The Morning News from Wilmington, Delaware • Page 22

22 The Morning News, Tuesday, July 3, 1973 "Click!" seems more like clod lotto Artists Concert Series July 5 thru Sept. 6 COUNT BASE In Concert "The Most Explosive Force In Jazz" rm tlckom Miii.t....: I JULY 5 8:00 P.M. Scottish Rite 200 Lea Blvd. Wilmington, Del. Tickets $3.50 at door in for a drink and wanted to know if the invitation included him.

Of course! A little later, Lilly Charisse asked the same question. She is the stripper-dancer of the show and was wearing a very revealing gown with bare midriff. The party that settled down in a corner of the Green Room was very friendly so I asked Miss Wales if she would sing for us. She readily consented and Aldo Conti, the regular entertainer played fo rher. They even did a spectacular unrehearsed duet.

Requests for songs soon came from the birthday groups and Miss Wales obliged. One was for "Misty," which she sang very beautifully and with great emotion. There was a standing ovation. I asked Jerry Lester to sing the theme song of his old TV "Broadway Open House." No sooner was the first line "What a day this has been" past his lips, when the audience broke out into applause. Once the microphone was in his hands, Lester put on a comedy act which had the place in uproarious laughter.

The occasion, it turned out, was also a farewell party for Aldo Conti, who has been singing and playing the organ in the Green Room for many months. Saturday was his last performance. He is going to Europe. He took the occasion to express his appreciation for the friendly reception he had received in Wilmington. He had some difficulty speaking, however, because his voice was choking up with emotion.

Phy-liss, John, Katie and Charley will never forget that evening, nor will anyone else who was present. hawing, although he was able "to come to the rescue several times. I did not care for his tendency to cutesy humor, but it may appeal to women. Teddi and Mickie (as they are identified in their publicity) have a successful radio show in Atlanta, where they won a Peabody Award for investigating and reporting on community problems. They have done a good deal of writing, too, including a book called "Have You Had It in the Kitchen?" They are likely to discover, however, that TV is the most cruel and demanding medium.

They'll have to work harder and better to succeed. Phillis, John, Katie and Charley will never forget their 1973 birthday party. It turned out to be some-thing of a gala with professional entertainment few people can privately afford. The featured star of the party was Jerry Lester, America's first great television star in town last week to perform with "This Was Burlesque." By coincidence, four groups were in the Green Room of the Hotel Du Pont last Friday to celebrate the birthday of people named Phyllis- John, Katie and Charley. I planned to drop in for a glass of wine.

On the way, I saw H. E. Wales, the singer of "'Burlesque," and some friends in the Brandy-wine Room. I invited them to join me. Just then, Jerry Lester came with both women all of the time.

"Click!" made its debut yesterday morning. Even allowing for beginning jittersand that allowance must be very small in the case of three professional performersand show demonstrated no symptoms which should worry Betty Hughes. Despite the immediacy and importance of the subject-rape and other assaults on women the show was pedes-t i a and often dull or downright cute. No one really seemed to give it either dynamism or central direction. Crane started off by explaining that "Click!" is meant to "give meaning" to the summer of women.

Such an assertion is laughable at best. Any woman who depends on a haif-hour morning show whatever its quality may be to give meaning to her life had better call the undertaker. Mickie (or was it Teddi?) joked that the wbmen had masculine names, while Crane had a feminine name. Very funny, indeed! Since when is Eugene (or Gene) a female name? Despite the seriousness of the subject of rape, Mickie talked cutely about the "Friendly neighborhood rapist." One of the guests represented a women's anti-rape group. She pointed out that people often say a women who goes out in skimpy attire is "asking to be raped." Then she added indignantly that people never say that about men.

I won ummefeatrG If WCAU-TV wanted to get away from the image of Betty Hughes during summer-replacement time, the station could hardly go farther in the opposite direction than a bleached blonde wearing trousers and a women's lib amulet. Perhaps to make certain that the change is noticed, Channel 10 has picked two trouser-wearing bleached blondes to host the 9 o'clock morning program while the motherly Mrs. Hughes is on vacation. The replacement hostesses and production staff hope the new show will attain a large enough audience so it can continue in another time slot when Mrs. Hughes comes back in the fall.

The summer show's distance from Betty Hughes is not only in appearance, but also in substance. Hostesses Teddi Levison and Mickie Silverstein will deal with the hard issue of the day, whereas Mrs. Hughes was more intimately concerned with the problems of the woman at home. For instances, nary a word will cross the carefully outlined lips of Mesdames Levison and Silverstein on home cooking. The WCAU program people emphasize, however, that neither is a wild-eyed libber, adding that Teddi ocassionally disagrees with Mickie.

Symbolic of the currency of issues and containing, perhaps, some hope that the show will "click" with Delaware Valley women the program is called "Click!" The women will appear together only once a week. The rest of the time, they will alternate. To give support to the enterprise and the masculine angle, Gene Crain appears UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE ONE NIGHT ONLY! JULY 9 ERROLL GARNER PHONE 738-7222 Cotumbij Ptcturtl prtMnts IjX. ROSS HUNTER'S I ttipd St, Smart MEKDmiTttlW UT.iiWbijowjMttwtm The Man For Whom the Piano Was Invented 8:15 P.M. MITCHELL HALL, NEWARK, DELAWARE i $fl RESERVATIONS 302-738-2204 fHONf 302) 762-5588 STAX FILMSWOLPER PICTURES Presents Lvncftbv Muk by .4302 Gov PnnS BURT 5ACH ARACH HAL DAVID dered how many rape cases she knew in which a man was the victim.

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