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Show Page HERALD. Provo. I'tah. Sunday. November 4S-T- HE 1980 Life Long Jock - Sam J. (UPI) g is a jock who got lucky. Very lucky. He stars in the title role of "Flash Gordon," a $40 million movie extravaganza produced by Dino De Laurentiis,, who also produced "King Kong" and "Hurricane," a couple of supercolossal disappointments. Jones is playing Flash because he has two major assets a handsome kisst. and a rugged physique. He's also a nice guy with next to no acting experience. Jones, a Florida native, spent two years in the Marine Corps, much of that time in the brig for brawling. He came to Hollywood almost three years ago with f 100 and a beat-u- p car. He lived on saltines and water. A health club attendant, saloon bouncer, waiter, shoe salesman, semi-pr-o footballer, house painter and truck driver, Jones was bopping along earning a living as best he could and thinking about becoming an actor. He also picked up $1,000 by posing nude for Playgirl magazine, a job be may regret if the magazine republishes his photos with Flash Gordon captions. Before landing the role of the comic strip hero, Jones had a small part in "Co-EFever," an unsuccessful TV pilot, and another modest part in Unlimited." a TV movie. a one-lin-e Even his feature film debut role opposite Bo Derek, playing her failed to impress husband, in "10" in Hollywood, anyone But fame, if not fortune, is beckoning the handsome young man. His costars in "Flash Gordon" are Melody Anderson as Dale Arden, Topol as Dr. Hans Zarkov and Max Von Sydow as Ming the Merciless of the planet Mongo. Altogether unknown to the American public, Jones should become a familiar face and name in the next mouth as the HOLLYWOOD Jones, J 1 fmmum ' 28, - thou New Director Lois Johnson is the new conductor of the Utah Valley Choral Society. She is shown above during a rehearsal for the forthcoming holiday con Composes by Smu ttoUiipworU cert. The society plans a Christmas concert Dec. 3 in the Provo Tabernacle. Tickets are available from choir members or by calling 375-712- 5. According to Jones, one of the viewers was a woman from Monte Carlo who alerted De Laurentiis' Dino himself got excited and ordered Jones to be flown immediately to London for a screen test. "I spent six months in England doing that film and another month just getsaid Jones. ting into physical shape," "I had to learn how to use a bull whip and I ran several miles a day. I learned more in those six months than anywhere before in my life. "It was a tough part for my first starring role. The only easy thing was the stunts and the physical demands. I'd in played football basketball and track stunts the make to wanted I school. look real so we didn't use a double. "Sure, I lacked experience. But you did go in there and you do or you die. I what I had to do and learned as I went life-lon- d FNt son-in-la- w. Jt Sam Jones gets break. - Many of his works were influenced by Armenian folk music. The Los Angeles Symphony in 1972 performed his piano concerto, "Protest," written when he was stoned away from a German swimming pool by Hitler youths during World War II. From childhood Sevanian devoted himself to the study of the kanon, or canun, (pronounced the accent on the second syllable), a Middle Eastern instrument that can be traced back to ancient Egypt. It has gut strings and a range of more than three oc- I a p publicity mills grind away for the open- ing of "Flash Gordon, De 5 205 Providence smiled on pounder when he managed himself on "The Dating Game, game show in which a woman chooses the man she'd most like to date from among three male prospects. The show was November, Meg Peterson, internationally known author and clinician in music education, will present two evening workshop sessions on Dec. 4 and I kah-noh- "When they found I really was a musician, they released me and sent me to Berlin to play concerts there. I had a hard time finding a kanon. The first thing they gave me was a zither. Finally the German it is the one I still government found one in France taves. In the late 1930s he was summoned to play in Moscow, where he attracted the attention of Soviet Premier Josef Stalin. "He sent for me the next day to play in the Kremlin for him, and awarded me the Order of the Red Flag, the second highest decoration after the Order of Lenin. "When the Germans captured me in the war, they thought that medal must mean I was a great soldier who had killed many Germans, and they threw me in a concentration camp." Actually, he said, he was in the Russian medical corps "and never even learned to shoot." "It was like going through hell, life in that camp. People died like flies. If you lost consciousness, they would throw you on a wagon and haul you away to be it made no difburied. The dead, the ference. "That happened to me. As they were carrying me off on the wagon, another prisoner pointed to me and remarked that I had been a great musician. The play." "One day an Armenian friend and I were at a swimming pool, reading to each other in Armenian from the short stories of the Armenian California author, William Saroyan. Two German girls asked us what language we were speaking and we began talking to them. "Suddenly people were throwing stones at us. These Germans were yelling at us, calling the girls names for talking to foreigners, saying Germans were dying in the war because of pigs like us, yelling 'get out, pigs, get out!'" "My friend and I ran and ran from the rocks. I jumped on a streetcar and in my head I could hear this melody, my anger in music. It came to an end and began again, like a recording. I burned to write down this music. That became 'Protest,' one of my concertos." half-dea- ii l televised in 1978. Music Center in Mrs. Peterson is known throughout the nation for two decades of training elementary classroom teachers to play the autoharp successfully. re She has written more than a dozen books on the art of playing this native American instrument and has recently completed a MEG PETERSON (EHHiatoiiQiniwri LaVerde Clayson'tf prize winning poetry book "Furrows of Renewal" will be featured at an autograph party Dec. 6 from 2 to 6 p.m. at the Deseret Bookstore in the Orem University Mall. TEA CHdd'MH lutm em tDJt'iijjijjV mesj L1 MSMUJME "Not an Age Not a Size But a Look" Now Open In Lehi A collection of corduroy trousers Hi Blouses and sweaters We've got your look volume called "The Blazers velveteen, Inc. BBlBMSMBSBnBMMMSaMBHBHWAdl Autograph Party wool and corduroy For further information write to Dr. Rosalie R. 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Music Author Sets Workshops at the 15-p- at Night LOS ANGELES (UPI) Ara Sevanian serves up food for the body by day and for the soul by night. Sevanian's odyssey from the court of Josef Stalin through Nazi concentration camps led him 19 years ago to a small wooden hamburger stand in California and to concert stages from Boston to San Francisco. He believes be is the only American master of the ancient, rare musical instrument called the kanon. At night he composes classical works for this relative of the harp, the zither, the piano, and the the flute and other stringed instruments voice. , By day he cooks Ara's Armenian hamburgers in a wooden shack at a busy intersection in the San Fernando Valley. They are a unique improvisation on the burger theme that his customers agree is delicious. "I lead a double life and I enjoy them both," Armenian-bor- n chuckled the musician. "It is honest work, to make good food for people. Some classical musicians complain about the lack of demand for their talents. I believe in hard work. "It has been good to me, the hamburger business," he says gesturing at his comfortable apartment a few blocks from his tiny hamburger stand. "And now I have my customers well trained no hamburgers after 4 p.m., because that is when I take off my apron and come home to write music." Sevanian has written hundreds "Two hundred? Three hundred? I don't know how many any more" classical compositions. 5 along." Jones' brown hair was bleached to platinum for the role originated by Buster Crabbe in 1936 with a movie serial based on Alex Raymond's comic strip hero. "Flash is nothing like Superman," Jones explained. " Burgermeisfer Dishes Food for Body, Soul Dec. Gets Lucky Chance Lehi Monday Saturday Layauay it unit' |