THURSDAY, JULY 17, 1969
'Tobacco Road' Opens
At Playhouse Theatre
The play that once held the world'S record
for length of run (3,180 consecutive per
formances on Broadway) opened yesterday at
the Playhouse Theatre and will run through
July 20 and from July 22-26. "Tobacco Road,"
the comedy-drama adapted by Jack Kirkland
from the best selling novel by Erskine Cald
well, is the second production of The Penn
Sylvania State Festival Theatre this summer.
"Tobacco Road" centers around the aging,
toothless Jeeter Lester, who lives with his
bickering family in a delapidated shack in
Georgia. Born with little ambition, and
discouraged by the enormity of the problems he
faces, Jeeter, his wife, his mother and his off
spring have allowed themselves to degenerate
into little more than animals. The Lester
children are spiteful and resentful, while Jeeter
is just as disrespectful and inconsiderate of his
own mother. Jeeter and Ada, his wife, are fac
ing the dispossession of their home, and their
own descent to the poor house, with bitterness,
and yet irresolutely do nothing about it.
Though the play was originally intended as
a compassionate social document, it has long
been appreciated as comedy by audiences un
prepared for the speech and attitudes of the
characters.
Perry Bruskin is the dir e c tor of the
Festival Theatre production. "Tobacco Road"
is the second of six plays to be presented dur
ing the 1969 season, based on the theme, "iViade
in USA, A Summer of American Drama." The
plays, which include a series-of old favorites
and one group of avant-garde productions, have
been selected for their historic, geographic and
thematic diversity. Preceding "Tobacco Road"
was "Our Town" by Thorton Wilder.
Trustees Authorize Renovation
The University has been
authorized by the Board of
Trustees to seek bids late this
year for extensive renovation
and .alteration to the main
kitchen and food service areas
of the Nittany Lion Inn.
Bids are to be solicited at the
end of the 1969 football season.
The tentative timetable, pend
ing receipt and approval of the
bids, calls for the remodeling
to begin in December and to be
completed by the end of
March.
The project involves a corn
plete renovation of the main
kitchen area, including new
floors, ceiling and walls, the
installation of new equipment,
and the enlarging of the
dishwashing area.
Construction is to begin
shortly on a University owned
and operated laundry to pro
vide linen services for the
campus.
Contracts for the facility
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The Festival Theatre is the Equity stage
company operating during the summer under
the sponsorship of the Departrrient of Theatre
Arts.
Max Gulak, a bi-lingual actor who has per
formed on the stage, radio and screen. will ap
pear as Jeeter Lester. Ada Lester, Jeeter's
wife, will be played by Kate Wilkinson.
Christopher Murney will be seen as Dude
Lester, Ellen Greenfield as Ellie May. Grayce
Grant as Grandma Lester and Paul Villani as
Lou Bensey. Also in the cast are Joseph War
ren, Leslie Cass, Barrie Youngfellow, William
Swetland, and Jim Hummert.
The rest of the season's productions include
"Collision Course," twelve playlets by con
temporary playwrights; "Dark of the Moon." a
fantasy by Richardson and Berney; Kaufman
and Hart's comedy, "You Can't Take It With
You" and "The Drunkard," an 1844 temperance
melodrama by W. H. Smith and an anonymous
"Gentleman."
University students are entitled to a special
$.50 admission on "preview nights," the night
preceding each opening. The dates of the
remaining previews are July 22 for "Collision
Course," Aug. 5 for "Dark of the Moon," Aug.
19 for "You Can't Take It With You" and Sept.
2 for "The Drunkard."
Student admission to all other per
formances is $1.50.
Ticket prices for non-students are $2.75
Tuesdays through Fridays; $3.25 Saturdays.
and $2.25 Sundays.
Curtain time is 8:30 p.m. for all per
formances. Reservations may be made at the
Festival Theatre Box Office. 103 Arts Building;
or by phoning the Playhouse or Pavilion
Theatres.
were awarded following ap
proval by the Board of
Trustees.
The facility, which i s
scheduled to be completed by
fall of next year, is to cost ap
proximately $1 million, includ
ing the latest in linen handling
equipment.
The decision to authorize the
project at this time was made
after a lengthy review of the
plan showed the University's
laundry requirements could
best be served by a University
operated laundry. The facility
had been under consideration
for the last 10 years.
Th c University currently
contracts with private laun
dries throughout Central Pen
nsylvania for its laundry ser
vice.
The new laundry is to be
built solely f r o m University
funds and financed on a self
amortizing basis. It is to pro
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linens from all campus
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Contracts also have been
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The contracts were signed Pi tt
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about the scarcity of turnips in 'Tobacco Road' presented
by the Festival Theatre, July 16.20 and 22-26 at the
Playhouse Theatre.
AWS Schedules Jammy
Th e Summer Association of tivities are
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Women S t u d e n t s discussed —Splash Jammy at the out
representation of the Upward door pool, July 19.
Bound students, who live in the
—"Kiddie Day" on the HUB
dormitories, on the dorm coun- patio and lawn, August 9.
cils at' the weekly meeting on
—lce Cream Social in front
Tuesday evening. Shulze and
Ritner have made definite of the Pollock Union Building
from 7 to 8
plans to include an Upward p.m., July 22. A
Bound student on their cowl- nominal charge will be made
cils. for ice cream: different top-
The Senate suggested that pings will be free.
AWS look into the possibility of AWS is also sponsoring a
season tickets for the outdoor Letters to Viet Nam project.
pool. Such tickets would be Any girl who is interested in
available at a reduced gate for writing to servicemen should
students. contact a member of her dorm
Among the future AWS ac- council.
(AP) A small, homemade bomb blew a hole in a dor
mitory room at the University of Pittsburgh earl• Tuesday. A
university spokesman said it was one of five unrelated inci
dents on the campus overnight.
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The spokesman said the bomb, made from a piece of pipe,
exploded after two male students who occupied the room went
downstairs to play cards. It caused minor damaged to the
room.
A rock was also hurled through the office door of
Chancellor Wesley W. Posvar, a fight broke out between some
students and nonstudents and a small fire was discovered in
the 'school's administration building.
The spokesman said the fire began when someone threw a
lighted cigarette into a waste paper basket.
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