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VOL. 14, NO. 4
PASADENA CITY COLLEGE, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
MARCH 1, 1961
Lancers host
school bands
at music meet
Beginning this Saturday, the
Music Department will play host
to the District Festival of the
Southern California School Band
and Orchestra Association. The
festival will run through March
11 and will feature performances
by bands, orchestras, small en¬
sembles, and soloists for adjudi¬
cation purposes.
Student musicians representing
elementary and secondary schools
throughout the San Gabriel Val¬
ley will perform on stage in Sex-
son Auditorium. In addition, sight
reading will be held in Harbeson
Hall, although its results will not
be included in the final rating.
There will be no winners at the
festival, but each group or indi¬
vidual participant will be given a
rating from 1 to 5 or from superi¬
or to poor.
CONTESTANTS receiving a su¬
perior rating become eligible to
attend the association’s Regional
Festival and are also invited to
perform at an evening concert
during next year’s district festi¬
val.
The judges at the festival will
be specialists in their fields and
will be asked to fill out official
judging forms. These will repre¬
sent constructive criticisms. All
judges are selected by the associ¬
ation and must meet the stan¬
dards of that professional organi¬
zation.
THE FOLLOWING schedule
has been set up for this year’s
festival. On Saturday, soloists
and small ensembles will display
their talents. The following
Wednesday will see the beginning
of the band performances ■Mule
Thursday will be devoted to or¬
chestras.
The bands will return to the
stage on Friday and the festival
will close on Saturday with all
the remaining bands and orches¬
tras participating.
On Thursday and Friday eve¬
nings, concerts will be given by
musicians who received superior
ratings at last year’s festival. All
events of the festival are open to
the public.
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Three members of the Theater Arts Association
“POINT are in rehearsal for the “Point of No Return” pro-
OF NO Auction opening tomorrow night. Authored by Paul
RETURN” Osborn, the play will be presented In Sexson Audi¬
torium. Mrs. Annabel Cooney is directing the stu¬
dent production.
Student band presents
pops concert on prairie
Tomorrow morning at 11 :45 on the Prairie, the 85-member
PCC Lancer Band, under the direction of Robert Fleury, will
present its semi-annual Pops Concert. The program, which
will consist mainly of popular numbers in a light, listenable
vein, will highlight the American -
musical scene.
“March of the Steelmen,” by
Belstering, is first offering, and
brings the talents of the entire
group into full play. Next in the
auditory listing comes “Tulsa,” a
descriptive portrait by the con¬
temporary American composer,
Don Gillis. Originally written for
symphonic orchestras the selec¬
tion has been changed slightly
for band presentation.
Three trumpeters, Malcolm Mc-
Nab, Richard Wilson, and Tom
— Courier photo
Carrying on the tradition of successful concerts, the
MERRY Lancer Band will present a noon time concert dur-
MUSICMEN ing the club period tomorrow on the Prairie. Under
SHOW the direction of Robert Fleury, the group will play
popular band classics.
Toombs, will combine efforts in
the rousing “Buglers’ Holiday,”
by Leroy Anderson.
A recent concert band arrange¬
ment by Yoder of two of Duke
Ellington’s perennials brings forth
“Salute the Duke,” a combina¬
tion of “Take the A Train” and
“Perfidia.”
In “Trumpeter’s Lullaby,” Mal¬
colm McNab returns for a feature
solo. “Mariana,” by Singer, will
be given and Fillmore’s “Ameri¬
cans We” preludes the closing.
The band’s rendition of John
Phillip Sousa’s “Stars and Stripes
Forever” will conclude the after¬
noon musical.
The director, Mr. Fleury, who
is in his eighth year with the
PCC Music Department, origin¬
ated the Pops Concert plan dur¬
ing his years at the University
of Wisconsin and UCLA and has
continued it here at PCC.
Lancer blood bank
reaches new high
Steve Fitch, president of Circle
K, the sponsors, termed the Red
Cross Blood Drive, which was
held last Tuesday, a complete suc¬
cess.
The collection of hemoglobin
tallied out at 84 pints, and broke
the record set last year.
The first place trophy in the
club competition was awarded to
the Forestry Club whose members
contributed 20 pints. Second place
was taken by the Lancer Band
with 14 pints, while the Dana
Club, with nine, claimed third.
Four hours of time, a score of
Red Cross workers, the assistance
of a practicing physician, and the
full support of the Circle
К
were
needed to obtain from a student
body of over 5500 members the
sum of 84 pints of blood. Los
Angeles Country can consume an
equal amount in two days.
Opening the drama department’s spring season will be a
production of Paul Osborn’s “Point of No Return.” Perform¬
ances will be held tomorrow and Friday nights in Sexson Audi¬
torium. Curtain time is 8 p.m.
while admission is $1 for those
without a student body book.
This satirical - dramatization of
John Marquand’s novel by Mr.
Osborn gently pokes fun at Amer¬
ican society arid is concerned
with our modern competitive
American culture..
THE CAST features, a number
of experienced and serious drama
students playing the major roles.
Featured as the central charac¬
ter, Charles Gray, will be Hugo
Leckey. Leckey has played ma:
jor roles at PCC in productions
“The Lark,” “Antigone,” and
“Arsenic and Old Lace.”
Supporting Leckey in the rol&
of Nancy Gray, his wife, will ,be
Marcia Musser. Marcia is known
to Lancers for her previous parts_
in “Separate Tables,” “Dream
Girl,” and “Streetcar Named De¬
sire.”
JOE CLEMENT, who has taken
part in “Arsenic and Old
Ъасё,”
will be seen in the part of Mr.
Burton, the bank president where
Charles works.
Lee Collins and Larry Dean
Miller, who were both active in
John Muir High dramatic pro¬
ductions, and Miller in U.S. Army
Special Services entertainment,
will be seen as John Gray and
Laurence Lowell.
OTHER CAST members, who
also have former high school and
college drama experience are
Bradna Watson, Mike Fleming,
Patricia Ridgeway, Carole Finne,
Andrew Berwind, and Edward
Hampson.
Tickets are available for the
student production at the Col-
_ lege Bank.
Scuba-diver set as
next forum guest
Owen Lee, master diver of Capt. Jacques-Yves Cousteau’s
underseas expeditions, will show a full-length color film of the
underwater world at next week’s Tuesday Evening Forum.
The program will be presented under the title “Exploring
Inner Space,” which is the term -
Readings begin
Readings for “Of Flesh and
Spirit” will be held today
through Friday from 3-5 in the
Little Theater, 30C. This stu¬
dent production is open to all
PCC students who wish to try
out and will be produced by
Lloyd Steele.
the divers use to describe the
undersea world. Owen Lee is the
official color photographer for
Capt. Cousteau’s expeditions.
With Cousteau’s famous aqua¬
lung diving team, Lee penetrated
coral reefs where the fish have
never known hook or spear-gun.
They mingled peacably with the
sea life of the Mediterranean, the
Indian Ocean, the Red Sea, and
the Atlantic reefs. The film to be
shown Tuesday evening shows all
‘Les Girls’ slated
for PCC showing
With only a 50 cent ticket any
PCC student can see “Les Girls”
in Sexson Auditorium next Mon¬
day at 3:15 p.m. or 7:30 p.m. If
tickets to the interdepartmental
movie are purchased this week
you will have the opportunity to
view such stars as Key Kendall,
Mitzi Gaynor, Tina Elg, and Gene
Kelly. You will be able to gaze
at the sparkling night life of
Paris and the magnifique Folies
Bergere.
“Les Girls” opens with Kay
Kendall on trial in a London
court. She has been charged with
libel for publishing a book of
reminiscences. The testimony re¬
veals incidents that happened
when three girls roomed together.
The movie has been rated by crit¬
ics as one of the finer light com¬
edy musicals.
Later this spring, “The Brothers
Karamazov” will have a local
showing. The movie is an adap¬
tation of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s
powerful psychological novel.
Proceeds from the sale of tick¬
ets go to departmental scholar¬
ship funds. Competition among
of these things.
Also, for the first time on the
American lecture platform, the
audience will see the depth sub¬
marine that has scientific and
naval circles agog, namely, Capt.
Cousteau’s jet-propelled diving
saucer. The diving saucer takes
two men down to ip00 feet to
observe, make movies, and take
specimens.
The film to be shown next week
is said to be reminiscent of Cou¬
steau’s Oscar-winning film, “The
Silent World.”
Owen Lee first joined the Vigo
Bau expedition to hunt for hid¬
den treasurers in Spanish Waters.
In three and a half years he
chalked up more than 1000 hours
of free diving and produced a
documentary film of the expedi¬
tion. Later he joined' Capt. Cou¬
steau’s Calypso Oceanographic
Expeditions. He is the only Amer¬
ican diver with Coust-eau’s under¬
sea groups.
Owen Lee
. . underwater photog-
