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YA R THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
14TD Abilene, Texas, Sunday Morning, December 24, 1961
Hope Making 20th Junket
To Entertain Servicemen
By CYNTHIA LOWRY
AP TV-Radio Writer
hearth on what is essentially a they open their gifts—and ring in
family holiday | another year
How do Mrs Hope and the chil- Hope and his party-59 in all.
family holiday.
BOBBY BUTLER
... new waxiag
Local Musician
Releases Record
Hollywood
Releasing
Family Fare
By JAMES BACON
AP Movie-TV Writer
HOLLYWOOD (AP) - Holly-
wood is giving moviegoers for
Christmas big budget movies that
the whole family can enjoy.
Some of the film-makers are
worried by the movies' recent
heavy emphasis on abnormal sex
FOR CHRISTMAS
Show Folks Get
Wackiest Gifts
Kirk
NEW YORK (AP)—While your How do Mrs Hope and the chil Hope and his party in au.
stockings are hung by the chim-dren feel about this annual ab- including Jayne Mansfield, Jerry
ney with care, comedian Bob sence? Colonna, Dorothy Provine and
Hope and a hardy troupe of per- “They understand how impor- Anita Bryant—left last Wednes-
formers and technicians are in tant it is," Hope said. "Dolores day and were to play their first
Goose Bay. Labrador, with a and Tony, the oldest, went with show Thursday at Argentia naval
Christmas gift of laughter for us the first couple of years, and base, Newfoundland. Saturday s
American troops they know the kick all of us get show was scheduled at Harmon 2. themes
The nine-day working trip to in making the trip" Air Base, also in Newfoundland | Bobby Buller. O-year-old staff So you will see in current re-
cold northern out posts marks the So for the past eight years, (he Sunday t hey w ill be getting ready sergeant at Dyess Air Force Base, lease such contenders as Frank
20th year the indefat igable Hope Hope family has been turning for the Christmas show at the big has recently released his first rec- Capra's "Pocketful of Miracles."
has been entertaining servicemen New Year’s Eve into a double Goose Bay base. After that there ord on the newly established Shen- Mervyn LeRoy's “Majority of
— and the 10th consecutive year celebration. That is when Bob re will be more performances in andoah The numbers are One" and Ross Hunter's “Flower
he has been away from home and turns to his Hollywood home, and Greenland bases, including Thule quued A Short, Romance, and Drum Song."
As usual, the shows will be The Harm They re Doing There is no off-beat or blue ma-
filmed, and later will be edited Both sides of the record feature terial. Just entertainment.
By WILLIAM GLOVER
Associated Press Drama Writer
NEW YORK (AP) - Show folk
get the wackiest gifts-a *1,000
Christmas card, a frozen deer, a
life-size statue made of soap.
And the warmest—a packet of
food in a war-torn land, pearls
in a velvet case, a tiny bunch of
withered flowers.
last Christmas from a famous
jewelry shop. Buried deep in the
fancy wrappings was a toy mink.
No name No message. Just that
tiny bit of fur.
The remembrance that touched
Mischa Elman most in a half-
century violin career came to him
on Christmas after a tour of
These are some of the things
Japan.
Bearing a Tokyo postmark, the
Nice Chap
HOLLYWOOF
Douglas, back
this one on hin
viewed by a w
a London new
seemed to hit
“When she w
began: "Kirk I
very nice chap
‘I wrote her
her: What do
ruin a reputati
bored a lifetin
The educatio
Broadway stars recall when tally- package contained two cubes of al program of
4- ’ ‘ ment of Corn
ing all the ways that fans and rosin for his bow. Each
friends find to flatter, thank and wrapped in silk and velvet. 9
stun.
was
for by the
GOREN BRIDGE QUIZ
into a TV hour for broadcast Jan. twin fiddles, steel guitar
rhythm section.
24
and After a recent preview of
"Pocketful of Miracles,” Ginger
Alfred Drake opened a
one Christmas morn, and found
nestling there 10 pounds of mus-
tache wax.
each was a large, perfect pearl. ___
package T1* greeting was simply signed nual Prison
“an admirer" day in Oct
It was Anne Bancroft, memor- -----------
able in "The Miracle Worker." Ceeu
at each prison
. she
is ■
B an-
Sun-
Kirk
tells
mer-
it on
1 we
e la-
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By CHARLES GOREN
North - South vulnerable. North
deals.
i Hope, an energetic man in his Butler, in addition to being a Rogers approached Capra and
—;----.. „ . 50s, has a reputation for being a country singer and band leader, asked: “What are you trying to
awkward position It would be compulsive entertainer”' and if plays a country fiddle and has do, bring movies back?" ---
pleasant to be able to show both that means that he enjoys work- written several songs,
suits in an effort to reach the ing, it is a precise description.
All three are geared to adult
tastes but not to adults only. They
who was flattered but startled to
unwrap a package "from one of 4
my admiring male friends.”
An artist, he had carved the
big as-life statue of Miss Bancroft *
—of castile soap.
During a night club engagement
in Las Vegas, Mimi Benzell the
"Milk and Honey" star was vis-
ited by "a shy cattlemen who said
he'd so enjoyed the performance
he wanted to send me a present "
It arrived on Mimi's doorsill
"Lord knows, I use the stuff.”
remarks the star of "Kean.” "But
that was a bit too much.”
A sly dig for well-upholstered
Walter Slezak turned up under his
tree.
"Some friends think I’m a fun-
ny man and wanted to comment
in their own subtle way. The gift?
Three large, smoked hams.”
MERRY CHRISTMAS
™”“ ^s “»is inaccurate implies music tla- £ -ationCa WELK even, have oaves that
the armed services in Europe make you leave the theater teel-
He has produced and presented
several country musical stage
shows for the Texas State School
here and he and his band, which
fill engagements throughout W.st. —,--— ------, - ------
Texas also took part in a special industry is watching the boxoffice Douce." It was a full-grown seal,
sales event for Montgomery Ware on these three movies - --------------
& Co. in Abilene.
HAPPY NEW YEAR
NORTH
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emptive bid had made it highly that he is “always on” and al-
unlikely that such an end could ways performing.
be achieved So South decided to He becomes serious and intro-
shoot it out for a small slam, spective when asked why he
and he bid six hearts directly. Had spends so much time and effort
he chosen clubs, your reporter in extra-curricular good works.
would have been left without a “There’s a great satisfaction in
narrative, but he is hardly to be it, in playing benefits.” Hope ex-
criticized for his action. East now plained. "When you're in vaude-
decided upon the double which is ville and just beginning, you fight
the basis of this sermon and scratch to get a job so you
West decided of course, that can eat. Then you fight hard until
his partner s double was calling you begin to make more money,
off the diamond lead and obvious-Then one day you find that you
lv no thought was to be given to actually can give some money
a trump opening. He had to away, and you get the biggest
choose, therefore between spades kick of all out of writing a check Gambled
and clubs That East was dou-for something that's important." UdDECO $4VU,000
bling on the basis of a void suit Hope was in New York recently, ,
was quite apparent for his pre- working „„ a split-second sched- PHILADELPHIA (AP)—An $88- the rest of the country.
emptive bid made it clear that ule to exploit his Dec 13 TV show a week bank teller, charged with “The box office kings are Jer-
he had no special high card.—submitting to interviews, mak- embezzling $374,000, has testified ry Lewis Walt Disney and John
dou strength, which is corroborated by ing guest appearances on day he gambled as much as *400.000 in Wayne who cater to the world’s
—ble convention has varied from West 5 possession of the ace off time TV shows He recently re- one weekend. He said a bookie family trade—not the Bel-Air cir-
time to time and among various spades. In view of W et’s length turned from several months in welched on paying $256,000 in win-cut a meeting of the Hollywood
groups of players: but always in spades it appeared that East’s England where he and Bing Cros-nings. ___a meeting of the Holywoed
basic has been' the principle that void would be in that suit. So by made another "Road" motion The teller, Joseph W Barnes. Press Club, recently, producer in
when the player not on lead dou Weed adlil be esa be anien onerinic ed n cture, this one leading to Hong £ cflsuburban Upper Darby said teresting disclosure de - ____________-_______
thatthe void was in clubs and He looks fit and slim and says $88,000 to a taproom operator to s Wilder said that his “Some Like small surface more than two thou-
promptly shifted to that suit, pro- that after a siege of illness in- be invested in the stock market it it Hot grossed $16 million, com- sand scenes from Christmas .cele-
.riding partner with the ruff to Voivingpartial loss of sight in one was testified at a hearing Friday pared with a $10 million for his brations around the country."
The bidding was fast and fu-defeat the contract eye, he has learned that golf is Barnes had been head teller at mourta T
-----------------------important to his food health.. va^^ng ‘heifirst Pennsyl * Ths • Decause children loved she went on an entertainment tour
BRIDGE NOTES minus from the EON course," he hges had gone undetected through some Like If Hor and draseed of refugee camps in Europe aftererero
DNIDUE I D aid ■ They don’t have golf carts several surprise audits until his see: ^ns s fhemrtheof x ^ Ilittle girl timidly • COOKED FRESH
----ride around, and there's some- arrest Thursday, bank officials adults saw “The Apartment and ancesached after one perform- ------
thing about the weather there that said. . then forbade their children to see "She had brought me a bouquet
Holiday Inn. 7/45 makes you want to get out and Arrested subsequently in the in-it, and rightly so." of faded field flowers, the only
mt session under Ab- walk. Im feeling as well as I vestigation were two taproom op- “The Apartment" won an Oscar thing to be found or bought," says
have in my life. . . aerators. Robert McDevitt, 30, and for best picture, but there is no the star of "Milk and Honey."
Currently Hope is on the third John R. Daly, both Philadelphians, producer in town who values an
year of a five-year contract with Both were charged with aiding Oscar at *6 million "
NBC. but unlike other seasons, he and abetting embezzlement.
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The bidding:
North East
1 • 4 •
Pass Double
South
SV
Pass
West
Pass
Pass
Pass
Opening lead : Ace of A
The technique of the slam
bles a slam, his partner is barred
from making the normal lead. An
interesting case is presented to-
day.
rious. North scaped together a
rather synthetic diamond opening
and East decided to throw a mon-
key wrench into the proceedings
Under the protection of favorable
vulnerability, he preempted in his
opponent's suit with a bid of four
diamonds.
This placed South in quite an
No duplicate play Sunday, Monday
Tuesday:
WEDNESDAY — Holida *
p.m. Master point oesrm
. lene Country Club sanction
THURSDAY — Fractional Master DO
Holiday Inn luncheon session. 1 p.m.
int
ing uplifted — not ready to cut
your throat as have some of the
recent downbeat domestic and
foreign product.
A present that got completely
out of hand was given Elizabeth
Seal in celebration of her first
One moviemaker says the whole London anniversary in “Irma la
returns on these three movies.
“It's hard to convince some
producers in this town that much
TO ALL
Teller Charged
In Embezzlement
of the public is sick of the down-
beat themes of some movies.
"Even when they lose millions
on some of them, they aren't con-
vinced. It seems that the elite in
Hollywood are the losers—movie-
next day, a deer, solidly frozen.
She hastily set to work locating
the rancher. Importunately she
gave him the names and address-
es of family and relations all over
the country. Then she persuaded
. . . him to have the prize cut up and
into the tank with the rest of the shipped by express before a thaw -
flippered tribe, an uproor ensued, could set in
The keepers hastily hauled the Ethel Griffies, octogenarian star .
lively newcomer out, renamed of "Write Me a Murder," once
him Elmer, and isolated him from received a stocking with a tin toe
all the splashing sirens, from her spouse
of a:—-----------------------------
The dancer gave it to the city
zoo. All she asked was that it be
named after her
When Elizabeth was dropped
SUNDAY BUFFET
11:30 to 1:30
• Baked Young Tom
Turkey and dressing,
giblet gravy.
is turning up in his specials on. On one weekend alone, Barnes
an irregular basis rather than said he placed bets with McDevitt
once a month as in previous approximating $400,000. After the
years, weekend of the Army-Navy foot-
"I like doing television—more ball game here earlier this month,
than movies," he said. “You don't Barnes testified. McDevitt owed
We wish you a day full
of happiness, good
cheer and companionship.
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OWNERS and STAFF
BRING YOUR
CHRISTMAS
KODACHROME MOVIE AND
COLOR SLIDE FILM
TO AUSTIN'S FOR -
48-HOUR
PROCESSING by EASTMAN KODAK
* Don’t Take Chances With Your
Precious Film . .
THERE IS A DIFFERENCE!
IE ■
"
makers who play their pictures to
enthusiastic nonpaying friends in Oscar Homolka tells
Bel-Air and to empty theaters in wealthy friend who "topped all
Christmas gift expectations when
he sent along a card—just a card.
But what a card.
"I later found out that it cost
him $1,000, although it only meas-
ured 10 by12 inches. It involved
three months of work for the
artist who produced it.
“The card was made of fine
"The box office kings are Jer-
trade—not the Bel-Air cir-
DAILY SPECIAL
LUNCH 6 DINNER
ALL YOU 0Q4
CAN EAT.... 70
CHILD’S
PLATE
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ivory chips and depicted on that
One of the most touching gifts
was received by Molly Picon when
Marge and Gower Champion
awoke one December morn to find
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THE TWIST, Checker
GOODBYE CRUEL WORLD,
Musical Theater
Academy Planned
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I could make a deal with the insur-
lance companies themselves."
Parnes testified.
NEW YORK (AP)—A Musicial
; Theater Academy opens here in i
I February to specialize in training
talent for that booming branch of
Broadway.
; The teaching staff is headed by |
Sanford Meisner, veteran drama
U. 5. Navy Net
Playing Politics
Darren
CAN’T HELP FALLING IN
Carol Channing's biggest pres-
ent was an 800-year-old bed in
which England's Queen Mary was
reputed to have slept.
“The only trouble," mourns
Carol, “was it was impossible to
get it into our apartment ".
Noel Coward, currently repre-
sented on Broadway by "Sail
Away,!” recalls a wartime epi-
sode in London. A brown paper
bag turned up mysteriously at his
theater dressing room several
times In it would be some eggs
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The school has been organized by Eyes of Texas" for a candidate
Noel Behn and Charles Kasher. for governor of Texas. No, sir! —
"There are about five times The candidate is the Navy's re-
more people performing in mu-tiring secretary, John Connally,
sicals than in straight plays," The occasion for the band music
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LET THERE BE DRUMS. Nel-
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Schary Utilizes
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NEW YORK W - An innova
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Actors are not the only recipi-
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Been Working on the Railroad" of-town warmup tour. Schary in-
because it thought that tune was vited audiences to witness com-
an appropriate "tribute to the! plete run-throughs of he military
STRATFORD, Ont. 'AP'-The yeoman work performed by Sec-drama during the final two weeks
10th anniversary season of the retary Connally." ouctaln
Pro Shakespeare Festival is to in- The two times are the same and going, toy i
Scude three of the bard's dramas the band had no thrush warbling ahead time." commented
■ - "Macbeth." The Tempest" and the lyrics, author Ernest Kinoy. Some of the
The Timing of the Shrew ” A columnist had raised the players, he said, weren't too hap-
9 The acting companght" be tongue-in-cheek question whether py at first about the early expo-
I headed 6 Christopher Plummer regulations about the military ensure to spectators, but necessary
b Canadian bornactor prominent gaging in politics were violated script revisions were expedited.
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3 Shakespearean
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Critical Reaction
Doesn't Slow Play
NEW YORK TAP — Although
the New York press critics were
distressed and disturbed instead
| of being delighted, "The Apple"
is headed for wide showing.
11 The new play by avant garde
I dramatist Jack Gelber, presented
here at the Living Theater, is
fbeing produced this season also!
I by othe rtroupes in San Francisco
and Philadelphia. In addition, two
Italian publishers are printing a
translation abroad.
Consolidation Move
Okayed by Voters
PLEASANTON (AP) Residents AI
voted Friday to consolidate the
I twin towns of Pleasanton and 1
North Pleasanton, 32 miles south
of San Antonio "
I The totals were 543 for and 48 S
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