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The Lowell Sun from Lowell, Massachusetts • Page 50

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The Lowell Suni
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Lowell, Massachusetts
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LOOKS AREN'T EVERYTHING Goldie Hown, above, who went out on her awn offer three years of "Laugh In," is Hie only one of the program's many olumni who has achieved red star status. laugh Iris dumb blonde is now a movie star By CYNTHIA UWRY NEW YORK (AP) The original 'La ugh In" crowd, whose uninhibited antics surprised on unprepared television audience almost five years ago, is pretty well broken up and scattered now. Sy September, only four of the originals will be left: Dan Rowan and Dick Martin, course, plus Gary Owen, imitating an old line radio announcer, and Ruth Buz zi, the series' all purpose singer, dancer and clown. But, among all the talent that hits come and gone, only Golilie Hawn, who quit after three memorable seasons playing a dumb bunny, has gone Dn to real star status and teat in million pictures. Maybe it was' luck, more likely i1 was long prepaialirm and a built in sense of liming, but Goldie left "Laugh In" rihl after sic had finished her role in the film adcptnlion of 'Cactus Flower," I he role I hat later won her an Oicar.

A slight girl with enormous eyes, tousled hair and a dancer's body, Goldic delighted the public with a dumb blonde art and fumbling, confuspd introductions of Dan and Dick and of skelches. "I had a three year contract wilh 'Laugh she explained. "At the end of the third year, didn't want to stick around. Anl George (Schlatter, then creator and esrcculive producer of the seriesl and the olhers didn't want to hold me back. just don't know whether it was liming," she said.

"I know it is hard to quit when there is uolhing special to go to. After all, I was going into 'There's a Girl in My and I just don't know if 1 would have made Ihe move if I hadn't had something waiting out there." Goldie's third film was in which 6 TV SEVEN, 'JULY 2, 1972 she costarred with Warren Beatty, She says she finds motion picture work challenging and satisfying. "The jays come because it's a totally different experience from television; all the values are different," she said. "In television had Ihe niwl fun working in my own special. In a series you lose the excitement when you are doing it every week She was born Guldie Jeanne Hawn, in Washington, and starled dancing and singing lessons when she was 3.

There was ballet and lap, and when she was 11 she added modern jazz. Her la(est movie is the film version ot "Butterflies Are Free," and she recently cut her first alhum, "Goldie." Ilink you know TV? Here's a few stumpers By WIIJ.TAM E. SARMENTO Sun TV Critic It's Fourth of Jujy time again folks well it will be in (wo days. And wherever you may be this today, 1 (rust the sun is lining and if it be on your vacation time, that you are having yourself a ball. Wherever you are reading this today, be it on Ihe sands of Happy Hampton wilh precocious children kicking sand into picnic sandwiches; or lounging on the One wilh a transislor radio hlasling away disturbing everyone else's chance to relax and enjoy themselves, it spells out the great American summer vacation syndrome.

Two weeks of this kind of relaxation and you are ready for the qu'et and dullness of work. Elsewhere in this Sunday magazine today you will find a quiz foiL all (hose movie "buffs" whose reverence for the silver screen is as great as tny own. And for that generation who has grown up wilh equal reverence for Ihe television screen, I though it might pass lite lime for you lo think hack on and reflect on just how much of television's vintage years you yourself can recall. So here are a list or questions for you and your friends to ponder and rtchate devoted solely lo television. N'el Sunday in this space I shall provide you with, the answers.

You call' yourself a tetevision Then try these! Remember "Super Circus" on Sunday afternoon's at 5 with the girld band director with the long blond hair waving her baton. We all knew her name then. Do you now? fn the early 1950's CBS had a potent Friday nighl lineup. At 8 p.m., we had "Mama" followed by "Man Against a good detective series. On "Mama" what were the names of the three children in Ihe story? And what was the name of the private eye played by Ralph Bellamy on "Man Against Crime?" ON "Your Show of Shows" each Saturday night we had Sid Caesar, Imo gene Coca and a singing quartet.

What was the name of that quartet? Who were Ihe three main characters on "Time For Beany?" And have you forgollen the name of the girl who opened and closed all those refrigerator doors each week on "Studio We all recall that Fred and Ethel Mcrtz were Ihe neighbors of Lucy and Ricky. Gut who were the neighbors next door cf George Burns and Gracie Allen? Goad heavens! Does anybody remember "Range Who played the part? And does anyone on earth remember that overaged leader ot Ihe "Mickey Mouse You win a special bonus in poinls ir you can name the three women who played "Alice Kramden" over Ihe years Remember us? I'm your oi pal, Jaclde Gleason. That's Imogens Coca in the hot pants and Sid Caesar getting ready to paste you one with a lemon meringue job. with Jackie Gleason on "The lloney mouners." Boston's first daytime television show was "Shopping News" and (he lady who presided over on Channel 7 each day at 12:30 was who? liarly television series went for cowboy heroes in a big way. Remember "Wild Bill "Kit "The Cisco "Relentless "The and "The If you name actor who played the title role or Ihe lead in those scries, you know more ahoul television's early years than anybody else I know.

And finally, before there was the "Tonight" show, there was "Broadway Open House" headed by a burlesque comic, a statuesque blonu, and an accordion playing band leader. i)u you remember the Irio? Okay, while you're sitting there tut the sand with nothing to do bul burn, try and remember some of these names which once you probably knew as svell as anyone's. Fiedler, 'Pops' on Channel 2 Tuesday nights By RICHARD P. COOK Sun Staff H0ST0ff "Evening at Pops," featuring Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops Orchestra, will kick off their summer programming on ChannEt 2 this year on Tuesday nights at p. starling July 4th.

Some delightful guest stars have been added as was the ease in the popular seris of performances a year ago. Jroy Anderson, one of the grand old men of music wlw wrote "Jazz Pizzicato," "Blue Tango," "Fiddle Faddle," "Seranta" and "Bugler's Holiday" will be the first guest performer. Some of these old and sfill papular tunes, as well as "Typewriter," using a real tyewriter as pari of the orchestra, will be conducted by Anderson, while Fiedler plays the gourd. Another famous Anderson creation, "The Syncopated Clock," will be heard. Future guests include Roberta Flack, singing her famous hit, "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Doc Severinsen on the Irumpet; Ro berta Peters singing "A Night In Steve Allen vsnd a mystery pal; along with Chet Atkins and Charlie Byrd and Ferrante and Tcicher and Your Father's JkSuslachc, etc.

Tunes from "Fiddler on the Roor," "Cnruelot," "My Fair Lady," and many, many more beloved medleys will be reproduced by Ihe Boston musical group throughout the summer. And we can't forget to mention Lilit Gnmpel, the Boston Ballet and Lerner Locwe. The Symphony Hall produced series will run through Sep tember 1972. World chess match on TV REJAVIK, Iceland Channel 2 will broadcast the World Championship chess matches between Boris Spassky and Bobby Fischer of ihe United States beginning this morning at to a. m.

(Game One) and continuing on Tuesday, at 1 p.m. Game Two) and on Thursday, at 1 p. m. Game Tfhree),.

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153,336
Years Available:
1893-1977