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Repertory revives boom town
THEY INVITED several colleges and universities to open companies there. After completing a successful season in Creede last summer, a repertory company, headed by Steve Grossman, Glencoe, Ill., senior, is getting ready to reopen the doors of the opera house June 25.
Grossman and an acting company of 12 went into Creole, rebuilt the theatre, allocated funds for the shows, and started a love
This is the scene of Creede, Colorado, today. 70 years after the silver boom. In order to reactivate a tourist interest, the Creede Jaycees decided the town needed some activity in the abandoned opera house.
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Picture a booming mining town in the 1890's. Everything is jumping: a new silver vein has been found.
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The opera house is alight with the songs of the day. There are about 10,000 people in town, most to the miners. They all try to crowd into the house to see the show.
Creede is located in Southeastern Colorado, about 30 miles from the Continental Divide. It is located on the mouth of the Rio Grande River.
Now picture the same town, 1957. There are about 350 people in town. The opera house is dark and deserted. No one really wants to see any shows.
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"YOU CANT TAKE It With You," an established comedy by Kaufman and Hart will open this year's program. It will open on a Sunday and run for a week. After that, a new production will open each Wednesday alternating with old plays, until the fifth week. Repertory will then be reached and a different play will be presented each night.
Most of the tourists attending the theatre are from Texas and California. Tourists and townspeople make up most of the audience.
They are returning this summer to make the repertory company a permanent part of the town and to create a continuing fund to finance the summer theatre.
Steve Reed, Wichita sophomore, and a member of the present company, said, "The first few weeks last summer were pretty rough. But after that, we packed the house every night. The response was really wonderful."
Why? Because they promised the Creede Jayces they would.
Miracle Worker" by William Gibson, and "The Seven Year Itch" by Axelrod.
Other productions in this year's repertory are "Bus Stop" by Inge, "Arsenic and Old Lace," "The
AFTER REACHING repertory, Kay Habenstein, Columbia, Mo., graduate student, will begin work on a children's theatre production that will be performed twice weekly for the rest of the summer.
Repertory company has turned out so well in Creede that Grossman is considering opening up in other towns. He said, "All we need is a town that really wants to establish a theatre."
In addition to productions, Grossman also teaches an acting class for culturally deprived high school students.
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Police display crime skills
Kansas Peace Officers began trying their hand at committing burglaries as well as solving them at the sixth annual seminar on burglary and larceny today at KU.
The seminar, sponsored by the Kansas Peace Officers Association, the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, and the KU Governmental Research Center and University Extension, will feature lectures on the skills of investigation, then a practical problem of solving a model burglary, and finally a moot court case tried by prosecuting and defense attorneys before a judge.
A MAIN FEATURE of the program will be the presentation by representatives of the Diebold Safe Co., Inc., about the methods of safe burglary, types of safe construction, and underwriters fire endurance tests.
Concluding the activities will be Duane R. Nedrud, editor and publisher of "The Criminal Law—1837," who will speak at a banquet at 6:20 p.m., at the Holiday Inn. His topic will be "Changing Concepts in Law Enforcement."
Nedrud is the former executive director of the National District Attorney's Association and a former law professor at the University of Missouri at Kansas City.
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