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PLAYGROUND DAILY NEWS, Ft. Walton Beach, Than. Feb. MM BALLERINA COLLEEN CORRKE will star in the dance production, "Come Dance With Me" in an evening performance this Saturday at the Civic Auditorium in Fort Walton Beach. The 8:15 p.m.

performance is being sponsored by the Playground Mutual Concert Association. Diller Hits Palm As Wackiest Saleslady JAMES MORSKI will perform in the dance attraction, "Come Dance With Me," scheduled for this Saturday evening at the Civic Auditorium, Fort Walton Beach, under the sponsorship of the Playground Mutual Concert Association. Come Dance With Me Ballet Presentation DAILY NEWS BUREAU VALPARAISO The dance production, "Come Dance Wdth Me" scheduled for an evening performance this Saturday at the civic auditorium in Fort Walton Beach, will take its audience into the artistical world. It is full of art, entertainment, movement, and that appeals to the uninitiated dance public as balletomanes. The 8:15 dance Zany, wacky, nutty and wild are all adjectives that have been used to describe the antics of Phyllis Diller.

All of them and a few more fit appropriately in delineating her role as the first woman drummer in Universal's "Did You Hear The One About The Traveling Saleslady?" Technicolor- photographed comedy comes Friday to the Palm Theatre. Show times are 3, 5, 1, and 9 p.m. While Miss Dillev is the major buffoon in the story which is set in a small Missouri town in 1910, she is ably suppoi'ted by a cast which includes Bob Denver, Wesson, Joe Flynn, Eileen David Hartman and Jeanette Nolan. Tailored to the star's unique talent, the screenplay by John Fcnton Murray is from the story by Jim Fritzoll and Everett Grccnbaum. As a man-hungry doll who peddles player pianos, Miss Dil- ler'brings to tho screen the same type of uninhibited humor that has made her a superstar of supper clubs and television including some of her famous ingredients; mix-master hair-do, the perennial cigarette and the guffaw- accompanied sentence quips.

She has been in show business for 13 years and while this is her sixth motion picture, it is only the third in which she has slurred. Her two other starring films were with Bob Hope. In addition to her numerous TV appearances and night club dates, she is the author of a best-seller, "Phyllis Diller's Housekeeping Hints." Her next book, "Phyllis Diller's Marriage a a 1," will be published soon. Bob Denver and Joe Flynn, two of the co-stars, arc important names in television. Denver, whose role in the film is the farmer's son who is also the budding inventor of such innovations as a wood-burner automobile, a windmill-operated mechanical milking machine and a smooching machine for pitching woo, co-starred for seven years in two highly rated TV series: "Dobie Gillis" and "Gilligan's Island." Flynn plays he inevitable banker with the mortgage on the farm.

For four easons he was the co-star of Navy" as the frus- ratcd Captain Binghamton. jeing sponsored by the Playground Mutual Concert Association for its membership, will eature young American artists, with Colleen Corke, Ballerina, as the star of the show. The program will open with "Grand Pas De Duex" torn "Don Quixote," and will nclude "Andante Cantabile" i movement from Tschaikov- Fifth Symphony; "A La Jazz," "Werbetanz Suite" "Ad i "Kaleidoscope," a 'For Love of a Waltz." Miss Corrke, born and reared Seattle, Washington, seemed to be born to dance for she be- Civil Cases Filed well as the performance, dancing as soon could walk. She came as by she her talent honestly as her mother was a dancer and a model until she married. Her father, one of the most prominent dentists who am To Find Out Look For Me In The Mar.

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JaNcll Perkins vs Edwarc 1 Durham Perkins, divorce. Helen G. Shiver vs Clarence Shiver, divorce. J'atlin Lumber and Supply Inc. vs J.

Bruce and Jean M. Olncy, judgment. Elmer Dcvid Angliin vs Alba Anglin, divorce. Clifton E. Thompson vs Connie L.

Thompson, divorce. Hilda H. Ford vs Larry R. Ford, divorce. Willie B.

McCormick vs James Fletcher McCormick, divorce. Margaret A. Murray vs Joseph R. Grancs, judgment. Richard D.

Costcllo vs Glcnisc M. Costcllo, divorce. Florida Gas'Transmission Co. vs James M. Ready, condemnation suit.

Alice L. Guilmettc vs Paul E. Guilmctte, divorce. Louita D. Dinu vs Thomts C.

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vs Preston and Bertha Davis, judgment. T. Grant a Corp. vs Joseph and i Holmes, judgment. Nicholas H.

Cox, ctux vs William F. Earnhardt, judgment. Joyce H. Blanchard vs Woodrow W. Blanchard, divorce.

Eglin Federal Credit Union vs Carlos G. Marsee, judgment. Rupert Simpler, d-b-a Simpier's Ceramic Tile Service, vs Albert O'Neal, and Emma O'Neal, a widow, judgment. JoAnn Beaty vs Walter Bcaty, divorce. Amateur Variety Night In Destin Rehearsals for Destin PTA's a a Vaudeville Night contests will begin the first week in March for the talent competition, which is to be held on the night of March 22.

Prizes for the best amateur talent of the night will be awarded, and those talented in music (vocal as well as instrumental) pantomine, dancing, drama, are urged to contact Mrs. Vincent Longo who is coordinating and directinig the show. Professional performers in the area will donate their services to round out the evening. FIRST TIME OFF RESERVATION Apache Doing Good Movie Job LAS VEGAS, Nev. (NEA) -Drive West from Las Vegas, out across the flat, scrubby desert sprinkled with Joshua trees and cactus, and then the Spring Mountains stretch before you.

They seem endless, not too high but almost a solid wall. Then your eyes pick out one gap, where the mountains fall away leaving only one peak standing alone, shaped like the sight on a rifle. This is Red Rock Canyon and inside is whal director Robert Mulligan calls "a freak of nature." This freak is just what the script of "The Stalking Moon" demanded a lovely, flat area with pine trees and green grass. Pine Creek supplies the irriga- for this sylvan oasis which, in the picture, is the New Mexico homestead of Gregory Peck. Mulligan said they couldn't any place in New Mexico that looked right all the good laces were covered with snow.

So Nevada is pinch-locationing 'or New Mexico. They've brought in a few railers for the leading players, but this remains a primitive pot. They had to build a road take the trucks with the equipment, and the road is periodically a bog as the winter come and go. From one of the trailers comes the clocking of a type- vriter. Inside, Eva Marie Saint typing away, with young No- and Clay helping her out.

The elationship between these two one of the most intriguing aspects of the firm. Eva Marie plays a woman ivho had been kidnaped years jefore by the Indians. She married one and had a son played by young Roland Clay, an Apache from Whiteriver Reservation in Arizona. Eva Marie wanted to establish a genuine rapport with her screen son, but the Northwest, was agreeable her studying danoing, but opposed a professional career. However, when her talent became so obvious he forgot his objections and has always aided her career in every way he could.

attended public school brough the eighth grade, then ivent to Holy Names Academy vhere she graduated as saluta- She was sixteen at the time and had already appeared as solo dancer in summer stock and had won awards for ballet. Immediately after graduation, she went to New York where she immediately obtained a job as a dancer in a Broadway musical. From then on her career seesawed between ballet and Broadway and TV, and for jood measure dancing and choreographing in summer stock in the East. She has appeared in night clubs in Western Europe, in ballet in the New York area, coast to coast tours, eastern Canada and Bermuda. James Morski, co starring in "Come Dance With Me," ds primarily a ballet dancer.

Born and educated in Chicago, his first professional work was with the Ruth Page Opera Ballet Company, appearing in Chicago and on tour with them. At the end of the second season's tour he was drafted and upon his discharge from the army, went to New York to study. He has appeared in ballet perfovmances iin New York, on TV, at Radio City Music Hall, and throughout the country, including night club work in Las Vegas. Bentley Roton, also appearing in the dance performance is known as an outstanding jazz dancer in theatre circles. Stimnastic Class Is Being Offered Morning and evening slim- nastic classes will be offered at the Community Center with registrations being accepted on Monday.

Morning classes will be held on Monday and Friday or Tuesday and Thursday from 9:30 11 a.m. with the evening classes being taught on Monday and Wednesday from 7:30 9 p.m The first class will begin on Monday March 11. All women who are interested in joining or on the waiting asked to register at the lommunity Center before Monday, March U. The art of knitting is older than written history. Stockings were the first articles to be oiitted as we knit today.

Not a Disease Color blindness is not a disease but a disorder of Ihc eye in which the person cannot sec certain colors. It does not lessen or distort the vision as a disease docs. MADAM MARIA Palmist Reader Advisor 754 Eglin Pkwy. Ph. 243-3739 ADELAIDE HARRIS-HOSTESS WANTED! Business people, churches and civic minded people to join onr serrice in welcoming newcomers to the Playground area.

You have an opportunity to make a lasting impression on by having our hostess introduce your service and deliver your personal message of goodwill. For farther infonnalion( Please call or write: EXPERIENCE THE DIFFERENCE WITH PLAYGROUND NEWCOMER WELCOME SERVICE P.O. Box 956 Phone, Off: 243-8683, Res; 243-7378 FORTWALTON BEACH, FLORIDA it was difficult. "He seemed more at ease with men than women," she says. "And my blonde hair bothered him.

Once he said, 'I wish you had black hair all mothers have black hair'." When they first met, Eva Marie says she made a serious error. She asked him how to say "hello" in Apache. He wouldn't talk to her. Later she found out he thought she was making fun of him. Gradually, his reserve thawed.

She made a point of kissing him every morning, and dutifully, he kissed back. One morning she neglected the kiss. "Haven't you forgotten something?" Noland asked her. But it was the typewriter that eventually "broke down the last of his resistance. Eva Marie has it for letter-writing, and he was intrigued with it.

"I finally got to him," she says, "with the typewriter." He's a bright 11-year-old -so bright that Peck is teaching SALESLADY Phyllis Diller, the first traveling saleslady, gives people of a small Missouri town something to talk about-perhaps to their psychiatrists in Universal's zany "Did You Hear the One About the Traveling Saleslady?" him to play chess and quickly picked up the intricacies of the typewriter. All the cast and crew are intrigued with the Indian boy. He is, apparently, doing a fine job in his first acting role. This is, as a matter of fact, the first time he's been off the reservation. Mulligan found him as he found Mary Badham for "To Kill a Mockingbird" and he is obviously a good child- finder.

"I looked at dozens of Indian boys," he says. "What I looked for, primarily, was intelligence and curiosity. It was the way he answered questions and the look in his eye that made me pick Noland and it turned out to be a good pick. He's smart as a whip." heel-thumping musiofal made of the magical stufftof 'Mary HOUSEKEEPING NOW AT THE TECHNICOLOR SHOW TIMES CHILD .50 PM ADULT MAT. 1.25 AFT.

6 1.50 "The Stalking Moon" Is basically a suspense-terror film, told against a Western setting. Eva Marie's Indian husband stalks her and her rescuer, peck. The part of the Indian man has not yet been cast. I asked Mulligan when he needed the villain. "We need him yesterday, he said.

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