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The Sacramento Bee from Sacramento, California • 137

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Sacramento, California
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137
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Fred Waring Show Is Due On Feb 9th Seven major attractions have been signed for Sacramento appearances by Wilma Murphy Tickets are available from Breuner's box office The first event on the new year's schedule will be the Fred Waring show at 4 PM February 9th in the memorial auditorium The show will include the entire Pennsylvanians organization band choir glee club and soloists The Vienna Choir Boys in a program of Viennese operetta sacred and folk music are scheduled for February Ilth in the memorial auditorium at 8:15 PM Monday Night Show Will Be Tried In Folsom Jose Greco and his Spanish Dance Company will appear at 4 PM February 23rd in the memorial auditorium Rodgers' Show Is In Forum Slot oo' fi 3 76 at Ittik 1 40 In I tILTL: 61--L Rodgers' Show Is In 0 Forum Slot It r'' '''14 i1 i 1101 0--Ie 1 y'-'l 440 '0 I -s 0 4 1 4 -tIr irr 1 I4 i ir fo'''' fi- 14 l- i 'et f' 10 i 0 1 7 '-'N ''i 01 'I' it 4 't) i t- A' i I (- if 5 tiii iN'-' t6e fa (1 415 tt '-NA' "Tt' kt' '''4' 1V e' s--- 1 -4- i -4 i- 00-2 CZ "-i i 4 '''''''''''''4'' The Folsom Gas lighters will try an experiment in January of Monday night performances in the theater attached to the Folsom Sutter Club If the January 6th one shows promise said Dan Welty head of the group a regular schedule will be set up "There are many people" Welty said "who like us have to work Friday and Saturday entertainers waitresses cooks waiters and so have no place to go on their night off usually Monday So we'll try a night and see if there is a demand we can fill" National Performing Arts Incorporated the New York firm which books the Broadway plays being presented locally by the Sacramento Civic Theater and Civic Ballet under Bee-KFBK sponsorship has notified the local organizations that the tour of A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum has been cancelled by producer Henry Guettel Describing itself as highly embarrassed by the cancellation NPA also said it was also happy to announce that it had secured the rights to The Boys From Syracuse as a replacement The latter musical comedy a Rodgers and Hart show which includes such hits as This Can't Be Love and Falling In Love With Love was revived off Broadway last season with great success and subsequently given a new production in London NPA vice president Julian Olney said the firm had originally wanted to include the show on this season's series (in preference to A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum) but was unable to secure the rights The Boys From Syracuse is still running off Broadway and is selling out Coincidentally both shows in question are based on comic stories of ancient Rome National Performing Arts Incorporated the New York firm which books the Broad- way plays being presented lo- cally by the Sacramento Civic Theater and Civic Ballet under Bee-KFBK sponsorship has notified the local organi- zations that the tour of A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum has been cancelled by producer Henry Guettel Describing itself as highly embarrassed by the cancella- tion NPA also said it was also happy to announce that it had secured the rights to The Boys From Syracuse as a replacement The latter musical comedy a Rogers an Hart sow which includes such hits as This Can't Be Love and Fall- ing In Love With Love was The noted Boris Goldovsky Opera Theater which performs opera In English is scheduled for the memorial auditorium at 4 PM March 1st The group will sing a new English translation of The Barber Of Seville On March 4th Hal Holbrook in Mark Twain Tonight will be presented in the Sacramento City College Auditorium at 8:15 PM Holbrook a young man appears as did Mark Twain on the humorist's lecture tours The performance when Holbrook gave it in San Francisco as well as when he gave it in New York received high critical praise A lecture-film by Joy Adamson author of the Elsa books Born Free Living Free and Forever Free is scheduled for March 6th in the Luther Burbank High School She will discuss and illustrate with films and slides her life with Elsa the lioness she raised at home then trained to return to the wild The duo piano team Ferrante and Teicher will appear in the memorial auditorium on April 5th TOYS Rice is the Mouse King Ron Cisneros is Jack In The Box and Jim Riggs is the Nutcracker in the Christmastime production of the Eaglet Children's Theater The Nutcracker And The Mouse King adapted by Anthony Reid of the Eaglet Theater from the original by A Hoffmann which inspired Tschiakovsky's The Nutcracker Suite The play will open at 2 PM Saturday and will play daily except Sunday and Christmas Day for a week Single tickets and party reservations may be made at the Civic Theater box office 15th and Streets Tuesday through Saturday from 11:30 AM to 5:30 PM Bee Photo 1 The group will open a British farce melodrama The Prince Of Liars on February 6th There are openings in the cast which already has Scott and Joyce Kemper Cliff and Norma Stephenson Dan and Louise Welty Al Mariano will be at the piano and Bill Cook will continue as The current show is When Wet De Young Opens Exhibit Of Turner Watercolors Be Will House Concert Of New Music of the Royal Academy exhibiting there in 1790 In 1799 he was elected an associate of the academy and in 1802 at age 27 a full academician This kind of recognition continued throughout his life even though the later color studies excited opposition in the press Following the close of the exhibition of the Turner watercolors in San Francisco on January 15th it will travel to the Cleveland Museum of Art The New Music Ensemble will present a concert of improvisations at 2 PM today in the Belmonte Gallery 2975 35th Street The ensemble is a group of Sacramento and Davis composers and performers The performing personnel varies from concert to concert Most of the members are connected with the University of California at Davis music '5 sf tr :4 4 44 1 k'' Nz see 1414: r': i 4 5t 4 i 4i tat: I i i I 4 It i I 11 s' 44" i'' 1: i i 4 44k 4 1 i 'I '''ir it' I The irst comprehensive American exhibition and the only west coast showing of watercolors by Joseph Mal-lord William Turner England's romantic painter and precursor of Impressionism has opened in the de Young Memorial Mu eu San Francisco The exhibition includes 80 watercolors lent by the British Museum and selected for display in this country by William Croft-Murray the British Museum's keeper of prints and drawings The exhibition is being circulated under the auspices of the Smithsonian Institution With one exception the paintings come from the collection bequeathed the British nation by the artist upon his death in 1851 Special emphasis of the exhibition is upon Turner's lesser known early and late periods tracing his development from a watercolor done at age 14 to the resplendent color studies the experimental personal works of his late years which remained in Turner's studio during his lifetime Born in 1775 in London Turner showed early talent for drawing At 14 he was admitted as a student in the schools Scheduled to appear today are Larry Austin Wayne Johnson Richard Swift Stan Lunetta Arthur Woodbury and his wife Pat who is more widely known as the singer Dixie Alexander Jon Gibson and Jerome Rosen Admission will be $130 at the door Florence Derby Art Show Opens The Thelma Needham Library of West Sacramento Yo to County is exhibiting drawings prints and paintings by Florence Derby of Sacramento through January lOth Mrs Derby's work has been exhibited in many Sacramento area shows Among her prizes are a first for oil in the Northern California Art Annual and honorable mentions in this year's NCA annual the Sacramento County Fair and the Auburn Annual FATHERLY Larson patiently talks to an even more patiently listening daughter Irene Norris in Jay Rol) Productions' family comedy Take Iler She's Mine currently playing Friday and Saturday nights in the playhouse in Sacramento Inn Plaza Others in the production are Kathy Goodwald Jo Ann Cocker and Carol Zaiger as fellow students at an eastern girls' college Ric Young as the mother and Susan Dockman as the kid sister Bee Photo UOP Exhibit Paintings and sculpture from the Maxwell Galleries San Francisco are on exhibit in Raymond College University of the Pacific until THE SACRAMEN'TO BEE SUNDAY DECEMBER 15 1963 Page L3 Sacramento California.

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