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Hazleton Standard-Speaker, Friday, June 30, 1972 21 Big Money Involved in Chess Game Priest Resumes Favorite Role Of Song, Dance Man for Church MISTLETOE FELT SACRED ROME In ancient times, mistletoe was regarded as sacred. It was the "golden bough" NEW YORK (AP) Promo-1 contracted for exclusive film Tuesday and Thursday for tlonal aspects of the Fischer- rights. The Fox film segments cities on the Eastern Seaboard. RIO SHIP SETS RECORD RIO DE JANEIRO The largest sHo ever built In Latin America, the Doceangra, was delivered by the Verolme Shipyard here to a company that shipi iron ore to Argentina, Canada, Japan and the United States. Spassky world championship will be shown Saturdays on the that guided the legendary Aeneas ABC program, "Wide World of through the underworld.

Pliny Benjamin Franklin, epitome chess matcn are becoming as important as they are in any Sports." of success, lost a government wrote mat Drum priests ceremoniously gathered it with gold In the United States, Channel success on the stage, he was of- Currently producer-director fered a movie contract by of the music and dance depart-Paramount in Hollywood. He ment of the Chancery Players. 13 WNDT, New York, and job in 1774, when the English monarch fired him as postmaster general for the American colonies. en sickles while maidens caught the boughs in white cloths so it would not touch the ground. Teleprompter Cable T.V.

have never signed the pact. he has shared his 35 years of big league sport. Chess matches are not usually world happenings. But with the keen interest sparked by American Bobby Fischer challenging Russian Boris Spassky planned programs discussing experience with hundreds of "I guess I just had to get show business out of my sys the action at the match, with young persons through theatrical productions and drama out the use of the Fox film. for the world title, it's a differ IN THE GREAT TRADITION workshops.

tem," Father Smith recalls. "I had to make a decision on whether to stay or leave. I Channel 13 plans a move-by-move commentary and analysis ent situation. OF AMERICAN THRILLERS. NOW thru SAT.

2 Features -1 at 9:00 P.M. ONLY It was that participation that on the match, by chess master helped raise the curtain for Fa Thft Icelandic Chess Feder atlon has put up close to, left" Returning to Pittsburgh, he You never had a trip lileo this before. 000 for the 24-game match, to entered St. Vincent Seminary in Latrobe. In 1951, he was or ther Smith's present act, Him, Humn and Me, which he has performed on nationwide TV, charity affairs, homes for the mentally retarded, banquets be held for two months in Reykjavik, Iceland, starting July 2, IF! The games will be played in 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 fiom 1 p.m. to 6 p.m., nationally. It would continue three times a week throughout the match, with shorter broadcasts dained a priest and set out to serve his first parish, St. Joseph's Church in nearby New the Reykjavik' Sportshall, which I 2o "TV I Century-Fat Hi seats about 3,000 people. The Ostle.

match will be open to the pub lie, and tickets will cost $5 game or $75 for the 24 games. and conventions, The ever-smiling 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 sir." lrf JJut somehow, he says, the show tunes still Jingled in the back of his mind and his tapped to the music he had abandoned in favor of the ministry. At the urging of John Cardi COLOR BY DELUXE" ,.1 f. nil mjT2 SUNSET or the $200,000 put up, some $125,000 will be paid in prizes to the players, according to the DRIVE-IN 474-5498 2SSXSESSSJBSB WOCST federation. become a roving minstrel of "love through song and dance." By DAVID M.

THOMPSON AsNodated Press Writer PITTSBURGH (AP) With curtain time barely two houra away, "Father Tom" elts back-iBtage, his cigarette sending a column of pale blue smoke up past his high-buttoned Edwar-cllan suit and clerical collar. He's the Rev, Thomas E. Smith, the song-and-dance priest of St, Joseph's Church in nearby Roscoe, Pa. Crossing his legs and settling back In a plush chair before his performance In the Big Variety Show at Heinz Hall for the Performing Arts, Father Smith reflects on the double career that has carried him from the Broadway stage to the pulpit. "I'm not a singer's singer or dancer's dancer," says the balding, 47-year-old clergyman, describing his act of original chow tunes and parodies, that Includes a bit of satire on his major calling the church.

"My routine Is a way of reaching the people. It's exciting and serves as a breakthrough. The audience comes to realize that the church can get Into the excitement of the modern world," he says. Father Smith, with thoughts 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 career. There he played the famous Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe, 'Ziegfeld Follies, the Roxy Theater and spent a year at Broadway's Winter Garden Theater.

In 1947, at the height of his cotow by pi lux GP Fischer, 29, and Spassky, 35, nal Wright, then Bishop of HELD OUEIt! "It's coming all kinds of things are coming in the next Pittsburgh, Father Smith at 10:45 ONLY will also divide 60 per cent of the income from films and tele moved back into the spotlight five or 10 years," he uaid WINNER OF 5 ACADEMY AWARDS INCLUDING BEST PICTURE vision. "THE NIFTIEST CHASE SEQUENCE SINCE xne federation lias signed a 99-year contract with Chester Route 309 Mt. Top 1 Complete Show Nightly 3 TOP SHOWS Starting at 8:50 P. M. "1000 CONVICTS AND A WOMAN" (r) at 10:30 Michael Caine Liz Taylor "X-Y-ZEE" (r) at 12:15 She was all woman "LILA" (r) Expressly for the Mature as head of the Chancery Lane Player 8, then the Catholic Theater Guild of Pittsburgh.

"He insisted that I use my mm "There are millions of people waiting to be reached in areas that are taboo right now. nightclub world, bars, joints SILENT FILMS! Paul O. Zimmrmtn, Ntwswnk Fox and Inc. for exclusive worldwide visual rights, in talent for the good of the and the like. church," Father fcmlth ex cluding rights to film the match and still photos of the match "The harvest is ripe and the plains.

laborers are few," he con taken inside the Sportshall In the United States, ABC has 2o ti Century-Fox presents THE FRENCH CONNECTION IN THE GREAT TRADITION OF AMERICAN THRILLERS. 2 Terrific Hits 2 ADULTS $1.50 Children Under 12 FREE Action at 9:00 Only "AIRPORT" Was Great eludes. "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." MOTOR VIEW And So Is "SKYJACKED" Your Horoscope By JEANE DIXON DRI.VE-IN THEATRE Route 93 HAZLETON-BERWICK HIGHWAY 10 Minute Drive from Valmont Tonite and Sunday CaORBYDELUXERl2 DEATH LIVESIH IT Tf IP dmve-in theatre XI tblhlhU McAdoo-Hometown Hwy. Charlton Heston Yvette Mimieux Rosy Grier Walter Pidgeon Jeanne Crain James Rrolin Leslie Uggams 'TALES FROM THE CRYPT" ALSO YOUR BIRTHDAY TODAY: This is a year to get out of whatever grooves you've let yourself settle YOU CAN'T ESCAPE A DEADLY BUNCH into. Abandoning bad habits as pre I "THE GRISSOM GANG" OPEN AT 8:30 SHOW BEGINS AT 9 P.M.

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"If I do a Broadway 6how, 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. 1 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 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 LIBRA (Sept.

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