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The Glass Menagerie Tennessee Williams is recognized as one of Ameri ca’s most outstanding play wrights. His first popular success THE GLASS MENA GERIE will be presented Wednesday through Saturday July* 28-31 at 8:30 p.m. at Parkway Playhouse in Burns ville, N.C. Barbara Blackledge, a professional actress with a Master’s Degree in Directing from the University of Vir ginia will portray the charac ter “Amanda” one of the most challenging female roles of the American stage. Miss Blackledge was recently seen as “Mrs. Webb” in Park way’s OUR TOWN and in the past year has played leading roles in Moliere’s SCHOOL FOR WIVES and Shake speare’s TWELf*TH NIGHT. Following the summer stock season in Burnsville, Miss Blackledge will return to Greensboro, N.C. to complete an additional degree in theatre, the Master’s of Fine Arts. An M.F.A. is a prestigious degree and pro vides training for actors who plan to enter professional theatre. Miss Blackledge hopes to eventually find a position in a repertory theatre where she can act and direct. Her extensive experience and favorable reviews should faci litate the achievement of this “iIrJFOR IMMEDIATE SALE... t' : | 3 Day Sale (Sale Priced 3 Days Only- r save S I2O OO Reduced For lijr sale Price $27095 S 8 This 3 Day Sale | J | p rjces start As Low As $1 0095 j^U I Maxwell Now Has The I Admiral TV’s With A 5 Year Picture Tube Warrantyl J sha^mmElaSSh 1 ruri | £j£s?Tn«^ Next Parkway Play < JBMHM Hr Jr 9K ' ■ Bf B H i BrBI Barbara Blackledge goal. According to one North Carolina newspaper review of her performance in OUR TOWN, “She had style, a fine voice, and her pantomime of housewifely chores put one clearly in the kitchen of a New England home.” The self-disciplined ac tress from Maryland will attempt to put the audience in a Southern home in THE GLASS MENAGERIE. Al though she carries much of the play, "Amanda” had a son, played by Doug Preis and a daughter played by Sally Harrell. Whit Davies com pletes the cast as “the gentlemaiicaiier.” The show is directed by James Rey nolds, at Parkwa# for the second season. , , In honor of Tennessee Williams as an American playwright Parkway Play house is offering SI.OO reduc tion on the price of a ticket to THE GLASS MENAGERIE to anyone who brings a program or a ticket stub from a former Parkway season to the box office. Following MENAGERIE, the musical SOUTH PACIFIC will run August 4-7 and August 10-14 to complete Parkway’s season. Reservations are available at the Parkway Box Office 704-682-6151. Tickets are $3.50 for adults, $2.25 for pre-college students. Boy Who Can Sing Wanted Parkway is having audi tions Saturday, August 24, from 10 a.m. to 12 noon for an 8-10 year old boy with dark hair who can sing to be in SOUTH PACIFIC. Rehearsal times will be arranged. Per formances will be August 4-7 and August 10-14. I Jrrtk-Wi.vs ai><! One of the most rewarding aspects of conducting this reader-response folk column over a period of three and a half years has been the institution of epistolary friendships with a number of readers. Some of them have pro vided folk items almost from the beginning on a more or less regular basis. Others allow months to elapse between letters so that I begin to worry about them much as I would about members of my own family. Thus I was delighted to hear again recently frbm Mrs. Harry Presley of Norton, Virginia, who seemingly has an unending supply of folk remedies handed down in her family from generation to generation. A portion of her letter follows: “My grandmother was an oldtime herb doctor handed down from her father who was a doctor and used mostly herbs. “She used boneset tea for colds and fever, witch hazel bark to stop bleeding from the uterus, ginseng root for stomach trouble and for a tonic. “One thing she bought from a druggist was calomel. 1 remember she dosed it out on a tip of a penknife and you took three doses, then a dose of castor oil. It was a cure for most anything, especially yellow jaundice.” Mrs. Presley notes that her grandmother had definite ideas about exercise for babies with certain types of ailments. “For babies that were liver grown, which happened, she said, from too little exercise, she run them through an open back chair the homemade kind that had three slates across the back. “She took them between the slats three times, then she turned them on their stomach and took the left hand and , touched the right foot. Then she took the right hand and touched the left foot. After this she took them by the heels and turned them upside down three times. “When the exercise was over she , gave -them three doses of calomel and castor oil that was supposed to start « them on the road to good health.” Mrs. Presley observes somewhat wryly, “I’ve seen her do it, but I don’t know how good it worked.” Teething and other child hood ailments also were the special province of the grand mother, according to Mrs. Presley. “People would bring their babies that were teething, with their gums all swollen and suffering from diarrhea. She rubbed them through with a pocket knife, and before the babies left they would be laughing.” Getting rid of a sty involved a special ceremony, ; ; p 1 ' w \ - - -&\ says Mrs. Presley. 4 4 Grandmother said that to « cure a sty, you go to where the ! road forks-that is, a road : leading off the main road-and wish the sty on the first one that passes. She had a special ; rhyme to go with it, but I jj don’t know what it was.” North Carolina County Maps Because a number of » readers have inquired about ) North Carolina county maps ) prepared by Garland Stout and because he prepares • them largely as a hobby , rather than as a commercial \ venture, his address is hereby ’ noted: Garland Stout, 1209 Hill St., Greensboro, N.C. 27402. ; The next several editions * of Folk-Ways will be concern- ■ ed with folklore. Readers are invited to send folk material to Folk-Ways and Folk-Speech, Box 376, Appalachian State University, Boone, N.C. 28608. Lash seven quart size cans in a circle. Pad the circle and cover with a piece of carpet for a different kind of foot stool. . THE YANCEY JOURNAL JULY 22, 1976 * | HnniAPnmiTKJ Fnr ! Mclntosh Descendents j A Homecoming was held it the home of Mr. and Mrs. Dscar Tipton of Micaville Sunday for the descendants of the late Mr. and Mrs. Gudger Mclntosh. Sixty one members were present. Mr. and Mrs. Mclntosh were lifelong residents of Yancey County. They left six daughters at the time of their Pick a Pretty New Style \ I LET US SHOW YOU WHAT A NEW HAIRDO j r ,:/■ CAN DO FOR YOUTEBY.4NEW CUT, COLOR OR CURL. YOU’LL'EKE THERESULTS. COME IN j AND MEET THE TWO NEW STAFF MEMBERS, }f( DARRELL N ANNE ¥ AND OR fV. <*SEE CATOT ALLEN OR REGINaA J Regina’s^ni Beauty Salon f, Phone 682-6125 19-E By-PaJs! • On m >° k ’oocr ° ao pW' death: Mrs. "Mary Elizabeth Tipton of Micaville, Mrs. Cora Robinson of lcard. N.C., Mjs. Marie Phillips of Weavervilje, Mrs. Louise Holcombe jof Savannah, Ga.. Mrs. Margar et Avent of Jacksonville, Florida. Mrs. Pansy Mclntosh jof lcard,_N.C. who died July;<s, 1974. . ° | PAGE 3
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