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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 15, 1963)
SUNDAY. DECEMBER IS, 1MB A 3 On the Air By ELEANOR WIESE MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON A mixture of historical fact, traditional legends and a dose of dramatic license is used to tell the story of the composer, George Frederick Handel, in "A Cry of Angels" today at 4 p.m. on KMED-TV. The hour-long production centers around the period of Handel's life when he composed "The Messiah." "We hope to achieve a real 18th century feeling,", says author Sherman Yellen, "the spirituality o( the period, the bawdiness of the era and the beauty of the music written by Handel in the midst of this turb ulent time." In the main, the basic facts of Handel's life are adhered to. The difficult personality of the temperamental Handel (played by Walter Slezak) will be illu strated in a series of incidents discovered in the author's re search on the composer. At one point Handel is re buked for having disciplined an operatic soprano, who added extra notes to one of his arias, by hanging her by her heels out a window. In Yellen's script the lady so treated is called Sere phina, but represents a proto type of all the sopranos who be deviled the life of the composer. "I am sure that many people would consider the incidents we portray as 'corny' but the facts of Handel's life are corny," Yellen says. "He had almost no personal life since he was com pletely dedicated to music, and when his reputation as a com poser was challenged, it was a great personal tragedy to him. No wonder his music conveyed pain and sorrow as well as exultation." Maureen O'Hara will portray Mrs. Cibber, the notorious actress-singer who befriended Han del and sang the leading soprano role in the premiere perform ance of "The Messiah" in Dub lin in 1741. Hermione Gingold plays Princess Caroline. TWENTIETH CENTURY, 6 p.m. Sunday KBES-TV. Walter Cronkite visits the Strategic Air Command's underground com mand post at Offutt Air Force Base, Omaha, Neb., where Gen. Thomas S. Power discusses the flexibility of SAC's weapons sys tem and safety devices. THE MAKING OF A PRO, 10 p.m. Sunday KMED-TV. The quarterback is the key man in professional football. Cameras show top quarterbacks in action and follow the career of Glynn Griffing, former University of Mississippi AU-American and now number two New York Giants quarterback. Coach Allie Sherman and Giants Quarter back Y.A. Tittle also appear on the program. FOCAL POINT, 10 a.m. daily KMED-TV. Monday: Coordina tion of Christmas basket distri bution by the Intercommunity Council Christmas Bureau is ex plained by Capt. Kenneth Angel of the Salvation Army, Mrs. Laura Porter and Mrs. Gilles pie. Tuesday: Dr. Richard Doi. Southern Oregon College, Ted Streeter, Southern Oregon Pho- j tographic Society, and Ed Klim- ko display pnoiograpns trom me exhibit to open at the Rogue Valley Gallery. Wednesday: Mrs. Helen Gebhardt shows work of senior citizen crafts men which will be on sale at Evergreen Crafts. Load Limit Placed On Road To Lake The Bureau of Public Roads has set a load limit on a portion of the Lake of the Woods High way again, according to a letter read by the Jackson County Court Friday. R. W. Parsons, BPR division engineer, wrote that the roadbed on a section of the highway is unstable. The protective load limit will be in effect from Tues day until further notice, he wrote. These include 11,000 pounds gross for a single axle and 20,000 pounds gross on tan dem axles. It covers the highway section from cast of the Fish Lake re sort junction to the junction with the Dead Indian Road. ' YOUTH POWER, 7:30 p.m Monday KMED-TV. Terry Bowles, Medford High Junior, tells of recent developments in plans for a teen center. BREAKING POINT, 10 p.m. Monday KBES-TV. Lillian Gish and Walter Pidgeon star in a tender story of an aging but grand lady of the theater brought to Dr. "Mac's" atten tion because she refused to ac cept the death of her husband. Yooffi's Arrest Clears Up Many Local Cases With the arrest last week of 15-year-old Medford boy more than 45 Jackson County and Medford cases have been clear ed. The boy has been sent to McLaren School for Boys, law enforcement officers here re port. Several thousand dollars worth of Items were stolen by the youth, Jackson County Sheriff's deputies and Medford police re port. Many of the articles were de stroyed. The cases cleared range from house burglaries, car thefts, malicious mischief, to dumping about 1,000 gallons of oil in a local orchard. RAWHIDE, 8 p.m. Thursday KBES-TV. Mivoshi Umcki. who starred in both Broadway and motion picture versions of "Flower Drum Song," makes a guest appearance in "Incident of the Geisha." BOB HOPE THEATRE, 8:30 n.m. Friday KMED-TV. John O'Hara's short study, "It's Mental Work," is adapted for TV by Rod Sterling with Lee J Tnhh slarring Ex lieht-heaw- weight champion Archie Moore has an important role. TWILIGHT ZONE, 9:30 p.m. Friday KBES-TV. Sam Forst mann (Ed Wynn), a retired elockmakor. believes he will die if his grandfather's clock stops ticking. ALFRED HITCHCOCK, 10 p.m. Friday KBES-TV. "How to Get Rid of Your Wife." Bob Newhart is the villain of this piece and Jane Withers is the wife plotted against. , A MAN CALLED PETER, 9 p.m. Saturday KMED-TV. Rich ard Todd stars as Peter Mar shall, the Scottish immigrant who became the chaplain of the U.S. Senate, IfORTH'S EXTRAORDINARY VALUE! 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