St. Louis Post-Dispatch from St. Louis, Missouri • Page 31

1 TLH1 COLORED COMHC PAGE SSIDT in the ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH 2 Published Everij VTeek de, nd Tundq PART THREE ST. LOUIS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1950 PAGES 1 SC i HOUSE SMASHED BY TORNADO IN COUNTY Radio in 'Review Burns and Allen Old but Reliable By John Crosby NEW YORK Jan. -3. BURNS and Allen, those prehistoric comedians, are now almost at the tail end of Mr.

Filey's Wednesday night parley on CJ3.S. (a clock M. Louis time), which is quite a par- ft 7 ley. In order, you get Dr. Christian, Marx, Bing Crpsby, B.

and Lum and Abner an indigestible grouping if ever I heard one. George and Gracie are still very, very funny people, ided you haven't grown weary of that particular side street over the years. My own1 theory for their longevity JOHN CROSBY George Burns is 112 years old and doesn't look a day over 96 Is that theirs is a specially timeless comedy. Gracie Allen is past mistress at feminine irrelevance, that distinctive female gift which has driven all husbands out of their minds from time to time. jr.

yv tTYt wawawimyvyfn vi 2 '4 BARKLEYS AT CAPITOL former Mrs. Sarleton S. Hadley of St. Louis, pose in his office at the Capitol5 today just before the opening of the new session of Congress. Mrs.

Barkley took a seat in the Senate gallery to watch her husband preside over Nthat chamber. They are posing with the Great Seal of the Vice President! Associated Press Wireoboto. Wreckage jf a frame house on Twillman avenue, in the Spanish Lake area of St. Louis county, after a small tornado struck today. Note bed remains upright in shattered room.

Ten homes were demolished in this sector and 23 others were damaged. The storm swept across the Mississippi river to Illinois, causing additional damage at Hartford, in Madison county. I'ost-Dispatrh Staff Photographer. ROSE PARADE View of a section of the six-mile Tournament of Roses parade at Pasadena, yesterday, with the Long Beach (Calif.) entry winner of the sweepstakes award for beauty in the lead. Its theme was "freedom" and it featured three huge doves fashioned of white chrysanthemums.

Behind it is the entry of the California Institute of Technology depicting the 200-inch telescope at Mount Palomar. Associated Press Wirephoto. Ft i4 4 V' yi y-" SI "ALL GItEAT SINGERS have their trials," says Gracie to George. "Look at Caruso. Thirty years on a desert island with all those cannibals." "You've got the wrong man," says George wearily.

"No, you're the one for me." In that small exchange, Gracie has switched directions twice and your average husband, listening to her, can derive a small crumb of comfort from the fact this his own wife, gifted as she is at wandering a mile away from the point, isn't that bad. YOU CAN IIA'RDLY descrloe the Burns and Allen show as a public service program, but it-has some claim to that distinction. In the umpteen years they have been on the air, Gracie has very likely kept two or three husbands from shooting their wives, simply by persuading them that things could be worse. A small thing, but noble. Gracie lives in a permanent state of hopeless confusion that defies rational solution.

She drives a car with the emergency brake on, for example, so that when an emergency happens, she's ready. Recently she's been trying to comfort George about his singing which drives people to distraction. George said, "My singing is a thing of the past. It's dead, extinct." "It does not," said Gracie loyally. THE BURNS AND ALLEN show, like so many others, is now transcribed.

This has added a little more polish to the production and an added fillip to the pace (which was always good). George Burns, one of the swiftest wits in Hollywood, strikes an almost perfect note of resigned exasperation. Bill Goodwin, the announcer, has been cast in the role of a male animal of great sex appeal which sometimes gets a little harassing. In all other respects Burns and Allen are still a fine half-hour of entertainment apart from their great age. ON ONE OCCASION, I noted that Kay Kyser resembled Harry Truman.

Well, this is a nonpartisan column so I'd like to point out that Hank Ladd, who took Milton Berle's place on the Texaco show, is the spitting image of Thomas Dewey. A terrible thing for a comedian. When a Thomas E. Dewey either the original or the Hank Ladd version appears onstage, you don't expect: "When I was walking to the studio today, 1 And then the punch line. Political comedy and stage comedy are separate entities, different things entirely, and the state of mind of the audience is different, too.

The other day on "Suspense" another actor bearing a distressing resemblance to Mr. Dewey was depicted as a composer, starving valiantly in a rooming house. Well, my credulity has limits and this exceeded those limits by a block and a half. Mr. Dewey, a man of remorseless and terrible competence, is hardly my picture of a composer, but even if he were, he wouldn't be starving in a rooming house.

He'd be in the Waldorf Tower, living extremely well. Try and Stop Me By Bennett Cerf A FEW days after Gen. Eisenhower's installation as president of Columbia University, he journeyed to Albany to address an audience of 1000 prominent educators. Another speaker was Norman Cousins, editor of the Saturday Review of Literature. While the chairman was busy making elaborate introductions.

Gen. Eisenhower leaned over and whispered to Cousins, "Are you nervous about addressing an august body like this?" You bet 1 am," said Cousins. "No need to counseled the General. "1 used to get the jitters at a time like this, too. Then 1 thought of a sure-fire remedv.

1 get up and look 'em straight in the eyes and imagine that every one of them is sitting there in his underwear. I regain my self-assurance immediately!" THE CANNIBAL CHIEF in Mr. McSorley's carnival was distinctly out of sorts the morning after New Year's eve. "Sometimes." he explained, "I just get fed up with people." 1 I I I i t'y? yy.I liy-k- 4W" ly jf 7-A I 4-, d.t C. "'1 SICK CHILD FLOWN FROM ASIA Two-year-old Janet Beth Wagner is held by her father.

Paul Wagner, on arrival in Los Angeles by Pan American Clipper after a flight from Singapore, where she was stricken two weeks ago by a rare blood disease. She is being taken to a Cleveland clinic for treatment that may save her life. Waqner is an executive for a rubber concern in Singapore. Associated Press Wirephcto. SKIDDING AIRLINER HITS AUTO; 5 HURT at Salt Lake City, Utah, skidded out of control, crashed through a fence and smashed the automobile in foreground Four occupants of the car and one of 12 persons aboard the plane were injured.

The accident occurred during a snow storm. AnMjciated I'r-s irephoto. Nolte Career Highlights yyr 4' vl A THE MAN WHO- i i-- A sf The Republican candidate, a consistent winner even in the New Dea! years, casting his vote with Mrs. Nolte in the April 4. 1933, election.

Mrs. Nolte died two months ago. They lived at 1129 Penrose street, where the ex-official hanged himself. A Coroner verdict of suicide was returned today. Louis Nolte, former City Comptroller vho" ended his life New Year's day.

is shown at his desk at City Hall as he embarked on a notable career cf public service that won him eight consecutive four-year terms. Mr Nolte, who had served previously as sheriff, was defeated fast year for re-election to the fiscal post he first assumed in 1917. He was 73 years old. Comptroller Nolte receiving the 1934 St. Louis Award for distinguished service from the Rev.

A. M. Schwitalla, S. of St. LoiHs University in a ceremony at City Hall.

Mayor Bernard F. Dickmann. now Postmaster, looks on. Mr. Nolte, who won national recognition in the field of municipal finance, was bown as "The Watchdog of the City Treasury.

staff rhotonaphtrt. HAS BAGS UNDER HIS EYES. I i.