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Show Theater Veteran Follows Footlights To Salt Lake Rocky Mountain February 4 1 Cupids Choice D Ik 1965 Page from SKYLINE HIGH SOUNDS 7 fj. GAE HOLLADAY Bleach A Toner $6 00 Very Special Body Wave $5.00 Facial A Manicure $2.00 Shampoo A Set $1.25 7 darel 3nililule A Scratch the glittering surface cf show business and youll find its magic is composed of many things. Bright Lights and music help create the artificially-induce- d excitement. Big fabulous sums money to the most successful contributes to the aura. But the illusion is really nourished by that tiny group of tortured souls who suffer the strangest, most demanding stage-feve- r. malady cf all The wishful dreams of fame and glory enjoyed by the multitudes are a compulsion for these stricken individuals. Theyll, slave, suffer Music Center Aims For July Opening to gain starve, if necessary a place in the charmed circle of show business Only applause can appease their hungry egos And the devilish quality of this particular affliction is that if you can be cured, you weren't really infected in the first place. The other curious aspect Is that the worst cases aren't In the necessarily wings, youll find classic case histories cf people who are only happy when theyre gaged in the business of entertaining. A man who has never kicked his fascination with the footand doubtless never lights will is Leighton Brill, who just unpacked his trunks for an extended stay in the city as cf the Valley Music Center, now under struction in North Salt Lake. If there has ever been another way of life for Brill, he isn't talking about it. Instead, he chats about the old days when he worked with Oscar Hammersteln; of periods when he was technical director for movies such as Show Boat" or producer of the London of stage presentation Music In The Air." He cheerfully tells how proceeds from the Spanish record album of the score nearly made his production of My with an allFair Lady local cast in Mexico City profitable. He could overcome the language barrier but not government red tape. Brill readily concedes hes not an actor; he has hardly ever stood under the baby spot personally basking in applause and yet he totes a mammoth, over -- powering, wonderful case of stage fever. Unable to untangle his tongue with a typed script, hes built his career behind the scenes. Is he an experienced, thoroughly-seasoned showman? Well, you can get some idea of how long he's been around when you learn he wrote the book of a grand daddy musical ' Ballyhoo,' starring none ck other. ttJbW. C. Fields. If you want, to calculate &e length of his career, then add a few years since en- LEIGHTON BRILL "Hem Scanty SaUn you in your serving neighborhood. Mrs. Jane Post (Owner and Operator of a Beauty Shop in Dodge City Kansas for several years before moving to Salt Lake a year ago.) COMPLETE BEAUTY SERVICE Come Relax OPEN CALL As You Are To For A While. TUES. thru SAT. FOR APPOINTMENT 278-323- 2939 7 DELSA DRIVE has expanded many places into a year-rouoperation and, in some areas, a musical season has earned up nd ek to $400,000. The huge arena now under in North Salt construction Lake costing $800,000 and gomg up on $150,000 worth of land is necessary, he says, to handle anticipated crowds. Name stars heading a local cast will provide some of the draw, Brill ' predicts. But Just as enticing is the intimacy of a theater production. At Valley Music Center, an audience of 2,500 will never sifthore than 19 rows from the stage. Actors enter and exit up the aisles and scenes are shifted in full view of the customers. The barrier of the proscenium has been el iminated. If a steady diet of professional musical theater isn't exactly your idea of culture. Brill anticipates a first seasoo running into- December and then a children's theater production cf Peter Pan to high light the holidays. He hopes eventually to run around -- the -- calendar with a seasoo of musicals, a season of drama splicing the slpw bill with special entertainment events. Who knows, maybe the Beatles will find their way to Salt Lake City. Salt LakebusinessmanRuss Ballard is chairman of the board of the corporation backing the entertainment venture. During the past several weeks some 1,100 subscribers have purchased stock totaling Brill says. The $200,000, stock is offered at $1.25 per share in parcels of no less than 50 shares. At the same time, nine Hollywood personalities including Art Link-lettBob Cummings, Rhonda er, (Continued on page 11) Bearded Beatniks Invade Skyline 1019 -- Ml f IAMM9 IN' HAS -S- UCAX HOUSI-F- Um High School What walks on two legs car- ries a briefcase, has an athlete's haircut, and wears a beard? If the description doens t sound familiar drop into Skyline sometime this week. The Associated Men of Skyline are in the midst of their annual g contest. Among the categories of Best all are: competition around beard, the most kiss-ab- le beard, the most unique beard and the best mustache. Contest is being held In conjunction with the upcoming Mens Associatien dance. Winners of the contest will be announced on the Girls' Association assembly Thursday, February 11. SHERWIN-WILLIAM- P M. Monday, February Rehearsals at 6:45 A 8. M. have become a habit with the 22 Skyline band members, who are working towards ft trip to Reno during March to participate In a music convention. Profits from the concert will go for this purpose. According to Holly Lee, student manager of tt Skyline Sm-GLQS- band, jazz and popular music will take the spotlight on the $ .Area Man w e-round. QMS tii hem fit3mm 50 of oil transmission trouble is caused by leaky sealsl SEAL SPECIAL $29.95 Ray's Automatic Transmission 1120 So. Main it Ttcvcx tailed MftUu" 328-492- ek gross last year Jane Powell appeared at Californias Melody Lane in The Unslnkable Molly Brown." The drafty tents of original units become have permanent domes. The once brief seasoo theater-in-tbe-rou- 5 when nd - Mad Money Youre kidding." This was the immediate response of Tom Sorensen, 20, of 2129 South 6th East, when advised last Thursday evening that he had wen $100 in Mall Money as part of the Cottonwood Mall exciting Moonlight Madness Sale. When assured that they were not kidding, he exclaimed, That's the first time Ive ever won anything in my life." Mr. Sorensen visited the Mall Thursday . evening and up the entry blank at inlaysop-Hallma- rk house, and dprfpped it into the barrel, along with several thousand other entries. He was Dot among the hundreds who were still in the Cottonwood M all at 10 P M when the drawing took place, black-shrpdd- CO Remember favorite (y . your Valentine 19 Portable T.V. GE ed c, SUNBEAM CAROUSEL INSURANCE ROTISSERIE BROILER financial corporation 1 2 tOO SO with FREE HU 10 GALLON PIMCO AQUARIUM STARTER SET Intitules... ' M 088 $10 Full cover reflector, vibrator pump, inside corner filter, charcoal and glass wool, plastic BEGINNERS HAND tubing aquarium gravel and S) H) - &- 3 - HOOVER FLOOR POLISHERS Music Man Due Glittering costumes and gay music are part cf Granite High Schools production of Music Man" set for February 3,4,5 and 6 in the schools auditorium. A cast of 150 students will enact the Meredith Wilson story of a traveling salesman and an attractive, single librarian in a small, gossipy town. those cf Professor Hill and Marion The main roles are double cast. Steven Kimball, son of Mr. and Mrs. Par oo Ralph T. Kimball, 970 Millcreek Way, and Greg Karch, son at Mrs. Elinor Karch, 1288 Lorraine Drive, handle the part cf Professor Hill. Marion will be alternately played by Kathy Stanley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry M. Stanley, 1052 Hillview Drive, and Diana Sorenson, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. C. L. Chamber, 1057 East 5600 South. Next In leading roles are Scott Layton; Shirley Lemmon, Jon Faddis, Lynn Harding and Jenna Mather. Director is Ralph Rodgers: Alta Christensen is choreo grapher; Neil Weight, above, conducts the orchestra, and stage design was done by Ed Leslen. 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S3 Shish-ka-bobb- only "AUWCIM-NlAN- SPECIAL SALE I PAltfT CO. 2132 So. 11th East - 486-723- 7 IJ it's made- of cantos ice can make it! hardly anybody scribbles a Broadway script his first week or two in the business. KIES) 4.7 9 a gallon SUGARHQUSE AWNIKG Wins Mall a gallon FIAT LATEX Flr-ure.ba- Hes worked Broadway musical theater and movies. Hes presented a miniature review of Annie, Get Your Dun" tar Las Vegas night club audiences and now be has moved into the most recent phenomenon of show busthe theater -- in iness. This phase of his career began with some 44 successful musical productions in Toronto before coming to Salt Lake City. Brill and his partner, Hollywood director and. choreographer Leroy Print, arete-roln- g in on a July 19 opening of Valley Music Center. Will it boom or bust? Brill seesbugesuccess in but that doesn't mean offing anything because one sure symptom of his malady is constant optimism. More substantial is the fact that some 32 theaters of this type are now operating in the country. Box office has been great other places. For instance, an $85,000 first-we- EKJLV.EL S 5.95 program Tickets may be obtained from music students cf the participating schools. SEE US FOR: 2060 S EXCELLO PAINTS beard-growin- OFF FOR RENO Reno or Bust," featuring the dance bands of Skyline, Highland, and Granger High schools will be presented In the Skyline auditorium at 8 W test 21st Sevtk ON THE ROUTE IS V. TAIYN6 ABOUT I IHf REVIEW '' ; |