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THE CAROLINIAN RALEIGH. N C SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1967 8 ■ HOLLYWOOD j l *ls. Happenings i B\ W ALTER BURRELL His name is Don Mitchell and he’s the kind of actor who doesn't cut corners when it comes to his screen role u lie does them with what he tools is honesty, or he turns them down. To many he’s the irnay O! the i\*w Negro Actor young, talented, aggressive - and it’s undoubtedly hs l>r<v.i of black actors who will bring a more honest iniagi of the American Negro to television and movie screens. Mitchell is starring in 1; • first really big film, “Iron side,” with Raymond (“Perry Mason”) Burr and it’s one of those movies being made es pecially for TV. Os his role, he says frankly: ‘‘The first half of the show i- great for me. I come on. strong as the beautiful, confident black man who has all the strength. But in the second half, I wind up walking around as Burr’-- ride. Well, that’s what’s happening right now in films for the i h e actor. That’s where it is. ‘••'however,” Dor: continues, ■'this is a film which will be considered by the mo\ie-rnak ing establishment as b< ing out standing for this generation, simply because it say s more than most films have had the guts to say thus far. But it still isn’t a completely hon est portrayal. This lack of honesty (whether conscious ot not) is partially due to the i ret that few, if any, scripts are ever written by Negroes and whites simply can’t tell it like it is.’ “They just don’t get to the heart of the matter,” Don; oin s out. “The white writer, pro ducer, directoi comes ic > - and asks us about ourselves or watches us, then he writes a script from his point of view. Anti what he nuts on paper isn’t usually the deep-down truth.. Background Music Comes Os Age Evolution of the secretary still taking place in the business world of the 1960’5, with background music joining the electric typewriter, good lighting and air conditioning. r. the 1880 s secretaries- were called 'typewriters.'’ Their work aietis were dark, drafty and _ cluttered The idea! modern office is bright, clean, quiet and etfi cient Huweve r, somewhere be tween these two extremes is the place where most office workers toil Telephones ring ing. typewriters clacking, peo ple taikmg, tile drawers clos ing. elevator doors opening, ali contribute to an mhealthy, harsh noise level Bat kg round music, such .as 3M Company’s “Cantata" 700, provides plea, ant sound to replace irritating noise that creates fatigue and employee distraction. While there s nothing new about the marriage of ,vork and music, background music avoids attention-getting vocals Children s Film Festival' Quality TV Series Set for Children The Children's. Film Festi val." a series of eight interna tionally-acclalmed motion pic tures produced for and about children, will be presented by Xerox Corporation over the CBS Television Network on Sunday afternoons beginning February 5 (4 to f> p.m EST) The films, produced in ~ o oral countries in various parts if the world, mark an unusual approach to quality programs for young viewers The Sun day afternoon per- > d was selected specifically as a time when the entire family can view the programs together since they are expected to be as entertaining for adults as they are for children. Burr Tillstrom will join with Fran Allison in their famed "Kukla, Fran and Ollie” charac ters as host-narrators for seven of the programs The eighth and final show will be a 90-minute children’s film classic on Easter Sunday, March 26, 4-5:30 p.m, ESI'. Commenting cn the sponsor ship. David J. Curtin, Xerox vice president in charge of Corpoiate Communications, de dared: "Both as a television sponsor and as a company concerned with young people through the Xerox Education Division, we have recognized for some time the need for TV programs to enlighten and stimulate our younger viewers, as well as to entertain them. "We hope that our sponsor ship of The Children’s Film Festival' will spark as great a resurgence of quality in the area of children’s programs as our sponsorship of ’Death of a Salesman’ on CBS last spring did for quality TV drama," The premiere program will be "Skinny and Fatty," a story produced in Japan about a fat, rich, spoiled boy who, through “I forget who said it, but some Negro writer once point ed out that ‘I got one face for white folks to see, got another I know is me’, and it’s so true, We don’t tell them the whole truth because we know they don’t really want to hear it, so we just feed them what they want to hear about ‘how it is to be a Negro’.’’ And just how far off does Mitchell feel an honest portray al of 'he Negro on the screen is. “I don’t think it’s very far away,” he reflects. “May be about five years. There are too many young Negroes coming into the industry -- both in front of the camera and behind it -- and they’ll insist on more. “And when the real break through comes, It’ll be with films we’ve produced ourselv es, a dependency. We’ve got to produce them ourselves be o - use the big studios won’t make a really honest effort for per haps another 15 years. We’ve got to get the money together and produce our own movies. And to hell with this myth that ‘the public isn’t ready*. The movie industry has always been a force in selling ideas to the country, so why shouldn’t we help speed up the brain wash ing? “As for the Negro actor’s Puta in this, well, he has a very basic problem. Like a ditch digger or a lawyer, he has to eat so he takes the parts he can g- ‘. The roles which have been handed to him in recent years have, for the most part, been just short of Uncle Tom parts, h :’s taken them because D wants to go on acting -- and mating. But now more and more Negro actors, especially the younger ones, are saying ‘no’ to certain parts or they’re say ing ’okay, I’ll take the part, but I’ll play it this way, with loud passages and peaks and valleys of stimulation, con centrating instead on uniform, flowing sounds. ?he Chicago branch of As sociated Aviation Underwrit er for example, replaced the bn kground noise of 12 girls working in one large office with background music at a pleasing tempo. Liberty Life Insurance Company “tuned out business clatter’’ with lively music from a 3M system. Banks, restaurants, hotels and even hospitals and schools arc becoming major users of , karound music, apparently , onvinced that the benefits of music are also the benefits of business. ' ■ *' '' , , ■ sKI\\Y AND FATTY": In the premiere program of "The Children’s Film Festival,” the friendship between these two Japanese boys helps them mature. Xerox Corporation will present the series over the CBS Television Network on eight consecutive Sunday afternoons beginning Feb. 5. the friendship of a poor, slender lad in his new school, learns to make his own way in the world. Subsequent programs will in clude "Blind Bird,” a color film produced in Russia; the Academy- award winning “Red Balloon,” filmed in France, teamed with Jacques Yves- Cousteau’s short subject, "The Golden Fish”; "Yellow Slip pers” from Poland; a Russian produced version of O. Henry’s “Ransom of Red Chief” and “Good Luck, Kekec,” filmed in Yugoslavia. All the foreign-language films are expertly dubbed in English. The 90-minute Easter Sunday presentation will be the British award winning film, "Hand In Hand.” It is described as the moving story of the friendship between a little Catholic boy and a Jewish girl who learn for themselves, and remind those some substance.’ Through more of this aggressiveness the honest portrayals will emerge. “Right now we have the white writer’s interpretation of us on the screen. And we have either stereotype casting or casting to play it safe; casting to make sure that not too much of the realities of today come through. And this means anger; the anger which is happening to almost every Negro today. Just stop and think of the many ways this supressed anger and suspicion shows up in everyday life; the looks, the rejections, nods, un spoken curse words which are part of reality, but hardly ever shown on film. ‘‘To ‘tell It like It is’ is an over-used phrase, but that’s where it is; that’s where the movie industry has to wind up. And you can be sure that black people will have to instigate such change, because the white controlled establishment isn’t going to Just hand us anything.” * * * Brock Peters, who scored so heavily as the villaninous pimp in “The Pawnbroker,” has been set by producer Edward J, Mon tague for the top featured role of a Bahamian chief of police in the Raymond Burr-George Peppard starrer, “Criss Cross.” Mr. Peters will be the subject of an upcoming edi tion of this column. * * * Tan stuntmen-actors Cal Brown and Eddie Smith will have lots to say in the very near future regarding a Negro branch of the Stuntmen’s Association. The group, composed of both men and women, is already in existence and has purchased motorcycles and other equip ment to train members In the breath-taking behind the scenes art of stunt coordination hi mo tion pictures. Brown andSmlth have been on the Hollywood scene for years and their group has already gained impressive stature. Otis Smith Promoted SHORT-SHORTS. .L 0 n g-t i m e record mogul Otis Smith has been promoted to director of national sales and promotion at Orpheum Productions (River side Records)... Sultry Barbara Rinehart may be signed to a Mercury recording contract If negotiations hold up. The at tractive young singer has been in the business for only four years, but has already created quite a stir with her Aretha Franklin-Della Reese-type chirping... Motown’s artists’ development school is now be ing run by ex-singer Johnny Briston and Harvey Fuqua, for mer leader of Harvey and the Moonglows...Muhammad (Cas sium Clay All, heave weight champion o f the world, has endorsed Alvin Cash’s new One-Der-Ful release of “Doin’ the All Shuffle.” Disc has com pletely overshadowed a prior effort by The Brothers and Sisters...MGM recording artist Johnny Nash recuperating from tonsillectomy and being inform ed that his mother was injured in an auto accident in Houston, Texas, his hometown...“ Brig hten the Corner” is the title of Ella ‘‘First Lady of Song” who might have doubts, that one God watches over all. Aside from "Red Balloon,” the "Festival” presentation marks the first time any of the programs will have been seen on TV in this country. To Xerox Corporation, the “Children’s Film Festival" rep resents another "first” in TV sponsorship. As the company “in the business of making it easier for people to under stand one another,” Xerox sponsored "Making of the President: 1960” and "Making of the President: 1964” and also underwrote the produc tion of a series of TV dramatic specials to help explain the work of the United Nations. The company will sponsor later tills season on CBS a repeat broadcast of "Death of a Salesman,” Arthur Miller’s "The Crucible" and Hal Hol brook’s "Mark Twain Tonight!” DISCUSS MOVIE-MAKING - Director Sidney Lumet (left) explains a fine point of film making to Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis at a cocktail : •ceptwn ho-ic : i-y Lur: . ;m.to . i -id ■in , vill g of his latest suspense drama, ‘•‘The I)o. ii. Affair,” a Colmr.i.i.: .o : -, / \vm- “The Deadly Affair,” Lumet becomes a motion picture producer as w< 11 i. e t >p no tch thriller stars James Mason, Simone Signoret, Maxmillian Schell, and Marry Andre* IN STAR ROLE - Raymond Burr and Dan Mitchell ar< mip • tured in a tense scene from Uni- rsal’- Wor i ■ ‘lronside’,” one of 1 ?-full-length motion r .•• > - - ' 1 a i ; ed exclusively for the NBC Television D as the reliellious young Negro who D-> :■ confidant. AMONG THE STARS With LEE IVORY “AND THE SNOWS CAME, YOU HEAH!” Eldee Young, co-leader of the new and exciting Young-Holt Trio, tried to tell me two days before the “happening” that all purgatory would break 100-< after two days of plus 60-de gree weather In Chicago In Jan uary. "We’re just going to have an early summer,’ I suggested, stupid Idiot that 1 am, as I unzipped the liner-of my top coat and donned my summer web-woven sandals. Early Wednesday evening was quite beautiful. Mickey Steven son and the vivacious Kim Wes ton were about to LE AVE Chi cago after visiting Red Holt, Don Walker and Eldee back stage at the Regal Theatre, and I (still a stupid Idiot) saw them off to O’Hare Inter national airport. Os course. If I had paid any attention to Eldee, I would have copped mo a three day vacation with my sister, Helen In Hawaii! The Young-Holt Trio the three of them Windy City na tives, were plenty restless. They wanted to leave Chicago immediately after their final show at the Regal Thursday night ‘round midnight. They had two television spots In Los An geles, as well as a concert and a seven-day engagement at the Whiskey A-Go-Go. They didn’t make it. And the snows came, you dig? Joe Black, director of spe cial markets for Greyhound Bus Lines, must have known some thing too. I talked with him about a week before the “Big Thing” (as we are loath to call it), and he remarked he was leaving town and would not return until the 31st! And, all the time, I thought he was going out on marketing busi ness!! The Y -H Trio decided to catch a Greyhound to St. Louis where they might grab the first thing smoking heading for the West Coast. This might have suc ceeded, but their Instruments were at the Regal theatre and there was nothing moving along 47th street other than a couple of well-fortified wine heads (who, incidentally, still don’t Fitzgerald’s new religious al bum for Capitol. .Watch out for "Hold On I’m Coming” by Chuck Jackson and Maxine Brown on Wand. Sure to be a winner.. Ruby and the Romantics now' with ABC Records. realize thui Chicago snowfall record of 1930 to s been broken!) By the time the three mu sicians retrieved their axes, it was six p, m. Friday and the tew Geryhouads thru were still in Chicago ; PJn’t mo : Red and Yen c pia nist Dom ■ ur;i> or he scene) were noted for their prompt - ness when flu-\ a-.u c apj rir.,, with Harr. cc Lewi.-.. Clnlvown ers around we .tr kit w this is true neither 1 air., sir-: < nor dark o; night stayed i1,. ; • cats from the gig! All they could do in Chica go, in January cf 1967, though, was pray for a miracle. Like a midnight sun to melt UipE |V |C| ADAM CLAYTON POWELLS HISTORY MAKING MESSAGE TO YOU! “Keep the Fhith,Baby!" ADAM f l *.V i ON POWELLS MESSAGE TO T«E WORLD n~, i~'ii i “KEEP THE FAITH. BABY’ An exclusive live" recording featuring .. . Keep The Faith, Baby Burn, Baby, Burn My Dear Colleagues Death of Any Man Handwriting on The Wall One Day NOW ON SALE AT At L RECORD SHOPS (or contact your local Jubilee Record Distributor or Jubilee Industries, Inc. 1790 Broadway, New York, N.Y, 10019) some of the snow! ' How " re peated" T.ee T.or; , stupid idiot of ,l •• r prognostication fame. What v ore other Chicago aroa ente; tainers doing during th< " r>'" Thing?*' Let’s take a peek: OTIS LKAVILI., I have been Informed, sat perched atop the Chicago lady Defender build ing ’ll ri. !.t with about 45 mem bers of the dread Dlackstone Ranger:' trying to figure out how to get inside the eight trapped Brink's armored trucks! BILI V BUTLER, it is al ley”?, ■ a fleet of ponies from th<- Meadow brook Country Club sorn ".-here in Indiana and set up n one -her se - sleigh fype of rescue operation. The only (iifb ”‘c - • b ••• ■ -ten Billy's operations ami tl; s< of bona fide roscurers was the fact that the Brunswick artist was r< portediy Purging S4O ahead! l: 'RHY i : A I.v:, vice president of Press Clipping Limited, re portedly got caught on the ex press’. 1 . ay in his brand new 1967 Eldoiado which he had picked up only two da vs before the "Big Thing." He refused to leave it and, had it not been for Chicago realtor and vice president of PCI. setting up an emergency food line to Harry's Hog (as it is affectionate!;. called)there are those vho feel that Harry Bale would have starved to J u Hi: L’LS'N, stranded in his hotel suite, played poker with his bodyguard, valet, and ■ a ” i iTSTICS. After snows goes and Jackie n-cks out, I heard, his body nd (ome of strand i‘ curclsdivithovuse??? Hi" rA Albim cords when . jntro r rn• ; A - much-acclaimed alb; m "fOep ’ing a certified check tor $33,C00, 7HEH7IIICIILS The World Os Entertainment ■ . L* . . .v- ~ .... Lou Rawls Hits To Be Featured On Feb. Show One of the greatest soul jazz singers in the mu. ic world today, Leu Rawls, will appear In Raleigh at Dorton Arena, for one concert, on Saturday, February 18th ... i 8:30 pm. Tickets for this outstanding concert are on sale at Thiem’s Recard Shop and Patter on’s Record Shop in Raleigh, .n. the Record Bar in Durham md Chapel Hill. The Rawls voice doesn’t LOU RAWLS representing an advance a gains’ royalties that are expected to exceed a quarter of a million dollars. Jubilee president Jerry Blaine stated the check paid off the original court claim . - gainst Rep. Powell. Mrs. E~ sther James won a defamation of character judgment against Powell. IDORTON ARENA C. T t, JO , IN. C. STATE FAIRGROUNDS Jill., fUL 1 &jr 5130 ROS (MU CUSSIANDIIK *OS ASt Soou Rmervd OH SALE AT; TKSEM'S RECORD S « RECORD SHOP, THE RECORD BAR IN jm CRAPE! Kill WLLE RADIO 500 WATTS - 570 KC PROGRAM SCHEDULE Monday Thru Friday 4-6 A M. ROLL JORDAN \ 6-9 A M.—RICK DARNELL 9-10 A M.—JAMES BLOUNT jfc 10-10:15 A.M.—A. A. ALLEN ” / 10:15-10:30 A M.— REV. DAV- BEL ID KPLEY CRUSADE WM& % wk 10:35 Id Noon— WII. RUDD '.iwHk 12:00-1 P. M.— NOONTIME „ r . TT spirituals Wake Up With 1:05-2 :00—WIL RUDD »RO. JAMES SHOW THOMAS 2:OS—SIGN OFF—WILD MON THRU SAT. CHILD SHOW 4 A.M.-6 P.M. BULLETIN BOARD ON THE y 2 HR.; NEWS ON THE HOUR Saturday Programs 4-6 A M.—ROLL JORDAN SHOW 6-6:15 A.M.—FARM PROGRAM 6:15-10:00 A.M.—WILD CHILD SHOW 10:00-10:15 A.M.-A. A. ALLEN 10:15-10:30 AM.—REV. A. JONES V',3o 1 2 Noon—HOME COMPANION SHOW D Jc ■-.•2:00 P M—RICK DARNELL SHOW . 00 P.M.---SIGN OFF—WIL RUDD SHOW BULLETIN BOARD ON THE y 2 HR.; NEWS ON THE HOUR Sunday Programs 5:00 A.M.—ROLL JORDAN SHOW 3:0 P.M.—SUNDAY AFTERNOON SHOW stop ai expressing merely the v.ords and music, but communi ••ate-, .i rich :',::ire of emotions: frustration, sardonic wit, teas tut' you.d humor, the urgency of love, and love’s fulfillment, to pick and choose just a few. With then, he transforms a o n g into crackling fresh, meaningful siatements about nun and woman and life. Low i s Is itas been called "the g’vate.-t soul-jazz-singer of the 60’s.” He is an ar tist v. ~o dee; - moving pe rfor- m '.ncfs take the audience with him vd c-iuver lie goes. He tms also l-.een railed "the en t( : tuwith the finest phras ing since Sinatra.” \ o: his recent hits have e 4 ovc Is A Hurting . ; •" Is: ;co Road”, and ‘ You C ••. Bring Me All Your Heartaches”, The album, ‘1 ou R: . Live”, was chosen is the mi.,her one rhythm and blues alburn of tire v ear. LINCOLN RALEIGH, N. G. STAR'! SUNDAY, FEB, 16 THE EMBALMER Starring 1W Al KEEN BROWN —plus- ; /THE SHE BEAST Starring I ■ BA,itS3,ASIA STEEL- I I | STAR'S ■ ta RS„ FEB. tt BELLE STARR’S DAUGHTER Starring I caio d (,r. MOMTtI OMER-Y I —plus— Second Ft ature Lthe last man f ON EARTH
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