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I DFrRfUT rRFF. PRESS RC Sunday, Sepi '74 ,1 I i) t. t'. V'l j' -tr i' i Tib October 1 thru November 2 first subscript ion play of the season otevie wonaer uvercornes 7 WW rm 1 I Evenings at 8:30 Monday thru Saturday Matinee Wednesday and Saturday 2:00 P.M. VlSlt ome bound i rap in a lympia nvvmnim? I ''W i.

St "A MAKVK1.H'5 COMKHY" Donald Sinden The Royal Shakespeare Company BY CHRISTINE BROWN Free Press Stall Writer Stevie Wonder, no longer little for quite some time now, had looked forward to his homecoming so much. The standard hoopla attendant to the appearance of any Jhot rock artist sizzled its way through Detroit for two days and boiled over when Mayor Young gave Stevie the key to the city Thursday and town, normally cool occasions, threw two ties at the swankv mm- it. MX. m-mm Simmons, a secretary for one of his companies. He's a monster talent.

had 20 hit singles and 11 best-selling albums. His first big hit, "Fingertips," came when he was still Little Stevie Wonder and only 13 years old (Motown said 12, but he was 13). But most of all, if you had to describe Stevie in a single word, you'd call him a humanitarian. Stevie Wonder mouths a lot of words that are on everyone's lips, words like "peace" and "love." But Stevie means them. He plans to go to Africa to help solve the problems of the drought and the tse-tse fly, which causes blindness in many children.

Frequently, as he did here, he gives concert profits to charities. Stevie said it best Thursday, on the way to visit his mother. "You have to give to receive, and when you do, it feels so good. If I didn't give what I have, through my music, I'd be a real what's the word? schmuck. He isn't! hotel for its grownup boy.

Only one tiny flaw mi Elizabeth Spriggs Bakwf Orth. ir Men. PtrfonMncf $7.00, $5.00, $3.00 $8,00 Monday thru Thursday at 8:30 p.m. $7.00, $5.00, $3.00 $900 Friday and Saturday Evet at 8.30 p.m. cert profits to a program that will take ghetto children on bus trips to places they couldn't normally go.

And he wants to do another concert to further boost the fund. Stevie Wonder, in person, is something of a surprise. He's much taller, than you'd think (over six feet), and thinner, too, as if his body were constructed from slightly fleshed-out copper wire. Above tho right lens of his dark glasses is a pale, bumpy scar, the only physical reminder of the Aug. 6, 1973, accident near Winston-Salem, N.C., that nearly took his life.

The other reminders of the accident the reflection it prompted In the busy young man and his resultant inner peace are most vibrantly chronicled in i "Innervi-s i album, which won Stevie one of his five Grammy awards this year, and in "Fulfillingness' First Finale." Before Stevie's concert, Motown Records president Ewart Abner gave the singer a platinum record for "Fulfillingness," an album which reflects Stevie's serenity and his own kind of faith in God. It's difficult to be around Stevie Wonder, even for a long time, and pin down just what kind of a person he is. He's tough. At his contract renewal session in 1971, Stevie demanded that Motown give him his own production company, his own music publishing company, higher royalties and the right to cut albums any way he wanted. He won.

He's a man with close family ties. He left the mayor's office Thursday with his older brother, Calvin, for a fast visit to their mother, Mrs. Loulah Hardaway, to whom he gave one of his Grammys earlier this year. Divorced from singer Syreeta Wright, Stevie is planning to marry Yolanda Wed. and Sat.

Matinees $600, $4.00, $3.00 I S'- I K. Ms Si )' I tew $7.00 at 2:00 p.m. WED. OCT. 16 thru SUN.

OCT. 27 COBO ARENA DETROIT I 1 TZSSBmm A LITTLE PACKAGE WITH A BIG BANG Htm UNIQUE! UNPARALLELED! SEE 25 FANTASTIC ACTS NEVER BEFORE SEEN IN AMERICAl PERFORMANCES: WED. Oct. 161 7:30 PM THURS. 4 FRI.

(Oct. 17-181 4:00 8:00 PM SAT. (Oct. 19) 11:00 AM. 3:00 8:00 PM r- SUN.

(Oct. ZU a rm luts. (Oct. 22) 10:30 AM 8:00 PM WED. ft THURS.

(Oct. 23-24) 4:00 8:00 PM FRI. (Oct. 25) 10:30 AM 8:00 PM SAT. (Oct.

26) 11:00 AM. 3:00 8:00 PM SUN. Oct. 27) 1:00 8 5:00 PM city's embrace of its war. filing son: he was booked into Olympia Stadium, where the ncroustics and his sound system waged war.

Stevie himself said his concert stank, in less printable terms. Few who stood In the St. Rep's ballroom as Friday night became Saturday morningindeed, few who packed Olympia Stadium almost to Its rafters would have agreed with him. The sound system did Its treacherous best to toss out ear-splitting vocals and insftru-mentals like so many tennis balls. They bounced, attacking the ears many times more than once.

Nevertheless, Stevie transcended the trouble. His rich voice, oozing like so much honey, proved itself Invulnerable to the pitfalls of sleaey acoustics. Even when the ordinarily aoulful sounds of the three talented female singers that appear with Wonderlove, Stev-ie's road band, were turned into near-shrieks, Stevie Just kept flowing On this third stop in his 30-eity tour, Stevie showed the hometown folks that his boundless talents are spreading like a pool of oil and leaving the world with a healthy shine. ftE WAS SIMPLY dazzling, from the moment his brothers txA his little sister Rene brought him onstage until he quit, nearly two hours later, leaving the emotionally van-wished crowd stomping for more. Sievie played just about every kind of keyboard instru-m invented.

He moaned through sexily modulated harmonica. He enhanced the fjrettiness of "My i Amour" with his rippling piano accompaniment. And he did his own gritty version of a bump and grind with each of the three ladies onstage. And always, there was the rich voice singing "Higher GrQund," "Signed, Sealed, Delivered," "You Haven't Done Nothing," "Superstition" and oodles of numbers from his latest album, "Fulfillingness' First Finale," an album that was released July 27 and became a gold album only a few days later. The audience didnt want Stevie to leave the stage, and Stevie didn't want to go, el-ther.

Happy to be with the people he loved but feeling let down bv the concert, Stevie said afterward at the St. Regis that he still had lots of numbers to do when he had to end the concert 15 minutes beyond his allotted time. COLUMBIA ARTISTS FESTIVALS proudly presents THE MASSED BANDS, PIPES, DRUMS AND DANCES OF HER MAJESTY'S All Seats Reserved Tax Incl. $3.50 Fre PrM Photo by ALAN AMU DA Stevie Wonder receives a platinum copy of his latest album at a bash given by Motown Records president Ewart Abner, right, at the St. Regis.

That, plus the problems with come home again. It was an- ginaw, but his family moved the sound system, made him nounced Thursday when to Detroit when he was young, decide to come back to Detroit Mayor Young proclaimed Fri- and he grew up in a public as soon as he can (his man- day Stevie Wonder Day in De- housing project on Hastings. ager, Chris Jonz, says it won't troit, that all profits from the i.T, nrrincr i. iu. a PARTLY BECAUSE of his 1 Welsh Guards The SAVE $1.50 ON KIDS UNDER 12 TUESDAY thru THURSDAY FRI.

MAT. SAT. MORNING 4 Argyll and Sutherland TICKETS NOW ON SALE AT COBO ARENA HUDSON'S GRINNELL'S HEITZMAN MUSIC STORE. Windsor INFO. 224-1000 help the children of the city.

clATT 7. A. current tour)- Highlanders But those aren't the only Stevie was born Steveland reasons Stevie is anxious to Morris on May 13, 1950, in Sa- SPECTACULAR-SPINE TINGLING Rlngllng i Ballty Circus, Cobo Artna, 301 W. Jelferson, Detroit, Mich. 48226 Mom.

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Tickets: $6-5-4, Students Senior Citizens: $3 "1 i OCT. PJ Tickets: $6.50, $5.50, $4.50 Tickets Available at Olympia, sj ii' unnnen nuuson a oems. Group Parties Of nr Call 895-7000 Honored at Olympia if TICKETS ON SALE NOW AT HUDSON GRINNELL'S OR MASONIC TEMPLE BOX OFFICE MAIL ORDbRS ACCEPTtD FOR PETfcR NERO ONLY: 1. Write a request stating number of tickets and date. I 2.

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OCT. 13, 3:00 FORD AUDITORIUM, Det. DONATION: $5, $4, $3 Topic: "What Now. America?" Boi Office: oil J. I Hudson i Grinnell Christian Culture Series- 965 -0838 CKLW presents In Concert A UNIQUE THEATRICAL cuttm rM rm GORDON LIGHTFOOT Sunday, October 27th TWO SHOWS: 3:30 7:30 PM MASONIC AUDITORIUM Tickets: $6.50, $5.50, $4.50 Available at Masonic Aud.

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Skeptical I I 562-5050 rot free vwm.i MOFILESIOX 645DEARBORII. Ml. riWBmw wpSP 'fnir EVENT IS COMING TO DETROIT! "FANTASTIC! ONE Of THI MOST DAZZLING SHEERLV ENJOYABLE PRODUCTIONS OF SHAKESPEARE I HAVE EVER SEEN" tmmt. N.r. The National Theatre of Great Britain, acclaimed by Clive Barnei of the New York Times, as "the most accomplished in the history of the English-speaking theatre." is appearing in Detroit for the first time.

Clifford Williams, the brilliant director, actively encouraged and supported by Laurence Olivier, is responsible for the unusual approach to the popular Shakespeare comedy which recalls the sexual ambiguities of the Elizabethian Theatre when all roles were played by males. MKftTIQIAL tIAtRE OFEftEAT EBITftin IK CUFF8IB VIIUAMS Bf XAMELOT DINNER THEATRE MAIL ORDERS Send stamped, self-addressed envelope with certified check or O. to MASONIC BOX OFFICE, 500 Temple, Detroit, 48201 7 alive we iiSM "INI Mi Mi OH ZZ-TZ. MUMIIall Ml1 W1 1 Peris BJ MM 4 OPENING OCT. 4TH EVERY SAT.

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