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April 30, 1981 ScrimshQw page 3 Students featured Tobacco road preps in art show Melanie Clippinger "Tobacco Road", a play based on written by Erskine Caldwell as a the Columbia Shakespeare Festival a novel by Erskine Caldwell, will be serious "social document " of the and performed at the Kennedy Cen- Western Maryland College art stu- printmaking, ceramics and sculpture performed May 7, 8 and 9, at 8:15 tragic lives of rural Depression Era ter. Other members of the cast dents will exhibit their works beqin- Graduating art majors are: Debra pm. on Alumni Hall's Mainstaqe. The Americans. The author insisted that include Ed Schloper, Pippa Hailstone, ning Tuesday, May 5, with an Bess-nan,Leah Cox. Keith Taylor and play, set in the lime of the Great the plays humor was unintentional, Sue Miller, Lori Jones, Mollie King opening reception from 7 p.m. to 9 Luvenia Maria Bryant Gangler of Depression, focuses on the life of a but. as one reviewer put n.vnowever Chuck Pierpont, Jay Holtzman, Eric p.m. in the Fine Arts Building. The art Baltimore; Jan Mosser 01 Towson; depraved Southern while family the play was first perlormed, it soon Henning and Jeff Frazer building will be open to the public Robyne Jenkins of New Windsor; Mia Opening on Broadway in 1933 and was played for laughs. Perhaps the "Tobacco Road" which is the last from 10 am. to 4 pm. weekdays Denets. Janet Trainor and Ralph running for 7 years, "Tobacco Road" audiences came to laugh at Ameri· production of Ihis season, was cno- through the close of the exhibit on Preisendorfer01Rockville;Anne Pow- is one ofthe longest running orono- cans even more depressed man sen to complement the 1.o.S. 1930's May 19 ellor Gaithersburg; Nancy Heinbaugh nons in theatrical history themselves" theme this semester. The play also Gallery One in the Fine Arts Build- 01 Silver Spring; Lynda Boyer of The play is being directed by provides opportunities for student ac- ing will feature select works by Severn; Carolyn Rohde of Upperco; The play, adapted for the stage W.M.C. associate prolessor ot ora- tors and technicians to perfect their graduating seniors representing all Sharon Kelley of Adelphi; Martin Pitts Irom Caldwell's novel by Jack Kirk- matic art Mr Tim Weinfield. Cast in craft. lighting, sound. costummg and land, focuses on the Lester family four years of their study. Underclass of Scott AFB, III.; and Barbara Bailey Poverty-stricken Jeerer Lester, his the lead role of Jeeter Lester is Max construction are all handled by stu- art students will exhibit pieces com- of Levittown. NY wife, nis mother, and 2 children live in Dixon. Mr. Dixon, also associate pro- dents pleted during the current academic The Western Maryland College stu- a oetacoerec shack in the Georgia fessor 01 dramatic art, is an expert- year ttlroughout the rest of the build· dent art show is free and open to the backwoods "Tobacco Road" was enced actor who has participated in ing, A variety of art forms will be public shown including drawings, paintings, Barth to speak The weight dilema Sheri Linkoff A dangerous fear ~ofweight spooky sense of humor, one of the bury State College. He was a Na- A grim comedian, a realist with a tional Book Award nominee for his best American authors to emerge in novel Lost in the Funhouse, (1968) Debbie Wooden victims are generally at the "normal" but ten percent of anorexia's victims, the past twenty years, and one at the and received me same award for Is someone you know dying to be weight. They tend to go on binges, do die annually most promising writers of the novel of Chimera, (1973), a volume of novel- thinner? Mrs. Ann Boyer, founder and eating large amounts of fattening The cure for anorexia is usually ideas. These are all descriptions of I" president of the Maryland Association toads, such as potato chips and ice group or individual counseling. The Dr. John Barth, author 01 sjx novels, Dr. Barth was classified as a black for Anore: