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PAGE 6- PLANO STAR-COURIER WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 1968 Dallas Civic Opera To Hold Male Auditions July 27 The fun-filled Broadway hit, "Bells Are Ringing," by Jule Styne, Betty Comden and Adolph Green, will be number three of the Dallas Summer Musicals 1968 season. Beginning July 18, it will bring the Dallas stage debut of the popular movie idol, Van Johnson, and a return of the star of last "Sweet Patti Karr. Fourteen performances will include, each week, five evening shows, Tuesdays through Saturdays, two matinees, Saturdays and Sundays, closing with the July 28 matinee. A special audition to fill ancles in the male sections of the Dallas Civic Opera chorus will be held from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Saturday, July 27, in Me Farlin Auditorium, DCO general manager Lawrence Kelly has announced. Ail female chorus positions have been filled for the opera season Nov. 8-24, but there are still openings for tenors, baritones and basses, Kelly said. Singers wishing to audition July 27 should contact the Dallas Civic Opera office, 818 Reliance Life telephone RI 8-9329. The auditions will be judged by Kelly and Mel Ivey, recently appointed director of choral activities at Loyola University in New Orleans.

Ivey also will conduct the first month of rehearsals for the DCO chorus, which will begin July 19. This period will be devoted to chorus preparation for opening production, "Orpheus in the Underworld." Chorusmaster NorbertoMo- la will arrive in Dallas Aug. 17 to prepare the chorus for the other two fall productions, "Otello" and "Anna Bolena." Maestro Mola, former chorus- master of La Scala Opera in Milan, has directed the Dallas resident chorus since 1963. Kelly explained that chorus rehearsals are beginning more than a month earlier this year in order to insure the best possible preparation. Bells Are Ringing Musical Inadequate Terraces Add features Johnson Karr Troubles To Area Farmers Are Hinging," third of the 1968 Dallas Summer icals season, will star a An liliar screen idol, VanJohn- SKib, and a young Texas born finger and dancer who was by Dallas Summer Musicals audiences last year, Patti Karr.

It will play 12-18 at the Music Hall, Johnson, the red haired, freckle faced star with tire boyish grin, will be making his stage debut. His first Show business break came when he starred in "New Faces of on Broadway. There lowed a successful film ca- eer, during which time he "Thirty Seconds Over "'Hie Caine Mutiny," The Last Time I Saw Pa- "Wives and and a host of others. He returned to the stage recently to star i in "The Music Man" in London and on tour in the U. and in "Bye Bye in summer stock.

Patti Karr, petite, impish, red-headed, starred as Charity in last "Sweet Charity." This led to engagements in the same show in Las Vegas and Houston. Before this, she had understudied Gwen Verdon in Carol Burnett in "Once Upon A Mattress," and Nancy Walker in "Do, He, She was also standby to Chita Riverain "Bye Bye all on Broadway. The book and lyrics of "Bells Are a rollicking hit of the were written by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, author of such other Broadway hits as "On The "Billion Dollar THE UTILITY POLES ADDED STREET LIGHTS HAVE REDUCED CRIME AS MUCH AS IN COMMUNITIES THAT HAVE TRIED THEM. ADDED LIGHT CUTS ACCIDENTS, TOO. FORTUNATELY, OF AMERICAN COMMUNITIES HAVE WOOD UTILITY POLES STANDING WHERE STREET LIGHTS CAN BE ADDED INEXPENSIVELY HIGH STYLE OF NEW POLE DESIGNS ADDS TO SMART DAYTIME APPEARANCE, TOO.

WOOD UTILITY POLES KEEP YOUR ELECTRIC RATES LOW. IF ALL OVERHEAD POWER utility unocrgrouno STRUCTURES WERE RE- poles systems PLACED BY UNDERGROUND SYSTEMS, ADDED COST ($287 BILLION) WOULO MORE THAN DOUBLE THE AVERAGE ELECTRIC BILL. I and others. The melodies have been juke box favorites ever since the opening In 1957, and were written by Jule Styne, composer of "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" and "Gypsy." The story idea as explaineo by the authors came from the back cover of a New York telephone directory: "Printed thereon was a full-page ad for a telephone answering service, showing a cheery young girl who looked like a benevolent Medusa. From her head there stretched many telephone wires leading to representations of people in all walks of life doctors, executives, house-wives, etc.

In the musical, Patti Karr plays Ella Peterson, of the Susanswerphone Service. She is a warm hearted, helpful sort of person who finds herself mixed up with an actor, a song writing dentist, Dr. Kitchell by name, (played by William Le Massena), and emotionally with a drunken playwright, Jeff Moss (Van Johnson) who finally manages to complete a three -act synopsis in less than four hours. Others in the cast are David Gold as Sandor, head of a bookmaking syndicate, Camilla Crane as Sue, owner of the answering service, William Pierson as Inspector Barnes, and Chele Graham as Gwynne of the telephone service. The July Styne score is sprinkled with a variety of songs: lilting ballads such as "Long Before I Knew You," "I Met A and "Just in a witty patter song, "Drop That Name:" the inventive a Simple Little System," and songs with clever lyrics, such as a Perfect Relationship," "Is It A "The A Dallas produced show, "Bells Are Ringing" is being directed by John Bishop, with John Sharpe as choreographer for the jazzy dance numbers, and John Tedford as music director.

Tom Hughes and Margaret Rodgers are co-producers, and the sets are designed and executed by Peter Wolf. Fourteen performances will be given, including matinees on Saturday and Sunday, and evening performances Tuesday through Saturday. Tickets are available at all Titche stores and at the Music Hall prior to each show. Texas has 6,000 oil producing firms. I SHORTS FINAL Clearance I dresses I PANT DRESSES I PANTS I SHIRTS I SWIM SUITS YOUNG SET 61 Richardson Heights Village Richardson, Texas Inadequate terraces have added to the troubles of the farmers of this area during the past long seige of rainy weather.

Many fields without protection from growing cover such as small grain or from dead litter cover have been severely damaged by erosion. The saturated conditions of the soil cause runoff with even the smaller rains. Each runoff moves the soil to a new location. This movement of the soil creates a two-fold problem. The area of scour or removal is left gullied or robbed of the best and most fertile soil while this soil moves down the slope to silt our terrace channels, pollute our streams or fill our lakes.

John Wells, Chairman of the Collin Soil and Water Conservation District Board, points out that some of these troubles are made by the farmer himself. "When terraces have not been kept adequately maintained and are allowed to become too small they do not hold the runoff and will break over causing gullying," he stated. "Farm operators who farm across terraces rather than on the contour with their terraces are creating future problems," he added. Technicians of the Soil Conservation Service in checking some fields where row crop farming is across the terraces find that those terraces have only a 4 or 5 inch effective height. They are ineffective in reducing runoff damage.

This immediate damage is not so serious as is the long range effect. These rows draining down the slope deposit silt in the terrace channel thereby creating a benched effect across the field. This makes it increasingly difficult to repair and rebuild a terrace big enough to do an adequate job of protecting the field. SCS is making every effort to lay out parallel systems of terraces to help in the farming operations. This is especially needed where large 6 and 8 row equipment is used in farming.

Waterways are essential to the effectiveness of a terrace system. In many cases they need to be repaired when early stages of rilling occur. Much of the time a simple matter of weed control plus fertilizing will keep these effective for years. Cost sharing assistance is available through the Agriculture Stabilization and Conservation Service to owners and operators who need to treat their land with terraces and waterways. There is no cost sharing, however, for maintaining existing systems.

The Farmers Home Administration has conservation funds available for their borrowers. Mr. and Mrs. T. C.

Harrington returned recently from St. Louis, Missouri, where they attended the graduation exercises of their grandson, Hank Hawken. Hank, son of Mr. and Mrs. C.

W. Hawken, will enter the University of Missouri this tall. Mr. and Mrs. Travis Davis and children, Kay, Terri, Randy and Troy, recently joined members of the Young Adult Sunday School Class of the Wesley Memorial United Methodist Church in McKinney for a weekend outing at Piatt National Park in Sulphur, Okla.

RAY HOUSEWRIGHT, painter for the local school system, and his three member paint crew are taking advantage of the summer months to brighten up the inside of the Sigler Elementary School with a fresh coat of paint. Mr. and Mrs. R. Allen Duncan have returned from a three week vacation in New Mexico, California, Nevada, Utah, Mexico, Arizona and Colorado.

In San Francisco they spent several days in the home of Mr. brother and sister- in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Duncan, Miss Dian Williams, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Estill Williams, left Friday for Searcy, Arkansas, where she will enroll as a freshman in Harding College. Harrington Interviewed Capt. Jack O. Harrington, Jr.

was interviewed by Bob Gooding of WFAA TV Sunday night, July 7, at 10:00 p.m. The interview was recorded by the newscaster who has been visiting with Texas servicemen stationed in Vietnam. Capt. Harrington is the son of Mr. and Mrs.

Jack Harrington of Plano and has been stationed in Vietnam since last August. He is stationed with the 93rd Evacuation Hospital in Long Bien, Vietnam, and is Adjutant of the Hospital there. His duties are to keep records of each patient in the hospital, making reports to other hospitals and presenting the Purple Heart award to wounded servicemen. Harrington is now on an leave in Australia. CARD OF THANKS We wish to extend our deepest appreciation to all our friends and relatives for the gifts, visits and kindnesses shown us during our Golden Wedding Anniversary celebration.

Especially we wish to thank our children for making the celebration possible. May God Bless each of you. Mr. and Mrs. Jim Thomas.c.

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