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By DONALD P. DAVIS Of The Intelligencer Staff The lives of just everyday folks is complex, sometimes disrupting to friends and relatives. In a whistle-stop Kansas town, playwright William Inge in ‘Picnic’ introduces us to two neighbors and all the problems and turmoil that develop in their lives. Flo Owens, played by Marion Kolman, is a mother rearing two daughters, an 18-year-old beauty named Madge (Rita Falterbauer), and a younger, intelligent girl named Millie (Sue Dance). She has lost her husband and is concerned that her daughters get the “best” in life. For Madge, she thinks it is marrying rich and intelligent Alan Seymour (Douglas Rumbaugh). For Millie, it is get ting a four-year scholarship to college. Helen Potts (Margaret Dana), across the yard, lives with her ailing mother and lends a hand to the down trodden, especially when they are young men that she can mother. She takes in strong and handsome Hal Carter (Russ Walsh), who is an ex-football star, a Hollywood has-been, and now a vagabond who came in on the freight car. He also happens to be a former fraternity brother of Seymour. Will beautiful Madge find happiness with Alan, or will Hal Carter win her hand? “Maybe I get tired of being pretty. Maybe I get tired of being looked at,” says Madge to her mother at a point of frustration. And perhaps, it hints at the outcome of the play. One will only know by attending the Town and Coun try Players’ performance at the Barn Theatre on Route 263 in Buckingham. Miss Falterbauer, making her first appearance on Stage, does a commendable job in her role. Russ Walsh, a veteran on the T C theatre in the round, adds the necessary seasoning to make the two-hour performance flow smoothly. Margaret Dana, Marion Kolman, and Rumbaugh also add the needed flavor to make their per sons live. Add to the list schoolteacher Rosemary Sydney
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Doylestown Daily Intelligencer
Doylestown, Pennsylvania, US
Wed, Sep 25, 1974
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