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Oe Clariott'iUDffet 9 D-Friday, May 21, 1976 Rodgers Memorial To Be Dedicated TOWN COUNTRY in? DRIVE-IN THEATRE 939-1807 4 BOX OFFICE OPENS 7:30 FIRST FEATURE 8:15 ADULTS $2.00 CHILDREN UNDER 12 FREE A TUES. BARGAIN NIGHT ADM. $2.00 PER CAR a By A Clarion-Ledger Staff Writer The Jimmie Rodgers Memorial Museum will be officially opened and dedicated Wednesday as part of a week-long Jimmie Rodgers Memorial Festival in Meridian. The festival will honor "America's Blue-Yodler," Jimmie Rodgers, who gained national fame in the late 1920s and early '30s. Events will begin Monday night with a Street Dance in downtown Meridian, on 23rd Avenue between 8th and 9th Streets.

Big Kenny ATHEY TOOK HIS Price and his band will play for this event. "The dance will last from 8 p.m. until Kenny Price gives out," said James Skelton, president of the Jimmie Rogers Memorial Festival. "And he's big enough to last a long time." ON TUESDAY, there will be a "Hospitality and Dance" for members of the memorial festival, at the Frank Cochran Center in lLAND, HIS HIS BUT THEY COULDN'T ATAKE ACHINO! Off-The-Wall Humor In 4Rancho Deluxe' 8:15 11:30 Band, Tony Douglas and the Shrimpers, Tommy Atwood, Windy Holcomb and Ray Hawthorne will be featured on Friday's 6 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.

shows. All seats at the Temple Theatre for these shows will be reserved, and will be sold on a first come, first served basis. Out-of-towners should contact James Skelton for tickets. For those who wish to play a more active role in the festivities, there will be a talent screening all day Thursday, starting at 9 a.m. in the Village Fair Mall on 22nd Avenue.

The best entertainers chosen from this screening will perform on Friday for a talent show, held in conjunction with an all-day barbecue at Highland Park. The contest winner will appear at the Friday night night shows in Temple Theatre. "I FEEL GOOD, I feel relieved." is the way James Skelton reacted to the completion of the Jimmie Rodgers Memorial Museum. "There were some struggling times. We were a small group of people, trying for a long time to make it happen, and there were so many people who said it couldn't be done." The museum is a replica of an old railroad station in Stonewall.

Miss. Among the exhibits to be seen are Rodgers' sheet music and letters, a tuxedo he once wore on tour, and his brakeman's kit from his railroad davs. Highland Park. Membership may be purchased at the door. Tony Douglas and the Shrimpers will play for the dance, which starts at 9 p.m.

Hors d'oeuvres will be served starting at 8 p.m. THE JIMMIE RODGERS Memorial Museum will be dedicated on Wednesday, the anniversary of Rodgers' death. Prior to the 3 p.m. dedication, there will be a 2 p.m. wreath-laying ceremony at the graves of Rodgers and his wife, Carrie, in Meridian's Bonita Cemetery.

Dwight Butcher of Covina, Calif. a former associate of Rodgers will recite a poem entitled "Jimmie Rodgers in Retrospect," with background music playing the last song Rodgers recorded on May 25, 1933 "Old Love Letters." WEDNESDAY NIGHT WILL kick off three evenings of entertainment at Meridian's Temple Theatre. Two shows will be presented each night. Guests who will appear at 6 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.

on Wednesday include Ernest Tub and his Texas Troubadors, Pee Wee King, The Collins Sisters, Redd Stewart. Melba Montgomery and Band, and Charlie Louvin and the Big Men. The 6 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. shows on Thursday will feature Charlie McCoy, Moe Brandy, Jimmy Nail, Dick Curless and Band.

Sue Richards and special guest Ava Al-dridge. Stella Parton, Ray Griff and BROiSON costarring Jill Ireland PLUS: "PANCHO VILLA" TELLY SAVALAS PG 9:45 SCREEN II SEE LARGE AD EXORCIST" 815 10.30 R- "THE t.ftJ.f.lll;lli:iil;niM JMM-Ij SCREEN III J4' 8-15 1 I Hlx 11:15 Jack By JOE LEYDON Clarion-Ledger Entertainment Editor Frank Perry, the serious-minded director of such films as "David and Lisa" and "Diary of a Mad Housewife," would seem at first to be an altogether unlikely candidate to film a light, easygoing comedy. But his Rancho Deluxe is a dis-armingly relaxed merriment, brimming with sneaky, off-the-wall playfulness, and a general air of improvised high spirits. JEFF BRIDGES and Sam Wa-terston breeze effortlessly through their roles as a slumming rich kid and his hip Indian companion, an aimlessly drifting pair who delight in aggravating rancher Clifton James with periodic raids on his livestock. James, obviously bored with his wealth, is really grateful for the antics of these modern-day rustlers, especially when he is able to get his picture in the papers.

But when the rustlers decide to kidnap his prize bull, James loses his patience. Unfortunately, the detective he hires to track down the boys proves of little comfort to the rancher a weather-beaten geriatric (Slim Pickins), he needs constant attention from his homespun niece. THE RANCHER'S lissome wife (Elizabeth Ashley) lounges about in a wardrobe of buckskin and hand-tooled leather, dropping hints to ranch hands Harry Dean Stanton and Richard Bright that she is in the mood for "a little Western Gothic action." Like most other things about "Rancho Deluxe," her romantic overtures are off-the-cuff and casually pointless. Her libido is brought up and quickly forgotten, much like Bridges' troubles with his wealthy family, and Water-ston's visit to his conservative father. All are episodes tossed out informally but not haphazardly by scriptwriter Thomas in the Shade," "Missouri McGuane, a laid-back absurdist who doesn't hold too tight a rein on his rambunctious rambling.

IT MAY NOT SOUND like the compliment it is meant to be, but "Rancho Deluxe" has the amiable air of a film that was made up as it went along. The actors involved particularly Bridges, Waterston and Pick-ins all seem to be heady with the rampant looniness, which extends even to Jimmy Buffet's beer-soaked, country-flavored music. Everyone seems positively delighted at their good fortune to be in such an enjoyable shaggy dog of a movie. Almost as delighted as you will be watching it. Actress Writes Culinary Column Actress Fawne Harriman, who makes a hobby of cooking, is now writing a monthly column on food and cooking for a magazine.

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