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Tribune
MEDFORD. OREGON. SUNDAY. JULY 28, IMA
Shakespearean Feast
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It was a gala scene in Ashland's Lithia park Wednesday evening when some 1400 valley residents and guests
gathered for the annual Feasting of the Tribe of Will, traditional event which precedes the opening night play
of the Oregon Shakespearean festival. Festival dancers and singers entertained, and the dancers are shown here
in a maypole number.
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The delectable smell of
roasting chicken filled
Lithia park in Ashland
Wednesday night as mem
bers of Medford Junior
Chamber of Commerce
cooked this part of the
menu for the Feasting of
the Tribe of Will. Jim
Quinn (at left) was chair
man of the Jaycee commit
tee, and Jim Butler was on
the basting and rack-turning
crew.
Adding dash and color to
the Feast of the Tribe of
Will each year are mem
bers of the Ashland Kilty
band. After the band mem
bers had finished an early
dinner, Dr. B. A. Cops
(center) called a few of the
groups together for a last
minute conference over
details of the program.
The band entertains follow
ing dinner and at the ap
pointed hour, leads the
way from the picnic area
up the hill to the Eliza
bethan theater.
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Wearing brightly colored robes and tarns, the Shakespearean festival musicians entertained with recorder and
string numbers at the Feast Wednesday night which preceded the first play of the 23rd season. The musicians
also play for the dancers who perform nightly before the plays begin.
Robert Stedman (at left),
Medford High school fac
ulty member, seldom
misses an opening night of
the Shakespearean festival
for he was one of the
early-day players. Mr. Sted
man, shown here with
Producing Director Angus
L. Bowmer, played Capu
let in the 1937 production
of "Romeo and Juliet";
Feste in "Twelfth Night"
and Petruchio in "Taming
of the Shrew." That year
Mr. Bowmer was cast as
Sir Toby Belch in "Twelfth
Night," and Escalus in
"Romeo and Juliet," in ad
dition to directing the
plays.
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Mr. and Mrs. Dan Hull (at left) and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Parlier, Medford, were among the hundreds who
attended the Feast of the Tribe of Will in Lithia park Wednesday night. Mrs. Hull and her husband are especially
interested in Shakespeare and the festival for she took part in the plays a number of years ago, one of her roles
having been that of Lady Macbeth.
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Relaxing before the Feast on opening night of the 23rd season of the Oregon Shakespearean festival are (left
to right) George Ebey of the Festival company, Edward S. Brubaker, who directed the opening play, "The Merry
Wives of Windsor"; Mrs. Hugh Evans and Mr. Evans. Mr. Evans, of course, was cast as Sir Hugh Evans, a Welsh
parson, in the play which brought rave notices from critics not only In the Rogue ValUy but from those who were
here from nearby Metropolitan papers for the first performances of the four plays.