Word: junior
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lesser managerships were awarded to George V. B. H. Day '43, of Adams House and Springfield, and Rufus F. Walker '43, of Claverly Hall and Brookline, who will be Junior Varsity and Varsity managers respectively...
...opera's climax the son of Tsar Saltan turns into a bumblebee, stings two wicked women, eludes pursuing courtiers. Last week a Manhattan audience screamed and yowled with delight at this tale. The opera, retitled The Bumble Bee Prince, was put on by a non-commercial organization called Junior Programs, Inc. The audience: 1,600 school children, aged 5 to 15 (700 more were turned away). Admission...
...Junior Programs was started, and is still run, at no salary, by a New Jersey suburbanite, Mrs. Dorothy McFadden, who wanted to give her children something better than they could get from radio and comic strips. Though its audiences are small fry, Junior Programs performers are adult professionals, paid at union rates. Last year Junior Programs troupes traveled 80,000 miles, gave 558 performances of opera, ballet, drama to nearly 1,000,000 youngsters, at admissions of 10? to 25?. Since each performance costs about $300, Junior Programs bookings must be sponsored locally by organizations like Rotary, Kiwanis, Parent-Teacher...
...McFadden discovered Tsar Saltan on a trip to Russia, translated it herself, had it streamlined and arranged for piano accompaniment. The other Junior opera in the repertory is Louis Gruenberg's Jack and the Beanstalk. Newest of Junior ballets is Robin Hood, written by Junior Programs Producer Saul Lancourt, danced to old English tunes.* Last week, on the heels of the ballet troupe, the Junior Programs opera company went on a 30-week tour, its ten members in automobiles, its scenery and costumes in a truck...
Upon the capable shoulders of Junior Charley Spreyer rests the bulk of Crimson hopes. He has been credited with inspired performances in the Penn and Brown games, carrying Harvard over the top with him. Actually, it may be that Spreyer was just hitting his real stride in those last two games. Sickness and injuries have retarded his progress all year. In 1939 he "arrived" in the Army game, but this year it took a bit longer. Now he is in good shape and ready for the effort of his career. At least, that is one way to look at Charley...