Banner Graphic, Volume 10, Number 260, Greencastle, Putnam County, 8 July 1980 — Page 4

The Putnam County Banner Graphic, July 8,1980

People in the news

Miss Universe likes football. Carter

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) The new Miss Universe is a nearly-21-year-old blonde with blue eyes from South Carolina who wants to become a sports commentator and says President Carter is the man she respects most. Shawn Nichols Weatherly, a junior in communications at Clemson University, was crowned today after being picked over four other finalists in the Sejong Cultural Center. She won $28,500 in cash and looks forward to a year of personal appearances around the world. Her pro-football boy friend. Dwight Clark, wide receiver for the San Francisco 49ers, was in the crowd of 4,000. So was her father, realtor W A T. Weatherly of Sumter, S.C. ■‘lt’s great. 1 am so happy. I never expected to be chosen." said the new international beauty queen, who will be 21 on July 24, stands 5 feet 8 inches and measures 35-25-35. “It's great and it's good for her." said Clark. But he refused to predict what would happen to their romance, saying. “I will have to see after a year is over.” Entered in the contest as Miss U S A., Miss Weatherly was chosen from a field of 69 beauties who took part in the 10-day competition for the title of Miss Universe 1980. She looked stunned at the announcement of her win, and her eves filled with tears when last year's Miss Universe, Maritza Savalero of Venezuela, helped crown her to deafening applause from the crowd. She also had a cheering section made up of U.S. residents of Seoul and more than 20 state beauty queens who competed in the Miss U.S.A. competition and were invited to Seoul bv the Korean organizers of the Miss Universe event. Miss Scotland. Linda Gallagher, was runner-up to Miss Weatherly, while the other finalists were Miss New Zealand. Delyse Nottle. who was judged in third place; Miss Philippines, Ma Rosario Rivera Silayan, fourth, and Miss Sweden. Eva Brigitta Anderson, fourth. Television game-show host Bob Barker and singer Helen O’Connell were the masters of ceremonies at the program, which included songs by Donny Osmond and Miss O’Connell and Korean folk music and dances. The final was televised live via satellite, and the organizers said more than 600 million people throughout the world saw it. It began at 9 a m. local time so it would be received in the United States in prime evening time. • LONDON (AP) Catholic woman, would he be allowed to become king? That’s a question stirred up by recent press reports linking the 31-year-old prince with Catholic princess MarieAstrid of Luxembourg. There’s a law dating back to 1701, and still on the books, that removes from the line of succession any royal family member who marries a Catholic. And Northern Ireland Protestant extremists have claimed British officials told them recently that no change was contemplated in that law. A No. 10 Downing Street spokesman said the extremists’ claim was “rubbish.” And a cabinet member has said recently that the British constitution was flexible enough so the prince could wed whomever he choses. And the prince’s choice? Not a word about that. He and Marie-Astrid are not even believed to have dated, although they have met at official functions. • Gov. Ella T. Grasso of Connecticut has completed her radiation treatments, which she had undergone since cancer surgery on May 8. A spokesman for the 60-year-old governor said Monday that Mrs. Grasso had her last treatment on July 4 and she is feeling better and expects further steady improvement. The radiation therapy, which consisted of half-hour treatments five days a week, had caused Mrs. Grasso to suffer nausea and discomfort. Doctors who removed her cancerous ovaries said the radiation was a precaution often taken following that kind of surgery.

Screen legend Schary dies at 74

c. 1980 N.Y. Times News Service NEW YORK Dore Schary, who produced or supervised the production of more than 250 movies, including “An American in Paris.” “The Blackboard Jungle” and “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers,” died in his sleep early Monday at his Manhattan home. He was 74 years old. Schary had written more than 40 screenplays during his Hollywood career. After his contract as production chief of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer expired in 1958, he returned to Broadway, where he had been a bit actor and unsuccessful playwright more than two decades earlier, and wrote “Sunrise at Campobello.” The drama about Franklin Delano Roosevelt after he was stricken with poliomyelitis was one of the hits of the .957-58 season. His autobiography, “Heyday.” was published last January. He had also written “Case History of a Movie,” and “For Special Occasions,” about his family’s kosher catering business in the 20s. He was the director, producer or co-producer on Broadway of “The Unsinkable Molly Brown,” “The Devil’s Advocate.” “One by One” and “The Zulu and the Zayda.” and wrote and produced a documentary, “Israel: The Right to Be.” After his years at M-G-M, however, Schary devoted more and more time to voluntary community and human rights work He was New York’s first Commissioner of Cultural Affairs in 1970. He was also a leader of the AntiDefamation League, of which he was honorary national chairman at his death. This year, the league, a divison of B’nai B’rith, gave Schary its Haym Salomon Award for his “inspired contributions to artistic expression.” Schary. the rare Hollywood studio executive to express any opposition to the McCarthy-era blacklist, held firm to his position 30 years later when a small but vocal group called on the Motion Picture Academy in 1977 not to vote for the Vanessa Redgrave, a nominee for an Academy Award for acting in “Julia,” because of her involvement with a documentary on the Palestine Liberation Organization and her expressions of sympathy to the Palestinian cause. “It’s ridiculous,” Schary said. “We went through a period years ago in this industry when people were barred for their political opinions. It would be awful if we did it again ” Schary said that he himself would not sit in the same room with Miss Redgrave.

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They may have only temporary charge of the Executive Mansion, but Gov. Dick Thornburgh of Pennsylvania and his wife, Ginny, maintain that it’s home to them, and they have a right to have what they want on the walls. The Thornburghs are being accused of censorship because they said three photographs of nude women in an Executive Mansion photographers exhibit must go. There’ve been howls of protest, but the Thornburghs are sticking to their guns. “My w'ife and I believe in the arts and believe all artists have an inherent right to express themselves freely,” said the governor. “But we reserve the prerogative as a family to select items we feel are suitable to our home.” • Every so often, a Philadelphian named Les Waas, who bills himself as president of the Procrastinators Club of America, belatedly makes a statement about club activities. Just a couple of days late, Waas got around to announcing that the club’s annual Fifth of July picnic has been postponed until Jan. 20, but a site for it is yet to be chosen. “My goodness, it’s much too early to say where it will be.” Waas said, but he pointed out that one advantage of putting off the picnic is that facilities in January shouldn’t be too crowded. • NEW YORK (AP) Bob Gunton, who stars as Juan Peron in the Broadway musical “Evita,” has married a Brooklyn girl in a quiet ceremony that turned out to be almost as much reunion as matrimony. Performing the ceremony was the Rev. Frank DiSano, who was a classmate of Gunton’s at the Paulist Seminary in Baltimore, as was the best man, James Crabtree. Gunton said he decided to leave the priesthood training after three years because “the need to entertain couldn’t be suppressed. It might have been an interesting priesthood, but it wasn’t where I wanted to flourish. Nothing is worse than a lousy priest.” The Vietnam veteran says he hopes his new bride, the former Annie McGreevey, gets the opportunity to “explore her full potential as an actress. She’s extremely talented.” • MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) Although 23-year-old Donald W. Ladd tore his clothes to shreds as he sat in a city jail cell. Municipal Judge Wallace Clark ordered him to keep his court appearance stark naked. Clark said Ladd, from Seattle, was arrested Friday on charges of disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. When jailers went to Ladd’s cell on Saturday to bring him to court, they found his clothes in tatters. Since Clark’s courtroom and the jail are in the same building, which was nearly deserted Saturday, he ordered Ladd to show up, clothed or not. The judge set bond for Ladd at $1,500, got him a blanket and sent him across the street to the county jail, where he was issued a pair of jail coveralls.

Within a year after he had become production head of Metro in 1948, he had bought six stories dealing with racial minorities. His films comedies, dramas, westerns and musicals were distinguished for their story value and technique. Schary was born in Newark, N.J., on Aug. 31, 1905. He abbreviated his given name, Isidore, when he entered show business. His father ran a catering establishment. He left high school after a year and worked as a haberdashery salesman and buyer of china. He returned and completed the remaining three years in one. He became a reporter and feature writer, ran publicity for a lecture tour by Rear Adm. Richard E. Byrd and was an assistant drama coach at the Young Men’s Hebrew Association in Newark. The head coach was Moss Hart, who became the well-known playwright. In 1927, Schary got a bit part on Broadway in a play with Paul Muni. That summer he rejoined Hart at a summer resort in the Catskill Mountains, where they wrote, produced and directed skits and plays. His next bit part on Broadway was in “The Last Mile,” with Spencer Tracy. He wrote a play that Walter Wanger, the film producer, liked. Wanger wired his New York office: “Hire Dore Schary. She writes with a lot of vigor for a woman.” Schary was hired as a SIOO a week film writer, but his option was dropped after three months. In 1937, he wrote “Too Many Heroes.” Its Broadway run was two weeks. The next year, Schary won an Academy Award for the original screenplay of “Boys Town” for M-G-M. In 1941, he was named an executive producer at M-G-M. Among the films he produced were “Journey for Margaret,” “Bataan,” “Lassie, Come Home” and “Joe Smith, American.” In 1943, he joined David O. Selznick’s Vanguard Productions as producer. In 1947, Schary became head of production at R.K.0., where his films included “Boys Town,” “The Spiral Staircase,” “The Farmer’s Daughter,” “Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House” and “Crossfire,” a well-received drama of anti-Semitism that preceded the more well-known “Gentlemen’s Agreement” by several months. In August 1948, he rejoined M-G-M as production head. Movies he supervised or personally produced included “The Blackboard Jungle,” “Battleground,” “Bad Day at Black Rock,” “Executive Suite” and “Lust for Life.”

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