Maxinkuckee Playes Purchase Property  

Cincinnati Dramtists Head Summer Thearter Group Here, Announce Plans

Maxinkuckee Players Purchase East Shore Lane Property

The establishment of a summer theatre on Lake Maxinkuckee was contained in an announcement made public this week.

The sponsoring group to be known as "The Maxinkuckeer Players", will be headed by co-managers S. Paul Rutledge, director of drama at the University of Cincinnati, and Martin Tahse, Acadaemy graduate and speech major at the University of Cincinnati.

Arrangements have been completed for the purchase of the Vacation Club property located on the north side of the East Shore Lane. The Vacation Club, a summer vacation and recreation program for girls, was under the management of Mrs. Winifred Legg.

Work on the remodeling of the building will be intitiated next month.

Brochures outlining plans for the organizationa and establishment of the summer theater were placed in the mails this week.

Plays representing a wide variety of theater are planned for production, including Maxwell Anderson's "Elizabeth the Queen"; "Ah, Wilderness", by Eugene O'Neil; an old-fashioned mellerdrammer "Gold in the Hills" (hissing, booing and cheering by the audience permitted and encouraged); "The Hasty Heart"; "The Glass Menagerie" and others. Eight plays, different a different one each week, week will be presented during the forthcoming season.

A permenant company of actors and technicians will be augmented by local personnel.

Among the professionals, the theater's company will include two distingushed European refugees who at present are on the staff at the University of Cincinnati: Dr. Gustav Eckstein world famous playwright and composer; and Heinz Pabst actor and director.

Professor S. Paul Rutledge, of the University of Cincinnati and manager of the "Maxinkuckee Players", has been frequently praised in the CIncinnati newspapers for the excellent of recent university plays. The drama critics commented in particular on his "sensitive and imaginative" direction of "Dark of the Moon" last month.

D. Martin Tahse, now as student at the Univesity of Cincinnati and assistan manager of "The Maxinku Players", began his career while he was a cadet at Culver Military Academy. He has continued his interest and activity in college, playing leadin rolses in three drama productions. He has also acted as punlicity director for the drama group and has directed one experimental play this spring.

Members of the board of advisors in addition to Professors Rutledge, Pabst, and Eckstein and Tashe; inlcude Martin Bryan of Cincinnati and Dorothy Oberlin, Anne Ellswoth, Elizabeth Shetterly, and J. Geral Markley all of Culver. Miss Oberlin, a graduate of the Goodman Theater of Chicago; Miss Shetterly, dietitian of the Academy; and Mr. Markley, director of drama at the Academy, have contributed heavily of their talents to stage productions.

The announcement of the plans for the summer theatre here on Lake Maxinkuckee will be warmly received by many who have a deep interest in the theatre. Old timers will recall the fine stage productions of the "Maxinkuckee Mummer" attracted a wide spread interest.

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Summer Theater Will Be Opened on Maxinkuckrr

Special to the Newa - Culver Ind. March 15 - A summer stock theater will open on Lake Maxinkuckee in June

S. Paul Rutledge and D. Martin Tahse managers of the Maxinkuckee Players announced this week they have completed arrangements to by the Vacation Club on the east shore of the lake

A permanent company of actors and technicians will be augmented by personnel here for the eight plays, one each week.

AMong the professionals will be Dr. Gustav Ekstein, playwright and composer and Heinz Pabst director, both European refugees.

Remodeling of the building will begin next month.

Rutledge is a professor and Tahse is a student at the Univesity of Cinncinnati.

Plays planned inlcude: Maxwell Anderson's "Elizabeth the Queen"; Eugene O'Neilll's "Ah, Wilderness", by Eugene O'Neil; and "The Hasty Heart"; and "The Glass Menagerie"... - Mar 15 1950 - Indianapolis News.