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Hie Herald and The Lantern

4 Days of Services At St. Mary’s STONE HARBOR - St. Mjrj * -Epticop.] Church, at 95th St. and Third Ave., will celebrate Easier with the Holy Eucharist at 8, 9:30 and 11 a m. April 6. Organist Ellis Dunn and the choir will perform at the9:30andll:00services The Holy Eucharist will also be offered 10 a m. and 7:30 p.m. Maundy Thursday, after which the altar will be stripped. The Good Friday liturgy will begin at noon and be followed by the Holy Eucharist. Organ and choir will accompany the Thursday evening and Friday services. Holy Saturday will be observed as of 4 p.m. with Easter Vigil and Holy Baptism. The E.C.W. will have no meetings until April 14. St. Mary’s rector is the Rev.^ Wesley H. Martin. Office hours are 9 to noon Tuesday through Saturday (368-59221. Services Will Celebrate The Resurrection N. WILDWOOD - With the Easter altar festively garlanded by lilies and other sprinr flowers, the Sunday services at United ' Methodist Churcn will celebrate the Resurrection •' of Jesus Christ. Pastor John M. Long will speak on "Easter’s Double Imperative.” Special organ music will be presented by Jayne Holley. Preceding the Easter worship hour at ll, the congregation will unite in the hymn-sing that begins at 10:45. Provision for Sunday school at the same hour is given by Gertrude

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Cold Spring Presbyterian COLD SPRING-Easter Holy Communion will be served by Rev. Stuart A. Wood tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. at the Cold Spring Presbyterian Church, Seashore Rd. Dr. Donald Barnhouse will deliver the Easter morning service. The sermon topic will be “The Power of Suffering”. Thursday, April 10 Keth Seager will show slides on "Life in Viet Nam" at 7:30 p.m. in Price Hall.

The Hot L Baltimore

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Beautifully Directed Production

THE LIGHTHOUSE near Cape May Point as seen through winter-killed goldenrod clusters along Sunset Blvd. In Ixmer Township.

SL1 Million Ferry Named N. CAPE MAY — "M.V. Atlantic" is the name selected by the Delaware River & Bay Authority for the new $10.75 million ferry to be added to the Cape May-Lewes Ferrv

fleet.

DRBA director William J. Miller Jr. reports construction plans for the new ferry are on schedule, and that the keel laying will be underway the first week of April 1980; completion is planned for spring 1981. IRS Energy Credit Allowed

NEWARK, N.J. - With the deadline for filing 1979 Federal income tax forms less than three weeks away, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) reports that about one-half of New Jersey filers have sent in their returns. About 3.1 million returns are expected to be filed by the

April 15 deadline.

The energy credit, in effect for the second year, has been identified as a problem area. Hie credit (a direct reduction of taxes' is 15 percent of the cost of items taxpayers spend to make the^r residences more energy efficient. Items that qualify for the credit are automatic set back thermostats, replacement furnace burners, in-

Sermon On Rejoicing

CREST — "Easter: This is the day the Lord has made: Rejoice" will be Rev. Charles Rowe’s sermon topic for the ll a.m. Easter service at

Community Church.

Two Easter anthems will be presented by the adult choir; the youth choir will sing too. Sunday school begins at 9:30 with adult

and youth classes.

sulation, storm windows, caulking, and weatherstripping. Items that do not qualify are aluminum siding, neMtf roofs, car peting, paneling, draperies, fireplaces, wood burning stoves, heat pumps, clothes dryers, fluorescent lighting, and swimming pools.

Reviewed by

Libby Demp Forrest

The act looked like my living room and the curtains didn't part (there weren’t any) as players of the Cape May Community Theater performed Lanford Wilson’s "The Hot L Baltimore" last Friday night for the first of four performances. (The remaining performances will run this Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. in Cape May Qty Hall auditorium. An enthusiastic audience of approximately ioo theater goers attended the .opening night performance and appeared to come away vdth respect for this flourishing company titlat is staging an absorbing and effective comedy-drama about the final days of a doomed hotel. LORRAINE MARINO offered throughout the three-act show an extremely polished performance as a winsome and slightly batty young woman caught in the revolving-door atmosphere of a madcap transient-hotel lobby People with decadent characters who roam through the lobby displaying a variety of idiosyncracies and very human foibles, there are moments in the play, directed by Peter Vernon, when one is unsure whether

to laugh or to cry.

Perhaps that is why M, nie Hot L Baltimore” should be an appealing show to many people hungry for live theater in this part of the shore. The set-while it did look like my living room—was cleverly designed and executed. It was supposed to look seedy and Salvation Army-ish and it did. (It’s my living room that shouldn't

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look that way.)

ERECTED IN FRONT of (he curUlm on the aty Hall stage (that's why the curial* didn’t part), the set included a staircase, front desk and mailboxes, and brooni cloael. It was obvious much time, thought and artistic effort went into the design and

construction of the quaint set

Laura (lark was outrageously sue cessful as a loud and boisterous wisecracking proetitute. dominating her lines with a verve the audience seemed appreciative of The one brisUing flaw in the plag, unfortunately came generally through her llnes-thc frequent isw of profanity. While the language is in contemporary usage, there are still many people in oiir society who resent hearing so many four letter words, especially in an area such as this populated with So many

comwrvative citizens.

HOWEVER*. EACH PLAYER in lhi« beautifully directed production, per formed the definitive characterizations with applomb and in the best tradition? of

showbiz.

A special nod goes to John Vernon who exerted a quiet humor throughout the show: Other noteworthy performances included l^e Ijiyton as a frolicking blond prostitute. Eleanor Vernon is a delcimng retiree, and Komy (iack as a pathetic

runaway

Support from the commurtity could do much to get the shore crowd to turn off the boob tube and come out to live theater such as offered in "Hot "I" Baltimore”

Message Of Easter Sun.

RIO GRANDE - "11)6 Message of Easter" will be Pastor Guy Rathmell’s sermon title for the ll a.m. service April. 6. The Sunday school, which meets with classes for all ages at 9:45 a.m.,

will present a program on "The Easter Dream’’ during the 7 p.m. church service. There is a family prayer meeting 7 p.m. Wednesday. The children's clubs meet at 7 on Thursday evening.

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ACTION. The federal government’s agency for volunteer service, h made a supplemental gri of $4,102 to the Retn~ Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) operating in Cape

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expenses.

The county freeholders sponsors the RSVP program of 425 senior volunteers around the

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