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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1963
Page
3
Shoppers trade lines and peppy remarks as Gertrude and Mabel shop through crowded stores. A mother guides her kids past dresses and bathing suits while savings are tallied, and a dress mix up leads to a slip causing light commotion.
Singing star Margaret Whiting will headline the Colonie Summer Theatre production Wildcat running Tuesday through Aug 11. She portrays the Broadway role originated by Lucille Ball as a bootlegging oil seeker who woos her foreman and strikes it rich amid musical comedy misadventures. The show features the hit song Hey Look Me Over performed by Whiting.
Albany announces the engagement of Rose Anne Sesock to Robert L. Sheridan. Rose Anne is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Edward Sesock Sr of Albany and a Vincentian Institute graduate now with the New York State Civil Service. Robert Sheridan is a Hoosick Falls native, St Marys Academy and Albany Business College graduate, employed by Dodge Fibers Corp as a sales advertising coordinator.
Members of the United Commercial Travelers are invited to the annual UCT picnic on Tuesday at LaFlamme's camp in Woodford. St Joseph R Mulvey of the U S Navy Medical Service Corps visits Bennington to see his parents and plans to report to Bethesda for ten months of hospital administration training. He and his wife and six children will remain on the West Coast while he attends Navy school. He will attend the 15th anniversary reunion of his 1948 class at Bennington High School. Dr Oliver Durand will be out of town August 8 to 11. Dr J C Armstrong’s office will be closed August 5 and reopen August 19.
Miss Christine Davis of New Hampshire engages to E Joseph Strzezak Jr son of Mrs Eugene Strzezak of Derry N H The couple plan no wedding date yet In Wilmington J Marino and Mrs J Marino announce their daughter Alice Lillian to Airman J C Robert Boyd son of Mr and Mrs Richard W Boyd of Wilmington The wedding is planned for August 24 at the First Methodist Church in Homestead Florida
Miss Beatrice Whitcomb Nash, daughter of Loyal Reid Nash of Old Bennington, is engaged to Peter Cornelius Deri of New York City. Nash, a Northfield School for Girls and University of Vermont student, has studied at Darrow School and Ohio Wesleyan University and will attend the University of Vermont in September. The International Joint Commission announced September hearings on the Champlain cutoff inland waterway from Sorel to Albany, linking the St Lawrence River to the Hudson.
Rudolf Serkin joins Harold Wright for Brahms Sonata in F minor at 8:30 p.m. tonight. Sunday’s 4 p.m. program includes Schumann Piano Quintet with Dalley, Steinhardt, Rhodes, and Busch plus additional works by Strauss, Mozart, and Ravel as Marlboro continues weekend concerts through Sept. 1.
Dorset playhouse presents Dark of the Moon tonight and Sunday at 8 40 p.m. Marlboro festival features Rudolf Serkin and Harold Wright at 8 30 tonight and 4 p.m. Sunday. Williamstown Summer Theater offers A Far Country at 5 and 9 today and Long Day's Journey Into Night Tue–Sat at 8 p.m. Colonie Theater shows Strictly Dis Honorable at 5 30 and 9 15 tonight and 8 p.m. Sun plus Wildcat with Margaret Whiting Tue–Sun at 8 40 p.m. Tanglewood lists an Open Rehearsal at 10 30 a.m. today and final Berkshire appearance by Dr Charles Munch at 8 p.m. Beethoven King Stephen Overture and Symphony No 6 conducted by Pierre Monteux at 2 30 p.m. Sunday.
Saint-Gaudens Museum in Cornish New Hampshire will host a concert of American Folk Songs on August 11 at 4 30 p m George Britton the guest artist from Lafayette Hill Pennsylvania will perform historic American ballads and selections from his repertory of Pennsylvania Dutch Revolutionary War Civil War and contemporary songs The event is open to museum visitors with regular admission and the museum hours run 10 a m to 6 p m daily May 30 through October 15
St Michael's Playhouse in WINOOSKI PARK closes its 17th season with George Washington Slept Here a tourist spoof. Performances run Tuesday through Saturday at 8 30 p m with Thursdays sold out as a Democratic Committee fundraiser.
Girl Scout Day Camp on Jackson Road near Pownal closed its annual two week session Friday afternoon directing 81 girls under Mrs Robert McWaters with 11 staff. Highlights included a 10 1/2 mile hike to Glastonbury with nature consultant Mrs Harold Riemann, a tour of the Vermont Fish Hatchery, flower ID and a snake garden view, plus sleeping in the woods and a pajama party. Parents attended Visitors Day as storms cut activities and a band could not perform. two Fresh Air children from New York joined 79 Vermont campers for the finale.
Lara Leonard of West Dum merston demonstrates hooked rug making at Weston Vermont Craftsmen Inc. event in the grist mill of the Vermont Guild of Oldtime Crafts and Industries. She displays completed rugs and teaches techniques from 10:30 to 12 and 2 to 4 today.
Williamstown Summer Theatre presents Long Day's Journey Into Night by Eugene O'Neill Tuesday through Saturday with 8 p.m. curtain. Tom Brennan directs the autobiographical play about one day in the Tyrone family. Cast includes Lou Zorich Mary Olympia Dukakis James Noble James Jr. Michael Ebert Edmund Margaret Ladd.
Charles Munch closes his guest conductorship at Tanglewood Boston area festival tonight at 8. His program features Franck Symphony in D minor and Debussy La Mer along with Ravel Daphnis et Chloe Suite No. 2.
The Bennington Banner, published daily except Sundays and legal holidays at 425 Main St., Bennington, Vermont, is produced by Banner Publishing Corporation. It carries Associated Press news with exclusive republication rights for local content and AP dispatches.
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