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Show Tragic Story Of Joan d'Arc Played Thursday A large audience was deeply interested in-terested Thursday night in the BAC Rainbow Theatre Guild production pro-duction of "Joan of Lorraine", by Maxwell Anderson. The auditorium at Delta high school was filled for the play, which had been given earlier at a matinee for students. The play is unusual, in that it was a play within a play. The story of Joan d'Arc was told 'as a cast prepared the play for presentation. presen-tation. The audience was taken behind scenes, as it were, for rehearsals. re-hearsals. Problems of production and temperament created some merriment, and then the cast did some fine sober and sincere acting as the tragic story of the Maid was told. Prof. Twain Tippetts, head of the dramatics department at the BAC, directed the performance, and also played the director of the play within the play. Anne Ashcroft, BAC student, was excellent in the part of Joan, and was most moving mov-ing in the last scene when Joan, forsaken by the French, prepares for death by fire. Deltans in the cast were Joe Bishop, as an electrician, and brother bro-ther of Joan, and Helen Turner, as Saint Catherine, one of Joan's "voices". Norman White, Beaver, who played the Dauphin, will be well remembered here from his performance last year as the young Scot, in "The Hasty Heart". The play ran from 8 until 11 p. m., in two acts and seven scenes. Skill and ability of the cast made the performance outstanding. |