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TWO MEDFORD (OREGON) mm Miss Eleanor Prosser of San Marino, Calif., and Gerald Gard ner. Sheridan, Ore., are shown here in their roles for the tragedy of Julius taesar one ox me lour pys nuj pineo uu son by the Oregon Shakespearean festival in Ashland. Miss Pros ser plays Portia, wife of Brutus, and young Gardner is his servant Lucius. "Julius Caesar" will be presented again Friday, August 8, and tonight's offering will be "Much Ado About Nothing." Cur tain time is 8:30 p.m. Festival's Colorful Pageant of fHenry V Continues Histories A character .who was intro duced to Shakespearean festival audiences two years ago blos somed last night into England's greatest soldier king. "King Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2" were written by Shakespeare to give him an opportunity to build ip to "King Henry V." Last night at the Shakespearean theater in Ashland this play "Henry V" was given its sec ond performance of the season. The Oregon Shakespearean Fes- Festival Schedule The schedule of plays being presented in' Ashland by the Oregon Shakespearean festival during the coming week in clude: Thursday "M u c h Ado About Nothing" Friday "Julius Caesar." Saturday "The Tempest" Sunday "Henry V" Monday "Much Ado About Nothing" Tuesday "Julius Caesar" Wednesday "The Tempest" tival association's policy of pre senting history plays in their proper sequence has allowed regular attendants of the per formances to watch the growth of a wild and carefree prince into a noble and beloved king. One Man Show More than any other play in the 1952 repertory of the festival cast, this play is a "one man show." King Henry is center stage throughout most of the long play the longest present ed this year and when he is absent he is there in spirit. Young Richard Risso, new to Ashland Shakespearean follow ers, gives everything he possesses to the role. Risso is a loving king, an understanding king, an angry king; but he is not a regal king. His attempted characteriza tion of kingliness and nobility comes closer to pompousness. Risso's finest scene comes at the very end of the play. Then he forgets all regal manners in the wooing of the French Prin cess Katherine. Not until then is he completely accepted by some reserved viewers. Handles Lines Well Risso must be highly com mended for his handling of lines. His role gives him more lines than does any other role in the four plays presented this year. (More lines than any role in Shakespeare - according to one statistician.) But not until the CURRENT DIVIDEND RATE i Jackson County Federal ' Savings and Loan Association 126 EAST MAIN MEDFORD, ORE. Growing with Jackson County Since 1909 MAIL TRIBUNE very end of the last scene did he muff a line obviously. And even that one was not harmful to the action. In substance, Risso is a good King Henry. He is not great; yet he is far, far better than some diehard critics have insisted. Second in importance to Risso in making the play a success which it very definitely was were John Taylor and William Oyler in two very different roles. Taylor does a beautiful job as Lewis,- the French Dolphin. He is the giddy youth that King Henry has been;- only he lacks Prince Hal's ever-present com mon sense. Despite his bulk Tay lor's Dolphin is little more nor less than a spoiled child. : Oyler Excellent Oyler, excellent in any role. plays . the leeching Aunchient Pistol with even more swagger than he gave the role last year in "Henry IV, Part 2." The rest of the dead Sir John Falstaff's group of rowdies are all fun provoking. The best is Thomas Brennan in his onslaughts on the English language as Corporal Nym. Marjorie Lovberg's voice fits Hostess Quickly better than it has suited her other roles; Wil liam Ball is at his best as Pis tol's boy, and William Erwin is loud as Bardolph, which is about all the role requires. As King of France Angus Bowmer is a perfect foil for the heroics of Henry. When the -two are together the French king reminds one of nothing so strongly as the comic strips' "Lit tle King." Excellent performances are offered by two women, Virginia Chesse - and Suzanne LaMarre Hanson. The play's best scene features these two alone and is spoken entirely in French. It is the tremendously clever scene where Mrs. Chesse as Princess Katherine begins learning -the fundamentals of the English language from her attendant, played by Mrs. Hanson. Fine Directing Job "Henry V" was aided greatly by one of the finest directing jobs yet seen here. Philip Hanson followed in his own footsteps having directed last year's Hen ry play. He succeeds famously in bringing two mighty mon archies "within the girdle of these walls." Hanson almost did away with the opening and closing of the curtains and thus disposed of the interruption of curtain girls trooping in and out. Instead of curtains he used his lighting ef fectively to show what was to 3 More DAYS Funds invested here by August 11th will earn dividends from August 1st. Thursday, August 7, 1952 Missouri Election Seen as Good Omen For GOP Victory Washington U.R) Sen. Everett M. Dirksen, (R-HU, said Thursday the outcome of the Missouri Democratic senatorial primary was a good omen for a Republican presidential victory in November. But Sen. Theodore F. Green, (D-R.I.,) shrugged off the defeat of President Truman's candidate in the primary by. terming the election "just a good old intra party scrap." Political leaders here were quick to seek national straws-in-the-wind in the runaway victory of Stuart Symington over Mr. Truman's candidate. State At torney General J. F. Taylor. Interpretation Given Dirksen, chairman of the Sen ate Republican Campaign com mittee, gave this interpretation of the election outcome to a re porter: It is a significant fact and 1 am sure it will not be lost o'n the voters of this country that short ly after Adlai Stevenson accept ed not only the platform, but the program with which Presi dent Truman was so intimately identified, that the voters of his native state saw fit in their wis dom and good judgment to roy ally trounce the President's can didate for the United States Sen ate. Burning Plane Falls info German River Mainz, Germany (U.R) A burning United States Air Force B-26 light bomber crashed into the busy Rhine river in down town Mainz Thursday and broke in two. The pilot and co-pilot were thrown clear and picked up at once by Germans in small boats. They were hospitalized with slight burns and reported not to be in danger. The other two crew members both enlisted men, were trapped in the sunken fuselage. Rescue workers found the body of one of the men when they hauled to shore a section of the fuselage. A German diver went down in the river to search for the other body. Western Education Commission To Meet Timberline Lodge (U.R) Sec ond annual sessions of the West ern Regional Commission for Higher Education will be held here this week-end. The commission was formed last year to increase training op portunities in medicine, dentis try, veterinary medicine and public health. Dr. O. Meredith Wilson, dean of University college, University of Utah, is chairman of the commission. Participating states include Oregon, Utah, Montana. New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado. VISITOR KILLED Eugene (U.R) David R. Holden, 71, who wss visiting his son here from the midwest, be came Eugene's first 1952 traffic fatality Wednesday. Holden died from injuries suffered in an au tomobile accident Sunday. It was the 18th traffic death of the year for Lane county. be seen and hide the rest, and to highlight the play's impres sive costuming. The one critical comment to be made about the direction is that Hanson might have placed the actors more judiciously so the King would not be constant ly looking up at the man next to him. Supporting Cast Hanson was aided greatly by a fine 'supporting cst. But it would seem despite the size of the cast that less doubling- up of characters would have been wise. Or it could have been made less obvious. William Er win walks off the stage as Bar dolph and returns almost im mediately sans red nose as the Duke of York. This is too much for an audience to swallow. "Henry V" makes use of two of the company's magnificient voices Richard Graham and H. Paul Kliss in starting at a high peak. These two fine ac tors, in minor roles, are the first voices heard. Unfortunately this high peak is then lost until mid way through the play. 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The , Defense Production act says the controls must come off, or be greatly relaxed, if the rate of new housing starts falling be low 1,200,000-per-year for three months in a row. Acting Defense Mobilizer John R. Steelman reported to Presi dent Truman Wednesday the number o&new houses started in June was 10 per cent below that rate. The Federal Reserve Board and the Housing and Home Fi nance Agency, which administer Regulation X, will use figures for June, July and August to determine whether they must ease off on mortgage credit. Of ficials are almost certain July and August figures will remain below par. The law gives the ag encies 30 days in which to act after the end of the three-month period, and late September is regarded by. most authorities as the probable date of suspen sion. Automobile Accident Fatal to Winston Man ..' Roseburg -(U.R) Harry Clyde Tomlinson, 25, of Winston, was killed and four other persons were injured Wednesday night when Tomlinsons Ford convert ible missed the Lone Rock bridge on the North. Umpqua highway, 20 miles east of here, and plunged down an embank ment. One of the injured, Mrs, Carol Amundsen, who police said was believed visiting from Califor nia, had her left arm severed at the shoulder. She was in Mercy hospital here. Others in the car were John Davis, Winston; Barbara John stone, 15, Winston, and Jerry Johnstone, 13, Winston. All suf fered shock, cuts and bruises. COPPER ON FORCE Buffalo', N. Y. U.R) Larue H. V. Copper, 32, is a patrolman on the Buffalo police depart ment's traffic squad. BLOOD DONORS WRECKED Norfolk, Neb. (U.R) Fred Ris tow, 50 and Loring Jenkins, 22, were hospitalized here after they were, critically injured jn an au tomobile accident. Ristow and Jenkins were enroute to a Nor folk hospital to donate bipod for another seriously-injured car crash victim. GAMBLING CZAR SLAIN Theo dore Roe (above), millionaire Negro who ran a gambling em pire on Chicago's South Side in defiance of the law and rival mobsters, was killed in front of his home by a mysterious shot gun blast. take Five Phantom Calls The killer had policescurry ing all over the city Wednesday night and early Thursday when he made five phantom telephone calls to headquarters and threat ened to invade two swank hotels in his quest for blood. Officers found the battered body of Tom Acton, 35, Birm ingham, Ala., in a dingy hotel room after a man with a voice described as "raspy with a whine'' called and said they would 'find something bloody" in the room. Roommate Sought The homicide squad was try ing to locate Robert Mooue, 35, who had registered in the hotel room with Acton. He was de scribed as wearing a "light gray" suit and had borrowed a claw hammer from a hotel maid. Ac ton was beaten to death with a claw hammer. The two women reported to a foot patrolman that they were approached by a man about 35 years old, who wore a "light" suit. They said he acted crazy and told them he had' killed a man with a hammer. The wo men said they dismissed him as an idiot and boarded their car. Read of Slaying On the streetcar they opened a newspaper and read of Acton's Boys Should Have Used Hypnotism on Officers Pittsburgh U.R) Two teen age boys told juvenile authori ties Thursday that a hunting ex pedition took them 150 feet up into the steeple of the Second Presbyterian church. The boys said they were hunt ing pigeons, shining a flashlight in " their eyes to hypnotize them. Dead line on Classified Ads: 5:30 p.m. for following day; 10 a rn. Mon day; noon Saturday for Sunday a.m rrier and I know how' to care of myself." 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Mr. Truman told his news conference that he had never at any time pledged his support to Mutual Security Director Aver ell Harriman. . To Support Stevenson He said he thought Stevenson is a man who can be elected, and he expects to support him. Mr. Truman told his first news conference in five weeks that Barkley had gone to Chi cago expecting to be a candi date. Had the vice president stayed in the race for the nom ination, he would have support ed him, Mr. Truman said. Barkley withdrew his name after some union leaders told the 74-year-old vice president he was too old. Voted for Governor Mr. Truman's alternate to the convention, Thomas J. Gavin, Kansas City, then voted for Stevenson, annuncing that the Illinois governor was his and the president's choice. Mr. Truman said his confer ence next Tuesday with Steven son here will cover everything that is necessary to help the Democrats win the election. . He told newsmen such a con ference is customary whenever a president of one party is not running for reelection. Steven son will lunch with the presi dent's cabinet. Youngster To Survive Jolt by 7200 Volts . Dayton, O. (U.R) Hospital of ficials said Thursday they ex pect Ronnie Hansell, 7, to sur vive a jolt of electricity that was four times as strong as the cur rent used in electrocuting murderers. The boy touched a power line carrying 7,200 volts while climb ing a tree Wednesday. He re ceived second degree burns on his body and hands. , For You At... 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