Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 March 1949 — Page 27

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= ” n = = SPECTATORS see only the finished product. They have to imagine the work that goes into that product, The Civic’s current drive for $185,000 to revise and enlarge the present building into the projected Booth o Tarkington Memorial Civic Theater will increase the » I rhune, John Lawrence and Fred Kelly (left to Civic’s usefulness to the community. ight} . . . "Warm in here, isn't it?"

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