Sesame Street Watchers Show Educational Gains
New York AP report says preschoolers who watched Sesame Street regularly in the first six weeks gained educationally, answering 10 percent more questions vs 4 percent for non viewers. Tests on 3 to 5 year olds in Maine New York and Tennessee day care centers found no gap in letter sounds.
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New York
Children’s’ Television Workshop
Maine
Tennessee
Carnegie Corp
Ford Foundation
U.S. Office of Education
The
Market Foundation
Corporation For Public Broadcasting
Williamstown Summer Theatre Adds Up Its Pluses to the County
Atty Lawrence Urbano at a Williamstown Board of Trade meeting summarized 15 years of theatre impact. About 306000 patrons, 112 plays, 1800 jobs, and 400 apprentices have connected the venture to the region. Notable alumni include Dick Cavett and Stacy Keach, with Austin Pendleton the most famous graduate. Operating budget neared 1 million, with 4 percent on salaries and county spending of 60000 for programs, 26000 for engravings, and 22500 for posters.
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Williamstown
Lawrence B. Urbano
Williamstown Board of Trade
Taconic
Dick Cavett
ABC Television
Carrie Nye
Peter Hunt
Stacy Keach
Ken Howard
John Frid
Austin Pendleton
Urbano
Conductors and stage presence across a spectrum
The piece surveys conductors from Oshiji Ozawa to Otto Klemperer, noting size and demeanor influence as a visual factor on stage. It recalls Koussevitzky, Munch, Leinsdorf, Perlman and Beecham, plus performers like Geraldine Farrar, and laments tuning quirks of string soloists.
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Oshiji Ozawa
Otto Klemperer
Itzak Perlman
Perlman
Thomas Beecham
Hows
Geraldine Farrar
Geraldine
Conservatory
Eight Top Conservatories Face Funds Crisis
Howard Taubman reports eight major privately supported music schools fear ruin without new funding. The Council of Independent Professional Schools of Music forms to unify fundraising, with Juilliard and Curtis backing actions. Endowment needs run high, deficits pressure survival, and a study funded by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund will map their financial challenges.
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Howard Taubman
New York
Trias News Service
Cleveland Institute of Music
New England Conservatory
San Francisco Conservatory
Peabody Institute
Manhattan School of Music
Mannes College
Council of Independent Professional Schools of Music
Juilliard School
Philadelphia
Curtis Institute of Music
Juilliard
Curtis Institute
Sherman €. Badger
Montis
Victor Rabin
Richard Franko Goldman
Baltimore
Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Moore
Movie Timetable Grab Bag of Local Theaters
Capitol Topaz shows at 6 30 and 8 30 with Fri Sat Sun matinees at 2 00 Palace Back Track runs at 2 00 and 7 20 Change of Habit quiet run at 3 24 3 4 9 10 Showcase John and Bary at 7 00 and 9 00 with Wed Sat Sun matinees 2 00 Paris Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice at 7 00 and 9 00 Fri Sat 7 30 9 30 with Sat Sun 1 00 children’s show West Springfield Cinema 1 Paint Your Wagon at 2 35 and 8 15 Cinema 2 Majesty’s Secret Servi 2 00 7 30 9 50 Cin ny Hill 2 00 40 9 35 Hickory Film Club Fri Sun only The Fatal Glass of Beer 8 20 The Man in the Flying Trapeze 7 9 20 0
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Hickory Film Club
Mae West
Berkshire Playhouse
Stockbridge
Mass
Paris
Ted
Alice
West Springfield
Sun
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Carole Ted
Alice Elliott Gould
van Cana
Union Street
IPM
America Bay
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Oereien Ath He Itera
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Berkshires
Koussevitzky
Roussy von Tutti
Taj Mahal
Charles Munch
Erich Leinsdorf
Lord Byron
Walter Scott
Wen
N.E. Conservatory
America
John
Hewes
iMary
John Asp Mary
Alfred
TOPAZ
Anthony Quinn
James Doug Drury
McClure
Dustin Hoffman
Jon Voight
Elwis Prastey
Mary Tyler Moore
Cheshire
Oko
Raemernarg
Capitol
Palace
John and
Bary
Stereo Sound
Department Store of Electronics
Summer St. Pittsfield
Peter N. Foss, R. Ph
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Pitsfield
Aly Naske
Jeanne Woodward
Fix
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INION
Pittsfield
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Stage Road
Cummington, Massachusetts
Curtis Hotel
Lenox
Curtis
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Mountain Lake Lake Wales
Florida
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