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Philadelphia Daily News from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania • Page 21

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fyff tarry Fields V. Masters teasing Cascardo wheezing declares: "Before you meet the handsome prince, you have to kiss a lot of toads" Mike Cascardo, known for good and sufficient reasons as "The Beast" in his Grays Ferry neighborhood, has proclaimed himself arm-wrestling champ of Wildwood and will defend his title Sunday in a special Bicentennial match on the stage of Wally's Bar in North Wildwood. Ron Salera, who manages "The Beast," says the champ has. been diligently practicing for the match all spring by hoisting hefty mugs filled with Ortlieb's beer There are 2-million stories in our Naked City and this is one of them. Last month a young couple arrived in town from Lansing, Mich.

The husband had been offered an executive job with a local restaurant. But when they got: here the job and restaurant no longer ex-1 isted and the) were broke and Too proud to call home for money (or do the typical thing, go on welfare) the pretty young wife got a job baring all at a nudie joint in center city just to earn enough money to get back to Michigan. For two weeks, she danced nude four shows a day while her husband sat In the audience with a tire chain in his pocket in case he'd have to use it to protect his wife from an overheated viewer. Eventually they got the money they needed to get home and what this proves, I suppose, is that you can't judge a broad by her uncovering Germantown's Al Grey is taking a short leave from Count Basic's trombone section to take a 9-piece band to the National Gov- I'm getting up a demonstration Sunday for people like me who are fed up with malcontents and welfare loafers. It'll be called "Poor Off Our BacksJuly Fourth Coalition" and we'll march through Chestnut Hill Apparently Elvis Presley's feeling the financial pinch.

Tubby and his entourage rented two floors at the Hilton Inn in South Philly Monday while he, uh, sang at the Spectrum. During his Spectrum concert two years ago, the Pelvis and his gang took over three floors in the same hotel Sammy Davis however, figures if you've got it, flaunt it. He just ordered a new golf cart with a Rolls Royce grill George Masters, the world's highest paid makeup artist ($150 for a 30-minute consultation) has an important date lined up after he leaves his month-long stint at Wa-namaker's Friday. He'll be doing Betty Ford's hair in the White House. George already has worked on Mrs.

Ronald Reagan and Mrs. Jimmy Carter's hair, and he says the experience has turned him on to politics An even bigger man will be following Masters into Wanamaker's John Wayne, who'll be there next Wednesday celebrating his 50th anniversary in flicks and plugging his latest movie, "The Shoo-tist," opening in Our Town in late July Complaining about lack of continuous black community support, the Philadelphia Dance Company is temporarily quitting concerts for nightclubs because when you're hungry you've got to eat The dancers will be hoofing this summer at Atlantic City's Club Harlem Henry Wink- ler flew in from Dayton. Monday to spend the night in Bobby Rydell's Penn Valley home and tour the South Philly neighborhoods where Rydell and so many other singers were born. The Fonz and Rydell became pals when they met for the first time at last week's American Pediatric Federation telethon Rave Department: The best apple pie in town (and maybe the world) is served at The Fish Market, and there goes the diet Henny Youngman complained at Frankie Bradleys that his wife Sadie will buy anything that's marked down. "Yesterday," he moaned, "she brought home an escalator!" The action is about to return to Center City.

Mario Mira (the Lenny Bruce of the piano) who left the Brass Monkey six months ago to do his stuff at the Lighthouse II in Northeast Philly, is returning to his fans. He opens next Wednesday at The Dining Room restaurant 2601 Parkway, where a special piano bar is being built for him Ethel Kennedy wears a T-shirt that ernors Conference at the llershey Hotel this Sunday. They're representing "American music" (jazz. Dixieland, etc.) at an alfresco picnic on the hotel grounds Attention all Congressmen: Former Defense Secretary Clark Clifford, now writing his memoirs, once said: "Harry Truman is the only politician I ever knew who could say truthfully that he never looked at another woman except his wire" At the Brass Monkey last night someone came up with this description of future President Teeth: "Jimmy Carter's smile is as genuine as a S3 bill" Society Hill graffiti: "Pardon King George." Elvis Still the King of West Virginia TUMF TUMF TUMF TUMF Tonight I Every Night 1 This Week 1 last year. (Presley played the Spectrum Monday night, appearing bored and lackadasical.) mand was so great a second concert is planned and the rock and roll star sold out the house for three shows to "excellent seats." One scalper said he's sold one of two up-front seats for $100.

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