EAST FAREWELL
NEWS
Thursday, December
20, 1956 Vol. C599
LOCAL
NEWS
IF IT IS CHRISTMAS IN EAST
FAREWELL IT IS TIME FOR A CHRISTMAS CAROL
East Farewell – Your holiday season would not be complete in
East Farewell if you did not attend the wonderful production of Charles Dickens
“A Christmas Carol” The presentation by the Playhouse with producer, Jed
Bernstein, has become a holiday staple in town and is looked forward by
everyone and has sold out every performance until it closes January 5Th,
1957. Playhouse owners, Rick and Julie Davidson deserve a special
acknowledgement for their tireless work in keeping the Playhouse and lively and
vibrant leader of the growing artistic community in East Farewell.
This year the
lead role of Scrooge was reprised by Leo G. Carroll. Last year he won lavish
reviews for his straight forward performance of the gruff miser turned into a
grateful benefactor after late night visits from the three spirits of Christmas
Past, Present and Future. The production followed the famous story line which
the audience seemed to truly appreciate. Carroll was obviously enjoying the
role and relished in the transformation. His bitter, miserly, angry Scrooge at
the start very convincing and his transformation is magnificent. The effects that
Set Designer, Joel Franks, put up are fabulous. The scene from Christmas
Present is especially
wonderful with the bounty of the feast and the Spirit, played by a rotund and
very jolly Willy O’Hanlon making it a very joyful scene.
The rest of the cast was wonderful
also. Randle Cross plays an expressive yet humble Bob Cratchit and Tiny Tim is
played by a new comer to the stage, 12 year old Billy O’Brian. Both are
terrific. The other members all contribute to the simply enchanting tradition.
The show opened last Saturday night to a sold out crowd and will run every
Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights with a matinee on Sunday afternoon until
January 5th. This is one show you don’t want to miss.
Ghost of
Christmas Present with Scrooge
SPORTS
COUGARS STUMBLE ON RIVERVIEW
East Farewell- The Cougars met the first test on Friday. They
played a good game but Paul Kirsch, center for the Riverview Wildcats played a slightly
better game. Kirsch and his teammates were able to slip past the Cougars, 45-44
with a last second shot by Kirsch over Cougar’s center Wilson Watson. Watson
played Kirsch man to man the entire game and although Kirsch held about a half
inch height advantage Wilson was quicker. They both scored 18 points and Kirsch
out rebounded Wilson by two (24-22). The
two battled the whole game with tempo swinging back and forth. By all accounts
they played to a draw but it was Kirsch who got the ball with eight seconds
left on the clock and the Wildcats up by one. He took a high pass with his
extended left hand, faked to his left as if to start a drive and spun around to
his right just squeezing by Watson who was leaning left just slightly but
enough for Kirsch to slip by and drive in for a last second layup for the score
and the win.
“This was a big
disappointment for us,” said Cougar’s Coach Wilson, “They are a great team and
we played them right up to the end. This one could have gone either way and
today was their day. My boys are going to be fine. We are going to learn from
this one and go out next week and get back to work.”
Next week the
Cougars will host the Christmas Tournament. This is the eighth year for the
tournament and has been growing in size every year. This year there will be 10
teams entered in a double elimination tournament. The Cougars are a first seed
this year due to their last year’s performance. Teams from across the state are
taking part, a team from Philadelphia’s Central High is playing as well as a
team from Pittsburgh, Erie and Scranton. The remaining teams are from the region
and the first games will be played on December 26th in the Regional
High Gym starting at 10:30AM. The entire schedule is available at the Gymnasium
and can be found throughout town in separate announcements.
NATIONAL NEWS
US GRANTS UK $500 MILLION- ARRESTS IN
HUNGARY DENOUNCED- IKE & MAMIE HOST A CHRISTMAS PARTY- GODFREY &
LINKLETTER ON NEW TAPE- AT THE MOVIES
The
United States grants Britain a $500 million loan in another emergency move to
help the British weather a financial crisis caused by the shutdown of the Suez
Canal.
Hungary’s
new “security police” force arrests 400 “rebels and criminals” during the last
24 hours. Strikes and violence by dissatisfied workers in Moscow are reported
by newspapers in Paris and West Berlin. Soviet block nations tighten security
regulations and ban free travel across Eastern European borders.
The
Eisenhowers hold a Christmas party for the White House staff, distributing
gifts and joining in a buffet snack. Each member received twin pictures of
themselves with autographed greetings.
Monday
night’s “Arthur Godfrey’s Talent Scouts” will be recorded on Ampex tape in
Hollywood and released to West Coast viewers at the usual time. Also, during a
closed-circuit test, CBS demonstrates more tape-recorded television. The
program, Art Linkletter’s House Party, was fed from Hollywood to New York on an
Ampex tape deck. Some tape dropouts were observed, but otherwise, the picture
was clear and to the average person, looked like a live telecast. The recorder,
developed and manufactured by the Ampex Corp. used a two-inch-wide magnetic
tape that records sound and picture simultaneously. After a program is
recorded, the tape can be rewound and played back immediately, without any
processing through a regular TV system. CBS has two recorders in Hollywood and
has received its first in New York. Nine other tape decks are on order. The FCC
says a monitoring check on so-called loud commercials on radio and television
failed to show any general use of increased power during advertising spots.
At
the movies –
Oklahoma
– Gordon MacRae Gloria Grahame, Shirley Jones
Hollywood
Or Bust – Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis
Dance
With me Henry – Bud Abbott, Lou Costello
War
and Peace – Audrey Hepburn, Henry Fonda
Teenage
Rebel – Ginger Rogers, Michael Renne
Bundle
of Joy – Eddie Fisher, Debbie Reynolds
Alfred
Hitchcock’s The Wrong Man
Baby
Doll – Karl Malden, Carroll Baker, Eli Wallach
Anastasia
– Ingrid Bergman, Yul Brynner, Helen Hayes
The
Rainmaker – Burt Lancaster, Katharine Hepburn
The
Teahouse of the August Moon – Marlon Brando, Glenn Ford, Machiko Kyo
Canyon
River – George Montgomery Port Afrique – Pier Angeli
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