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Show Page ten The National Enterprise, April 20, 1977 AM TRAVEL AGENCY CAN SELL KIND OF TRAVEL TO ONE - BUT CAN OF THEM GIVE YOU SOME- - THING FOR NOTHING? WE CAN! ACT I (All-Sta- r Creative Talent), our versatile talent booking subsidiary, can arrange top flight entertainment for whatever your company has planned (conventions, Christmas, sales parties, anything). The kieker? If you use our travel agency the entertainment service is available at substantial discount or even free! Call us today and discover how we can ease hassles and even throw a little fun your way. Tours The Whole World in Our Hands Ground broken for Learning Center Construction is expected to begin this week on a $5 million addition to Park City's tourism industry. The event follows a year of delays, during which roads, utilities and landscaping were installed on the site. Called the Learning and Cultural Center, the complex is modeled after the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, according to its developers, Scheduled for construction in two phases, the project will include a 17,000 square foot, 500-seconvention building, 318 sleeping units, two swimming pools and a gymnasium. The first phase is expected to open this fall. comcreating a campus-lik- e plex suitable for continuing education programs and recreation. Leaniing Center Associates Western Woodlands, operating and marketing the project, staged a groundbreaking ceremony April 13. Film tells of at (Western Woodlands plus K.E. Garner, a Salt Lake businessman), is developing the project. Robert M. Ord Con government-busines- s plot to kill Lincoln The Salt Lake based production arm of Sunn Classic Pictures has completed filming of its first major production for 1977, The Conspiracy to Kill President Lincoln.' ' Filmed in Savanah, Ga., the film is the product of 10,000 man hours of historical research. It depicts a plot of government and business leaders during the mid-180- 0s to assassinate Americas orite president. fav- Sunn plans to spend some $850,000 on the Lincoln docudrama." Most of that sum, according to A1 Pederson, Sunns director of administration, was spent on nearly three months of filming in Georgia. The company elected to film in Savanah, he said, because of various legal and technical difficulties encountered by a motion picture company when filming in Washington D.C., where the story takes place, and because of the untouched" setting of Savanah. Production of the motion pic- ture has moved to the film editing and sound stage of creation, Pederson said, and will be released sometime between June and September. In the movie, Lincoln will be played by John Anderson, who has played the President on numerous occassions, and assassin John Wilkes Booth will be portrayed by Bradford Dillman. Art Flemming will narrate. The Utah company tenatively plans to produce four films in 1977, none of which will exceed the proposed budget of the Lincoln production, the companys biggest expenditure to date. NBC has invited and Travel, Ine. 4035 HIGHLAND DRIVE, SUITE 269 SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH 04117 277-266- ACT-- I 9 struction Co. has been named general contractor. First Security Bank is financing it and Coon, King and Knowlton is the project engineering firm. DIVISION CIE4TTVE TALENT W ATLAS TRAVEL Lonny Adams, president of Western Woodlands, will direct the projects operation, along with Gordon Sloan, vice president and Janet Casey, marketing and sales director. Located at We expect to draw enough business to transform Park City from a winter resort into a 139 So. Temple, Salt Lake City, Utah destination year-aroun- d area," Casey said. E. Office and Commercial Lease Space Available PR director leaves Snowbird DeeDee Corradini, formerly public relations director at Snowbird, has been appointed vice president of Bonneville Development Associates 307 West 2nd South Crane Building Associates, a group specializing in legislative research. Corradini said she will continue to work for Snowbird in her capacity at Bonneville. Phone: 532-768- 0 Sunn to expand its popular Life and Times of Grizzly Adams" series to a full year, 22 series production, for 1977, Pederson said, but the company has not yet opted to producexpand its tion. 13-seri- es The Grizzly Adams series is growing in popularity, Pederson claimed, as evidenced by its gain in the Nielson ratings. The series has earned a 30 percent market share while competing against ABCs successful Bionic Woman" on Wednesday nights. 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