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"I am the queen" was the valiant cry of a prostitute searching for the one moment of dignity in her life. Dignity and its game with the human race--throw that game into the setting of an Eastern European revolution and you have a poignant drama about the lives of conflicting segments of humanity. The Drama-The Queen and the Rebels; THANKSGIVING the author-Ugo College Players; the result- Betti; the company-West- ern Maryland PLAY a moving success. Crowell-wants Commissar Amos-Gary the queen. But the queen-JoAnna Hamble- ton-in her flight for life, has been reduced to a snivelling, grovelling peasant. The queen escapes but a prostitute--Argia is captured. Argia-Kerri Peterson-wants to regain her lost dignity and the people want their queen. It is only natural then, that a prostitute replaces the queen before the fir- ing squad. The final curtain closes with the sun rising in the background the distant roar of ma- chine gun fire; and a prostitute for queen-a more than adequate queen. 131