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ASBURY PARK EVENING PRESS, Fri.f Apr. 16, 1963 12 i Teen-Age Mystery Bows At Wagon Wheel Tonight The Voice of Leigh Chapman Poses Double Video Threat The Shore's Itewesl Might Cluhl Jimmy urn A Lrnoka Broadway Park Municipal Band, for a 32-concert season starting July 2 and ending Labor Day. The 26-member band will play every Friday, Saturday and Sunday at the Arthur Pryor Band Pavilion on the boardwalk. "Exit the Body," a mystery with farcial overtones, will be presented at 8:40 p.m. tonight and tomorrow in the Wagon Wheel Playhouse, Middletown Township by that troupe's teenage company.

By DOROTHY KILGALLEN 1 iaSt X1IDEDIE ROUTE 71 SEA GIRT Entertainment Nightly with' Jim at the Piano SATURDAY SUNDAY CONTINUOUS MUSIC ORGAN PIANO SUNDAY SING-ALONGS FROM 5 P.M. KITCHEN OPEN UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF LI LA KING COMPLETE DINNERS EASTER SPECIAL ot $1.50 $2.00 EST. 1929 Restaurant of Distinction Priscilla Goekmeyer and Rosalia Bulvanoski star in the play, directed by June Pla-ger. FOLK FEST: Babtuade 01-atunji, his African dancers and drums, will headline the Spring Weekend folk concert at 8:30 p.m. April 30 in the Great Hall of Monmouth College.

Joy Mann is also on the bill. Ray Bloch once of Jackie Gleason Show fame will play at the dance the following night at which a Spring Weekend queen will be chosen. CONCERTS RETURN: Asbury Park's traditional free summer band concerts will be given again this summer. The City Council has ar proved a contract with Frank Bryan, director of the Asbury HOLLYWOOD TV shows may not be Improving in quality this season, but the writers are getting prettier. A pleasing sample is handsome, well-proportioned Leigh Chapman who plays the new secretary to Napoleon Solo on "The Man From Uncle" series.

At the moment Leigh will report on "The Uncle" set at 6 a.m., do her scenes, finish at noon, and then rush to Columbia Studios to become a writer for a picture temporarily called "It's A Tough Life." In the past year Miss Chapman has turned into a lady with two careers: acting small parts in "Burke's Law," "Dr. Kildare," "The Bob Hope Theatre" and "Valentine's Day," and writing scripts for two "Burke's Law," one "Dr. Kildare," and two low budget pictures: "Swinging Summer" and "Juniper Hodge, Private Eye." Both of Leigh's creative ventures are just beginning and she's not sure the wh-Ve thing isn't a dream. "This last season was the first time I've ever made money in my life," she says. "It feels marvelous.

I say, 'You, Rosalie Chapman, are making good money for putting words on I can't believe it." 1 MS KN I "The Incredible Mr. limpet" plus "THE THREE STOOGES Around the World in i Daze" SATURDAY SUNDAY MONDAY at 2 P.M. i i 5 1 Board Lacks Quorum TOMS RIVER The Ocean County Planning Board did not meet last night because it lacked a quorum. Birdland is being converted into a discotheque. The decision, reached overnight, is the result of a sad dearth of drawing cards in the world of jazz, and the decrease in the number of night-clubbers who dig hip music.

Now the Metro-pole remains the one and only jazz club on the Broadway beat. Ticket brokers are among those breathing easier with the threat of the newspaper strike over. Quote from one: "It would have closed at least four Broadway shows, may- "be six" Admirers of Lionel Hampton were delighted by the rare tribute critic Dan Morgenstern paid the bandleader in the current Downbeat. Mr. Morgenstern scolds the jazz world for not giving Hamp enough recognition through the years when his big band served as a basic training ground for almost every instrumentalist winning polls these days and points out that even after a quarter of a century, Lionel's playing is the yardstick by which every other vibist must be measured.

To which, bravo. Richard Harris is getting more mileage out of his feud with Kirk Douglas than any other battler since Dempsey and Tunney were scrapping it out. Hardly a day goes by that Harris doesn't give out an interview dissecting his emotions about his co-star in "The Heroes of Telemark." Example: "Nobody loves actors, not really, because basically, actors don't love themselves. So you fight to prove something. There's nothing more definite than punching somebody in 'the nose" Dana Andrews' daughter Susan is making the rounds of the New York casting offices.

She wants to be an actress. Steve Lawrence is ecstatically planning his new weekly TV series for CBS next Fall. It will be his kind of show entirely, he says: the network has given him carte blanche, and he hopes to surprise his fans by doing almost as much comedy as singing "The Sound of Music" is the most dramatic recent example of how top critics write for each other rather than the public. Both the N.Y. Times and the N.Y.

Herald Tribune shafted it, because they felt it was "old fashioned." But just try to buy a ticket. You can't even get near the box office Out Hollywood way Marlon Brando has been dating Marianna Hill, who used to be Sid Luffs favorite girl. Xavier Cugat has been signed to headline for a week at the Paramount Theater May 7, heading the stage show just as he used to do fifteen or twenty years ago. This time however the sex-appeal in the act will be furnished, not by Abbe Lane, but by Cugie's "fiancee," Charo Baeza MGM executives are ever so pleased about Rex Harrison's shiny new Oscar. They figure it will mean a million, perhaps two million, more dollars at the box office when he opens in "The Yellow Rolls-Royce" English actress Jeannie Carson, touring with hubby Biff McGuire in "100 in the Shade," jetted back to New York for a few hours last week and proudly picked up the final papers that made her a U.S.

citizen. Welcome aboard, Jeannie. EAST uuy- from i VJ LEIGH CHAPMAN RACS. HUT "HOME OF COUNTRY MUSIC" At the Lake FOxcroft 3-9773 Jackson Mills 7 MILES WEST OP LAKE WOOD ON COUNTY LINE RD. FROM LAKEWOOD TAKE ROUTE No.

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"My own problem," she says, "is that I go mad between assignments. "I suppose the time will come when I must decide between the two jobs," Leigh continues, "and I will drop acting like a hot potato. As an actress I don't have much confidence, but as a writer I do." with roommate Shirley, who now types the scripts for $50, and deals with the Morris office on all her writing and acting assignments. She goes steady with writer Lakso, saves money so her brother and sister in Central, S.C., can go to college, and flies her mother, Louise Chapman, a kindergarten teacher, out for Christmas to shop and take in the spots. "In my home town, Central, I'm a star," says Leigh.

"Out here I'm a nobody and it doesn't bother me a bit." The only moral to this success story is, in Hollywood, be nice to your secretary, next week she may be your client. CHARLES WITBECK ASSOCIATED INDEPENDENT THEATRES Free Parking Free Smoking! All Theatre rv llll 1 I i Miss Chapman still lives Fine Italian-American Food Pizzas to Go COMING APRIL 24 The WILBURN BROS. CALL FOR RESERVATIONS Ml UJ 17' HQ NOW! 2 BIG HITS! If Announcinz the, 11 II i 0 0 THE EPIC STORY Of THE GREAT SOUTHWEST! FRIDAY NIGHT April 16th ilK SEASON'S OPENING (i t3 Charlton HEST0N Richard HARRIS I Jim HUTT0N Brock PETERS 0 MUSIC by TOMMY B0YLES of Ridlt lUllon WRLB Admission 3.00 ptr Couple, 1.50 Star OCEAN ICE PALACE Chamber! Bridge Rood, Brick Town If fV RESTAURANT fltSH fiJVJ EASTER SUNDAY, 'WTfw'' APRIL 18th Wl fifi Specializing In jpn- bfalV Sixxling STEAKS and COLUMBIA PICTURES prwwts 32JW fWYBRfsiEU PANAVtSIONC0L0R PRODUCTION MBBMHHBHHHBHi ALSO I CARROLL BAKER jf GEORGE MAHARIS I IS THE POWDER -fr4feISTHERJSE fT Jancing EL-TRIO 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 AT THE PIANO AND 2 ORGANS I jj IP ARNOLD TRENTON POINT PLEASANT )) jj )) RESERVATIONS 899-3339 l( 9 I ITALIAN RESTAURANT 4 i I Infill ond COCKTAIL JottflMW LOUNGE 5 If Just a couple of years ago, Rosalie, now Leigh, was a legal secretary at the William Morris office (one of the top three talent agencies), and she was hired more, as a guess, for her looks than for her dictation abilities. Leigh studied dictation for all of four days before landing the job, yet survived. The money was meager, but "the blood factory," which Leigh calls the Morris office, was an oven of ambition, and as she typed legal documents, listened to the deals and the gossip, she resolved to try acting.

In a place where most have a solid supply of brass, the newcomer from South Carolina sneaked out on her lunch hour for auditions because she was afraid she might get fired otherwise. Her roommate, Shirley, another Morris secretary, played agent, stopping black suited dealers in the hall, hoping to coerce small acting parts for Leigh. "My roommate needs the money," was the main pitch. Finally, through a tip-off, Leigh landed a bit part in a Burke's Law." "I just kinda moused around the pool," she says. "I was part of the scenery." By this time the country girl had a nose operation, something she felt made her more acceptable.

"Listen, this is the city of beautiful noses," says Leigh. "I had to." Break number two came via a blind date with writer Ed Lakso for a Writer's Guild dinner, Lakso offered Leigh $50 to type a script and she quickly accepted. "Meanwhile Ed and I were dating," says Leigh, "and when you're out with a writer you hear him discuss scripts most of the time." Soon Leigh was mulling over plots on her own. She sat down with Television Guide, a source on TV shows in production, to single out possible buyers, and she decided to concentrate on "Burke's Law." Then Leigh dreamed up a way to murder, added a "few characters and sent in a script to the detective series. Believe it or not, the script was read, Miss Chapman was called in for a conference with producer Aaron Spelling, and soon she was back with a revised version which was accepted.

The pretty Leigh now has two avenues for money and success. The problem is to find time for both. These days when Lakso calls for a date, Leigh occasionally says, "I can't, I have to write." She rises at 10 a.m., works for a few hours, then takes drama lessons, or goes out for acting interviews, shops, drops in at the health club and then returns to her desk. She takes time out to cook dinner, and goes straight back to the movie script, writing until two or three a.m. "I never discipline myself to certain hours," she says.

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