EAST FAREWELL
NEWS
Thursday, December
10, 1953 Vol. C442
LOCAL
NEWS
CHRISTMAS SHOW IN EAST
FAREWELL PLAYHOUSE OPENS
East Farewell – The holiday show “A Christmas Carol” by Charles
Dickens opened in the fabulous East Farewell Playhouse
last week. The show is a stage adaptation of the classic Dickens tale. The show
opened on Saturday night to a sold out audience and quite a bit of fanfare. The
Playhouse has enjoyed a wonderful reopening season and the holiday show has
been highly anticipated because the lead, Scrooge, is being played by Broadway
star, Leo G. Carroll. Fresh off performance in On Borrowed Time, Carroll plays
Ebenezer Scrooge and is supported by a superb cast of both professional and
local actors. A surprising addition to the cast is local Natalie Mallard who plays
the beautiful Belle, the woman who Scrooge
loved deeply when he was a young man. She is known in town as the house
songstress at the Lost Oasis in town.
The show is scheduled to run for the
next four weeks with no shows on Christmas Eve or Christmas day. The final performance
is scheduled for December 31th. The final show of the debut season
tops off a very successful short season orchestrated by producer Jed Bernstein
and owners Rick and Julie Davidson. They were the force behind the immaculate
restoration of the playhouse and generating the support for the theater through
subscriptions and volunteers.
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 plays a humble
but proud Bob Cratchit. 14 year old Joey Townsend plays Tiny Tim and is
endearing. The other cast members due a superb job with one special note,
Thomas Durance, playing the Ghost of Christmas Present 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
COUGARS UPSET CORNING
East Farewell – The Cougars came out on fire when they started
against the heralded Corning Devils on Wednesday. They seemed to catch the Devils flatfooted by
jumping out to a 14-6 lead in the first period. The front court of Davis,
O’Donnell and Green were like a stone wall against the quick, fast passing
Devils offense. The three were able to stifle almost every attempt to
penetrate, forcing the Devils to shoot from the outside, which is not their
game. Davis was able to control the middle and surprisingly won the matchup
with Devils center, Jerry Becker. Becker was named to the League All-Star team
last year so Davis’ play was very impressive.
The Devils were
able to regroup in the second period and go into halftime with a slim lead,
20-18. They made some critical adjustments and found the range from the
perimeter. The third period went back
and forth with the lead trading hand three times in the period. As the fourth
period started the score stood at 30-28 Cougars. The Cougars backcourt got into
sync and was able to run off 6 unanswered points and it looked like the early
season upset was locked up, but the Devils would not have any of it. They
battled back and tied the score with only one minute left. Then Devils center,
Becker, got a beautiful pass from guard, Franz, and laid it in over Davis, his
first mistake of the game. Time was running out when Cougars guard, Wendell
Jones stole a bounce pass and raced the length of the floor to tie the score
with eight seconds left. The Devils tried to fake a long inbounds pass to
Becker but Davis jumped in at the last second to knock the ball free to Jimmy
Welch who shot a perfect pass to Jones who was underneath the basket. He laid
it in as time expired and the Cougars won, 40-38.
“This was a
great victory for the boys,” gushed Coach Wilson after the game, “the Devils
are a tremendous team and they played hard but we played harder today and I am
just really proud of these kids. I think they are going to be a very good
team.”
The Cougars
travel to Riverview on Wednesday to face the Wildcats who are another tough
opponent. The game starts at 4:30 in the Riverview Gym.
NATIONAL
NEWS
POLYGAMISTS GET SUSPENDED SENTENCE – JACKIE ROBINSON TO LIVE IN STAMFORD, CONN. - MITCHUM GUILTY - BELAFONTE STARS IN ALMANAC – HEFNER DEBUTS PLAYBOY
Near Kingman, AZ - a judge gives suspended sentences to 26 uprooted polygamists of the Short Creek polygamy colony. He warned them that he would send them to the state pen of they returned to the practice. “You are a band of forlorn men soon be to forgotten.” All 26 plead guilty to charges of conspiracy to commit open and notorious cohabitation
Negro baseball great Jackie Robinson says he wants to buy a home in an exclusive section of North Stamford, CT. He says he has run into some opposition in the neighborhood though. “We want to get along in the community, but we were mainly looking for a house that would be best for our kids. If the neighbors object, too bad. Who cares?”
In Los Angeles, Robert Mitchum pleads guilty to two traffic charges. The judge ordered him to pay $50 or spend five days in jail for speeding, and to pay $150 or serve 10 days in the clink for delaying an officer in the performance of his duties. After Mitchum was stopped by the cop, he sped away before he was issued the ticket.
Harry Belafonte debuts on Broadway in "Almanac" at the Imperial Theatre. Critics hailed Belafonte’s performance as “electrifyingly sincere.” The show also stars Hermione Gingold, Billy DeWolfe, Polly Bergen and Orson Bean.
Hugh Hefner publishes
the first "Playboy" magazine with an investment of $7,600. There is
no date printed on the first issue. The reason, according to Hefner, is that he
doubts anyone would expect a second issue to be printed. The first issue
includes a classic, nude, calendar photo of a young actress, Marilyn Monroe.
Many, many
thanks to www.mrpopculture.com for
contributing to this section of the East Farewell News.
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