“Just Chillin’ A little History...& More September Salutations!


Santa Rosa, CA. ~ Happy 99th Birthday September 14th to Eric Bentley, an extremely popular Brander Matthews Professor of Drama at Columbia University, NYC, many decades ago, when I was a grad student there in English and Comparative The lec-


Lit.


ture hall was always packed when he took charge of a podium. Bent- ley encour- aged lively exchanges and could dish out sarcastic wit with ladle-size portions. He has a huge fol- lowing.


British-born, naturalized American citi- zen, Bentley is held in high es- teem as an author, editor, sharp critic, playwright, singer, and gifted translator.


sold WQXR recently. Like our local KDFC here, it now is com- pletely listener sponsored. Masterpiece Theater--locally on PBS CH9--ran their newest fabulously beautiful production of “Poldark” lately. Bril- liant, by far the best version to treasure. Ar- tistically set in Cornwall, it is faithful


to by


twelve excel- lent novels


the of


the Poldark saga


Brit


Winston Gra- ham, who lived to 95. With history-loving care, he wrote four dozen sus- penseful novels. Some became films, includ- ing Hitchcock’s


He will point


out, to any willing to listen, that he much prefers his work as an author of “The Life of Drama” (1964) to his earlier blockbust- er book that brought him fame in 1946, “The Playwright as Thinker.”


Bentley’s long and


fruitful association with Bertolt Brecht plus his translations of all Brecht’s works are pre-eminent in the world of theater.


Bentley


gave me my first commission to do an illustration for his Grove Edition of translation of Brecht’s poetry “Manual of Piety.” –The immensely talented, multi-lin- gual Bentley still is taking on projects. He assures us the only thing he will not do is to write a novel!


Happy 164th Birthday to


The New York Times, founded and continuously published in NYC since Sept. 18, 1851! One hundred years later, I hap- pily entered “the work force” at “The Gray Lady” music staff of WQXR, their classical radio station, in their grand old Times Square Building. 117 Pulitzer Prizes later, after moving, they


choice, “Marnie.” Like holding a fine old book you treasure, seeing an occa- sional great film on TCM clas- sic films can be as much fun as greeting a long-lost dear friend. Raise a toast in memory of Brit- ish director Michael Powell’s September 30th 1905 birthday. He and Hungarian émigré to England Emeric Pressburger collaborated for decades making films passionately. One of their finest is “I Know Where I’m Go- ing,” a 1945 film dedicated film


Rebekah Roberts is Back!


fans like. This magical tale of love, even after repeated view- ings, remains uncanny since every piece of the complex pro- duction puzzle fits snugly and perfectly. Dame Wendy Marga- ret Hiller played the part of Joan Webster, and Roger Livesey per- formed as the Laird of Kiloran, Torquil MacNeil. Wendy Hiller, whose acting career spanned 60 years, mainly performed on stage. (George Bernard Shaw himself--whose 160th birthday date next July will be grandly celebrated--chose Wendy Hill- er, his favorite leading lady, for three great plays.) Powell and Pressburger had


great taste. This film showcased the artistic talents of cinematog- rapher Erwin Hillier. Although known for their films in color, this rare film is in black and white. Marvelous handling of the intense, complicated scenes involved the actual Corryvreck-


UPBEAT TIMES, INC. • September 2015 • 5 by Ellie Schmidt ~ eschmidt@upbeattimes.com


an whirlpool in the narrow Strait of Corryvreckan, the third larg- est maelstrom in the world. Be- tween two islands off the rough west coast of Scotland, wild tidal currents create the swirling vor- tex due to pyramidal rock on the sea floor. It is such a loud exam- ple of furious activity in that wild sea the noise of it can be heard ten miles away. Many Celtic leg- ends describe the ceaseless swirl- ing waters, occasionally green or blue. They named it “Brecan’s Cauldron.”


The film transports


us to Hebridean islands of Scar- ba, Jura, and Lunga. The charm of lilting Scottish folk songs sparkles in the uplifting score. Martin Scorsese claimed this film “a masterpiece.” –Happy September 29th birthday, Molly Haskell!


A prominent, current


film critic, she chose this film as one of her “10 greatest films of all time” in 2012. Haskell is


... continued on page 22


Weird Facts & Fun Trivia - 2 Lollipops were first made in New Haven, Connecticut in 1908 by George Smith. They were named after a race horse of the time, Lolly Pop.


Louisiana is the third largest rice producing state, growing about 13.8 % of the U.S. rice crop on almost 400,000 acres. Louisiana grows mostly long grain rice.


Breaux Bridge, is the ‘Crawfish Capital of the World’.


M&M’s were invented in 1940.


From 1976 to 1985, there were no red M&Ms.


Blue M&Ms were introduced in 1995.


Waxings, Facials & More!! 1410 Guerneville Rd. Ste 2 Santa Rosa, CA ~ 95403 (707) 541-6189


www.RebekahRoberts707.com There is a fine line between dreams and reality, it’s up to you to draw it. ~B. Quilliam UPBEAT TIMES, INC. • September 2015 • 5


Page 1  |  Page 2  |  Page 3  |  Page 4  |  Page 5  |  Page 6  |  Page 7  |  Page 8  |  Page 9  |  Page 10  |  Page 11  |  Page 12  |  Page 13  |  Page 14  |  Page 15  |  Page 16  |  Page 17  |  Page 18  |  Page 19  |  Page 20  |  Page 21  |  Page 22  |  Page 23  |  Page 24