Recording Artists In Tyler Political Sing Rally " readmis-sion if By DAN EAKIN SUff Wrlttr Two recording artists from Nashville, Tenn., Miss Dude Brown and Miss Barbara Cumin ings made a visit to Tyler Saturday night to entertain at a rally for gubernatorial candidate Dolph Briscoe at thMay-fair Building. The pair sang several songs before a pleased crowd of about 250 persons after they were introduced by Happy Shahan, one of their friends who is known to most East Texan s as the owner of "Alamo Village." Dude, a pretty blonde who hails from Moody, south of Waco, made several trips to East . Texas in her childhood when she sang with two sisters as the Brown Sisters Gospel Trio. Both Dude and Barbara began singing in front of large audiences before they even started to grade school.1 Dude began singing on the radio in Texas at the age of six and Barbara made her television debut in Nebraska .when she was five. Both have made several recordings on the London label. Barbara's biggest hit so far has been "She's A Woman" and Dude and her sister Bobbi have recorded "Carnival Man" and "Gonna Go Get My Puppy Love." . Since the two have been working for sometime in the country music capital of the world, it is understood that their music has "that Nashville sound;" Both have appeared on the Grand Ole Opry, although neither' of them is a regular. The girls are on tour almost constantly with some of the top recording stars in the nation. Barbara has toured with Ernest Tubb and Jim Reeves' Blue Boys, while Dude has been associated with Marty Robbins and Leroy VanDyke. This summer, Dude will go with a singing group to Germany to spend a month entertaining U. S. soldiers. She said she hopes to sing before some of the German people, too, as "Country music is very big over there." Barbara will spend the summer singing and strumming the guitar at Shahan's Alamo Village, which is still a leading Texas tourist spot John Wayne's film "The Alamo," was made there several years ago. Barbara said her philosophy of life is, "Everybody has to do what they're happy doing. I love to sing, and that's what I want to do." And sing she does. But that's not all. Would you believe she" spends part of the time; each year riding broncs and roping calves in rodeos? Her horse-riding appearances are at those rodeos featuring Loretta Lynn, which are held over the nation each year. The Saturday night event in j Tyler was a "first", for both j girls, as it was the first time : they ever had sung in any type i of political campaign. The pretty pair drove together j from Nashville across Arkansas to East Texas Saturday to help their friend Shahan in his bid to get Briscoe elected governor of Texas. They were expected to leave Tyler early Sunday for the long Journey home. Both hope to spend their lives entertaining folks across the nation who emjoy country and western music. Dark - haired, blue-eyed Barbara says she "may pull an Elvis Presley" some day and get into the "pop" field, if the opportunity presents itself. As a fan might suspect, the blonde with soft green eyes was not really named Dude at birth. She assumed the name when she and her sister Bobbi began singing as a duet "because I needed a shorter name." Her real name is Elizabeth. Asked how she arrived t the name "Dude." she said, after a pause. "I really couldn't say. But 1 did go to a dude ranch one time." '?V-ltX..4- l! f) fc. PI ,m 0tm :sMfm.ifii0i '.ate' . ! w IIP 1 RECORDING ARTISTS IN TYLER Miss Barbara Cummings, left, and Miss Dude Brown, both of Nashville, Tenn., were in Tyler Saturday night to entertain at a rally for gubernatorial candidate Dolph Briscoe. Both girls make country and western recordings on the London label. (Staff Photo) UNDRESSES 15,000 WOMEN Folies Bergere Director Busy Man By VIC WILCZUR PARIS (UPD-Nichel Gyarmathy has undressed more than 15,000 women in his life and at 59 is still going strong. It is one of the less strenuous occupations of the short, sad-eyed Hungarian who reigns over the fabled Folies Bergere as its artistic director, costume and. set designer. Gyarmathy auditions on the average each week some two dozen girls, mainly from the French provinces, who want to break into the nude revues at the Folies, which marks its centenary on May 2. Many Back Out "Some girls come with their mothers," he said in an interview, and many of them back out when asked to strip. He has the girls undress individually: in his private office, while he waits outside, "and then I knock on the door." "It just takes a second to see how they are," he said, passing his hand over his eyes.- "I am like a doctor examining a woman." Gymarthy looks for "long supple legs and good bosoms," but a girl also has to know how to stand and walk in the nude. Few can, he says. j Gymarthy, who still speaks with a heavy Hungarian accent despite having lived 34 years in France, contends that America produces the best show girls because "American girls take dancing seriously and make a career of it." , No Americans Gymarthy said there are no American girls in the current revue and Americans seldon ask to work aft the Folies. He gives as the reason that American girls "are too puritanical." - , High pay demanded by American stars is another deterrent. Gymarathy changes his $800,000 production every four years, and the show has to play at capacity for at least a year- to -get back the - eos of production. The highest paid of the more than 100 singers and dancers who perform seven nights a week earn $350 a week, Gyarmathy said. The 12th wedding anniversary Is traditionally called the silk anniversary. ON! 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