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Show Squaring The Circle Standing, left to right: Rex McEntire, Edgar Hoggan, Dee Linford, John Piers, Edna Litchfield, Carl White, Don Peterson, Dewey Hudson. Seated: Doris Owens, Rolande Ballantyne, Dee Jacobs, Raymond Sanders, Gertrude Stephens, Walter Starks, Helen Grix, Bill Boyington, Joyce Brophy. In "Squaring the Circle," Doris Owens performed the part of the temper-mental Ludmilla, with Raymond Sanders as Vasya, the patient husband. Rolande Ballantyne became stoic in the role of Tonya, while Rex McEntire played the vigorous husband. In outstanding costume Walter Stark played Robinovitch, and Dee Linford portrayed the mad poet Emileau. Dee Jacobs, a 10-year-old visitor to the school became the brother of Ludmilla, and John Piers as Boris Novikoo became the busy director. Helen Grix, Edna Lichfield, Gertrude Stephens and Edgar Hoggan played small, but important roles. The poet's second love was eating. This mixup told of two young couples in Moscow who from necessity made two separate "apartments" from a single room by drawing a chalk line down the center. There were also crowded into that single room such a profusion of good Russian names with characters to match, so many Communists and their theories, and so many rolled R's that all the entanglements reached a swift conclusion, and the play was at an end. The performance may be summed up to this: A good comedy plus Sanders, Owens, McEntire, Ballantyne, Linford, Piers, and Stark, plus Mr. Allred as director equaled top entertainment and a rush order for more from the department. What made the mad Russian mad? A contributing factor might have been the acute housing shortage in Russia at the beginning of Communism. At least that is what Ogden audiences might answer after attending the drama department's first three act maneuver of the year- "Squaring the Circle," by Valentine Kataev. Abram and Ludlmilla find a mutual interest. |