Composer Writes Tune Then Opera Deseret Faces NBC Premiere
Leonard Kastle, a young composer, debuts his opera Deseret a three act work about Mormon plural marriages versus Christian practice. NBC Opera Company will present a colorcast from 3 to 5 p.m. Sunday in 1961 with backing from Wallace M. Scudder of the Newark Evening News who supported him since Nantucket days.
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New York
Mery
Leonard Kastle
NBC Opera Company
Kastle
Samuel Chouzinoff
Wallace M. Scudder
Newark, N.J
Evening News
Scudder
Nantucket Island
Deseret
Score
Kastle-Bailey Opera
Salt Lake City
Maurice Abravanel
Utah Symphony
NBC
The
One
Julliard
Onnes
Curtis
Spoleto
Italy
Lion House
Kenneth Smith
Brigham Young
Rosemary Kuhlmann
Sarah
Ann Louis Brice
Judith Raskin
Mac Morgan
Marjorie McClung
John Alexander
Capt
James Dee
Union Army
Peter Herman Adler
Engaged couple announced in South Port society note
Mrs Glenwood M Grew of South Port announces the engagement of her daughter Miss Janice Margaret Batchelder to Howard Brenton Mehiman son of Mrs Clifford Mehiman of Pine Point with a spring wedding planned Miss Batchelder is a Biddeford high school and Felt and Tarrant Comptometer school graduate employed in the treasury of the New England Telephone and Telegraph in Portland Mehiman attended Scarborough schools and is a University of Maine graduate employed in the technical service department of West Virginia Pulp and Paper in Luke Maryland
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Glenwood M. Grew
South Portland
Janice Margaret Batchelder
Howard Brenton Mehiman
Clifford Mehiman
Pine Point
Miss Batchelder
Biddeford
Felt and Tarrant Comptometer
Treasury Department
New England Telephone and Telegraph Company
Portland
Mehlman
Scarborough
University of Maine
Hollywood in Sixty One Faces Adult Film Questions
Hollywood executives warn 1961 may decide Hollywood’s future as studios push more adult themes. Reactions cite Roman Catholic bishops and other clergymen while noting box office gains from raw films like Butterfield 8, The Apartment, and Lolita. A former theater owner recalls shock value hurting family pictures and complicating hiring.
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Hollywood
Fatty Arbuckle
Biddeford opens underwater equipment shop by divers
Henry Paradis and Roland La belle of Biddeford open a new underwater equipment shop at 151 Alfred street Biddeford. The store will offer complete skin and scuba diving gear including rubber suits masks aqua lungs fins regulators and basic items. The owners are professional skin and scuba divers and YMCA aquatic instructors.
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Henry Paradis
Roland Labelle
Biddeford
Alfred Street
YMCA
Wentworth enrolls five Biddeford Saco youths in largest class
Five Biddeford Saco students Donald Bardsley Richard Boissonneault Thomas Gleason and Richard Sevigny join 1800 day students at Wentworth Institute Boston in a two year engineering technology program awarding an Associate in Engineering degree The article notes Wentworths Huntington avenue campus and ties to Sinclair Weeks as board chair. It also mentions a Russian institutes survey trip by President Beatty.
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Biddeford-Saco
Wentworth Institute
H. Russell Beatty
Wentworth
Donald FE. Bardsley
Middle Street
Richard G. Boissonneault
Hillside Avenue
Thomas Frederick Gleason
High Street
Richard Raymond Sevigny
Elm Street
Biddeford
Lionel C. Bouthillette
Weymouth Street
Saco
Huntington Avenue
Boston
Sinclair
Weeks
Wentworth Board of Trustees
Beatty
Engineers Joint Council
AMVETS 1961 Scholarships Open to High School Seniors
AMVETS offers college scholarships from 500 to 2000 dollars for high school seniors whose fathers are totally disabled from World War II or Korea or who served in those wars and are now deceased. Applications available from Rene Huot at AMVETS home 147 Alfred Street Biddeford with a February 20 deadline to the AMVETS Foundation in Washington.
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Amvets
Korea
Rene Huot
Merton Ira Staples
Post
Amvets National Ice Foundation
Accredit
AMVET
Huot
Alfred Street
Biddeford
Amvets Foundation
Washington
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Pepperell Sheet Shop
Suga
Owen Fresh Bread
USDA
Rhe Mer
Aunt C
Timely
Hammonton Park
Michaels-Stern
Silvertix
Palm Beach
Clipper Craft
North Weave
Brookfield
Levi
van Heusen
McGregor
Levis
Harris Tweed Topcoats
Ees
Yello Ripe Bananas
Maine
U. S
Cello Peg
James Bacon
Twin City
Kansas City
KTSR
Nazarene Theological Seminary
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