The Tribune from Coshocton, Ohio • 14

IB The CMbectoa Tribune Friday, Nov. 13, 1981 Warsaw Lions Turn Minstrels High School Swing Choir, and people from the community, will participate in this year's show, Nick Fischer, Lions Club member said. Fischer described the yearly event as "our biggest money making project," since it first began in 1956. All proceeds go to the Lions Club, which turns them over to its many charities. By DIANE L.WEY Tribune Staff Writer ARSAW-' Plantation the theme of the 24th Annual Lion's Club Minstrel Show, is sure lo be entertaining for the whole family, not to be outdone by previous successful shows.

About 60 people, including Lions Club members, members of the River View- as it once was in the early days of the show, but the costumes still are colorful and the stage alive with comedy and music. The comedy is written by those who play the "end men," and different music for the swing choir is chosen every year. This year's show director, Jean Haumschild and the cast began rehearsals the first week in October. The show will be at 8 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday at the River View High $3,000 to be used for the charities.

Fischer said although a new theme is chosen every year, the club has stuck with the minstrel show, because of its early success. just started that way," he said. In 1956, the first minstrel show was performed. Five hundred people attended and the club made $350 in profits. The minstrel show has grown ever since.

Black face is no longer used, The Lions Club's major charity is its sight-saver program, which supplies eyeglasses to the needy in the village and the River View School district. The club also sponsors a Boy Scout troop, donates to the village emergency squad and fire department, the River View Community Park, the Heart Fund, the American Cancer Society and Care. Last year, the minstrel show brought in gross profits of Through Channels New TV Shows Lack Sponsors 4 1 jTl it -J School. Tickets are $3 in advance and $3.50 at the door. Thursday night is "family night," and a family of any size may see the show for $5 with an advance ticket, and $6 at the door.

Advance tickets may be purchased at Boyer's 1GA. Warsaw Feed, Village Hardware and Fischer Funeral Home In Coshocton, tickets are available at Glass Music, Dick's Corner, the Coshocton County Sheriff's Department and Marilyn's Natural Foods Tickets can also be purchased from any member of tin-1 ions Club or flie swing choir Festival Planned At OUZ At 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, the Music Department of Ohio University-Zanesville will sponsor an informal "Mini Folk Festival" in Elson Hall auditorium of OUZ's Newark Road campus. The festival is free to the public. The festival will feature three different types of authentic folk music.

The OL'Z Chorus and Women's Chorus, directed by Marcia Herman, will sing folk songs of America, Switzerland and Scotland, the Spiritual, "Somebody Touched Me" and "Ground Build a Mountain" from the Broadway musical "Stop the World, I Want to (let Off" featuring Larry Ruse as tenor soloist. Other soloists are Hinda Ardrey, soprano. Carol Linicome, mezzo-soprano, Renee Show, violinist and Shannon Hicks, speaker Julie Stimson and Sheryi Wise are accompanists for the chorus Cheri Harding will prov ide the second type of folk music. Cheri will accompany herself on the 12 string guitar for selections including "Big Blue Frog," "Don't Think Twice" and the "Hammer Song She is from Cambridge and has been featured soloist with the Cambridge Singers and the Lion's Club annual Minstrel Show and has perfornud with the Cambridge Barn Theatre, Salt Folk Arts and Crafts Festival and Vaudeville Highlights. The festival will conclude with the performance of John and Nancy Ray, who will entertain with Bluegrass and Country music.

John is a local physician with a varied musical background from Bluegrass to Choral. still remembered for her role on the television series "Big Valley," she's carrently ABC's "Uvnasty." (AP) PERFECT Actress Linda Evans poses at her Los Angeles bume recently. Miss Evans, 38. is 5-foot -8 and blond, with eyes some have called "as blue as a summer sky." Although Evans Enjoys The Role Of America's Perfect 40 "junk." In an interview on the public affairs program "NBC Magazine." the four-time Emmy winner compared television network executives to prostitutes and declared: "I don't watch much television not even the news, because it's so full of junk now. They will talk for a minute and a half about something that's liable to threaten the existence of the planet and then they'll talk for about seven minutes at it somebody who kicks a football around a field.

I'm really astonished by it. Somebody ought to be responsible, but what are they doing?" In response to the claim by network officials that they only give the viewers whit they want. Alda counters: Prostitutes give people what they want, but that doesn't excuse what thev do." TV CLOSEi'P Is TV going to the dogs? It sure is in a serious but very funny way as far as Barbara Waodhoase is concerned. In addition to being in the Guiness Book of Records as the world's top dog trainer. Ms Woodhouse has become a TV superstar with her new half-hour TV series of ten programs "which became the highest rated show England on BBC-TV.

Now, "Training Dogs the Woodhouse Way." distributed bv Lkmheart Television, has become a most unlikeh and definitely unbelievable TV hit in the U.S with 55 stations now going to the dogs from coast-to-coast! That's more amazing than the cat's pajamas Mart Tkwmas says her first year of marriage to Pita Donahue has been the happiest year of her life. "Just as I always dreamed, 1 can honestly say that I now have it all." Mario told me. "I have my work, which I could not live without, and 1 have a wonderful, romantic man who shares my deepest concerns and convictions." Dallas Is Top ABC NEW YORK ABC. thrust to the top during the World Series, heki onto first piaee in the networks' weekly prime-time ratings competition despite the continuing success of las! sf astic top-rated show. CBS "Dallas." figures from the A Nielsen Co Show CSS won the firs! two weeks the 29E1-K! season, which wat delayed tw labor proDlems ir.

Koiiywood. but ABC. broad-caMirig lull pionship series, claimed aistmclKHi trie last i a weeks bv JOEY SASSO CONFIDENTIAL REPORT:" Only a handful of new TV shows are worth sponsoring, say top advertising executives "The (all-out rate is tremendous. Phillip Burrell. ol a major New York advertising agency me after reviewing the new show "Of the 23 new shows this year, only about five or six will survive Bill Lynn, of another agency, says it is hard to find even one good show that is sure to survive to next year.

"Just about everything lias a good chance of failure." Lynn told me. Any new program on the air is there because something else has failed It has to be doubly good to make it Advertising executive Panl Schulman of Schu-man Co of New York says vou can't blame the fickle testes of the public for the new season disasters "The staggered start of the season and the baseball season doesn't allow the networks to push their new shows and the viewers to develop their usual fall TV habits." he told me. Also, the networks are quick to gone any of their new shows that don't seem to be catching on. "With overnight ratings, certain shows are taken off much quicker than before." said Burreil. the TV series analyst for Dancer.

Fitzgerald and Sample The lack of originality on the part of the networks aSc makes for a rather duii new line up the es-perts say "The three net-w arks seem to be ori a piay-rt-safe rood this said Lynn. TV BACKSTAGE: "MASH" star Alan Alda charges that most television shows are Album Revi lews Genesis Abacab Atlantic) Th will probably be Genesis" top-ten album sounding as so much like drummer Phil Collins" highly successful LP. Aba cab is certainly an -p-cvemen! over Genesis' i.i: album, the drearv Duke, but 1 still miss Peter Gabriel hni his sense of humor The New Pulse Jan Band On Kilmarnock! Gait KacDennot. who wrote the rruMC tar the groundbreaking Kair." has put together af's-style jazz band and recorded Filir. )-vers arc V.a ln-rr.

fan can corrvmu-tica't- v. th Records at: i2 Lake Rose. Slater, laril 5 box-office hit, "10." She laughs at that, because despite a year on "Dynasty," and appearances in such movies as "Tom Horn" and "Avalanche Express," she says people still think of her as the girl from "Big Vallev." "they call me a 'perfect but people expect a teen-ager to come bouncing in," she says. "1 once had a woman at a public appearance tell me I wasn't Linda Evans I couldn't convince her I was me." LOS ANGELES AP In early morning, a lithe Nordic beauty races across the greensward. Later, she works out in a gym, or plays a game of pool in the game room of her home.

She is Linda Evans, who stars as Krystle Jennings Car-nngton in the ABC series "Dynasty." Away from the set, she often can be found indulging in her hobbies of numerology and sports. Sometimes, she and her long-time friend and secretary, Bunky Young, run together. Show Retains With the series over. ABC re tained the standing, thanks largely to the first TV showing of the movie "Grease," a key "Monday Night Football" game and nine of the 20 highest-rated shows in the week ending Nov. 8.

AECs rating for the week was 19 2 to 18 4 for CBS and 16.1 for NBC. The networks say that means in an average prime-time minute during period. 19.2 percent ol the country's television-equipped homes ere watching ABC. In addition. "World Miss Evans was born in Connecticut, raised in Los Angeles, and says she grew up on "Big Valley." She was still a teen ager when she starred in the mid-1960s Western series ith Barbara Stanwyck and Lee Majors.

It was while on that show that she met and married actor-director John Derek, who later divorced her to marry Bo Derek. She's only 38, but she's been called a "perfect 40." perhaps an allusion to Miss Derek's Number News Tonight" finished No 1 for the second straight week, with CBS' "Evening News" second and "Nightly News" on NBC third The rating for "Dallas" No 1 three of the five weeks of the new season was 27 4. Nielsen says that means of the nation's homes with TV, 27 4 percent saw at least part of (he program. NBC. though third for the fifth consecutive week, found some consolation in the week's highest-rated new series.

Love, Sidney." tied lor 14th One Rating "Magnum, P.l. CBS. both 22 1 or 18 million; A 22 or 17.9 million. CBS. and "NFL Monday Night Football," Denver vs.

Minnesota, 21 9 or 17.8 million. The remainder of the Top 20: "Too Close for Comfort. ABC; "Archie Bunkers Place." CBS: to Be Sold," NBC; "Benson, ABC. and "Love. Sidney, NBC, tie: "One Day at a Time." CBS; "Real People.

NBC, and "Fantasy Island "Happv Davs" and "Mork and place. 30th. and "Father Murphy" Here are the week's 10 highest-rated programs: "Dallas." with a rating of 27.4 representing 22. 3 million homes. CBS; Movie-' Grease." 25 1 or 20.4 million, ABC; "60 Minutes." 24.8 or 20 2 million, and "Dukes of Hazard." 24.1 or 19.6 million, both CBS.

"Three's Companv," 23.1 or 18 8 million. ABC; "Facts of Life," 22 2 or 18 1 million. NBC; "Love Boat." ABC, and.