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LIGHT-CROS’T STARS - Terri Dover and
W.P. Fulton run through the blocking for the
first act of “Come Blow Your Horn", a Neil
Simon comedy. The play is being presented by
The 1974 Cleveland County
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Little Theater
Alive And Kicking In Kings Mountain
Photo by Jav Achley
the Kings Mountatai LIttte Theatre, tentatively,
the second and thb-d weekends bi May. Gene
Austin is the director.
Cancer Crusade Kicked
Off Willi $10,300 Check
director at Esther Mill,
presented the check to County
Chairman Bob Kirkendall.
Forty percent of the 74 goal,
$23,000, will be used in
Cleveland County to continue
early detection programs,
transportation, drugs, nursing
care, education, chemo
therapy clinics, homemaker
services and rehabilitation
services for cancer patients.
The rest goes to the national
research program.
Kings Mountain’s volun
teers are Roy Pearson,
business chairman; Ben
Goforth, industrial chairman;
and Mrs. Humes (Dot)
Houston, residential chair
man.
’The volunteers are un
dertaking a massive public
education program to alert
people to the early warning
signs of cancer and to tell
them how such signs can be
detected and medically
treated. In the early stages
cancer is one of the most
curable of the major diseases.
There are seven warning
signals people should look for;
a change in bowel or bladder
habits; sores that won’t heal;
unusual bleeding or
discharge; thickening or lump
in the breast and elsewhere;
digestive or swallowing dif-
’ ficutly; obvious changes in
warts or moles; nagging
cough, hoarseness.
If you have or think you
have detected any of these,
see your doctor immediately,
volunteers say.
Jim Amos
To Teach
CT Course
Cleveland Tech’s Extension
Department will offer a 24-
hour course in bookkeeping
beginning Tues., Apr. 23, at 7
pim. at the Kings Mountain
Community Center.
Classes will meet each
Tuesday evening from 7-9
pm. until the conclusion of the
course on July 9.
The course, to be taught by
Jim Amos, is designed to
familiarize businessmen and
other interested persons with
proper record-keeping
procedures for accounting and
tax purposes.
A $2 registration fee is
payable at the first class
meriing.
Interested persons may
contact Cleveland Tech at 482-
4378.
Byers At
Semiiiar
Randy L. Byers of City
Floor Service, Kings Moun
tain, recently attended a
three-day Floor Fashion
Center Management Seminar
in Lancaster, conducted by
Armstrong Cork Company’s
Customer Training Depart
ment.
The seminar is offered to
management of firms who
have recently become
authorized Armstrong Floor
Fashion Center retailers.
Over 2,000 persons from
across the nation have at
tended to date.
Floor Fashion Center
retailers offer the public a
complete resilient floor
covering center designed to
provide professional advice
and assistance.
The latest management
skilla and customer service
techniques were discussed
during the seminar.
By TOM MclN’TYRE
. Editor, The Mirror
Kings Mountain Little
Theater is alive and well.
That’s the report from Gene
Austin, local businessman and
avid supporter of the com-
munity theatrical
organization.
Austin is now in the throes of
directing a new production on
the local boards. The show is
Neil Simon’s “Come Blow
Your Horn” and is tentatively
set for the second and third
weekends in May.
Austin’s cast includes only
one performer, Pete Young of
Shelby, from outside Kings
Mountain. The others are
KMers W.P. Pulton, Terri
. Dover, Beth Ramsey, Gerald
Lovelace, Boots McDaniel and
Nan Jean Grant.
“Chme Blow Your Horn” is
a comedy about the rise of one
brother to the ranks of
swinger and the fall of
another into the ranks of
responsible married man,
businessman, getting to these
points provides the fun.
The stage at the old
Park^ace School auditorim
is being transformed into a
luxury New York apartment
for the show, according to
Austin “and that is expected
to take anotho* three or four
weeks. Meantime, our cast is
working around the props.”
’The last production staged
at the little theater was “not
Even A Mouse,” a children’s
show. The one before that,
almost a year ago, was “Dial
M For Murder.” At best little
theater activity in Kings
Mountain has been an on
again-off again proposition.
And this somewhat mystifies
Austin.
“Our last adult show (“Dial
M..”) was one of the best
we’ve ever done here,” he
said. ‘ ‘There was a lot of talent
on that stage, yet we had to
struggle through it with small
audiences. Maybe the
rescheduled dates and bad
weather had something to do
with it Maybe our location
had sinnething to do with it”
The Parkgrace auditorium
is about a mile and a quarter
from the center of the dty
toward Grover. The
auditorium is surrounded by
amide parking facilities and
good lighting and the theater
group uses the building by
paying a modest fee for utility
costs to the Kings Mountain
District Schools.
“The theater is self-
supporting,” Austin said,
“and it is important to the
community. It provides a
healthy creative outlet to
young people and adults who
have any aspirations at all
toward theater.”
“’There have beai a couple
(d people from Kings Moun
tain who were so inclined and
through the community
dieater they were aide to
really decide to go further
with their careers,” he con
tinued.
Austin cited, for example,
Frances Gerforth, who went on
to become a professional
writer. She wrote a play,
which was staged in New York
and is now available to
community theaters. The
play, “Dark of The Moon,” is
now being prepared for the
movies by the same
production company that did
“The Godfather.”
“She was active in com
munity theater back in die
1940s here,” Austin said.
Another example, mwe
current, is Hal England. As a
youngster he was active in the
local theater. Since then he
has appeared in Broadway,
had a running role in a TV
afternoon drama, has ap-
CCARC
Meets
Apr. 18
Mrs. Lonnie Proctor from
the Physical Education Dept,
at Gardner Webb College will
present the program at the
April meeting of the Cleveland
County Association for
Retarded Children.
’This meeting will be held on
’Ihurs., Apr. 18, 1974, at 7:30
pm. at the Cleveland County
Memorial Library. Mrs.
Proctor’s topic will be the
%)ecial Olympics, which have
been schedul^ for April 30th.
The Adaptive P.E. class at
Gardner Webb College bas
been working with the
children at Children’s Center
preparing them for the Special
Olympics.
peared in several motion
pictures, including “Hang
’Em Hi^” with Gint East-
wood, and TV dramas. He has
also been very active in TV
commercials, the latest is for
Wachovia Bank and he is the
chief spokesman for this
series.
“Sometimes trying to keep
community theater alive is
frustrating,” Austin said.
“I’m sure it’s looked upon as
being silly by many people.
That’s sad. I just wish I could
talk to people with an attitude
like that. I’d like to ask them
where they think actors,
actresses, directors, writers,
people they admire in movies,
[day and on TV, come from.
“They don’t come from
Mars or the moon,” Austin
said. “They come from cities
and towns, many of them just
like Kings Mountain.”
Richard Boone is a prime
example of a community
theater alumni. In frict Boone,
even today, when his duties as
“Hec Ramsey” are over for
the season, directs amateur
theater in bit adapted home
in Florida.
Ernest Borgnine is another
example of amateur theater
beginnings. In fact, there are
so many more who came from
such background and who,
today, strongly suggest the
community theater be used as
a basis for theatrical begin
nings.
“No one scoffs at the
possibility there is another Joe
Nameth, or Hank Aaron or
Wilt Chamberlain now playing
sports at Kings Mountain
high,” Austin said. “I see no
difference in this possibility in
local high school sports than in
the possibility of another
potentially fine actor, actress,
director or writer now in
terested in the Kings Moun
tain Little Theater.”
There are a great number of
Kings Mountain businessmen
and industrial officials who
have and are supporting the
local theater, according to
Austin. “And there are a
number of local people who
support the theater, either as
performers and backstage
personnel, or patrons. But, it
takes more interest from
more people to make any
community theater a suc
cess.”
Austin said recently the
theater wiped the slate clean
of officers and re-elected a
brand new batch in an attempt
to instill new blood and new
enthusiasm in the project.
“We have a lot of plans we
would like to see carried
through,” Austin said. “And
we’ll do it if the support is
there.
“Perhaps, after “Come
Blow Your Horn,” has been •
presented we’ll have a better
look at just which way we are
going,” he said.
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