A riot was narrowly averted at the Binyanei Haooma concert hall last night where the Black American singer Ray Charles was giving a concert. The audience at the first show refused to leave the hall when it was over because an American television crew filming the performance had repeatedly disrupted the concert.
The audience for the second show surged into the auditorium despite efforts by the ushers to keep them out. Fist fights broke out in front of the stage but more serious trouble was averted when the management decided to allow the first audience to remain for the second show.
Members of the first audience who had paid high prices for admission were angered because the show was 45 minutes late in starting. They said that during the performance they were disturbed by lights held up by the tv crew and that prop men and technicians repeatedly traversed the stage. Charles refused to give an encore when the first show ended. The blind singer arrived here yesterday to make a film, “Ray Charles in the Holy Land.”
Prague Radio, monitored in Copenhagen, announced Tuesday night that a new Russian-Hebrew dictionary is to be published in the Soviet Union. The radio commentator said the new dictionary is being edited by Prof. Itzhak Vinikov of Leningrad University.
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