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Show D OF U READIES GALA SUMMER OUTDOOR SHOW Preparations for the largest University of Utah Summer Festival Fes-tival in its three-year history , moved into final stages this week as directors, trained casts, and behind-the-scenes workers all. kept a weather eye on opening open-ing night, Monday, July 4. Headlining the double attraction attrac-tion will be "The Great Waltz" which will run for a full week from July 4 to 9 with a bonus production scheduled for July 11. An English version of Bizet's Bi-zet's "Carmen," most popular of all operas, will follow on July 15, 16, 18 and 19. Both will play in Stadium Bowl under the stars. Director of the two shows is Dr. C. Lowell Less, head of the speech department at the University, Uni-versity, who is ranked among the finest college theater men in the country. He has brought to the festival some of the outstanding out-standing singing and dancing stars of the. nation, including Kitty Carlisle, Robert Rounse-ville, Rounse-ville, Gwenn Hawthorne and Theodor Uppman. They will be joined by casts for both shows which include Ruth Clawson, Ray Halverson, Blanche Chris-tensen, Chris-tensen, H. E. D. Redford, Chester Ches-ter Dowse, Hubert Keddington Helen Wooten, Rachel Conner, Mary Ethel Eccles, Ray Brimhall and John Nicolaysen. Musical director of the dual bill is Maurice Abravanel, who has built the Utah Symphony to a recognized iplace in the music world. He has trained a large and capable chorus, reminiscent in ability of the now-famed group he developed for the great "Missa Solemhis" concert last year. "It has long been our desire to make these festivals annual i affairs," said Dr. A. Ray Olpin, president of the University, ! "and with the quality .shows which have been staged in the past, together with The Great Waltz and Carmen, which we know will be the finest yet, we are sure that the people of the state will help all they can to make these productions the entertainment en-tertainment highlight of each summer." |