Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, June 29, 1990 TAG: 9006290450
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The 500-seat Helen Hayes-Tappan Zee Performing Arts Center, to open in 1991, is to offer theater, children's events, music and film.
The new playhouse will get the children "off the streets and away from movies about murder and mayhem," Hayes said.
Hayes welcomed friends to a twilight fete Wednesday at her Victorian river mansion 30 miles north of the Great White Way.
She told more than 100 friends, including actors Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Colleen Dewhurst and Jose Ferrer, about what she calls the "little theater" that will be her 90th birthday gift in October. It's a turn-of-the-century silent movie house that's being renovated into a $5 million arts center in her name.
\ Prince Charles broke his arm Thursday in a polo accident when he fell from his horse, police said.
Buckingham Palace confirmed the 41-year-old prince had broken his right arm and was being treated in a hospital.
The accident occurred during a match at Cirencester Park, Gloucestershire. It is seven miles from Highgrove, the country home of Charles and his wife, Diana, and 70 miles west of London. The princess was in London.
Charles was playing for his team, Windsor Park, when he fell from his horse 30 minutes into play.
"The prince slipped off his horse. He has got a nasty break above the right elbow," said police Chief Inspector Colin Handy.
A spokesman for Charles said the prince was in the process of making a shot when he lost his balance.
The prince was taken to Cirencester Memorial Hospital.
\ k.d. lang, the Canadian country star, has gotten a bad review from a Nebraska radio station because the Grammy winner appears in a new ad campaign called "Meat Stinks."
KRVN in Lexington will boycott lang until she renounces the group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals and her "fanatic anti-meat philosophy," program director Charlie Brogan said.
KRVN, which broadcasts country music, farm and market reports to Nebraska, Kansas and Iowa, was formed by farm groups in the late 1940s, Brogan said Wednesday.
"This is more than supporting the local economy. It's part of our mission of ag service," Brogan said. "Her music has given her a platform. . . . We decided by not playing her music, we're not enhancing that platform."
The singer appears in the ad with a cow and says, "If you knew how meat was made, you'd probably lose your lunch. I know - I'm from cattle country. That's why I became a vegetarian. Meat stinks, and not just for animals but for human health and environment."
Dan Mathews, PETA director of special projects, said the TV ads and a print ad campaign will begin this summer.
"We were thrilled to have k.d. lang with her cattle country background," Mathews said. "Animals have no voice and k.d. has such a beautiful voice."
by CNB