Pearl Bailey's Royal Box Engagement Proves Tough
The famed singer and comedienne Pearl Bailey faced a heart seizure during her New York Royal Box run. fellow stars Pat Henry Woody Allen Sammy Davis Jr Steve Lawrence Edge Gorme and Marty Allen and Steve Rossi filled in as doctors advised rest Bailey returned and delivered a strong second night performance while doctors watched closely and the audience cheered.
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Pearl Bailey
Miss Bailey
America
Royal Box
Hotel Americana
New York
Pearl
Swank Royal Box
Tom Poston
Manhattan
Pat Henry
Copacabana
Woody Allen
Basin Street East
Sammy Davis Jr
Steve Lawrence
Edge Gorme
Lagniappe
Larry Gengo
Marty Allen
Steve Rossi
Mr. Allen
Mr. Rossi
Conductor Deplores Shortage of Young String Musicians
In Peoria Don ald Voorhees director of the Bell Telephone Hour Orchestra told Limestone High School students that few young people study string instruments. He urged learning strings to form quartets at home and widen musical appreciation. Conductor Erich Leinsdorf has voiced similar concerns.
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Peoria
Donald Voorhees
Bell Telephone Hour Orchestra
Limestone High School
Voorhees
Erich Leinsdorf
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Martha Graham wins Aspen Award for $30,000 humanities prize
Martha Graham, viewed as a leading living exponent of modern dance, was named the second recipient of the Aspen Award in the Humanities. The $30,000 tax free prize was announced in Aspen by Alvin Cofurich of the Aspen Institute. Graham began dancing in 1916 at Denishawn in Los Angeles. She will travel to Aspen on July 30 to receive the award.
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Todsy
Aspen
Colo
Alvin Cofurich
Aspen Institute For Humanistic Studies
Miss Graham
Denishawn School
Los Angeles
Ruth St. Denis
Ted Shawn
Shawn
Jacob's Pillow
Graham
Adams Memorial Theatre
Williamstown
Robert O. Anderson
Roswell, N.M
Aspen Institute
Benjamin Britten
Berkshire Orchestra Finale Features Mary Beth Peil
Berkshire Community Symphony Orchestra closes its 20th anniversary season with a concert in Chapin Hall Williams College conducted by Irwin Shainman. Soloist Mary Beth Peil sings four arias from Handel Mozart Verdi Puccini as the orchestra performs works by Couperin Mascagni Wagner. Tickets at the door or Hart's Drug Store Williamstown. Rockefeller Foundation challenge grant funds future expansion.
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Berkshire Community Symphony Orchestra
Chapin Hall
Williams College
Irwin Shainman
Williams
Mary Beth Peil
Metropolitan Opera
Metropolitan Opera National Company
Miss Peil
Couperin
Mascagni
Richard Wagner
Handel
Mozart
Verdi
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Davenport
Iowa
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Lotte Lehman
New York City
New York Times
Miss Pei
New England Opera Company
Boris Goldovsky
Chautauqua
Met
New National
New York State Theater
Madison Square Garden
Hart's Drug Store
Rockefeller Foundation
Frank MacShane Editor of Book on Europe
Frank S. MacShane associate professor of English at Williams College will edit and publish The American in Europe, a collection of impressions by famous Americans from the 17th century to the present. The work appears in paperback March 29 from E. P. Dutton & Co. Inc. in New York. MacShane, son of Mrs. Laurence R. Connor, is Harvard- and Yale- and Oxford-trained and has lived abroad extensively. He has authored and translated several books on distant peoples and cultures and has taught at multiple universities, including Fulbright terms in Chile and Nepal.
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Europe
Frank S. MacShane
Williams College
E. P. Dutston & Co, Inc
New York
MacShane
Laurence R. Connor
Pittsfield
Harvard University
Yale
Oxford
Asia
South America
Movie Timetable and Theater Listings
Capitol shows Mary Poppins with showings at 2 30 and 5 45. The Truth About Spring plays at 0 00. Blood runs at 4 58 and 7 38 on the Arrow. Union Square screens Behold a Pale Horse at 2 34 5 38 and 9 10. Berkshire Drivel In open weekends only. Pittsfield Drivela presents Slave Trade in the World Today at 9 30 and Battle of the Sexes at 8 00. Susset Drive-In open weekends only.
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Union Square
Berkshire
Pittsfield
Leinsdorf To Conduct In Holland At Amsterdam Festival
Conductor Erich Leinsdorf of the Boston Symphony will lead the Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam at the Holland Festival opening on June 17. The program features Permutazioni Sinfoniche by Guillaume Landré, pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy, and Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra. Leinsdorf completed his third winter season on April 20 and will then head to the Berkshires for the BSO season opener on July 2.
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Boston Symphony Orchestra
Concertgebouw Orchestra
Amsterdam
Boston Symphony
Guillaume Landre
Leinsdorf
Vladimir Ashkenazy
Bartok
RCA Victor
Mr. Leinsdorf
Holland Festival
United States
Newport Jazz Festival Moves to New Newport Site
Newport New site off Connell Highway hosts the 12th annual festival opening July 1 with Pete Seeger Joe Williams Dizzy Gillespie Muddy Waters Memphis Slim Willie Dixon and Tonight’s program includes Basie Brubeck Miles Davis Ellington Stan Getz Coltrane Monk Freeman and Wynton Kelly with producer George Wein citing improved facilities and potential permanency.
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Newport
R. L
George Wein
Connell Highway
Pete Seeger
Joe Williams
Dizzy Gillespie
Muddy Waters
Memphis Slim
Willie Dixon
Wein
Count Basie
Dave Brubeck
Miles Davis
Duke Ellington
Stan Getz
John Coltrane
Thelonious Monk
Bud Freeman
Wynton Kelly
Bridge defense hold up play explained in 1965 study
A bridge article discusses the defensive hold up concept with a hypothetical auction and play. It uses a 1965 Intercollegiate example where East’s refusal to win a diamond trick defeats the declarer. The piece emphasizes that defenders can use similar plays to declarers, counting on timing and distribution to block tricks.
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South
East
Declarer
Olten
Persichetti to Conduct Own Works at Williams College
American composer Vincent Persichetti will conduct a 50th birthday retrospective concert at Williams College featuring woodwind quintet soloist voices male and female choirs with piano and clarinet, plus his newest commissioned piece. He will discuss his work and the role of the composer and a Sunday Chapel organ program accompanies the event.
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Williamstown
Vincent Persichetti
Williams College
National Institute of Arts and Letters
Persichetti
Williams
Mt. Greylock Regional High School
Emma Willard School of Troy
N.Y
Emma Willard Schaal
Chapin Hall
College Chapel
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