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03 o u c:s o tso Thur$.. Aug. 1, 1963 The News-Review, Roseburg, Or: 5 PENNEY'S ALWAYS FIRST QUAL. WITH THE OPINING of any stage show, there are always problems, ana Wednesday nights opening of "Flower Drum Song" had its share. Leading lady Barbara Martin, as Linda Low, developed a last-minute case of laryngitis. But as they say, the "show must go on", so Helen Dyhre, the choreographer, took over the part and carried it like-a troop er. She is shown here in a scene singing "Grant Avenue". Miss Martin hopes to have her voice back in time for tonights performance. (News-Review Photo). Merely Players Score New Hit With Famed Broadway Musical PENNEY'S SHEETS DEDUCED NATION-WIDE famous long-wearing cotton muslins! flot 0 twin 72" x 108' bottom sheet or twin Elosta-fit "full 81" x 108" flat or full Elasta-fi:t bottom sheet pillow cases WHITE $1.47 1.68 2 for78c SPECIAL! BUG BATH TOWLES STRIPES OR SOLIDS I Art 111111 iiwi miMnf PENCALE By MARION BYRON News-Review Staff Writer The sound of last-minute ham mering back stage ended, and the curtain rolled back Wednesday night on the Merely Players open , ing night presentation of their most ambitious production to date, "Flower Drum Song." Ambitious is the word as the staging of a full-scale version of the popular Broadway musical was a challenge for the talented and competent persons participating. The Merely Players were equal to it. Telling the story of two scram bled love affairs and one unre quited love, laid against the back ground of a conflict between "old" and "new" Chinese traditions, in volved.. . staggering amounts of scene cfi'ahgTne -which-tarod to the full the facilities of the Umpqua West Theater. However, the one time barn and former square dance club headquarters is now definitely "theater." The .difficulties encount ered were more than compensated for by the end results. Presence Good Throughout, the stage presence of all participating left little to be desired. Characterizations were equally good. Like a rock on which the rest of the portrayals were Dorothy Larson Has Carved A Career In Glass Artistry 8 By GAY PAULEY UPI Women's Editor WASHINGTON, N. J. (UPI) Dorothy A. Larson has carved her way to a rare career in glass artistry. She also concedes that she's carved up quite a bit of Larson fingers along the way. Miss Larson, a former potter, now fuses cathedral glass the stained glass of the type used in churches and clear glass layer on layer with other materials to create decorative murals, room dividers, book ends, table tops, cigarette boxes, ash trays, wall plaques, and other items. She designs right from the glass, without benefit of sketching in advance, and uses the conven tional tools sold at hardware stores to do the cutting. "I'm a walking ad for adhesive bandages," she said, in an inter view, explaining that cu'.ting had its hazards. Fusing is done in four electric aly heated kilns at temperatures well .over MX degrees fahren heit. " Some of Miss Larson's glass went into the lighting decor for the cafe of the Lincoln Center Philharmonic Hall, New York. Other glass is in museums, or decorating offices, hotels, motels, restaurants, show rooms, and homes where the owners have discovered her work in retail shops or through decorators. wicli liuu.se Pottery School, New York. Unique Factory For 10 years she did ceramics and jewelry, but for the last five has worked only in glass. She said her husband, who is presi dent and assistant editor of the Hunterdon (County) Review, boss es the packing, shipping and bill ing from the factory, which is un orthodox as factories go. A barn and one house on a 10 acre plot 50 miles west of New York city are the locale. The couple lives in the third building a residence dating to 1710. Many of Miss Larson's designs are assembled into large murals two of them, 10 feet tall showing the New York skyline and the George Washington Bridge hang in the banquet rooms of one of Manhattan's new hotels. Smaller panels for wall hang ings are mounted on walnut or black lacquered wood with a white felt backing on the glass to show the colors botte'r. Still others are mounted on woods to make book ends, cigarette cases, table tops. Employment To Hit New All-Time Peak Six-Month Project The Lincoln Center project vfas one of the largest commissions this native of Madison. Wise, has had. It was for 10 reflectors, each eight inches in diameter, done in yellow and amber to match the color scheme of the nafp mimnkin-riilored unholsterv. . ... .. ." 11 , ..... mommy 100 tigures. gold cavpo Eoio swizzle sucks, j Emolovmpnt iKnallv ri.. , i mid summer when construction activities arc providing work that built was the performance of Doug Zug as Wang Chi Yang, the Chinese father who held to the old ways. He was completely believ able. Andy rautheree was natural and engaging as the son who for a while didn't know what he wanted in the way of girls. His singing voice was pleasing. Petite Anne Saunders, as the "picture" bride who finally got the right man, was fragile and appealing. Wayne Wag ner as the operator of the Celestial Bar who finally gave up the strug gle of dodging matrimony was one of the outstanding characters in his comedy role, xnc verve and sparkle of Therese Layton as Ma dame Liang were refreshing. Roles Switched A big bouquet goes also to the three players who made a last minute switch, in their roles due to the laryngitis of Barbara Mar tin, scheduled to play the role of Linda Low. In true professional style Helen Dyhre, the show's choreographer, assumed the other feminine lead and was a crowd pleaser with her dancing and train ed singing voice. The other two involved in the switch, M a r a Youtchas and Carole Geddes, were also equal to the occasion, the lat ter giving an unforgettably poig nant portrayal of the lonely seam stress. Minor roles were handled com petently, particularly by Mark Rob erts as the much-westernized young Chinese boy and by Bob Robins as the phony "Commodore." A dream dance sequence at the beginning of the second act was effective and pointed up the attention given to costuming detail. Handling perhaps the biggest chore of all was 16-year-old Peggy Ostrander who never missed a cue in accompanying the entire produc tion on the organ. To say that she was competent is an under statement She was terrific. Scene Changes Many Behind the scenes, credit goes to a nameless horde of stage hi. mis who juggled scenery (probably built it, too) for a total of 14 scene changes. Credit goes also, to the original builder of the old barn and to the Merely Players who remodeled it, as accoustics are good in all sections. The fact that there was almost no on stage lag does credit to Di rector Don Baile. The audience ap parently didn't mind a lew. be tween scenes waits. The "Flower Drum Song" will play nightly except Sunday through Aug. IP. Tickets are on sale on a reserve-night basis at music stores throughout the county. s famous, fine-combed cotton percale twin 72" x 108" flat or twin Elasta-fit bottom sheet full 81" x 108" flat or full Elasta-fit bottom sheet WHITE PASTELS C fe bottom sheet l.f Am(J SsyXs&i .v 1.99 2.73 bath sit. 24" x 46" hand towels 3 for $1 washcloths 6 for $1 Buy of Buys! 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Miss Larson, in private tii'c .MI'S, uruce nuiciiMss, wile ui a nn. a..a;tuin nnt,tnr tv,nnt- newspaperman said she is one And joblcssness sw0en of the handful of artists in .thojJunc whcn hi schoo and United States who work in stained ,, students seek summcr glass. But she believes the tech-, normallv drops off in Juv nique she has developed i s n,ny yMlngslers stop yg for unique. It also is top secret. work and ,eavc ,he abor force The artist produces i numerous. Dcspiie ,lc favorable deveiop. design effects by working beads, nu,nts ,ast monlh govcrnmont wire, even leaves and flowers be- economists stressed that little tween the layers. She never is dcnt nas bsn made in iong.tcrm at loss for color "There are unemployment. A hard core group more than 100 colors of catnt-drai . predominantly non-white and glass," she said. Her supply,, unskilled has been unole to comes from a wholesale firm in fjnd jobs for months. New York. Unemployment has been above The blonde - haired artist was 5 p cenl of tne iabor force or born on the Oimpuf, of the Uni- more tnan fjve years ever since versity of Wisconsin1 where her j November, 1957. This means that father gas a professoro of engi-1 during this period at least 5 out neenng. sne suiuieu ior iu --.uo! pile y?eij a scholarship in fine arts at Mills College, Oakland, Calif., where one of her professors was n..V'cAn...tt.,t.t' nf Ctntn noun 100, persons actively seeking a job could not find one. The June rate was 5.7 per cent. The Labor Department s figures A, former Douglas County resi dent. William H. Duncan, 83, died i Tuesday" in. Hot Springs, S.D., fol lowing an extehded 'riiTiess.. iKr Tiad resided in Yoncalla for some time prior to moving to South Dakota ; 16 years ago. I He was born in Iowa Sept. 16, J879. He was preceded in death by his wife. Ella Ferdig Duncan, in 1946 and by a son, Vincent, (Who, died May 30, 1963. i Survivors include three brothers. ! Lewis and Charles Duncan of I Yankton, S.D., and Wilford of Ya .kima. Wash.; four sons, Henry of ! Springfield. William M. of Elkton, ! Richard A. of Drain and. George I of Hot Springs: three daughters. I Mrs. Tom (Eunice) Plumb of I Drain,0 Mrs;5!3bhn Gossel of Eu ; gene and Mrs. Susan Thorp of Hot Springs: and a arge number of j grandchildren and gcpatgi'jndchil i dren. I Funeral services were held in Hot Springs today anrj thc remains will be shipped to Yoncalla vrne graveside services will be held la ter at Yoncalla Cemetery. the now' Secretary f State.0ITgan are estimated from a Osamplc of Rusk. i 35iO household in all sections She holds a bachelor of science ; of the country. " degree in artjom the University j In June the expefts said em of Wisconsin, is a g?Siduate of the ! ployment passed the "0 million industrial design department of mark for the first time to reach Pratt Institute. New York, and 70.319.000. 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