Long Island University at Brooklyn - Sound Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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the players ln conjunction with his new-theatre-site dream Prof. Brown has ar- ranged for theater arts students to attain membership in two theatrical organ- izations, ANTA or The American National Theater and Academy and the American Educational Theater Association, AETA. Believing that the development of the Workshop would ultimately become an added source of entertainment and culture for residents of Brooklyn, Prof. Brown strongly feels that the community can be entertained and well taught through the medium of a university theater, With the presentation of Molliere's farce The Imaginary lnvalidf' in March l949, the University's first theatrical venture in more than eight years, began a line of highly successful presentations. Among the student-actors who played to the first packed house were lerome Koenig, john Ridge, Eleanor Winston, Herbert Goldsmith and Maxine Bergon. Next to be performed was William Saroyan's Across The Board on To- morrow Morning which is filled with the weird characters the author is noted for creating. Featured in this opus were Conrad Duncan, loel Stark, Don Dellair-Zeitz, Enzio Napoli and Betty Blecher. The production was staged in December of l949. A Ghosts, written by Henrik lbsen, was one of the many of the lbsen plays which have lost their initial effect as denunciatory vehicles, yet have gained a place in the theatre as skillful and provocative dramas. lt opened in May l95U with Eleanor Winston, Albert Landa, Martin Zagan, Lore Alfred- son and Herbert Goldsmith. After each play, members of the audience participate in a discussion of the evenings performance with the cast, staff and director of the play. Coffee is served with the compliments of the Workshop. Prior to his appointment at LlU, Prof. Brown worked as both actor and stage manager with the noted Pasadena Playhouse in California, the King Smith Playhouse in Washington, D.C., the CU Associates and a Warrensburg CN.Y.l stock company. He was also an actor and a radio writer with WOL CMutualD in Washington and WNYC in New York. As an army captain sta- tioned in Manila, he wrote and directed numerous service shows. Applauded widely by a host of professional theatre people, such as Show Business magazine which declared, l'LlU Workshop Theatre is a worthwhile stop on our theatre-going rounds, the group has found accept- ance in all theater circles. Show Business went on to say: Prof Brown knows how to get the best out of his performers. Prof. Brown's Speech-Theater Department started the first Speech correc- tion and language development clinic since the founding of the University in l928. Devoted to serving the college and community, the speech clinic is supervised by Miss Mary Harden. Since its inception in the fall of l95U, the clinic has served more than lUU cases, from four years of age to adults. ln conjunction with its therapeutic work in the clinic, the Speech-Theater Department is conducting a research program in Speech Correction and Language Development. The clinic also will aid the foreign students in their attempt to master the English language. The Society for the Study of Stuttering is a newly formed unit of the clinic. lt intends to establish a fund to enable boys and girls of elementary school age, unable to pay for the costly treatments, to undergo speech therapy. Speech Correction majors, in addition to doing clinical practise in speech correction at LlU, are currently engaged in a speech internship at the jewish Hospital and Sanitarium of Brooklyn, St. Vincent's Hospital and the Hospital for Special Surgery in order to observe and work with modern diagnostic and therapeutic techniques used in aiding the handicapped. -53- ft tl 1 f ,Sv 1. Vi ., A . Aj .- . -Vg. t 14 A i,,, ,E ge f .1L'. -,wx ,. .Hp H.,- ' ' . ,ef ' .-v- -Trz.: .. . ,..i.... .. ...viyf 5 . T.. uf., .. --f A vw, . ,', do , . PM -,., ' .4-vi. '.:..'fL-.. rv-if -A-.. its . .hmm lem I v..rrQlb' DQ y-A. not rn... - . tifgbtea -.,,'. A 'Falk' v , A T' Anil. 5 - .. Lk its SDN , N eq: Sajmdw . -NL 'N 9l1lg3Q'.b T T: Q mek W they QF! Q j UMA T j We WGS 5' Wits, '-Q35 s-.N all , E -.Mgr MQSQ 1.-Q . t.M,k.:.l:.g

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Prof. Brown as- tounded his colleagues with this chimercial play-whose author has disap- peared into theatrical antiquity-by purposely introducing missed cues, ill- timed entrances and back-firing props in order to teach his students and audi- ences how a troupe of itinerant medieval players would have actually done it. Using the play-within-a-play technique fan innovation for this particular comedyl the players strolled on stage carting the necessary properties, put them in place and went on to act in the tempo of medieval performers. All of the plays were originally devised for use on the regular three-sided raised stage and were adapted to the round by Prof Whose know-how fashioned imaginative, vital theater. Not only does his master craftsmanship show up in the altered scripts but it manifests itself in the unique devises and touches, or business, that mark a script tailored by Brown. One of these Brownian touches is the importation of an experienced actor to play in student productions. The director believes that the timing, movement and stage presence of the professional only can be transmitted to the amateur through observation and by performing together. Marie Donnet, who appeared with loseph Schildkraut and Eva Le Gallienne in Uncle 1-larry, was a feature player in the Family Beunion in Ianuary 1952. Earlier professionals were Gae Caulkins and Barbara Leonard in Dangerous Corner and See Naples and Die, respectively. Opening the 1951 theatrical season at LlU with I. B. Priestly's provocative Dangerous Corner, the Workshop gave eight performances of this exciting psychological melodrama, heightened by many unorthodox twists and turns. See Naples and Die celebrated the second anniversary of the college group, April 1951. Penned by Elmer Bice, this play captured the antics of American turned loose on The Continent in The Roaring Twenties but also hinted of the Fascist political intrigue then sprawning in Europe. A lack of appropriate rehearsal and ,theater space-owing to the shifting of classes during the Fall 1951 season-brought the Workshop Theater to the boards with an experimental recital style performance of T. S. Eliot's The Family Beunionf' By combining reading and acting forms with simple theatri- cal devices, members of this cast were presented with an opportunity to widen the scope of their techniques by learning to do verse-drama and choral speaking. ln an unusual type of dramatic presentation set to music, the actors performed before high wooden-slatted screens with lecterns for their scripts and plain high stools. lt was the first time the audience was seated directly before the players. ln order to stimulate a more concentrated effort on the part of the student- actors and technicians an award of statuettes, called Brownies, were pre- sented for the first time in lune 1951. They went to Maxine Schachter, Dolores Turkel, Eugene Varrone and Marvin Throne for their performances in See Naples and Die. Carrying out his intention to develop a Hplayhouse for unproduced plays, new and untried scripts and revivals of the classics, a twin-bill production of Devil Take lamie, scripted by alumnus Bruce Marcus and Systems of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether, an adaptation of an Edgar Allen Poe satirical classic, was presented. Marcus, who directed both plays, set his opus in an lrish provincial kitchen with a wedding occurring in an adjacent room. lt is a tale of conflicts between an aging father and his young son, lamie, who rebels against the former's way of life. The second play, another Workshop first, takes place in a progressive French insane asylum, revealing what happens to a visitor taken on a guided tour of the institution. Fifteen 'Ve 7 lf the players -tfic guest

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fired- Brown has and O OI-gor- ACC1demY and Q11- the '0uld of Br ome i . OOklYnIP I .rtumed and wen tu ro. u1timQtelY bec Uoht KRW invalid, Ch fan elght Years, begun OTS who Pts Student-act icross The Board on TO. :horocters the author is md Duncan. feet stef, 9 Pfoduction was staged 5 the many of the lbsen .story vehicles, yet have otive dramas. lt opened urtin Zogan, Lore Allred- Lcipate in a discussion of rector of the ploy. Coffee orked os both actor and e in California: the King totes cmd a Warrensburg J rodio writer wdtli WOL As on GIIIIY Cffpfam sta' vice slaows. ghectre people, Sl.lCl'l G5 Theatre is 0 Worksfwp d wept has fourl U ' gffrimfii SGYZ Prof Brovm ,d the first Speefhcineggl , f theUmveIS1tY I sang? S'peeChdmgC is -for me ofl95fl.tf16 in the fall dum . G . ,ggyg Oftggggzech-Thegleg cZinfC. 9 ' an Q Speeflh Coneiig their e foreign Swden .1 of the formed um tart FT F' W' I I f I U 4 S O fs and Qld speech undergo h . ' speec gci159m 'gli ,-iiriicdi pf, the few? , at at i l f L d the OSHC ,ztrffgtgl Un fly-Hifi Odern dl fjlsl . W.. A 'Ll In -awed' Dr. P. Olgin I .. -. l As we, the graduating seniors of the Education department, look back on this year, we gaze with pride on a period of great productivity and activ- ity. With the Chairman of the department, Dr. lacob l-lartstein, and Dr. Phillip Olgin, who acted in an advisory capacity, the student societies presented many enriching and vital experiences in self-gov- ernment. Prof. Dennis Brown, who has garnered much praise with his Workshop Theater, and his staff from the Speech department, presented a program entitled, What Every Prospective Teacher Should Know About Speech. Together with other invalu- able information gleaned at this presentation, the members of the Education l-lonor Society, Athena, were able to study and discuss a model speech ex- amination. This added up to an extremely informa- tive and stimulating evening. Another rich vein of information was tapped when the Education Society held a meeting at which the principal of P.S. 74, Mr. Petluck, and a member of the instructorial staff spoke in connection with prep- aration for teacher license examinations in New York City. The next important gathering of the Education Society was occasioned with an address by Dr. Iacob Greenberg to the members of the department concerning the employment opportunities and elig- ibility requirements in the New York City public schools. Do not think, however, that the Education Society expressed itself only in the professional aspects of the field. A Thanksgiving Eilm Festival sponsored by Athena served as the Alumni Day program, and a sound and thoughtful program it was. Several films on Teacher Education were presented, followed by a meeting in which an alumni group was formed. Then, during the Christmas recess, a reception and dance was held for the alumni, faculty, and stu- dents. These affairs, held in the Women's Lounge, afforded enjoyable evenings for all present. The Educators l K- l One of the publications in the Education depart- ment, The Long lsland University Educator, was under the aegis of Dr. l-lartstein and edited by Mr. Barney Axelson. This publication, not only an ex- cellent professional bulletin, accomplished succinctly the job of increasing the flow of information be- tween the department and the student body. Among the newer journalistic efforts of the Edu- cation department is the Long lsland University lournal of Education. This is sponsored by the un- dergraduate students of the Education Society. lt is unnecessary to add that there is much hope held for this publication throughout the department. Before the Education Society closed the books on this years activities there was a two-day confer- ence for high school seniors, dedicated to an evalu- ation of the high school curriculum, and a conven- tion of the Education Societies from many of the East Coast schools. With this last flurry of activity the Society ended its business on an enthusiastic note with all undergraduate students eagerly await- ing future activities. Seventeen