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1 1 46 WEEKEND ENTERTAINMENT GUIDE Berlin: An A American institution turns 90 SPEED Knight News Service He is a small man of great stature. George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Victor Herbert and Jerome Kern all considered themselves his inferior. Many have called him, America's greatest composer of popular music. Kern thought that he was even more significant than that. "IRVING BERLIN," Kern once said, "is American music." Thursday, Mr.

American Music is entered his tenth decade. The legendary songwriter is marked his 90th birthday in New York, the scene of his Broadway triumphs and his home since he emigrated, at age 4, from Russia with his parents. There is much reason to wish Mr. Berlin well on his 90th birthday. He has given this country a lot of himself; namely, a long, long medly of some of its most loved and lasting songs.

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MondaySaturday, 9-2 A.M. Colony Club 2801 South Dixie 70 years. It begins with a 1911 song, "Alexander's Ragtime Band," which set a new style for popular music, and goes on to include such pieces as "White Christmas," "God Bless America," "Easter Parade," "A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody," and "There's No Business Like Show Business." BERLIN BEGAN his career at age 8, when his father died, by singing on street corners for tossed coins. At 14, he ran away from home and sang in saloons. He started writing songs in 1907, even though he couldn't read or write music.

His first effort, "Marie From Sunny Italy," earned him 37 cents. His first hit, "Sadie Salome, Go Home," came two years later, followed by the immortal "Alexander's Ragtime Band." Over the ensuing decades, much of Berlin's prolific songwriting went into musicals, such as "Annie Get Your Gun." Considered by many his best score, The cure for "Saturday Night Fever" is to see it again. ATURDAY NIGH FEVERS TM it PARAMOUNT PICTURES PRESENTS JOHN TRAVOLTA KAREN LYNN GORNEY "SATURDAY NIGHT A ROBERT STIGWOOD PRODUCTION Screenplay by NORMAN WEXLER Directed by JOHN BADHAM Producer KEVIN McCORMICK Produced by ROBERT STIGWOOD Original music written and perfoimed by the BEE GEES Soundtrack album available on RSO Records RESTRICTED CO DO DOA BY SYSTEM Read the Baniam Paperback A Paramount Picture BARGAIN MATINEE IST SHOW $2.00 2:15, 4:30, 7:00 2:15, 4:30, 7:40 9:15, 9:55, 12:05 The Fabulous LOEWS AMES Brave Valley 4115 MAIN STREET 1278-65861 rat SPECIAL SNEAK PREVIEW TONIGHT at 9:45 pm "'COMING HOME' IS SO GOOD, SUCH AN IMPORTANT FILMI I 'CELEBRATE IT FOR THE CHANCES IT TAKES AND FOR THE SUCCESSES IT ACHIEVES. SEE Gene Shalit, NBC- TV A Jerome Hellman Production A Hal Ashby Film Tore Finda Jan Wight Bruce Derr Screenplay by Waldo Salt and Robert C.Jones Storyby Nancy Dowd Director of Photography Haskell Wexler Associate Producer Bruce Gilbert Producedby Jerome Hellman Directed by Hal Ashby 254-2636 CINEMA BE HERE BEFORE 7:45 P.M. AND SEE PAGE MANOR 1 2 BOTH THE SNEAK "Smokey The Bandit" AIRWAY RD.

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