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The Independent-Record from Helena, Montana • 30

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Poge Thirty The Independent Record, Helena, Montana, Sunday, March 31, 1968 Show em 01 100rs Crootf fo nam vi independent stations, "With Sal- room supervising the arrange ment of furniture. Phones rang constantly. A i i v. IX 4 (if i2S.T By LINDA DELTSCH Associated Press Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) The man who has been a presidential press secretary, a senator, vice president of an airline and co-owner of a Hollywood Discotheque says he wants to be a television star if he can find the time. uiger.

The show will not begin regular weekly airing until next September. That's fine with Salinger who doesn't seem to find enough hours in each day anyway. On a recent afternoon he woman campaign worker would answer, announce a name, look to Salinger who would instantly shake his head negatively or affirmatively depending on the caller. At one point he eagerly grabbed the receiver. "Mc-Namara!" he said.

"Sure I'm back in harness. After all, does a dog eat dog food?" failed to appear at his office for an interview. Tracked down at Pierre Salinger, a chubby, ci- took a leave of absence from his vice presidency at Continental Airlines. His plan was to concentrate on the new television show and to write a political novel. Then Kennedy decided to seek the Democratic presidential nomination and enlisted the aid of the late President John F.

Kennedy's press secretary. It's Politics Now "I'm moving to Washington now to concentrate on the campaign." Salinger said. "My publisher has given me another year to finish the novel. "But I won't be a delegate to the Democratic convention because of the TV show. If I were a delegate there might be a problem with other delegates asking for equal time." gar-chomping, perpetual motion the campaign headquarters of machine, previews his new tele-1 Sen.

Robert F. Kennedy, D- vision series this April with a N.Y., Salinger was dashing one-hour special syndicated to from empty room to empty The return to public lite Degan early this year when Salinger Arts Entertainment The show format, he ex plained, will be "a balance of serious discussion of todays issues with Americans and people Quality Country AAusic abroad and a look at the world through satire a serious show laced with entertain ment." emanded by Listeners The first hour, to be aired on various local cnanneis across the country, features interviews try singers Bobbie Gentry and) with New York Gov. Nelson A. a guitarist and singer of great promise, energy and technique, (c) New York Times NEW YORK The major Rockefeller, baseball great Jackie Robinson and presiden of whom we re bound to be hearing more. material from tapes she owns of Ernie's television appearances to put together "The Comedy of Ernie Kovacs," to be aired over ABC.

(AP Wirephoto) EDIE ARRANGING A KOVACS SPECIAL Thanks to the vigilance of Edie Adams, left, television viewers get to see the offbeat but on-the-nose comedy of her late husband, comedian Ernie Kovacs, right, on April 9. Edie is using trend toward quality country music for sophisticated listeners is growing stronger. Stars are emerging, re-emerging in Nash rienson targill. Miss Gentry is not telling the world of all the years of singing that preceded her break-out last year with "Ode to Billie Joe." She was another of those "overnight successes" who probably spent a tial aide John Roche. There is also satire presented by The Opposition Party, an improvisa-tional group.

ville and West Coast studios, tel Spring Concert Will Include Varied Program evision is taking cognizance and the pop charts are increasingly painful 10 year night in prepar peppered with pop country songs. ation for the dawn of correction. Miss Gentry's Album Miss Gentry's second LP, T'- die Saved Ernie Tapes The "conversion" to modern A spring concert in which 120 Delta Sweete is more so win participate, will be pre country music is by no means complete. Quite a few hipster taste makers of pop still wince much more than any over sented by Helena Junior High at the mere mention of a Nan School bands and orchestra 7:30 night success could have produced six months after a first cv Sinatra or Tom Jones, much p.m. Tuesday at the school as ethnic snobs of the folk fes recording.

This album is an even tival used to wince at the men better production than her first auditorium. Participating will be seventh although some will miss the tion of an artist such as Harry presence of a strong hit. eighth and ninth grade bands and the orchestra, all directed Belafonte. Healthy Current To give the album the shape of a suite, there are linking by Boyce D. Fowler.

notes of motifs between the doz These few isolated snobs apart, the country upsurge can en tracks. Perhaps the tracks of The concert will include the folk tune, "Blow the Man Down," as well as several waltzes, marches and Latin greatest interest are Reunion, "It remains one of the country's best orchestras." N.Y. Times THE MINNEAPOLIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, Musical Director IN CONCERT TUESDAY, APRIL 2 8 P.M. MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY FIELDH0USE B0ZEMAN (MSU's new acoustical shell will be be regarded as one of the healthiest currents in pop, restoring melodv and meaning, under a fascinating reworking of folk American music. loristic children's games; John Loudermilk's little gem, "To Featured will be the eighth for example.

After the first show, the producer, George Schlatter, called me up and explained how they hoped to capture some of Ernie's flavor. 'We all loved he told me. And of course Dan Rowan and Dick Martin were among Ernie's good friends. Techniques Are Secret "But it's not only the techniques that make Ernie's work seem contemporary. He always had a very young attitude and was constantly hitting the establishment.

He had the firm belief that the world was too serious, and he aimed to do something about it." Miss Adams spent much time in putting together the hour-long show, which was drawn from eight half-hour specials that Kovacs performed, plus two years' supply of his half-hour series. To complete the job, she hired Ernie's producer, Milt Hoffman and his tape editor, Dick bacco Road," and Mose Alli schedule that eventually relieved the estate of its indebtedness. One of the first things she did was to buy back tapes of shows Ernie had done for ABC. Deep in Debt "Right after Ernie died, I discovered that he owed a lot of money to the network," she recalls. "He had owned the tapes, but he owed ABC so much money that they could have used the shows to discharge the obligations.

I didn't want those shows to be run on the network at 9 a.m. or something. So I settled with ABC and took possession of the tapes." "I put them away and then last year I started looking at them. I realized how new they were! Ernie was doing things that are now the rage in underground movies, psychedelic movies, and even some of the commercial films. "The Beattles movies were full of the sort of things that Ernie did.

And now you see a lot of his kind of humor on television. HOLLYWOOD (AP) The offbeat but on-the-nose comedy of the late Ernie Kovacs can once again be seen by television audiences, thanks to vigilance for his legacy by his widow, Edie Adams. A special called "The Comedy of Ernie Kovacs" has been scheduled for April 9 by ABC, and it will refresh the memories of those who recall the Hungarian zany as one of the most original creators of TV humor. Died Six Years Ago When Kovacs died in an auto crash six years ago, he left his affairs in disarray. He had been a prodigious spender and an inveterate borrower, and although his income had been high, so were his debts.

His famous pals realized this and they gathered together to plan a television special to help ease the widow's burden. "Thanks, but I'll manage," said Miss Adams, and she embarked on a strenuous work scoring the musical values that tended to get lost during such aberrational and ephemeral "movements" as psychedelic son's "Parchman Farm." grade flute section comprised of Janice Merdinck, Leslie Fuerher, Kevin Larson, Patsy Henson Cargill, an Oklahoma City man, has caused a mild rock. ciancnara, nose JBndenstme, Dana Simmons, Koreen Sloulin, sensation with his first record The pop-country trend is reflected in the popularity of such singers as Bobbie Gentry, Glen ing, "Skin a Rope," now the ti Laurie copennaver, Karen Slou lin, Linda Anderson, Sharon tle song of an LP. Cargill has Campbell and John Hartford. one of those ot Donner and Debby Lowe.

di mi country baritones like Johnny oieve t.vans win present a The trend is also helping to re store a bit of sanity in the en clarinet solo. Cash or Dave Dudley s. virons of that rough part of the The concert is open to the "Skip a Rope" is in the very best vein of country music landscape known as the genera public, free of charge. tion gap. a catchy and universal melody anJ.

lyric that can reach ev Every one of the country Look Out for Leda! newcomers has been around used for the symphony perform for years, and has brought ma ance.) eryone. By disguising, a little morality lesson within the context of a child's skip-rope GARDNER, Colo. (AP) turity to his recordings. Alter a Mrs. Leda Dietz, who lives on a eft im A TICKETS: Adults $2, Students $1, MSU Students admitted by activity cards.

NO RESERV rhyme, its composers have ranch near here, may be 81, but she refused to be intimidated by si eat ower ewmman mmanas mew done a masterly job ot cratts-manship. To this, and the rest of the al few years of blind submission to the tyranny of teen taste, these country stars may help right some of the wrongs committed of late by opportunistic recording people. a man who pulled a knife and threatened to kill her. Mrs. Dietz grabbed a poker and bum, Cargill brings warmth and ED SEATS.

Advance tickets available. Write: Fieldhouse, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana 59715 bers samsters come up with, grotesque, Steiner's illuminates I man of proved honor. Tape sensitivity. The story he tells ol spooled interviews and sociolo with laser-sharp reality. Consider, on the level of both age and mellowness, the coun- pounded the assailant over the head so hard that he bsat a hasty retreat.

having to finance his own recording is one of the things that often happen in country music but not in pop music and rare gical jabberwocky, he saw, wouldn't tell the story of the Indians as he thought it should be told. He thought the Indians should tell it. Thev told him to state ly in teen scenes. mi (c) New York Times "The New Indians," by Stan Steiner. 348 Pages Illustrated.

Harper Row. $7.95. The American Indian is demanding Red Power. He is having a tough fight with a short stick. But reports that he is vanishing have been grossly exaggerated.

That is the story told in Stan Steiner's "The New Indians," a magnificent blockbusters of a book. It starts where most volumes about our continent's true A Good Example Billy Eddy Wheeler is an ex The Red Power Steiner is a young New Yorker. Years ago he began "a love affair with the American West." In early wanderings he paid little attention to Indians on the landscape. Gradually, he saw them as individuals. Then he saw them as tribes, in the West, and also far-scattered across their case.

What we have here, inTfiw iSi TEST ample of a wonderfully talented folk and country singer who got then, is a superb venture at putting the thoughts and acts of contemporary Indians into the laneuaee that came to these bypassed repeatedly as he tried to walk the road between Nashville and Newport. Now this ex there are many Indians, on or off many reservations, and not exactly living the life of Riley. Anyway, here's a thought for today from the heart of Steiner's book: "Like the once-colonial people elsewhere in the world the new Indians are pressing for self-determination. They are demanding political independence for their tribal way of life. Together these two self-determination and political independence are the source of the demand for Red Power." That tough fight was boiled up into lawsuits about ownership of land granted long ago by treaty.

The Indians lose some of those lawsuits, and win others. They fight on. The fight grows publicly spectacular when Indians go to a river where they shores from England America, but all fighting face Symphony Concert Is Today The Helena Symphony orchestra and chorale will combine for the second time this season when they perform Haydn's "The Season" today at 3 p.m. at the Civic Center. They are conducted by Richard Starr, who is midway through his second season with the Helena symphonic group.

Members of the orchestra will What else came from England less assimilation, demanding to cellent performer and marvelous composer again has an al and other overseas places nev It is filled Hive by their own customs, their first families end bum up to his talent, "Paper er ceases to make Indian sur interesting; own gods. That's the Red Power with wonderfully Birds." vival doubtful. Take the root stories. What the usual trend on jtney want in steiner dook. Indian lore makes romantic or I He won exceptional trust as a Glen Campbell, a newly ar rived pop-country star with a strong face toward youth, is a matter of population.

There are half a million, or a million, or a million and a half Indians in the United States depending on the acrobatics of census-asking, census answering, and Capitol recording artist who has bten long and hard at work as a new celebrity. The develop ment of Campbell can be traced racial definition. be Octavia Haraldson, concert- What Steiner's book emphasizes is that whatever the num- have fishing rights. Then Dad, treat Mom and the kids to dinner out, with plenty of good food, family fun. Our menu is set to suit every taste, with special menus for children.

Enjoy our pleasant atmosphere, and warm, friendly service. mistress; Virginia Carlson, Ha there's hell to pay. One of this zel O'Connell, Jerrold Richards, book liveliest chapters dram' Josephine Morales, Kim Mer-ley, Robert Levitan, Ragnar Og- atizes a big fish-in on the Colum- fiom a Bluegrass singer on "Big Bluegrass Special" to a pop-: youth idol, on "by the time I get! to Phoenix" and "Hey, Little) One." From Nashville, RCA Victor has been steadily developing two of its more sophisticated performers, John Hartford and uia. uui me iiiuoi muring v-iup PLACER HOTEL COLOR, TV SERVICE Stereo and Radio ren, Sister Eucharista, Joseph Kintli, Morton Levitan, Harriet Marsh, Lucille Paddock, Muriel Gabisch and Viola Branning, vi I ters are those on the white man's degraded attitude to- grade. I ward the red man he would de Uillll lllllll WIIUII.UW..1 "'Ml.

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to 2 a.m. We provide all the ingredients for a happy time; your favorite drink, relaxed atmosphere and courteous service. RICHARD BURTON PETER GTOOLE HALWAUIS Jane Fritzlan, timpani; Milton Brown, piano; Joseph Mun-zenrider, harpsichord. Boyce Fowler is orchestra manager. The Helena Symphony Society is guided by a board of directors, half of whom are musicians and half laymen.

They are Harry Hardy, Floyd Young, Imogene Peek, Joe Munzenrid-er, Don Williams (co-chairman), Julian Forbes (second vice president), Mrs. Kenneth Gibson, Dr. Everett Lynn (chairman), Mrs. Albert Lundborg (first vice president), Mrs. Otto Klein.

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