Library offers ‘Adopt a Duck’
By Brett Bigham
Of The Print
Why have children when
you can adopt a duck? The
Ledding Library of Milwaukie is
asking for donations and
volunteer workers to help feed
the ducks and meet their
budget costs.
For only $9.70 you can be
the proud adopted parent of
one of the library’s ducks.
Donations are also being asked
for to buy new books, records,
magazines, films, viewing
equipment, furniture and office
materials.
Volunteer workers are be­
ing asked to help with both in­
side work and on the library
DUCK
grounds. Indoor helpers will be
working at the circulation desk,
processing books and the card
catalogue. Volunteers in­
terested in doing yardwork,
landscaping and cleanup work
on the library grounds and
around the duck pond are also
needed.
People are also being ask­
ed to help with other library
related jobs such as doing
library displays, bookkeeping,
scrapbook, special events and
delivering books to home­
bound readers.
Volunteers will also be
needed for children-related
work as storytellers,^ pup­
peteers and displayers.
Staff Photos by Duane Hiersche
COUNTY RESIDENTS SPEND an afternoon with the Led*
ding ducks.
Shields announces
play company
Jack Shields, director of
the fall term production, “Ap­
pointment With Death,” an­
nounced his 16-member cast
and 17-person crew last week.
The play, a mystery by
Agatha Christie, is set in
Jerusalem and Petra, Israel,
and will sport a double set.
The company is as
follows:
Mrs. Boynton........ Carol Kyle
Ginerva Boynton . Kristin Black
Lennox Boynton ........ Russel
McMillen
Nadine Boynton Maureen Rust
Hotel Clerk .... Craig Thacker
Italian Girl........... Etta Leonard
Aiderman Higgs Rod Ragsdale
Arab Boy . Thomas Lauderdale
Lady Westholme........... Eileen
McDonald-Ferguson
Anabel Pryce . . Dianna Hardy
Dr. Theodore Gerard Neil Hass
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Dr. Sarah King . . . Lynn Myers
Jefferson Cope........... Joseph
Schenck
Raymond Boynton.... Patrick
Sterling
Dragoman ..... Victor Toman
Colonel Carbery David Harvey
Stage Management: James
Nicodemus and Jim Davis.
Costuming: Lynn Myers with
Michelle Reasoner, Charisse
Smith, Becky Wells.
Properties: F.T. Morris, with
Norman
hall,
Donald
McKeever, Roberta Ellsworth.
Sound and Music: Terrie
Kemp, Roger Nuffer
Lighting: Ed DeGrauw
Makeup: Etta Leonard, An­
drea Yeager.
Program Editor: Dottie Olof-
son.
Assistant Director/Resear-
cher: Ann Rindal.
‘My Favorite Year’ worth the price
By Peggy Conrad Haynes
and J. Dana Haynes
And they said it couldn’t
be done. But thanks to MGM,
United Artists and Richard
Benjamin, done it is.
A movie has been made
using real people in real situa­
tions, and without relying on
bare (rated R) flesh to sell
tickets. “My Favorite Year” is a
thoroughly delightful film that
combines talent, screen writing
and direction to win over its au­
dience.
The story revolves around
a 1954 comedy television
show, filmed live as in the days
of “Your Show of Shows” and
“Our Miss Brooks.”
The Comedy Cavalcade’s
star, “King” Kaiser (Joseph
Bologna), is being pursued by a
mobster, because King refuses
to drop his parody of the
racketeer on his show. Mean­
while, young comedy writer
Benjie Stone (newcomer Mark
Linn-Baker) is handed the
responsibility of keeping this
week’s guest star, Allen Swan
(Peter O’Toole), sober and out
of trouble.
Swan is an Errol Flynn
type actor who is past his prime
and doing the Comedy
Cavalcade to appease the IRS,
but to Benjie Stone, he is the
hero of a lifetime.
The scenes between
O’Toole and Linn-Baker are
easily the best in the film. Linn-
Baker is short, overweight, and
in every way the quintessential
Brooklyn Jew. O’Toole is, of
course, O’Toole. Little more
need be said. Few actors carry
the same presence, the same
energy as the tall, lanky
Irishman.
All of this is amazing, con­
sidering that it is the directorial
debut of Richard Benjamin,
who has acted in such movies
as “The Sunshine Boys” and
“Love at First Bite,” and in the
television series “He and She”
with his wife, Paula Prentiss.
Benjamin is in control of
this movie from start to finish.
He keeps the pace running
smoothly along.
The movie also stars
Jessica Harper, last seen in
Steve Martin’s “Pennies from
Heaven.” Harper has one of
those faces that seems to fit any
era. She looks as much at
home in the 1950’s as she did
ip Pennies’ 1930’s. She can
also act quite well, and her
Hometown, USA looks off-set
both Linn-Baker’s New-York-
Rumpled and O’Toole’s
Aligonquin-Club Dash. x
“My Favorite Year” is a
thoroughly fun movie. It has a
charm and simplicity, without
using frontal nudity as a crutch,
that makes the movie a breath
of fresh air.
“My Favorite Year” is a
movie you could take your
parents to.
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