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With Saul Lancourt, former assistant director of the Chautauqua Opera Association, as production manager, and with professional adult actors, dancers and singers, Junior Programs this season is producing two operas, Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel and Rimsky-Korsakov's Bumble Bee Prince; two ballets with accompanying narrative, Pinocchio and The Princess and the Swineherd, written for this project; one play, The Reward of the Sun God, by John Louw Nelson. Junior Programs' repertoire also includes marionets, monologists, films, musicians. By far the most popular are the ballets...
...Superintendent of Public Works, had Festival road signs posted in a 50-mi. radius of Schenectady, and this year, the Festival's third, he will be rewarded with a small part in The Farmer Takes a Wife. And this week another series of carefully presented revivals begins at Chautauqua, N. Y. when the able, 22-year-old Cleveland Playhouse company moves for the seventh summer to the shores of Lake Chautauqua for six weeks of repertory...
...Oklahoma, Erik Rhodes, or Earnest Sharpe '27, was a singer who could really put over Moonlight and Roses. Bing Crosby and Fred Mac Murray were singers at their colleges, too; they left without taking degrees. Rhodes went out with a Chautauqua company his senior year, but he finished his work b correspondence and won the Phi Bete...
...Farmer") Burns, 75, onetime world's wrestling champion; in Council Bluffs, Iowa; of senility. Burns defeated Evan Lewis (the original "Strangler") for the heavyweight title in 1895, when choke holds were allowed, lost to Tom Jenkins three years later, trained Frank Gotch to throw Jenkins. Trainer and Chautauqua lecturer, he boasted: "Only one man out of Cedar County, Iowa (Herbert Hoover), ever made more money than I did and he got to be President of the United States...
...what he sees and knows, here taking in the stories of rural raconteurs, rarely bothering with actual substantiation of what he says--now poeticizing the life of degenerate redskins at the Tonawanda Reservation, of two-fisted lumbermen in the northern mountains, of New York State Police; now ridiculing Chautauqua, poking fun at civic spirit in Rochester. He writes vividly, sometimes beautifully, always imaginatively. He does not, however, do, York State the service it deserves...