The Mail-Journal, Volume 6, Number 25, Milford, Kosciusko County, 23 July 1969 — Page 5

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Well-Staged And Completely Performed 'Mousetrap' At Playhouse

By BILL SPURGEON Vintage Agatha Christie, wellstaged and competently performed, provides a good evening’s entertainment in “The Mousetrap,” at the Wawasee Arts Foundation’s Enchanted Hills Playhouse through Sunday, July 27. The 6 p.m. production last Saturday seemed to get off to a rather slow start, but perhaps the saturation - point humidity and the week - long heat wave could be blamed. At any rate, the well-chosen cast soon picked up the pace and presented a good two hours’ edge -of - the. seat entertainment for an audience of about 50. Agatha Christie, of course, is darned hard to outguess, and “The Mousetrap” is no exception. Nearly everyone in the cast of seven — an unlikely assortment of people snowbound in an English guest house — is a suspect in one, and then two, murders, and the ending is pure Christie magic. Summer residents — and others who call this area home the year around — would be well advised to forego their favorite

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pasttime of grousing that there is “nothing to do” around here, and hie off to Enchanted Hills for a couple of hours of good theater. The people in these plays and those staging them, are all professionals or in bulltime training to become professionals, and this is far and away the best theater organization ever to call Wawasee home. The roles in “The Mousetrap” each would fall flat without considerable talent, with which the cast abounds. Tom Jennings, who portrays the more-than-slightly effeminate architect (or is he?) Christopher Wren deserves special mention, because it is an extremely hard role to carry to the audience, and he does it without a bobble. Kermit Brown and Janet Hayes, as a couple in their first days of running a guesthouse, are totally believeable, and you are kept guessing as to their involvement in the total mystery scheme. Mary Hardwick is an incredibly good Mrs. Boyle — the woman magistrate who appears bound and determined to be disliked by everyone. Equally at home and at ease

as a retired army major is John Newton. Karen Runkel got off to a perceptibly slower start as a mysterious young woman from Majorca, but the difficulty was soon behind her as the pacing picked up. Mike Martin competently carries off the part of the foreign stranger whose car has conveniently-’ (or inconveniently) turned over in a nearby snowdrift, and who clutches his overnight luggage as if it • were solid gold. „ Mentioned last only because he is the last to appear is Robert Armstrong, who does a very creditable job as the police sergeant trying to unravel the whole mess. Take an architect who likes fourposters and nursery rhymes, a mystery man who likes to pick out “Three Blind Mice” with one finger on the piano, a retired judge who is always cold and enver cooperative, a couple married a year who know little about each other, and three other persons equally mysterious, and you can see the job facing him. It would be safe to say that most of the audience who thought by intermission that they had guessed the end-‘ ing were dead wrong. This is tne third WAF production we have seen and the “Thurber Carnival” last summer and “The Fantasticks” this year did not require much in the way of staging — so it was nice to see a well-designed set — it is obvious WAF has design talent as well as acting ability. “The Mousetrap” closes next Sunday, the 27th; curtain time is 8:30 except Saturday, when it is 6 and 10. Next on the WAF calendar is a week-only run of “Tobacco Road,” July 30 thru August 3. Second of three children’s productions staged this year by WAF is “The Pied Piper of Hamelin,” now running through July 26 daily at 2 p.m. These are plays for children given by the regular members of the WAF organization, and if “Pied Piper is as good as the first of these, it’s worth the kids’ time, the effort to get them there, and the little it costs to get them inside. INDIANA CALANDER OF EVENTS FOR’69 July 23-27 — Kenapocomoco inter-tribal pow-wow in Roann. This is a community festival with participating Indian groups. July 26 - Aug. 9 — Fountain Park Chautauqua in Remington — The chautauqda begins its 75th season for two weeks of activity, including afternoon and evening programs, art and ceramic classes and children’s activities. July 26 - 26 — INDY 200 in Indianapolis. Championship race at Raceway park. July 27 — St. Paul’s Catholic church picnic between Jeffersonville and Sellersburg off US 31E. Famous in the state. Two tons of fresh chicken were served during the country - style dinner in 1968. July 27 — Art and Hobby Show at Sunman. July 27 — Michigan City Dunes Art Fair at the wooded grove of Baker junior high school in Michigan City. ' July 27 — Annual Sunday School Celebration in Harrison county where the day is devoted to gospel singing, pageantry and spiritual uplift by many gifted ministers. July 31 - August 1-2 — Homecoming at Bristol. SYRACUSE LOCAL Mr. and Mrs. Owen Gertsch of Lake Wawasee have returned from Chicago where they spent the week end.

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622 Participate In Swimming Program At WHS A total of 622 students participated in the first Wawasee high school summer swimming program, including 16 adults. Classes were offered in beginner, intermediate and advanced sections. Instructors were Miss Connie Wogomon, Mrs. Elton Powers, Mrs. Tom Jones, Miss Kathy Moore and Miss Melanie Walters. Each instructor was assisted by a high school student who had a senior life saving certificate. Adult swimming classes are being planned for part of the adult education program which will start January 19, 1970. The summer open swimming program will conclude with swimming from 7 to 9 p.m. on July 24, 29 and 31. The pool will close during August for cleaning and maintenance work. The fall schedule, including family night swimming, open swimming, nights reserved for school, community and adult groups, will be announced at the beginning of school.