Hostage Heart and Other Books Review Roundup
United Press International reviews place hostage drama in an operating room scene in Gerald Green’s The Hostage Heart while John Brooks’s Telephone is deemed a solid corporate history. Chesler Goodman’s Women Money and Power argues women’s disadvantage in financial life. Burke’s Steerage profiles odd celebrities. Ludlum’s The Gemini Contenders weaves a three generation thriller around a destabilizing document. Tiger Tiger chronicles animal trainer Charly Baumann’s career with vivid but mild maulings.
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Gerald Green
Playboy Press
Eric Lake
Willian Tench
Green
John Brooks
Harper and Row
Brooks
Robert Ludlum
Dial
Scarlatti
Ludlum
Charly Baumann
Leonard A. Stevens
Ringling Bros. Barnum and Bailey
Baumann
Ringling Bros. and
Barnum and Bailey
Williams Pipe Band concert opening at Williams College
Williams Pipe Band directed by Donald F. Lindsay debuts tonight at 7 30 in Thompson Memorial Chapel on the Williams College campus. Free admission. Charlene Crickenberger will sing Scottish ballads with Braemar Highland Dancers of Schenectady New York.
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Williamstown
Mass
Williams Pipe Band
Donald F. Lindsay
Thompson Memorial Chapel
Williams College
Williams
Charlene Crickenberger
Braemar Highland Dancers
Schenectady
N.Y
Tad Frazier
Jim Nail
Ed Need
Bruce Peters
Doug Goralski
Stephanie Gregory
Allison Morgan
John Gilbert
Bron Fargo
Andy Masetti
Invermark College of Piping
Petersburg
U.S. Air Force
Queen Elizabeth
Robert Brown
Norman McLeod
Pittsfield
Worcester
Worcester Kiltie Band
Braemar School of Highland Dance
Highland Dancing
Upper New York State
Jeannie Brauns
United States
Brauns
Scottish Dance Teachers’ Alliance
Scottish Official Board of Highland Dancing
Heather Crampton
Morna Uncer
Ephlats
Gardner author to speak at Bennington AAUW lecture
John Champlin Gardner, Old Bennington author and educator, will address the Bennington Branch of the AAUW on Monday March 15 at 8 p.m. in Tishman Hall Bennington College. Gardner's career spans Oberlin Chico State SF State SIU and Bennington. AAUW members may bring guests. meeting not open to the public.
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John Champlin Gardner
Washington University
St. Louis
State University of Iowa
Oberlin College
Chico State
San Francisco State
Southern Illinois University
Carbondale
Bennington
University of Detroit
Northwestern
Gardner
NEA
Woodrow Wilson
Danforth
Guggenheim
Modern Language Association
American Association of University Professors
Upstate
New York
Nickel Mountain
Catskills
Freddie Mercury and Queen A New British Supergroup Rise
Bruce Meyer notes Freddie Mercury's powerful voice and sculpted looks, with Queen as a sophisticated rock act blending diversity and experimentation. The band dominates British charts with Bohemian Rhapsody, aims to redefine pop rock beyond standard formulas while delivering polished live shows.
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Bruce Meyer
United Press International
Freddie Mercury
Mercury
Queen
Yes
Queen Queen Night At The Opera review finds rich variety
The rock trio Queen delivers an unpretentious mix of orchestral flair and spare harmonies on A Night At The Opera a diverse well crafted non rock opera album recorded across seven studios in Britain. Mercury notes extra recording time and press calls Opera the most expensive studio LP ever made.
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Queen
U.S
Elektra
London
Mercury
Classical Records By WILLIAM D LAFFLER
The Met may boast great singers yet fans remember Sills and Treigle the City Opera stars. Norman Treigle dies aged 47 in 1975. A Norman Treigle Memorial Fund album preserves his songs, faith pieces, and a rock prayer titled I Believe. Beverly Sills records with Andre Kostelanetz in Plaisir d Amour offers French songs. Barbra Streisand releases Classical Barbra with selections from Faure to Debussy, highlighting her range and musical phrasing.
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Metropolitan Opera
Sills
Treigle
New York City Opera
City Center
Lincoln Center
Beverly Sills
Norman Treigle
America
City Opera
Miss Sills
Met
Corinth
la Traviata
Boito
Mefistofele
RCA Victor
Porgy and
Bess
Mendelssohn
Elijah
Jesus
Rugged Cross
First Baptist Church
New Orleans
Mephistopheles
Faust
Mad Czar
Boris Godunov
United States
Europe
Estelle Liebling
Bizet
Carl Orff
Gabriel Faure
Miss Streisand
Faure
Hugo Wolf
Claude Debussy
Broadway Burton Shines in Equus as Alan Triggers Play
Broadway Burton takes an early central role in Equus. His sharp reactions and vocal expressiveness tilt the stage toward the psychiatrist. Keith McDermott underplays Alan, while Burton at 50 delivers a peak performance likely to extend for 10 weeks and possibly propel a film version.
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New York
UPI
Richard Burton
Burton
Martin Dysart
Peter Shaffer
Plymouth Theatre
Anthony Perkins
Alan
Keith McDermott
Ion
Nugget
Peter Firth
TV Highlights Night Schedule Across Networks
At 8 p m ABC offers Welcome Back Kotter and Barney Miller while CBS presents The Waltons and a CBS Special Treat Papa and Me on NBC. PBS features The Way It Was 1960 Olympics and Lowell Thomas Remembers 1936. At 9 p m PBS airs The Hemingway Play while CBS shows Hawaii Five-0 and NBC presents Farewell to Manzanar a dramatization of internment. ABC concludes with The Streets Of San Francisco and CBS ends with Barnaby Jones at 10 p m.
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United Press International
Kotter
ABC
The
Waltons
CBS
NBC
PBS
Barney Miller
Lowell Thomas
Mussolini
Gen. McArthur
Edward VIII
Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway
Hawaii
Barnaby Jones
Buxton students to do Pygmalion at Pine Cobble
Buxton Players present George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion at Pine Cobble School in Williamstown on Friday night March 12. Curtain at 8 p.m. with no admission charge. Cast includes Angelica Dewey as Eliza Doolittle and David Breitbarth as Henry Higgins, joined by Bennington and Buxton familiar faces. The event caps a week of school arts activities ahead of spring vacation.
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Williamstown
Mass
Buxton
George Bernard Shaw
Shaw
Virginia Hall Smith
Sherman School
Sherman
Eliza Doolittle
Angelica Dewey
Katharina
Henry Higgins
David Breitbarth
Ann
Christopher Pratt
Margaret Aptakin
Bennington
Allen McCullough
John McCullough
North Bennington
Eileen Ryan
Patricia Blair Ryan
Mechanic Street
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Phyllis Chesler
Emily Jane Goodman
Morrow
Burke
Tom Burke
Putnam
Ryan O'Neal
Truman Capote
Peter
Jane Fonda
Richard A. Roth
JOUER
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aCe Wilder Mac Ty
John Morris
Aed
Hollywood
Richard Schickel
Time Magazine
Madeline Kahn
Ae Psoe Ry
AAUW
Publishers’ Weekly Fiction
Agatha Christie
Joseph Wambaugh
William F. Buckley Jr
E.L. Doctorow
Chaim Potok
Jack Higgins
Irwin Shaw
Mister Goodbar
Judith Rossner
Irving Stone
Joann
Doris Day
A.E. Hotchner
Angels
Billy Graham
Hedrick Smith
David Niven
Irving Howe
Robert Ringer
Herbert Benson
Sylvia Porter
Tennessee Williams
the Adams
Jack Shepherd
By Glenne Currie
Greece
Dysart
Hampshire
John Dexter
Anthony Hopkins
Plymouth
Classical Records
By William D. Laffler
Acadien
Fleischmann Distilling Corp
Nyc
Acadien Ry
Te Orn Teleta Whisky
Broadway
Hollywood Television Theatre
Frederick Hunt
Newburg
Faai
Main ST
Bennington,vt
Grand Union
Nickelodeon
Williamstown, Mass
Venice
Luchino Visconti
Dirk Bogard
Thomas Manin
Mann
Bogard
von Aschenbach
Mahler
Cene Suathr
Necro
Jan Kadar
Walt Disney
Noreture
Heiler Wle
Vincent Canhy
Willes Well
Cue Magazine
Frank Rick
York Post
Carmen F. Zello
Ingmar Bergman
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