European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 21, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes tuesday March 21,1983 11 Ifni m Mclim i to Amati  to Short folks can f hit High notes from wire reports some 2,000 open buffs responded to a casting Call for 3 production of Verdi s Aida in Vancouver British Columbia saturday and a number of them came up Short. Ads had said the minimum height requirement fur women was 5-Cool-2 and 5-foot-8 for men but when the stadium doors opened the women were told anyone under 5-foot-6 was out of Luck. We started a mass rebellion said student june Der Fechler who is a fool t 6, and after Hageline to min i mum height was raised to s-foot-4, a lol of Short people cheated by wearing High heels complained Darla enter who was not among the 503 people selected. Would be extras in the extravaganza planned for nest month began lining up in inc rain for auditions at 6 my at . Place stadium. The two Day production of the opera is scheduled for april 27 and 29. Return to Broadway Don Ameche who is returning to Broadway this week for the first time in 22 years says he initially turned Down the Lead role in our town but changed his mind because it would be. Fun to be Back on stage.". The 80-year-Oid Academy award winning actor is replacing Spalding Cray in the Rote of stage manager in the Nylon Wilder drama set in a new England Lown.   Don t have Many american classics like this Macch said.-. Ameche said he did l feel any jitters about re Lur Nung to Broadway where he first appeared nearly 60 years ago in Jerry for  Afler More than two or three minutes All that is  said am Chc whose recent films include trading places and  for which he received an Oscar. V painful memories this week s . Broadcast of1 Eter fan which has t been televised in More than is years should bring Hack painful memories for Mary Martin who broke her Elbow leaching co stars How to Fly. In the production i started really fast and suddenly i m out of. Sight and i Don to feel anything pulling me Back Martin who portrayed Peter pan in the 1960 movie said in this week s people Magazine. I m heading for the Wall and like a shot i hit  Martin now 75 said the crewman who was sup posed to pull her Back was new and so excited he  the Story of the Little boy who never wanted to grow was last televised in 1973. After that the rights to the movie were held up for years by the 1979 Broadway revival with Sandy Duncan. Arbor Day Observance cartoon cat Garfield his creator Jim Davis and Smokey Bear will join Indiana Cor. Evan Bayh and 170 schoolchildren in planting a tree on the statehouse Lawn on Arbor Day. Davis an Indiana native and the creator of the ". Acres comic strip is the 1989 Arbor Day spokesman for the Hoosier state. Now is the perfect Lime for All hoosiers to con tribute something to their communities Davis who is a member of the National Audubon society the National wildlife federation and the nature conservancy said in a statement Plant a tree plan a Celebration do something fun for Arbor  Arbor Day the second Friday of april is set aside annually to recognize and Honor the benefits Trees provide. Disabled Man tackles Everest an american with Only one foot Hopes to climb 29,028-fool mount Everest this Spring to show that disabled people Are capable of surprising feats. I Don t feel like a Kamakani Pilot said Tom Whill alter 40, a teacher of therapeutic recreation for disabled people at Idaho state University at to palello. I so climbing not to make my life Shorter. I do it  Whittaker lost his right foot in a 197.9 automobile Accident which also caused 16 leg fractures and the loss of his right Kneecap. He was hospitalized for three and a half months and said it took him two years to fully recover. Reaching the Summit of Everest is like winning at Roulette he  can reach there As Long As the Odds Are favourable. For me they May even be longer. But for me to be part of the Cape i lion is a very exciting  part of the goal of the expedition is to show pc pie that the disabled Ore capable of much More than society generally gives them credit for he said.-,. Whitaker said he would hike to the Everest base Camp using a specially made walking Boot and the switching to another special pair of Carbon Graphite. Boots for the actual climb Sel to begin in May. The climbing Bools he said were specifically de signed for the Everest attempt with a Spring at the heels to store Energy and release pressure when the weight is  colleagues agreed my dream was a possibility and not a vanity he said. Everest is my  Whittaker was bom to British parents and came the new Joan Collins actress  Poms with o new Wax Laako Liko at Madame Tus Sard s Wax a Teum in London which it replacing Ana sculpted in. J985. The new Model wearing a Gold sequined gown will go on display next. Week to the United states 12 years ago where he worked As an outdoor instructor climber and Mountain guide before his Accident he said he still climbs vertical Rock faces and Frozen waterfalls in the United states and Canada during vacations. Before his Accident. Whittaker said he knew nothing about the problems of the disabled i could not care less but the Accident changed everything for him now 1 see there is a very Large number of people in North America swept under the carpet of society he said you insulate everything that is objectionable like smell. The disabled fall into this category. 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