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Show The audience attending the first college production of the year, Sutton Vale's "Outward Bound," presented November 28, 29 and 30, found themselves transported beyond the realms of every day life to a ship bound on a mystic journey to the land of the dead. Mrs. Cliveden-Banks gets hers. Fear and accusation accost Lingley, Inc Scrubby.......Dan Bailey Ann......Loyal Christenson Henry...... Rex McEntire Mrs. Cliveden-Banks . Dorothy Lichfield Tom......Grant Neuteboom Mr. Lingley.....Clenton Price Midget......Betty Lou Balch Rev. Duke.....Walter Cable Thompson .... Willard Jensen Stubby confides with gestures. The entire action of the play takes place in the lounge of a ship, and the people aboard are puzzled by me fact that the ship runs without lights, and is manned by only one person. The travelers are vaguely apprehensive about their destination; but eventually they discover that they are all dead and are bound to meet the "Examiner," who, in the end, is a very homey and sympathetic God . . . The lovers, Loyal Christenson and Rex McEntire, are discovered in the end to be "half-ways" - that is, they had not had the courage to live and had committed suicide. They are turned back to life by the Examiner. Dan Bailey was the unobtrusive attendant of the ship; Willard Jensen was the Examiner." The other members of the cast, Grant Neuteboom, Clenton Price, Betty Lou Balch, Walter Cable, and Dorothy Lichfield, portrayed the distinctive personalities of each of the travelers . . . John Corbin of the New York Times said of this play: "Something rather extraordinary happened last night. A play about death caught the audience, enlisted its sympathy, amused it, and ended by stirring it to very considerable depths of human pity and mortal terror" . . . Something of the same sort might be said of the audiences of Ogden. The excellence of Mr. Allred's direction, combined with the polish and feeling of the cast, made for an unusually well-done play. |