Personal approach fuels La Comedia success in Ohio
Ted Pollard profiles 31 year old Joe Mitchell owner of La Comedia Dinner Theatre in Springboro Ohio. He emphasizes a personal contact driven approach to entertain audiences and recounts how site choice policy and staff engagement created steady growth. The venue draws roughly 55 percent of its patrons from Dayton with the balance from Cincinnati and Middletown while competing with Beef ’n’ Boards in Cincinnati.
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St. Andrews College
N.C
Ohio
la Comedia
Springboro
Dayton
Cincinnati
Atlanta
San Jose
Sacramento
Seattle
Ayton
Middletown
Joe Mitchell
Wendt
First hookup signals new Trenton cable service
The first cable television hookup in Trenton was made at the Charles Goodlett home on Pierson Road. Steve Baker performs the hookup as Emory Baker, owner of Clearview Cablevision, watches. Power will be activated south of State Street this week, with the north side to follow. service in the area can be reached at 988-6445.
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Trenton
Charles Goodlett
Pierson Road
Steve Baker
Emory Baker
Clearview Cablevision Company
State Street
Pianist Lorin Hollander Leads Street Residency Ambitious Project
Lorin Hollander, famed pianist who debuted at Carnegie Hall at age 10, plans a four day Middletown residency with the Miami University Symphony Orchestra and Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra under Paul Nadler. Local resident Sondra Oss coordinates school visits and a master class, aiming to bring art to students, prisons, and hospitals as private support sustains this pioneering outreach.
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Lorin Hollander
New York City
Middletown
Hollander
Miami University Symphony Orchestra
Miami University
Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra
Paul Nadler
Sondra Oss
McGee Avenue
Fred
Sondra Ross
Mrs. Ross
Lorin
Jimmy Stewart at 70 Still Magic at the Box Office
In Family Weekly Jimmy Stewart, age 70, discusses his enduring box-office appeal as he promotes The Magic of Lassie his 79th film. He says he will keep acting until scripts run out, and signals no signs of slowing down amid a career spanning decades.
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Jimmy Stewart
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America
Family Weekly
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