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Show 'January Thaw' To Be Staged As Band Suit Benefit Advance ticket sales for Union Un-ion High School faculty's production pro-duction of "January Thaw," hilarious hi-larious three-act comedy, began Wednesday in Roosevelt and surrounding communities. Ducats are being distributed under direction of Rex Curry and Roy Adams, officers of Union Un-ion Band Parents' organization. Proceeds from the play will go towards purchase of $3,000 worth of new band uniforms now on order. Dress rehearsals for the play were being conducted this week in the Roosevelt stake house recreation rec-reation hall, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, where the drama will be staged next week. An elaborate setting and dozens doz-ens of authentic properties are being created in order to characterize char-acterize the remodeled 200-year old Connecticut farm house in which action of the play is centered. cen-tered. The play's plot develops around a mixup in the deed to the farm property which brings an old, conservative couple to reside, unwanted, in the bosom of the modern, liberal family which inherited -the house. Mrs. Virgie Murphy and Mr. James Lewis are starred as the husband and wife who remodelled remodel-led the farm house in order to bring their family out of a crowded city apartment. Mrs. Myrtle Lambert and Wayne Carle are paired as the conservative elderly couple who refuse to be budged from the house or tolerate modern improvements. im-provements. A romantic interest develops when a love triangle develops between a .son and daughter of the two couples, respectively, and a boy friend all played by Miss Suzzane Fiske, Clyde Johnson John-son and Marion Harrison. Others in the cast include Miss Bette Eldredge, Miss Ann Murphy, Wendell Johnson, Dick Scholes, ' Gae Johnson and Squire Mangum. Band parents' representatives are being appointed in various localities to handle ticket sales, Mr. Curry said. |
