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Woman Sails Pacific Alone ByMARYLOULOPER TheLotAngelesTimes Sharon Sites Adams just spent 74 days, 17 hours and 15 minutes at set, fust woman to sail the Pacific alone, from Yokohama to San Diego. So what does she do two days after she steps off Sea Sharp 11 her 31-footkeUh? She takes a four-hour cruise with Husband Al. Some people like to sail. "After all, 1 hadnt been sailing in two days," said the strawberry blond. Home again, and now that she's a sort of female Magellan, Sharon Adams has hundreds of tall tales for a book, a docunientary and lecture tours.

She may undertake all three. But not until she downs a few more cheese sandwiches and glasses of milk. "The food I thought most about out there was a cheese sandwich," she said. She said she didn't crave lettuce, vegetables or fruits. But disappointment set in when she exhausted her supply of cookies and popcorn and candy.

"It upset me." A highlight of her trip was her birthday. She turned 39, baked a cake in her butane oven. "I sang Happy Birthday to myself," she laughed. Though she took no liquor on the trip, she packed a few bottles that I could indulge myself, I engaged in a cup before going to bed." But not all was happiness on her trip from Japan. She's not even exactly sure how far she traveled.

The log reads 5,718 miles, but "1 traveled closer to 6,000," She claims. The reason: a shark stoke her taffrail log rolater and line, and she had to replace it with another line and rotater. She also sat in two calms, one of seven days, the other three days off the coast of Point Arguello. And she experienced six gales and one whole gale on June 20, something under a. hurricane." "I was terribly frightened in every storm," she said.

On these occasions she sat in the cabin sole (deepest part of the boat on the floor), padded with foam rubber cushions." The doldrums were perhaps most frustrating. "1 would stand out there and scream and make myself hoarse." She also had a period of 13 days of "solid rain and fog when I couldn't see past the bow of the boat-it can tie eerie." She made entries in the log five orsixtimesaday. Records show that she saw more than 30 ships, as well as At one point, she thought she uent to des- would have to putin at Midway. "1 had a siege of rtgs breaking," 2 as contains she said. Former UA Student Here, Now Successful Actor, Playwright Fairbanks, Alaska, Daily News-Miner, Tuesday, August 5, 1 Daily News Miner The trip cost her 11 pounds.

She started out at 115, ended at 104 pounds. The Sea Sharp II always looked like a traveling laundry, she said, "things Happing in the breeze." The dresses she was saving for the arrival parties got moldy. "I lost my weight early," she said. my storms and breakage happened on the first half of the trip. And I had my sessions of sea sickness the second day out." Along with her "giant housekeeping" tasks, she read 16 of her 18 books, worked crossword puzzles, made a dress.

"I wish I had taken material for three dresses," she said. "I had some material left over, so I made a wide sash, and just kep making stitches, rows and rows, and then cross stitches." She also shot about 7,000 feet of film. "I also had great fun with the gooney birds. When I was becalmed once, they stayed with me three days. I fed them crackers." Highlight of her trip, she said, was "AI coming toward me in the fog." They finally rendezvoused off the Santa Barbara Coast, She had no engine, therefore no batteries, and therefore no running lights.

Also storms had broken the chimneys in her kerosene light. So she hugged the coast, getting only 16 hours sleep the last six days down the coast. What next? "The Atlantic and the Indian coasts would be possitililies," she said. Right now, she's planning to stay home awhile and admire the plaques and keys and momentos, particularly the one from Al. It's a map inscribed: "To my greatest student and great triumph for -yachting, fine effort for womanhood.

I admire your effort-i credit-to boating. My love to my 'Compass sincerely, Al A. Adams," all star cast," and when as many as seven stars are appearing in a 10-character play, with only the bit parts of the butler, the maid and the delivery man played by non-stars, this is a fairly legitimate blurb. But when "The Owl and the Pussycat" comes to the Alaskaland Theatre on August 8 at 8:15 p.m. for seven performances August 8 through 10 and 14 through 17, the phrase "all-star cast" can be completely, accurately and legitimately applied.

For Ben Zeller and Barbara Dekins are starred in this presentation by Muse. At Is of the long-run Broadway comedy hit, and since they comprise the entire cast, "The Owl and the Pussycat" will indubitably and authentically be an all-star-cast show. Ben Zeller, playwright, director and actor, has worked in every phase of the theater for Ihe past 15 years, starting here in Fairbanks as a student of Lee Salisbury in the Department at the University of Alaska. He is one of the first actors in the UA's Drama Workship "Danny," leading role in the workshop's 1955 production of "Night Must Fall" in 1955. The show later went on tour to become the first UA production to travel to Juneau.

After leaving Alaska, Zeller's theatrical endeavors took iiiui to Michigan, Washington, D.C.,and most recently New Mexico. He recently won the Las Cruees "Ides of March" competition with his one-act comedy "Back to the Hat Factory." He Is now director of the Sante Fe Company of Kaleidoscope Players, for which company he opened the Forge Theater last October and has been directing and acting there since. His full-length play, "Some Die from Drinking Water" opened at the Forge Theater April 1 to capacity audiences and is due to be directed here in the latter part of the month. Zeller and his wife, Barbara'DeKins, will star in this production as well. Barbara DeKins, in private life, Mrs, Ben Zeller and the mother of Seattle Opera Company Sets ''Of Mice and Men' ZELLER-Former drama student of Lee Salisbury at the University of Alaska, chats with Salisbury at a champagne reception given for Zeller in the VIP lounge aboard the Sternwheeler Nenana Sunday at Alaskaland.

Zeller, now a successful playwright theatrical producer and director of the New Mexico Slate theater, the Kaleidescope layers, is in Fairbanks with his wife Barbara DeKins, to direct the star in Muse-Arts Productions next two plays, the "Owl and the Pussycat" by Bill Manhoff and "Some Die from Drinking Water" by Ben ZeUer. "Pussycat" opens this Friday evening at Alaskaland Q. The gold patterns on some dishes have become dingy-looking. Is there any way I can brighten these up? A. Try scrubbing with a dry toothbrush dipped in bicarbonate couple's infant son, has-an of soda.

Or, use a moist .5 incredible theatre history for her toothbrush in powdered young 23 years. Acting, singing Let the alum stay on for acouple and both modern dance and of hours or so, then wash the ballet have been the pivotal dis hes. points of her blossoming career. Her career includes acting assignments with the Provincetown Thealer in Massachusetts and with the Sarasota Platers in Florida. She has also spent two years studying in Scotland with the Royal Academy of Music and the Colle ge Dramatic Art as well as working on bi-weekly radio plays for the BBC in Glasgow.

She also served as stage manager and understudy for the new Scottish TouringThealer. In 1966, she Joined Anglo-American Players which led to a tour of Africa and included shows in Leopoldville, the Congo. was following this tour that she journeyed to New Mexico where she was to work in many shows with Ben Zeller. Although Ben and Barbara are "Pussycats" entire cast, this paucity of players is not unprecedented -in the modern 'theatre, most two-character plays have been huge successes it might almost seem to be proved that all a playwright needs for drama is a Shaker Cookies Hit the Spot By CECILY BROWNSTONE Associated Press Food Editor We've been inspired by a visit to Hancock Shaker Village to introduce you to Shaker Jelly Dots, one of the best little ookies that will ever melt i your mouth. Each summer Hancock Shaker Villege has a week-long Kitchen Festival and it was in connection with the festival that we discovered how to make Shaker Jelly Dots.

Hancock Shaker Village is in Hancock, and a noteworthy restoration is going on there. Open every day during the year from June 1 to October 15, Shaker Village is particularly interesting to anyone who enjoys delving into gastronomic lore because the Shaker "kitchen sisters" did many a batch of high-quality cooking, baking, canning and dairying. "Giveyour hands to work and your heart to God" was the Skaker motto. Well, giving your hands the work of making these Sh aker Jelly Dots is something you'll never regret. First settled in 1780, Hancock Shaker Village became a public museum in 1960.

Since then a group of people, inspired by the Shaker heritage, have restored and outfitted 10 buildings; eight others await restoration. We were especially interested in the Sisters Shop where a medicinal herb industry, a garden-seed industry, JELLY after a Shaker recipe, these cookies are delightfully simple to make and delicious to eat. Little Cheechakos Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Christie of Anderson are the parents of a child bom July 19, weighing 7 pounds, ounces.

The youngster has been named Colby Lee. Other children in the family are Brenden 6 and Shana VA. Mr. Christie is presently employed by the Fish and Game Department for the summer, but in the fall wiU return to his regular job as principal at the Anderson Elementary School. Both seta of grandparent! are In Mr.

and Mrs. Charles A. Christie In Tucson and Mr. and Mrs. Clyde R.McGDlinGlendate.

food preserving, cheese-making and weaving went on. If you plan to visit Hancock Shaker Village, don't miss that shop or the Great Kitchen in the 1830 Brick Dwelling. Don't miss the book shop if you're a cookbook collector. There youl! find two hard-cover books devoted to Shaker cooking plus a recipe leaflet with a baker'sdozen pages. The leaflet is called "Shaker Sweetmeats, A Keepsake from Hancock Shaker Village" and costs $1.

SHAKER JELLY DOTS pound (1 stick) Danish-type margarine VI cup light brown sugar, firmly packed Vitsp.salt I egg yolk Up. vanilla 1 cup sifted flour cup (about) finely chopped or grated or walnuts Jelly In a medium mixing bow) cream margarine, sugar, salt, egg yolk and vanllU. Gradually stir in flour, blending well. Cover and chill until firm enough to handle. Work with half of dough at a time, keeping remaining portion refrigerated.

Shape dough into balls about the size of well-rounded teaspoon of dough per ball; roll in nuts. Place 1 inch apart on unpeased cookie sheets; gently press thumb into center of each cookie to make a shallow indentation; fill indentations with jelly. Bake in preheated 350-degree oven until lightly to 12 minutes. With a spatula, remove to wire racks to cool. Store in tightly covered tin box.

Makes about 3 dozen cookies. Capsule Book Review It's easy to make toys and animals from foam sponges and odds and ends by following the concise, instructions, diagrams and photographs in Brenda Morton's helpful book "Mascot Toys" (published by Taplinger. Every new generation takes to its heart some particularly endearing or amusing creature. Over the years, such familiars as Raggedy Ann, Mick ey Mouse and Snoopy hive been befriended by millions of youngsters. This imaginative craft book presents a collection of fanciful mascot toys to be marie for a very young child or to be chosen as an independent project by an olderyoungster.

All 15 toys-from "Trunkie" the elephant to a cuddly bird named "Sammy Swan," have something may quickly be stitched around an inexpensive foam sponge. Hide, hair, noses, beaks and other features needed to produce a perky penguin, cheerful sea serpent, clown or dashing sailor boy may be gotten up in a twinkling by using odd pieces of colorful felt, fake fur, buttons, thread and yam. pair of people confronting each other in an interesting situation. In 1958-59 William Gibson's "Two for the Seesaw" demonstrated the fascination of a two-character play by running22 months on Broadway and triumphing similarly in other cities and throughout the world. Jan de Hartog's two-character play, "The the lives of a husband and wife over 50 years, ran over 65 weeks on Broadway in 1951-52 and late in 1966 blossomed into a musical comedy version, "I Dol.I Do!" starring Mary Martin and Robert Preston, possibly the first musical to hold its cast to two only.

The short cast of "The Owl and the Pussycat" cannot be charged to its author, the well-known television comedy writer, Bill Manhoff, as being due to a thin plot or an uninventiveness for not conceiving of more people to populate his play. Clearly it takes more of a plot and more playwriting skill to keep a play goingwith two people fora whole evening, then if you filled matters out with the usual secondary characters and sub-plots. Barbara DeKins (Doris) is playing a raffish, brassy-mouthed soiled clawing pussycat of the title, Ben Zeller (Feliz) Is the Owl, a puritanical bookstore clerk who thinks of himself as a very intellectual writer. They are complete opposites-the girl illiterate bul knowing everything, the young man supposedly expert in things of the mind but actually an innocent in things that really count. When he, in his priggish self-righteousness, has the girl thrown out of her apartment across the areaway from his for practising her profession with the shades up (while he was watching through binoculars), she storms angrily into his flat to call him "fink" and scratch his eyes These two antagonists are all that playwright Manhoff has seemed to for drama but for an exuberantly funny comedy-a slugfest not only of but of points.of view.

'Pitted against each other in comic uproar are not only Man and Woman, but also Spartan versus hedonistic philsophy, a fiery versus a lethargic personality. Naturally the pair of them fight, kiss, fight, split up, make convert each other so that the illiterate tart gets fascinated with intellectual pursuits, the high-brow gets overwhelmingly In favorof low-brow carnality. This focussing down on the embroilment of just two people in a two-character play has worked so well when 'The Owl and the Pussycat" has been shown in other cities, it can be wondered why the greatest dramatist of them all, Shakespeare, didn't stick to the characters in his titles that also counterposed two and Juliet" and "Antony and Cleopatra." Maybe they didn't have enough complications, dramatic or comedic, to sustain a whole play in themselves, as do the book clerk and the prostitute in "The Owl and the Pussycat?" New York City Opera soprano Carol Bayard, and mezzo-soprano Elaine Bonazzi join tenor Harry Theyard of Chicago Lyric Opera in learning the new roles for the world premiere of Carlisle Floyd's "Of Mice andMen" to be presented by Seattle Opera January 22, 24, 28 and February Carol Bayard will create the role of Curly's wife in the opera based on the John Steinbeck story. A leading soprano with the New York City Company, she appeared this past season in such roles as Manon, Marguerite in "Faust" and Nedda in "Cavalleria Rusticana." With the New York company she has also sung Rosalinda in "Fledermaus," Micaela in "Carmen" and (he Spring Gilbert and Sullivan season. A veteran of five American premieres with one especially written for her, Elaine Bonazzi will sing the role of Rosita.

After making her debut at the New York City Opera, she appeared at the West Berlin Feslival in the European premiere performance of Douglas Moore's opera "The Ballad of Baby Doe." In the United Slates she has also been seen with the Dallas Civic Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Houston Grand Opera and the Cincinnati Zoo Opera. Tenor Harry Theyard who will play Curly is well remembered in Seattle for his portrayal of Alfredo in "La Traviata" during 1966-67 tour of the Metropolitan Opera National Company. In the past two seasons he has debuted with the San Francisco' Spring Opera and Chicago Lyric Opera. Other operas in the 1969-70 season are "Die Fledermaus" wilh Jean Fenn September 18, 20, 24, and 27; Birgit Nilssonas "Turandot" October 30, November 1,5, and "La Forza del Destine" with Eva Marie Molnar and Bany Morel 1, March 19, 21, 25, and 28; and Klara Barlow as "Salome," May 7 9 Season tickets priced from $25 to $45 represent a saving of 20 per cent and are available at Seattle Opera, 158 Thomas Seattle 98109. For further information call MA2-7406.

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(Editor's Note: Lacking the necessary dry bread crumbs, try running saltinc crackers through your blender; works jusi as welt.) Mrs. Coleman Speaks To Wainwright OWC Coffee After reading about the honors being awarded Mrs. Edrel Coleman as National Military Wife of the Year, the Ft. Wainwright Officers' Wives will have the chance to hear first-hand about her travelswhen she speaks at. their Welcome Coffee this Thursday the Officers'Club.

Mrs. Coleman relumed recenlly from a tour in connection with her selection as the Military Wife What vegetables to serve wilh sliced smoked tongue? Mashed or boiled potatoes and creamed spinach make an excellent accompaniment. of the Year which took her to Hollywood; where she appeared on the Art Linkletter show; to Washington where she was presented to many congressmen and senators and to New York City where she was interviewed by many members of the news media. This coffee will also begin the membership drive for the 1969-1970 year. The annual dues of $4 entitles members to attend the monthly luncheons, take classes, and be a part of the welfare projects sponsored by the club.

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