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Tin: OTTAWA CITIZEN 18, 1S37 IFLIT YOUNG PEOPLE WINK Symphony Conductor Paige Brings Same High Musical Taste To Hi-Fi Teenagers Are Bored In Spite Of Everything One high caouI sophomore things when be was young as mio keeps L'ra through a say aU the adults we meet, w'eki. I hops the 's'age' passes because no fua to sufier from a lack of interest ia nearly every-thing." Probably the roost philosophical approach is taiea by Annie Lee, 18. "All, normal teens are bored sometimes. Besides, who do you know is busting with interest and energy every minute? People are the same whatever their age. Yeung people are bored.

Well, the. so are old ones." explain: "Being bored some of tfle t.m is mpiy part of be. Eg a teea. Why, everyone know gcu to feeling thai way. It doesn't meaa a thing.

I think i all a part of becoming On girt, 18. asserts from ei-penence: "It all a state of mmd. Last j-ear 1 was a.as restless aid edgy. S.nce I be-came a jJnmr 1 fnd I am mo-e interested in the thinrs around me and so am rarely, if ever, bored." This should be a big comfort a.ive, sumaica aa-J wiereM-ed. Ia fact.

11 hs been meii. rally proved that the format: year need strenuous physical art.viry. The teens generally are bursting with energy and require sufficient Interests and activities to occupy thrir minds and bodies. Otherwise, they may lap into lethargy. Inevitable Symptom Some young people th.nk their humdrum feeling Is a a Inevitable symptoa of the growing-up process.

iriiiag Treats. Cd.c;r,g the Rtiso C.ty Symphony Orchestra la an excellently recorded Roulette album, he brsojs hi-fi the same bsd of high UsLe and expert showTnatuhip teat ha made h-a the to'1: of S.x'.a Avenue for the past aeveo year. "Hie Selection, taken from an actual Uge show, include a reUKkir.g LaUn overture of Enaejta Lecuona melodies, a ballet arrarsement of Richard Rodgers' "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue, some Calypso songs arranged for the fast-stepping ker.es. and a grand finale of Viennese walties and polkas. Good showmanship shines through several other recent record releases that also barken back to the days of vaudeville.

Eddie Cantor, in a VIK album, brings back the era of the Ziegfeld Follies and the songs that mad him famous: "Making Woe-pee." "If You Knew SuMe," "Margie" and "Ida, Sweet as Apple Cider." The recordings, all recent, are interspersed with a commentary by Cantor on his old days and old friends in show business. One of these old friends, Jimmy Durante, who played piano when Cantor was a singing waiter at Coney Island, is featured on a new Decca record called "Club Durant." It features excerpts from Durante' top radio By Fuih MaUlgav Symphocy conductor Raymond Paige rarely gets to p. ay a classical piece a'i the way tarougb, seldom Jul the concert tra and never hears a "bravo bellowed from toe balcony, yet more people attend his performances thaa any other conductor ia the world. Paige is conductor of the Radio City Music Hall Symphony Orchestra. Each year more than five million people watch him wave a ba tan over the ornate and spdghtly stage show la the nation's largest theater.

Besides conducting a full-tilt symphony orchestra for five shows a day. seven days a week. Paige also serves a musical director for the stage shows, guides the destiny of the Music Glee Club and supervises the chorale ensemble. 5a hi spare time, he may work out the background music for a trained dog act, select an accompaniment for a soft shoe routine or Integrate the work of harmonica soloist or musical sawist with the overall musical production. To do all this and keep step with the ever changing trends in never dead vaudeville, Paige must be as familiar with calypso and rock 'n' roll as he ts with Verdi.

Now, miraculously having found even more spare time, conductor Paige has turned to Chess Is Only Thing Thai Mailers 4r shss of the pail 3-1. anugay if t- ff.a-teriai, is aurprts.r.s'y funny, particularly were Helen Lafd tt4 Bob Hope shar the biU.ajt. ix.U in a nostalgic vein. Decca offers "Amorf My Souvenirs," a r.ew e'd Al Jo'soa song recorded for the Kraft Musa; Hall broadcasts. Given the hi-fi treatment, songs l.ka "Roses of Picardy and "I'm Al Chasing Rainbows" pf once again that a gifted along with being greatest of tht mln SUe! sirgrrt.

Also getting la on the vaudevll'e revival, Columbia ffc "Anna is) Darkest Africa." some mildly amusing monologues fcjT British comedienne Anna Bassctl "Bobby hs always been a nonconformist. He likes to wear dungarees and polo shirts because he considers good clothes sissy, and he doesn't like tics. He doesn't even own a tie." Mrs. Fischer has long been concern! over her son's total absorption in chess. Outside of a little tennis, which fa plays at high schooiwnere-his grades are average, he doesn't appear to have any other Interest at all, she said.

hesi All The Time "It's chess, chess, chess, from the minute he opens hi eyes in the morning," she declared. Bobby has chess pieces permanently set up at his bedside. He'll often play both sides of a game during breakfast. He has about 40 chess manuals at home; some of them are in foreign languages which he has mastered sufficiently to follow the moves. The young wizard, though shy with strangers, is essentially friendly and good-natured, and gets along well with his classmates, according to his mother.

"But he's not Interested in anything else but chess," she said a bit forlornly. "Where's his future? He doesn't even want to go to college." She added hopefully, "maybe when he gets older he'll change. I want my Bobby to develop like other boys." 11 1 sit' v- To Child Prodigy Bobby Fischer Today's youths find that canned entertainment and automation merely add to their ennui. 8 Eng-ae Gilbert rrifi el Cfcfl Yuia Sun.rtS Ca. Most of the nation i teenagers are bored la of 'l the modern atrUinmect gadget.

Perhaps they're not IwH very minutebat good part of the day. Of the boyi laterviewed la ur cross-country pell 75 per-cent say they sometime arc bored. The percentage of lasses suffering from lassitude tva higher: 15 percent. One "There are momenta when I think I will to out of my with bore-Com." A boy ay: "My crowd and I often lit in one guy' house for hours looking out of the window. We just can't find that much to do.

Of courie, if wt lived ia a big tow a it would different." Don't r.nvT Dadi But a lS-year-old lad from a big town, complaint of the aame ailment. "1 take up new hobbies every couple of month to give me something to think about. But It doesn't work. 1 guess I'm Just a biase Individual." Monotonous as they frequently find their existence, 84 percent of the youngsters we Interviewed feel they get as much enjoyment out of life today as their parents did when they were children. "I guess ail kids ere bored ometlmes." notes Tommy, 15.

'I bet Dad did about the same Ottawa By Gord Atkinson, Showbill, CFRA 1 I JLs Pops Jailhouse Rock (Elvis Presley! Melody D'Amonr (Ames Brothers) Treat Me Nice (Elvis Presley) Wake I'p Little Susie (Everly Brothers) Kisses Sweeter Than Wine (Jimmy Rodgers) Tell Me That You Love Me (Paul Anka) Fascination (Jane Morgan) When The Swallows Come Bark to Caplstrano (Pat Boone) Chances Are (Johnny Mathis) My Special Angel (Bobby Helms) Coming I'p Strong I'm Available (Margie Ray-burn) Till (Roger Williams) Rock And Roll Jailhouse Rock (Elvis Presley) Treat Me Xlce (Elvis Presley) Make I'p Little Susie (Everly Brothers) Tell Me That You Love Me (Paul Anka) Have I Told You Lately That I Love Yob (Elvis Presley) Be Bop Baby (Ricky Nelson) Happy, Happy Birthday, Baby (Tune Weavers) Silhouettes (The Diamonds) Alone (Sheppherd Sisters) Black Slacks (Joe Bennett and the Sparkeltones) Albums Where Are You? (Frank Sinatra) Tafs Great Hits (Pat Boone) Blnf With A Beat (Bing Cros-' by) Get Letters (Perry Como) The Pajama Game (Doris Day and John Raitt) Loving You (Elvis Presley) Pal Joey (Frank Sinatra and film cast) Velvet Brass (Jackie Gleason) My Fair Lady (Broadway company) mm mm i aim I I SHOWBILL NOTES Paul Anka Is Returning In Triumph To Ottawa dti now. He must have been bored a lot of the tine" Comparing tfteir lives wtta those of youngsters a century ago, our young moderns are almost pitying- They agree they have many advantages today chUdren el a ICO years ago never dreamed of tele, vision, radio, telephones, motion pictures, airplane, tape recording. electrical appliances. Since automation entered the home pttaJtbuttoa appliances to do just about every chore, youngsters have their work around the house cut to a minimum. Transports-iioe faster, too.

Everything seems to give teenagers more time and less activity. "Machines do all the work," 15-year-old Sandy says. "There Is nothing left for us to do. So we just have to sit around-bored to tears." "Bored? Why, man, that not too tar Irons the truth," agrees a lad, 17. "None of the teen-agers I know have enough to keep them busy for an hour a day.

Certainly we're bored." Television contributes to their general ennui. It's conceded that TV keeps children better informed en worid affairs and in most fields of knowledge. But knowing mort Irads to sophistication which in turn can make young people blase. Nothing is a surprise or a thrill any more. Take the circus coming to town.

Tliis used to be one of the year's high spots for a child. Thirteen-year-old Maura says: "I'll never forget my disappointment when I went to the circus for the first time. Television was much better. You could see the animals closer and that awful smell wasn't there." In a previous study we ex- plored the fact that participation by young people in sports is steadily declining. There Is an obvious connection between bored teen-agers and fewer young people on the playing iields.

Youngsters who like sports aren't sitting around twiddling their thumbs for lack of some-I thing to do. And the physical J's Pick By Vic Hill Vic Hill Show CKOY Pops Mrlodie D'Amonr (Ames Bros.) Tell Me That Yon Love Me (Paul Anka) Wake Vp Little Susie (Everly Brothers) Just Born (Perry Como) When The Swallows Come Back To Caplstrano (Pat Boone) Chances A'e (Johnny Mathis) Plaything (Nick Todd) Honeycomb (Jimmie Rodgers) Kisses Sweeter Tbaa Wine (Jimmie Rodgers) Fascination (Dinah Shore) Rock And Roll Tell Me That You Love Me (Paul Anka) Jailhouse Rock (Elvis Presley) You're My One And Only Love (Ricky Nelson) I Love You, Baby (Paul Anka'; Wake I'p Little Susie (Everly Brothers) Klss.es Sweeter Than Wine (Jimmie Rodgers) Be Bop Baby (Ricky Nelson) Honeycomb (Jimmie Rodgers) Black Slacks (Joe Bennett and the Sparkletones) That'll Be The Day (The Crickets) Albums Where Are Y'ou? (Frank Sinatra) We Get Letter (Perry Como) Pat's Great Hits (Pat Boone) Pajama Game (Sound Track) Fabulous Forties (Roger Williams) Velvet Brass (Jackie Gleason) Now Hear This (The Hi Lo's) Marvellous Miller Moods (Glen Miller) Satchmo (Louis Armstrong) A Jolly Xms from Frank Sinatra (Frank Sinatra) Hita: Kisses Sweeter Than Than Wine and Honeycomb. Ricky Nelson 169 votes. Currently: Be Bop Baby and Have 1 Told You Lately. Runners-up, who all received over one hundred votes: Sal Mlneo, Perry Como and The Everly Brothers.

Be sure to be listening this afternoon at 4.05 at 560, CFRA. for another popularity poll, the results of which will be printed In The Citi-sen next Saturday. Theater Auction LONDOX (Reuters) Historic furnishings of St. James's Theaterfrom the stase door sign to the red velvet curtains were sold at auction here Thursday. Actress Vivien Leigh, who fought to save the 122-year-old theater from being torn down, was not present.

The site will be used for aa office building. cheerful-looking visiting nurse, said tht young chess genius, a high school sophomore, was precocious even as an infant. In nursery school, she said, he was a whiz at cutouts and other puzzle games. And at 7, he was a master of magic and card tiicks. He was about the same age when he first learned to play chess, having become Immediately fascinated when his sister Joan brought home a set she had picked up at a notion store.

And from then on, he's been practically living with the game. Mrs. Regina Fischer said, "by the time Bobby was 8, I had to take him out of public school and put him In a private school because he was so restless. In the private school he got along fine because the teachers understood him and encouraged him to develop his own personality. TV Out Of Red LONDON (AP) A British commercial TV company re ported today it is moving out of the red for the first time after losing nearly 1,000,000 in the fiscal year ended last April.

Directors of Associated Rediffusion which puts out programs Monday through Friday in the London area, said it now is operating at a satisfactory profit I i. a Showbill Prediction of future hit. Put A Light la The Win-. dow (SP) and The Things Ws Did Last Summer (Columbia) The Four Lad. The Toronto quartet have their strongest entry In many months with an imaginative treatment of a catchy ditty.

The oldie has been lifted from their album "The Sunny Lh Huh (SP) and Why Can't They Remember 'Capitol) Sonny James. The A side could be the country-pop star's biggest coin collector since "Young Speedy (SP) and Come-A Come-A (Atlantic) Bobbettes. The five gals, who escorted "Mr. Lee" to fame, can't miss with this follow-up novelty. I Only Want to Love You (SP) and By Love Possessed (Jubilee) Delia Reese.

Still enjoying the effect of her first big hit, "And That Reminds the distinctive songstress should do it again with the first side. Good Morning Life (SP) and Makin Love Ukulele Style (Capitol) Dean A tailor-made happy-go-lucky new song could be the best bet for the Neapolitan crooner since "Memories Are Made of By Wambly Bald North American Nwpapr AUUnct MANHATTAN What price child prodigy? That question comes to mind regarding 14-year-old Bobby Fischer, an Intense, nail-biting youngster now hailed as the youngest chess master In the United States. When the slender, sandy-haired boy won the U.S. Open Chess Championship in Cleveland last August, triumphing over 178 other players, Al Horowitz, editor of Chess Review, was heard to remark, "nobody in the world could have played better than Bobby on this occasion." World Champion? And the Manhattan Chess Club, where Bobby, the youngest member, plays several evenings a week, Hans Kmock, the club's general manager, said: "He's so grest that ha shows the same potential as the immortals Paul Morphy and Jose Capablanca. He may some day become a world champion." It was at this club that young Bobby was observed while he sat at one of the tables.

He was playing rapid transit, a kind of blitz chess in which move must be made within 10 seconds. On and on he played, never looking up, constantly biting his nails or drumming his long, thin, fingers on the table. "Come on; hurry up and move," he kept saying to his opponent. Very shy as well as nervous, he a restlessly about the room when a reporter talked to him. "All I want to do is play," he said, and quickly returned to his table.

One of the member said: "He's so sensitive that he used to go off and cry whenever he lost a game. He hates to lose, and we sort of used to baby him around here. But he doesn't cry any more. He's growing up." Always Precocious Bobby lives with his mother and 20-year-old sister in Brooklyn. His mother, a parents, for greater partlcipa tion in the adult world." Dr.

Ziferstein says children fall In love with television be cause it seems to be saying to them: "Hey, kids, look here I'll' treat you as a full adult; I'll take you completely into my confidence." Increases Anxiety Secondly, the doctor declares, all the violence seen on TV, instead of releasing young emo tions healthfully, only increases children's anxiety and tension. For most healthy children, the effects of all this violence are not obvious, but subtle and long-range. Years In the future, as adults, they may be less sensitive to human suffering, more callous, and feel it is sissyfied or "chicken" to be squeamish about hurting other people. For less hardened children, Dr. Ziferstein warns that television violence may produce nightmares, apprehension, disturbances in appetite and sleep.

"Children with borderline psychopathic tendencies may actually be pushed over the bordei into overt delinquent behavior." A survey of just one week's video programs in one major city showed a total of 8S2 major crimes, the psychiatrist notes. 78 percent of them on programs especially designed for children. Tnere were 167 murders and one attempted rape in a western cowboy as well as "innumerable minor things like saloon brswls, slugging and assaults." The Belgian Congo la Africa occupies an area of 903,000 square miles. Top Ten By Gilbert Herard, Today's CKCH Hits, stt ft i i i i 5 J. Pops Tammy (Debbie Reynolds) Affair to Remember (Carmen Cavallaro) Tell Me That You Love Me.

(Paul Anka) Fascination (Dick Jacobs) Chances Are (Johnny Mathis) Melodie d' Am our (Ames Brothers) Wake I'p Little Susie (Everly Brothers) April Love (Pat Boone) Middle of an Island (Tony Bennett) Just Born (Perry Como) Rock And Roll Frauleln (Steve Lawrence) Young Hearts (Jim Reeves) Honeycomb (Jimmie Rodgers) Creation of Love (Frankie Lymon) In The Middle of an Island (Tony Bennett) Send For Me (Nat King Colel Goof Luck Good Buddy (Jack Jones) I'd Climb The Highest Mountain (Tommy Leonett) Any Whch Way (Jordnnaires) Wake Little Susie (Everly Brothers) Albums Teenage Hop (Commanders) Craiy In Love (Trudy Richards) For Dancers Also (Les Elgart) Wide Range (Johnny Richards) We Get Letters (Perry Como) Melodies in Gold (Billy Vaughn) About The Blues (Julie London) Fabulous Fifties (Roger Williams) The Goldrn Wes (Cyril Stapleton) Bon Voyage (Al Nevins) French Moa p'tit paradU (Jacques Helian) Toi tu es tout pour mot (Es- telle Caron) Piano, piano (Lucieanr De- lyle) Boucle blonde (Marc Gelinas) Reviens Billy (Dominique Michel) Padre don Jose (Rjjia Ketty) Le etolles (Yotand Guerard) Oh la la (Georges Cuetary) Les amants d'un Jour (Yoland Guerard) Les trois cloches (Edith Piaf) $100 BILL FOR BAR OF CANDY HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) Money can't buy everything sometimes not even a nickel candy bar, A little girl learned that Thursday when she innocently asked for some five-cent candy and handed a shopkeeper a $100 bill. Instead of the candy, the bill brought running her school principal, then her mother. The moiey? Found la a drawer at home, where the child' mother had left It for deposit later in a bank. NoL Helping Children With Unlimited TV A I -ft, i li I i i By Gord Atkinson Of Radio Station CFRA I received a card this past week from Paul Anka.

The post mark was Topeka, Kansas; one of several places where tha Ottawa recording star has made personal appearances of late. Paul stressed that he can hardly wait to return to Ottawa for next Monday's big rock roll show at the Auditorium. Regardless of how many exciting events are on his schedule for the future, no doubt Monday night will be the most gratifying experience of his amazing career. At the Auditorium, Paul will be presented his "gold recording" by Mayor Nelms, for his one million seller With the arena filled with his friends and fans, and the program Including a host of outstanding artists, the night promises real hero's homecoming for the sixteen-year-old native son. The song composed for a young Ottawan, Miss Diana, has been heard almost around the world.

An astonishing report received In CFRA's news room last Sunday Informed us that Paul's platter is now being aired behind the iron curtain in Poland and the USSR. The disk has sold over one and a half million copies in the U.S. and Canada. It has become one of the best selling records in the history of the British phonograph Industry. Number one on the U.K.

hit parade for seven weeks, the platter has sold over 800,000 copies to our British cousins. After his night of acclaim In his hometown, Paul Anka is set to appear on several top U.S. TV shows, will tour Britain the beginning of December (with- four appearances at the London Palladium), make a trip to Luxembourg, return to the States for the Yuletide week at the New York Pai amount, make another tour and wind up in Hollywood the end of January for a screen test! Bobby Helms, who clicked with "Frauleln" and "My Special now has an "angel" to lullaby, he just became the father of baby girl. Helms is a good looking young man, who is enjoying both country and pop popularity. Beginning this Monday at 4.05 p.m., Showbill introduces to Ottawa, an exciting, original musical feature.

Listeners will be Invited each day to participate in an audience poll of popular platters. Capitol plans a mass release of twenty-seven albums between now and Christmas. Among the interesting LP's ar the following sets: "Annie Get Y'our Gun" by Mary Martin and John Raitt, "Just One of Those Things' starring Nat Cole, Jackie Gleason has a collection with the unusual title and an album of "All-Time Favorites" by a variety of artisti. Turntable Preview Note: The letters "SP" he-id record titlt Indicates Sf if GorcVs Campus Corner By Jerry Klein LOS ANGELES Parents who permit their children to watch jast about as much of anything they wish on their television screens aren't doing them any favor in the opinion of Dr. Isidor Ziferstein.

A psychiatrist with the Institute for Psychoanalytic Medicine of Southern California, he believes that such uncontrolled video viewing can set youngsters vp for a lifetime of emotional and psychological woe. Strong Force To be sure, Dr. Ziferstein admits that TV can be a strong force for good in shaping young minds and personalities. But he believes that for the largest part, television is adversely influencing America's ritiwns of tomorrow. First of all, the doctor holds that TV is taken in such large doses that it becomes an addiction if parents don't step In and limit the amount of time their offspring spend in front of the screen.

"A twist of the wrist and you have it," Dr. Ziferstein declares. "You don't have to exert yourself, go anywhere or spend any money. TV furnishes everything and requires no effort. As a result, one can be com pletely passive physically, emo tionally and Intellectually.

Before long the child becomes a real addict, says the Cali fornia psychitrUi, Because TV seems to be giving hira the satisfactions he is searching for. The youngster is "looking for love and attention, fur a a 'ouact for frustrated aggression because of bosUla treatment by i i 1 1 i i A 6. i 'i Saturday afternoons over CFRA a popularity poll is conducted, on the younger act's rogram, to determine the most popular, recording artists of the past week. Listeners In the greater Ottawa area telephone "Cj vot I list "Campus Corner" during the ing period, and out-of-town eners mail thrir votes to: "Campus care of CFRA, Ottawa. This Week' Five Favorite 1 Elvl Presley 901 votes.

Hit platters: Treat Me Nice, Jailhouse Rock and Have I Told Y'ou Lately. 5 Paul Anka 43i votes. Hit disk: I Love Y'ou Baby and Tell Me That You Love Me. 8 Pat Boone 412 votes. Hit combination: April Love and When the Swallows Com Back to Capis-' trano.

4 Jimmy Rodgers 172 volet. IN ALLrSTAR LINE-UP La Vera Baker, one of the line-up of recording stars who make Monday night's concert at the Auditorium a "who's who" of rock and roil The show 111 featuie the elite of the current teenage fajej, Including Ottawa's Paul Anka. Miss Baker's ciirreat big hit li her record of Humpfy Dumpty Heart..