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Llnive, played by Gary West, o wife, played by Sandi Shackelf Steinbeck's 'Of Mice and Men.' Director Michael Ileck, (r rehearsal. MARSHA~ IMELLO '1 'WS Mi ARSIHMI ELLOWS IF YOU ARE A RE A COMFOI IHAS STYLE. ity Playei Fr ~ %. f A er reacts to the teasings of Curley's ord, in the dramiatic highlight of ight). ponders over the script during LLOWS TSS oTALd , intedaaINEXhiglgto 121MARNS] s Preforn BY DAVID IIAVIRD University , Players' first full length production, John Stein beck's Of Mice and Men, will be performed at 8:15 p.m. Thursday and Friday in the Belk Auditorium of the new Business Ad ministration building. Admission is free to all University of South Carolina students and they may pick up tickets at the Drayton Hall box office from noon until 5 p.m. beginning today. Admission to all others is $1. If available, tickets also may be purchased at the door on performance nights. This production is the first thesis play at the university in several years. Director Michael Heck, a graduate student in theater, will MARSH t [MELLO1 LOWS MI KARSHMU~ I fELLOWS I A4RSHMELLOWS "I SIVE SHOE THATi 'Mice A write his masters thesis analyzing 1 all aspects of the production. v "At most other schools, thesis r productions are not only not v unusual but they are required; the last one here was about four years 1 ago," Heck said. "The theater / department here either doesn't y have the money for them or doesn't c want to give it. That's why we had v to go through the Student ( Allocations Commission so the I University Players could produce it. "We chose Steinbeck's Of Mice c and Men because most who read it E or the book consider it a literary classic--it doesn't rely on the t element of social comment as so r much Steinbeck does," Heck I continued. "It's kind of a timeless story revolving around men r USC Press Publish The first book published by the University of South Carolina Press intended for mathematicians is off the press. The publication, "Selected atti Pizza E] BUY ONE GET ONE SPAGLE I" $1 Served with Gar chef st Serving WEI 3 P.m. Till L ocated at the intern 126 across from 1 id Men' )oking for some kind of contact iith others. This play presents eople closer to the kind of people ie know and see around today." Of Mice and Men was written in 937 and won the Drama Critics ward as the best play of that ear. To its credit it won the award ver Thornton Wilder's Our Town 'hich was Pulitzer Prize winner. )f Mice and Men has had great opular and critical aclaim. The Players hope, by doing this roduction, they will bring to the ampus a more diverse theater xperience. According to Heck, 'People in these productions tend o be a small group of theater najors and grad students.For this roduction we've been fortunate in etting more people involved. For xample, there are four freshmen n the cast of ten, and another four or whom this is their first time in a )roduction." This is the University Players' Eirst year as a functioning Drganization. This year they produced two bills of one-acts in which many people were involved. Next year they hope to produce two more bills of one-acts as well as two major plays and larger co sponsored dramatic events. The set for Of Mice and Men was conceived and designed by theater graduate student Don Watkins who "virtually built the set single handedly. Had I not had him to take care of that I don't know what I'd have done," Heck said. "He really deserves all the credit he can get." Included in the cast are Charles Inglett, Gary West, J. Timothy Corder, David Siskin, Paul Ward, Sandi Shckelford, Jack Hanna, Mike Clancy, Daniel Ashmead, and Calvia Jackson. es Math Book Topics in Elementary Number Theory," was written by Charles R. Wall of the USC Department of Mathematics and Computer Science. [ouse DIN'~NER FREE ETTI .95 'lic Bread and lad. )NESDAY Midnight ectionl of 378 and he Ramada Inn