CENTER'S FILM FESTIVAL RECALLS JUDY GARLAND.Byline: Daily News Lancaster Performing Arts Center A performing arts center, often abbreviated PAC, is a multi-use performance space that can be adapted for use by various types of the performing arts, including dance, music and theatre. will host a film festival featuring one of the city's most famous former residents. Judy Garland, who as a girl lived in a house on Cedar Avenue from 1926 to 1933, will star in ``Summer Stock'' at 7:30 p.m. tonight, ``The Wizard of Oz'' at 2 p.m. Saturday and ``The Harvey Girls'' at 7:30 p.m. Saturday. Videotape versions of the films will be shown on a screen set up in the Center's Black Box auxiliary theater. Tickets for each film are $4 for adults and $2 for children age 12 and younger. ``Summer Stock,'' made in 1950, co-stars dancer Gene Kelly in the story of a Broadway production company that barters the right to rehearse a new show on a farm by agreeing to pitch in and help with the farm chores. ``The Wizard of Oz Wizard of Oz reaches and departs from Oz in circus balloon. [Children’s Lit.: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz] See : Ballooning Wizard of Oz false wizard takes up residence in Emerald City. [Am. Lit. ,'' released in 1939, was Garland's 14th film and was made when she was 16. ``The Harvey Girls,'' released in 1946, stars Garland as a young woman who works as a waitress in a Fred Harvey restaurant on the Santa Fe railroad Santa Fe Railroad, former U.S. railroad, chartered in 1863 as the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe RR; opened to traffic in 1864. Construction continued, and in 1880 it reached Santa Fe, N.Mex.; the following year the railroad connected with the Southern Pacific RR. . The movie also stars Ray Bolger, the Scarecrow Scarecrow goes to Wizard of Oz to get brains. [Am. Lit.: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz] See : Ignorance Scarecrow can’t live up to his name. [Am. Lit.: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz; Am. from ``The Wizard of Oz,'' and features on Oscar-winning song, ``On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe.'' Garland, then Frances Gumm, came to Lancaster from Minnesota in 1926 with her mother, father and two older sisters. Her father ran the Valley Theater on Sierra Highway, showing movies and putting the girls on stage. As the girls got older, their mother toured them around the country, adopting the stage name of Garland after a Chicago show program misspelled the name as ``Glum glum adj. glum·mer, glum·mest 1. Moody and melancholy; dejected. 2. Gloomy; dismal. n. 1. .'' Judy signed a movie contract with MGM MGM in full Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. U.S. corporation and film studio. It was formed when the film distributor Marcus Loew, who bought Metro Pictures in 1920, merged it with the Goldwyn production company in 1924 and with Louis B. Mayer Pictures in 1925. in 1935. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Judy Garland Former Lancaster resident |
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