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CHILDREN OF THE?
LOST COLONY PLAY !
A VALUABLE PART 1
Numerous Dare County Young- 1
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to Show
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By ELIZABETH WELCH
In the script of THE LOST •
COLONY, Paul Green’s symphonic
drama which is playing its eight- ,
eenth season in the Waterside
Theatre on Roanoke Island, Mr. :
Green writes that in Raleigh’s
colony which was established here
in 1587 there were 121 men, worn- i
en and children. • What of their
counterparts, today’s children of
THE LOST COLONY? There are
thirteen of them in this year’s
company, ranging in age from four <
and a half to twelve. There are i
six girls and seven boys, and each
evening these youngsters fill their ■
various roles capably and profes
sionally. True, they are children ,
and they act like children, but they
obey with promptness the regula- ■
tions for back-stage behavior.
They love the show and are loyal ,
to it; they take pride in doing ,
their jobs, and are eager to fill (
in when there are vacancies due .
to illness or absences of any of ;
the other children.
They use the lines from the 1
show for daily conversation; they ]
use them in their play, doing en- ;
tire scenes perfectly; woven 1
through their waking and sleeping
moments is the spirit of this, their ;
show. For most of these young ,
thespians live on Roanoke Island, :
and feel, rightly, the pride and re- •
sponsibilities of possession. In sev- ,
eral cases, their mothers are in '
the cast also, and THE LOST :
COLONY is, for them, an inherit- ,
ance, a family affair. Mothers and
daughters use the same dressing
room, and they have a good time
together during the interim be
tween the scenes in which they
participate. The children bring
color books, dolls, puzzles,' games,
books to enjoy during the long
waiting periods between their
scenes, and the mothers use this
time to catch up on the news, to
visit, to enjoy a vacation from
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housekeeping. As one mother said,
it is like a party every night, a
way to be with people, to have
fun, to leave troubles behind.
Each evening, the young actors
can be seen, stealing a moment
before their entrance of following
a scene in which they have partici
pated, standing quietly in the
wings, eyes glued on the stage
action, lips silently murmuring the
lines of that scene. They know
when scenery is going on or off
stage, and they have learned to
stay out of the way of dangerous
flats as well as have their older
fellow’ actors, w
These modern-day Lost Colony
children are normal, healthy, fun
loving youngsters; they swim,’fish,
yell, squabble, run around jumping
over each other, forgetting to be
silent all the time, but instant’y
obeying w’hen reminded, and they
are intensely interested in the
show and everything that has to
do with it.
The Manteo children are Ce
celia Fields, age seven, who
is one of the flower girls
and a Colonist child; Barbara
Beavers, four and a half, the
other flower girl and a colonist
child; Linda Jordan, nine years
old, in her second season with the
show’, a colonist girl; the twins,
Betty and Lovie Ward, age twelve,
who have been seven years with
the show—five as flower girls, the
past two as pages; Lorna Fields,
a colonist girl; Alma Etheridge, a
herald.
The boys are Roscoe Beavers,
age eleven, Colonist boy and un
derstudy for Marc Basnight, or
Lewis Midgette; Marc Basnight
who plays George Howe, Jr.,
eleven years old; Lewis who plays
Thomas Archard, twelve years old;
Billy Long of Rock Hill, S. C., son
of the Technical Director of the
show and Chris Rankin of Norw’ell,
Mass., son of Earl Rankin, the
Historian. Billy is eleven years
old, Chris is nine, and both have
been leading the Noel line on
stage for the past two summers.
Joe White, age eight, is keeping
a family tradition going. He is
little Manteo in the production,
and every night Joe “puts the
show to bed.” He will not leave
until he has seen the lights die
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Pictured here are members of the Wanchese team of the Coastal Little League which won oub over
all League teams it played during the current summer season. The Coastal Little League includes in addi
tion to Wanchese, Manteo, Kitty Haw’k and Curri tuck. The players in picture from left to right: (Front
Row) Rusty Stetson, Mickey Daniels, Richard Hultman and Johnny Garrison; (Second Row’) David
Daniels, Mickey Wescott, Richard Baum, Bob Hultman and Taddy Tillett; (Third Row) George Daniels,
Kindale Daniels, Bobby Daniels, and Ralph Meekins. In the background is show’n (left) Gus Hultman,
president of the Coastal Little League and Ernest Walker, coach of the Wanchese team. The Wanchese
team is sponsored by the Ruritan Club of that Roanoke Island community. (Aycock Brown Photo)
out on the Final March, and, fre
quently, during the show, when he
is not on stage, he can be found
sitting in the wings, intently’
watching everything going on on
stage.
Alma Etheridge’s entire family,
except her father, has been with
the show, and her mother is at
the ticket window each day this
summer.
The LOST COLONY has always
been a “family” show; entire
families on Roanoke Island have
taken active part in its production
since the show's beginning, and it
is their show. And so it is fitting
that the Island children should be
an integral part of each summer’s
production. The technical charts of
Mr. Long which go back to 1947
are actually a record of all the
men who have worked technically
in the show, and many of those
now on his technical crew are sons
or brothers of those who worked
in the first years. Linda Jordan’s
mother was one of the two first
flower girls to the Queen; Joe
White’s father, brother and sister
have been active members of the
cast of the show in the past years.
Mrs. Fields has two daughters in
the show and two working with
the show in other capacities. Thus,
Mr. Green’s drama, now in its
eighteenth season as the “grand
daddy of all outdoor dramas,” and
significantly produced on the very
site where the Lost Colony of Sir
Walter Raleigh lived for a short
time and vanished, is a drama of
real people who believe in their
show, and whose children live the
drama of it year after year.
THE COASTLAND TIMES, MANTEO, N. C.
WANCHESE PERSONALS
Mrs. C. W. Guthrie, Miss Rowe
na Midgett and niece, Miss Mar
garet Midgett of Hampton, Va.
spent the week end in Winston-
Salem as guests of Mrs. Guthrie’s
daughter-in-law, Mrs. Douglas
Guthrie.
Mr. and Mrs. Clinton Murray
have returned to Onancock, Va.
after visiting Mrs. Murray’s pa
rents, Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Dan
iels, and accompanied by Brenda
Daniels and Lester Lee Crees.
Margaret Midgett of Hampton is
visiting her aunt, Rowena Midgett.
Mrs. Woodrow Stetson visited
relatives in Norfolk.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Perkinson
have returned to Portsmouth after
visiting Mr. Perkinson’s sister,
Mrs. Ida Daniels.
Mrs. Charles Scarborough and
daughter visited in Norfolk.
Mr. and Mrs. Pete Mavromatis
and daughter, Kimberly and moth
er-in-law, Mrs. Carrie Tillett have
returned from Chapel Hill where
Mr. Mavromattis attended a sum
mer course.
Theoff Wescott is visiting
friends at Atlantic.
Mrs. Malcolm Daniels and chil
dren are attending a camp meet
ing in Windsor. Mrs. Leven Stet
son, Jr. and daughter are also at
tending.
Mrs. Theoff Wescott is visiting
her daughter and son-in-law, Mr.
and Mrs. William Forbes in Nor
folk.
Laurette Etheridge, Coffie Dan
iels, Earl Willis, Jr. and Elton Gal-
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Merelee Tillett of Washington,
D. C. was the week end guest of
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Crowder
Tillett. 1
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Tillett, Jr.
and children of Norfolk visited
relatives here Friday and Satur
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