EAST
FAREWELL NEWS
Thursday, October
29, 1959 Vol. C748
LOCAL
NEWS
PLAYHOUSE OPENS REGULAR FALL SEASON
East Farewell – The Playhouse opened its fall season with a straight
forward production of the Shakespeare classic, Hamlet. The play was the most
ambitious undertaking for the Playhouse. Director Jeb Bernstein was willing to
share his concerns at a press conference held before the show opened. While
Hamlet is one of the Bards most produced it is also considered one of his most famous.
“We have been doing shows of all kinds for seven years now. We have done
musicals, modern shows, standards and our student program has done some
Shakespeare so I thought we were ready to take on Hamlet,” Bernstein said
during the conference.
The show opened
to a sold out crowd on Friday night and will run for two weeks with shows on
Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights with a matinee on Saturday
afternoon. The first seven shows are sold out. The show’s cast is mostly local
with local favorite, Nelson Hopkins. Claudius is played by the stately Benson
Taube; Gertrude’s role is played by the lovely Darlene DeMarco. Ophelia is
played by another local favorite, Natalie Mallard. Horatio is
played by a new comer to East Farewell, Brian Jensen and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern were played by twins, Charles and David
O’Mara.
The production
follows a fairly straight forward path and the players were excellent. The set
and costumes was spot on. In keeping with one of the playhouse’s little
acknowledged gems, Janice Wells delivered costumes that were period perfect and
Lamont Franklin’s set crew delivered a realistic group of sets. From the castle
to the moors with fog the whole playhouse became part of the play. The actors
went into the play with enthusiasm and a great deal of professionalism. The
audience was not let down.
1959 Playhouse
production of Hamlet
SPORTS
COUGARS MEET DEFENDING CHAMPS
Central State – The defending Regional League Champs, the
Central Bears took on the Cougars, who were still recovering from their loss to
the Slate Mountain Canaries last week, on Saturday. The champs had many players
return from last year’s team and had been picked in the early polls to take the
championship again. The game turned into a slug fest as both teams showed very
strong defenses and the offenses were having trouble moving the ball. Both
sides only had two first downs in the first quarter and the only passing that
took place was short screen passes. The one surprise was when Cougars
quarterback, Kevin Dugan, faked a screen pass out to his speedy halfback, Joey
O’Toole, and then brought the ball down and looked like he was going to run.
After about two steps he looked up and threw a strike to wide receiver, Max
O’Hara who was sprinting down the sideline. All the fakery caught the Bears of
guard and O’Hara was able to take the ball down to the five yard line. The
Cougars lined up quickly and snapped the ball almost before the Bears were able
to regroup. Dugan turned to his big fullback, Robby Blackman and handed off as
the hard charging senior came rumbling through. The front line opened up a big
enough hole for the surprisingly agile Blackman to blast through. The half
ended with the Cougars up 7-0.
The second half
started with the Bears receiving the ball and they were determined to make up
for their first half miscue. They drove down to the thirty but the Cougars
defense stiffened up and forced the bears to punt. The Cougars were not able to
move the ball much past the midfield and were forced to punt. The Bears got
fairly good field position and took advantage of it. They ran relatedly and
were able to push the Cougars down to their own ten. The Bears set up for what
appeared to be a pretty routine field goal but when the ball was snapped Bears
quarterback, who was also the holder, stood up and ran right and fired a bullet
to his tight end, Victor Davis who was wide open in the end zone. The score was
tied 7-7.
Both teams
fought through the rest of the third quarter and into the fourth. As the game
wore on both sides looked like they were tiring and the play became a little
sloppy. There were more penalties called in the fourth quarter than all three
previous quarters. Finally as the clock ticketed down to three minutes the Bears
were able to drive in for a second score with an end run from the six. The
Bears went ahead 14-7 with less than three minutes left. The Cougars were not
going to give up. Practiced returner, Joey Neil was able to scamper through the
ferocious Bears and make it all the way to the Bears forty eight year line.
Dugan was able to move the ball with short, smart passes but he was only able
to the twenty five with only 20 seconds left. He took the last snap and dropped
back tight end, Albert Dillion turned out and wide receiver, O’Hara slipped in
behind him. Dugan faked to Dillon and went to O’Hara, but Bears defensive end,
Tommy Devlin, jumped in front and knocked the ball down. The ball bounced and
rolled towards the side off the field as the clock ran out. The Cougars had
lost their second game in heartbreaking fashion.
The Cougar’s
come home next week to host the Southport Hawks. The game will be on Friday
night at Regional High Field. It begins at 7:30PM.
NATIONAL NEWS
KENNEDY SAYS THE US IS TURNING SOFT – IKE
LAMENTS TV SCANDALS – HARRIS CALLS FOR TV HONESTY LAWS – IKE’S TOP SCIENCE
ADVISOR SAYS REDS HAVE CAUGHT US, BLAMES TV & RADIO
At
a fundraising dinner - U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts
declares the slow corrosion of luxury is turning the United States into a
nation of softies at a time when Spartan traits are called for. “We are in
danger of losing or will to fight, to sacrifice and endure. We are in danger of
forgetting our traditions. We are, I’m afraid, in danger of losing something
solid at the core. We are losing that Pilgrim and pioneer spirit of initiative
and independence – that old fashioned Spartan devotion to duty, honor and
country”
President
Eisenhower shares the public’s dismay over the quiz show scandals and wants them
cleaned up. He said that the FTC has moved into the investigation to see
if fraudulent advertising rules have been violated as well as the department of
Justice whose report is due in January. “Nobody will be satisfied until this
whole mess is cleaned up” said the President. The Chief Executive said every
industry involved in distributing mass entertainment or news has a terrific
responsibility to the public, and so does any other kind of economic unit. He
denied American has forgotten its moral standards. The events reminded him of
the baseball scandal headlines of 1919, specifically of the story of the
newsboy who approached his hero, Chicago (White Sox) baseball
star Shoeless Joe Jackson, holding out the scandal headlines and begging:
“Say it isn’t so, Joe”
Rep.
Oren Harris (D-Ark.) says Congress should pass new laws to assure program
honesty and take a hard look at other channels of television activity.
“Millions of Americans have been tricked, deceived and duped by what nothing
more than a sordid commercial scheme,” said Harris before a Subcommittee
hearing on quizzes.
Dr.
Alan Waterman, one of President Eisenhower’s top science advisers, says the
Soviet Union has achieved something of a miracle in catching up with the
United States and he partly blames television, radio and other mass media for
the US complacency.
