Show With Cook Lees Causes Moans Boy Scribe By Marty Cook Writer's Material for this article was partially gathered by talking university thes-pians they salted my shoulder with while evincing pride in being part of a great theatrical undertaking curiously similar and dissimilar to the undertaking done at the Deseret The speech department is an institutionalized imposition dedicated to the proposition that two of the three R's are obsolete and that the is good only for tabulating curtain calls and box office Working with the speech department is rought but also is intellectually The proper place to look for a Plunder's friend is not at a hardware store but at Kingsbury C. Lowell friend to Kingsbury hall Gail and to theater ticket is basking amid the plaudits resulting from the summer happily for audiences and unhappily for the mental health of speech majors and play casts seems not only to possess but also actively cultivate a perfectionist As a University of Utah speech majors are identifiable not only by bombastic voices and mouthy enunciation but also by eyes bathed in the attribute of the species clinching identification is voice projection a tion which results in perforated eardrums and cauliflower ears for the A which in conjunction with a high decibel causes the vocal palpitations of speech majors to be Possibly as compensation for a feeling of guilt for its ear-rattling the department has involved itself in a virulent A department hearing clinic aids people whose eardrums have been impaled on the voices of speech students while other departmental elements help to make people eligible for hearing clinic treatment Presiding over these activities is our friend to Upon his shoulders must rest the blame for the tortured moans of speech majors trying to pass the for the delighted appreciation of thousands of play goers and for the fact that the university speech department is tall in stature and is still This the reason that some people might think that the department could possibly become too big for its Lees departmental fame has spread throughout the Through their nationwide members of the fast fast and far moving debate squad report hearing complimentary comments about the department and being quizzed about the opportunities for graduate If words perceived by the are an indication of future the speech staff will be soon inundated by an invasion of students from across the Lure for such non-Mormon migrations to Utah is chiefly our friend Lees and his Very no Lees and company will be doing almost as well in promotional and conversional activities as Mormon missionaries even though the two groups differ in some The missionaries are involved in questions of But the speech department seems to be involved in salivation and in making passing of the speech comprehensive feel like Strangely though subjected to the comprehensive and other sundry the speech never indulge in any more than normal collegiate In they actually seem to enjoy their They seem to be bothered by the similarity of the departmental definitions of and For the class tension created by play practicing through all hours of the night during midterm week is speedily dispelled when the perfected play is This pride in participation is the hypnotic means advantageously used by Lees to make palatable the natural Simon Legree overtones adhering to any play director or department In consequence of steadily rising speech department prestige and a series of audience titillating summer because his normal professional sadistic tendencies are of no importance when compared to his with perfectionist complex attached gets and deserves much He also but as yet hasn't received an award of bull ears and symbolic in the bull fight ring of highest Such an award would be especially appropriate since the speech department is mainly involved in teaching the most effective techniques of throwing the For further proof of my just C. Lowell i i I |