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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1961 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. Social Events Women's News YOU CANT MISS! Medford Rose society and Rogue Valley Rose society. Grants Pass, held installation of officers in a recent ceremony in the Red Cross building, Medford. Pictured following the meeting are (left to right) Dr. Louis G. Gentner, retiring president of the Medford group; Mrs. Daniel Heffner, Pacific North west district director of the American Rose Societies Install New Officers Officers for both Medford Hose Society and Rogue Val ley Rose society, Grants Pass, were installed in recent cere monies held at the Red Cross building. . Mrs. Daniel Heffner, Port land, ' Pacific Northwest dis trict director of the American Rose society, conducted the ceremonies. About BO mem bers of the two groups and guests attended. Mrs. Ranald Axloll, Troll, look office as president of the Medford society, succeeding Dr. Louis G. Gentner. Other new officers installed were Clarence Miller, vice presi dent; Dayton Depue, second vice president; Mrs. E. P. Up dike, secretary; E. L. Lenox, treasurer; Mrs. Charles Hobbs, historian; Roy Arthur, parlia mentarian Installed for the Grants Pass group were Charles Both well, president;, Victor Boehl, vice president; Mrs. Henry Keiseker, second vice presi dent; Mrs. George Wood, re cording secretary; Mrs. Ken neth Ogle, corresponding sec' rotary; Mrs. D o n c 1 Grey, treasurer. Twenty members of ino urants .Pass society wore present for the ceremony. Mrs. H e f n e r expressed pleasure at the growtli of both societies, and took part in a panel discussion conducted by Vaughn Quackenbush, Med ford, on various aspects of rose growing. During a meeting of the Medford society, Dr. Gentner presented Mrs. Axtell the gav el of the Medford society. Re freshments were served by members of the Medford group. Master Point Play Scheduled White City -. Master point play is scheduled for the Cnmp White Veterans Bridge club Friday night, February 3. Leading norlh-south players nt regular play January 27 were Mrs. Fred Burich and Mrs. Fred Rchling, first; 85Mi; Mr. and Mrs. Berg Morten, second, 85; Mr. and Mrs. Lc land Clark, third, 71. East-west winners were Mr. and Mrs. Richard Finnell, first, 73M-; L. Rlchtor and Walter Grow, second, 6814; Mr. and Mrs. James, Winslow, third, 68. 1 Ink stains from a Ijall point pen should not be washed. Water tends to set them. A dry cleaner can usually 1 remove the stain if the garment has not been washed. Is Yours The 1 I t Travel Fabrics, Pesanle, Pure Silk f I I" Solids and Prints i i X 1 PH. SP 2-6428 1 r 1 1 tin r imnnnlii, IfciMiiMMii'liithni Calendar Caiundar notices and news for the socluty section of The Mai Tribune must no suDmltlea tn writinB and deadline for the Sun. duv edition Is 1 o.m Friday Dead line for the weekly calendar is 0 a.m or trie uay or puDllcatlon and for week day news is ft p.m the oay oaroro duduchuoo. Thursday; 6:45 p.m.-Rogue River Val ley Knife and Fork club, Rogue Valley Country club. 7:30 p.m. - Griffin ,Crcek Parent - Teachers association, school gymnasium. 7:30 p.m. -Mistletoe camp, Royal Neighbors of America, Knights of Pythias hall. 8 p.m.-Adarel chapter, Or der of the Eastern Star, Jack sonville Masonic temple. 8 p.m.-Cratcr LaKS aerie, Fraternal Order of Eagles, Eagles hall. 8 p.m. - Mothers of Twins club, home of Mrs. C. Gordon Morris, 107 South Elm st. 8 p.m.-Neighbors of Wood craft of Phoenix, Phoenix Community club room. 8 p.m. - Southern Oregon Stamp club, Girls Communi ty club. . Friday; 11 a.m.-Griffin Creek Home Extension unit, Griffin Creek Grange hall. 12 noon -Thimble Club of Phoenix, home of Mrs. Mer vin Hixson, Culver rd., Fhoe. nix.' . 12:30 p.m.-Chrlsllan Worn- ens club, Rogue Valley Coun try club. 1 p.m.-Get Together club, Girls Community club. Y Knot Twirlers To Hold Party; Officers Named Y Knot Twirlers Square Dance club plans a Saturday night party dance February 4 at the Phoenix Community club at 8:30 p.m. A potluck supper will be served during intermission. Douglas Fosbury will call; all square dancers are wel come. January 26 a short business meeting was held before the square dance workshop to elect officers. The new offi cers are Leonard E. Matheus, president; John Hindorer, vlco presiujnt; Miss Florence Robi- son, secretary-treasurer. Women To Sew For Shrine Hospitals Members of Zukcima tem ple, Daughters of the Nile, will meet to sew for the chil dren in the Shrine hospitals Monday, February 6, at 10 a.m. at the homo of Mrs. Wil liam Clark, 545 Pierce road. Members desiring transporta tion or further information may contact Mrs. Milo Kuba lek, SPring 2-811)6. HALF SIZE .v7uiL.r A Wonderful Selection of Youthful Styles Awaits You at Burelson's! Choose From 12W to 22ft) Downtown Medford Main & Barllett Sis. society who conducted the ceremonies; Mrs. Ranald Axtell, Trail, new president of the Medford society; Charles Bothwell, new president of Rogue Valley Rose society, and Mrs. Victor Boehl, retiring president of Rogue Valley Rose society.. (Simsonson-Walker photo) Ticket Sale Announced Tickets for "Many Moons" will be sold In Medford area schools tomorrow during the lunch hour by members of American Association of Uni versity Women. The play will be performed on the stage of the Craterian theater next Tuesday by mem bers of Southern Oregon col lege players, directed by Dr. Dorothy Stolp. Children of the first three grades may attend the first performance at 2:30 p.m. The second showing will be at 4:15. The play lasts one hour and ten minutes, and parents are to provide transportation. Persons wanting tickets for adults or pre-schoolers may buy them at schools from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. to morrow, or call Mrs. Donald E. Walters, SPring 3-25D0, or Mrs. Dale C. Prentice, SPring 3-3009. Orations Given By Two Students Jean Allen, and Steve Blackhurst, students in Hod- rick Junior High school speech classes, gave original orations at a meeting of Hed rick Parent-Teacher associa tion Monday evening, January 20. Young Stoves oration was tilled "Reminiscence" and Miss Allen's was "Beauty Girl Scouts Julie Barclay, Sharon Chlpman; Penny Forbes and Judy McFadden presented the Colors. The eighth grade girls chorus, di rected by Carroll Graber, sang. Members of the home making classes presented a style show, with Fred Hau- pert, Chip Buffington and Scott Cunningham as an nouncers. An art and art-crafts dis play was exhibited in the auditorium following the short business session and pro gram. A social hour followed in the cafeteria. Pocahontas Plans Party on Friday Pocahontas lodge plans a 'fun night" parly Friday, February 3 at 8:30 p.m. in the Redman hall on Apple street for members and their invited guests. The party will follow a busi ness meeting of the lodge scheduled at 7:30 p.m. Francis Cronin, of the Hill- Topper, and a part of his group will demonstrate square dance routines, with the lodge members Joining. Mr. Cronin will iurnlsh the music and do the calling with Mrs. Cronin assisting In the dancing. Members ore asked to bring sandwiches and cookies. Sizes I1 1 Hi t j This reporter and Shakespeare fan is forever scanning the theatrical columns from other parts of the nation, par ticularly New York City, hoping to find news of former Oregon Shakespearean festival actors. We often find such news, but two recent letters from Richard Graham, one of the best known of the former Ashland company members, was filled with more news than we'd had in months and months. In the second letter, written to the Angus Bowmers in Ashland, about the middle of January, Dick G. wrote that he was to start rehearsals the next day with Ellis Rabb's Artists' Producing association (known as APAl for the asso ciation's Shakespeare repertory season at the McCarter the ater in "my old home town of Princeton, N. J. We rehearse in New York, and play in Princeton Wednesday through Saturday evening and sometimes Sunday," he wrote. une ot the directors will land festival actor and director, and also in the company will be Phil Andrus who Jacobus and was King Edward in "Richard the Third" in the 1956 season. Graham wrote that "Phil Andrus. whom you would never recognize as Ashland, is playing France in 'Lear,' and I shall be doing course. Allen Fletcher will be although 1 haven't been informed officially, I imagine I will be playing the good Duke. which Bill Ball (also of Ashland fame) was originally to direct, but a conflict arose and so Bill will not be directing for them this time. The other plays are 'Twelfth Night' and namier ana 1 don't know what He also wrote This is a production of the classics which they term plays of enduring entertainment value, or some other less terrifying phrase. As a rep company, they played mer, as well as in Bermuda, Man and buperman,' a Pirandello and a Chekov. I think it was. Anyway the Bucks County Playhouse has invited them back this summer. They maintain their continuity as a company through workshop study between producing sea sons, of which there seem to be three a year, though this is their first Shakespeare season. The plays are rehearsed and put into the repertory one tnis season will last through "Before I forget, Juliet sons in Ashland as Mary Jo Randall) was given the lead in the Phoenix theater production of Dion Boucicault's 'The Octaroon' which comes up next. It's a glorious part for her, and I know she'll knock them dead with it." A dip into our file of Ashland festival programs showed that Miss Randall, who had to drop the "Mary Jo" because another New York actress had the same name, played Rosalind in "As You Like It" in 1957. The newsy letter from Actor Graham had started with the information that "Borak" in which he had been appearing in The Martinique, off-Broadway theater, had "expired of box office malnutrition." Writing earlier to Pappy and Pot pourri, he had enclosed a leaflet about Borak, described as a verse play by Robert D. Hock. Allen Fletcher had also directed this play, which had earned excellent reviews from most of the New York drama to catch on with the patrons. Borak, he wrote "is a verse play on a fictitious incident In the Civil War. Allen Fletcher directed It and Gordon Davidson of Highland Park was one of the producers. They had called me for a part in it, but I couldn't see those mur derous off-Broadway rehearsal salaries at that moment, and declined. The play got good reviews, but little interest from the public and was about to close, but the announcement of same created a small flurry at the box office, so it was reprieved. "Last night I took over the Preacher, vacated by Don Gunderson (another well known Ashland player) who has moved to the off-Broadway production of 'Beautiful Dreamer,' a story of Stephen Foster. You can't tell tile players, even with a program, inasmuch as some have adopted more euphonious names than those we knew them by In Ashland., Nicholas Pryor, whom we knew as Nick Probst, played Launcelot Gobbo when I direct ed 'Merchant'; Philip Andrus, whom we knew as Phil Ja cobus, played Biron in 'Love's Labour's,' etc. Both are doing very fine work in this show, Jacobus far better than one would have foreseen when he was in his apprenticeship in Ashland. "Tony Ristoff Is still himself, being very convincing and unembarrassing in the difficult Janet Saltus is a walk-on in usher. (Janet, whose family years, was in the festival company and appeared In Ashland High school and Southern Oregon college plays.) No one knows how long have also taken over the understudyship of Colonel Borak, which Gunderson had, I'm hoping it will last long enough for me to learn it and have a crack at playing it." The aclor also disclosed that he had just learned "cour-I lesy ot Bin ration ana tne f estival Newsletter, of the statue of Lear erected on the coffee terrace of the theater. Here I've been immortalized half a year and didn't even know it. Is It any good? This stupendous fact has earned me the family nickname of 'rockhead,' so I may sue!" Hollywood is also putting land Shakespearean actor. Potpourri received a release from no less than Clcary-Strauss & Irwin of the film capital saying that George Peppard is being co-starred with Audrey Hepburn in the Jurow-Shepherd "Breakfast at TKfony's." The play is based on Truman Capole's short novel, and the story is told in the first person. However, the Hollywood release said "Any resemblance between Mr. Capote (rhymes with 'floaty') the distinguished 36-year-old playwright, short story writer,-novelist, bon vivant and esthete-about-town, and Mr. Peppard (rhymes with 'en garde') the former football player, fencing expert, taxi driver and engineering student, is unlikely and astonishing." To which we might add that Potpourri has a little trou ble findiifg any resemblance between the George Peppard which Clcary-Strauss and Irwin described and the one we knew during his time with the Oregon festival. Except, of course, that festival directors and patrons also know that Mr. Peppard is really an actor. O.S. MAKE IT A WEEKEND Pick up an Extra Carton be Allen Fletcher, former Ash played in Ashland as Phil the young actor who was in the first production, which is Albany. Rabb is doing Lear, of directing 'As You Like It' and I'm doing Theseus in 'Dream I'll be doing in them." permanent group devoted to summer stock houses last sum with a three-play repertory of at a time, as in Antioch, and March 26. Randall (who played two sea critics, but apparently failed the small but powerful part of job of the ubiquitous soldier. the final scene and part-time lived in Ashland for several 1 the show may last, but as I out news of a one-time Ash comedy for Paramount titled SOCIABLE New Officers Installed For Order of De Molay Roger Kelsoe, son of Mr. and Mrs. Warren M. Kelsoe, Hillcrest road, was installed master councilor of Medford chapter, Order of De Molay, at ceremonies held Wednesday evening, January 25, at the Masonic temple. Other officers installed were Larry Little, senior councilor and Michael Fetherston, jun ior councilor. Appointive officers install ed were Steven Eichelberger, senior deacon; Jim Kubalek, junior deacon; Jon Jensen, senior steward; Dean Evern ham, junior steward; Jerry Giem, marshal; Robert Van Duker, chaplain; Jim Arm strong, scribe; Gary Wheeler, orator: Ray Hogue, almoner; Jim Myers, standard bearer; and Wayne Kelsoe, sentinel. Preceptors installed were Monte Kennedy, Eddie Brown ell, Michael Dwyer, Richard Swan, Steve Kesler, Fletcher Fish, and Dennis Dwyer. Members of the Ashland chapter of the order were in stalling officers. Mort Scrip tor, installing master coun cilor, was assisted by Jim Wright, Victor York. Rick Callahan, and Ron Kisslcr. David Kelsoe, Ashland chap ter, acted as installing marshal for his brother. Captain of the honor guard was Dick Wright. The Shrine Chanters sang. Mr. Kelsoe introduced his parents and his two brothers, David and Wayne Kelsoe. The Couple Returns From Kentucky - Hornbrook - Mr. and Mrs. Orson Coleman have return ed from Mayfield, Ky.( where they had spent the past four weeks visiting their son and his family, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Coleman and two daughters. While there, their son took them to see the Tennessee Val ley Authority dam on the Ten nessee river and Kentucky lake, formed by the dam, which with its length of 184 miles and 3,000-mile shoreline, is the largest man-made lake in the world. Another place of Interest to the Coleman's was a tobacco auction which they attended in Mayfield, and at which the tobacco brought a higher price than for many years. Their grand - daughter. Miss Gerry Elmore, cared for their ranch during their absence. M 1 1 SKIRT SALE! Famous Manufacturer closeouts. Regular 8.98 to 12.98. 100i wools and wool blends. Many styles lo choose from. Box pleats, full unpressed pleats, straight styles (drum lined) and gored styles. Fabrics: Flannel, tweeds, in checks, plaids and stripes. 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