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Show Theatre Guild Scores Hit With Hamlet Play Following two performances this week for high school and college students, the Rainbow Theatre Guild production of "Hamlet" will be in top shape tonight and Friday night for the two final performances of the great Shakespearean tragedy. In spite of the great problems and difficulty in the staging, costuming and casting, the guild has come through with another successful play. Other performances perform-ances in the past few years have been on the lighter side such as. "I Remember Mama", "Dear Ruth" and "Kiss and Tell". Hamlet Ham-let marks the first "heavy" work which has been undertaken by the group. Arrangements are now being made to take the production to Richfield for a performance there and later to Las Vegas, Nevada. The Caliente, Nev. Lions club asked this week to sponsor the production in that city also. The local production runs approximately ap-proximately 2 hours and 45 minutes min-utes and is an original version. The Rainbow Theatre Guild based bas-ed Its version on Maurice Evans' GI play and Lawrence Olivler's moving picture, to cut the production pro-duction down from its original five and one half hour length. Giving very creditable performances perform-ances in the leading roles are: Seymour Salmanowltz. New York, (Continued on Back Page) "HAKLET" (Contioued from Pag On) Hamlet; Anne Okerlund. Loa. Ophelia; Ole Larson. Monroe, Laertes; William Lundmark, Cedar Ce-dar City. Horatio; Alice Wright, Cedar City, Gertrude the Queen; Don Cameron, St. George. Claudius Claud-ius the King, and Peter Ostroff, New York, Polonius. Outstanding portrayals are also al-so being given by the supporting support-ing cast including Kenneth May, Norman White, Quinn Christen-sen, Christen-sen, Arlo Farnsworth, Bruce Gardner, Jack Mitchell, Walter Lunt, Dr. H. Wayne Driggs, Jack Roberts and Twila Waite. The production is under the direction of Prof. Twain Tippetts, with Marilyn Ronnow of Pana-ca. Pana-ca. Nevada, as assistant director. The very important job of script girl, which included a typing of the original version, was handled by Pat Larson, Cedar City, a student at the Branch Agricultural Agricul-tural college. Donald K. Nelson was in charge of the staging, with Donald Don-ald Applegate as stage manager. The special scenery for the set jwas constructed with the help of I Prof. C. B. Cooley and students, in the Industrial training division. divis-ion. Programs were in charge of Rhea Staples, and Reed Co. helped with the lighting. |