The Brussels Post, 1960-03-17, Page 2-re
THEY'RE NOT TWINS — Betty Pollack, a senior at Walnut Hills
High School, bears a striking resemblance to her mother, Mrs.
Irvin Pollak. Both make recordings of textbooks fcr the blind.
Mrs. Pollak, right, is program chairman for the Council of
Jewish Women.
HRONICLE
INGERFARM
GwenActoline P. Clet,rke
A Press Agent's Confession/ Or —
Manley's Affair With His fair Lady
by Richard Nancy
Written for Newspaper
Enterprise Association
A :Royal. Birth
Excites Japan.
The oaficial's voice, to whiah
all Japan. was listening, was. flat
and day, his words formal: "This
afternoon at 4:15 at the Imperial.
Household Hospital, Her High-
ness the Crown Princess hononr-
ably effecting delivery, the hon-
ourable birth of a son occurred.
The exalted mother and child
are honourably healthy."
Thus, over transistor radioa,
and television sets, in offices,
sushi (fish) shops, and homea.
did the Japanese people learn
last month of the birth of a
first-born, 5-pound, 9-ounee
,rincel.ing to Princess Michike,
the miller's daughter who mar-
tied Prince Akihito last. April
1.0. As a male child, he would
be second in line to succeed to
the throne (as is Queen Eliza-
beth's new prineeling in Bri-
tain),
All over Japan, the common
people bowed low to each other
and uttered "Oamedeto gazal-
m.aarr" (Congratulations). Hun-
dreds gathered at the great NI-
ja (Double-Bridge) en-
trance to the palace grounds
where some knelt in prayer and
others shouted "banzai" fair the
benefit of newsreelmen. At the
Kabuki 'theatre in ri k.yo, lead-
ing actor Enn.osuke chansed inta
formal haor.i. (knee-length man's.
kimono-) and announced the feli-
citous rayusn. (newa) from the
stage. Nearby, at the Asakusa
Kokusai Theatre, chorus girls,.
wearing sequins, high heels (and
little else), led the audience in.
banzais. A sudden sharp earth-
quake- added to the excitement:
During this period, Prince
AltiLito.. behaved as tradition de-
manded. Before the birth he had.
left his wife at the hospital with
an admonition to "be brave" and
then had gone to his temporary
Shibuya residence • 2 miles away.
His first paternal duty was to
participate in the ceremonial
presentation of a 7-inch dagger
(which symbolizes the infant's
ability to defend himself).
By - then some newspapers
were "irreverently" calling the.
Prince • "Oyaji" (Daddy) and
only then could he visit his fa-
mily. Newsweek's Tokyo bureau
chief Ray Steinberg reported
that "the Prince strove manfully
but unsuecesafidly -to suppress
this smiles of pleasure as he
was driven to the hospital. And
there,. live television cameras
trained on the frosted-glass win-
dows of Michiko-san's room,
picked up a man's shadow. The
shadow bent, as if leaning over
a bed. Never before .in the 2,600
years of the Chrysanthemum
Throne had the people been so
close to their royal family.'"
A New Cure For
Boyish Shrillness
Like most other boys his age,
when Winston Mallory was 14
and a high-school sophomore in
Gloucester, Va., his voice began
to change. The trouble was that,
instead of becoming rich and
masculine, his voice turned into
a shrill falsetto. He consulted
doctor after doctor, and they all
hold him: "You'll outgrow it."
He never did.
Finally Mallory, now 21 and
working as an interior decora-
tor in New YOrk, visited the
small National Hospital for
Speech Disorders. The hospital's
Dr. Roy W. Franklin, after about
an hour's conversation with the
youth, began to manipulate
Mallory's larynx with his hand
-- simply applying pressure to
it, during which the sounds that
came out were pitched lower.
After a few moments, the doctor
took his hand away and asked
Mallory to read aloud from a
magazine. Mallory opened his
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ISSUE 12 1950
mouth to speak, and the words
rolled out in a sonorous, deep
baritone.
"It was never very real, any.
way," Dr. Franklin commented
last month. "In cases like this,
the problem is to convince the
patient that he really has a nor-
mal voice. With larynA manipu-
lation we help about ten patient4
a year, but no cure has been as
rapid as Mallory's."
As for Mallory himself, he was
back on the job fairly brimming
withwith new confidence and self-
respeet, "My old voice h
strength to it," he explained in
full, resonant tones. "Now when
I go into a showroom and ask
for something, I get it,"
After 22 Years
Bob Keeps On Going
"Ike's making a good-will tour
of South America, Nixon briefed
him, but he's going anyway • • .
South America — that's the place
where they have instant govern-
ment . Politics are funny —
who would have thought that
Khrushchev would be spending
more time in America than. Ike?
. It's a good thing we're pay-
ing Ike a salary. Think where
we'd be if we ware raying him
by rala."
With topical quips like these
—delivered in familiar machine
gun s.yle on last Month's Buick
show — Bob H6pe has been pep-
pering the airwaves for 22 years.
Today, Hope stands as a unique
commodity on tee TV comedy
mart: The only top comedian
who consistently unpacks politi-
cal ticklers from his gag-bag —
and, in another shadier area, the
only comic who goes right
brazenly churning out "plug"
jokes (the single Buick, show
contained laugh-line plugs for
Thom McAn shoes, the Yellow
Pages, and Bufferin g among
others).
To mark Hope's tenth anniver-
sary in television, last month at
the Ziegfeld Theatre in NeW
York, NBC's "Arthur Murray
Party" taped a two-part tribute
to the London-born comic, a
combination toast - and - roast (a
sample dig: "Hope is the only
man in the world who actually
looks like his passport photo")
scheduled for March 15 and 22.
The occasion brought out a clus-
tei of performers — each of
them signed on for a flat $2,500
— who have worked with the
56-year-old ski-nose in the past,
among them, Dorothy Lamour,
Gloria De Haven, Jayne Mans-
field, Ethel Merman. For his
appearance, Hope himself will
receive $100,000, which he will
donate to the "Fight for Sight"
eye fund.
During a rehearsal break,
Hope, attired in T-shirt and
slacks, sat before his mirrored
image in a make-up room and
munched an apple while apply-
ing pancake to his face. He
looked a bit worn. His left eye
— once afflicted by a thrombosis
behind the retina — now has
only 25 per cent vision, and his
doctors have ordered him to slow
down. But he seemed chipper
as he ranged over his special
encroach to TV.
"II I can't hale jokes about
the political scene, what does a
comedian my style have?" he
pointed out. "This is the only
charm of my show. There are
kicks sometimes, but I don't get
that many letters objecting . . .
The other comedians can't afford
to do them. They're putting their
shows on film and thinking
about the residuals."
The subject of payola was
broached, but Hope shrugged it
off: "I never paid any attention
to plugs until all this came up
recently. If a plug will get a
big laugh and it's the only way
to get a laugh, I won't cut it out.
I put in that reference to Thorn
McAn shoes myself," he said
with a ferocious gnashing at his
apple. Then, grinning, he added:
"I just try to get a little money
'for my writers,"
Hope continued to thaw on
the apple while applying a pen-
cil to his brows. Then he threw
a toothy grin ;at the mirror.
"This is deadly make-up, isn't
it? It looks as though they're
ready to carry you out." With
that, he bounded up and darted
out of the room, throwing back
snatches of talk over his shoul-
der about his corning picture
("Bachelor in Paradise"), his
contract with NBC (it ends this
September, but he hopes to be
doing the same sort of monthly
specials he's, doing now), and the
slowdown in his activity
playing nine holes of golf instead
of eighteen — and from a catt").,
"Listen," he said as he dashed
into another dressing room.,
cued by half a dozen colleagues
waving papers, "this Arthur
Murray roasting it really going
tO wake rrie up and Maki ins
Werk real hard I'll have to
win back thy feta all Over again,
This is a Sort of obituary with
Mimic." And With that, he digsf
apPeared, tinder the crtielt of
tPaPer-Watreti, all tif them' 'bet.
lowing for his attention,
--ee Vent iftiAttrttit
We got it at last! Our share
of stormy weather, I mean —
including thunder and lightning,
No need for me to go into de-
tails — the storm was so wide-
spread almost everyone had his
share of snow-filled roads and
driveways. The only difference
was where and in what way dif-
ferent people were affected by
the storm. Partner got a call
Thursday night to look after two
little boys whose mother had
been delayed getting home and
there was no telling when the
father would be home. The mo-
ther finally arrived home about
eleven, half frozen, having walk-
ed quite a piece from a stalled
car. The father didn't get home
until three-thirty in the morning
— stuck eight times coming from
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miles. Next morning everyone
was having a great time — snow
shovels and tow-trucks being the
order of the day. Partner was
helping here and there but I was
quite content to watch proceed-
ings from the inside of doors
and windows, thankful. I didn't
have to battle the elements. We
didn't get any mail next day —
for the first time in three years.
However we don't know even
now whether the ,mailman
couldn't get through or if it was
ethoememorning paper that didn't
Now, of course, the storm is a
thing of the past but it will be
some time before the snowbanks
show signs of deminishing, so the
men of the family will have
plenty of opportunity to continue
exercising their muscles. One
thing I must say, our township
should be congratulated for its
prompt snow-removal job. When
we got up Friday morning the
streets had been ploughed out.
In the High Park district where
Dee lives the streets haven't
been ploughed yet and cars are
still getting stuck.
But all the news has not been
of storms and disasters. Like a
burst of sunshine through the
clouds came the news of Princess
Margaret's engagement to Mr.
Antony Armstrong-Jones, news
that will please people of the
Commonwealth just about as
much as the birth of the. Queen's
third baby. Margaret has had her
own special place in the hearts
of the people ever since her
mischievous "little-girl" days.
Later there was' sympathy and
admiration for her because of
her unfortunate love affair with
Peter Townsend. A good many
people felt she should have
been free to follow the dictates
of her Own heart but many won-
dered whether Townsend was
really the right choice for our
lovable and fun-loving princess.
Now that episode in her life can
be forgotten as we, look forward,
hoping that Princess Margaret
has made the right choice this
time and that she and her fian-
cee will share a lifetime of joy
and happiness, unhampered by
shadows of poasible succession
to the thtone.
During this past week I have
been reading a most interesting
book and it just makes me Won-
der how any of us tan imagine
we haVe a mind of our own! It
is called "The Hidden Persua-
ders" and deals prirriarily with
Ways arid means of advertising.
It shows hew advertising agen-
cies go t6 work persuading the
public to bay goods that are of-
fered for sale whether they Want
them Or riot. Psychologists go
into' supermarketa to study the
haying habits of easterners, They
find Out What kind of packages
have the best Sales appeal arid
why it is easier to Sell "2 fOr
304" rather than 1.54 Straights
They have discovered that is
Shopping list is almost a thing
'Of the past only_ about One in
five carry a list. Instead women
Methodically go up one elate and
down the next,• tritsting Oat the
goods displayed ivill remind thein
of things' they heed, Thus Molt
shopping is "impulse buying
arid makes the packaging Pr
.0,94)14 Specially important to the.
manufacturers, Eye appeal is
main factor in selling one brand
more than. „another..
In furnishings and electrical
,appliances advertisers:deliberate-
IY sot out to make housewives
discontented with. What they al,
ready have New models must,
therefore have that little .extra
something to make it a little
toore appealing than what our
neighbour has next door --,- re,
irigerator, washing machine or.
what have you.. There must also
be a pleasant association of ideas
connected with the pl-cciurt that
is advertised, And you know
those child-size shopping carts'
They are put Into stores spe-
cially to encourage children to
shop on their own, to coaect
toys and paCkages that appeal
to them. And then you kr s sv
what happens .„ poor mother
gets to the cash register and She
either has to pay for what tit-
tle Johnny or Mary has "bought"
or risk a scene in the .storel
Well, I leave you to think it
out for yourselves, When you go
shopping do you really buy
what you need, and what you
know is good, or is your choice
influenced by advertisers telling
you that -"this is what all mod-
ern housewives should have in.
C.-Cr kitchens". In other words
do you shop with an open mind,
considering only the needs of
your family — and the contents
of your purse?" It is an honest
question — dare you give your-
self an honest answer':
MIDAS TOUCH — All that glit-
ters is golden Pat Garison with
a covering of shining gilt paint:
Hands from an unseen hair
stylist touch up her lacquered
coiffure. Pat appeared as a
'fantasy model" at a Raleigh,
N.C., show.
Paint Your Own
Masterpiece!
The ultimate in crazy art is
on the way. M. Jean Tinguely,
a thirty-four-year-old Parisian
artist, has designed a machine
with the aid of which any mem-
ber of the public can paint pic-
tures by the dozen.
It works on the coin-in-the-slot
principle; electrically controlled
brushes dip into various coloured
paints, which may be selected on
a push-button panel, and then
smear the colours over the can-
vas to produce the "picture."
Many a so-called connoisseur
has been 'fooled by the automatic
art, and already its inventor is
meeting stiff opposition from the
struggling artists who are now
finding it increasingly difficult
to dispose of their own "modern"
paintings.
New York — Orace Kelly was
single, the Dodgers were in
Brooklyn, and the sputnik was
only a doodle on a Soviet draw-
ing board when !'My fair Lady"
opened in New York, March 16,
1956,
About to round. out its fourth
year at the Mark Hellinger
Theater, the Alan Jay, Lerner-
Frederick Loewe =steal ver-
sion of Bernard Shaw's "Pyg-
malion" has been seen there by
approximately 2,600,000 souls,
Among them were. Dwight D,
misenhower (it's the only show
he's seen since he's been in the
White House); Pandit Nehru,
Prins s Minister of India; King
Mahandrs Bir BIL-ram of Nepal;
Sean O'K.el'y, when he was
president of Ierland, and Harry
and. Bess Truman,
Collectively kings, commoners,
poets and peasants have forked
up $14,043.000, including $180,000
from 60,000 standees, to see a
show without kiss, caress or dis-
play of the female pelt, a sum
far in excess of any ever totaled
by a stage attraction in. New
York, regardless of length of run.
The touring company of the
musical, three years old on March
1'7, has played 66 weeks in Chica-
go, 16 in Los*Angeles, 11 in San.
Fransisco, and-has enriched the
lives of the theater-starved in
such outposts as Little Rock,
Calgary, Houston, Seattle and
Winnipeg. The London copy
completes is second year on
April 30, and the Australian and
Swedish companies are in their
second year.
Other lingual duplications are
dazzling the Danes in Copen-
hagen, the Finns in Helsinki and
the Norwegians in Oslo. Further
proof that "My Fair Lady" may
be our most popular export will
be manifest in mid-April when,
with the blessing of the State
Department, a company flies to.
Russia for a six-week engage-
ment in Moscow, Leningrad,
Kiev and Tiflis.
Many authorities, including
this partisan, think "My Fair
Lady" is the greatest musical
comedy hit of all time. My quali-
fications as an authority? Over 40
years in the theater and expo-
sure to hundreds of song-and-
dance shows, from "The Merry
Widow" to "The Sound 'of Mu-
sic." My qualifications as a par-
tisan are even better: I'm the
press agent for "My Fair Lady,"
the envy of every brave in my
tribe.
The show has been a press
agent's dream from the start. So
hysterical was its reception in
tryouts in New Haven and Phila-
delphia that producer Herman
Levin, fearful these hallelujahs
might boomerang into a "this-
had-better-be-good" resistance in
New York, suggested ,I muffle
my drums. This was a startling
switch. Conventionally I'm
urged to clash the cymbals. So
frenzied was the clamor for
tickets following the New York
premiere that the thwarted went
berserk in their efforts to escape
charges of being socially un-
touchable.
Press agenting "My Fair Lady"
has been a luxurious assignment
because I've had the unwitting
assistance of hundreds of vol-
unteers.
An obscure Russian named
Victor Louis put "My Fair Lady"
on Page One when he announced
in a letter to Lerner and Loewe
that he would like the full
orchestral score to the musical,
gratis. He already had translat-
ed the libretto and intended to
put on the show in Kiev and
Sverdlovsk, he said. For this
bravado .30-year-old Victor was
blasted editorially all the way
from Miami to Moose Jaw.
Julie Harris, one of our top
actresses, recently puffed the
show's publicity when she con-
fessed to a columnist that she
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REX HARRISON and Jtrlie Andrews I n Ceti' from 'My Fair Lady?
had auditioned for the role of
Eliza Doolittle two. years ago.
when the management was lop*"
11.4 •:fora successor to Julie
:Firs 44op e1) almost three..oya a yearsfre
mated outdoor ad. provided by
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These
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bags, bridge tables, lunch baa,
kets and, in cold weather, splits
of grog
And this seems as good a time
as any other to thank. Steve
Allen, Q-roucho Marx, Jackie
Gleason, Sid Caesar . and Phil
Silvers for their service in my
behalf — all devoted one of.
their TV shows to the ordeal*
they experienced getting seats
for you know what,