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4 The Gold Bug, Mar. 10, 1967 Gunfire In Alumni - Mary· Belle .Opens Tonite FOCUS ON FOLLIES: A Director's "Unbiased" View... by Larry Eisenberg Tonight and tomorrow night the class-of 1968 is putting on Western Maryland's annual Junior Follies. The Follies has been a dear and sacred tradition at red long johns are too tight, and a strong-arm cowpoke type who tonight has traded in his Hl-gallon hat for a pseudo-Luftwaffe flying cap. I pick up a few sodas for the others, and the Inevt. table pack of Luckiea for John and a chocolate Coke for me. Hired Gun my cue comes and I stride on stage. A minute doesn't I blow my first line and throw everyone off. "Okay, says Larry, "Let's take it from the top." I stumble to the finish and Larry says, "Not bad. Now let's tr-y it make-up." Groan! Everyone bustling down to the make-up r-oom .. Girls making-up the guys before they take care of each other. Guys: "Christ I feel ridiculous!" Girls: "Now you know what we go through every morning." Grease paint base number 29. Eye- Superior Quality Breaks Tradition liner. Blue for the beard. "Make it darker, Kathy, darker. He'a- I won't venture so far as -to say that this is the supposed to look mean." Number 4 rouge. Me: "Rouge? Are you year, although I myself believe it. I've become too per- kidding?" McNally: "Hey, Pratt! Where's Pratt?" Larry: "Iy,[oJ;'e "McNally! blue on Ringo's nose, it needs more of a hook." Pratt: sonally involved to judge with complete accuracy. Pos- Where's McNally?" John: "So what if you look like a whore? sibly I might just be prejudiced, and have become What do you think a dance hall girl is anyway?" Larry: "Where blinded by that blas-e-come to think of it I am preju- the hell are McNally and Pratt 1" diced. Big deal! There are certain things that I can say with complete confidence. One of them is that the show One More Time we've got ready is better than average, how much better Our faces well greased we run upstairs to go through it than average, in all objectivity, I can't really tell. again. Standing in the wings, half of us coughing. knowing we There are many very talented and hard working should be in the infirmary because the damned flu epidemic had people putting time into "Mary Belle Goes West." These to come this week, trying not to let our voices crack too much people have taken the Junior Follies out of the realm on-stage. And so it goes a class project, and placed it on the level of a ~er:·lo~"IT"':~";;:;.'Oak~le:e~/h:re~o~;,Nkha:euryO~u~k:~n~i~i~e!~ait'll Tonight the curtain will go up, for what will seem to us and legitimate production (not to intimate the (See above, right) about the nine-thousandth time. Larry will be wandering around at all serious-c-it isn't). John Van Hart has designed somewhere with his fez on, smoking a cigarette, as usual. The A~dC~~~s~~~f~~~:e:i~~.t~~h~~~e~i ~:r::f~:~f~tt!~ ••• And As An Actor Sees It ~jffln~eded~;::e~~.eb;~:,,~lil~\:m~~~gthdeor~,n eOx~:Ciinb;t~~~ t~~: and energy devising a system whereby he . time, as never before, we know that we'll deliver. cardboard and iron piping to create the Ivy Day In The Rehearsal Room ting our play needed. THE GOLD BUG Standing behind the scenes as the curtain opens, the cast looks almost ludicrous to me, even though I've seen them through this scene a hundred times. This is the first time Official student newspaper of Western Maryland College, all been in costume nt once, and they somehow give the appear- ~un~~~~ddasb~-~~~~~IYcl~~s~~tte~:;oilie ~g::o'ffi~e,t~v~~r!h~\~; ance of a motley crew of rag-tag kids playing out on the corner Maryland 21157, under Act of March 3, 1879. ~o:'p~~ ~f:~:~h~~\;~~:~ ~Ot~h:~~:r:~~eLS::::;;~:i~~S~:~t~ea:!~~~l~I,-------------------, purple fez, and John with his beard, sitting in the rear of the Always Insist on the Finest in Meats and Meat Products auditorium, look like a skinny Furouk and Fidel, laughing hysteri- cally at the actors stumbling over their first reactions to each Ask for other as chat·acters. MYERS' I move down to sit with them, not even hearing the lines, but laughing anyway. When J get to them there.seems to be a prob, A Complete Line of Fresh and Smoked Meats lem. 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