Ohio University - Athena Yearbook (Athens, OH)

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Varsity Night Deviating slightly from tradition, the 1951 Varsity Night show was presented as a musical comedy en- titled When You Were Sweet Sixteen. The theme was the period of the Gay Nineties, and the story was a typical romance of that period. Sally Cheney and Bob Ralston were the lovers who sang and danced their way happily through comical situations and musical production numbers. In addition to the song and dance routines, the show presented a Barbershop Quartet composed of Bill Elton, Bob Stanley, Bill Waters and John Buturain. During the first act Charles Frank directed the audience in a community sing. Produced by Charles Minelli and directed by Marvin Yerkey, the show was sponsored by the Fine Arts Council and the Ohio University Band.

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Twelfth Night, as directed by Chris- topher Lane, was a rowdy, romantic comedy, yet it was filled with unex- pected moments of beauty. The play, which is not unfamiliar to the average college undergraduate, is perhaps one of Shakespeare ' s best comedies. It mixes rare moments of poignancy with unre- strained moments of low comedy, and it even has something of a social mes- sage thrown in. Twelfth Night was the first regular season production to make use of the increased facilities in the new Speech Building. Carlson Thomas, of the Uni- versity Technical Theatre, gave the play an imaginative and varied setting, which was brilliantly supplemented by Rita West ' s excellent costumes. Donna Kahn played the lead role of Viola, and Betty Jones took the part of the other side of the love quadrangle, the Countesse. Other leading roles were taken by Robert Schestventer as the clown, John C. Lamberson as Sir Toby, Marcia Kanevsky as Maria, Thomas F. Hayne as Sir Andrew, Stanley Wink- linski as Malvolio, Thomas Killough as Sebastian, and Paul Mehalko as Duke Orsino. It was an excellent beginning to a taste- ful theatre season. Twenty-One

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The annual Newspaper Ball, sponsored by Sigma Delta Chi, men ' s journalism honor organization, hit the O.U. Campus as Life magazine hits the news- stand, early, well-planned, and interesting. On the night of October 13 a huge replica of a Life cover, through which the prospective dancers walked, was constructed in front of the Men ' s Gym. At the top of the steps stood another cover, and by glancing in it one could see how he would look on the cover of the famous magazine. Many cover girls and guys were given a chance to get a permanent reproduction of themselves as celebrities by having a photographer snap their pictures. Newspaper Ball As each couple entered the door they received a colored, rough-papered program which was fres h from the Journalism Department ' s press in Ewing Hall. Decorations, too, were in keeping with the publication theme. Along the walls and bandstand were posters done as silhouette likenesses of Life magazine covers. Subjects of the posters were ab- tractly patterned after various campus activities and scenes. Wib Lanning ' s orchestra furnished the music.