The Banner - March 19, 1971

              Oscar Wilde Portrayed
In Drama Production
It's Nice to Be a Ph D'
By Bob Hughes
Oscar Wilde was a freak. With
his long hair and strange clothes,
he was considered so weird that
Gilbert and Sullivan got away with
writing a successful comic opera
satirizing him. Wilde wasn't well
liked by the authorities -- his
Tiny Tim appearance coupled
with an acid tongue seemed to
bring out  the  worst  in people.
But Wilde had an uncanny ability to find the ridiculous in ::Ie
society of his day and amplify
it so gracefully that even the
authorities couldn't help laughing. He was a successful freak,
for he helped to change the system that disgusted him.
Where there are some things
in The Importance of Being Earnest that may seem dated to our
"relevant   20th  Century   sensi-
Campus Meeting
Evidence of an
Answered Prayer
It began as a prayer of a Christian on campus. Her prayer was
that some sort of meeting could
begin where students could share
their experiences with Jesus
Christ, discuss scriptures, and
witness in places like the plaza,
Tyler Mall, Inland Center, parks,
schools  and  college  campuses.
Focus Week lighted a spark
in some lives that enabled the
meetings to begin. They were
scheduled for 6:30 p.m. on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and
Fridays, and that Christian prayed for 12 people u> come to the
first meeting.
At 6:30 Monday evening, students began coming to the Prayer Room on the second floor on
the main campus building.
Each told of his personal experience with Jesus and of answered prayer, and soon that
spark became a fire which united
each spirit in the room.
As they prayed, that Christian
counted exactly 12 people in the
room. But she wasn't surprised!
Chapel cards will be collected in
the Dean of Students Office next
week - March 22 - 26.
bilities, there is much more
that is right on. Wilde chops
merrily away at semantic difficulties, wish fulfillment, class
struggles, the "well-made" play,
and women in general . . . just
to name a few.
But perhaps the nicest thing
about the play is, it's funny.
The story is ridiculous to the
point of of inanity, but that's
what cracks an audience up. A
very fine C.B.C. cast will be
performing Earnest March 18,
19, and 20 at 7:30 p.m. in the
chapel. At 50c for students, $1.00
for adults, how could you lose?
A fanfare of trumpets and a
standing ovation from a capacity
crowd in the CBC Cafeteria Monday noon greeted Dr. Kendall
Wilcox, "freshman" chemistry
professor. Wilcox, accompanied
by his wife Kathleen, was honored
by Dr. Laverne Young and students of the science department
for the recent completion of requirements for his Ph.D. at the
University of Southern California.
After the reading of a poem
composed in his honor, Wilcox
was presented with a white lab
coat with the words "Quiet --
Doctor at work!" printed across
the back. Following a brief intro
duction by Dr. Young, Wilcox was
seated as guest of honor at a long
table decorated with jelly bean
molecules, candles placed in bun-
sen burners, and flowers set in
chemist's flasks. A 12 foot banner placed over the table read,
"IT'S NICE TO BE A 'PH.D.' ".
At 28, Wilcox is the youngest
doctorate on the California Baptist College faculty. A native of
Kansas, he came to the West
Coast after doing undergraduate
work at Central College and Sterling College, both in his native
state. The Wilcox's, who have
been married four years, have
one two year old child, Jeffrey.
KEN WILCOX
'Up With People' Invades Campus
Up With People!
•Live It Live"
Music Guild Program
Biographs Beethoven
RICHARD REED, Noel Walker, Heidi Britton, and Lily Pan-Diehl,
faculty advisor, go over script for "Beethoven: Portrait of a Soul."
The original production will be presented in the California Baptist
College Van Dyne Field House March 22-23 at 8 p.m. Tickets are
50c for students, SI. for adults.
"When one attempts to recreate the life of a famous individual for the stage, there are
innumerable difficulties," admitted Noel Walker, author of
the Music Guild's production,
"Beethoven, Portrait of a Soul."
Months of research into the
life of that musical genius will
culminate Monday and Tuesday
evenings at 8 p.m. when Noel
Walker portrays Ludwig van
Beethoven; Richard Reed, the
Judge and Karl van Beethoven;
Heidi Britton, Joanna, Karl's
wife; and Miriam Merino, Josephine von Brunsvik, Beethoven's
lover.
"In bringing Beethoven back
from the dead, I read his letters
extensively, not only as possible
dialogue, but to better understand the inner man," Walker
said. "I found Beethoven to be a
passionate, temperamental, and
not infrequently childish man.
His deafness at an early age,
compounded with this, served to
further his maladjustment in
society. That is, he was impossible to live with."
Featuring music from Beethoven's 3rd, 7th, and 9th symphonies, the production will be
performed in arena style with the
audience on three sides. Credits
go to Susan Huffman for costuming, Richard Reed for lighting, and Mike Maher for sound.
Walker hopes to "reach those
who have yet to experience Beethoven's music." In studying
Beethoven's intense personality,
Walker found that the musician's
"misanthropic attitude was to
cause him no end of grief. . .he
nearly drove every friend he
owned away and was the direct
cause of his nephew's attempted
suicide.
"When you put this all together
and add to it the fact that he
blamed his attitudes, bad temper,
etc. on 'others', nameless responsible parties who 'were not
worthy of him . . .,' you have a
Performances End
10 Day Stop-Over
By Judy Brock
In case you haven't noticed,
UP WITH PEOPLE is here. The
cast of 100 high school juniors
and seniors, their teachers and
chaperones arrived on campus
last week for a few days of relaxation and study before they
move on to Hayward, Calif., Reno,
Nev. and a five week tour of
Ontario, Canada.
Performances are scheduled
for Thursday and Friday nights,
March 18-19 at 8 p.m. in the Van
Dyne Field House. Tickets sell
for $1.50 for students.
UP WITH PEOPLE is a nonprofit, educational corporation.
It originated in Mackinaw, Mich.
in 1965 with a group of young
adults whose idea was to modernize America toward an aim of
international brotherhood. It became a corporation in 1968 and
has expanded into three large
international traveling casts, two
which offer accredited high
school and college curriculums,
and a recording cast, with countless offspring groups in cities all
over the world.
UP WITH PEOPLE is not a
religious, political, or patriotic
group. It does, however, strive
for universal brotherhood, and
serves as a motivating force to
get people to do what needs to
be done.
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Chapel Speakers
Chapel - Friday, March 19
Exchange Assembly - Azusa Pacific College
MARCH 24
Hermanos en Cristo will present  a  program featuring their
trips to Mexico.
MARCH 26
Ed Packwood will be in charge
of this assembly and present information from the development
office of our college.
News Briefs
"The Importance of Being Earnest" - 8:00 p.m. Thursday,
Friday, and Saturday evenings
in the Chapel. 50c student,
$1.00 adult.
Up With People
Thursday  and  Friday evenings.
9:00 in the gym. $1.50 students,
$2 and $3 tickets.
"Beethoven, Portrait of a Soul"
- 8:00 p.m. in the gym.
complex and many-faceted
character. All in all, fallacies
admitted, Beethoven was a human
being."