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Thuroday, July If. 1962
"Unto These Hills" Now Playing
Blh Season at Cherokee, N. C.
A i estimated 120,000 tourists
from all over the United States
are expected to stream through
the Great Smoky Mountains
this summer for an on-the-spot
look at Indian-American his
tory as it unfolds in the popu
lar outdoor classic “Unto These
Hills” at Cherokee. N. C.
“Unto These Hills”, located
in the heart of the Cherokee
Indian Reservation in Western
North Carolina, has opened its
13th summer season. It will
run through September 2, with
shows every night except
Mondays
Since the 1950 opening, 1,-
528,581 people have paid to
see the Indian drama, to make
it the most popular outdoor
summer theatre attraction in
America.
The Tuesday night perform
ance in Cherokee's Mountain
side Theatre will mark the
739th production of one of the
South s longest-running plays.
Played against the majestic
backdrop of the Great Smokies.
120 actors will mass their forces
to repeat again the powerful
story of the forced removal toI
the West of the valiant Che
rokee tribe.
The play, a blend of au
thentic Indian dances, original!
music, and drama, is written by
Kermit Hunter. The first “un
der-the-sky” success of Hun
ter, the Southern playwright
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has since authoried 18 other
plays which have been pro
duced all across the country to
form a “people's drama”.
Music, interwoven through
out the play, is composed by a
native Cherokee, Jack Frede
rick Kilpatrick.
Harry Davis, chairman of
the department of dramatic
art at the University of North
Carolina and head of the fam
ous Carolina Playmakers, has
directed the show from the be
ginning. Davis calls his 1962
cast “one of the best yet as
sembled”.
Holding down one of the
leading roles this summer will
be the veteran actor-dancer
director Foster Fitz - Simons.
Fitz-Simons, who has enacted
the chief “pale-face” role of
“Major Davis” for many sea
sons, will portray the Chero
kee’s great leader, “Junaluska”.
In addition, he will serve again
as Associate Director and
Choreographer.
William C. Trotman, of Win
ston-Salem, N. C., will be re
turning for his second season
as narrator of the drama. Trot
man, who in earlier productions
has played the roles of “Juna
luska” and “Drowning Bear’’,
has just completed a year’s
study at Houston’s Alley Thea
tre on a Ford Foundation grant.
More than 50 Cherokees, na
tives of the reservation, main-
DeSoto Expedition Depicted on Stage at Cherokee, N. C.
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This opening scene of "Unto These Hills" depicts the arrival of the Hernando DeSoto ex
pedition in the Cherokee Country and the Great Smokies in 1540. The first historical men
tion of the Cherokee Nation is found in the records of this first "tourist" in his travels
from the coasts of South Carolina and Georgia west and north into the Great Smokies,
then directly south through Georgia to the Gulf of Mexico in Florida. "Unto These Hills."
America's foremost Indian play portrays dramatic highlights of Cherokee history from
the advent of the white man in 1540 through the tragic days of their removeal from their
homeland over the infamous "Trail of Tears" in 1838-39. The drama is scheduled for 60
performances to be shown nightly, except for Mondays, until Labor Day.
tain acting roles in the drama.
Cherokees having leading roles
■ include Arsene Thompson, a
local minister who will por
। tray “Elias Boudinot”; Rioh
! ard Crowe, who will be cast
again as the warrior “Tecum
; seh”; Sam Owle, who will play
: a “Cherokee Chief”; and Jeff
Thompson as the chief “White
Path”.
Arsene Thompson, and some
of the others, have performed
■ these roles annually since the
j show’s beginning.
Actor Crowe has appeared
I also in movie and television
productions of Walt Disney.
Joe McCarthy, former desig
! ner and technical director of
the Cleveland (Ohio) Play
] house, and numerous other
I theatre groups, will return for
the second season as scene de-
I signer and technical director of
I “Unto These Hills”.
Jarka Burian, professor of
I dramatic art at New York State
University, will play the role
lof “Tsali”. His wife, Grayce,
a favorite off-Broadway actress
; in recent years, enacts the role
of “Wilani”.
Lead dancer in the fiery In
dian dances is Louis Nunnery
from Charleston, South Caro
lina. Hia appearance in the
fabulous “Eagle Dance” has
been a nightly brightspot in
the drama for the past seven
years.
Other prominent members
J of the 1962 “Unto These Hills”
i cast are David Lowry, from
Asheville, N. C., as Organist
and Musical Director; Robert
iA. Malone, from Rockville,
Maryland, as “Drowning
Bear”; Donald Jeffries, from
New York, as “Majoi‘ Davis”;
Donald Deagon, from Guilford
College, N. C., as “Schermer
horn”; and Larry Randolph,
from Chapel Hill, N. C., as
j “Sequoyah” and “Daniel Web-
I ster”.
i Actors drawn from North and
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South Carolina, Virginia. Geor
gia, Tennessee, and a number
of other states, round out the
1962 troupe.
“Unto These Hills” tells the
story of the Cherokee Tribe
from its pre-white days to the
present. It chronicles DeSoto's
Mental Health
Assn. Votes for
Teachers' Grant
A grant of $3,000 to supple
ment the salaries of teachers
of the educable children at the
Milledgeville State Hospital has
been voted by the Board of Di
rectors of the Georgia Associa
tion for Mental Health, Inc.
meeting at Jekyll Island, July
7-10.
In announcing the grant Mr.
DeJongh Franklin, President,
praised the education program
for the children as conceived by
Dr. Mamie J. Jones, State Co
ordinator, Services for Excep
tional Children and supported
since its inception by the
GAMH.
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supplement the salaries of two
white teachers and one Negro
teacher for the 1962- 63 school
year. The State Hospital used
emergency funds to sponsor the
pilot program this summer.
Other action at the Board of
Directors Meeting included the
passage of four resolutions.
One urged that appropria
tions to the Milledgeville State
Hospital be increased to a min
imum of twenty million dollars
to provide a minimum of care,
treatment and rehabilitation of
the mentally ill.
Another resolution called
upon the Department of Health
to make a more vigorous effort
to fill the position of Director
of Mental Health.
A third resolution called up
on the voters of Georgia to
carefully examine the candi
dates for Governor and Lt.
Governor in the coming elec
tions and insist that they have
an understanding of the dimen
sions and of the crucial nature
of these problems and a desire
to create for Georgia a modern
and effective system of care
and treatment for its citizens
suffering from mental illness,
retardation and alcoholism.
A final resolution approved
the appointment of the legis
lative committee appointed to
study the problems of delin
quent youth in the State.
The Georgia Association for
Mental Health, Inc. is the only
voluntary agency concerned
with all phases of the mentally
ill. It operates through 3F
Chapters, 50 County Mental
Health Chairmen, and numer
ous related organizations.
The current program empha
sis of the GAMH is focused on:
1. Improved Care and Treat
ment for Mental Hospital Pa
tients.
2. Services and Facilities so
Rehabilitation and Aftercare.
3. Treatment, Schooling and
Special Services for Mentally
11l Children.
4. Community - Based Men
tal Health Facilities and Ser
vices.
The Georgia Association foi
Mental Health is located at 209
Henry Grady Office Building.
Atlanta 3. Georgia. Frank Mc-
Fall is Executive Director.
famous search through the area
for gold, tells of the period of
the great Indian wars, and in
a vivid scene acknowledges
the white man’s debt to the In
dians by virtue of the forced
march west to Oklahoma in
which thousands died.
The play is a project of the
non-profit Cherokee Historical
Association. The association al
so operates Oconaluftee Indian
Village, a scientifically recre
ated Cherokee town populated
by Cherokees in native dress,
and the Museum of the Chero
kee Indian, the world’s most
complete collection of Chero
kee arts and cultural items.
All are located at Cherokee,
North Carolina, in the midst
of the Great Smoky Moun
tains.
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sentence it used to be. Nineteen
out of twenty recover. But st'll
pneumonia does i-ank sixth as
a cause of death, killing about
45.000 people a year.
Fairly recent on the scene is
pneumonia caused by staphy
lococci. Some “staph” germs
are resistant to antibiotics,
which means simply that the
antibiotics don't work. Recovery
is slow.
Then there is a type of pne
umonia in which many small
sections of a lung are involved.
This type of pneumonia can
come from streptococcus, a vi
rus, a fungus — to name only
a few of the possible causes.
This too is difficult to treat,
since the antibiotics often don i
work. This pneumonia tends to
hit people who are weakened by
some other illness, by surgery,
or by age.
But most pneumonia is caus-
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211, attended camp at Bert
Adams Reservation last week.
We had a wonderful week. I
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having a lot of fun. We passed
off many requirements on i
achievements and merit badges |
We also enjoyed swimming, j
boating, canning, archery, hik- ;
ing, marksmanship and plenty
of good eating. Among the
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were Steve McMullen and!
David Burson.
Wednesday night were happy
to have our families come down
for a picnic supper and the In- I
dian pageant. Preceeding the |
pageant, Scoutmaster John^
Burson and David Burson were '
among those tapped for the
Order of the Arrow.
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