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Show CSU Presents Drama At Auditorium Thursday - Saturday Costume design section of the CSU Theater Workshop has run up a lot of milage during its short four-year run on campus, according to drama chief Fred Adams. He reckoned that some 16G major costumes have been turned out of the workshop by students and supervisors of design de-sign and construction. A short tour though the busy section in the auditorium basement base-ment almost any hour of rehearsal rehear-sal season will reveal whirring . sewing machines, snipping scissors scis-sors and percolating postum against a background of musical musi-cal comedy. On all walls are the usual theater dressing mirrors and long lines of Completed or nearly near-ly completed costumes ranging from German gestapo uniform to Hamlet's gold and black velvet. Shakespearean costumes to the number of 110 now carry a value of some $28,000 and excite much admiration from visitors who feel the silk, brocades, lace woolens in their gorgeous hues of every Imaginable color. ' Mrs. Lee Thompson, supervisor supervi-sor of design and construction, with pins in mouth and tape measure around her neck, rules the output of the industrious crew that ranges in size from 2 to 12 students. These students take a very comphrehenslve study In the history of costume dating from the Greek and Roman Ro-man theater. Costumes of the Garden of Eden era were Just a bare necessity, according to most authorities. ; "Students are then prepared to spend time researching their own costumes, designing, preparation prepar-ation of costume plates and then actual consfructlon of the project," pro-ject," Mrs. Thompson said. The costume authority Indicated thr numerous hours spent on some of the more Intricate dresses. "Bella's "Bel-la's dress In Barrett's of Wlmpcle Street took over 25 hours of .research .re-search and construction." |