Broadway Busy as Labor Day Approaches in New York
Earl Wilson notes New York City firms and shows sprint toward fall with a busy August and early Broadway season. Fred Brisson announces a 9 15 start for Flipside to dodge taxi crowds while rumors about Katharine Hepburn’s Coco fade. Totie Fields Mel Carter and Pearl Bailey profiles mix with theater news and light quotes.
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David McCallum
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Coco
Totie Fields
Mel Carter
Americana Royal Box
Totie
Unlikely Julian Mayfield to Star in Dassin Picture
Hollywood trade columns note rising progress for Negro performers with Diahann Carroll in Julia and Soul, Lou Rawls and Nipsey Russell among stars, Jules Dassin casting a Negro-led Paramount drama on civil rights militants, and Mayfield finally reading for a film role despite preferring writing. Mayfield, a 40-year-old South Carolina native, has a varied résumé from novels to taxi driving and radio, and once rode to meet Kwame Nkrumah.
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Nashville, Tenn
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Western Music Big in Japan and a Grand Ole Opry Moment
A Japanese singer Tomi Fujiyazma blends Western music with Japanese cabarets and U S clubs. She recalls meeting Elton Britt and the 1964 Grand Ole Opry standing ovation. The piece also profiles actor-director Mayfield, his film Up Tight, and his plans for NYU lectures on African literature and black writers.
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Faror Young
New York
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Four Honored For Guild Play Miss Pell Is Missing
The Dramatic Allied Arts Guild awarded Connie Caputo best actress Robert Lee Slaughter best actor Steve Watson best supporting role and Manny Liberman best bit part for Miss Pell Is Missing staged at Millikan High School. Director Virgil Labrum led a strong, well projected summer production with an audience of about 250 praising the comedy mystery.
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Robert Lee Slaughter
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Manny Liberman
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California State College At
Long Beach
Caltech Underdog in Electric Car Race Faces MIT Challenge
Caltech and MIT teams prepare for the Great Transcontinental Electric Car Race a 3100 mile test from Pasadena to Cambridge. Caltech driver Wally Rippel says MIT’s complex car may break down, while MIT tuner Leon S Loeb works into the night on the Corvair motor. The Caltech VW microbus, slower and simpler, aims for a five day crossing with a 70 mile range per charge.
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Man’s mistake turns on washing machine explosion
A 24 year old man named Larry Neiderhiser suffered burns when a washing machine exploded while he tried to wash greasy clothes after working on his car. Windows and plaster were damaged in the blast.
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CNS
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Laguna Beach Lions Plan Rodeo by the Sea
Under Lions Club sponsorship a three performance rodeo is set for August 31 and September 1 and 2 at Crystal Cove bluff top north of Laguna Beach. It follows last year’s inaugural event whose profits funded philanthropic projects.
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Crystal Cove
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