Music Man to March Into First Methodist
Meredith Wilson's Broadway hit The Music Man is set for next weekend at First United Methodist Church as the Broad Street Musicals fourth annual production. Under Clement Burton and Ed Seamon the show features an 80 member cast, an orchestra, an extended stage, and three performances. Proceeds support PROMISES and a musical mission to Japan next summer.
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Meredith Wilson
First United Methodist Church
Clement Burton
First Church
Ed Seamon
Promises
Japan
Christian Fellowsip
Miss America 1969 Pageant Breaks Tradition in Atlantic City
The Miss America pageant delivers Cinderella lore to 50 contestants as 20,000 in Convention Hall and 110 million TV viewers anticipate the crowning next Saturday. Debra Barnes of Moran Kansas competes among college students with a $60,000 scholarship pool and $85,000 in personal appearances. Ed McMahon leads nine judges in talent gown and swimsuit contests before the finalists are announced for the NBC telecast.
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Atlantic City
Corny
Albert Marks
Bert Parks
Ste
Parks
Bernie Wayne
New York
Marks
Bess Myerson
Debra Barnes
Moran
Kan
NBC
LeSourdsville Lake Closes 1968 Season With Fireworks
LeSourdsville Lake ends its season with tonight and tomorrow fireworks shows in Stardust Gardens. The Waterproof Tinker Toy Set performs Groovy Girl at 8 pm during the teen dance, contributing to the finale. Also today and Monday Tombstone Territory hosts Minnitaree Indian Dancers at 2, 5, and 7 with free performances.
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LeSourdsville Lake
Tinker
Stardust Gardens
LeSourdsville
Tombstone Territory
Reception For Director To Open Fine Arts Show
Edward R. Burroughs new director of the Middletown Fine Arts Center will host a reception and open house from 3 to 5 p m next Sunday at 116 S Main St The event opens the annual student art exhibition featuring about 75 paintings by more than 20 students and 30 ceramic pieces by 13 students Most works are for sale Burroughs who will teach drawing painting and a first time watercolor class will discuss ongoing workshops and new evening ceramics and experimental drawing classes Also announced is a plan to expand programming including sculpture and three dimensional art and a beginners class remains available on flexible schedules.
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Edward R. Burroughs
New
Middletown Fine Arts Center
Fine Arts Center
S. Main St
Burroughs
Queenie Burroughs
Margaret Myers
Letters We Get Letters The Insurrection of Hippolytus Berg
Roy Friedman’s novel presents Hippolytus Berg through letters memoranda and reports. A sixtyish New York loner writes to Betty Crocker Chairman Mao the Yankees and more provoking FBI and CIA involvement as investigators seek his motives.
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Hippolytus Brandenberg
Roy Friedman
Stein
Day
Hippolytus
Betty Crocker
Chairman Mao
New York
Central Intelligence Agency
FBI
CIA
Doors Padlocked Pasadena Playhouse In Financial Crisis
Pasadena Playhouse face foreclosure after a Bank of America mortgage default. It will take at least 295000 to reopen and 150000 more to operate, with alumni and Bob Hope tied to a potential rescue amid talks of sale and leaseback. Pasadena city funds and industry support sought.
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Pasadena
Calif
America
College of Theater Arts
Pasadena Playhouse
Playhouse
Theater
Tyrone Power
Raymond Burr
Carolyn Jones
Lee J. Cobb
Victor Jory
Robert Young
Martha Hyer
Robert Preston
Dana Andrews
Barbara Rush
Dustin Hoffman
Internal Revenue Service
Alexander Holt
Arroyo-Colorado
Bank of America
Los Angeles
Angels
Bob Hope
Middletown Civic Symphony Announces New Season Rehearsals
The Middletown Civic Symphony will begin rehearsals for its new season on September 9 at 7:30 p.m. in the Middletown High School band room. Director Charles Ansbacher invites all musicians to attend.
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Middletown Civic Symphony
Charles Ansbacher
Middletown High School
Hardcover Best Sellers List Readers See Shifts in a Week
The weekly hardcover list shows Hailey Airs airport top fiction with Updike Cou ples and Caldwell Testimony among the top three. Non fiction features The Money Game and Ibery Michener’s IBERIA near the top, with Ginott and Morris recurring names.
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Hailey
Updike
Caldwell
Topaz
Uris
Knebel
Smith
Ginott
Iberia
Michener
Birmingham
Morris
Publishers’ Weekly
The Sexual Wilder ness In Male Female Relationships
Vance Packard surveys the shift in male female relations in The Contemporary Upheaval. He mixes polls and college surveys with social change topics from premarital to marriage counseling and courtship, suggesting a two year marriage confirmation period amid broader gender role changes.
Notable Paperback Best Sellers List Displays Wide Range
A diverse paperback best sellers list features works from Myra Breckinridge to The Chosen and Rosemary's Baby. Included are major titles by Vidal, Salinger, Clarke, and Stephen King, plus notable biographies and crime novels reflecting broad reader interest.
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Holt
Charlie Brown
Schulz
Horner
Birmingham
Gavin
Jackson
Clarke
Mann
Maugham
Stegner
Dolly
Diment
Rochelle
Sutton
Armstrong
Seventh Avenue
Bogner
Winchester
You
Hero
Spillane the Chosen
Potok
Wallace
Montgomery Rosemary
Levin
Cooper
National Advisory Commission ON
Kazan
Roth
Kilgallen
Stillman and Baker
West
Graham Christine Jorgensen
Jorgensen
Loring
Robeson
Arnold
European Industry Satellite of U.S.
In CHALLENGE author J de Servan Schreiber argues Europe risks becoming an American satellite unless it quickly builds economic unity. He cites US managerial know how and American capital, urging France and others to act or be absorbed by American firms. The book draws on Kennety Galbraith and McNamara and Hudson Institute studies.
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J.-J. Servan- Schreiber
Atheneum
Arthur Schlesinger Jr
France
Servan-Schreiber
United States
Russia
Europe
John Kennety Galbraith
Robert McNamara
Hudson Institute and Large Corporation
America
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Miami
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Nancy Gray
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Marian
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Bill Harrison
Bob Bunnell
Bill Shafer
Marilyn Morgan
Ellen Taylor
Harriet Palmer
Marilyn Locke
Linda Bair
Debbie Boostra
Cindy Converse
Debbie Fletcher
Gordie Hughes
Carole Humphreys
Harding Jones
Dave McGraw
Richard Morris
Bonnie Murphy
Judy Taulbee
Linda Wieneke
Fellowship Hall
Winthrop Paroo
Todd
Coddington
Prof
Winthrop
Ed McMahon
University of Dayton
Dayton Art Institute
Daytona Society of Painters and Sculptors
Edward Burroughs
MFAC
Brooks al
Ness
Vance Packard
McKay
Myra Breckinridge
Vidal
Kavan
Falcon
Hurst
Dennis the Menace
Ketcham
Algiers
Hersey AT Ease
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Styron
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Carter Five
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Angel Loves Nobody
Miles
Middletown
Glass Shop Inc
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