‘Stagecoach’ Rides to Town’Birds’ Flock to the librarySeries Offers Unique Voice

“Stagecoach,” the 1939 Western that paired for the first time director John Ford and leading man John Wayne, will get a free screening at 2 p.m. today at the Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library as this month’s Classic Film Series feature. With Geronimo on the warpath, the stagecoach carries a prostitute (Claire Trevor), an escaped prisoner (Wayne), an alcoholic doctor (Thomas Mitchell), a gambler (John Carradine), a loudmouth driver (Andy Devine), a society maven (Louise Platt), a marshal (George Bancroft), a liquor salesman (Donald Meek) and a crooked banker (Berton Churchill).

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Austin, Texas-based singer-songwriter Idgy Vaughn brings her award-winning, genre-stretching style to Kansas for a Last Minute Folk concert at 7 p.m. Sunday at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 4775 S.W. 21st. Tickets, which are $12 for adults and $6 for students, can be purchased at the doors, which open at 6:30 p.m. The venue offers a smoke- and alcohol-free listening-room atmosphere.

The Capital-Journal”The Birds,” the 1963 movie that made parakeet owners look warily at Tweety once they got home from the theater, will be shown for free at 6:30 p.m. today at the Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library as the second offering in its Alfred Hitchcock Film Series. When San Francisco socialite Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren) delivers a pair of lovebirds to lawyer Mitch Brenner (Rod Taylor) in the Pacific Coast village of Bodega Bay, she is attacked by a gull. From that point on, feathers really begin to fly when birds menace the town.

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