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Porlland/Observer
Thursday, July 12, 1973
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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
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“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
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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
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