How Times And Events Change Through The Years By CALKINS
A nostalgic column recalling diverse 19th and early 20th century local events. Highlights range from a 1914 Troy school appointment to 1907 trolley accident, 1900 baseball score, 1925 Hoosick Falls ice statistics, 1907 Vita Nova launch, and 1923 flapper commentary, tying memory to place and era.
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Herbert A. Calkins
English Arts Council Receives $20.16 Million Boost
London AP reports England's Arts Council allocated 20.16 million dollars for cultural activities next year, a 26 percent rise. Four point four eight million goes to drama companies such as the Royal Shakespeare and National Theatre. A special emergency fund of half a million is set aside for urgent culture projects.
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London
England
Arts Council
Royal Shakespeare
National Theater
Cameo Role for Shelley Winters in Tchaikovsky Film
UPI reports Shelley Winters will appear in a cameo for The Life of Tchaikovsky to be filmed in Russia this summer by producer Dimitri Tiomkin.
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Hollywood
UPI
Shelley Winters
Tchaikovsky
Dimitri Tiomkin
Russia
Fifty Works of English Literature We Could Do Without
Critics Michael Levey Brigid Brophy and Charles Osborne denounce many classic works as superfluous in a sharp debunking essay. They name Bunyan Defoe Gray Dickens Bronte Melville Whitman Carroll Twain Housman Barrie Galsworthy Douglas Maugham Woolf Lawrence and more as candidates for removal while urging readers to judge for themselves.
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Michael Levey
Brigid Brophy
Charles Osborne
Rapp & Carroll
London
Hemingway
Gertrude Stein
Scott Fitzgerald
William Faulkner
Tosk
Tennessee Williams
Erskine Caldwell
Levey
Britain
National Gallery
Miss Brophy
Qoshorne
Arts Council
John Bunyan
Daniel Defoe
Moll Flanders
Henry Fielding
Tom Jones
Gray
Goldsmith
Hawthorne
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Charles Dickens
Pickwick Papers
Charlotte Bronte
Emily Bronte
Herman Melville
Walt Whitman
Lewis Carroll
Alice
Mark Twain
A. E. Housman
Aldous Huxley
Faulkner
Jules Feiffer Leaves Broadway
New York AP reports Jules Feiffer’s play Little Murders closed after seven performances on Broadway. Reviews were mostly downbeat and Feiffer plans to continue writing plays for off Broadway and in England.
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New York
Jules Feiffer
Feiffer
England
Morse Signs Hollywood Star in Don Quixote USA
Robert Morse, riding high from How To Succeed In Business, has signed with MGM to star in the musical comedy Don Quixote USA. The project marks Morse’s next big screen venture after his stage success.
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Hollywood
UPI
Robert Morse
MGM
USA
Peyton Place Set To Begin Fourth TV Season
Hollywood reports the UPI story that Peyton Place faces doom from critics in its first season but begins shooting for its fourth year on the air this summer. The article notes continued production as the show plans another season despite negative reviews.
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Hollywood
UPI
Peyton Place
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