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1 Whaling was a big Spitsber gen industry in the days of Henry Hudson, but hunting was so intense that by 1635 most of the - great mammals had been killed off or driven far out into Arctic waters. TONITE-MON HUMPHREY 1 p 118') ETHEL BARRYMGRE- K!M HUNTER wifli PWL STEWART 1R T""-, PLUS NEWS - CARTOONS Gates Open 7:00 - 1st Show Dusk .-TUES. r i . in 20h Century Fox's .10 MoT... A TRIBUTE TO THE FUTURE FARMERS OF AMERICA! " Youngsters just reaching life's first dawn of ma turity, here and throughout the entire length and breadth of our beloved land, are dedicating them selves to being guardians of the good earth. In . homespun words, they are going to be farmers. Mother Nature will be their sponsor and mentor. The lucky old sun and the gentle wind and the - rain and snow will conspire with them to prepare - ;. the tender soil and germinate the tiny seeds into sturdy, fruitful plants and trees. Of all the things that -Man can do under the canopy of heaven, -none is more richly 'satisfying or productive than tilling the soil and tending flocks and herds. How " fortunate these teen-agers are! How wise! We salute their grand organization wifh genuine pride .. and say "God bless you all;. you shall inherit the earth!" BEDFORD PHARMACY, Inc. ,127 EAST SIXTH 11:03 a. ml to 10:30 p.m. We Salute for the finest in radio ntertainment orts VrtllD 11 All news KYJC The Tempest' Opens 12th Shakespearean Event; Play "The Tempest" is gaudy, fan ciful, funny, romantic. -It is gorgeously costumed, di rected with understanding and humor, and is presented by a cast that is largely both adept and dedicated. Friday night's presentation at Ashland, which opened the 12th annual Oregon Shakespearean festival, could be termed, if not a brilliant, at least a highly en tertaining and auspicious occa sion. - The audience was one of the largest ever to attend a festival play. It was an appreciative group, and was obviously im bued with the warmth with which Shakespearean devotees nave come 10 regara me iivai. Who, indeed, can be left com pletely untouched by the magic of the festival? Who can be un moved by the thousands upon thousands of devoted hours of work given to its success? Warm. Friendly Atmosphere The setting adds greatly to this atmosphere of warmth and friendliness and unity of pur pose which pervades the theater These go far to make up for whatever small deficiencies may be inevitable in the excitement and stress of opening night. The play itself, "The Temp est,"' is lightweight stuff, and makes no pretense of being any thing else. It is a fantastic framework on which Shakes peare hung his songs and speeches, his imaginative flights of magic and fancy and never never caperings. The story, briefly, is of the Duke of Milan, thrust from his dukedom by an unscrupulous PHONE 2-6253 We Are Open Today. . Our Town! and TDIDIIMC Praised brother." The duke, a bookish sort, raises his daughter - Mir anda, amidst the magic he has taught himself, and amidst, the fairies' and' creatures of the mind which the duke calls forth from the upper air. Vengeance on Enemies - A wedding voyage brings to the duke . Prospero the chance to bring his enemies to vengeance on the island, and the tempest from which the play is named wrecks their vessel, and they are . cast ashore to -Pros-pero's mercy.. . These victims Prospero's scheming brother, the king of Naples who had a part in depos ing Prospero, the king's eligible son Ferdinand, and other lesser folk are made pawns of Pros pero's magic, until in the end Ferdinand and Miranda are to be Wed, and Prospero restored to his throne. This slight' framework,' then, is fleshed and colored by action and direction and lighting and costuming and song and humor. The play has no one star, but in the large cast are many lumi naries. Perhaps the brightest was Bill Ball who played Ariel, "an airy spirit" and a thing of light and color and movement. Ball " danced and flashed (liter ally, aided by effective make-up) through the role with' ease and assurance. Shakespeare himself could have asked no better. Eight Given Mention The cast as a whole was bet ter far better than "ade quate," which is a nasty word to actors. While . all were good, there were eight who well-earned special mention. : Ball as Ariel was splendid in the widest sense of that word. H. Paul Kliss, as Prospero, demonstrated his uncanny abil ity to project himself, his voice and his personality; to the last' row of : the audience without seeming to try. Michael Onofrio, playing the aged and honest counselor, Gon zalo, had . completa mastery of the role, a faintly ludicrous though partly serious one some what reminiscent of Polonius in "Hamlet." To say he was "good" does not do full justice to the subtle touches he applied to the part. Caliban, the "savage and de formed slave," wearing costume and make-up which matched ex actly the role's demands, was done by Douglas Meeker. The stupid,- drunken, evil character, pitiful but repulsive, was con veyed well and truly in what is perhaps the most difficult part: in the play.. Meeker was superb. Comic. Roles Praised . The comic roles of Trinculo, a jester,-and Stephano, the drunk en butler, were brought to life by Thomas Brennan and John Taylor. Brennan, particularly, vith a mobile, expressive face, and a split-second sense of tim ing, brought the best laughs of the evening. " " Virginia Chesse asv Miranda had the only major female role, and carried it off nicely! Though her voice once or twice failed to carry; past the middle ipf the audience, she gave the part the tender and v romantic appeal needed. " Bill Oyler has a small role, that of the evil brother, Antonio. But .Qyler is so. at home on the stage, has. such amazingly wicked-looking curly hair, can curl his lip. and cheek and raise his eyebrow so effectively, that it is a shivery delight to watch him in action. - In all, it is possible to advise the reader that'The Tempest" is more than well-worth seeing. It- is a "must" for anyone who has -the slightest pretension of enjoying -the festival. . - It is also necessary to advise those readers who are lovers of. comfort to take or rent a pillow.' The new seats, which have the advantage of belonging' to the festival, were not designed with a full appreciation of the needs of the. human anatomy.' it is also hoped that the city of Ashland can. revise the ag gravating and .apparently un necessary one-way . traffic ar rangement in front of the thea ter. E. A. 'Buck Private' HST Ready for Campaign Kansas City, Mo. (U.R) President Truman' was quoted by a visitor Saturday -as saying he was only a "buck ' private" in party politics now but willing to make a whistle-stop campaign fight for the Democratic Na tional Committee. ' James Arrington, former Ok lahoma Democratic state chair man from Stillwater, so quoted President Truman after calling on the chief executive in the presidential headquarters here. Arrington said President Tru man told him: "If the Democratic chairman and the nominee want me to take another train ride, I will." President Truman's . part in the forthcoming election cam paign still, remained unclear de- P f hS? St PRIZE PUP Bettye Lee Wright strolls with one of the champion Afghan hounds entered in the San Mateo; (Calif.) Kennel Club dog show; Some 1500 canines will be featured in the Aug. 3 event. ! Assault Conviction Handed to Lawyer Who Hit Pearson Washington (U.R) Columnist Drew Pearson observed Satur day that the assault conviction of Charles Patrick Clark, Wash ington lawyer who socked him on the jaw, vindicated "a news paperman's right to report the facts." A Municipal Court Jury con victed Clark late Friday- after hearing , him and Pearson give varying versions of a fracas that occurred June 18 in the lobby of the swank Mayflower hotel. The panel of five women and seven men deliberated only half an hour. The ' 180-pound Clark, who said the columnist affected him "like the red flag in front of a bull," claimed he swung out in self defense after Pearson made a threatening move. He said he also objected to the "innuendos" about him in Pearson's . radio and newspaper columns. ' Pearson had referred to Clark as a ' "lobbyist" and linked his name with Sen. Owen Brewster (R Maine) and Rep. Eugene J. Keogh (R-N.Y.), who favored U.S. aid to Spain. Clark is regis tered with the U. S. government as a representative of Franco Spain. '"" The maximum penalty for as sault is a fine of $500 and a year in jail, or both. Lighter sentenc es are customary here for such an offense. Sentencing is schedV uled for Tuesday. TWINS TOO SPEEDY Newport, R. I. (U.R) Rich ard L. and Frederick V. Leahy, 24-year-old twins who are dental technicians in the Navy under went simultaneous extractions in district court. Both paid $75 fines for speeding. Police said they apparently were racing on Me morial Boulevard. spite an hour-long talk last night between him- and National Dem ocratic Chairman Frank E. Mc Kinney. NOW! s "YOU The wonderful story of a miraculously funny family and the gorgeous gal who hada"puir .-T ' I mml(r-m ;i if i.Tiiiiiiiiniiii i v iiiv"wypyiffijj;-jov N l & Ik 1 Ami m B iilNN BLYTHEDMUND GWENN k CO CONTINUOUS SHOW TODAY FROM 1 P.M. Van Fleet's Warning On Armistice Chance Features Bad News By PHIL NEWSOM United Press Staff Analyst The week's balance sheet be tween the good and bad news in the hot and cold wars: THE BAD 1. Gen. James A. Van Fleet gave us bluntly the bad news about Korea. He said the chances for an armistice were the worst they ever had been. Barring a change in location of the truce talks to some place outside Ko rea, it seemed the U. N. had only one of two choices. It could sur render to the Reds-on the ques tion of return of war prisoners, or it could step up its military pressure in the hope of forcing the Reds, to change their minds. Europe Hopes Dimming 2. Hopes were dimming that Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway's Eu ropean Army would reach its objective of 52 divisions in be ing this year. The French said that without increased United States help, arms factories em ploying some 25,000 skilled workers would have to shut down. The British also were ex tending their rearmament pro gram from three to four years without a corresponding increase in production goals. Difficulties also were propping up in U. S. negotiations with Spain over use of Spanish bases. 3. Anti-American feeling con tinued to mount in Iran. The Iranians accuse of siding with Britain in the dispute over Iran ian oil and are resentful because U. S. .aid to Iran has been less than that given to Greece and Turkey. The Tudeh Party Iran ian Communists was operating openly even though it still, tech nically, was outlawed. THE GOOD 1. Britain's Prims Minister Winston Churchill and his chan cellor of the exchequer, R. A. Butler, continued to talk darkly of the dangers of national bank ruptcy, but they outlined new plans which they believed would balance British exports and im ports in the second half of this year. The Churchill government beat off another censure attempt by Laborite left-wingers who, among other things, accuse the United States of dictating Bri tain's rearmament urogram. Russian Attempts Hampered 2. Russian attempts to turn East Germany into a full-blown satellite state were meeting with less than whole-hearted approval by the German people. Refugee?, including former East German policemen, streamed to the West at a rate greater than 1,000 a day. Meanwhile, West Germany's The population of the United States is increasing at a rate of about 2,500,000 persons yearly. NEBRASKA PICNIC Sunday, Aug. 10 TouVelle Park FREE Ice Cream & Soft Drinks mtimi If YOU LOVED THE FUN OF "MIRACLE ON 34fh STRIET" ... THE HAPPINESS AND HILARITY OF "GOING MY WAY" AND CANT TAKE IT WITH YOlT-THIS ONES FOR Y0(J! .itWOHN McINTIRE PALMER LEE HIGH 0 BRIAN KATHLEEN HUGHES Sunday, August 3. -1952 highest court threw out an at tempt by West German Socialists to have the West German peace contract and the European Army Plan declared unconstitutional. 3. Egypt's strong man, Maj. Gen. Mohammed Naguib, and hi? premier, Aly Maher, were mak ing at least outward attempts to democratize the country after the ouster of King Farouk. Titles were abolished, censorship of newspapers eased and steps were being taken to encourage the re turn of foreign investments to Egypt. UN Must Fight or Leave .. Korea, VFW Head States Los Angeles, Calif. (U.R) Frank Hilton, national com mander in chief of the Veterans of Foreign Wars said Friday the United Nations should either fight an all-out war in Korea or get out entirely. Here for the opening today of the 53rd annual encampment of the VFW, the 43-year-old Reading, Pa., man said the VFW is "sympathetic" towards the United Nations. "But our great American pub lic is confused by all this truce talk in Korea which has now been going on for more than a year," Hilton said. 33tony CURTIS JAN MONA STERLING FREEMAN A UNIVEBSAMNTEItNATiONAl tlCtVW PLUS r--i r , A.on 1 Show at 8:10 iP1 ! 2 i 7 1 ! -' - TeSJ m m- i. K5DF031D (CrtEGOtt) I TAIL TRIBUNE ELEVEN Strike Threafened By Railroad Unions Cleveland (U.R) Four op erating brotherhoods threatened Saturday to walk off their jobs Sunday mornirfg on New York Central Railroad lines east of Buffalo, N. Y., in a dispute ov er working rules. The unions went ahead with plans to close down the railroad's Eastern system even though top officers were opposed to a strike on such short notice. A meeting of union leaders was scheduled to be held here later Saturday in an effort to postoone the strike until Wed nesday, J. P. Shields, head of the Brotherhood of Railroad Engin eers, said he believed the bro therhoods wouli agree to the postponement. In addition to the engineers the brotherhoods involved are the trainmen, firemen and con ductors. They took a strike vote more than two years ago on working rules grievances, but the railroad was operated by the government at that time and the issue never was settled. Use Mail Tribune Want Ads LEARN TO SQUARE AND FOLK DANCE at the VFW Kali, Shady Cove, Register Mon., Aug. 4, 8 p.m. flainaroccd, 'paCulaa -T A -12:45 p.m. TOLD YOU ABOUT IT . . . NOW SEE IT!! hSM BR,AN DONLEVY llll: CLAIRE TREVOR EPK"4 ' FORREST TUCKER ' iO&aS, ' VERA RALSTON 5LUS : ALLAN I A II pfljjf' ' WEEKDAY MATINEES 1 P.M. BIKER COHflia! mMHDOUS SPcCTACltl ' ' ' ' il'LL AUD!E MURPHY BILL MAULDIN AND CONTWUOHC Cosiello Still Seeks To Avoid Jail Term New York (U.R) Attorneys for Frank Costello said Satur day they would make every le gal move remaining to avert an 18-months prison sentence for . the notorious gambler, who was ' convicted last April 4 of con tempt of Congress. The IT. S. Court of Appeals denied Friday the ' 61-year-old Costello's request for a re-hearing of his appeal from convic tion. U. S. Attorney Myles Lane, said that "barring further ac tion" Costello, who has been at liberty under $5,000 bond, prob-. ably will be asked to surrender next Thursday. Food rationing ended in the Republic of Ireland on July 4, 1952 ASHLAND GREGORY PECK ANN BLYTH REX BEACH'S 'The World His Arms" 7ttu4.icat SeKtetcattf I11ITTEE Two Great Pictures w M ' Color by Technicolor lm-itinirt mm. .Jf i
