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Show s cewe 9 76 CLASSIFIEDS FEATURES PAUL HARVEY WEEKS TV GUIDE 0 -- 9 -- -- THURSDAY, SEPT. 23. 1976 G BY CACHE VALLEY NATIVE Started As A Master's Thesis It j, Leonard Arrington, a native of Cache Valley, and a graduate of Utah State University, had seen several one man shows about one man, such as James Whitmore's "Will Rogers". He decided for his master's thesis he would prepare a similar show on Brigham Young. Being the son of the LDS church historian, Dr. Leonard Arrington, a former member of the USU faculty, he had. ready access to a wealth of information, in , as JAMES ARRINGTON in costume and make-u- p Brigham Young in a photograph taken at Lion House, Salt Lake City. Mr. Arrington is the author and performer of the- - . addition to help from his father. After three years of research, his thesis developed into a full scale monologue production which is now called "Here's Brother Brigham." The show was presented last May in Logan under the Utah State Theatre auspices, following a successful showing at Brigham Young University where James was studying for his master's degree. . With numerous requests for a repeat performance, the USU theater will present the show again on October 9 at the Lyric theater in Logan. James has attempted to show Brigham Young as a human being instead of the model as people have come to know him. He said that when he started the project as a masters thesis he got so deeply involved in the research that it took him three years to complete it. From the three years of collecting, he wrote a short monologue, 7-- but found that he needed to go further and developed it into a one man show. He then found that it was difficult to perform for himself, so he solicited the help of a director and other production assistance. The show was played for the first time eight months ago at B YU and was immediately successful. Since that time he has been touring with the show throughout Utah. Following the appearance in May at the Lyric in one-ma- n show "Here's Brother Brigham" which will play a 3 day return engagement to Logan's Lyric Theatre, October 7, 8, 8. Tickets are available through the University Center Ticket Office on the USU campus. ; cessful will be booked across the United States. In preparing the script for the show, James Arrington deliberately wrote it not as a church oriented production or a proslyting media for the church, but as an entertaining story about the famous Mormon colonizer. The show has been enjoyed by audiences, of Mormons and alike during the past year. James Arrington graduated from Utah State University. Logan, the show ran for a month at the Promised Valley Playhouse in Salt Lake City. " Following the show in October in Logan, it will be taken to Southern Utah and then it will be booked in Utah throughout the remainder of the year. Following that arrangements are being made to book it nationally through a booking agency in San Francisco. It will be shown on the West coast first and if suc Moths, Debts, Football Injuries Never Daunted Ancesters BY WILLIAM J. O'NEILL National Geographic News American Indians weren't the great shots with bows that Hollywood films have made them out to be. In battle, they preferred close combat with clubs, tomahawks, knives or lances instead of trying to fell their foes at a distance with arrows. When hunting, careful stalking was necessary to bring a brave as close as possible to his prospective dinner before risking a feathered shaft, the National Geographic Society says. Of course, the Indians were only working with homemade equipment. en today's compound bows with Giv- arrows in a bulls-ey- e nearly a football field away. The American teenager won a Gold Medal at the Olympic Games in Montreal, officially becoming the world's best bowman. To hit targets at ranges of 90 meters, or 97V4 yards, Olympic contestants use a three-piec- con- toured grips, adjustable sights and stabilizers, and enough precision-machine- d aluminum arrows, the tribes might jfiave turned back those Westbound wagon trains. EVEN THE English who punched holes in the myth of armored invincibility by trouncing 13 times' their number of French knights at Agincourt in 1415 could not have equaled the accuracy archers now attain with Space Age armament. Using modern equipment, Darrell Pace can put a of hollow metal quiver-ful- l e, take-dow- n The arrows fly true. ' In a nod to tradition, the core of the bow still is wood, usually a thin strip of maple. It is overlaid with a matrix of bow consisting of a central grip and double-curve- d upper and lower sections. Stabilizing rods protruding from the bow hold sliding weights that can be set to keep the bow from twisting when the archer releases the string. strong plastic in which glass fibers are embedded. THESE laminated bows, approximately four feet tall and with pulls of 28 to 35 pounds, are accurate at distances than the ' greater 15th century longbows that stood six or seven feet tall long-bowm- FISH WERE BITING in Renaissance England. Gallant enjoys a fishing expedition with his favorite girl In an engraving from "The Life of Our English Ancestors." The exhibit of books and Illustrations, at the Folger Shakespeare Library In Washington, D.C., through October, gives an insight into 16th- - and 17th-centu- life-style- s. THE MOLDED grip includes an adjustable notch in which the arrow rests, and a vertical bar whose peep sight is raised or lowered to give the right trajectory for specified distances. A brightly colored nocking point on the Dacron or Kevlar bowstring assures that each arrow is positioned exactly the same way, for more uniform shots. are precision aluminum alloy tubes with metal points and plastic vanes instead of feathers to make the shafts drawn, ' and had pulls of 65 to 70 pounds. New hunting bows about three feet tall pack the power of longbows twice their size by using a complex system in which the bowstring runs over pulleys at either end of the bow, doubles back through a second set of pulleys in the bow, and is anchored to small metal posts in the bow's |