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Danville Register

Location

Danville, Virginia, United States of America

Date

Feb 16, 1966

Page

15

Tenor Jan Peerce at 61 Still Sings with Metropolitan Glory

Jan Peerce, 61, marks 25th Metropolitan Opera season with a blend of singing and beliefs. He stresses being a mensch and a complete person, sleeping, resting, and maintaining health routines. He criticizes overrehearsed modern singing and urges focus on technique, while noting his Met debut in 1938 and major career milestones. A new venture, Closing Night Inc, plans video tape recordings of Broadway shows for regional networks and home use.

San Peerce Metropolitan Mary Campbell New York Jan Peerce Metropolitan Opera Peerce Met America Radio City Music Hall Arturo Toscanini Samuel Rothafel Jacob Pincus Perelmuth Toscanini Closing Night Inc Fred F. Finklehoffe White Way Carnegie Hall Metropolitan Opera House

Billing Tweaks and Color Skyrockets In 1960s TV News

Hollywood notes report John Wayne seeking smaller billing in Cast a Giant Shadow while ABC CBS join NBC in color era expansion. Debates over Swinger casting with The Fugitive star Barry Morse reveals accent pride and travel time tricks as he imagines life between New York and London.

Hollywood NBA John Wayne Mel Shavelson Duke ABC CBS NBC Barry Morse Barry Morse David Janssen Dowagers Coxly New York England London Los Angeles

Local Radio TV Schedule Highlights Daytime Programs

A dense listing of radio and television time slots across multiple stations including WBTM ABC WFMY WDBJ WLVA and WLVA charts daily programs, news blocks, weather updates, farm and calendar segments, and prime time lineup with shows like Edge of Night Dragnet Hillbillies Green Acres and Jeopardy. The schedule shows frequent time slot changes and recurring anchors such as J Trenton Sean McLain John Scott and others.

J. Trenton John Scott Sean McLain D. Trenton I. Trenton Sean Mcclain WFMY CBS News Arthur Smith Danny Kaye WDBJ

Peter Brook backs shock and honesty in new theater look

Peter Brook defends total theater as an upheaval against Victorian grace and beauty, arguing modern stage must shock, involve audiences, and expose truth. He cites Marat/Sade and teatral risk, saying the script is a guide and directors must shape meaning in the moment, not honor fading conventions. Next week: Abe Burrows.

Total Theater Peter Brook New York London Broadway Jean Paul Marat Charenton Marquis de Sade Ift Hollywood Brook Oxford Shakespeare Moses Peggy Wood Beckett Ionesco Genel Albee Abe Burrows

Salt wasted on Kansas City streets after false snow forecast

About 90 tons of salt were spread on city streets in Kansas City after a private weather service predicted two inches of snow. The expected snow did not arrive, leaving salted streets as the outcome of the forecast.

Kansas City

Good Welders Learn a Welding Trade for Big Jobs

State approved program at 116 Walton Avenue offers day and night classes in welding. Students from our school are earning four dollars per hour and up. Phone 793 0437.

Walton Avenue

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