The Silver Cord

By Sidney Howard

Performed
July 19-20, 1956
at
The High School Auditorium

Production Staff

Director	John Moffitt William Swift
Set Designer	Stuart Frost
Technical Director	Jim Shull
Business Manager	Bob Gentry
Stage Manager	Paul Heberling
Assistant Set Designer	Robert Young
Lighting	Jim Oblinger
Prompter	Robert Young
Costumes	Peggy Shull Sally Rice
Makeup	Arlene Lucas Maxine Noyes
Stage Crew	Robert Young Stuart Frost Bob Koser
House Manager	Bill Dunkle
Publicity	Don Storch M. Whitmore Emily Berke
Head Usher	Peggy Shull

Program Notes

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The Community Theatre of State College is a non-profit organization composed of citizens of the State College Area. The group was formed about eighteen months ago for the purpose of providing recreation and entertainment for the entire community. As such, this becomes your organization. You the audience, and you the future members make plausible the reason for our Existing as a group.

Some of us want to act, some to do backstage work, others to work out front where they meet the public first-hand. There are all kinds of openings for people to do as little or as much as they wish. In this manner, our membership has grown from a starting point of about 15 to its present level of over fifty persons.

The future of the organization, we hope, can be summed up in one word — expansion. Expansion in the number of plays produced, including at least one annual children’s play; expansion in scope, to include various types of plays, especially those you in the audience wish to see; expansion in service, to include a theater workshop and other services to community welfare; and thru all of these, expansion in both following and active membership

We of the organization find that our greatest satisfaction comes from meeting a goal sought and well gained. At the same time, we find that we have been able to contribute to the community welfare by sizeable donations to charities.

The play which you are seeing this evening is our first endeavor into serious drama. We feel that it is a step in the right direction toward a varied repertoire. We hope very much that you enjoy it and will be back again. When the final curtain rings down we hope you will come back and see what things look like on our side of the stage. We would like to get to know you and have you meet the people connected with the show.

–James Shull