AL 29AB -28-

 Tape A


M: door :slamming, came up with a whisk broom which we could squeeze the bristles

 )cause we had a man moving through reeds. d know the script called for a

 guy going through a field of of uh corn stalks, dried cornstalks. Well

 by squeezing the bristles of a whisk broom it sounded like a man crawling

 through a .... field of dry corn stalks, crunching and things of this sort.

J: Well how about in terms of um your activityuhin the plays? Dr. Constain

 was already here by that time.

M: Fletcher Constan7/ was head of the Speech Department. Uh..... when I first

 came here Lester Hale was .... was a young instructor, he may have been an

 assistant professor, uhhh who was working on .... he was directing the plays.

 The last..... the end of my freshman year/I went over and helped, somebody

 invited me, said hey why don't youlya know'get active in something. Go over

 and play with the Florida Players. You'll like this. You're going into
 I,
 electrical engineering, go over and maybe do the lighting and so I worked

 for them. Uh my sophore year I showed up ya know again first play and

 everybody shows up. Paul was i"1wov, for people to show up so that

 then I showed up and Z was it. I was the only one left of the previous

 electrical crew and so all of the sudden I was it to do the lighting. I did

 the first show and did it well and then I did all of them right on through

 the time I left here.

J: And at some point you got involved in the acting itself?

M: Well, y know you're there, you get the .... you participate in all sorts of

 things.

J: What was your reaction to Lester Hale as a director?

M; Oh he was.... he was amazing. I liked him. He was... he was tremendous.