“Jack & The Beanstalk’ To Open Tomorrow

The Columbia Junior Theater, sponsored co-operatively by the Junior League and the Town Theater, will open its 1950-51 season tomorrow afternoon at 4 o’clock with the beloved children’s fair tale, “Jack and the Beanstalk.”

Two additional performances of this all-time favorite children’s story are schedule. An evening performance will be given on Friday night at 8 o’clock and a matinee will be presented Saturday afternoon at 3:30.

Scrappy Dobbins, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ragland Dobbins, will play the part of Jack. Sylvia Jacobs, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Horace T. Jacobs (Clara Mae Jacobs), will portray his mother, and Jack Nixon, son of the Rev and Mrs Eugene Nixon will be cast as the butcher.

The giant will be played by Richard Breeland, young Columbia attorney, and Gelene Duncan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alderman Duncan, will portray the fairy.

Barbara Fripp, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert T. Fripp, will play the part of Gold Piece; Dell Dutrow, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Dutrow, will portray the hen, and Lynn Talley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. Cotrell Talley, will be the harp.

In the role of Buttercup, the cow, will be Paul Rogers, son of Mr. and Mrs. P. A. Rogers, and Robert McElveen, son of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond McElveen.

Participants in the prologue which precedes the three-act play include Jimmy Fuller, son of Mr. and Mrs. James W. Fuller, Carolyn Merritt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Merritt, and Dickie Anderson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Anderson.

Mrs. Reginald Kramer, dramatic professor at Columbia college who directed the children’s theater production of “The Magic Ring” at the Town Theater last year is director of “Jack and the Beanstalk.”

Mrs. Robert McCrady is chairman of the Junior League Junior Theater committee. Serving with her are Mrs. John Kelly ticket chairman Mrs. Alva Lumpkin and Mrs. Thomas T. Moore costume co-chairmen, Mrs. Henry Woodward, properties chairman, Mrs. Joseph Mott, Jr., poster contest chairman, Mrs. Derwood Combs publicity chairman; Mrs. R. D. Heinitsch, Mrs. Frank Gary, Mrs. David Childs and Mrs. Robert Seabrook.

Miss Barbara Bogan, chairman of the box office, announced today that tickets to “Jack and the Beanstalk” are still available at the Town Theater box office, 1012 Sumter street. Tickets to each individual performance are priced at 60 cents, and may be obtained today between 2 – 6 p.m., on Friday between 9 a.m. and 8 p.m., and on Saturday from 2:30 – 3:30

Membership tickets for the Junior theater are also available at the theater box office. Priced at $1.25, they entitle members to, admittance and participation in all three productions of the Junior Theater, as well as to attendance at the morning workshop held on Saturday mornings at Mrs. Kramer’s junior playhouse, 729 Kawana road, and other activities of the group.

Season membership tickets will be sold only until curtin time at 3:30 Saturday afternoon.