(
Th~ Montana School of Miries
AMPLleFIER I
PUBLISHED
Vol. 5, No. 10
BY THE ASSOCIATED
.
STUDENTS
OF THE MONTANA
-
SCHOOL OF MINES
March 19, 1959
AND THE RAINS CAME The Rainmaker Makes Hay On the evenings of Monday and Tuesday, March 16 and 17, in the Museum Hall of the Montana School of Mines, the Broadway stage success, The Rainmaker, played to a full house.
CAST TAKES CURTAIN Malyevac, and Wylie.
on.
\JA
LL L ft to right-Enderlin, . e
Maxwell, Rule, Wayment,
Miss Maddock, , ,
.
Beal Charms Miners Miss Evelyn Beal, Metropolitan Opera contralto, was featured at a convocation at the Montana School of Mines, Wednesday, March 11. 'The gracious contralto, known to con ceq; audiences from coast=to Coast for her magnificent velvet voice as well as her unique interpreti-ie abilities, is on an extensive tour of the West. Miss Beal's program consisted of many selecti0!ls ranging from Opera to Negro Spirituals. She was accompamed by Eleanor McTucker of Butte.
Green Gold' Is Pumped
Student 'Engineers 5> Be Employed
r
Engineering students from colleges and universities in many A scholarship f~om the Califo~and ia Company, New Orleans, LOUISI- parts of the United States ana of $5,00,00 will be awar~ed to some foreign countries will be goan undergraduate student m t~e ing to Alaska again this June to' unique Department of Petroleum Engi- fill in their studies~with gained in the field neering 'at Montana School of experiences with the U. S. Army Engineer DisMines for the year 1959-60: trict Alaska. ' In ~nnouncing the receipt of th~s Over 5pO sbudent aides have takaward, Dr. Edwin G., Koch, P::esl- en advantage of the earning and d t of Montana School of Mines, training program offered during ar: noted' th~t . a~ addition~l the summer by the Corps of EnMiss Beal's artistry is really a $5~ 00 will be given by the Cah~ gineers. : Com'pany .to the College's triumph for American music, f orrna E . Aides will assist experienced enngrtraining has been by AmerIcan Department of Petroleum teachers and' coaches; her exper- neering for the Department's unre- gineers in 'the design' and construction of many defense proience has been gained )Jefor: Am- stricted use. . jects needed by the Army and Air erican audiences. She is but one of The recipient of the scholarship a great and ever-growing num~er will be selected by Montana. School Force; or they may be assigned to of fine American artists of WhICh of Mines Scholarship CommIttee to the District's civil works program consisting of projects such as harthe same can be said. ' a student from among those rec· bor development hydroelectric sur. h't1 a, ommen de d by',/ Professor Douglas Miss Beal was born in WIC h D veys, andl flood control ;work. Kansas where ,her first solo per- H Harnish, Jr., head of t ~ eJobs) are open, to students :who 't kIt the age of a'r"IDent of Petroleum Engmeerf have completed t;heir freshman ormance 00 p ace a .? ~lIl'nc\onsultation with Dr. E. six with a junior church ch~lr~ mg, IE. studies in such varied eng.ineering she has been singing ever smce. Dunlap, Division Petro eum ng~~ fields as civil, structural, electriMiss Beal is a graduate o~ the neer for the Ca'lif~n;i~ Company s <;al, ll}echanical,· arc,hitectural, or · ty of Rocky Mountain DIVISIOn. . Music School of the U mverSI allied fields of geology, mining, Michigan and has earned a Mas-· This scholarship will be awarded metallurgy, chemistry or physics. ter's deg~ee from the School of tstanding member of the They will be paid accordihg to to an ou " . th D rt Sacred Music of the, Union Th eo- resent junior class }n e. ep~ - their academic' status and experlogical Seminary in New York. ~ent 00 Petroleum EngmeerI~g. ience. Transportation will be paid . lit u den t s of outstandmg A winner of many muslca On y . s who qualify on a personal from Seattle to Alaska and' reawards and honors, including one promIse t' b' I'll turn. Student aides are assigped to s a scholas IC' aSls w frotD the National Federation.-O f as we II. a many jobs connected with the Dis-' trict's huge operation. They may Music Clubs Miss Beal has ap- ~b~e~c~o~n::s=ld::..:e~r_e_d_. __ ~_-:_ peared with' some of, the fi~est I ff Ch' f work on a site that can only. be musical organizations of our tIme, Choir, and the Desso, Oir .0 reached blJ plane or they may be assi'gned to the District's modern including the Metropolitan Opera New York. ' Company, the Chicago and Kansas Miss Beal was well accepted by headquarters at Anchorll!ge or one of the modern branch offices at City Symphony Orchestras, Rober~ th Mines audience. Shaw, Margaret Hillis' Concer e Fairbanks or other Alaska ·cities. Many olf the student aides have returned annually to work during the summers in the \District until they graduated and then. signed, with the District, as permanent / employees .. MARCH • '00 :b 'b 'y Museum Hall, 8. P" 'Interested applicants can obtain 16-Dramatics Club Play, L I rar . further information from: U., S. 'b Museum Hall, 8:00 p.m. Army Engineer DistriCt, Alaska, 17-Dramatics Club Play, LI rar~, P. O. Box 7002, Anchorage" Alas" Hall 9 '00 p.m. ka. \' 19-Easter Dance, Museum "
!ler
1'!'.
,
,
Com.ing E~ents
21-Easter
Recess Begins, 12;00.
30--Easter
RecElss Ends, 8 :00 a.m. Library Museum Hall, 8:00 p.m. 31-University Players, APRIL 8-Student
eting, Main ~all, Wives Me
8 :00 p.m.
Had we but time and world enough, I would be suave and all that' stuff; , But when man tinkers with outer space, How m'uch time has the human race? .
The setting of this challenging drama of the soil is a time of devastating drought in the, midwest. The action concerns the life ill a plain Igirl approaching spinsterhood, whose father and two brothers are as anxious (if not more so) .that she find a husband as they are about the specter of drought, the failure of crops, and the thirst-ridden death of their Icattle: Without success, it would seem, the brothers concoct plans to marry her off, even to the extent, of embroiling one of the brothers in a skirmish with a friend, a deputy marshal of the nearby town, supposedly widowed and through with women. Then, like the rain so long delayed, appears a rougish and picturesque character, honey-lipped and convincing-at least to those desperate for water. For a fee' of $100, this smoothly specious gentleman promises to bring rain within twenty-four hours and persuades the father and two brothers, one very reluctantly, to assist him in his strange incantations to the god of "aqua pura." \ Too, a~ the ~bra~adabr~ of supposed rammak~ng IS set in operatIO~--:-the beat~ng of a drum, ~he pamtI~g of whI~e arrows, the tymg of a mule's. hmd. legs-the ranmaker exercises hIS sorcery upon the 'girl of the family, .persuading her to act like a female if she :"ould get a man, finally.convincmg -her that no rwoman IS really plain, but that all women are' in special ways beautiful. He at last opens her heart to his siren, discoursing imaginatively on the beauties of past ladies, giving her a' romantic name' instead of the prosaic one she believes is the only name for her-Lizzie. She responds to the spell, despite . the dream~ess. earthiness of her' brother Noah, ,to whom she has ·always listened, feeling that he only of the'family has a firm clutch upon reality, Her father, who has not entirely forgotten romance, also succumbs, believing that this glib magician really can produce the consecrated manna of rain, dkspite i
the fact that he actually is "wanted" in various places for his hoaxes. Finally, the rain, does come. Thunder 'rumbles in the place of the drum, which the younger brother, Jim, has been delegated to beat "every time he gets the feeling". Love also arrives, and Lizzie must make the decision between two men who seek her hand -the rainmaker, Starbuck; and File, the women-shunning deputy sheriff, who asks her not to go with the rainmaker-words which in his pride he COuld not before utter when his wife "ran away with a schoolteacher": The wanted rainmaker is released from the law, and Lizzie gets her man. Rain and romance thus replace a Jife of seeming hopelessness for the ranch-and -for Lizzie, who never need again fear "not being asked". The audience applauded this drama so replete with laughter and pathos, with skepticism and hope, with realism and heartful yearning. The play has a philosophic appeal to all peoples, in its down-to-earth battle. with the elements, in its conflict between a too-stern realism and romance, the latter triumphant. The Rainmaker featured an able and hardworking cast, as follows: H. C. Curry, the father, Robert Wylie, Bozeman; Noah Curry, the -matter-of-fact brother, A Ib er t Rule, Butte; Jim Curry, who gets both Snookie and her little red hat, George Maxwell, Warm Springs; Lizzie Curry, the seemingly predestined old maid, Sandra Lee Maddock, Butte; File, who can finally say, "Don't go!", David Malyevac Butte' Sheriff Thomas File's bo~s Walter Enderlin Sa~ Francisco;' and-not least ~ Bill Starbuck (alias dictus Bill Smith) William Ross WaymentButte. ' Directed by 'William Chance the play was under the technical 'suPervision of Joseph Duroux. Both men are of the Mines Faculty. Set design and decorations are arranged by Joseph Duroux, Judy Delmoe, Butte, and Mrs. Mal'garet Kenck; set fabrication, Frank La-, velle and Harry Smith; scene painting, Smiley Seccomb. Others assisting in production were Johannes Dreyer, Kamieskroon, South Africa; Peter Sween(Continue on page 4, column '1)