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Can you remember some of your early plays?

Oh yeah. We did uh.... I remember one...... well, the Vital Importance of

Being Earnest ygknow and\the Old Warhorse,"and uhCan't Take it With You,

uh..... let's see that one,~Can't Take it With You,' is that from the.., has

the..... Yeah, that's the one that has the -\\0_C- with fireworks 4-_c4-oM

and....... Daniel Riss who went on, went to after he graduated here, Daniel

Riss played and then he went to WLW in Cincinnati and used to read that

poetry program they had in the evening called "Moon River and Enchanted White

Ribbon of Night" y1 know and then he went from there as a good actor in

Hollywood and I understand he died a few years ago but uh the play had
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an open trap door ...... ellhad a stairway to the basement and/ y know/

fireworks explosion occurs.During the rehearsal the trap door on the stage

was open and we were ...... when we were hauling we were moving some drapes

up to set scenery and one of em as we went up, hung up on another as;mm as j

went by in the process and I grabbed the stage brace and I was goin1over there

and was go free the thing and I came up and stood at the edge of the hole

and was reaching up and I couldn't quite reach it and the stage brace wasn't

quite long enough and I took one step forward and of course forgetting that

I was standing at the end of the hole and I went slowly made this tumble

down through the trap door and know extremely blue language coming up

as I went out. Mrs. Walter J. Matherly was playing a mother, the __oedi

mother of the young man in the thing with uh Billy Chandler as I guess the

husband playing the old stage banker, Jih Billy Chandler, a lawyer right now,

uhly know, she'was much concerned, she came rushing up. She was sitting

there knitting waiting for her part in rehearsal and-gament for us to q

tdSj'off the stage for rehearsal and I went tumbling down and landed yd know
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