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VOL. LXXII. ? NO. 52
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BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JUNE SI, 1M0
Welcome To The Holiday Highlands
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We Hope the Pictures and Stories in These Pages
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Will Intrigue . . . and That You Will Find Helpful
Information About Services and Attractions That
Will Make Your Visit a Most Enjoyable
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Blowing Rock Offers
Varied Park Program
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The Town of Blowing Rock is
now providing a varied recrea
tional program for the public at,
the town park. The park it open
from 9:00- a. m. until 9:00 p. m.
Monday through Saturday, and
from 1:00 p. m. until 6:00 p. m. on
Sunday. All activities' at this time
ara supervised by Everett M. Wld
ener, Jr., director, and D. B. Bla
lock and Keany Holdaway, assist
ants.
Activities include tennis, shuf
fle board, horeahoes, basketball,
teather ball, volley ball, and Lit
tle League baseball.
For the youngsters, there are
swings, slide board, and merry-go
'round.
Picnic tables and other facili
ties are available for picknicking.
During the winter, as the re
sult of the heavy snows, the pavil
ion was destroyed. The park chairs
and benches were stored in the
pavilion, therefore, they, too, were
damaged and destroyed. Plans are
to replace these in the very near
future.
The Town is in the process of
pouring concrete in the basement
of the American Legion Building
where indoor activities, such as
ping pong, will be played. Also,
the maintenance department has
inspected and repaired all play
ground equipment, thereby, insur
ing the safety of the children who
use them.
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THERE'S ANOTHER WORLD BEHIND THE SET
Behind The Scenes Drama Of 'Horn In The
West' Influences Its Stage Presentation
By RALPH TUGMAN
"All the world's a (Use," wrote
the Bard of Avon, and the lines
became immortal, forever a simple
definition of man's journey from
the cradle to the great beyond.
They stand as evidence of the
astute author's grasp of the es
sence of things about him. A les
ser vision, and he might have
tried instead to define the stage.
Hare, even the great Shakespare
might have faltered. There does
not seem to be any simple, single
line definition.
All the world may be a single
stage, but in turn, each stage is a
complexity of worlds in itself ?
even the most amateurish becomes
L ?? two worlds? the world
hidden from view behind stage
trappings, and the world garishly
exposed between the footlights and
the backdrop.
one leeii it witn tne iirst tiep
behind the "iron curtain" that
falls between the two worlds. It
emanates from the very walls and
fixtures of every dressing room.
It hovers, benignly, about the cat
walks and rigging, its presence
filling every nook and cranny from
the stage door to the highest hung
sandbag in the fly loft, entwined
among the lives that people the
backstage as surely as the stage
lines are entwined about the pins
that anchor them.
It is made of the fragments of
every dream that someone dream
ed as he sat beside the glaring
bulbs and wandered into the make
believe world through every
cracked mirror that ever hung on
a dressing room wall. It can be
felt by any life who invades back
stage. It can belong only to those
who in turn belong to it. It be
longed to Pavlova and Sarah Bern
hart . , . and to an undorstudy who
never went on. It is the world of
the man on the flying trapeze . . .
it belongs, too, to the obscure lit
tle guy with painted face and bag
gy pants who made a million kids
laugh all over the world. It is a
world that requires two emblems
to symbolize it . . . one mask of
laughter, and one of tears.
You can feel it back stage at the
Daniel Boone Theatre, where Ker
mit Hunter's Horn in the West is
in rehearsal for its ninth season.
Mingling back stage with its
cast members, one clearly feels a
prcscense that he instinctively
knows is born of the living drama
that plays itself out, seaaon after
season, behind the scenes.
Sometimes it is a comedy. Again
it may be a love story. It may be
a story of success ... or of failure.
It may be a drama of tenderness
... or one of irony. Always it is
real, and warm and intensely
alivr
It may have it* being entirely
apart from the drama on atage
. . , but almoft irrevocably it
spread* its influence to the foot
lights and colon each perform
ance. Sometimes the audience may
sense it ? sometime* it is so en
tirely "inside" that the audience
remalna untouched by it. Like the
night when young Bill Hardy
rushed his wife to the hospital
just before curtain time, and anxi
ously went on stage to play hia
role as John Sevier. Word of the
birth of his son reached back stage
while Bill was before the audience
in a scene. The next actor coming
on atage promptly greeted him
with "Well, John, I hear you're
the father of a floe bouncy boy"
?-4 total departure from ?Kwnntt
Hunter's script, but on* which
told Bill Hardy he was ? father
> , . and the audience never sus
peeted at all!
Ferhaps the events wnicn live
longest and fondest in the mem
ory of the people backstage are the
simple "boners'" or "fluffs" of
fellow cast members. A typical one
is the role of ? young colony sold
ier who has latin wounded all
night after a clash with the Regu
lators, and at the point of death
cries out to Dr. Stuart for help.
One night he missed his cue dur
ing the noise of battle, and only
after the stage was fully lighted
did be drop to the ground, in full
view of the audience, and cried
out "Dr. Stuart ? Water! Water!
I've been a-lyin' here all night!"
The ripple of amusement that ran
through the audience was echoed
by real and hearty laughter be
hind the stage.
Humorously remembered back
stage is the night Bill Boss, play
ing the lead role of Dr. Geoffrey
Stuart, found his conduct challeng
ed by his son as he gave aid to
the wounded. In the script, Dr.
Stuart draws himself up with full
dignity and declares sternly, "But
I'm a Doctor, Jack", thus letting
his hipocratie oath place him
above distinguishing between one
side or another. On that night,
Ron pompously declared, "But
I'm an Indian, Jack!"
"Trixie" was a member of one
of the early "Horn" casts. Sbe was
a horse?a very intelligent one,
who learned her cue so well that
a muffed line on stage would
make her nervous. During the
summer Trixie was blessed with
a colt, and soon ? as if on cue? the
colt would Join its mother on stage
during performance and feed, to
the delight of children in the
audience.
Then there was Caesar, the
temperamental bound, who ? like
many talented artaU ? was a real
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