Show - I i I i THE GARLAND f GARLAND TIMES UTAH A i Spectacular Outdoor Pageant Revives Early California Lore 600 Residents of Two Towns Unite JUl McFarlane whose father Richard disappeared la World War 1 Is love with UtaL Spaas Gordon Ber becomes Involved with brother Rle Sandra Calvert a divorcee JUl Is thrown from a horse and dnrlnf her absence Richard returns telllnf her mother JnUa that he la now Captain Mackey He sees Rle at camp and later threatens twe Sandra hot the marry anyway Richard has Rle transferred and San dra arrives al the farm to Uvo Jill and her frandfather John I try to make thlnss so aaeomfortablo for tho Sho woman that tho will not stay starUes Julia by recognising tho pto taro of Rickard In Jill’s room as that of Captain Mackey as a yoong man In Staging Drama WSV Features All the romance and adventure of early California along with the pathos and tragedy of the Indian people are revived in the historic Ramona pageant long heralded as one of the nation's most spectacular outdoor presentations which will open in Ramona Bowl near Hemet Calif April 19 CHAPTER Immortalized by Helen Hunt Jack-oIn her novel "Ramona” the tragic experiences of an Indian couple living in San Jacinto valley form the general theme of The spectacle the ' i is staged in now in its 20th season its own amphitheater situated at the Mt foot of towering San Jacinto Revives EarljDays authentic The atmosphere of early California history pervades the pageant It is replete with color- know" ful fiestas and Indian ceremonials In dancing typical of that period one of the most spectacular scenes across a mounted thunders posse mountainside the stage Ramona work and TRAGIC LOVERS Juanita Encell and Henry Brandon play the whose tragic romance forms leading roles of Ramona and Alessandro the theme of the Ramons pageant spectacular outdoor production Ramona Bowl near Hemet Calif staged annually In the is the result of the talents of more than residents of the towns of Hemet and San Jacinto neigh600 communities boring nestled In Indians From her pages of the novel to thrill tbe foothills of the majestic San In Jacinto mountain range southern California Combining tbe townspeople their efforts stage the psgeant as a "labor of to record an outstanding love' example of cooperative community spirit Aside from one or two professionIn the title roles every member of the cast Is a citizen of either Hemet or San Jacinto All producsettion details including costumes maintenance box office and tings Of even cars are perparking formed by townspeople als Studied in School as written by Mrs the curriculums In the schools of both Hemet and San Jawho study the cinto Youngsters dramatic pages of the novel appear In the play as children Many as they grow up graduate to more important roles in the three weekends During busiwhich the pageant is staged ness in the two sponsoring commustandstill a is at nities virtually Men and women In all walks of life move en masse to Ramona Bowl some as performers some as stage bands some as service attendants and still others just to view again the stirring story of early days in their valley The general theme of Ramona is the tragedy of the Indian people In 1883 Mrs Jackson came to Los Anmission to geles on a government gather material pertaining to the "Ramona” Jackson is on Is pen emerged the which continues children Based on History Most of the important incidents in the book actually occurred in San Jacinto valley the home of the characters in the story Mrs conceived the idea for “Ramona” after learning of the tragic of an Indian couple experiences Juan Diego and Ramona who lived in the valley Tattered records of San Jacinto justice court as written by Justice Samuel V Tripp contain the story of the shooting of an Indian Juan man Sam Diego by a white Diego the records reveal Temple owned a plot of land containing water a site which was cherished by certain white men A trip into Sam Jacinto one day brought disaster to Diego He made the trip on horseback tying his mount in front of the general store In town Diego had a "couple of drinks" and became confused with the result that he rode away on another horse Although he rode directly home Diego was branded as a horse thief In the eyes of Sam Temple It is rethat Temple borrowed a counted formed a posse and rode shotgun away in the direction of Diego's land He returned with the story of having recovered a stolen horse and having killed an Indian in the process True to Life Climax This incident gave Mrs Jackson the climax for her story and she v F ( & - tV ' '7 4 schedule April calls for performances and May April on Gains Laurels Rapidly The Ramona pageant originally was started as a publicity enterprise by the joint chamber of commerce organizations of Hemet and Jacinto San From this pioneer start it has become one of the recoutdoor spectacles of the ognized nation over last season and conthis year as the play's proexecutive is Adrian Awan prominent for many years in producing outdoor pageants For several seasons he was connected with state California fairs He also staged the famed Pilgrimage Play in Hollywood and since its inception has been connected with Civic Light Opera in both Los Angeles and San Francisco Currently he is producing the revival of the famous Mission Play another early California historical pageant which is seen annually in the Mission Playhouse in San Gabriel Calif Taking tinuing duction Home Town Cares For Blinded Hero v SALINAS CALIF — Salinas the capital of the world is carfor its war hero Arthur McBride who lost his eyesight in the Battle of the Bulge Erection of a home for McBride will be started soon with a portion of the $13000 donated by people from Salinas and nearby areas The home will be built in a new subdivision on a $1500 lot anonymously donated to the war hero Furniture also will be donated The Monterey county board of supervisors has approved placing of a newsstand in the courthouse lobby to be operated by McBride ing u O ‘1 Jk ) 5$ vtvjr ' I r No Time for Mischief - A ttH T" 4 ULmm ATMOSPHERE colorful and romantic California's AUTHENTIC Ramona historical pageant Here a posse past is recreated In mountainside thunders across the stage where Helen Hunt novel "Ramona " is presented by residents of Jackson’s Hemet and Saa Jacinto Calif lied Banners Ringing WYO — Climaxing the revolt of Wyoming residents against the reckless tactics adopted a motorists by visiting California in the state legbill was introduced islature to require vehicles from the with Golden State to be equipped red banners and loud bells Introduced by Rep C W Jeffrey the bill would require California cars entering Wyoming to carry two fore red flags three feet square SEATTLE WASH Marillyn 13 is too busy to get into Brooks mischief She pictures models in clay makes dolls and designs dresses In addition she is a raises swims vegetables pianist and roller skates For the last two years she has received straight "A's" on her report cards paints Bells Would End Traffic Menace and aft and have two bells six inches in diameter and capable of being heard 500 yards which would "ring constantly while the car is In motion” Provision would be made for the visitor to 'Tease said flags bells and other accouterments at the point of entry for $2 a tyip” The bill emphasizes that while Wyoming citizens "in their zeal for western hospitality exemplifying most desirous a of are extending Dooley "They’ll have to know Surely you can see now that your is the truth?” only protection “Dave I can’t tell them! I can’t make myself do it” “But Richard la alive! You have to deal with a living personality now not a shadow not a memory an awful I think you’re taking chance Dooley risking a shock to Jill much worse than the truth dead would be I think you’re transposed it into her novel after changing the names to Alessandro wrong” and Jim Farrar I am” she sighed “Maybe Dave steered la the picturesque through carefully setting of the thin traffic on the 'edge of the Ramona Bowl with Its 50 acres town of natural mountainside studded “To my mind the best protection with trails this climax and the love story of Ramona and AlesJill can have is the truth But I’m not going to argue with you It’s sandro Is brought to life In the your own problem you’ve had the spectacular pageant misery of it all these years you’ve Abandoned during the war years the of It now You may since it is almost imperative to visit got able anxiety to count on Richard to keep be the play by automobile the Ramona his Identity concealed It’s to his pageant has been seen by more own interest of course It would be than 350000 spectators during its 19 for him if the definitely awkward seasons Last year the play was War got wind of it Department viewed by more than 50000 spectaThere are always a few blackbirds tors in its eight performances in every army but if they’re found With the exception of last season out it doesn’t go well with them” Ramona always has been presented "What is a blackbird?” on three consecutive weekends “A man who gets playing in the afternoons of each from a military unit for discharged some reaSaturday and'Sunday This year the son or who deserts or leaves hla lettuce CHEYENNE XVH “I haven’t even dared let myself And think since Rlc’s letter came there’s another danger Dave This woman knows Richard She knew him in Hawaii He telephoned last night He told me that he had tried to prevent this marriage by having Ric sent away but that they were too quick for him" “So Ric knows about his father? “No Ric doesn’t know Richard didn’t tell him And Jill doesn’t accepted that but always with that I supfaint tinge of condescension he had no pose it was because father There was a maleness In Ric that only a father could have touched I was always less a parent to him than just another woman By the time he was seven he was treating me with the same sort of casual indulgence that Richard used to have for me He told me the truth when It suited him and when he felt the urge to deceive me It never bothered him for a minute two “You gave your children parents Dooley Don’t forget that” “Jill said that the other day And I was always aware of It with Rle He has that charm that Richard has that trick of getting what he wants of being untouched by the disapproval of other people kind of veneer that kept him apart so that he was himself complete and Just a little arrogant entirely pleased with himself and slightly amused by all the rest of the world There’s a deadly kind of fascina- - cordial welcome to residents of California" still the traffic toll attributed to residents of that state is described as “most appalling” Irked by the proposal Edgar E motor vehiLamp ton California's cles director commented: “If Wyoming passes the law we ll California motorists to choose another route east Besides those that dangerous cowboy drivers state is full of modntains " command without with complying and then enlists someregulations where else under an assumed name the spot Richard ia in right and he’s now more probably acutely aware of it than even you are I doubt if he’ll start anything He was taking a risk even to let you know that he was alive But if this woman knows anything about It that's another angle and a bad That's one” “She saw Richard’s picture in Jill’s room and identified it stantly as a picture of Roger Mackey I could see her mind working She’s a type I’ve never met before Dave I don’t know exactly how to deal with her” “Why on earth did Ric send her to you anyway?” he didn’t know what “Because else to do with her He was shipped out suddenly — Richard did that — and I suppose she had no money There’s nothing at all to do Dave but wait" Failed in Her Duty to Ric “Here's the movie I suppose we should go In” Julia's voice was weary “Go in and look at Imitation tragedy and forget our own The sickening thing for me Dave is the realization that I must be a very No strong woman weak person could have muddled up one life as I have muddled mine” “What did you have to do with a little it?” Dave demanded "Did you create any of angrily these circumstances by any act of your own? You've taken what came with courage and made the best of I won’t have you blaming your- it self” “But I must be to blame for Ric A mother has to be to blame Dave Your child is given to you — clean upon plastic clay nothing carved the aurfacp at all all new and untried to make of it what you will I haven't even a father’s Influence for an alibi with Ric I failed somehow to put strength into his spirit to make him wise enough to judge values to give him the courage to reject everything that wasn't good and fine It isn’t pleasant to know that you’ve failed with your only son” “You're all wrong Dooley Any would tell you how psychologist wrong you are You aren’t given a child like a sheet of white paper with nothing at all written upon it What ia born to you is a record all over the long scroll scribbled of with the story of generations their weaknesses their meannessses their nobility traits over which you have no control whatever" “I did have the control of direction I could have puj power behind and ’eliminated the the weakness and built up what was meanness good hut I didn't I couldn't somehow ever get near to Ric Dave could enly give him love and ha I coming being pushed off in a state among strangers of dependence yet she had come And undoubtedly Sandra was a reJUl decided sourceful creature Did she believe that when the war was over Buzzard's Hill would belong to Ric and that the others that would be brushed off ctsuslly she would step into the comfort and security that Dooley had worked so them all? for win for to hard years "I’d kill her first!” JUl thought angrily ‘Td strangle her with my bare hands!” She kicked off the beige pajamas and got into the tub and lay there wasoaking in the comforting hot ter letting her mind drift off blankly The radio was playing In Rlc’a Sandra had room some Jive thing come up as soon as Dave went away bored with JiU and drowsy old John I giving them only the curtest of good nights Overhead Jill heard a plane flying slowly circling over the town The beat of the motors wae low and near and she sprang out of the tub and wrapped herself In a towel and crouched at the window to the glimpse the skimming lights shadow of fleet wings against the purple night sky That was Spang’s Spang’s "wild blue sky up there yonder" the hoUow secret endless roadway that Spang was traveling 0 happily now Awkwardly she scrubbed herself wriggled into a night gown dry sUpping her arm back into the sling Then the was aware of Sandra standing in the door watching her “Funny thing” Jill was thinking as she looked at the reflection of Sandra In the mirror "no matter how much she dresses up you always feel that somehow she isn’t quite clean” Aloud she said “HeUo Sandra What’s on your mind? Is your room all right?” Sandra came into the room perched on the end of the chaise longue draping aU the flounces gracefully about her legs “It’s all right” she said grudg“but awfully lonely! You ingly don’t know about missing a man so You Jill much it makes you $ couldn't” “Oh couldn’t I?” JiU thought angrUy But she kept her voice casand her face controUed as ahe went on brushing "It is sort of tough to have your bridegroom snatched away from you isn’t It? But you must have known that something like that would happen You’d been married to a soldier ual Rich“Yon may have changed but yon didn’t deard’s direction stroy him” tiun about it It makes you want and make the to break through person who owns it aware 9! you Even when I was so furious at Richard Sunday night when he came back I waa feeling that Irritation the Impelling to crash through that shell of his get past that mocking find some vulnerable spot smile some place where he could be Rlc’s like that too Suave hurt and charming and entirely remote But I should have done something about that when he wa small” "That very aloofness may save Ric Dooley” Dave reminded her If I’m any Judge of human nature this woman he has married won’t like It She’ll want to absorb every thought and feeling Ric has she'll eat him alive the way some spiders Her' very lack devour their mates of reticence and reserve will repel Ric if it hasn’t done that already She dragged him into this marof by some female trick riage and a few weeks course away from her will cool him down Very right now likely he’s wondering what he saw In her and how he's going to get out of the mess he’s in" ‘I think” Julia said opening the door and gathering up her purse “that the McFarlane and gloves men were not meant for marriage at alL There's an atavistic thing a strutting sort of in them solence that goes back to plumes and sabers and knights riding alone The woman who Innocently lures a McFarlane man into marriage deRichard stroys him I destroyed and Sandra will wreck Ric ’’ Sandra Puts On an Act nonsensel” fantastic ' "More growled Dave getting out his walthe lighted ticket winlet before dow "You may have changed Richard's direction but you didn’t destroy him What was In him would have worked the same destruction anyway Well let’s see what sort of of the real thing pale imitation Hollywood has to offer" her feet Jill dragged upstairs wearily She had worked hard that day forcing tiring herself to exhaustion her young body handicapped by the broken arm to tasks that the had because the never known before need was so great now that the shortage had moved in on Buzzard's Hill and because when every bone and muscle screamed with weariness she could sleep she would be too tired to think In one day life In the old house had abruptly stiffened to this horwatchful rible formality Why had Sandra come to Buzzard's Hill? She must have hated before" Sandra’s clicked “It teeth needn't have happened It was all done for spite by an officer who hates me He contrived to have Ricky sent away We haj hoursl hours of each other and then there I was — alone!" “But of course you were more or less used to being alone The adjustment wasn’t quite as difficult as though you’d been with Ric for months or maybe years” “You don’t know anything about love” Sandra remarked "You don’t know what torture It was seeing him go I All I could do was stand there at that gate and watch him trudging away looking back to ” She began to wave at me cry carefully dabbing away every tear her mouth twitching Words Between Two Girls ' “If Ric hadn’t had a home for you to come to It would have been wouldn’t bad It?’’ Jill kept her on the mirror eyes catching glimpses of Sandra over her shoulder “Just what would you have done anyway?” “I don’t know I’d have had to do something — try to follow Ricky I suppose” "Or perhaps” Jill was cool “you wouldn’t have married him at all? You’re a smart woman Sandra Somehow I can't see you marrying a boy— even one so attractive as Ric just on an impulse” "I suppose you’re trying to say without being nasty about it that I married Ricky because I thought your family had money?” Sandra said viciously “I wasn’t thinking about his family when I married I was only thinking that at him last I loved a man who loved me and that we had something beautiful that we mustn’t lose!’’ "And now” said Jill a deadly coolness smooth as glass in her voice "you’ve lost your idyllic love and got a lot of stodgy instead Tough break!" It’s quite all right" Sandra studied her nails "I knew how it would be before I came Ricky warned me He told me that you were very possessive Jill that you thought you had a private mother and that he had always been made to" feel like an outsider in his own home" Jill lifted her eyebrows “Ric’s really wonderful when he sounds off Isn’t he? If you didn’t know him awfully well you might believe evYou’d almost beery word of it lieve that his home was a place be really cared about not just an address handy to write to when he needed a check” “You don’t know very much about your brother do you?’’ Sandra was cool too (TO BE CONTINUED) VI Ifc |