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Color Country Spectrum Sunday August 8, 1976 Page 5 8 Pioneer Courthouse Players Tw weeks ireinniaDirD lira seasomi 7 Two weeks in the 1976 Summer of the Pioneer Courthouse Repertory Theatre Company. The players will perform Wednesdays through Saturday to Aug. 21 at the old Pioneer Courthouse in St. George. Those who hold seiason tickets are urged to make reservations for the 1st performances of the season if they ha ve not yet used the passes.

"The Miser," a comedy of both physical and verbal humor, will play Sug. 11, 14 20. "No Sooner Won Than Wed." a musical melodrama, will be performed Aug. 12, 18 and 21. "The Importance of Being Earnest," the sophisticated and witty comedy by Oscar Wilde, wil play Aug.

13 and 19. In total, only eight performances of the plays remain in the season. Audiences who have seen these plays have been composed of Washington County patrons and tourists Praise for the Pioneer Courthouse Players' ensemble acting and professional style been consistent. Information, reservations and tickets are available at the Old Washington County Courthouse, 97 E. St.

George Blvd. Patrons may telephone the St. George Chamber of Commerce for these services. The support of the patrons is still needed to make Pioneer Courthouse Players a permanent part of summer in St. George.

Kathy Warner portrays the part of Gwendoline Fair fax In Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest." The play Is showing at the Pioneer Playhouse In St. George. Only two weeks are left In this summer's theater season. Won Than Jon Turner takes the part of Algernon Moncrieff and also producting "The Miser" and "No Sooner Duane Tuft plays John Wart In In "The Importance of Wed" in St. George.

The season ends Aug. 21. oemg earnest." ine rioneer uounnouse Mayers are Shakespeare play worthwhile LIMITED TIME OFFER! By Dennis Rowley MIMMI 11 A3 Now's the time to trade in your old color TV It's worth BIG toward an RCAColorTrak Console. While Shakespeare did not do justice his own talent in the writing, the players did justice to the play Love's Labour's Lost, one of this year's trio at the Utah Shakespearean Festival. The play achieved Director Robbins' goal of "a play of charm, wit and elegance." The performance I attended was marred by a late start of seven minutes and by much too obvious makeup lines, but did provide a pleasant evening of entertainment highlighted by several choice character parts.

Unless you are a devoted fan of Shakespeare you may also find the constant rhyming a bit uncomfortable and the plot a bit thin (at least for Shakespeare). The story of three young men, including the young King of Navarre, and three young ladies, including the Princess of France, involves promises made, broken and made again. Each of them performs well as love-struck men pursuing wily women. Berowne, played by Vaughn Armstong, is especially enjoyable as the steadiest of the young men. The real fun comes in watching the antics of the "characters" in "Love's Labour's Lost." Randell Haynes as Costard, a fool, is the Tim Conway of Shakespeare in this play and with Dull, a very stupid constable performed by Rand Porter, goes through some of the sharpest stand-up lines in the play.

It's almost impossible to keep from laughing at the outlandishly funny association between the schoolmaster and the parson. Richard Rossi as the parson is quietly persuasive and as counterpoint for Sam Tsoutsouvas' schoolmaster's boisterous and hilarious profundos create a comic pair for which it's worth seeing the entire show. And then there's Moth, supposedly a page boy for Armado. Ruth Priwer makes us laugh, and enjoy her performance, but I just coulcn't suspend my believability enough to see her as a boy. Her, or rather his master, Don AdrianoDe Armado, is appropriately overdone, overdressed and overall well-done.

While in my mind "Love's Labour's Lost" is the weakest of this year's three plays, however, it certainly can claim to be a full member of the elite club know as the Utah Shakespearean Festival and worth seeing. Model GA936DA shown here I If '1 VI We've teamed up with RCA to offer you this value-packed trading deal. Get BIG for your old color TV while enjoying all the fantastic advantages of famous RCA ColorTrak Console TV. It's RCA's most advanced, most automatic TV ever! So, if your old color TV has "had it," now's the time to trade. It'll never be worth more than it is right now, during RCA TRADES FANTASTIC! Monday begins the last week of the Utah Shakespearean Festival In Cedar City.

The three plays that are being presented this year are "Julius Caesar." "The Tempest'' and "Love's Labour's Lost." Pictured Is the play scene from "Love's Labour's Lost." (Photo courtesy SUSC Photo Service) A Colorful History You may get even more on your trade-in if: It ar. RCA color TV It has a good picture It's less than 7 years old Ark amost needed in flood By Paul Roberts Spectrum Staff Writer The settlers should have built an ark. When it rains in Utah's Dixie, it pours, and it pured for 40 it a console, and toward the purchase of a 1977 25" diagonal RCA ColorTrak Console with Remote Control or ColorTrak Control Center. Each set has all the fantastic features of RCA ColorTrak plus the convenience of chairside operation. Choice of cabinet styles.

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Wagon covers and tents leaked water during the, constant down pour. What few homes there were in existence were washed away with the whirling waters that only got wider and deeper. Flood after flood down the canyons into the settlements. The home? of most of the settlers at Old Grafton were swept away on the night of Jan. 8 in a raging torrent.

The waters rose around the home of Ammon Tenney, whose wife was ready to deliver her cnild. It looked as though the child would have to learn to swim at, an early age, but the expectant mother was moved to the home of Henry Barney, which stood on higher ground than her own home. The clock ticked on and hours passed. The flood waters were rising and getting closer to the Barney home. The water entered the home the mother delivered her child.

It was with difficulty that the pair kept dry, so they were moved to a nearby hillside where a fire was started. Blankets and wagon covers were used to keep the mother and baby dry in the torrentail rainstorm. The boy was named in honor of the wretched event-Marvelous Flood Tenney. It seemed children always picked the most adverse circumstances in which to be born. Mrs.

Tenney was not the only mother to give birth to a baby that night. Elizabeth Hardy the wife.ot Edwin R. Lamb, gave birth to her child just six miles away at Virgin. The Lambs were living in a wagon-box house near the Virgin River. With only a slight rise in the river, the home would be flooded.

The men of the community rallied to the aid of the mother and child, moving the wagon box with considerable difficulty. After the box was finally moved to a place where the residents would be safe, the workers inspected it to see why it was so hard to move. They found they had failed to remove a set of copper tools which Lamb had stored under the bed. The Swiss Colony at Santa Clara had built a dam and some canals, and the project was completed on the date of the outset of the 40-day rain. The flood destroyed the dam and canals in mid-January.

The water took the Santa Clara Fort along with most of the houses in the surrounding area and the school and the meetinghouse. It wiped out a great body of land, reducing what the settlers had accomplished to almost a new beginning. The Dixie Saints had a lot of trouble with the dry land, and they often prayed for rain. Their prayers were answered a hundredfold. It might well be imagined that after the 35th day of rain, they Saints were praying for it to stop.

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