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Newspaper
Berkshire Eagle
Location
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1960
Page
6
A columnist laments obsessive audience culture in the arts and urges individual freedom for diverse tastes. He recalls Beethoven clubs, Barber shop quartets, and Dixieland, stressing personal enjoyment over public endorsement and sharing a childhood club anecdote.
Capitol shows The Miracle of the White Suit at 1 3 5 7 9:30. Palace screens The Boy and the Laughing Dog at 1 4 7:30. Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima at 2:30 5:45 9:00. Union Square presents I Aim at the Stars at 2:30 5:55 9:10 and Cay boy at 1:00 4:20 7:35. County timetable on Page 32.
Ruth St Denis, famed First Lady of the American Dance, will receive the Capezio Award this year. The honorarium of $1,000 accompanies the prize, to be presented at a luncheon next month. St Denis, long a star at the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival run by her husband Ted Shawn, was selected by a committee including Anatole Chujoy, Emily Coleman, and Martha Hill.
Robert D. Hock, former Williamstown Summer Theater member, wrote Borak a Civil War melodrama. Produced this week at the Martinique Theater New York it received praise from Howard Taubman and Walter Terry for its thoughtful depth and high aims.
Controversy over Nazi rocket expert Wernher von Braun colors this Columbia Pictures drama. Jurgens plays Von Braun with solid restraint while Daly’s portrayal as an American major feels overdone. Thompson directs at a brisk pace, with strong technical scenes and standout camera work by Wilkie Cooper.
The FCC moved against WAOK in Atlanta and WRMA in Montgomery, ordering them to show cause why they should not be forced to cease payola practices. The action marks the first against individual stations in the FCC's year-old crackdown on undisclosed payments for broadcasting records or other materials. The stations admitted receiving payments in responses to a prior FCC inquiry.
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