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Show SUSC receives Roscoe Grover Pa in tings of Venice", and a large oil of Phil Margetts, a character actor of the Old Salt Lake Theater. Adams was originally from Salt Lake City and is best remembered for her role as the first "Peter Pan". Skinner was a noted Shakespearean actor who Grover say perform on Broadway and in Salt Lake City. Margetts, Challis says, was one of the first managers of the Salt Lake Theater and was one of LDS President Brigham Young's favorite performers. "Grover's donations to the Utah Shakespearean Festival and to the college are valuable gifts for their historical and theatrical value and as a contribution of a person who loves SUSC and southern Utah," Fred C. Adams, founding-director of the Utah Shakespearean Festival, said. Several oil paintings by Roscoe A. Grover, well-known well-known to thousands of school children in the 1950's as "Uncle Roscoe", have been donated by the artist to Southern Utah State College and to the Utah Shakespearean Festival. The five oil paintings--all portraits-were originally shown at SUSC in an exhibition of Grover's works displayed in the college library. Three of the paintings pain-tings are now exhibited at the library, the other two are in the SUSC Auditorium. "Grover is a man of many talents and professions," A. Thomas Challis, director of the SUSC Library, said. "Not only is he a former radio and television personality, per-sonality, but he is an actor, a teacher with several degrees, and an artist who excells . in many forms of painting." Challis notes that Grover was the manager of Radio Station KSUB in Cedar City for many years. "During his stay in southern Utah Grover became well acquainted with SUSC and painted many of the college officials, most often from old character drawings or photographs," The SUSC library director said. Paintings currently on exhibit in the library foyer include those of Howard R. Driggs, one of the first faculty members at Branch Normal School as the college was then called; H. Wayne . Driggs, director of the college from 1945-51; and Daryl, Chase, SUSC director from 1951-54. The two other paintings, both portraits of noted theatrical persons, include a portrait of Otis Skinner and Maud Adams in Shakespearean's "Merchant |