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MHWyPUMTMl 9 0 i tll tv movies music night life The Columbia Record Saturday April 29 1978 Miss USA Pageant after dark All Eyes Qn Charleston Co-hosts of show will be television personality Boh Barker and entertainer Helen The put 365 dayi have been hectic happy and toilaome for Kimberly Louiae Tomes Mias USA U77 Tonight in Charleston she will hand over neat year's chons to one of 51 women competing for the title on the Miss USA Beauty Pageant which will be televised nationally (10 pm Channel 19) ing in her airline carry-on case The security people understandably didn't take too kindly to that But it wu a matronly pasaenger who thought she had the scene sixed up "When she uw my crown in the Kim recalls sniffed another rodeo and walked Barker has been emcee for several television quia shows Including the ongoing Price Is RighL" when he left for New York "The Wheat Street Club The Army-Navy Club and Doug Broome's were all we had And nice girls just didn't go out alone back then or even with a group of other After working for Joe Namath and Bobby Vann at their clubs in Florida Sherman developed and tested a bagful of ideas His splashiest success wu an award-winning combination magic-music-fashion revue think Columbia is ready for something different" Sherman said And he wants to be the one to give Columbia something a little different It starts next week we arrived In Perth" she says had a blackout in the city And we landed in a Aside from the tough schedule she hu been keeping Kim can also tell you that a lot of wacky things happen along with the work Take the tale about her state costume During the pageant all the contestants wear outfits representative of their states Hers wu a sequlned cowgirl get-up says Kim "seemed to know about the costume Wherever 1 went I wu asked to war it" The costume wu kept In various pieces of luggage Things wad well until one day she happened to store the costume's pistols plastic but teal look After a hectic year Kim Is anxiou to return to her school work at Tens Kim a 22-yenr-oU Texas beauty Is the lint to tell yon that the life of a qneen Is not all glamor Min O'Coenell became famous for such tunes "Amapota" "Green Eyes" and when she sang with the Jimmy Dorsey Band during the 10s and Ms Just got in from Perth Australia" she says 10 houra on a plane Getting to Sydney from New York wu 10 hours a lot of boon in the When she tells you about landing you get Idea where some of the fatijpie cornu from I'm looking forward to" she mys a vacation thia summer Just get away from anything looking like a schedule Then I'll finish my last school semester Maybe after that some television commericals Who Making a guest appearance will be singer Jack Jones best known for his hit singles of the 1960s and Me Irresponsible" and "Wives and Lovers" A RIPPLE SHOULD go through the night life scene in Columbia neat week when Mark Sherman unveils some of bis plans for Harvey's A sparkling disco on Stooeridge Road near 1-26 is popular with the young professional crowd Sherman the lively new manager is going to add some touches that should strengthen the club's appeal Two of Sherman's bigger projects are free and begin on Tuesday They Include a six-week backgammon seminar an increasingly popular board game which concludes with a tournament and six weeks of free disco and hustle lessons ending with a dance contest Oa Fridays after the bar closes a variety of juices will be served Free buffets Monday fashion shows for men and women free champagne nights and floor shows also are slated "I just use Ideas I think they'll (clubgoera) really get off on" the smiling Sherman said Of his plans for new lunch and dinner menus he added and quality are what counts I want to kill people with Sherman grew up in Columbia and joked about how things were years ago MIDNIGHT BLUE (days tonight at the Fountain Bleau 5321 Farrow Rd A "Super Disco" is offered every Monday and Tuesday ud the hand Loving Soul" will be featured Wednesday through next Saturday When 'Country' Comes To Plains ED POLLOCK a singer-guitarist and familiar face at Columbia nightspots performs on Wednesday Friday and Saturday nights at Bojanglea Delicatessen off Broad River Road and Dutch Square Boulevard under theJg-i night light elsewhere in our town By TOM CONNELLY Well it wu bound to happen Dixie is a Mg land large enough to swallow most of Western Europe and still leave room to build a few more Stuckey's But the South ia not big enough to keep Big Bill Haney and Billy Carter (ton crossing paths Early this month they got together at Brother Billy's service station in Plains Ga Breaker breaker it wu the World Series of Good (Be Boys with more bullthrowing than a Texu cattle drive Only Jerry Clower's cousin Marcell Lead-better could match this pair And if you don't know about Marceil Leadetter and how he wiped out a Mississippi beer joint with his lightweight McCulloch chain uw then hou you country and it doesn't matter anyway I specials Dick Goodwin trumpet The Society meets from 3 to 7 pm FOG HAT a heavy rock ud roll band will perform in the Carolina Coliseum May 14 Tickets are on sale at tbe Coliseum box office art A WEEKEND FESTIVAL in Camden for music art and drama (MAD Festival) opens at 7 pm Friday with classical bluegrass and square dance performances The threetiay mini feat also includes story telling puppet shows more classical performances art exhibits ud sales a band concert and presentation of a musical comedy Events win conclude at 4 pm Sunday Tickets are 5 each (children under 12 admitted free with adult) ud may be purchased from The Kenhaw County Fine Arts Cuter PO Box 845 Camdn SC 29020 of rock bands So the two Haneys Jimmy Beauston (bass) Tommy Richard (banjo) and Alan Rotan (drums) fashioned a new sound Call it Outlaw Bluegrass Super-grass or Progressive Bluegrass It wu an electrified bluegrass with a rock but which the purists saw downright immoral So the Zassoffs were banned from several bluegrass festivals You cannot keep a bunch of Good Ole Boya down for long Leu than a year ago newspapers began paying attention to the new style and only eight months ago the Zassoff Boys released their very successful album "At Myrtle Country music is a tough game where scores of local groups reach for national attention Bill Haney the schoolmaster and veteran of years of one-night stands is teaching the young ex -rock musicians well Within the past few months the Zassoffs have played with Merle Haggard (where they garnered more applause than Haggard) appeared with Mel Tillis and played a special engagement for Vice President Walter Mondale HUBERT SHUPTRINE artist and collaborator with James Dickey the classic Southern art book The South ia showing his new etchings ud limited edition prints at Webb-Rawls Gallery 010 Dutch Crater Gallery hours are 10 am to 0 pm Monday through Saturday By new everyone knows the Cinderella tale of the Zusoff Boys There wu BUI Haney a veteran of three wars two wounds in Vietaam a sight disability which left him legally blind and a coronary condition requiring open heart surgery It was almost too much for the veteran picker of Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass boys But his sou Jerry now lead singer with the Zusoff Boys coaxed him out of a serious depression not with pills but by urging that he pick up his fiddle and play again a non-fiction account of TV's most popular game show Make A Deal" will be shown by the film's makers Jeff Vaughn and John Scott at 0 pm Friday in the Trustees Gallery of the Columbia Museum of Art The program the fourth presentation of the 1978 Independent American Film Makers: Southern Circuit is free and open to the public hut seating is limited SCULPTURE OF THE MONTH at Columbia Museum of Art is Bust of Dr Robert Gibbes" by Hiram Powers On Monday "Deveaux by Henry Kiite Brown will go on display as the Sculpture Of The Month fra May Sou Ole Bill ru into some other young boys who like Jerry were veterans (See PLAINS Page II) BUI Hanty With Souvenir From Plains THE ANNUAL EXHIBITION of the South Carolina Arts Commission closes Sunday in the gallery of Columbia College's Music Art Center Gallery hours are 10 am to 0 pm Monday through Saturday and 2 to 0 pm Sunday THE WEEKEND FILM at the Columbia Museum of Science is Show times are today at 3:30 and tomorrow at 3:30 and 5 pm 'Police Farentino's First And Last a close look at same of the unsolved questions of the universe is featured at 2:30 and 4 pm on Saturdays and Sundays through June 4 at Gibbes Planetarium THE YACHT COVE Boardwalk Art Gallery's new show continues through May 14 Featured artists are Wanda Cloyd Nand Palayos George Caso Ernest Haywood Deborah Klibanoff and Peter Kandilou By RAY BENSON Entertainment Writer plete have done them in shorter periods 10 to 17 days" As far as TV is concerned light roles don't appeal to me too much not enough THE RICHLAND ART SCHOOL student exhibition opens May 7 and continues through May 14 at the Columbia Museum of Art Paintings drawings sculpture jewelry and pottery will be among the works on display AUDITIONS fra Stage South's fall 1970 statewide tour are scheduled for May 6 Actor-singer-muslcians from South Carolina should send resumes and photgraphs to Meribeth Meacham General Manager Stage South co South Carolina Arte Commission Columbia SC 29201 Deadline for requesting an audition appointment is Wednesday done five now and like the others It seems In trouble again In fact it appears everytime Farentino Is on TV he's "In Does this bother him that no carefree rales eome Us way? This two-honr show hu yan as a cop who shoots an Innocent girl and going into depression snch that you consider self-destruction right? Can yon tell what saves yon or is that the climax? THE ROBERT FRANK Photography Exhibit continues through May 10 on the Second Flora Lobby of USCa Russell House James Farentino did the very first episode on the air and tomorrow night (9 pm Channel 10) he does the last the word I hear from (producers) Columbia he said from his Los Angeles home very doubtfol about any more being made the costa have gone up so much do hope that it comes back next he added it does I'll do it again because of the quality TV is hurting fra quality overall" Farentino said episode was the first two-hour he had done and it took 3Vk weeks to com- music that you mention it you might be right By carefree I assume you mean lighter roles and I cant remember too many of them although I like to do comedy In fact I'm going out on the road this summer for six weeks with Brenda Vaccaro to do Suite' like the step and that's why I'm doing this A live audience is another plus THE BENEDICT COLLEGE CHOIR presents its annual spring concert at 7 pm Sunday in Antisdel Chapel The performance ia free and open to the public really a depression that must be some network word but I do feel a lot of guilt and a manner of working it out putting all the realities in place His own resourcefulness and level head really rave him but the climax of the story story says something happens frequently a shooting but you are a police officer and that's part of the duty and job and you have to take the bad with the good He knows an accident but the fact is it has happened And it points out that the only thing that gets you out of the situation ia a dear head" JAMES FARENTINO Last Story1 Episode THE ARTIST'S RESOURCE FORUM INVITATIONAL organized by the Artist's Resource Forum as a new nonprofit group of SC artists for the purpose of building an artistic community will be held May 7-21 and May 25-June 4 at the Columbia Museum of Art Different works will be displayed at each of the two exhibits THE USC PIANO TRIO wUI present a free concert at 3 pm Monday in Fraser Hall THE USC JAZZ ENSEMBLE will present a concert free and open to the public at 0 pm Tuesday in Russell House Ballroom Channel 19 Begins As WLTX-TV SALUTE TO ISRAEL a special selection of art works and ceremonial objects obtained from local collections will be exhibited May 7-20 at the Columbia Museum of Art Have yen made nay pilots for this season and do you ever want a regular series again? By RAY BENSON Entertainment Writer director replacing Jack Cook who returned to WNOK-AM with the early morning Aiuty Show" a program that Cook had before moving into TV RUFUS featuring rock and soul singer Chaka Khan will perform in Carolina Coliseum Thursday Star Guard a female trio will open the show Tickets are on sale at the Coliseum box office SEVENTH ANNUAL JURIED SHOW of the Dutch Fork Art Association (DFAA) will open May 7 and continue through June 11 at the Columbia Museum of Art Paintings drawings prints photography sculpture crafts and mixed media will be displayed none at all and I most likely wont As to the second part well I wouldn't turn one down if it were presented right the big thing fra me I have turned down since the beginning of teat year five or six (pilots) I didn't even consider doing them Columbia Channel 19 with call letters WNOK-TV since It begin operations ia 1953 became WLTX-TV today The change in call letters was approved by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) upon request by Curtis Lewis Jr of Savannah Ga the new owner who wants a "change of image" B1U McElveen remain manager of WNOK-FM and Ken Watts manager of WNOK-AM Jim Kelly is director of operations for TV AM FM and Functional AEROSMITH a heavy-metal rock band will perform May 6 in the Carolina Coliseum Tickets are on sale at the box office ridge the new general manager of the new South Carolina corporation Capital Communications Inc which encompasses all four broadcasting properties Laughridge moved up from general sales manager succeeding Moody McElveen who retired after 30 years with Palmetto Radio Crap Laughridge dispelled rumors that there have been wholesale changes under the new ownership are still maintaining a staff in excess of 50 for AM FM and TV and some new positions have been he said Don Bryant remains as program director while Howard Hamrick hu been named sales manager succeeding Laufh-rtdge Barry Anderson moves Into a new position as production manager of television and Dick Hall la the new news TRENHOLM ARTISTS GUILD'S show of paintings and drawings at Richland Memorial Hospital will dose Sunday Lewis former Savannah mayor all properties from Palmetto and acquired ewnershty of very hard to tell quality that's on TV It's always tough to do a pilot to begin with because many times the premise is not defined enough I've thought quite a bit about on TV now but that doesn't mean anything THE CAROLINA JAZZ SOCIETY'S monthly meeting May 7 at VFW Post 641 will feature tuba player Hal Johnson with house band members Joe King trombone Tom Wix clarinet Ralph Goodwin piano John Haynes string bass Jim Spruill banjo and other special guests Joe O'Neal drums and Lewis operates WJCL-TV an ABC-TV affiliate and WJCL-FM in Savannah He is president of the new Capital Communications Inc with Fred Pierce executive vice president Radio Cory WNOK-AM WNOK-FM and WNOK Functional Music upon approval of the FCC These eaU letters will remain the same WATERCOLORS AND OILS by native South Carolinian Joseph Patrick will be on display at Columbia Museum of Art through Wednesday (See ELSEWHERE Page 13) (See FARENTINO Page 7) (See WLXT Page 13) Lewis has also named Richard Laugh- lOJU unnm.