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Whatever shortcomings artists may see, audiences seem to want Shakespeare outdoors more than ever. New troupes spring up each year as stage entrepreneurs discover what Ashland's founder, Angus Bowmer, learned in 1935. He staged boxing matches as a way to defray the costs of his outdoor Shakespeare shows. The boxing lost money. From the start, the Shakespeare turned a profit...
...ASHLAND, ORE. The Oregon Shakespeare Festival is the oldest in the U.S. (1935). In the remote forests, casting has to be done by questionnaire rather than audition, but Producer-Director Angus Bowmer has in the past discov ered actors like Hollywood's George Peppard (Breakfast at Tiffany's) and Off Broadway's Joyce Ebert (The Trojan Women). This summer he has a witty, elegant Portia, a sunlit Viola, and a really arachnid Regan, all in the person of Elixabeth Huddle, a 25-year-old ac tress from San Francisco. Richard Coe, drama critic of the Washington Post...
...Lear, Twelfth Night and The Merchant of Venice, and does them all with fluid skill. Rigorously Elizabethan in style, the company offers no intermissions and performs in a simulacrum of 17th century London's Fortune Theater. "This is a stepping-stone between the academic and professional theaters," says Bowmer. "We use Shakespeare because we think he's a damned good theater...
...league baseball player: Tyrus B. Cobb, Detroit American League team: 1,741. Cobb reached this mark on May 26, during his 18th big league season. (Hans Wagner, Shortstop Emeritus of the Pittsburgh Nationals, scored 1,740 runs in 20 years of play.) ¶ 50 yard swim, for women: Lillie Bowmer, Hawaii, 28 sec. ¶ Plunge, for women: Helen Moses, Hawaii...
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