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Newspaper
Berkshire Eagle
Location
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1959
Page
24
A weary traveler recalls a chaotic Paris to Rome flight delay saga. Mechanical failures trigger multiple take-off postponements, free meals, and shifts between terminal and plane as passengers endure hours of uncertainty before a final 5 am departure.
Milton R. Bass recounts a perilous flight ending in New York after an emergency departure from Le Bourget. Passengers endured tense moments as a water issue threatened the craft, but the crew and Public Health doctor kept morale from breaking. The writer notes rough travel and questions about Charlie’s whereabouts.
Capitol orders to Kill shows 1:00 and 7 for Tampanga with 2:45 start. Palace presents A Hole in the Head at 5:30. Alias Jease Tyler I Want To Live shows 7:30. Young Captives at 6:00 and 9:15. Union Square Inside the Mafia runs 1:00 3:48 6:30 9:13 with buktu 4:53 7:45. County timetable referenced on Page 16.
Hollywood unions rally against runaway foreign productions. The Hollywood Labor Film Council says 35 to 50 percent of feature films and much television are shot overseas to save labor costs, undercut American union wages, and harm domestic workers. They urge boycotts and seek labeling of foreign-made films, with resolutions to Congress and AFL backing noted.
HOLLYWOOD AP News — Eric Johnston, president of the Motion Picture Association of America, says the industry is considering an adult classification for films amid broad criticism. He stresses no personal censorship stance, while noting discussions with Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, and women's groups about subject matter in works and the code’s relevance.
Milton Sperling has acquired The Marauders by Chariton Geeharn Jr for filming at Warner Brothers. The wartime Burma jungle saga centers on Merrill's Marauders led by Brig. Gen. Frank D Merr at age 39.
William Gibson's new play at Playhouse Theatre in New York receives ecstatic notices from Walter Kerr Robert Coleman John Chapman and Walter Winchell praising its power and emotion. Anne Bancroft Patricia Neal Torin Thatcher star alongside 10 year old Patty Duke in the Helen Keller tale. Brooks Atkinson offers tempered praise noting a loose narrative but moving insight.
A record Worcester Music Festival opening drew 3,500 attendees for the first night while 20,000 tickets were sold for five nights, featuring Yehuda Menuhin on violin with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. The audience total surpassed any prior festival since 1838.
Academy Award winning designer Walter Plunkett is hired to create costumes for Walt Disney's Pollyanna production starring Jane Wyman Karl Malden and Kevin Corcoran Eleanor Porter reports from Hollywood under UPI notes.
HOLLYWOOD (UPI) Hal Hudson executive vice president of the Zane Grey Theater series created scripts with top parts for actresses and lined up veterans for roles Anne Baxter signed to star in Hand on the Latch Hudson negotiating with Greer Garson Claudette Colbert Barbara Stanwyck and Joan Crawford for future projects Hudson says Westerns need innovation and that actresses will play realistic characters though less action than male leads
The Metropolitan Opera will open its 75th season on October 26 with 109 singers, including 13 making their company debuts. Repertory spans 25 operas, with six productions new, and a lineup featuring Oskar Czerwenka and several noted conductors and performers.
Sandra MacDonald moves from stage work to a hat check girl job in a New York restaurant. Paddy Chayefsky, author of The Tenth Man, spots her there and invites her to be an understudy for the new Broadway production. Previously Chicago-born MacDonald appeared in two off-Broadway shows.
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