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... Auntie Mame (continued)
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Flappers to the immediate
past with her slightly
madcap adventures and her
devotion to her orphaned
voung nephew, Patrick.
Now, thirteen-year-old
Patrick needs his aunt, and
this is something new for
Auntie Mame -- to be
needed. It changes her
life. It brings her into
sharp conflict with her best
friend, Vera Charles, a
grande dame of the legiti-
mate theatre -- for Vera
can’t stand children. The
man Auntie Mame is about
to marry is perfectly willing
to take on the boy as a
bonus, but Auntie Mame
joesn’t think she’ll have
time for marriage -- “‘I'll
be too busy being a
mother!”’
The boy’s nanny, Norah
Muldoon, doesn’t approve
of those irrepressible
things which go on in
Auntie Mame’s Beekman
Place apartment, and yet
she inevitable falls under
her spell.
Auntie Mame also bat-
tles Babcock, the Babbit-
ish banker who wants
to make young Patrick the
prisoner of the Establish-
ment. With the balloon
burst of the Depression, it
looks as if Babcock is going
to have his way. Auntie
Mame loses all her money,
and she loses her job as
quickly as she finds it. In
a brief adventure as a
saleslady at Macy's, she
meets Beau -- a wealthy
gentleman from the South.
He takes Auntie Mame to
his plantation for the
begrudging approval of his
family. Of course, Beau
proposes, and as the
curtain falls on the first
act, young Patrick, who has
given Auntie Mame such
joy and has provided a
purpose in her life, smiles
bravely. But he’s afraid
that he has lost her.
Act two rushes headlong
into the Thirties. Vera
stands by Auntie Mame
when she returns to Beek-
man Place after Beau's
sudden death on the
Matterhorn. Patrick is now
in college, and Auntie
Mame’s former suitor,
Lindsay Woolsey, prompts
her into writing her mem-
oirs. Agnes Gooch has
been primed in secretarial
school to type up Auntie
Mame’s pearls of wisdom
-- but an experiment in a
liberated life has a trans-
forming influence on her.
Meanwhile, Patrick seems
to be slipping away from
Auntie Mame's ideal of
freedom. When he de-
clares his engagement to a
fatuous blonde ‘‘with the
IQ of a dead flashlight
battery,’”’ Auntie Mame is
in despair. But the lady's
resources are endless. Just
as young Patrick rescued
her from the shallow trap
of the Twenties, she helps
her nephew to save himself
from a life of Darien
drabness and snobbery.
Ingeniously, she foils the
Establishment and life goes
on, not with Auntie Mame
but with Grandauntie
Mame rescuing another
youngster from the toils of
conformity.
Auntie Mame is a wo-
man of spirit, innate
kindness and undefeatable
courage. Auntie Mame is
Eve, St. Joan, Lady
Godiva, Susan B. Anthony,
Clara Bow and Florence
Nightingale. Auntie Mame
is a happy happening!
Cast in the leading role
of Auntie Mame is Rebecca
Zimmerman. Other mem-
bers of the cast are: Vera
Charles, Dalene Hummer;
Ito, Dean Bricker; Patrick
Dennis as a boy, Gregory
Bowman; Patrick Dennis as
a young man, Wayne
Mylin; Norah Muldoon,
Jaclyn Zeller; Lindsay
Woolsey, James Landis;
Beauregard Jackson Pickett
Burnside, Floyd Runkle;
Brian O’Bannion, Donald
Kelly; Agnes Gooch,
Monica Nissley; Mr. Bab-
cock, Kirk Billet; Gloria
Upson, Karen Barnhart;
Mrs. Upson, LuAnn Bren-
neman; Mr. Upson, Keith
Pomroy; Pegeen Ryan,
Bonnie Wolgemuth; Moth-
er Burnside, Sharon Cox;
Sally Cato MacDougal,
Kristen Straub; Ralph De-
vine, Greg Zimmerman;
Mr. Waldo, Patrick Ken-
ney; Cousin Fan, Kelley
Rice; Cousin Jeff, Bruce
Wagner; Mr. Loomis, Rob-
ert Pekarek; a Customer,
Belle Balmer; Mrs. Jen-
nings, Christy Zeller; Dr.
Shurr, Steven Geib; Mich-
ael Dennis, Gregory Bow-
man; Mr. Dodson, Eric
Gotwalt; Newspaper ven-
dor, John Day. Also
included in the cast as
Auntie Mame’s party
guests and as Beauregard’s
kinfolk are: Belle Balmer,
John Day, Steven Geib,
Deana Germer, Eric Got-
walt, Deborah Graham,
Sandra Kreider, Paula
Moyer, Lisa Mummaw,
Barbara Peifér, Robert
Pekarek, Scott Stauffer (as
the Lithuanian Bishop),
Bruce Wagner, Christy
Zeller, and Greg Zimmer-
man.
Chairpersons of the pro-
duction staff are: Makeup,
Dalene Hummel; Poster,
Ticket, and Program De-
sign, Floyd Runkle; Pro-
gram typist, Penny Hen-
drix; Publicity, Paula
Moyer; Set Decoration,
Chris Spickler; Set Proper-
ties, Monika Nissley; Tech-
nical Director, Sandra Mc-
Quate; Sound Effects,
Curtis Thompson; Tickets,
Dalene Hummel
Diane Hess;
Penny Hendrix.
Faculty Advisors for the
production are as follows:
Set Construction, Kenneth
Depoe; Art and Design,
Mrs. Linda Ross; Director,
Glenn E. Hess.
Tickets for the produc-
tion may be purchased
from any cast member or at
the door the nights of the
performances. The cost of
admission is $2.00 per
Ushering,
Rebecca Zimmerman
adult and $1.00 per stu-
dent. In addition to the
scheduled public perform-
ances on Friday and Satur-
day, October 27 and 28,
there will be a special
matinee on Thursday after-
noon, October 26, at 1:00
p.m. for all senior citizens
of the Donegal area. There
is no admission charge for
this special matinee per-
formance. Senior citizens
preferring to eat lunch at
IU 13 ofiers help for pre-schoolers
Billy is three years old
and only points and grunts
to tell his parents what he
needs. Neil, a red-headed
four year old, was born
with a heart problem and is
mentally retarded. Susan
has a hearing loss and
language delay which
makes it hard for her to
make friends, while David
is a hyperactive child.
What do all of these
children have in common?
They all have special
educational needs and are
receiving help from the
Preschool Services of Lan-
caster-Lebanon Inter-
mediate Unit.
Children who can benefit
from this program include
those with a speech,
hearing or vision problem,
behavioral or emotional
difficulty, physical hand-
icap, learning disability or
retardation.
According to Preschool
Supervisor Roland Hahn II,
one important job for his
staff is to find children in
the county who have
special needs. ‘‘So much
learning occurs before a
child enters kindergarten,’
Hahn states, ‘‘that if there
is a learning problem, a
pattern of failure will often
already be set when a child
begins school.” The
Preschool Services give
preschoolers extra help
early so problems can be
minimized or eliminated by
the time they go to school.
Also, by finding the prob-
lem early, the special help
can continue in a school-
age program if it is
needed.
To find the most appro-
priate service for each
child, the Preschool staff
also works closely with
local community agencies,
nursery schools, day care
centers, and medical per-
sonnel. In this way, the
child benefits from all
available community re-
sources.
If a local area resident
knows a child with a
special need or suspected
handicapping condition,
call the Intermediate Unit
office at 569-7331 and ask
for the Information Man-
October 11, 1978
Wayne Mylin
the high school cafeteria
prior to the performance
are requested to make
reservations by calling
Mrs. Barnhart at the
Donegal High School Cafe-
teria Office. The number
to call for reservations is
653-1871, extension 94.
The cost of the lunch for
senior citizens is $.75, and
lunch will be served begin-
ning at 11:00 a.m. j
ager or call the toll free
statewide CONNECT In-
formation Service at 1-800-
692-7288. The 1.U. Pre-
school Services are offered
at no cost for Lancaster
County residents.
Mount Joy Lions guests of Rotary,
hear Mueller on capital punishment
The Mount Joy Rotary
were hosts to the Lions
Club at their October
meeting at Hostetters Di-
ning Hall.
The Honorable Paul Mu-
eller spoke on the history
of capital punishment in
Pennsylvania.
Capital punishment, his
torically, has changed with
the beliefs of the times. In
the Middle Ages in Eu-
rope, for example, it was
more likely to be meted out
as punishment for minor
thefts or religious beliefs
than for murder. (Murders
were ‘“‘paid’”’ off, often in
cash, to the family of the
victim, or the family sought
its private revenge in more
violent ways.)
In today’s society, capital
punishment is a controver-
sial subject, and Judge
Mueller’s historical ap-
proach to Pennsylvania's
standards gave interesting
insights into the pro’s and
con’s of the topic.
Floyd Runkle, Rotary
“Boy of the Month,”’ was a
guest at the dinner and
meeting.
It was announced that
Abram Groff will be in
charge of ‘““Farmers Day,”
and that the date for
selling capons will be
November 14.
“Golden Age of Furniture”
“The Golden Age of
American Funiture, 1750-
1850” is the subject of the
ilustrated talk to be pre-
sented Tuesday night, Oct.
17, at 8:00 by Wendell D.
Garrett, editor of The
Magazine Antiques, at the
Fulton Opera House.
Open to the public with
an admission fee, the
program is one of a series
being offered through April
by the Heritage Center of
Lancaster County. Mem-
bers of the Heritage Center
will be admitted free.
“Our programs are usu-
ally open only to Heritage
Center members,’ said
Samuel E. Dyke, president
of the organization, ‘‘but in
this instance we are invit-
ing the general public
because we feel there'll be
so much interest in hearing
someone as nationally
known as Wendell Garrett.
His magazine is so highly
regarded, and he himself is
so well respected as an
authority, that I’m sure this
will be an unusually re-
warding evening for those
interested in early Ameri-
can furniture.’
Correction
CORRECTION
The Susquehanna Times
made an error in last
week’s paper. In an article
about Gary Byrd that
appeared on page 5, he
was incorrectly identified
as “Gary Boyd.”
We apologize for our
error.