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Carlene Ca Play continue; "A Woman Mov'd," an acting thesis production featuring Ruth Ann Phimister Werkley, will be presented tonight and Saturday, Sept. 8 and 9 at Longstreet ineaire. The 8 p.m. performances will present a variety of scenes from a number of plays, ranging from ancient to contemporary theatre. Admission is free. Demonstrating her ability to perform a variety of roles will be Werkleya ire-iter's degree candidate in the USC Theatre Department. The performance is part of her degree requirements. A graduate of Drew University, 1", \1 "Wliere I beer We Cater ] I ' I rter... not quite country s at Longstreet Werkley Is a teaching assistant at USC in the Department of Theatre and Speech. She has appeared in several departmental productions. ? She has studied acting at Bennington College and Herbert Rercrhnf Studio in Npw Ynrk Citv appearing in such roles as Alma in "Summer and Smoke," Jennet in "The Lay's Not for Burning," Hesione in "Heartbreak House" and Eleanor in "The Lion in . |p Winter." Last year she appeared 4^.*, * as Angclique in "The Imaginary JlStoi Invalid," produced by USC's jiff' | Theatre Department, and she has !?*># been active in the University's P'jf xvcauci s xitea li e ri ugruiu. i To Buy" JmI WINE 'W^Wl Just go t< truer Keg %?pr: and Friday, drawina wl 3 Bush River Road so, stop 6 Boardwalk Plaza wtonca lephone 798-0577 Charleston or more, a Keg Parties | Andyo"'" Carlene Ca under luck By Peter J. Boyer AP Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) ? You can't be born royal in this country, but you can be born lucky. If your daddy's the Porcelain King of Toledo, you know you can always go into tubes and toilets if your great American novel doesn't sell. If ever anyone was born into success, it was blue-eyed, sweet singing Carlene Carter. The name alone meant stardom. No, no kin to Jimmy. Better than that . The Carter family from Nashville. Carlene's grandmother is Mother Maybelle Carter, the matriarch of country music. Mama is June Carter Cash. Country folk singer Carl Smith is her father. Johnny Cash is her step daddy. With all that pedigree, all Carlene had to do to become a country star was to learn to stand in front of a microphone and avoid commiting any heinous crimes. When it turned out she could sing, everyone knew Nashville would one day be hers. She turned it down. rART.RNIT. rARTRB uinntMi rrwnlr 'n> roll. She played lead guitar with a rock band when she was 11 years old. The Electric Kumquats didn't go far, but the experience hardened Carlene's wich to be a pop star. "It would have been easy for me to ride off my name and just play country o the Russell House and meet the C&S Hostess r, free, to win one of the great prizes being giver ble color television set. Or one of ten colorful sti register at our Russell House location Septemb< , September 8th, from 8:30 A.M. up to 1:00 A.M. II take place In the Russell House Ballroom. In at tha Ruaaall Houna and ran Inter for tha axel a Financial Wizard. You'll be able to do all your t rnpus. (Russell House and 919 Sumter St.). Not and the Piedmont area. fou open a new C&S checking account for $100 Financial Wizard T-Shlrt Is yours. Free. be a winner any hour, any day at C&S Bank. y stars music," she says in a Tennessee twang that could bend nails. "And I might be a lot more secure about my future and everything if I did that, but that's not what I want to do. "I'd know that I did it myself, and I'd rather be doing what I wanted to do instead of doing what I was expected to do because of tradition." So now she's running the rounds of a pop singer ? playing the pop nightclubs, indulging the rock 'n' roll press, touting her debut album. The lp, Carlene Carter, is good, clean pop music, and allows ^-?? uancue iu auuw uu duuic (wwciiui vocals. It's interesting that in a time when everyone is claiming a few ounces of Southern blood, infusing a few obligatory licks of pedal steel and dobro into pop, some of the purest pop around comes from a girl who cut her teeth on the curtain weights at the grand Ole Opry. PavlAnA i d alm/uif nhoMnlvA in Vint* vat l^HV AO nunvob VMOW01? V U? <IVA avoidance of anything country. Every recording studio in Nashville was awaiting her pleasure, but she flew to London to record the album. "I went to England mainly because I was sure 1 wanted to be myself when I recorded the album," she says. "I wanted to dosomething different than what the other girls in Nashville do. They all have AI ! _ 1 14 1 .1 A. _ _11 me same musicians, ana it uegins 10 au sound alike." in the Financial Wizard T Shirt. She'll help i away by C&S at the Ali-Nlter. Like a 17" adlum blankets. ?r5th, 6th, and 7th from 8:30 A.M. to 7 P.M., Saturday morning. That's when the tement. When you do, be sure to ask about tanking 7 days a week, 24 hours a day, to mention other locations in Columbia, ^ffAOtON^uar The C iti/t n i and Southern National Bank of South Carolina [| Member FDIC