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The Petrified Forest

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A play by Robert E. Sherwood.
[Starring] Douglass Montgomery with Jane Barrett and Robert Ayres
The action of the play takes place just before the last war and is set in the lunch-room of the Black Mesa Filling Station and Bar-B-Q on the desert in Eastern Arizona
(Second performance on Thursday at 8.0 p.m.)

Contributors

Author:
Robert E. Sherwood
Producer:
Royston Morley
Settings Designer:
Barry Learoyd
Narrator (and radio announcer):
Ray Byrnes
A telegraph lineman:
Paul Erickson
Another lineman:
Spencer Teakle
Jason Maple, proprietor of the Black Mesa Bar-B-Q:
Sydney Keith
Grandpa Maple, his father and owner of the Bar-B-Q:
Gerald Lawson
Boze Hertzlinger, hired hand at the Bar-B-Q.:
Gerald Metcalfe
Gabby Maple, Jason's daughter:
Jane Barrett
Alan Squier, a passer-by:
Douglass Montgomery
Mrs. Chisholm, of Dayton, Ohio:
Doris Nolan
Mr. Chisholm:
MacDonald Parke
Joseph, their chauffeur:
Joslyn Haase
Member of the Mantee gang - Jackie:
Alan Keith
Member of the Mantee gang - Duke Mantee:
Robert Ayres
Member of the Mantee gang - Ruby:
Charles Irwin
Paula, a Mexican cook:
Anna Korda
Pyles, Mantee's driver:
Dan Jackson
Sheriff:
Ernest Borrow
Deputy Sheriff:
Cyril Saxon

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