Montgomery County sentinel. [volume], August 01, 1963, Page A10, Image 10

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Hillcrest Brings West To Rockville
Young cowboys from Hillcrest play
ground present their s<-ene in the Music
and Arts Festival at the Civic Center last
Friday night. One in a program of 12
scenes, including over 500 Rockville chil
Entertainment Roundup
‘Unsinkable Molly’ Stays
At Music Fair Til Aug. 6
By Margaret Buckey
Entertainment Editor
"The Unsinkable Molly Brown,” starring Gloria De
Haven, opened last week at Shady Grove and will be there
through August 6.
Molly Brown is a little girl
from Colorado whose aggres
sive zest takes her from the be
ginning of her career in a min
ing town saloon to the high
society of Denver. In the
course of the musical, she mar
ries Johnny, a man from out
west. They move to Denver,
money and society making
Molly desirous of position and
acceptance.
They separate, Molly goes on
the “grand tour,” from which
she returns In a lifeboat from
the Titanic, and they reunite.
"Molly Brown” is a musical
film which runs like a fast mov
500 Rockville Children
Get Into the Drama Act
By Margaret Bucky
“We’re not going on til we can hear this pin drop!”
called out June Allen supervisor of the drama activities
for “Rockville Recreation Department playground groups.
“It isn’t fair to Hungerford.”
The scene was pandemonium.
There were not enough seats In
the Civic Center to hold the
crowd of 500 heavily painted
young thespians. Doting, per
spiring parents stood at the
back of the auditorium . . .
some observers stood outside
and looked in through the open
doors.
The pin held aloft by Mrs.
Allen dropped, and in rapture
the audience watched Hunger
ford’s six minute presentation
of an old fashioned melodrama.
When the six year old villain
sneaked on they hissed . • .
when the blonde-wigged mai
den of five was saved, they
cheered.
Hundreds of children aged 4
to 12, dazzling in costumes
made of paper bags, leotards,
cut-down party dresses, jeans
and sheets, appeared in this
music and drama festival, the
second of three programs
showing the drama activity of
the playground's summer pro
gram.
“It’s horrible to be a pen
guin," grumbled a small suf
focating penguin backstage.
“They knock your wings
off.”
But true to show biz tradi
tion, to which all these children
seemed dedicated, when the box
containing Rockcrest’s Mr. Pop
per’s Penguins was opened, a
poised line emerged perfectly
stepping to "This Old Man.”
Mrs. Allen, the guiding
spirit, was omnipresent. Reg
ularly director of the Chil
dren’s Theatre In Rockville,
she has been working with
these 12 playground groups
since the summer program
started.
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dren, this scene pictures gunman John
Brown, bandit Eric Walidt, two struggling
cowboys Billy Day and Stanley Marsh, and
onlooker Phillip Kaelin.
ing picture. Given this quality,
in some respects the production
at Shady Grove is quite success
ful. The set pictures are well
defined; the chorus interludes
when the performers either sing
and dance down the aisles to the
circular stage or are spotlighted
at the head of the aisles make
for transitions that are smooth.
However, in the scenes on
stage one loses a great deal of
! . Molly Brown’s” vitality.
This picture needs a frame and
[ the staging in the round dif
fuses the singing and the action.
[ The role of Molly is played
• by Gloria De Haven and as
Requesting a hand with pull
ing the curtain, cueing a per
former from the wings, with
one hand smearing rouge on a
cheek, with the other adjusting
the sound system, she ex
plained that the skits on the
program were all original ideas
from the children which she
merely helped structure and
polish for production.
“Never mind dear, you look
lovely” she said to one little
girl who then went onstage
with confidence. “Oh my God!
Can’t find the Charleston rec
ord? Well never mind.” . . .
"Brand those cattle, brand!”
she cried to a Hillcrest cowboy
on stage.
Records were mislaid, masks
had to be adjusted and one
scene entirely removed. But
the "Florence Welk Show,”
performed by Bullard’s Play
ground, went on. With a lad
der on each side of the stage,
and a child on each blowing
bubbles, a chorus of “Lemmon
Sisters” pantomimed “L 011 i -
pops.”
“Tlie Music Man,” Mcrrivale,
“The Three Bears,” Montrose,
and “One Year Ago” —a group
of 12 children from Twinbrook
each representing a month of
the year, passed in review.
“Hold the curtain quick! . . .
You did a fine job darling,”
whispered Mrs. Allen to one of
the participants . . . And they
did!
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Molly Brown she is small, force
ful and charming. She is on
stage most of the time, she has
a great many numbers to sing.
With the openness of the Shady
Grove setting, it is not easy to
project this leading lady.
“The Unsinkable Molly
Brown” is a lively presentation,
with some pleasant musical
moments.
Oiney
“Time Remembered” started
this week at the Oiney and will
run for three weeks. It is the
story of a man in love with a
memory.
Prince Albert, played by Rob
ert Milli is persuaded by a
Duchess to woo a substitute for
his beloved. He plays the game
but the plot complicates when
he and the stand-in actually fall
in love, and the Prince resists
this treachery to his memories.
“Time Remembered” is the
fourth play in Olney’s unusual
summer season. The theatre
has been experimenting this
summer with their productions.
In the five plays that constitute
the season, they have concen
trated on plays which they con
sider to be contemporary pieces
of theatre says William Gra
ham, managing director of Oi
ney, rather than productions for
commercial success. The great
er the range of plays, the more
valuable they feel will be their
theatre.
In this summer season the
Oiney plays run for three
weeks. They have undertaken
an unusual, challenging and ser
ious variety and in producing
the five plays for the summer
they are faced with unique cast-
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July 30 thru August 3
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Matinees Sat. & Sun.
PHONE [phone]
for roarnatloni and Information
“make it a Wayside evening"
for luncheon—for dinner
for a day—for a week
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Before and After
the Theater
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HYATTSTOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT
HYATTSTOWN, MD.
Now thru Aug. 3. Free admission!
Dancing, Bingo, Ball Stands, Farris Wheel, Kiddie Rides
THURS., AUG. Ist—Pop Stoneman and Family
FRI„ AUG. 2nd—Eddie Motherly and His Country Kings
Grand Priie Nightly
Dancing nightly to Louis Burdette and his
Monocacy Play Boys
New Photo Club
A photography club for stu
dents in junior and senior high
school was recently formed by
the Bethesda Youth Center at
4506 Walsh St. The club, which
held its organizational meeting
Saturday, is open to teenagers
interested in the various aspects
of photography, developing and
printing of pictures as well as
work with basic camera equip
ment. Anyone interested should
contact the Youth Center at
OL. 2-2249.
ing and production proolems.
In the past few weeks, prepar
ing “Time Remembered” they
have had to dig up everything
from gay nineties clothing to
edible orchids for the Duchess.
Dedication to the theatre and
Olney’s quality prod uctions
make their efforts worthwhile.
Entertainment Around Town
The New York City Ballet is
at the Carter Barron Amphi
theatre for this week. The
troupe of dancers who regularly
make up the company for the
City Center in New York will
perform a varied repertoire
which includes, tonight: Swan
Lake and Afternoon of a Faun,
Fri. Tschaikowsky’s Serenade,
Sat. Swan Lake and Four Tem
peraments, Sun. Bach's Con
certo Barocco, Mendelssohn’s
Scotch Symphony, and the Inter
play of Morton Gould. . .
Locally at the University of
Maryland Tennessee William’s
“Summer and Smoke” is being
presented tonight and tomor
row. . . “Fantasticks” plays this
week in Middletown, Va.
The New Frontier
“America I love you . . . land
of just add hot water and serve,
I love you” . . . wrote e. e. Cum
mings. In Rockville you can
drive your car under a pagoda
roof, press a button and order
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Mont. County'* Distinguished
Summer Theatre
Now Thru August 18
TIME
REMEMBERED
a delightful romantic comedy
Ticket Solet & Phono Orders
Olnoy Box Ofc., 10-9,
WH. 2-1000
if DRIVE-IN
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Rockville, Md.
POplar 2-6186
Goto Opens 7 P.M.
ONE WEEK BEGINNING
Wednesday, July 31
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—Plus—
Vincent Price
Basil Rathbone
"TALES OF TERROR"
COMING NEXT WEEK
"THE LONGEST DAY’*
SENTINEL COUNTY^Nia
A10
Thursday, August I, 1963
egg foo young on the run. Amer
ican ingenuity has created the
first drive-in Chinese restaurant.
Here on a neon studded high
way the lighted boy who used
to advertise a doughnut and cof
fee drive-in, has had his eyes
slanted and stands in front of
The Hong Kong Drive-In.
Six trucks will bring the cui
sine of Canton to home or job
. . . one can dine in the restau
rant itself, or order from your
car. The Hong Kong will also
cater parties and the food prep
aration is supervised by re
nowned Chinese chef.
|NI JU SJ FAIR
At Shady Grove Road Exit, Wash
ington National Pike (Rte. 240), near
Rockville, Md.
Opens Aug. 13*18
Thursday, Matinee, 2 P.M.
I Shows Saturday, 5 and 9:30
JULIET PROWSE
with all tha original music in
“IRMA LA DOUCE"
Not Recommended for Children
Order Tickets by Phone, 94H-3400.
Ticket given free for child under 14
with adult ticket purchased for Sat
urday, 3 P.M. show. Air-conditioned
D. C. Transit buses for Saturday .>
P.M. show. For information, call
FEderal 7-1300.
Now Thru Aug. 11
GALE STORM
In
TV’S “MY LITTLE MARGARIE”
"FINIAN'S RAINBOW"
Tickets at box office prices: All 100
Peoples Drug Stores, all Suburban
Trust Co. offices all First National
Bank of Arlington offices, all offices
of AAA.
IT'S COMING . . .
LOOK FOR IT . . .
IN OUR AUGUST 15th ISSUE ...
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This Big, Colorful Section will Spotlight the 15th Annual Mont
gomery County Fair which will be held at Gaithersburg, Aug. 19
to 24.
with...
* Complete News Coverage
* Interesting Features
* Schedule of Exhibits & Events
* Advertising Values
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BEFORE THIS HUGE AUDIENCE ...
You Get A Total Circulation of OA AAA
(50,000 on Aug. ISth and 30,000 on Aug. 22nd)
Including ON-THE-SPOT DISTRIBUTION THROUGHOUT THE
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THRU TUESDAY
''Best Picture of the Year"
Selected by the National
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"THE LONGEST DAY"
12:00, 3:00, 6:10 and 9:15
SAT., AUG. 3
Bonus Feature
Bowery Boys
in
"JINX MONEY"
STARTING WED., AUG. 7
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WORLD OF THE
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