MAIL TRIBUNE. Medford, Or.
Wednesday. Aug. 19, 19S9
Small, Enthusiastic Crowd
See Footlighter's Melodrama
Oh woe! Oh misery! Oh an
guish! Oh boy! It's a melodrama
and it's right here in Med
ford. The Footlighters opened
their production of "On the
Bridge at Midnight" last
night and it was strictly ama
teur, strictly corny, and
strictly for laughs and a lot
of fun.
The show, complete with
olio and refreshments, contin
ues, for two weeks, Tuesday
through Saturday.
Will Horatio, poor but hon
est,, valiant but insufferable,
finally sell his invention and
win back his true love?
Will his true love ever rise
out of misery, or will she
have to "do the bidding" of
that scoundrel with the mous
tache and the black cape,
Mervyn?
What do you think?
Easily Followed Plot
The plot is easy to follow,
partly because the actors,
when occasion demands, sun
ply step out and tell you
what's on their minds.
And partly, as m all melo
dramas, because the good old
villain stalks around three
bases only to get blasted at
home plate with the final curtain.
"Curses!" he says (of
course), "Foiled again!"
And so it goes.
A small but enthusiastic
crowd was on hand last night
and by the final act the cast
and the audience both were
loosened up and enjoying
themselves. Only the over
worked prompter seemed to
have a ough go of it.
Play's Title
The play, directed by Bob
Ford, takes its title from the
famous line uttered by Mer
vyn as he flutters evil eye
brows at the harassed hero
ine. "At ten o'clock," he says,
"meet me on the bridge at
midnight!"
Mervyn ("Now comes the
dirty work") is made a like
able scoundrel by the capable
acting of Thayer Tarvin.
Chuck Tucker does a fine job
as the impossibly good and
hopelessly inept Horatio
("Would she love me if she
knew I was but a pauper?")
And the long- suffering
young heroine ("Will my hide
ous past find me out?") is
played sweetly and pleasant
ly by Marianne Samuelson, in
her first season with the Foot-lighters.
Others in the cast are Mar
garet Dix as the heroine's
true friend; Frank Buchter as
a cadaverous butler; Virginia
Murphy as a comically grace
less young girl; Dr. Laurence
Ware as helpful Jack Frost;
Marion Keim as the local
gossip; Marie Pierce as the
meddling mother of the hero;
Audrey Reiss as a sweet
young thing; Dora Home as
the other woman; Charlene
Tarvin as an enamored spin
ster, and Dr. Frank Roberts
Sr. as the man who provides
the happy ending.
In the olio last night Len
ore Zapell did an excellent
job with some gay '90's songs
and Rosemary Tokay provid
ed soft -shoe entertainment.
Melody Pierce accompanied
on the piano.
Others scheduled for olio
acts are Ruth Kilbourn, Fred
Haupert and Frankie Burton.
Coffee is served between
the second and third acts.
The melodrama goes 'on at
the Fairgrounds theater near
the armory and curtain time
is 8:30 p.m.
You're missing a lot of
laughs if you don't go out and
hiss the villain.
Curses, no more room!
R.A. Rogue Valley
Herb Society
Plans Banquet
The Rogue Valley Herb so
ciety will hold its August
meeting in Ashland, Sunday,
August 23, at 2 p.m. at the
Plaza restaurant.
, This meeting will be a ban
quet for members, their hus
bands and invited guests The
dinner will be served in the
banquet room.
Mrs. Otto Nagel will intro
duce the after dinner speaker,
W. Bernard Windt, who is di
rector of music for the Oregon
Shakespearean Festival. He
will speak on Elizabethan mu
sic and explain the history
and meaning of the old
dances.
The group will then inspect i
the theater grounds including
the new theater, and will at
tend the 4:30 pjn. program
of Elizabethan dances and
music.
Hostesses for the event are
Mrs. Ruth Simmons, Mrs.
John Ostrander, and Mrs.
O. E. Henderson.
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Finland-Russian Relations
Discussed by AFS Student
'Finland's relationship with About 30 per cent of the
Russia" was the topic of re-1 people earn their living by
cent communications between farming; but, since the war,
a local, teen-ager, spending the I industry is becoming more
summer in Finland, and her j important, the largest indus-
Pari of the 1.040 persons who registered for the Green
wich Village Art Show last week end in Ashland are
shown above as they view some of the more than 200 works
exhibited. The show was considered one of the best given
locally by the Southern Oregon Society of Artists. Med-ford.
family,
Miss Carolyn Mencke,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R.
E. Mencke, 2141 East Jackson
boulevard, is concluding a
summer visit to Kurikka, Fin
land, in conjunction with the
American Field Service inter
national program.
In her. latest letter,' Miss
Mencke presents a back
ground of the people of Fin
land and their fight to main
tain a free democracy. She
writes:
Finland's relationship with
Russia is more easily under
stood if you know a little
about Finland's history. Its
area is about 130,000 square
miles, or about the same size
as Montana, with a population
of about four and a half mil
lion. Geographically it is
much like Minnesota, as it
boasts 60,000 lakes.
Ashland Art Exhibition Viewed
By 1 ,040 Persons on Week End
Ashland -More than 1,000
persons registered at the two
day art show Saturday and
Sunday in Lithia Park. Called
the Greenwich Village Art
show, it is held annually by
the Southern Oregon Society
of Artists, Medf ord.
Mrs. George Johnson, Cen
tral Point, won the popular
vote in water color choice.
The paintings were Siskiyou
Stage, first; Sunny, a picture
of a palomino, second; and In
the Forest, third. Her Siskiyou
Stage work had won the popu
lar vote several weeks ago in
the Medford park show.
Mrs. Larry Starks, Central
Point, won first place in oil,
tying with Mrs. Earl Moore,
Gold Hill, in the popular vote.
Mrs. Starks won first place
for her picture entitled Straw
berry Lake. Mrs. Moore's pic
ture was Eagle Point. Mrs.
Moore also won the second
popular vote in oil for her
picture called Castle Crags,
which is painted from a view
just south of Dunsmuir, Calif.
Lakeview Exhibitor
Visitor from Lakeview who
had never exhibited in the
valley before was Alexander
Zevely, Lakeview, who
showed 16 paintings in water
color and oil of the country
around Lakeview and a large
seascape north of Brookings.
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More than 200 pictures
were exhibited by 29 society
members. Mrs. Emmitt Tucket
and Mrs. Ruth Tucker were
in charge of the exhibition.
An organ, furnished by
Purucker's Piano House, Med
ford, was played by Victor
Wrigglesworth, a member and
past president of the society.
He had an exhibit of water
colors at the show.
Among the show's exhibit
was a painting by Eugene
Bennett, Medford, who en
tered a picture of the recent
Ashland fire.
Pictures Sold
More pictures were sold
during the exhibit than any
recent show, it was reported
by society members. Among
those sold were a picture of
Sacred Heart Catholic church
called Congregation; Cold
Pack, an oil of the cherry
canning process; Birch Tree
Chalet, an oil; and an Old
Indian Woman, an oil of a
Navajo.
Among the exhibits were
area scenes, stylized land
scapes, coast scene, scenes
from Germany, portraits, bull
fighting scene from Juarez,
Mexico; desert country around
Indio, blossoms, and other
familiar landmarks. Also ex
hibited was a pencil sketch
of an old oak.
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Calendar
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Calendar notices and news for
the society section of The Mail
Tribune muse- be submitted in
writing and deadline for the Sun
day edition Is 1 o ra Friday Dead
line for the weekly calendar is 9
a.m. of the day. of publication and
for week day news is 5 pjn. the
day before publication.
Wednesday:
7 p.m.-Woman's Society of
Christian Service, First Me
thodist church, Circle 2, Mrs.
Milton Snow, 1208 Leland
st.; Circle 10, Mrs. David
Chirgwin, 2577 Stewart ave.
7:30 p.m.-V eterans of
World War I and auxiliary,
Girls Community club.
8 p.m.-Past Chiefs club of
Pythian Sisters, Mrs. Harry
Bryant, 1312 Reddy ave.
8 p.m.-Roxy Ann Home
Economics club, home of Mrs.
Ray R. Offord, 3054 Roberts
rd.
Thursday: .--..
9:30 a.m. - Mary, Miriam,
Lydia, Ruth and Esther cir
cles, Zion Lutheran church,
Hawthorne park for transpor
tation to - Lithia park, Ash
land. 11 a.m.-Women's Christian
Temperance union, .Maple
Grove park.
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Auxiliary Ptans
Thursday Event
Ladies auxiliary, Fraternal
order of Eagles, will meet
Thursday, August 20, at 8
p.m. for a regular session.
A back to school party is
planned for entertainment
and members have been asked
to dress accordingly. Those
attending are to take, a sack
lunch for two.
President Takes
To Golf Course
Gettysburg, Pa. (UPD Pres
ident Eisenhower beat the
heat to the golf course today
for an early morning round.
The temperature was a rel
atively cool 80 and the fair
ways were still wet with
heavy dew when the Presi
dent and his neighbor, George
E. Allen, teed off at 7:45 a.m.
David Eisenhower, 11, the
President's grandson, joined
the twosome at the 10th green
after a lesson from the club
pro.
David laced his first shot
down the middle of the fair
way. "Beautiful," said his
grandfather.
Centralia-A Medford woman with a husband and four
small sons told us not long ago that all her family traveled
to southern California last summer in their Volkswagen
car. Yesterday I decided that the friend and her husband
must be better at packing their VW than the Young Mar-
rieds. Or maybe they have a luggage rack on top.
Monday Potpourri and the Young Marrieds drove from
Spokane to Seattle in their little German car. In addition
to the three adults, we had two big suitcases, a hat box, a
bag of picnic food, some fresh fruit, the big package of
convention literature which we are still carrying around
hoping to read, a pound can of tobacco, an assortment of
sweaters, jackets and coats, plus a five-months-old Wei
maraner dog, his package of food and two dishes.
How anyone could pack more into a VW is a mystery to
me. The sturdy little car ate up the miles, up hill and down
dale, and we had no trouble keeping up with the traffic.
And may we say that the Washington, and Oregon, traffic
is something to be frightened about. We crossed the state
on the Snoqualmie Pass highway, and there was an unceas
ing flow of traffic in both directions. Although we did not
get into Seattle until about 6:30 p.m., when the homeward
bound traffic should have lightened somewhat, there was a
solid line of cars in the outskirts of the city.
We arrived at the Olympic hotel only in the nick of time,
for the relatives we planned to meet were on the point of
giving up the wait and starting homeward. Inquiry devel
oped the fact that the message we had phoned to the hotel-
saying that we were delayed, had never been delivered.
This unpleasant fact brought out the story of how the
couple from Centralia, in Seattle for the summer gift show
for retailers, had discovered when they went to check out
that there was no record of their stay in the hotel, in spite
of the fact that they had occupied a room for two days
Friends calling the hotel had been told that no Mr. and Mrs.
Henry Adams were there.
We had a hotel story to tell, too. Seized with a sudden
urge for efficiency, Potpourri figured up her Multnomah
hotel bill before .we went to the cashier's window to pay
our bill. The cashier put a ledger sheet in a big machine,
pulled switches and punched buttons and when the red
lights quit flashing, out came a sheet of paper which said
we owed the hotel $47.50. We produced our figures and
insisted it was only $41.30. The cashier put the piece of
paper back in the big calculator and went through the
process again, with the same $47.50.
So the two of us went through the bill day by day and
she figured it up with a scrap of paper and a pencil and
said "You're right. But why doesn't the machine figure it
the same way?" Potpourri couldn't answer that, and twice
more she put the paper through the calculator and both
times it came out wrong.
Finally the young woman became very exasperated and
said in a testy voice "I would have been home by now if
it hadn't been for you! I'm supposed to be off duty at mid
night!" We remained firm-six dollars is six dollar, and we
weren't about to pay any more than $41.30. At length she
called a young man who said the machine must be out of
order, and took our check for the smaller sum. Everyone
makes mistakes, someone is always saying, and so do
machines, too.
However j we really have no complaint about the Mult
nomah hotel service. In fact, the management and staff
seemed to'-bear up under the impact of summer tourist travel
and conventions very well. Elevator service was efficient,
our room was well kept and well supplied, and the hotel
promptly filled our request for an ironing board and iron
and a typewriter, with no extra charge for the last three
articles. At the Benjamin hotel in Philadelphia two years
ago, the hotel asked $2 a day rental for a typewriter.
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Washington, like all other western states we know about,
has hundreds of motels, some new "drive-in hotels" and
many trailer, or mobile home, courts. Seeing the latter
reminded us of a bit of information learned last week in
Portland from a woman who lives in Illinois just south of
Chicago.
She stated that in her small city and in the county,
trailer courts are not allowed. Amazed, we inquired further
and she explained that citizens of her area, and particularly
those who are public officials struggling with tax problems,
passed legislation barring them because they believed trailer
court families do not bear their fair share of the tax load.
The Illinois woman said that investigation showed that
many of the trailer court families, some with as many as
four children, were paying only a fraction of the taxes
which it took to keep the children in school. So it was de-creed-no
trailer courts.
Our roadside watching Monday was rewarded with the
sight of a prosperous looking farmhouse sitting in the midst
of a well-kept and colorful garden surrounded by a white
fence. Outside the gate stood an old wagon, painted petunia
pink and filled with growing flowers-O.S.
Eisenhower Signs
Defense Money Bill
Washington -(UPD- President
Eisenhower Tuesday signed
into law a $39,228,239,000 de
fense money bill - half the na
tion's budget revising some
military programs and pro
viding $35 million dollars to
start a second atomic-powered
aircraft carrier.
The bill, by far the largest
appropriation . of the year,
gives the President almost all
the funds he requested to run
the armed services in the cur
rent fiscal year that started
July 1. It will finance a fight
ing force of 2,545,000 men.
But Congress drastically re
vised some of the administra
turn's" original plans for the
military. It put more empha
sis on developing long-range
missiles and defenses against
enemy submarines and inter
continental rockets.
More Jan
' As proof that more and
more homemakers buy foods
in jars, shipments of glass
containers to food processors
in 1958 were up 241 per cent
over 1939.
FRENCH FLAIR Paris cou
turier Jacques Heim created
this cotton satin date dress for
the international wardrobe of
Miss Malinda Berry, 1959 Maid
of Cotton. The brilliant floral
print by Everfast is superbly
cut into it full skirted dress
with decolletage, sash, and
peplum.
try being lumber. Seventy one
per cent of the land is cov
ered with f orests-mostly pine,
fir, and, of course, the Fin
nish birch. Forty per cent of
Finland's lumber is .used in
the paper industry; but, the
shipbuilding industry is also
important, as is also the tex
tile industry.
From the years 1150 to 1800
practically every generation
experienced war between
Russia send Sweden-Finland,
which was one country at that
time. In 1809 Sweden had to
give up Finland for good, and
Fmland was joined to Russia.
That year Finland, was de
clared an autonomous grand
duchy of the Russian czar,
and it remained so for over
a century. Until the end of
the 19th century Finland en
joyed genuine self - govern
ment under Russia, but at the
turn of the century Russia
decided to "tighten up," an
action that met with resistance.
During World War I Russia
was weakened by internal
revolution, and Finland made
its move by declaring its in
dependence on December 6,
1917. That day is celebrated
just as the Fourth of July is
in America. After a bloody
civil war in 1918, the consti
tution of independent Finland
as it is today, was framed.
Invasion of Finland
In 1939, Russia made de
mands that Finland could not
agree to, resulting in the in
invasion of Finland. Finland,
with only nine divisions
against Russia's 45, stopped
the first attack, but were
forced to surrender in Febru
ary of 1940. The Finns lost
territory to the Russians as a
result of the peace treaty. In
fact, Finland's eastern bound
ary has been changing for
1,000 years because of this
type of action.
Most Finns are suspicious
of Russia. After the warFin
land had to pay a large sum
to Russia andxalso had to do
exactly as Russia demanded.
Finns are proud of the fact
that although they have
fought with Russia many
times, they are not a satellite.
Finland is a free democracy
wholly within the "western
camp." Of necessity the offi
cial position of Finland is
neutral. However, the major
ity of the people- are sympa
thetic to the . West. Relations
with Russia are good. In short
the people are wholly west
ern in their thinking, but of
necessity they must have
eood relations with their
powerful neighbor.
Communist Representatives
The reason for the seeming
ly large number of Commu
nist representatives in Parlia
ment (50 of 200) is that at the
time of the last election, in
many places, times were not
good, and many of the people
did not really know what
they were voting for when
they voted for Communists. In
general, the party is very un
popular, and the Finnish Com
munist party does not get
along well with Moscow.
think Communism here is
more of an economic concern
than a political one.
Twenty per cent of Fin-.
lands' trade is with the Soviet
Union, and the other 80 per
cent is with the West. Among
other things, Finland imports
food, some oil and a few cars
from Russia,- but each year
they trade more and more
with the West.
OSC Professor
Emeritus Dies
Corvallis - (LTD - Robert H.
Dann, 69, professor emeritus
of sociology of Oregon State
college, died here Tuesday of
a heart attack -
He had been on the OSC
staff for 29 years beginning
in 1927. He retired in 1956
and for the past two years
taught sociology at College of
the Pacific at Stockton, Calif.
Mr. and Mrs. Dann were
here for the summer.
From 1924 to 1927 Dann
was assistant manager of
Miles Linen company of Sa
lem. He was a member of the
Oregon Prison association
from 1946 to 1952 and served
as president in 1948-50.
Memorial services are
scheduled for Friday after
noon at Westminster House,
student religious center across
from the Oregon State college
campus.
Survivors include the wid
ow, Lyra, and a daughter,
Mrs. Dorothy,. Bower, Pitts
burgh, Pa. 1 '
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