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A recent Logan High School graduate, now an employe of Metallics, Inc., and who “dabbles” in dramatics, will have his first play produced Monday night over radio station WLCX. Donald Thompson has written an “entirely different type of Christmas story” he said. Titled “The Cross and the Rose,” the drama has its initial airing at 10:20 p.m. Monday. With a setting in France in 1944, the story tells of a young lieutenant, Benjamin Hess, who loses his faith in God and Christmas. Through the play, with the help of a chaplain and a front line doctor, the lieutenant regains his faith. Thompson has the lead role in the story. The chaplain is played by Ronald Young, the doctor by Neil Duresky. Other characters include Richard Shay as Cpl. George Arney; Raymond Aiken as Pvt. Snyder; Gerald Layton as Cpl. William Mannery; Tim Johnson as Capt. Keith Blaine; and Joel Urban as the nar rator. Johnson has charge of the sound effects and engineering. There are three scenes which portray front line and behind the fines action. Of particular importance in the play is the sermon delivered by the lieutenant at the funeral of the chaplain. The drama will run for 34 minutes.
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La Crosse Sunday Tribune
La Crosse, Wisconsin, US
Sun, Dec 21, 1958
Page 24
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