"Star Of Bethlehem", Yule Show
Is Being Shown In Chapel Hill
“Star of Bethlehem,” the an
nual tribute to Christmas based
Wholly upon the Scriptures, is
now being presented at the More
Wead Planetarium in Chapel Hill,
lit will run through January 6.
For the past eight years, the
Morehead Planetarium’s “Star of
Bethlehem” has been considered
one of the largest single plane
tarium programs in the world.
“This year it is even larger,” ac.
cording to Manager A. F. Jen.
zano. “Numerous changes and ad
ditions have been made which
we are confident will provide
greater inspiration and enjoy,
ment of the program.”
In this year’s program the au
dience will travel in space to see
the Christmas skies, not as they
were over Bethlehem when Christ
was bom as they appear over
Chapel Hill and elsewhere in the
world in 1957.
Patron^ will also see and hear
how the birthday of the Savior
is observed in various parts of
the world as the great Zeiss Plan
etarium transports the audience
over the South and North Poles.
me traditional coioriui pag
eant of the Birth of Christ, which
has been presented in beautiful
three dimensional tableaux for
the past eight years is being re.
tained in whole. Even so, some
of the scenes and lighting ar
rangements have been improved
and revised.
The new approach includes new
scenes, new voices, and a com.
plete change in the musical score.
In addition to the nightly 8:30
o'clock performance, matinees
will be presented on Saturdays at
11 a. m. and on Sundays at 2, 3,
and 4 p. m.
There will also be 11 a. m. and
1 p. m. shows daily for school
children to which the public will
be admitted after all children
with reservations have been seat
ed.
Tickets or reservations may be
obtained in advance by either
mail or telephone, and special
shows will be presented for large
Religious, Civic, Industrial and
School groups on request.
In addition to the Christmas
show. Planetarium patrons may
view without charge the million
dollar art exhibit of the "History
of Pharmacy,” which will be
shown in the North and South
Art galleries through December
22.
One addition to the 1957 “Star
of Bethlehem” is a second 200
foot panorama of an artic ice
scape. Others include artists’ con
ceptions and living color projec
tions of Christmas scenes and
traditions in the northern and
southern hemispheres.
The National Geographic So
ciety of Washington has supplied
color projections, and Robert L.
Blake, professor of art at Duke
University, Has prepared new
scenes, including an addition to
the artic panorama. Blake also
painted the “Hills of Judea” pan.
orama, the authenticity for which
was attested by Dr. William F.
Stinespring, professor of Old
Testament at Duke.
New narrating voices include
Miss Carroll Stoker, Greensboro
television personality, and Ed
ward K. Zimmerman, UNC radio
and television student from Eliza,
beth City. Miss Stoker and Zim.
merman tell the stories of the
Christmas celebrations.
Dr. Urban T. Holmes, Kenan
professor of romance languages
at UNC who has read the Scrip
tural account of the birth of
Christ in past programs, has pre.
pared an entirely new presenta.
tion of the account from the New
Testament.
complementing the entire pro
gram is a complete new musical
score of Christmas music arrang.
ed by Myron G. Duncan, former
Italian grand opera star who is
now musical advisor to the More,
head Planetarium.
To be heard in the popular as
well as traditional Christmas
music will toe the voices of the
Norman Luboff Choir, Emily Rel
iant, the Robert Shaw Chorale,
and the Monks of the Abbey of
St. Pierre de Sollemes. The music
of tHe Philadelphia Orchestra and
the chorus and orchestra of the
Teatro La Scala of Milan, Italy,
will also toe heard.
The finale itself is traditional
with the Morehead Planetarium.
It is the great arched cathedral
in which the audience beholds
soft light from six huge stained
glass windows illuminating the
pillars of simulated concrete ex.
tending 45 feet to the zenith of
the dome. While the audience is
enthralled toy its appearance, the
La Seala chorus presents the “Te
Deum Choir.”
“It is entirely possible,” Jen.
zano says, “that many patrons
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Prosperity Week May Be Observed,
But Time Not What It Used To Be
By BILLY ARTHUR
When I learned the first week
in December this year would be
“National Prosperity Week,” my
thoughts went back ta 1933, the
year I began newspapering in
Eastern North Carolina.
Business was so bad that, in
stead of the wolf being at the
door, the people were out knock
ing on the wolf’s door.
Buck Blanford sold sugar in
the area. That is, he tried to sell
it, and times were so tough that
he told of calling on eight custo
mers in one day without a single
sale. At one store he asked for
the buyer and was directed to the
back door. Looking through, Buck
said he saw the owner out there
all alone, making a motion like
pitcher, taking a long wind up,
and following through. But he
didn’t have a 'ball. Buck asked
what he was doing, and the clerk
said the owner was a former base
ball player, who had quit the
game and gone into business, but
that business had been off so
much that he Was about to go
who have seen our “Star of Beth
lehem” in the past will recognize
but a portion of the 1967 show.”
crazy, that he couldn’t think of
anything but baseball. •
Buck said, “I told them that I
was going to make one more
call, and if I don’t get an order.
I'm coming back and catch for
him.”
Fires were frequent in those
days. To keep within hollering
distance of the times, a store had
to !be burned out every few weeks,
Every time the fire alarm
sounded, the st^ck remark was
that someone else “is selling out
to the Yankees.” Meaning, they
had taken out fire insurance with
all the cash, except 15 cents, and
then spent thal for a gallon of
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Then F. D. R. was elected presi
dent, and the transition of the
times was indicated by a New
Bern wag who said '‘hat “back
in 1932 a fellow would ask an
other ‘what are you doing now?'
In 1934, it was changed to ‘are
you doing anything now?’ And
in 1935 the question was "what
project are you on?”
The late Bill Blades, who had
a hand in the real estate bubble j
around Morehead City, said that
even then this w'as 1935—he didn’t
stop to take inventory. “When
the depression started, I used to
wake up in the middle of the
night with all the cover kicked
off me after dreaming about my
troubles.” He said. “Then I de.
cided that if I didn’t quit worry
ing, I would either go crazy or
catch pneumonia. So I decided to
laugh it off. That 1929 year was
‘he end of the land buying period
We had tried to buy up all the
land between New Bern and Cape
Lookout. We didn’t think there
would 'be enough to go around.
Then the notes came due. Usually
we had been ahle to scrape up
enough money to meet them, but
we couldn’t do it then. We went
to rob Peter to pay Paul, but
Peter didn’t have anything either.
One day I went to see a busi
ness man and was told he was
in the office worrying over his
accounts. “Receivable or payable?
I asked.
“Receivable, of course,” I was
told. "He lets the folks he owes
worry about the accounts pay.
able.”
Everybody was trying to get on
the cash basis like their fore
fathers had done during hard
times of the late 1880's. Back
then it was reported in Wilson j
that an Austin avenue grocer
would henceforth sell for cash be
cause he had lost so much money
selling on credi* he wouldn’t even
trust his own feelings.
In Charlotte J. K. Purefoy ad.
vertised “To those who ask credit
—my store is not the place for
your custom, as I have had as
much of such as I want.”
And a^ Kernersville a merchant
did collect some of his debts by
publishing the names of his debt,
ors on his store’s front door.
Let’s confess things and times
are much better today. I’m about
like Brack Creek of Chapel Hill
who observed recently: “There
can’t be an unemployed person in
Chapel Hill. Everybody’s working
sending out bills. I got bills the
first of the month from people 1
didn’t know would even give me
credit, so from now on I’m going
to live high high on the hog. If
as many people will give me cred
it as I get bills from, I don’t see
any reason for not running up a
few more debts and living- like
everybody else.”
Of course, there are some peo.
pie who continue to grumble.
They should heed the advice of
the 18&4 North Carolinian: “It is
said that money is scarce and
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told that times are hard, but
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