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KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, SUNDAY. MARCH 10, 19BJ
TENSE MOMENT Gail Brotherhood won long applause
from audiences in her interpretation of Lady Macbeth in
the dramatic sleepwalking scene when she bids, "Out
damned spot! out I say! . . . What need we fear who
knows it, when none can call our power to account?
Yet who would have thought the old man to have so
much blood in him?" And later to a gentlewoman, "Wash
your hands, put on your nightgown; look not so pale. I
tell you yet again, Banquo's buried; he cannot come out
on's grave."
POTENT BREW IN THE MAKING Father, a redhead and his red
headed sons, poured and stirred in the comedy, "Life With Father,"
concocting a drink to sell to make money. Costumes, still in use by Lit-
trunks, boxes, clothes closets have yielded many items, priceless for play
tie Theatre players, were early 1900 or late 1880 vintage. Attics, old
trunks, box
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AUTHENTIC TOUCH Tho latte Julia Zumwalt, Klamath
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grandmother in this bit from Lite with r-ather a comedy.
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FAMILY LIFE Ann McLoughlin, cuddling the bull-dog, played part of mother in
rollickinq play, "Life With Father." Wayne Carothers, far left, was father of a family
of two sons and a daughter.
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the community. Other actors are Marilyn O'Neill and
Harold Ogle.
IN THE MAKING Mrs. Roberta Blomquist, center, was hired by a member of th
school board, John Bofens, of Klamath Union High School in 1932, with the idea of
startina a drama department after learning her qualifications as drama instructor in
two colleges. Mrs." Blomquist holds picture of Mr. Botens. Mrs. Botens, at left, views
scrapbook of year Little Iheatre was started. Kight, Mary Ann Botens, who became a
teacher, discusses 1958 scrapbook. She was in first drernia class in 1932.
25 Years Of Drama Noted
By KUHS Little Theatre
By RUTH KING
"The Greek term 'drama,'
meaning action, applies to a form
of literature," says the Encyclo
pedia Americana, "to be inter
preted to an audience by actors
who impersonate the characters,
recite the speeches and dialogues,
and perform the action of the
story."
The late Rroat Bernard Shaw
said, "the beginning and end of
the business from the author's
point of view, is the art of mak
ing the audience believe that real
things are happening to real
people."
Mrs. Roberta Blomquist, who has
taught drama to many students
for many years at Klamath Union
High School, and who introduced
the Little Theater ;it KUILS, has
applied the study of the drama to
a work-a-day world, a world of
reality in which the drama stu
dent learns to look at the life
forms of plants and animals and
to translate what they see into
usable objects for the theater and
their personal lives ... to turn
discards into beauty ... to probe
the satisfaction of creating ... to
make use of academic subjects in
study of the drama ... to under
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CREATIVE ARTIST Bruce Wirth played part of Old Shoemaker in "Wtiat Men
Live By."
"ONE MAD NIGHT" Howls of audience laughter greeted scenes in this slap stick
farce. Three players were not identified. Thsy will remember.
"WHO'S WHO" in Little Theatre? Mrs. Roberta Blomquist, riqht, head of the Drama
Department of Klameth Union High School recalled that Bob Kent, Dorothea "Dode"
Ellingson, Betty Merrill, Jack Keating, Jlmmie Hunt, Shirley Mayhew were among
this group studying drama during a year not remembered. Others will recall the scene
and recognize faces; More students than could be handled in classes have been inter.
ested in the course. In early days of the Little Theatre, costumes and properties were
nearly nil. Mrs. Blomquist made use of all materials available. Later, as the Littlit
Theatre became better known, townspeople shared antiques, others gave early day
clothing, all of which is kept. Nothing is wasted.