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DOG SHOW SET TO MUSIC — Bill Cook’s Trident Junior High School Band will provide the musical entertainment at the Second Annual Amateur Dog Show to be held at La Palma Park Stadium Saturday morning. Registration will begin at 9 a.m. and the band will begin playing at 9:15 until 10 when the judging will take place. Boys and girls between the ages of 6 and 14 are eligible to enter their dogs. The Park and Recreation Department and Ken-L-Ration are co-sponsors for the event. Official entry blanks may be obtained at the Park and Recreation Department at the corner of Broadway and Palm Sts. OC Authors’ Day To Be Held in SAG’s New Library April 15 Unitarians Set Friday Debate “Capital Punishment” is topic for debate to be presented the Long Beach Unitarian F on Friday, April 17 at 8 p.m. the Unitarian Church, 5450 M ton, Long Beach. David Zoellner will speak for affirmative and Osmyn Stou be opposing. Zoellner, a deputy probat OC Authors’ Day To Be Held in SAC’s New Library April 15 Writers, authors, poets and other literary figures will be honored at the Orange County Authors’ Day to be held in the new Nealley Library at Santa Ana College next Thursday, from 1 to 4 p.m. The longtime program was originated by former Librarian Lillian Dickson and continued since 1948 by Head Librarian Ruth Bradley, assisted by Miss Lota Blythe, creative writing instructor. Speakers at 1:30 p.m., will be Esther Warner Dendel, of Costa Mesa, author of three books and her husband, Jo Dendel, illustrator of his wife's books and noted for his ceramic and mosaic work. At 1 p.m., the program will honor Ethel Jacobson, of Fullerton, Allan V. Elston of Santa Ana and other Orange County Writers From 2:30 to 4, will be an autographing period, inspection of the Dendel exhibits, presentation of the collection of books, photographs and mementoes of Orange County authors in the Authors' Corner of the new library, and visits to the adjoining Art Gallery, where student work in ceramics, crafts and painting are on display. Mrs. Dendel's first book war "New Song in a Strange Land" of her experiences in Africa and her study of ceramics. Her second book, "Seven Days to Homeland" also had a setting in Liberia, West Africa, while the third book, "The Silk Cotton Tree" was fiction. Mrs. Dendel laughingly said she started her literary career when nine, after a newspaper refused to print her recipe for fried potatoes. She later developed her skills as a sculptor, textile designer, weaver, anthropologist, carver and painter. She learned woodworking from her father. She and her husband create their ceramics products under the name of Denwar. Hosts assisting the libary staff will include students of library science, creative writing and the Tavern Post literary magazine. The library is the repository of first editions and original manuscripts from more than 150 Orange County authors, with enlarged photographs of many on display. One end of the reference reading room is set aside for the Authors' Corner, including display cases of books, artifacts, collections and photographs. Art Major Charles Daugherty To Show Work Work by Charles Daugherty, art education major at Chapman College, will be on display April 13-24 in the third of four senior student exhibitions in the college's Virginia Purcell Gallery. The exhibition of paintings, drawings, prints, ceramics, and jewelry may be previewed at a reception from 4 to 6 on Sunday afternoon. Regular gallery hours are 10 to 5 Monday through Friday. Daugherty was graduated in 1949 from Santa Ana High School and attended Santa Ana College for two years before serving with the Army. In the August, 1958, issue of Living for Young Homemakers, Daugherty, his wife Ellen, and their 3-year-old daughter Deborah were included in a feature article on young couples throughout the country. The family lives in Santa Ana. Daugherty worked as a display and advertising designer for Richards Lido Market, Newport Beach, until beginning his student teaching this semester. Following his graduation from Chapman this June, he plans to teach art at the high school level. Friday Debate "Capital Punishment" is topic for debate to be presented by the Long Beach Unitarian Friar on Friday, April 17 at 8 p.m. the Unitarian Church, 5450 Anton Long Beach. David Zoellner will speak for affirmative and Osmyn Stoufbe opposing. Zoellner, a deputy probationic ficeer for the Los Angeles Probation Department, is working on Long Beach Area Office present time. He has held positions including juvenile and investigating, and has ingested three murder cases. Stout has a similar background with the Los Angeles Probation department, having worked in many different phases of prison work. He is now working at the Bellflower Area Office. A berber of the American Friends Ice Committee, he is also in their Penal Affairs Prostitute was instrumental in up the Friends Prison Service committee and is acting as adviser to the committee at the present. Next speaker in the series be the educator, Dr. Robert Ins. Dr. Hutchins will spee June. SAC Spring Concern To Be Held April 2 "Melodies of Spring" will theme of the Santa Ana Music Department's annual concert on Monday, April Phillips Hall, the concluding of Fine Arts Week. Instructors James Vail and Nichols are supervising the program. The program will built around the college with both sacred and light tions. Among smaller groups appear are the women's musical ensemble, woman's male quartet, and a sp number with bongo drum ukele by Bob Gavin and Ramos. Announcement Saturday night at the Elk house the gala inaugural honoring the new officers take place. SPEECH CONTEST WINNERS — Receiving a check as first place winner in the Women's Christian Temperance Union Speech Contest at Fullerton Junior College is (left) Dennis Brittain of Fullerton. Presenting the check is Speech Judge Albert Stuelke, former FJC instructor. Runner-up was Darlene Schafer of La Habre (right). Brittain, also a star swimmer with national mark to his credit, spoke on the "A Cup of Fury." As winner he will go to Southern California WCTU semifinals in Los Angeles this month, competing with speech chariers from Southland colleges and universities. winner will go to the National finals. Tuition Raise At Whittier Due in Fall Tuition costs at Whittier College will be raised $90 a year beginning in the fall, President Paul S. Smith announced today. New annual tuition at the college will be $800, as contrasted with the present $710 for two semesters of a full college course. An increase in board and room rates was also announced by the college, involving a total average increase for the year. Board and room rates at the college average $620 for the year at present, and will increase to $650. The additional funds secured from tuition are necessary to meet the increased costs involved in all college operations, President Smith said, including faculty and staff salaries. In a letter to parents and prospective students, Dr. Smith stated that the student pay rate for students working on campus, would be raised next year. Community Play Community player groups San Clemente, Laguna Beach Anaheim, Fullerton, Newport Beach, Santa Ana, Lido Isle, Santa Ana College Players will participate in the Footlight Festival Tournament of One-Act Plays next week as part of the six annual SAC Fine Arts Week. The play festival is a revival of the Southern California Tournament of One Act Plays, formerly conducted by the Santa Ana Community Players. The new series is sponsored by the Southern California Community and Little Titans, Santa Ana College and Pepper Cola. The opening night program Wednesday, April 13, will preside the San Clemente Community Theater with "Joint Owners Spain"; the Laguna Beach Community Players in "O'Flaherty V. C." and the Anaheim Theatre Guild with 'Fumed Oak." The second night's program Thursday will feature the Fullerton Footlighters with 'Suppress Desires'; the Newport Beach Community Players with "Annie one" and the Santa Ana Community Players with "The Lady Shows Her Medals." April 17 on Artist-Lecture Series Events Tenor and guitarist Richard Dyer-Bennet will present a program of folk songs and ballads Friday evening, April 17, at 8:30 p.m., in the Chapman College auditorium as the concluding event in the college's current Artist-Lecture Series. Tickets will be available at the door. Dyer-Bennet will draw from his repertoire of 600 songs from England, Wales, Ireland, Scotland, Sweden, Austria, Germany, Spain, Italy, France, and the United States ranging in time from the thirteenth century to the present. His program has been described by Look magazine as "a six century hit parade." First discovered by the noted impresario S. Hurok, Dyer-Bennet is now making his twelfth concert tour. In the past five years he has sung more than 15 solo concerts in New York City's Town Hall and Carnegie Hall. In addition to concert halls and auditoriums, Dyer-Bennet has presented programs in museums and on college and university campuses across the nation. Although born in England, the singer grew up in San Francisco and attended the University of California at Berkeley. His first successful engagements were in New York night clubs, where audiences gave him the unexpected tribute of immediate and concentrated attention. He has gone on to win the acclaim of serious music critics throughout the country. To date, fifteen albums of his songs have been released; the last three on his own label, Dyer-Bennet Records. RICHARD DYER-BENNET guitarist Presentation of awards will be the Friday program. SAC Draughan Chairman, Lee Ford, will preside the Footlight Festival sweepstake trophy for direction and overproduction. Four statuette awards for best actor, actress, support actor and supporting actress will be known as Phillips Awards memory of Ernest Crozier Philips longtime SAC drama chairman one of the founders and first rector for the Santa Ana Community Workshop theater is named. These trophies will be preserved by Miss Ethel Phillips, sister E. C. Phillips. An audience popularity award by holders of series tickets Theater with "Joint Ownership Spain"; the Laguna Beach Community Players in "O'Flaherty V. C." and the Anaheim Theatrical Guild with 'Fumed Oak.' The second night's program Thursday will feature the Fullton Footlighters with 'Suppress Desires'; the Newport Beach Community Players with "Anyone" and the Santa Ana Community Players with "The Lady Shows Her Medals." The closing night will feature the Lido Isle Players Club "Strange Victory" and the Santa Ana College Players in a competitive production of "The Peppers." IN REHEARSAL — Members of the stringed section of the symphony orchestra, scheduled to play a Sunday evening concert at the West Anaheim Methodist Church, are in rehearsal in the above photo. They are a part of the music department of the church which is located at 2045 W. Ball Rd. The program is open to the public. In the photo are (from left, seated) Evelyn (Mrs. Paul) Fancher, Carol Fancher, Dorothy Walton Phyllis Cole, Russell Donesch, with James Safford standing at the rear. Directing is Paul Fischer. Art Students To Show Work Art students at Santa Ana College will participate in the sixth annual Fine Arts Week by presenting an Art Gallery exhibit of their work and attending the History of Automation exhibit at the Los Angeles County Museum. The display of ceramics, mosaics, crafts, painting, drawing and exploratory art is now open and will continue through April 17. Hours are from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday and from 7 to 9 p.m. Monday through Thursdays. The Gallery in Room B45 of the Arts Center is most easily reached from the 17th and Bristol St. campus entrance. Helen Camp and Ken Taylor of Anaheim are among the art, ceramics and crafts students of the college exhibiting their class work Music Group at CC To Join in Program For Composer Handel On Tuesday, April 14, all musical organizations at Chapman College will join to present a program commemorating the two hundredth anniversary of the death of George Frederick Handel. The Handel program, to be presented at 8:15 p.m. in the Chapman College Auditorium, will feature the Chapman Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Dr. R.S. Smith, and the Concert Chapel Choirs and Madrigal Sisters, under the direction of Sheldon Disrud. Soloists participating will faculty members Dr. Edgar Lund, pianist, Ronald M. Hunton, organist, and Norman Thompson, Jr., pianist, and students Cecile Ouellet, flutist, Linda Tennis, soprano. Included among the musical numbers will be Handel's "W Music" orchestral suite and "Hallelujah Chorus" from Messiah." There will be no admission charge. The Chapman College Film Guild will present an Herman color film of the opera "Giovanni" at 8 p.m. next Wednesday and Thursday in the Orchestra. Under the direction of Paul Czinner, who produced "Bolshol Ballet," the film recreates on the screen the Salzburg Festa production of the Mozart ephemera. Art, Music, Drama Thursday, April 9, 1959 Anaheim (Cal.) Bulletin—B-3 Community Player Groups To Compete in SAC will be presented by Lawrence Patterson, president of Pepsi-Cola of Santa Ana. Ticket Sales Series tickets are on sale by local player groups and at the Phillips Hall box office. The participating groups are sharing in the proceeds, it was explained by Miss Elinor Schmidt, Orange County director of the Little Theater Association and a former president of the Santa Ana Players. As a stimulation to young players, high school and college drama students will be guests at all performances. Curtain-time is at 8:30 p.m. Publicity chairmen assisting the Festival include: Anaheim, John M. McCarthy; Fullerton, Mrs. Thelma Anderson; Laguna Beach, Doug Reeve; Lido Isle, Mrs. Matt Michaud; Newport Harbor, Mrs. Marthella Randall; San Clemente, Mrs. Arnold Bateman; Santa Ana, Mrs. Thurman Colgrove. Members of the rules committee are Miss Pat Harlacher, Anaheim; Mrs. Ruth McCully, Lido Isle, chairman; Mrs. Ed Nofziger, Laguna; Mrs. Alda Lambert, Santa Ana, and Mrs. Thelma Ruckman, San Clemente. The house committee consists of Miss Mildred Calkins, Santa Ana, chairman; Mrs. Lois Ansorge, La Habra; and Bill Hogue, Fullerton. The admissions committee includes Mrs. Margaret Boyer, Santa Ana, chairman; and Mrs. Ruth Dawson, Newport Beach. SPANISH DANCERS. APRIL 18 — The vivacious and exotic Lola Montes, and her Spanish Dancers, will be featured at the final concert of the Anaheim Community Concert Series, April 18, at the Anaheim High School Auditorium. Her program will include the classical folk dances and fiery flamencos from Old Spain, plus comic native dances of Latin America. "Authentic costumes and accessories will add to this whirlwind panorama of the finest Spanish dancing with the "Oles" which have applauded Lola Montes in her many performances again are expected to identify the colorful beauty and skill which has won the artist and her SPANISH DANCERS. APRIL 18 — The vivacious and exotic Lola Montes, and her Spanish Dancers, will be featured at the final concert of the Anaheim Community Concert Series, April 18, at the Anaheim High School Auditorium. Her program will include the classical folk dances and fiery flamencos from Old Spain, plus comic native dances of Latin America. "Authentic costumes and accessories will add to this whirlwind panorama of the finest Spanish dancing with the "Oles" which have applauded Lola Montes in her many performances again are expected to identify the colorful beauty and skill which has won the artist and her troupe fame in the past." "Wherever she has appeared she scores a brilliant success," state concert directors. "The most visually exciting show seen here in many a year," was the critic in the Greenville, Tex. paper. West Anaheim Methodist Musicians To Play Concert Sunday Night Brahms' Requiem will be presented by the music department of the West Anaheim Methodist Church Sunday at 7 p.m. Director of Music, Paul Fancher will conduct the chorus and symphony orchestra with soloists to be Betty Shannon Mason and Carl Lindstrom. "A German Requiem" was written by Johannes Brahms between 1857 and 1868 not as the traditional mass for the dead, but rather as comfort for the living. A thorough student of the Bible, Brahms employed the text at will, explaining that he was writing for "humanity as a whole." Critics agree that his work stands as a tribute to his ability to combine text and music in an unsurpassed masterpiece of inspirational beauty. The soprano soloist for the concert, Betty Shannon Mason, studied music at the University of Washington and the Cornish School. She was formerly with the Roger Wagner Chorale and is singing currently with the Anaheim Choraleers. Soloist Carl Lindstrom, baritone, is a student at Orange Coast College and has had major roles in the college productions of "Amahl and the Night Visitors" and "Call Me Madami!" So that the entire family may enjoy an evening of music, there will be a program for children at the same time in the church school. The Junior Choir of Santa Ana First Methodist Church will be featured along with selected Disney films. Nursery facilities will also be available. The church is located at 2045 W. Ball Rd., the Rev. David Deshler is minister.