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City of Cape May - 13th Annual FREE Band Concerts 8:00 p.m. Victorian Bandstand Rotary Park - Lafayette Street (Please bring your own seating) WEDNESDAY, JULY 9TH Mays Landing Veterans Band SATURDAY, JULY 12TH Golden Eagle Band WEDNESDAY, JULY 16TH Cumberland Comm. College Band WEDNESDAY, JULY 23RD LuLu Temple Shrine Band SATURDAY, JULY 26TH Liberty Band TUESDAY, JULY 29TH Coast Guard Training Ctr. Band WEDNESDAY, JULY 30TH Barrington Band SATURDAY, AUGUST 2ND Golden Eagle Band WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6TH Fort Monmouth Band SATURDAY, AUGUST 9TH H.B. Smith Cornet Band WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13TH Atlantic Brass Band SATURDAY, AUGUST 16TH Barrington Band WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20TH L.C.M.R. High School Band SATURDAY, AUGUST 23RD LuLu Temple Shrine Band WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27TH Mays Landing Veterans Band SATURDAY, AUGUST 30TH H.B. Smith Cornet Band TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2ND Air Force Band of the East (If rain. Convention Hall) THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4TH Atlantic Brass Band SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6TH Barrington Band

Gaslight Tours Open Mansions

> CAPE MAY - Mansions by Gaslight Tours will open four of the city's most famous Victorian landmarks to the public every Wednesday evening in Jul ly. The tours will be held I 8-10 p.m. » Sponsored by the MidAtlantic Center for the Arts ( MAC ) . these tours offer an f intimate insight into Vic- '■ torian lifestyles. In each I house, guides point out the | many original furnishings on display. TICKETS FOR the tour may be purchased at the Emlen Physick House. 1048 Washington St.. starting one half hour before tour time. In order to help tourgoers get from one house to another, MAC's trolley-bus will run on a continuous transit loop. Tour-goers intending to take the trolley to all four houses should start at the Physick House no later than 8 p.m. THE EMLEN PHYSICK House. 1048 Washington St.. designed by famous ar chitect Frank Furness and completed in 1879. is a noted Victorian House Museum. It is the headquarters of the MidAt.antic Center for the Arts. The Abbey. Columbia Avenue and Gurney Street, built in 1869 for a Pennsylvania coal baron, is an outstanding example of Gothic Revival Architecture. It features a 60-foot tower, etched ruby glass windows, and some of the most elegant formal rooms in town.

THE MAINSTAY Inn. 635 Columbia Ave., was built in 1872 as a posh gentlemen's gambling club. It is a classic example of the Italianate Style, with 14-foot ceilings and wraparound verandas. The Wilbraham Mansion 133 Myrtle Ave., began as a simple country farmhouse built in 1840. It was expanded and Victorianized in 1900 by the wealthy Wilbraham industrial family from Philadelphia to become the massive structure it is today. Its many rooms are filled with outstanding Victorian furnishings. IN THE PAST year or so. each house on the tour has gone through remarkable changes The Physich House has received new carpeting in the formal parlor and music room, a seven-piece matched parlor set for the formal parlor, a gilt harp for the music room, and spectacular new wail and ceilPlayers Set Tryouts AVALON — Tryouts for You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, to be presented Aug. 15 and 17. are planned by the Avalon Players. The tryouts will be staged by the community theater group as follows : Tomorrow, 6:30-8:30 p.m., and Monday, July 14. 11 a.m.-noon, at Community Hall. Everyone is welcome, « ■ but children under 5 must I be accompanied by adults. j|

ing papers for Df. Physick 's library: "T'he Abbey's two parlors and dining room have been completely transformed with elaborate wall and ceiling papers. The Mainstay Inn made headlines last year with 19 patterns of wallpaper and stenciling that turned its entry hall into a Victorian fantasyland; while the Wilbraham mansion has added a new front portico and a huge rear addition enclosing its swimming pool. Grant, Hepburn In '38 Classic CAPE MAY — Bringing Up Baby, starring Gary Grant and Katherine Hepburn. will be shown 8:15 p.m. Tuesday. July 15. as part of the Vintage Film Series sponsored by the Mid-Atlantic Center for the Arts. Directed by Howard Hawks, this 1938 "screwball comedy" is a fast, frantic and funny film about an anthropologist (Grant) involved with Hepburn and her pet leopard. The summer film series is shown in the airconditioned Victorian Towers Auditorium, Ocean and Washington Streets. Proceeds go towards the restoration of the Physick House.

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