Flashback : Dallas

DeWitt Ray and Margo Jones

by Paula Bosse

The photo above shows Dallas theater legend Margo Jones accepting the keys to a new Ford truck in March 1955. Below, the caption that appeared in the April 1955 issue of Dallas magazine:

GIFT FOR THEATRE ’55: Margo Jones, director of Theatre ’55, is shown as she accepts the keys to a new 1955 panel truck from DeWitt T. Ray, Dallas banker and member of Dallas Theatre ’55 board of trustees. The truck, gift of a group of 18 Dallas businessmen and civic leaders, will be used for transporting set furniture, props and other necessities for the theatre’s productions.

She looks very, very happy!

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Sources & Notes

Photo is from the April 1955 issue of Dallas, a periodical published by the Dallas Chamber of Commerce.

Photo of the exterior of the theater from the collection of the Dallas Public Library.

Ad from the Dec. 1956 issue of This Month in Dallas.

More on Margo Jones can be found in the following Flashback Dallas posts:

• “Margo Jones & Jim Beck: Both Legends in Their Fields, Both Victims of Carbon Tetrachloride”
• “Tennessee Williams in Dallas”
• “William Lescaze’s Ultramodern Magnolia Lounge — 1936”

Watch “Sweet Tornado: Margo Jones and the American Theater,” the full documentary on Margo Jones produced by KERA-Channel 13, here.

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