The Sunday Constitution (Lawton, Okla.), Vol. 10, No. 1, Ed. 1 Sunday, August 8, 1982 Page: 46 of 60
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“MY FATHER always preached it into us that whether
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pedestal when he said ‘I can’t hold it’ and they fell,” she
said.
Despite the tragedies which have hit her family, Miss
Wallenda says she has no fear of flying.
“My grandmother was a performer all her life and she
died of old age at 96.1 had an uncle who was run over by a
drunk driver when he was very young, so ...This is our
way of life. Tragedy to me is like some of those coal
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An exhibition of science fiction fantasy sculpture by R.E. MAKER will
displayed Aug. 8 through 27 at the Paseo Design Center, 2927 Paseo in
Oklahoma City.
RICHARD GERE (“American Gigolo”) fans will not want to miss "An
Officer and a Gentleman," now playing in Lawton. The film tells the
story of a streetwise loner who wants to become a Naval aviator to
overcome his poverty-stricken past. Gere, as Zack Mayo, and Louis
Gossett Jr., who plays the drill instructor who tries to break him, give
fine strong performances. Place it on your list to see, right behind
“Tex.”
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“An Officer and a Gentleman?
It's official, if such things ever do become official. PHIL BROCK, who
co-stars in the Walt Disney movie, Tex. can now be affectionately
termed "our” Phil, joining the ranks of the other Lawtonians who have
made good in the entertainment field Among those who have the
affectionate "our" tacked on to the front of their names are CANDI
EARLEY, GWEN JONES and PENNY VAUGHAN. Brock the son of
BEVERLY AND JIM BROCK, 311 N. Sheridan, made his film debut as a
friend of actor MATT DILLON and his brother played by JIM
METZLER in the film version of the S.E. HINTON novel 1 he Lawton
actor has lost 25 pounds, not including his long hair that was cut. since
the film was completed.
BUD AND VICKI HOGAN were in New York City recently, where they
were enjoying the city and where Vicki was taking voice lessons. Among
the Broadway shows they saw was "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers,
starring DEBBY BOONE. The show has closed already, but the Hogans
and their hostess, SHERYL BASSELL, former Cameron speech teacher,
especially wanted to see the musical for other reasons One of the
brothers was played by their friend from Oklahoma City University,
LARA TEETER. Teeter, who did work at Oklahoma City's Lyric
Theater with Bud. has been in other Broadway shows among them “The
Best Little Whorehouse in Texas," "Happy New Year" and “ I he Pirates
of Penzance.”
The Cameron-Lawton Chorus, started last fall as the chorus for the
performance of Handel’s “Messiah" with the Lawton Philharmonic
Orchestra, will begin rehearsals at 7 p.m. Aug 23 in 115 Music Building
on campus. The fall concert, scheduled for Nov. 21. will emphasize
baroque music, utilizing the new organ that will be dedicated in the CU
Recital Hall Sept. 14. Music the group will sing is the Bach motet.
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“I HAVE PICTURES of when I was 6 weeks old and
they were carrying me across the wire,” she said.
Her copper hair bounces atop her 5-foot-2 frame and
her blue eyes flash when she turns on the smile which has
become a reflex drilled into her by her father.
With the big circuses in the United States often leaning
toward European acts, Miss Wallenda lakes her swaypole
to speedways, fairs and carnivals around the Northeast
and over the winter appeared in Jamaica and Mexico
City.
"I actually like this kind of work better than the bigtops
because of the contact with the people,” she said. “After I
come down the wire in the ‘Slide for Life’ I talk to the
crowd. One woman asked me what food I eat and another
wanted to know what kind of deodorant I use.
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"War Society," a painting by Dennis Belindo, a Kiowa/Navajo artist from Anadarko, is one of
45 original paintings in Native American Painting, a traveling exhibit now on display at the
Museum of the Great Plains, 601 Ferris. A public reception is scheduled at 2 p.m. today.
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miners who go into the mines for generations and genera
tions and face that danger."
She reached into a cupboard for a week-old newspaper
clipping showing her son Enrico, 27, walking a tightrop
stretched over a tiger pit at the Columbus, Ohio. Zoo.
“My four kids are the eighth generation and they're all
dedicated to aerial work,” she said.
BEAT THE TICKET LINES! YOU CAN PUR-
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FOR ANY MOVIE SHOWING LATER THAT
SAME DAY. SEATING IS GUARANTEED AL-
THOUGH SPECIFIC SEATS ARE NOT
ASSIGNED.
“Praise the Lord. All Ye Nations,” the Vivaldi "Gloria.” a madrigal by
Haydn and Gabrieli’s "Jubilate Deo." CARROLL STEGALL, head of the
CU vocal area of the Department of Performing Arts, directs the choir.
Those who sing in the choir earn one hour of university credit. To enroll,
bring $13.90 to the first rehearsal.
The old order changes for Six Flags Over Texas fans. The Texas
Riverboat ride will make its last voyage Aug. 15. The ride, one of the
park's original attractions, carries funseekers past thundering cannons
and menacing Indian warriors.
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"THE SEVEN-MAN pyramid has never been
duplicated. I heard of an act in South America that is
supposed to do one, but it's not the same as my father s
with the chair on the top."
The surviving Wallendas put the pyramid together for a
television documentary a year later, but the act was
never again a family standard, she said.
“I’m sure it could be done again, but it would take an
awful lot of time and money and the way the economy is,
the average fair couldn’t pay for it,” she said
She no longer appears under the bigtops of the Shrine
Circus or the Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus
where her mother was performing a few months after
Miss Wallenda was born.
At 45, her hands are rough and strong from a lifetime in
the circus.
PAWTUCKET, R.I. (AP) - Hanging by an ankle on a
swaying pole 110 feet above the ground, Carla Wallenda
doesn’t think about the fall that claimed the life of her
high-wire-walking father.
“I don’t feel it’s dangerous because I know what I'm
doing,” Miss Wallenda said. “Once my spotlight fuse
blew out and I was up there hanging in the dark and all I
could think of was my husband would be mad at me
because I left the Crockpot on.”
As the spoke, she speared another porkchop from a
frying pan and put it in the Crockpot to keep warm as she
stood in the kitchen of the trailer where she lives while
performing away from her Sarasota, Fla., home.
A pet skunk, two dogs and a monkey sniffed her feet as
she prepared dinner for her husband, Mike Morgan, and
14-year-old daughter, Valarie.
OUTSIDE STOOD the 110-foot pole where she would
climb that night to entertain the crowds on the midway at
Billy Burr’s Funorama in a week-long stint at
Pawtucket’s Narragansett Park.
She is the daughter of Karl Wallenda. the circus legend
killed four years ago at the age of 73 when high winds
blew him from a high wire stretched between two high-
rise hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
As a girl she sat in a chair balanced atop the seven-man
pyramid invented by her father as the crowning achieve-
ment of the Great Wallendas.
She rode in the precarious perch from 1950 to 1961. She
was out on her own when the pyramid fell in January
1962. Her cousin Dieta was killed and her brother Mario
paralyzed in the 30-foot fall during a Shrine Circus in
Detroit.
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beoneof the judges for the 1982 Miss America Beauty I ageant Sept in
Atlantic City.
Opera fans will want to start saving their pennies and nickels for the
San Francisco Opera Tour scheduled Nov. 11 though 15
City Friends of Opera. During the four-day trip, opera buffs Wil M ‘
“Queen of Spades” by Tschaikovsky; "Cendrillon" by Massenet, iand
“Dialogues of the Carmelites" by Poulenc. Cost of the tour . ine ut 1 g
airfare, is $969, double occupancy. Reservation deposits of $-50 are due
Sept. 1, final payments are due by Sept. 15. For complete inforn
write Evelyn Seagrave Travel, Inc., 6420 N. Western, Oklahoma ny
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For anyone who doubts that GEORGE LUCAS is a very special human
being, how about this bit of news The writer and director of such
blockbusting films as “Star Wars" and “The Empire Strikes Back 8a) e
$4.7 million to the University of Southern California s $14 million
cinema-television school. He told ALJEAN HARME I Zof York
Times, "Films and television tell us the way we conduct our lives, what
is right and wrong. It's important that the people who make films
ethics classes, philosophy classes, history classes. Ot were
witch doctors.” Lucas' influence helped bring about the revival of
quality family entertainment in motion pictures
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Midwestern State University Fine Arts Cameron House.
"Evita,” Aug. 3 through 8. Civic Cen- Center, Wichita Falls. “Barnum." Aug. 24 through 28. Civic
ter Music Hall, Oklahoma City. Lawton Community Theater Guild Center Music Hall, Oklahoma City.
"La Traviata,” 8 p.m. Aug. 17, 20 and
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THE HALL OF Flags, which houses
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the caisson on which Franklin D.
Roosevelt’s coffin was carried, was
built in 1872. The banners of many
famous regiments are displayed. Un-
der construction is an exhibit of the
Peter’s Company, the first all-military
regiment of light artillery. Military
uniforms, tack, a gun carriage and
ammunition wagon are all parts of the
proposed display.
Also located in the Hall of Flags is
the multimedia presentation on the his-
tory of Fort Sill and the area. It is
shown daily at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.
In Hamilton Hall, named in memory
of Gen. Alexander Hamilton, are
exhibited field artillery memorabilia
from Colonial times to the 1890s. Fea-
tures are muzzle-loading cannons, uni-
forms, small arms, gunners’ tools,
models and horse equipment. A diora-
ma of the Siege of Yorktown and exten-
sive exhibits on the Civil War are of
special interest.
THE HISTORY and development of
the artillery from the Spanish-
American War to the present are
displayed in McLain Hall. Among the
items are uniforms worn on the battle-
fields of France in 1918, the famous
"French 75” field gun, an artillery
observation plane dating from World
War II. and medals and insignias.
Old Post Chapel, the little “battle
abbey” was built in 1875 as the post
chapel and schoolhouse. It is one of the
oldest existing house of worship in
Oklahoma that has been in continuous
use since its founding.
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