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Off-Broadway Has Aided Many Youngsters tiai tho hlls this Oil, Bnd IllOt SMlIrd tiai tho hits this 50a and Iliat spelled opporlunlly (op 4 lot of younatlers. At least 10 of them selztd their chance and made flood, In comedy, satire and serious flays For most of them It was a long trip from Tulsa, or Chlncoteague. By WILLIAM GLOVER AP Drama Writer NEW YOUK (AP) off- Broadway's spirited comeback is turning into the big break for a batch of young players from all over the map. One shapely miss hails from Cherokee ancestry. One deft chap has performed everything DANVILLE'S NORTH OPEN TODAY 5:45 P.

M. Show): TECHNICOlORr OPEN SATURDAY-SUNDAY SOUTH. DRIVMN SOUTH 29 H.ghw,, ST NITE! WORLD OF THE WAY-OUT THE SWINGERSI RAY By DICK KLEINKR HOLLYWOOD Place's producer, Everett Chambers, thinks maybe his stars have learned a good lesson. He says they have Jong been nagging him to arrange a hiatus, time off so they could do a feature film. So ho stepped up the shoot- ng schedule, shot three a week tor several months and gave them all a couple months off.

But none of them got a movie offer except Barbara Parkins, who lucked out when Candy Bergen changed her mind about doing "VaUey Of the Dolls." "It should have taught them all a good lesson," Chambers says. "They may be stars on television, but that doesn't mean a thing to the movie people." instead of the Main Stem, is giving young actors their big chance this season. Several have won acclaim, largely in musicals or plays with music. LEFT: Jackie AHoway as the Amazon queen in a revival of By Jupiter." She arrived in New York four from years ago from her native Tulsa, Okla. Now 26, she is a hit in her first New York stage show.

RIGHT: Reva Rose, also 25 and from Chicago, scores as a comedienne, the heroine of "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown," hit snow based on the comic strip "Peanuts." Si toast. Several are lucky first-timers, WEDNESDAY SPECIAL. WfGti tiff HOGAM DISTRIBUTING CO. VA VOA. old dynamo from Chincoteague, share is freak good luck in a is enjoying his biggest sue- usually unlikely zone for spec- cess after expeditions into telev- tacular show success.

isi on and a couple of sorties on In a reversal of form, little Broadway. I side-street shows downtown and Hinnant portrays Snoopy an up are providing more oppor- incorrigible but philosophic pup tumty to hopefuls than the in convincing style and with Times Square big-time. negligible costuming. Being Broadway's recent creative what he isn't comes fairly easily output has turned so sluggish for the Yale University drama tnat even established names are alumnus who previously has having difficulty. As David Mer- been called on to impersonate a nek puts it, "We're playing with neurotic ogre, the aforemen ALL THE FISH YOU CAN EAT YOUR CHOICE OF FILLET FLOUNDER TROUT, BLACK BASS or BREAM Seofood Platter Served" With $1.45 FRENCH FRIED POTATOES TOSS SALAD HOT ROLL and BUTTER ORDERS TO GO WITH FRENCH FRIED POTATOES SLAW AND ROLLS OPEN MONDAY THRU SATURDAY CLOSED SUNDAY Privote Dining Room Piney Forest Road Dial 792-0013 3 FM.

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Kennedy) is limned by William Devane, 27, of Albany, N.Y. Both actors by coincidence served extended apprentice- rk' 's free festiva M.AAJT j. ir WH.1CJL mean more employment for the als participate in that most con- struggling has shaken off the troversial political satire "Mac- doldrums of several seasons bird!" In the'title role is Stacy with 10 strong boxoffice draws. Keach, 25, of Savannah Ga In a half dozen of them, major while his arch foe (an acid cari attention centers on utter or comparative unknowns. Consider Jackie Alloway, in her first New York appearance as the Amazon queen in a shiny revival of "By Jupiter." Miss Alloway, whose eyes are sometimes blue-grey and sometimes green and who refuses to divulge exact dimensions so thay can "remain an illusion" arrived here four years ago from her native Tulsa, Okla.

Tours in stock, and like everyone else in the group, TV commercials kept her eating. The 26-year-old vocalist has one talent unshared by the others She an expert marksman who however, left the artillery fa Oklahoma. Another damsel, impressive drollery, is Reva Rose, also of Chicago. Since beginning at the Goodman Theater there Miss Rose has trekked far and long from West Coast musicals to off-Broadway drama, from a Walt Disney film 0on Pi lot to being a private detective, a waitress in an Arab restaurant and demonstrator of electric knives. hero ships with New Yor summer Shakespeare' and both are of distinguished drama schools.

Keach trained at the Universi ty of California, like Hinnani attended Yale, then was a Ful bright scholar at London Academy. Devane studied at the American Academy of Dramat ic Arts and belongs to the play wrights unit at the Actors Stu dio. Another pacesetter of the sea son, Dustin Hoffman, demon strated virtue of trying trying again. The 28-year-olt from Los Angeles earned atten tion previously in "Journey oi the Fifth Horse," an off-broad offering of short duration. Personal raves in a flop can be bitter balm, but Hoffman bounced back this time in Henry Living's, a cryptically titled but laugh-rich hit about youthful nonconformity.

AH his work at Santa Monica City College, the Pasadena Playhouse and in class with Lee Strasberg has earned Hoffman a movie chance. After "Eh? he'll make his film debut "The Graduate," which Mike Nichols is directing. In contrast to those making It in shows geared to music and laughter, Robert Christian anc Terry Riser are winning recognition in "Fortune and Men's Eyes," a solemn drama abouj prison homosexuality. Christian, 27, from Los Angeles, and Baser, 26, a star high school athlete back in Omaha, both got their first New York practice last season in an experimental workship. Their roles, which won critic salutes as "brilliant," "devastating" and "powerful," keep them on-stage throughout the two-and-a-half hour performance, a marathon stint almost equalled by Robert Salvio, another newcomer.

Salvio enacts the title role in "Hamp," which concerns an English soldier tried for desertion in World War I. The 25 year-old youth from Astoria attended U.C.L.A/S theater arts department and after graduation trained for two years in regional theaters across the country ATTENTION BARBERS! OWN YOUR OWN BUSINESS Established Barber Shop For Safe. Near Dan River Mills, W. Main St. PET-BRO, INC.

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That's where I'm best on the stage." Goulet probably has greater natural resources than any other top performer incredibly handsome, a glorious singing voice, an imposing stature. And yet he hasn't made it in pictures. He realizes now that he did the wrong pictures and he hopes that, by retracing his steps and making another smash Broadway appearance, he can get a second crack at "I'm telling everybody to find me a show," he says. "I saw David Merrick and said, 'Find me And David said, 'if anyone can said JOAN CROSBY Newspaper Enterprise Assn. NEW Jancnftower is not your averse, run-of'the-clichc, nonedi- orializmg sports announcer.

A former star soccer player or the Tottenham Hotspurs, wins sports fans md influences nonsports fans by laying, in his soft Irish brogue, nat a player has done a "silly ning," or that an attempt to a goal while- badly po- imoned was "ridiculous." And VO A who over the a "How bout in his young man of principles is given to philosophizing the sport, he is part of CBS-TV crew bringing soc- into American homes every Sunday. He believes in the game (indeed, the- whole world the exception of the United believes in the game, possibly the most universally of all), and he be- in sportsmanship. 'Sport is a vital part of life," he says. "It's democratic and healthy and contains all the ideals and princi- iles of life. The action takes in the open in front of sveryone's eyes.

You can't suc- because you have an influential uncle. You have to be good. Honor is important. It's important for players that they first honor the game, because if they weren't around, the lame would still exist. Then we must honor our own club, and finally ourselves.

But, if we honor ourselves, we honor the other two." Soccer is a fairly simple game to follow, not hampered by an overabundance of rules. There are subtleties in play Goulet was disappointed at not getting the part of Sir Launcelot, which he created on Broadway, in the movie version of "Camelot." But, he says, he was nor more disappointed than his wife, Carol Lawrence, who didn't get the part she created in "West Side Story." "Someday," he said, "both Carol and I will get to do parts that somebody else created. That's the way this business is Speaking of "Carousel," 'a funny story came to light dealing with the AFTRA strike that almost canceled the show. During the strike, producer Norman. Rosemont and director Paul Bogart were sitting around killing time.

Then they got the news that one of their actors Barney Hughes, had been in an automobile accident anc wouldn't be able to do the par when the strike ended. They decided to send flowers and debated for hours what to write on the card, final- T. V. Programs 2 6:00 Semester 6:30 Morn. Show 7:95 Devotions 8:00 Kanparoo 9:00 Old Rebel 9:30 Cooking Candid Cam.

10:30 HiUWUtes 11:00 Aady 11:30 Van Dyke 12:00 Love Life 12:23 CBS News 12:30 Search 3:25 CBS News 3:30 Edge of Nita 4:00 Secret Storm 4:30 Movie 6:00 News 6:20 Sports 6:25 Weather 6:30 CBS News 7:00 A. Smith 7:30 Lost Space 8:30 Hillbillies 9:00 Green Acres 9:30 Corner Pyle J.OTJ vxuuici ryic 12:40 Guiding Lite 10:00 Danny Kaye 1:00 Girl Talk 11:00 News 1:30 World Turns 11:10 Weatherman 2:00 Password 11:15 Sports 2:30 LinMetter 11:30 Las Vegas 3:00 Tell Truth 1:30 Sijm Off 7 6:00 Semester 1:00 Panorama 6:30 TqwniCtry. 1:30 World Turns 6:40 Weather 6:43 Top Morning 7:00 WDBJ News 7:05 Top Morning 7:53 WDBJ News 8:00 Light of Life 8:15 Kangaroo 9:00 Cartoon Th. 9:30 Com. Skills 10:00 Candid Cam.

10:30 HUIbHIiei 11:00 Andy 11:30 Van Dyke 12:00 Love of Life 12:25 CBS News Search 2:00 Password 2:30 House Party 3:00 Tell Truth. 3:29 CBS News 3:30 Edge of Kite 4:00 Secret Storm 4:30 Early Show 6:00 Report 6:25 Weatherman 6:30 CBS Newa 7:00 Big 8:30 Hillbillies 9:00 Green Acres 0:30 Corner Pyle 10:00 Danny Kaye 11:00 Report Guiding Lite 11:30 Las Vegas 8 6:10 Sign On U. of Mich. 6:43 FarmiHomo 7:00 Bozo 7:30 M. Mouse Romp Room 8:30 Exercise Brunch 9:00 Movie 10:20 Gourmet 10:30 Dateline 10:55 Child's Doc 11:00 Supermarket 11:301 In Million 13:00 Etiody Talk 12:30 Merv Griffin 1:30 Shadows 2:00 Newlywed 2:33 Dream Girl 2:55 ABCJv'ewa 3:00 Gen.

Hosp. 3:30 4:00 Dating Game 4:30 Little 5:00 3 Stooges 3:30 News 6:00 Early Show 7:25 Weathtr 7:30 Batman 8:00 Monroes 9:00 Movie 11:00 News 11:30 Joey Bishop 1:00 News 1:05 Look to Day 1:10 Sign Off Ch 2:00 Our Lives 2:30 The Doctors 3:00 Another WId. 3:30 Dont Say 4:00 Match 4:23 Report 4:30 Superman 3:00 Mike Douglas 6:00 News 6:30 Hunt-Brink P. Wagoner 7:30 Virginian 9:00 Bob Hope Spy 11:00 News 11:30 Tonite Show 7:00 Today 7:25 News 7:30 Today 8:25 News 8:30 Today 0:00 Klub Kwir 9:23 News 9:30 Make Music 10:00 Judgment 10:23 News 10:30 Conccn'lion 11:00 Pat Boono 11:30 Squares 12:00 Jeopardy 12:30 Eye Guest 12:55 News 1:00 Merv Griffin 12 I 6:30 Aspect 7:00 Today Show 9:00 At Home 3:30 Exercise 10:00 Judgment 10:25 News 10:30 Concen'tion 11:00 Pat Boone 11:30 Squares 12:00 Jeopardy 12:30 Eye Guess 12:55 1:00 Match Gamo 1:25 News 1:30 Make Deal WLVA- 8:00 8:30 Exercise 9:00 Play School 9:30 Parly I4ne 10:00 Mr. Ed 10:30 Dateline 11:00 Supermarket 11:30 tin Million 12:00 E'body Talk 12:30 Donna need 1:00 Fugitive Newly wed Girl 3:00 Gen.

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The Register; Danville, May 10, 1967 5-i Television Notebook Blanchflower Blooms On TV one'; which aro apparent to an experienced fan, but one who is unexperienced can still enjoy action, played in two halves. "The difficulty of soccer here," Danny says, "is that ihere is no folklore to the game But many people obviou-sly feel it wiil catch on. Otherwise, you would wonder why so many millionaires are putting their money Jo teams, and why a great broadcasting system is carrying weekly games." Any day she "is "not working, she can be seen lunching in a corner, of Sardi's. She is such a regular in the restaurant, that she has become "engaged to be engaged" to Peter Gina, Vincent Sardi's nephew. "I came here originally because it's interesting and I was in show business, and it was convenient to my auditions." She has stayed to make friends, be seen by people who wondered about tho pretty young thing in the- corner, and find her future happiness.

She is Pamela Toll, who will be 19 ly deciding they needed expert advice. So they called Stanley Michaels, who had written the television adaption of "Carou sel." Michaels was in conference with Jack Warner, but Rosemont and Bogart had him called out. They explained why they needed his help. At first, he was angry at being disturbed for such trivia, but finally he agreed that this was, after all, a writer's job. So he composed the words for the card.

They read: "Get well." month, and who is a veteran of 11 years in show business. Currently she is playing tha rolo of Dr. Liz Wilson in the NBC-TV daytime series The Doctors. And she's a bit fused. "Liz has changed character so many times, she doesn't know who she is.

She started as a kook, then became a manic-depressive, then she got normal, then she got a mad crush on her boss. We have been playing it that way for several weeks now, with looks and inflections. Suddenly, the director- came to us and said something about a catastrophe. Seems the writer told him we have been all wrong. And now we have to undo those looks.

How do you undo two months' work famous Quotations Next to invention is the power of interpreting invention; next to beauty, the power to appre- elate Charcoal House Restaurant Riventdi Tonlte Starts CRESCENT Open 7:45 Show 8:30 Adults All Color All 1st Run! The ExcitemenH The Action! George Segil Guineas "The QUILLER MEMORANDUM" Also Bob "I DEAL IN DANGER" Late Show Fn. Nire! Open 12:00 Show 12:30 "WILD WILDWORLO" THE PSYCHIC STARS: Peggy Lee She was in the middle of her act, singing in her beautiful gold lame dress. Suddenly, she thought about someone she loved, who was at that moment flying to her side. The thought became so vivid that she found herself praying while she sang. And then her nose began to bleed something that had never happened to her before.

Later, she learned at the moment of the nosebleed, the plane had crash-landed. It was safe. The evening's only casualty was the lame dress ruined by the nosebleed. Nugent Named Bank Director AUSTIN, Tex. (AP) The Citizens National Bank of Austin announced Monday that Patrick J.

Nugent, son-in-law of President Johnson, has been elected to its board of directors. He-elected to the Citizens National board Monday night was Jake recently returned to private law practice in Austin after more than a year on Johnson's administrative staff. Jacobsen had been a director of the bank previously but resigned when he took the White House job. Nugent is a student at the University of Texas, working part time, at radio and television station KTBC, owned by the Johnson family interests He and the President's daughter are expecting a baby about June 17. When Nugent's employment at KTBC was announced last October, the station said be was hired part time in an administrative training program.

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