Sheldon High School - Shamrock Yearbook (Eugene, OR)

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Marlayne Gecl portrays fire in The Death ofa Scarecrow. Greg Farman as Melvin, the good wizard in 4 Hats, sleeps peace- fully While the witches dance. Kris Balle, a lovely princess in 4 Hats, dances while picking posies. Chris Hixson, Wall in Midsummer Nighfs Dream, rubs her injured foot after Pyramus stepped on it because she refused to show her chink. Marsha Foley plays Moonshine in Midsummer Nighfs Dream.

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UI116 UWEAUQG DOIDOURRI EX , V fe, f 1 I 5 Greg Farman, Thisbe, and Iudy Long, Pyramus, are forced to pursue their romance through the chink in the disinterested Wall,,' played by Chris Hixson. Ellen Brownhill, Kay Erskine, and Chris Hixson, three Witches in 4 Hats, await the arrival of Mrs. Meanie. Potpourri consisted of a cutting from a Shakespearean comedy, a spoof on turn- of-the-century melodrama, a panto- mime play, and a quasi-happening. The production was under the direc- tion of Ed Chilla, stagecraft teacher at Sheldon and graduate student in drama at the University of Oregon. This show was experimental in that the audience sat on the stage, the performers them- selves playing on a raised platform in the center. It Was our first play to run for five performances, two of which were matinees. Kay Erskine, Lady Magnesia Fitztollemache and her maid, Kris Balle, listen for the clock to strike sixteen.

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wan of the wonlos Yvonne Davis watches as Iohn Fuller announces that a giant metec has just hit the earth. ' War of the Worlds, by H. G. Wells, was originally a radio play. , The director, Mr. Kenneth Payne, adapted it for use in Sheldon's The Secfetflf of Imeflofs Played bY Bruce Garner, 100145 OH Little Theatre. The plot involved the observations of explosions as Professor P19Y501'1,l0hn Pierce, observes 9XP10Si0n OU Mars- on Mars. The public seemed unconcerned about this occurrence until what seemed to be a giant meteor crashed into the earth. The meteor was investigated and found to be a spaceship. The ship was inhabited, and the invaders emerged and devastated the world. Larry Marcus, a pilot, is bombing the assumed giant meteor which crashed 62 into the earth.