Barber

Orlando Franklin Johnson, a retired Baltimore barber who performed in the stage and film versions of This Is the Army during World War II, died of heart failure Jan. 2 at his Edmondson Village home of more than half a century. He was 88. Mr. Johnson was the son of a farmer and raised in the Calvert County community of Mutual. As a youngster, he worked with his father during the winter shucking oysters for a Broomes Island packing company. He attended the two-room Pink School in Island Creek and graduated in 1936 from the old Central Industrial High School in Prince Frederick.

Patrick Corbett -- perched atop a booster on a barber's chair -- sat wide-eyed and solemn for a few placid minutes. Then as the barber clipped, moving nimbly and steadily in a race against a crying jag, the huffing started, almost like a car gunning. By the time small clumps of dirty-blond hair had collected on his shoulders, Patrick was yowling: "Ow, ow, ow, ow!" Lee Corbett swooped in to hold her son on her lap, which quieted him -- but only until the scissors started snipping just north of his nose.

On March 22, 1985, the U.S. Postal Service issued the third in a series of commemorative stamps recognizing folk art. Included in this series representing decoy carving was an image of a canvasback duck carved by Harford County native Robert Franklin McGaw Jr. Born on Spesutie Island in 1879, McGaw served in the Maryland National Guard until 1918. He married the daughter of the captain of a famous gunning scow the Reckless. It is thought he began carving soon after his discharge. In 1919 the McGaws bought a property in Havre de Grace and opened a shop to sell his decoys.

Brian Barber's put-back with six seconds left propelled Towson to a 59-57 win over Lafayette last night in men's college basketball in Easton, Pa.Barber's game-winning shot came off an off-balance shot by Tigers guard Damon Cason. Barber finished with 17 points as Towson improved to 4-2 with the nonconference win.Towson's Shaun Holtz, who scored 16 second-half points, tied the game at 57 on a jumper with 1: 10 left.Coppin State 76, North Caroliona A&T 73: Kofi Pointer (Southern) and Jorge Cajigas each had 21 points as the Eagles (2-6, 2-0)

Friendly trash-talkingBETH KAHR, executive director of the Anne Arundel Marine Trades Association in Annapolis, said many friends called her after a picture of her standing in a trash bin for recycling shrink-wrap ran recently in The Sun."They said, `We always knew you were trash, but now we have documentation,' " Kahr said.-- Cheryl TanMad enough to move?IRATE ABOUT Annapolis Ward 5 Alderman Herb McMillan's bill to curb loitering related to drug activity, longtime community activist Bertina Nick said: "What is he trying to make me do?

Yuri Temirkanov walked out to the podium last night at the beginning of his concert with the Baltimore Symphony in Meyerhoff Hall to unusually warm applause. He was pleased by his reception, acknowledged it graciously, but then quickly turned around to face the orchestra. Temirkanov, the BSO's music director-designate, was there to make music.In his program of Berlioz (the overture to "Beatrice et Benedict"), Barber (the violin concerto with Pamela Frank as soloist) and Beethoven (the Seventh Symphony)

John M. Barber has spent two decades trying to capture the endangered life of the Chesapeake Bay in short brush strokes and shades of blue.Now, in something of a departure, the maritime artist is starting to take a look at the towns nourished by the bay's existence.His most recent work, "Annapolis Evening" will go on sale next month at Annapolis Maritime Art Gallery. The 18- by 28-foot oil with brooding, cloudy, nighttime skies, takes in a view of Main Street, the Maryland Inn, St. Anne's Episcopal Church and the State House dome from Church Circle in early spring.

SAVING money by trading stocks online may be costing you a fortune.It appears that something happens to investors when they put a mouse in their hand. They seem to get trigger-happy. And it hurts.A study by Brad Barber and Terrance Odean at the University of California-Davis confirms it. When investors go online, they change. They start to speculate on stocks rather than invest for the longer term. Their new behavior doesn't work as well as the more steady approach they took before going online.

MY BARBER could not understand what all the fuss was about when I tried to explain problems with the Anne Arundel Economic Development Corp.A small businessman, he suggested that it was no big deal for volunteers serving on a panel entrusted with a sizable budget to award themselves contracts as long as they can do the work and don't charge exorbitant fees.I saw it differently."What if you served on a board created by the government?" I asked. "Would you see anything wrong with steering all the hair-cutting business your way?"

David N. Bates, 71, District Court judgeFormer Baltimore County Judge David N. Bates, founder of the First Offenders Program and Mountain Manor Rehabilitation Center, died Monday of heart failure at Atlantic General Hospital in Berlin. He was 71.The former Towson resident, who had lived in Ocean Pines since 1986, served as a judge of the District Court of Maryland from 1975 until retiring on a medical disability in early 1984.Judge Bates, a recovering alcoholic who began drinking when he was 14, successfully stopped in the 1960s and spent the rest of his life helping those who were similarly afflicted.

On October 23, 2009; MACIE M. BARBER. On Friday, friends may call at the VAUGHN C. GREENE FUNERAL SERVICES, 5151 Baltimore National Pike from 4 to 8 P.M. On Saturday, Mrs. Barber will lie instate at Mt. Moriah Baptist Church, 2201 Garrison Blvd, where the family will receive friends from 10 to 10:30 A.M. with services to follow. Inquiries to (410) 233-2400.

Just as Shirley Temple was good medicine for the Great Depression, comic operas by Rossini seem ideal diversions for the Great Recession. A couple of weeks ago, Washington National Opera revived the composer's most famous work, "The Barber of Seville." And, over the weekend, Opera Vivente jumped into its 12th season with another sparkler, "Cinderella." Rossini's version of the familiar fairy tale differs in several details, but the basics are still there - a poor dear with nasty stepsisters; a surprise entrance at a palatial ball; a prince searching for an unknown beauty who left something behind (a bracelet, rather than a glass slipper)

Having garnered 55 prestigious Helen Hayes nominations for excellence in the Washington area, Toby's Dinner Theatre of Columbia now takes on perhaps its greatest musical challenge with Stephen Sondheim's "Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street." Sondheim's tale of the vengeful barber's tale takes on greater intensity in Toby's in-the-round venue, where no patron sits more than 30 feet from the stage. Having seen this show at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts starring Angela Lansbury about 25 years ago, I found the more intimate version at Toby's better at depicting the human tragedy.

Comedy, as every actor avers at some point, is hard. Harder than drama, even. Comedy can be just as tough for opera singers, especially when it comes to popular works where the jokes have few surprises left in them. So Washington National Opera's season-opening production of a decidedly well-worn comic item, Rossini's "The Barber of Seville," deserves extra credit, first of all, for being quite funny. There's many a fresh, laugh-producing element in this retelling of the tale about a crafty barber who helps a nobleman woo a young lady right out from under her pushy, covetous guardian.

Cowboys' Phillips comes to Barber's defense nfl Dallas Cowboys coach Wade Phillips yesterday denied that the team ever questioned the toughness of running back Marion Barber, which became an issue because owner Jerry Jones brought it up after Sunday's 20-13 loss at Pittsburgh. Asked about the fact Barber didn't make the trip to Pittsburgh because of a dislocated pinkie toe on his right foot, Jones said, "He can play with that injured toe. ... I see nothing that would have led us to believe that he couldn't."

The live-in boyfriend of a Bolton Hill woman whose 7-year-old son found her dead in February after he and his cousin returned home from school has been charged with her killing. Gregory Barber, 23, was picked up last week on a warrant charging him with first-degree murder in the death of 25-year-old Kermia Hair, who was found stabbed and beaten Feb. 7 in her apartment in the 1800 block of Bolton St. A woman who identified herself as Hair's sister told The Sun in February that her nephew and his cousin found Hair, whose first name is spelled "Kamea" in some records and who was known as "Mia," unconscious in a first-floor room.

Hereford's mix of a power-running game and swarming defense has carried it to nine Baltimore County championships and three state titles in the past 12 years, and in last night's opener against visiting Frederick Douglass of Prince George's County, the No. 4 Bulls ran into a team that knew how to counter that formula. Douglass opened an early two-touchdown lead and rushed for 190 yards en route to a 20-17 victory. Eagles quarterback Richard Barber threw two touchdown passes, and the defense locked down Hereford's modified Wing-T offense for most of the game.

On June 27, 2008, MAUDE LEE JAMES, devoted mother of Terry J. Barber and William James, Jr., beloved grandmother of Leah and Christopher Spivery, sister of Mary Harden and Ella M. Price, niece of Maud Williams. On Wednesday, services for Mrs. James will be held in the Vaughn C. Greene Chapel-Randallstown, 8728 Liberty Road, where the family will receive friends from 11 to 11:30 A.M., with services to follow. Inquiries to (410) 655-0015.

On June 1, 2008, LUCY J. BARBER. Friends may visit the family-owned MARCH FUNERAL HOME WEST INC., 4300 Wabash Avenue, on Friday after 8:30 AM, where the family will receive friends on Saturday 9AM followed by funeral service at 9:30.

The economic downturn is putting a new twist on spring cleaning. Tamme Wisinski discovered how much unnecessary stuff she had amassed after losing her job in January. Looking to raise some money, the 36-year-old Chicagoan began going through her closets, discovering clothes and books and jewelry that she says she "went nuts purchasing" before she found out that her company was shutting down. She is selling the goods online at Craigslist, marking her first foray into the secondhand marketplace.