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1 1 Page 2 Palm Beach Daily News, Wednesday, March 23, 1994 Mel Torme delights Kravis audience with movie tunes polished luster. The easily recognized tunes included It's Wonderful, Let's Face the Music and Dance, and The Nearness of You. Lappin surprised the musicians by asking them to reprise two segments of the medley. Pops board member and local resident Pat Cook sang a breathy version of Blue Skies and Who Knows Where or Her singing was hardly in the big leagues, but she provided a hometown touch to the concert. Lappin finally gave in to it He had to play New York, New York.

Yes, the orchestra played the piece with appropriate, brash brassiness, but triteness has given way to tedium after hearing it so often. It's becoming the Kravis Center's theme song. Give us a break. We are all not from New York. Some of us are even Florida natives.

REVIEW of the greatest thrills coming on in just a short while musical genius Mel Torme." While that introduction might have been slightly exaggerated, Torme did an excellent job of his set, which he titled Mel and the Movies. Hurray for Hollywood and That's Entertainment came off well as an audience warmup. Torme's vocal style is uniquely his. What's more, he possesses a mellow voice that wraps the listener in comforting warmth and, for most of the mature audience, a sentimental nostalgia. Torme showed off his scat singing ability with a series of nonsense syllables in the middle of the Arthur theme song.

Louis Armstrong popularized that type of singing in his heyday. By HERBERT PEREZ-VIDAL Sptclal To Th Daily Nw Mel Torme still has what it takes to charm an audience and, better still, to entertain them without resting on past laurels. For more than an hour Monday evening at the Kravis Center, Torme delighted the audience with his jazzy and nostalgic renditions of famous movie tunes, past and present. Well almost present. His latest song came from Arthur, starring Dudley Moore and Liza Minnelli, hardly a current film.

Bob Lappin scored another big win by securing Torme as his guest, after having already booked Hal Linden and Lena Home for earlier concerts this season. After his part of the program and just before intermission, Lappin said, "You have one 'i I 4 it Empty Bowls event aids hunger charities drummer Donny Osborne. The trio's encore from The New Moon proved exceptional. Rightfully, Torme had high praise for the Palm Beach Pops orchestra during the concert, and again at the end. "You have an absolutely brilliant, four-star orchestra," he said.

"Support them at every turn." Good words. After all, this was the second annual gala benefit for the fine orchestra with credit going to Lappin and supporters for securing the superb musicians who have honed themselves into a formidable pops ensemble. Lappin, too, has his own trio with bassist Bill Pace and drummer Frank Derrick, with Lappin handling the keyboard. During the Irving Berlin Medley, trio members had their moments to shine, and they did it with well- from the town's undesignated general fund. If the program begins Oct.

1, it could be incorporated in the 1994-'95 budget. The council unanimously voted to buy 24 garbage cans for the beaches, to be paid for from the undesignated general fund. The town would not alter its current cleaning of 1.2 miles of beach at public parks and at the Par 3 Golf Course, at an approximate cost of $27,000 annually. Public Works Director Al Dusey said he could not estimate what the program would cost but that it would be less than the $440,000 a year he predicted it would cost for hand cleaning the beaches several times a week. The once-a-week cleaning schedule could be adjusted, the council said.

Some areas of beach may need more frequent cleaning and others may need less. The seaweed would remain on the beach if the town decides to clean the beaches by hand. If the coast is cleaned by a mechanical rake, the seaweed would be removed. Condominium associations in the South End are paying a con ture that would also benefit Palm Beach. State law allows West Palm Beach to add up to a 25 percent surcharge for water customers outside city limits.

The surcharge on Palm Beach customers could amount to nearly $1 million a year. "Once again, it's unacceptable," said Councilwoman Lesly Smith. "I think it's legal rape. And at the rate they are going they're going to lose two baseball teams MOVIE TIMES Greedy (PG-13), 1:50, 4:20, 7:20, 9:45 Angie(R), 1:15,4, 7:05, 9:45 Guarding Tess (PG-13), 1:05, 3:15, 5:15, 7:45, 9:55 What's Eating Gilbert Grape (PG- 13), 1:20, 4:15, 7, 9:20 AMC CROSS COUNTY 8, 4356 Okeechobee West Palm Beach. 689-1558.

The Ref (R), 1:55, 5:25, 7:55, 10 China Moon (R), 1:45, 5:15, 8, 10:05 And let us not forget stand-up comedy. Torme's puffy facial features made for a perfect imitation of the MGM lion and he elicited more laughs with his stories than most comedians. Pick any movie with singing, and Torme probably sang something from it: It Might As Well Be Spring, County Fair, Tenement Symphony, You Are My Lucky Star, The Best Things In Life Are Free. Blue Moon, the final selection, proved particularly fine since it best synthesized Torme's style. During the concert he produced some fine tonal placement, vocal clarity and a couple of clear and beautiful falsettos.

Torme brought his own conductor, Bob Krogstad, along with a trio featuring pianist John Co-lianni, bassist John Leitham and often it is used. The report included a color-coded map identifying the areas. The dirtiest, most visible and intensely used beach is the six-block strip from Wells Road to Root Trail, which is colored fuchsia. "If we don't clean the private part of that fuchsia area then we haven't accomplished anything," McAllister said. "I don't know that we have or haven't," Wiener said.

"But the other consideration that comes to my mind is spending public funds on privately owned property." Wiener said the ordinance should take care of the private beach area. "If you have an ordinance and go after these people they will respond," she said. However, McAllister said the ordinance is not the way to keep the private beaches clean. "It's using a hammer to kill a flea," he said. "It's not the way to make sure that we've got 12 miles of decent beaches." The council did not vote on how the project would be funded, but projects that crop up during the year typically are paid for WATER from page 1 received from alternatives to a surcharge could be used for any purpose.

Mayor Nancy Graham has proposed spending money from a water surcharge on Palm Beach customers for additional police officers for the city. Town Council members say the city agreed last week that a surcharge, or some alternative to a surcharge, would be spent on the city's water system, an expendi 0 UNITED ARTISTS THEATRES AT OKEE SQUARE 2027 Okeechobee West Palm Beach. 697-7714. Naked Gun 33 13: The Final Insult (PG-13), 1:30, 3:30, 5:30, 7:30, 9:30 Mrs. Doubtfire (PG-13), 1:45, 7:15 Schindler's List (R), 2, 7, 1 1 Shadowlands (R), 4:30, 9:40 Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (PG-13).

1,3, 5, 7,9 ISWIT IN THE SHINY SHEETS Our Cbssified gets results. 407820-4771 Torme performed with the Palm Beach Pops Monday. Besides singing, composing and arranging, Torme can just as handily tear up a set of drums in a salute to Mickey Rooney with Strike Up the Band or produce some fine keyboard music from Frederick Delius' On hearing the first cuckoo in spring, as he demonstrated with breezy panache. TOWN from page 1 thing." Councilman Leslie Shaw asked McAllister how much litter is on the beaches above the high water line. "Almost all of it," McAllister said.

"The beaches that we talked about are virtually all above the rack line and below what you might call the vegetation line. It's the area between those lines private that we were concerned about. It's that area that we stated was an eyesore and needed to be cleaned up," McAllister said. Town Councilwoman Her-mine Wiener said the town should not pay to maintain private property. "They have rights over their private property.

I have always been opposed to infringement of someone's private property," she said. The committee categorized the island's 12 miles of beach by size, amount of litter and how OBITUARY Fanette Brown Fanette B. Brown of Palm Beach, the mother of well-known gala organizer Fran Todman of Palm Beach, died Tuesday, March 22, 1994. She was 85. Mrs.

Brown's husband Harry preceded her in death in 1956. In addition to her daughter, Mrs. Brown is survived by her brother and sister-in-law, Robert and Catheryn Wood of Delray Beach; grandchildren Lisa and William Plough, William S. Todman Jr. and Karen Todman; and great-grandchildren Rebecca and Philip Plough and William S.

Todman III. Funeral services will be in New York, where Mrs. Brown once lived. Interment will be private. Quattlebaum-Holleman-Burse Funeral Home, 1201 S.

Olive West Palm Beach, is in charge of arrangements. 1 v.vf.7. 1 tractor to clean those beaches three times a week. The town's cleaning program will cover this area so the associations could reduce their cleaning contract to twice a week, the council said. Wiener praised the committee for a thorough job and thanked them.

"This, in the 6Vz years I've been on this council, has been the singular committee that's has done the most in the least amount of the time most thoroughly," Wiener said. When Wiener was first elect-: ed, most residents did not want the beaches cleaned for fear that it would attract too many people, she said. "I'm very happy to be sitting here now with a council and a mayor who are anxious to see that we do something about this major problem and that the major thinking of the people in this town has changed to such a degree that we are anxious to do something about cleaning our beaches," Wiener said. "There's no question that the majority of people in this town want the beaches clean. and a big water customer within a month," Smith said.

Town Council President Her-mine Wiener said the money should go to replace some of the 40- and 50-year old pipes in the water system. Wiener told Town Attorney John RandolDh to so back to West Palm Beach and reiterate the town's position. iu uu auiueuuiig iui uie yeu- ple who voted for you at the expense of somebody else it sounds very good, but it's not a prudent way of doing business," Wiener said. Philadelphia (R), 1:30, 5, 7:40, 10:15 Reality Bites (PG-13), 1:35, 5:10, 7:50, 9:55 On Deadly Ground (R), 2, 5:20, 8:05, 10:10 In the Name of the Father 5:05, 7:45, 10:15 The Piano (R), 1:50, 5, 7:40, 10:15 Above the Rim (R), 2, 5:30, 7:30, 9:50 By SHANNON DONNELLY Daily News Society Editor The Junior Leape of the Palm Beaches Inc. and the School Board of Palm Beach County are joining together to help feed the hungry.

The Empty Bowls project is part of a national program to jaise awareness of hunger and in America. For a $10 donation, a meal of soup will be served to donors in a commemorative clay bowl crafted by county schoolchildren. Donors may keep the bowl. The event will be held from noon to 4 p.m. on Saturday at the Art Center, 1703 S.

Lake venue, West Palm Beach. Guest CRIME WATCH from page 1 $25 per person. Hot and cold hors d'oeuvres, wine and other beverages will be served. The Underground Jazz Ensemble, a band made up of four students from the Palm Beach County School of the Arts, will perform. Crime Watch member and police department volunteer Dorothy Fin-negan caught their act at the March 13 School of the Arts fundraiser at the Poinciana Club and decided to book them for the reception, Kinsella said.

Finne-gan is paying for the ensemble's performance, Kinsella said. "We thought on a spring night like this it would be nice to have some light jazz to entertain everyone," said Kinsella, who has two sons at the School of the Arts and chaired its fund-raiser. "They are very accomplished." Crime Watch's average annual operating budget of $14,000 is funded entirely through citizen donations, Kinsella said. Crime Watch also funds the police department's Crime Prevention Unit, which consists of Kinsella and officers Craig Gunkel, Spencer Rozier and Don Irion. All four speakers will include Mayor Nancy Graham, Superintendent of Schools Monica Uhlhorn, and Pamela Adams, president of the Junior League of the Palm Beaches Inc.

All money raised from this event will benefit Union Missionary Baptist Church, St. George's Episcopal Church, Daily Bread Food Bank, the Soup Kitchen of Boynton Beach and the Salvation Army, each of which feeds more than 100 people daily. A silent auction of bowls donated by local artists will take place every hour, at noon, 1 p.m., 2 p.m. and 3 p.m. For more information about the program, call the Junior League of the Palm Beaches Inc.

at 689-7590. are certified crime prevention practitioners, Kinsella said. Among the programs offered to the public are residential and business security surveys, bicycle registration, crime prevention speakers for civic and business organizations, and the Drug Abuse Resistance Education programs at Palm Beach Public and Palm Beach Day schools. Crime Watch also prints a newsletter and pamphlets on crime prevention tips that the police department distributes to residents and merchants. Last year's reception raised approximately $8,000 and Crime Watch officials hope to raise $10,000 this year, Kinsella said.

"It's essential," she said of the benefit, "because no town funds support the crime prevention unit. It's not even a line item on our budget. All the money for crime prevention services and programs are raised through donations to Palm Beach Crime Watch." For more information or to reserve tickets, call 838-5467 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays.

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