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MOTHER-IN-LAW-TO-BE HELPS OUT—Julie Nixon, daughter
of Republican presidential candidate Richard M. Nixon, is
assisted by her mother-in-law-to-be, Mrs. Barbara Eisen
hower, at ribbon cutting ceremonies opening the Nixon-
Agnew headquarters in Lancaster, Pa.
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TV CAMEOS: Don Murray
‘The Outcasts' Will Tell It Like It Was
By MIL HEIMER
BILL COSBY has co-starred
in “I Spy,” Diahann Carroll is
turning up in her own show,
“Peyton Place” has dished up
black actors in sizeable, respec
table parts, and altogether tel
evision has come a far piece
from the days of tentatively of
fering a house Negro as window
dressing, on those series with
stories to tell.
It remains now for “The Out
casts,’' ABC’s new western
studding the 1968-69 season, to
tell it like it is. Or was.
“Nothing’s soft-pedaled in our
show,’’ says Don Murray, the
tall, enormously talented star
of the series. “The period is
four years or so after the Civil
War, and a lot of the country
was in an uproar over race re
lations. I play the part of a one
time slave owner, and my co
star Otis Young is a former
slave. Now and then I call him
’boy’ and he mutters ‘yes, boss’
at me—and there’s no attempt
to hide the strained feelings of
the day.”
Actually, Don goes on, the
situation then was as It is to
day in that there were numer
ous laws to give the Negro
equal time as a citizen “but,
just as today, many of them
weren’t in actual practice.” “A
lot of colored men went west,
just as Jemal—that's Otis’ ser
ies name—does,’’ he adds, "be
cause they had at least some
chance there to show their met
tle as men.”
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JEMAL and Earl—that's Don
—ride and scramble through the
west together with a kind of ;
bond between them, but no un
dying love. “They stick to each
other for survival,” Murray '
says. "They don’t completely '
trust one another, there is al
ways tension and now and then !
one leaves the other holding the j
bag. In cne episode where I’m
helping out Otis, I bark at him '
•Listen—our deal was for my
gun; nothing was said about
conversation.’ ”
There was a deep, almost 1
nervous interest on ABC's part
in how the black community I
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Otli Young and Don Murray are side by side here, but by
necessity. In "Outcasts,” they're not exactly soul brothers.
would react to Young’s playing
an ex-slave, and so one of the I
episodes was screened for a |
hundred West Coast Negroes,
ranging from church elders to
black militants. “Ninety-eight
of them approved,” Don says.
“There was one young militant
who got up and had a few com
plaints and his father, a church
man, got up and said 'Listen,
sen—stop nit-picking. This is
the first time I ever saw a
Negro cowboy draw a gun and
shoot a white cowboy.”
There is one other area of
controversy about “The Out
casts." Since it was a violent
period in American life, the
show has its share cf gunplay
and rough stuff. “But far as I ‘
know,” Don says, “nothing vi- ‘
tai has been cut from any of j
the first 14 shows that we've
taped. Which is as it should be, |
I think. It’s part of telling it, .
again, like it is.”
•The Hollywood-born Murray i
(his mother was a Ziegfeld girl)
Sat. and Sun., Sept. 21-22, 1968
is, of course, one of the most
| intelligent and multi-talented
I men in show business. He has
starred in many Broadway and
film plays, including “Bus Stop”
and “A Hatful of Rain,” and
wrote, co-produced and starred
in ‘The Hoodlum Priest,” a hat
trick he duplicates in “Tale of
the Cock," a movie with Linda
Evans that will be released
soon.
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YOUNG, from Providence, R.
1., has much less experience than
Don, but is a onetime Marine
who fought in Korea and has
done small parts on TV. He won
out over more than a dozen
more prominent Negro actors
for the role "because he went
right down home with the part;
he wasn’t afraid to play a
newly-freed slave just as he
would be,” according to Murray.
"Otis is a free soul, who goes
around cheerfully saying ‘Going
to star, going to star!’—and
you know? 1 think he's right.”