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andy@denpubs.com NORTH CREEK Ñ The Tannery Pond Community Center will be showing a popular Charlie Chaplin silent film from the 1920s on Oct. 23 in the old style, with an accompanist playing the piano. The film — “The Kid” — dates to 1921, during ChaplinÕ s heydays in Hollywood. The story finds Chaplin’s character, the little Tramp, adopting and raising a child, played by 4-year-old Jackie Coogan. It was groundbreaking, combining comedy and drama, and was ChaplinÕ s first fully formed featurelength movie. Its huge success opened the doors for Keaton, Lloyd and others to move out of short comedies. “The Kid” will be shown with ChaplinÕ s short 1918 comedy, “A Dog’s Life,” and will be accompanied live on piano by Ben Model, one of the countryÕ s leading silent film accompanists who has been composing and improvising musical scores for silent films for 30 years. Model accompanies silents regularly at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and the Library of Congress, and his recorded scores can be heard on numerous DVD/Blu-Ray releases and on Turner Classic Movies. He is the producer and co-founder of The Silent Clowns Film Series, now in its 15th season in New York City. Model has composed ensemble scores for films by Chaplin, Keaton and Lloyd are performed around the U.S. CONTINUED ON PAGE 9
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Members of the Our Town Theatre Group’s cast of “Postmortem” — a mystery thriller by Ken Ludwig — get ready to rehearse. From left are Dan Studnicky (Bobby), Hannah Jay (May), Dennis Wilson (Leo), Judy Stafford (Louise), Maryann Sauro (Aunt Lilly), Barbara Westbrook (Marion), and Eric D. Potter (William Gillette). The play will be performed in the Lyle Dye Auditorium at Tannery Pond Community Center on Friday, Oct. 18 and Saturday, Oct. 19 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, Oct. 20 at 1:30 p.m. Tickets are $12 for adults and $8 for students through grade 12. To order tickets, call (518) 406-8840 or email the ticket order to OTTGTickets@gmail.com. Photo provided
Mystery set to thrill local audiences By Andy Flynn andy@denpubs.com NORTH CREEK Ñ Members of the Our Town Theatre Group (OTTG) will be performing a mystery thriller this weekend featuring an eccentric actor and a sŽ ance in a Connecticut castle during “Postmortem,” a play by Ken Ludwig. Director Colleen Potter said she was looking for something different for the fall main stage production, and the OTTG has never produced a mystery thriller before. “Since our show goes up in October, we figured we’d do something that ties in with the Halloween theme,” Potter said.
“I read a couple different plays, and ‘PostmortemÕ was the one that really struck me.” This play poses some logistical challenges for the group, including building sets for the time period, April 1922. “And all of the technical elements of it, from gunshots to magic theatrics happening on stage,” Potter said. “There’s a sŽ ance in one of the scenes that had its own technical elements that posed a challenge.” There are also challenges for the actors, who are working hard to keep the scenes fun and thrilling, shying away from melodrama. “We’re trying to keep it more realistic,”
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Potter said. “The actors are working on keeping their reactions natural and their characters realistic.” The main character is based on a real actor, William Gillette (1853-1937). In the play, the cast of his latest Broadway revival of “Sherlock Holmes” has assembled for a weekend of relaxation at his medieval castle on a bluff overlooking the Connecticut River. Ludwig describes his own play this way: “For entertainment, actor-manager, playwright and heart-throb William Gillette, best known for his 30-year portrayal
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Sports memorabilia auction at nursing home By Andy Flynn
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NORTH CREEK — Local nursing home officials are adding a sports memorabilia auction to their 4th annual Sportsmen’s Raffle fundraising event Oct. 26 in the hope of generating more interest and raising more money for the facility. The Adirondack Tri-County Nursing and Rehabilitation Center on State Route 28 is more than a nursing home Ñ the only one within 40 miles. It also features adult day care and an outpatient physical therapy/
rehabilitation center to make ends meet. Yet, in this fiscal climate, government reimbursements are dwindling, according to Administrator Hal Payne, and it’s getting more difficult to pay the bills. “It’s getting worse every year,” Payne said. “The cuts to Medicaid and Medicare have been significant over the years, especially the last few years.”
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To help make up for those deficits, Adirondack Tri-County launched its first Sportsmen’s Raffle four years ago, including raffles for hunting and fishing items and a four-wheel all-terrain vehicle. Generating
about $10,000-$12,000 in revenue each year, itÕ s been a successful fundraiser. “It’s extremely vital to the facility,” Payne said. “This event is run mostly by the employees, and employees know the hardships that weÕ re facing and work hard at this to give us some additional revenue for things for the residents.” This year, they have the opportunity to throw in a silent auction with sports memorabilia: •2013 Eli Manning poster •Jimmer Fredette autographed picture CONTINUED ON PAGE 11
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