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MOVIE SCAN Copley Service Between TV Lines" (R) Here is potential for an interesting the death of a counterculture, nee underground, newspaper. The story; however, constantly wavers between the serious and the humorous, but it is handled with indecisiveness so that the serious becomes merely superficial, the humorous forced and not very funny Surely there is more to the story of the aggressive young Turks who staffed underground newspapers and exposed a few fissures in the establishment than scratching around for a joint, playing musical beds and exchanging simplistic philosophies SOS ADOPTED SOS was adopted as the radio distress signal on Nov. 22, 1906, at the International Radio Telegraphic Convention in Berlin, Germany. The McAllen Dance Theatre Company will present their annual concert at the McAllen Civic Center Dec 2. at 8 00 Highlighting the program will be guest artists Bill and Katherine Kolodne, who will be the principal dancers in Act II of Swan Lake The ballet was staged and directed by Bill Mar- tin-Visoount It will include a cast of 23, who were selected from the Melba Huber School of Dance.

Tickets may be purchased at 2026 10th. 2011 10th. and at the door. Bill Martin-Viscount is one of the most in-demand free lance artists in the Western World today. A native of Winnipeg, he performed with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet for 11 years seven years as principal dancer He has since appeared as principal dancer with the City Center Joffrey Ballet in New York City; was engaged as guest ballet master to Dance Center, Sao Paulo, Brazil, and has staged choreography for the Harkness Ballet New York City He was invited to appear with the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow, where he lived for one year, performing and being coached He has established Southwest Ballet Center, a professional training school for the serious dance student Martin-Viscount continues to commute to perform all over the world Recent tours have taken him to Europe.

South America and the Orient Most recently, he had completed his 35th world tour partnering Kumiko Maeda and Midori Koyama in a tour of Japan with full symphony orchestra. William Devane returned from captivity in Vietnam The movie revolves into a superficial treatment of a serious and significant subject The what, in incredibly gory detail, overwhelms the why. Early promise of a sensitive study of the countless problems facing a prisoner of war or a prisoner of anything in reuniting with his family after a long absence evaporates into a treatise on the joys of sadism, masochism and stoicism Miss Kolodae is currently the principal dancer with the Greater Houston Civic Ballet Company In addition to their roles in Act II of Swan Lake, Mr Mar tin-Viscount and Miss Kolodzie will perform the "Grande Pas De from Act III of the full length production of "Don Also included in the concert will be the "Pas De from Act I of Swan Lake, to be performed by Laurin Huber and Susan Pearson of the McAllen Dance Theatre Company and Glenn Edgerton of the Ingram School of Dance JUAN CARLOS Juan Carlos was proclaimed king of Spain on Nov. 22 1975, in a short par- limentary ceremony. IPG 'i FISHERIES TEAM A six-member Anglo- American commission began meeting in Washington to resolve the dispute over Canadian fisheries on Nov.

22 1887 UDALL RUNS Rep. Morris K. Udall announced Nov. 23 1974 that he would enter the 1976 primaries in New Hampshire and Vermont. mu COSBY JAMES CARI.

JONES A PIECE OF action tuminm i obc INTERSTATE I I a CINEMA (i) tu nit Km etani 7:25 9:15 2ND BIG of My days exactly When I got up this morning Sigmund Freud was still in medical 1 mi il in mu mu inm UNITED ARTISTS THEATRES rfHTHftPPY HOOKER HCffmorron QQUIQ WflSHIMOTOM MRETM CitruS 5858 COMMERCE CINEMA Wednesday, November 23, 1977 By CAROL OLTEN The little ton If producing a four innocent enough at he on the aereen to a call of kitty, kitty kitty." lut is brief and demeanor cule' But then, onto the aereen pop the docks Big ones Utile ones Quarti ones Ye okie alarm anea 'Hiere are booa and Theater managers wring their hands Diatributors and dash in duelUke bornio! lar lawsuits are threatened Daily Variety alludes to return to the Dart What going an The furor has to do with the introduction of two new paid aereen advertising networks into the nauon movie that will give anywhere from 10 to three minutes worth of com along with the evening selected feature The networks are Screen vision a division of Europe MediaVision which has been distributing commerciali in European movie theaters for many years and established its headquarters on Lexington race to put its commercials into aa many theater markets as poaathle around the eourtrv Representatives of both operations tend to talk about "shelf market result demographic buying power competition and extensive ranges of data banks They atao offer numerous that movie audierv oca will be aeeing entertaining aoft-seil advertisements or as one representative put it. "No Mr Whippie up there Screenvtswn hut contracted to thorn its commercials in 2M outlets around the country The initial trailer a blurb for a leading dock and watch manufacturer Cinemavision also is introducing its ads into around the country Audience reaction to date to the inclusion of national adver using into the movie package haa been largely negative, based on the ides thst should not be aaked to pay high admission pncea and be subjected to viewing com mereials Within the industry the issue effects a mixed bag of reactions tend to expose Avenue in New York I mi May. and Cinemavision. recently eatabliahed Nashville The two are highly competitive. each running a fast the commercials while exhibitors tend to see the ven ture in a favorable light.

Hi Martin. of Universal quoted in a recent story in Variety the rfww business trade paper, as fearing thst screen advertising would turn audiences off Terry Semel, head of domestic Asttlbution for War ner Bros the commercials "destroy- the pleasure of viewing a film Others defended the new program "The price of everything from popcorn to peanuts has gone up." said a spokesman for American Multi Cinema, the nationwide conglomerate which operates 400 screens sround the country This looks like way to offset expenses and we re going to try it The spokesman said American Multi has the option of cancelling the commercials if audience response proves negstive, hsve a multimiilion -dollar industry and you can bet that if Screen vision trailers start doing anything 'harmful) to it. we ll get rid of them," he said Proponents of advertisements, meanwhile point out that movie audiences really have done a great deal of living with commercials in the paM Some have a fond recollection of small community selling sdvertising to local car dealers, furniture salesmen and morticians who did their own acting, usually to push their products (Who, indeed, can forget Harry of Furniture down the street from the local theater advertising his newest bedroom suite with that wide. Hi there, smile right before the first run of Bambr in Anywhere, USA?) The proponents also point out that advertising for movie produced on a national and fairly broad basis before the advent of television by firms such as the Alexander Film Co in Colorado Springs Colol. which distributed commercials on everything from automobiles to soap.

The film industry generally began to cool its heels on running such advertisements, however, as television became more popular. The conaensus was that such ads made the movies too much like by then major competitor and that one of the selling points in a television viewer out of his armchair into a movie theater waa that he would be able to go out and see a movie without a pit chfor Wax. Both Screenvision snd Cinemavision say the new commercials however, aren't going to contain any such pitches "The tone of advert wing is going to be quite says Rich McIntosh, vice president of marketing for Screenvision television communicates best is household products cures for arthritis, need for floor wsx and toilet tissue "But theater audiences require whole different kind of advertising. They are young, affluent and well-educated So you are going to see automotive products, cosmetics, perfumes and travel not Mr Cinemavision President BUI Wooaley says his company's ads "will be entertainment-oriented not straight pitches like Olivier trying to sell you a Polaroid Both companies frequently toss out the words soft-sell, subliminal and European" in describing the kind of ads movie audiences will be looking at They also say that Europeans have up to 15 minutes of commercials before their movies and love it. SOUTHERN TRADITIONAL THANKSGIVING BUFFET Serving between tfie hours of 11:30 and 9:00 jmw THE WORLD OF MUSIC Somewhere in this world there is one person you are destined to meet.

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Tom tenor sax adds a jazzy-bluesv touch to the LP. Also adding some color to autumn: DIANA ROSS Baby Me (Motown) Diana is pure grace in shape and sound. The sophistication of the Sixties has been polished into the funky disco of the Seventies, but all carried along by a voice that's among the best around. The gal keeps up with the times. THE ROLLING STONES Love You Live (Rolling Stones Records) All of the fire and energy of Mick Jagger is caught on this album recorded during Stones performances in Paris and at the El Mocambo in Toronto.

There are 18 songs on the two- record set. moat of it vintage Stones, ranging from the rock-blues of Muddy and Bo to the hard-driving rhythm and blues of Chuck Berry and Willie Dixon. With the purchase soft drink By ROBIN WELLES Copley News Service HOLLYWOOD Richard and Karen Carpenter have laid it on the line to the dairy industry. They like milk. Miffed at the goody-goody, all-American, milk-drinking image hung on them, the brother-sister superstars would like to set some things straight.

like about milk. really like says Richard. touch the says Karen. course, that was applied to us by people who like our music," adds Richard. the other thing is we got an offer once to do one of those horrible milk ads, one of those actual interview things, and I could not.

Karen also would like the dairy people to know that Olivia Newton-John like milk, either. RollingThunder" (R) theme is an orgy of violence by a lonely, tormented and explosively psychopathic Air Force officer (played by KENNEDY KILLED President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on Nov. 22 1963 in Dallas, Tex..