Robert Hooks Aims Higher as Actor and Producer
Robert Hooks of ABCs N Y P D discusses his career from stage work to television. He highlights his push for integrated casting and his goal to produce and teach, spotlighting the Negro Ensemble Company and its $434000 grant as a key milestone.
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Cynthia Lowry
New York
Robert Hooks
Frank Converse
Jay Warden
ABC
Manhattan
N.Y.P.D
Hooks
Sheldon Leonard
Bill Cosby
Greg Morris
Hari Rhoades
Daktari
Nichelle Nichols
Pearl Bailey
David Susskind
Negro Ensemble Company
Opening April 4 6-Drama Season At Playhouse In Park
The 1968 Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park season starts April 4 with Misalliance and ends September 14 with The Madwoman of Chaillot. The program includes Endgame Camino Real Crime On Goat Island and The Miser in the new Eden Park theater, with six plays for the price of five for season subscribers.
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Cincinnati
Playhouse In the Park
George Bernard Shaw
Samuel Beckett
Meliere
France
Comic
Paris
Tennessee Williams
Eden Park
Tri-State
Camino Real
Chaillot
Jean Giraudoux
Collins Art On Display At Miami U
William C. Collins, an American painter, will exhibit his works at Miami University Oxford in Heistand Hall Gallery today through March 2. A reception runs 3 to 5 pm with a gallery talk Monday at 1.
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Oxford
William C. Collins
Miami University
Ken Berry Steps Into Andy Griffith Show Role Shift
Hollywood notes Ken Berry will star in Mayberry R F D replacing Andy Griffith as CBS reshapes the lineup. Griffith exits to pursue films while Berry becomes local farmer and city council president in a spin off leading to a new series. Andy will still appear four times next season.
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Hollywood
Ken Berry
Berry
CBS
Andy Griffith
Andy
Network
Mayberry
R.F.D
Griffith
Ber
George Lindsay
Goober Pyle
Students swing 120 hours for charity in Marquette
A Circle K Club group from Northern Michigan University plans a 120 hour swing marathon starting Monday at noon and ending Saturday noon to raise funds for Bay Cliff Health Camp in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. They will take donations from passers by in exchange for rides.
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Marquette, Mich
Northern Michigan University
Circle K
Bay Cliff
Michigan
Upper Peninsula
British actor Wolfit dies at 65 in London hospital
Sir Donald Wolfit a prolific British actor died in a London hospital from a cardiac illness at age 65. A Shakespearean star in a career spanning Hamlet to the textile tycoon in Room at the Top, he toured Canada coast to coast after World War II and appeared in New York.
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London
Donald Wolfit
Britain
Hamlet
Wolfit
Canada
New York
Watercolors Exhibit At MU Center
Judith Paetow, assistant professor of art at Miami University, exhibits watercolors and drawings in the Miami University Center second-floor corridors through March 2. She has taught at Miami since 1963 and shown work in Ohio Graphics and Sculpture Show, Cin es Show, Guild Gallery Iowa City, Potsdam NY, and Miami faculty shows.
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Oxford
Judith Paetow
Miami University
School of Fine Arts
Miami University Center
Miami
Ohio Graphics and
Dayton Art Institute
Cines
Guild
Iowa City
State University College of New York
Potsdam
Dory Schary’s Next Season Features Anti Semitism Plays
New York AP reports Dory Schary plans new season productions addressing anti Semitism and concerns over privacy invading everyone. The schedule signals bold social themes and provocative drama from Schary’s lineup.
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NEW York
Dory Schary
Geza Anda to Perform with Cinccinati Symphony in Miami Concert
Hungarian pianist Geza Anda will be guest artist with the Cinci nati Symphony Orchestra on the Miami University Oxford campus today at 3. He plays Bartok Concerto No. 2 with Finneys Hymn Fuguing and Holiday and Beethoven Eroica Symphony No. 3. Max Rudolf conducts. Anda holds three Grand Prix du Disque awards and has appeared with major U S orchestras since 1955 56.
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Oxford
Geza Anda
Cineinati Symphony Orchestra
Miami University
Withrow
Court
Miami
Anda
Bartok
Ross Lee Finney
Beethove
Eroica
CSO
Decca Stereo
Max Rudolf
U.S
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Chicago
Cleveland
Minneapolis
San Francisco
Vancouver
Cleveland Symphony
New York
New York Times
Gilroy's The Only Game in Town Sold for Major Film Deal
New York reports Frank D. Gilroy's play The Only Game in Town has been optioned for film in one of the largest preproduction deals on record. The acquisition signals a high profile adaptation with major studio involvement and anticipated studio lineup.
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New York
Frank D. Gilroy
Play About Twain Set for February at Southern Illinois University
The February production in Carbondale features Bernard Sabbath's play The Man Who Lost the River about Mark Twain. Herbert Marshall directs at Southern Illinois University as part of Illinois sesquicentennial events.
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Carbondale
Ill
Mark Twin
Southern Illinois Universitheater
Bernard Sabbath
Herbert Marshall
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