Show Login Utah Monday June The Herald Journal— 3 12 1972 Was First Black Lead Star Had Hairy Beginning Melba Moore's only distinction on the afternoon of March IS 1970 was the fact that she had previously taken over as the first black lead in the rock musical “Hair" But sometime between 1:30 and 11:00 that same night as Lutiebelle in the Broadway hit ‘Purlie" she produced one of those- - special goose-hum- p moments that occur now and then in a Broadway theatre And she went home a star Pigtails swinging and cotton (kess starched she had simply slipped from a rocking chair and belted the song “I Got Love” frame in the from her midst of “Purlie's" opening Saturday 9 pm on KSL 5 Miss Muon's show business career which gained momentum in “Hair" where she started out as a lead singer and skyrocketed in “Purlie” the musical version of Ossie Davis' Purlie Victorious" had its beginnings in a New York recording studio After receiving her degree from Montclair (New Jersey) State Teachers College and teaching for a short time near her parents' home in Newark she worked as a background singer for records "I found that teaching wasn’t for me” she explains “I had to performance— she was im- get away and see if I could make mediately victorious winning a something of the talent I thought n major awards in- I had Everything seemed to be cluding a Tony as best sup- happening in New York so I moved" porting acrress of 1970 “I'd always dreamed of During those something like that but it days she put together an act and happened all at once” says the worked in the Catskills singing former music teacher from what she refers to as "nice safe Newark NJ who is “realizing songs and things like 'Sumanother ambition” as one of the mertime' to show off my legit title stars of "The Melba Moore-Qifto- n voice" It was during a consequent Davis Show” premiering half-doze- recording session that she was asked to audition for fhe “Hair” role But it was Lutiebelle the beguiling soulful character she played in “Purlie" that seemed specially tailored for the small girl with the huge voice From Lutiebelle whom Bliss Moore describes as “smart naive with a fresh clean honesty" the actressoinger has gone to win equally impressive raves in nightclub acts from Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas to New York’s Waldorf-Astori- a Empire Rush and as a guest on television programs with' such luminaries as David Frost Flip Wilson "and” she notes “even Bing Crosby” “The Melba Moor Davis Show” in which she with the young currently starring as Valentine in the rock music version of “Two Gentlemen of on Verona" Broadway represents her first chance at starring in a television vehicle of her own And she aims to be a victor once again C- - Asefc acvpws ’4 I ST: rs Guest Stars Appear On Shows vignettes using various forms: comedy drama documentary music dance and movie in one of the best of all animation one of the directors film musicals "On the Town" fantasy Chester Himes expatriate is Ossie Davis and the TuesdaySen Barry Goldwater producer is A1 visits Dinah Shore's morning author of “Cotton Comes to executive NBC-Tseries June 14 and Ray Harlem" i which was made into Perlmutter "The Baseball Broadcasters" Bolger will be her guest Mon- a movie) and other books is a brief CBS-TV- 's history of the game's of the to visitors Other subject upcoming day radio and television announcers Miss Shore’s show “Dinah’s "Camera Three" Sunday 's Monday Howard Cosell James Earl will precede NBC-TPlace” include Burt Reynolds Lee Grant Gwen Verdon night major league contests the Jones June 15 and Bill Bixby star of next two weeks with Curt ABC-TV“The Courtship id and Lily Tomlin are among the the network's top Gowdy ABC-T19 of hour June an stars Eddie's Father” and his wife sports commentator as host- "The Perpetual special 16 June These are the first two of Gene Kelly Frank Sinatra People Puzzle" which looks at NBC-T's 10 regular-seaso- n Betty Garrett Ann Miller the human condition through Monday night baseball contests this year and the network has said that sports reporter Dick Schaap will be the regular host of this particular group of 4:66 Kearny” 4— Daniel Boone of the Week pregame showsThe first woman rabbi Sally Priesand of 5—“Nidi Carter” Big Valley Cincinnati is a scheduled guest 12— The Electric Company 4:65 on NBC-T's "Today" series 6— Canadian Films 9:99 4:36 5— Hawaii FiveO Friday and Jack Tony Randall 2— What’s My Line? 12—This Is Extention Klugman stars of ABC-TV- 's 4:56 9:39 "The Odd Couple" will appear 6— Live Local News 2— What’s My Line? Neil Simon’s original stage in 5:16 12—The Advocates version of their series for two 2— Scene Today I 9:99 weeks in August— the first in 4— ABC News 2—Nichols Atlanta the second in Toledo 5— Dragnet Welby Mi) David Canary a former regular 5:36 TV’s Bonanza" returns to 2— Nightly News 9:39 that series on a steady baas 4— KCPX News Journal this fall as the show revamps 5— CBS News 19:99 following last month's death of 12— What's New? 2— The Scene Tonight Dan Blocker The first episode 6:69 Mason of "Bonanza" in the new 2— The Scene Today II 5— News Weather sports season a two-hosegment 4— Truth or Consequences 19:39 Sept 12 will make reference to 5— KSL News 2—Tie Tonight Show the death of the character Street "Hoss” played by Blocker 19:41 6:36 Cartwright 2— Ponderosa Theatre Night Flip Wilson substitutes for “The Big Gamble’' Squad vacationing Johnny Canon as 11:99 Van Dyke ick host of NBC-TV“Tonight" 4—11th Hour News 7:96 show all next week Richard 11:39 Campbell Castellano star of ABC-TV- 's 4— Dick Cavett 12— Misteroger’s Neighborhood new summer comedy series 7:39 Midaigh! “The Super" which bows in 2—The Late Show “The Girl 2— NBC Action Playhouse June 21 will have his real-lif- e Getters" “Massacre at Fart Phil daughter playing his daughter m - actor-songwrit- er Variety Added To Viewing Jack Paar will return for solo apanother late-nigpearance with ABC-TV-'s host Dick Cavett next ft Jules M unshin and Vera --Ellen late star June 20 on CBS-TV- 's ht V V ’s 77s " W7 playboy's wife in “Nick Carter” mystery-thrillon the ABC Television Network’s “MOVIE OF THE WEEK” TUESDAY 7:39 PRIVATE DETECTIVE NICK Carter (Robert Conrad) questions nightclub operator Bess Tucker (Shelley Winters) about the disappearance of a wealthy Robert Conrad Winters er on pjn KCPX-- 4 film The relates what happens when the brash and brawling Carter discovers the death of a fellow private eye is tied to the mysterious disappearance of a wealthy Shelley City Broderick Ctawford Dean Stockwell Brand Pat Neville O'Brien Pemell Roberts Sean Garrison Laraine Stephens and Brooke Bundy comprise the stellar cast of “The Adventures of Nick Carter” an original mystery thriller airing on the' Movie of the Week” Tuesday 7:30 on KCPX-- 4 Conrad is featured as famous Nick Carter private detective of the early 1900s in New York of Playboy Freddy wife Duncan (Stockwell) Carter confronts Freddy at the Plush Horse nightclub operated by Bess Thicker I Miss Wcrs) but gets no information from him playboy's wife Frustrated Carter gets a call from surprise Otis Freddy's father Duncan (Crawford) to meet him at his home at once With Freddy nd his other son Neal (Roberts) standing by Otis hires Carter to finish the job of appearing in the film are Jaye P Morgan Paul Mantee and Sorrell Also Booke the movie opens Nick was gunned down while investigating the disappearance of Ivy Duncan As learns his friend can finding Ivy I V Tuesday Log June 13 4-- V 12-B- lack erry same 4-- Mod ’s 5-- Glen TV Notes Debut ProHOLLYWOOD (UPI) ducer Hal Wallis signed James Cellan Jones a leading British television director to his - n-i- The Finest ke Speaker System Available Anywhere! feature movie debut as director of "A Bequest to the Nation" starring Glenda Jackson Violent vide Shukan TOKYO (UPI) Asahi one of Japan's largest weekly magazines reports that a group of Tokyo housewives watched six television networks for four hours on one Saturday evening During the four hours about 140 gangsters samurai warriors American Indians cowboys and other people were killed on the screen Some killings came - ALTEC BARCELONA panO W Mfii MpMaf l 1 7 (MS Um’ Nil ftmam Sm a IMNRifirMe "Dime Box Texas" er - lit i0J Logon's -T- wentieth end hiflto kHtf t SHiitiH Uwdl imteumi— ti SnIS—iHr— which Warren Ben ! niH 9d nppa $7995 Stereo Confer Phone Sound East Johnson 4 t I I tS I bam fcOMOTf :''fAPAYEnE SAlES A SERVICE 459 Marik I— If in 9®RtSPJ OKW wslMt (ibillft Will HH fltfMl m ii m LBjLa iwppi CJ 1 ir inwl - ! 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