anaheim-gazette 1963-12-12

12—The Anaheim Gazette Thursday, December 12, 1963 ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA Symphony Readies Fall Event The Orange State College Symphony Orchestra will offer a wide variety of music when the Fall 1963 concert is presented Dec. 15, according to the OSC music department. The sixty-piece orchestra will be heard in the Haydn Symphony No. 49 (The Passion), Samuel Barber's "Music for a Scene from Shelle," and a contemporary setting of a Frescobaldi Toccata. Mrs. Doroth Remsen, harpist, will be the soloist in a performance of Debussy's "Sacred and Profane Dances." Mrs. Remsen is well-known throughout Los Angeles as a solo performer and a recording artist. She has held the post of harpist with the Glendale Symphony for several years. The OSC Symphony will be under the baton of Daniel Lewis, who has taken over the directorship of the State College orchestra this current year. He has guest conducted many of the orchestras on the West Coast, and has appeared for four years as guest conductor at the Alaska Festival of Music. Prof. Lewis is also permanent conductor of the Sherwood Hall Orchestra of La Jolla, California. The 1963 Fall Concert will be given at 8:15 p.m. in the Louis Plummer Auditorium in Fullerton. Admission is free and there is available parking, according to Dr. Joseph Landon, chairman of the music department. CHRISTMAS PLAY CAST — Stars of the Laguna Playhouse presentation of "Amahl and the Night Visitors" are Charles Lemesis, left, and Ronnie May, both of Anaheim, with Dovie Gordon of Santa Ana, who plays the role of their mother. The two lads were selected after months of auditioning for the alternate leads in Menotti's one-act opera to be seen December 13, 14 and 15 beginning at 8:30 p.m. Melodyland Planning Three Yuletide Children’s Shows Harried mothers with youngsters of all ages will be given a substantial assist this Yuletide from producers Sammy Lewis and Danny Dare, when a series of three children’s plays opens a two-week run Dec. 26, at Melodyland Theatre in Anaheim. The plays are classics for the young and young at heart, including “Sara Crewe,” by Frances Burnett; “Little Women,” by Louisa May Alcott; and the delightful fantasy, “The Princess and The Swineherd.” Two shows will be presented daily at 11 a.m. and 3 p.m., except Sundays. The Childrens Theatre Division of the Orange County Performing Arts Foundation, headquartered at Melodyland Theatre, is producing the plays, and guiding light behind all the activities will be the remarkable Queenie Smith, one-time Broadway star, one of the country’s experts on juvenile talent and a leading singing, acting and dancing coach for youngsters. Born in New York City, Queenie was trained at the Metropolitan Opera Co. ballet school and in her teens was a premiere danseuse in many of the “Met” productions. She later made the transition from grand opera to musical comedy on broadway and starred in at least two dozen great hits, “Naughty Marietta,” “Old Dutch,” with Weber and Fields, “Roly - Boly Eyes,” “Orange Blossoms,” “Helen of Troy, N.Y.” “Tip Toes,” “The Street Singer,” to name a few. Queenie has been West Coast talent representative for the Theatre Guild and the St. Louis Municipal Opera Co. for the past 10 years and has headed up outstanding children’s repertoire schools in Westport, Conn., the Bahamas, in Hollywood and La Jolla. 4 Comedies On Tap at Melodyland Producers Sammy Lewis and Danny Dare have scheduled a quartet of comedy stage hits for early 1964, at Melodyland Theatre in Anaheim. Each of the plays in this Winter Series will star top names in the entertainment field and will run two weeks. “Teahouse of the August Moon,” starring Burgess Mere-dith, is first of the presentations and will open Jan. 14, followed by “Anniversary Waltz,” co-starring Howard Duff and Ann LIP SMACKING GOOD — Baby Buster and his little friend Peppi Belochi, 15 months old, enjoy a pumpkin flavored ice cream cone at Jungleland in Thousand Oaks. The famed wild animal zoological gardens will give extra performances daily, of the wild animal shows, during the Holiday season. AT COUNTY AIRPORT Movieland of Air Ready to Open Movieland of the Air, new $2 million International Flight and Space Museum displaying the world's largest and most famous collection of the airplanes of history, opens its hangar doors at Orange County Airport, Saturday. The great planes of aircraft history from the dawn of flight in 1909 to present spacecraft, all in flying condition, will be shown for the public in specially designed museum buildings. Stretched in view on an outside taxi strip will be well-known planes that fought in the skies of World War II, including a Lockheed P-38, British Spitfire and Japanese Zero. The largest assembled display of military and commercial planes make up the permanent exhibit. They represent the bombined collections of famous aircraft pioneers Frank Tallman and Paul Mantz, and range from an exact reproduction of a 1910 Curtiss Pusher to an authentic F-102 Delta Jet Fighter. Most have been flown by Tallman and Mantz, both veteran movie stunt fliers, in the Hollywood war epics. The priceless planes are displayed against movie set backgrounds from famous hollywood films. Included are a Spad in a ruined villa set from "Wings," a Nieuport 28 as it appeared in "Dawn Patrol," and a Pratz D-12 from "Hell's Angels." Shown with the warplanes is a comprehensive collection of World War I air armament, said to be the worlds most complete. THINGS TO DO, TO SEE Pasadena's annual Junior Rose Bowl game and a variety of pre-Christmas parades and events top the list of things to see in the Southland this week. BLYTHE: The annual Colorado River Catfish Derby will be sponsored by the Palo Verde Valley Chamber of Commerce during December. Prizes will be awarded for the biggest catfish and bass caught during the derby in the colorado River, its canals or lagoons. CARLSBAD: During the month of December the pointsettia fields which line US 101 near this community, will be in full bloom. From this area over 90 per cent of all commercially grown poinsettias in the United States are grown. CLAREMONT: The Padua Hills Theatre will present "Las Posadas," the traditional Mexican Christmas play, through Jan. 4. LA JOLLA: The annual Competitive Art Show, featuring paintings and sculpture by California artists, will be featured at the La Jolla Art Center through Dec. 15. LOS ALAMITOS: The annual fall meeting for quarterhorses will be held at Los Alamitos Race Course through Dec. 21. LOS ANGELES: The Masterworks of Mexican Art will be featured in the Los Angeles County Museum through January 1964. This is the largest and most comprehensive exhibition ever organized of the history of Mexican art covering over 3.000 years and containing over SUPERVISORS COMMEND ANAHEIM HOTEL — Orange County Supervisor William J. Phillips presents a Resolution of Commendation to Miss Ann Suider, Director of sales for the Charter House Hotel, on behalf of the County Board of Supervisors. The special tribute was awarded the Anaheim hotel for its continuous recreation promotion program. Anaheim Student to Portray 'Father' in OSC Production LOS ALAMITOS: The annual fall meeting for quarterhorses will be held at Los Alamitos Race Course through Dec. 21. LOS ANGELES: The Masterworks of Mexican Art will be featured in the Los Angeles County Museum through January 1964. This is the largest and most comprehensive exhibition ever organized of the history of Mexican art covering over 3,000 years and containing over 2,000 objects. For the last 2 years, the exhibition has toured most of the major capitals of Europe. The museum will also feature an exhibit titled "The Old Navy," a history of the U.S. Navy in paintings, sketches and watercolors, through Dec. 15. Chamber music is provided each Sunday at 3 p.m. in the Museum. "Man's Place in the Universe" is the title for the program in Griffith Park Observatory and Planetarium through Dec. 31. The show is held daily, except Monday, at 3 and 8:30 p.m. with extra matinees on weekends and holidays at 1:30 and 4:30 p.m. A display of creative play equipment, designed to stimulate the child's imagination, will be displayed at the Museum of Science and Industry in Exposition Park through Dec. 29. A photographic essay on roads in the development of civilization will also be featured at the Museum of Science and Industry through Dec. 26. The Tower Art Gallery in the Los Angeles City Hall will feature an exhibit of works by members of the California Art Club through Jan. 3. The Los Angeles Blades will play Vancouver Dec. 13 in the Sports Arena. Both games will begin at 8 p.m. The Los Angeles Lakers will play Baltimore at 8:30 p.m. Dec. 14 in the Sports Arena. NAPLES: The annual Naples Christmas Water Pageant, featuring colorfully decorated cruisers and yachts and costumed carolers riding a barge, will wind through the Naples Canals the evenings of Dec. 14 and 15. PASADENA: "Anniversary Waltz," featuring Louise Arthur, Lyle Talbot, Lorraine Tuttle and Paul Langton, will be presented at the Pasadena Playhouse, on behalf of the County Board of Supervisors. The special tribute was awarded the Anaheim hotel for its continuous recreation promotion program. Anaheim Student to Portray 'Father' in OSC Production Casting for the current Orange State College Experimental Theatre production "Life with Father," has been announced by Dr. James D. Young professor of speech and drama. The popular three-act comedy will be presented by the Experimental Theatre Class in the Little Theatre, Room 585, in the Letters and Science Building on December 12, 13 and 14. Curtain time is 8 p.m. Members of the cast are Warren Deacon, Anaheim, Father; Marge Farmer, Fullerton, Mother; Jeff Lilly, Fullerton, Clarence; Meridith Helm, Fullerton, John; Marvin Capeloto, Anaheim, Whitney; Joe Fraley, San Bernardino, Harlan; Louise Rickner, Placentia, Margaret. Also Debbie Morris, Fullerton, Maggie; Judy Benson, Fullerton, Anny; Saundra Mathews, Fullerton, Cora Cartwright; Anna Studer, Fullerton, Mary Skinner; John Hamilton, Fullerton, Rev Lloyd; Floyd Sawyer, Monrovia; Dr. Summers, and Stan Byrum, Fullerton, Dr. Humpries. Production crew members are Dr. Young, director; Dr. Edward D. Brown, OSC assistant professor of drama, technical director; Byrum, assistant director; Sawyer, stage manager; Paul Willis, Fullerton, prop chairman; Miss Morris, costuming chairman; Miss Benson music and sound chairman; Mrs. Rickner, make-up chairman; John Hamilton, lights; Richard Willis, Fullerton, publicity, and Winton Worley, Plaza centia, construction crew head. Toy Show Underway A slide in the shape of an elephant, "Old 90." a 12-foot-long steam engine and a 1920 vintage auto — all constructed of gaily colored pipe are featured in the sixth annual holiday toy exhibit now open at the California Museum of Science and Industry in Exposition Park. It will continue through Jan. 1. Children will also discover a fascinating selection of toys from all over the world, including folk dolls from India, Burma, Japan, Hong Kong, Mexico, Guatamala, Brazil, Peru, the United States Italy and Germany. There are birds and beasts of wood, straw, bamboo, leather, wool, rope, plush and paper mache from India, Japan, Israel Poland, Finland Denmark, Germany, Mexico Peru and hite the United States. Other intriguing playthings include masks from Mexico and India puppets from India, Burma，日本，Israel，Germany，Switzerland，Czechoslovakia和United States，shadow puppets from Thailand，和adaptations of the Chinese Shadow Playfrom the United States。 Youngsters will enjoy the wide array of building and construction toys，包括miniatures和nesting houses fromGermany和Japan，hole-and-peg houses fromDenmark和UnitedStates，和contoured blocks，bow-tie blocks和H-blocks从Finland和Swizterland。 The show，staged as a gigantic toy，to be played with as well as looked at，是designed from children和 those who love childhood，artists和 those who love art. A carefully chosen collection of the most noteworthy toys de- How much do you know about CHRISTIAN SCIENCE? Thousands have learned through Christian Science how to find freedom from fear, sickness, and limitation. ATTEND THIS FREE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE LECTURE "THE ORIGIN AND POWER OF THOUGHT" By Paul Stark Seeley, C.S.B. of Portland, Oregon Member of the Board of Lectureship of The Mother Church The First Church of Christ, Scientist, In Boston, Massachusetts THURSDAY, 8 P.M. DECEMBER 19 MELODYLAND THEATRE ALL ARE WELCOME Under the auspices of First Church of Christ, Scientist, Anaheim ‘Wizard’ Is Final Production “The Wizard of Oz” will be the final production in the 1963-64 Anaheim Children’s Theatre series, replacing a play by the Whittier Recreation Department, according to Diana R. Dunn, Reception Supervisor. “The Wizard” will be presented by the San Diego Youth Theatre on May 2. ACT V — Anaheim Children’s Theatre in its fifth season — will also present its own production of “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”, staged and directed by Thor Nielsen, on December 14. Other productions on the Act V schedule are “The Snow Queen Ballet” by the Naomi Nichols Dance Studio of Fullerton on January 18; The Mitchell Marionettes and illusion show on February 8; and “Wonderful Tang” by the California High School on March 14. All productions will be in the Fremont Junior High School Auditorium. Each production will be given twice. Morning shows will be at 10 a.m., except for “Snow White” which begins at 11 a.m., and the afternoon shows will be at 1:30 p.m., except for “Snow White” which begins at 2:30 p.m. Admission will be by season tickets. Sale of season tickets will begin at elementary schools shortly, Miss Dunn said. OCC’s Yule Concert Set For Dec. 19 The annual Orange Coast College Music Department Christmas Community Concert will be at 8 p.m. Dec. 19 in the OCC Auditorium. The college’s choir, chorus, Men's Glee Club, Madrigal Singers, soloists and the OCC Evening College Orchestra will perform. The concert will be open to the public without charge. Speech instructor Robert Kest will narrate the Biblical Christmas story. The chorus will sing “The Holy Infant’s Lullaby,” written by Norman Dello Joio, a Latin American composer. Among selections to be presented by the Madrigal Singers will be a difficult arrangement of “Twelve Days of Christmas” by Eric Thiman. A combined chorus and the Evening College Orchestra will perform the Christmas cantata “For Us A Child Is Born,” by J. S. Bach. Soloists will be Stephen Johnson, of Newport Beach, bass; Richard Reid of Garden Grove, baritone; Elizabeth Norris of Newport Beach, contralto; and Leslie Miller of Newport Beach, contralto. TO Portray Production aggie; Judy Benson, Ful-Any; Saundra Mathews, on, Cora Cartwright; Ann Fullerton, Mary Skinner; Hamilton, Fullerton, Rev. Floyd Sawyer, Monrovia, immers, and Stan Byrum, on, Dr. Humpries. duction crew members are ung, director; Dr. Ed. Brown, OSC assistant of drama, technical diByrum, assistant direclawyer, stage manager; Willis, Fullerton, prop an; Miss Morris, costumairman; Miss Benson, and sound chairman; kicker, make-up chairJohn Hamilton, lights; Willis, Fullerton, puband Winton Worley, Placonstruction crew head. College Sets Miller Play Arthur Miller's two-act drama, "The Crucible" will be presented the weekends of Dec. 7 and 14 at 8 p.m. in Phillips Hall on the Santa Ana College campus. Robert Blaustone, drama instructor and director of the College Players production, said the plot deals with the infamous Salem witchcraft trials and has been acclaimed as one of the most compelling dramas of our time. Tickets may be reserved by phoning the college business office, 542-7226, or they may be obtained at Phillips Hall on the night of the performance. Curtain time for all four shows is 8 p.m. Great steps in human progress are made by things that don't work the way philosophy thought they should. — Charles F. Kettering Tickets Go Quickly for Act V Series "Hurry" is the word from Diana R. Dunn, Recreation Supervisor with the Anaheim Park and Recreation Department. "Season tickets for ACT V (Anaheim Children's Theatre — Fifth season) are almost gone," she warns. Individuals desiring tickets for the season's five production may get tickets at the Park and Recreation Office, 630 No. Los Angeles St., while they last, Miss Dunn said. Season tickets are $2.00. Tickets will not be sold for individual shows, she added. The season's first production "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" produced by the Department and directed by Thor Nielsen, will open this Saturday. All five shows will be in the Fremont Junior High School Auditorium on Saturdays. There will be a new production each month and a morning and afternoon performance of each production. GOOD REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD SEE DRS. 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