Southern Methodist University - Rotunda Yearbook (University Park, TX)

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, T Y 'iw' 581- 15,1-1. if -. ' 2. ,.-rl, bs, -'rf L..1:- -' -A 1, -f' 'a ' , :i ' ' i, , - ,E IN ' I 952-53 Quality and variety were the keynotes of this season and featured Elsa Lanchester who combined singing, dancing, and pantomime with her dramatic sketches, October 25, the poet W. H. Auden, who dis- cussed Nature of Humor, November 13, the Metropolitan Opera star, Ferruccio Tagliavini, recognized as the greatest contemporary Ital- ian tenor, January 20, the famous concert comedienne, Anna Russell, February 14, Emlyn Williams and his costume reading of Charles Dickens, March 18, and the husband-wife singing team of Helen Roberts and Richard Walker, March 3. 1953-54 The Community Course presented this year an all-star program. Holly- wood's Turnabout Theater with its unique combination of puppets and people, with Lotte Goslar and the Yale Puppeteers was brought to Dallas, October 10, Pulitzer-Prize winning historian, essayist, novelist, and literary critic, Bernard De Voto, October 19, the brilliant British star of stage, Arthur Treacher, November 10, Gian Carlo Menotti's opera Amahl and the Night Visitorsf' presented by Dallas Lyric Theater, December 17, America's popular lecturer, John Mason Brown, March 13, and a concert by Helen Traubel of the Metropolitan, often called the finest singer, male or female, in the world today, March 25. Bfgfllllfllg ul left, clock-wise: from the T11rr1ulJ011t Theater: Jose LfI710lI,' Emlyn WiIliam.s',' Anna Rzzxsellf Ferruccio TlIg1ilIVfIlf,' Arthur T1'er1cl1el',' Helen Traubel.

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THE COMMUNITY COURSE IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlllllllllIlllIlllIIIllIIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIllllIllIIIllIllllIIIIIllllllIllIlllllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlllIIIIIIIIIIllIllllIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlIIllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIllllIlllIIIIIIIIIIllllIlIllIIIIIlllllIIllllllllllllllllllllll Sponsored by Sou'l'hern Melhodisi' Universily and Temple Emunu-El HE Community Course is a non-profit lecture-concert series which provides Dallas with top bargains in the entertainment field. The series have become so popular that tickets are at a premium and potential subscribers have adver- tised in want-ad columns for the valuable tickets. Organized in 1938 to bring the top in platform talent to Dallas and the SMU Campus, The Community Course presents its events in McFarlin Auditorium. Tickets are available by subscription, but the entire balcony is reserved for SMU students who are allowed to attend events free of charge on presentation of their activity cards. The past four seasons have been outstanding in the history of the Community Course and can well serve as an example of the series, bringing information on world alfairs and top-level performers in music and drama. RONALD C. KNICKERBOCKER C0-Director and Manager of Ilze Conwzuliity Course 1950-51 This year's course brought former atomic energy commissioner David Lilienthal to lecture October 313 lva Kitchell, sensational young dancer, in a satiric dance recital November 15, Charles Laughton in a unique program December 65 raconteur Elsa Maxwell on February 283 Byron Janis, youthful pianist, March 7g and Margaret Truman in a song recital April 12. In June 1950, Dean Acheson, then Secretary of State, was brought to Dallas by the Community Course in cooperation with the Dallas Civic Federation. 1951-52 This series was a real sell-out and presented Jose Limon and his modern dance group on October 25g the world famous Salzburg Marionettes, November 17g Senator Paul Douglas, December 13g author Frederic Prokosch, January 23, surrealist painter Salvador Dali, February 95 the ever-popular First Piano Quartet. February 165 and the lecture-pianist team of Olin Downes and Leonard Eisner on March 27. lohn Mason Brown and Elsa Lcllzclzcnsief' are Iwo of the popular gllests Ilia! appeared on the Community COIl1'.YC Series.

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.L JH dA.L pvxru. 'tvs A N IL J' it 515' ,I -Ju ,. 1 . THETYPIC 3 M-i ' 4411 B1l'g.l1l!lh'ftdlllI. lllt'lVI't1!lZul'lll ' ' ., . .. , , , A THE PRESS MU's publishing division, the Southern Methodist University Press, began in 1937 with the publica- tion of Naturalists of the Frontier by Samuel Wood Geiser. Since that date forty-live books and monographs have ap- peared under the imprint of the Press. Perhaps not many students have found their way to the oflices of the SMU Press on the third iioor of Perkins Ad- ministration Building, but during their four years they have no doubt seen in the bookstore or library the following books that were published during that time. In 1950 there appeared Texas Folk Songs, by William A. Owens, published in conjunction with the Texas Folklore So- cietyg The Novel of Violence in America, by W. M. Frohockg The Case of John C. Watrous, by Wallace Hawkinsg The Philosophy of Edmund Montgomery, by Morris T. Keetong the first number in the reactivated Arnold Foundation Studies in America, and three volumes in the Fondren Science Series. AL 1 Justin LEACH' ll il il 'Q ia gl . 'AA it fi ll bl ri . ' 'i 'lr ALLEN MAXWELL, Director Southern Methodist University Press The Hermit Philosopher of Liendo, by I. K. Stephens, a com- panion volume to the Keeton work on Edmund Montgomery, was published in 1951 as were American Culture and Reli- gion, by William Warren Sweetg The Healer of Los Olmos, edited by Wilson M. Hudson, another in the Texas Folklore Seriesg and one number each in the Arnold Studies and the Southern Methodist University Studies. In 1952 The Typical Texan, by Joseph Leach, and Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest, by J. Frank Dobie were published, the latter title being an enlarged and revised edition of one of the first books brought out by the SMU Press. Also published in 1952 were Tlze Black Hills: Mid-Continent Resort, by Albert N. Williams, the fourth in the American Resort Series, and Medicine For A Sick World, by David Lefkowitz. Seven books were published by the Press in 1953: Yankee Diplomacy, by Edmond O. Smithg The Art of Making Choices, by Ian McGrealg Communism versus International Law, by Ann Van Wynen Thomasg The Present Danger, edited by Allen Maxwellg Moby-Dick Centennial Essays, edited by Tryus Hillway and Luther S. Manstieldg General Williams Jenkins Worth, by Edward S. Wallaceg and the 1953 Texas Folklore Annual, Folk Travelers, edited by Mody C. Boatright, Wilson M. Hudson and Allen Maxwell. The SMU Press is a non-profit organization and publishes books that appeal to special interest groups and should ap- pear on any student reading list.