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The Brussels Post, 1962-07-05, Page 2....•.**Iereineresen (z,rtdolin.e D. Clo.,:olke 'Mostes. in Apartments, T vy y v v y ¤ Photo Courtesy LUFTHANSA German Airlines FAMES COMING DOWN? Less than half a cent per mile was the fore for this cot "Bonzo" fora quarter trip around the globe. For $25.38 from. Vancouver to Berlin includ- ing a refreshing drink of milk served by Lufthansa hostess Elau. Roos during a stopover in Montreal was the travel bargain for this tiny passenger. Perle Mesta, Washington's legendary "hostett with the mostest," hat new quartets for her rieW career as writer-lecturer. Mrs. Mesta tjave up her mansion, "Les ()tents," to Vice President enid Mrs Lyndon Joirson, Arid now liveit with her themeritet and collectors' 'tont Remarkable Story Of Ed Sullivan 11 esee danced, and so did the teeeeeil Danish Ballet, Ray Bolger, ilia Moiseyese Fred Astaire, the Salzburg Marionettes. and Mar- got Fonteyn; the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company sang, as did Bobby Darin, the Obernkireben nituldreees Choir, Julius La Rosa, Melia Callas, the Air Force Academy Glee Club, Elvis Pres- ley, Edith Plat, Cesare Siete, and the Melle•Larks; dummies crack- ed jokes, as dtd Bob Hope, Jerry reetwis, Noel Coward, Carl Sand- berg, Victor Boege, Yehudi Me- whin. lietiny Youneman, Oscar Hammerstein. .lack Pear, and Ben Hogan. The list goes on for 14,000 names (although not right here), and includes all but a handful of those who have pre- sented the nseives to the Western world as performers in the past fifteen yews, rule hem accepted as such. And thee have all. at One time or another, acrd their high-priced names shottted at the television-watching pubic in the same ringing, metallic, New 'York Irish tones of Ed Sullivan, prop- rietor of the longest-lived and— Ott it how yeu Site- cre-sfu: program in televisi,::it's brief hietory. Sullivan ;31'd ::"1:;, variety show will have been on the air for teurteen eenseeutive years, al- oeough CBS, a temk-big network, refers to it as "the beginning of the fifteenth.' F. the occasion, Sullivan had lined up a parti- eularie ;:d13.11i.' array of mums Xftml•::, amen; them. Jack Benny, Smith Bing Crosby, and Steve Allen. plus a gimmick: He does not know, he says. what any of these stars will do on the program, asses he has beer. ban- nee from rehearsal so he cannot einal out. If the glittery cast of perform- ers is nothing new for Sulli- van's show, his own fogginess about their intended japery is a radical departure. Week after week, summer and winter, through 724 shows that have cost his sponsor's about $50 mil- lion (and earned him perhaps $5 million), Sullivan has run his tit Palace as a personal fief. e books all acts himself, with son-in-law and producer Bob Precht, and has traveled more than a million miles scouting Australian jugglers, Polish glock- Ipielers, Nigerian jazzmen, 6,19iffs yodelers, and Catskill com- edians. He "routines" each snow himself, decides which act will follow which, and serves as well as a booster, tonfessoe_ assistant director, and a particularly hard- eyed unofficial member of the Catholic Legion of Decency. "All comics . . ." he says and then stops, spreading his arms to in- dicate the size of the comic con- spiracy. "I have to tell them, this is not only dirty, it's vile. That's where I got ray ulcer from." If the glittery cast of perform- ers is nothing new for Sullivan's show, his own foginess about their intended japery. is a radi- cal departure. Week after week, summer and winter, through 724 shows that have cost his sponsors about 850 million (and earned him perhaps $5 million), Sullivan has run his petit Pa- lace as a personal fief. He books all acts himself, with son-in-law and producer Bab Precht, and has traveled more than a million miles scouting Austtalian jug- glers, Polish glockenspielere, Ni- gerian jazzmen, Swiss yodelers, and Catskill comedians. He "rou- tines" each show himself, decides which act will follow which, and eerees as well as a booster, con- fessor, assisant director, and a patticuiarly hard-eyed unoffi- cial member of the Catholic Le- gion of ecency. "Ail comics .. he says and then stops, spread- ing his arms to indicate the size of the comic conspiracy. "I have to tell them, this is not only dirty. it's vile, That's where I got my ulcer from." Suievan hes also, of ceurse, served as his own master of cere- monies for all these Sundaes. and this is where the wonder begirs to pee up like one of hi human pyramids. Stonv-faced, baggy- even so stiff through his bull- neei and shoulders that he is frequently as: umed te have brok- en h1 back, a mangler of thought and languatte, a stumbling, bun- gling, fumbling perpetual &me- tre.. who has yet to master the smallest gesture, the simplest phruee. Sullivan is the most pain- fully unlikely stage figure in all the nizarre history of vaudeville. SALLY'S SALLIES For rei tin endearing fin: t,, itymg in his cm:stint:rate alt the sincerity, straightforward- ness, and democratic virtues that slicker articles lark. Per. farmers see in him not oele g shencase and pas:miner tas mull as $10,000 for the biggest nanee), but a champion fan. "He is so aware of talent," Helen Hayes has said, 'so struck with the splendor of it, so altogether stage-struck in the true sense of the elmase, that one can feel it." Binn 5i) years :we—a:though he look; only about 45, even the '20s, with The New York without make-up — Sullivan caught on as a sportswriter in Evening Mail then the Graphic. His Broadway column, begun in the late '20s, is now syndicated by the Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate. Sullivan organized countless benefits for servicemen and hospitals during the war. He also played host on the News's harvest Moon Ball, where he was seen in 1947 by a CBS official who was looking for an ni.e. for a prospective variety show ea:led "Toast of the Town." Sullivan's first show went on the air, carried by six stations, on June 20, 1948, with a budget of $1,350 and a east that includ- ed Rodgers and Hammerstein, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, singer Monica Lewis, and the June Taylor dancers. The critics liked the show but howled about Sullivan, in who they saw a certain indefinable nothing. Nevertheless, Lincoln - Mercury picked up the show—as ,,,did a sizable audience—and Sullivan settled in for the long siege: NBC threw every star it had against him and beat him for awhile with "The Colgate Com- edy Hour": "Maverick" came along later and for two seasons crushed him in the ratings. Neither of them could keep it up. "The turning point for Ed came when he signed Julius La Rosa after Godfrey fired him in 19a3," says an executive on a rival network. "That brought him tremendous empathy, and since then he's been right up at the top." Sullivan has always had what he calls "a newspaperman's eye" for the timeliness of a performer, and he often signs up do-nothing guests—especially athletes—for walk-on appearances solely be- cause they are in the news. But his best eye is that of a show- man. An enthusiastic if untutor- ed opera lover since his youth, he found that grand opera would step the show cold "if you put the high-class stuff in with the pop." (Soprano Roberta Peters, with 35 appearances, has been on his show more often any other performer except the Canadian comics Johnny Wayne and Frank Shuster.) Just once he tried to make culture carny the main load, hiring Callas, Dimitri Mi- tropoulos and the Metropolitan Opera orchestra, for an eighteen- minute version of "Tosca." "The reaction to this single achieve- ment," he says, "was ghastly. I'd made a deal to do six operas. I did three and got the hell out." Sullivan has enormous faith in his ability to gauge public reac- tion. "Public opinion is the voice of God," he says. "The greatest thing for this show is the dress rehearsal. One act can give strength to another, or it can come on and go boom. What the hell, until I play it in front of an audience, I never know, I've never once gone on at night (all but a few shows are done Jive) with the same running order I had that afternoon for rehearsal." After all his exposure. Sullivan is unruffled by "my lack of per- forming talent." and in fact re- gards it as a secret weapon. "If I bring Jimmy Durante to your home," he said last month, ex- ploding the words "Jimmy Du- rante" as if they were Ten Com- mandments, "and then I do all the talking, you'd say, Heaven's sake Edward shut up. The audi- ence is the same way. They say, why don't you put the act on? Every other variety show has always had a star, a performer, I don't think you could ever get anybody but me content just to introduce an act and get off.". Front NEWSWEEK Modern Etiquette By Anne Ashics Q. Is it all right for a young man to smoke his date's cig- arets? A. It is excusable to smoke one or two, if he happens to be out of cigarets. But certainly not all evening. He must, as soon as possible, buy some fresh cigarets for himself and his girl. Q. Is it considered proper for a woman to shake hands with her gloves on? A. Quite proper — and rte excuses for the gloves are neeees sary either. When a Orsini 'Who Si Make ing ati ititroduotillit fails to Speak a hunt olearly, and It Ise itepors taint that you know the 'utilise of Whom do yoti ask that the nuns be keistated? A. Always ask the `patent Ins &educed, not the Otte who leis Made the ititrodttetbere Being Different In Hollywood I was not quite bug we s' elarema moved all of us and all our wordly goose to Hollywood. Mamma's sister's hantsand, Uncle Trax, first arranged for ane tees, and then for me, to get work as child-extras in motion pictures, and Menune to open a Boarding House. What we kids earned at the studio was very welcome in the family kitty. Mamma was as se- lective of her paying guests and as solicitous cre tben. comfort and convenience, once then passed her Kentucky-bred standards, as though they were her house guests, and in no way connected with anyone's livelihood. So we never hai. such money. But we always had a lien abun- dance of all the things money can't buy. Love, trust, discipline, religious training, And we had lots and lots of fee! . I remember when. transferred from the first school be the other. At the first one we had to wear uniforms, at the second one we didn't. I had the uniforr -s. Our funds being what they well:, the cost of the uniforms was enough that, baying them, I had no dresses. No problems, I thought. I simply wore my uniforms to the new school. They marine: me as dif- ferent, set me apart. Nem of my classmates made me mallet this fact and then I did have a prob- lem. The day that one of the girls asked, "Haven't you any dresses at all?" her tone "...ay shriv- eled my pride and I care home crying. I sobbed my story to Marrma. She put her arms around me, but without any excess of sympathy. She said firmly: "No',, tee here, Gretchen. Whatever you wear is always neat. It is always clean. The other children may have very fine clothes, but they can- not be more immaculate than your uniforms. It's nee. to have fine clothes, but it's not import- ant. It is important to be clean. • made for use at the cottage so I don't feel I should as., help in doing what is actually, nee awn work. Se there it is — fascinet- ing work for anyone but I enefect I shalt wind up• doing most of the work myself. I shall enjoy doing it — but it does War time Goodbye . Partner is ceiling me • . we are on. our waif to vote! 'Cleanlinne is next to enellle nesse " As far ae Mamma *as concern- ed, that Wli3 the end of it. Of coutee her arms were com- forting, but there was no non- sense in her attitude. She expec- ted me to adjust to the fact that the uniforms had to be worn. She made me feel proud of their cleanliness. She made me proud to be different. And I know that gave me an independence which has helped me In my work and in my life.—From "The Things had to Learn," by Loretta Young as told to Helen Ferguson. Wer.0•••••11,.... Beautiful Models Appear At The Etc Toronto's prettiest girls did a promenade on the stage of the Queen Elizabeth Theatre at the Canadian National Exhibition as models were chosen for the women's division fashion shows for the 1962 C.N.E. More than 100 girls arrived to compete for the nine available openings for senior female models, Judges were Wm, Wheeler of Gordon MacKay Walker, Elsa Jenkins, Manager of Women's Activities and Pearl Varey, C.N.E. Fashion Co-Ordinator Mrs. Jenkins reports there will be more than a dozen daily fa- shion shows on the stage of the beautiful Queen Elizabeth Thea- tre this year during the Ex. Each will be like a capsule musical comedy, with lavish sets, story themes and musical backgrounds. The shows will use one senior male model, one matron, and 14 child models of the Estelle Mod- elling School including three pre-teens, in addition to' the nine senior female models selected in June. There will be five coin- mentators. The nine beautiful girls who 'were selected are: Ulla More- land, Marianne Lenchak, Barb Ellis, Queta Robinson, Christa Matt, Alberta Hawkins, Jean Williams, Marj Carter, Bev Clarke, REALLY TAKEN At a fashionable nightclub, a girl-about-town boasted to a friend in the powder room, "I had my nose bobbed for eight hundred dollars and already I've been taken for Kim Novak." "You've been taken all right," sneered the friend — "for eight hundred dollars." ISSUE 27 — 1962 Laboring forces are getting to be so contradictory we 'hardly know what to expect any more. We hear of strikes and rowdyism and then we run into a situation that makes us wonder if white collar outfits will soon be the universal garb for all workers. It came about this way. Township workmen were doing a tar-pat- ching job along the suburban roads. When they stopped out- side our place one of the fellows asked Partner if he would get him a drink. of water. • "Sure." said Partner, and he went off to the house, put water into a small aluminium pot and added half a dozen ice cubes. When he hand- ed it to the man the fellow look- ed from the water to Partner and said "How am I supposed to drink it?" Partner just about blew a fuse. "Holy Moses," he. exclaimed, "didn't you ever drink out of a tin can?" When Partner told me about it I re- membered when the children and. I used to run out to the field in haying time with a can of fresh, cold water, straight from the well. No one ,asked then how he was supposed to drink — nor in the army either. Partner said maybe this fellow would have known better how to deal with. a bottle! —" Well, thing;: moved so fast last week we could hardly keep pace with them. Weather-wise we had everything — cold weather, hot weather, thunderstorms . . . and even rain! Everything in he garden jumped about three inches. More of our shrubs have come, into bloom, including a climbing honeysuckle. As a re- sult we now have humming-birds to visit us. Socially, there have been teas, garden parties and such like. Maybe in some cases they are a welcome alternative to political meetings and tele- vised broadcasts. Now at long last they have come to an end and this week we shall know which party the people have chosen to guide our destiny for the next few years. I only hope there will be a working majority of some kind so we are not faced with another electior. inside of six months. That would be awful. To me one of the most inter- esting events last week was the running of the Queen's Plate with her Majesty, the Queen Mother, awarding the prize to Mr. E. P. Taylor, owner of the winning filly, "Flaming Page". We, had visitors' here yesterday who had been there and they said the Queen Mother, young- locking and charming, yeas still her gracious "self and quite obviously interested in the set- up for running the race as com- pared with similar events in England. As often as she must hear the National Anthem I would imagine that even the Queen Mother must be conscious of a certain thrill every time she hears it — to think the -Queen referred to in the Anthem is her • own daughter. Young 'members of the Royal Family are also in the news these days. The latest is Princess Anne spending her first week-end• in a Girl Guide camp, helping with. the cooking and washing the dishes. Girl Guides everywhere will be proud of the fact that Princess Anne is now one of their number. Well, in my last column I was telling you I had been making pyjamas for some .of my grand- sons. That meant a Tot of cut- tings left over so I went to work and made up most of the pieces into four-inch blocks until I had enough to make a top for a single-bed quilt. By Saturday I had the top finished. The next problem was setting up the quilt , — how and where was I to find room for it? I thought about our big rooms at the farm — one room sixteen feet square — in which we thought nothing of setting up two quilts at one time. Here even .one single quilt is a problem although our rooms are by no means small. Partner • wanted to sthift things around in 'the livingroom and put it there. But I wouldn't consider it be- cause• I knew. exactly -what would happen — I would be Working at it ev.eny spare minute to get it out of the way4 I finally set it -up down in the-basement • where there is plenty of .room and it is also cool. Now I find. our neighbours are very interest- ed in my quilt. "Oh, I remember my mother used, to have quiltse like that!" "Well, for goodness sake, is that how quilting is done?" But not one of them• knew how to quilt! It is becom- ing a lost art. If this quilt were for some organization I could invite a few old-timers in to help me. But this quilt is being Anietne wt. of thee, beer* Zen MAO" in a 15 room penthouse atop a a do-operative apartment overlooking Washington and Si portion of the Virginia countryside. At-leff, Mrs. Mesta poses with a French figurine in the music town Cebihetlike piece it a desk tined used by Marie Atoinette At right, she surveys the WcAington scene from tine df two 40= MONROE SIRED — Lee itemick, left, was slated to replace Marilyn Monroe, right, in n new movie after Miss Monroe's studio fired her and sued her for $500,000 for breach of contract in Hollywood. foot- long terrace-type balconies. to meet Mrs Mesta's requirements, four two-bed, raerei units were changed to provide living, dining, music and .drov,Ing roams, 'seven bed. toottit. and. baths Tit' penthouse apartment includes tart . -of flee, in-W.1611n and butler's pantry, gv.