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.
Taylor, chairman of the so
cial science division at South
ern Oregon college, visited
the College of the Pacific in
Stockton, Calif., last week
end to inspect their historical
records and materials in their
library.
While on the COP campus,
Dr. Taylor personally confer
red with Profes'sor R. R.
Stuart, director of the col
lege library there.
SUB NAMES SUGGESTED
Washington OP) Rep. John
F. Baldwin Jr. (R.-Calif.) has
introduced a bill in the House
to name atom-powered sub
marines after states. State
names are reserved for battle
ships, but the last active bat
tleship was decommissioned
earlier this year.
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