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COUNCIL BLUFFS IOWA NONPAREIL--JANUARY 29. 1956 PAGE SEVEN-C Television Week Everyone, Including Viewers, Likes Dinah NL'W YORK "I never wanted to set t.he world on fire," says Dinah Shore. "So I never had to burn any bridges behind mo." Although she has yet to burn a bridge. Dinah has been spreading quite a conflagration through the a i world for many happy seasons. How many doesn't matter.

It's a matter of record a she was one of the nation's most popular singers during World War n. It's also on record that in a poll of 450 editors just conducted she was named woman "singer of the year in television." So let's put it on record too that she's as beautiful as ever, more energetic than ever, and doesn't look a day over 21. She just flashed through New York where she did a special hour show and one of her-two weekly 15-minute Dinah Shore shows on NBC-TV. Career and Home She went thataway, gentlemen --meaning back to Hollywood where lives a tall, handsome, strong, kindly, intelligent (the adjectives are hers) actor named George Montgomery. Since 1943 she has been Mrs.

George Montgomery, a name she considers far more important than Dinah Shore. "George is the lest looking man Inquiring Reporter Few Men Turn Over Paychecks Do you give your paycheck to your wife? When the Inquiring asked that question this week he found only one man who turned the financial reins over to his wife. Seven others felt paying the monthly bills was their own responsibility. Their answers: Thomas Gaylord Clyde Thomas, 321 Plattner crane operator: "I don't. I pay the bills.

She has her own money since we're both working." H. H. Gaylord, 1123 Avenue railroad employe: "No. I just give her what she needs and put the rest in a joint bank account." ever saw in my life," she says. "And he is the person he looks like." At any rate, Dinah Shore is a case of a woman who has combined a most successful career with a most successful marriage.

Keeping George out of this for a minute, there appears to be two causes for this state of affairs (1) She has great vitality, and (2) she's a right steady girl--as they say in Nashville, where she was raised and graduated from Vanderbilt University. As Bob Hope once aptly put it in describing her energy: "Dinah doesn't take benzedrine. Benzedrine takes Dinah to give it its kick." Besides her live NBC-TV shows, now in their fifth season, she makes recordings, personal appearances, runs the affairs of the Montgomery menage (which embraces eight-year-old Melissa Montgomery and two-year-old Jonathan David, an adopted son) --and she plays a smashing game of tennis. A Steady Gal As for steadiness, she has had the same accompanist and the same orchestra leader for years. She has always been with NBC.

i She has always stressed her ing instead of going off on tangents. Her sponsor loves her (someone other than she said that). She loves her sponsor. And then there's George. In a world where talent constantly tangles with sponsor spouse, this is a feat.

"I think my career has stayed on a pretty even keel," she says. "I never have tried to be absolutely the hottest thing in the business. That is one of the hardest things in the world to sustain. It's virtually impossible. For when you're the hottest thing in the business the public sits up one day and says, "I've been to this picnic before." i i a i With Como She sees great similarity in her career and that of Perry Como, another steady character who currently is a pretty hot item on NBC-TV himself, although he suffers from no ambition to burn up the world.

"I don't think in terms of age says Dinah. "I don't want to run from one group to another. iBy that I mean I don't think of trying to please younger people or older people. I just sing what I like and what I feel I can do best." Now let's a a moral on this happy story: when you have red hot talent, don't try to set the world on fire. Bureau Shows New Wonders Now Panoramic X-Ray Available For Teeth By EARL UBELL CHoraM Trit.u-e News Service) WASHLN GTON-The National Bureau of Standards has opened its box of wonders to the public, displaying: -an X-ray machine that takes a panoramic picture of your teeth.

-an electronic brain that will predict where radioactivity will fall from an atomic bomb a -an automatic weather station that record 1 temperature, pressure and wind and radios the data to a central station. The bureau's scientists produced these gadgets as by-products of their search to measure and maintain standards of length, time, weight and performance of materials of industry and home. During the bureau's "guest week," Dr. Allen V. Astin.

the bureau's director, gave a series of lectures describing the efforts of the bureau to measure weight of things as large as the earth and as small as the electron. Electronic Timing To do these jobs. Dr. Astin has already announced that the laboratory will, within the next three years, undertake a study of the pull of graviey. The object of the study is to obtain accurate measurements to within one part in 1,000,000.

Gravitational pull--one of the constants of the earth--will accelerate a freely-falling body about 32 feet every second so that at the end of two seconds of fall, a lead weight will be traveling 64 feet a second and so on. The-resently accepted international value for this acceleration, given by the letter is 32.174 feet per second. By using electronic timing devices and photocells to observe the fall of a weight in a vacuum (free of air resistance) the scientists hope to be able to improve all the measurements that depend on i figure. The panoramic X-ray machine can take a picture of the entire mouth on a single strip of film 5 inches by 10 inches in less than 40 seconds. At present up to 14 little squares of film are used to do the same job.

Speedy Calculation The bureau hopes the machine will be used in mass dental health surveys. They believe the technique can be applied to study other parts of the body as well. As for predicting the fallout pattern of an atomic bomb, the bureau has developed an electronic calculator the size of a large home refrigerator to solve the problem in about one-20th of a second. The solution is displayed on a television screen. same problem worked by hand takes at least one-half hour.

Taking local wind data from the Weather Bureau plus the known distribution of radioactivity in the cloud of an atomic bomb and other factors, the machine estimates where the radioactive atoms will fall. Still in the experimental stage, the device can bemused in civil defense to give a quick estimate of where high concentrations of the life- killing radiations are. The West Indian island of bago is said to be the island scribed by Defoe in his "Robin! son Crusoe." 99 WORDS about MUSIC "Concerto No. 27 in The orchestra will perform "Ix)ndondcrry Air" and Glazoun- "Second L'ntr'Acte" "Rnymomla." "Wanna Go A Couple of Fast Rounds?" Patrick Harland, 10 son of Mr. and Mrs.

Patrick Burk of Missouri Valley. Both Singer And Manager Vichey Seeks A Better Break Ail His Talent FUNNY BUSINESS Schlimgen Flowers By Hershbergei Dave i 2440 Second i Air Force sergeant: "No. I take care of all the bills." Roy Flowers, 2203 Avenue i roofer: "I turn it over to rny wife, but I get some of it back." Brown Silverman George A. Brown, 1809 Avenue i D. a "No.

I pay all the bills." Stanley i a Omaha, real a a a "No. I de- posit, my pay in bank and she writes out checks." i "An old report card of yours 1 i the.attic--- now, you bend over!" By W. G. ROGERS NEW YORK "Singers, and all artists in the music field, need more love, more recognition, more money," says Luben Vichey. Vichey ought to know, for he's a singer himself.

A basso with the Metropolitan Opera since 1948, he's been heard in this city and on tour across the country both with the Met and in recital. "Management can give the singer and artist more love, more recognition, more money," says Vichey. Again Vichey ought to know, for he's a manager. At his first appearance at the Met this season, as Sparafucile in "Rigoletto," two of the singers he represents were on stage with him; at his second, a "Faust" when he sings Mephistopheles, there will be others in the cast with him. Buys Concert Service Hungarian-born but a United States citizen for more than a year.

Vichey is working both sides of the street. Last June he bought National Concert and Artists Assn. He took title at the start of October. He changed the name to National Artists a great name changer: his own name was Lubomir Vichcgonov until he shortened it a couple of years ago to make it more manageable for Americans. Now he heads the largest individually owned and operated concert bureau in the world, he sees it; also as he sees it, he's the only active artist or singer to run a concert organization; also as he sees it, he's the only singer ever to buy out his own manager.

Has he had any business experience? Yes, within the last year, he says, as president of a big corporation, for which he claims large savings and increased profit under his direction. He added that the same sort of business methods applied there could be applied in the concert field, and stressed in particular fixed budget, organization and teamwork. "But then." he explains, "perhaps I realy don't know business. But I do know common sense." A dark-complexioned man who was the highbrow bobbysoxers' idol on the Met tours, he has an accent you have to get used to, though he doesn't let that stand in the way of fast, and furious talking. His a i lino recedes a bit--maybe that's only the sign of the i i i businessman.

He has a doop velvety speaking voice. Liko a a i ho carries ovor i i a i some of tho o.xuborant. jje.sturinc a is a 011 tho a a of tho a tho raisorl ovo- brow, bunched fingertips tapping the forehead. Would Be Lawyer "I a to bo a lawyer," he recalls. "But back in the- country I como a a i more than a lawyer, so 1 became a singer.

"Here a lawyer a moro money a But I am not a a arn being a i a I a four at tho Met. 'Hour Of Music' At The Chieftain This Sunday. Jan. 29, in "An Hour of Mus' Kdith Flickinsrcr will present three of her students in recital at the Hotel Chieftain Terrace Koom. They a Hollar.

baritone. i a Hughes, baritone, and Elizabeth Thomson, pianist. Mr. Kcliar. a Tee Jay Senior, has a leading roles in that school's operettas for tlv past years and recently received a rating in the state music contest.

Mr. Hushes is currently an a soloist at the Christian Science Church. This will bo his last local recital, as he is moving to L'alt Lake City. Miss Thomson is a Junior at A. L.

High School. Selections will include "South American Seranado" and "Josus. Lover of My Soul" for baritone duet. "Ol 1 Man River" and "Ave Maria" for baritone solo, and Shubert's "Impromtu No. 4" and the "Slaughter on Tenth Vvenue" ballet for piano, among others.

Miss Flickinger will accompany the soloists. The recital starts at 3 p. m. and the public is invited. Program Postponed Hue to the recently inclement weather, the Bel Canto Club's program was postponed until this Tuesday at p.

at the home of Mrs. Frank Smith, 1148 Park in Omaha. At last report, some 125 members had beer: chosen. About a dozen of these a Bluffs' folks. Mrs.

Herman Coskey is our local board representative. Anyone who has the ability to read music may join. For ther information contact Frank Daiton at 3-14GS. -'f Music Miscellany A few musical sixteenth-notes: This Sunday noted before, the Irish i a Sinc rs, 8:15 p. Music a Victor Records' plan to release another i i Edition a set of 5 Ip's.

This time i "Benny Goodman, the Golden Age of some GO hichlicht selections from years. A darn good buy even for 524.95; the German Mozart Festival in Ludwigsburg is scheduled from June 29 to July 15. including IS performances; A a Bach Week in Ansbach. Germany, is to be July 25 to Aug. the 195fi Franconian Festival Week begins May 29; the Wiesbaden May Festival is underway May 1-2S in a i and the 1956 Lower Rhenish Music Festival at Dusseldorf goes on 2-5; so plan your foreign tour accordingly.

Symphony's next concert, to be all-orchestral, is set for February 13 14 (I could hardly toll from my last review, once printed, whether I liked it or next Tuesday Musical. March 13. Irene Jordan, soprano: com- Hollywood Today Berle To Try Another Movie Armstrong Plans Far East Jazz Tour By ERSKINE JOHNSON HOLLYWOOD A Behind the Screens: Highway warn- signs outside of Las Vecas read. "Watch ouf for a i rocks." But Nelson Kddy says they be changed for the benefit of entertainers to: "Watch out for closing hotels." Despite the flop of his last flicker, Milton Berle's planning another for himself. The title is "Funny Man," about a comme- dian who crashes the movies in the early '20s Louis Armstrong.

Selections will be presented by ing Dick Walter Attmotion. "The Luoen Vichey as Mephistoples and four or five times on the road." This year's schedule, made out for him before he became manager, has been reduced to a few Met appearances, a Telephone Hour, Lewiston Stadium summertime program, and engagements with orchestras in Harrisburg, Denver, San Antonio. Snakes Stymied By Shiny Stove Pipes ARCADIA. Fla. Men wearing something to shiny stove pipes on their legs while tramping the fields around here are no longer nn unusual sight.

They are using Alvic Twiss' aluminum leggings, designed to protect hunters and ouldoorsmen against fangs of poisonous snakes. Twiss began mak ng the leggings after he missed by one step a coiled and angry rattlesnake. The leggings extend above the wearer's knees in front and nre lower in the back to allow the leg to bend. At: loast persons have told Twist they were struck without, harm by rattlers while- wearing the metal protectors. a duet of Mrs.

Victor Jensen and Mrs. Hugh Finnerty. and a trio of Mrs. John Campbell. Mrs.

Lloyd Abel and Mrs. John Miss Ruth Langfeldt and Mrs. Jensen will accompany. Program chairman is Mrs. George Bronson.

Cain To Omaha Word has just come from Oma-. ha's late Apollo Club that a new musical group is being formed with that organization as its nucleus. It is the Omaha Choral Societv. evcn- Kabuki Theater" (following strictly le.tjit "Sympathy" a ne.xt C. B.

Apollo Club meeting. Feb. 27. entertainment by Claterbuck. Sorenson.

Burke Maden; Interested in Mozart? the a a "High Fidelity" magazine will give you the complete scoop. On the Air TV-wise, the Little Orchestra Society of New York has some children's programming: coming I director will be Noble Cain, choral director a lecturer. Mr. Cain, currently residing Noble Cain in Los Angeles, is commuting bi-weekly to Omaha for rehearsals, till he moves here in about five weeks. Cain will find Omaha a more centrally located spot, in which to make permanent residence, so that he may continue his work of con- i Choral Clinics across the cnlirc country.

Such a clinic was held here in Council in 1942. with Miss Dorothy Wassum at A. L. High School. This group i present several concerts each year.

The first, accompanied by piano and organ, will be held in May or early June. There will follow two mid-Winter concerts i the Omaha Sym- 1 phonelt.e. These presentations are I planned for Omaha's Music Hall. Society. Weekly, starting Sun- tually lo consist Fpb the show is iUc of about 3 0 0 a a and members.

ips njns a period de voted to "just then successive periods given over to familiarization with one orchestra instrument after another; third, introduction to the characteristics of a given composer; and a "story in music." Might even be educational for adults, huh? Don't forget "Festival of Music" on Producer's Showcase this Monday, Jan. 30. Ten of the world's greatest vocalists and instrumentalists will be on hand to entertain during a flO-minute srwef.nc.ular. Charles Laughton MC's. On radio, (he Boston Symphony Orchestra, by Charles Munch, will present Beethoven's "Overture Lconore No.

2" Debussy's "Afternoon of a Faun" and Hanson's "Elegy in Memory of Serge Koussevitzky" on Monday, On the same evening, Robert Casadesus. pianist, will be guest soloist in the Telephone Hour. He will present Chopin's "Ballade No. 1 in Minor" and will jazz up the Near and Far East, sponsored by the State Department, after he plays himself in "High Society." He'll visit a dozen countries on the tour with his international language. VALLEE nixed the husband role in a stage revival of "The Male Animal." There's a little bit of the Vagabond Lover in the old boy yet.

As Rudy tells i "Although I'm 54, I have a youthful face and an abundance of hair. No one would have understood why the wife in the play would want to leave me for nn ex-football player. I'm more like the football player." Yvonne de Carlo's new husband, Robert Morgan, will play her hubby in "Death of a Scoundrel." Zsa Zsa Gabor co-stars in the film, too, with her ex-husband, George Sanders. Hollywood's first movie about dope addiction, "The Man With the Golden Arm," received an rating--for adults only--f the official British government film censors. The British system of grading films has been mentioned many times as Hollywood's solution to its problem of making more adult pictures.

Candy Torme checked in at a Las Vegas hotel to shed singer Mel. In six weeks she'll marry Mr. $64,000 Question, Hal March. Japan, not Hollywood, is the largest producer of motion pictures in the world. A total of 420 films was made there in 1955.

Hollywood turned out only 250. When Mount Kal.mai erupted in 1912, volcanic dust in the air dimmed the sun over the entire northern hemisphere for months Rewards. Island's Only Bear Now Causes Trouble SHIMA, Japan The bear wont over t.he a i on this volcanic isle off Tokyo bay 19 years ago. He was the only boar Shi ma 'ever had. He was an attraction at the island zoo until he staged a break.

Shima was sorry to see him Now (hoy are sorry to soo i period. Swelled to 320 pounds i (wright. i a from a safe rlistani-Ti, tho lvnr has been breaking into Denslow Ray a i 1 S. "Main St. i i a "No.

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