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Newspaper
Berkshire Eagle
Location
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1965
Page
4
A satirical piece braids alarm over falling TV viewing by 2 percent with mock charges against 1.3 million homes. It blames NBC CBS and ABC heads for a “superplan” to schedule worst shows to scare off viewers while insisting nonwatchers are “un-American.”
Berkshire chapter of the American Guild of Organists will meet Sunday at First Congregational Church in Stockbridge for an anthem reading session conducted by Donald N. Griffith. Griffith, educational manager of Franco Colombo Inc. of New York City, will lead service music and anthems distributed by his firm. Sherman Hall hosts with church choir assistance. AGO members urged to invite others. refreshments served.
Berkshire Community College's drama club presents Paint Your Wagon as its fourth annual musical. The show runs from Thanksgiving night through Sunday, Nov. 28, with Robert M. Boland directing and Edward J. Spence assisting. Set in the California gold rush, the plot follows Ben Rumson and his camp, with Jennifer and Julio Valveras in the love story. Songs include They Call the Wind Maria and Wanderin Star. Tickets go on sale Monday Nov. 8, with reserved seating at the college box office and art studio Room 207.
Morris Bennett art teacher at Pittsfield High School shows forty three oil and watercolor paintings at the Berkshire Museum for November. Works range from landscapes and figures to small watercolors. director Stuart Henry notes strong technique and deep colors with abstracted nature influenced by Cezanne Millet and Van Gogh.
Hal Borland and Barbara Dodge Borland will donate their manuscripts worksheets research notes and other papers to Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. The material covers all their books magazine articles newspaper material and 11 Lippincott titles. Mrs Borland authored The Great Hunger 1962 and Mr Borland wrote Countryman When the Legends Die The Dog Who Came To Stay and High Wide and Lone Some.
Berkshire Hillsmen chorus of Pittsfield seeks district crown at Providence Rhode Island with about 20 choruses from New England eastern New York and eastern Canada. The group led by Noel C Sears earned district bid after Saratoga Springs divisional finish. A quartet contest will select four quartets to join the Rascal and Statesman as international reps. Parade show at North Junior High Saturday features the Four Alouettes of Montreal.
Palace Love and Kisses The Brass Bottle Union Square A Rage to Live California Berkshire Drive In Open weekends Pittsfield Drive In Open
Austen Riggs Players announce casting for Christopher Fry's play to be staged Nov 17 to 21 in Stockbridge at the Riggs Theater. Ronald Auerbacher leads as Thomas, Mary Fussell as Jennet, Peter Kipp as Richard, Alex Abrons as Alizon, Charles Thornhill as Nicholas, Sky Whitehead as Humphrey, Bronwyn Pleiss as Margaret, Turk Whipple as Hebble Tyson, John Cronsen as chaplain, and Larry Goodwin as Edward. Director Jayne Mooney with assistant Barbara Dalglish leads the production.
Charles Chaplin vows a film comeback directing a romantic comedy to star Sophia Loren and Marlon Brando. Production starts in London in January for Universal Pictures, marking Chaplin’s first collaboration outside his own company.
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