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Show 4 D NEWS, WEEKEND OF NOVEMBER 3, 1973 DESERET mas vacation and go skiing, the wnter continued. Highlight of the book is the chapter on the Olympic tragedy. Moving from a sports commentator to news coverage was a high watermark for television, and a new dimension in broadcast journalism. SgJORTS VOICE How did you fee) in switching from sports reporting to news reporting we asked McKay. He veiy candidly answered: I wasnt conscious of a feeling of switching. I TURNS AMlIaOK "I'm u reporter obove everything else," comments telecoster and author Jim McKay. By Jay Llvingood Editor, Weekend Section -beenI WESTPORT, CONN. Ive always guess view from the library ra his home, surrounded by as the office regarded storyteller, nd Ive often thought that I could wnte a book, but until I had a real deadline it just didnt come, commented Jim McKay as we chatted about his first publica- bookshelves, the prestigious Polk George journalism sward on the wa", and gazing out the window at an inspiring autumnal scene. Macmillan contacted me in February 1972 to do a foreward to an American version of an Olympic book they were planning. After going over what I submitted, they called back and suggested that 1 do a book on my owr It was two things that really got me going An advance and a deadline, explained the tion effort. The book, World, Wide My published by Macmillan, (272 pgs.; $695) is the outgrowth anchor years as of 12 on man APC-TV- s Wide W orld of Sports. McKay talked with us in an exclusive Deseret News interim 53 personable McKay. I didnt know where to begin, so I started carrying a tape recorder with me, and at the end of the day would record my thoughts as well as jotting some of them down on paper. Then 1 started to write after that long summer, which I thought would be a typical summer of moving around the world to cover sports. It turned out to be anything but a typical summer. Then I sat down on Oct. 15 and started to wnte. Although Macmillan had set a Dec. 31 rp. I finished by 19, after working eight and 10 hour days, because I wanted take off during the Christ- deadline, A jr 5th South & 7th East 521 8181 JRRAY regard myself as a reporter, not a sports reporter. 1 read the whole newspaper, not just the sports section, and feel that I can do an adequate job of any type of reporting assignment Additionally we take a quote from his book. Reporting, I think, is simply the communication to someone not on the scene of a given event. The reporter's job is to tell as clearly and accurately as he can the facts of the situation and, m the case of television, to explain the meaning of tne visual image on ie screen. Most subtly, 1 think the reporter must communicate the mood of the moment, CINEMAS UNITED ARTIST THE A TSPS Sutawac" 4 40, 8 25 "Willy' Z45. 6 30, 10c IS KIRK DOUGLAS SCALAWAG Monoaj What are you pCans for a future bock, we asked. My publisher wants another, and I'm anxious to get my teeth into it again, be answered. to his turned McKay of experience as a w.s..sSBsy3l 328-368- French-speakin- Making their first United States tour the Krasnayarsk dancers will perform at BYU Nov. 8, and Nov. 9 at Cottonwood snder the High broadcaster, writer and production man, and good solid educatioa m English, Latin and Greek, as the foundation upon which he has built his literary and reporting career. And we suspect it is this as good solid education McKay referred to it, as the deciding factor which won four Emmys and the George Polk journalism award for sponsorship of the ZCMI Family Concert Series. Tickets for the BYU concert are on sale in the Harris Fine Arts Center ticket office and those for the Friday night event are available at all ZCMI stores in Salt Lake, Ogden and Orem. Orpheum Ave. Dr. Ralph Margetts, who will direct the show, said he needs 24 men and a women from age 20 years up. He said that those auditioning should be prepared to read from the script It is not necessary, he said, to have any material or to have anything memorized. Witness for the Prosecution will be presented at Promised Valley Playhouse Jan. 11 through 26. It is being its debut tour of United States, the troupe of 80 dancers was founded in 1960. The Siberian folk dance, with its peculiar style of performance, has become the pnde and central item of the companys On sponsored by the Playhouse Guild. Second orchesis concert program. Burrows, Pat Fitzgerald, Ruth Nine works, choreographed Dons Hudson, Kitty senior dance modern by major Glenn, students in the University of Rice, Clark Stookey, Lynn Utahs modern dance depart- Topovski, Janet Walradt and ment, will be presented Friday Molly Wicker Nov. 9. The dance concert will Among the interesting notes be held at 4 and 8 p.m. in the is that Nyle Steiner, Salt Lake Dance Building studio theater, .composer and musician, has Fridays concert is the composed a synthesized score second in a series cf three for Doris Hudsons movement concerts under the umbrella piece for four women. title of Orchesis ChoreograGeneral admission is $1, phers Concerts. Students choRich with 50 cents for students. reographers include Every production is worked on by the composer Vladimir Jim McKay sees ami reports a lot. And with a perceptive style, its all wrapped up is his Wide World. 8u Friday Auditions for roles in local dramatizations of Neel Cowards Private Lives and Agatha Christie's Witness for the Prosecution are scheduled early this month. Private Lives, a comedy, will be presented by the Pioneer Memorial Theater of the university of Utah with gwnn McCrath ss director. Auditions are scheduled Nov. 6 and 7 from 2 to 4 p.m. at the PMT. Characters needed are two men about 30 years of age, and two attractive women, one in her midg twenties, the other in her late twenties. A woman for the role of the maid also is needed Experienced performers are needed. Private Lives" will be presented on the main stage of PMT Jan, 17 through 30. Witness fr.- - the Prosecution auditions are scheduled Nov. 15 and 16 from 7:39 until 1 p.m. at the Promised Valley Playhouse, 132 South State S. Those trying out for parts should enter the theater through a north door on The spacious floor of the Marriott Activity Center at Brigham Young University and the Cottonwood High School auditorium in Salt Lake City will host two Utah appearances ef the Earned ' Krasnayarsk Dance Company of Siberia. fhnll. clSi sargainhouF' 12 3a I recently said to my wife, accomplished two goals which took 52 years to do: ve written a book ud learned to ski, he continued. Ive Winning the Emmy Is a great emotional experience, an ego trip if you want to call it that, but it does give you a feeling. But the rewarding Foik award for special news reporting gave me double satisfaction. It was a real special And McKay did capture the mood of the moment in his book . . . along with the details, the agonies, the inand the tensions credible awful reality which intruded Auditions set for loco! plays Siberian dancers to perform him. concludes McKay. 262 9424 into the Ofympic games. The writing of his book hrs brought a new discipline to the author. My motto has always been, 'Never say never, but this venture made me sit dowa at the typewriter for long stretches and do the job. Kornev whose music is distinguished by restrained simplicity and melodiousness. 1 Roar once again with the original movie cast Pits Co Hit Wonka 2nd The Chocolate factory "JDirector Don Siegel. ..1 Wsliy Shows 5: 10 I 00, f his own 3 IS, KK w DIRTY HARRY, has raised the crime thriller to a new high! Sunday Mirror Terrific new film! Kevin Thomas, L.A Times Walls? Mattel Charley l&rriiM 11223 WAIT, Ft; --25. BISiicYS An - At Ortftnel Cwoti -- - Doay 193) wd fry Bwana vta OtaniMion n odMcton 2 Theatres! Wfcite Cartoon thick Co Inc TEOUET .V 521 6181, -- 'tr In Iks Embassy ms ?1 rsJLi -- Technicolor .hi.ii Releas MlASTCFTlfWmmiS MnMtaXtrOCNUSl ! 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