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Lubbock Avalanche-Journal from Lubbock, Texas • Page 40

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2,1970 HELPED HER PORTRAY VARIE TY OF ROLES Advises BKOWN AP Writer Hard work -Van be an educa- 'tlon. Perhaps it more helpful in maturity than books says pretty blonde actress Farrell. featured with Steve in the movie 'Reivers" ipeaks'from expert- Students Renew I Attack On ROTC Unit At Stanord '-STANFORD, Calif. (AP) attacked Stanford University ROTC for the second straight iiight Wednesday, breaking a dozen windows before law offl- cers dispersed them. About 150 persons marched tn athletic building, which houses the ROTC offices, after a In Cubberly Auditorium by 300 persons.

About 80 policemen and sher- deputies quickly broke up the demonstration and arrested four persons, two identified as iionstudents. They were booked on investigation of assault with ence. While the worked at UblUhing herself as an actress In New York'City, she held many jobs. She's been a hat check and cigarette girl, a'night club dancer, a dog walker, a waitress and a short-order cook, More Profitable Job One of her profitable Jobs was dressmaking. This, she says fine not only points, of.

taught her trade, the but dangerous said rocks weapons. Officers were thrown at police, but there were no injuries. Earlier Wednesday, Stanford President Kenneth S. Pitzer had called on the university's 10,000 students for help, in identifying those 1 responsibly for the "wanton property the night before, when demonstrators broke" windows at ROTC headquarters and two other buildings. Damage was estimated at $6,000...

The demonstrations were in response to a recent faculty decision to allow limited academic for ROTC courses. In the spring of 1969, the faculty senate had voted against granting any credit for ROTC, Actress Of $0s Dies Of Cancer KANSAS CTTY, Mo. (DPI) Funeral services were held Saturday for Mrs. Patricia Gene O'Maley, who was known as Patricia Ellis during her film career in the late 1930s, Mrs, O'Maley died Thursday 6f cancer. She was 49.

She appeared in more than 40 inotion pictures from 1932 to 1941 and jokingly referred to herself as "Queen of the Pictures for Warner Brothers." Although she did in Europe and appeared on Broadway, she never acted fcgain after she met her husband, George T. O'Maley, now president of' Protection Security Systems, In 1951. SCOTS ITOST TAGGERS EDINBURGH The first fish-tagging experiment was carried out more than a century ago by wealthy landholders in Scotland. Their motive was idle curiosity about what' happened to the trout and salmon in the streams they owned. gave her pointers" on how to dress well oh very little money.

The' chic suit-with reaj gold buttons that she wore at the inter- View was'one'she had designed and sewn "You've got.to work'hard at life and knowing people in order to portray a variety of role's," says the petite former beauty contest winner who has acting credits in more than 50 television drama and soap operas, "It is the people one meets who contribute to knowledge that is useful 5n making acting roles come alive," she explains. Sharon was not quite 16 when she arrived in New York to seek a career in, the theater. She lived with a nice' Puerto Rican family and learned to speak Spanish, but the" neighborhood on Manhattan's lower East Side where she lived was "horrible." -Growing up all kinds of people has made her "learn to deal with them," she says. "Being from the Midwest makes that." Jh a way, life in the Midwest miglit have been she commented. "I'd spend my days hoping for rain and praying that the crops would come in." Eiut some day, she says, "after I am married and have a family, I'll go back." She hopes to organize her own production company in the Midwest and "do character parts when I am 80." "I've saved almost every penny I've made in the movies.

I'm going to spend it wisely," she says with determination. Rejected Nude Roles Since she made' "The Reiv- ers," she's been up for parts in three movies, two of them nude roles, which she refused. "They were written for shock value. They had nothing to do with the script and I'll never' for nudity's sake," she says. "I don't think Raquel Welch or Faye Dunaway or hundreds of other good actresses would take off their clothes for such roles.

Even Steve McQueen rebels at the undress bit. "Steve has a fantastic build, but; lie doesn't even like to remove his shirt." Sharon's film "A Way to Die," starred Kirk Douglas. months later, she was -in, the Sister" with James Garner." sort of 17 going on 26'In I can be a madon- na-type, a little sister, a sophisticate, and I don't have to remoye my clothes to be sexy, In "The I'm sexier then anything you've seen on the Own Script Sharon is convinced that if you want a good role, you must write your own script; "I've a big, box of scripts and one I like I've been working on for about six months; It should really sell. It certainly compares favorably with the last role I was a hippie who stands around with a finger in her mouth." Her new manager has made her aware of her talents. But she feels apologetic about having a manager since previously she has always gotten along or her own, Were advtn tage me in little iJUy she 'explains.

"I to get at 4:30 and get.home at 10 night. I was working ing. I wanted to get the show finished, so I'd never say no Then I'd try to set up appoint ments and I'd wait hours to see the person and the studio would assign people to take me out when I was on tour. They would keep me up until the wee hours and the me would say and write-ups abou 'She looks tired 'She looks terrl ble' and so on. Then, too, I was bothered a lot by Her manager has solved thes problems.

Now her work sched ule is a normal day. He sets up appointments and they are kep promptly, and Sharon doesn' sit up all night impressing people (unless she wants to.) Sharon would like to meet a man who "is smarter" than she is, she says. She'd like him to be people-smart as well as book smart. "When you want to know how great a man is, you look a how happy his wife. is.

Stev McQueen's wife is that kind woman," Sharon observes. too, want the kind of man who makes me look she says. HELD OVER 2nd WEEK! PETER FONDA "EASY RIDER RATED i "DOCTOR ZHIVAGO" RATED LUBBOCK THEATRE CENTRE PRESENTS "INVITATION TO A MARCH" By ARTHUR LAURENTS A MATURE HIGH STYLE COMEDY A VERY AMUSING AND MOVING EVENING IN THE THEATER. Held Over Fri. Apr.

3rd Sat. Apr. 4th RECORDING STUDIOS NOW OfEN 1 406 Aye. 763-OW8 Matie rvcortf. TOP HAT PRIVATE CLUB Open 9AM Daily Now Open On Sundays Come In and Sea Gene Lewis Redman Helen Greene 23rd Ave.

Nothing has been left out of 1 "The AdYenfurerj" mniammant TElfWCUetlfUf PERFORMANCES: ADULTS 1:50 5:00 8:10 $1.50 STATE '316 TEX AS OWN 4:45 TON mi ADULTS CHIL9RIN 8:15 744-3681 Production Sponsored by: CHARLENE'S 7:30 4 NAT. 2HM 7, ACAMMY AWARD NOMINATIONS "BUT MCrUKB" PAUL NEWMAN ROBERT KflTHAWNE ROSS BUTCH CASSOW AND THE SUNDANCE KID CONTINENTAL Cinema 763 2707 Mi AeMto $IJf Now the 2ufckr brings you tha budget-priced, money swing LUNCHEON SPECIALS featuring cold-water flounder stuffed-with crab meat dressing and served with IU french fries, coll slaw and huspuppies I per penal 11 AM ti! 3 PM HHTMiBAKT Redbutl Square, 13th at Slide 7924341 TRAIL RATED GP DM I Sceve McQueen -THE REIVERS I CHftRRDI Qw Ave. "A-H-f" CIRCLE I A RATED Opees 4:41 JEM ran Ml NOT JUST A M1AL. BUT A for full of All for tHo price of Ntw Hem OKN TILL 8:18 EUWALUCH Twin 3RD BIG WEEK 4:40 I ROBERT BEDFORD iKMfMNNE ROSS. coLot tr KUBE TONIGHT Lubbock Municipal Coliseum Thursday, Friday Saturday, April 2, 3 4, at 8:00 p.m.

Saturday Sunday Matinees April 4 5, at 2:00 p.m. METRO-GOLD WYN-MAYER. WILLIAM WYLEH'S rKESINTATION OF OPEN 7:00 SHOW AT 7:30 ADULTS 1.75 CHILDREN 2 ND DONT MISS THIS TRUf VVEEIY STORY OP SOCIAL ttVO STORY OF SOCIAL REVOLUTION! 2:15 4:35 4:55 9:15 ADULT CHILD 1.50 A MTV MTT MHCTM tuxsaim: The INCREDIBLE SAGA of "MA" BARKER! H. WCHOUSON SAMUEL Z.MKOFFr (GP) MANCES: PeRFOR- 2:15 3:55 5:45 7:35 9:25 ADULTS 1.50 SHFLllYVJMfkS Uloody PAT HINGLE- DON DIANE STROUD-VARSI It's a sivitched-on laugh riot! WBKI OPEN SHOW AT 7:00 ftOI ADULTS if SICOND STUART WHITMAN PtATURt SfCOND TECHNCOLOR- StCOND FEATURE Sunday Evening April 5, al 6:00 p.m. SICOND HATURl CiBf seTh C.MO.

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