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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1961-04-06, Page 7Jost A Simple Case Of Plain Swollen Heads E By DICK KLEINER Newspaper Enterprise Assn. NEW. YORK — Behind the Jack Pear vs. Ed Sullivan feud is a complex story • of show busi- mess economies aggravated by in- flated egos. It boils down to two men who have honest differences of opin- Ion and definition. On the surface, they fought over the price paid to perform- ers on the two shows — a flat $320 fee for an appearance with Pear and one considerably high- er with Sullivan. What set Sullivan off was the ease of a pretty, young singer named Joan Fairfax. She took $1,000 for doing two numbers with Old Smiley, When she worked the Paar show, she also did two numbers but her pay check was only $320. Sullivan blew his stack. Pear defended his position by saying that guests on his show don't come on primarily to perform but to be members of the panel. Sullivan's contention — and this is shared by many show business insiders — is that there may be merit in what Parr says when applied to comedians — but net to singers, A comic, such as Buddy Hack- ett or Myron. Cohen, can sit on the Paar panel and ad lib. He is not using his standup material. He can then go on the Sullivan show, or similar variety TV pres- entations, and do his regular rou- tine without being afraid that the public has seen it all before, Sullivan's friends say he would never have objected to the dif- ference in price for comedians. But singers are another matter. When a girl such as Miss Fair- fax sits on the panel of Paar's show, she knows she's going to sing. Sullivan and his supporters can see little difference between a singer performing from the seat of Paar's easy chair and standing up and singing on the Sullivan show. A song is a song Is a song. As one veteran Broadway man- ager says, "Even a blockbuster act goes on Paar's panel and knows he has to sing. His eyes are open." What makes Pear's stand hard for Sullivan and others to swal- low is that his "panelists" often yyrre required to rehearse their 'Ann, • At other times, they are, in the worlds of one Broadwayite, "conned" into performing on the air. He mentioned Gracie Fields, who was surprised on the air by a request to sing, and trumpeter Al Hirt, who was so startled that lie didn't even have his instru- ment with him. (He borrowed one from one of Jose Melis' mu- sicians.) When the Pear Show started, it was a panel show. The price for guests was established and nobody objected. But gradually the panel elements have been dropped or, at least, relegated to second place, behind perform- ances. It is this element of sub- terfuge which rankles Sullivan. But Paar obviously believes that guests on his show are not quite the performers they are on the Sullivan Show and others. On the so-called variety shows, there are production numbers and other devices to make the enter- tainers stand out. It is this honest difference of opinion that has got out of hand. Advisers of both men are angry because the whole affair became a public disgrace. The feeling is that neither man helped himself in the public eye. An economic oddity of the Paar-Sullivan problem is that both shows are booked by the same man, agent Marty Kummer r FAST GAL — Mrs. Grace But- ther, mother of two, collects her breath after breaking the world indoor record for the women's half -mile run, She did 2 minutes, 21.1 seconds. ISSUE 13 — 1081 of MCA, The Sullivan show is an MCA package; MCA handles Fear personally. Therefore, the whole business of booking the shows falls on .Kummer, who is 1961's candidate for "The Man On The Hottest Spot." When the debate was sched- uled, and later called off, there appears to have been another honest difference -of opinion — this time on the definition of the word "debate," Sullivan apparently thought a statement and rebuttal constitut- ed a formal debate. Pear believed JOAN FAIRFAX — Started two ewe•Iled heads to get swelter. that a debate required an open discussion. The feeling around the tele- vision centers is ' that neither "welched" or "backed out" but that both were sincerely unable to agree on ground rules. With people other than Paar and Sullivan, who are both on the egotistical side, probably all of the issues could have been ironed out without the public getting into the act. Show business, in general, and Paar and Sullivan, in particular, would have been better off If cooler heads had prevailed. British Motorists Nuts On Speed The headlines on the story said: Ice Causes Five Crashes on "I was bowling along quite happily at 95 miles an hour ...," one of those involved was re- ported as saying. Reading this on my morning train to Waterloo I nearly shout- ed out loud, which, on this train at any rate, would have been considered exceedingly bad form. But this I find one of the most disarming things about my countrymen; not their praise- worthy capacity for silence but the loyalty with which they be- lieve still in the tales of their childhood. Speed is still beautiful to Bri- tons. Highspeed motoring indeed is the one contest in which one oan properly talk of "the British race." Ice causes crashes. Speed is safe. "Ninety-five" is quite rea- sonable, If, following a slow driver, a fast driver becomes impatient and overtakes unwise- ly so that there is an accident, the slow driver is to blame. No Minister of Transport in re- cent times has felt strong enough as a man and secure enough as a Minister to refute these very English fallacies. But having driven hundreds of thousands of miles in Britain, the United States, and Western Europe, this correspondent, for one, is convinced that while they go completely unchecked it will be impossible to reduce by much the annual toll of casualties suf- fered in this War of the Roads. Now ice, as everyone knows, very rarely causes a crash. Driv- ing. a car inexpertly or too fast over ice is more usually the cause. ' Going to a neighboring village along a winding lane the other evening I passed on the way a Jaguar that was ,deep in the Woods, crushed against a tree, Coming home, after the Jag had been towed away, I saw a sports Simca in the identical position, There was ice on the corner. I suppose 100 cars had passed that way in the hour, If ice caus- ed crashes, they would all have boon in the woods. But In the same conditions 98 drove safely by ,Thus Iwo drivers caused their own crashes. They would have crashed less severely had they been cornering less fast and not at all if they had been cornering carefully. Yet, "This car will cornet safe- ly at over 70 mph," one reads in almost every other test report in the press. And readers 'be- lieve it. Motoring editors, the marshals of speed, Hover remind their readers that no car corners safely at over 70 mph if there is ice on the corners; or for that matter if the driver canulot see round it; if a station- ary milk wagon is on the other side, or if there is a child in the road, or if another driver is corn - log the other way also at over • 70 mph. And nobody tells British 'motorists that when impatience causes a fast driver to overtake a slow ane in a dangerous situa- tion it is the impatience of the fast driver not the slothof the sluggard that is the danger, wries John Allen May in The Christian Science Monitor, Road casualties each year now in Western Europe exceed 1,1100,- 000, Appalled, the United Na- tions Transport Commission for Europe had produced some vital- ly interesting reports on the re- duction of casualties (up to 50 per cent) through the enforce- ment of experimental speed limits. It has repeatedly, urged an all -Europe test of speed limits, to no avail. The United Nations is balked by a few countries, notably Great Britain, It astounded this correspond- ent when he asked the British Transport Minister about these UN researches that until that moment the Minister had never heard of them, I am convinced that we could halve road casualties, it, while we wait patiently for the new roads we so desperately need, we conduct a campaign de- - liberately aimed at turning the ear from the symbol of speed and selfishness into a symbol of convenience and care, Even if we did not impose speed limits (it might be asking .too much of the British yet) we could at least have safe "discretional" speeds posted clearly on each stretch of road and at each corner. It wouldn't be difficult. But if drivers go on saying, "Nonsense; it's the slow drivers that cause all the accidents," that means war. In that case, and in that context only, here is one driver who is convinced of the virtue of unilateral disarma- ment. How Can I? By Roberta Lee Q. 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