The Daily Times from Davenport, Iowa • 12

MS THE DAILY TIMES Saturday, Detemler 5, 1933 itWi mm mt MMki 'Colossus' Is Scientist Crisp Air Appeals To Miss Merman Lafferty Laughs At TV Cares; Directs 'Blues' By BOB THOMAS HOLLYWOOD Vfh-lfs a long way from the bright lights of Broadway and Hollywood to the crisp air of mile-high Denver. But Ethel Merman has made the tran ed 280 B.C. An earthquake tumbled it 53 years later. The story handed down through the years is that the statue stood with a beacon in lis hands and one foot on each side of the harbor entrance, with enough clearanca for ships to pass underneath. MAKVON has determined from a study of classical inscriptions that the statue was in fact 120 feet high and the harbor 600 feet wide, which would make ihe famous straddla an anatomical impossibility- Furthermore, he said, his research indicated that heroic figure was not cast in one piece as hitherto supposed, but was made of bronze sheets beaten into shape and riveted together.

Maryon estimated the thickness of the sheets as equal to that of a British penny about a 15th of an inch. LONDON WV-The Colossus of Rhodes one jf the seven ancient wonders of the world, was do-scribed by a British scientist Thursday night as a hollow sham. Hcvbert Maryon, 79-year-old sculptor-archaeologist, told a meeting of the Society of Antiquaries the giant statue was: 1 Too small to stand astride the harbor of Rhodes. 2. Made of thin bronze sheets, instead of solid bronze.

The statute, of the Sun God Helios, was the work of a sculptor named Chares, who spent 12 years on his masterpiece. It was erect sition and she's never been happier. The veteran musical star is a proud resident of the Colorado capital since her marriage to Bob Six. airline boss whose headquar I il i IIJU r. II ters are there.

No chamber of com merce ever had a louder voice to sing praises. "I LOVE Denver," she said emphatically. "I don't think I've ever been happier in my life. The aiv is simply wonderful; it's the mile-high city, you know. I was in New NEW LINCOLN ON DISPLAY The new Lincoln for 1951, characterized by distinctive beauty from every angle, is pictured at the Strieter Motor 5D7 Harrison with II.

D. Schrieker, left, sales manager, and Harry Hill, owner. There's a new bumper-grill combination, new rear-end styling highlighted by new tail lights, and a longer, lower look all over. This model is the 1951 Lincoln Capri hard top. Watch Tower Inn BLACKHAWK STATE PARK-ROCK ISLAND OPEN SUNDAY, December 6th COMPLETE SUNDAY DINNER $1.75 NOW BOOKNO CHRISTMAS I NEW YEAH PARTIES rS" diWV By RO.V LORENZE.V Times Staff Writer Most folks remember Perry Lafferty, Davenport's musical and stage genius, as a highly-keyed up young man who should have developed any number of ulcers by now in the rat-race that is New York television.

News items coming out of the industry regularly mention Lafferty, a pioneer in network TV production and direction, indicating the demand for his services has never lessened. The latest bit is that he has been chosen to direct the next "Robert Montgomery Presents" show Monday at 8:30 p.m- That's a terrific assignment because Montgomery insists on, and gets, top performances. We got to worrying about possible ulcers so we checked with his mother. "What goes on" we asked her. "Does NBC issue new sets of ulcers for each job?" Mrs.

Lafferty laughed. "This will surprise you," she said, "but Perry doesn't have ulcers. If I had to watch him go through his routine very long I might, but Perry has learned to handle any kind of a situation without losing his calm." The Davenport woman visited her son recently in New York and watched him at work. So we'll take her word for it. THE SHOW Lafferty will direct Monday is "Really the Blues," alleged to be the true story of Milton "Mezz" Mezzrow, one of the country's great jazz musicians.

Jackie Cooper will be the star. The teleplay was written by Agnes Eckhardt, based on Mezz-row's dramatic autobiography. Young Mezzrow was the son of a PERRY LAFFERTY set in 'November by an increase ol 91.000 in factories and heve off ti.e- farm The unemployment report snowed some fil .925 00 persons were emp'oyed in Nove compared 62.245.000 Octobu-. 'hii was a di-cline of 317 JO) in total emp ent. November Farm Work Deelines WASHINGTON LP Non-farm em Phen R.

I. 8-4011 or 4-0688 Edw. McGrath, Mgr. half-hour sustaining drama, "Eye Witness" which Lafferty directed this summer just prior to the Montgomery show, was allowed to fall by the wayside. Do you remember the one about a woman trying to fix the lock Y'ork last week, and oh, it was terrible.

The smaze or smog fir whatever you call it. You can hardly breathe. "Yes, I miss the theater a little, but happiness is more important. My kids Ethel, who is 11 and Bobby, who is 8, love Denver. They're going to public schools now, instead of the private schools they went to in New rovk.

Ethel likes that much better, because she's in school with boys now." LIKE Bette Davis and Gary Merrill, who have moved to-Portland, Me. Miss Merman said she will commute to the entertainment capitals. "I'll do some TV in New York or Hollywood and come here for a picture now and then," she explained. "I'll spend the rest of the time with my family in Denver." Appearing Nightly At LOU'S 330 CLUB pioyment increased in November but farm work fell off, resulting in a 2G6.00O addition to the nurmV of the jobless, Secretary of Commerce said Friday. However, Weeks said, unemployment was as low as in any Nove ber since Wrld War TI.

and non-farm employment was at an all-time nijn ioi the Iowa Cigarette Tax Collection Gains 200,000 DES MOINES State cigarette tax collections showed a gain of more than $200,000 last month compared with the same month last year the Iowa Tax Commission reports. The 1953 Legislature increased the tax from two to three cents per package last July 1. It was estimated then that the additional penny of tax would procure about 2Vi million dollars a year. The cigarette revenue last month totaled $581,323. This represented an increase about $5,000 over, the previous month.

The gain last month over November of last year was about $204,000. Meanwhile, state beer tax collections showed mixed trends. The revenue in November amounted to $273,185. That represented a decline of about $31,000 from October, but a gain of about $16,000 over November of last year The mc'ctse in I on her door while a killer stalked the neighborhood? Some of those plays reached a top level of suspense. ISE'EAKING OF suspense another Davenporter, Patricia White Barry, turned in an excellent job on the "Suspense" program carried by CBS-TV this week.

She had an exacting role, one in which she was charged with keeping the audience guessing as whether or not she had seen a murder and a murderer. Viewers had a difference of opin wit -kVi was from tcord lows established in September and Ocbner. It ws 'be first rtrnth since ne in ioMessnjss increase 1 Ui employment 'rurally changes little November when the fd'! busmcss pickup us Lilly balances a season al drop tfrm jobs. But the Ml business upturn has not full materialized this yeai. Thus, a downturn of 5G8 '00 jobs was onlv partly off television sets, so we decided to investigate.

We found the rep rts on the Cinemascope production at the Capitol weren't so fantastic after all the picture is enjoying one of the longest runs in local history TV or no TV and it's well worth seeing particularly at this time of year. Television can not touch the spectacle afforded by this type of film presentation, although we think the Hollywood writers could doctor and nephew pf a lawyer BILL INGLEE playing your favorite tunes on the Hammond Electric Organ ion on the quality of the play it-sell, written by Patricia's hus-bandt Philip Barry, but there is no doubt that highly dramatic action was achieved by Mrs. Barry and Dick Haymes. Although Mrs. Barry was successful in motion pictures, her vibrant personality is utilized to even greater extent on the stage and now through "live" TV.

We hope take lessons from TV playwrights on making their scenes shorter and more effective. I who became so interested in jazz that he gave up the thought of any other future. He became a top clarinetist, headed his own small "combo" during the 19L'0's but refused to heed the sign of the times which called for larger orchestra Depressed by his swift professional demise, Mezz faced incredible emotional and spiritual hardships. Lafferty, steeped in the lore of Bix Beiderbecke, the famous Davenport jazz musician, ought to 'find that story right up his alley. OPEN The THREE SHARPS Now Appearing At The CIRCUS LOUNGE 325-1 3th Moline CHRISTMAS DAY she accepts a lot more assignments in the latter medium.

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