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IS MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Wednesday, April 30, 1958 Variety of Props Are Seen in New SOC Play Ashland Dolls, pea shoot ers, paper dolls, snakes in preserve jars, an alarm clock, a phonograph, a toy ambu lance, a balloon, and a stetho . scope are a few of the objects the Flannigan daughters, Rita and Rosalie, use for props in the forthcoming production of "The Loud Red Patrick" to be presented by the Southern Oregon College Players in Churchill hall May 8-10. " Coeds Kathryn Stewart and Charlotte Riley are the -envy of the other cast members be cause of the variety of ob jects they have to amuse themselves with during re hearsals in their roles of Rita and Rosalie Flannigan. Costumes are not too much of a problem for the girls middy blouses are back in style again this season! The skirts they'll wear in the play will be somewhat longer than those the nine and eleven year olds of the pres ent day wear, however. Tvo Older Girls The two older Flannigan girls, Maggie (Laura Hedge) and Mary (Barbara Cox) and Mrs. Gallup, the housekeeper (Louise Hedge), are busy get ting their wardrobes to gether, too. Marjorie Osgood and Florence Moore are as sisting with costuming. The men in the cast are actively interested in cos tumes and properties. Pat rick Flannigan (Peter Lun green) is growing his own whiskers for the production. Francis Finnegan (Ron Lapp) has been rehearsing with a can and a derby, while Ralph Penrose (Jan Gilhousen) has to have a new bouquet every few days to replace the ones that get worn out during re hearsals. The stagecraft and lighting class has been working on the setting. A setting for the 1912 play has been designed and they are presently ac cumulating furniture to make the stage living room repre sentative of the period. Mem bers of the class are Otis Hussey, Arlen Ragsdale, Dick Clark, George Phife Marjorie Osgood and Frank Farm. Wreck Near G. Pass Kills Silverfon Man Grants Pass (IP) James Chester Curnutt, 75, Silverton, died in a Grants Pass hospital about 6 p.m. Tuesday from in juries suffered two and one half hours earlier when the car he was driving collided with a logging truck and over turned on old Highway 99 about 5Vi miles north of here. The victim's wife, Fanny, 65, suffered multiple frac tures of the right leg and other hurts and was listed in serious condition at Josephine Gen eral hospital. Driver of the truck, James Bassett, 42, of "Wonder, was unhurt. Music Educators Elect Officers at Meeting Ashland The Southern Oregon Music Educators as sociation .meeting in Klam ath Falls April 25, elected Dr. Herbert Cecil chairman and Oscar Bjorlie secretary treasurer for the 1958-59 school year. Dr. Cecil and Bjorlie are members of the Southern Oregon college mu sic faculty. The SOMEA is comprised of all the school music teach ers in Douglas, Josephine, Jackson, Klamath, and Lake counties. It is a subdivision of the Oregon Music Educa tors association which, in turn, is an affiliate of the Oregon Education association. Painter Apparently Drowns in Fall Portland (tPl A Vancou ver, Wash., painter fell 40 feet from a scaffolding Tues day afternoon while working on the new Interstate bridge between Portland and Vancou ver and apparently drowned in the Columbia river. The man was identified as James G. Cooper, about 30, an employee of Runnels Indus tries, a Seattle firm. . Witnesses said Cooper, who plunged into the water near the Oregon shoreline, never came to the surface. A Run nels boat and three Coast Guard boats were on the scene shortly after he fell into the water but found no trace of the body. The Multnomah county sheriff's office said dragging operations would be conduct ed today. Beat Generation Poetry Known As San Francisco Renaissance Editor's note: This is the second of three reports on America's "Beat Generation." Today The roetry oi ine near. By PETER J. KAYES United Press Correspondent San Francisco (IP) Much of the poetry of rebellion that is produced by the Beat Gen eration is known variously as "The San Francisco Renais sance" and "The Poetry of New Violence." With its cool climate and Mediterranean - influence cul ture, San Francisco has at tracted many of the avant garde poets. But paradoxical ly, in a city that prides itself on being cosmopolitan and literate, it was a censorship trial that projected national attention on the Beat Genera tion. . Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the owner of a bookstore, pub lisher of poetry and a poet and painter himself, was ar rested and brought to trial on charges of publishing and selling "obscene and indecent writings," namely the poem, "Howl," by Allen Ginsberg. The poem is a blazing, at times incoherent indication of American life, sprinkled with four-letter words. It be gins, "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving, hysteri cal, naked ..." Ferlinghetti was acquitted and the audience of bearded, sandaled Bohemians danced in the courtroom. "Howl" has since sold more than 15, 000 copies. Stocks Paperbacks Ferlinghetti's city lights pocket book shop stocks noth ing but paperbacks, an im portant factor in North Beach an area where most of the customers are Bohemians and are not noted for their af fluence. In his late 30s and with a Ph.D. from the University of Paris, Ferlinghetti insists, "I'm not Beat." He said he has an "anarchistic and liber tarian point of view" and writes in opposition to a state of affairs "where it's impos sible for a man to live a good life." He said, "Thoreau is the an cestor of today's poetry. He suggested civil disobedience if conditions warrant." Ferlinghetti and Kenneth Rexroth pioneered in reading poetry accompanied by jazz. In a night club called, "The Cellar," they read their works while a jazz combo led by tenor saxophonist Bruce Lip pincott improvised a back ground. While Ferlinghetti denies he is Beat, Michael McClure, '25, says, "I accept the Beat Generation." McClure was born in the Midwest, raised in Seattle and has lived in Tucson, Ariz., Wichita, Kan., and New York. He served in the Merchant Marine and came to San Fran cisco four years ago. He is married, has a three-year-old daughter, and has published a book of poems. Wears Quizzical Smile McClure manages a body building gymnasium on Mar ket st., works from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. He is slim, with wide shoulders and his brown hair is combed straight back. He wears a quizzical smile as he talks. "Money is only what you can get out of it. What you use to go somewhere. "Life has become too com plex. It used to be that life was yes or no. Now it is yes and no. "We want to do as many things as we can and go to as many places. Being Beat is doing things even if it's only riding a motorcycle or ship ping out. I've sniffed heroin in Hong Kong to see what it's like. "I write any time I feel like it. Sometimes in the middle of the night, when the baby is yelling. I do about a 270-line poem in six hours without any changes. Spare time I go swimming, listen to jazz cool jazz, Miles Davis, Bud Powell, Anita O'Day." Influenced by Jazz Most of the younger poets are strongly influenced by modern jazz and, like 27-year-old Stuart Z. Perkhoff, regard the late saxophonist Charley "Bird" Parker as a "culture hero." "You can't feel sorry for a man who blows like that," Perkoff said. "He had to use junk (narcotics) to play like that. He had to destroy him- Investment Firm Moves Offices The Medford office of the Pacific Northwest company, investment securities firm, will be moved to 5 South Cen tral ave., Medford May 1, ac cording to Edmund E. Hass, vice president and Medford manager. The office will be located in Suite 303, Fluhrer building, relinquishing space occupied since 1952 in the lobby of the Medford hotel. All facilities of the Med ford office, including wire connections to all principal markets in the United States and Canada, will be main tained, it was stated. In addi tion, the new office is planned to provide increased client convenience and service facili ties. The Pacific Northwest Com pany maintains 12 regional of fices in the Pacific northwest. self to play like that. Junk was the same to 'Bird' as al cohol was to Dylan Thomas." How really important is Beat Generation poetry? Mrs. Ruth Witt-Diamant, director of the influential San Francisco State College Poetry center, believes that some of it isn't as important as the authors might think, but that . "American culture would be impoverished with out it." "They are the spokesman for the dispossessed, of the re jected, such as the Negroes. It is the language of agony," she said. . Tomorrow: Why and How Dr. Toyor Visits Stockton College Ashland Dr. Arthur S. 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