HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1962-07-26, Page 2TYYTTYVYTV
Re kabIo Stolid
Of Ed Sullivan
_Tee dare 1, and •e did the
Etieeri. Der...a Bede#, Ray He:ger,
tee ::o eeyeee Fred Astaire, the
$aizetieg eleatenettes. end Mar -
gr Feet:eye.; the Veltyly Carte
Opel.- Cempar -sang a- ::d
Teeteby Dar ;e Met reeireeen
+Celeti_en's Chair. Julius• La Roth,
▪ Ceees. tee AM Fteeie
Ac ent:- Geec la?7 E eie nee,
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tee leielte-leatent dereereee ereck-
so feeke fi erc vela H pe, Jerry
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enthen, He. Y a ^ an, Oster
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we e- . _^_.i, paie
fitteer. me, are ^cis ateeeted
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fete tem
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ab• et:: their _.a• nte^ japery i3
a ▪ -. ti -e. Week~ after
week, semi:nee and winter,
theetigh eee ezeiws that have
C ` c cJ_•,_'__ _ 4511 Till_
LJ . ea ▪ :edn per --c3
-et tineein r. S.__':an has ren
pe ?Lath as a perser.ei Lee.
He s a:: acts _ -sem withzee- ,. -__ ani pe m.cer Bob
ene Ins traveled mere
cep a "^.:i»:oa miles scouting
A _. ;iiagle 3 Pt,:ish glock-
e _-.e_ ri
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__ aa 'R77^`en,
Sv _• _ Cat k::i cel^
e - He 'resit — each show
hi- _.lett act willfellter
-
f,:: a_3serves as well
as a C:^ --- assistant
dieeeter, ani pa-._ _ hard -
eye. :'
c. �member of the
Cath -,,c Lieseein ` Dewey.
core___ _e says and en
seeps. _ cad eg his arms to .._
dle ate the size of the comic c-
"1- - to tel:
tele • is nee only Ginn: it's
'S vile.
T`._t a weere _ gel ^:y ulcer
veaiiree' ?Bail, then the Gt'apa,i4:
Ms Broadway column, begun h3
the late '20s, is now syndicated`
- by the Chicago• Tribune -New l
York News Syndicate, Sullivan
organized countless benefits for
ser,'ireme:; and hospitals dtarma'
the war. He also player host can
the News's Harvest Moon 13,411,
where he was seen in I.947 by a
CBS of : :., who was Io h'::g
ft.r an trefor a prosper sive
la ety chew Calle^"Tetiett rf the
etiveres nese ehow wee.' on
air, carried by six ere ins,.
on Jane 20, 1948, with. a budget
of $1,350 and a east that Melee -
ed Rodge a and lienmer ,•e n,
Dean ,iia tan and Jerry Lewis,
singer ''.l >rica Lewis. and the
June T av or dancers. The celt.cs
Let: tee show but liew:ed •
ahem Se:liver.. it who they saw
a ceenin letieftnable nothing,
Nevertheleits, Lincoln - Iiiercury
picked up e -how—as did a
s zab eaudier-ce—ani Sullivan
#s d in to the sang siege:
NBC theew every star
it had
i
agrees: -,. as beatnen for
am le with "Te cin:gate Corn-
et: He—,r: Mate. ek' came
a:_ - ser and for two seasons
c„ rhes in the r=sings.
Neither them could keep it
lee he t:a_Y- rg pot far Ed
• .e when- he Jules La
Hese
after G_dfrey feree him in
liee3 " says an executive on a
_:. • . '-Th- brought
rive:: . _
tee . empathy, and
richehe's tee : up et
to
S• art has alwaye had what
ce -e-papen rs eye"
lerthe
timeliness of a per°o_tener,
and en :deer. slime tip d? -nothing
guests— .e_.a'-: athletes—for
walls -on appearainces solely be-
ca_se .hey are in ,:.e stews. But
• Itis best eye es tine cx a show-
man. An ems._. sia`ti,. untutar-
e tela lever since his youth,
• theed that grand opera would
step tee show cold if you put
the 'enc—class stuff in with the
rep." ,Soprano Roberta Peters,
with 35 appearances, has been on
his show more often any other
pereormer except the Canadian
-comics Johnny Wayne and Frank
Shuster.) Just once he tried to
make cu use carry the main
load, hiring Callas, Dimitri Mi-
teepoulos and the Metropolitan
Opera orchestra, for an eighteen -
r," lute 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
i hell:, until I play it in front of
an audience, I never lmow. I've
never once gone on at night (all
but a few shows are 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 re-
gards it as a secret weapon_ "I3
I bring Jimmy Durante to your
home,' he said Mast month, ex-
ploding the words "Jimmy Du-
rante" 2s hi they were Ten Com-
man9men s, "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 yon could ever get
anybody but roe content just to
introduce an act and get off."
From NEWSWEEK
geneee east o: perro:me-
e-_ r i for Sullivan's
foginese about
their .._---'e« is a radi-
cal
dca. :tert.re. Week after week,
S •^ c. csee ser, tee through
theses a have cost his
ac:..850 (and
ea .e.::T. 55ion)
5ele sr. petit Pa -
:are ee ar_ fief. He books
'
• _._ with sore_ in is e
ane predeteee Bib P -e_, and
:rave• :ravelee er.ere than *'ion
:Tees ieeeties, Australian tug-
Pelee:. ethelter.spielere,Ni
▪ jazzmen, Swiss ;: oie:er_
• Ceti _^e:iiar:a Ha -
eaee seiew himself, decnies
v--____. fcliew ,._.__'0. and
ser:es _- wee as a beester, C.
ei _ director, and
• ee:tletilaely-e; ed :r°:' -
tele neerneei if :e Catholic
gi .. ce eiteeiv. "All comics
In sate., &:d .hen steps. spread-
i- _ e indicate the size
cf ° :e-cs :: Jrspiracy "I have
t, tellthem,
`- is not only
d:. it's vile. That's where I
e e. u tee from."
Sellieee est
-leo, 0f ceerse,
se:vac sse. ewe master of cere-
r e _'es fee all these Sundays, and
thes le weere the wonder begins
_re ri his hurnan
p:menet._. Se -me -faced. baggy-
ee s, st.ff tereege his bull -
r..°. seeeiders than he is
'::afro-, y°assentedo'nave brok-
en bee , a mangler of thought
• d . :ar stumbling,
^.;bli boa
germ. f� : i. ng perpetual area -
who .:as Vet to master the
see -..- titre. the simplest
▪ Se :lar, is the ghost pain-
fully nli=:e:; stave figere in ai1
the 1':zarra history of vaudeville.
For Ir -L: poop?e, however, he is
an e::d'3ar eg figure, s"rbodyir.g
in hit eenteernmete ineptitude ail
the
5::,'V. straightforward"
neer. ane den:GCraticvirtue.
• tire- i._t.:r articles leek. • Per-
- see in r'•"" net only a.
s'er.p.,;,...4e and paymaster (as
mile?. es. 510.000 for the biggest
rinse_,), but a champion, far.. "He
is SO aware of talent," Helen
Hayes has said, 'so struck with
the spierdor of it, so altogether
stage-struck in the true senae of
the phrase. that one can feel it"
• Horn 59 years ago—although
he looks only about 45, even
the '20,, with The New York
without make-up — Sullivan
caught on as a sportswriter !n
Prod Courtesy LUFTHANSA German Atrnnns
AIR FARES COMING DOWN? Less than half a cent per mile was the fare for this cat
"Bonzo" for a quarter trip around the globe. For $25.38 from Vancouver to Berlin includ-
ing o refreshing drink of milk served by Lufthansa hostess Eiau Roos during a stopover in
Montreal was the trove! bargain for this tiny
RONICLES
1,6INGERFARM Cts rills
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
worlenen 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
aluininium pot and added half a
dozen ice cubes. When he hand-
ed it to the nran 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 tircan?" 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, things moved so far: 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
inoses. More of our shrubs have
come into b:o:,.^:, including a
climbing honeysuck:e. 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 pgliticai nneetin_s and tete-
v't.sed broadcasts. Now at song
last they have come to an end
and this week we shall know
which party the people have
chosen to guide our destine' for
the next few years. I only hope
there will be a working majority
of some kind so we are not faced
with another eleetior, 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 -
looking 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
cf. a certain thrill every time she
hears it — to think the Queen
referred :o 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
cameo, helping with the cooking
and washipg the dishes. Girl
Guides everywhere will be proud
of the fact that Princess Anne is
now one of :heir number.
Well, in me, last co€urn I was
tee,eg you I had been making
pyjamas for some of my grand-
sons. That meant a lot of cut-
tings ;eft over so I went to work
and made up most of the pieces
LSSL'-E 2i — 1962
into four -inch blocks until 1 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 shift things around in
the livingroom and put it there.
But I wouldn't consider it be-
cause I knew exactly what
v'ould 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
made for use at the cottage so I
don't feel I should ask help ha
doing what is actually nay 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 it does take time.
' Goodbye , . , Partner is calling
me . . we are on our way to
vote:
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." -
Bethel Different
in Hollywood
1 W118 not stunt' tour when
Mamma mnverl all mt us anti sill
our wordly gouu; tut Hollywood.
116rntna s sister':; husband, Miele
True, flint arranp'd fe 1ny +tis.
tens; and then 101 too, to get
work art child -caber, In motion
pictures„ and Mruruna to open a
Boarding Housee,
What we kide mimed 151 tl3C
studio wags ve r,y welcome, in the
family kitty. Matnine wart as
!ective other paying guests and
as solicitous of their comfort and
convenience, once they passed
her Kentucky -bred standards, as
though they were her house
guests, and in no way emmnr'cied
With anyone's livelihood.
Se wo never hadmuch money.
But wu always had a rich abun-
dance of all the things money
can't buy. [Ave, trust, discipline,
religious training. And we had
lots and lots of foul .. .
1 remember when 1 transferred
from the first sehooi to the
other. At the first one we had to
wear uniforms, al the serend
one we didn't.
1 had the uniform, Our Ponds
being what they were, the cost
of thu uniforms was enough that,
having them, I had no dresses.
No
Noproblems, 1 thought 1 simply
wore my uniforms to the new
school. They marked me as dif-
ferent, set me tiptoe Some a1 my
classmates made me realize this
fact and then 1 did have a prob.
len, The day that one et the girls
asked, "haven't you any dresses
at all?" her tone really shriv-
eled my pride and 1 came home
crying,
1 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.
'Cleanliness is next to Godli-
ness,'"
As far as Mamma was concern-
ed, that was the end of it,
Of course 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 I
-had to Learn," by Loretta
Young as told to Helen Ferguson.
When the boss says: "I'll think
it over and let you know," you
know,
SALLY'S SALLIES
"Which one of these bears
died last?"
'Mostestr in Apartments, Too-� -
Perle Mesta, Washington's legendary "hostess
with the mostest," has new quarters for het
new career as writer -lecturer. Mrs. Mesta
gave up her mansion, "Les Ormes," to Vice
President and Mrs Lyndon Johnson, and now
lives with her mementos and Collectors' items
LLPES.A tee.,,'
in a 15 -room penthouse otop o a co operative
apartment overlooking Washington and a
portion of the Virganie countryside At left,
Mrs Mesta poses with c: French' figurine in the
music room Cabinetleke piece is a desk once
used by Mane Atoinette, At right she surveys
the Washington scene from one of two 40.
tout long terrace type balconies To meet
Mrs Mesru's '•equirerr,ents -four two.becf
room units were r°hurtged to provide living,
dining music nn, ncawing mens, seven bed•
rooms and paths rhe penthouse apartment
laths."ss an offit: kttthens, mid butler's
nantry.