Statesville Record and Landmark from Statesville, North Carolina • 21

JT i jHEBS'" tWsM MrHk vlEr a9BH ji Tif wn i i1 i Hl Isi I lj ft DAVID LIPMAN center who plays the leading figure of "Don't Drink The Water" which opens Oct 3 at Pineville Dinner Theater is the focal point of this scene which includes Nick Jolly left as a frightening Communist official and Ronald James right as the visiting Arab Ruler Play Opens In Charlotte Allen Comedy Scheduled VanHoy Will Emcee Convention GRANITE QUARRY The Granite Quarry Civitan'Club will sponsor its sixth annual Civitan Convention Saturday Oct 7 at 7:30 pm in the Granite Quarry School Auditorium Pierce VanHoy general man ager of the famed Union Grove Old Time Convention will be master of ceremonies VanHoy is noted for his knowledge and promotion of country and folk music Cash prizes and trophies will be awarded to winners for the best old time and blue grass bands Prizes will also go to the best fiddler banjo picker guitar mandolin and bass players and the most out standing individual performance The 1972 dance champion of Bas com Mountain Youth estival held in Asheville annual ly for the past 45 years will be on the program Glen Davis an old timer from i Z' wSBI 1 i 1 JOHN DAVIDSON at age 30 feels its time to shed his all American boy image The singer and actor has recently received some good parts on television Takes On New Career Davidson Likes Acting CHARLOTTE The perils of European travel especially if pic ture taking leads to an accusation of spying in a small Iron Curtain country are jovially developed in the comedy called Drink the coming to the Pine ville Theater for four weeks begin ning October 3 Written by Woody Allen ac claimed TV and night club comedian and successful author of humorous movies and magazine articles Drink the was a 17 on th long Broadway stage hit playing from November 1966 to May 1968 At the Pineville Theater the role of the leading figure will be played by David Lipman who will be seen as Walter Hol lander a brash caterer from Newark who had reluctantly be come a tourist when harassed into taking his European trip by his sarcastic wife and delectable daughter They are being por trayed respectively by Mimi Pearsall and Paulette James Their amusingly desperate ad ventures begin when the touring caterer wearing a sport shirt that looks like an old fashioned crazy quilt innocently points his camera at some installations that just happen to be surrounded by barbed wire armed guards and snarling dogs Hotly pursued by Communist police intent on arresting the Walter wife and daughter breathlessly run for refuge to the American embassy Impish complications ensue as Walter plots to escape from what seems lifetime trap in the em bassy which is being run tem porarily by the regular ambassa compulsively bumbling son To worries that his ineffi cient partner back in Newark is poisoning patrons at parties in absence is added his apoplectic dismay over his daugh ter and the bungling non diplomat falling in love He must also cope with an em bassy chef who mis cooks his food with the stir crazed priest who in sists on showing magic tricks that he bring off with an Arab potentate visiting the American mission on delicate business and with menacing Communist offi cials who turn up from time to time to demand his being turned over to the authorities Phillip Kent Smith will be seen as the mistake prone temporary head of the embassy Ronald James as the annoyed chef David Holloway as the immured priest James also as the visiting Arab ruler and Nick Jolly as a frighten ing Communist official Martin McDonald is directing this looney spoof on espionage fic tion Asheboro who has contributed and upheld old time folk and country music will be honored during the convention He is leader of the Buffalo ord Boys Bands may register and begin practice at 4:00 pm Numerous bands from North Carolina South Carolina and Vir ginia competed in last con vention and more are expected this year A record of over 1000 music fans attended last per formance HOLLYWOOD (NEA) or John Davidson the emphasis is switching from singing to acting up for an Emmy for his Holly wood Television Theater portrayal in and he has done a movie called New Kind of for TV and an episode of And he says Quinn Martin was so high on his work in that cooking up a series for him All this is fine with Davidson He says he needs a change hard to get out of the all American boy image he says because pretty much what I am or at least what I was But pushing 30 and how old can an all American boy be? married now and a father and he says being a family man is what all about He married one of the New Christy Minstrels and he says their thing is together ness I mean just in hob he said we do have that we both love horses and scuba diving and tennis but more importantly together in everything Since my wife was in the business she knows the perils Lenoir Rhyne Group Opens New Season Playmakers Schedule 'Charley's Aunt' HICKORY Jim Mauney a two year veteran of the Lenoir Rhyne Playmakers will appear in the title role of the first playmaker production of the 1972 73 season The selection of Mauney to play the role of Lord ancourt Babber ley an Oxford student who is forced to masquerade as a woman was announced by Sam Baker director of the' playmakers Other roles in the comedy scheduled for production in the Monroe Auditorium on October 26 27 and 28 will be taken by John Daggan a freshman from Collins wood Mike Jennings a freshman from Roanoke Va Mark Hegele a junior from Ur bana Ohio Michael Bush a fresh man from Charlotte Jon Huffman a sophomore from Washington Susan LeShay a senior from Hartford Conn Martha Wilson a freshman from Lexington and Mary Jenkins a sophomore from Portsmouth Va Mauney called by Baker of the best comedy actors in the will perhaps be best remembered by playmaker fans for his performance in the role of Snoopy in last highly suc cessful a Good Man Charlie really had the widest variety of roles of any of our group last Baker said He played the Mute Boy in Characters in Search of an and Sabas tian in Hegele now in his second term as president of the Playmakers won the award for the most out standing performance during both his freshman and sophomore years Susan LeShay in her fourth year with the Playmakers is perhaps the most experienced member of the cast of the road the pretty girls who are always around so she comes with me wherever I go The baby and a nurse comes along too am MURDER HESTHICTEO umJ' Ar Aridtt SUNDAY 3:00 8:00 Matinee 2:00 Tonight? Admission All Seats $125 1 111 MARVIN GENIE HACKMAN GENE HACKMAN Academy Award Winner BEST ACTOR lor "The rench Connection? JI A Newtowne I I i oyoi wb iHHMr I IL I TOGETHER Pftliln A A CtfJ.