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              one laid upon another had con structed a firm complete and solid whole cutler expects a capacity audi ence tomorrow evening and urges students and faculty to get tickets free through the courtesy of the a n cleaver fund from the music department student activi ties office bookstore or at various city music stores the composition is divided into three parts according to the com poser part one consisting of but little development the texts are see inspired page 5 swiss composer arthur honegg er's choral drama king david will be presented in grace hall by a 135-member ensemble tomorrow at 8:30 p.m prof robert cutler will di rect the combined vocal music groups of lehigh and cedar crest professional soloists and orchestra in the colorful bibli cal oratorio featured soloists are soprano sara rhodes contralto elizabeth laubach and tenor walter knetlar narartion will be executed by ronald dimmick 60 and bruce snyder 60 called a symphonic psalm in three parts based on a drama by rene morax the king david as its final offering of the sea son the student-concerts lectures committee will present emlyn williams in a boy growing up tonight at 8 in packard auditorium williams s solo performance a broadway hit of two years ago recalls the character of the welsh poet dylan thomas the entertainment is based mostly on the late poet's own writ ings from the introduction of the late poet and story-teller by means of a stack of foolscap sheets and exer cise books williams leads his audience through such episodes as a bus outing that became choral with beer to the darker just like little dogs and the account of his first arrival in london williams has received special re cognition from queen elizabeth for his service to the british theater as actor director and playwright only five times in his career as a star has williams appeared in plays not of his own creation in addition to his appear ances on the stage williams see williams page 4 20th century called age of t.s eliot cabinet forms now available petitions for class cabinet positions are now available from the students activities office in the university center they should be returned as soon as possible to the same office petitions must be filled out before the candidate is eligible for election pack em in forlorn telephone booth stands empty on lehigh's campus as above-it-all lehigh men find other more important things to do besides people-packing big craze on campus this year object of the game is to cram lots of collegians into booth or other things current record in case you're interested is claimed by auburn 41 some people say the ncaa will sponsor competitions next year music was composed by 11011 egger in six weeks of 1921 viewed as a whole the score seems a strange mosaic made from stones of the same color but of different sizes but it may be held that honegger generally tries to extract the musical gist of each episode in condensed form cutler will use the composer's original instrumentation for two flutes one oboe two clarinets piano horn double-bass trom bones and percussion the score was originally used as incidental music for morax's play but has since come to be consid ered an oratorio the dramatic action is en trusted to a narrator declaim ing between the various sec tions the work is characterized by a breathless and fleeting quality common to present day music the various short musical pictures are unrolled with the disjointedness and rapidity of a motion picture film yet the work as a whole can not fail to produce a powerful effect as though these fragments uc rh phones may be yanked bell tel says telephone service to students is liable to be discontinued if tele phone pranks and vandalism recur bell telephone company district manager james griffith told the brown and white over 30 cases of phone abuse and paybox pilferage have been reported to telco officials since the start of the school year griffith pointed out associate dean of students pres ton parr noted the damage to res idence hall and university center telephones are part of an apparent rash of such incidents the phones are here as a ser vice by the university and the tele phone company for the students if the pranks continue the students responsible will do so at the price of losing the telephones said parr griffith stated the possibility of removing the phones from the residence halls was under consideration last summer if the vandalism continues at its present rate there is a chance that they still might be removed the telco official said each unneces sary service call represents a loss see need page 7 if the first half of the twentieth century were to be given a name it should be the age of t s eliot dr stanley hopper told an inter fraternity council-sponsored lecture tuesday evening as an introduction to discussing the relationship between eiot's plays and poetry specifically mur der in the cathedral hopper dean of the drew university graduate school noted the vast difference in the function of the poet from the days of longfelloav to eliot he ex plained that in the old days only certain subjects were considered poetic now the poet considers anything legitimate to use — he trys to make the whole world his realm the poets vocation is an ex tremely difficult one today he continued it is hardest to ex pose his life to the world — to expose something sacred to another who might misunder stand hopper added eliot is accurately sensitive to the pain and corruption of our time hopper pointed out that in his early poetry eliot was not yet a positive religious witness the aridity of the wasteland was ex actly the same as the position in which the medieval mystic found himself — the absence of god the period immediately following the hollow men was the most important point in eliot's career hopper saiid what can he do to surpass himself " ash wednesday was a great change his poem took the form of a humble church prayer eliot sought new sym bols noted hopper he went from sand to a garden it was shortly after ash wed nesday that murder in the cathe dral appeared this play written for the canterbury festival was modeled after aeschylus as all eliot's plays are modeled after the classics teal notes prospects comparable to average ed note this is the first in a series of studies concerned wiih job opportunities for the class of 59 by robert j cochnar news editor • ¦ ' . business week magazine report no royal road for 1959 grads . . . students are running scared ¦ but according to u s news and world report the class of 59 will find jobs more plentiful than at any time since 1957 you pays your money and you takes your choice lehigh's director of placement and counseling doesn't agree with either forecast entirely but seems to favor business week's more con servative survey the recent demand for top engineers has never been greater says everett a teal but this year's demand does not approach that of 55 56 and 57 although the placement director has an optimistic forecast for en gineering graduates the market is only fair for non-technical people teal reports outstanding men with good grades are meeting with see for page 3 blame water leak coble break brings campus blackout university center's grace lounge students who had no pressing academic problems headed north to brightly lighted taverns and res taurants where they sat out the campus blackout it was reported local innkeepers enjoyed standing room-only business ingenious men who decided to stick out the power failure in their rooms plugged exten sions cords into the emergency see b&g page 5 proximately 8:15 tuesday and dar kened all residence halls fraterni ties and upper campus university buildings immediately after the failure emergency generators were au tomatically put into operation and hall lights were dimly lit the blackout caused many stu dents to search for lower campus light for studying purposes ac cordingly the library was quickly filled to capacity along with the upper campus tuesday night suffered an electrical blackout caused by a break in the main underground cable connecting wil liams and grace halls power was restored to all upper campus buildings by 10:45 with the exception of price grace and williams andrew w litzenberger super intendent of buildings and grounds told the brown and white he said price regained current by midnight and wil liams and grace were expected to have power by thursday morning litzenberger attributed the pow er failure to water leaks in the williams-grace underground con duit he said water had probably been seeping in for almost ten years he stated the water had broken the cable insulation down and shorted the electrical system ths blackout hit campus at ap williams reads thomas poetry in packard at 8 vol 70 — no 39 bethlehem pa king david tomorrow cutler conducts 134 friday april 17 1959 temporary relocation — dravo residents move into the hall hiring tuesday's power failure to take advantage of the university's emergency power system the prac tice is frowned upon by the uni versity brown and white