The Mail-Journal, Volume 13, Number 21, Milford, Kosciusko County, 16 June 1976 — Page 13

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Inchanted Hills Playhouse opens today with 'Oklahoma'

The Enchanted Hills Playhouse opened its doors for the summer season today (Wednesday) beginning its 14th season of

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music, comedy, and drama, with Rodgers and Hammerstein s musical favorite. "Oklahoma.” This all-time classic, the first

of the American musicals, opens with “Oh. What a Beautiful Mornin’ ’* and the music, dancing and laughter continues right through to the familiar rendition of the title-song, “Oklahoma”. Included in the musical are such favorites as “Surrey with the Fringe on Top,” “People will Say We’re in Love,” and *‘Eve(ythihg’s Up to Date in KansaSCity.” Fourth Season Rich Gossett ot Huntington, in his fourth season at the playhouse, will direct the production which runs June 16-19, 23-26. The play, set in the territory of Oklahoma on the verge of statehood, follows with love between the cowman Curly, played by T. Doyle Leverett and Laurie, by Sandy Beckwith. The conflict arises when the hired hand, Jud Fry (Gary Smiley) also professes love for Laurie. Characters Other well-known characters include Laurie's feisty Aunt Eller (Melissa Bailey) who knows how to auction off lunch hampers at the box social, as well as how to handle pesky traveling peddlers like Ali Hakim. Bill Martin. Also woven into the plot, is the involvemen, between the steer roper. Will Parker, Steve FTnklemeyer, and his bubbleheaded girlfriend. Ado Annie, who confesses that when it comes to fellows, she cain't so no. Ado is portrayed by playhouse favorite, Beck Borczon, in her third season with the theatre. Reservations and tickets are available by calling the playhouse or writing to P.O. Box 41 Syracuse. John Rinker buys OK Sales outlet on Chicago avenue John Rinker, owner of Rinker Boat Manufacturing Co. on Chicago avenue, Syracuse, has purchased a 3.5 acre tract and buildings from Owen Cobbum of OK Sales, located on Chicago avenue just west of the Rinker boat company. The sale occurred last week Larry Michael will operate his Pier and Boat Repair in the building and Rinker plans to use part of the facility for boat repairs.

r th * ■ k ACCOMPLISHED VENTRILOQUIST TO .APPEAR AT PICKWICK THE ATRE — Saturday, June 19, promises to be an exciting day for hundreds of children in the Lakeland area. With the cooperation of many local merchants, the Pickwick Theatre will present its annual summer free show. In addition to several Walt Disney cartoons on the screen, Dave, Dudley and Company take the stage to entertain in a live performance. Dave Garrison, an accomplished professional ventriloquist, has performed all over the country. Combining comedy, magic and enthusiasm. Mr. Garrison and his witty pals have been a tremendous hit wherever they appear. Free tickets for admission to the 10 a.m. or 1 p.m. shows may be obtained by visiting any of the sponsoring merchants in and around Syracuse. / O Mhr 4lp, - ■ A TLjy - H» * 1\ IN HAWMPS — James Hampton plays Clemmons, the green, desk-bound young lieutenant from Washington who is saddled with the job of “camelixing” an entire Cavalry unit of rugged but reluctant Horse Soldiers. "Hawmps" opens Friday at the Lake theater in Warsaw.

Mulberry Square switches from canines to camels

DALLAS — Mulberry Square Productions, producers of the phenomenally successful motion picture, “Benji,” are releasing their new family film, “Hawmps.” For a clue to the title’s meaning, producerdirector and Mulberry president Joe Camp says, “Think camels and Texhs accents.” “Camels have hawmps!” Camp says with a grin (and a legitimate Texas accent). Texas is the actual setting for the comedy-western which is based (very loosely) on a preCivil War army experiment wherein an entire US Cavalryunit was told to trade in their trusty steeds for a pack of Arabian camels. “That’s about as far as we follow the history books.” says Camp. “'With the help of Frank Inn’s camels, it sort of goes bananas from there Actually, the results of the real experiment very nearly turned the United States into a nation on camelback.” Hollywood animal trainer, Frank Inn, who raised the trained Benji from an animal shelter puppy to a ‘star’, trained the camels with the help of his head camel wrangler. Ray Chandler. The comedy follows Mulberry Square’s strict adherence to a Grated philosophy, but Camp is quick to add that ‘“Hawmps” is not the kind of picture most people think about when they say G-rated “In other words, it is not a ‘kiddie comedy’," Camp says. “If we’ve done our jobs right, anyone of any age who likes to laugh will love ‘Hawmps’.” The film stars Jim Hampton. Chris Connelly, Slim Pickens, Denver Pyle, Gene Conforti, Mimi Maynard and Jack Elam as “Bad Jack Cutter”. Also in the

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film are 15 adult camels and one trained cuddly baby camel named Valentine. A plus for Benji fans, the short subject, “Benji’s Life Story”, will accompany the release of “Hawmps". The short traces the canine star’s life from his humble beginnings more than 16 years ago. through his nine years on television, to his eventual rise to stardom and critical acclaim in “Benji”, one of the top-grossing family films of all time. “Hawmps” is a Mulberry Square production of a family film by Joe Camp. I •MISS PRINCESS PARLOR’ — Debbie Loeti, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jim Loeti of r 1 North Webster, has entered the queen contest at North Webster as “Miss Princess Parlor.” She is 18 and has blonde hair and brown eyes. She stands five feet, six inches tall and weighs 124 pounds. Her hobbies are water skiing and horseback riding.

Scholastic King of Bridge awarded The International Palace of Sports foundation announced its 1976 Scholastic King of Bridge award has been granted to the Bethesda-Chevy Chase high school of Bethesda, Md. -■ The award was made in honor of Warren Specter, a 1976 graduate of Bethesda-Chevy Chase high school for being the North American high school student graduating with the most master points recorded at the headquarters of the American contract bridge league in Memphis, Tenn. His master point total of 420.09 has earned him the title of 1976 Scholastic King of Bridge. His nearest competitors were Brian Glubock of White Plains. N.Y. with 396.35 points; Sidney Lazard of New Orleans, La. with 322.74 points; and David Mahler of Los Angeles, Calif, with 302.57 points. Ron Raber, executive director of the International Palace of Sports, has been advised by Dr. Thorton Loriat, principal of Bethesda-Chevy Chase high school, that the award was granted at their recent graduation awards ceremony to Gail Alexander, a psychology major. Spector was a honor student who hopes for a career as a mechical engineer or a physicist. Previous Scholastic Kings of Bridge who have received similar awards under the International Palace of Sports youth career awards program are: J. Merrill of Harley high school. Rochester. N.Y.; Jeff Meckstroth of Lancaster high school. Lancaster, Ohio; and Robert Levin of North Miami Beach high school. North Miami Fla. Theatre guild to hold open house for summer company The Enchanted Hills Playhouse Theatre Guild will sponsor an opening night party for the entire Playhouse Summer Company following the performance of “Oklahoma”, Wednesday evening (tonight), June 16, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Alfrey, Jr. Guild members have been helping the Playhouse in many ways such as distributing the posters of the summer performance schedule to local merchants for display, cleaning the theatre and living quarters, planting the ’76 flower bed at the playhouse entrance and gathering props. The guild was proud to present their theatre friends with a much needed water cooler for the theatre lobby and two flag sets for display outside. The Guild sees a great need for “new” furniture and carpeting in the living area of the Playhouse, and urges everyone in the community to remember to call the Playhouse before disposing of used furniture, carpeting, mattresses or working appliances. The next Theatre Guild meeting will be Thursday, June 24. at 11 a m. in the Playhouse. All members are urged to attend. Woody appointed MS representative Howard Gongwer, chairman of the Indiana Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis society, has announced the appointment of Carol W. Woody as field representative for northern Indiana. She will be responsible for administering patient services and for coordinating volunteer and fund raising activities in 27 northern Indiana counties. 200 YEARS AGO John Adams writes that Americans were “pulling down tyrannies like Samson and building up what governments the people think best framed for human felicity.” (National Park Service — CNS)

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•, f -i, * ■ '* * OPENS FRIDAY — Impostor Jan-Michael Vincent persuades Glynnis O’Connor that he’s a U.S. Marine combat veteran in "Baby Blue Marine.** The Columbia release, set on the American home front during World War 11, will be at the Goshen theater this week end.

'Baby Blue Marine' turns the clock back at Goshen theater

“Baby Blue Marine” was hardly the most endearing term to come out of World War 11. It signified that to the U.S. Marine Corps a man was an "official idiot,” who had washed out of boot camp and was incapable of joining the elite corps. That’s the inspiration for the new Columbia release, "Baby Blue Marine,” a dramatic love story starring Jan-Michael Vincent and Glynnis O’Connor opening Friday at the Goshen Theatre. Vincent portrays a Marine reject who masquerades as a combat hero, until the war catches up with him on a California mountainside. Miss O’Connor is the teenage waitress who falls in love with him. A Spel ling-Goldberg Production, the film was directed by John Hancock from a screenplay by Stanford Whitmore. The genesis of the script began in 1943 when Whitmore joined the U.S. Marines. As the seventeen year-old trainee was being processed in San Diego, he saw a bus load of rejects — “Baby Blue Marines” — who were on their way back home. “I felt sorry for them because they looked so very sad,” Whitmore recalls. “They were in essence emasculated. They ‘washed out’ of the Marines; ergo, they were less than men. That was the prevalent thinking in 1943.” “Baby Blue Marine” represents the portrayal of a vanished world —a world of right and wrong; a world where there was such a thing as a “noble war”; a world where a large percentage of Americans still lived in rural areas; a world where the » United States government was being run by men who had grown up on Andy Hardy movies. The first week of filming took place in downtown Los Angeles at the Hotel Hayward, a small auberge which is authentic to the period. The second week took place at Camp Pendleton, the largest U.S. Marine base within

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the United States, which serves as the marine recruit depot in the film’s opening segment. The next move was to McCloud, Calif., where the company spent four weeks. McCloud is a lumber town on the CaliforniaOregon border with a population of a few thousand. Nearby Mount Shasta served as an inspiring backdrop for those sequences. For the citizens of McCloud, the production of “Baby Blue Marine” was a kind of deja vu. Almost every street and structure in the community was repainted or altered to conform to its 1943 appearance (or hidden if that was impossible). Vintage Fords and Chevys cruised down Main street. Advertisements for gasoline at fifteen cents a gallon and steak at 23 cents a pound were posted, and truckloads of pleated and padded 1943 clothes were carted into town.

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