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SOCIETY and CLUBS
SUNDAY, MAKCH II, 1954 : AHH CONNILL, SOCIETY EDITOR .
VLT's Silver Anniversary
In the days when the Little Theatre movement was sweeping
intellectual centers of the nation, Eugene talk decided to
start one. Someone remarked that this would be "a VERY
Little Theatre" and so o name was born. The Eugene VLT
now is 25 years old, and is celebrating its silver anniversary
by a special presentation, "Alcestts, by Theodore Martin.
The author will be present for the closing performances.
On this oage are scenes from other plays over the years,
. which probabiy will stir many memories.
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VERT LI I I Lt ntA i Kt ot today, in its very own building at
2350 Hiiyard St., where it opened in November, 1950. Pic
1' hired below is the "Pillbox," a former drugstore," now the an
I ncx to Hogan's Grocery on 13th, near Ferry St, It served for
bJ . seven years, until the removal to the Fairgrounds theater
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GikOA 8ROWN .'Mrs. yier Brown', one f the
founders of VLT,. reached a amnade as "lia
:beth," in Elizabeth, :fhi Queen, when plaved in
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"x presented in January, 1936, there was a par'y.
C-v.'V; and the obove outturc was taken Identifications tyK
&sv are as follows 1, Bob Cormichael; 1, Virgil Par
ker Jr.; 1, Edgar Buck ' Buchanan;- 4, apence :v
Holland; 5 I R. ."Ness" Knolfin; 6, Robert Kno;
7, Kenneth Shumaker;:.8. Floyd Kesty; 9, Eyler-
grown- 10,- Mrs:, Virgil (Gretchenf-farker; . 11, v
Mrs. Henry (Fanny) (Corn; 12, Mrs. Blaif 'Oorofhy, '
Alderman; U, Hugh Rosson; H, George Gius
tina; 15, Mrs. Clara fitch;. 16,' Mr,. . Kenneth '
(Florence'' Shumaker; 17, Mrs. Robert 'Fay; Kno; .
18,: Mrs, Edgar iMildrejii Buchanan; 19, Mrs,
fGerrla! Brown: 20, Marv Shore. Mischief;.
21, Mrs R Knollm; 22, Mrs. Doris Wulzen, IrJi
23; Mrs W W; Genevieve;: Tugman; 24, w,
I Wuhan, 27, Kenneth Mryjre 28, Mrs Gforge
'MaJie Giustma 29 M r. i name nunrmg
fori' 30; Blair Alderman; "Jti Mrs Kennath iMit-v
dffd Mourrj 32, Henrv Korn, 52 G A'
Huntington: 34, M. Soence Holland; 35,
noms, number: skipeed; 36 Mrs. Erie- t5!l'
Ali'sn; 37 Mrv Ftoyd ,-:ElsJi Keenev;- 31 M:
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CLARA FITCH, oldest active member of VLT, long will be remembered for
her two renditions of the port of "Mo rm" in Sally Allen's play, What the
I Gulls Knew. She played it when the play was premiered in 1934, to mark
- the fifth anniversary, and when it was repeated in
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MARY KRENK (Mrs, Marvin Xrenk), who has proved her worth
as a serious actress; here is shown as a con-can dancer in the
- olio of one of the plays.
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WAV OUT THERE, o ploy of the Oregon Country by Alice Henson Ernst,
was produced by VLT in honor of the state's centennial in 1946. Archie
Holman, as "Highpackets Smith", woos Marary Ramey, one of the trans-
WHITEOAKS OF
JALNA, in spring of
194 1, offered this family
group at right: (Front
row. Dale Frederick as
"Wakefield"; Florence
Shumaker as "Meg";
Clara Fitch as "Aunt
Augusta"; Adrian Martin
as "Uncle Ernest"; and
Sally Allen as the 101-year-old
"Gron White
oak"; back raw, Ethan
Newman as "Uncle Nich
olas"; Fred Cuthbort as
, the fomily head, "Ken
ny"; Elsa Cuthbort (Mrs.
Fred) as "Pheasant";
. Dick Igl as "Piers", and
Gene Edwards as
"Finch".
THE FATHER (left! play
ed in The Pillbox in 1935,
presented Ernest Knollin,
right, in the title role,
with Elizabeth Scruggs,
center, as the wife, and
Sally Allen (left) as the
' doting nurse. The set by
Lance Hart was a mem
: orable feature.
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