Ariel

On December 1, 2007, Mr. Ariel Lee Adams, Funeral services will be held on Tuesday (TODAY), December 11th at 10:00 a.m., at Chapelgate Presbyterian Church, 2600 Marriottsville Road, Marriottsville, MD 21104, with interment at 2:30 p.m. in Garrison Forest Veterans Cemetery, Owings Mills, Maryland. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made in his memory to: The Deacon's Fund at Chapelgate Presbyterian Church.

With its spring production of Disney's "The Little Mermaid Jr.," the Children's Theatre of Annapolis has found an ideal vehicle to reach its goal of presenting shows highlighting young performers' talents. This shortened version of the 2008 Broadway stage play, adapted from Disney's 1989 animated blockbuster, makes full use of its 40-player cast, whose ages range from 8 to 14. The show debuts Friday as part of Children's Theatre's 53rd year. Veteran director Jerry Vess, who has led seven Annapolis Summer Garden productions, marks his fifth directorial assignment for Children's Theatre with "Mermaid," having also directed "Aladdin," "Wizard of Oz," "The Emperor's New Clothes" and last season's "Alice in Wonderland.

Ariel Hope Dallam, a home teacher in the Harford County school system for nearly 40 years, died Saturday of heart failure at her home, Mount Adams Farm near Bel Air. She was 63.She had also taught English at the Harford Day School in the early 1960s and again in the early 1970s.Mrs. Dallam, who was senior warden of St. George's Parish Old Spesutia Episcopal Church in Perryman, was a lay chaplain at Montebello State Hospital.Born in Monroe, Ohio, the former Ariel Hope Harlan was raised there and in Baltimore, where she attended the Bryn Mawr School.

Natalie Graham's first meeting a year ago with "Modern Family" actress Ariel Winter could have been a disaster. Graham, owner of The Doll House, a Mount Vernon boutique featuring Graham's Ragdolls Clothing Line, didn't recognize the waifish, chestnut-haired tween combing through the racks of Graham's vibrant, funky garments. To make it worse, at first, Graham and Winter's mother didn't see eye to eye on outfits. "Her mother was saying no to garments that were still on the hanger," Graham said with a laugh.

Calvert Group Ltd., a Bethesda-based mutual fund company, and its Chicago-based partner announced yesterday an end to their 8-year-old investment relationship.The two funds -- the Calvert-Ariel Growth Fund and Calvert-Ariel Appreciation Fund, with about $400 million in combined assets -- will be solely managed by Ariel Capital Management Inc. beginning this fall."It is sort of awkward, like friends divorcing," said Donald J. Phillips, publisher of Chicago-based Morningstar Mutual Funds. "I think both were better for the partnership.

The awards ceremonies had already begun when the 47-foot craft Ariel entered the Inner Harbor last night on the final stretch of the 1,000-mile, Key West-to-Baltimore Race for the Hemingway Cup. The final finisher's tack across windless water was in view of those in attendance at the ceremony, which took place on the 22nd floor of Baltimore's World Trade Center, the perfect place for such observations. What the organizers couldn't witness, however, were Wednesday's stormy waters off the coast of Cape Hatteras, N.C., which dismasted the two race favorites and forced them to the coast for cover.

Ariel appointed area sales manager for Syntricity Inc. David Ariel has been appointed sales manager for the northeast area for Syntricity Inc. Ariel will supervise the new sales center in Columbia. Syntricity supplies Syntricity dateConductor, a Web-based analysis and management tool in the semiconductor and electronics industry. Payton, Dickey promoted at Prudential Securities James Payton of Columbia and Jonathan Dickey of Bethesda have been promoted as associate vice president and first vice president at the Columbia Parkside branch of Prudential Securities.

With its spring production of Disney's "The Little Mermaid Jr.," the Children's Theatre of Annapolis has found an ideal vehicle to reach its goal of presenting shows highlighting young performers' talents. This shortened version of the 2008 Broadway stage play, adapted from Disney's 1989 animated blockbuster, makes full use of its 40-player cast, whose ages range from 8 to 14. The show debuts Friday as part of Children's Theatre's 53rd year. Veteran director Jerry Vess, who has led seven Annapolis Summer Garden productions, marks his fifth directorial assignment for Children's Theatre with "Mermaid," having also directed "Aladdin," "Wizard of Oz," "The Emperor's New Clothes" and last season's "Alice in Wonderland.

LOS ANGELES -- Elizabeth Glaser, whose agonizing story of how she and her two children became infected with AIDS brought a tearful silence to the floor of the 1992 Democratic presidential convention, died yesterday.Mrs. Glaser, 47, died of complications from acquired immune deficiency syndrome at her Santa Monica, Calif., home, said Carol Pearlman, an associate at the Pediatric AIDS Foundation which Mrs. Glaser helped found.Since disclosing her tragedy five years ago, the wife of actor Paul Michael Glaser (of "Starsky and Hutch" fame)

Westminster police are looking for a 9-year-old boy missing from his foster home. Authorities said they think the boy is in the company of his biological mother. The foster parents, who live on Ryder Court, reported Ariel Joseph Ghee missing at 7:30 a.m. Tuesday, police said. He was living with the foster parents by court order, according to police. Ariel, an African-American, was born Jan. 28, 1991. He is 4 feet 5 inches tall and weighs 113 pounds. He has severe asthma and does not have his medication, police said.

It's not the kind of thing most people have to deal with, but if you're ever faced with a 1,500-pound horse stuck in a ditch, its legs buried in mud, there's only one way to get it out. Slowly. Oh, and make sure you're not a blubbering mess. You'll spook the horse and make it worse for everyone. Those were a couple of the lessons imparted Friday at Goucher College's stables in Towson. A handful of Baltimore County firefighters joined about 20 horse breeders and aficionados at the start of a three-day class, given by out-of-state instructors, on the finer points of large-animal rescues and how to accomplish them.

The Tempest opens with a storm at sea. Everyone on the ship is seemingly lost, but later, one after another, they all turn up on the same island. The Chesapeake Shakespeare Company shows what happens next in an enjoyable outdoor production running through July 13. The storm, the audience learns, was caused by a sorcerer named Prospero. Formerly Duke of Milan, Prospero was deposed years before by his evil brother Antonio, with the connivance of Alonso, king of Naples. With his infant daughter Miranda, he was sent to sea in a dilapidated ship.

NEW YORK -- Loved the shoes. Loathed the show. OK, I exaggerate. I didn't like the shoes all that much. But the wheel-heeled footwear known as merblades, which allow stage-bound dancers to simulate gliding underwater, provides the only remotely graceful elements in the musical blunderbuss called Disney's The Little Mermaid, which opened last week at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater. A variation on Heelys, a skate hybrid popular among children, merblades endow their wearers with the ability to skim hard surfaces with a near-balletic lightness.

On December 1, 2007, Mr. Ariel Lee Adams, Funeral services will be held on Tuesday (TODAY), December 11th at 10:00 a.m., at Chapelgate Presbyterian Church, 2600 Marriottsville Road, Marriottsville, MD 21104, with interment at 2:30 p.m. in Garrison Forest Veterans Cemetery, Owings Mills, Maryland. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made in his memory to: The Deacon's Fund at Chapelgate Presbyterian Church.

Bryant Woods fifth-grader Ariel Hill would like to be president some day, and Marty Cifrese, a judge at the school's simulated congressional hearing, thinks she has a chance. "Ariel, I definitely see you in politics," said Cifrese, Bridges program manager for the county school system, and one of nine judges at Thursday's event. During the hearings, Ariel answered question after question about the Constitution and the way American government is organized. Though she aspires to the job herself, she does not think presidents should have too much power.

What separates fashion from style is the parameters. There are rules with fashion: This goes with that. Don't wear that after 5 p.m. This is out; that is in. But style is more fluid, more forgiving. It indicates a kind of dogged individualism that fashion has only recently begun to adopt. WONDERING IF YOU WERE GLIMPSED? / / Check out baltimoresun.com / glimpsed for additional photos of fashion-forward locals and a critique by fashion writer Tanika White of the styles she saw around town.

"I like the book 'Walt Disney Presents The Little Mermaid' by Michael Teitelbaum. In the story, an evil sea witch turned Ariel into a human and Ariel gets married to Prince Eric. The book is exciting." -- Tori Thomas, Garnett Elementary "My favorite book is 'King of the Wind' by Marguerite Henry. It is about a kid named Agba who takes care of a horse named Sham and the obstacles they have to overcome. I like this book because it is very descriptive and tells the story very well. If you like horses, I recommend this book for you."

ARIEL, West Bank - Orna Schwartz spent the first years of her marriage living with her in-laws in the bustling Israeli town of Rehovot, near Tel Aviv. The couple couldn't afford an apartment of their own, much less buy a house on her husband's salary as a deliveryman. When she became pregnant, a house became a necessity. So the Schwartzes, taking advantage of government tax breaks, moved from Rehovot, a city of 80,000, to Ariel, a Jewish settlement of 17,000 in the West Bank. Here, the housing was modern and affordable, the schools good, and the property and income taxes lower than in Israel.

LOS ANGELES -- The Little Mermaid, re-released on a special edition DVD, became an instant family classic when it first hit theaters in 1989, and 17 years later, actress Jodi Benson articulates its enduring appeal. It's "a classic fairy tale, the first one for our studio since Sleeping Beauty in '61," says Benson, who provided the voice of the title character. "But then to add the music to it, you know, to really make it like a Broadway musical, is what makes it so magical." Composer Alan Menken, who won Oscars for the film's score as well as the original song "Under the Sea" with lyricist Howard Ashman, sees much to identify with in the tale of the mermaid Ariel who falls for a human despite her father's disapproval.

Part portrait of the artist and part political thriller, Ariel Dorfman's Picasso's Closet -- receiving its world premiere at Washington's Theater J -- is primarily a "what if" play. Dorfman, a playwright exiled from his adopted country of Chile, writes about Pablo Picasso when the Spanish artist was himself in exile, living in Nazi-occupied Paris during World War II. Though little is known of him during that period, Picasso survived to live another three decades. But what if the artist had been murdered by the Nazis in 1944?