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Compass' 'ftrig Lear7 Co Age rvm I f. 'if i ri-3V4. iffw ffv- ff ff'i 'S-'Plaiy jty '-law i ife i 1 SS'i. Biiiwllill I iti iftf Both students also had praise for the ability of Prof. Curvin.

Sandler said, "He has a very strong grip of his character (Lear) and works incredibly hard. He takes direction very gracefully." Sandler also added that the "physical presence, the age, and the looks of Curvin" will contribute substantially to the credibility of the performance. Diminishes Gap Educational theater can help dimish whatever gap exists between faculty and students and Compass Theater is part of a step in that direction. "I can't stress enough," said Curvin, "the fact that students of the theater and faculty of the theater, even though they come together, on informal social occasions and in the more formal situation of the classroom, have a very special kind of coming together when they are collaboratively engaged in trying to arrive at the interpretation of a play." Tickets for "King Lear" are available at the Union box office. Show time is 8 p.m., Thursday through Nov.

10 at the Compass Theater, 2201 University Ave. an integrity and honesty, and in turn not understanding her father) exemplifies an issue so current today. Old Lear may not be unlike someone's parents in 1970." Finding such analogies is for Curvin one of the great pleasures of the theater. This misunderstanding between King Lear and his daughter does not apply to Curvin's attitude toward working with his students. "The idea of a faculty member acting with students is a foundation stone notion of the Compass program," Curvin noted.

"It realizes the original purpose of Compass." He feels fortunate to be able to work directly and intimately with students in a creative effort, because of the understanding it promotes. "It stems from the creative experience and we're fortunate to be in this kind of work," he said. "It is a very rewarding experience." Students Agree Students also feel this cooperation between the faculty and themselves should be encouraged. Ralph Sandler, a graduate student playing the role of Gloucester in "King Lear," says "the gaining and giving of the shared acting experience" is an important step toward better understanding between students and faculty. Debbie Dralle, an undergraduate, who portrays Cordelia, the disowned daughter, says, "At first I thought it would be an awkward situation" to act with a faculty member, but found that after the first rehearsal "it wasn't awkward at all." By JOHN B.

LYNAUGH Written for The State Journal When Prof. Jonathan Curvin makes his lead role entrance in "King Lear" at the Compass Playhouse Thursday, it will be the first appearance of a University of Wisconsin professor in the title role of a Wisconsin Players' production. It will also be dramatic proof of the UW Director of Theater's unique method of bridging the generation gap. A veteran director of somewhere between 35 to 40 plays at Wisconsin, Curvin looks forward to acting as a very interesting experience, for as he says, "being at the other end of the gun" comes after nearly a four-decade absence since his student acting days at Cornell University. This coming together with students in a creative endeavor reflects, he said, the "great interest of the faculty in showing an interest in the acting program and we hope the students will support the educational position we are taking." Curvin is also enthusiastic at the prospect of playing Lear, although he humorously noted he "may not be as old as Lear, but getting on toward that age." Lear appeals specifically to Curvin because of the obvious dramatic elements, as well as the "radical change" the character undergoes.

"Anybody is interested in a role that has in the course of the play a change from one thing to another," Curvin said. Attitude Changes Lear "moves from a tyrannical king, a kind of pompous old man, to one who is BARBARA STORCK THOMPSON Photo-Sketch by Edward Schumann Know Your Madisonian: Barbara Storck Thompson PROF. JONATHAN CURVIN more humane and understanding. The experience of suffering changes his whole attitude toward the world," Curvin observed, adding that it is these "human emotions" that come through in Shakespeare that make the play so appealing, regardless of the difference between Eli-zabethean and modern English. in Shakespeare's plays are human beings and we can find so many parallels to our own day.

"The play, therefore, in its broad pattern, might be illustrative in part of the breach between generations." King Lear, "an old monarch, quite lacking in compassion and understanding, quick to anger, and quick to disown his daughter Cordelia (not seeing that she represents Art Center Lauded for 'Wine' Exhibit Sirs I just returned from Madison where I attended the preview of the exhibit "Five Hundred Years of Wine in the Arts" at the Madison Art Center. This collection was previously shown at 34 museums and art galleries across the U.S. and in Canada. I have attended every one of these exhibits, and I am delighted to report that the Madison Art Center has done an outstanding job in setting up this show. In fact, the exhibit at the Art Center, with its excellent facilities, is one of the best I have seen.

Director Robert C. Hendon and assistant director Joseph Wilfer of the Art Center are to be congratulated for their efficiency, dedication, and discriminating taste in handling this job. Norman N. Fro mm, administrator, Christian Brothers collection "Five Hundred Years of Wrine in the Arts," San Francisco, Calif. Prices Shock Buyer at Church Bazaar Sirs Recently I attended a bazaar at one of the churches in Madison.

I was very much shocked at the prices those so-called modest Christians charged for homemade candies and baked goods. The candies and baked goods were not too good like Fannie Farmer's or Russel Stover's fudge or professionally baked goods. They were priced much more. The church women don't have over-; head expenses such as property tax, help and social security benefit deductions, upkeep, advertising, etc. as the stores have.

I think the newspapers should charge the church people when they want to announce their bazaars in the newspapers. If the ladies aid needs money, I'd rather give some than buy their poorly made candies or baked goods. R.H., Madison, Wis. said, adding that the role of educational consultant is that of a "stimulator of educators." Of all the changes she has seen during 26 years in education, Mrs. Thompson said she is perhaps happiest with the "big change in the attitude of teachers." "The teacher is now seeing herself as a teacher of children rather than a teacher of chemistry, reading, or first grade," she said.

"She is trying to meet the need of the individual child," she said. The Thompsons are members of Bethel Lutheran Church and live st 6325 Landfall Dr. MRS. CUMMINGS our prejudices. This classification of human beings into convenient stereotypes leads us to act in a stereotyped fashion toward them.

The teacher who contributed this bit of misinformation in the first place should make herself aware of the stereotypes she entertains and perpetuates. Secondly, she should make a conscious effort to prove her stereotypes wrong in as many ways as possible and avoid any further generalizations or "type-castings" about people. Back to the letter and classification of vocal tones. What about the voices of white people what would describe their tones adequately "mild and mellow?" (Tiny Tim does not agree). P.S.

"Soul" is not. synonymous with full, rich tones. Mrs. Cummings will answer your questions on human relations. Just write: Dear Mrs.

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"I don't find much time for 4-H anymore, though," she said. Now that she's come so far since the days of the -r school, Mrs. Thompson occasionally misses her teaching days, especially when she visits classrooms in her CESA districts. "You sometimes find you'd like to do it yourself," she said of teaching. "But basically I realize that if I were to go back to the classroom, I'd spend my time with one group of youngsters "I have to have some faith in my ability to be an effective supervisor," she Vm MtA By MARLENE CUMMINGS Madison Public Schools Human Relations Consultant I've been told that the reason black singers have so much "soul" is that there is an actual physical difference in the vocal cords of black and white people.

My informant quoted a college teacher who attributed the high thin tones of oriental music to small, thin vocal cords; and the full rich tones of Negro singers to bigger and thicker vocal cords. Is there any scientific basis for this idea? Middleton Dear Middleton reader, I never cease to be amazed at the ability of some people to accept, without question, information that would contradict itself if the individual would stop, look, and listen. There is absolutely no scientific fact that would bear out this anatomical difference your informant mentioned. She has type-cast or made a generalization about the singing voices of black and oriental people. She is revealing some facts about the pictures that "float around in the world of stereotypes" that exist in her head.

Stereotypes are a kind of preconceived picture or idea that we have about a person or thing and they are almost always found at the core of cago Seven. BLACK MILITANTS HAVE no reason to be anti-Semitic. Jewish organizations were at the forefront of the civil rights battles. But Russian foreign policy, aimed at Arab oil, is anti-Semitic. So the militant Negro organizations are cursing Jews.

People who still cling to the no-conspiracy theory might ponder the marvelous escape record of radical fugitives. Eld-ridge Cleaver, Rap Brown, survivors of the New York bomb factory, Bernardine Dohrn, the suspected University of Wisconsin blasters all are safely underground or in Communist countries. Is this just good luck? What fleeing bank robber wouldn't love to have luck like this? Or is this cool and polished organization? THERE IS NO REASON for panic. Nor is there any reason to brand as traitors all those persons who, out of idealism, inexperience, or Ignorance, have bought most of the radical program. What is necessary to understand, however, is that if international Communism eventually hopes to deliver a whammy to the most powerful counterforce in the world America it will, in good common sense, use all its conspiratorial techniques to further the New Left.

To cling to the belief that this cannot be so is to take leave of your brains. In 26 busy years, Barbara Storck Thompson has gone from teaching in a one-room Mt. Horeb school to serving as a liaison between the Department ef Public Instruction and nearly 160,000 Wisconsin elementary and secondary school students. Along the way, she has taught or been a school administrator In Monroe, Platte-ville, Waukesha, and Brookfield, along with her husband, Glenn, also a lifetime educator "We've" really made the circuit," Mrs. Thompson said recently.

But the Thompsons both Madison area natives returned to Madison in 1964 and now say "we're hers to stay." That's not to say that Mrs. Thompson stays in one place for very long. As educational consultant for Cooperative Education Service Agencies (CESA) 10, 14, and 19, she's a frequent visitor to the Sheboygan, Platteville, and suburban Milwaukee areas. Last year, she logged nearly 20,000 miles in her travels around the state. Her husband's activities center more around the Madison area, since he is coordinator for the local CESA unit, 15, but that doesn't mean the Thompsons don't find time to do things together.

For example, in 1969 they both received doctorate degrees in Educational Administration from the University of Wisconsin. "I think we may have been the first husband-wife team to get Ph.D.'s in Educational Administration from the University," she said. They've also found time to rear a family and have two grown sons, David and James. And in her "spare time," Mrs. Thompson has been active in the 4-H Club Page SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1970 technique for college takeover got started at the University of Cordoba in Argentina in 1919, that it has been generally successful in South America and often tried in Europe.

Revolutionaries at Berkeley, he said, were following the book and he predicted that within six months an effort would be made to seize a major eastern university. Six weeks later Columbia blew up and we have gone on from there Russia, unable to exceed the military potential of America, can skin the cat another way. It can get Americans to weaken their own armed forcesThus, while Russia builds its super-navy at forced draft and speeds its antiballistic missile system, American student activists shout for (1) the end of the draft, (2) unilateral disarmament, (3) end of college-based military research, (4) no ROTC, and (5) no American antimissile system. Thousands of our idealistic young geese applaud madly. Internal chaos will render a great nation incapable of action in case of an, international crisis.

Chaos can. be most easily produced by hitting the police and paralyzing the court system. So we have the kill-the-pigs campaign of the Black Panthers, which is no longer merely rhetorical, and the attempted disruption of the courts by acknowledged Marxists, as, for example, at the trial of the Chi- Phone Clients Need Better Protection Sirs-When the new telephone books come out, there will come with them an increase in some of the phone rates 25 cents each month to keep your name out of the phone book, 75 cents each month to have an unpublished number. I hope with the additional monthly rates for this extra service the phone company will do a much better job of protecting its clients. At the present time they do advertise they will prosecute violators.

They do not however. They advise you to go to the Police Department. They also fail to carry out measures against the violators. Presently anyone with an unlisted number may just as well have a listed number because by requesting the number it will be given out, no questions asked. If you are paying for a service, then the service should be provided.

To provide the service, I grant, may cost money. However, I do not feel this is the reason behind the increase in the cost cf the extra service. My opinion is that it has become too much effort for a telephone operator to look up the unlisted number and to tell the person (who may be one of the violators) they cannot give out the number because it is not available to even them. We are already paying an increase in the regular service rate which should more than care for the inconveniences. I wonder when persons now having this service refuse the service because of having to pay for and therefore decrease both time and inconveniences of the telephone operator will they lay off tie extra operators due to more free time? I doubt it I doubt the fact that better protection will be given at the increase cost of the service to the client.

The Public Service Commission has granted the phone company's request for the increases for the additional services. I wonder if they are also going to make the demand that the services be granted that these additional costs provide for. If they do not, then it is foolish to pay the freight for these services. Mrs. B.

E. Goodsir, Madison, Wis. Customer Appreciates Junk Yard Function Sirs In recent years, junk yards have been proclaimed as public nuisances, eyesores, and are currently being subjected to ever-increasing restrictive legislation and regulation. As a customer, not owner, for one appreciate the lowly salvage business. A junk yard performs a highly useful function to a community.

The disposal cf old cars comes to mind as the most obvious facet although salvage yards handle any type junk which they can resell for parts and-or reclaim useable metals, etc. If it could be done at a profit, they would recycle cans, bottles, and defunct appliances. Thus, they greatly reduce the litter and trash disposal problem. We have abandoned cars and other large items littering the cities and countryside, because junk yards no longer can afford to purchase these or even tow them in unless they have salvage value. Donald P.

Zienike, Richland Center, Wis. Should Candidates Try Their Job First? Sirs As you know, we are already in the middle of the election fever. This stage of the epidemic should be labelled, "promises, promises." Politicians from all over are promising people anything they can dream of. Of course, people, like sheep, follow them to their success or failure. It seems to me that all it takes to fill a political seat is a fast talking blow-hard who can get people to follow him over a cliff.

Often I have heard it was "just politics" when someone unworthy of an honor receives it because of his popularity. Maybe it would be better if instead of elections and campaigns, a candidate would be able to have a trial period in his office. This would probably never be possible, but at least it's better than listening to another scene from "promises, promises." John Stansell, 5034 Marathon Madison, Wis. People PAGE 2, SECTION 7 JENKIN LLOYD JONES Violent confrontations following non-negotiable demands would win either way. If the police or Guardsmen were called, and particularly if there were shooting, this would help radicalize the students.

Where there was no resistance, the Left would win by default. The ultimate aim was to gain for the activists the right to "structure" courses and pick professors. ABOUT THE TIME the first experiments in this direction were taking plac at Berkeley there was a meeting of the Inter-American Press Assn. in Puerto Rico. Dr.

Jaime Benitez, president of the University of Puerto Rico, said he had been reading the news and he expressed amazement that most North American editors regarded the Berkeley affair as an isolated phenomenon. Benitez asserted that the Communist Americas Enemies Aren't Idiots "Con-spir-acy: A combination of persons jor an evil or unlawful pur-ose" New Century Dictionary. By JENKIN LLOYD JONES One of the sad hangups among many otherwise intelligent "liberals" is that there simply cannot be a Communist-inspired conspiracy against the security of the United States. To hold otherwise is to be guilty of "McCarthyism," Joe, not Gene. It is to be a little old lady in tennis shoes.

It is to be an overheated patriotic paranoiac. THE ADVANTAGE of this conviction that Red conspiracies are unthinkable is that it gives you the opportunity to explain that all bombing, burning, cop-shooting, and riot is caused by the desperate because reactionary forces have bucked liberal philosophies and inadequately funded liberal programs. The trouble with this conviction, however, is that it assumes an idiocy on the part of America's enemies. If the Communists have not taken advantage of dissent in an effort to blow it up into chaos they need their heads examined. ABOUT SEVEN YEARS ago in a publication called New Left Notes, the budding Students for a Democratic Society began laying down the strategy for taking over American universities.

The technique was spelled out in.