“Blackstone Magic Show”
Coming To Town January 28
The great BLACKSTONE
MAGIC SHOW, the world's
largest and most spectacular
illusion production, starring
Harry Blackstone, Jr., will be
staged at Ovens Auditorium
on Sunday, January 28, at 6
America's foremost magi
cian, Harry Blackstone Jr.,
and a company of 28 assis
tants, dancers, and musicians
will present many of the most
original and startling illusions
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this dazzling two-hour magic
show
Blackstone will recreate
several illusions made famous
by his father, the Great Black
stone. as well as many new
illusions never before included
in the Blackstone Magic Show.
One of the highlights ol ihe
production will be the perfor
mance of the chilling Buzz
Saw Illusion, in which Black
stone saws his assistant in hall
using a 30-inch circular saw
GORGEOUS JATVET DUBOIS
— With WBTV employees
DuBois: “Someone Reached
Out To Me And I Reached Back”
by Susan Ellsworth
Post Staff Writer
Ja’Net DuBois-actress,
singer and writer, was the
special guest at the ninth
annual WBT-WBTV Blood
Give-In in Charlotte on Jan
uary 3.
On vacation from her film
ing schedule for the television
series “Good Times’’ (Wed
nesday, 8:30 p.m. Ch.3) in Los
Angeles, Ms. DuBois came to
Charlotte for the Blood-Give
In as one of her four charity
projects a year.
Ja’Net said her role at the
blood drive was to distract the
volunteers from their dis
comfort.
What will Ja’Net remember
most about Charlotte?
n leiepnone conversauon
she has with a 63-year-old
woman, stands out in her
memory, Ja'Net recalled.
During their discussion the
woman requested a recording
of a song Ja’Net wrote and
sings called “Movin on Up,"
the theme from the series
“The Jeffersons.”
"Someone reached out to
me and I reached back."
Ja’Net briefly reminisced.
As Willona, the fun-loving
neighbor of the Evans family
on "Good Times,” Ja'Net said
she considers herself fortu
nate to have worked on the
series for five years, earning
much money and having con
tract security.
Yet, she laments, "The job
is nice, but I can’t grow. If you
don’t grow, go! Not growing is
the way you die.”
Although Ja’Net admitted
she likes working on the
series, she observed that her
role does not offer her the
opportunity she deserves to
further develop her talents.
Ja’Net will continue taping
“Good Times” until March,
1979, but then what does her
hold?
Id the series be contin
ued she will have a contract
for another year. If the show
is cancelled because of its
declining ratings, Ja'Net will
fulfill some of her other am
bitions.
Having centered her career
around television acting at
present, Ja’Net is enthusiastic
about focusing her talents in
other areas, such as singing,
composing songs or writing
love stories.
Is Ja’Net DuBois romantic'
One of her ambitions is ‘‘to fall
in love and get married
again.” She has been mt rried
and divorced twice.
Ja’Net is no newcomer to
the arts. She has spent 18
years in show business. "I
started when I was two. She
exclaimed jokingly ano ith
reluctance to divulge he ge
Living on Long Island ev
York, for the first 15 ye , ot
he - life pr> ided Ja'Ne with
‘‘curly experiences at -mg
poor ana a stuue'er.
Even if she weren’t inv 'ved
with the arts Ja'Net uld
revert to her experience is a
licensed cosmotologist She
taught at Queens Beauty isti
tute in New York and con
ducted drama classes for wel
fare mothers at Stony brook
College.
As a personal philosophy for
day-to-day living. Ja’Net said
she incorporates "You reap
what you sow," into her life.
In harvesting the rewards
yarned through her talents,
Ja’Net is a singer and has
written lyrics for songs re
corded by Lou Rawls and
Lette Mbula.
Opening a disco in Char
lotte, Atlanta, and Baton
Ro'ige, where she would have
a stow case for her singing is
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om of Ja'Net’sfuture goals.
She not only sings but writes
two songs a day and is pre
sently co-authoring a novel,
•’Love. No Promises..”
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