EAST FAREWELL
NEWS
Thursday, August
27, 1959 Vol. C739
LOCAL
NEWS
ROMEO & JULIET SPINS ITS
TRAGIC ROMANCE THROUGH TOWN
East
Farewell – The Student Summer stock program opened its second and final show on
Friday. Romeo & Juliet and it will run through next Wednesday. The first
shows were sold out but there are some tickets available for the remaining
shows. The program has been overwhelmingly successful and lovingly embraced by
both the student performers and the audience. Directed by Jeb Bernstein the
classic Shakespeare play was presented in the classic way. “We thought we would
keep it pretty straight,” said Playhouse owner, Julie Davidson, “the kids knew
the story and Jeb was able to get them right into the action in a short, short time.
The students were fantastic. They all learned their parts in about a week and
they really embraced the story.”
The play is one of Shakespeare’s
most popular and most people know the story. The fact that it revolves around
two young lovers made it a perfect show for the student summer stock program.
The program is made up of mostly high school students. Some very talented high
school students have been part of the program all summer. Originally, only two
shows were scheduled for the summer program but after the quick release of Guys
and Dolls in late June it was hoped that there would be enough time to put on
three plays this summer. That was overly hopeful and as the summer rolled on it
became apparent that the original schedule was more realistic.
As with Guys and Dolls there were
two casts who switched back and forth on different days. Both were fantastic
and the youthful exuberance was present every time the curtain went up no
matter whom was on stage that day. Romeo was played by Regional High School
seniors, Eric Finnerin and David Carpenter and Juliet was played by Daisy Hall
and Rita Sommers. Mercutio is played by Bruce Moss and Frankie Ray
and Paris was played by Sammy O’Neil and Dennis Dale. The Nurse is played
in both casts by the very capable Natalie Mallard and Lady Capulet is played
by Erin Young and Wendy Thomas, Lady Montague is played by Dianne Doyle and
Amanda Wilson. All are wonderful in their parts.
A big part of the program is the
behind the scenes work that takes place like scenery building and musical
content. While with this show there was minimal music the scenery was very
important and a whole crew of students built, painted and mounted many wonderful
scenes for this show as well as created extravagant costumes . All through the
summer a crew of about 15 would swing hammers and splash paint brushes around,
sew and, bead and speckle costumes to create the atmosphere for the show. They
also manned the scene changes and lighting for each show. After each show along with
the cast the stage crew was called to the stage to take a bow along with and
many times hand in hand with the cast.
The Summer Stock Program has proved
to be a huge success by all accounts and no one could be happier the Julie and
Rick Davidson, owners of the Playhouse and Jeb Bernstein except perhaps the
student themselves. The program will probably
become a staple for local students for a long time to come.
1959 Student
Summer Stock of Romeo & Juliet
SPORTS
TRAVELERS SKIP PAST SLEEPY
CUBS
Bear
Creek – The Travelers were able to get out of Bear Creek without getting swiped
by a red hot Bears team on Saturday because the Cubs seemed to have fallen
asleep on the field. The Travelers scored 3 earned runs but capitalized on an
unbelievable 7 errors by the Cubs. The Cubs haven’t committed more than two
errors in a game all season and they had only five errors total until Saturday.
They had no explanation for the rash of miscues and made no excuses. “We really
stunk the place up tonight, that was embarrassing,” said Cubs catcher, Denny
Devine after the game.
The Travelers started off with
legitimate power scoring two runs in the second and the Cubs were able to
counter with one in the bottom of the second but then things fell apart for the
Cubs. In the third Cub’s pitcher, Nelson Green, started to go wild. After
walking Dunham he hit Bobby Watson and intentionally walked Cloos, loading the
bases. Tony Dimero came to bat and Green took him to a 3-2 and let go one of the
wildest pitch ever seen in Cubs Stadium. Catcher Devine made a stab at it but
it was way out of his reach. He was left sprawled out behind home and the ball
was rolling around the backstop. Both Green and third baseman, David Gorman
tried to corral the ball but both Dunham and Watson scored and Cloos was on
third and Dimero on first. Then Brown came up and drilled a long double into
the corner in right clearing the bases. Green was able to get settled down and
finish off the inning but he was in a 6-2 hole. The Travelers defense was as
tight as the Cubs defense was loose and the Travelers pitcher, Danny Lane, was
able to keep the Cubs off base for the next four innings.
In the fifth and sixth innings the
Cubs flubbed the ball four times, two bad throws to first, a dropped liner and
a ham-handed play at shortstop, all these ended up with the Travelers scoring
three more runs. By the seventh inning the score stood at 9-2 and the fans were
getting restless. It looked like there was going to be a fan revolt if the Cubs
didn’t straighten up. No revolt materialized but the Cubs could not get out of
their own way. In the eighth and ninth they did not commit any more errors but
an overly conservative defense let in one more to end the game 10-2 down.
The Travelers move onto Ondita next
week to face the Cougars and their ace Sam ‘Cat’ Caterno. Caterno is currently
leading the league in wins with fifteen and the Travelers will have their work
cut out for them. The Cougars have been building a strong record of 39-34 so
far. They have not had any long winning streaks, their longest being four in a
row in June but they have won two or three then lost one and then won two or
three more to amass the impressive record. The game is an evening game in the
wonderful Ondita ballpark with their new lights. The game begins at 7:05PM.
NATIONAL NEWS
NEW YORK CITY ROUNDS UP GANGS – IKE & DE
GAULLE HAVE FRIENDLY MEETING – US ASKS UN TO LOOK AT COMMIES IN LAOS – HAWAII
LEGISLATURE MEETS FOR THE FIRST TIME
New
York City police say they have brought in at least 200 teen-agers during a
two-day roundup to clear the city streets of “punks.” The crackdown was ordered
by local law authorities after four teen-agers were killed in the span of seven
days in an outbreak of gang terrorism.
President
Eisenhower and General Charles de Gaulle end a two-day meeting with a
short communiqué that said they discussed all questions of interest to the
United States and France in a “very friendly and cordial atmosphere.” The
President completes his task to obtain maximum cooperation from the Atlantic
alliance before his meeting with Premier Khrushchev.
The
United States announces it will ask the U.N. Security Council to send a
fact-finding subcommittee to Laos, where rebels are threatening the government.
For
the first time - Hawaii’s first State Legislature opens. The newest state takes
another step into membership to the Union.
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