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Page ti Porlland/Observer Thursday, July 12, 1973 Shaft Welcome in Africa AtUIy Ladies Frae Tonight «■*■» I » iiiM H i . ! ................. :&WiEw ittRk ■k m fc k • General Adm 50.' • Free Parking • Complete Dining and Beverage Facilities • No Sunday Racing • Closed Circuit Color TV • PARI-MUTUEL WAGERING (Sorry. no c h ild re n under 12 admitted) DAILY DOUBLE I 9th ?nd 4 3rd A loth Races I Funtastic FAIRVIEW PARK Multnomah Kennel Club 223rd 4 Halsey — East out Banlield Freeway (SON) RESERVATIONS: 66S-2191 Ethiopia may be some 9000 miles from New York City, but the world really is shrinking as Richard Round tree was to discover while film ing MGM's “Shaft in Africa" on location. "I wasn't in the country 20 minutes before I had my first shock," recounts Richard. “While in the cab on the way in from the airport in Addis Ababa I spotted a rustic looking tavern with a metal sign advertising “Shaft’s Bar and Grill”. I couldn’t believe it - I thought it was a publicity stunt, but it wasn’t. The original ’Shaft’ had played in Addis Ababa and was a big hit there. I thought I was coming to 'darkest' Africa!" There were many other surprises aw aiting Round- tree, producer Roger Lewis, director John Guillermtn and the “Shaft In Africa" crew in Ethopia. "I guess we just didn't know what to expect." says Richard. "But who would have thought that a desert-dwelling Bedouin tribe of camel drivers, people who had never seen a movie in Richard recalls his first their lives, would turn out to camel riding lesson (accom be born performers - real panied by the film's still hams!" photographer). “The Bedouin chief immediately began pos ing his men around me. He had them pretend to cut off my head and smile for the photographer without a bit of prompting. They also developed a great affection for my ‘Shaft in Africa’ sweatshirt. I was able to trade mine for one of the camel driver's beautifully decorated camel whips." “It w as am azing how quickly they caught on to the American way,” says Round- tree. “We worked for a week with a boat crew on the Red Sea in Massawa. After a few days of working well past the normal working hour we heard the boat cap tain grumbling in his native Amheric language. We only understood one word - the word was 'overtime'. He knew all about that after just a few days work with a movie crew. We all pitched in a dollar and paid the cap tain and his <-rew their ’overtime'. We had more and more in common with these African people all the 282-6363 time," Roundtree smiled. Geneva’s Cocktails Free Happy Birthday Party Meeting Rooms Two Pool Tables Free Pool Lessons Paul & Geneva Knauls Owners 4228 N. Williams HOUSE of SOUND “Of course, we were very quick to pick up on things African.” says Richard of the company which included 15 nationalities from the United States and Europe. "We all became addicted to African toothbrushes (soft sticks from young trees used to scrub teeth). We loved the rustic silver jewelry and the beauti ful fabrics which we all bought by the mile and had colorful shirts made by Afri can tailors. The Africans were pleased that we took to their customs and costumes so readily. “There was a constant closing of the cultural gap - always in the most sur prising ways," tells Round- tree. “When we were work ing in the ancient city of Harar, a Moslim community where people live as they have for hundreds of years. I was approached in the mar ket by a gang of little chil dren. They laughed and reached out to me calling ’soul brother, soul brother'. These were the only two English words we were to hear from the natives of the city. Of course, I don't know why we should have been surprised at that - after all, we were in the very birthplace ol 'soul’." “Shaft in Africa" is cur rently showing at the Ala meda Cinema and the 104th Street Drive-In. Lunch hints f or the latest in LPs, 45s and 8 track tapes, check out the House of Sounds today. 3606 N. W illiam s Avenue 287-1960 LI-L—r ^ ru-L--— - Table Square 2125 N. Vancouver ■ J • Now Serving Lunch 11:00-2:00 Dinner 4:00-8:30 Live entertainment 7 nights a week Now appearing : Ed Dexter & Satisfaction ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ I ■ ■ 1 « also Reco Lopez ■ ■ 2 Coming soon Memphis Whales J ■ J The In Place to Gol ■ Brigham-Scott Enterprise 288-5427 < "7 t When heat gets to a sack lunch, the food begins to deteriorate. You want to be sure the lunches you pack for pickers or picnickers are not only good to eat - but safe as well, says Tod Hamil ton, Multnomah County Ex tension Home Economist. One way to keep sack lunches in eating condition is to invest in some thermos equipment. A wide-mouth thermos is excellent to keep soup, stew or a vegetable hot. Maybe you need two if you want to include both hot and cold foods. Miss Hamilton says that the best idea for sandwiches is to freeze them in indivi dual bags and then put them in the sack lunch frozen. By noon they’ll be thawed, and the danger from holding sev eral hours in the summer heat will be lessened. To prepare sandwiches for the freezer, spread softened margarine or butter to the edge of the bread to prevent the filling from soaking in. Avoid fillings that include hardcooked egg white, raw vegetables and jam or jelly. Substitute dairy sour cream as a binder instead of mayon naise. Since lettuce can't be frozen successfully, include it fresh in a separate bag and let the luncher insert it in his sandwich. Fresh fruits and vege tables can safely be held at room temperature. And they're more refreshing than lots of pretzels and potato chips, especially it kept cold in the thermos. It's worth a little planning to be sure that the lunches you send in a sack are safe. Black men’s magazine published in LA It's been long overdue and now it’s here: A first rale, quality. Playboy-type men’s magazine for the Black mar ket. Announcement was made by Players Interna tional Publications of lx»s Angeles of a super slick all-Black men's magazine to be introduced on the news stands October 9 at $1 per copy. The name is Players. The publisher is the same that brought Robert Beck (Iceberg Slim) to prominence through it's book publishing division, Holloway House Publishing Company. Other divisions of the firm publish Mankind, a quality history magazine; Vertex, a success ful new science fiction maga zine; and a quality book series. Mankind's Great Ad ventures of History, Players, however, is to be the big budget, major edi torial package of the house with lavish use of full color, quality production and stock. The publisher is conducting a search for Black talen t throughout the world -- writers, photographers, art ists and models. Talent that is often submerged be cause of the lack of oppor tunity, but equal to the best creative talent in the world. There will be some sur prising discoveries on the pages of Players magazine, with content by Blacks for Blacks. Interviews, articles, fiction and humor dealing with subjects of interest to a young, modern Black audi ence, men ages 18 to 35. Features will include cover age of fashion, food, liquor, travel, automobiles, music, theatre, cinema, literature and sports. And beautiful girls, the loveliest in the world. The editor is a beautiful girl herself, Wanda Coleman. Black and beautiful and an exciting talent as a writer in her own right, she is now at the helm of the most impor tant new publication to be introduced in America in over a decade. When asked “What's a nice girl like you doing editing a men's maga zine?". she replies with a sly smile, "Who knows better what men want!" So if you are an undis covered, or even discovered, talent and want to become involved, contact Wanda Coleman at Players Inter national Publications, 8060 Melrose Aveune. Los An geles, California 90046. The phone number is (213) 653 8060. Book explores Kano The making of a leader on a weakening continent is depicted in African Revolu tionary: The life and Times of Nigeria's Aminu Kano, a biography to bo published on July 16, 1973 ($995), by Quadrangle / The New York Times Book Company. The author is Dr. Alan Feinstein, a dentist who was drawn to his subject by chance over ten years ago, and has since then made the study of Barbara Mason begins acting career Nigerian affairs virtually his second profession. Currently Commissioner of Health in Nigeria, Aminu is described in the preface by Basil Davidson as “a man whose intellectual gifts have never obscured his interest in people. He is . . . a gifted teacher . . . with an acute un derstanding of. and sympathy with, the human condition." Dr. Feinstein takes it from there, evolving with Aminu through the legends, reli gious custom s, traditions, conflicts and governmental developments that Nigeria itself has experienced through the years. While Dr. Fein stein concentrates on North ern Nigeria, where Aminu was born and to which he has been devoted throughout his life, the nation in it's entirety inevitabley rounds out the picture. The new book follow s Aminu's career from his birth into the Islamic religion and culture, through his constant determination to reconcile the old with the new, through his fight against corruption and the struggle for inde pendence, through his emer genre from regional politics onto the national and inter national scene, and through the civil war and it's after math. A maverick in many respects, Aminu was respon sible for an integral part of a series of “firsts" in Northern Nigeria and is known for his unconventional ways of ef feeling change. He has always aspired toward mod ernization and retaining ethi cal values, while his goals embrace the eradication of group hatred and ethnic pre judice, the liberation and equality of women, education for all, and economic im provement. As Dr. Feinstein writes, his own aim has been to record “the quality of life of a man whose feet have re mained rooted in the soil of his ancestors, whose body is of the stem of the present, and whose head is in the sky, hidden by clouds of the future; who matured during a time of computers and moon walks, as well as emirs, herbalists, mud huts and camels . . Crowded with detail. African Revolutionary defines a man and his nation. Last year Barbara Mason Friends with Curtis May won the NATRA Award for field since his Impression the Best Continuous Per days, Mayfield asked Mason formance by a Female Vocal to cover "Superfly's" "Give ist. The prize reflects an Me Your Love". "They were impressive career that began trying to find a female to do in 1964 when Barbara was 16 it and their first crack didn't and wrote her first hit single come off to well. I won’t tell “Troubled Child". In the you who it was. So I ran intervening years, this dy into Curtis at the Buddah namic young performer and office and he asked me what writer has had no fewer than my key was." To Barbara's eight chart records, seven of surprise. Mayfield laid down which she herself wrote. all the tracks for the cut Actually, her career began before she went into the somewhat before. A musical studio a week later, "which youngster, she had a gift for was a different way of doing putting to g eth er ta le n t it for me." shows. Barely in her teens, (Continued from pg. I, col. 8) Coming up for the multi she played the piano well list, the possibility of con talented performer is a movie and had formed a vocal debut with Troy Donahue in ducting a joint House Senate group with some friends. At investigation on how this list “Last Stop". Barbara j r o 14, her group auditioned at a trays a ruckus saloon gtrl in was developed and for what small club in Barbara's native purposes it was, and is, the Western's ten minute bar Philadelphia. Among the being used. I think that is room brawl. Though she people present was Weldon won't be singing in "I<ast the very least we are com Arthur McDougal III (now pelled to do. Stop", the 25-year old beauty head of promotion with Mo "I hope that my colleagues performs the title track to town) who was very im "Gordon's War" en titled will now have the courage to pressed with Barbara and seriously challenge the Presi “Child nt Tomorrow”. "G ot convinced her to start out on don's War", a topical feature dent and that sufficient action a solo career of her own. will now be taken to bring film, stars Paul Winfield, Coming from a non musical who returns from Vietnam to Mr. Nixon before the elected fam ily, Barbara had no representatives of the people. find his wife a heroin addict, thoughts of becoming a pro (overdosed and ifkad. “Child I think we must now ser fessional musician. For her, iously consider the possibili of Tomorrow” is most ex music making was just a p ressiv ely sung by Miss ties of impeachment of the hobby. But encouragement Mason while Gordon mourns President for high crimes from McDougla, who intro and misdemeanor.” at his wife’s recent grave. duced her to her present manager and nine year fiance Jim Bishop, started things on their way. Her third hit, written when Bachelors Laundry she was 17, was “Girls Have Feelings” followed by “Yes, One Day Service I'm Ready". As she reaches her musical maturity, Ms. Mason is find ing that her music is ap SAVE YOUR CLAIM TICKETS! pealing mainly to the adult ID cleaning and pressing claim tickets good fo> audiences anti Barbara is fast 1 81b. load of cleaning and pressing. becoming one of the most sought after entertainers in the top clubs across the nation. She has appeared at 72 20 N. Fessenden 2 8 6 -2 2 9 6 | the Cocoanut Grove and the I^atin Casino • arly this year. Nixon list SPECIAL! BUDGET DRY CLEANERS PLEASURE also appearing 288-8803 Beyonds K° O1 Breeie 2629 N. E. Union Ave. FASHION WHEEL If you have problem with your hair visit the Fashion Wheel WIGS WIGLETS FALLS 5709 N. E. Union Ave. 283-3525 1 104™ ST. 10401 B I POW ILL 760-2488 Premier SHAFT'S BACK and tw ice as b a d ... kickin' the Mafia up and down the world and back. starring R k h a rd Roundtree • i !O H H S H A FT Metrocokx f^nawskyi* r. A ............... ( It llK t IS an> w Alameda Co-feature He aims to please. 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