by Sylvia S. Cutler
Alynne Shane Cutler was
walking by the Wilkes College
dorms one day when she noticed
a tempera painting on the
windows of Weiss Hall. It was a
beautiful St. Patrick’s Day
picture, and there were
stydents working on it. So she
w nt in to see...and found Paula
Pinter, ’75 of Allentown, and
Tina Blatt, 75 of Reading,
steadily working on a replica of
a Hallmark design. Seems that
the insurance agent who covers
the building told them students
could walk right through the
window...so they decided to
decorate it to prevent accidents.
Others who worked on the
painting were Joanne Bartel,
74 of Montgomery, N.J., Pam
McCann, ’77 of Edison, N.J.,
and B.J. O’Bervey of Levittown.
At Ron’s Hair Fashions
recently, I met an adorable
young lady who was having her
hair styled for a theatre per-
formance, well enough in ad-
vance so she could change it if
she had to. She was Janet
Drozda, taking the lead ‘in
“Cabaret’’, upcoming the
weekend of May 11 at Little
Theatre. Janet, a student at
Hanover High School, is the
daughter of Ellis and Eleanor
Drozda of Ashley; she takes
dancing lessons at Bob Niznik
Studio and singing lessons at
Tony Grant’s Studio. Her only
previous theatre experience
was in the chorus line of ‘‘Ap-
plause’. Director choreograph-
er of the show is Bob Niznik:
Warren Cox of Scranton will
play Cliff; and David Lutz of
Wilkes College will be the M.C.
“Fiddler on the Roof” is the
big news this week, playing
March 27 through 31 at Wilkes
College. Al Groh directs; Bob
Niznik choreographs. Fred
Pacolitch of Taylor is Tevya,
and Nancy Greenberg of
Liberty, N.Y., is his wife. We’ll
be there with shawl on!
The wonderful ‘Wizard of:
Oz” will be visiting us twice this
season, once theatrically, and
once in ballet.
Bob Leach will direct a
performance of ‘‘Tale of the
Land of Oz’ at Wilkes College
April 29 to May 4 with a
children’s performance
Saturday afternoon and an
adult performance Monday
night. This will be a musical and
the first children’s show un-
dertaken at Wilkes, with the
exception of one several years
ago entitled ‘Recollections of
Childhood’’, a group of original
poems by Alfred Groh. Hope
Wilkes continues this annually
to add to the marvelous plays
presented for children by
College Misericordia and King’s
College. Children need this. The
Wilkes-Barre Ballet Theatre is
doing “The Wizard of Oz” June
1 and 2.
The Misericordia Players
present “Jack and the Bean-
stalk’’ March 23 through 31 with
a number of matinees for
Broadway had better look to
its laurels. Connie Alichnie of
Larksville and Mary Pleban of
Forty Fort presented a show by
the third grade of the Third
Avenue Kingston School
recently. The third graders
produced a very creditable
puppet show, Mary Pleban’s
idea, and the series of plays was
written, directed, and produced
by the kids themselves. The
youngsters also made their own
sets and puppets. They even
included stage lighting by using
camp flashlights.
The plays were ‘‘Wagon
Train”, “Who’s Going to Marry
the Princess’, “Planet Zero’,
“The Mystery of Bambi”, and
“Thumper and his Friends’.
Participating were Alynne
Cutler, Kerrie Davis, Stephen
Davis, Stephen Dombek, David
Egleberger, Beth Evans,
Dolores Evans, Robert Evans,
Eileen Finnegan, Tony Fioti,
Judy Jarrett, Kip Jones, Peter
Koltis, Denise Moser, Dianna
Nester, Jeff Nice, Linda
O’Rourke, Debra Phillips,
George M. Polito, Laurie
Ratowski, Beth Rood, Debbie
Schutter, Lisa Slavinski, Ken
Urbanski, Jim Williams.
Several performances were
held throughout the day with
students of the various classes
Irish poet ‘Thomas Kinsella
will present a poetry reading at
College Misericordia at 8 p.m.
March 27 in Walsh Auditorium.
Featured are excerpts from
Kinsella’s newest book, ‘Notes
from the Land of the Dead,” as
well as readings from his trans-
lation of the Irish epic, ‘The
Tain.”
Kinsella is the winner of two
Guggenheim Fellowships in Li-
terature and has twice been
awarded the Devlin Memorial
Award, Ireland’s principal re-
cognition for poetry. He is cur-
rently a Professor of English
and Poet in Residence at
Temple University.
sella “include ‘Nightwalker,”
“Another September,” ‘‘Down-
stream,” and “Wormwood.”
His poems are included in
numerous anthologies, in-
cluding “New Modern Poets,”
“Oxford Book of English Ver-
se,” and ‘‘Poet’s Choice.”
He has been described as an
“intellectual troubador” with a
desire to sing crossed by a need
to explain.
The reading is sponsored by
College Misericordia’s chapter
of Lambda Iota Tau, the nation-
al literary honor society. The
public is invited to attend.
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from kindergarten to sixth
grade visiting Mrs. Alichnie’s
room. Miss Pleban is a student
teacher whose tour of duty just
ended and for whom the
students gave a going-away
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“Butterflies are Free” is
coming up at Little Theatre
March 29, 30, 31 with Bob
Stempin directing. He has
assembled a fine cast, and I can
hardly wait to see this sensitive
play.
Jerry Godwin of King’s
College reports that their
production of “The Father” is
the first Strindberg play to be
given a proscenium production
in the area. Directed by Carl
Wagner, the play will be
presented March 30, 31, and will
star Gil Page of Philadelphia
and Kathleen Johnsson of
Trucksville.
They follow this with a
children’s production of ‘‘The
Elves and the Shoemaker”
April 27, 28 and May 4 and 5 with
Brother Jim Miller, a senior, as
director. This will be student
designed and executed.
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to write a column like this one
called “Around Town’’. But that
seemed awfully dull to me, so I
began titling the column, ‘High
up on a Low Branch’. Not one
person ever asked me what it
meant. As a matter of fact, it
didn’t mean a thing!
The aforementioned Alynne
Cutler was the princess in
“Who’s Going to Marry the
Princess,”’ and Queen Esther in
a Purim play at United Hebrew
Institute. When teacher Masha
Katz asked Alynne where she
got her costume, Alynne said
she wore it as an angel in the
Christmas play at Third Avenue
School! That’s ecumenical,
“haina’’?
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A Review
by Harry Trebilcox
The Community Concerts
presented their third concert
last Thursday evening. It was
comprised of the Detroit Sym-
Orchestra playing
Tschaikovsky’s ‘Romeo and
Juliet”, Mozart's 4th Violin
Concerto, Debussy’s ‘‘Iberia”
and the Roussel ‘Symphony in
G minor’’. All this, and a great
program it is, under the direc-
tion of a certain Serge Baudo.
Mr. Baudo is a genius. One
would have to be to make
Tschaikovsky and Debussy as
dull as they emerged on Thurs-
day. Mr. Baudo has a gift for
taking great music and reduc-
ing that music to the bone. The
program notes tell me that Mr.
Baudo made his bedut at the
Metropolitan Opera in 1970. One
gers. Mr. Baudo is a time-
beater; and that’s all. I saw him
give at least three cues last
Thursday, one of them to the
triangle. A triumph of conduct-
ing, to cue in a triangle! He
must be proud.
This man took Tschai-
kovsky’s “Romeo and Juliet”
and made it sound like nothing.
That can’t be easy. It was stale,
flat, and tasteless. He then
played the Mozart 4th Violin
Concerto in a manner to con-
vince one that here was an anti-
musical man. It was given to
Gordon Staples. concert-master
of the orchestra, to play the solo
part as a musician should play.
It was interesting to hear Mr.
Staples cut loose in his cadenzas
and reveal himself as the fine
performer he is —even though
the tempos chosen by Mr.
Baudo were funereal.
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Following the intermission,
which was perhaps the best part
of the evening, Mr. Baudo re-
turned, unfortunately, to con-
duct Debussy’s “Iberia.” At
least that’s what the program
said. If that horror was Debus-
sy’s “Iberia”, I'm a three-toed
sloth. The conductor made the
music sound like a bad soap
opera. The essence of Debussy
is sound, langrorous, sensuous,
whatever—fill in your own
“ous.” And there was nothing of
‘this in Mr. Baudo’s perfor-
mance. Mr. Baudo has a great
gift for taking magic (and De-
bussy is full of magicjgand re-
ducing that magic to Woes
common denominator. - And
that’s fairly-low.
In all fairness, I must say that
the last piece on the program,
Roussel’s ‘Symphony: in G
minor’’, was played mag-
nificently. As was the encore,
the “March of the Three Kings”
by Bizet. One can only ask
where was that brilliant sound
for the’ first three-quarters of
the program?
In short, I thought it a dread-
ful concert. It was not rehear-
sed, not planned, and played as
a sight-reading clinic might
play. I think it indicative of the
entire affair, that those mem-
bers of the orchestra not engag-
ed in the Mozart Violin Concerto
came out into the audience,
ostensibly to listen, and fell as-
leep. So much for Mr. Baudo.
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that a white bird’s singing
could give the blind back
their sight.
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