Reno Gazette-Journal from Reno, Nevada • Page 37

4 ENTiTRTAlNMENT, MAY 30, 1964 17 Ri EvNn Cuittl and Nevada Stat Jour I Royal Tahitians Featured On Riverside Hotel Stage AAcopes IHIoteB AAorqyee Frankie Fanelli moves into the stellar spot in the show in the Casino Showroom of the Mapes Hotel on June 1. The talented young singer, a Reno resident who has just scored heavily on the RCA Victor recording scene, will be replacing the Bob Crosby Show which shutters on Saturday night after a highly successful engagement. On the billing with Fanelli will be the Diplomats and a ft i y-. it if i tni Then Frankie's regular ring-siders started to include Frank Sinatra, Vince Edwards and a flock of other show biz citizens, so finally the news did reach Hollywood. The big brass ears at RCA Victor began to wiggle, and the next thing Frankie knew he was flying down to the corner of Sunset and Vine.

He sang and everyone listened. The result Frankie was signed, his first record date was set, and mis is it. Some singers can sing pop but not ligit, or legit and not pop. Not Frankie. Some singers appeal to kids but not grownups, or grownups and not kids.

Not Frankie. He is a singer who defies this age of specialization, a singer who will not compromise his God-given voice, a singer who open his heart every time he opens his mouth and the audience, any audience, is his. Frankie has been singing all his life as a kid back in New York, as a Navy navigator during the Korean War, as a determined young man who would take any job he could get just to be singing. And he always sings the best. Look at the lineup here songs by Berlin, Fain and Webster, Van and Adam son, Gershwin and Gershwin the best of American popular music And, for variety's sake (also because he loves the music that flows in his veins), Frankie sings a few of his favorite Italian songs.

Singing is both a compulsion and a pleasure for Frankie, "I have to sing," he says, "and I love it." We're glad he has to sing; we love too. new group to the area, the Howard and Hayes Quartet. The recording brass at RCA Victor are extremely high on the talents of Fanelli. To quote from the back of his new record album cover for RCA Victor; "Frankie Fanelli had to happen. It was just a matter of time! Everybody in Reno and Vegas and Tahoe knew he was too good not to be on records, but the news hadn't reached Hollywood." three movies.

She has been back in the United States for only five months and says the thing she misses most about Spain are the bulls. An avid student of the art of bull fighting, May often visited the Spanish bull farms where she was allowed to try her cape work, but Spain forbids women from actually fighting bulls in the ring. May joins series star Robert Vaughn and co-stars David Mc-Callum and Leo G. Carroll in "The Man From N.N.C.L.E.," dramas based on the inside Man From U.N.C.L.E.," per-secret organization dedicated to world peace. CHALET GRASS SKIRTS, flaming swords, flower leis and tropical talents set an exciting pace for The Royal Tahitians, now appearing in the Showroom of the Riverside Hotel.

The 1964 Riverside Varieties headline fh parade of entertainment which boasts the humor of Charley Chaney and the vocal charms of Rita Moss. The refreshing music and customs of the South Seas fills the air in the Showroom of the Riverside Hotel as The Royal Tahitians join the parade of Riverside entertainment, which headlines the 1964 Riverside Varieties with Al Bell's Orchestra, and is rounded out by the laughable Charley Chaney and the vocal charms of Rita Moss. Four beautiful Tahitian maidens and the same number of personable gentlemen bring the lure of the islands to Reno and the Riverside Hotel. Grass skirts, swords, fire clubs, drums, native instruments, flower leis and an abundance of tropical talent set the pace for The Royal Tahitians. All of the magic of the South Seas is contained in the beauty of twirling grass skirts, the excitement of ritual dances, and the romance of stirring native rhythm.

The Royal Tahitians boast an impressive list of appearances, which includes featured spots on both ABC and NBC television, a "held-over" date at Chicago's famed Edgewater Beach Hotel, the International Trade Fair, and the Chicago Music Festival. Record albums recorded under several different labels are highlighted with "Dancers of Tahiti," "Lure of Tahiti" and "Little Brown Gal." Following their Riverside engagement the group will be heading for Disneyland where they will appear throughout the season for the fourth consecutive year. If one boasts a strong imagination, he may even feel the soft breezes of the South Seas as the romance of the islands unfold in the Showroom of the Riverside. i I frTltWWM1 i 4 BOBBY i FRANKIE FANELLI, the personable young singer who resides in Reno, has moved into the stellar spot in the show now in the Casino Showroom of the Mapes Hotel. New Series Actress Signed y-i May Heatherly, who studies bull fighting as well as acting, had been signed to a continuing role in NBC-TV's full-hour action-adventure series "The Man From U.N.C.L.E.," which will be seen on -Tuesdays starting in September.

Red-haired Miss Heatherly, 22, was bom and raised in Hollywood, but had to go to Spain to be discovered as an actress. Following her graduation from Hollywood High School, May and her parents lived in Spain for three years. She returned to California briefly and appeared in several little theater plays and then returned to Spain, where she starred in ALPINE JUDY LYNN SHOW PHYLLIS SHERWOOD it il fUT 6395 S. VIRGINIA ill NOW OPEN lJW WYvA From 4 P.M. Ilffwl Under the Management slllV HANS JfUe cjj Pdfli I PH0M TO iLViC-Ls g' -r: -S 786-2396 LOU STYLES THE STYLISTS 4- it ma P..