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...year history, Philadelphia's Hedgerow Theater has garnered as much glory as any community playhouse in the U.S. Its director, disheveled, 49-year-old Jasper Deeter, is hopelessly stage-mad but brilliantly stage-minded. He has built up a permanent company who get no salary (only board & lodging on a comfortable farm), receive no billing (yet often turn down good paying offers). Indifferent to commercial success Hedgerow is content to pioneer with unknown playwrights and to pay tribute to great ones-Shakespeare, Molière, Shaw...
Last week glory went out the window while notoriety came in at the door. It has been over two years a-coming, ever since Director Deeter read one script he could not handle. That script was the Selective Service Act. Deeter realized that most of his actors would be caught in the draft. Five of his men were conscientious objectors, but to Deeter their consciences seemed to mean less than their contribution to art. The life of Hedgerow was threatened, and with it the lamp of culture...
Presented at Jasper Deeter's cooperative, experimental Hedgerow Theatre outside Philadelphia was Behold Your God, two-part "economic satire" by Richard Houghton Hepburn, 24, lanky brother of Cinemactress Katharine Hepburn. Behold Your God was the outcome of an agreement between Richard Hepburn and his father, Dr. Thomas N. Hepburn of Hartford, Conn., whereby Richard was to be "let alone" for three years to try his hand at drama. Professional critics found Behold Your God "dull." "extravagant/ "blurred," "inarticulate," "esoteric, ""luci< as a timetable...
...tree-shaded Marion, Ind., onetime stamping-ground of the Ku Klux Klan, three Negro boys last week were hurried to the Grant County gaol. One of them, Thomas Shipp, 18, confessed he had dragged Claude Deeter, 23, from an automobile parked in Marion's outskirts, shot him to death. Shipp's companion, Abe Smith, admitted attacking Deeter's fiancee, Mary Ball...
...crowd gathered about the gaol, increased during the day to more than 1,000. About 9 p. m. Hoot Ball, father of Mary, called to confer with Sheriff Jacob Campbell. A weak & sickly man, he emerged to find the crowd augmented by a group of men from Fairmount, Ind., Deeter's home. They pressed in on him, knocked him down...