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Visitors for opening night of the Oregon Shakespearean festival Monday night in Ashland included Leighton
Rollins, Santa Barbara, director of the Pacific Coast Music festival, held annually in that city; and Mrs. Ronald
Scofield, on the staff of the News-Press in Santa Barbara. Pictured (left to right) are Mrs. Angus Bowmer, Mrs. Sco
field, Mr. Rollins and Mr. Bowmer, founder and producing director of the Oregon festival. Mr. Rollins praised the
Oregon festival, and invited the Bowmers to attend the California event, set for September 10 through the 18th.
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Also present for the opening night party and play of the Oregon Shakespearean festival were Dr. John
Richard, chancellor of the Oregon state system of higher education, and Mrs. Richards. The Richards (at left) are
pictured with Dr. and Mrs. Beverly A. Cope, Ashland. Dr. Cope is president of the festival association, and Mrs.
Cope is an active member of Tudor guild, festival auxiliary gr6up which sponsors the annual Bard's Heyday,
raises funds for actors' scholarships and operates a souvenir bootrv at the theater.
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Second opening play of the 1955 Shakespearean festival season was "Macbeth"
and pictured here are four members of the cast in the "Greenroom," as players call the
area just outside the stage door, as they awaited company call Tuesday night. Seat
ed are Jack Swanson and Marjorie Schaffer, and standing are Richard Graham (at
left) and Don Soule. Miss Schaffer plays Lady Macbeth.
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MEDFORDSfeaTRIBUNE
SUNDAY, AUGUST 7, 1955
Festival and Weddings
In Recent News
By Olive Starcher
August in the Rogue valley means the annual Oregon
Shakespearean festival, now counted one of the most important
cultural activities of the state, as well as a major tourist attraction.
Since this is the festival's 20th anniversary, the opening night
Monday was of special importance and many visitors were in
Ashland to see "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and to attend the
dinner which preceded the play.
This season's four plays, "A Midsummer Night's Dream,"
"Macbeth," "All's Well that Ends Well" and "The Third Part of
Henry the Sixth" will be given in rotation throughout the month,
with "The Life of Timon of Athens" to be given twice as a special
attraction. In addition, concerts of Elizabethan music are to be
given each Sunday afternoon at 5 p.m. under the direction of
Bernard W'mdt, music director for the festival, with the first to
be this afternoon.
Mid-summer weddings are also an important part of the
social scene, and a number of parties for pioneer residents have
been given recently. (Festival photos by Anita Fowler)
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Swindler were married July 23 at)
St. Mark's Episcopal church with a large reception following
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Homer A. Marx, uncle and aunt
of the bride. Mrs. Swindler is the former Sonja Kristine Jor
gensen. (Landis-Shangle photo)
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These three musicians sing each night as the audience assembles for the festival
play, provide music needed for the action of the plays and will appear in the Sunday
afternoon concerts which are an added attraction of the 1955 festival season. Pic
tured (left to right) are Martin Bliefernich, Newberg, Ore.; James Baker, Medford and
Clarissa Berning, Redmond, Ore.
F. S. Brandon, 211 North Ivy street, Medford, was honored
July 31 at a party which observed his 90th birthday anniversary.
Mr. Brandon, retired merchant who has lived in southern Oregon
since 1878, is an amateur historian and writer. He is shown here
with Mrs. Brandon during the party. (Brainerd photo)
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Wayne Demmer (Nancy Lee
Greaves) were married July 30 at First Methodist church and
will live at Twentynine Palms, Calif., where the bridegroom,
a corporal, is assigned to duty with the United States Marine
corps. (Brainerd photo)
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