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Shields reviews English theater .Kelly Laughlin musical comedies are not ap proached in London with as There’s more than one way much “exhuberance and ispend a summer, and while splash,” as, say, one perfor lost of us stayed at home with med on Broadway, but when it sempty tank of gas in our car, comes to Shakespearean ;CC’s Chairman of the drama, according to Shields, heater Arts and Com the British can’t be beat. pcations Department, Jack “They’re absolute naturals ¡lields, did something a bit off- when it comes to dialect. They jot for an inflation-ridden can do practically any accent: ¡cation. English, German, American, Shields and two friends Swedish, and so well, that you fanned the trip two years can’t see through them,” he efore its realization. They pur- said. hased a Morris 1800 sedan An aspiring theater student otomobile that was waiting for may have a better chance iem when they landed in making it in the field if they fanchester, England, via Pan trained in Europe, at least jnerican Airlines. Powered by sooner. While most American iee-dollar-a-gallon gas, they talents don’t break in until their ¡mover 20 theatrical produc years of training are com es and nearly 60 theaters. pleted, the British or English We took time out to test the actor will know between two Jerman and English beers, and five years after they’ve io,”he laughed. started to train, that they can Shields observed that make it in the business, accor iiglish theater is not much dif- ding to Shields. erent than our own with The incentives for work are espect to the balance between greater, too. In England and pod and bad performances. surrounding cities and towns It's possible to see an excellent nearly every community has at induction one night, and an least one performing company Mutely atrocious play the or theatrical facility. “That’s lot, just like in America,” he enough to get anyone excited ¡id. Shields said the American about getting into the (The Print LONG TRIP, LONG SIP-Jack Shields, theater instructor, celebrates the end of a 10- mile walk in. honor of a hospital in the city of Mold in South Wales. Photo courtesy of Jack Shields business,” said Shields. Shields gathered his most valuable theatrical Tacts in the city of Mold in Wales. Though Mold is about the size of Milwaukie, he said, it is a bedroom town to the larger city Chester. There, a highly developed theater awareness has developed. The city con tains a 480-seat theater, a 200- seat theater and a 680-seat movie theater. Chester’s major source of income comes from a television studio for the Wales BBC network. The head of the College theatrical department hopes to get a two-semester sabbatical approved and return to Mold to “see to what extent these processes can be applied to our proposed complex. performing arts Our proposed theater is about two years down the road, but it is needed. We simply don’t have enough space. Our theater at the college holds about 162 people. That’s the largest meeting room next to the Ran dall Gym,” he said. Artist paints with feelings of harmony l|' Kelly Laughlin MThe Print Leland John, art instructor, says his calling as an artist wounds his desire to paint pny feelings of the harmony Ktween man and nature. ” While John admits that this altitude isn’t always evident in society, there can be no (uestion of the harmony in his intitled 15-foot by five-foot »inti ig that adorns a wall of he college cafeteria. The painting depicts many of Dregon’s historical figures such »pioneer John McLoughlin, ter Skene Odgen, furtrapper loe Meek, Estacada businessman Phillip Foster, mdothers. John’s work places them in a high contrast foreground, with the misty Willamette River behind them. Rather than risking confusion ^painting a collage of faces snd names, John has placed the area’s forebearers in a scene that is believable, and possibly could have taken place h their lifetimes. ¡Funding for the project, •hlch is near completion, was Wded by a group called the leaves” from the Rose Villa LOCAL SPONSOR—The 15 x 5 foot painting was commissioned by a group “Leaves” of the Rose Villa Retirement Center in Milwaukie. Photo by Kelly Laughlin things,” he said. The artist, obviously pressed for time on the project, used a quick drying acrylic base on the canvas, and detailed the work in oils. “I would have liked to have had a whole year to do the work in, but I simply hadn’t the time.” Auto Electric Service & Supply COMPLETE AUTO REPAIR -VW Specialist -Tune-up & DEQ -Complete electrical repair -Carburetors r amazing one month to Rch the final stages of com- ping, and the background Rds some proportioning Reto it. It’s really a lot of little painting. “Instead of the audience simply viewing the painting, they can experience it in a broader sense, and JOHN’S wirement Center in •aukie. The group wrote a book about their family history, plied “Leaves from Family Brees,” and suggeted the porical flavor for the pain- fa I Leland John’s rendition took pion. “I still need to work out hw details, though,” he said. There are a few hands One objective John hopes to accomplish in his large-scale work is to allow the viewer to practically venture into the 812 Molalla Ave. Oregon City 656-3633 Wnesday, September 26,1979 centimeters Colors by Mi|jga|! Color Services Lab become involved in its various details. If the painting were, called the say, three feet taller, it would have had more of that qualityf