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Hartford Courant from Hartford, Connecticut • 10

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Hartford Couranti
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Hartford, Connecticut
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THE HARTFORD COURANT: MW.y. Jtm. II. 1954 10 lighting events was a tea served in honor of the members of the Senior Ladies Auxiliary who were invited guests at the gathering (Courant Thotos by Arman G. Hatsian).

Courant Camera At Guild Gathering: The Courant auditorium was the setting for the recent installation ceremonies for the officers'bf the Young Women's Guild of St. George's Armenian Apostolic Church. High ff wow. I mr rt Mrs. Paul DrrBoghosian of 59 Winchester St.

serves refreshments to Mrs. Nazareth Jedidian of 49 Freeman St. Mrs. Haig Kanan of 794 New Britain newly Installed treasurer (left) and Mrs. Charles S.

Koseian of 2 Rodney retiring chairman, scan the annual report. The Very Rev. Father Muron Gourdjikian. pastor of the church, addresses the group. Mrs.

Alhert Kandanan of 194 Campfield retiring secretary, watches her post filled by another member during the installation. JTra. Nerses Derderian of 39T Sigourney vice-chairman; Mrs, Haige J. Garabedjan of 2S Ellsworth East Hartford, chairman; and Mrs. Martin K.

Sherestanian of 911 Oak St. East Hartford, secretary; take the oath during the installation. gotten: tions their songs are still off it column Ben has ever 'KofC Breakfast Draws Shanley of New Haven; the Rev. About l'i million Americans Calogero Porrello, chaplain pfjplay the accordion. a commencement address.

went something like tiiis: "Digga boom "Disss boom. 133 From Tolice Club the club; the Rev. William Kennedy, pastor of the local church; Make Fun Of Absurdity I am heartened by the fact that television is beginning to make fun of this absurdity. The quite so angry. But, as I say, where do you go from Elvis, short of open obscenity which is against -the law? SOLTHINGTON, June 17 (Spe- riaiiAhnnt ir mpmhpr of tho'and Selectman Joseph A.

Luty Radio and Television Performer's Gyrations May Doom Rock 'N' Roll By JOHV CROSBY jable taste is displayed in the One thing about Elvis of primitive, shoddy "Digga "Boom. And Bob Hope came out with a blistering little parody on hillbilly music which I found very a 'other night "The Hit Parade" I 'did an unavoidable version of Popular music has been in tailsoin for years now and Police Anchor Qub of Meriden -ted by the Rev. today received holy communion Guests at the breakfast includ-i at the 8 a.m. mass in St. Thorn- ed Police Commissioners Arthur have hopes that with Presley it "Heartbreak Hotel" after all, has frtiir-Viorl Knttrtm orti will tlKt lit was on the hit parade with hprp' snvthinc- as Church here.

The group thenDella Vecchia of Sonthington and have to start getting better. aU singers dressed as Charles wU1 this eraze attended la communion break- Robert Boyd of Wallingford; and FOR YOUR Luncheon Date 11:30 2:30 MAKE IT THE Alden Restauranf T.I.I CH -OI50 I3S WttS.nfi.ld Av. Amp! Parking uw Hi4 ho riocronaratinTi nfiAoaams monsiiwiues. ohlivon. Is aiifhterand thiiasi at rnui nesiauranu, ronce uuew juienaet cirou the convulsive snouier or rojand ofensive material, one be- The club includes Knights of.Meriden and Edward Loughlin nomilar music start? You'd Drob- me Srtiue rheums uwui nas started.

Ace on the Perry Como show v. nii rou songs inai iuu wry of Wallingford. gins to understand the present- aby get a dozen different an-j are: this may be the end of Robert Triano Columbus members in the Soutlv ington, Meriden, Plainville and Wallingford police departments; TntMino Inc.) Police Chief G. was toastmaster. rock 'n' fall and just conceivably swers trom a dozen ditrerenti people.

My own theory is that it I announcer. He enunciated a day altitude of our youth. We in the classroom can do very litlle rock 'n' roll lyric than which More than 400.000 skiHed; State Police and police on the there is nothine more inane young men under 30 were de-iNew Haven Raildroad. to offset the force and impact of orls battled these displays in our efforts to an auto a cubby For an Englishman glove compartment is a return to musical sanity. I mean where do you go from Elvis Presley? The best description of Presley's performance on the Milton T.1 rnma fmm th phair.

without benefit of music (if erred by the U.S. draft pro- Speakers at the breakfast in- stem the tide toward a cultural 'eluded Probate Judge James A. ilocker. that's what it is in the style of gram in World War EL debacle." man of the music department of I Would Warrant Arrest About the only guy who ever Bryant Hign summed up Elvis "The Pelvis" School, Harry A Feldman, who any better than that was the wrote Berle: California policeman who, after songs. ASCAP pulled its music off the air and, since every composer of note was a member, music on the air consisted either of stuff in the public domain or perfectly dreadful new music.

Everyone and his Aunt Agatha thinks he can write songs and during that deplorable period, they all trotted them out. Songs that ordinarily would not have got past the receptionist at "The guest per- watching him writhe around a former, Elvis stage, commented: "If he did 4 Presley, pre- that on the street we'd arrest sented a demon-him. The last appearance of this unspeakably untalented and vul stration which was in execrable taste, border any reputable music publishers gar young entertainer Drougnt forth such a storm of complaints were not only published but ing on obsceni' ty. The gyrations of this young; both from the press and public 'played on the air. The public, man were such an assault to the i that I imagine any entertainer particularly the teen-age public, i I hesitate to try him again; got a taste for bad music that it senses as to repel even the on television.

Even gentle old; hasn lost to this day. The frood most tolerant observer 'Ben Gross of "The New York composers Irving Berlin, Rod- "When television enterpeneurs present such performers to News" blew his top overjarers and Hammerstein and the lions of viewers and pronounce this one. I doubt that in the o0i like had their songs forced off them great, when such deplor-'odd years he's been writing that I the air and with a few excep- However you Tike a Martini passengers have flown Eastern Air Lines s-nilrM Mff Z-fly Eastern with f. feiS lUO) 0 0 (a 0 (09 Liiiiv. iMtiM- 1 I UAIKER I CIS Fly Eastern's World-Famous Constellations CHRS.

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