The Observer 8

              New National Theatre
On Long Island
An ambitious new effort to
form 8 new American National
Theatre powered by super - box-office
stars, and to be launched
at the Mineola Theatre in the
fall under the sponsorship of the
Theatre Society of Long Island,
was revealed at a press confer­ence
last week by actress Mar­tha
Scott, organizer of the pro­ject.
Joining her in the an -
nouncement which took place at
L* Etoile Restaurant in New York
City where Robert Ryan, Roddy
McDowell, Mildred Duraiick, Al­fred
deliagre, John McGiver,
Godfrey Cambridge, and Theatre
Society President, Mrs. Terry
Townsend of Old Westbury.
The new company will be known
as the Plumstead Playhouse, tak­ing
its name from one of the
nation's first theatres estab­lished
in a Philadelphia ware­house
in 1749.
The Theatre Society will spon­sor
the new project which will
begin its activity on September
24th with a 30th anniversary pro­duction
of Thornton Wilder's Our
Town, starring Henry Fonda. The
second production, to open Oc­tober
8, will be Ben Hecht and
Charles MacArthur's Front
Page, to star Robert Ryan.
Other plays from the finest of
American theatre, as well as
new plays by American play­wrights,
will be added to the
repertory from time to time.
Miss Scott's idea for the com­pany
grew from a conversation
she held with drama critic Wal­ter
Kerr concerning the need
for a company that could rep­resent
the American theatre
much as the National Theatre of
England or the Old Vic rep­resented
English Theatre. She
said she found enthusiasm and
eagerness to cooperate among
every actor or actress she ap­proached.
Both Fonda and Ry­an
turned down lucrative film
assignments to participate. Top
theatre names such as Paul New­man,
Joanne Woodward, Robert
Preston, Myrna Loyf Charlton
Heston, Geraldine Page, Rich­ard
Benjamin, Paula Prentiss and
Mike Nichols have assured their
strong interest in participating
in future projects.
The opening production will be
directed by Edward Hastins, who
earlier scored a success direct­ing
the same play performed by
the American Conservatory The­atre
in San Francisco. Broad­way
Producer, Alfred deLiagre
will act as Executive Producer
for both opening plays.
So many stars would love to
have an opportunity to appear
in great stage roles," said Miss
Scott. But it is impossible for
most of them to adjust their
commitments to allow for an ex­tensive
run. Our project will
give some of the best actors
opportunities to appear in roles
they may have wished to play,
without tying them up for months
or years.
Miss Scott said that she had
been discussing the possibility of
joining with the Theatre Society
for months and that definite ar­rangements
had been made re­cently
with Mrs. Townsend and
Theatre Society Board Chairman,
Allan Gittleson.
Gittleson, head of Jervis Cor­poration
in Hicksville, said * he
looks forward to the participa­tion
of business leaders in the
development of the arts on Long
Island and invites them to sup­port
this exciting new concept
and venture to stimulate national
interest in live theatre.'
Andy Williams To Appear
For One Week
TV & Recording star, Andy
Williams, recognized today as
the best selling pop male vocal­ist
in the recording industry is%
readying his swinging " Andy
Williams Show" for a gala one-week,
in person, musical mara­thon
at the Westbury Music Fan-on
Brush Hollow Rd, Westbury,
L. I., beginning Monday, August
12, thru Sunday, August 18.
Appearing with Andy will be
Peter Nero, one of the top
popular piano concert attractions
in the world today. The key­board
wizard embraces jazz
and the classics with such great
skill that he is as much in de­mand
on college campuses as he
is at New York's Philharmonic
Hall. Rounding out the all- star
bill will be TV's famous " Os-
. mond Brothers," an integral part
of the Andy Williams television
family. The Osmond Brothers
came into national prominence
via many TV appearances with
the singer.
Andy Williams records have
the distinction of selling at the
rate of 25,000 per week. In
only five short years, " Moon
River," " Days of Wine & Roses,"
" The Wonderful World of Andy
Williams," " Great Songs From
My Fair Lady," " Call Me Ir­responsible,"
" The Andy Will­iams
Xmas Album," " Dear
Hearts," " Shadow of Your
Smile," " Born Free" and cur­rently
" Honey," have brought
to a total of nine the number
of gold records he has won for
album sales over 1,000,000.
Andy's L. I. fans will find
that the handsome singer is
something special. He is a mix­ture
of sophistication and simpli­city.
His mellow baritone voice
and infectious sense of rhythm
appeal to both young and old.
Policastro - Blydenburgh
Nuptials Held
Janet Policastro, daughter of
Mr. A Mrs. Joseph Policastro, of
1029 N. Broadway, N. Massape-qua
became the bride of Law­rence
Blydenburgh, son of Mr. &
Mrs. John Blydenburgh, of E.
Northport, on Saturday, August 3,
at St. Rose of Lima R. C. Church
- in Massapequa. The weddingce-remeny
took place at six o'clock,
with The Reverend Sweeney of­ficiating.
The bride wore a gown
of ivory organza, embroidered
with crystals and pearls and car­ried
a bouquet of camellias and
stephanitis. Her Maid of Honor
Eileen Valenti, wore a yellow
gown and the other Bridesmaids,
Florence Policastro, Karalee
Kaplan and Carol Resnick, wore
turquoise gowns. The groom was
Gorton
attended by hi s brother, John Bly­denburgh
and the ushers were
Joseph Policastro. MikeOuag-liano
and ArnoldLeffert. The re­ception
was held at the Hunting­ton
Town House and was attend­ed
by over one hundred guests.
The bride is a graduate of Far-mingdale
High School and is pre­sently
employed as a secretary,
by the United States Government.
The groom i s a graduate of Norm-port
High School and is presently
working as an operating engineer,
while attending Farmingdale
Agricultural and Technical Col­lege.
The young couple will be
honeymooning in Niagara for two
weeks and upon their return will
reside in Nassau County.
Bias Ruling;
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Despite the Republican Na­tional
Convention taking up most
of the pages of the daily news­papers,
Farmingdale's Carl E.
Gorton still made the news in
the dailies. The headline in one
evening newspaper says " Gor­ton
Defies Bias Ruling; Hints
Appeal."
It seems that the Farmingdale
Library Trustee announced that
he would not comply with a State
Division of Human Rights rul­ing
which declared him guilty
of discrimination in trying to
have a library employee dis­missed
and ordered him to pay
the employee $ 100 plus her law­yers'
fees.
The article reports that in a
letter to Robert J. Rangum,
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Gorton accused the division of
trying to harass and intimidate
him. He implied that he would
take the case tocourt, saying that
he would invoke ' my rightsguar-anteed
under the Constitution of
the United States' of freedom and
speech and trial by jury.
In his letter to Mangum, Gor­ton
said that his reasons for
not complying with the state or­der
include " admittedprejudice
on the part of at least one hear­ing
committioner, perjury by wit­nesses;
improper proceedings
and acceptance of hearsay evi­dence
as a fact."
Mrs. Horensia Stoyan, Assis­tant
Library Director of the
Farmingdale Public Library
charged Gorton of bias before the
State of the Human Rights Com­mission
that Gorton tried to have
her dismissed on the basis erf
her being Puerto Rican and a
• member of the Jehovahs Witnes­ses.
The Human Rights Commis­sion
had judged in her favor;
Gorton had the right of an ap­peal
within a certain specified
time.
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