Word: ascent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This year's schedule proposes four plays instead of the usual two. More emphasis will be placed upon the type of student production which will corner the interest of a student audience. Two of the four plays will attempt to follow in the successful trail blazed by Auden's "Ascent of F-6" last year. The others will delve into the experimental field of drama--new, or little-known works that afford pleasant diversion for both actor and audience...
Fleischauer, who is an expert on the Dutch Elm Discase, spends his summers climbing Elm trees for the Government Dutch Elm Disease Control Committee. Feeling that he needed practice, he attached a half-inch hemp rope to a third floor radiator, let it down the stairwell and began his ascent while fearful room-mates clustered around...
Like the characters in the "Ascent of F-6," the Dramatic Club, in its present production, has hit a new peak in its career. The show was outstanding for its smooth and forceful direction by L. J. Profit, S. R. Sheppard, and J. B. McMeehan, but the Club's choice of a play gave them superb raw material with which to work. The young English poets, Auden and Isherwood, have tried to portray "the universal tragedy of man in a man-made world." By a simple and polyphonic prose, verse of varied complexity, a tragic chorus, lyric refrain and dream...
...Auden, young English author of the forthcoming Dramatic Club production. "The Ascent of F6," has just accepted an invitation to come here this weekend to see his play enacted and to speak on the radio...
After disrupting the quiet and peace of Sanders Theatre for more than 15 minutes yesterday, three wild mountain goats were finally cornered by members of the cast of the forthcoming Dramatic Club show, "The Ascent...