Craig Price, right, Sidney freshman, steps for ward to receive the crown of King Rex at the annual Mardi Gras masquerade sponsored by Pi K appa Delta last Friday night. From left are Carol Brown, Pi Kappa Delta president; Martha Earl and Linda Farley, who crowned the king; and other King Rex candidates, Don Rothschiller, Bill Hilton, Roland Micheletti and Chuck Miske.

Tinian's Rainbow' Opens Here i Thursday

Vol. 13—No. 18

Craig Price, Sidney freshman, was crowned King Rex at the annual Mardi Gras last Friday night.

Pi Kappa Delta sponsored the event, which was attended by approximately 80 costumed coup-les - in the Student Union Build-ing lounge.

Lauchlan MacLean, chairman of the committee in charge of en-tertainment, introduced the King Rex candidates as they crept out of his would-be time machine. The candidates were Bill Hilton, Don Rothschiller, Charles Miske, Chuck Haines, Roland Micheletti and Price. Each candidate repre-sented a weird character; Hilton portrayed a ballet dancer; Miske represented a moron; Price, a Chinaman; Haines, a beatnik; Micheletti, a mummy; and Roths-chiller a boy genius.

Following the introduction and entertainment, each person at the dance was provided with a bal-lot to cast a vote for his choice from among the candidates.

About halfway through the dance, after all the ballots had been counted, the costumed can-didates formed a procession on the dance floor and Price was crowned King Rex by Martha Earl and Linda Farley, freshman coeds.

Art Club Chooses Name, Plans Sale

The name Aristocracy of Regal Talent was decided upon for the newly formed art club at a meet-ing of the group which was held Wednesday, Feb. 23, at the home of instructor Lyndon F. Pomeroy.

At the meeting the constitution which had been drawn up by a specially designated committee was presented for the approval of the group and adopted. Mem bership in ART is open to any interested Eastern student who upholds the requirements for par-ticipation.

Yearly dues were also set at $3 and must be paid by active members before the next meet-ing which has been set for Wed-nesday evening, March 9, at 8 p.m., either in the SUB large con-ference room or Ad 309.

A forthcoming project of the group will be the sale of some Japanese prints to the public. Also the group will provide host-esses for the opening of Branson Stevenson's one-man show on March 14.

Bonnie Shaw, Billings fresh-man, won the award for the best girl's costume and Jay Hopkins, Helena freshman, won in the boys' division.

Prize for the weirdest costume went to Lois Hardesty, a fresh-man from Glendive, and the prize for the best guest costume went to Miss Carol Saunders, dean of women.

David Doze, Billings freshman, won the award for the funniest costume, while Jerry Hopkins and Joan Scow, Helena freshmen, were the best costumed couple.

Seventeen EMCE men became members of E Club Monday night at the annual all-sports banquet sponsored by that organization in the Student Union Lounge.

N e w members, who earned their first athletic letter this year in football or basketball, are Jerry Alexander, Jim Barrus, Gaylord Christman, Jim Michel, Tim Mullowney, Jim Neal, Elmer Vossler, Dave Weatherbee and Tom Wilson, football; Darrell Coulter, Chuck Hereim, Bob Ille, Bob McWilliams, Craig Price, Merle Smith, Dale Williams and Bruce Zinne, basketball.

The 250 guests at the banquet included EMCE coaches, admini-strators, faculty members, ath-letes, band members, cheerlead-ers and Pep club members, par-ents of athletes and members of the downtown century club. Fran-cis L. Kafka, public relations di-rector, was toastmaster.

Russell B. Hart, Billings busi-nessman and chairman of the Montana Citizens Committee for Better Schools, was principal speaker. Hart congratulated East-ern on its sports record during the past few seasons and dis-cussed "Three R's — Russians, Races and Responsibility."

Hart discussed the participation of United States and Russian teams in the 1960 Winter Olym-pics, pointed out the progress athletics has made toward solv-ing racial conflicts in this coun-try, and told E Club members that they have the responsibility of setting a mode of conduct which would have direct bear-ing on that of other students and spectators at athletic events. He also called for expansion of phys-ical education programs in the nation's schools.

Kafka paid tribute to the cheer-

March 4, 1960

Convocation Wednesday An 11 a.m. convocation next

Wednesday, Mar. 9, in Science Auditorium will feature a talk by Clyde T. Ellis, general mana-ger of the National Association of Electric Cooperatives.

Ellis, who returned recently from a trip to Russia, will speak on public power programs in the USSR.

To permit all students to at-tend the convocation, the 11 o'clock activity hour regularly on Tuesday will be switched to Wed-nesday next week and Wednes-day's 11 a.m. classes will meet at that time on Tuesday.

leaders, band and Pep Club for their support during the athletic season. Representing the cheer-leaders were Louise Kostelic, Di-ana Gallagher, Nita Blinn and Martha Behrent; the Pep Club, Barbara Finn, president, and Miss Mary Kreul, adviser; the band, Warren Frank, Ron Pering and Grant Newman, director.

Ron Ewing, co-captain of the 1959 football team, expressed ap-preciation to the squad for a win-ning season, and introduced Bill Hilton, co-captain, who presented the 1960 co-captains, Dick Schardt and Stafford Hersrud.

Football coaches Ken Karr, Oscar Bjorgum and Nels Christ-iansen were presented letterman's jackets by the squad, as were Jim Eschler, statistician, and Dr. Har-old Alterowitz, athletic director.

Coach Karr introduced mem-bers of the 1959 football squad and gave a brief resume of the season.

Bob McWilliams, captain of the 1959-60 basketball squad, pre-sented a letterman's jacket to Coach Allen Feldner, who intro-duced the basketball squad and summarized the season.

The annual Nate Morgan Jewel-ers awards, wristwatches, were presented by John Marsh to three EMCE lettermen: Ewing, McWil-liams and Hilton.

The candlelight ceremony in-itiating new E Club members concluded the banquet program, with Dr. Alterowitz in charge. He was assited by Coaches Karr, Feldner, Bjorgum and Christian-sen, and the following E Club members: R o n Adams, D o n Brown, Ewing, Ron Hatcher, Her-srud, Hilton, Frank Kampfe, Larry Mayes, John Novasio, Schardt, Don Rothschiller, Chuck Haines and Dick Hatch.

Final preparations and rehears-als are being completed this week for the staging of Eastern's first musical production, "Finian's Rainbow," which will be pre-sented by the humanities depart-ment, Thursday through Saturday evenings, March 10-12 at 8:15.

"Finian's" is for the first time, combining the talents of the dra-matics, musical and art depart-ments on campus to present a musical fantasy that played Broadway for 91 weeks in 1947 and 1948 and made a star of David Wayne.

Jerry McKibben, Livingston freshman, and Vivian Gerdes, Billings sophomore, receive top billing in the roles of a fey Irish-man and his daughter from the mythical Glocca Mora.

The production begins with the chorus, ensemble and dance mem-bers' rendition of "This Time of Year," which is followed by Miss Gerdes singing "Look to the Rain-bow." Lane Hanson as Woody then joins Miss Gerdes in singing "If This Isn't Love," and "The Great Come and Get It Day."

Miss Gerdes accompanied by the chorus then sings "When the Idle Rich Become the Idle Poor," followed by the finale number, "How Are Things in Glocca Mora," sung by the entire cast.

Harold Slagle, choral director, indicated that "Finian's" com-poser utilizes all forms of music from Bach to modern Broadway show tunes. This production fea-tures a male quartet composed of Po Murry, Gary Pfaff, Bud Rid-enour, and Dennis Schmidt who play four Negro gospeleers who sing the life of man starting with Cain to modern times.

A woman's quartet composed of Zela Mae Dawson, Joan House, Marilyn Nelson and Georgia pos-ing as four "cotton pickers" who rationalize as to why they are still picking and not starring in Hollywood.

Mrs. Gayle Heins, modern dance instructor, is directing re-hearsals for student dancers Jim Hopkins, Donna Laddusaw, Bon-nie Laird, Marvel Lowrence, Ron Pering, Duane Pettersen, Kara Rollins, Victor Stark, Darlene Vesley and Young. Mrs. Heins has studied dancing at the Perry Mansfield School of the Theater and Dance in Steamboat Springs, Colo., and the Hartford School of Music in Hartford, Conn.

SUB Movie Wednesday "Captain's Paradise," a comedy

about a British seafaring man who has a wife at home as well as one in another port, will be shown as the March movie at EMCE in the SUB lounge at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 9. Alec Guinness stars as the bigamist sea captain .

The increasing tendency tow-ard a welfare state is a threat to the American way of life, Orlo M. Brees, public relations repre-sentative of the National Associa-tion of Manufacturers, said Tues-day at a student convocation.

Brees, a New York state sena-tor for 12 years, said he was not concerned with college students' emotional belief in Americanism, but with their intellectual back-ground and ability to protect "the American way of life."

Brees defined America as a "heritage." The heritage, he said, consists not of material goods but "vital dynamic ideas" stem-ming from a religious background which resepcts the dignity and equality of man.

America, Brees said, has an aristocracy for which ability is the prerequisite for membership. If the right to use this ability as we choose is taken away, he said, "we will sell ourselves down the river."

Brees said Americans are en-titled to live in a society that allows them to put forth effort to get gains. Brees warned the audience that there "are those

Costumes for the musical com-edy are being prepared by Eaves Costume Company of New York City under the direction of Jerry Hopkins, Helena freshman

"Shears and Robust Company" grant "unlimited credit" and a fashion parade results with a dis-play of unusual fashion present-ing many of the costumes.

"Finian's" plot revolves around Finian McLonergan's (G 1 e n n West) filching of a pot of gold from the leprechauns of Ireland which is buried somewhere in the state of Missitucky, U. S. A. Missitucky is inhabited by poor tenant farmers working the land of Senator Billboard Rawkins.

Production scenes include the meeting place, the path in the woods, the clearing, and Sena-tor Rawkin's study. Appropriate sets are being constructed under the direction of Ben Steele, tech-nical director working with the student artists, Jay Hopkins, Louise Kostelic, Jane Madson, Beth Shelver and Sam Weller.

Frederick K. Miller is general director and George Perkins is musical director. Activity tickets may be used on opening night, and reserved seats on the main floor may be purchased by stu-dents at the Student Activity desk in the Student Union Build-ing with activity tickets.

On Friday and Saturday nights, activity tickets will procure gen-eral admission in the balcony and reserve seats will be 25 cents. Tickets are now available in the SUB and at Lindamood's.

I This Week at Eastern I ART EXHIBIT—Faculty of Montana State

Painting, Sculpture, Print-ing, Crafts

Sunday, March 6 6:00 p.m.—Faculty Supper—Student

Union Lounge Monday, March '7

6:30 p.m.—AWS - SUB - Lounge 7:30 p.m—SEA - Multi-Purpose Room 7:30 p.m.—Student Union Board - SUB

Large Conference Room 9:30 p.m.—Women's Residence Hall

Council - WRH Tuesday, March 8

4:00 p.m.—Spurs - SUB - Large Conference Room

7:00 p.m.—Spurs Study Table - SUB Small Conference Room

7:15 p.m.—WRA - Gym 7:30 p.m.—Circle K - SUB - Small

Conference Room Wednesday, March 9

11:00 a.m.—Convocation - Mr. Clyde T. Ellis, General Manager of the National Associataion of Electric Co-op—Electric Power in Russia - Science Auditorium

7:30 p.m.—Movie - "Captain's Paradise" Student Union Lounge

Thursday, March 10 11:00 a.m.—Lutheran Students Associa-

tion - SUB - Small Conference Room

7:30 p.m.—Spurs Study Table - SUB Small Conference Room

7:30 p.m.—Newman Club - SUB Large Conference Room

8:00 p.m.—"Finian's Rainbow" - Gym 9:00 p.m.—"E" Club - SUB - Lounge

Friday, March 11 8:00 p.m.—"Finian's Rainbow" - Gym

Saturday, March 12 8:00 p.m.—"Finian's Rainbow" - Gym

who wish to destroy the personal incentive in our economy."

Brees said that the American heritage carries with it not only the right to equality, but the per-sonal responsibility to defend our personal incentive economy.

He said that America has a generation that thinks the world, through government, owes them a living. "You don't get some-thing for nothing," he said, One dollar out of every three earned, he said, goes for government pro-grams.

To perform the public works in Los Angeles county today costs as much as the U.S. government spent in 1917, Brees said. Brees showed concern with the tenden-cy to increase the national bud-get and the national debt.

Brees defended the right of the individual to fail, pointing out that "the road to success is paved with failures." He said as eco-nomic security increases, personal liberty decreases.

"America," Brees said, "is a destiny." This destiny, he said, means nothing unless all men have its birthright.

Billings, Montana

Craig Price Reigns over Mardi Gras

E Club Initiates Seventeen Members Al Annual Athletic Banquet Monday

NAM Representative Speaks at Convocation