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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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. Dist
ric Attorney John E. Walker
said law officers had orders to
round up the machines in bars,
taverns and private clubs in Her
miston, Umatilla, Helix, Pilot
Rock and Pendleton.
The devices were to be truck
ed to the Umatila county court
house here.
FRENCH ACTOR DIES
Paris HP) Alexandre-Pierre-Georges
Guitry, better known
as Sacha Guitry, died today at
his Paris home after an illness
of several months. The famed
actor, author and movie direct
or was 72.
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