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PAGE 8 • PLAIN DEALER • FRIDAY. OCrOBER 31. 1980 "Black Comedy" At Johnsburg High This unuaal scene is from the Johnsburg high school production of "Black Comedy". Since the play takes place during a power failure, the actors have to appear as though they are in the dark. Students have been rehearsing with blindfolds so they can better understand what it feels like in the dark. Cheryl Burkhardt is trying to hand Brian Conant a drink as Mark Leslie makes an attempt to escape. Debbie Swingford and Tom Armor are on the couch. "Black Comedy" will be performed Nov. 7, 8 and 9 at Johnsburg high school. A Rick Martin Photo Students at Johnsburg high school are in the final rehearsals for the produc­ tion of their Fall play, "Black Comedy". "Black Comedy", by Peter Shaffer, is a hilarious farce about a poor artist trying to impress a famous art dealer and the artist's future father-in-law. The title refers to the fact that the entire play takes place during a power failure. Even though the stage lights will be on, the actors must make the audience believe that they are in the dark. Directors Roger Zawacki and Dan Stanowski have been rehearsing the actors with blindfolds on, so they can fully understand what it's like to move around in the dark. The actors, of course, bump into the fur­ niture and into each other while Brindsley Miller (the artist) tries to remove all the furniture he stole from his neighbor. "This is the most difficult play we've attempted to do so far," said Zawacki. "The actors have to look as if they are groping around in complete blackness, even though the stage lights are on." "Black Comedy" will be performed in the Johnsburg high school auditorium Nov. 7, 8, and 9. The Nov. 7 and 8 performances will begin at 8 p.m. and the Sunday per­ formance on Nov 9 will begin at 4 p.m. Tickets are on sale now at Johnsburg high school and will also be sold at the door beginning one hour before each per­ formance Senior Citizens will be admitted free of charge to any performance. Dear Colleen: Dear Colleen: I work in a small office with a girl that likes to chew gum. I have nothing against gum chewing, »but this girl constantly pops hers. I mean really loud |x>pping. She is a nice girl and I don't want to hurt her feelings, but this is dis­ tracting to me when I am trying to work. How can I tell her in a nice way that she is distracting me when she pops her gum? Isn't this had manners? Distracted could hold the gum popping down and if she continues to "poR", then tell her how dis­ tracting she is. Dear Distracted: Yes, chewing gum in a loud way is bad manners. 1 don't like to see anyone chewing gum with their mouth constantly opening and shutting and making noise. Ask her in a nice way if she Dear Colleen: Recently I read an article per­ taining to marriage and divorce. It stated that dancing was a solid base for a marriage and if mar­ ried couples didn't dance together they would end up divorced. I feel like my husband and I have a very good marriage, but neither of us dance. Do you think we will end up in a divorce? No Dancing Dear No Dancing: If dancing couples stayed mar­ ried there would be a lot less divorces. It takes more than dan­ cing together to stay together. You're worrying about nothing. USED CAR... CLEARANCE We feature one of the finest selection of used cars in the County! 1979 BUICK REGAL 2dr., V8, A-T, P.S., P.B.,alr, mag wheels, light green. 1979 BUICK ELECTRA LMTD. 2 dr., loaded. 1978 PLYMOUTH VOLARE 4 dr., 6 cyl.i A-T, P.S., green. 1977 BUICK REGAL 2 dr., V-8, A-T, P.S., P.B., T-Top, air, green. 1977 BUICK ELECTRA 4 dr., V-8, A-T, P.S., P. B., air, silver. 1978 BUICK REGAL 2 dr., V-6, A-T, P.S., P.B., air cond. 1976 AMC HORNET WGN. 6cyl., A-T, P.S., P.B., air cond., yellow. 1976 BUICK REGAL 2 dr., V-8, A-T, P.S., P.B., air cond., black. 1974 BUICK ELECTRA 4 dr., loaded, brown. 1974 CHEVY BEL AIR 4 dr., green. $6795 *6995 *3195 $4295 $4495 *3395 $3195 $2995 $1295 $895 Arrest Woman In High Speed Chase A high speed chase in­ volving two Sheriff's departments ended early Wednesday morning at the Route 120-Chapel Hill road intersection with the arrest of a Park City woman. The incident started when Lake County Sheriff's deputies responded to a report of criminal damage to property in progress at a home in Wildwood. The police found that a pick-up truck parked in the driveway of the residence had been repeatedly ram­ med and pushed through a garage door. The door caved in, the Lake County Sheriff's police said, damaging an auto and a motorcycle in­ side. A description of the of­ fender's car was obtained and the car was later seen by another deputy. At about 3:01 a.m. Oct. 29, a Lake County police officer attempted to stop the vehicle, but the driver kept going, ignoring the lights and siren. Eventually, another officer joined the chase, but as they attempted to stop the offender's car, the driver forced them to the shoulder of the road. The chase proceeded into McHenry county, where deputies of the Sheriff's police succeeded in boxing in the speeding auto. Mary Dausman, of 340 Marshfield, Park City, was arrested and charged with criminal damage to property over $150, fleeing and at­ tempting to elude police and reckless driving. Other charges are pending at this time, {he Lake County Sheriff's department said. In no less than eight in­ stances, the tires of 10 cars in Wonder Lake were slashed, punctured or deflated. Reporting the incidents to the McHenry County Sheriff's police were: Nils Nielsen, of 7719 Island lane; Norman Arnestad, of Florida; Albert Mechan, of 7709 Island lane; Robert Williams, of 4507 W. Shore; Marianne Hollingsworth, of 4515 W. Shore; Lee Berry, 4505 W. Shore; Bobbie Hall, of 4521 W. Wonder Lake road; and Nickie Crawford, of 4702 W. Shore, all in Wonder Lake. A passing motorist reported to the Sheriff's police that an in­ jured man was lying on the ramp of Route 14 at the in­ tersection of Route 31 near Crystal Lake. The police and Crystal Lake Rescue squad responded and found Robert Swiatkowski, 22, of 3307 Wright road, McHenry, with obvious facial injuries but standing along the road. Swiatkowski refused first aid at the scene. He also would not tell police how he received the injuries. Patricia L. Garcia, 35, of 4005 Maple, McHenry, was arrested by McHenry police for driving while intoxicated and disobeying a traffic control device last weekend. The McHenry Fire department was called to the scene of a car fire at 2514 Cuhlman last Sunday morning. It was learned that 6 * IA A S f N C E A THE ONE, TRUE ELEPHANT October 19,1980 Background Scripture: Jeremiah 31. Devotional Read! r Ezekiel 18:25 Clyde Reid, in his challeng­ ing book, THE RETURN TO FAITH (Harper & Row 1974), tells a parable about the men of a little village who one day found a beautiful elephant. So enamoured of that elephant were they that they captured him and put him in a big tent so that others might see him too. But the great crush of people who came to see him convinced the elders of the village to build a temple around the tent in order to protect the elephant from the crowds. Two things happened to the elephant in time. First, the ele­ phant gave birth to quintuplets who crawled out from under the tent and escaped into the world. And, Secondly, the elephant died. But the elders of the vil­ lage denied that the elephant was dead. As Reid tells it: "They had too many programs prepared in advance, the offer­ ings were too lucrative, and the paid elephant keepers who took care of the temple didn't want to lose their jobs." So, instead of admitting their elephant had died, they continued to expand the temple complex even larger. The dead elephant began to smell bad, but the keepers con­ tinued to deny that he was dead. THE "OHE, HUE ELEPHANT" From time to time people would report that they had seen the elephant's offspring here and there in the countryside, but the keepers ridiculed these reports. "Everyone knows the only real elephant is the one in our temple," said the keepers. And Reid concludes: "And for a time the people were satisfied, for they continued to come to the temple, hoping for a glimpse of the one true ele­ phant." This shaggy elephant story cuts pretty close to the bone, doesn't it? Just as Jeremiah the Prophet of Israel was call­ ing the people of God to a new and living relationship with God in place of a dead elephant that their religion had hecome. It was a religion of the temple, a place, a thing, an altar. It was the religion of law written On scrolls. But that live and vibrant faith that had caused the temple to be built and in­ spired the preservation of the laws was now a dead and pu­ trid thing. They had allowed the old covenant to become stagnant and decay. A NEW COVENANT So Jeremiah was calling Isra­ el to give up the dead elephant and accept a new covenant with God--one that would not be chiseled into temple walls or copied on scrolls, but in the hearts of the people. It was pot to be just another covenant to replace the old one, but a new covenant. The new covenant called for a new maturity, a new responsibility on the part of the people. The experience of God would no longer be a second-hand relationship, for "they shall all know me, from the least of them to the great­ est" (31:34). It was an exciting promise he was holding out to the people of Israel. The only trouble with it was that it meant giving up that dead carcass they had become to regard as "the one, true elephant." IUv. AltfcMM A Lesson Xs°°WT? HIGH QUALITY/ MRKMANSHIP! RIGHT PRCS! _ / Richard Piatt, 33, of 760 White Birch, Lake Zurich, had stopped his car at the Cuhlman road address and fallen asleep when the car caught fire. 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