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Haileton Standard-Speaker, Friday, June 30, 1972 21 Big Money Involved in Cliess Game Priest Resumes Favorite Role Of Song, Dance Man for Church Tuesday and Thursday for contracted for exclusive film rights. The Fox film segments cities on the Eastern Seaboard NEW YORK (AP) Promotional aspects of the Fischer-Spassky world championship MISTLETOE FELT SACRED ROME In ancient times, mistletoe was regarded as sacred. It was the "golden bough" that guided the legendary Aeneas through the underworld. Pliny wrote that Druid priests cere RIO SHIP SETS RECORD RIO DE JANEIRO Th largest ship ever built In Latin America, the Doceangra, was delivered by the Verolme Shipyard here to a company that ships iron ore to Argentina, Canada, Japan and the United States. will be shown Saturdays on the ABC program, "Wide World of Benjamin Franklin, epitome chess match are becoming as Important as they are In any By DAVID M.

THOMPSON Associated Press Writer big league sport. Sports." In the United States, Channel U-WNDT, New York, and moniously gathered it with gold success on the stage, he was of- fered a movie contract by Paramount in Hollywood. He Currently producer-director of the music and dance department of the Chancery Playeri, of success, lost a government Job In 1774, when the English monarch fired him as postmaster general for the American colonies. PITTSBURGH (AP) With en sickles while maidens caught the boughs in white cloths so Chess matches are not world happenings. But with he has shared his 39 years of curtain time barely two hourg away, "Father Tom" alts back- Teleprompter Cable T.V.

have planned programs discussing it would not touch the ground. the keen Interest sparked by experience with hundreds of American Bobby Fischer chal the action at the match, with out the use of the Fox film. istage, his cigarette Bending a column of pale blue smoke up lenging Russian Boris Spassky young persons through theatrical productions and drama workshops. IN THE GREAT TRADITION for the world title, It's a differ OF AMERICAN THRILLERS. ent situation.

past nis niKn-buttoned Edwardian suit and clerical collar. He's the Rev, Thomas E. It was that participation that fx The Icelandic Chess Feder NOW thru SAT. 2 Features 2 at 9:00 P.M. ONLY You never had a trip like this before.

Smith, the song-and-dance ation has put up close to 000 for the 24-game match, to priest of St. Joseph's Church In nearby Roscoe, Pa. Crossing his legs and settllnc be held for two months in Rey Channel 13 plans a move-by-move commentary and analysis on the match, by chess master Shelby Lyman, who will work from a studio in Albany, using vertical boards to illustrate the moves. The extensive coverage would start Sunday, July 2 and run from 1 p.m. to fl p.m., nationally.

It would continue three times a week throughout the match, with shorter broadcasts kjavik, Iceland, starting July 2, never signed the pact. "I guess I just had to get show business out of my "system," Father Smith recalls. "I had to make a decision on whether to stay or leave. I left' Returning to Pittsburgh, he entered St. Vincent Seminary in Latrobe.

In 1951, he was ordained a priest and set out to serve his first parish, St. Joseph's Church in nearby New Castle. But somehow, he says, the show tunes still jingled in the back of his mind and his toes tapped to the music he had abandoned In favor of the ministry. At the urging of John Cardi back in a plush chair before his The games will be played in performance In the Big Variety Show at Heinz Hall for the Per the Reykjavik Sportshall, which seats about 3,000 people. The match will be open to the pub is forming Arts, Father Smith re fleets on the double career that lic, and tickets will cost $5 a has carried him from the game or $75 for the 24 games.

Broadway stage to the pulpit. Of the $200,000 put up, some Rles COLOR BY DELUXE' $125,000 will be paid In prizes to the players, according to the "I'm not a singer's singer or a dancer's dancer," says the balding, 47-year-old clergyman, describing his act of original show tunes and parodies, that federation. Fischer, 29, and Spassky, 35, helped raise the curtain for Father Smith's present act, Mm, Humn and Me, which he has performed on nationwide TV, charity affairs, homes for the mentally retarded, banquets and conventions. The ever-smlllng priest, who also conducts dance therapy classes for emotionally disturbed children and works with various drug rehabilitation programs in the area, looks forward to the day when he may become a roving minstrel of "love through song and dance." "It's coming all kinds of things are coming in the next five or 10 years," he uaid. "There are millions of people waiting to be reached in areas that are taboo right now.

nightclub world, bars, joints and the like. "The harvest is ripe and the laborers are few," he concludes. "Someday, I hope I'll be able to work exclusively as a roving apostle in the theater, letting people know that we're with them, that we're not sitting on a pedestal somewhere." nal Wright, then Bishop of HELD OVER! will also divide 60 per cent of COtOW by Pi LUXt gfrlGP) at 10:45 ONLY WINNER OF 5 ACADEMY AWARDS INCLUDING BEST PICTURE Pittsburgh, Father Smith the income from films and Includes a bit of satire on his major calling the church. moved back into the spotlight "My routine is a way of CIIKICTT DRIVE-IN JUHJLI 474-5498 Route 309 Mt. Top 1 Complete Show Nightly 3 TOP SHOWS Starting at 8:50 P.

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It's exciting and serves as a breakthrough. The audience comes to as head of the Chancery Lane Players, then the Catholic Theater Guild of Pittsburgh. "He insisted that I use my talent for the good of the church," Father Smith worldwide visual rights, including rights to film the match realize that the church can get Into the excitement of the mod and still photos of the match taken inside the Sportshall. ern world," he says. Father Smith, with thoughts In the United States, ABC has 2 Terrific Hits 2 ADULTS $1.50 Children Under 12 FREE Action at 9:00 Only "AIRPORT" Was Great 20 th Century-Fox presents THE FRENCH CONNECTION IN THE ORE AT TRADITION OF AMERICAN THRILLERS.

of a life in the church mingling with his dreams of the stage, struck out for New York after graduation from high school to pursue an entertainment ca MOTOR VIEW And So Is "SKYJACKED" Your Horoscope By JEANE DIXON DRIVE-IN THEATRE Route 93 HAZLETON-BERWICK HIGHWAY 10 Minute Drive from Valmont Tonite and Sunday COLOR BY DELUXE'lfRte reer. There he played the famous Court Orders Actor To Pay Lensman $6,501 LOS ANGELES (AP) Ac DEATH Billy Rose's Diamond Horse-ishoe, 'Ziegfeld Follies, the Roxy Theater and spent a year at Broadway's Winter Garden Charlton Heston Yvette Mimieux Rosy Grier Walter Pidgeon ArJeanne Crain James Brolin Leslie Uggams TT IT TP DRIVE-IN THEATRE XI A McAdoo-Hometown Hwy. 'TALES FROM THE CRYPT" Theater. tor Elliot Gould has been or ALSO In 1947, at the height of his dered to pay $6,501 to a freelance photographer Gould says he never struck, but merely talnrif.wffwminrriWytt'iifWfiiOTJilil" MOjajggBgggggggggggH YOUR BIRTHDAY TODAY: This is a year to get out of whatever grooves you've let yourself settle Abandoning bad habits as preliminary to self-improvement programs gets you started. Today's natives find home life important, YOU CAN'T ESCAPE A DEADLY BUNCH "THE GRISSOM GANG" OPEN AT 8:30 SHOW BEGINS AT 9 P.M.

"picked him up and set him aside." Champion to Leave NX Bv WAKA TSUNODA Anthony Rizzo, 25, had sought are frequently gifted teachers who $200,000 damages in his Superior Court suit claiming battery. "I was very careful putting NOW thru TUESDAY Barney wanted women in the worst way. And Ms the way he got them. him down as gently as I NEW YORK (AP) Gower Matinee at 1:30 could," Gould testified before Judge Parks Stillwell ruled in themselves live by what they teach. ARIES (March 21-April 19): Competitive noises intrude.

Do as little as current conditions permit. Any interesting tale you tell comes back unrecognizable. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): New friends seem destined to complement your talents but eventually confuse all your affairs to the point that you must leave them and change. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Most the case Wednesday. The incident occurred more than three years ago as Rizzo and other photographers took pictures of celebrities attending a film screening.

Barbra Streisand, Gould's former wife, originally was a defendant in the suit but her name was dropped by order of Stillwell. I ALT walt D1S.NEYS Jh. I1. fi WOTwulir (I i 1 and "Moon lb I hnnrut (VtrM pwrti A AfanAritin WALT DISNEY'S of the day is routine and somewhat uninsDirine. There's a reward for sticking it out.

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"This is my last show," he announced nonchalantly In the the lobby of a Broadway theater as the orchestra struck up the sprightly overture of his latest, "Sugar," a stage version of the 1959 film, "Some Like it Hot." "I live In California," explained the 51-year-old former dancer. "If I do a Broadway show, I have to be away from home six to eight months. I have two growing boys, and I want to stay with them. I don't want to live in New York. I don't want to live in any city." The two boys are Gregg and Blake, aged 15 and 10, born to Champion and his wife, Marge.

(Marge is, of course, the Marge of "Marge and Gower Champion." They were one of the most popular and highest-paid dancing teams in the 1950s. "I did because it seemed like a fun show. I like fun and excitement. I don't like heavy, depressing plays. Particularly depressing musicals.

I do a show for entertainment. I find the world depressing like most people do. I want to take people's minds off the headlines. If I can provide joy for the public, that Is the talent I'm meant to use." Champion, who has been doing just that for the past decade, attributes his success to hard work. "Doing a show is 24-hour a day work.

I go to sleep thinking about it, I dream about it and when I wake up, I think about it again. Even after a show opens, I always add and change. I'm never satisfied with a show." The Broadway musical situation is not good, Champion said, staring into the air abstractedly. "I don't know where the musical is going. Maybe it has run its course.

'Hair' was good, but there was only one and nothing followed in its wake. I adored 'Jesus Christ but it was an electronic circus rather than a musical. As to so called serious musicals such as 'Company' and 'Follies, they don't seem to have found any great favor with the public. The future of the musical is certainly not in television, because television uses up talent so incredibly fast. But the recent success of the film, may encourage musical production In films.

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