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UU CJ i) 'V THE BOSTON DAILY GLOBE-TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 12, 135T READY ROW BOSTON STORE OPtN WEDNESDAY 1:30 P. M. Eight Clothing Fire Must Comedians Be Sad People? Big Name. I2JNCH LONG PLAY Critically Burns Salem Sisters Red Buttons Man raf I Vv ifi(iouciwniiiiicoiiPoiiioit0niKiic Jf I i Y- 5 sf If ii i Of Bewilderment Blames Television for Frustrations, Yet Futilely Seeks to Return By MARIE TORRE "I'm a little guy," comedian Red Buttons used to at rA the Big Name Pried SALEM, Teb.

12 Two elderly sisters were critically burned today when then clothing became ignited in the kitchen of their home at 60 Federal st The victims, Nellie Fay, 82, and her sister, Cecilia Fay, 84, were taken to Salem Hospital. They sustained first, second and third-degree burns about the entire body. Police said. Miss Nellie Fay was preparing breakfast in their first-floor apartment when her clothing caught fire. Her sister, Cecilia, heard her screams and rushed to assist Nellie.

Cecilia's clothes also became ignited. Edward Russell, occupant of the top floor of the two-story dwelling, ran downstairs and wrapped a blanket around the sisters. However, this was enveloped in flames. Russell called the Fire De say ARTURO TOSCANINI GUY LOMBARDO ARTHUR FIEDLER VAUGHN MONROE LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI FREDDIE MARTIN when perched on the top' rung of the TV ladder, "and that's what I play a little I guy with a little guy's troubles." To little guys far and wide, however, the case history of Red-Buttons is bewildering. For two dismal years, a sullen-faced Buttons has been futilely seeking reentry into a pro fession which filled him with dark forebodings, presented him with a nervous stomach, put him on a psychiatrist's couch, and gave him an enormous appetite for sedatives.

partment Firemen extinguished the fire and the sisters were rushed to the hospital in a police ambulance. Russell sustained slight burns about the right hand. He refused hospital treatment TOPEE RED BUTTONS A case too much egomania? that a man like Josh Logan has enough faith in me to let me handle the assignment I've been hoping to find a guy like that in TV, someone who bellevea in me. I know there's room for me In the business." Like most overnight discoveries, CPALrWO Nutcr.Kkrr Sum, Op 7) a (TYlial. knvsky).

Carnival iif tlm tSaii.l-Saprm, Warwick Sviuuhun. CAL-lOl-PMfr and thr Wir. Oo. 07 (Pro-knfYi Richard Hale. Narrator: Till Eulm-tpil'l Mfnv Pii.nks.

Op. 28 (It Bnton Symphony. I'uiiil. CAL-102 Svmohnnv No. 3 in Flat.

Oo. (' Eroica 'l iBiflhoM'ill. Ijindiin i'lliliiar-mnnic St'mt' t'oml. CAL-103 Svmtilionv No. S.

in (' Minor. Op. 67 (Berlhoveni. l.iiiiin uluntt' Unli. Serte Kouasrviliikv, C'unU.

CAL-104 Symphony No. 5. in Minor, Op. 93 thr Nrw World" i lUuial.r, Tlie Philadelphia l.rupuhl KtukoH ki, Cond, 0 CAL-10B Symphony No. 8, in Minur Si holH'i 1 1 Smiii.Iiuhv No.

in B-FIt Srhnl)Fiti. Huston imiliuuv Seme Kotisrvitsky. Coial. CAL-107 Symphony in Minor (Fiani kl, San Frnnvisvu S. iniilioiiy Oivll i'lene Muu-teux, Conil.

DCAL-111 PicHirea at Exhibition (Motis-anraskyl, Boston Symphony item KouMevitsky. Cond. DCAL-112-Tm? Heart of the Rymphnnv: Symphony No. 5. In Minor.

Up, 67 lUerlhovem: Symphony No. 8. tu Minor i 'i (Schubert); Symphony Nu. 4. in Minor, Op.

3fl iTchaikoysky r-u. Vu lur mi'liuny Charles O't'oniiell, t'oml, 0 CAL-115 Rniim.iniaii HIkipmhIv No. 2. in Minor, Op. II Kntvii MIkiii-mkIj' No.

6 (l.iszti; 'I'lie Molll.iu I Stilt! N.i--tional Symphony ll.tus Kiiiitler, t'oml. CAL-1 IB The Soiverer's Appii'iitic-e iDiikaM; A Night On BjIiI Mountain Fanlavia iftluii arirnskyi; Ithap-sudu' tC-spumiole trtjvrll, Wr-wick Symphony Orel. CAL-120 Concert Classics: Fiimie in Minor (Bach-Stokowskii; Kire Music: I.olien-trin (Wanner), etf. Warwuk Symphony CKh. CCAL-121-LiKht Concert t'tanrs: Der Rosen-kavalier (R.

Slrau.sMi Walles; spielerei, op. 140 (PlaylilllnesM ll'izualo Hi, 1 1, a i Kali 'I never took a sleeping pill in divided in two categories those who rely completely on the genius of their writers, and those who don't. Red needs writers. "There's nothine wrone with my life until this past year," Red confided to an interviewer when he began tumbling down the TV Record 106 Join Army Program During January A total of 106 Bay Staters signed up for the six months' Army active ladder in 1955. "This year I ate Red that a good comedy script which he was during the 1932-53 them by the bushel.

It's a back-breaking, tension-packed grind." season. Red had aoout years couian cure, ecno those who used to put words in his mouth, and there are enough of them to fill a small Madison While his heart was breaking of show business experience under his belt before he hit TV. He was born Aaron Chwatt in 1919 in a training program last montn. trie highest figure since training under tenement apartment on the lower the Reserve Force act of 1955 and his frustrations increasing, Red found himself with a fine opportunity to say good riddance to the medium which had treated him so shabbily. He and his NBC show were struck out of television, and there were no offers to lure him back in.

He was, at 36, a grade-A has-been, and an affluent one at that! East Side where, as he oiten usea to quip on TV. "you either grew ud to be a iudse or you went to the electric chair." Somehow Stlxl, etc. Minneapolis fcu- He became the chief source of employment for TV writers In his second season, when, with each rating drop, he frantically hired and fired joke creators. (At the time, he also sought relief from the tensions by consulting a psychologist friend named Andrew Salter, who writes books he escaped both. sene Ormandy.

Cond The Heart of the Opera, Vol. 1: Caiuirn and Faust. Sun of Ilia Swords, Wa in Scene and Chorus, elr CAI 222 -Til Heart of the Opera. Vol. I Dolieine and Madame Butterfly, Muaetta 1 Waltz, l.oe Duet.

rlc. Heart of the Opera, Vol. nlirhki in and Tanllhallser, Klha'l Dream. KinK Prav and l'iiiale. etc CI A I.

-224 'Ihe Heart of the Opera, Vol. 4: Tnslaii aim Isolde (Wanner! l.ovc Potion Duet, Woiuidinn of TnM.ui, elr Heart of the Opera. Vol. Aula iVerdii Hii-ltulive and Celeste Atda. Ciaild March, etc.

CAI -226 The Heart of the Opera, Vol. 6: ll.cuirilo and I'atilai'ii, Lara Home; Chorus ot the Bella. The. Play, etc. CAI Heart of the Opera.

Vol. 7: l.a Tiadala and Marnaae of Fitaro. CAL-21'S Hawaiian Favonles: Sweet Lei- lain, Utile Uiimn Cal. Aloha Oe. etc.

Hay Kinney and His oial Islanders. Show Tunes of Broadway: Stormr Wealhei, A Pretty Girl Is lake a Melody, Indian i.oe Call, etc, Joe rieicluniin witlj rtln lhm Ai conipailillieilt t'AL-241) Concert In the Park: Beatrice ane benedict Inc. Hue, Caliph uf Btmdad, and in.iuv others. -The Music of Jerome Kern: The Touch of Your Hand. Smoke Gets In Your Even, iuid nuniv olhers.

Viclor l.inlit Opera Co. I.eoojru Joy, Cond. CAI. h'lChald Crooks SillKS Song! Yoil ut: Serenade. When You're Away, etc.

CAI. No 41, in C. K.5S1 iMuurt) Serenade in K.525 Kleine iMoaiii: Vienna I'liilhairnonlc tiiuno Walter. Cond. CAI.

2aa- tiny I oinbaidu i'lays: ttoo-Uoo, ft us-tan Lullaby, elc. Guv Loiiiharda and Ilia l(odi -Munc for Dancing: Baby Face. Mlss Vuii. Lei's Have Another Cup of Cof- leii, elc. Saioinv Kae and llis Orch.

CAL-2M- Daucnii: Parly: auia. Symphony, Khapsodv, elc. Freddy Martin A lti Onii. Art of Josef Uievlnne: Chopin I'utoriaiM1 in A-Flat, klude in A Minor, anU lilanv others. Dance Time: Do It Again, Row how how.

and many olhers. Mitchell Avre j. hi Ins orcli. Ci CAi. -2o'i Uaiice to the Music of I.eo Reis- iiun and ilis Orchestia: hmi biitleillv, tic- ilciied.

and nuiliy otheiS C.AL L'iU polkj Parly: Pennsylvania Polka, sitrt-naue. etc. Andre Mu- ieire uivh. Gladys Swarthout In Opera: Car-luen i EieD Habanera: L' Amour est nil oiseau tl.ove Is Like a Woodbirdi, and many other-. Voice of Miliza Korjus: Er- oani iV'eidii Cavatiua, and many others.

CC.Al.-2au Swarthout Siuas Your Fa- oiiles: beam the Beguiue, It's a lively Day Tuuiurrow. elc. t'Al, 2BI Svinphonle Fantasiicme, Op. 14 if.eiho.!. Paris Coubervatory Un-li.

Cuud. by bui, in Wallet. CAI. 232 Waltzes for Listening: La Valse iltaveli Buaea fioui Ihe Soulh. and lllaiiV UtliCLS.

Giovanni Martinelli in Opera and Song: Otelio (Verdii: Muiioloao: and lnmiv other favuritet. Music tur Organ by Cesar Franrk: Piece tleioiuue: Paslurule: Moveiiient from Chorale No. 1: Chorale No. 3. Charles M.

CouiLioin, Organist. Ct'fll, 21)3 hay McKinley- One Band: Two Stvlrs: Caesai and Cleopatra, Harold in Italy, and iiiauv othera. t'Al, The Tonv Pastor Style: Get Happv, Dear I. illle Boy ot Mine, and many others. LCAI.

L'y'i The Jan Garner Style: My Dear, It Fasv to heiueaiibei. and inaiiy otiiers. Portraits ol Italy: The Alps. The Lal.es. Golden Mimic Box.

etc. David While- liall cond. the Syfnuhuiiv Orch. of Flame. Guilty of live! I ll Clone Mv Kvei.

Plain lxrve, etc. Joliiinv Desmond, with nti.ss Case and Orcli. Pipe Organ Music: Indian Ijjv tall, Gvpsv l.ove Song. etc. Dancing at the Waldorf, Sweet and Lovely.

Fit As a Fiddle, elc. Hal Mcluly re's Best: Autumn Serenade, Singing lu The Ham, etc. AL-12S Concert liems: lliinfanan Dance L3 At the age of 18, dressed In a sailor suit, he made his first pub lic appearance in a Bronx movie house sineine "Sweet Jennie Lee. While attending high school. on psychoanalysis, psychology, and Bat even well-stacked bank account failed to put a smile on his face.

Defying all logic, Red found life outside the clammy grip of TV fame as unbearable as it was inside. where he never won he had nypnousm.i CAL-SCeVBhapsody In Blue (Gershwin)! Concerto in (Gershwin), Boston Pops Arthur Fiedler, Cond. All I Do Is Dream of You. If I Had My Way. People Will Say We're In laive.

and many others. 0 The Golden Gate Quartet Sings tavorite Spirituals: Everv Time That I Feel the Spirit, Hide Me In Thy Bosom, and many olhers. DCAL-309-The Sorcerer's Apprentice (Dukas) Semiramide Overture Rossini La Traviata (Verdi): Preludes to Acts 1 and 3 Siegfried Idyll (Wagiien. Arturo Tnscanini. Philharmonrc-Symphony.

Orch. of New York. GCAL-310 The Art of Paderewski: Chopin; r-, Minor, and many other favorites. DCAL-311 The Art of Harold Bauer: Sonata in Minor, Sonata in C-Sharp Minor, and others. CCAL-312 In Love Again.

You Are the One. Pretend, and other favorites, Henri Rene tt Orch. DCAUSl.V-The Delta Rhythm Boys: Dry Bones, Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye, and others. CAL-314 Memories of You. Don't Be That Way, Mv Beautiful Lady, etc nCAL-35-Make Believe (Music of Jerome) Kern I.

Make Believe. All the Things You r- L'eddH. Martin Orch. CAL-31R Star Dust. Georgia on My Mind, etf and Orch.

Ulr 3IJ Heart Stood Still. and Orch Evening, etc. Al Goodman DCAL-318-The Biggest Hits of '56, Vol. Lhu" Dano' All Night. Why Do ifo" 2 Vov.e' nd oth favorites.

Dm 'f "imental Hits from: "Th Most Happy Fella" (Loesser). Standing on 1 iocy Somebody, Snme- Have Danced All Night, etc. (Rodgers-Hammersteinl. All at Once Vou Love Her, etc lA.Hr'"!,The.. Art ot Giuseppe de Uica: and other's 1 111 PoV'r0 BssiS Stwt- Ini (Dmab Shore, Voc.

Sophisticated Lady and many others. NBC's Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street CAL 322 Dancing Down Broadway. Some Enchanted Evening, People Will Say Wc'n i-'V i eto Flanagan and Orrh. CAI323 The Latin Beat! Canclnn del Mar Boiei-o; Mi Sombrero-Rumba, etc. Xavier Cugat.

0 CAL-325-Smiling Through. I'll See You Again. Italian Street Song. etc. Jeanettgi M.icDonald.

Variations on a Theme by Haydn. Cp S8a Antoni (Brahms). Barber of Seville: Overture (Rossinii. Symphony No 35. in D.

K. 3S5 Mozart) Scherzo (from "Midsummer Nieht'a Dream' Op. 61) (Mendelsanhni. Arturo Tos- lhe Philharmonic Symphony Orch. of N.

Y. DCA 1327 Favorite Operatic Arias Transcribed for String Orchestra. Drinking Song. Madams Butterfly, and many others. CAL-328 Great Jazz Pianist.

Sheik Tonk' Trir Blues, etc. 0 (-AL-329 Dance With Me. Ahl Sweet Mystery of Life. Kiss Me Again, etc. Vaughn Monroe and Orch.

CAL-330John Jacob Niles 50th Anniversary crnl Birds, etc. Biggest Hits of '56, Volume II The Wayward Wind. Allegheny Moon, My Prayer, etc. CAL-3B4 Favorite Stories for Children Musie VPusS.m Tom Thumb, The Ugly TreeBlllytGo, Gruff; Seven at One Blow; Pee-Wee the Piccolo. his first paying job as a combination waiter and singer in a City "Red has a definite talent," ob Island gin mill.

Driven by an unrelenting determination to WW 4. Tt4 noiea iv executive woo; TT 11 1 UUCa BU UOUU A 1 I .1 a. 1 11 A for something that's made him if wretched? ITl.l"" 15 "il ii.iior one Big season, but ne had a body has ideas, TV men foster limited amount oi tricks, and you gather laurels, he gravitated toward the borsch circuit; burlesque, the stage and night clubs, There was an aura of un-happiness about Red even in those days before television," one of his former TV associates said. "He always felt he'd make the big time some day, hut he was various notions about Red. started, the Massachusetts Military District revealed today.

Furthermore, 80 young men have signed up in the first II days of February. Eighty-one of the January total were young men between 17 and 18 years old. The were between 184 and 26. Those in the younger age group serve six months on acUve duty, 4 years in Ready Reserve, then go on Standby Reserve for three years. The older age group are placed in 54 years Ready Reserve after six months' active duty.

Of the 80 who enlisted thus far this month, 27 were in the 17-to-18H-year class, the remaining 53 in the older-age bracket Father, Son; Freed by Jury In Break Case A 12 -man Suffolk Superior Court criminal jury deliberated 3 hours yesterday and found a Charlestown father and son innocent of breaking and entering and larceny of a safe containing $360. Stephen Hughes 53 and Stephen' Hughes 32, both of Carney ct, were freed of taking the safe and contents from a doughnut shop owned by John Kareskianos, 1729 Washington South End. Joseph Sax represented the defendants? nave to have more tnan.tricKS to last in this business. In the end, it's the personality of the man that determines his longevity. "We all have a mixture of egomania, and Bed has a little more than the usual tald one of the many writers Once employed by the comedian.

"He's got to hear that applause." "He has a Napoleonic complex," impatient about It When he did 'His own insecurity penetrates the characters he played and, In effect, destroyed the man." hit big, his unhappiness gave way to another kind of unhappiness, plus electric gremlins in his Wo iBrahnisi: Vle Trial. Op. 44 ilroiu tSibelnmit elc. Warwick ahony Oich. AL-124The Sonus of Slephen Foster: Old FoikA at Home: Ueatilifiit ilreanier: Kentucky Home, Milliard Crooka Willi The ii.il-ladeern.

CAL12S-America Marches: On the Mall; Children'! Maixli: 1 I'apilan: Wasliiiimun Post: Semper Fidelis March: Fallesi ut Hi Fair: Slam and slripea 'uieer, elc. CAL-126--The Viennese Mamc of Johann Strausa, New Vlenua Op. Mi; Laioon Waltz. Op 411. Boston Pop! Arthur Fiedler.

Cond. CAL-127 Johann Sliau.sS Kavonles: Hoes from the Soulh WalU. I.oye of the Poet Waltz, Boston I'upa Arthur Fir.l-ler. Cond. CAL-130 Portfolio for asy Ijsiening: ost Loce.

Rainbow'a Kud, Kuiperur Wall, Merry Widow Waltz, etc. CAL-Hl Famous Melodies: Waltz of the I Flowers, The Weddink uf Ihe Painted Doll, etc nCAL-135 Star Dust Melodies: When Uav 1 Done. Let Me Call You Sweetheart, Rhapsody in Blue. etc. DCAL-139 Famous Songs from Famous Musi- fals: Make Believe A Kis in Ilia Uark, 1 II ollow My Secret Heart, etc.

DCAL-149 Waltz Time: lieautiful Ohio, Mi- souri Waltz, etc. CAL-152 Symphony No. 6, In Minor, Op. 74 iTitiaikovsUyl. Ei CAL-187 Guvs and Dulls ilroin "Ouys'and (F.

l.oesseri I'll Kuuw, My Time oi Day. If 1 Were a Bell. etc. CAL-171 Lawrence Tiblirtt Sines Operatic Anas: Barber of Seville irtussitm: laiuieu (Bizeti. etc.

OCAL-181-Musioal Spellbinders: If I Loved You, I'm Always Chasuii hain-bowi, etc. CAL-189 John Cliarlea Thomas Slues Operatic Arias and Operetta Favorites: My Hero; The Gypsy Baron (Johann Struussi, etc. John Charles Thomas. CAL-201 Symphony No. 5.

In Minor, Op. 64 Warwick Symphony Orch. CAL-220 Square Dances: Pop Goe the Weasel, The Wearin' of the Cireen. Soldier Joy. etc.

Woodhull'i Old Tyme Master. ORDER BY TELEPHONE HU 2-9400 OR Kl 7-9400 OR MAIL COUPON Red, however, blamed the TV medium for his disaster, a thought which consoled him a little, and proffered another video man who figures among the comedian's he decided no man can possibly be funny every week, unless he's the 'His insecurity is absolutely kind who can sit behind a desk screaming," put in a TV producer. like Arthur Godfrey and Groucho Marx and conduct amusing inter views. Since he has no Interests outside of show business in the arts," he says "I got to play Red decided he'd put his career on another track. He'd be stomach." Red, a distinct example of what the psychiatrists call the introspective type, finds little distraction from his show business aims in his marriage to Helayne Mc-Norton, a former beautician.

"Red is shrewd about many things, but not in the management of his own career," explained a TV writer who's spent many hours in their company. "And that's where Helayne comes in. She wields a lot of influence over him in his career. She's as ambitious for him as he is for himself, and she eggs him on all the time. Between them, they've had' a lot of empty laughs these past two years." NEXT Wally Cox prisoner of success.

I come "versatile," meaning he'd Hcord Corner, Street Floor, Boston Store Only branch out into acting. He made 1 M-lt A II A CA.t in Hef.il Stoies Ueliverv Ari. A0UI' Tr HfMvHT "Its only when hes the limelight that he feels any real confidence." And when he did have that much needed confidence, noted one of Red's fellow comedians, he manifested an unbecoming pompous streak. As our informant tells the story, he met Red at a social gathering and asked why he worried and fretted so much about his TV show. "Don't you realize," shot back Red, his tone solemn, '1 have a responsibility to 30 million viewers?" In television, laugh-makers are Add 25c per order for several guest appearances on dramatic shows during the past shipping to points beyond.

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