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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1966
Page
10
Viewers are notified of a Friday CST lineup across Alabama Newsreel News Graceree Church Mine Concert Hall Twilight Zone and late-night films. Prime time features include The Man From U N C L E Hogan's Heroes The Barefoot Contessa and The Untouchables with news weather and sports updates between programs.
Radio stations listed with call signs and timeframes from pre dawn to sunset. Includes WMSL WHOS WDRM WAJF WJOF WIMW WKAC and WACES Moulton with varying operating hours from early morning to sunset.
Earl Bi Goes To Work covers I Do opening and a splashy Rainbow Room party with Rosemary Wilson, Mary Martin, Perle Mesta, and Pat Lawford among the guests. Reports on Sinatra rumors, Alan King Belafonte talks, Orson Bean hot role, and other show business notes.
A packed schedule features The Nutcracker at 6:30 P.M. with cast including Villela McBride Hayden and Werner. At 7:30 P.M. A Man From U N C L E Abominable Snowman Affair stars Sheiner Jeffreys Seurat Hsieh. Milton Berle with Liberace and Yardbirds at 8 P.M. plus a string of movies: Genghis Khan at 8 P.M. and Boy on a Dolphin at 8 P.M. 45, Contraband Spain at 10, Gallant Journey at 10:45 and Mr Reckless at 11:30, with late entry 1 A.M.
In 1944 General Douglas MacArthur declared U S forces had landed on Leyte’s west coast in the Philippines and had driven a split in Japanese forces on the island.
A brief survey traces opera from ancient Greek musical drama to the first modern opera in Florence around 1600. It notes Peri and Euridice, Monteverdi’s Orfeo, Venice’s rapid growth of opera houses, and the later inclusion of ballet and English developments from the masque to Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas.
The article notes that while Italy France Germany and Russia produced many grand operas, England and the United States chiefly created light operas. It cites Gilbert and Sullivan as outstanding examples of this trend.
A playful riddle comparing raw and hard boiled eggs. The trick is to give your friend a raw egg while you use a hard boiled one to make the egg spin on the table.
Tom laments a broken romance. Jack jokes about a rich uncle causing the rift and the girl becoming his aunt in a comic misunderstanding.
A child reports scoring 40 in spelling and 60 in arithmetic. The dialogue notes a prize draw with Janet Heacock of Cincinnati New Jersey named as today’s winner.
The Bible has been translated into Tishluba, one of the four principal Con go languages, spoken by more than two million people.
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