KRLA Singer-Poet Older SHOW TIME O , . Stars film Flan Man— 1:00, 5:0», NTERTAINMENT Gun in'the'w*! E Don'l Ju»l Star* There • . PAGE C-6 PASADENA, CALIF., SUNOAY, JUNE 30, 1968 Forgotten I Ihe NI«iil-iJ:».«»l 10:00.. «"> 1000 Clows-a:», C'siundA<i|lMuik-l:00, 10:00 By Vernon Scott «min, DinMr-!:1S, 3:10, 5:25, llttitlit It was Long John Silver in Gun in lh« West-l!:30, «:»3, "Treasure Island" who raised 'Maine'Delights'Em pin'l "iis'l Slo'ii* Tner«-J:lJ, s:ti, r.n his crutch and railed at the CREST MONROVIA . The Forty enemy: "Them that die'll ibe No Way To Trial a Lady EL MONTE the lucky ones!" Plonet of the Apes The rascally mutineer of Flim Flam Man Robert Louis Stevenson's clas- YOiimbo—J:10, 5:20, 7:31), W sic might well have applied Shorl-3:00, 5:05, 7:1S, J:B , At Civic Light Opera HASTINGS Happiest Millionaire his warning to.today's motion Russians Are Coming picture stars. °Con't from 12 Noon to Midnloltl There are fewer dispiriting RIALTO sind>ehhles--l:00, 5'M, 10:00 sights than yesterday's idols. Two of Broadway's top No way to Treat a Lady—3:30, 8:oB You and I go about our musical shows are currently STATE work in anonymity. The hot drawing large crowds of en- Bedazzled' """ shot insurance salesman re- thusiastic theatregoers to the STARL^TE^ R^ tires contentedly to fish. The Music Center for what many FontasTc voyage arc welder may end up with a have voiced as one of the fin- Scalphunters—1:10, 5:01, 8:52 est seasons of summertime Will Penny—2:sr, 6:48, 10:3! chicken ranch, the bus driver UPTOWN thealre entertainment in Ihe Harry Frigg—1:1S, 4:55, 1:40 at a retirement community Matter or Innocence—3:10, 6:50, 10:25 playing shuffleboard. history of the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera. NEIGHBORHOOD THEATRES .* Angela Lansbury in her ori- "6uoss"wr7o's'cominALHAMBRA (Main agl Atlanticto"bmni)r I M I I1 But you and 1, the sales- ginal Broadway role of "Auntie CEN $$ (W ! B! Tui,o») man, welder and bus driver Mame," in the musical version sound ;! Music were never beloved by hun- of the famous stage play, C1SBSJS!MID '*"""'"" R dreds of millions of persons in "Mame" joyously romps TWpL *(T.mpii city) our lifetimes. through situation after situa- scaiphunters Ttie Party Our faces are unfamiliar tion in her hectic free-wheel MONTEREY (Monterey Park) Heat ol the Night except to a handful of friends ing social whirl 'to educate her Good Bod and Ugly and acquaintances. young nephew Patric Dennis CAPRI But consider the movie and in the ways of the world, at the SAN GABRIEL DRIVE IN television stars. Pavilion of The Music Center. Shakiest Gun in the West Across the Music Center Don't Just Stand There What happens when they EDWARDS DRIVE IN outlive their stardom? Some Plaza, Hie Ahmanson Theatre (Peck Rd. s Live oak) : Sweet Ride gracefully accept retirement. continues to pack 'em in at Fantastic Voyage "Cabaret," the musical block- AZUSA FOOTHILL Examples: Irene Dunne, Guess who's coming to Dinner Claudelle Colbert, Jimmy buster about the pleasure A Place To Stand loving Berliners in the jazzy EL REY (Alhombro) Cagney. Planet of the Apes Len Chandler at KRLA They are Ihe exceptions. era of 1929-30, Flim Flam Man Others become drunks, drug Signe Hasso, TJEO Fuchs and Melissa Hart head a large cast addicts, suicides, mental that features Robert Salvio, cases or public spectacles. Gene Rupert, David Rounds, One leading man of a de- and Catherine Gaffigan. cade , ago is under constant In a manner of speaking 2314 E. COLORADO Len Chandler FREE PARK • SY 3-4330. HU 4-1147 care of a male nurse, a hope- bolh "Mame" and "Cabaret" less alcoholic. He's unable to represent Broadway moved to MATINEE DAILY work or function as a human OPEN 1:00 P.M. Los Angeles. *wNyx^ys^~*^>**««**> being. In preparation as the final His face is used up. PAUL NEWMAN event of the current Civic "THE SECRET WAR OF Sings the News Light Opera season is "Rosa- One of the *leading glamor HURRY FRIGG" linda," starring Jean 'Fenn, Also girls of World War II waits at Cyril Ritchard, and Hans Con- HALEY MILLS By Bill Yaryan home for the telephone to ried with the Wiere Brothers, 'A MATTER OF INNOCENCE" t Len Chandler, KRLA's learn the guitar, Van Ronk met Chandler in Mississippi ring, hoping it's her agent or Dinah Shore scheduled to open Sept. 3 in even a man asking for a date. the Pavilion. ; "staff s i n g e r-poet," first sang for the children at St. where he was filming a docu- NOW XT Ml Still another once great 1&&jPV^^*C™&*&to^&^*& 1 wrote made-to-order verse Barnabas House where Chan- mentary, "What Shall the J- when, as a sixth-grade stu- dler was a counselor. Harvest Be," which eventual- beauty roams from country to l cjent in Akron, Ohio, he "In the beginning I went ly included three of his songs. country, continent to conti- • p~$nned a love Jetter for a through a period of trying lo He told Chandler about his nent, in a relentless escape Dinah Shore '.NATIONAL GENERAL CORPORATION^. ; friend at the bargain base- be Leadbelly," Chandler said, ideas for a subjective, crea- from hersell. At least among VfiSpfiy WISTCOASlt foreigners she is spared the VSI r U A THEATRES•? « ment price of 25 cents. "a black sharecropper insteid tive news format and two pity evident on faces that '. "It worked,; • loo," remem- of a kid from. Akron." years later, when the idea fi- : once worshipped her as a sex Cooled by Refrigeration ": bers Len, th'e "first resident Singing at the ;Gaslight Cafe nally bore fruit, he called him I singer hired'by<a radio station on Macdougal Street, where in New York and invited him goddess. Keeps Busy OPEN 12:30 A headline reports the death £ in 20 years. "He married the Peter, Paul and Mary, and to be KRLA's singer-poet, a Charlton Heston I girl in the twelfth grade.'1 other singers got their start, position the union couldn't of a one-time star as "acci- PKtDEM dental overdose" of drugs. Dianah Shore a coloratura? "Well, hardly," the colorful WALT DISNEY'S ACADEMY •[ KHLA, situated in a bunga- Chandler concentrated on tra- even find in its book (they entertainer set the record straight with a laugh. "Just be- 'r. low next""tO"the Huntington- ditional material. But being a settled on calling him a disc The story comes from a "The Happiest lOBEColljadoBI friend or a family doctor, cause I plan to sing with some fine symphony orchestras • 79R.3IU: "Sjieraton Hotel, "hasn't been classically-trained composer jockey). this summer doesn't mean I'm about to hit the scales. I'm t|e same since Len's songs, who had also written music sometimes a member of the Millionaire" * family. But it is stretching the not at all like that mountain climber who lias to scale Mt. at well as humorous skils for musical comedies and Everest just because it's there. I'm more the terra firma plays in school, it was not Two days after arriving in truth. Such deaths among based on tiie day's events, be- kind. I'll stick to what, I know." came a part'of the station's long before he began to write Pasadena, Chandler was stars are rarely accidental. And what Diiiah knows is quile considerable—chiefly "The Russians DOORS OPEN I2M5 newscasts a month ago. his own songs. handed his biggest challenge. Those stars who see the end that a girl has to move perpetually to keep up with the Tt y rnnam "The first topical song I "I was home when I heard of their careers sometimes Are Coming" PISAOENH / TH!SWEE" T * that Kennedy had been shot," prolong their public lives changing world. Accordingly she's stepping into new pas- Chandler, 33, was an initia- ever wrote was called 'Bus STATE / " he explained, "and I immedi- through surgery. tures, having long since conquered the recording, television PRICE MON. NIGHT;! TJOE.ColonJoBI / -RIDS" lor and guiding light of the Driver,' about an accident in 51.00 PER CAR LOAD 792-7139 / Msa Greely, Colorado, where 20 ately returned to the station and night club fields. lopical song movemenl which "I'm going to start the concerts at the University of - .- . / llacicici Wcir.ll In kids were killed. I saw Ihe and began writing a song." grew out of the folk music re- The result, "Circle Game," Tennessee in Knoxville on June 25," she points out. "The vival in the early 1960s, and story in the newspaper and Face lifts are commonplace * PACIFIC * is superb: among both male and female last time I was Ihere was when our learn at Hume which included such other wrote the song that same day, Fogg High School in Nashville traveled there and I went DRIVE-CMS singing it that night at the performers. Hair transplants singer-poets as Bob Dylan, "Let us grieve for all men along as cheer-leader. But I hope nobody looks up those SO. PIISIDEIU Tom Paxton and Phil Ochs. Gaslight. When I finished the who are felled by the vio- rejuvenate the receding hair- line.