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\7ariety Club Tent 4, Joe Simpkins. chief
barker, gifted the Boys Club of St.
Louis with a Variety Sunshine Mini-Coach
as a feature of the monthly membership
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EXHIBITORS!
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meeting held at noon Friday (7) in the
Zodiac Lounge of the Chase-Park Plaza
Hotel. Funds to purchase the coach were
donated by the International Brotherhood
of Teamsters, honoring general vice-president
Frank E. Fitzsimmons. Edwin Dorsey,
Tent 4"s Telethon chairman, made the presentation
to Boys Club president Harry Bussman
and Ken Wild, executive director.
The Goldenrod Showboat featured the
1921 original silent version of Valentino in
"Camffle" Mother's Day (9), followed by
W. C. Fields in "The Old-Fashioned Way"
and "Go Into Your Dance," starring Ruby
Keeler, Al Jolson.
Kelly.
Helen Morgan and Patsy
Unlversal's George Peppard starrer, "One
More Train to Rob," opened Friday (14) at
Creve Coeur, Granada, Ellisville, Grandview
and South County theatres to coincide
with Peppard's local personal appearance,
which closed his national tour to plug the
production . . . Anthony Newley and Buddy
Hackett appearing in their two-man show
for 13 days at the American Theatre closed
Sunday (16). Critics heralded the Hackett
segments as true "blue."
Mrs. Octavia Wheeler, wife of Al
Wheeler, retired manager of Arthur Enterprises'
downtown Ambassador Theatre, died
recently. The Wheelers had been living in
Atlanta, where their daughter also resides.
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Richard Roundtree, who portrays the title
role in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's "Shaft,"
will be here to attend the film's Midwestern
premiere Tuesday (25) at Arthurs' Fox I
Theatre. Roundtree and other cast members
will appear at all festivities planned
for the premiere, which benefits the Washington
University Renal Fund to aid in
overcoming the catastrophic results of
kidney disease. Edward B. Arthur is cochairman
of the premiere's fund-raising
committee, along with I. O. Funderburg,
executive vice-president. Gateway National
Bank. Tickets are on sale at all Arthur
theatres or by mail. Address orders to Renal
Fund, Washington University, c/o Fox
Theatre, 527 North Grand Blvd. 63103.
Harold Koplar, president of the Chase-
Park Plaza Hotel and KPLR-TV, Channel
11, was presented an award for "Outstanding
Service to Children" at the recent
Variety Clubs International convention in
Las Vegas. Nev., in recognition of his generous
donation of the use of his TV station
during the production of Tent 4's annual
Telethon Crusade for the past five years.
The presentation was made by Sir James
Carreras, chairman of the executive board
of VCI, and C. J. Latta, national president
of Variety. Funds raised locally by the 20-
hour TV benefit spectaculars have exceeded
$1,000,000. all used in support of children's
charities. Board chairman Carreras.
president of Hammer Films. London. England,
reported that the 52 clubs comprising
Variety Clubs International raised
more than $15 million for needy children
last
year.
Film stars headed for new TV series
next season include Rock Hudson, who will
star as the police commissioner of San
Francisco in a new NBC-TV series, "Mc-
Milland and Wife." which is one of three
alternating 90-minute shows comprising a
weekly entry called "Mystery Movie," and
Jimmy Stewart, who will star as a lovable
lush in a 30-minute weekly series on the
same network, in a major adaptation of
the play "Harvey."
"Love Story" in its 23rd week at Arthurs'
Shady Oak and Stadium theatres continues
to rack up boxofficc records.
May 24, 1971