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FOURTEEN MEDFOHD (OHEGOW) MAIL TBIBUNE Sunday, February 19, 1950 Bowmer And Company Delight Audiences With "Street Scene' Ashland, Feb. 18 The South ern Oregon college production of 'Street Scene" played for the last time Saturday night after showing to three near-capacity audiences. Angus L. Bowmer, associate professor of English at the col lege, directed his large cast of nearly 60 persons in a produc tion that may be called his best recent dramatic effort outside the Shakespearean festival. Capable acting was combined with handsome stage settings that should have been seen by every student of the technical side of the theater. Play Story Described Elmer Rice's Pulitzer prize play is the story of sordid racial and sexual tensions in a dumpy New York tenement district. The stage mast be peopled with a couple score of widely varied and antagonistic characters, most with strong, aggressive per sonalities. It is a play to tax the capabilities of professionals and the fact that Bowmer has done such a fine job with amateurs is quite a tribute to his skill. Make-up, supervised by Frank Buchter and Jerry McDougall, and costumes, handled by Kath leen Davies, were eminently suc cessful. In no other way, surely, could Bowmer have placed such an aggregation of slovenly and unattractive people on one stage. In the acting department Fri day night, probably the out standing performances were those turned in by Mille Vest and Frank Buchter, for sheer polish; Keith Hopkins and Tru bee Bell, for sincerity and depth of feeling, and by Clare Dan iels, Katherine Ingle and Tony Shively for their poise and smooth stage presence. Others In Cast Others who alternately hung out the windows and lolled on the steps of the three-story brownstone tenement house that Jack Beardslcy built in the Churchill hall auditorium were Herbert Shepherd, Virginia Per ry, Peter Cotton, John Lance, Keith Krambeal, Tom Chapman, Barbara Lewis, Barney Bussey, Phyllis Freeman, Barbara Mes senger, Mary Jane Farr, Vivian Stevenson, Kermlt Thomas. George Bell, Lorna Jager, Fred Whited, Paul Adams, Dean Kar re. Bob Hagen, Ted Gordon, Dean Seegcr. Lee Goorte, Delora Hed lund, Pat Malone, Kathy Ingle, Bob Stedman, Lee Goode, Rich ard Kennston, John Heilbronncr. Norma Sncll, Diane Morey, Dave Ring, James Junden, Darrcl Nicholas, Alice Hardage and a Mr. Doll. Properties were handled by Rudy Vest, lights by Douglas Doncison and stage manager was Fred Whited. Added together, their talents produced rare, brisk-paced en tertainment. There were flaws, of course it was an amateur production but they were not damaging. a. i. Manager Changes Are Announced By Medford Stations Jimmy Dunlevy will become manager of the Mail Tribune radio station. KYJC. effective Jimmy Dunlevy Monday, succeeding Pete Watts who has accepted the general managership of Radio Station KMED. Watts has been manager of KYJC for the past year, coin ing here from Los Angeles. Bar ney Cooney. recently from Honolulu, will be sales manatier at KMED and Bill Hansen, for merly a salesman at KYJC will join the KMED staff as engineer and announcer. Dunlevy, a former resident of Akron, Ohio, has bad consider able experience in radio and theatrical work. He handled special events for Station WDAC before the war and came to Camp While here with the 35'.ird Engineers m November oi iwiz. He was transferred to the Post Public Relations staff where he became chief of section, editing the weekly Camp White Grenade and producing three half-hour radio snows weekly. Upon his discharge Dunlevy returned to Medford to accept a place on the KMED staff. He has been commercial manager of that station since April, 1047. Rlckrcall, Ore., Feb. 18 U.R Electric appliance - minded thieves broke into the Farmers Union co-operative store near Rickreall, state police reported Friday. The prowlers took elec tric toasters, iron and mixers. Nothing else. London. Feb. 18 (U.R) The British Film council asked the board of trade to let more Amer ican movies into England. Local DAY Protests Civil Service Change A protest against the proposed changes in the United States civil service rating system, as recom mended by the Hoover commis sion for reform of the executive branch of the government, was registered this week with the Oregon congressional delegation by the Jackson county chapter of the Disabled American veterans. The DAV here said there Is much concern among veterans both disabled and non-disabled over the proposed rating system since thev fear thev may lose the five and ten point prefer ences they now enjoy in civil service appointments by virtue of the veterans' preference act of 1944. The Hoover commission would eliminate the established point grading and substitute a four- category rating: outstanding well-qualified, qualified, and un-uualified. Copies of protest letters were mailed to Congressman Harris Ellsworth and to Senators Guy Cordon and Wayne Morse. Red Cross Fund Meet Slated For Wednesday Col. Ben Stafford, vice-chairman of the 1950 Red Cross fund drive, has called a meeting for all fund workers to be held in the county courthouse audito rium, Wednesday, February 22 at 8 p.m. Col. Stafford stated anyone wishing to assist in the drive is asked to attend. MEDFORD PHARMACY 127 E. 6th Just Off Central 9 A.M. - 10:30 PM. 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