OSAKA INTERNATIONAL
& TOKYO Nihonbashi

JUN 2 - 1940

# Intercollegiate English Drama Evening
## Scheduled At Gunjin Kaikan On June 11

## — Students Of 4 Schools To Participate —

The annual intercollegiate English dramatic performance will be given this year on Tuesday, June 11, at the Gunjin Kaikan, Kudan, under the auspices of the Tokyo Nichi Nichi English edition, when members of the English-speaking societies of Keio, Waseda, Rikkyo, and the Tokyo University of Commerce will present four one-act plays in English.

The Keio students will present Anton Tchekoff's "The Wedding" under the direction of John Morris, English instructor of their university.

Second on the program is "The Locked Chest", a mystery drama by John Masefield, which will be produced by Thomas Lyell for the Waseda amateur players.

Rikkyo again this year will present a Nipponese drama—a drama written by Prof. Eiichi Banshoya, based on an episode preceding the downfall of the Tokugawa shogunate. It was originally written in Nipponese and was specially translated into English

for the inter-collegiate meeting by Prof. Yoshitaro Negishi of the same university.

Last on the program is Eugene O'Neill's "Ile", which will be performed by the students of the Tokyo University of Commerce's international society.

With the exception of producers who are English instructors, the stage management, lighting effects, stage settings, and other work for each performance are in the hands of the students of the respective universities.

The curtain rises sharply at 6 p.m. in order to complete the whole program before 10 p.m., in accordance with police regulations. The admission fee is 70 sen per person.

Cast Selected
For O'Neill Play

Nov. 12, 1942

Members of the cast of the con-
vocation play, "Ile," to be presented
Nov. 24 as part of a Eugene O'Neill
program on campus has been se-
lected and rehearsals started,
Wayne S. Farrow of the Depart-
ment of English, director of the
play, said Wednesday.

Jud Frommer, senior, and Betty
Hargan, freshman, will play the
lead parts of Captain Keeney and
his wife. The steward and the cabin
boy will be portrayed by John Mc-
Greevey and Doovid Barskin, both
seniors. Arthur Greditzer, fresh-
man, and Eben Henson, sophomore,
will be the second mate and the
harpooner.

The play will climax a program
centered around the fork of Eu-
gene O'Neill which for the next few
weeks will be presented jointly
by the Department of English, the
University theatre and the Library.

An exhibit of the playwright's
manuscript's, which have been sent
to the campus from Yale university
for the program, will appear in the
Library Friday. An open meeting of
the English club next week will
continue the program with a lec-
ture on Mr. O'Neill's plays.

Play Will Be Presented
At Today's Convocation

Nov. 24, 1942

"Ile,"" the story of one man's struggle to choose between preserving his wife's sanity and maintaining his own reputation as the harbor's most successful whaling captain will be unfolded for the convocation audience today in the Auditorium.

Six students will enact the one-
act drama by Eugene O'Neill,
some of whose plays are now on
exhibit with other materials re-
lated to the playwright's work in
the Library.

Jud Frommer, senior, will por-
tray ruthless Captain Keeney,
known throughout the port for
bringing in more "ile" than the
captain of any other whaling ves-
sel in the harbor. Faced with the
mutiny of his whole crew, he re-
fuses to turn back home with a
"measly 500 barrels of ile," al-
though food is low, ice to the
northward blocks him from any
more oil and the men's two years
of service is up.

Coupled with his troubles with
his crew is his wife's increasingly
noticeable nervousness and
strange behavior. Betty Hargan,
freshman, as Mrs. David Keeney,
portrays a woman on the verge of
insanity after being isolated in
the ice-bound north with the
monotony and brutality of the
ship.

When the ice to the south

breaks up, she pleads with her
husband to take her and the crew
home before the food supply is
gone and the men become incor-
rigible.

Fearing that his wife is about
to lose her mind, Captain Keeney
is vacillating between turning
back home and waiting until the
ice to the north breaks up, when
he hears one of the crew say that
there's clear water to the north.

Climax of the drama comes
with his decision. Rebellious mem-
bers of his crew will be portrayed
by John McGreevey, senior, as the
steward, and Doovid Barskin, sen-
ior, as the cabin boy. Arthur Gre-
ditzer, freshman, and Eben Hen-
son, sophomore, will play the
parts of the second mate and the
harpooner respectively.

Directing the play is Wayne S.
Farrow of the Department of
English with Vergil Smith of the
Division of Speech in charge of
the lights and setting. Elaine Ax,
senior, is student director,