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norsesnoe Nail Is Set To Music LATTX NEE "toy Jon Denton Going home good By John Brandenburg Things and people have a way of coming back home. A case in point is a song written by University of Oklahoma art instructor John R. Hadley while on a year's leave from OU in Nashville, Term. The song, entitled "Rings for Sale," has recently been released by Oklahoma-born singer Roger Miller as a single on the Mercury label, said Hadley, who resumes OU teaching du Songwriter John Hadley little things can inspire. influences.

"But that's OK with me and, so far, with my publisher," he added. pointed out. Hadley described his songs a mixture of blues, rock, country and old-time band Spent! TUHn New English Rock Group To Appear Here Tonight Mmar LASAGNA Sarvwf WMi lrW tkk Our Famu Mw4 tmri 2.95 utes in the song writing department and sings as well. White joined the group this year from Joe Cocker's band. Tadeusz A.

J. E. Czolowski is a man who hungers to return to his homeland. Born in Poland, raised in England and now a naturalized citizen of the United States, "Tad" is spending more and more oX his time on the nether side of the Iron Curtain. He has made a long jump between the scrub oak thickets of Oklahoma and the hobnailed boots ox now-Communist Poland.

To bridge that gap, he employs JJlm making. When he returns to Oklahoma City, he relaxes with his family. It takes only a brief rest before he again turns his eyes eastward. HIS RECEPTION IN POLAND has been cordial, if a bit confused, he says. "To them, I am an American, a movie producer, rich and perhaps crazy." Poland is a vital, moving force now and a new sense of tolerance is building for the people.

Tad is cashing in on the freedom, while it lasts. His own life is worth a film in itself. He stayed in Poland until the end of World War n. His father came from a well known military family and was an officer in the Polish Air Force; his father's father was governor of the eastern provinces of Poland and his mother's father.developed a giant industrial complex. Tad lived under German occupation, He joined the Polish underground as a boy, serving with other youths as lookouts, messengers and diversionary troops.

Then the Russians came. Tad was involved in military action, was injured, then left Poland with his mother. The family reunited in England after separation during the war. He began a normal school life in England, attending a private boy's school and a university. After participating in a school movie which won honorable mention in England, he began a series of documentaries on his own this time on his beloved Poland.

He is an oil engineer in Oklahoma but he seldom mentions his vocation. He only notes he has sunk everything into his film series. He has only one ambition and that is to succeed and build a new future as a producer. IT HAS NOT BEEN EASY. His first major work, "The Inheritor," a biography, had all of the earmarks of success but was too ambitious, too expensive as an opener.

After several years of raising cash and reworking the script, it has been shelved. "We will get back to it," he promises. Right now, he is gambling on another film project that already ART GALLERY WESTERN INDIAN t. W. Ueming An appearance has been scheduled by the English rock music group Yes at 8 p.m.

Sunday at Civic Center Music Hall. Described as a soft-rock band, the group's albums include "Time and a "The Yes "Fragile" and their latest release, "Close to the Led by singer Jon Anderson, Yes recently was voted "best new vocal group" and won seven of eight honors bestowed by the Los Angeles Star. Other members of the group are Rik Wakeman, who plays five keyboard instruments; guitarists Chris Squire and Steve Howe, and drummer Al White. Howe plays both electric and acoustic guitar and writes songs, while Wakeman plays organ, piano, mellotron, electric piano and Moog. Anderson writes the bulk of the group's songs and Squire also contrib SUNDAY 1 m.

t. 5 Downtown at Robinson A Shoridan ties this fall. and therefrom: hangs a tale, or at least a nail, according to Hadley, who traces the idea for the song to rings made from horseshoe nails he remembered from boyhood days in Ohio. "It was an easy song to write," Hadley recalled. "I just saw a nail sticking out of my boot and started thinking about the horseshoe nail rings that you polished on the soles of your feet when I was a kid on the farm.

"If you didn't like the ring you could always bend it back and it was automatic to compare this to a story or a dream," the budding song writer explained. HADLEY SAID he sold about 40 songs to Tree Publishing Co. during his Nashville stay including another song, called "Make Your Own Good News," which Miller plans to release. Best known in Oklahoma as a painter, print-maker and film maker, Hadley said he plans to continue song writing at his home in Norman and may eventually have to choose between music and art careers. "1 wanted to give myself another avenue of expression it's the first time I've lived at the center of an activity I was involved in," Hadley commented of the year spent in Nashville.

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"Some of the things I have filmed may never be seen again." Under the umbrella title of "Vanishing Customs of Poland," Tad has envisioned 13 separate documentaries and a single, full length movie. Among the titles he will offer are "Calvary," a centuries-old Holy Week celebration in a small, Polish town; "The Hermits," a story of people in poverty, and of the help they offer others; "The Tatar," about life in a Tatar town in Europe unchanged since the 17th century; "The Gypsies," a story about a principal band of the nomads of Poland, Hungary and Romania; "The Horse Market," an ancient custom of trade fast disappearing; "A History of Jews," shown through customs, monuments and music, and "The Brotherhood," about a secret society devoted to helping the unfortunate through Christian life. The rnmpleic "series is already bankrolled, Tad says. Much of the footage has been shot and today, Tad rejoins his film crew in Poland to continue the work. ONCE HIS SKIUKS is sold, he plans to move into a new area perVutji I ho vanishing American Indian native.

His eyes have been fresh for Poland. He will bring his Polish camera men to America. "It is the same everywhere," he explains. "I got excited about the customs of Europeans, customs that are dying. My crew is the same way about America." lie has no illusions about his documentaries.

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