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Celebration Os Life
“Save The Children” is
a celebration of life filmed at
last year’s Black Exposition
held in Chicago by Operation
PUSH (People United to Save
Humanity).
It’s an experience, a movie
that depicts the five days of
Expo presented in musical and
narrative form and leaves those
who have seen it inspired and
revitalized.
Paramount Pictures has
acquired the United States and
Canadian distribution rights to
“Save the Children”. The
movie premieres in New york
City on Wednesday, September
19 uptown in Harlem at the
famed 125th Street Apollo
Theater, and downtown at the
Criterion Theater.
“Save the Children” features
the musical talents of such
stars as Marvin Gaye (he opens
with the theme song), the
Jackson Five, the Staple
Singers, The Temptations, The
Main Ingredient, Isaac Hayes,
Bill Withers, Curtis Mayfield.
One of the highlights is
when Sammy Davis, Jr. appears
- just after he had embraced
President Nixon at the
Republican National
Convention. Entering to boos
from the crowd and needing
the Rev. Jesse Jackson of
PUSH to plead that he be given
a chance, Sammy proved his
worth as an entertainer and a
“man” by exiting to cheers and
sustained applause.
Other entertainers include
Roberta Flack, Quincy Jones,
Gladys Knight and the Pips and
Nancy Wilson and the Rev.
James Cleveland, among
others.
Also featured are such
personalities as Don Cornelius,
Ossie Davis, Dick Gregory,
Smokey Robinson, Richard
Roundtree, Kim Weston and
Bill Russell.
It’s an experience, watching
these on stage and the
hundreds of thousands who
came from all over for five
days and stayed in relays to see
the show starring the
headliners.
Producer Matt Robinson
describes the film as “the hours
when people rocked to make a
better world.”
It all started with Operation
PUSH, which in turn goes back
to Operation Breadbasket and
the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference.
Sponsored by Operation
PUSH, Expo each year is hied
at the Chicago Amphitheater,
three square blocks of
ex-cowbarn in what used to be
the old stockyard section,
which in 1968 housed the
Democratic National
Convention.
Marvin Gaye, who sings the
theme song actually provided
the title, “Save the Children”.
There’s a different theme each
year. “Save the Black Colleges”
is Expo 73’s theme. i.
Back in 1971, Executive
Producer Clarence Avant
approached Matt Robinson
about filming the acts at Expo
to get more mileage for the
benefit of Operation PUSH.
The question was who was to
do the financing. To avoid the
headaches of commercial
organizations, they finally
applied to the Ford
Foundation which came up
with , $750,000 for the
production.
“Not a grant,” Matt
explains. “It was a loan, it’s a
totally different thing.”
Matt Robinson emphasizes
the positive approach in “Save
the Children,” unlike that of
other rock films, leaning
heavily on the drug culture and
despair.
“Although it’s in a largely
Black framework," he says,
“by the time we got to the
segment at the end, where
Marvin Gaye is singing ’What’s
Going On?’ we turn to various
forms of international footage.
Using children all over the
world takes it out of a
monoracial concept, into a
very broad international
human concept, which is all
part of the same concept,
which is all part of the same
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“The film as it builds
generalizes from the specific.
It’s taking a specific instance of
the circumstances that present
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Isaac Hayes mesmerizes the audience with the boundless energy of his performing strenght in Paramount
Pictures’ “Save the Children”. The celebration of life filmed at last year’s Chicago Expo sponsored by Operation
PUSH brings together the greatest array of talent ever assembled in one place at one time.
Other top stars performing include The Jackson Five, The Temptations, Nancy Wilson, Roberta Hack, Bill
Withers and Ramsey Lewis.
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moves on to a situation which
relates to children throughout
the world”.
“Save the Children”, above
all else, is a celebration of life.
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The Most Beautiful Black
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Is Zeudi Araya the most
beautiful Black woman in the
world? “Yes!” say the editors
of Players magazine who have
selected her as cover girl for
the premier issue scheduled to
make its debut on he stands
October 9th.
“We expect a lot of
controversy,” says editor
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Wanda Coleman. “Almost
everybody has a selection of
their own and we might
develop this into an
international contest.”
Zeudi Araya is a 21 year old
beauty who won the Miss
Ethopia title in 1969. Her
reward, a trip to Italy, led to a
single movie role that made her
a superstar overnight. The film
was, The Giri With the
Moonlight Skin. Zeudi is now
the hottest property in Italy.
Her new film, The Black Wife,
is soon to be released. She is
being considered for a role in
the epic production of Kyle
Onstott’s Mandingo, with Peter
O’Toole.
Also in the first issue of
Players, is an interview of
Richard Roundtree, fiction by
Chris Wyse and Odie Hawkins,
a pictorial feature on Hustlers’
cars, articles on Scoring (Huey
Newton), Red China (Earl
Ofari), and Money Making
Blacks in Europe (Ollie
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Former
'Laugh-In’
Star Debuts
In Film
'Vampira’
Sultry Black American
actress Teresa Graves, who
scored a major success when
she appeared in Rowan and
Martin’s “Laugh-In” television
series, makes her motion
picture debut in a starring role
in “Vampira”, a World Film
Services Production for
Columbia Pictures.
Miss Graves, as Countess
Dracula, appears with top
international film star David
Niven, who plays the role of
Count Dracula, in the color,
wide-screen film produced by
Jack Wiener and directed by
Clive Bonner from an original
screenplay by Jeremy Lloyd.
A unique mixture of high
comedy and horror,
“Vampira” describes the
hilarious and macabre
adventures of Count Dracula in
present-day London when he
becomes heavily involved in a
string of beautiful girls, as well
as many other off-beat
characters.
Appearing with Niven and
Miss Graves are Jennie Linden,
Peter Bayliss, Nicky Henson,
Freddie Jones and Bernard
Bresslaw.
“Vampira” is being filmed at
EMI Elstree Studios, London,
and on various locations in the
London area.
Since appearing in the
“Laugh-In” TV series in
Hollywood for two years, Miss
Graves has made frequent
appearances in other top U.S.
TV shows. Niven, a star for
nearly forty years, won a “Best
Actor” Academy Award for his
performance in “Separate
Tables” in 1959. Among his
latest pictures have been
“Before Winter Comes,” “The
Brain”, “The Statue” and
“King Queen Knave”.
In- Service
Teachers’
Seminar At
Paine
The first session of an
eleven-week seminar for
in-service teachers of
mathematics, kindergarten
through sixth grade, was held
Monday at Paine College. The
group will meet in Room 104 of
the Walker Science Building
every Monday at 4:30 P.M., for
the next ten weeks concluding
November 19, 1973.
Registration will continue for
two weeks.
The Richmond County
Board of Education will offer
tenure credit and Paine may
grant one hour college credit
for participation in the seminar
which will be conducted by
members of Paine’s
mathematics faculty.
For further information call
the office of the Dean of
Instruction, Paine College,
722-4471.
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U.S. Navy Ensign, Ernest D.
Evans, (left) is pictured with
his recruiter Chief Clayton K.
Bizzell. Evans’ enlistment was
of an unusual nature. Ensign
Evans first applied for the
Navy’s Officer Candidate
School in March of 1972. He
was accepted for the program,
and while awaiting his class
convening date for Officer
Candidate School, he
“volunteered” for the Navy’s
Enlisted Recruit Training
which is not required of
applicants accepted tor
Commissioned Officer
Training. Evans stated that the
reason for this unusual request
was to find out as much
about the Navy’s Enlisted
Programs as possible, and to
see exactly what type training
they received at Recruit
Training Centers, prior to
being assigned to work under
Commissioned Officers such as
himself.
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days per week? If so, you are paying them more
than fifty dollars per quarter in wages, and you
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contributions for them. Your failure to do this
denies your employee his right to receive Social
Security benefits for themselves and their
dependents in later years. We urge you to obey the
law and help us to improve human relations in the
Augusta Area.
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shipboard duty until his class
convened at Officer Candidate
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Officer Candidate School in
May of 1973 after almost a
full year of training as an
enlisted man, and then as an
officer. Evans is now
attending the U.S. Naval
Supply Corps School in
Athens, Georgia prior to
Athens, Georgia prior to
returning to shipboard
assignment with the U.S. Navy
Fleet.
Ernest D. Evans graduated
from Hephzibah High School,
and received his degree in
Business Administration from
Augusta College. He is the son
of Mr. and Mrs. Roland Evans
of Hephzibah, Georgia.
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