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BIX MEDTORD (OPEGON) MAIL TRIBUNE WdndT. July 24. 1957 Dress Rehearsals Start at Shakespearean Festival! Cast Works Until Midnight Preparing For August Plays By JOE COWLEY Mail Tribun Staff Writer Ashland The entire cast of the Shakespearean Festival worked until midnight yester day preparing for this after noon' dresi rehearsals. Production Director Angus Bowmer seemed well-satisfied with his cast as he remarked, "We have much more depth In every part than we have had in previous years. Practically all these people have had con siderable acting experience in Shakespearean roles." Final terse bits of advice were given to the throng of actors and actresses at the stage entrance as the cast prepared to start its 8:30 to midnight rehearsal yes terday. Costume then consisted mainly of levis and a varied as sortment of gaily colored shirts for the men and some levis mixed in with colorful summer dresses for the women. Cast Appears Relaxed The cast appeared quite re laxed as they lounged on the benches offstage or in the en trance. However, they seemed slightly on edge as some walked through their parts and others mentally ran through their lines. This afternoon's dress rehear sal will be a kind of preview of the real thing. Only season ticket holders and their out-of-state guests will view the color ful pre-season production. Colorful in itself is the cast which represents 17 states. One, of these, Mrs. Mary Evans, as sistant stage manager, hails from the University of Bristol, Eng land. Directors this year include the Festival's founder, Angus Bow mer; James Sandoe, University of Colorado; and Robert B. Loper, staff director of the Stan ford university drama depart ment. Fiv. Plays . Scheduled for performance this year are "As You Like It," "Othello," "The Gentlemen of Verona," and "Henry VIII" of fered in nightly rotation through out August. "Percicles, Prince of Tyre" will be staged as a special production Aug. 23 and 29. Serving to wet the appetites of the local Shakespearean en thusiasts was the annual "Bard's Heyday" Sunday at the Oregon Shakespearean Festival theater. This included several games, special entertainments, prize contests and refreshments set In the Elizabethan era. The local enthusiasm hardly needed stirring, however, as the ticket sales are three weeks ahead of last year's, Festival of ficials reported. Residents are also reported visiting rehearsals in increas ing numbers as the Aug. 1 open ing night nears. Last night completed the tech nical rehearsals, concerned main ly with coordinating sound and light cues. Mayflower Captain Takes TV Winnings New York HP) Capt. Alan Villiers, who sailed the barque Mayflower II across the Atlan tic ocean, played it safe Tuesday night and kept $16,000 he had won previously on "The $64,000 Question" TV quiz program. Mrs. Muriel Hasbrouck, New York City, a Canadian - born housewife, reached the $8,000 level on the CBS show by an swering questions about George Bernard Shaw. A third contestant, Joyce Myron, 18, North Bergen, N.J., a sophomore at the Drexel Insti tute of Technology in Philadel phia, advanced through a, $1,000 question in the "atom" category. Oregon May Aid in Traffic Injury Check Salem W The State Traf fic Safety Commission is expect ed to decide Friday whether or not Oregon will participate in a research project to uncover in jury causes in traffic accidents. If approved, the project will involve extensive study of injury-producing accidents in four areas of the state over a two year period. State police, the State Board of Health, and private physicians and hospitals would be involved in the work, which is being con ducted in a number of states by Cornell University's medical school. Now;; ao-taos Easy to use. pleasant tasting, de pendable' Not a narcotic. Ideal for travel, home. work. Why carry bulky liquids? Why risk emhar rasjmeni Ask your druggist lor KAOTABSI dSSy "' " "1 T"7l f w -r Pi . 1 Q ... I ..... VAA ! 1 . mX EYE ON CAST Angus L. Bowmer, produc- ing him is Mrs. Mary Evans, University of tion director, keeps a sharp eye on the cast Bristol, England. Mrs. Evans is in this coun- of the Shakespearean Festival as they run try on a Rotary International scholarship. She through scenes from "As You Like It." Assist- is assistant stage manager. i :Ji ''5' A STITCH IN TIME Jo Turner stitches up a costume in the prop room backstage in the theater at Ashland. Her husband, Jerry Tur ner, is an actor in the Shakespearean Festival. The sewing machine was kept humming as stage technicians and costumers prepared for today's dress rehearsal. r VCrl tffk ij$t J v4" AS YOU LIKE IT Ken Gist and Mary Jo Randall do a scene from "As You Like It" as the Shakespearean Festival cast worked on their parts. Dress rehearsal is scheduled to start this afternoon. The theater is modeled after the old theater of the Shakespeare era. TV Lectures Due At Oregon Schools Portland W Students at two Oregon colleges and the uni versity next fall will be lectured by a television screen in some classrooms, Dr. Glenn Starlin Weyerhaeuser Names New Vice-President Tacoma Ml Weyhaeuser Timber Company said today John L. Aram had been named a vice president of the firm to as sist the company president, F. K. Weyerhaeuser, and to carry out special assignments. Aram also will supervise the development and commercializa tion of new products. Until his promotion, Aram served as assistant to the presi dent. He joined Weyerhaeuser the first of the year, coming from Boise, Idaho where he was president of the Boise-Payette Lumber Company. John Quincy Adams Poem Now Exhibited Medford, Mass. (W A poem written by former President John Quincy Adams a day or two before his death in 1848 has been exhibited at the Eaton Li brary of Tufts University. Writ ten in a shaky hand it reads: "In days of yore the Poet's pen From wing of birds was plun dered Perchance of goose, but now and then From Eagle's pinion sundered. But now metallic pens disclose Alone the Poet's numbers In iron, inspiration flows Or ith the Poet slumbers." Odd Address Used In Retrieving Purse Wilmington, O. (tP Mrs. Paul Darner of Dayton, Ohio, stopped at a store near here and, after making a purchase, drove away without her purse. Undaunted by the fact that she did not know the name or ad dress of the store, she addressed a letter to: "Ice cream parlor, right off route 68, going south to the left hand side, going to ward Wilmington, just outside the city limits, I think." She is going to get her purse back. The store owners received the letter. San Fernando, Calif. (W Police today sought a thief who might be planning to open a bar bershop. Clippers, shears, combs and hair tonic were stolen early Tuesday from a local barbershop. told the Board of Higher Educa tion here Tuesday. Starlin, acting head of the speech department at the Uni versity of Oregon, said the tele vision project, which he is di recting, would involve the Uni versity of Oregon, Oregon State College and Oregon State Col lege of Education at Monmouth. Students in classrooms of 25 to 30 will receive the lecturers over 24-inch screens. In addi tion, Starlin said, there will be discussion and laboratory work under teachers in the class rooms. The three lectures-by-TV will be beginning chemistry, U.S. history, and a series of edu cation courses. The board re-elected Dr. R. E. Kleinsorge, Silverton, and Henry Cabell, Portland, presi dent and vice president respec tively for another year. ALL IN THE EAR What you see m this girl's ear i3 Sonotone's new hear ing aid complete. IT'S WORN ENTIRELY IN THE EAR no cord, no extra "button." Weighs only half an ounce. Women's hairdos hide it completely.' On men, this amazing hearing aid is barely noticeable from any angle. COMf IN, PHONf Gft WRITE. Fftff OtMONSJKATION-NO OBLIGATION S0N0T0NE C. R. Adamson, Dist. Mgr. 839 E. Jackson Ph. SP 2-5904 NEW ACTING AREA Th Festival technical crew has com pleted building a new "pavilion" at the Shakespearean theater in Ashland. The removable structure, designed by Richard L. Hay, Festival art and technical director, will be used in "Othello," and "Pericles." Working on the structure are left to right. Gene Chesley, David Thayer, Hay and Ed Brubaker. Cost of Living Sets Mark for 10th Month Washington HP) The cost of living rose last month to 120.2 per cent of the 1947-49 base average, setting a record for the 10th month in a row. The Labor department said to day that the consumer price in dex rose one-half of 1 per cent between May and June, mostly because of higher food prices, to pass the 120 per cent mark for the first time. The increase meants cost of living pay increases ranging up to 4 cents an hour for approxi mately 630,000 workers in the trucking and in electrical and aircraft factories whose wage contracts provide for changes based on the consumer price indext for June. Radioactivity Found Umatilla County Raid Potato Meeting Said Unsuccessful Nyssa HP A potato grow ers meeting here Tuesday night, to determine possible steps that might be taken to improve the market price on round reds, met with little, if any, success. The growers decided that ther is not much chance to make im provement in the market price through their market regula tions. There was considerable discussion about procedures which would entail voluntary curtailment of shipping of spuds until sold, but there was no forc ing the regulation. County Extension Agent Turn er Bond said that shippers ad vised the growers that their cus tomers are getting red potatoes from other districts, particularly Texas and Colorado, and prices are competitive but at a lower freight rate. Local markets are in the Mid west and both Colorado and Texas have an advantage in low er freight rates all the way from 50 cents to $1.00 per 100 pounds. In California Snow Sacramento, Calif. IIP) Some snow and runoff water in the northeast mountain area of Cali fornia has shown "radioactivity higher than the safe limit for continuous ingestion," the De partment of Public Health re ported today. A spokesman at department headquarters in Berkeley em phasized there is no threat, as yet. to storage reservoirs. "We do not presently consider this a threat," the spokesman said. "There is no indication of any radioactivity in the reser voirs of the state or any domes tic sources." The spokesman explained that if a person were to drink he runoff waters over a period of months, then "the possibility might exist that some danger could be involved." MAIL DELAYED Gouverneur, N. Y. (IPl A postcard received recently by Nelson B. Winters, secretary' of the Gouverneur Chamber of Commerce, was mailed 43 years ago by a Leo Price of Ithaca who requested information on veteri narians here. The card was post marked March 15, 1914. Winters' reply to Price was returned, marked "person and address unknown." LET OUR PHONE LINE BE YOUR CLOTHES LINE Use Our Economical FLUFF FOLD SERVICE Washed! Dried! Folded! 6-Hr. Service 15 LBS. $125 Dumas' Domestic Laundry & DRY CLEANERS 30 N. Riverside Ave. Phone SP 2-6165 On Pinball Machines Pendleton Wl City police officers, sheriff's deputies and state police took part Tuesday night in a raid on pinball ma chines in Umatilla county. 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