The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 20 July 1966 — Page 7

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Review

■y WILLIAM HIT-

Central Pram Writer

JUST BEFORE he was booted out as president of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah ordered a $47,000 bullet-proof auto from a. U.S. firm, it’s revealed. Guess Kwame won’t be driving' it— that’s a pretty expensive heap for a guy out of a job. e « i A Bollywood physician, who has many film folk as his patients, uses food as medicine. Bis piUs can’t be too hard to

take.

I ! ! The medico cooks up a spa* ciol all-vegetable health broth for his patients. Sounds like • hat ideal ! ! ! Zadok Dumkopf says it may be a coincidence, but he’s no-

ticed that ever since he bought some elevator company shares the stock market has been undergoing drastic ups and downs.

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A chuckle is a more pleasant sound than a loud laugh. Who ever heard of anyone chuckling bitterly t

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Grandpappy Jenkins says ha can remember 'way back when automobiles ware started with cranks—net driven by them.

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An old superstition of the turf, according to our sports editor, is that you’ll be lucky if you bet on the first horse you see when you arrive at the track. Even if it’s just a lead

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By Rick Du Brow

HOI iLYWOOD UPI—Why are primetime, massdirected drama series filmed in New York City a notoriously poor bet in television’s ratings competition ? Why do such series as “East Side-West Side,’’ "Trials Of O’Brien,’’ “For The People,” “The Reporter” and “Mr. Broadway” disappear almost as quickly as they appear? Some of these were poor shows, but

success in the ratings. Why is it inevitable that Hollywood is the production center of most series, and will continue to be as far as the eye can see ahead ? There are many pat, standard, obvious answers, of course. This town has the best technical facilities in the world. It is more adjusted to factory-line films because in Hollywood picturemaking is an industry. The climate is ideal—and was one of the reasons the first filmmakers settled here. And so on, and so forth. There is also, however, an essential point that I think tends to be overlooked: New York is historically a city

many poor drama programs j of minority and minority view-

points. whereas network television aims at the greatest possible majority audience and its

have survived longer in Hollywood. Even the much touted series” was only a moderate

attitudes. It Is Inevitable that there should be a lack of common interests in certain areas. It is also a most sad fact, because New York, being as compressed and compact and urgent as it is, often has many important and immediate things to say about key issues in these dramas—things that the rest of the country will soon have to face up to personally. Hollywood also has a large amount of workers representing minorities, many of them planted New Yorkers, but the powers of this town long ago settled, through the movies, on the mass audience. In a sense, too, this was inevitable, for while the densely populated East was somewhat forbidding for many newly mobile Americans looking for golden opportunity, the West beck-

oned. Into thin beckoning land of California came countless new residents, many of them from the Midwest, Southwest and South, bringing with them the majority viewpoints—or at least what Hollywood views as majority attitudes—of the heartland between the coasts. The East Coast- European influence has minor bearing here in day-to-day television, betraying the inheritance of the movie industry, which long ago recognized the genius and romantic contributions of many continental performers, directors and producers. For television here, there Is only a vast ocean to the West, with Hawaii the nearest hop-ping-off place, Asia out of reach for an intimate relationship—and therefore the most

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important influx in terms of in- more minority-minded audiencs

in the sense that video sets

fluence are the people from the heartland who settled here. It matters not to Hollywood television that America’s provinces are, through communications and urban development and extension, heading for extinction; that vast areas once isolated now are becoming parts of huge complexes of regions heading for eventual cosmopolitan inclusion. Or maybe Hollywood knows we are simply not as sophisticated yet as we think, despite the alleged cul-

ture boom.

Years ago, New York was a center of television drama— but at that time various factors were on its side. For in those days there was essentially a

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Fillmora News The supper and Bible School program, was very well attended Friday evening. Thera were over fifty children enrolled in the school and they presented a nice program. Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Gatt and family of Kokomo were . week end guests of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Borden. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Lang and Mrs. Esther Lyons were Sunday guests of the Bordens. Diana Grimes of Iowa, was visiting her grandmother Robbins, the past week. Mr. and Mrs. Werner Strewlow spent the week end with Mrs. Nona RouthThe Bible Study group met with Mrs. Mary Virginia Clodfelter Tuesday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Leon Myers were Sunday guests of Mr. nd Mrs. Orville Fosher. Mrs. Maude Brothers called in the afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Boiler and family, Mr. nad Mrs. Curtis Boiler and family and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Boiler and family visited Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Boiler Saturday evening. Mrs. Carl Borden and Mrs. Olive Baird attended the Ross Tustison Sale near Indianapolis Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Brothers and family were in Lafayette Park Sunday where Johnnie attended his Sunday School picnic. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Brothers attended their Sunday School Class homemade ice cream supper in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Marion Brattain, Saturday afternoon. Mrs. Mae Priest called on Mr. and Mrs. Clay Long and family in Crawfordsville Sunday. Mrs. Alice Keck and Mrs. Mae Priest called on Mrs. Velma Duncan in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Haltom in Crawfordsville, Mrs. Duncan, who is ill in the Haltom home is feeling better at this time.

WALL STREET

chatter

NEW YORK UPI — Bach# Co. feels that traders are awaiting what would appear to be an inevitable hike in the discount rate by the Federal Reserve Board and are being cautious until the move is made

and evaluated.

The company believes the booming economy counterbalances the monetary and military problems besetting the market and that it should continue to move in a narrow range until some of these uncertainties can be clarified.

Purcell, Graham A Co. eaya the market seems to be at the upper limits of a two-month consolidation period but shows no inclination of a broad upside move. Rather, the company believes further consolidation will continue followed by a decline which would bring a major bottom at heavy volume.

Goodbody A Co. feels that traders may have to study the uncertain money situation a while longer before making commitments of sufficient strength to absorb the tremendous amount of stock available in this market area. The inability of the list to penetrate the 900 resistance level of the Dow Jones average would indicate a further test on the mid May lows, the analyst fays.