Pixie singer Betty Rhodes eyes bigger stages at Plaza
Betty Rhodes, a five foot tall 99 pound singer from Tacoma, headlines the Plaza Hotel Persian Room while competing for attention with Muhammad Ali and Diana Ross in a single evening. She notes a nearly full house and accepts being called an artist rather than a mere performer as she enters a decade of busy club and convention engagements.
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New York
UPI
Betty Rhodes
Plaza Hotel
Plaza
Muhammad Ali
Diana Ross
Miss Rhodes
Ali
Cleveland
Miss Ross
Westchester Premiere
Tarrytown
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Tacoma
Wash
Los Angeles
Chicago
Puerto Rico
Australia
TV Highlights and a Singer's Plight in One Night
An informal TV guide notes NBC highlights at 8 and 8 30 p m with Sunshine and The Bob Crane Show while ABC presents The Streets of San Francisco Target Red featuring Bill Bixby as a covert killer. The piece then shifts to a profile of a young artist describing early violin lessons, a 15 year marriage, a daughter Jan, and a move from aspiring violinist to singing performer at USC and clubs, comparing her vocal style to Edith Piaf.
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ABC
San Francisco
Target-Red
Bill Bixby
China
United States
Los Angeles
Jan
Ithica
N.Y
University of Southern California
Jack Brel
Miss Rhodes
Edith Piaf
NASC Debuts Philosophy Radio Show at North Adams
The philosophy department at North Adams State College launched a half hour talk show on WJJW FM titled Plato's Cave. Debuts cover Education and Social Reconstruction and The Meaning of Liberal Education with plans to discuss Religion and College Students on April 2.
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North Adams
Mass
North Adams State College
Wjjw-Fm
Samuel Gomez
James Roach
Gomez
The Front Page at Harte Theater with Lemmon and Matthau
The Front Page stars Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau in a Wilder adaptation of the Hecht and MacArthur script. The film follows a scoop driven newsroom setup with sharp dialogue and strong timing from the veteran pair.
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Harte Theater
Jack Lemmon
Walter Matthau
Lemon
Matthau
Ben Hecht
Charles MacArthur
Billy Wilder
Lemmon
Hubbard
CBS airs Curse of the Hope Diamond on television
Television critic reports CBS 60 minute Smithsonian special links misfortune to the Hope Diamond from India through rulers like Louis XIV and Marie Antoinette to Watergate era theories. The program traces the jewel from 112.5 carats to 44.5, detailing owners such as Edward and Evelyn McLean, William Fall, Sir Henry Hope, and Harry Winston, with cast members Bradford Dillman Samantha Eggar and Oscar Homolka.
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UPI
Teapot Dome
Marie Antoinette
Louis XVI
Potomac
CBS
Smithsonian
Harding
India
Edward
Evelyn Walsh McLean
McLeans
Edward McLean
Louis XIV
France
Louis
William Fall
Sir Henry Hope
London
Will Geer Plays Foxy Grandpa On Screen and Off
Hollywood veteran Will Geer recalls a flirtatious grandpa image from The Waltons while filming The Bluebird in the Soviet Union. He jokes about fan mail from teenage girls, his common law wife in Connecticut, and his claim that Grandpa Walton would be just as randy yet more cautious.
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Hollywood
UPI
Will Geer
Soviet Union
Elizabeth Taylor
Liz
Geer
MGM
Leningrad
London
Amsterdam
Copenhagen
Connecticut
Grandpa Walton
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Father Nature
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Bob
Kathy Sharon Skpelman
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Harte
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Paul Newman
William Holden
Cinema II
Ingmar Gergman
Liv Ullmann
Nickelodeon
Ken Loach
England
Manchester
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Williamstown
RPI
Troy
M. Sun
Ticketron
Colonie Schenectady Latham Glens Falls
Television In Review
Frank S. Sweatlow
Warren G. Harding
William Woolfolk
Playboy Press
Donald Westlake
Evans
Westlake
Aaa
Spring St
Williamstown, Mass
WED
THURS
Kes
Steve McQueen
Ingmar Bergman
Cinema & Nl
Bennington
Deus
Monument Plaza
Bennington, Vermont
Norcross & Rastcraft
Barton's & Schraffts
Evans’ News, Inc
Main Street
Sae
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