Sunday News from Lancaster, Pennsylvania • 79

JANUARY 12, 1992 H-3 SUNDAY NEWS, LANCASTER, PA. LOCAL ARTS Charlton Heston and Lydia Clarke star in benefit for Gretna Productions supplanted acting in her life. Now using Hasselblad, Nikon and Leica, Clarke has worked all over the world, recording everything from Afghan refugees in the Khyber Pass to the fellahin in their Nile villages. Her photographs have appeared in Time, Fortune, Omin and The Los Angeles Times, but her most gratifying work is for galleries and museums, including two books of her photographs, Light of the World and her husbands Beijing Diary. She acts on occasion, appearing onstage with her husband in Detective Story in 1984.

The Hestons live in the Santa Monica mountains above Beverly Hils in, as Heston puts it, a darkroom with a house attached. Their daughter Holly works for Sothebys in New York and son Fraser is a director and screenwriter. Through correspondence, Love Letters charts the interplay between Andrew Makepeace Ladd III and Melissa Gardner, both of privileged New England patrician stock. Over fifty years of their relationship is chronicled from a second graders Valentine card through stormy, steamy letters. In spite of their similar backgrounds, Andy and Melissa are polar opposites: he is stuffy and self-protective, she is volatile and rebellious.

Their contrasts provide a unique bond and spark an actor tour de force for Heston and Clarke. Tickets are priced at $35, $50 and $100, depending on the seating location in the Hershey Theatre. Tickets are available starting January 12 at the HER-SHEYPARK Arena Box Office (717) 534-3911 and at all Ticketron outlets. The ticket price includes a donation to Gretna Productions, Inc. Premium orchestra seats at $100 include admission to the Champagne Reception hosted by the Heston at the Hershey Country club immediately after the performance.

On the day of love, Valentines Day, legendary actor Charlton Heston and his wife, acclaimed actressphotographer Lydia Clarke, will return to their Mt. Gretna roots performing live onstage in a benefit for the producers of summer theater at the historic Mt. Gretna Playhouse. The husbandwife team will appear at the Hershey Theatre in one performance only of A.R. Gurneys two-character play Love Letters, on Friday, February 14, 1992 at 8.30 p.m.

A Champagne Reception for premium ticket-buyers will be hosted by the Hestons at the Hershey Country Club after the play. Charlton Heston and Lydia Clarke appeared at the Mt. Gretna Playhouse during the summer of 1948 under the direction of Charles Coghlan. Heston was cast as the leading man in 10 plays that summer at Gretna, appearing with Clarke in Angel Street, Threes A Family, You Cant Take It With You, 3 Men on a Horse, and Night of January 16th. After starring in more than 50 feature films and theater productions, Charlton Heston is best known as a film actor in historical spectacles, particularly Bible stones.

In reality, he has only performed in six epic films, and of them, two were Biblical roles Moses in The Ten Commandments and John the Baptist inThe Greatest Story Ever Told. Among his starring roles are El Cid, The Agony and the Ecstasy, Planet of the Apes, Soylent Green, The Three Musketeers, Airport and Earthquake. Born in Evanston, Illinois, Heston knew he wanted to be an actor at the age of five. Lydia Clarke met him when they were freshmen acting students at Northwestern and married him shortly after he joined the Air Corps as a radiooperator on B-25s. After the war, the Hestons moved to New York and support- Lydia Clark ed themselves by modeling, until they landed jobs as co-directors and performers at the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Theatre in Asheville, North Carolina.

They appeared in six plays in Asheville, returning to New York where Heston was cast on Broadway in Katherine Cornells Antony and Cleopatra and began playing dramatic leads in the new medium of television. The next summer the Hestons accepted Cogh-lans offer to come to Gretna. After Hal Wallis saw Hestons performance in David Bradleys Julius Caesar, he brought Heston to Hollywood, where Cecil B. deMille signed him for The Greatest Show on Earth. The film won the Academy Award for Best Picture of the Year.

In 1959, Heston won an Oscar for Best Actor for his performance in Ben-Hur. Heston has earned numerous overseas equivalents of the Oscar and has always taken an active part in community and film industry affairs. He served for six terms as President of Screen Actors Guild and later became chairman of the American Film Institute. He received the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award and is the author of the best-sell- Charlton Heston ing book The Actors Life: Journals 1956 to 1976. He has made numerous overseas tours for the State Department, including visits to the troops in Vietnam and Marines in Beirut.

Among his recent theatrical ventures are A Man For All Seasons in Chicago, Los Angeles and Miami, Caine Mutiny Court Martial which ran in London for two yeas, MacBeth with Vanessa Redgrave, and the 1980 production of Crucifer of Blood when he worked with Gretna Productions former artistic director, the late Paul Giovanni. During filming of The Greatest Show on earth Lydia Clarke joined her husband on the set in Sarasota, Florida. Hestons publicist pressed the surprised actress into taking pictures of her husband. Corralling Mr. deMilles long-time still photographer into teaching her camera techniques, Clarke was drawn to capturing the real, off-stage lives of the circus people.

Soon, photography Sunday News photoJeff Ruppenthal Look out for sociopaths on Angel Street The Actors Company of Pennsylvanias production of Angel Street, a Victorian suspense-thriller by Patrick Hamilton, will open Thursday, January 16, at the Fulton Opera House and runs through Sunday, January 26. First produced as Gaslight and also made into a movie of the same name in the 1940s, the play is a suspenseful psychological drama. Jerry Brown, above, is cast as the sociopathic husband, Jack Mannmgham, who is tramatizing his trusting wife, Bella, played by Cheryl Clemson. Not your usual whodunit, "Angel Street, directed by Jeanne Clemson, has everyone living on the edge of danger. Tickets, priced at $1 5 and $1 6, with student and senior citizen rates, are available at the Fulton Opera House box office, 397-7425.

CASTING CALL Who sees seashells at the Franklin Marshall show? Library clarification Video tapes may be borrowed from the Lancaster County Library from Thursday noon through Saturday noon and those borrowed Saturday must be back by 6 p.m. Monday. Video tapes may be borrowed through other library locations in Lancaster County from Friday until library closing on Monday. For more information, call the Lancaster County Library at 394-2651. The York Little Theatre is looking for five outstanding female performers who can sing, dance and act and will be holding auditions for Nunsense on January 20 and 21 at the theatre, 27 S.

Belmont York, at 7 p.m. Audi-tioners should come prepared with a song in their key. Accompanists will be provided and a brief dance movement will be included. The show will be performed March 6-21. of Fine Arts School and at the De-cordova Museum School.

Joyce was commissioned to design the first day cover envelope (cachet) for the unveiling of the first set of U.S. shell stamps ever at Harvards Museum of Comparative Zoology in 1985. Joyces son, Keir, is a sophomore at Gallery hours at North Museum are Wednesday to Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and Sunday, 1:30 to 5 p.m. There is no admission charge.

images of shells with Henry David Thoreaus descriptions of them in her own calligraphy, which is based on the English Roundhand style used by Tho-reau. She also has a collection of Russian shell paintings that she accumulated after traveling to the Soviet Union on an art research trip in March of 1989, where she traded shells with collectors in Moscow and Leningrad. A graduate of Hood College, Joyce has a masters degree from the Massachusetts College of Art. She also has taken advanced study courses at the Boston Museum sota, Fla. She also studied at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston.

Before her work with shells and sea life became a full-time career, she illustrated medical reports for a pathologist and painted commissioned portraits. Her drawings are in major collections in more than 30 states and 20 countries. She has been the recipient of more than 50 awards and a judge for many shows. Kristina Joyce, of Concord, is an artistteacher who combines calligraphy and water-color to unite literary and visual imagery in her Shells of Concord. She incorporates colored Two New England-based artists are bringing their molluscan art to landlocked Lancaster on Jan.

17 through March 22 for an exhibit at Franklin Marshalls North Museum, The Beauty of the Shell The Art of Mathilde Duffy and Kristina Joyce. Duffy, a Watertown, artist and shell collector, uses colored and pastel pencils for her realistic and abstract drawings of shells. She combs beaches and scuba dives regularly in the Florida Keys, the Bahamas and the Caribbean for subjects. Duffy grew up on the North Carolina coast and spent summer exploring and shelling the Outer Banks. She studied art at St.

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