-
ter Counciler in the ceremony with
Dick Steph, Senior Counciler; Mi-
chael Horwitz, Junior Counciler;
Ronie Flinn, Senior Deacon; Gor-
don Anderson, Junior Deacon; San-
dy Havens, Orator; Wes Pittman,
Standard Bearer; Wendell 'Kroupa,
Senior Steward; Charles McHugh,
Junior Steward; Bill Cain, Mar-
shall; James Bennett, Chaplain; and
Clayton Tatom, Sentinel.
"As this rededication service is
an obligatory observance, all active
and senior DeMolays must attend,"
Brown commented.
ed to the drive in the past had not
yet made donations, and Charles
Tapley, chairman of the drive was
confident that the $1,500 mark
would be passed.
Almost $890 was collected from
the students in the classrooms
this year. This is the first year
that direct solicitations were
made in the classrooms, and the
success of this system is illustrat-
ed in the results of the drive.
The Student Council gave $100 in
a "kick-off" donation last week,
the Co-op donated $30, Honor Coun-
cil $50, laundry $5, PALS, OWLS,
and SLLS, $25 each, and the senior
class had donated $25. The Sextant
Club and Architecture Society have
eqph pledged $10, the Thresher $5;
and donations are expected from
the other .classes, remaining lits,
Women's Council, Rally Club, Reli-
gious Council, and all other campus
organizations.
The Student Council recommend-
ed to the Student Activities Com-
mittee that the proceeds from the
five dollar days for the 1953-54
school year benefit this year's
charity drive last week. The com-
mittee did not approve the recom-
mendation, but promised reconsid-
eration is the goal was met. This
would augment the fund by approx-
imately $300.
The drive, designed originally
to cut out fl*.number of charities
from taking collections on cam-
pus, will benefit the Houston Ce-
rebral Palsy Center. This is the
first year that 110 charity carni-
val, dance, or other means to
raise funds was undertaken.
Charles Tapley, speaking for the
GILBERT & SULLIVAN
Faculty Operetta
Opening On March 5
By MARK MORRIS
The fourth annual faculty operet-
ta is. to be presented in the auditor-
ium of the Prudential Building on
March fifth and sixth. The student
body is invited to the opening night
performance and the faculty and its
guests on the second night.
This year's production is to be
The Sorcerer, one of Gilbert and
Sullivan's earlier operettas. Eng-
lish professor John Parish is the
dramatic director and Rice's new
Lecturer in Music, Arthur Hall, is
the musical director!
The plot of The Sorcerer is com-
parable to that of A Midsummer
Night's Dream, for it concerns the
confusion of lovers who have drunk
a love brew made by a "respectable
London sorcerer." This, of course,
gives the authors a superb oppor-
tunity for satiric jibes at the scien-
tific profession.
The score contains one of Gil-
bert and Sullivan's most popular
songs, "My Name is Josn Willing-
ton Wells," as well as several
others which will probably be
familiar to most of the audience.
Architecture professor James
songs, "My Name is John Willing-
ton Wells, the magician, and Eng-
lish profs Jack Conner and Wilfred
Dowden are to portray Sir Marma-
duke Poindextre, an elderly baronet
and Alexis, his son.
Dr. Daly, the vicar, is to be
played by CarL Wischmeyer^ elec-
trical engineering prof, and* Lady
Sangazerre by Mrs. George Wil-
liams. Mrs. Jack Daugherty is
cast as Aline.
Ms. Partlet, a respectable widov^,
and her daughter Constance are to
be played by Mrs. Roy Talmage and
Mrs. Jody Kirk. The chorus of vil-
lagers and country folks is com-
posed of faculty members and their
wives.
charity committee thanked the stu-
dents for their cooperation, and the
student council for its work on the
drive. He was pleased with the sup-
port of the students and organiza-
tions so far, and hopes that in the
last little push the organizations
will help make the drive a success.
"We're so close that we can't possi-
bly fail."
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Students' Faiths To
Be Forum Subject
This I Believe, a forum on the
personal faiths of Rice students will
be held Friday, February 19, at 8:00
pm in the Fondren Library Lecture
Lounge.
The speakers will be Fred Har-
vey, junior chem engineer; Kathy
Barragy, junior English major; Lou
Israel, junior pre-med; Ray Besing,
sophomore engineer; and Frank
Jones, senior physics major.
Dr. Nielsen, assistant professor
of philosophy and religious thought,
will be moderator.
Exposition Staff
Calls Monday Meeting
There will be a meeting of the
Rice Exposition staff Monday
evening at 6:30 in room 108 An-
derson Hall. According to Albert
Sundermeyer, Exposition Direc-
tor, absolutely all program copy
is due at Ihe meeting.
3D EB Mellowdrama
To Be Feb. 25,26
Next Thursday and Friday nights
the Elizabeth Baldwin Literary So-
ciety will unveil its mystery shroud-
ed 1954 Mellowdrama on the stage
ol the Prudential Theatre at 8
o'clock.
This year's Mellowdrama will be
enacted with the aid of a new en-
tertainment medium—3D and fea-
tures technicolor in taking its audi-
e'nce to the coloffuf circus world of
strong men, snake charmers, bare-
back riders and downs.
The plot centers around an in-
trigue between the dastardly vil-
lain and the 3D'est vamp ever. Their
efforts to break up the romance
between the sweet and demure he-
roine (a girl bareback rider) and
the heroic strong man of the show
keep the action rapid. The intermis-
sion will be spiced by several song
and dance numbers featuring an
all-EB chorus line.
According to past tradition, the
EB's are keeping the identity of the
cast a secret until th£ performance
when numerou^, satires on popular
campus figures" and faculty mem-
bers will be brought to light.
Tickets will be on sale in the
lounge.
1954 Archi-Arts Costume Ball
To Be One of Most Colorful
The Rice students who walk into the City Auditorium to-
morrow night will see one of the most colorful and completely
decorated Archi-Arts that the Architectural Society has brought
forth in many a year. The ambitious undertaking of attempting
to decorate such a vast structure was done with some misgiv-
but
ings, but it now appears as
though the decision was a wise
one.
From 8 pm to 1 am, the hun-
dreds of participants in this, the
25th annual Archi-Arts Costume
Ball, will revel in authentic settings
for such a theme as "Neon Hours,"
or The City at Night.
One tremendous set is 250' in
length and stretches almost com-
pletely around the auditorium, de-
picting various scenes from the
Tsanoff Second
Lecturer In Current
Religions Series
Dr. R. A. Tsanoff, Professor of
Philosophy, will give the second
lecture in the current series on ma-
jor world religions oivJBuddhism
next Wednesday evening at 8
o'clock in the Fondren Library Lec-
ture Lounge.
The lecture series is being spon-
sored by the Rice Student Religi-
ous Council and by the Rice YMCA
and future programs are planned
on Isalm and contemporary Juda-
ism.
In the first lecture, last Friday
night, M. Hem Banna, Principal
of Borooah College in Assam, India,
spoke about the Hindu religion and
its cultural background.
Hinduism was described as a
thought process, not a religion,
which has produced art, music, lit-
erature, and philosophy which give
the unity of the Hindu concept of
the universality of life.
nightlife of the city. Many other
smaller decorations will supply the
proper character to fit the situa-
tion;
All this will be lighted by num-
erous lights and flashing neon,
a vital part of the City at Night.
An important aspect of this Ar-
chi-Arts, as with those of the past,
is the elaborate pageant, acted for
the most part by the eight beauti-
ful honorees.
This year's pageant will be in
keeping with the other more elab-
orate ideas in this year's dance.
The eight girls, as announced last
week: Carol Smith, Barbara Kun-
etka, Nancy Moore, Gretchen Fer-
ris, Ellen Elizardi, Mary Ann Me-
whinney, Betty Belsher, and Jane
Lawhon, will be dressed to repre-
sent abstract thoughts on after-
dark metropolitan proceedings.
The costuming of the pageant
has been created by members of the
Rice Architectural Society, who
have gone out of their way to find
a true expression of the portrayal
of varried aspects of the Neon
Hours.
The pageant will be complete
with flashing lights, sets, music,
dialogue, and other participants
other than the honorees. It will
take place on a stage, making it
easier to be seen by the audience.
Each of the honorees will receive
a gift. Following the pageant best
costumes will be chosen from the
audience, and prizes will be '.riven
fcr the best boy's and girl's cos-
tumes, and for the best couple.
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RONDELEf
Queen Elections Set;
Petitions Due March 4
Petitions of the girls who wish
to run for honors in the annual
Rondelet should. be turned in be-
fore the deadlines. The petitions of
senior girls running for Rondelet
Queen should be in by 1 pm Febru-
ary 24, with 25 signatures from
members of any classes plus 50c
filing fee.
Petitions of candidates for class
Duchesses and maids should have
ten signatures of members of. the
candidate's own class and should be
in by 1 pm March 3. Candidates for
Queen who are not elected and wish
to run for Duchess must tui^i in
separate petitions.
The Queen's election will be
held on Friday, February 26. In
this election the voters will circle
three names. The girl receiving
the largest number of votes will
be Queen. The holders of sccond
and third places will be the Prin-
cesses.
The class elections will be on Fri-
day, March 5. Each voter should
circle nine names. The high girl
will be Duchess from her class and
the next eight will be maids.
Candidates must neither be
married nor on scholastic proba-
tion. All petitions should be
turned iu rto Mary Miller, Flor-
ence Kessler, Joanne Hickman, or
Nancy Moore.
The Queen of Rondelet and hef
court will be presented at the May
'Vetc on May 1. Following the pa-
geant there will be a formal ball
in the Crystal «Ballroom and South
American Room of the Rice Hotel.
Other activities for the weekend in-
clude four all-school open houses, a
coffee, a luncheon, dorm open house,
a reception, and a brunch.
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