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OLD FASHIONED MELODRAMA
AT PLAYHOUSE THIS WEEK
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The Parkway Playhouse brings
to its stage this week an old
fashioned melodrama with all
the trimmings. There will be
boos and hisses for the villian,
songs and dances in the o’io
acts, and plenty of laughs throu
ghout the show. PURE AS THE
DRIVEN SNOW, OR A WORK
ING GIRL’S SECRET is a "mel
ler drammer”' of the type popu
lar in the latter part of the
last centuhy and the first cf
this century. Modern audiences
are still delighted to see the
pure and down-trodden heroine
being pursued by the black
hearted villian and when she has
fallen into the rascal’s clutches
bring on the manly bosomed
hero to foil the villian and res
cue the heroine in the nick of
time.
PURE AS THE DRIVEN
SNOW will play Friday through
Tuesday nights, except Sunday,
August) 18, 19, 21, 22. Curtain
time is at 8:00 p. m.
Candy C !es, fr m Cicoa,
Florida, plays the ingenue, Pur
ity Dean, a “working girl".
Candy is a recent graduate in
drama at Mars Hill College,
where she played such roles as
Viola in TWELFTH NIGIIT,
Cecily in a musical adaptation
of mi: import w\r rr
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THE YANCEY RECORD
BirßsvllU, N.C.
SUNSHINE. Last summer Candy
appeared in a New York Tour
ing company’s production of
THE SOUND OF MUSIC, which
starred Shirley Jones.
The hero of PURE AS THE
DRIVEN SNOW is played by
Lauren K. Woods, assistant pro
fessor in the Fine Arts Depart
ment of Mcnmsuth College in
West Long Branch, New Jersey.
Earlier this season at Parkway,
Wo"ds played the
of Lax in POOLS PARADISE
and directed the theater’s sec
ond show, ANGEL STREET.
Last week he played the frus
trated doctor in EVERYBODY
LOVES OPAL. Woods has been
at the Parkway Playhouse for
five years as actor, production
manager, and director.
The villian ous Mortimer Fro
th ingham is portrayed
Ailee, recent graduate of "Ge-r
--ge Washington University. Ailee
p’aved the Rev. Mr. Toop in
POOLS PARADISE; last year
he acted with the Wash?ngt"ri
Shakespeare Societv. This fall
he will enter the University of
Minnesota to work for a mas
ter’s decree in dramatic art.
PURE AS THE DRIVEN
SNOW, complete with olio .acts,
S'noj and dances, is under the
direction of J. Robert J oes,
director of drama at Gardner-
Webb College in Boiling Springs,
N. C. Jones is past director of
the Little Theater of Savannah,
Georgia, where he directed a
wide range of outstanding pro
ductions, including the recent
popular successes THE SOUND
OF MUSIC, THE FANTASTICKS,
and WHO’S AFRAID OF VIR
GINIA WOLFE.
The Parkway Playhouse’s
final production pf the season
will be the hilarious musical
crmedy in which Carol Burnett
soared to stardom, ONCE UP
ON A MATTRESS. This uproar
ious Broadway hit, the satirical
version of an old fairy tale, is
the “inside story” of what really
happened to the famous princess
who was so sensitive that she
couldn’t sleep on twenty downy
mattresres when one pea was
p'aced upndemeath. ONCE UP
ON A MATTRESS, will play at
the Parkway Playhouse on Aug
ust 25. 26, 28, 29. The ticket of
fice in Burnsville (telephone
682 2)98) is open da’ly except
Sunday from 9:00 to 9:00. Reser
vations may be made in advan
ce. or tickets may be purchased
at the door.
Homemaker’s
Club To Meet
With Mrs.
Davis
The Burnsville Homemaker’s
Club will meet with Mrs. May
Davis at her summer home on
Mitchell Branch it to 30 a m.
Frul.')u- 18th All / member*
are a- kul to tiring a covered
«I ‘-:: fir ,i picnic lunch
DtdicaUd To Tbo Progross Off Yoacoy Coooty
Mrs. Hanter,
Hew Scoot
Neighborhood
Chairman
Fall activities for Yancey
County Girl Scouts will be dir
ected by a new Neighborhood
Service Team, of which Mrs.
Ed Hunter, Jr., is Chairman.
Mrs. Hunter’s appointment as
Neighborhood Chairman was
made by Mrs. Mary Barber,
President of Pisgah Girl Scout
Council, upon recommendation
of the local Girl Scout Associa
tion and was approved by the
Beard cf Directors for the Coun
cil. Mrs. Hunter succeeds Mrs.
Don Burhoe, whose term expired
in May.
In her role as Neighborhood
Chairman, Mrs. Hunter is re
sponsible for guiding and direct
ing Girl Scouting in Yancey
Ccunty. She has appointed two
other volunteers to serve with
her cn the Neighborhood Ser
vice Team. Mrs. Jack Bigger
staff is Troop Organizer, and
Mrs. Kenneth Laughrun is Troop
Consultant. Mrs. Biggerstaff is
responsible for the organization
and reorganization of troops ac
cording to the Board’s policies,
standards and procedures. Mrs.
Laughrun will be available to
give information, advice, and
encouragement to help leaders
get started, to help them in
crease their knowledge of the
Girl Scout program, and to im
prove their leadership abilities.
Mrs. O. W. Deyton, Field Ad
visor for Pisgah Girl Scout Coun
cil, will provide professional
leadership and assistance to the
Neighborhood Service Team in
coordinating the total program,
training leaders and in planning
for providing supporting ser
vices. _ (
Bloodmebile
August 25
The Bloodmobile will visit
Yancey County Wednesday, Aug
ust 25 at the Armory from 1:00
p. m. to 6:00 p. m.
The quota for this visit is 110
donors.
E. L. Dillingham, Blood Pro
gram Chairman, said that it
would be most helpful and would
save time, if donors would come
as evenly as possible between
1:00 p. m. and 6.00 p. m. r a Infer
than all at either the beginning
or end of the operation.
Dr. Garland Wampler will be
the volunteer doctor, the Bolens
Creek Baptist Church women
will sponsor the canteen, Red
Cross Volunteers will handle re
cords, Mrs. W. P. Honeycutt
will be the nurse.
J. Neil Hadley, Director of
Education and Recruitment of
the Red Cross Blood Center at
Asheville, said that ‘‘the summer
session shruld he tho l>*»st mon'h
snee the blond is urgently need
<'d anti there is less sickness”
Tfcvrsday, A»|«st 17, 1967
CRAFTS FAIR BIGGEST AND
BEST YET
More than Five thousand peo
ple strolled through Burnsville’s
village green among a variety
cf craft exhibits and entertain
ing activities which took shape
and sound around the statue of
Ottway Burns this past weekend
during the eleventh annual ML
Mitchell Crafts Festival.
The large crowds that swa*iin
ed the square from the time that
Mayor Jim Anglin’s voice open
ed the festival early Friday af
ternoon until the last of some
twelve hundred barbecued chick
en dinners was sold late Satur
day afternoon attested the grow
ing stature which the event is
gaining among Western North
Carolina attractions.
Chares Wesson, genial and
long-standing master of cere
monies from Celo, coordinated
an abundance of continuous en
tertainment and activities which
complemented the thirty-two ex
hibits and craft demonstrations
in the colorful booths spread
from cne end of the square to
the other.
Ten out cf twelve donkeys
finished the heralded burro
race that took man and beast
over a tortuous ten mile course
stretching over Philip’s Knob
to Jacks Creek and back along
the Old Mine Forte Road to the
east end o# the Burnsville square. -
Outriders for the event were
graciously provided by the Mt.
Mitchell Briddle and Saddle
Club.
Roscoe Elkins, the wrangler
who ccped first, place honors
and a twenty-five dollar prize,
surprised everyone by arriving
at the finish line with his burro,
sponsored by Ray Brothers
Grocery, some two hours before
he was expected.
Not far behind him were Jun
ior Thomas, leading the second
place burro sponsored by Riddle
and R -land, and third-p’ace fin
isher Zeb Petersen, commandeer-
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Elsie Trivett of Beach Moun
tain in Avery County demon
strating .'pinning from raw wool.
Mrs Trivett demonstrated this
rraft the Mall at the Smith-
Nsabtr Fifty
ing an animal sponsored by Rob
erts Chevrolet-Buick. All wrang
lers were treated to a barbecued
chicken dinner by the Yancey
County Chamber of Commerce.
Friday’s events were high
lighted by Elsie Trivett, of Elk
Park,'who demonstrated the old
fashicned method of apftining
yarn cn a spinning wheel set up
on the west end of the square.
All told, a total of twenty-five
hundred dollars worth of craft
materials were sold during the
two-day festival.
The festival crowds were en
thralled by entertainment fur
nished by four-year-old Raylene
Fox, the folk-singing Apple Cid
er Singers, the rock and roll
sounds of the Grapes of Wrath,
the pulsating beat of B ; 1I Geouge
and the Blue Grass Boys, the
scentilating voice of Susan Hen
sley, the authentic and beautiful
mountain music of the Boone
Brothers Band, the endearing
dancing of the Micaville dog
gers and the Little Miss Cattail
Dancers, and by the Parkway
Playhouse preview of the up
coming melodrama, “Pure as
the Driven Snow.”
Festival activities also includ
ed a greasy pole climb, a greasy
pig contest, a pie eating con
test, a sack race for youngsters,
and the county horse shoe pit
ching contest, won for the sec
ond straight year by A. J. Laws.
Weslie Silvers, who stepped in
fer Sheriff Donald Banks in a
contest with Patrolman Clyde
Warren, won the trophy in the
log cutting tournament.
Notice
The women of the First Pres
byterian Church will meet
Thursday night at eight o’clock
in Fellowship Hall. Mrs. Joan
Reeve will be in charge of the
Bible study.
sonian Institute in Washington,
D. C., and at Newport, R. I.
at the Newport Folk Festival
this past July as a member of
the WAMV Craft Organization.