San Francisco Foghorn

              tudents' letters flood Mr. K
By JACK DEGOVIA
FOGHORN   STAFF  WRITER
Over 1000 USF students wrote personal messages to Nikita Khrushchev Thursday, mes-
ages asking him to spare the lives of 150
mouthful Hungarian Freedom Fighters slated
jor execution as they reach eighteen years of
kge-
The letters are part of a nation-wide campaign on
ehalf of the young prisoners who are jailed in the
Jttle Central Prison in Budapest. These students
have been held since the revolution of 1956, when
|they were fourteen, fifteen, or sixteen, awaiting legal
acre and consequently, death.
The American appeal began when television star
Ed Sullivan, acting on information he received from
Dr. Bela Fabian, head of the Hungarian refugees in
New York City, asked the school children of this
country and their parents to write the Soviet leader.
~fThe National Federation of Catholic College Students
requested the cooperation of Catholic campi throughout America to start a flood of letters.
At USF the NFCCS printed a form letter and
purchased stacks of postcards, distributing them
with the aid of the Theology department in
classes. Dr. Steven Hollos, Hungarian Assistant
Professor of Business Administration, asked
friends and pupils to write.
At the suggestion of one of his students the Young
Republican Club passed a resolution asking clemency for the youths and prepared to send it to the
Soviet Premier. Tom Hudsen, chapter chairman, said
that he plans to approach other California chapters,
asking them to do likewise.
Dr. Hollis said reaction in Hungary would be "very
appreciative. It would offset the feeling of abandonment many Hungarians felt after the revolution and
the effects of Soviet propaganda concerning Khrushchev's visit to the United States."
The plan has a good chance of success, according
to Dr. Hollis, because "all Communists, and especially
Khrushchev, are very sensitive to world opinion. He
will probably use it as evidence supporting peaceful
coexistence."
SAM
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Vol. 51, No. 28
'THE CITY'S FOURTH DAILY'
Member ot The Associated Press
Friday, December  I I,   1959
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Kenton jazz
men come
to campus
By ART LENHAKDT
The Stan Kenton Concert
land mixer will get under way
I in the USF War Memorial
I Gymnasium this Monday evening at 8 p.m.
Kenton,   a   celebrated   com-
I poser - pianist - conductor,    has
I been widely acclaimed in two
media: that of dancing as well
|as that of concerts.
Know as the "Modern
American Man of Music,"
Mr. Kenton has hand-picked
his highly-skilled and accomplished musicians from the
four corners of the earth and
has made nation-wide concert tours.
Because of these overwhelm-
ling successes and his Capitol
IRecord   album   fame,   Kenton
I was requested to appear in Europe   and   on   the   Continent,
where he became internationally famous for his "progres-
| sive jazz."
Following    his    triumphant
I trip   abroad,   the   mild - mannered,   dynamic  leader  began
| playing for college dances.
Today, Stan Kenton's band is
a favorite "name band" in all
leading colleges and universities.
Since the $2000 fee that the
twenty - three - man band is
charging was announced
over two and one • half
months ago, feelings have
been mixed as to the sensibility behind the expenditure.
With the admission price
set at $1.50, Mr. Kenton will
have to serenade 1,333 students in order to offset his
price tag.
Day School enrollment is
a little over 1400, so the financial success of the fete
will depend heavily upon attendance from the neighbor
ing women's colleges.
High Schools
debate on
Prep school debaters from
twenty-five Bay Area high
schools will discuss the Taft-
Hartley provision on compulsory unionism on campus tomorrow.
"POWER AND GLORY"
Greene drama wavers
By FRANK LAVORATO
James J. Collins' production of Graham Greene's "Power and the Glory" is without a doubt one of the most ambitions and daring projects ever attempted by USF
thespians. Though many of its eljffiS£j|&S..lack both the maturity and the skill prerequisite for polished drama, the nrn™TJB|BKAirijl opened last night strongly displays the
promise and the potential of distinjffi-;yvlallb^ theatre.
With his first atempt as di
rector of USF dramatics, Collins proves that his abilities
transcend those expected of
most  college drama directors.
"The Power and the Glory"
is, at least to this rieviewer,
somewhat of a mystery; it
does not deal with definites
but with vague ideas, never
clearly developed and never
fully expounded. The persecution of the Church during the
Mexican Revolution serves as
the motivation for the plot.
But the play however is essentially neither interested in the
persecution nor in the revolution. Its central theme seems
to be the question of what constitutes a hero in the modern
world.
Greene, I think, answers the
question by asserting that the
man with an ideal is the man
with the qualities of greatness
. . . not the priest whose only
"ideal" is ritual and who becomes a martyr not because
of ideals but because of psychological necessity. The Lieutenant is the only character
who fits the hero-pattern that
Greene establishes; though he
PETER GAFFNEY
quivering lip
does not seek truth he is "like
a saint" who is moved by love.
Marie Duhring (as the
spinster) and Bernard Davitto (as the Lieut.) give
two of the most moving performances I have ever seen
on any college stage. It is
only on rare occasions that
I would even dare to use the
Needy children
The birth control bandwagon **£"•*£»
This birth control furor is something of
| a joke.
It's about as funny as the attempt of
Protestant Prohibitionists to spur on their
dry cause by identifying rum with "Romanism," or the absurd growth of the
comparatively minor issue of bus service
to parochial school children that raged
| several years ago.
The sudden explosion of artificial
birth control as a "burning" issue,
reached the pinnacle  of the  ludicr-
— An editorial —
ous last week when the usually dignified local Episcopalian Bishop lowered
himself to the status of an immature
high school debater by attempting to
force the birth control issue into the
presidential campaign. This seems to
take its impetus from an immediate
need to curb world "over-population."
Just how immediate the issue actually
is remains itself in doubt, particularly
in light of a recent State Department
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word "brilliant" and this is
one of them.
In general, however, the
minor characters gave more
competent performances than
the more important ones. Peter
Gaffney, as the priest, gave
what was often a sensitive
performance, but it was
marked by unevenness and exaggeration. One feels, when
watching Gaffney perform his
more emotional scenes, that
unless he learns to control his
lower lip he'll soon have to be
fed intravenously. Dennis Kennedy's portrayal of the schoolmaster effects a character
that seems to be a cross between Hitler and Mary Baker
Eddy.
Kathryn Newman as Maria
gives a performance that is
more than competent but that
seems to be based not on
Graham Greene but on Tennessee Williams. George De-
vine, Dave Sheridan, Lou Cas-
azza, and Bill Klein exhibit an
understanding of the characters they portray. In watching
Maureen Lynch attempt the
characterization of a ten year
old girl one cannot help but
hope they save her for a later
possible performance in Vladimir Nabokov's latest.
One hundred underprivileged
children will be the guests of
the University in a Christmas
party in the dining room of
Phelan Hall Sunday afternoon
at i:00.
The program, which includes
cartoons, dancing, and donated
food, is the result of the joint
work of the ASUSF and the
Philhistorian Debating Society.
Toys to be distributed were
bought by the ASUSF, and the
names of the children were
chosen from a list supplied by
the Holy Names Convent.
Special Events
*
Today—Campion   Hall Audiorium:
"Power and the Glory."
Memorial   Gym:   California  Collegiate   Boxing   Conference  Novice  Tournament,   7:30   p.m.
Saturday—Campion  Hall Auditorium:   "Power and   the Glory."
Campus:   Bay  Area  High  School
speech  tournament,   all  day.
Sunday—Phelan Hall: Underpri-
viledged children's Christmas
Party,   1:00   p.m.
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Delmas & Delmas
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