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Broadway
Is My Beat
By Joey Sasso
National Black News Service
Observations in Covering
The Night-Beat: Practicing what
he preaches is George Faison,
choreographer for the hit
musical, “Don’t Bother Me, I
Can’t Cope,” at the Edison
Theater, will be at Carnegie
Hall with his dance company in
June on the bill starring
entertainer, Josephine Baker.
And Isaac Hayes, who won
an Oscar last year for his
musical score of “Shaft” will
make his dramatic acting debut
in Dino De Laurentis’ “Two
Tough Guys,” in which he will
play an ex-policeman.
In conjunction with the
release of her new Capitol IP,
“I Know I Love Him”, Nancy
Wilson journeys to the United
Kingdom where she will make
several TV and nightclub
appearances. Her manager just
presented Nancy with a Schick
Super II for women shaving
system to use in her travels
around the world.
As we all know hit records
are hard to come by and when
you have one in your
possession we deem it a sin not
to take advantage of it. We are
speaking about Corinthian
Records artist, Al Spaulding,
with his release of “I Didn’t
Know From the Start” and
“Winning On the Losing End.”
If you get the chance, run and
pick up your copy.
Sammy Davis rented out a
movie theater the other night
to hold a private screening of
“Deep Throat” for a horde of
his best buddies—including pal
Roger Moore. After the show,
Sammy toasted the gang with
Teacher’s Scotch.
In a lighter vein, the June
issue of FORUM, the
International Journal of
Human Relations, explores the
sexual excitement some men
find in heavy women.
“InFATuation, What Makes
some Men plump for enormous
podgy women.”
It’s not usual for a movie
director to invest his screen
hero with the identical physical
handicap that he himself
suffers from in real life, but
that’s just what Melvin Frank
has done with George Segal,
who currently co-stars opposite
Glenda Jackson in Frank’s new
romantic comedy, “A Touch
of Class”, a Joseph E. Levine
and Brut Presentation for Avco
Embassy release.
Ever since Ben Vereen
copped that Tony Award
recently as Broadway’s musical
star of the year, he’s been
asked by associates and friends
if he feels different. “I haven’t
noticed anything,” answers the
singer-dancer of “Pippin”.
He recalls all those medals
taken as a quarter-mile champ
with the J.H.S. 178 track team
over in Brooklyn. “Winning,”
he told me, “makes you feel
secure-until the next race.”
Ben, after a slow start, has been
charging up the show-biz
heightswith rocket thrust for
several years “with my energies
flying off the walls.”
For a guy out of the
Bedfort-Stuyvesant ghetto, the
lean and smiling entertainer has
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managed to accumulate an
impressive galaxy of talent
spotters including Martha
Graham, Jose Limon, Sammy
Davis and, most of all, Bob
Fosse.
“He’s a beautiful guy who’s
been guiding my career all
these years even when I didn’t
know it,” says Vereen of the
latter. Fosse himself won two
Tonys as directo.
choreographer of “Pippin”,
followed by an Oscar for the
screen version of “Cabaret”,
Friendship didn’t abate Ben’s
instinctive overdrive when
preparation for his current
show began.
“I came into the first day of
rehearsal like a steam engine.
I’d learned steps and hand
movements and was all over
the place until Bob said,
‘Whoa, wait a minute. I know
you want to please me, but just
relax.’ And I’m still working on
that.
“Fosse came back to a
recent performance and told
me, ‘Lay back, lay back, trust
it.’” Which didn’t, of course,
prevent Ben from going into a
spontaneous jubilation jig of
triumph witnessed by millions
of TV watchers on the night of
the Tony ceremonies.
“Man, I made a liar of
myself before a national
audience,” the 26-year-old
dynamo grined,” after having
just sung a song about staying
cool and enjoying magic.
In the show, which is set in
the court of Charlemagne, Ben
plays a sleek modern interloper
to both audience and cast. The
whole Vereen career developed
accidentally. And now, the rest
is history
Jones High Augustan Makes
Concert 'Being First‘A Habit
The 100-voice Jones High
School Concert Choir from
Orlando, Florida, will present a
concert at Paine College in the
Gilbert-Lambuth Chapel on
Thursday night, June 21, at
7:30 P.M.
This widely acclaimed choral
group, as adept at dance
movements as with interpreting
musical passages, are in such
demand that they have
performed as many as 87
concerts in one school year.
Under the direction of Edna
S. Hargrett, the entire choir, its
four soloists and its ensembles
made “superior” ratings at
Florida District and State
Music Festivals - superior being
the highest rating possible.
The concert repertoire
includes spiritual, folk, popular
and classical selections with
various instrumental
accompaniment, piano,
trumpet, baritone, horn and
drum.
The public is invited to hear
this entertaining group at Paine
College, the last stop on a tour
which included concerts in
Maryland, Washington, D.C.,
and South Carolina.
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Mrs. R.K. Anderson and Mrs. W.L. Griffin
By R.L. Oliver the check to the Better Infant
The Woman’s Auxiliary of
the Stoney Medical-Dental and
Pharmaceutical Society
Society (WASMDPS) made a
donation of $ 100 to the Better
Infant Births (BIB) program,
Monday June sth.
According to 818 advisor,
Miss Charion Seegar, the 818
program is seeking funds to
maintain the program and
furnish food, medicine,
clothing, and baby diapers for
indigent infants of the
Maternal and Infant Care Clinic
- Medical College of Georgia.
Miss Seegar pointed out that
the program she advises is
sponsored by the March of
Dimes, and since they (MOD)
have already had their fund
raising drive, 818 cannot under
present guidelines. She says,
“We will have to depend on
other sources to raise funds for
us. This is why the Woman’s
Auxiliary of the Stoney
Society donated us funds.”
The Auxilary’s president
Mrs. R.K. Anderson, presented
N ot everyone can
truthfully proclaim that they
were a “first”. The first
aviator, the first open heart
surgeon, the first designer of
modern math, however for
specialist 4 Lloyd Wilson
Brown, being first is not new.
Specialist Brown, while he
was the Ist Battalion, 58th
Mechanized Infantry race
relations moderator for the
900 men plus of the BN,
originated, disigned, and
implemented Ft. Beening’s first
Black history course for the
men of his battalion. The first
class was held about 15 months
ago.
“I found out that the
brothers couln not identify
with their ancestral heritage
and accomplishments since in
their schooling and
environment they hadn’t been
exposed to it,” explained
Brown. “Through studying
Black history and culture, I felt
that the Blacks and other
ethnic groups would achieve
better racial understanding and
harmony.” His desire to create
apprec ; ’on and unity among
the sc s for one another
Births president, Mrs. Horace
Weston. Also in attendance was
Mrs. W.L. Griffin, Treasurer for
the Women’s Society group.
The Better Infant Births
program is the volunteer Arm
of the Maternal and Infant
Care Project (Torpin Clinic)
and University Hospital.
There are eight different
projects of the Better Infant
Births Program: The Stork’s
Nest, Operation Emergency,
Food Management, Play
Therapy, Creative Therapy,
Companions For Teens, (Big
Sister) Transportation, and
Social Services.
The program is dependent
on volunteers and the
volunteers select which project
they would like to work with.
The Woman’s Auxilary of the
Stoney Medical, Dental and
Pharmaceutical Society,
selected Operation Emergency
and the check for the $ 100 was
made out to this project.
Better Infant Births is a
statewide project.
lead to the establishment of his
course.
Since that time, Brown has
continued with “firsts’". In
February, 1973 he was the first
enlisted man tore turn from the
Department of Defense Race
Relations Institute, Patrick Air
Force Base, Florida and join
the 197th Infantry Brigade’s
Race Relations and Equal
Opportunity Office. As
co-member of the Bridgade’s
first race relations instrutional
team, he co-designed an 18
hour block of instruction
which will be presented to
every person in the Brigade.
“With this 18 block, not only
will the Black History course
be continued, but background
on other ethnic groups will also
be presented to the men.”
Lloyd Brown is a 1967 Lucy
C. Laney High School graduate
and has attended Benedict
College of Columbia, South
Carolina. He is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Grady Brown of
Augusta, Georgia. Lloyd is
married to the former Rosal
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Dr. Claud Young, President
of the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference
(Michigan Chapter) proudly
announces the 1973 “BLACK
EXPO” to be held at Cobo Hall
on June 15 thru 17, 1973. This
year the Exposition will
feature the famous Sesame
Street Players and Spectacular
Entertainment.
“BLACK EXPO” will
feature Black Businessmen of
the City of Detroit and the fine
corporations which have been
helping these citizens of the
Black Community. Dr. Young
has stated this year as being the
best.
Annual Exposition will be
bigger and better than evei
affording the Youngest and
Oldest Businessman in Detroit,
an opportunity to tell
Detroiters of their services,
manufacturing abilities and
products.
The entire Community is
endeavoring to show progress
that isbeing made daily for
Blacks in this City. The
important theme “BLACK
EXPO” now means People,
Pride, and Progress.
Engagemen t- A nnouncemen t
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Miss Rosa Ann Beard
Mrs. Rosa T. Beard
announces the engagement of
her daughter, Rosa Ann, to
Herman Lind, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Ernest Lind of Augusta.
Miss Beard is also the daughter
of the late Mr. Beard. The
wedding will take place August
4 at Antioch Baptist Church.
A graduate of Aquinas High
School, Miss Beard received a
B.A. degree in English and
elementary education from
Spelman College, Atlanta,
Staley of Wagner, South
Carolina. They have one
daughter, Shana Denise. The
Browns reside at 141 Sunset
Villa of Augusta, Georgia.
Spec. 4 Brown completed his
military service on June 8,
1973.
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Seated from left to right are Mrs. Alpha Westbrook, Mrs. Rosa Tutt, Mrs. Lucille
Latimer, and Mrs. Marjorie Carter.
Standing from Left to right are Mr. Leo Baker, MrS. Margaret Davis, Mrs. Viola
Evans, Mr. William Brown, Mrs. Hertha Blount, Miss Louise Ross, and Mrs. Janie
Lowe.
The above Laney teachers, some present, some former, were honored recently at a
banquet held by the 1953 graduating class of Lucy Laney High School.
Each honoree was presented a plaque.
Georgia. She is presently
teaching at the Mini Skools,
Ltd. Child Care Center in
Dekalb County. She is the
granddaughter of Mr. Gartrell
L. Tarver and the late Mrs.
Ollie Brown Tarver, and Mrs.
Lorine Beard and the late Mr.
James Beard, Sr. of Columbia
County.
Mr. Lind is a graduate of
Lucy Laney High School, after
which he served in the U.S.
Navy in Honolulu, Hawaii. He
is presently studying at Georgia
Institute of Real Estate in
Atlanta, Georgia. He is the
grandson of the late Mr. and
Mrs. Nathaniel Revere of
Crawfordville, Georgia and
Mrs. Emma Frazier of Augusta,
and Mr. Eddie Lind of
Baltimore, Maryland.
The Augusta News-Review - June 14, 1973,
Amvets And Auxilliary
Installation
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Installation Services were
held Sundav for Amvets and
Amvets Auxiliary Post 616.
Installed were George
Thomas, Commander; Allen
Brown, Senior Vice
Commander; Richard Johnson,
Junior Vice Commander;
James Jackson, Third Vice
Commander; James Young,
Adjutant; William Hobbs,
Finance Officer; Leroy
Dunbar, Provost Marshall;
William Haskins, Service
Officer; Charles McCann,
Public Relations Officer; James
Wooten, Hospital Chairman
and Chaplain.
Auxiliary officers installed
were Christine Goggins,
President; Frances Wooten,
Senior Vice-President; Susie B.
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Williams, Junior
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Treasurer; Rose Cummings,
Chaplain; Martha Franklin,
Sgt .-a t-Arms; Dorothy
McCann, Parliamentarian;
Fannie Young, Liason Officer;
Sandra Harley, Americanism
Chairman; Mary Bounds,
Hospital Chairman; Eva
Jenkins, Ways and Means
Chairman; and Juanita Haskins,
Public Relaitons Officer.
Also appearing on the
program were Mr. Harrison
Powell, Mr. Billy Candley
(speaker) and Mrs. Evelyn
Thompson and Mr. James
Thompson, installation officers
of the AMVETS Department
of Georgia.
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