Tough Play Meyrano de Bergerac's complex staging warned
The Encyclopaedia Britannica notes the play Meyrano de Bergerac is the most difficult to stage with the scene alone needing more than 200 stage properties.
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1948
Page
6
The Encyclopaedia Britannica notes the play Meyrano de Bergerac is the most difficult to stage with the scene alone needing more than 200 stage properties.
Tarantula spiders pose little danger to humans, similar to wasps and hornets. Most spiders are not poisonous to people, and in the United States only the black widow is considered dangerous.
The listing outlines this weeks theater lineup including THE BIG CLOCK with Ray Milland and Maureen O'Sullivan, Surfboard Rhythm, Little Tinker in Color, ON AN ISLAND WITH YOU in Technicolor, Jinx Money with Leo Gorcey and Huntz Hall, and Treasure of Sierra Madre with Humphrey Bogart. Also shown are Dead Dont Dream, Adventures of Frank and Jesse James serial, Donald Duck and Merrie Melody cartoons, and other Paramount, Universal, and Fox News updates plus late night Sainted Sisters and Blood on the Sun. Additional titles include Duel in the Sun, Syncopated Sioux, How To Clean House, Texas Trouble Shooters, The Southernner, God s Country and a Man, and Dick Tracy Returns serial with various cartoons interspersed.
Theater page highlights two features and a comedy. "Will It Happen Again" starring Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun appears alongside "Captain Boycott" with Cecil Parker. Extra added color cartoons and comedy live on Web Thursday.
The program lists Big Town starring Robert Lowery and Philip Reed on Friday and Saturday, Eagle Squadron with Robert Stack and Hall Diana on additional shows, plus four cartoons and color shorts. Also LADY IN A JAM with Irene Dunne and Patric Knowles.
Rev Lonnie V Davis a 46 year old free will Baptist minister was found guilty on six counts of fornication and adultery by a Harnett jury after a 20 minute deliberation. Judge J Paul Frizelle imposed the maximum two year term and expressed regret it was not harsher. The conviction stemmed from an illicit affair with a 1 year old inmate of an orphanage where Davis served as superintendent. The girl Lala Mae Reaves pleaded no contest to a technical charge of fornication and adultery and her sentence was not pronounced. An appeal to the state court was noted by his attorney.
Albert W. Day announced Walter A. Gresh, 45, has been named assistant regional director at the Atlanta office. A Hummelstown native, he previously worked in Atlanta 1939 to 1942 and later in Chicago and Minneapolis. Gresh is a Lehigh graduate with prior posts at the Pennsylvania Game Commission, TVA, and West Virginia Conservation Commission. James Silver heads the Atlanta office overseeing nine states.
John S. Graham of Winston Salem was sworn in as assistant secretary of the treasury by Budget Director James E. Webb. The ceremony came via special presidential authority as part of a broader reshuffle with Edward H. Foley moving to undersecretary and Graham taking the assistant role.
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