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Thursday, February 9. 1984 Hattiesburg AMERICAN 1 KOREAN ART EXHIBIT, Page 2B BOWIE, PONTI, Page 3B SYMPHONY.LONELY GUY Page 4B AT THE MOVIES, Page 6B Calendar HATTIESBURG Heavy metal Girlschool rocks tonight (, J) mi girls." McAuliffe admitted they "had a tendency for developing" a following of male fans if they played a club for a two- or three-day period during this U.S. tour, but all the girls "have steadies in England," who serve as their "sort of self-appointed fan club." They've received a fairly warm welcome wherever they have been on this U.S. tour and have played all sizes of halls and coliseums. A European following can be found in just about every country on the continent, naturally with the largest group in their native England.

On earlier tours of both the U.S. and Europe, they have traveled with Uriah Heep and Black Sabbath, and are expecting to do a few shows with Blue Oyster Cult during this trip. "We've been surprised at some of the welcomes we have received," McAuliffe said. "We weren't really sure how well our music had done over here, but to our surprise, we find a lot of recognition. "In some places, we have people singing along with a tune or calling for a song." Girlschoors latest album "Play Dirty" has probably gotten the largest play stateside and shows the talent contained in the band.

The title track is a raucous rock-and-roll tune combining styles heard before They are four English girls traveling throughout the United States laying their heavy metal sound on audiences of all shapes and sizes. And they're too good to miss. Girlschool, bringing their show to the Maxx at 8 tonight, has been together since 1978 when two of the members of the group Painted Lady struck out to find a better mix for the sound they wanted to accomplish. Through a series of changes and producers, the band has put out four albums, three which are available to United States fans. Kim McAuliffe, the lead singer for the band who also plays guitar, said the idea was to "get a band together properly with a permanent lineup.

"We had all been friendly over the years and we just started talking among ourselves of the idea of get together to form a band. The result was Girlschool. In the beginning, the intention was not to form an all girl band, but the group had no takers of the masculine persuasion so Girlschool took shape and literally took off. "It's really no different having an all girl band than having an all male band, I don't think," McAuliffe said. "We are treated just as I would assume other bands are and don't really get any special attention just because we are PEDDLER'S INN Dealer's Choice, 8 p.m.-midnight nightly, Specials nightly BEST WESTERN NORTHGATE INN Lone Star Drifters, top 40s, cross-over country, Monday through Saturday, 7 p.m.

to midnight FAUGHN'S LOUNGE Terry Lee Band, Tuesday through Saturday 8 p.m. to midnight. Food available in restaurant 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. WAGON WHEEL RESTAURANT Freddie Palmer, dinner music, Friday and Saturday, 6 30 to 10 p.m.

EJ's RAMADA INN Sheer Energy, Top 40s, 8 p.m. to midnight, Monday through Saturday. Specials nightly. THE MAXX Girlschool, Thursday, 8 p.m., Friday and Saturday, Hattiesburg's own Attitudes, 8 p.m. nightly.

Monday through Tuesday, Hatterfox. Party down with rock and roll all week. MICHEL'S J. W. Slide, Friday and Saturday nights.

Specials nightly during the week. BONNIE AND CLYDE'S Dancing nightly on lighted dancefloor to contemporary, top 40s and disco tunes. Complimentary buffet 5-8 p.m. Other specials nightly. FETTUCCINI'S RISTORANTE ITALIANO Marion Geissinger, classical guitarist, Friday and Saturday, 6 to 10 p.m.

CASH McCOOL'S Highway 49-N Video music Friday and Saturday, 8 to close; Country and western night is Wednesday night. Complimentary buffet Friday and Saturday Special video presentation during the week, p.m. HERRINGTON HOUSE RESTAURANT Relaxing poolside lounge with color TV and Oyster bar, open nightly. Dinner available Mon. through 5 to 10 p.m.

HI HAT CLUB Palmer's Crossing Gorgeous George, spins discs for your dancing pleasure Friday, with Leon Franklin taking over Saturday night, 9 p.m. to midnight. JUGGERNAUT HOWARD JOHNSON'S MOTOR LODGE Nightfall, varied repertoire 7 p.m. to midnight, Monday through Saturday. Specials 4-8 p.m.

nightly on oysters and crayfish. PIER 49 Janet Michael with Love, Tuesday through Saturday, 8 p.m. to midnight. Big screen football Monday night. AMERICAN LEGION POST 146 Petal The Southern Playboys, 8 p.m.

to midnight, Friday and Saturday. Public invited. MISSISSIPPI ARTIST'S JURIED EXHIBITION C.W. Woods Gallery on the USM campus. Works will hang until Feb.

25. Features work by artists born or residing in Mississippi. Gallery hours: 8 a.m to 5 p.m. Monday-Friday; 2-4 p.m. Sunday.

HOWARD SPECTOR PHOTOGRAPHY SHOW Lok Exhibition Lobby, USM campus, through Feb. 15. MICHAEL PONTI Piano concert, Performing Arts Center, USM campus, Feb. 9, 8 p.m. JACK GALLAGHER, comedian Feb.

13, 8 p.m., Bennett Auditorium, USM campus. Also, Air Band contest. Admission free to USM students. HELLO DOLLY Dinner Theater production, Feb. 13-18, Room University Union, USM Campus, 6:30 p.m.

nightly. Tickets available from Union Information desk, Call 266-4399. GIRLSCHOOL, England's all girl heavy metal band playing tonight only at the Maxx on U.S. 49 south, is made up of, from left: Front Gil Weston, bass guitar and vocals, Kelly Johnson, lead guitar and vocals; back Kim McAuliffe, guitar and vocals, and Denise Dufort, drums. doing." The show will feature cuts from all four of the albums currently in vinyl and starts at 8, with an $8 cover charge.

It's a show promising Hat-tiesburg-area residents a real dose of heavy metal rock special delivery from England. 'Stompin', play in" gives trio style are stompin' and said John Magnie, one of the "twins" whose other specialty is the keyboards. "And the whole time people just keep looking and wondering 'where's the "We do a little of everything golden oldies, old blues. I guess if I had to classify it, I would say we are a little rock and roll and a little rhythm and blues all tied up together." "I'd agree we are more of a R-and-B orientation," Leigh Harris, aka "Little Queenie," said. "I tell people we do modern American music, because it's easier that way and nobody usually asks for an explanation." Magnie and Harris have been Together, the trio takes their audience on a musical trip through the world of the '60s and sticks with this style through the original pieces Magnie said make up about half their repertoire.

They've just started getting out on the road a little and are hoping to take their show a little further north since, as Magnie said, "Yankees need our kind of music." For the weekend at least, they're stopping their trek northward in Jackson, and if you happen to be in the mood for some laid-back rhythm and blues, the close atmosphere of George Street offers the perfect setting for a stompin' good time with Little Queenie and the Skin Twins. LAUREL MAD JACK'S 525 Commerce St. Complimentary buffet Tuesday through Friday, 5-7 p.m., Disco dancing nightly. Specials nightly. Dark on Monday INN Skylark, top 40s, country OILWELL LOUNGE RAMADA cross-over, plays nightly 8 p.m.

QUALITY INN 1-59 North at Exit 28 Goldfinger, country and western music, Monday through Thursday, 8 p.m. to 1 a.m., Friday and Saturday 9 p.m. until. Free hors Monday night. MAGNOLIA MOTOR LODGE Tuesday through Sunday, 9 p.m.

to 2 a.m. weekdays, 10 p.m. to 4 a.m. Friday and Saturday, 9 p.m. to midnight, Sunday, varied repertoire.

Free hors d'oeuvres Wednesday night. by artists like DefLeppard. They stay away from ballad-type love songs and McAuliffe said they "plan for it to stay that way," keeping their concentration on heavy metal rock-and-roll. "We're serious about our sound and the band. We decided a long time ago to go for it, and that's exactly what we plan to keep together about eight years, formerly playing under the name Little Queenie and the Percolators, and teamed with Bruce MacDonald, the group's guitarist and Harris' husband about two years ago, forming the present group.

Harris' nickname "was an unkind one when I got branded with it about 10 years ago," but she used it "mainly to get back at the fellow who gave it to me and to be truthful, I really kind of liked it." Harris does most of the singing for the group with the back-up harmony of "Skin Twins" Magnie and MacDonald, so-called because in Magnie's estimation "We look like twin telephone poles you know, tall and skinny." .0 most dazzling locales. The film begins in Estoril, on the seacoast of Portugal, where the Duke and Duchess of Windsor have taken refuge from German-occupied France. Meanwhile, in Berlin, the King," an about a Nazi Windsor. The p.m. (CST) on THE COAST She's got a voice that's a cross between Bette Midler's sassy wail and Melissa Manchester's gutsy alto.

The guys can work magic with their hands on the keyboards and guitar and their feet on the stomp boards. Little Queenie and the Skin Twins, playing Thursday through Saturday from 8 p.m. to close at George Street Grocery in Jackson, are a New Orleans trio epitomizing that city's special brand of rhythm and blues. But probably the most impressive thing about the band is the fact they get all that percussion sound just by stomping their feet. "We really get to going when we Premiere hinges on adventure In the summer of 1940, the Nazis sent one of their leaders, Major General Walter Schellen-berg, to Lisbon to implement a plot to kidnap the Duke of Windsor, then living in exile in the Portuguese coastal city with his wife, the duchess.

This fascinating piece of history is the springboard for the HBO Premiere Films presentation "To Catch a King," an adventure of espionage and intrigue in wartime Europe debuting Sunday, Feb. 12, at 7 p.m. CST on the HBO service. Other playdates include Feb. 16, 21, 25 and 28.

Robert Wagner and Teri Garr star as two Americans who stumble upon a Nazi plot that could change the course of history. Wagner is Joe Jackson, an expatriate who runs a nightclub in Lisbon. Garr is Hannah Winter, a blues singer working in her uncle's club in Berlin. A twist of fate makes them unlikely allies in a race against time and across continents to save a man they've never met and stop a sinister Nazi scheme. In addition to Wagner and Garr, "To Catch a King" stars Horst Janson as Schellenberg, John Standing and Barbara Parkins as the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, BROADWATER BEACH HOTEL BILOXI, on the beach Trophy Lounge: 4-7 p.m.

nightly, Brooks Hubbard entertains. 7 p.m.- 1 a.m., Buddy Anderson, organist, entertains. Royal Terrace Dining Room: Leon Kelner Orchestra plays easy listening music during the dinner hour. PASADENA SALOON in EL PALACIO, BILOXI, Harrison Ave. Country-western music nightly.

Complimentary tacos p.m. VELVET TOUCH BILOXI, central beach Andy "Mr. Lucky" Martin presents easy listening, mood i GEN. ROBERT E. LEE SHOWBOAT BILOXI, on the beach Dancing nightly 8 p.m.

until. Other specials nightly. SUGAR MILL BILOXI Art Delorio Group, Wednesday through Sunday, dining and dancing. Specials SEAWITCH LOUNGE PASS CHRISTIAN, 2nd and Market Street Fats Williams, country and western to 2 a.m., Sunday 8 p.m. to midnight.

THUNDER'S TAVERN PASCAGOULA, South Market Street Edge, Thursday through Saturday, 10 DOCK OF THE BAY BAY ST. Fisher and the Music Company, Thursday through Saturday, 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. d'ouerves nightly. Free hot dogs, north to 28th Ave.

I7ie Odds, music nightly. nightly. music, Friday and Saturday 9 p.m. p.m. until.

Specials nightly. LOUIS, 119 Beach Blvd. Jerry Coliseum. the Quarter Monday through Dancing nightly to 50 's and 60's Other specials nightly. New Street Dancing nightly to For more information, call 9-15, 7:30 p.m.

Monday through Sunday. Tickets $5, $6, and $8. are $5 to $25. Information ANNIE GET YOUR GUN Broadway play, Feb. 9, 8 p.m., Reserved tickets, $14, $12, and $10.

Ms Gulf Coast BILLY JOEL Concert, Feb. 23, 8 p.m., Ms. Gulf Coast Coliseum. Tickets available for most coliseum events locally at Beautiful Day on adventure of espionage and intrigue plot to kidnap the Duke of film debuts Sunday, Feb. 12, at 7 HBO.

NIGHTCLUB OWNER JOE Jackson (Robert Wagner) shields blues singer Hannah Winter (Teri Garr) from the sinister advances of a Nazi known as Kleiber (John Patrick) in "To Catch a Hardy Street. JACKSON POET'S Lakeland Drive in Wednesday, Stormin' Norman, Thursday through Saturday, 8 to midnight, Larry Addison Jazz Trio. GEORGE STREET GROCERY George Street Little Queenie and 'Celebrity': A film worth waiting for the Skin Twins, Rhythm and blues-rock and roll repertoire, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Gene and Kelly, Monday through Wednesday. STUDEBAKER'S 1-55 North music. Complimentary buffet nightly.

Year's blowout planned for Saturday MASQUERADE 4445 North State Germans, aware that the duke is unhappy with his treatment at the hands of the Royal Family, assign SS General Walter Schellenberg to PLEASE turn to Page 2B of Thompson's editor. She got an early peek at "Celebrity" and wanted it. Lawyers promptly haggled. Eventually, Baerwald bumped into Thompson at a Beverly Hills party; the nine-month stalemate was broken. He would write the script, working for Rosilyn Heller, a producer and longtime friend.

(Indeed, the book's central romance was patterned after the real-life one between Heller and her husband. PLEASE turn to Page 3B and Marcel Bozzuffi as Colonel da Cunha, a police inspector. Moving from Berlin to Paris to Portugal, "To Catch a King" weaves a tapestry of suspense and intrigue against some of Europe's What followed was a lone, nainful experience. But it produced a best-seller that's ready to hit the TV screen. On Sunday, Feb.

12, NBC launches a three-night, six-and-a-half-hour run of "Celebrity." It's a big, handsome show, blessed with crisp dialog and superb actors. But the story of how it got there has its own drama. Staring at his first piece of fiction, Thompson suddenly had writer's block. For a year, nothing that he liked came out. contemporary music in an action-packed setting.

Complimentary buffet nightly, other specials and surprises. DIXIE NATIONAL LIVESTOCK SHOW Mississippi Fairgrounds By MIKE HUGHES Qwinea Utwt Swvtc Tommy Thompson was a writer who had almost done it all. He was city editor of the Houston Press by the time he was 23. He went on to Life and the New York Times, usually in the middle of the action. Shortly after John Kennedy died, he had the assassin's family carefully tucked away in his hotel suite.

He also wrote five non-fiction books, two of them "Blood and Money" and "Serpentine" major successes. Now it was time for a novel. He began seeing a psychiatrist who used hypnosis, and that gave him the confidence to start again. "I tore up the first 500 pages, burned them one foggy, cold California night and re-commenced the next morning. This time, the characters worked." "Celebrity" told of three Texas buddies who took separate routes to fame, but remained haunted by a dark secret.

Even before it hit the bookstores, it was drawing interest from TV. Susan Baerwald, who's in charge of mini-series at NBC, is the niece through Feb. 19. Free admission. (60D-961-4000.

DIXIE NATIONAL RODEO Feb. Friday, 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, 2 p.m. CARMEN Feb. 11, 8 p.m., presented by the Mississippi Opera Guild, Municipal Auditorium.

Tickets available by calling 960-1528..