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Enjoying Their Roles KINGS MOUNTAIN MIfiROR, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1972, PAGE 7 Pretty Girls Key Ingredients Of Local Movie There were girls galore on the set of “Sign Off” late last week. Filming was taking place on Piedmont Avenue at the home of Reb Wiesener, The action being filmed takes place at a house where a group of women, with dubious repu tations, ply their trade. Dar lene Parker, playing the pro prietress, gathered together her "staff." These include Linda Faile, Della Wallace, Kay Jenkins and Jackie Mel ton. Della is from Gastonia, she is an ex-beautician who now works in the Lab. at Spectrum in Kings Mountain. She origi nally auditioned for a motor ipairs 524 :ar in- •vlcefor ns. Call C F 0 West ischund. the area If found on, 739- • ! cycling role but has been cast as "Jenny” and she Isflndlng the movie role both interest ing and easy despite no prior experience on the stage or screen. Kay Jenkins in the role of "Candy” is obviously enjoy ing herself as she plays a part in the movie she helped to cre ate. As one of the four co-au thors she has been Involved from the very beginning. Kay also lives in Gastonia. "Queeny” is played by Jack ie Melton who is originally from Wilmington, N.C, She now lives in Charlotte where she works for Mr. Patterson who is producing this movie. Both Jackie and Kay Jenkins are novices at movie making. The maid at the house will be played by Kay Wiesener who is Reb’s wife. Kay is an innocent bystander as the film’s plot unrolls. Kay’s dog, Stephanie, will also be featur ed as her dog in the movie. Kay is a local girl who grad uated from K.M.H.S., is cur rently employed at Dellingers Jewel Shop and she has play ed roles in the Kings Moun tain Little Theatre product ions. The leading lady of "Sign- Off” is accustomed to that title because she recently pla yed Maria in "West Side Story” and Dolly in "Hello Dolly” for the Gastonia Little Theatre. Attractive Barbara Willis of Gastonia was eager to start her second day of shooting her first film. Originally from Reading, Pa., Barbara came Kay wltMner, Della Wallaea, KayJenldnaand Darlene Parker relax between takes on the set. Text by Sylvia Holmes Photos Iw Rodney Dodson to Gastonia about four years ago when her father transfer red down here. Barbara spent two years at Bowling Green State Univer sity in Ohio where she major ed in music. While in Ohio she played Magnolia InShow Boat. Barbara also studied for one year at the Philadelphia Music Academy where she majored in voice and mlnoredlnidano. Other rolesplayed by Barbara are Helen of Troy in the Gas tonia production of Masquer ade which was an original musical and also Louisa in the Fantasticks at the Mint Hill Dinner Theatre in Charlotte. Barbara was both excited and nervous about this new ven ture and I’m sure we’ll be hearing more about her InUie future. Adults $1.25 12 to 17 $1.00 Children .75 Wed. & Thur. Shows-3-5-7-9 Frl.-3;00-4; 33-6:23-8:13 ^9 pVtJf ■ R\ Sat. Shows-l:00-2:38 4:32-6:26-8:20 Sun.-l:30-3:30-9:00 Mon. & Tues.-3-5-7-9 CLINT EASTWOOD «IOE KIDD TFCHNCOIOR’ f'ANAViSOf-. • A Ur<ivefsai/Maip.iso Company Production Frances Hutchins of Grover was busySaturday morning trying to create her character. Despite having a lour year old daugb- ther, Donna, Frsinces will be portraying "Becky,’’the thirteen year old and slightly retarded niece of "George Webber,” the town drunk. LATE FLICK FRI.-SAT. 10:30 p.m.. Adults Only "Love And Kisses” Rated (X) All SeaU $1.25 COMING NEXT WEEK “Night Call Nurses”(R) Spend 15 minutes with your Caroiina Ford Deaier Jackie Melton confers with Pete Floyd before filming comn TV COMMENTARY DON’T FRUSTRATE your favorite TV repairman if your usually trustworthy set happens to suddenly project football these scorching summer evenings. And if you view a game, don’t think the heat has affected some poor official's brain when he passes peculiar judg ments on the game. CANADIAN FOOTBALL, played under different rules ^^rom the U.S. variety, and ^Originating from a cooler ^^limate, is presented as a sort of hors d’oeuvre to the upcoming Uncle Sam season. ABC, the sportsman’s net work, will air sixty-six and one-half hours of the 1972 Summer Olympics. This is by far the most extensive coverage of a sports hap pening ever. Presented live and taped via satellite. >) t ‘‘JOE KIDD" (1-B) arching for a revolutionary renegade, Clint Eastwood pauses to survey the mountainous area in turn-of-th e-century New Mexico in the Universal/ Malpaso Company production in Technicolor and Panavision, "Joe Kidd.” By John Smiley coverage will begin on Au gust 25th. THE LIFE OF LEONAR DO DA VINCI will be a win ner. Try to see the whole thing. It will be a brilliant ly conceived and executed five-part series on the orig inal Renaissance man. The first segment will be shown on CBS, August 13th, from 9 until 10:30 p.m. PART II of the marathon telecast of our quadrennial political conventions will be aired August 21-24 as the Republicans move onto center stage in Miami. WATCHING the network spots which advertise the upcoming fall fare, one gets the notion that this will be a choice year as far as pro gramming is concerned. But, then, doesn’t every mother see beauty in her baby? JIGSAW will be a police show revealing stories born in the bureau of missing per sons. Why people suddenly drop out of life, rejecting family, friends and careers is the puzzling jigsaw the viewer and TV characters solve every third Thursday on ABC. Perhaps this is a chance to have a police story and mystery without showing violence. MAKING THE HOP from the silver screen to the electronic dame. M'A’S’H’ will appear on CBS on Sun days. In this show two Army surgeons blow off steam be tween their life-saving duty hours of combat surgery. .Alas, almost nothing is too sacred to handle on this show. American Plan Visitor—Those are wonder ful strawberries you have there. Do you use fertilizer on them?” Farme^-”No, just cream and sugar.” The Freddie Hart SHOW h Coming To CROSSROADS MUSIC PARK Sunday, August 20 for 2 shows 4 and 8 p.m. Advance tickets available at Suttles Drug, Kings Mountain Drug, Mount aineer Pharmacy. Or phone 739-2958. CROSSROADS MUSIC PARK 2 miles N. 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