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Show Why do kids act that way? BYJERI ANDERSON Chronicle Staff "Bring me some cheese, crack me a nut, remove the fly from my i nose!" L Those are the demands of a 13-year-old prince played by Mike The pauper, played by Craig Pease, 13, said he thought the kids were fun and Mr. Adix was "a neat man!" Julie Hayes, a 16-year-old junior ju-nior at East High who plays Lady Elizabeth, said there was a lot of rehearsing and sometimes the kids confidence," Miss McGill said. As for Mr. Adix, he is a man of great patience during times of impossible moments. He's a man who likes kids or he could never do what he's doing. t Dunn in "The Prince and the f Pauper," which is under the direction dir-ection of Vern Adix of the Youth Theater. If you were a 13-year-old 'boy who liked to play football, loved to play baseball and basketball and wanted to become aprofessional' skier, why would you take a part in the Youth Theater? Perhaps you like being with other kids, perhaps you like making mak-ing it to practice every night after school and being up on the stage or perhaps you thought Vern Adix, the director, was fun and understanding. Or maybe liked the dramatic games that relate to the play, the games Mr. Adix created! Billy Santistevan, 12-year-old drummer boy in the play, said he uked being in the Youth Theater becuase he thought Mr. Adix was fun and he really enjoyed going n tour. He said going to Wyoming Wyo-ming would be boring but fun. Nick Barbar, 12, who plays Humphrey Marlow in the play sad he just couldn't wait to get to the rehearsals and he just couldn't wait to go on tour. (The theater troupe recently toured schools in Ml Lake, Roosevelt and Rock bPnngs, Wyo.) in the groups became rude and out of control. She said Mr. Adix handled the children well and very rarely reprimanded them, but when he does, he does it in such a manner that the children don't really mind it and instantly improve. im-prove. When a child needs to be scolded, Mr. Adix takes on the voice of a different character in the play, and reprimands them in that way. The children respond well. Miss Hayes said, "The kids are real and I love 'em all." She said it provides an opportunity to get along with many types of people. "Experience is what counts," she said. The thing that everyone likes about Mx. Adix, Miss Hayes said, is that he is human. "He has a part in the play, and everytime his turn comes to recite two lines, he forgets them. Things like that make the children and myself feel much easiser around him," she said. Maureen McGill, a dance major at the University, said the Youth Theater brought live theater to the children, and the children to the theater. "It's a beginning for them, a live experience with their own imagination and self- |