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Show n J r . LLJ COSTUMES OF FESTIVAL. Members of the Utah Shakespearean Festival Board examine costumes. They are, 1 to right: Dr. Eugene T. Woolf, Gustin O. Gooding, Gary Mclntyre, managing director and production coordinator; Dr. Reed W. Farnsworth, Dr. Royden C. Braithwaite, chairman; and Maurice Maur-ice Crichton. Festival costuming grows each year manner and style envisioned -be herself and the director. "Only in this way can the integrity in-tegrity of the total production be achieved." he said. In accepting the Avon gift the USF Board of Directors expressed ex-pressed appreciation to the cosmetics cos-metics firm for its continuing support of the Festival. The Board toured the new costume storage areas In the basement of the west wing of the auditorium made available avail-able when the college administrative admini-strative offices were moved to the new administration building build-ing in September. Gary Mclntyre, managing director di-rector and production coordinator coordin-ator for the Festival, erplalned to the Board members that each period of costume stock will have a separate storage and display area, making it possible to maintain better inventories in-ventories and display the costumes cos-tumes to best advantage. Costuming Is a facet of the Utah Shakespearean .Festival which receives maximum attention at-tention from one season to the next. i These standards of excellence set In 1962 for the Festival's first season have been strictly observed and Improved upon each succeeding year. A major factor In the continuing con-tinuing high quality of costume cos-tume design and construction has been a gift of $1,000 made available to the Festival each year by Avon Products, Inc. This year's gift brings the total donation for the annual event to $8,000 from the Avon Company. Com-pany. 1 A feature of the 1973 Festival was a display of costuming from each of the plays produced produc-ed during the twelve seasons. After performances are completed com-pleted each year the costumes are cleaned and stored for future fut-ure use, in Festival productions or for other SUSC drama activities. activ-ities. However, it has been explained ex-plained by Fred C. Adams, founding producer of the Festival, Festi-val, that most of the costuming costum-ing Is new each season with used costumes either worn by those performing minor roles , or the fabrics reused in newly constructed costumes. "We do not want to ruin the characterization of a play by having costumes recognized as having been worn In previous productions," Prof Adams said. He also explained that each costume designer must have the freedom to complete the costuming for the play to which she Is assigned in a |