. . MIAMI Yes, indeed}-, it's Steve and Eydie!" is the .'Ml .\boui Eve." "Dark Victory." "The theme for the PROPS 'fete-a-staf Letter" and "Whatever Happened to Bab\ iuncheon show this year, which is scheduled for Wednesday (27). Steve Lawrence and Jane?" Eydie Gorme will be the special targets of Miami Beach's super show gals who in past Miami attend Lakes the "Our ladies Fair have Ladies been invited Day" at to 9:.^0 each Wednesday at the Palm Springs years have given their love and musical comedy treatment to such greats as Milton Berk, Martha Rave. Sammy Davis jr., Totie Fields. Myron Cohen, Eva Gabor. Don Rickles and Jimmy Durante. Written by Patsy Abbott and Evelyn Rose, directed by Patsy and produced by president and founder Jerry Krugcr Pollak, the show will celebrate the 15th anniversary of PROPS. PROPS members will recall their early day^ when they launched the first "Jerri" award for "Entertainer of the Year." Among the recipients were Martha Raye, the late Belle Barth. Eleanor Powell and Eydie Gorme. The homecoming for Steve and Eydie, it is reported in the press, will sparkle with PROPS' well-known creed of "love, loyalty and laughter." Tickets are $35 per person. All proceeds will go to the PROPS cancer fund. The Southern premiere showing of "Kazablan," a musical motion picture filmed in Israel, recently began at the Carib Theatre in Miami Beach, the Dadeland Twin 1 to the music of Dov Seltser. As part of a coast-to-eoast lour, Bette Davis appeared in person and on film at the Miami Beach Auditorium Friday (22) in a program of film nostalgia. The evening began with film clips from 13 of her greatest movies, which were selected and narrated by John Springer. Her Academy Award winning performance as "Jezebel" and many of the films for which she received Oscar nominations were also shown. They were Lee ARTOE XENON RECTIFIERS SILICON Lee ARTOE XENON LAMPS (BULBS) Theatre in Miami. The Show, in its fifth year of operation, features live entertainment, prizes and a free feature-length movie. The seating capacity at the theatre is limited to 600, so early comers get the best seats. The doors open at 9 a.m. The Dixie Drive-In, 14601 South Di.xie Hwy., Miami, lends its grounds to the Palmetto Community Covenant Church every Sunday for "come as you are, stay in your car" worship services. The Rev. Walter A. Sheen, pastor, has said the drive-in services are not for lazy worshippers. "They have to get up a little earlier," Rev. Sheen said. He also pointed out that about 50 or 60 people attend the 45-minute prayer session at 9 a.m. each Sunday. He said many drivein patrons are "perhaps a little shy about going to a new church. They find it more comfortable." He also said people confined to wheelchairs who can sit in a car but can't make it to church come to the services often. The drive-in church started five years ago for Easter Sunrise services and the congregation in Miami and the Hallandalc Theatre in Hallandalc. Miami was picked a.s the second city in the U.S. to see the picture. Los has grown. The article concluded by saying, "So. as the late morning sun Angeles was the first. "Kazablan" is a modern-day bakes on the drive-in asphalt, the car doors motion picture in the tradition of close, the motors roar and South Dade "West Side Story" and "Fiddler on the worshippers are on their Sunday way . Roof." Produced in Panavision and stereophonic with a little religion under their seat belts." sound, the picture, which is released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, features more than LOOO singers and dancers performing > lee ARTOE Carbon Co ii^i'iftiffmiffifH^feiiaa ; 1243 Belmont Chicago John Scott, the Miami child who has gulped 100 hamburgers for a television commercial, is now making a film here for Poincianna Productions. "Of Gentle Hearts" is the title. John Scott, now an 11 -year-old. plays a farm boy. James Brown has joined Wometco Enterprises as supervisor of internal audit for the Miami based firm. Filmmakers Request to Film In Miami Courts Denied MIAMI—John Huddy. Miami Herald cnlcrlainmcnt editor, has a column on "Lenny." beginning his story when this new hot film property starring Dustin Hoffman and Valerie Perrine was lured to South Florida "amidst the usual drum-beating about the charms of Greater Miami as a film center." Huddy said Bob Fosse, the Academy Award and Tony winner, arrived to begin work and that almost immediately "the welcome mat was yanked from underneath the filmmaker—and hard." The Lenny company was denied both county and federal courtrooms for the crucial Lenny Bruce trial scenes. Huddy said this was a wholly unexpected blow, since courtrooms routinely are provided in other film centers. Huddy said the filmmakers began to pack and that after shooting the nightclub sequences, the company would return to Los .'\ngeles for the trial scenes. jr., In Miami, Chief Judge Thomas E. Lee who refused permission, was approached again and again refused to grant permission. In a letter to the "Lenny" company, Lee said he could not allow "Lenny" in the courtroom because it is too controversial and that "the acceptance by the public of R-rated films is a highly controversial subject open to much criticism from many areas." A "l^nny" spokesman said that although the film would be given an R-rating. there has never been an obscenity case made against an R-rated film in Dade County or in Florida. Huddy said that more recently Judge Lee has said the controversial nature of "Lenny" was actually a minor consideration, that even a Walt Disney film would be denied permission to shoot. "Film production would disrupt the court process and necessitate all sorts of problems, opening a Pandora's box," Judge Lee said. "We've had outsiders use our courts before and we come in the next morning and discover the courtrooms filthy." "I think the position of this court is that we are not in the business of encouraging filmmakers to come to Florida to make films. I don't think we want to set such a precedent. I don't think we're set up to handle that," Lee was quoted as saying. So "Lenny" went to neighboring Broward County, not to Los Angeles and for five days the filmmakers shot scenes in courtroom 481 of the 17th Judicial Circuit Court. Huddy said he asked Chief Judge John G. Ferris what happened and the judge said, "everything went beautifully. As a matter of fact they left the courtrooms much better than when they first got it. So much so. we're seriously thinking of using it as an actual courtroom again instead of a jury assembly room. That's how nice they made it look—staining the wood and redecorating it. They didn't disrupt anything." As to why permission was granted in the first place. Judge Ferris said, "We in South Florida have been trying desperately to bring in an industry, other than tourism, that would be a non-pollutant industry. This is exactly what we need. It is a nationally recognized industry and these people are the best in their field. All of us. whether in the courts, city hall or police department, have to exercise leadership and help attract this kind of an industry to our community." UAET Promotes Schreiber From Eastern Edition NEW YORK— Sol Schreiber has been named assistant to Joseph Kelly, vice-president in charge of construction and maintenance for United Artists Eastern Theatres, it has been announced by president Salah M. Hassanein. Schreiber joined UAET three years ago as assistant to the company's general manager. He previously had been associated for many years with Loews Theatres and had been director of TV operations for MGM for 14 years. SE-4 BOXOFFICE :: March 25, 1974
Paste this inside your medicine cabinet. Cancer's seven warning signals 1. Change in bowel or bladder habits. 2. A sore that does not heal. 3. Unusual bleeding or discharge. 4. Thickening or lump in breast or elsewhere. 5. Indigestion or difficulty in swallowing. 6. Obvious change in wart or mole. 7. Nagging cough or hoarseness. If you have a warning signal, see your doctor American Cancer Society March 25, 1974 SE-5
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