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Greeley Daily Tribune from Greeley, Colorado • Page 3

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BROADWAY BROAD JUMP Barbara London of the cast of "Funny Girl" does the broad jump in competition with, from left, Jamie Thomas of "Hello Dolly," Lainie Kazan of "Funny Girl," and Diane West, Terry Little and Lyn Hobart of "Folies Bergere." The broad jump was one in a series Broadway Stars Run, Jump To Stay Physically Fit of athletic events sponsored by the producer of "What Makes Sammy Run?" in order to "demonstrate that actors are at the forefront in maintaining and promoting Hie National Physical Fitness Program recommended by the President." By MARY CAMPBELL AP Newsfeatures Writer NEW YORK (AP)-Broadway performers i heartedly stepped out into the alley one day recently and ran and jumped for an hour, demonstrating their physical fitness. rounded up Makes Sammy 'arrived at noon in tennis shoes, Sept. 1 Page 3 he said, "It was Broadway's idea. It's partly promotion and partly entertainment and partly; a serious effort. You have to be' fit to live the arduous life of an actor and they're demonstrat- Spruce up Due For Ancestral Home By PATRICK J.

MASSEY a They're planning to ing that at high noon at Shubert ce one ot eor Wash iingtons ancestral homes "Of course the true This mmdrum community of Thirty-one, from seven shows, "ur course tne irue criteria, by the staff of of their fitness will be how they SiTM TMTMS feel tomorrow. But I don't think lnlo a TMdern town with any shows will be closed be- three to four times Us present I I I 1 I 1 ill LCUlila anuca, ft'J i I i shirts and slacks or shorts. The cause of this demonstration." 1 girls also were wearing heavy Diane West won the girls' makeup, lipstick that glistens half-mile walk, swallowed from the bottle of French champagne the Folies girls had brought to Four bunnies from the New York Playboy Club wore, in addition, black ears. Publicity men pinned the actor-athletes into Miss America-type banners, bearing the name of each show. They blew mightily oh whistles to con- along one side of Shubert Alley, the narrow pedestrian street inspire them and said, "I'm ready for something else.

Is there anything else going on?" There and Miss West won the 100-yard dash, running the length of Shubert Alley, turning around on the sidewalk at 45th soiidate a crowd of some 150 Street, and running back, in 25 seconds. Miss West, who was born in which links theater-lined 44thiLondon, said she had never en- and 45th streets just west of Broadway. A trumpet fanfare sounded for lered any races before but "walking up and down those stairs at the show every night projects that will quickly chew the girls' 50-yard dash and some- kee you in training." up the fields and meadows. at the finish line on 45th Street remarked there was nc finish line. A publicity man ran to prevent seconds.

It was decided to scratch the the quickly ran back with 200-yard relay, next scheduled as(hin loulti on of a ball of string which he tied event, and concluded with the to a post on one side of the alley and carried across to hold on the standing broad jump. A mailman delayed the swift comple- other side, a stop watch in one tion of his appointed rounds to hand, a cigarette dangling in his mouth. watch. A man taking a shortcut through the alley remarked Fanfare sounded again and to companion, "I don't know five girls ran pellmell the length what they're doing but they've of Shubert Alley. Diane West of kinds of these costumes Itm "EVlliac.

RarrTofn" 1I73C fact. OH. the "Folies Bergere" was fastest. As an admiring group began milling around her, another of five girls pelted down and Richard Terry of "Sammy" the alley, led by Barbara London of "Funny Girl." Then Lyn jump. The Folies girls celebrated buying it ''Hobart of the "Folies" arrived at the finish line followed by by finishing the champagne, three girls; a bunny in the group Autograph hunters drifted away.

had fallen down. David Carradine, star of "The Deputy," won the first heat of pants. the men's 50-yard dash going so fast he ran on into 45th Street and halted with both hands on the front door of a down on their knees, measuring just-stopped taxicab. heat. The third group of runners was led by Johnny Holliday, only radio disk jockey out for track with the actors.

-Winners raced for the finals. Diane West ran in 9 seconds. winning for the girls; Carradine in 7 seconds, won for the men Carradine said he'd been a mile runner at San Francisco State The arei has changed little with the centuries. Set in the northeast countryside, off the Great North Road highway, Washington acquired three coal mines and a chemical factory following the Industrial Revolution but rested secure acres of agricultural land that government rules have long marked as td'joo for building developments. Now, this all will change.

The area is scheduled for rezoning as a "new town," as the English development areas are called. Plans call for an influx of new industries and a rash of housing Stuart Unger of "Sammy" won the men's 100-yard dash, in 17 are planned. most modern communities in England. The showpiece of the town is still the Old Hall which embodies the remains of the ancient manor house of one branch of the Washington family. The last Washington to own it died in the 15th century but it con- Lyn Hobart of the "Folies" (jumping 6 feet IQ'A inches) (8 feet 2 inches) won the broad Bob Stewart awarded pin and tie clasp prizes to all partici- And as the track meet ended, the New York Times reporter and two publicity men were the alley with a tape measure.

In all, some 20,000. new homes The whole project will take about 10 years. When it's done, tinned in possession of his heirs, the Tempests and Mallorys. The yellowish, sandstone Old Hall was condemned in 1934 as unfit for human habitation. A local committee was formed to save the hall and succeeded in After extensive renovations, the building was established as a museum and showplace, a shrine visited by American tourists year after year.

11 Brazilians Killed in Crash BELO HORIZONTE, Brazil Nat Home of "What Makes Shubert Alley, where opens the Sammy Run?" and a i stage doors of the Shubert and, Sheen of "The Subject Was Booth theaters, proclaimed byK A A bus loaded with home- Roses" wound up in a dead a bronze plaque "dedicated to all! DO TMd picnickers hit a parked those who glorify the theater DU Sunday night on the high- use this thoroughfare," down! wav between Belo Horizonte and which the stars and chorus JBrasilia. Eleven persons were members of Broadway had run killed. the 50-yard measures 67 yards and 3 inches. One of the largest i USE TRIBUNE WANT ADS logical thinking. "I would psych Bnen Guaranteed Watsh Repairing out my opponents." Second event, a half-mile walk, which meant hiking brisk- Jy around block Shubert; Alley on 44th to Broadway, on, 45th to 8th Avenue and back oni 44th to Shubert Alley wasj won by Stuart Unger of "Sam-j my." Richard Terry and Richard France, also of were disqualified when they were caught shortening the route by sneaking through thej lobby of the Astor Hotel.

The three most senior partici-i psnts made their walk together; Sammy Smith of "How To Sue-' ceed in Business without Really Trying" succeeded in getting Jack Albertson of "The Subject was Roses" and David who wins in "Hello to carry him around the block. The administrator of the Na-l tional Physical Fitness Program, Bob Stewart, attending from Washington, was alternately serious and humorous about the dramatization of physical fitness he was witnessing. Asked whether it was his idea, local oil boom Watch Shoo the American population has! Wesrview wotcn snop risen to 36,000 in Calgary itself 1 2434 loth st and 80,000 in the area. In Gilbert's Pharmacy NOW IS THE TIME FALL LAWN We specialize in Kentucky Blue Grass using the finest seed available. For do-it-yourselfers: Purchase of grass seed entitles you to the use of a seeder and roller FREE! Highland I i-- mi I fl 5Dlh Ave.

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