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Area Dramas Open Summer Season Each summer season we in W.N.C. are offered many 1 exceptional opportunities to view truly excellent plays with outstanding casts. Elat Kock Playhouse celebrates its 20th birthday as the home of the Vagabond Players this summer, while the players themselves launch their 52nd (counting winter tours) season. A new comedy by Edward Clinton, "The l,ady Who Cried Fox,” will open the season on June 22, with New York and London hits to follow including a return by popular request of "Look Homeward, Angel” for the seventh Consecutive summer. Broadway tare win t>e me Pursuit of Happiness,” which with its American Revoktionary setting and theme is a bow to the Bicen tennial; "Write Me a Murder" by Frederick Knott of “Dial 'M' for Murder” fame; Samuel Spewack’s comedy satire on Washington bureaucracy, “Two Blind Mice,” the Kaufman and Hart perennial favorite, "You Can't Take It with You,” also a revival by popular demand; and “Dear Ruth,” Norman Krasna's comedy hit dealing with romance in World War II days. From London comes the three-year-run farce comedy "Move Over, Mrs. Markham;” and the fresh from-Picadilly “Two and Two Make Sex” by Richard Harris and Leslie Darbon. Carl Williams, former Vagabond who was for a number of years the director of the famous Henry Street Playhouse in New York City and more recently artistic director at the University of South Florida in Tampa, will direct the plays at Flat Rock this summer. Walter O’ Rourke returns for his thirteenth season as set designer and technical director, with George Epting continuing as assistant technical director. Veterans Dennis Maulden and Ed Oster will be the scenic artist and stage manager, respectively, while Earl Wentz is the director of ap prentices and Johanna Erlenbach is in charge of the children’ theatre program. Additional members of the 1976 acting company include Barbara Bradshaw, Helen Bragdon, W.C. ‘Mutt’ Burton, Ann Callaway, Robin Farquhar, Rick Hammond, l.yn Perez and Ralph Red path. The Vagabonds since their inception in 1937 have played to more than three million patrons. In 1961 the Flat Rock Playhouse was designated, by joint resolution of the General Assembly, as The State Theatre of North Carolina. The Playhouse is located three miles south of Hen dersonville on U.S. 25, the Greenville highway. Per formances are daily Tuesday through Saturday at 8:30 p.m., with matinees on Wednesday and Saturday at 2:30 p.m. Tickets for the Southern Appalachian Repertory Theatre’s summer per formances are now on sale at the Owen Theatre Box Office on the Mars Hill College campus from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily. The second SART season opened June 22 with the popular 1975 success, “Ark of Safety" by Howard Richard son and Frances Goforth. The mountain folk play features many of the cast of lest year's successful production. Following “Ark of Safety” will be the perennially favorite family musical “The Sound of Music" based on the story of the Von Trapp Family Singers. The play, the last theatrical collaboration of Rodgers and Hammerstein, Celo Concerts June 26 Music In Mountains At Wafren Wilson The Celo Chanber Concerts of Music in the Mountains will begin this year on Saturday, June 26th at Warren Wilson College, Swannanoa, and on Sunday, June 27th in Burn sville according to Frank EU, Music Director of the festival. Ell has achieved a reputation of professional excellence for the Celo Concerts, coupled with an informal atmosphere which allows the great chamber music works to be disarmingly accessible to the listening audience. Returning for the Celo Concerts this summer, in addition to Mr. Ell, clarinetist, will be Ruth Geiger and Eve Lynne Reeve, keyboard ar tists who have been with the festival from the beginning. Eva EU, wife of the Music Director, will be the featured guest artist in the fourth concert when the Schubert Celo Quintet wiU be per formed. Following the Buffalo Quartet, Ell has secured string players of exceptional excellence for the concerts. Ralph Matson of the Cleveland Orchestra, and Ronan Lefkowitz of the Boston Symphony, violinists, wUl be joined by Maureen Gallagher, viola, and Dana Rusinak, cello, familiar r.o audiences of the 1975 season. William Purvis, horn, and Benjamin Kamins, bassoon, whose playing last summer acquired for each a number of devotees, wiU be joined by two fine new woodwind players, Michael Parloff, flute, and Janet Rarick, oboe. The Celo Players wiU be heard in works by Handel, Brahms, Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Chopin, Schubert, Haydn, Ravel, and other composers in programs which offer variety, virtuosity, and youthful zest of musical performance. Most of the Celo performers are in their mid twenties. The two regular series at Williams Theatre, Warren Wilson College on Saturday evenings, 8:00 p.m. and at the Presbyterian Church, Burn sville on Sunday afternoons at 3:30 p.m. will include six concerts each. This year the Celo Players can be heard in a third series of four concerts on Friday evenings, July 9,16,23, and 30 at 8:00 p.m. in the Trinity Presbyterian Church, Hendersonville. An additional concert will be given on Tuesday, July 6th, 8:00 p.m. at UNC-Asheville in the Humanities Building. In announcing the Celo Concerts, Mr. Ell reminded music lovers in Western North Carolina of the anticipated Lili Kraus Benefit Recital scheduled for Sunda> af ternoon, August 15 at 3:30 p.m. in Burnsville. Mme. Kraus’s solo performance for the benefit of Music in the Mountains will be given in the auditorium of the new Yancey County consolidated school. Mountain Heritage High School. Tickets to all the concerts can be procured at the door. Admission to the Celo Con certs is $2.50 and $5.00 for the Lili Kraus Benefit Recital. For more information write to Warren Wilson College, Swannanoa, N.C. 28778, Tel. 298-3325 or Music in the Mountains, Burnsville, N.C. 28714, Tel. 675-4060. Music Center Tickets Sales Opened Tuesday The Brevard Music Center summer box office opened at noon on Tuesday to handle advance ticket sales for the season celebrating the center's 4<jth anniversary and the Bicentennial. The pre-season hours will be from noon to 5 p.m. daily, Monday through Friday. At the beginning of the concert season in July, the box office liours will be increased to noon through intermission, Monday through Sunday. Coming by the box office in Whittington-Pfohl Auditorium will allow patrons to study the seating charts for each per formance and select their seats. Ticket information is also available by writing to Brevard Music Center, P.0 Box 592, Brevard, N.C 28712 or calling 883-8338. will open on July 7 for a two week run. The final production of the season, opening on Aug. 4, will be the premiere of a new musical comedy, “Mandy Lou,” by C. Robert Jones. The new play set in Charleston, S.C. in 1860 fulfills a part of the Southern Appalachian Repertory Theatre’s purpose in bringing new plays to the stage for the first time. The company of professional players will perform nightly at 8:15 (ex cepting Mondays) with Sunday matinees at 2:30 p.m. from June 22 to Aug. 15 with all performances being given in Owen Theatre on the Mars Hill College campus 20 miles north of Asheville via the recently completed four-lane Appalachian Corridor. Season tickets as well as individual tickets and group rates are available at the theatre by calling 689-1239. Special Services At Grovestone Baptist Church The Grovestone Baptist Church will have special guests at their Worship Ser vices Sunday - Presenting the sermon at both the morning and evening services will be the Rev. Doug Skinner from Wilson, N.C. Mrs. David Cox and her friend “Willie” a ven triloquists’ dummy will delight the young and young at heart with a “Sermonette”. Mts. Cox is from the Forest Grove Baptist Church in Knoxville, Tenn. The Rev. John Corbitt, pastor and the church family of Grovestone extend an in vitation to the public to join them in these services. t* • V Potpourri Pn'sciils The American Revolution Part 2 The 1975-76 school year, f series of Story Hours, Pot pourri Presents, concluded on May 8th. Those youngsters who had perfect attendance for the series were: Lisa Craig, Wayne Lynn and Jeff Murphy. Those who only missed one program were: Mark Hopkins and Ginny Lynn. Both groups received ’’ books in recognition of their attendance records from the > Friends of the Library. The 1976 summer series of • story ■ hours will be held i. weeMy for six sessions beginning on Wednesday, June 30,. and concluding on ■ August 4. These sessions will be from 2-4 p.m. in the EducationRoom of the Library with registration, attendance stars and name lags being ' taken care of at 1:30 p.m. in ' . the lobby outside that room. All children living or visiting in IIh- Swannanoa Valley who are 5-12 years of ape are cordially invited to attend this free entertaining and educations’ series. This summer's series is entitled "All About the American Revolution, Part II". The first program's theme is "Useful Plants and Crops of 1776." The colonial garden that was planted at the May Story Hour will be cultivated and fertilized, a color film “Secrets of (lie Plant World" will be scon and there will he a demonstration of bread making. The Disney color film "Ben and Me" will also be shown, appropriate stories told and a display of books available for personal and check-out. The program will conclude with refresh ments of homemade bread, butter and jam and fruit juice. Come and bring your library card and a friend. House Principal Chosen For Carver School The House Principal for the new Open Concept School lias been selected. She is Ms. Melissia Thomas. She received her B.A. degree in Secondary English from Warren Wilson College in 1971 and her M.A. degree in Early Childhood Education from Western Carolina University. She is currently working toward and has almost completed the required work for Specialist in Education degree in Elementary Supervision also at W.C.U. Ms. Thomas taught at East Yancey High in 1971-72, teaching English and dramatics in grades 9-12. She taught first and second grade at Rock Hill Elemen tary School from 1974 to 1976. "For the past two years I have worked as a lead teacher in a team teaching situation through the National Teacher’s Corp. Program,” Ms. Thomas stated. “The Teacher Corps program stressed individualized and personalized instruction for children,” she explained. "Instruction was centered around the child's interest. Our classrooms were flexibly organized with multiage grouping and peer teaching,” she continued. “The school, in which I taught, served as a "portal-model” school for Haywood County. The Open Concept School will be located in the Carver School building. The oldest man ever to be nominated for president or vice president was Henry Gassaway Davis of West Virginia. He was 80 years and 235 days old when he was nominated at the Democratic Convention at St. Louis, Missouri, in July, 1904. Ill < we seu uspa cttotce Western Omtttm Beef w mm i*9 TBAffifg S/atO/A/ .I«A we oeseoye r//e p/Mr tp c/mr QM/vr/r/es - pp/ees /a/ ms ap roes at pu wsop s/GSt/p tmeee p&a ji/eezs -jeve 2?,/s7G - FWP st/uoPs wee com & THE BL'ACK MOUNTAIN NEWS and its Editor Uva Miracle, were presented a Certificate of Ap preciation by the North Carolina State Highway Patrol for their contribution in promoting traffic . safety On the streets and highways. Sgt. W.D. Stiles presented Mrs. Miracle with the Certificate on behalf, of E.W. Jones, Colonel Commanding the North/ Carolina Highway Patrol. / Folks You Know On June 12, Hugo Thompson was given the honorary degree “Doctor of Humane Letters” by Macalester College, where he taught for , twenty-five years. Earlier in the same w»ek he and his wife, Sibyl, joined her classmates at the University of Minnesota for their fiftieth reunion. On the same trip they visited Hugo's birthplace at Evan sville, Minnesota and enjoyed reunions with many friends and relatives. In August the Thompsons will go to the lake home of a brother, A.R. Thompson, in Illinois where their fiftieth wedding anniversary will be celebrated with children and grandchildren from Cleveland, Ohio, and Freiburg, Germany. With all these festivities out of the way, they promise to return happily to Black Mountain and responsibilities undertaken here. The Class of 1949 of Black Mountain High School held a Class Reunion on June 12 at the Black Mountain Club House. Thirteen members of the graduating class made it to the reunion. Spouses and guests brought the number to 22. John Jackson of Chicago and JoAnn Cordell of Miami, Fla. were the ones coming from the longest distance. Bordor. sabastin, a class member, served as master of fceremonies, leading the group in “Do You Remember When" reminiscing. Such a delightful time was had by all they plan another one in three years. The buffet dinner was catered by Mrs. Marilyn Phillips from the Monte Vista Hotel. Mr. and Mrs. Howard A. Kerlee were present at gtaduition of their grand children from Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, recently. David J Nache, Jr. received his B.S. degree in Recreational Leadership and Cynthia Ann Nache received her B.S. degree in Early Childhood Education. Skipper and Cindy are the children of Mr. and Mrs. David J. Nacne, Sr. of Salt Lake City, Utah and all are former residents of Black Mountain. WNC Lung Assoc. Bulletin FLU ALERT WNC Lung Association is joining other lung associations in participation in “Flu Alert” which was announced by American Lung Association shortly after President Ford called for a national im munization program against the New Jersey strain of flu expected to cause possible hazards later this year. No definite guidelines for WNC participation have yet been established, and officials do not yet have any definite schedules. But !he general intent is for full support of the national program, cooperation with health departments and agencies, all possible assistance in con ducting the immunization programs and efforts to publicize the national health project to enlist public sup port. It is expected that WNC Lung Association's work will be with county health departments and with regional health offices. Ac cording to Burnitt Bealle, Executive Director of WN CLA, the program is expected to get under way in its initial phases by mid-July. Conferences have already been held at several health departments in the area and according to Bealle, “Wherever we can help in some way with the program, we’ll be there." INSTITUTE PLANNED AT BLUE RIDGE ASSEMBLY For the 26th year an in stitute on respiratory diseases will be held at Blue Ridge Assembly in Black Mountain from July 12 - 15, with the theme “Challenges and Changes in Lung Disease" — — reflecting the changing medical attitudes to some lung diseases, increasing incidence of some lung ailments, and the latest in treatment. Outstanding speakers will participate ir the general sessions and in : - Her group sessions. The institutes regularly attract health professionals from many eastern and southern states. Blavk Mountain Host Tabernacle Teams From Windell The Black Mountain Babe Ruth and Little League Teams were hosts for a "mini tourney” this past weekend. Two visiting teams from Windell, N.C. were their guests. The visitors, who call themselves Tabernacle Teams, are coached by Howard Holt. The first game that was played ended 4 ;o 1 with the Babe Ruth Team on top. The second game was played on the Grammer School Field and ended 10 to 4 with the Tabernacle Little League team as victors. The Tabernacle Teams brought many visitors with them from their home town to watch and root for their boys. A fine lime was had by all who participated. Many thanks go to the Town Recreation Committee for arranging these games and for their work and support
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