Opera Workshop thrills Berkshire Museum with vibrant scenes
Fourteen local vocalists from Pittsfield Community Music School staged operatic scenes at the Berkshire Museum. Highlights included Antonia Dalapas as Mimi in La Bohème and a Verdian duet from Aida. The program featured works from Puccini, Verdi, Wagner, Menotti, Strauss and more, with strong acting and costumes. About 225 people attended.
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Berkshire Museum
Beethoven
Weill
Pittsfield Community Music School
Opera Workshop
Robert Blnfield
Antonia Dalapas
Mimi
Miss Calapas
Verdi
MIT Receives Rare Book Gift From NYC Alum
Cambridge Massachusetts MIT gains a set of fifteen rare scientific volumes including Newtons Principia and a 16th century Gesner animal atlas. Donor I Austin Kelly II a New York City alumnus and MIT 1926 graduate, founder of the National Employee Relations Institute, has long been a noted rare book collector. Also noted are Nationwide Insurance representatives attending a three day sales convention at Kiamisho Lake New York.
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Cambridge
Isaac Newton
Konrad Vonr Gesner
Francis Bacon
Galileo Galilei
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
New York City
I. Austin Kelly II
National Employe Relations Institute, Inc
Nationwide ‘Insurance . Co
Pittsfield
Kiam
Esho Lake
N.Y
Charles Campbell
Tyler St
Robert Markowite
Dodge Ave
Theodore Shogry
Yarmouth St
Frederick George
Williamstown
John DeCosta
Peyton Place Manuscript Auction Sells for 5400
Laconia Niki UPI reports Joseph Stanton bought a trunk with Grace Metalious memoirs at auction for 220 and plans to display the Peyton Place manuscript. The sale, which included Tight White Collar and Return to Peyton Place, totaled 5400 to satisfy taxes on Metalious estate following her death last year.
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Laconia
Niki
UPI
Peyton Place
Joseph Stanton
Grace Metalious
Internal Revenue Service
Metalicus
Metalious
Poppy Sale at VFW Totals $1971 in Colder Weather
Robert a Mattoon reports a VFW poppy sale that raised 1971 dollars despite Friday and Saturday cold weather. Thirty post members and seven auxiliary volunteers worked citywide. Francis J. Nolan won a lamp top prize for bringing in 237 dollars, with Arthur Coffey close behind at 218. Bonnie Miceli won for guessing total receipts while Mrs. Betty Mattison led auxiliary meals and William Kowchuk organized a planning breakfast.
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Robert A Mattoon
Pridsy Eveane
Mattison
Francis J. Nolan
Arthur B. Coffey
Betty Mattison
William Kowchuk
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Music Review
Andrew Clarke
Aida
Amneris
Jean May Bousquet
Marjorie Ann Kember
Gail Nasca
Angela Talbot
Jenny
Betty Keirsfeid
Aline Drescher
Paul Nixon
Menotti
Bettween
Angélica
the Princess
Puccin
Suor Angelica
Mrs. Talbot
Elizabeth Mihovan
MIT
Peyton’ Place
Ethel Cra Tint
Bonnie Miceli
Fred F. Polidore
Curletti’s
Shea’s
Wahconah St. Jel
Olympia
Leo Leo
Samson - Gen
Court
North S
Kolman's
Halperin
Simmons
Howell
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