That's Entertainment: Fountain show aids ARCS in Houston
Clarinetist Pete Fountain headlines a January 23 concert at Music Hall to benefit the Houston ARCS scholarship fund for Gulf Coast students. The Society for the Performing Arts hosts Los Indios Tabujares at Jones Hall the same day. Channel 8 airs Hamlet Revisited at 7 p.m. Tuesday with clips and stills of Olivier, Williamson, Schell, Bedford, Forbes-Robertson, Bernhardt and Chamberlain.
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Houston Arcs
Gulf Coast
Society For the Performing Arts
Los Indios Tabujares
Jones Hall
Channel 8
Lively play opens in Houston theater
A Merry dinner theater hosts the comedy Three Bags Full with director Marietta Marich guiding a cast including Glenn Holtzman David Doty Francie Mendenhall Pauline Hecht Pearl Stacy Nita Eliott Wes Gamble Richard Carlson Eve Nicholson and Albert Smith. The farce centers on swapped carpet bags with loot diamonds money and lingerie, producing multiple disguises and comic revelations as the plot unfolds across a single lively evening. The player piano and strong timing keep the audience laughing through a week of performances.
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Bean Goss
Marietta Marich
Houston
Glenn Holtzman
David Doty
Francie Mendenhall
George Bernard Shaw
Boris
Albert Smither
Pauline Hecht
Pearl Stacy
Nita Eliott
Wes Gamble
Richard Carlson
Eve Nicholson
Carlson
Holtzman
Alfred Hitchcock Receives French Arts Medal After Topaz
Director Alfred Hitchcock was awarded the Officer dans l Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government following completion of his film Topaz. The honor recognizes his contributions to cinema and arts across France and worldwide.
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Alfred Hitchcock
Lee College to host Lord of the Flies film night
Lee College will present The Lord of the Flies in the Fine Arts series at 7 p.m. Monday in Rundell Hall auditorium. Peter Brook directed the 1963 British film about English schoolboys evacuated from London who crash on a deserted island and descend into savagery before rescue. Dale Adams coordinates the series. admission is free. Also at the Benison Theater Universal shows Tonaz, Hitchcock works noted, and Topaz, based on Leon Uris, is rated for mature audiences.
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Lee College
Rundell Hall
William Golding
Peter Brook
London
Dale Adams
Benison
Hitchcock
Hollywood
Fritz Lang
John Ford
Rebecca
Topaz
Leon Uris
Baytown dancer Bob Thompson choreographs fame across film and TV
Baytown born dancer Bob Thompson lights up Hollywood as a choreographer and performer. He dances in Hello Dolly and films like Funny Girl and West Side Story, appears on TV with stars such as Astaire Crosby Sinatra and Streisand, toured with Ballet U.S.A., and studied with local teachers while raising two guitar learning children.
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Barbra Streisand
Hollywood Palace
Pat Boone
Baytown
Bob Thompson
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Dr. Doolittle
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Vivian Guiles
Robert E. Lee High School
Houston Youth Ballet Foundation
Houston
Caroline Richter
Theater, Inc
Gene Kelly
Bing Crosby
Fred Astaire
Frank ‘Sinatra
Frankie
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