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Allentown actors toughest role own wedding only to find that the teachers of Western society are his new tormentors. "To go to another country and represent Los Angeles was frightening, to say the least," Ameche says of the Steven Ameche, the actor most widely known as Lisa Hartman's keyboard player on eight episodes of "Knots Land Sylvia Lawler INSIDE TELEVISION Ameche brought his new bride, Lyn Rowbotham, home from California to meet the family last week. town Rose Garden Saturday afternoon, following a religious ceremony last Wednesday in Santa Monica. "I'm more nervous about getting married in front of my family than of acting," trembled the intense young man in ponytail and tuxedo, who lists 15 episodes of "Fame" and the series "Simon and Simon," "Murder She Wrote" and "A Different World" among his credits. Ameche, 34, recently encountered the toughest challenge and most impressive reviews of his career at the Edinburgh Festival where he appeared in a one-man tour de force, "Kaspar," by the avant-garde Austrian playwright Peter Handke.

With only limited stage experience, Ameche won his first leading role from hundreds of actors at a large open call He appeared to favorable reviews at the festival in the wholly demanding part of a 17-year-old boy found living as a beast who is rescued and educated, films and television. In December, Hickman will be featured in a PBS special "When We Were Young Growing Up on the Silver Screen," in which Hickman, whose childhood was not a happy experience, will urge parents not to push their children into acting careers. Channel 69 to expand news WFMZ-TV will add a third daily half-hour newscast starting Sept. 25. Channel 69 newsman Rob Vaughn will anchor the new 5 p.m.

broadcast solo and relinquish his 10 p.m. slot. Vaughn and Kathy Craine will continue to co-anchor the 7 p.m. telecast. The 10 p.m.

telecast will be retained, but probably with new personnel, according to Channel 69 news director Brad Rinehart. The 10 p.m. news is re-broadcast at 1 a.m., but all other tele- Please See AMECHE Page D2 ing" and as Apollonia's friend Nick on "Falcon Crest," gained some prestigious stripes at the annual Edinburgh Arts Festival in Scotland recently, but came home over the weekend to play what he considered a really major engagement Ameche brought his new bride, Lyn Rowbotham, home from California to meet the family last week. A whole tribe of Allentown Amicis (Steven altered his name for theatrical purposes) watched them remarry in the Allen Supporting him in prepping for the heavy and rigorous part was his acting coach, Darryl Hickman of the Los Angeles' Actors Workshop. Hickman was a child star of the '40s who never achieved the recognition of his brother Dwayne but still has had a long and serviceable career in Steven Ameche was more nervous before family members than before the TV camera.

THE MORNING CALL THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 7, 1989' SECTION lluuu .4 Globe-trotter waiting to crash the pearly gates By MARY FOSTER Of The Associated Press IV I EW ORLEANS Pinky Ginsberg doesn't get I around much anymore. The days of dining with royalty, infiltrating big events and thumbing his nose at officials are gone. "I don't know who remembers me anymore," he says. "There was a time when they all knew me, though. There was a time when my name was magic." The man who once walked into Adolf Hitler's office and asked for an autograph, attended the coronation of King George VI, crashed 37 World Series, 12 presidential inaugurations, eight Olympics and many other events is a little short of magic these days.

Hyman Ginsberg, 84, who bills himself as the world's greatest gate crasher, now spends his days in a' tiny apartment on the edge of the French Quarter. I An old man's gait has slowed his travels. So has an old man's bankroll. "Social Security. It's enough to keep you from starving, but not by much," he says.

"I get $400 a month and that doesn't go far. In my time I made and lost $15 million. I spent $100,000 on a little redhead so quick you wouldn't believe it. -i "In those days it came easy and it went easy. I was a bookie.

I owned several nightclubs in the French Quarter. Chez Paris on Bourbon Street, that was mine. I owned a place called Punch and Judy's, another one next to Arnaud's Restaurant." His thin fingers thumb through his scrapbook, fon- dling the clippings that yellow there. Clippings in French, Spanish, German, English, along with letters and photographs fill the book and testify to his many adventures. The legend on the front of the book reads: "Album of Fantasy, Alright Let's Have It, Fantastic Fabu- lous, Step Peep into the Wonderful World and the -Pleasant Life of Pinky the Bum.

Smiling Pinky Gins-berg. King of the Gate Crashers, International Person- ality, Professional Gourmet, Wine Sipper and Food Taster. The citations making twwivi Ginsberg attended the coronation of King George VI, crashed 37 World Series, 12 presidential inaugurations, eight Olympics him honorary mayor, colonel, senator, sheriff, cop and quarterback are taped to the wall. "I can document everything I tell you," he says. I have letters from people.

See this pin? President Bush sent it to me when he was vice president. I've met 12 presidents, crashed 12 inaugurations. I used to walk in and out of the White House JEFF UNDENMUTH The Morning Call Trouble with tracing pasts Valley genealogists help people avoid pitfalls in search for ancestors By TIM BLANGGER Of The Morning Call like I owned the joint. All I did was carry some papers under my arm and they thought I was a senator or something. You can't do that now.

The assassinations changed all of that" The last thing Ginsberg crashed was the 1988 Re-publican National Convention. "Easier than I would have guessed," he says. "I just copied the pass and walked right in. They put me through the metal detector to see if I was carrying a gun, but nobody even tried to stop me." Ginsberg began his gate-crashing career at the World Series in 1920. "It was Cleveland against Brooklyn." he says.

"I came from a poor family and didn't have the 50 cents for a ticket I bought six newspapers for two cents each, wadded them up and started a fire. When the guy on the gate ran out to put it out, I went in." He crashed many other major sporting events, he said. Superbowls Nothing to it." The Muhammad Ali-Leon Spinks fight in the Superdome "A piece of cake." The 1988 NCAA Final Four in the same building couldn't keep him out either. "It's just a matter of looking things over, figuring out the best way in and then acting like you know what, you're doing he says. "Once you start, don't stop and don't look back." Ginsberg was in Berlin in 1939 and decided he had to get into Adolf Hitler's office.

With six white shirts, which he says were hard to get in Germany then, he bribed two guards to turn their backs while he walked past. "I went in and there he was sitting at the desk," Ginsberg recalls. "Now I sure didn't want to introduce myself with a name like Hyman Ginsberg, so I just gave him a big 'Heil, and asked for his autograph. He hit the ceiling. Bells started going off.

A couple of guys came in and grabbed me and threw me out on the street" He crashed King George's coronation in England wearing a rented tuxedo decorated with a yard of red ribbon and three rows of medals bought at a pawn shop. The same ploy got him into the wedding of the daughter of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco. Please See CRASHER Page D2 ane Moyer remembers the woman who entered the tiny Mary Illick Library at the Northampton County Historical Society's office at Easton's 4th and Ferry streets. mi I me woman pointed to there are limits. She told the woman, after a thoughtful pause, that the Bureau of Indian Affairs keeps fairly detailed records on such things, and that she might want to contact someone there.

The woman left, and Moyer never saw her again. But she'll never forget the question, or, put more precisely, the type of question. The woman who knew she was of Indian ancestry joins a list of other people Moyer has encountered in her years helping people discover their family histories. There was the person who knew a relative fought in the American Revolution. "Well, he fought in the Revolutionary War, so it must be him," Moyer recalls a visitor giving as the reason for knowing a particular person was an ancestor.

Then, there was the person who simply refused to believe an ancestor was illegitimate. To Moyer, all these people are going about tracing their family histories in a rather haphazard way. They are, in Moyer's estimation, inviting if not exactly trouble, courting the kind of historical misrepresentation that befell the woman with the "elevated" cheekbones. There are ways to avoid these kinds of mistakes, say those associated with helping people discover their ancestors. For one, talk to the older people in your family; they are an important source for information.

They may not know exact dates, but they usually know places and can give important information that would not be generally available elsewhere, like to which church or synagogue the family member belonged. "You have to be part diplomat, part historian, part detective," cautions Moyer. And, be prepared to meet roadblocks along the way. That's when people like Moyer and also June Griffiths, the Lehigh County Historical Society's resident genealogist, become invaluable. They can usually refer puzzled genealogists to the right sources.

There are times, when the search for the correct ancestor is difficult. "I've seen people search for years and never find the ancestor," says Griffiths, who devotes most of her time at the Lehigh County Historical Society to helping people search for their ancestors. The work is difficult, sometimes tedious Piease See ANCESTRY Page D2 her own cheekbones. "Look at them," she instructed Moyer, a librarian who helps people with their genealogies, or the formal tracing of their family history. "Look how high they are." Moyer looked at the woman's cheekbones, which, to the librarian, weren't exceptionally high, or exceptional at all, for that matter.

"I know I'm Indian," the woman announced to Moyer. "I want to find out more." It's the kind of question Moyer often gets: something that is equal parts statement and question. Implicit in these kind of statements is the real question: Am I right? That's the part Moyer was to address. Moyer knows quite a bit about genealogies and the work goes into them, but.