Corpus Christi Caller-Times from Corpus Christi, Texas • 12

7 rr vr? -P yyrrVYVs 77777T i 'VTTTT CORPUS CHRIgn CALLER Tue March 7 1961 HY GARDNER CALLING St Louis9 I Work Faked Sou Claims Diana Was Honors Tops Among Entertainers corner of Broadway and 42nd Street But It will never again incubate such greats as Will Rogers Bob Hope Fred MacMurray or the other stars that Flo Ziegfckl made famous in his Follies such as Fields Eddie Cantor Sophie Dicker Ann Pnmington Fannie Brice and other Immortals Today the weatherbeaten structure reflects the shoddy taste of the times offering a grind policy of second run movies with the emphasis on mayhem murder sex and assorted violence I'm afraid things were nicer in the old days IN ROBSTOWN that it was a common sight to see Will In the lobby reading the latest editions of the evening newspapers and writing out the quips spiel that night from the stage of the Midnight Frolics atop the rod of the New Amsterdam Theater It is an odd twist of fate that it was under this same roof the night of Nov 18 1933 where Bob Hope was to make his mark aa a star playing Huckleberry Haines in the hit musical Fred MacMurray told me recently that he played the saxophone in the stage band of this show under the baton of Bob Hope As a matter of fact it was hat and cane which MacMurray borrowed to take the screen test which brought him to Hollywood The New Amsterdam with this rich history still stands near the OWtVt tM frttaTftt -W I04M0NN MWVtoael NOW 2 BIG HITS "CONTINFLAS" AVOLAR JOVIN AND "GUN DIM AT DURANGO" MAUI MABYEL Tom Martin 19 (left) who turned in three perfect examination papers in mathematics physics and mechanics explains a problem in advanced calculus to a class at the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken N-J His professor Henry Polowy checks Martin's calculations Polowy said the youth in turning in the perfect papers did something that happen more than once in 20 Martin is from Wichita Kan (AP Wirephoto) BOB HOPE medals for mirth Hope will recall in an April "Project TV special) Bob gets his greatest kicks out of aiming topical blockbusters at the hierarchy of politics sports show business management even' subject as touchy as labor In the early days of Will Rog-i era when the rope-twirlcr added sound to his pantomimic act old- timers at the Astor Hotel tell me TONITE EVERY TUES NITE MAISON ROUGE LOUNGE PRESENTS "ROLLETTS" HAPPY HI TODAY A liinij jd i SHOWS SS1 mm limna tl MmuMux-umr Adults SDC 90c Children 50c JUJ VJ'ml a 1 I 1 Mr OPIN 11:45 PM I Screamer Causes Troubles By HY GARDNER MU Nw Vark HnM TrtkwM Bob Hope is the most honored entertainer in the history of show business Hia list of encomiums is even longer than the list of credits on "Ben Hur" the only member of his craft whose statue stands alongside those of 49 other famous Americans who distinguished themselves during wartime permanent Living Hall of Fame a wing of the Smithsonian Institution He was decorated with the Medal of Merit by former President Dwight Eisenhower on behalf of the millions of troops whom he flew to entertain when fighting waa at its bitterest or boredom at its sirkeningest He wean the Exceptional Civilian Service Award presented with great respect and affection by the late Air Fbree General Hoyt Vandenberg and the then Secretary of Air Stuart Symington Several years ago at Hope's home in Beverly Hills we were thumbing through a scrapbook of some of the metal and parchment patticakes collected by Hope in his minions of mirth We even wade through half of it for the simple reason that we were only planning to spend' three days in Hollywood Friday night at the Commodore here in New Yak the humorist will be honored this time with a tribute dinner in it says on the ticket "of devoted service to humanitarian Proceeds of the sellout will enrich the New March of Dimes Fund while the mood enriches the hearts and souls of those in attendance with! etightful quips and caressing phrases voiced by comedic confreres and distinguished! civilians" There is no question but that this farm of! fund-raising device is frequently overdone in the name of sweet' charity But when both the cause: and the man mesh as honestly and beautifully as in this in-1 stance the event should be a memorable one Probably the only other entertainer in modem times who wore a similar mantle woven of public acclaim was the late Will Rogers But because of the advance in electronics jet flying television etc since the heyday the cowboy philosopher Hope's quips have reached more eyes and ears than any single personality on record Like Will Rogers (whose career ROME (Reuters) An Italian son said Monday that a supposed ancient Etruscan statue now nt an American museum actually was made by the sculptor as an "innocent a few years ago Dosscna asserted in a letter to a newspaper here that his late father Alceo Dosscna sculpted the statue shortly before he died a few years ago The son identified it as a statue of the goddess Diana on view at the St Louis museum as an ancient Etruscan work Hie letter writer indicating the Diana now was the subject of a controversy told the newspaper II Tempo that "if my father were alive he would smile at the battle of the world's greatest experts about his IGs letter was published three weeks after the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York announced that three large statues -exhibited since 1983 as fifth-century CL Etruscan actually were fakes apparently made this century Etruscan art period ranged from about 750 to 100 Top Italian archeologist Massimo Paliottino said two weeks ago that there was a flourishing trade in Etuscan fakes from Italy and central Europe adding several American and European collections apparently had acquired such forgeries Dossena's letter said that in 1955 he told the press the Diana had been sculpted by his father father created the archaic Etruscan Diana as an Innocent joke as he had done several times during his hard life "Unfortunately my father died just after completing it and the man who had the statue made it disappear" This person was not identified The son said he saw the Diana again in a color photograph on the cover of an American art magazine with the caption Louis captures a Dos-ena said the magazine also carried a note by a Swiss archeologist declaring that the Diana was the only Etruscan work that could be compared with the famed Apollo of Vejo now in the Villa Giulia National Museum of Etruscan Art here Dosscna said he made his statement to the press July 23 1955 following this "regrettable misunderstanding" and after getting the opinion ot Italian art critic Ernesto Galdi The sculptor's son said that in his statement he said the St Louis museum bought the statue South Tool' Larfoit Ice Skating Rink ICELAND OF CORPUS CHRISTI JOSS LIXINGTON RIVD UL1-M02 ADULTS MON THSII THURS Tic FBI SAT SUN VS ADMISSION CHILDBIN MON THRU THURS SO FRI SAT SUN SESSIONS: A I II IS It A I 11 A II 4 A I 1 MON WED TUES THURS FRIDAY Sat SUNDAY I LIKE NOTHM Witt OB ITALIAN BEE TALK 9 FOUND VIENNA Austria (Reuters) Prof Karl Von Frisch who says bees can "talk" claimed Monday Italian bees apeak a different language than Austrian bees The professor said that unlike their human compatriots Italian bees were not temperamental He said a bee told Us comrades where food could be found by an elaborate dance It pointed its hindend toward the sun and waggled tight or left to indicate the distance The Austrian bee performs a very lively dance but the Italian bee is slower and more deliberate he claimed "Indian bees which arp really another race are much more primitive in their language They cannot say where the food is they just get excited and their comrades realize there is food available and off they he added Tuesday Lunch WEK Spaghetti Meat Balls T0WERK cruel of her mother to interfere in this His lordship went on the stage about seven months ago Shortly alter this Gillian tried to introduce him to her mother "I never got a chance to introduce him said Gillian1 Mum took one took at hit clothes and shied His lordship-depressed but said: "The trouble is my mum cannot be convinced that not a lunatic oft stage as well as Gillian said she wants to marry her icreamer but admits got a Mg problem "My mother has actually told me to get out of the house and find lodgings elsewhere but I afford to leave the house because practically And that's the way things stood on the screaming front Monday TONIGHT OPEN INGRID BERGMAN'S Wednesday Lunch weekI Smothered Steak Yes Wo Hava BOCK Bear OYSTERS on the Half Shall NOLAN'S BEER GARDEN 3502 AYERS DELICATESSEN TU3-240I x- a w4bont LONDON (AP) Police Sgt Edith White save her daughter mwMng orders Monday because of the girl'a friendship with Screaming Lord Sutch Screaming Lord real Bane David Is an ex-plumber turned rock roll star Apart Iran acreamlng he wean hit hair two feet hag and tops hit ctflure with a pair of buffalo horns The girt Gillian White 17 said an interview: "My mother has told me to go Furthermore my mother my aunt end my unde and other members of my family hope that by not talking to me force me to atop seeing Dave "How narrow-minded can people One of the angles of "bis act is to bop about the flip dressed in leopard skin He says it's a satire on other rock singers "Dave of course is barred from our bouse" said Gillian "and heaven help him if my mother geta her bands on him what with her being a cop and Judo expert" Said Screaming Lord Sutch to reporters: "I don't intend to get pushed around by Gill's mother in love with Gill and think Jf ADULTS ONLY AYERSS3 Six Held in Kidnaping Of Auto Child TWO OPEN 6:15 jbci mar IfMMON NELSON Si WACKIEST SHIP ZtC ARM Best 2 Records for The Fries of 1 "STOP LOOK LAUGH" The Three Stcefti ANNECY France Police huge headlines saying formal ar-aeeidng the kidnapers of a Paris automaker's young son cross- rests were imminent Eric was snatched from a 1 a i The MELBA! playground just outside Paris last I two years earlier for 556000 Dos- April 12 A chauffeur and nurse to that American archeologist Har-: were nearby but did not tee him Panon hftd dMCribed disappear A ransom note was statue as a "remarkable work found in the sandpile by Dossena" JOHNNY BEE PUTINS AT THE TOP HAT LOUNGE EVERY MONDAY NIGHT AND i ENROLL NOW for NIGHT CLASSES Two Sessions Today In Workshop on Aged Two sessions are scheduled in the sixth workshop for care of the and disabled today at the Central Power and Light Co home economics demonstration auditorium The sessions sponsored by the City-County Health Department will be at 1 pm and 3:20 pjn Subjects for discussion are basic nutrition and geriatrie diet There will also be review and demonstration of special recipes SHOWS ONE TIME 1 AT TstO MCI PALACE- RICHARD DURTOM The show fan's dream packege a fantastic two volume treasure of show-stoppers by Broadway stars from such hits os "Finion's Rainbow" "Kiss Me Kate" Pacific" "My Fair Lady" "West Side Story" With a lavish bonus dramatic 1 6-page candid picture story of the shows on 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been filed against any of the six Only snatches of information leaked from police headquarters investigators sought to learn whit if anything the three men and three women know about the kidnaping of Eric Peugeot 4 from a suburban Paris playground nearly ll months ago Boy Was Returned Erie was released unharmed a couple of days later after his father Roland Peugeot paid 50 million franca 5100000 ransom to one of the kidnap gang The case had dropped from the public eye until Sunday when Paris and local police threw a cordon around a luxurious eight-room chalet at the factorable Alpine resort of Megeve A couple apparently preparing to speed oft in a blue American-made sports car wen taken into custody Police flashed out an alarm for a new black sedan-made by the Peugeot and it was halted in a nearby town Inside were two other couples The six included last Danish "Miss candidate an exotic Eurasian strip-tease dancer an ex-paratrooper and three others who were not identified The Danish girl waa Lise Bodin 20 a blonde model who arrived in France only last November The Eurasian whose mother waa Japanese and father American wm Identified only as Mitxouko Typewriter Glue The man identified waa Roland da Beaufort win police said admitted once having' a typewriter used for the Peugeot ransom notes Paris newspapers brought out GULFA (Tk Ul'3 IRS4 80c A CAR 80c 3 FEATURES 3 SHOWS ONI TIME ONLY 1 "LONELY MAN" JACK PALANCk 2 NO ANGELS" HUMPHREY ALDO RAY 3 "CRACK IN MIRROR" ORSON WELLS D0LLAR-A-CAR PDRO armours EANDRfS VBAMUEf 2800 LEXINGTON BLVD PHONE TE5-0241 BUCK NITE-n A CAR IN PERSON MEMORIAL COLISEUM Safe Mar 11 AND JCUYIUZO'-T 2 COLOR GREATS MARLON RED DUTTONS "SAYONARA" PLUS "BATTLE CRY" Tout COSPUS CHRISTI ItCOID CENTERS GE i TWJNj WDOT B4UDN IqTtwf HELD OVER 3RD WEEK lUiAH HOLDS! 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