Lansing State Journal from Lansing, Michigan • Page 63

Leo, University's Lion, STRICTLY VARIETY Tough Day THE LANSING STATE JOURNAL MICHIGAN'S GREAT CAPITAL. DAILY March 12, 1950 11 THIRD SECTION Repairing Plugs Is Big Business Show Must Go On STOW, Mass. (UP) Synthetic snow made of kernels of plastic is being tested on a 30-yard slope here in an effort to lick the June in January weathef problem. Sponsors hope to find a satisfactory substitute which ski-tow owners could use when it fails to snow. the brunt of most of the rivalry between fraternities at.

the college. The most recent indignity was a leg broken with a hammer. During almost every campus celebration. Leo is spattered with paint. Once he was stolen an found several days later buried a shallow grave on the edge of town.

Takes It on the Chin GAINESVILLE, Fla. (UP) Leo the lion takes a real beating at the University of Florida. The big stone beast guards the entrance to the Sigma Alpha Epsi-lon fraternity house and he gets There Are Even You-Guess-Its The Ken Murray Show Holds Bi-Weekly Spot 5. sWW 9'JanDervoorfs Video Has Own Version of 'Stop the Music' Lansing's Leading Television Store Th Ken Murray Enow," an' hour-long scintillating variety ex appeared in a number of top Broadway musicals and in several Hollywood films prior to launching travaganza starring Ken Murray, With a "Mystery Melody" and jackpot prize list of its own, the former Broadway revue headliner.ithe novel "Blackouts." 'When Ready i vCV sty ft ty; i f'JL i fJ-J UH 4 Presents the NEW veteran vaudeville topper and for Blackouts" made its debut at the '0 Thursday evening television ver mm El Capitan theater in Hollywood in June, 1042, vaudeville was in a bad sion of "Stop the ABC's na WARNER ROBINS, Ga. (UP) A few spark plugs are all right, in their place, but 13,000 spark plugs, every day, is too many.

If you are ever in this part of the country, ask W. G. Giligan. Ask him how many words can be made out of the letters in "spark plug." Ask him how heavy they are, how they feel, and what he thinks of them. Then run.

That is, you should run if you don't want to get tapped on the head with a spark plug. There are 13,000 within his reach. Air Force Steps In It started when Gilligan and a few others decided they would reprocess old spark plugs. "Not so hard then." says W. O.

"Only had 3,000 a day." But then the air force decided to give him a little more business. In November the Warner Robins air material area here was designated as the spark plug overhaul point for the entire air force east of the Mississippi. "Ho hum," said W. G. as 10,000 additional spark plugs began to roll tional home audience participation game, has become since its debut iat Mav a worthy counterpart to the last seven years headman of the nationally famous Hollywood "Blackouts," is presented bi-weekly on the CBS television network.

The "Ken Murray Show" Is produced by Murray in association with CBS, originating in New York. It is a potpourri of song, comedy, drama, dance, novelties and feminine THE REAL "Uisible Ualue" TELEUISION way. His show was designed to revive it through the ingenious experiment of assembling a number of acts in revue pattern, without a book. Showmen viewed the move incredulously, but "Blackouts" proved a sensational hit from the outset. It ran for seven years and its radio namesake.

Designed especially for video view ers, the hour-long TV program. while following the general pattern set many theater records, including pulchritude. Each program features an excerpt from a Broadway or Hollywood dramatic, musical or of the radio format, places its em' comedy prod action, with a distin phasis on the visual and specatcular. guished guest personality in the lead Headed bv Bert Parks, emcee oi role. both the radio and television ver the all-time long run mark for any production.

The "Ken Murray Show" is supervised for CBS by Producer Frank Satenstein, and directed by Herbert Suss an. Sponsor is Anheuser-Busch, for Budweiser beer. Slot Machine Teaches A Lesson in Statistics sions, a larger cast acts out elaborate Elaborate scenic backgrounds for the spectacular 3 array of acts are especially designed for the program. clues to the various songs played The thematic backdrop is a "Holly Poised to celebrate St. Patrick's Day in high style are Ken Murray, star of CBS-TV'a "Ken Murray Show," and Darla Hood, lead by Harry Salter's orchestra.

In the in daily. Inventions Help wood and Vine" set, symbolic of filmdom's crossroads, which for sev He increased his staff to 90 work cast are vocalists Estelle Loring, Betty Ann Grove and Jimmy Blaine, ers, conferred with military au thorities and even invented ma s)m refrain from xineine the actual chines to help fix his 13,000 spark song title but do offer hints, both plugs. vocal and ocular, to the name of There is. for instance, a mac nine the song. Other clues are given by a large cast including actors and for gaping all four electrodes of an aircraft machine at once.

That is good. A hand "gaper" can only do dancers, often assisted by various props. 800 gap jobs a day. The machine does 2,000. As is the success mi radio ver sion, television fans called by Parks ing lady in the fall-hour bi-weekly variety series.

Four Brothers and Wives Set a Marriage Record LAUREL, Miss. (UP) Four brothers and their wives are believed to have set a record for lengthy marriages. W. N. Montgomery and his wife have bee.i married 64 years; J.

A. Montgomery and his wife 57 years; J. J. Montgomery ird his wife 55 years, and H. C.

Montgomery snd his wife also 55 years. The four Montgomery brothers and their wives have lived in Jones county virtually their entire life Molly (Gertrude Berg) soothes her weary husband Jake (Philip Loeb) as he recites the ingredients of one of those traditionally tough days at the office during a sequence of CBS-TVs "The Goldbergs," one of video's most popular dramatic series. Going Her Way FORT WORTH (UP) Mrs. Dora en years was an emblem of Murray's marathon "Blackouts" show. With his familiar fedora, cane and cigar, Murray, regarded as one of America's foremost comics and impresarios, dominates the new show almost from beginning to end, tying the acts together with his gifts of showmanship and witticism.

Murray brings to CBS-TV's new spectacle not only some of the outstanding names and acts in current show business, but a know-how of Broadway and Hollywood production extending over a period of 25 years. He was a headliner at Broadway's Palace theater the heydey of ita vaudeville glories. He also was the first master of ceremonies at the old variety Mecca. A vaudevillian since 1922, Murray. must correctly identify the song being played by the orchestra at MADISON, Wis.

UP) University of Wisconsin statistics students are getting a moral with their mathematics. Prof. Philip G. Fox is using an old slot machine to Illustrate problems in mathematical probability to his classes. He got the "one-armed bandit" from the sheriff after it was confiscated in a raid.

Fox uses the machine to give a graphic demonstration of mathematics. He ays that while the machine's first purpose is to teach statistics, it also is an easy way for students to learn that they can't beat the "bandits." the time the call is put through to them from New York. By naming this song, the contestant is eligible to try for the mystery melody jack He has a labeling and dipping machine, which inserts the plug into a container, labels it and then dips it in wax to make the enclosures airtight. He has invented an automatic painting machine which can coat 7,200 plugs la "The inventions are wonderful," Gilligan said, "but every morning when we come to work we still know there will be 13,000 mora spark plugs to face us." pot prize list with its rich rewards. Screen I Ann Grady, 81, started out walking New No clues are given for the jackpot to City-County hospital for a med ical examination, but completed the Provides Big Easy to View Picture.

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