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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
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