EAST FAREWELL
NEWS
Thursday,
LOCAL
NEWS
PLAYHOUSE ANNOUNCES 1955
SEASON
East Farewell – The
Playhouse announced their 1955 schedule last week. After a successful
second season the new schedule is more ambitious and has been expanded to nine
shows overall. Playhouse Director, Rick Davidson said he will continue to have
Producer, Jeb Bernstein produce the shows. Bernstein has become a bit of a
celebrity in town and his shows have been sold out at almost every performance.
Davidson’s wife, Julie, has been in
charge of promotion and oversaw the spectacular restoration of the playhouse.
The Playhouse has become a jewel in the town landscape and draws folks from all
over, even as from as far away as Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and New York City.
The Christmas Show presentation of “A Christmas Carol” has become a town
tradition and Bernstein has been able to recruit top players for the show. It
has become the go to event of the season and always gets rave reviews.
The new
schedule has been posted at the theater and will notify each Playhouse Family
member individually. We will print the schedule here for everyone else. Anyone
can become a Family Member by contacting the box office; 142 Lakeshore Drive.
Full season memberships are available as well as half season and student
members.
The 1955 East
Farewell Playhouse Schedule;
Can-Can May
Peter
Pan June
Guys
& Dolls July
The
King & I August
Paint
Your Wagon September
Pal
Joey October
Showboat November
A
Christmas Carol December
“We are looking
forward to another tremendous season and we love all the support from the
town,” said Bernstein during the kickoff interview at the theater last week.
New Playhouse
SPORTS
COUGARS SLIP PAST SOUTHPORT 54-53
Southport- The East Farewell Cougars were able to win their 11th
game this season by defeating the Southport Hawks on their home court, 54 to 53. The win was never a sure thing and came down
to a final free throw to put the game away for the Cougars. Both teams played very tough defense but
matched each other with brilliant offense.
These two teams match up very well player for player and both games this
season showed that. In the first game,
earlier this season, the Cougars won in overtime, 52-51, on a last second shot
by point guard, Joey Welch. This game
was another great contest. Both teams led five times and the point differential
was never greater than four.
The
game started off quickly with both sides scoring on each of their first three
possessions but then settled down to a chess game of play versus defense then a
different play versus a different defense.
At times brilliant play by the Cougars forwards, O’Hare and Reilly, was
matched by the tenacious Hawks defense of Gold, Abrams and Smith. Other times the Hawks backcourt of Reynolds
and Yews were matched one for one with the Cougars, Green and Welch. It was a play by play game with each team
working to gain an advantage.
The game see-sawed back and
forth with the first half ending with Southport on top, 28-26, both sides were
splendid. The second half was more of
the same and neither team was able to establish any type of game control. As the second half wound down the Cougars
took the lead by four, 49-45 when
“This was a great game by
both teams,” said Coach Wilson, “The boys played hard the whole game. I was
impressed with those other boys, they were playing to win. This game could have gone either way right to
the end. I’m just glad this one went our
way.”
NATIONAL NEWS
IKE WOULD USE
NUKES–CHURCHILL
President Eisenhower declares that the
Prime Minister Winston Churchill
complains there are serious mistakes in the
The FCC proposes to congress to authorize it to conduct a sweeping study of the entire broadcasting industry. One concern is TV stations assigned to UHF (Ultra High Frequency) - Channels 14 and above. Many have trouble competing with their VHF counterparts and some have already sign-off. A delay in developing high-power UHF transmitters coupled with the amount of TV sets that can receive UHF may well be a factor in UHF troubles. Out of the 35 million TV sets now in use, only 5 million can receive UHF broadcasts. The commission wants to meet with TV manufacturers to discuss the feasibility of making more all-channel sets. WXIX-TV/Milwaukee is the only major market UHF CBS affiliate station.
Bob Haymes songwriter and DJ at WCBS
radio and station WINS are kind of at war. WINS accuses Haymes of “making
wanton and capricious attacks about teenagers who listen to rhythm and blues.”
WINS says Haymes has taken pot shots at R&B, which WINS plays, and a great
number of teens had voiced complaints about Haymes after Freed read a newspaper
column on his WINS program containing the Haymes remarks. Published in the New York Mirror, the letter
quotes Bob Haymes who called R&B “poor music, badly recorded, with lyrics
that are at best in poor taste… and at worst obscene… this trend in music (and
I apologize for calling it music) is affecting the ideas and the lives of our
children…. Kids are pretty hep. I know that they can be taught to develop a
discerning ear,” wrote Haymes. KLAC Los
Angeles DJ Peter Potter says, “All rhythm & blues records are dirty, as bad
for kids as dope.” Bill Randle, who shuttles between WERE, Cleveland and WCBS,
More music news - Appearing at Carnegie
Hall - Dave Brubeck Quartet, Gerry Mulligan, Chet Baker’s combo and songstress
Carmen McRae. NBC DJ Al (Jazzbo) Collins emceed the show. More jazz - Sarah
Vaughan, Count Basie, George Shearing and Errol Garner at the “Birdland Stars
of 1955” in Pittsburgh, PA.
Many, many
thanks to www.mrpopculture.com for
contributing to this section of the East Farewell News.
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