EAST FAREWELL NEWS
Thursday, January
22, 1953 Vol. C135
LOCAL
NEWS
FUND RAISING UNDERWAY TO SAVE
THEATER
East
Farewell- A fund raising campaign is underway to save the iconic East
Farewell Playhouse. The new owners and operators are aiming to light up the
East Farewell stage for a May fund-raiser, two summer plays, and a Christmas
holiday show.
“I can’t imagine what it was like in 1919,”
when playwright Moss Hart put on the first show, Springtime
for Henry, after converting the decaying 18th-century gristmill, producer
Jed Bernstein said Tuesday. “It will be pretty exciting when the lights blaze
on again.
“The
enthusiasm of the community will get us off to a fast start,” said Bernstein,
who will live in town while the campaign is underway. “That’s how we can make
this theater blaze in glory again.”
Since
Rick and Julie Davidson bought the theater Dec. 23, they have enlisted Bernstein
as producing director, picked an engineer, and talked to contractors about
repairs.
“Our
first projects are to get the playhouse open for a shortened summer season,” Rick
Davidson said. “We need to repair the roof” and make the bathrooms work right.
“We have a June deadline for construction to stage shows in July and August.”
Bernstein
said he would not name the shows until next month, but annual memberships are
being sold as part of the campaign.
East Farewell Theater
SPORTS
COUGARS TAKE ON SLATE MOUNTAIN CANARIES
East
Farewell- The Cougars hosted the Slate Mountain Canaries in what turned out to
be a home and away scheduling oddity.
They will travel to
Wednesday’s
game saw a tight game with the Cougars able to prevail with a strong second
half, 48-44. The team played very well
in the second half after falling behind in the first, 32-25.
“I
was glad to see Billy O and Greeny (Bill O’Donnell and Gene Green) take control
in the second half,” said Coach Charles Wilson, “they are young but they are
really going to be something. Just you watch those kids, they are going to turn
some heads.”
Together O’Donnell and Green
combined for 18 points in the second half.
After a slow first half the two seemed to get in a groove and were
unstoppable. Showing court awareness
that belied their age and experience the two worked an almost magical give and
go time after time.
“We
will have to see next week when we play these guys again but, I think we can
play with these guys this year.”
NATIONAL NEWS
MOST LIKE IKE – BERLIN SEES MORE REFUGEES – PAT
NIXON MAKES HER OWN GOWN
In A Gallup Poll – 78% approve of the job President Eisenhower is doing. Another Gallup Poll asks if President Eisenhower should continue to be called “Ike”? 47% said yes.
Berlin - The desire for freedom brings more than 1000 fugitives from Communism into Berlin for the 11th straight day, raising the January total to 22.792 persons. The Red press warned that those who ask for asylum in the west would wind up in jail, the Foreign Legion or perhaps brothels for those eligible.
Pat
Nixon, the Cinderella girl who helped her husband win the U.S. vice presidency,
buys and pays for her own inaugural ball gown. Customarily, the President’s
wife and Vice President’s wife get their inaugural ball gowns free, as gifts
from designers who in turn, get lost of free advertising.
Many, many thanks to www.mrpopculture.com for contributing to this
section of The News.
