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QUICK lYiOVieS, 1 V News Briefs .. mere s a cnuaren s album. “Btg Blue Marble", the sound track from the Public Broad casting System children's TV series sponsored by ITT. It's secretly a compendium of current pop styles and amusing and entrancing even for adults. There's also a single with Arthur Fiedler conducting the Boston Pops Orchestra playing the theme from "Big Blue Marble", backed by Burl Bacharach's "What the World Needs Now." ..Pearl Bailey has suffered three heart attacks, so she talks seriously, but humorous ly as she reflects on her exper iences on "Feeling Good", the PBS TV series on health that is returning with a new for mat. The show, a production of ChiMren’s Television Work shop cm be sees oa the 250 \ ' » * w « .* ? *. •: J BOB MORGAN ...WBT afternoon man Bob Morgan To Broadcast From Attic Sales ..Bob Morgan, WBT’s after noon man will be broadcasting his show from WBT’s Worlds Largest Attic Sale Saturday, April 19th from 3 to 6 PM. Helping Bob out from 5 to 6 PM will be Jeff Pilot of WBT’s Traffic Watch. .. WBT's Worlds Largest Attic Sale is a sell-out for the second year in a row. Over 120 booths have been sold to over 75 non-profit organizations for this big two day sale. Sale days, are Saturday and Sun , day, April 19th and 20th at tjje > Merchandise Mart in GMar lotte. . .There will be free admission and free parking Saturday from 10 AM to 9 PM and Sunday from noqp to 6 PM. Voorhee’s Choir Pays Tribute To Ellington ..Denmark, - me at-voice Voorhees College choir will pay tribute to the late Duke Ellington in a spring concert on Friday, April4,8:00 p.m. in the Lawrence Memorial Audi torium. . .The choir, under the direct ion of John W. Hunter and accompained by Mrs. Paul ette B. Green, will play a special role in Voorhees’ 50 year Episcopal Church affilia tion anniversary and 78th year founding hy performing a dis tinctive program of selected sacred and secular music. ..The choir is scheduled to begin its annual northeast coast spring tour on April 6 and return to the campus on 5BS stations at 8 p.m. Eastern ind 7 p.m. Central. Check >our local stations. Dick Ca bell is host. Black is beautiful on Broad way with black shows and black artists plentiful among the nominees for the Anto inette Perry (Tony) Awards. “The Wii" was nominated for Best Musical. Best Musical Book. Best Musical. Score, Best Director (Geoffrey Hold er) Best Costume Designer (Geoffrey Holder) and Best Choreographer (George Fai son). Lola Falana was nomin ated for Best Actress in a musical, the late lamented "Doctor Jan”. Those two South African actors, John Kani and Winston N'tshonia were pegged for Best Actor in a Play, “Siiwe Kami” & “The Island", and the two shows were also nominated for Best Play. ..Also nominated for Best Play was "Short Eyes", the play about life in prison. An other nominee was Linda Miller for Best Supporting Actress in a Play, in Bill Gunn’s "Black Picture Show" and Gilbert Price as Best Sup porting Actor in a Musical for “The Night That Made Amer ica Famous”. “The'wiz” also copped nominees in these two categories with Ted Ross and Dee Dee Bridgewater. Win-, ners will be announced and awards presented on April 20 from show at the Winter Gar den to be seen on ABC-TV from n m ..Lola Falana was the Toast of Broadway-if only a short time. "Doctor Jazz, the musi cal in which she starred play ed 42 previews and closed after five regular perfor mances-a 1400,000 bust. But Lola scored. Labelled a "new star", and already known to film (“The Klansman") and TV audiences, the handsome singer-dancer was called "an impressive performer, with a sleek figure, magnetism and authority." ..Fred Williamson's "Boss Nigger" continues to be the top black film among the 50 Top-Grossing Films list, with “TNT Jackson" the only other making the list. Williamson will direct the next feature he cb-produces with Lee Winkler. “Hero’s Welcome," .They teamed on "BosvNlgger” and will on a third, "Adios Ami gos.” .. Two new black films on the scene are "The Black Gesta po”, starring Rod Perry and Charles P. Robinson from a story by Ronald K. Goldman and Wes Bishop, and "Sheba. Baby”, starring Pam Grier. Austin Stoker and D’Urville Martin. .. George Tipton and Lorice Stevens, singing stars with impressive Broadway and concert credits, launch the third season of their BOY Productions by sending five musicals on tour to schools and community theatres. All celebrating the impact of black musical culture on American artistic life, the shows are “Fantasy Street”. “Ms. Rapunzel”, “Passin' Through”, "A New Day” and "In Concert”. ..“Raisin” musical director Howard Roberts takes leave of the Broadway hit April IS to conduct Alvin Alley Dance Theater at New York City Center for three weeks, then Jets to Paris to conduct Alley’s six-week season at Place Dds Sports, opening May 14. FLIP WILSON ...Top Entertainer “Flip” To Cohost Mike Douglas Show ..The incomparable Flip Wil son joins forces with Mike Dougals to begin a fun and entertainment-filled week as cohost on “The Mike Douglas Show” on Monday from 4 to 5 on channel 9. Their guests include Steve Allen and wife Jayne Meadows, singer Eloise Laws, “Mr. Echo" Frank Baines, chef Mark Bondo from Benihana of Tokyo, and psychic Kenny Kingston. ..Flip’s alter-ego Geraldine surfaces as the comedian recalls how he developed the character (“She's a composite of the black women that I respect so much”) and tells about his dreams as a child, his family and where the name “Flip” originated. ..Eloise Laws, sings “I Got the Music in Me.’’ and shares stories about working with Flip. . .Steve Allen and Jayne Mea dows, just back from a trip to China, recount their experi ences as they show slides from their vacation and tell stories about their visit. They answer King, Bland New I audience questions...with a surprise ending from Frank Raines, otherwise known as Mr. Echo. ..Mark Rando, a chef at the famous Benihana of Tokyo Japanese restaurants, prepa res a deluxe meal with ti>r help of his new trainee— F|ip Wilson-san. ..Steve and Mike take to the piano to have fun with some of the songs for which Steve has written words and-or music including “South Rampart Street Parade,” “Gravy Wa lt*” and "This Could Be the Start of Something Big." ..Psychic Kenny Kingston re veals incidents that substan tiate his powers and then re ads the auras surrounding Mike and his guests. ..Everyone gets a chance to do something in the closing medley. Eloise imitates Diana Ross, Steve sings a tune; Jay ne performs “Hello Dolly” in Chinese; Kenny reads the au ra of someone from the studio audience and Flip tells a sto ry 9 i , Bandstand Dance Album Wins Gold Record Award . .LOS ANGELES - "Together For the First Time," the two LP album recorded "live" last summer by ABC Records art ists B. B. King and Bobby “Blue” Bland, has been certi fied as a Gold Record by the Recording Industry Associa tion of America, acccording to an announcement from Jerold H. Rubinstein. Chairman of ABC Records. ..The album, produced by Steve Barri, ABC’s Vice Pre sident in Charge of Artists and Repertory, is the first to go gold for either of the two veteran blues singers. 1 Contest To End Saturday .. The conclusion of the second annual 10-week dance contest will highlight the ABC Tele vison Network’s "American Bandstand." SATURDAY, APRIL 5 (12:30-1:30 p.m., EDT). .. The six couples in the dance contest are competing for a top prize of “his and hers" automobiles. The second place couple will win a trip to Hawaii. The winners will be announced on the program on Saturday, April 2*. tnWBTV Lou Gossett To Star In Black Bart Friday Night . Make way (or “Black Bart.** ;he West’s first black sheriff! It's period-funky, outrageous ly funny and not like anything you’ve ever seen on television Itefore. And it airs Friday, April 4. at 8 P.M. ET on CBS-TV. .. Lou Gossett is Black Bart. The lanky. •’4” actor - who delighted film audiences as ~ the hip slave opposite James Garner in Warner Bros.' “The Skin Game” - (s even more aware of what’s shakin’ in this comedy Western set in the sany surroundings of Paris, Arlz., over 100 years ago. ..According to writers Michael Elias and Frank Shaw, Bart is the first black sheriff in the West. He’s light ning-fast on the draw, totally honest, reasonably fearless, a very heavy dresser, hip to everything that’s going down and rumored to be the dude who first coined th phrase, "Black is beautiful." ..Gossett is ecstatic over the role. “It’s beautiful.” he en thused. “My late granddaddy Tennie taught me long age that great dignity and honor could come out of humor. And if he were alive today he’d laugh his sides off at Bart and I’m sure he’d say we’re right on with this one.” ..“Black Bart” as a series will explore the entire pano rama of the Western myth through the 1975 eyes and attitudes of Bart. He’U find himself against all those great characters who typified the West: men who were men, women who were women; tough, visionary, individual istic; and as a group, the most disgusting bunch of meflrsters and bigots a black was every supposed to step off the side walk for. But Bart doesn’t step off; he's a 1975 black and he’s not about to shuffle for any one. The fact that Paris. Ariz., 1s some hundred years behind him is the comedic grist of ‘Black Bart.” .“It’s better to teach through :otnedy than through tra THE WESTS FIRST BLACK SHERIFF - Ln GmmH lUn , in the hilarious half-hour comedy “Black Bart,” Friday, April 4, at 8 P.M. ET on CBS-TV. • OBIU UVOOCtt VI 1119 I VIC. ••We can say a lot of important things through Bart and they’ll be funny in the saying. And just maybe we can find out that people have a chance to get together through humor. We'll probably always disagree on a lot of things but "v ucviuc iu idu^ii iir gether and then discover there are some things we can agree on. I’m not saying we’re a message show, God forbid, but I am saying we'll tell it like it is with humor. 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