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PROGRAM SCHEDULE
March 1 to March 7
EXCLUSIVE TO SIGNAL -STAR PUBLISHING
11:30 MILLION' $ MOVIE:
"VALLEY OF THE
DQLLS". Barbara Parkins -
Patty Duke -Sharon Tate -
Susan Hayward. Gives the
inside dope on the Hollywood
glamour set and, its effect on
the make-believe, but almost
identifiable characters.
2:OOA FIVE STAR FINAL:
"JARRETT". Glenn Ford -
Anthony Quayle. `Soldier of
fortune accepts an assign-
ment to find eight ancient,
rare scrolls, said to be the
original version of the
missing Adam and Eve book
of the bible.
THURSDAY, MARCH 1
AFTERNOON
4:00 Iy1OVIE FIVE:
"VIRGINIA tTILL STQRY".
Dyan Cannon -Robby Ben-
son. Girl friend, of Los
Angeles gangster Bugsy
Siegel, who was killed in a
1947 ganglannd ambush ,w`hile
seated. ina Beverly Hills
home,` testified before the
late Senator Kefauver's
Congressional Hearings on
organized crime.
5:30 THE° NEWLYWED
GAME
EVENING
6:00 NEWS •
6:30 N.B.C. NEWS
7::00 BEWITCHED
7:30 THIS ONE FOR DAD
8:00 LEOPARD OF THE
WILD
9:00 QUINCY
10:00 MRS. COLUMBO
11:00 NEWS
11:30 TONIGHT SHOW
1:00A MOVIE: "HOW
AWFUL ABOUT ALLAN".
Julie Harris- Tony Perkins.
Allan C o l l e i g h,
psychosomatically blind,
returns to his home from the
state hospital , and is tor-
mented by strange voices
and near -fatal accidents.
2:30A MOVIE: "CAT
O'NINE TAILS". A blind
professional puzzle -solver
and a hard -driving
newspaper reporter combine
to unravel the mystery
behind a series of strange
crimes connected with a
research clinic -- but not
before the blind man's 8 -
year -old niece is kidnapped
and held for hostage.
5:0OA MOVIE: "BLACK
NOON". Roy' Thinnes-Ray
Milland. Young minister and
his wife are caught up in a
web of witchcraft involving a
mute beauty and a satanical
gunfighter.
"FRIDAY, MARCH 2
AFTERNOON
4:00 MOVIE FIVE: NBC
SPECIAL TREAT - "NEW
YORK CITY TOO FAR
FROM TAMPA BLUES".
(10 day delay)
5:30 NEWLYWED GAME
EVENING
C 00 NEWS
,6-30 N.B.C. NEWS
7:00 BIONIC WOMAN -
"ItIONIC DOG" Part 1 .Ford
Rainey' -Taylor Lacher.
Jaime discovers the secret
existence of the world's first
bionic canine, and has five
drys to save it from certain
death.
8:00 DIF'RENT STROKES
8:30 BROTHERS &
SISTERS
9:00 TURNABOUT
9:30 HELLO, LARRY°
10:00 SWEEPSTAKES
11;00 NEWS
11:30 TONIGHT SHOW
1:00 MIDNIGHT SPECIAL
2:30A MOVIE: "STAR!".
Julie Andrews -Richard
Crena. The life, times and
songs of -Gertrude Lawrence
from her humble upbringing
thru the years when she
became the toast of two
capitals.
5:OOA MOVIE: "STRIKE
UP THE BAND". Judy
Garland -Mickey Rooney.
High school band is trail-
sformed into a hot swing
band, and is entered in
national.. contest. Problem of
raising $200 for trip is met.
with the staging of a show.
SATURDAY, MARCH 3
MORNING
6:30A B.UFORD IAND THE
GALLOPING GHOST
7:OOA FABULOUS FUN-
NIES
7:30A BAY CITY
ROLLERS
8:OOA YOGI'S SPACE
RACE
8:30A THE FANTASTIC
FOUR
9:OOA GODZILLA SUPER
90
10:27A METRIC MARBELS
10:30A DAFFY DUCK
11:OOA THE NEW FRED
AND BARNEY SHOW
I1:30A THE JETSONS
12:00 BONKERS - Barbara
Feldon
AFTERNOON
12:30 SOUL TRAIN
1:30 DAKTARI - Trail of
Cheetah 2:00 NCAA
BASKETBALL - (Wild Card)
4:00 SATURDAY AF-
TERNOON MOVIE - "THE
AMB,USHERS". Dean
Martin -Janice Rule. Agent
Matt Helm is sent to discover
the whereabouts of an ex-
perimental flying saucer,
brought down somewhere in
Mexico, and to keep the
saucer from falling into
enemy hands.
EVENING
604 NEWS 5 AT SIX
6 it HEE HAW
7:30 GONG SHOW
8:00 CHIPS
9:00 . ROCKFORD FILES
11:00 NEWS 5 AT ELEVEN
SUNDAY, MARCH 4
MORNING
6:45 DAVE i & GOLIATH
7:00 OPEN CAMERA
7:30 CARTOON CARNIVAL
8:00 REX HUMBARD
9:00 ORAL ROBERTS
9:30 TELEVISED MASS
10:'00 ABBOTT ' &
COSTELLO
10:30 LITTLE RASCALS
11:00 COMEDY CLASSICS:
"THE' YOUNG PEOPLE:".
ShirleyTemple-Jack Oakie.
Show -business family leaves
the Great White Way and
heads for a farm in New
England. Difficulties they
have before they are ac-
cepted by the coniSnunity.
AFTERNOON
12:30 MEET THE PRESS
1:00 NCAA BASKETBALL -
Notre Dame & Michigan
3:00 SUNDAY AF-
TERNOON MOVIE:
"CHEYENNE AUTUMN".
James Stewart -Richard
Widmark. Sage of the
desperate' flight of the
Cheyenne Indians back to
their native grounds in a
struggle that aroused the
entire American nation.
EVENING.
6:00 NEWS 5 AT SIX -
6:30 WILD, WILD WORLD
OF ANIMALS
7:00 WORLD OF DISNEY
8:00 BIG EVENT - (TBA)
11:00 NEWS 5 AT ELEVEN
11:30 CINEMA FIVE:
"FOUR FOR TEXAS".
Frank Sinatra -Dean Martin.
Two men constantly feud
with one another until a
crooked banker comes up
with a dastardly scheme
which forces the men to unite
for the comp -ion cause.'
MONDAY, MARCH 5
AFTERNOON
4:00 MOVIE FIVE:
"CUSTER OF THE WEST -
Part 1". Robert Shaw -Mary'
Ure. Custer is sent west after
the Civil War where Indian
nations are rebelling against
government reservation and
railroad policies. He
petitions Congress to view
the situation more clearly
but it is useless. He is
massacred with his men at
Little Big Horn.
5:30 THE NEWLYWED
GAME
EVENING
6:00 NEWS
6:30 N.B.C. NEWS
7:00 BEWITCHED
7:30 YOUNG PEOPLES
SPECIAL - Melinda's Blind-
8:00
lind8:00 LITTLE HOUSE
9:00 NBC MONDAY
MOVIE ' "Jennifer: A
Woman's Story"
11:00 NEWS
11:30 TONIGHT SHOW
1:00 TOMORROW
TUESDAY, MARCH 6
AFTERNOON
4:00 MOVIE FIVE:
"CUSTER OF THE WEST".
(Part 2)
5:30 THE NEWLYWED
GAME
EVENING
6:00 NEWS
6:30 N.B.C. NEWS
7:00 BEWITCHED
7:30 BRENDA STARR
8:00 CLIFFHANGERS
9:00 BIG EVENT "The
Mackintosh Man"
11:00 NEWS
11:30 TONIGHT SHOW
1:00 TOMORROW
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7
AFTERNOON
4:00 MOVIE FIVE:
"BOUNTY MAN". Clint
Walker -Margot Kidder. A
bounty hunter captures an
outlaw he has been pursuing.
As he brings the man in, he
falls in love with the outlaw's
girlfried, who reminds him
of his slain wife.
5:30 THE NEWLYWED
GAME
EVENING
6:00 NEWS
6:30 N.B.C. NEWS
7:00 BEWITCHED
7:30 FAMILY FEUD
8:00 (TBA)
11:00 NEWS
Iil:30 TONIGHT SHOW
1:00 TOMORROW
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London Symphony- Orchestra plays in Goderich
Concert will be remembered
BY J.B. HERDMAN
The London Symphony
Orchestra played its
second concert off the
season in Goderich
Saturday night, February
17, and turned a program
that looked interesting on
paper into an event that
will be remembered.
The concert opened
'with a four -movement
Suite founded on dances
popular in the time'of the
first Queen Elizabeth, but
composed and or-
chestrated for per-
formance by the Strings
and Four Horns of a
modern symphony or-
chestra, by the late Sir
John Barbirolli.
Written with the skill
and authority of an ac-
complished string player
(Barbirolli started his
professional career as a
cellist) and the insight of
a great conductor with a
special love for English
music of this period, this
Suite brings the spirit of
16th. century music to life
under the vastly different
performing conditions of
a • modern symphony
orchestra.
Clifford Evens ob-
viously loved and un-
derstood this music
thoroughly, yet the
opening measures were
marred by a lack of
rhythmic definition, and
it was not until the' first
movement was well
under way that the music
really came to life.
Once the rhythm and
`feel' of the music was
established, there was
some lovely ' phrase -
shaping „and well con-
trolleddynamics...
that might
sometimes have been too
extreme for the ears of a
purist, but the character
.of the music was never
sacrificed to uncontrolled
`expressiveness'.
There were many
moments of sheer
delight, and the clean
individual articulation of
the horns deserves
special mention. Only in
the final movement did
the playing become
noticeably unidiomatic,
and was bedevilled by a
combination of speed and
brilliance that would
surely have left our 16th.
century forbears
gasping.
It was exciting, but I,
for one, would have been
happy to stay with the
Elizabethans to the very
end.
HAYDN'S LAST
The "London" was the
last symphony that
Haydn wrote, and it has
continued to be a part of
the standard repertoire
since the day of its first
performance. It is good
that this should be so,
because this symphony is
not only a thoroughly
characteristic work, but
it represents, in its design
and construction, the
final flowering of
Haydn's creative genius
in the symphonic form.
The slow Introduction
was rather ragged in this
performance, and the
opening theme of the
Allegro section not too
clearly defined. This, as
on previous occasions,
could have been
aggravated by the tricky
acoustics of the hall and
my position well back
from the stage.
The temp was perhaps
a little on the slow side,
but this impression wore
off as the movement
progressed, and the
music began to soar and
sing in true Haydn
fashion.
The second movement
was a delight.,Fine rhyth-
mic control and clean
articulation brought the
music vividly to life.
The Minuetto that
followed fared less well.
I€ such - a movement is
taken just a shade too
fast -and it surely was
taken too fast -the music
loses" its character
completely. It was played
cleanly and with military
precision, but it was a
disappointment after the
fine playing in -in- previous
movement.
The last movement is
said to be based on an old
English street cry (hot
cross buns), but a variant
of the tune also occurs in
one of Smetana's `Czech
Dances'. and the Croats
claim that it is one of
their own National
melodies.
No matter -it's a good
tune, and Haydn does
wonderful things with it.
The moyement . is
marked `Allegro
spiritoso' in the score,
and ,that is exactly the
way it came out. If there
were occasional rough
spots they didn't detract
from the general high
spirits.
One wonders what sort
of performance it got on
its first appearance, back
in 1795.
NO RESERVATIONS
The second part of the
program began with the
Concerto for French Horn
and Orchestra, by
Richard Strauss. This
work was composed in
1883, when Strauss was 19
years of age and still a
student, at Munich
University, and
dedicated to his father
Franz Strauss, who was
himself an eminent
rhusician, and held the
post of principal horn of
the Court Opers at
Munich.
In common with all the
music composed by
Richard Strauss in his
early years, this concerto
is stylistically rooted and
grounded in German
classicism, and sounds
less like the music he
himself wrote in later
years than it does that of
a very . spirited Men-
delssohn.
There were no reser-
vations about the per-
formance of this con-
certo. Mr. McWilliam
played-- well -so well, in-
deed, that I found myself
making mental com-
parisons between his
playing and that of the
late Dennis Brain, who
played and recorded the
Strauss Horn Concertos
for many years before his
untimely death- in 1957,
and whose playing of
these works and of the
Mozart Horn Concertos
LT chalks up success
BY JOANNE
BUCHANAN
If audience reaction is -
any indication, Goderich
Little Theatre can chalk
up another success with,
its production of The
Fourposter, a drama -
.comedy on marriage by
Jan de Hartog. The play,
GLT's second one of the
season, was well-
received by most who
saw it on the weekend.
It deserved to be well-
received too! There were
only two characters in the
play,, Agnes portrayed by
Virginia Lodge and
•Michael, portrayed by
_Warren Robinson. Bet-
ween the two of them,
they had a lot of lines to
memorize and many
,costume changes to
make. They did both
admirably.
•
Lodge and Robinson
, played opposite each
other in the GLT
production of Lion in
Winter previous to The
Fourposter. They worked
well together then and
they worked even better
together this ,time
around. Their timing was
good and they interacted
well with one another on
stage through many
different scenes and
emotional changes. They
were well cast for their
roles.
The play spanned 35
years of married life
between Agnes and
Michael and really had a
lot to say about marriage.
The opening scene had
the audience laughing at
the couple's nervousness
on their wedding night in
1890. The next scerle had
the couple laughing again
as Michael experienced
Agnes' labor pains and
expressed his fears of
being neglected after
their child was born.
In the second act,
things turned more
serious, as the now
wealthy couple argued
and Michael revealed
that he had "another
woman": Next the couple
worried about their two
children, a son and a
daughter, who were
growing up so quickly.
The third and final act
followed their daughter's
wedding and Agnes, in a
depressed state with
fears of growing old and
never being allowed to be
her own self completely,
tells Michael that she has
decided to leave him.
However, the couple does
stay together and the
next scene, 12 years later,
sees them packing to
leave their home which
they have sold to a young
married couple.
I'm sure that anyone
who has been married for
any length of time, could
relate to this play and the
different phases and
emotions involved in
marriage. Fine acting by
both Lodge and Robinson
helped to bring this
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ability to relate about.
Costumes and make-up
were excellent allowing
the time span of the play
to flow more smoothly
and accurately. The set
was good too with the
play revolving around the
main prop, a big four-
poster bed.
Eleanor Robinson,
director of the play and
Jacqueline White,, her
assistant are to be
congratulated for this
production as are all the
behind -the -scenes people
who worked on it.' Plays
like The Fourposter, keep
the audience coming
back for more.
was considered by many
critics to be definitive.
Dennis Brain was
unquestionably a great
Horn player, but Mr.
McWilliam . was not
outclassed. His con-
ception of the concerto
was more lurical and less
ebullient than that of
Dennis Brain, but it was
no less musicianly, anti
his toneshading in the
slow movement was often
quite spell -binding.
Only towards the end of
the last movement did he
get a little careless, but it
was a magnificent per,
forma`h'`e. And the heart-
warming thing about it
was that the orchestra
rose to the occasion with
obvious ease, giving a
clear, well balanced
account of the score, and
providing their colleague
with thoroughly sensitive
and responsive part-
nership.
This was, orchestral
accompaniment of a very
high order indeed, and I
welcome the opportunity
to say so in these
columns.
But the orchestra was
not through with us yet.
They had been playing
well in the concerto, and
they went right on
playing well.
Beethoven's Egmont
Overture received a
thoroughly musicianly
performance, with knife-
edge articulation and
controlled and sometimes
electrifying dynamic
contrasts. There Was an
over-all sense of
authority about the
performance that was
perhaps even more
memorable than the
playing itself.
Many of us will look
forward to the next
concert with a new sense
of anticipation.
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The First Part of Henry IV'
Love's Labour's Lost
The Players
Stewart Arnott Francois•Regts Klanler
Karen Austin John Lambert
Rodger Barton F Braun McAsh
Paul Batten Robert McClure
Rod Beattie Dion McHugh
Christopher Blake Barry McGregor
Mervyn Blake . Jim McOueen _,
Ingrid Blekys Richard McMillan
John Bluethner Barbara Maczka
Domini Blythe William Merton Malmo
Jessica Booker Frank Maraden
The Second Part of Henry IV' Barbara Budd Marti Maraden'
Graeme Campbell Wavy Michaels
Othello•Patrick Christopher Richard Monette
.. Bill Copeland Marylu Meyer.
Richard Curnock William Needles
Avon Stage John Cutts Bob Ouellette
Diane D Aquila ,Stephen Ouimette
Margot Dionne Angelo Peden
Peter Donaldson Nicholas Pennell
Enc Donkin Jennifer Phipps
Wilfrid Dube John Pollard
Craig Dudley Douglas Rain
David Dunbar Paul Rapsey
Edward Evanko Pamela Redfern
Edda Gaborek . Maida Rogerson
Sophie„Gascon Stephen Russell
Richard Gira Alan Scarce
Maurice Good LeRoy Schulz
(based on the play Holiday by Donna Goodhand Cedric Smith
Philip Barry and music by Cole Porter) Lewis Gordon Victoria Snow
n Jeffrey Guyton Rex Southgate
Amelia Hall David Stein
Richard Hardacre Barbara Stewart
Dean Hawes Hank Stinson
Max Helpmann Winston Sutton
Martha Henry Michael Tolzke
Susan Hogan Peter Ushnov
David'Holmes Barry Van Elen
William Hutt Gregory Wanless
Gerald Isaac Wmiam Webster
Alicia Jeffery Ian White
Geordie Johndon John Wotda
Lorne Kennedy Baine Wood
Joel Kenyon Tom Wood
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Sheldon Rosen's Ned and Jack
Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being
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Edward Bond's
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Garcia Lorca's
Steve
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