14 Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon, Thursday, July 7, 1949
Ashland Folk Get Ready for
Annual Shakespeare Festival
! Ashland, Ore., July 7 This small Siskiyou mountain town
entertained 20,000 visitors during Its traditional Fourth of July
Celebration and is now preparing for the main event of the sum
mer the annual Oregon Shakespearean Festival.
- Folks who helped build floats and boarded up rodeo corals are
now repairing the outdoor Eliza
bethan stage and erecting signs
of welcome to theater-goers ex
pected here for the ninth annual
drama program.
Ashland is the only comma
nity in the country which boasts
an operating civic Elizabethan
theater organization. While stu
dent actors from no less than
10 different states are rehears
ing for the August 2 opening,
the technical details of the pro
gram are being directed by i
large corps of volunteer Ash
land workers.
Marshall Woodcll, dean of
men at Southern Oregon col
lege, is treasurer of the festival
association and keeps close tab
of expenditures for costumes and
properties. The manager of one
of the town's largest sawmills,
John Cotton, is chairman of the
building committee which this
year is concentrating on con
struction of cement terraces for
the audience seating area.
Attorney Harry Skerry, secre
tary of the association, is con
tacting celebrities for opening
night festivities and answering
hundreds of inquiries from play
goers. Properties and stage
equipment is in charge of a
committee s headed by Otto
Wilda, professor of art at South
ern Oregon.
Ashland residents are Justly
proud of their Elizabethan theat
er, for it is the only authentic
replica of the famous Globe
stage of Shakespeare's day in
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use as a community activity.
Located in the shell of the old
Chautauqua building, the audi
ence sits under the stars and
watches the plays produced ex
actly as the Bard saw them in
his day.
' Special Elizabethan pageantry
is being planned during the
August 2 to 24 festival season
in beautiful 100-acre Lithia
park. Ceremonies will, be held
in the new $25,000 Butler Mem
orial band shell with the color
of period costumes accented by
backdrop of evergreens and
snow-capped Mount Ashland.
Five plays will be produced in
repertoire this season so that
visitors may see the entire pro
gram In five evenings, or at the
most, six. "Romeo and Juliet
will open the program, followed
by the second of the historical
sequence, "Richard II." A troupe
of youngsters will assist in the
presentation of the fanciful
"Midsummer Night's Dream
and a revival of the successful
showing of "Othello" will be
seen. The program will be com
pleted with "The Taming of the
Shrew" which delighted audi
ences at the San Francisco
World Fair in 1939.
Mrs. Cooper Hostess
Independence Mrs. Erma
Cooper opened her home foi the
regular meeting of the Past
Noble Grands club of the Rebe
kah lodge No. 58. Leta Wunder
vice president, presided during
the business meeting and the re
mainder of the . evening was
spent informally. Mrs. Cooper,
assisted by Mrs. Etta Welch,
served refreshments to the 14
members at the close of the evening.
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Playful Act
Ends In Death
Burley, Ida., July ?VJ.R What
was intended to be a joke re
sulted in the death here last
night of a man and woman who
have been only tentatively iden
tified. Police and volunteer search
ers were patrolling Snake river
near here today for the bodies
of the man and woman who
drowned last night after the
woman plunged into the river
and her companion made a
futile effort to save her,
A witness said the man play
fully seized the woman by her
ankles and held her head down
over the side of Overland
bridge, threatening to drop her
His hands slipped.
The woman was tentatively
identified as Mrs. Jean Dean,
Dallas, Tex., and the man was
identified as Jack O'Brien Hara
from a prescription and initials
in his clothing, papers left in
a late model yellow convertible
parked nearby served to iden
tify the woman.
Gilbert Jennings, 13, Vry
burn, Ida., was fishing nearly
and witnessed the deaths. He
said the man and woman had
been throwing objects in the
river from the highway bridge.
During a tussle, the man
grabbed - the . woman by her
ankles and held her over the
side of the bridge, young Jen
nings related. He said the man
playfully threatened to drop
her, then his hands slipped and
the woman plunged into the
river.
Pausing only to kick off his
shoes, the man made an at
tempt to save the woman, Jen
nings said. Both disappeared in
the choppy water below the
bridge.
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