Roosevelt University - Vanguard Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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Roosevelt's Metropolitan Players, directed by Miss Anna Helen Reuter, delighted audiences this year with their renditions of The Grass Harp, Dark of the Moon and Medea. Five RU students made their debuts in the Met Players' season opener, a theater-in-the-tound production of Truman Capote's The Grass Harp. This comedy fantasy shows how the pure in heart, like the meek, inherit the earth through a greater capacity for love than most aggressive people. All the common impulses of the world are enlisted against a trio who find sanctuary in a tree house. The penetrating character portrayal, the rich, comic dialogue, and a final scene written with great tenderness make The Grass Harp an original, disarming, gifted piece of writing. Witches, conjour people, a fire-and-brimstone preacher, and an odd assortment of just plain humans went to mke up a delightful rendition by the Met Players of William Berney and Howard Richardson's drama, Dark of the Moon. There is singing, dancing, and comedy in this unusual drama which revolves around the love of a witch boy for a human girl and has as its setting the Smoking Mountains. The down- to-earth dialogue of these common mountain people is flavored with much humor, and at the same time each scene holds tremendous dramatic impact. Robinson Jeffers' version of Euripedes' famed Medea was the third featured performance this season. Unlike most university theater groups, which limit active participation in drama productions to speech majors, the Metropolitan Players is open to all full-time university students. From Everyman , May, 19% L to R Joe Kenyon, Mary Miller, Charles Judkins Page 85

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Standing, L. to R.: L. Lilly, Jr., Editor-In-Chief, 1957; S. Addis, L. Miller, H. Perly Seated, L. to R.: J. Lowenthal, Business Manager; S. Tre- shansky, Editor-In-Chief, 1956; S. Josephs, Advisory Ed- itor, 1956; R. Gutner, Associate Editor Afte a struggle of several years to combat the transiency of the student newspaper staff which had resulted in a virtual one-man operation of the paper the Torch succeeded at mid-year in establishing a compact editorial board and staff which is expected to perpetuate itself from year to year. Leroy Lilly. Jr. succeeded Sheldon Treshansky early in the semester as editor-in-chief of the Torch. Page 84

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Athletics While the autumn leaves are gently falling to earth, the Grant Park gridirons can be heard to resound to the thump of bodies and cleats, as the Roosevelt Intramural sports program gets underlay with the football tournament. As many as ten and twelve fraternities, clubs and inuependent teams will be engaged in the jousting every Sunday afternoon. By mid-November the cleats have been hung up and the population is ready to concentrate upon the fall table tennis tourney and bowling. As February rolls around Olivet Institute will be overflowing with Rooseveltians getting ready for the basketball tilts. Praetorians, Beta Sigs, Tau Delts and numerous inuependent teams can be seen sharpening up their eyes, perfecting ball handling techniques, and smoothing out plays By mid-March the horse-hides will be put away, and preparations for the Spring ping-pong joust will get underway, as well as bowling which is actually carried over from the fall, and softball. Softball is one of the bigger entries, usually featuring as many as sixteen teams in two separate leagues, with regular playoffs. Because Roosevelt lacks the facilities to participate, on a large scale, in intercollegiate sports it concentrates its efforts at the intra-mural level, with quite a bit of success. On Letterman's Day, in May, tro- phies are presented to the winning teams of the various tournaments, and awards are given to outstanding players of the year in the various sports. At this time too, letters are presented to athletes who played on the school's Basketball, Golf, and Tennis teams. Page 86