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A surprise Arts school By MIKE WITKOSKI Staff Writer Hilton Head Island has ex pensive hotels -- hamburgers are $1.50. It also has had exciting en tertainment -- for the past three years. USC's summer school of the arts. The joint venture of the art and theatre departments has been "very profitable." said Russell Green. director of Theatre. The profit is in more than money, Green said. Of the thirty students who took part in last summer's program. only half were from WELCOME 2024 DEVINE STRE TELEPHONE A COLUMBIA, SO COMPLI SOUL EASY I CLASSI4 HAP REI COMFOR1 COME FINE THE NEW || IN OUR RA HOQ-H C concert in an Irch very profi USC. For the others, more was given than courses in drama or parts in plays -- a subtle recruiting drive for the University. The agreement for the program, between the University and Sea Pines plantation, has two more years to run, and Green sees no reason why the highly successful program should stop then. For educational affairs, it was also a resounding success, Green said. Besides producing, prac ticing and performing plays, the students attended classes in drama and the theatre. "It was a rare Saturday or FRESHMEN We/py palfing ET AT FIVE POINTS Lpine 2-3161 UTH CAROLINA t ES INDEl ETE SELECTION ,lSTENING AL AND MOST OF Al D ROCK ORDS ABLE VIBES ER THROUGH EL EAS ES ICKS -HA-HA circus tent table' Sunday afternoon that you didn't find them hard at work." Green said. Hilton Head has housed the program from the beginning, and the profit to Hilton Head is there too. Paying the cost of the program. Sea Pines has purchased a unique cultural attraction. Working in the program, the students have obtained a unique educational experience. .C[I PANDSAVE7W 40 0 F0 D Want SOU .L -PC 60 DVN T #1 a0OdO Qil0 Choir 1 during By PAM SCHNITZER 4 Staff Writer I Overwhelming praise greeted I the USC Concert Choir during most I of its European tour. I But it was only wet horse blankets in one small Portugese f village. Bass singer Don Sanders ex- a plained that the choir was touring I a castle on the mountain above the < village of Sintra when they were caught in a downpour. The only t access to the castle is by hor- < seback. Members of the choir protected I themselves from the drenching t rain with the blankets the horses wore on the way up. Sanders said that it made quite t an impression. r The choir performed in six C European countries during their three-week tour: Portugal, Spain, N France, the Netherlands, West Germany and England. t The group, accompanied by several faculty members and their wives, and directed by Prof. Arpad 4 Darazs, traveled 10,000 miles by I air, bus and even a riverboat up I the Rhine River. The group was greeted 1 PVcoLjPONN CLIP THIS VALUABLE COUPON A CHEAP THI F t OFF ON ANY LARGE PI '00 OFF ON ANY SMALL P1; t GOOD THRU SUN [ZZA HU -2903 N. MAIN ST. #2 WAE VERY A T DOS OF.. ISSETTI auded tour verywhere with overwhelming oraise. An unscheduled per ormance in Irch, Germany, was ierhaps the biggest success of the our. The choir listened to a concert by ifteen German choral groups in a ircus tent and were asked to sing nd the exceptional praise con ,inced them that they were the hit f the evening. In Leiden, in the Netherlands, he sexton of the cathedral where a ,oncert was to be held assured the roup that no applause had been eard there for centuries. A remendous standing ovation oncluded the show. The Dutch and Portugese roadcasting networks televised ationally performances in those ountries. In Paris, the Voice of Lmerica broadcast the choir iorldwide. The trip was the first overseas Dur by a USC group. The American consul general in rnsterdam was so taken with the :hoir's success that he wrote a eport to the Department of State ecommending that the group be ;ent to areas where American good vill is badly strained. WClPANO SAVER |1LL? EZA .ZA DAY SEPT. 21 o 0 2811 T WO NO TCH RD. #3 dNIS -8 SOUI !A S Send the Gamec PARKII ASSIGNED S1 CORNER OF GREEN & ASSEMBLY In Front Of McMaster College Pickens & Gervais FRIENDLY PARKIN, 1301 PICK EN! 252-6557 TI . . . done N double wov( rayon. Full draped self and self coi dress teri of fate gq Second your Accou one, presei IC,1 )lD. c f ice. I NG MUSIC ASK ABOUT OU "~GLAD TO SELL ' SOMETHING PL) SPECIAL ORD iRACI MJDS OF . . . 911 SUMTER ST. ROSS FROM THE NOR: ck home 46 6 PACES $15.00 PER QUARTER Senate & Pickens $21.00 Per Quarter G SERVICE 'T ae Stole TI"hing, up party-pretty in a ?n crepe of acetate and long sleeves, a softly is) stole with fringe trim, iered buttons make this rific. This is the season rnity parties and lots gala events. Better ?t yours now! Choose blue or white in junior sizes. Floor of Fashion "Gamecock" Charge nt. If you don't have easily open by nting your student ard to our credit of R (oU ERS [S . InC.* 5ESHOE)