Southeast Missouri State University - Sagamore Yearbook (Cape Girardeau, MO)

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BLACK MASK IN REHEARSAL: THEATRE IN THE MAKING The Black Mask Dramatic Society and the Department ot Speech pre- sented three excellent and distinctly ditterent plays this year. The tirst was Thomas Heggans Mr. Roberts, star- ring Larry Propst in the title role, Nathan Pool as Doc, Bill Meyer as En- sign Pulver, and Dan Padberg as the Captain. A hilarious comedy, it shows the problems ot the crew ot a Navy cargo ship during World War ll-their main problem being the tyrannical captain. The second play was Thorn- ton Wilders Our Town, starring loseph Brockett as the Stage Manager, e A A Joanne Schackglford 35 Emily In rehearsal: in OUR TOWN George and Emily gaze at the moon instead . . f of doing their homework, while the sound of choir practice floats up to and Bill Meyer as George Gibbs. This them. play shows, in its three acts, Lite, l.ove, and Death, set in Crover's Corners, N. l-l., at the turn ot the Century. The tirst act depicts a typical day there, the second, the marriage ot Emily and George, the third, Emily's death, and her realization, when she returns to lite tor part ot one day, that no one ever really lives lite, well, Poets and saints, they do some, The season closed with Core Vidal's Visit to a Small Planet, which is about a visitor, Kreton, from another place in time. Kreton came to earth to observe the Civil War, but he arrived a hundred years too late. So, he starts a war ot his own. He also reads minds, much to the consternation ot the tamily in whose rose garden he lands, and he converses with cats. The outsider, Kreton, not too subtly, but with wry humor, justly criticizes tacets ot American lite and thought. Mr, Larry Crisvard directed the actors, Mr, Frank Clann directed the technical crew. Wvvvq Emma ln rehearsal: the Captain bellows at Mr. Roberts and the crew for being kicked out of the port as a result of their antics on liberty.

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TURTLE DERBY: CAPElS ANSWER TO THE GRAND PRIX Most places have horse races, dog races, or people racesg SEMO had a turtle race. Atter an auction, at which each organization and dorm bought what it hoped was the speediest turtle alive, everyone gathered at Memorial l-lall tor the race. Sigma Sigma Sigma had the winner in a hustling Snappy Sigmaf' Snappy Sigma and friends Turtle Downs, and the entries. 2 fig'

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ARTS FESTIVAL WEEK: CULTURE FOR CAPE STATE Father Holloway, Mr. Bierk, Wilson Yates, Rev. Pelsue, and Dean Tollefson participate in the Existentialist Symposium. I ' l . 6' . trawl! rf D t it S ite? Modern Art: Interesting? Fascinating? Obscure? A hoax? This is the question. ,ftp We Bob Sisco and his jazz combo demonstrate that jazz does make sense. 30 With the theme i'Contemporary Art and the Human Predicamentf' the vveelds programs explored literature, painting, music, and drama in a suc- cesstul attempt to shovv through these art torms the problems ot existence in today's complicated vvorld. lVlDNDAY night teatured a discus- sion on existentialism, vvhich ex- plained in part the existentialist philosophy and its influence on the modern vvorld. TUESDAY evening Mr, Peterson read and interpreted the literature ot the Beat Generation, including the celebrated poem t-lovvl, by Allen Ginsberg. WEDNESDAY evening an art ex- hibit ot modern, abstract art vvas presented tor the students to see and examine tirst-hand. THURSDAY vvas jazz Night, The Bob Sisco jazz Combo explored vvith the audience the birth, method, and technique ot jazz through the use ot improvisation vvith the various in- struments in the combo. FRIDAY presented an evening ot drama, including cuttings from the plays Our Town, Tea and Sympathy, Dark at the Top ofthe Stairs, Auntie Mame, Epitaph for George Dillon, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, l. B., and a reading trom the novel The Catcher in the Rye. These scenes portrayed seriously and humorously some ot the problems ot communication tacing man.