EAST FAREWELL
NEWS
Thursday, December
15, 1955 Vol. C546
LOCAL
NEWS
‘A CHRISTMAS CAROL’ CHARMS
EAST FAREWELL
East Farewell- The Christmas tradition of the presentation of
Dickens’s classic “A Christmas Carol” opened last week to a sold out crowd and
has enjoyed a sell out every night and expected to continue to pack the house
until closing January 2nd. The play is being presented for the third
year and has attained a bit of magical holiday status in town. This year is
special due to the return Leo G Carroll as Scrooge. He is reprising his lead
role that he first played two years ago in the first presentation. The audience
loved him as he growled, scolded, cried and in the end laughed with joy. The
entire cast was superb taking the audience off on a wonderful trip through the
beloved tale. This year again playing the role of Belle is East Farewell’s own Natalie Mallard and has
grown in the role she has played for all three years. The East Farewell
Playhouse staged an exquisite set and the scenes were very authentic. The final
show tops off another spectacular season for the Playhouse and its main
producer Jed Bernstein. Owners Rick and Julie Davidson have worked extremely
hard to continue upgrading the Playhouse and building the ever increasing
support member base.
The show itself was a straightforward interpretation of the story.
Carroll plays an excellent Scrooge, gruff and callous at the start and through
reflection and self-evaluation becoming a kind, giving and even boisterous
member of the town. Other members of the cast do an admirable job with Fred
Marshall playing a humble but proud Bob Cratchit again. 14 year old Billy Grahmn
plays Tiny Tim and is endearing. The other cast members due a superb job with
one special note, Thomas Durance, reprises the Ghost of Christmas Present and brings
a smile to your face with his off the cuff, seemingly improvised humor.
Everyone has fun in this family event but the audience seems to have the most
fun. Don’t miss this show.
Scrooge & the Spirit of Christmas Present
SPORTS
BEARS GROWL AND SWIPE AT
COUGARS IN OPENER
East Farewell- The Cougars basketball season started last week
with loss to a very strong Central Bears team, 40-44. The Bears caught the
Cougars by surprise by showing a very steady offense and a rigid defense. Last
year the Bears finished next to last in the league standings and the Cougars
were not expecting the vastly improved Bears who obviously worked very hard and
if this game was any indication, the Bears will be contenders for the league
crown. The Cougars on the other hand who are defending league champs looked like
they were playing one step behind most of the game. It wasn’t until the fourth
quarter that the Cougars seemed to get on track. They had trailed the Bears the
entire game except for briefly at the end of the first half.
The game
started with a surprise from the Bears by showing up with what amounted to two
centers, Donny Doyle and Frank Williams, both over 6’7”. This completely threw
off the Cougars defense whose only player over 6’5” is center, Wilson Watson.
The Cougars struggled in the first half to contain the ‘Twin Towers’ as Cougars
point guard, Timmy Green, cynically named Doyle and Williams. “Those guys were
unstoppable in the first half, we were working as hard as we could just to keep
up with them. We started to figure them out towards the end of the first half
but they played a very good game,” said Cougars coach, Charles Wilson, “They
are going to be a force this season, we will have to figure out something to do
about them.”
The Bears were
able to rattle off ten unanswered points before the Cougars were able to get on
the board. The Cougars answered with six straight but the tone had been set and
it wasn’t until two minutes remaining in the first half were the Cougars able
to take a slim two point lead. In the second half the Bears regained the lead to
stay at the beginning of the fourth quarter. The Cougars did display flashes of
last year’s championship play but the ‘Twin Towers’ were too much for them. The
Cougars face another difficult opponent next week when they take on the Corning
Devils in Corning. The game begins at 4:30 in the Corning High gymnasium.
NATIONAL NEWS
BIG LINEUP FOR NBC RADIO ON NEW YEARS –
DIDDLEY ON ED SULLIVAN – CHESS LAUNCHES NEW LABEL – FREED BRANCHES OUT
For New Year’s Eve - NBC radio’s “Monitor”
will spotlight
remote pick-ups by the Billy Taylor Trio from London House
in Chicago; Jerry Gray at the Moulin Rouge, Hollywood; Tex Beneke at the
Statler Hotel, New York; Duke Ellington at the Blue Note in Chicago; Sarah
Vaughan at Birdland in New York; Les Brown at the Hollywood
Palladium, Bobby Troup at the Huntington Sheraton, Pasadena (CA) and Stan Kenton at Zardies in Los Angeles.
Bo Diddley appears on The Ed Sullivan
Show this week. Ed wanted Diddley to perform “16 Tons” but what came out was
“Bo Diddley.” They had to rehearse over and over again, because Diddley didn’t
know diddley about the song. Ed and crew got the surprise of their lives when
it came to the actual live airing. When
asked to comment, the singer said, “Man, maybe that was ’16 Tons’ on those
(cue) cards, but all I saw was ‘Bo Diddley.”
DJ Murray Kaufman has been busy the
last few summers staging open-air shows (featuring top recording stars) at Palisades Park Palisades Amusement Park Palisades Park
Rhythm and Blues label Chess-Checker
launches a label for pop. “Marterry” will feature artists heard on the firm’s
established labels as well as new artists. The move was made because R&B hits
such as Chuck Berry’s “Maybellene” have crossed over into pop.
WINS DJ Alan Freed is branching out
into the nightclub and movie fields next year. He’s scheduled to take his own
18-piece band into Birdland in February.
Freed will front and play trombone on the bill which will also feature
Sam The Man Taylor and Al Sears.
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