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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1967
Page
8
New York comedian Joe E Lewis hints at retirement after a minor stroke. Friends note his shaky stage presence and stamina as he considers ending a career spanning decades. His plan and timing remain undecided while he contemplates one last Copa comeback.
Igor Stravinsky grants special permission for his latest work Requiem Canticles to open memorial services for Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer. The 62 year old physicist died of throat cancer Saturday. Columbia Record Co. taped the piece for future release. performance set for 3 pm Saturday at Alexander Hall Princeton.
Fifteen church and club groups have arranged for chaplains and speakers to present performances of A Man Called Peter during its Lenten run at the Long Beach Community Playhouse located at 5021 East Anaheim Street.
Regular performances at 7:45 p.m. Thursdays and 8:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays continue through March 25. The production, adapted from Catherine Marshall's book about her husband, portrays Dr. Peter Marshall's home life and parish challenges up to a pivotal moment.
Joel McCreakins and Pat Dempsey rehearse a cast for Julius Caesar to open March 3 in the upstairs Studio Theater of Long Beach Community Playhouse at 5021 E. Anaheim St. The play runs Fridays and Saturdays through March with prior notes on cast contracts and production details.
Music critic Daniee Cariaga notes the Philharmonia Hungarica's third North American tour stop at Long Beach Municipal Auditorium. Miltiades Caridis conducts a cohesive, largely bright program featuring Liszt, Bartok, Haydn, Beethoven, and a Beethoven symphony. German pianist Ludwig Hoffmann joins for Liszt and the concert ends with a fragment from The Miraculous Mandarin.
Fragmentary OCR text shows scattered event titles and times with many unreadable words. Named individuals like Nevada Smith Megs appear, along with times such as 0:57 and 4:18, but overall content is incoherent and not reliably attributed to a definite event or outcome.
MONROE VA UPS A symphony inspired by the Vietnam war composed by a young Utah draftee will be premiered tonight by the U S Continental Army Command Band Spec 4 James M Prigmore of Magda Utah will attend for his new symphony Synfonia da Chiesa subtitled Prayer for Strength in Defending Freedom of the Vietnamese People Prigmore who once served as resident composer at the Pasadena Playhouse began composing at age 12 and has completed more than 50 works.
London report says film and TV actor Jack Rodney aged 51 died today after a career in top films and revision shows. The illness or exact cause was not disclosed. Rodney appeared in several major productions and was a familiar face on screen.
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