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As fat. as 'Mamma was ,cancern•
ed, that was the end of it.
• Of course her arms .weee corn-
forting, but there was no non-
sense in her attitude. She .expec-
ted me to adjust to the fart that,
the uniforms had to he worn,
She made me feel proud of their
eleanliness. 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-1
had to Learn," by Loretta
Young as told to Helen Ferguson.
Beautiful Madel4,
Appear At The Ex
Toronto's prettiest girls did a
promenade on the stage of the
Queen Elizabeth Theatre at the
Canadian National Exhibition ae
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, wiN, lavish sets, story
themes and musical beckgrotuids,
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 corn-
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,
Being Different
Hollywood.In
was not quite fear ,when
Maintn4 Moved all of us and all
our weirdly goods, to. Hollywood. •
Mamma's sister's husband, Uncle
Trey, first .arranged for my sta.,
tens, and then for me, to got
work as- ehildeextras in motion
pictures, and Mamma to open a
Boarding House.
What we kids earned et the
studio was very welcome in the.
family kitty. Mamma was as se;
leetive of her paying guests and
as SalicitOus of their comfort and.
convenience, once they passed
her Kentucky-bred standards, as
though they were her house
guests, and. in no way connected
with anyone's livelihood.
So we never had much money,
But we always had a rich abun-
dance of all the things money
can't buy. Love, trust, discipline,
religious training, And we had
lots and lots of fan!
I remember when I transferred
from the first school to the
other, At the first one we had to
wear uniforms, at the second
one we didn't.
I had the uniforms. Our funds
being what they were, the cost
of the uniforms was enough that,
having them, 1 had no dresses,.
No problems, I thought, I simply
wore my uniforms to the new
school. They marked me as dife
ferent, set me apart,, Some of my
classmates made me realize 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 really shriv-
eled my pride and I came home
crying,
I, sobbed my story to Mamma.
She put her arms around me, but
without any excess of sympathy.
She said firmly: "Now see 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 nice to have
fine clothes, but it's not import-
ant. It is important to be clean,
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REALLY TAKEN
At a fashionable nightclub, a
girl-about-town boasted to a
friend in the powder room,
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."
made for use at the cottage so I
don't feel I should ask help in
doing what is actually my own
work, So there it is — fascinat-
ing work for anyone but I expect
I shall wind up doing most of
the work myself. I shall enjoy
doing it — but et does take time.
Goodbye • . Partner is calling
me . we are on our way to
vote ISSUE 27 — 1962
Laboring forces 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, Na one asked then how he
was suppoSeci to drink — not' in
the army either. Partner said
maybe this fellow would have
known better how to deal with
a bottle!
Well, thing., moved so Last last
week we could hardly keep pace
with them, Weatber-wise we had.
everything — cold weather, hot
weather, thunderstorms , . . and
even rain! Everything in he
garden jumped about t hree
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 same kind so we are not faced.
with another election inside of
six months. That would be awfnl..
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, was 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
af 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 lot 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 far 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 shift 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 every spare minute
to get it out of the way. 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 quilts
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
MONROE FIRED — Lee Remick, left, was slated to replace
Marilyn Monroe, right, in a new movie after Miss Monroe's
studio fired her and sued her for $500,000 for breach Of
contract in Hollywood.
-e1V3'.40 e S Z7, arl partments, Too -.
1
r most people, however. he
an endearing figure, cinbedying
in his einismumate ineptitude all
the Sincerity, straightforward-
ness, and democratic virtu
that slicker articles lack. Per
formers see in him not ortlY
showcase anti paymaster (a$
Itch as $10,000 for the biggest
names ), but a ehampion fan. "lit
is so aware of talent." Helen.
Hayes has said, ''so .truck with
the splendor of it, so altogether
stage-struck in the true sense of
the phrase, that one can feel IL"
Bern 59 years ago—although
he looks only about 45, even
the '20e, with The New York
without make-up — Sullivan
caught on as a sportswriter in.
Evening Mail, then the Graphic,
His Broadway column, begun in
tne 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 offielal who was looking
for an me. for a prospective
variety show called "Toast of the
Town,"
Sullivan's. first show went on
the air, carried by sly stations,
on June 20, 1948, with a budget
of $1,350 and a cast that ineiud-
ad 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—es 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
1e53," 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
stop 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 carry 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 Gad," 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 arc done live)
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 no-
garde 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."
From NEWSWEEK ::taiakS
Remarkable Story
Of Ed suittv..q.n:
.fetsee danced, and so did the
Royal Danish. Ballet, Ray Bolger,
the Moiseyev, Fred Astaire,. the.
.Salzburg Marionettes, and Mar-
got Font al the D'Oyly Carte
Opera Company ;sang, as did
Bobby Darin, the Obarrikiroluelt
Children's. Choir, Julius La Rosa,
Maria Callas, the Air Force
Academy Glee Club, Elvis Pres-
ley, Edith Piaf, Cesare Step, and
the Aiello-Larks; dummies Crack-
ed jokes, as did Bob Hope, Jerry
Lewis. Noel Coward. Carl Sand-
burg, Victor Baege, Yelnidi Mea
nu'hin, Kenny Cnear
Hammerstein, jack Pear,. and
Ben Hogan. The list goes on for
14,000 names (although not right
here). and includes all but tit
handful of those who have pre-
'seated thenseivee to the Western
world as performers in the past
fifteen years; and been accepted
es such. And they have all, at
one time or another, heard their
high-priced names shouted at the
television-watching public in the
same ringing, metallic, New York.
Irish tones of Ed Sullivan,. prop-
rietor of the longest-lived and—
cut it how you sue-
cessful program in television's
brief history.
Sullivan and his variety show
will have been on the air for
fourteen eonsecutive years, al-
though CBS, a think-big network,
refers to it as "the beginning of
the fifteenth." For the occasion,
Sullivan had lined up a parti-
cularly galactic array of mum-
mers, among them Jack Benny,
Kate 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, and he has been ban-
ned from rehearsal so he cannot
find 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 a n d winter,
through 724 shows that have
.cost his sponsors about $50 mil-
lion (and earned him perhaps.
$5 million), Sullivan has run his
petit Palace as a personal fief.
He 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-
enspielers, Nigerian jazzmen,
Swiss yodelers, and Catskill. com-
edians. He "routines" each show
himself, decides which - act will
follow which, and serves as well
as a booster, confessor, 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 my 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 $50 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 Bob Precht, and
has traveled more than a million
miles scouting Australian jug-
glers, Polish glockenspielers, Ni-
gerian jazzmen, Swiss yodelers,
and Catskill comedians. He "rou-
tines" eacn show himself, decides
which act will follow which, and
serves as well as a booster, con-
fessor, assisant director, and
a particularly hard-ea ed unoffi-
cial member of the Catholic Le-
gion of ecency. "All 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,"
Sullivan has also, of course,
serve-e" as his own master of eere-
monies for all these Sundaes, and:
this is where the wonder begins
to pile up like one of his humae
pyramids. Stony-faced, baggy-
eyed. so stiff through his bull-
neck and shoulders that he is
frequently assumed to have brok-
en his back, a mangler of thought
and language, a stumbling, bun-
gling, fumbling .perpetual ama-
teur who has yet to master the
smallest gesture', the simplest
phrase, Sullivan is the most pain-
fully unlikely stage figure in all
the hizaree history of vaudeville.
Modern Etitootfo
gy Anne Ashley
—7-7" Q. Is it all right for a young
man to smoke his date's dig-
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 po2;sible, buy some fresh
cigarets for himself and his girl.
Q. is it eonsidered proper for
a Wontrin to shake hands with
her gloves on?
A. Quite proper — and no
excuses for the gloves are neces-,
nary either.
0, When a person who is Make
frig an introduction fails to speak
a name clearly, and it iS impor
taut that you' know, the hitiney of
youwl%oin do EL* tat the name
lye tepeated?
A, Alwayi ask the Otitstiti in
ttocItteed, not the On. *Ito' hat
fried.l the. introduction;.
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Perie Mesta, Washington's legendary "hostess
With the Mostest, has hew quarters for her
new career as writer-lecturer. Mrs. Mesta
gave up her Mansion, "Les Orme8," to Vice
President and Mrs Lyndon jahnton, and how
lives with her rhernentoS and dollectar.i' iteMi
foot-long terrace-type balconies. To meet
rs. Mesta's teapiteMentS, four tWo-bed,
morn chits were changed to provide living
dihing, music and drawing rOtirriS, seven bed-,
toarttS and baths, The penthouse apartment
includes: dri office, kitchens, and buffet
pantry,
in d 15-room penthouse atop a a ca.-operative
apartment overlooking Washington and a
Portion of the Virginia countryside. At left,
Mrs. Mesta poses with a French figurine in the
music ream Cobinetlike piece is a desk once
Used by Marie' Atoinette. At right, she surveyi
the Washington scene from one of two 40.
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