Millikin University - Millidek Yearbook (Decatur, IL)

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Town and Gown, Millikin ' s theatrical group, had a busy season: Measure For Measure, Anastasia, The Wayward Saint, and several one-act plays. The big production was Measure For Measure which starred Clarence Derwent from Broad- way, giving MU ' s actors a fine opportunity to get professional advice. Measure for Measure Anastasia

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' pine ;4tU, 7 Md ' Wif ii Ated Gina Bachauer Boris Goldovsky Millikin can well be proud of its Fine Arts Series. Each year the world ' s outstanding artists come to Millikin ' s own Albert Taylor Hall to give a part of their gifts and talents to Millikinites. This year four excellent programs were presented. Leonard Rose impressed his audi- ence not only with his mastery of the cello, but also with his down-to-earth personality. The Paris Ballet, featuring Lycette Darsonval, held its audience rapt with the fluid grace and poetry of its performance. The 1956-57 series was particularly privileged to have secured Gina Bachauer, one of the world ' s great women pianists. The final program of the series featured Boris Goldovsky, a unique musical personality, who lectured and played the piano in a series of Piano Portraits . Paris Ballet Leonard Rose

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Don ' t Griddle Hansel headlined the Decaturian for the music school ' s colorful production of Hansel and Gretel. Local critics called it an excellent performance. A tragic note was struck, however, when Edith Conley — singing Gretel — slipped on the ice and severely broke her arm only a few days before the production.