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by Sylvia S. Cutler
Company is going to dance in
Champaign, Urgana, Ill, Dec.
2-3; Normal, Ill. Dec. 45;
Rochester, N.Y., Dec. 7; and
will do ‘Nutcracker’ in
Brooklyn Dec. 27 to Jan. 5. The
Pennsylvania Ballet has been
named the official resident
company of the Brooklyn
Academy of Music; they did
performances at the academy
in November and will perform
there again in March. A 14-per-
formance series begins Dec. 27
at thegdcademy of Music. For
eke other information
write Pennsylvania Ballet, 2333
Fairmount Ave., Philadelphia,
Pa., 19130, or phone 215-232-1500.
The Wilkes-Barre Ballet
Company is also rehearsing
“Nutcracker” for the Christ-
mas season. It’s scheduled at
the Wilkes College Center for
the Performing Arts Dec. 28, 29,
and 30. Please phone the Ballet
Company regarding. tickets,
and be sure to see this per-
formance. Jozia Mieszkowski is
an unusual person indeed. Not
only is she a good ballet
teacher, she is one of the most
vibrant and beautiful women
around; she glows and scin-
tillates, and her enthusiasm for
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her work and her students
absolutely comes across the
footlights. If you don’t know
ballet, for heaven’s sake, get
acquainted! It’s exciting.
Some other doings are the
forthcoming production of
“Under the Yum Yum Tree”
directed by Dorothy Salsburg,
for the newly reorganized
Drama Guild. Performances
are Dec. 25, Dec. 26, and Dec.
27. Enthusiastic groups of
people are busy reorganizing
the Guild and since I've had a
lot of experience with Dorothy’s
work and know what a
meticulous craftsman she is,
I'm looking forward to seeing a
smooth and funny performance.
Al Groh, director of theatre at
Wilkes College, advises they are
doing a contemporary play,
“Company of Wayward Saint-
s,” in February; the music de-
partment and theatre depart-
ment are getting together to do
a musical called ‘‘Canterbury
Tales’ in April. Their shows are
worth seeing.
Don’t pass up the chance to
see some fine work. It’s all
around us. Don’t fall for the
cliche that ‘small town” or
“amateur” work isn’t worth
your time. It’s most definitely
worth mine!
The Ladies Auxiliary of the
Dally Fire and Ambulance,
Inc. mas announced activities
for the holiday season and the
coming year.
Mrs. Willard Newberry,
Christmas candle chairman,
announced that candles are
being distributed. The project is
certainly catching on in the
community. ‘Anyone who has
not been contacted and:is in-
terested in participating in the
project, please call Mrs.
Willard Newberry. Claude
Street residents can contact
Mrs. Edwin Roth.
An arts and crafts meeting
will be held Jan. 18 at the home
of Dorothy Pope. Jannette
Grieves and Elizabeth Layaou
are cochairmen of the craft pro-
jects. Anyone interested in
participating in the craft night
is welcome at any meeting.
A @rd party-fashion show
will be held in the spring.
Details will be announced at a
later date. Dorothy McFadden
is in charge of the fashions and
Joanne Voitek will handle the
card party.
The fire company is sponsor-
ing farmer dances scheduled
the fourth Saturday of January
through April at the Jackson
Twp. Fire Hall. There will be no
farmer dance for the month of
December.
“Red” Jones will be the caller
at the dance Jan. 25. Refresh-
ments will be served and door
prizes awarded. Dancing is
from 9 p.m. to 12 midnight.
The January farmer dance
committee members are:
Sandy ‘and Lynn Sheehan, Blod
and Don Shaffer, Ted Wright,
* Mary Saracino and Dorothy and
Mike McFadden.
There will’ be no ‘auxiliary
meeting in December. The next
meeting will be Jan. 18,
On the evenings of Dec. 13 and
14, at 7 p.m., a gourmet buffet,
dinner entertainment and thea-
ter will be offered in Seminary’s
Fleck Hall diningroom, Sprague
Avenue; Kingston. The Wyo-
ming Seminary Players will
provide the entertainment.
Neil Simon’s ‘Plaza Suite”
‘(Acts II and III) and ‘‘Lovers
and Other Strangers” (Act V)
will be performed. A special
Dec. 15 performance will be
open to students, at 8 p.m. No’
dinner will he served at the stu-
dent presentation.
On Friday and Sunday nights
the leads in Act III of ‘‘Plaza
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Suite” will be played by Betsy
Kingston, and
David Nichols, Owego, N.Y.,
both seniors. For the Saturday
‘night performance those parts
will be played by Mrs. John
Moore, New Goss Manor,
Dallas, faculty advisor to the
dinner-theater undertaking,
and by Robert Klarsch, Sem-
inary academic dean.
For further details and to
make reservations, interested
persons are asked to call 287-
1126 or to write to: Dinner. Thea-
tre, c-o Mrs. John Moore, Wy-
oming Seminary, 18704.
Wyoming Seminary students
and Charles Lull, faculty advi-
sor, and Seminary dean of stu-
dents, participated in a Thanks-
giving basket program to distri-
bute turkeys and other Thanks-
giving fare to needy families in
the area. The program, which
acquires the food through the
donations of individual Semi-
nary students and school stu-
dent oxganizations, is one of the
ror of the Wyoming Sem-
inary Student Government.
Volunteers that readied
Thanksgiving baskets for
delivery include: Erica Tappa,
Elnora, N.Y.; Andy Hogoboom,
Shavertown; Terry Casey, Wil-
kes-Barre, Student Government
president; Jack Hogoboom,
Shavertown; and George
Conyngham, Trucksville.
This group, along with Brad
Garrity, Seminary student
activities dean, divided the
foodstuffs proportionately,
according to the size of the
needy family,
Tryouts for the third Wilkes
College production, ‘‘A Com-
pany of Wayward Saints,” will
be held Dec. 12, 13, and 16 at 7
p.m. in the theater chorus room
of the Dorothy Dickson Darte
Center for the Performing Arts.
According to Jay E. Fields,
director of the performance,
nine roles are available to any
Wilkes student who qualifies.
Rehearsals for the play will
begin in late January for pre-
sentation Feb. 21, 22 and 23.
Written by George Herman,
the play won the McKnight
Foundation Humanities Award,
centering around a group of
commedia dell’arte players
who wander by mistake inio an
allegory.
They are wayward saints far
from home, and without any
means of returning. A
nobleman is at hand who may
be their salvation if they will put
on a good show for him. He
wishes them to perform high-
lights of man’s civilization,
from the Garden of Eden,
through Everyman.
Along the way they enact the
assasination of Julius Ceasar
and the “homecoming of
Odysseus. ;
singers.
Art Barn, Dallas.
The annual Christmas social
sponsored by the Welcome
Wagon Club of Wyoming Valley
was held recently at the Prince
of Peace Church, Dallas.
Guest speaker was Mrs. Dale
Minor of Dale and Tom’s Arts
and Crafts Shop, who gave a
of different types of handicrafts
such as decoupage, statues, etc.
Following the demonstration,
refreshments were served to
members and guests, after
Memorial Highway
(next to Mark 11)
Dallas, Penna.
675-0102
was held, with Mrs. John
Masley serving as auctioneer.
Some of the items donated for
bidding were homemade
shawls, hats, slippers, pillows,
jams, breads; also ceramics
and Christmas decorations.
It was also noted at this
meeting that there will be no
December board meeting. The
next regular meeting will be
held Jan. 13. Anyone wishing
more information on the club
can obtain such by contacting
Mrs. Donald Olsen, president.
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Area Couples Exhibit
Original Wooden Crafts
A Holiday Exhibit and Sale by
two area couples was held at the
Antiques and Art Barn in Dallas
last week. The exhibitors,
Cathy and Gary Gray and
Nancy and Philip. Jones,
displayed many original hand-
crafted items which included
furniture and toys. The couples
operate as the Back Mountain
Crafts and are located at RD 1,
Shickshinny.
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dinner with traditional Christmas carols as “The Holly and the
Ivy.’’ Left to right, Clarice Burke, Susan Fewens, and Andrea
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madrigal singers in ‘Great Merrick Hall’? last
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was the fifth annual Christmas Madrigal Dinner
which has become a tradition in Wyoming Valley and
the Back Mountain. This year the event was held
three nights instead of two and the hall was filled to
capacity each night. The feast was sumptuous and the
atmosphere was truly that of 16th century England.
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