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MERCER CLUSTER Winkle and Blizzard Rated Top Tournament Speakers Husband. Husband, and Wlls reunited. Bill Lund. Jerry Ysargon, and Barbara Marshall rsbaarsing a scan* from LUV. M Luv w ...Ouch..! By ANDREA FROST "See how drained I am, how de vastated, the squirming near-cadav er says, proud of his position as The Man Who Has Been Most Badly Treated. The lower lip trem bles but the eyes look up: where is that spotlight that will display me ;is victim? Come closer, spotlight; I have a very good speech ready about the abuse the silent universe has heaped upon me. The universe may be silent, but I will not be. Hear my moan. Isn't it something, really something, how I am rav aged?” wrote noted critic Walter Kerr about the pseudo-pessimism of modern man as defined by Mur ray Schisgal in LUV, which was presentod by the Mercer Players at 8:30, October 24, in Willingham Chapel. Each character in LUV recounts his poignant tale of childhood mis ery and adult frustration while dar ing others to prove they may have suffered more. I didn't start school until I wits eight years old because I didn’t have a pair of shoes to wear Oh, year. Lucky for me the kid down stairs was hit by an ice-cream truck and I got his shoes. Even ■lien they were so tight on me I couldn’t-walk. I was put in a spe-- Who’s Whi The 1968-69 edition of Who's Who among Students in American LJiiiversities and Colleges will car ry the names of 22 students from The College of Liberal Arts, Mer cer University, 2 students from The Walter F. George School of Law and 2.students from The School of I’harmacy. The students from the College of Liberal Arts are Rosa Marteil Bab bitt, James Edwin Bacon, Gary Rogers Brenner, Robert Lewis Col lins, Angeline Beth Danlell, Rich ard Hillman Davison, Hugh Dukes. Barbara Ann Elliott, Frances Irene Hart, Evelyn Kay Johnson, Brenda Carol Jowers, Charles Law- toq, Ogburn, Sandra Rich, Judson Rainer Roberts, Vivian Elaine Ser- gert, Sara Ann Stanford, Marsha Ann Stone. David Howell Wilbanks, Nancy Williams, John Wilson Winkle; Kemp Young. • ' Those from the Law School are George Thotnks Williams and Leonard Fletcher. The student* from the School of Pharmacy are Kenneth Eugerw Lyda and Thomas Frazier. cial class for disabled children.” “You tbink that was bad? My grandpartnts used to lock me out Of the house. They couldn’t stand the sight of me because I reminded them of my father. I remember on? day I came home from school dur ing a blinding snowstorm and the door was locked. I knocked. I knocked and yelled and beat my poor little frozen fists on the door . . They laughed at me. They laughed! Picture that for yourself A lull skinny kid standing out there In the snowstorm, wearing nothing but a thin torn jacket and a paper- bag for a hat, knocking and yell ing, ’lot me in. Please let me in!’ When they are not busy out-suf fering one another, they play games, such as what-ls-love? let’s- f uid-out-together and I-loVe-yoU- mote-than-you-love-me. The form er pastime needs ho explanation, but the latter requires a certain - amount of timing and fancy foot work to avoid repercussions. Hav ing stomped on the foot of his lady- 1 ove .the young man asks if her love has in any way been altered. Of .course not,’she replies as she slvigs him iii the stomach. Ouoh! But what is “love" in the con text of LUV? Another opportunity . to slosh around in agony; hence the distorted spelling of the title. "Love is a gradual development based on physical attraction, com plementary careers and simple, so cial similarities!” "Ellen, do What you want with me. curse me, step on me, tear me to pieces, but 1 beg of you, out of Consideration for all the days and nights wje lived as man and Wile, do not say ...”-• “Love is a gradual development based on physical attraction, com plementary carders -... And Ellen believes in her own definition, in theory In reality,’she is stuck with a second husband who does not understand his duties as such, in any capacity. Husband Number 1 has promised to amend his WayS. The solution is subtract Husband Number 2. Ellen Manville, who has the in telligence of a man, but the eino- tipns of a woman, . was played by Barbara Marshall, a junior front Flushing, Long Island. Jerry Year- gin, a freshman from Orlando, played Harry Berlin, the DostoyeV- ski of Polyarts U. Milt Manville, a rich mediocre siob with an affinity for garbage collecting, was played by Bill Lund, a sophomore frdm St Petersburg. Mr. Luther E. Wil liams, Department of Dramatic Arts, directed the production. ’. Two members of the Mercer University debate team won top places in the Invitational Tourna ment at the University of Miami last week in Miami. John Winkle of Rome vyas judged the No. 1 speaker and Mike Bliz zard of Macon - was rated No. 3. Some 20 colleges were represented in f he tournament. The subject of the debate was ■‘Resolved.: That Executive Control of the United States Foreign Policy Should Be Significantly Curtailed.” Mercer’s debate teams together won eight of twelve debate's at the tournament. Winkle and Blizzard, both seniors, made up one team. Larry Finkelstein, a sophomore front Hollywood, Florida, and William Cragg, a freshman from Clayton, Georgia, were the other team. Individual debaters were scored on analysis, reasoning, organiza tion, evidence, delivery, and refuta tion. Mercer’s debators, coached by Mrs. Geenc Price, have won awards in throe of four tournaments in which they have competed this year. B'izzard and Winkle will repre sent Mercer at the Harvard Invita tional Debate Tournament in Cam bridge, January 30—February 1.. Mrs. Price will accompany them. Tre Mercer teams won five of eight debates in the Harvard Tourna ment last year. The team will participate ’n the Florida State University Invita tional Tournament, February 21 - 22, and the National Debate Tour nament at the University of Ne braska, April 6-10. Mantovani Here Sunday In Chapel Mantovani and his orchestra will appaar in concert in the Willing ham Chapel Sunday. This performance is one of his first on his 12th tour of North America. The title of. a recent record-— " Thu Incomparable Mantovani" London 1.L3392 and P.9. 392 is apt. How apt can be measured by the fact that Mantovani's is prob ably the only orchestra of its kind in the world capable of making regular large-scale international lours. He Is called by Variety "the big gest musical phenomenon of the twentieth century". He has ap peared in person before almost two million Americans, and -yet, when recently he cancelled a Minneap olis concert, not one of the 5,000 ticket holders wanted their money bade. Instead they- preferred , to keep their tickets for the concert promised in the following year. 'What is the secret of this pro digious success? Even Mantovani is not sure. "I don’t understand Why we are the only light orchestra in the world doing this sort of ,thing.” he will say. Most of the secret undoubtedly lies in his finely toned orchestra tions. Each facet! like a diamond, may display a sjiectrUm of Inter- .mingled iridescences, but as the •orchestration turns it is abb a mu sical, prism: the "whole is cleanly, almost crisply, delineated until not one shimmering spectrum winks out, but a whole constellation of them; flecks of warmth among the ■colder musical transparencies. The whole piece becomes a sort of trembling musical candelabra, and at the musical center always that clear melody Shining through. These musical candelabras may as sume almost any shape—it’s “Catch A Falling Star" in one, and “Won der Who's Kissing Her Now” in another, but invariably they are both gemlike and iridescent, as If the conductor were using the most common musical materials pur posely to emphasize the transcen- dant nature nf the orchestration. Mantovani was born in Venice, appropriately the most incandes cent and evanescent, the most mir rored and mirroring of all the world’s c.ties. His father was Tos canini’s principal violinist at La Scala, Milan, played for Mascagni (composer of “Cavalloria Rustica- na"e was a professor at two Ital ian conservatories and the holder of-the-title "Cavalieri”. lake many - other musicians, he wolild have preferred the security of almost any other profession for his son. “Let the boy become an engineer” He’said. It did not w;ork that way. - Ip 1951, Mantovani hit the jack- . piece called “Cliammino.’ The rec ord swept tin; worid like a prairie lire—-it'd to demands for personal appearances, so that the originator o fthese nfew - sounds could lie seen in person. Today from Tobruck to Texas, in Queonsla; d or in Peru, say “Charmaine" and they’ll know the. name: Mantovani ■ . Many critics .have taken a flyer at describing his effects: .“Cascad ing violins." "Tumbling-strings,” A Niagara Falls of Fiddles,” Variety writer Janies .T. Mailer goes fur ther: ‘,'the - MantoVani minfmarks are instantly identifiable: cannonic arjxggiatioris in the - high strings, simple w ind solos set off from lush string reprises by engaging lult- pauses, wide dynamics, and expert ly scored coloristic effects." Johr|' Wilson of the New York Times ence asked Mantovani how he maintained his pre-eminence. He answered, ‘I am a string man. I know what I. want from string 'players. I know the capabilities of the violin. I know what It can do. and wbat it cannot do. 1 can avoid the soaring phrase that goes squeaky on top."