European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 02, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes monday. May 2.1988 photographers have a Field Day in California from press dispatches a Hundred photographers fanned Mil across Cali fornia Friday shooting thousands of Rolls of film in an everyday portrait of the slate. It was just another Day in Chinatown in san Francisco where inside a Catholic school children began with the pledge of allegiance a prayer and a song. Seny Norasinh. One of the photographers for the planned Book a Day in the life of California also was there. Nor Singh watched the first graders As they Chan Ted a phonics lesson then began to use his camera crouching near the Small desks. Several other photog Raphers took photos of nor Singh or of their col leagues taking pictures of him. Meanwhile 99 other men and women with Cam eras were on assignment in Chlon Stockton Fresno Vos Milc the Silicon Valley and other places be tween Crescent City and Al Centre for the Book. The volume set for fall publication is part of a series of books containing photographs taken in a Groucho look alike Eugene Schwaier a 36-year-old indent of fre Donla in.  stale College wot the Winner of on Groucho Man look alike Tonnett in the school l second annual Marx Brothers festival. Certain place in a single Day. The concept is extremely easy to grasp and elegantly simple. That is. You re creating a visual time capsule a family  said David Cohen who with Rick Smolan began the series seven years ago. The books have focused on Australia Hawaii Canada Spain America and the soviet Union. Cohen formerly managing editor of Contact press images in new York and Smolan a former Contact photographer have published most of the books themselves but they did t achieve great commercial Success until the Book on America came out in 1986. Cohen said he believes a Market for another Book on California exists despite a glut of Coffee table books filled with photos of the state because most arc filled with cliches of Beauty spots or they go completely in the other direction and you see a Freak  just a Hick from Texas actor John Hillerman is ending an eight year run of fooling britons playing Jonathan Higgs the Stuffy British major Domo who runs the estate of the perpetually absent mystery writer Robin masters on   fact a lot of fan mail from England saying. Well done it s Good to Sec one of us making it i have to write Back and say. Sorry to disappoint you but i m just a Hick from Texas " Hillerman said recently. The Ocsan was bidding Aloha to the series in its final showing sunday night with a two hour special episode in which the identity of the unseen Kobe masters was to be revealed. Of his eight years on the magnum set Hiller Man said. I be spent 33 years acting. 1 have done 23 motion pictures and the last eight years have been the happiest of my  cuban troupe gets visas a group of cuban singers dancers and musicians from Havana s Tropicana nightclub has obtained permission to perform this month in new York and los Angeles the tour promoter said in a published report saturday. The group includes 57 people including dancers singers and a 13-Piccc orchestra plus 240 costumes and 190 headdresses some of them 3 and 4 feet High promoter Paul Trautman told the Miami Herald. Raulman said he has had political problems with the tour since August when he began to try to bring the troupe to the United Stales. The state department refused visa applications and appeals four times he said. It said at first it considered the performers official representatives of the cuban government and that they were therefore not entitled to visas. Donna Sherman of the state department s Bureau of consular affairs said the latest request was granted because there arc fewer stops Only two  in new York the troupe will perform at the Bea con theater May 17-22 before moving to the variety arts theater in Ixo Angeles. The Tropicana in Havana is an outdoor nightclub with seating for 1.000. Big name . Performers such As Nat King Cole once appeared there but now the entertainment is strictly cuban. The open air Palm shaded 1950s flavor has been preserved however according to North americans who have been there recently. It is one of the few cuban night clubs left open in the communist nation after the revolution in 1959. Sex beat a oks soviet Deal Roll Over Beethoven and certainly Tell Tchaikovsky the news sex by talc Paul Mccartney has signed a record Deal with the soviet stale recording company Melodia. Mccartney in an interview published saturday in the communist youth league newspaper Komsomol Skaya pravda in Moscow said an album featuring 13 songs mostly Rock v Roll hits dating Back to the 1950s and 60s, will be released exclusively in the soviet Union in october. He said it was his Way of saying thanks to his legion of Loyal fans in a country which once thought of Western Rock music As anti soviet and a physically addictive imperialist ploy to corrupt communist youth. Mccartney said the new openness in soviet society and the upcoming .-sovict Summit made the time right to repay fan loyalty. I know that All my records one Way or another gel to the soviet Union. I knew that the beatles and beatles style music is loved in your country. One More reason is your glasnost openness and me Dia Logue Between president Ronald Reagan and soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev Mccartney said. The new spirit of Friendship and openness that comes out of Russia made me make a gesture of appreciation by presenting the new disc to my fans in your country he told the newspaper. The album was Cut in a single Day in Mccartney s London studios last september the newspaper said. It will not be sold outside of the soviet Union. The beatles have Long been popular inside the so Viet Union but it was Only in 1986 that the first Scalle record was officially sanctioned for release. Melodia through a Deal with the British Emi record company released 200,000 copies of a special two album set of Early Catle hits called a hard Day s  the $ 11.90 set sold out within hours. The Early Rock v Roll songs of the beatles have gained official acceptance because of their apolitical lyrics but later songs associated with drug use have not been approved by the stale censor Board. Bytes s chips prime time interfaces with today s technology at a military computer club in Germany a performance at an English speaking theater in Frankfurt interviews with Lou Gramm Lead Singer of the Rock group foreigner and with the Rock group the Hooters a Story on the Carillon a unique Bell instrument tomorrow night at 8 . On your an superstition