What’s Happening: Roy Ayers, Dexter Wansel Play Atlantic City Steel Pier, p. 11
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What’s Happening: Roy Ayers, Dexter Wansel Play Atlantic City Steel Pier, p. 11
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"The Atlantic City Steel Pier is the place to be this coming Fourth of July weekend.
Roy Ayers and Dexter Wansel along with the Lawrence Parker models have been book into the Music Hall for two shows, 4 p.m. and midnight, July 1-2-3.
Gregory Scroggins & his World Famous Productions is the first black promoter to book the Steel Pier Music Hall.
Scroggins reports the Music Hall has had $2 million remodeling job and is very plush.
The Steel Pier has now become an extension of the Boardwalk where exceptional entertainment can be enjoyed by children of all ages.
There’s a ten-foot man-eating shark in the Waters of the Pier’s Sea Theatre and a sensational see-through tank.
Then there’s the wet and wild, Water Slide, a unique two-story Victorian carousel, the Indy 500 and Flight to Mars. In the Tony Grant Theatre there are “living dolls” and Stars of Tomorrow.
The National Urban League has scheduled a seminar to review the role played by blacks and others in the entertainment industry promotional campaigns.
Industry figures have been invited for Aug. 5, a day before the start of the Urban League’s annual conference to be held in Los Angeles Convention Center, Aug. 6-9.
James D. William, director of the Urban League’s communications department in a letter soliciting the cooperation of Warner Brothers community relations director, Vincent Tubbs said:
“We are concerned about the whole range of mass communications recognizing the power it has in influencing the way people think and art.”
Williams also asked “What have been the experiences of blacks in the field? What are the problems...the possible solutions?”
SMASH! Universal’s “Jaws 2,” and Paramounts “Grease” broke all known prior boxoffice [sic] records the week of June 16-18. Both grossed over $9. million breaking the records of “Jaws”, “King Kong” and “Star Wars.”
The top pictures on variety’s 50 top films were “Damien” “Omen II” “Capricon One” “The End” and “Thank God It’s Friday.”
The 12th Montreaux International Jazz Festival July 7-23 set in Switzerland has drawn such stars as Ray Charles Freddie Hubbard Dee Dee Bridgewater, Etta James, Miriam Makeba, Taj Mahal, Dizzy Gillespie, Esther Phillips, Mary Lou Williams, Count Baste Norman Conners and Pharaoh Sanders.
The Commodores set to headline an 85 date personal appearance tour beginning June 29 in Baton Rouge, La,: July 20, Rochester, N.Y.: August 3, Richmond, Va.: Aug. 4-6, Washington, D.C.
The Sylvers Mobile Ala. june 30-July 1: Maynard Ferguson, Wildwood N.J., July 5 Ocean City, N.J., July 7 -8 Redd Foxx, Avery Fisher Hall, N.Y. July 13."
Roy Ayers and Dexter Wansel along with the Lawrence Parker models have been book into the Music Hall for two shows, 4 p.m. and midnight, July 1-2-3.
Gregory Scroggins & his World Famous Productions is the first black promoter to book the Steel Pier Music Hall.
Scroggins reports the Music Hall has had $2 million remodeling job and is very plush.
The Steel Pier has now become an extension of the Boardwalk where exceptional entertainment can be enjoyed by children of all ages.
There’s a ten-foot man-eating shark in the Waters of the Pier’s Sea Theatre and a sensational see-through tank.
Then there’s the wet and wild, Water Slide, a unique two-story Victorian carousel, the Indy 500 and Flight to Mars. In the Tony Grant Theatre there are “living dolls” and Stars of Tomorrow.
The National Urban League has scheduled a seminar to review the role played by blacks and others in the entertainment industry promotional campaigns.
Industry figures have been invited for Aug. 5, a day before the start of the Urban League’s annual conference to be held in Los Angeles Convention Center, Aug. 6-9.
James D. William, director of the Urban League’s communications department in a letter soliciting the cooperation of Warner Brothers community relations director, Vincent Tubbs said:
“We are concerned about the whole range of mass communications recognizing the power it has in influencing the way people think and art.”
Williams also asked “What have been the experiences of blacks in the field? What are the problems...the possible solutions?”
SMASH! Universal’s “Jaws 2,” and Paramounts “Grease” broke all known prior boxoffice [sic] records the week of June 16-18. Both grossed over $9. million breaking the records of “Jaws”, “King Kong” and “Star Wars.”
The top pictures on variety’s 50 top films were “Damien” “Omen II” “Capricon One” “The End” and “Thank God It’s Friday.”
The 12th Montreaux International Jazz Festival July 7-23 set in Switzerland has drawn such stars as Ray Charles Freddie Hubbard Dee Dee Bridgewater, Etta James, Miriam Makeba, Taj Mahal, Dizzy Gillespie, Esther Phillips, Mary Lou Williams, Count Baste Norman Conners and Pharaoh Sanders.
The Commodores set to headline an 85 date personal appearance tour beginning June 29 in Baton Rouge, La,: July 20, Rochester, N.Y.: August 3, Richmond, Va.: Aug. 4-6, Washington, D.C.
The Sylvers Mobile Ala. june 30-July 1: Maynard Ferguson, Wildwood N.J., July 5 Ocean City, N.J., July 7 -8 Redd Foxx, Avery Fisher Hall, N.Y. July 13."
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Baltimore Afro-American
Date
1978-7-1
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N/A, “What’s Happening: Roy Ayers, Dexter Wansel Play Atlantic City Steel Pier, p. 11,” African American Fourth of July, accessed May 5, 2024, https://africanamerican4th.omeka.net/items/show/274.