EAST
FAREWELL NEWS
Thursday, March 17, 19 55
Vol. C758
LOCAL NEWS
PLAYHOUSE
ANNOUNCES 1955 SEASON
East Farewell – The Playhouse announced their 1955 schedule last
week. After a successful second season the new schedule is more ambitious and
has been expanded to nine shows overall. Playhouse Director, Rick Davidson said
he will continue to have Producer, Jeb Bernstein produce the shows. Bernstein
has become a bit of a celebrity in town and his shows have been sold out at
almost every performance. Davidson’s
wife, Julie, has been in charge of promotion and oversaw the spectacular
restoration of the playhouse. The Playhouse has become a jewel in the town
landscape and draws folks from all over, even as from as far away as
Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and New York City. The Christmas Show presentation of
“A Christmas Carol” has become a town tradition and Bernstein has been able to
recruit top players for the show. It has become the go to event of the season
and always gets rave reviews.
The new
schedule has been posted at the theater and will notify each Playhouse Family
member individually. We will print the schedule here for everyone else. Anyone
can become a Family Member by contacting the box office; 142 Lakeshore Drive.
Full season memberships are available as well as half season and student
members.
The 1955 East
Farewell Playhouse Schedule;
Can-Can May
Peter
Pan June
Guys
& Dolls July
The
King & I August
Paint
Your Wagon September
Pal
Joey October
Showboat November
A
Christmas Carol December
“We are looking
forward to another tremendous season and we love all the support from the
town,” said Bernstein during the kickoff interview at the theater last week.
New
Playhouse
SPORTS
COUGARS SLIP PAST SOUTHPORT 54-53
Southport- The East Farewell Cougars were able to win their 11th
game this season by defeating the Southport Hawks on their home court, 54 to 53. The win was never a sure thing and came down
to a final free throw to put the game away for the Cougars. Both teams played very tough defense but
matched each other with brilliant offense.
These two teams match up very well player for player and both games this
season showed that. In the first game,
earlier this season, the Cougars won in overtime, 52-51, on a last second shot
by point guard, Joey Welch. This game
was another great contest. Both teams led five times and the point differential
was never greater than four.
The game started off quickly with both sides scoring on
each of their first three possessions but then settled down to a chess game of
play versus defense then a different play versus a different defense. At times brilliant play by the Cougars
forwards, O’Hare and Reilly, was matched by the tenacious Hawks defense of
Gold, Abrams and Smith. Other times the
Hawks backcourt of Reynolds and Yews were matched one for one with the Cougars,
Green and
Welch. It was a play by play game with
each team working to gain an advantage.
The game
see-sawed back and forth with the first half ending with Southport
on top, 28-26, both sides were splendid.
The second half was more of the same and neither team was able to
establish any type of game control. As
the second half wound down the Cougars took the lead by four, 49-45 when Southport forward, Jake Evans, blocked a Reilly shot and
threw a long pass to a fast breaking Smith for an easy layup to bring the game
within two with only eleven seconds left.
On the in bounds play a pass was knocked free from Welch by Gold but
Gold was called for a foul on the play and sent Welch to the foul line for two
shots. He missed his first but swished
through his second to put the Cougars up by three with only three seconds
left. The Hawks were unable to connect
on a well executed, but ultimately failed, give and go play as time ran out.
“This was a
great game by both teams,” said Coach Wilson, “The boys played hard the whole
game. I was impressed with those other boys, they were playing to win. This game could have gone either way right to
the end. I’m just glad this one went our
way.”
NATIONAL NEWS
IKE
WOULD USE NUKES–CHURCHILL COMPLAINS-FCC
ON
President Eisenhower declares that the United States
Prime Minister Winston Churchill
complains there are serious mistakes in the U.S.
record of the 1945 Yalta Britain Russia
into war against Japan West
Germany , France
The FCC proposes to congress to
authorize it to conduct a sweeping study of the entire broadcasting industry.
One concern is TV stations assigned to UHF (Ultra High Frequency) - Channels 14
and above. Many have trouble competing with their VHF counterparts and some
have already sign-off. A delay in developing high-power UHF transmitters
coupled with the amount of TV sets that can receive UHF may well be a factor in
UHF troubles. Out of the 35 million TV sets now in use, only 5 million can
receive UHF broadcasts. The commission wants to meet with TV manufacturers to
discuss the feasibility of making more all-channel sets. WXIX-TV/Milwaukee is the only major market
UHF CBS affiliate station.
Bob Haymes songwriter and DJ at WCBS
radio and station WINS are kind of at war. WINS accuses Haymes of “making
wanton and capricious attacks about teenagers who listen to rhythm and blues.”
WINS says Haymes has taken pot shots at R&B, which WINS plays, and a great
number of teens had voiced complaints about Haymes after Freed read a newspaper
column on his WINS program containing the Haymes remarks. Published in the New York Mirror, the letter
quotes Bob Haymes who called R&B “poor music, badly recorded, with lyrics
that are at best in poor taste… and at worst obscene… this trend in music (and
I apologize for calling it music) is affecting the ideas and the lives of our
children…. Kids are pretty hep. I know that they can be taught to develop a
discerning ear,” wrote Haymes. KLAC Los
Angeles DJ Peter Potter says, “all rhythm & blues records are dirty and as bad for kids as dope.” Bill
Randle, who
shuttles between WERE, Cleveland and WCBS, New York Americana
More music news - Appearing at Carnegie
Hall - Dave Brubeck Quartet, Gerry Mulligan, Chet Baker’s combo and songstress
Carmen McRae. NBC DJ Al (Jazzbo) Collins emceed the show. More jazz - Sarah
Vaughan, Count Basie, George Shearing and Errol Garner at the “Birdland Stars
of 1955” in Pittsburgh, PA.
