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MADISEMA I Goin junius grimes Hope's Christmas Special By BILL FAITH Guest Columnist SAIGON, South VietnamThe "go" signal that would send Bob Hope's USO Christmas troupe into war -torn South Vietnam was being reserved for the 11th hour, When our plane took off from Bangkok on Thursday morning, Dec. 24 Christmas Eve in South East Asia--none of us, not even Bob Hope, knew our destination. It was still possible that military authorities in Saigon would evaluate the situation too tense and dangerous. Only the pilot knew and he waited until our C-123 transport was cruising down the Gulf of Siam along the unfriendly shores of Cambodia, before he announced he would be landing in less than two hours at Bien Hoa, the airstrip that was devastated by guerilla morter fire a month earlier resulting in many casualties. Apprehension among the troupe was the highest I had ever observed in my four years of Hope Christmas trips.

Two copies of a national magazine story on the Vietnam war circulated rapidly through the plane. The article carried a map showing the concentrations of Viet Cong and it was obvious that no matter where we landed we would be surrounded by the enemy. Stepping off the piane Bien Hoa, we saw sandbag trenches and gun emplacements along the runway, and in the distance the ghostly frames of few destroyed aircraft. We got our first glimpse of the two dozen grimfaced MPs that would be RECORDS! The top platters hit here first. From twist to folk music and everything In between.

There's always RECORD GAIN at Thiem's JOIN THIEM'S RECORD CLUB! Thiem's Record Shop 26 W. Hargett St. TE 2-7281 THE BOB HOPE CHRIS IM AS SPECIAL Direct from key military installations in the South Pacific, from South Vietnam to Guam, Bob once again plays "Santa," bringing Christmas to American GI's. With Jill St. John, Janis Paige and Anna Maria Alberghetti.

8:30 TONIGHT WTVD The Great Little Richard's Show Dance Memorial AUDITORIUM FRI. Jan. 15 9 P.M. to 1 A.M. Featuring Larry Laster Little Richard's Royal Guards The Famous 4 T's Malcom and Eddie along with Little Richard's 10- pc.

Orchestra Admission $2.50. Tickets on sale at the usual places Thiem's Record Shop and Hamlin Drugs. TA3RD on Tonight shadowing us wherever we went. Everyone was armed with weapons in a ready position. We were hustled into waiting buses -their widows shielded with heavy mesh to repeal hand-grenades--and our convoy took us the short halfmile to the show site.

Tall sentries stood on both sides of the stage. Many more, seen and unseen, rounded the audience back-stage areas. They were a comforting sight. It Christmas Eve, yet it was bot and steamy. The giris rubbed ice on their arms and legs in the dressing tents.

Out front several thousand eager GIs had been assembled quickly without fuss as part of the "confuse the Cong" plan. Low flying armed helicopters guarded the periphery of the base. Hope stepped out on the stage to shouts and cheers that could have alerted the Cong 20 to 30 miles away. An MP told us that the enemy was actually much closer than we thought. Ski-nose said: "We got tremendous welcome at the airport here.

They thought I was a replacement. In fact we got 21- gun salute, three of them were ours. If there are any Viet Cong in the audience, remember I've already got my shots." The show as off to a good start. And when it was over we were convoyed just as quickly as when we arrived to our C-123 for the short airtrip to Saigon. At Saigon's Tan Son Nhut airport, our plane circled the field and our pilot told us later he saw what appeared to be a group of about 20 black-suited Cong to the left of the landing pattern.

The convoy from the airport in the city was probably the most frightening ride any of us had ever taken. MPs riding shotgun in jeeps spaced every two or three cars blew on shrill whistles incessantly to clear the curious crowds as we sped to our hotel. At the fashionable Caravelle, Hope and the other stars were swiftly ushered inside. stepping over piles of broken plate glass and we were told that less than 15 minutes before an officer's barracks 100 yards away had been blown up. Blue smoke still hung over the streets; our baggage had been sent back to the airport.

We waited to find out if we would remain or be sent out of Vietnam. The decision was to stay. Hope was invited to Ambassador Taylor's for a small reception and while he was there Village NOW Showing! VILLA Love Is where you find but what can you de about below? George Marge Nine Gregory Comer 1 Features Night Sun 90c-Wkday Matinee Jr. Adm. 65c-Not Recommended Children TONIGHT! SEE THE BOB HOPE SHOW THAT MADE HEADLINES ALL OVER THE COUNTRY.

90 MINUTES OF LAUGHTER FROM SERVICE BASES IN VIETNAM, KOREA, THAILAND, GUAM, OKINAWA AND THE PHILIPPINES. Bus riope, as he puts on the Show in southeast Asia--Christmas 1964. CHRYSLER PRESENTS THE BOB HOPE CHRISTMAS SPECIAL STARRING a JANIS PAICE- ANNA MARIA ALBERGHETTI ANITA BRYANT JERRY COLONNA JCHN BUBBLES "MISS WORLD" OF 1964 LES BROWN SPECIAL GUEST (ANN SIDNEY) AND HIS BAND OF RENOWN JILL ST. JOHN PETER LEEDS TONY HOPE P.M. CORPORATION CHANNEL 11 The News and Observer, Friday, January 33 1 Hope Breaks 'Em Up In Vietnam- even the MPs guarding the stage have to smile.

The Holiday Troupe--highlight on 90-minute special he decided to visit the explosion victims at Navy Hospital. Later, at dinner, a reporter noticed blood stains on his shirtcuff, as the result of shaking hands with the wounded. Hope, who never misses a Christmas Eve Midnight Mass, learned there was a service being held in a hotel room. He passed the word and we were escorted armed guard through barbedwire barriers along the curfew darkened streets to divine worship in a secret upper room. The next two days were continuation of the first.

On Christmas we played the heavily-Cong infested Delta region of Vietnam. At Plelcu, part of our audience consisted of aborigines called Montagnards in loin-cloths. At Nha Trang, the "Riviera" of Vietnam, we were told this was a "rest and recuperation" center for GIs. We were also told it served the same purpose for the Viet Cong. Is this a crazy war? Our final show at Da Nang was played in the We had been given the fantastic security ever afforded a dignitary or diplomat.

As we boarded our plane we were grateful our purpose was achieved without incident to the GIs or to us, and the International waters were a happy sight. THE PLEASURE, SEEKERS A re-hash of "Three Coins In the Fountain" with the setting in Madrid rather than Rome. Three girls, American of course, brazenly look for and find husbands. Ann-Margret, Tony Franciosa. (AMPASSADOP) GOLDFINGER-Sean Connery, Honor Blackman, Saturday Review: "Ian Fleming always imagined big, but probably never bigger than in Goldfinger, in which the world's foremost gold smuggler and hoarder Auric Goldfinger attempted nothing less than to crack Fort Knox and remove the hoard of gold it contained.

He nearly carried it off too, as the movie just made demonstrates in crackling, violent, extremely suspenseful fashion. There has been a switch of directors in this third of a continuing series. Guy Hamilton's touch is equally light and he has paced the action even a bit faster." Time: "Like Dr. No and From Russia With Love, the two previous Bond bombshells, this picture is thriller exuberantly travestied. No doubt Goldfinger's formula for box-office gold contains entirely too much brass, but who cares?" (STATE) Neighborhood QUICK BEFORE IT MELTS An original and funny comedy about a pair of magazine-type-journalists who take it upon themselves to bring feminine companionship to the poor boys in Little America.

Robert Morse, George Maharis. (VILLAGE) OF HUMAN BONDAGE -The old Maugham classic that somehow doesn't quite get across much of Maugham although Kim Novak turns in one of her best performances. Kim Novak, Laurence Harvey. (VARSITY) THE OUTLAWS IS COMING- -The new effusion of the Three Stooges out to save the vanishing American wildlife is above the cut. of the average Stooge comedy.

The three Stooges. (COLONY) BIKINI BEACH--Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicollo. WHAT'S UP FRONT- Tommy Holden and girls. THE EARTH DIES SCREAMING rd Parker, Virginia Field. (FOREST) McLINTOCK- John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara.

HORSE SOLDIERS- -John Wayne, William Holden. RIO BRAVO- John Wayne, Ricky Nelson. (TOWER) TICKLED PINK-Tommy Holden, June Par. THE LOVERSNo players listed. MOUSE ON THE MOON--No players listed.

(CENTER) 1-First run and opening today. TELEVISION a.m.-Orchestra leader Xavier Cugat will discuss his paintings, which are currently on exhibit in New York, and will draw caricatures TODAY show cast. There will be a film report on the annual boat show in New York. (WRAL, WITN, WECT, WSOC, WSJS) 8:30 p.m.-Korea, Thailand, the Philippines, Guam and South Vietnam were all visited by Bob Hope during his annual Christmas tour to enterain servicemen. A filmed 90-minute special of highlights of the tour is featured on BOB HOPE PRESENTS.

(WITN, WTVD, WECT, WSJS) Slattery races against the clock to fight the extradition of a friend, while handling time-consuming variety of legislative duties On SLATTERY'S PEOPLE. (WIVD. WNCT, WEMY, WBTV) It Happened Last Night Coiffurists Lead the Way By EARL WILSON NEW YORK The way they say it in our terribly chic N. Y. circles now is, "Are you going to Washington for the Coronation?" Maybe New York's a little jealous.

Texans will be outnumbered at the Inaugural by only one ether group hairdressers. Nowadays, stars, like Carol Channing, Julie Andrews and Carol Burnett travel with their personal hairdressers, if possibie. At times like these, when there's such demand, we understand the hairdressers' fees are SO high ($1500 a day) that LBJ would prefer Jetting "Mr. Kenneth" be President and LBJ would be a There's talk of the hairdressers operating in planes flying between Los Angeles, New York and Washington. Edie Adams' husband, Marty Mills, says Edie usually gets her hair done in a bar either in a restaurant or in their Rolls Royce, and they have a drink en route complete with Hairspray sprayed into it.

"When I order a martini now," Marty says, "I usually say to the bartender, a little Hairspray in this, so it'll taste I was telling Arlene Francis, the famous ad-libber, about the belly dancing school, "The Stairway to next door to the Americana. Arlene flipped, "Shouldn't they rename it 'The Navel Academy'?" Jack Carter's lovely wife, Paula Stewart, is about to break out as a single cafe star and she'll be beautiful! Cafe Comedian Dave Barry says at the Copa, "We got back the Star of India but lost the Star of Cleopatra" Somehow I omitted Buddy Hackett's name from the stars at "Fight For Sight." So great now in "I Had a Ball," he was at his best. When he told the audience, "Just seeing me alone was worth the price of admission," he was right. "Tony Bennett's gotten religious, Jackie Kannon says at the Ratfink Room. "Every evening he kneels and prays toward San Francisco." Jackie says a New Yorker's guy who, when he tries to buy a Cadillac, his welfare check bounces Molly Bee's crazy about Frank Sinatra Jr.

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