Harry Mills Suffers Apparent Heart Attack
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Harry Mills, of the Mills
Brothers singing trio collaps
ed a week ago after suffering
an apparent heart attack dur
ing a performance in Mel
bourne, Australia, forcing the
Trio to cancel the rest of its
tour in Australia and Japan.
Other two brothers, Herbert,
66, and Don, 63, said it was the
first time they have had to
cancel in 54 years.
Audience Development
Committee presented its Sixty
Sixth Annual AUDI CP Re
cognition Awards Monday
night at the Symphony Space,
at 96th Street and Broadway.
The McDonald's All-Ameri
can High School Band per:
formed again this year at the
Maey's Thanksgiving Day
Parade in NYC and on New
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Tournament of Roses Parade
in Pasadena, Calif. The Band,
under the direction of Paul
Lavelle, was organized in
1967, to recognize and reward
exceptional high school music
ians. Nominations are made
by high school band directors
and McDonald's wishes more
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sent out for 1978, 3,500 were
returned. Of 102 young music
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were black. Minority schools
should check McDonald's Cor
poration at Oak Brook, Illi
nois, 60821.
Parks and Recreation Com
missioner Gordan J. Davis
has invited New Yorkers and
visitors to visit a selection of
the spectacular banners crea
ted for The Cloisters' Annua)
Medieval Festival at the New
Arsenal Gallery through Dec
ember. They are exhibited by
the Dept. of Parks in coopera
tion with The Metropolitan
Museum of Art's Department
of Urban Affairs, Cathy
Chance, Director, and th^
Cloisters.
.The Christmas Tree in Har
lem Committee held a
benefit "Jingle Bells Disco"
on Nov. 30 at 22West Zodiac
Room at 22 Wesi 145in street.
Time: 6-10 p.m.
New York artist Virginia
Evans Smith is holding a one
person exhibition of her recent
prints and works on paper,
"Terrains Revisited", at Viri
dian Gallery, 24 West 57th St.,
from Nov. 28-Dec. 16. Influen
ced by her travels through the
Caribbean, the exhibit dis
plays her versatility witb lith
ography, intaglio, woodcut,
coliograph, collage and exper
imental combinations of
these. She's the wife of Hank
Smith, executive director of
Children's Television Work
shop's Community Education
Services.
Charles MeGregor's wond
ering what's happening with
the Black Media as far as his
book "Up From The Walking
Dead" is concerned. Charles
is the ex-con who became fam
ous as Fat Freddie in "Super
Fly" and has since been seen
in such films as "Blazing
Saddle»," "The French Con
nection," "Three The Hard
Way" and others. Doubleday
Dublished his "powerful"
story in May. Twenty paper
back publishers turned it
down before then. Charles
appeared this past week on the
Joe PTankitn BMW·
made a six city tour promot
ing the book, but there's still a
"blackout", he says, in the
Black Media.
narry neiaionte busy trying
to get funds to produce 24
programs over a three-year
period of Public TV which
would include original screen
plays by writers such as Lon
nie Elder and James Baldwin,
concerts and performances by
troupe like Alvin Alley's as
well as documentaries.
National Public Radio pre
sented a two-hour 50th Anni
versary Salute to Lionel Ham
pton which was heard on 200
public radio «.li» acro&s
the U.S. The 60-year-old vibra
phonist, drummer, pianist and
bandleader began his career
with Louis Armstrong and has
played with almost every
other jazz great of his genera
tion.
The Negro Ensemble Com
pany is putting on a Four Play
Theatre Festival, with each
play performed two weeks
only by the residents com
pany, from Dec. 6 to Feb. 4.
George Faison is no longer
director-choregrapher of the
plaqued "A Broadway Musi
ical" which is Broadway- .
bound. He's succeeded by
Gower Champion. Also out is
singer-disc jôcky Julius
Louis Armstrong
...Jazz band leader
La Rosa.
Tenor sax man Buddy Tate
has returned to the Craw
daddy in the Roosevelt Hotel
for a month's engagement,
with Ronnie Cole on drums
and Jim Roberts at the Key
board.
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