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2C THE MIAMI NETS, Sunday, January 5, 1064 T- Contest Underway For Mrs. Florida two on the island of Curacao, an automatic washer, a complete fashion wardrobe, a 'gas range and a trip to the New York World's Fair. Get in on your chance at being chosen Mrs. America by entering the Mrs. Miami contest.

Return the coupon today. A Miamlan, Emily (Mrs. Herbert) Savage, is the current Mrs. Florida. The current Mrs.

America is Mrs. Marilyn R. Mitchell from San Diego, Cal. trip to St. Petersburg where she and her husband will be guests at the Soreno Hotel.

She will receive a 16mm color print of a film made at the 1964 Mrs. America Pageant plus a Diamond Tiara. The lucky finalist who wins the coveted Mrs. America title will receive thousands of dollars In personal appearance fees plus all-expense travel though-out the country. She will receive, in addition, innumerable prizes including an all-expense week's vacation for MARTIN HUSTON "I Just Can't Cry" PATRICIA HARTY "Theater's Hard Work" School Pushed Son Too Far PATRICIA HARTY, MARTIN HUSTON Young Grove Actors Light Stage A chance 'to become the world's travelingest housewife (with all expenses paid) awaits the winner of the Mrs.

Miami contest which gets underway today. Any married woman, 21 years or older, who is an American citizen and a resident of the Greater Miami area may enter. The winner will be chosen on the basis of homemaklng abll- Ity, participation In community activities, poise, personality, character and good grooming. Mrs. Miami, to be selected in a aeries of competitive local events (menu planning, table setting, sewing or handwork, good grooming), will then compete with winners from other parts of the state for the Mrs.

Florida title. The contest is sponsored locally and statewide by The Miami News. And Mrs. Florida will participate in the Mrs. America contest to be held in St.

Petersburg, in April. There's no time to lose. Fill in the contest entry blank appearing on page five of today's Miami News Women's section. Return it pronto and you will be mailed the official contest questionnaire. Mrs.

America Is not a beauty contest. The winner will serve as a symbol of the home makers of America. She should excel In caring for her home and family and also participate In community actlvltiei If her duties of her home allow her the time. She should have the wholehearted backing of her husband and family in entering the contest. The woman chosen Mrs.

Florida will get an all-expenses paid Two young supporting players, 22-year-old Pat Harty and 23-year-old Martin Huston are garnering the lions' share of the applause for their performance in "Madly In Love at the Coconut Grove Playhouse. In the company of such seasoned performers as Jean-Pierre Aumont, Celeste Holm and Mac-Donald Carey they more than hold their own, proving they are actors with a bright future. ing a movie, but comedy'i his first love. "I could never play one of those parts where a little kid cries on his mama's lap. I just can't cry." Instead, as a lover of ad lib and a great fan of Jonathan Winters, he enjoyed taking off on impromptu "bits" backstage with Art Carney or Tom Poston, while Marty was playing on Broadway.

Eventually, he hopes to be a director and believes bis 14 years in the theater "certainly shouldn't hurt me." His plans also include having six or eight children, "but not for a long, long time." When he joined the Army Reserves recently, friends asked why he didn't get married Instead. He laughed. "That's a much longer tour of duty. In the Army, you only risk getting shot!" pends where you are. New York audiences are fine, but they've also been around.

You can't fool around with them. "When you get on the road, it's different. You're freer to do what you want. If a certain movement or line goes over big, you use it from then on." Marty has worked all kinds of stages the proscenium, tents, and rounds, but prefers the latter. "I thought it would be hard working the round, but I like to move around and it's great having people all around you." The young actor comes from a line of people Involved in show business.

His father worked for MUSAC, his mother does commercials for Lever Bros. and a younger sister, Gay, plays a part on an afternoon television series. "It's pretty funny," gays the 5 feet comedian-actor. "We rarely see each other at work, but every once In a while, I turn on TV and there's my sister or my mom." Marty "wouldn't mind" mak- By GESELL INSTITUTE "When our son Taylor, 7V4, finished his first six month in kindergarten I felt he should have an additional six months of kindergarten, since he was immature for his age compared with his brother, "However the school put him in first grade in February. And at the end of the term, he was put in second grade, "Realizing that tht would start him In second grade when he was only 614, I requested that he be allowed to repeat first grade.

The school said no. They recommended summer school to help prepare him for second grade In the fall. "He did badly in second grade and I asked, again, that he be put back but the principal said no, that he was an average boy and a good reader. He just needed tutoring in arithmetic. Again I bowed to the school's judgment.

"Taylor, is now in 3rd grade at 7V4. He is still immature and poor in his work. His first report card showed he received in everything but reading. I would like him to go back to second grade now or at least to repeat third grade next year. He has made several remarks which indicate he feels sad to be at the bottom of his class." We're afraid you've had a terrible run-around from your school from the start.

Obviously the teachers and principal acted in good faith, but their judgment seems to have been poor. In our opinion your own instinct has been correct right along. Here are some of the major errors your school hai made up to now; First, a boy as young at yours should not bav beea pushed as ha was. Six and a half Is too young for almost any boy to start second grade. Second, summer school in most instances is not desirable for a boy so young.

If he can't keep up without summer ichool, he should be allowed to stay behind. Nor should tutor be necessary. Third, we don't agree with the principal'i statement that your son's good reading was a sign he was ready for the advanced grade. Reading ability is often way out of Una with other abilities and should not be used as the sole measure of grade placement. Now you have a 74-year-old boy in third grade, a full grade ahead of where he probably should be.

Your own judgment, and hfcs grades, support this conclusion. How much better for Taylor to be at the top of second grade right now than at the bottom of third. We hope you will see the school again, perhaps with your husband along if he can manage and if he agrees with you. Possibly if the school sees that you both feet strongly in this matter, they may listen to you. If they won't, could you change schools? You are right, from all you say, in thinking that Taylor is overplaced.

The sooner the correction is made, the better. We hope to see the day when schools will no longer make this kind of error, but it may be some time in coming. Johnsons Plan First Big Formal Dinne A Special Store for Women and Children By NAOMI SUDNOW Reporter ef Tht Miami Newt Patricia Harty offers two words of advice to any young person interested In a career in the theater: "Forget It," she says emphatically. "Now don't misunderstand," adds the 22-year-old actress, now appearing In the Coconut Grove Playhouse production of "Madly in Love." "I love the theater, I'm terribly devoted to it. But it's certainly not the glamour you always hear about.

It takes a lot of patience and the work Is murderous." Pat had the patience and the determination and stubbor-ness it takes to break into show business. "I wanted to be an actress ever since I can remember, and I wasn't about to change my mind." Her mind's made up about one thing. Live stage is her first choice although she's never played in a movie. "In the theater, you're on your own; on a movie lot, you get several chances to try again if you flub. "I guess that's why I enjoy live TV commercials so much.

There, you have both ges. It can't be done over, and at the same time, you're right on camera. Every lift of an eyebrow has to mean something." Born in D.C., Tat and her family moved to Miami when she was five. At an early age, she studied "all kinds" of dancing. She worked in night clubs on the Beach and did a year's stint on the Alec Gibson show.

Then, after graduation from Edison Senior High School in 1957, the hazel-eyed blonde decided it was time to make it on her own. She packed her bags, along with her singing and dancing talent and left for New York to death. 1 didn't know what I was getting Beginning in summer stock in up-state N.Y., Pat returned to the city determined to appear on the Perry Como show. "I know I had a lot of nerve, but I went to the choreographer and told him I thought he should see me dance. Poor quy, I guess he figured he had no choice there I was.

Anyway, I danced on the show." After that, it was a year on Unmatched Look Big For New Year Looking ahead into 19M it's obvious that there is a casual-ness in new clothes that keeps them together without their looking too matched. In fact, it's the unmatched look that is smartest. One of the stars of the coming season is the so-called, tandem coat and dress ensemble of which each part, incidentally, may be worn with many other things as well. It might be a black silk-and-worsted coat over a black-and-white print dresss. Or perhaps a white tweed officer's coat over a blue crepe blouson dress.

Or a sleeveless textured rayon coat over a long-sleeved print dress. Look alikes? Not at all. But looking great together and much more interesting than match-mates. the Pat Boone show, gome appearances with Gary Moore and Andy Williams. Her first big part came when she replaced star Pat Stanley in "Fiorello!" "I had played in two musicals and I was begin-ing to get I wanted to do some drama," says the bright-eyed vivacious actress.

In the midst of all this, Pat spent all her money and went to work for a lawyer who "to this day doesn't know I was in the theater. I used to take my dancing shoes to work for auditions later, but he never caught MM on. She also enrolled in evening classes at Columbia University, where she finished a year and a half, but had to give it up while she was on the road playing in "Sail Away." "II was getting to be too much. My manager, Tom Kearney (also her husband since last May) used to go to my classes and bring my work to me, so I finally had to quit. "But I want to go back and get my English degree.

College is a good balancer, after being in the theater all the time." Tat and her husband have an apartment in N.Y. why I like being on Her mother, Mrs. Russell Harty, lives in West Hollywood. Martin Huston, who plays Pat's brother in the Grove comedy, thinks of himself as a comedian rather than as an actor. "Not a comic," he quickly points out.

"There's a difference. "I believe I'm quoting Ed Wynn when I say a comic says funny things; a comedian says things funny." Put, he continues, a comedian first has to be an actor. "His sense of humor has to be that of 75 per cent of the populace. He has to know his audience. "Take any good comedian and he'll be a good actor.

But I don't think it's the other way around. Very few actors can be good comedians." The voice of experience may sound strange coming from a 23-year-old. But Marty knows what he's talking about. He's been in show business for 14 years. At the age of 9, Marty sort of "stumbled" into his present career when his family moved to New York from Lexington, Ky.

"A bunch of the guys I went to school with were always going down to do readings for auditions. I went along once and got my first part doing a television show with the late John Hodiac. "That's when there WAS television. Now everything's taped or comes from the West Coast. The theater is all that's left in N.

Y. But I love it." After the Hodiac show and another radio and television show when he was 11 were the swingin' Marty went to Hollywood to do a series in "Jungle Jim." I hate to admit it. There're a lot of good cracks people can come up with when you say you were in 'Jungle Marty's been working legitimate theater for about three and a half years, appearing in such Broadway productions as "Only in America," "Take Her, She's Mine" and "Come Blow Your Horn," in which he played for two and a half years, zenith of my career so Does it become monotonous playing the same show for two and a half years? "Well, It dp- "But I'll be able to tell her about it when she gets older." Mrs. Morris King Udall, wife of the Democratic Senator Irom Arizona, is one up on most wives in loyalty. A few days before Christmas, she packed their six children into the family station wagon and headed for a warmer climate for Christmas.

Her husband promised to join her the moment Congress adjourned. When Mrs. Udall was some 500 miles from Washington, she heard on the car radio that Congress would not adjourn before Christmas. So she stopped for the night. Next day she turned around and drove that 500 miles back to Washington in cue day.

She had no intention of spending Christmas without her husband. Her youngsters, were a bit puzzled at first, but after she explained that they had to go back and join daddy, she had reason to be proud of them. "They took it with th most wonderful sportsmanship," she said. Udall is the brother of Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall. 1 Store Hours 9:30 to 5:30 PRESIDENT JOHNSON But nobody cared.

Not even the White House caretakers. The 600 children had some childhood fun all their own at the home of presidents. They were all ages, from babes in arms to toddlers to teenagers. It was their one chance in the year to see the big house where their daddy or mommy worked. The youngsters were the sons and daughters of maids, housemen, chauffeurs, musicians, social secretaries, White Hoise police, Secret Service and general handymen.

The youngest, 3-months-o 1 snoozed soundly as her daddy carried her about. "She won't remember this, of course," said the proud papa. LADY BIRD JOHNSON himself to Halleck and walked across the state diningroom to answer his wife's note in person. He put his arm fondly about her and told her they would wait to go to Texas until the next day. Then he returned to Halleck and continued to exercise his most persuasive charm to get what he wants from Congress for the country and the world.

President Lyndon Johnson has been calling Mrs. John F. Kennedy every night or so just to cheer her as much as possible. He does not her to feel that she will ever be forgotten. He has a very special fondness for 6-year-old Caroline Kennedy, and he explained how it began.

As Vice-President, he was working on the budget at the White House very late one night with President Kennedy. The phone rang on the President's desk, and LBJ took the call. By DOROTHY McCARDLE North American Newspaper Alliance WASHINGTON It's party time again at the White House, The first formal white tie dinner to be given by President and Mrs. Johnson will take place at the White House Jan. 14 in honor of Italy's President Antonio Segni and his wife.

This will be the first glittering protocol affair, complete with exciting and unusual entertainment, of the new Johnson Administration. No one predicts what other parties President and s. Johnson may host on the spur of the moment before mid-January. Rut such Impromptu hospitality will not be formal. It will have the Texas friendliness and ease of this Texas First Family.

President Johnson is the kind of man who wakes up in the morning with a sudden inspiration for a party that same night. That's what he did in honor of Congress the Monday before Christmas. He called Liz Carpenter, Press Secretary to the new First Lady, and alerted her that he "might" like to iiave members of Congress in that evening for "coffee." He'd let her know definitely by noon, Mrs. Johnson and Mrs. Carpenter plunged into preparations (o receive members of Congress and the Senate on three hour's notice.

At the party's end, everyone proclaimed it to have been one of the most heart-warming affairs ever held at the White House. The "coffee" had been stretched to include luscious fruit cake and eggnog. By 7 p.m., the hostess still had not had time to consult her husband about the possibility that they might take off that night for the LB.I ranch in Texas. She glanced across the state diningroom at the President who was in a huddle with House Republican Leader Charles Halleck, of Indiana. She couldn't break that up.

She knew how important the talks with Halleck could be for the passage of the Foreign Aid Bill. So she called a White House aide, handed him a note, which asked her husband when they would be going to Texas. The note was given to the President. He read it, smiled, excused is this?" asked Caro- "Who line. he "It's the Vice-President," said.

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