The Boy Friend at Coulee Festival of Arts
The 1965 Coulee Festival of Arts opening features The Boy Friend directed by Mike Thompson performed under Theater Under the Stars. Colleen Kavanaugh and George McClendon lead the romance, with Miss Cavanaugh and classmates rehearsing a chorus line and dancers Kathy Wood and Robert Bray showcasing interpretive dancing.
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Mt. la Crosse
Coulee
Virginia Solie
Jane O'Neill
Heidi Uecker
Tina Cremer
Kathy Wood
Robert Bray
Saturday August 14 1965 Deliveries on RFO Aug 14
A brief item notes deliveries scheduled for Saturday August 14 1965 under the RFO notice. Specific routes or recipients are not detailed in the readable text.
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RFO
Elgart's Orchestra to Head Oktoberfest Dances in Mary E Sawyer Auditorium
Les Elgart and his orchestra will perform at the Oktoberfest dances on Saturday night October 2 in the Mary E Sawyer Auditorium. Admission requires wearing an official fest button plus a small charge as part of the 1965 Oktoberfest running from September 29 to October 8. Elgart and his brother Jerry share early musical training from their mother in New Jersey and Les led his high school orchestra as a top pitcher.
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Les Elgart
Mary E. Sawyer
Elgart
Jerry
la Crosse
Levin Eyes Ramayana as Next Broadway Musical
Herman Levin who produced My Fair Lady plans a Broadway musical based on The Ramayana. The project hinges on choosing a librettist lyricist and composer with candidates Harry James and Charlie Spivak. The article traces Herb Elgart’s career and the evolution of big band music through 1960.
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New York
Herman Levin
Aubrey Menen
Levin
Bill Finegan
Ralph Flanagan
Nelson Riddle
Lisa Kirk
Music Makers
Elgart
Webster returns to directing with National Repertory Theatre
Margaret Webster, back in directing next season for the National Repertory Theater, will stage The Madwoman of Chaillot and another unnamed drama for the touring company. Jack Sydow to direct a third work. The 20 week tour covers seven cities, begins in St. Louis November 8, and ends with a mid April six week Broadway engagement.
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New York
Margaret Webster
National Repertory Theater
Miss Webster
Chaillot
Jack Sydow
St. Louis
Earthbound Martian Has All The Answers
Uncle Martin O Hara from CBS seasons mocks Mariner 4 reports as craters are misnamed divots. He jokes about golf on Mars and water bills in California, then dismisses astronomy cautions as Martian camouflage. He returns to the earthbound studio set.
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Martin O'Hara
Mars
CBS
Mariner 4
Los Angeles
New York
Robert Leighton
California
East Coast
Martin
Ray Walston
WKBH
Jim Schwertel
Dick Scheuler
Ken
Local notes mix community life and media chatter
A breezy bulletin reports on weed control near Weston Street, transit acts of kindness, YWCA registrations, a Sunday concert, and radio staff returns. It also threads in pop culture quips, aviation and television updates, and a speculative bit on Jeane Dixon amid weather prospects for the weekend.
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Weston Street
U S Cavalry Gets Recognition In New TV Comedy F Troop
Hollywood reports Warner Bros brings the famed U S Cavalry to ABC in F Troop a wild farcical series. Fortis Tucker the six foot five actor leads as a veteran sergeant enjoying comic schemes and a war dance with Indians.
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Hollywood
U.S
Riders In
F Troop
Warner Bros
ABC
Army
Navy
Air Force
Marines
Forrest Tucker
Tucker
Chicago
Fox to film The Blue Max about WWI German ace
The 20th Century Fox studio will shoot The Blue Max in London about the making of a German World War I air ace. The project aligns with wartime aviation themes and stars prominent film figures of the era.
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London
20Th Century Fox
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Hal McIntyre
Harry James
Charlie Spivak
Spivak
James Side
U.S. Navy
Woody Herman
Raymond Scott
Maggie Meanders
Bill Ka
Leo
Kruschek
Den
Transit Ywca
Betty Simpson
Lee Snapp
WLCX
Roger Fiebig
Sisson Drive
Christ Lutheran Church, Stoughton
John Hancock
Alma Burns
Doug Friend
Pete Laken
Winona
Sioux City
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WKTY
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KATV
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Cairo
Egypt
Marc Anthony
Cleopatra
River
Nile
Jim Reeves
Dean Manuel
Patsy Cline
Hawkshaw Hawkins
Cowboy Copas
Rusty Hughes
Ira Lubin
Jack Anglin
Patsy
Roy Acuff
Jeane Dixon
Washington, D.C
Pres. Kennedy
Oswald
Viet Nam
Middle East
U.S. Cavalry
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