Register And Post-Herald, Weekender A TViewer, Beckley, W. Va., Saturday, March 20, 1965 THREE Cover Story... TV Cameos... 9 Fans Of Beatles 'Flame Proves Strong Juliet Prowse Headed For Video Send Odd Gifts By EDDY GILMORB ABC Afternoon Show LONDON (AP) — "Could you Flame In the Wind producer curious to learn far hi advance By ID MISUMU. tell me, please," asked the Joseph Hardy — whose creative of airing what sort of tribula- The slender, gamin-faced girl sipped coffee aa voice, "which of the Beatles is efforts helped to move "Love tions are hi store for her. But •he sat at long table in a bare rehearsal hall on the most ticklish?" of Life" into one of the top- the directors and writers treat New York's West Side. The setting- was grimy "I don't know," replied Betti- ranking daytime serials — has future story lines line top secur- and uninviting, but it didn't seem to bother her. na Rose, "I've never tickled definite ideas on how to make ity information. '1 like tacky rehearsal halls like this," she said, them." "Flame" a strong entry hi "They deliberately keep me waving a hand gracefully about. "For some rea> Miss Rose, 21, is one of four ABC-TV's lineup of afternoon hi the dark. When I ask ques- •on, I work harder in them." young women who run the Lon- entertainment. tions, they just look at me Then her voice took on a note of quiet satia- don fan club of the mop-headed "With most new serials," says mysteriously. Apparently they faction. "This has bean a marvelous year for millionaires. She was answering Hardy, "it takes months to build want me to approximate life as me," continued Juliet Prowae, curling a long, one of the thousands of tele* up audience awareness. The it is, appear to be living it in leotard-covered leg beneath her on a folding phonic queries that pour into the story usually doesn't begin un- the here-and-now, totally oblivi- chair. "It has been a battle, but it has paid off. club every day. folding until long after each of ous of what's coming. "Oh, we get all sorts of crazy the characters has been intro- "I like the woman I play. I "I just learned that we sold our TV series questions," explained Miss duced. find Kate to be a woman with and I'm thrilled over it. It is scheduled to go on Rose, "somebody called up "I deliberately shortened this a strong character. She is a the NBC network in the fall on Thursdays in yesterday to ask whether the traditional build-up period with person who has definite opinions the 9:30 to 10 p.m. slot This is a different boys wear their toenails long." new serials by concentrating on and human feelings as opposed medium for me and I'm looking forward to Instead of discouraging tele- themes that move quickly from to most serial heroines, who are July when we start shooting the shows that phone calls, the London fan club event to event. usually resigned to their ever- follow the pilot film. Almost everybody hi encourages them. "Also, it seems more realistic lasting miseries." Hollywood aeema to think of me principally aa "It makes it so much easier if to me that characters be intro- "THAT'S where I come in," a dancer and this will be my opportunity to get they telephone," explained Miss duced to the audience in the interrupts Maggie Hayes, who out of that mold." Rose. "As it is, we receive 750 same way people in life meet plays Roxanne Reynolds. • • • • to 1,000 tetters every day, and one another — slowly. . . "The story calls for me to play BEFORE LEAVING for Hollywood, Juliet la nearly all of them are an- "But the success of any serial a wife unloved by her husband scheduled to break in her new club act in swered." or any television production, for and dominated by her father. Framingham, Mass., move or. to the Plaza in Some go unanswered? that matter, rests in the hands "My father, by the way, holds "Oh, yes. We can't deal with the string that moves all of us New York City in April and then to the Fla- of the actors or actresses. mingo hi Las Vegas. In addition, she will make the love letters and a lot of the "Here, again, when I began hi the story — he's the fabulous- letters are love letters." to audition, I knew I wanted ly wealthy owner of the publish- appearances on "The Ed Sullivan Show" on How many telephone calls one of the strongest casts ever ing company from which we hi April 4 and May 9. docs she and the others handle a assembled for a daytime show the town receive our living. Her film career, too, la on the upbeat. Before day? in terms of acting experience "I truly love my part in the beginning rehearsals for the club act, Juliet "Oh, goodness, I just wouldn't . . .names and-or faces that show. For the past few years, completed a straight dramatic role in "Who know. They come in by the would be familiar to our tele- I've taken time out of my ca- Killed Teddy Bear," a movie which was shot on thousands." vision audience. reer to raise a family and am location in New York. She co-stars hi this with 'The fans don't actually ex- "AND I'VE got 'em. Maggie delighted to return to work hi Sal Mineo. She haa alao appeared in two other pect all of their letters to be an- Hayes, Lenka Peterson, Kath- a show like 'Flame.' zUrna recently which are still unreleased. One, swered," she said. "We put a leen Maguire, Jacqueline "It's the first serial I've ap- "Dlngaka," WAS shot in Africa; the other, note in the Beatles magazine Brookes, Roy Poole, Walter Coy, peared in, and it gives me a Which hasn't been titled yet, was filmed by an saying we were sorry but the Richard Thomas, Frances Full- chance to into practice a Italian company at Cape Kennedy, Florida. boys couldn't possibly answer er, Morgan Sterne, PLUS a philosophy I've long professed 1 all the mail they get." — an actor's work is acting." Her forthcoming TV aeries, according to Shapely Juliet Prowte (S feet, 7i/t Indies In Hate) number of new and refreshing Juliet, is a situation comedy called "Meet Mona and Sceft Miller (4 feet, 4 Inches) In a tender mo- The Beatles have fan clubs in actors ideally suited to their McCluskey." In It ahe plays a movie actress merit In the TV pilot Mm "Meet Mena McCluikey." 40 countries. roles — Gordon Gray, Barbara who la the wife of an Air Force sergeant who Tiie London dub is the bfg- RodeU and Margaret Ladd." Is stationed in the Los Angeles area. "My bus* Juliet shifted to the field of modern dance gest. "We have about 70,000 Flame In the Wind is the band is Scott Miller, a former pro basketball and soon landed a role hi the London-based pro- members," said Miss Rose. story of a young widow, who, duction of the motion picture, "Gentlemen Membership costs 70 cents. For returning to her husband's boy- player," ahe added, "who stands six feet, four. That's wonderful for me, for I'm five feet, seven Marry Brunettes," which was choreographed by this the Bcatle worshipers re- hood home, finds that the town Jack Cole. Later, when he returned to London ceive a printed letter from the and its inhabitants reflect alarm- and a half inches hi flats. • • * to do the stage production of "Kismet," he hired boys, a membership card, a ing frailties and distorted regular newsletter and a special "ANOTHER thing about the aeries that Juliet to dance in the chorus. When the lead values. dancer was forced to withdraw, he offered the gift twice a year. Partly in devotion to the ideals pleases me Is that m be able attend ballet Last Christmas the gift was a of her husband and partly hi classes regularly. While I'm on th« road with an part to Juliet and she held it for the next 20 months. recorded message from the her attempt at self-fulfillment, act, this is impossible. Attending classes reg- Beatles — John Lennon, Paul she writes a novel exposing the ularly will give me an opportunity to get back Later, she teamed with two male dancers and McCartney, George Harrison town for what it has become. in shape technically. Performing alone just toured all over the the Continent. During this and Ringc Starr. The next Bca- Her townsmen, family, and keeps you in shape physically, but not techni- period, she met Hollywood choreographer Her* tle gift will be in May when the friends, fearing its revelations, cally." mes Pan. Months later, he sent for her when members will receive glossy bring pressures to play on her Ballet has been an integral part of her life Barrie Chase vacated the proposed role of pre- photographs of their idols. in their attempt to prevent pub- miere danseuse in the film, "Can-Can." After lication of the book. since she was a youngster. Born 27 years ago in The London fan club, organ* Kathleen Maguire, who plays Bombay, India, Juliet moved to South Africa testing for the role and getting it she signed a ized and subsidizd by the Bca- with her mother and brother three years later seven-year contract with 20th Century Fox. tle management, is highly effi- the novelist, Kate Austen, sees cient. the character as hard-hitting but when her father died. She received her first Following her appearances in a number of nonetheless a "conservative formal dance lessons at four. Ten years later, films, Juliet bought up her contract. "They were "You'd be surprised at the she starred with the Festival Ballet Company presents the fans send in to the gal" putting me in such terrible films," she ex* boys," said Miss Rose. "We get "When I first began the role," in Johannesburg. At 17, she left for I.ondon to plained, "that I wanted out. It left me pretty continue her studies. It was there she dis- all sorts of things — shirts, she says, "I thought viewers broke and in debt for a whtle, but I feel it was sweaters, ties — even kittens might find Kate Austen rather Sunday Guest covered that companies like the famed Sadler's worth it. And the way things have been going duu. But that notion proved in- Lesley Ann Warren, who and puppies." Wells considered her too tali for classical forms for me in the last year, X now know it was The boys never sec — much correct. Kate gets gossiped recently played the title role of the dance. worth it." about a-plenty. In fact, in the in the television production of less receive — some of the first week of the show I was "Cinderella," is a guest star presents. accused of being a 'scarlet' in "Dangerous to the Public "That would be impossible. woman and was kissed by an Peace and Safety," story There are just dozens and doz- unhappily married man.' about an emotionally disturb- ens of them," said Miss Rose. KATHLEEN admits she's ed Uller, on "For the Peo- Many of them end up in in hos- ple" Sunday, (9-10 p. m., EST) pitals and orphanages. on the CBS television net- The telephone calls build up in work. volume from early morning. "I'd say the peak period is 'Novak' Episode between 4 and 5 o'clock in the Welk's Melodies afternoon," said Miss Rose. Melodies with the flavor of "That's when they've arrived Has Class Riot springtime will highlight "The home from school. My, but the lines get hot then." A riot erupts in the Jefferson Lawrence Welk Show" tonight High gymnasium during a featuring the return of guest Telephone calls come in from championship basketball game performers Natalie Nevins, so- many parts of the world, quite a between Jefferson and its arch prano, and nine-year-old pianist few from the United States. rival, McClain High, in "Honor Steve Warner (ABC-TV, 8:30- "We've had none from Tibet and All That" on NBC-TV's 9:30 p.m., EST). or Red China, though," laughed "Mr. Novak" series Tuesday, Miss Nevins sings "Oh, What Miss Rose. "Yes, we've heard (7:90-8:30 p.m. EST). a Beautiful Morning" and young from Moscow, by letter though, Aware trouble is likely to Warner and his teacher, Cham- I think." happen because of unusually pagne Music Maker pianist Bob high pre-game spirit, Mr. Wood- Ralston, will present a special 12 O'CLOCK HIGH ridge (Burgess Meredith) or- arrangement of "Easy to Re As General Savage loses his jders Mr. Novak (James Fran- member." temper, conniving Capt. Tony Uiscus) and an other male Champagne Lady Norma Zim- Kemp gets an idea for having teachers to attend the game as mer sings "It Might as Well himself and the others in the peace keepers. But wheni a be Spring," accordionist Myron crew interned in Switzerland for Jefferson player is injured, Floren plays "Springtime Pol- the duration, on "12 O'clock ka," and pianist Frank Scott High" Friday, March 26 (ABC someone plunges the gymnasium TV, 10-11 p.m., EST). Into darkness and they are help- offers "Rhythm of the Rain." 1 less to stop the ensuing melee. Norma Zimmer and Jim Rob- In "Mutiny at 10,000 Feet, Beau Bridges guest-stars as erts "Springtime in the 'Lucy is Victim Of Hidden Camera Gag Kemp attempts a campaign to Jaytee, one of the Jefferson Rockiesrl««»"» Ias their duet, Barbara Lucy (Lucille Ball) discov- gram, on "The Lacy Show" operators Dick Patterson (left) make it appear Savage is crack- students who mcSe. th-T riot Boyland and Bobby BurgeM ers that ihe's the victim of Monday, (&-9:30 p. m., EST) and Tommy Farrell and cam- ing up so that he can relievo Michael Pollard guest-stars as dance to the rhythm of "The a beauty-parlor gag for * hid- on the CBS television network. eraman Bennett Green, the him of command in mid-air and Jaytee's friend, Gogo. Rain in Spain." den-camera television pro- When she turns on beauty •park* really fly. fly out of the war.