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Stage ManagerWoesAs Senior Production Nears£By BUTHIE MORTENSENIf you’ve ever had a yen tobe a stage manager, see your family psychiatrist. You’re too young to die. It’s not only the work involved, it’s the responsibility that tires you.Maybe you’d be interested in knowing how stage manager Tom File at Petersburg high school spends his spare time^^hile',preparing for this year’s Senior Play.School is out at 4 p.m. which just gives him time to put that door in before play practice at 7 (Eating isn’t important, so just omit that.)Change LightsThe lights in the ceiling have to be changed. That means getting the ladder from «the gym. It doesn’t weigh 5*more than fifty pounds, so itshouldn’t take long to get itup -those three flights of stairs to the auditorium.If you’re able to straightenup . after that, the footlights Still have to be tested.Myv kingdom* for a rug and4. 1__*cftaii#tl}at don’t clash so -bad '^hewMake the' audience’s at-Isn’t it strange that folks won’t lend their rugs? Well, don’t worry about it, you haven’t got room for one anyhow.Repair StairsThat bookcase needs repairing. Those stairs aren*t so bad going down. Grope your way to the furnace room, and jus* try to find a hammer and nails, and while you are down stair's, get some bandages from the nurse’s room. By now you are all thumbs and you’ll Drobablv need them.*There’s still the telephone to rig up., You get the batteries from the science room and after a ffew hundred attempts to make it work you start wishingyou hadn’t slept, through physics. ■ ( V ■So, witHifblurry. .eyes and a broken spirit,'-you crawl home and fall intoilt;bed, wishing itlinedbut it does, take a'-lot^of work. However, Tomi File and Dixon Taylor, i shoptfv|eacii‘er, .are do-;exceileh£;lt;job.File ^-deserves a big ecause also play-part bf%the doctor in octor Has a Daughter.”•ing - an Tom1hand,ing th “Thett
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Petersburg Press
Petersburg, Alaska, US
Fri, Nov 11, 1949
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