Home Contact Information Photo Galleries   • 2000-2009   • 1990-1999   • 1980-1989   • 1970-1979   • 1960-1969   • 1959   • 1958   • 1957   • 1956   • 1955   • 1954   • 1953   • 1952   • 1951   • 1950   • 1949   • 1948   1951 The Fourth Year: April 6 and 7, 1951 Producer: Herb Wedemeyer Director: Joe Sauers Writer: Larry Clemmons and Alden Waite Music: The Verdugo Woodlands “Pops” Orchestra By Jill Benone: We have parts of the script for this show, as well as the lighting plot and financial outcome. 1951 Producer Herb Wedemeyer was Ancient Lovely Chairman for the 40th show in 1987, and is honored in the mini-program. The 1951 show, as gleaned from bits of the script and the program, was set in three times: 1823, 1951, and 1973. In 1893, at a PTA meeting at the home of "Don Tamale Tacos y Enchilada" Abnormal Strawhurst was to lay a cornerstone for the new school in Verdugo Woodlands. The show ends in 1973 with “Normal Hayhurst” actually laying the cornerstone. (Glendale’s Superintendent of Schools was Norman C. Hayhurst.) This was Follies’ first barbed venture into local politics – a success, as according to the News-Press (5/4/53), "it wasn’t long afterward that school authorities furnished Woodlands with a new school addition." In the 1951 segment, several skits dealt with kids’ television of the day. They spoofed westerns, wrestling, Space Patrol, and the puppet show Time for Beany. There were continual comments about the” new school”. Fathers of the student performers of a 6th grade play were supposed to perform the same roles in Follies – I don’t know how successful it was, The play is listed in the outline, although I can’t identify it in the program. An Income and Expense Statement lists a profit of $670.00 against expenses of $669.26, $212.80 going to “Collector of Internal Revenue Adm. Tax”. Reported by Mrs. W.H. Stephens, Historian Fathers’ Follies . . . was. . . THE EVENT of the year. . . Such grace and beauty and coyness . . . “A beef trust if I ever saw one” some one was heard to comment – Fathers’ Follies of 1951 will long be remembered. May it be perpetual!”