ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1997, Roanoke Times
DATE: Tuesday, January 28, 1997 TAG: 9701280131
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: 4 EDITION: METRO
Ride 'em, cowboys
WYTHEVILLE - The Wytheville Community College Cultural Affairs Committee will offer a Saturday matinee of old-time movies from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Grayson Hall on campus. Admission is free, and popcorn will be offered for sale.
The movies will include three B-Westerns: "Texas Ranger" with Buck Jones at 10 a.m.; "Frontier Investigator" with Rocky Lane at 11 a.m.; and "Border Saddlemates" with Rex Allen at 3 p.m.
A serial condensed into a 100-minute feature, "Dick Tracy Vs. Crime Inc.," will start at 1 p.m. A comedy short, "Birthday Blues" with Leon Errol, is at 2:30 p.m. There will be a one-hour lunch break at noon.
More recent movies such as "Star Wars" and the "Indiana Jones" series are done in the same style as the serial feature, with stunts and cliff-hangers throughout. The movies also include people in their casts who will be familiar to older members of the audience. The Lane Western, for example, includes a maskless Clayton Moore shortly before he became television's "Lone Ranger" and Gail Davis before she started her "Annie Oakley" TV series.
There will be commentary on the background of these movies and the role they played in Hollywood history.
Sierra Club meeting
The monthly meeting of the Roanoke River Group of the Sierra Club will be held tonight at 7 in the Science Museum Lecture Hall, Center in the Square, Roanoke. Annual reports will be presented by representatives of two major environmental organizations - the Virginia Conservation Network and the Chesapeake Bay Foundation. The speaker for the meeting will be Roanoke College's Bob Jenkins, author of the recently-published book "Fish of Virginia."
The meeting is open to the public. Call 343-0344 for more information.
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