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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Tuesday, August 16, 1977

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 16, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                August 1977 the stars and stripes Page 19 a rising Star Faith Ohara plenty of work in by Dan Warfield sets entertainment editor say most of the celebrity acts on the military club circuit Are either faded stars or rising Faith Ohara is definitely on the Hie justturned21 country Singer from Sacra mento arrived in Frankfurt last week with her Perry for her first Ever tour of Ger Many army Jerry Naylor talked us into this laughed Ohara in an interview in who Wilt follow Ohara on the overseas club has been trying to get Ohara out of the lucrative Nevada club Cir Cuit and More into the National Neres a circuit of nightclubs la Nevada said that pays better than anywhere we make so much Money on a regular basis in that area that it Doest really pay us to go anywhere he said there losing income by playing in Germany rather than Lake Reno or besides covering current hits like Texas and country standards like Rocky o1 hares show includes what must be a first for the clubs trip to the grand old the they plan to do wherever there is an adequate dressing features Jones playing the radio Reading part of the history of the opry and introducing Loretia Kitty and Dolly Between Voharas costume Jones reads commercials and becomes Little Jimmy Dickens singing May the Bird of Paradise Fly up your the muskrats the English band that has backed up several stateside country shows provide impersonations of Bob wills and Johnny All these people were doing Here have been members of the opry for years and years and said Ever since i was really Little Dolly parlous been my favorite i gnus that Why ii goes Over the she described the noetic change into her Dolly Parton the costume supplied primarily by Fredericks of Bird of Paradise is Only like a and a half in that time i have to gel out of Kitty Wells and i have to change have to put on a big you have to put the Dolly Parton top on before you put the three bras the opry show May sound like a corny but its handled smoothly and should be a Good time for any country there is More to Faith Ohara than dressing up like Dolly or doing a Tanya Tucker or any this is a insert name of Star her voice and her style arc As Good As Many established Nashville she  draw Faith who responses much longer unless she just stays in her latest years from is doing Well in the and real country stardom May just be a question of finding the right Ohara describes her own music As not really Stone country and not really i was Doin Stone country with the first producer i worked with with the second producer it was country twang but it had a Rock n Roll and then i went into almost a Kris Kristofferson very Laid this last time i did 3 Waltzes and 2 up one was Middleon therond and one was almost like Tammy schedule for remaining shows aug u  aug Skull dirt Chou sigm aug ii if main aug Burn Holm aug Wuu Mcm  aug ii a Marg aug 14 re will aug ii if main aug Burn Holm aug Wuu pm  aug ii by tour aug 14 re will aug u fru Murt aug ii Momiu  aug artists views of London in a historic setting s by Gregory United Ivess International foil a thousand years the River thames has been a Royal Road through a Royal and it is celebrated As such in a vivid new exhibition marking Queen Silver yet with in Mon and the thames it is hard id know which to Praise first the exhibition or its the show is a gorgeous gathering of 114 paintings of the City and its River during three centuries but the paintings arc almost Siul dazzled by the historic rooms in which they re displayed triese Are the Fine rooms of Somerset now open to the Public for the Foj first time in 141 conducted by 1836 housed flit King Cruger Royal Academy for Art and r travel writer inc Royal society for science in a setting of Beauty and they arc rooms of classical cornices and ornate of elaborate ceilings and pastel linked by a stunning spiral it was in these rooms that every Brit ish Painter of note for half a Century exhibited his or her and the world Cameta see said Baroness Birk in the shows Here Johnson attended and sir Joshua Reynolds spoke with Edmund Burke in the we can stand in the room where i Pioneer botanist sir Joseph Banks where Lle Schell announced the discovery of the planet where sir Humphrey Davy exhibited his safety lamp for the first four years ago Baroness Birks department of the environment finally evicted civil servants from the Fine disfigured for decades by chipped teacups and temporary office Worth of work the rooms look As they did for Turners Art lectures or Johnsons visits some paintings in London and the thames arc Back in the place where they were first exhibited so much history sits lightly on an exhibition which is a visual Panorama of London s own showing us changes Over the past b5 it begins with views of Riverside London before the great fire of a Golgi City of piercing with London Bridge covered with buildings and is 1auls Cathedral looking then suddenly the City is turned to Stone by rebuilding after the this dominated by the great dome of sir Christopher Wrens new Paul is the one Canaletto canal Elton and his contemporaries produced drenched paintings of a thames alive with water Bact be British travel association 1647 engraving titled View of London shows riverfront and Pauls before the great spanned by Bridges which mostly have been they show some which arc unchanged to this a Luminous Turner painting of the upper thames contrasts with the pea soup London of Jack the Ripper and Sherlock its fogs and smokes ooze from whistlers River studies and create changes of murky Light which the French captured in repeated paint Ings of the Samo yet at the same painters like Sisley and Pissarro saw the same scenes in vivid and up and Down the River lesser painters were depicting Lighth carted scenes of pure Victoria a Jacques Joseph Tissot painted some of the most particularly one of a pair of Parasole ladies and a Swain boating on the Edward Gregory boulders look is a victorian sunday traffic Jam on the captivating the show moves into the London of Concrete eyesores with three Colo splashed the last painted in 1970 from the top of one of the skyscrapers now overshadowing the nearly All the shows paintings arc there is not an a fast act among they demonstrate not Only London eve changing nature but the different ways artists saw a River scape which continually inspired the paintings come from no less than 21 collections in the United from Queen Elizabeths Royal horde and from collections in Australia Aid seven european Londoff and the thames balances artistic masterpieces against works of Charm or simple there Are Many surprises and hardly a Dull picture in and its stately setting houses it beautifully the exhibition is on View through oct  
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