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pectator ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH 17. 5D eDown Under' Zesty Wit Tops Out Many of the people By Dick Richmond night sounds 1 I 1 7 pVl were old fans. They had come to see the comic who had spent years entertaining in St. Louis.

His appearance at the Hilton Inn at the Airport is his first time back in two years and they were happy to see him. And Bold was obviously happy to be back. His jokes haven't changed much. Neither has his delivery, which is hit and run. If one line doesn't get the laughs, he moves on.

"I was taught to always say nice things about girls," he commented. "Remembering that, I told one date, 'For a fat girl, you don't sweat Charlie Boehme Davey Bold 1 We Would Hate To Start The Second Season Without You. Of the Pout-Dispatch Staff WINDJAMMER Short seems like an innocent word. Short beer, short stop, shortcake, short timer. You wouldn't think a man could get into difficulty saying it unless he was a bank teller and had come out short.

But then no one wants to be short-changed, short-sheeted or have shortcomings. The beautiful, talented and vivacious Julie Murphy was waiting for husband, Jim, to introduce her to the audience the other night. "In a word, Jim, how would you describe me?" she asked. "Short," he replied, and grinned. The grin wrapped from one ear to the next until she responded with "Separate bedrooms." Short-circuited, that's what he was.

Jim is from New Zealand and Julie is from Australia. They made many of the entertainment pit stops on their way to the United States, playing American military bases in the Far East, as well as in Hawaii, Tahiti and Guam. Jim plays guitar and shares the lead vocals with Julie. The other members of their band include Robert Trow on bass, Gary Miller on piano and organ and Don Miller on drums. The Murphys have so much zest for what they are doing that even when they play overused songs such as "Tie a Yellow Ribbon 'Round the Old Oak Tree," they have flavor.

Spice might be better. The spice of a little husband and wife rivalry. "I've had several requests to do something with the guitar," Jim told Julie. "Why don't you just play it instead," she said. And play it he did.

It was good country pickin' that had the audience applauding two or three times throughout the number. They played one Australian ditty called "Tie Me Kanga not to get caught up in Julie's energy. Since the Murphys last appeared in St. Louis, they've added daughters Jamie Ann, 8 years old, and Samantha, 6, to the act. Jamie had a solo shot with a rock-screamer called "I've Got the Music in Me." Sounds as if she might develop into a belter.

The Murphys will be in the Windjammer, atop the Marriott at the Airport, through March 1. No cover, no minimum. HILTON "That's a beautiful woman," Davey Bold said to the escort of an attractive member of the audience. "Is that your wife, or is it local stuff?" Then his vocalist, Pamela Smith, sang "Hello Young Lovers." When the song was over, Bold sipped water from a glass. "See!" he said.

"They make fun of guys with long noses, but look how nice mine keeps the ice cubes in place." There were some railroad men in the back of the room chatting nosily. So Bold played a few bars of "I've Been Working on the Railroad," on piano. When he had their attention, he asked one of the men, "How tall are you?" "Six, one," the man replied. "Will you get the ball off the roof?" Bold asked. Then he played "You Are the Sunshine of My Life" as Pamela sang.

There was a doctor sitting near the front of the stage. "I have a lot of respect for doctors," Bold remarked. "I have a fine doctor. I couldn't afford the operation so he touched up my Xrays." Pamela sang "Secret Love" and Bold played. He sat there smiling at the audience and most of the people there sat there smiling back.

if Just two weeks from now on January 27th and 28th-The Second Season of The American Film Theatre will premiere with the first of its outstanding motion picture presentations for this year. This Season, you have a chance to see five extraordinary films made from four brilliant plays and one magical musical. Glenda Jackson, Maximilian Schell, that "Fiddler On the Roof" man Topol, Elly Stone, John Gielgud, Susannah York, and Alan Bates are among the many stars. Each film will be shown only four times: two evenings and two matinees, on a Monday and Tuesday each month, starting this month and ending in May. Get your Season Tickets now at the box office nearest you.

Prices are $20.00 for evenings, $12.50 for matinees ($10.00 for senior citizen and student matinees). Most major credit cards are accepted, so you can charge your Season Tickets. It's going to be a great season. We would hate to start without you. Mn some cities only a Tuesday series (malinee and evening), February through June.

Original Jstques Brel soundtrack album soon on Atlantic Records. I That's the way it is with Bold. No sweat. He'll be appearing at the Hilton through Feb. 23.

No cover, no minimum. FIFE AND FIDDLE "Chickaboom, whack, boo, too, too, turn." That may not sound like much to you, but for Daybreak, a rock quintet, those noises and others that are indescribable are an introduction to one of its most requested songs. The song is called "I Don't Want Your Money," an obscure number by Chicago. Picking little known but catchy songs is something at which Daybreak excels. Yet this one was reminiscent of material I had heard years ago.

"Spike Jones," vocalist Charlie Boehme said. "We're learning some of his material and will be incorporating it into our act." The act, which has Jim Huckleberry on guitar, Jay Marino on bass, Lanny Bowles on drums and Gary Smyth on electric organ, is mostly middle-of-the-road rock. They are singing some exceptional harmony with -Your Local American Film Theatresi- Jim and Julie Murphy at the movies Joe PolIack Of the Post-Dinpatrh Staff EXHIBITION DATES Monday Series January 27, February 24, March 17, April 21, May 19. Tuesday Serlet January 23, February 25, March 18. April 22.

May 20. 'Tuesday only February 11. March 4. April 6. May 6, June 3.

Seats are unreserved. However, seating is guaranteed tor each performance. Tickets are not exchangeable or refundable. Springfield PETITE 3 CINEMAS Illinois Carbondale UNIVERSITY MALL Collinsville PETITE 4 CINEMAS Decatur ROGERS Springfield ESQUIRE Kentucky Paducah CINEMA St. Louis Area Chesterfield 4 SEASONS CINEMAS Florissant PADDOCK CINEMAS Mehlville SOUTH CITY CINEMAS Richmond Hgts.

ESQUIRE CINEMAS Columbia CAMPUS CINEMA The Dove' Smyth injecting a little falsetto into some of the songs to give them range. The group will be in the Fife and Fiddle, Rodeway Inn at the Airport, through Jan. 25. Cover Friday and Saturday is $1.50. A world filled with committees, discussion grows, verbal "input," loud music and constant conversation makes one long for occasional solitude and privacy, especially when it is combined with beauty and love and maturation, The American Film Theatre 13BO Avttiuf of th Amtricf, Now fork.

T. lOOlt I and it is those things that make "The Dove" a warm and very nice motion picture experience. The tale of Robin Lee Graham's solo sail around the world in a 23-foot boat, "Dove," is a fascinating one, and the story has been A Sun International Productions Release 5 I mil SEN SURROUND The Life and Times of 11 with 4 TRICK rrri Olive II. Wut IS 1 Lbtkerh 147-1160 li4J, 4.23, 7.00, 9 30 HSJ Adulti 32 III 4i30 oiupl Sun. Holi.

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I Holi. Sorry No Pottos rlTMSUPtR BOWL .53 ffCeiMdletl I OSTRICHES DON'T THINK they are invisible when they stick their head in the sand, according to naturalists, who thought up the idea in the first place. MANY PEOPLE have vivid recollections of the Great Depression and aren't really eager for a refresher course. WE ARE WAITING for that little Bicentennial TV minute to tell us that nothing at all happened 200 years ago today. BY THE TIME most of us think of a great way to get rich, somebody else has tried the same thing and gone broke.

A SHORTAGE of shoe repairmen make cobbling an attractive career opportunity. In fact, is is no longer necessary for the cobbler's child to I Wall Disney's "ISLAND AT THE TOP OF THE WORLD" plus WINNIE THE POOH TIGGER TOO" 12 45, 3 00. 5 15, 7 30. 9 45 Burt Reynolds "THE LONGEST GIANITI CITr, I 01 SOTO, WO. I ST.

CHABLi MO. 103 C. IOCKWOOD YARD" i 4:55, 7:11, 1:45 transmitted to the screen with considerable talent and even more of that indefinable item called "class" that takes the film out of the ordinary splash-and-dash adventure. Much of the credit belongs behind the camera, beginning with producer Gregory Peck, who. put the entire package together.

More specifically, director Charles Jarrott provides impact and dramatic continuity without a feeling of seasickness, and with sufficient variety to preclude boredom. Sven Nykvist, detached from his regular assignment to Ingmar Bergman, comes through with his usual brilliant touch as the cinematographer. It is practically impossible to distinguish between the actual ocean shots and the necessary indoor, tank-shot fakes where storms and things are concerned, and Nykvist's glorious feeling for light is always present. Peter Beagle and Adam Kennedy put the screenplay together, based on the book by Graham and Derek Gill, and they have done a good job, too. The slow growth of maturity in young Graham, during his five-year voyage, is shown very well in both dialogue and action.

Of course, in the span from age 16 to 21, which is the period Graham covered in his solo journey, most people gain some sort of maturity, and the exposures that Graham had could well have pushed it along. He grows in fits and starts, the way people do, and there are several momentsin the Doldrums, and during the storm and on Ascension Island when it comes wrenching out of him with a real feeling. This is to the great credit of Joseph Bottoms, younger brother of Timothy, who makes his film debut as Robin Lee Graham. Both he and Deborah Raffin, who plays his girl with love and lissome warmth, are excellent. The film is more than just an adventure story.

It is a multi-level love story, with Bottoms's feeling for his boat and his trip as important as his feeling for Miss Raffin. Peck and the crew traveled some 60,000 miles to do as much location shooting as possible, and that part of the film, as much as the love story, pays off as the viewer gets a travelogue that is filled with beauty and is allowed to be enjoyed without any nonsensical distractions. (Running time: 1 hour, 45 minutes. Rating, PG. At the SHADY OAK).

Beatles Era Ends By Gregory Jensen Of United Press International LONDON Every era ends, though the Beatles era was a long time dying. Final agreement came this month to dissolve the business partnership known as the Beatles and Co. and the end came, in the words of T. S. Eliot, not with a bang but a whimper.

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Their corporate affairs have been in the hands of an official receiver since March 1971. The legal effort to break up their partnership has gone on for four years. John Winston Lennon is now 34, separated from Yoko Ono and living in New York. He is fighting for a U.S. Immigration Department clearance that would allow him to stay in the United States and make records on his own.

James Paul McCartney, 32, lives on a remote farm in Scotland with his American wife, Linda. He also records his own music with Wings, a group featuring Linda as well as himself. George Harrison, 32 in February, has retreated into mysticism. He has turned his energies and his income over to a charitable foundation, devoted to "housing for needy groups, medical research and social services." Ringo Starr, 34, married a Beatles fan from Liverpool, has two sons and a doughter, and the luxurious life of the multimillionaire, which each Beatle became. mtimminsmti (NOW SHOWING 10TH BIG WEEK) IH iMthyMW.

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