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Show Georgia Bobolis and Bob Van Dyke are suave team in Fodor production. Douglas Carr, Diann McEntire, Dick Slater build comedy in Two Blind Mice. Theater Fare Otters Tragedy, Satire By Nancy Featherstone Comedy for cast and spectators closed the Weber College theatre season with the May 7 to 10 run of Two Blind Mice after the heavy drama of Othello as a theater workshop production and Fodor's The Vigil by the Community Theater in winter quarter. In the final play, a John Kelly directed satirical farce, Dick Slater as an unusual lover pulled off shenanigans at the expense of the three military forces and other functions of government when complications arose because two elderly ladies continued to operate the Bureau of Seeds and Standards after its official discontinuance. Cast members included Merrill Hymas as the shy dance student, Robert Merrill as the manic mailman, Kenneth Robins as man with a car to park, Diann McEntire as Karen, the woman who could not hold a man, Douglas Carr as the doctor with a short stock of southern comfort, Henry Kafton as the "Skunk Cabbage" marine, and George Francis as Ensign Jamison, untried in battle. The Shakespeare tragedy, edited and arranged by Mr. Kelly for the play box theater, ran a full week with an all-student cast with tickets sold out well in advance. Cast of Othello included Boyce Harris playing the ill-fated Moor, Dick Slater portraying villainous Iago, Jann Heiner as gentle Desdemona, Jarvis Anderson and Larry Wright double-cast as Lieutenant Cassio. Rebecca Wells as Iago's wife, Marilyn Lambourn as Brabantia, Margery Cook as Queen, Marian Hyde as Clown, Jeanie Smith as Young Girl, Carolyn Harmer as Lady. George Francis as Montano, Slater and Boyce Harris reflect the heavy tragedy of the Shakespeare masterpiece Othello. Jann Heiner as Desdemona with Rebecca Wells as maid feels impending death. Ross Giles as Lodovico, Georgia Bobolis as Bianca, Byron Burt as Roderigo, Roy Russell as Gratiano. Fodor's unusual play, built around the courtroom scene in which innocence or guilt depends upon proof that a resurrection and not a grave robbery had occurred, ran a full week in February and established itself as one of the most popular plays produced at Weber in several seasons. M. Thatcher Allred directed and the play was done by an exceptionally capable east of college students, faculty members and community actors. Scenic artistry was the work of Doyle Strong, college art instructor. Outstanding among the actors were Julian R. Stephens as Judge, Robert Van Dyke as Prosecutor, Laurence Burton as Defense Counsel, Wallace Budge as the Gardener, Lyle Wynn as Saul, Gladys Sargent as Lady Procula, Amos Sargent as Pilate, Wayne Carver as Professor Thaddeus, L. M. Hilton as Simon, Renee Glover as Mary, Howard Knight as Sadoc, William Bobolis as Joseph, and Kay Jon Mildon as Susanna. Appearing also with distinction in the lesser roles were Carolyn Harmer, Walter Prothero, Barbara Christiansen, Calvin Carter and Georgia Bobolis. Produced earlier in the season and reported in an earlier Scribulus was The Traitor, a play of topical interest and considerable dramatic power, directed by Mr. Allred, and The Philadelphia Story, a Cellar Theater production under direction of Mr. Kelly. Miss Bobolis, Jarvis Anderson hold tryst. Marian Hyde, Mistress of tense moment. |