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January ’07 REGISTRATIONS Yoga . See January 9 6 SATURDAY 15 MONDAY 26 FRIDAY EXHIBITS LARRY DINKIN: The Art Advisory Council TRAVEL PHOTOGRAPHER DOUG GO- SANDWICHED IN: Louis Comfort Tiffany hosts a reception for the artist whose work ING presents Nicaragua... A la Orden! and Laurelton Hall — An Artist’s Country In the Main Gallery is in the Main Gallery. 2 to 4 p.m. Overshadowed by its tourist Mecca neigh- Estate. Laurelton Hall, Tiffany’s extraordi- bor to the south, Costa Rica , and still nary country estate in Oyster Bay, was com- REMEMBERING EVERETT BRENNER; LARRY DINKIN: Serigraph Visions: Improb- plagued by its own tumultuous political past, pleted in 1905, and was the epitome of the Life, love and lullabies: Mostly Theater Mu- able to Inevitable, January 3 through 29. Nicaragua is all too often overlooked by designer’s achievement. This exhibition, sic. 7:30 p.m. Story in this issue. The Art Advisory Council hosts a reception travelers. But this makes for a more genu- which continues at the Metropolitan Mu- for the artist on Saturday, January 6 from 2 ine experience and a greater sense of ad- seum of Art to May 20, is a window into to 4 p.m. Photo on front page. venture – all the more reason to go! In this Tiffany’s most personal art. Although the In the Photography Gallery dynamic digital multi-media presentation, house tragically burned to the ground in volcanoes loom and beaches beckon! Stun- 1957, the exhibition brings together many BILL ENGLANDER: PHOTOGRAPHS, ning photography, authentic music and an of its surviving architectural elements and January 3 through February 28. Port resi- 7 SUNDAY in-depth narration combine to deliver an interior features. Join Museum docent Ines dent Bill Englander’s photographs are on 1930S FILM FESTIVAL: Two films written by emotionally charged experience. Hear the Powell for a slide-illustrated lecture of the exhibit. Story in this issue. and starring Mae West. In Wesley Ruggles’ calls from colorful markets, venture into exhibition, which also features Tiffany’s I’m No Angel (1933-88 min.), Mae stars as car- dense tropical jungles, and marvel at a way breathtaking stained-glass windows, paint- nival performer Tira, who when she isn’t put- of life that time — and most travelers — ings, glass and ceramic vases, and his col- ting her head into a lion’s jaws, is flirting with have passed by. Regardless of its low pro- lections of Japanese, Chinese and Native rich men and accepting expensive presents. file as a tourist destination, Nicaragua is a American works of art. 12:10 p.m. When a fortune-teller tells her that the love geologically and culturally vibrant land. TUESDAY Above all else that the country has to of- “GOAL! THE DREAM BEGINS” (2006-118 2 of her life has black hair, she wonders if it minutes, PG-13). See description on back might be Jack Clayton (Cary Grant). After a fer is the warm, welcoming pride of its 1930S FILM FESTIVAL: This month we people. Come along on this journey and ex- page. 7:30 p.m. Co-sponsored by TeenSpace present a baker’s dozen of classic movies brief intermission, we present Alexander Hall’s SUNDAY and Media Services. Goin’ to Town (1935-81 min.). Dance hall perience the essence of Nicaragua that is... 21 from that golden age of cinema, the 1930s. queen Cleo Borden (West) inherits a collec- “A la Orden.” Doug Going has presented MÁIRE O’BRIEN: The Music Advisory The festival begins tonight with that tap- his photography exhibition, Remnants of nd tion of oil wells supervised by British engineer Council presents the soprano in a concert dancing treasure, 42 Street (1933-89 min.). Childhood: Images and Impressions of Chil- When a dancer (Bebe Daniels) injures her Carrington (Paul Cavanagh), whom Cleo sets featuring the music of Josef Marx, Claude out to win by becoming a “lady.” 1:30 p.m. dren from Faraway Lands, at the Library, Debussy, G. F. Handel and Richard Hundley, ankle, a tough musical director (Warner and has screened two popular multi-media Baxter) gives a chorus girl (Ruby Keeler) as well as musical settings of poetry by W. SUNDAY programs, Remnants of Childhood and Vi- B. Yeats and other Irish poets. She will be 28 the chance to star in a Broadway musical. sions of Peru; look for Doug’s screening and accompanied by pianist Mark Riggleman. 3 1930S FILM FESTIVAL: A Carole Lombard Busby Berkeley choreographed the amaz- discussion of Ron Fricke’s Baraka on Janu- ing production numbers (“Shuffle Off to p.m. Story on front page. Double Feature. In Man of the World (1931- ary 22. Sponsored by the Friends of the Li- 71 min.), a young American girl (Lombard) Buffalo ,” “You’re Getting to Be a Habit with brary. 2 p.m. Me,” “ 42nd Street ”) for director Lloyd Ba- 9 TUESDAY visits Paris , where she meets and is ro- con. George Brent, Una Merkel, Guy manced by a worldly – and dishonest – nov- YOGA: Registration begins today for a se- elist (William Powell). Herman J. Kibbee, Ned Sparks and Dick Powell co-star. ries of 8 classes to take place on Thursdays 7:30 p.m. Mankiewicz scripted for director Richard at 6 p.m. Classes start February 1. A check MONDAY Wallace. After a brief intermission, Lombard for $20 payable to the Port Washington Pub- 22 joins fellow castaways Bing Crosby, George lic Library is due at time of registration. 16 TUESDAY “BARAKA” (1992-104 min.). Photographer Burns, Gracie Allen, Ethel Merman and and world traveler Doug Going returns to in- HYPERTENSION SCREENING by St. FILMMAKER DOUG BLOCK presents an Leon Errol on a desert island in Norman troduce and discuss Ron Fricke’s visually Taurog’s glossy musical comedy We’re Not Francis Hospital. 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. encore presentation of 51 Birch Street stunning tour of the globe, which was shot (2005-88 min.). Sponsored by the Friends Dressing (1934-74 min.). 1:30 p.m. 3 WEDNESDAY TOPICAL TUESDAY: Witness to Nurem- in 70mm in 24 countries on six continents. of the Library. See January 5 for descrip- berg. Port Washington author Richard Spanning such diverse locales as China, Bra- 1930S FILM FESTIVAL: Dancing Lady tion. 7:30 p.m. (1933-92 min.). A burlesque dancer (Joan Sonnenfeldt, will sign copies of his book, fol- zil, Kuwait, Europe and the United States, the Crawford) determines to become a Broad- lowing his talk, 7:30 p.m. Story in this issue. film reveals both the harmony and calamity way star by hounding a famous producer of life on our planet. Sponsored by the (Clark Gable). Allen Rivkin and P.J. Wolfson Friends of the Library. 7:30 p.m. 29 MONDAY scripted, from a book by James Warner LIBRARY FOUNDATION meets. 8 p.m. 1930S FILM FESTIVAL: San Francisco Bellah, for director Robert Z. Leonard. Co- WEDNESDAY stars include Franchot Tone, May Robson, 17 (1936-115 min.). W.S. Van Dyke II’s classic Fred Astaire, Robert Benchley, and the WEDNESDAY LIBRARY BOARD OF TRUSTEES meet. stars Clark Gable as rakish Barbary Coast 10 kingpin Blackie Norton, Jeanette Three Stooges. Also, the Three Stooges Executive session at 7 p.m. The public is READING GROUP: A discussion of The Fi- star in Jack Cummings’s short, Plane Nuts invited to attend at 7:30 p.m. MacDonald as singer Mary Blake, and Spen- nal Confession of Mabel Stark by Robert (1933-20 min.), and Curly appears in cer Tracy as two-fisted Father Tim Mullin. Hough, facilitated by Lee Fertitta. 7 p.m. TUESDAY Samuel Baerwitz’s short, Roast-Beef and 1930S FILM FESTIVAL: Treasure Island 23 The recreation of the cataclysmic earth- Movies (1934-16 min.). 7:30 p.m. (1934-103 min.) Young Jim Hawkins (Jackie 1930S FILM FESTIVAL: The Gay Divorcee quake remains one of the great action se- Cooper) joins peg-legged pirate Long John (1934-105 min.). Fred Astaire and Ginger quences in cinema history. Also, two travel- Silver (Wallace Beery) on a high seas ad- Rogers star in Mark Sandrich’s delightful ogues, Cavalcade of San Francisco (1940-9 venture in search of buried treasure. John musical comedy about divorce and mistaken min.) and Night Descends on Treasure Is- Lee Mahin scripted this adaptation of Rob- identity. Songs include the Oscar-winning land (1940-8 min.). 7:30 p.m. 11 THURSDAY ert Louis Stevenson’s yarn. Lionel “The Continental,” “Night and Day,” “Look- Barrymore, Otto Kruger, Lewis Stone and THURSDAY DIRECTOR’S CUT: Film expert John Bosco ing for a Needle in a Haystack,” “Let’s K- 4 Nigel Bruce co-star. 7:30 p.m. nock K-nees” and “Don’t Let It Bother You.” will screen and discuss Joyeux Noel (Merry SENIOR CONNECTIONS: Information and Christmas) (2005-116 min.). World War I, the The supporting cast includes Alice Brady, referral service staffed by trained volun- bloodiest war ever at that time in human his- Edward Everett Horton, Erik Rhodes, Eric teers designed to link older adults and their tory, was well under way in the winter of Blore and Betty Grable. 7:30 p.m. 30 TUESDAY families to needed resources. Thursdays 1914. However on Christmas Eve, numer- from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. 1930S FILM FESTIVAL: Bullets or Ballots ous sections of the Western Front called an THURSDAY (1936-82 min.). Police detective Edward G. informal and unauthorized truce, during 18 Robinson goes undercover as a crook to which the front-line soldiers peacefully met 3rd THURSDAYS @ 3: SOCIAL SECURITY break a crime ring.