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II The Front Row PLAZA Y0UHG-F0LKS SATURDAY OPEN 12:30 START I PM THE BOY AND THE PIRATES FAMILY IMTIITAINMINT IN COLOD How Mary Miller Got Discovered SKATEHAVEN ROLLER ARENA ON KKIMIKH an Sketleg Nightly All Day Skatiaf 390-0004 'New Orleans' Film Banned The Board of Censors has banned the film New Orlcuns" Mrs Minter Somerville Hooker chairman of the board denied she had said the film jwas obscene I "We banned it" said Mrs 'Hooker "We did not say that jwe considered it obscene" The film was screened Tuesday for four board members jby Bill South representative 'for Don Kaye Enterprises who produced the film I South said the film is a bur-lesque-type film made about 10 jyears ago in New Orleans i will respect the ban" he said "It he shown in i The hoard last banned a film called "Paradisio" JTLJr5--' REJOICE DEAR HEARTS DAVE uJ FRIu MAY PM AUDITORIUM A CONCERT IN COMEDY Tlakal $130 S300 EUO SIM fla nala aaar pi liulH-niUli'n Caalral Tiah-at 01 lira Paplar Taaan bh4 Hlalt City Halrk (bulk fm-atiaanl PIT 0AR0ECUI RAVIOLI SPAGHETTI STEAKS SEA POOD 3 IU Jrkwa Cl SUM Wjiw SHOW 9:00 pWJU aGMMAMMSiiJLJlMbaia By KIIHIX PrwScimittir AniHurwrntn Editor LAS VEGAS NOW LADIES AND GENTLEMEN I want you to moot a little girl I found down in Beaumont Texas She's just 15 years old and this is her first appearance before an audience I know you gonna believe me when you hear her cause she's a real belter but it's the truth so help me She's great and she's really going places But besides that she's one of the nicest sweetest kids you ever met I've fallen in love with her and I know you will too With those words Phil Harris introduces Marv Miller a tiny dimpled brunet who nist 'turned Hi (yes right) and who Howard until June of last year was a student at south Side in Memphis It's a warm sincere sort of introduction and audiences at the Desert Inn where Harris md Marv are winding up a six-week engagement rescind warmly to it and to blast-off versions of Pennies from Heaven" "Rock-A-Bye My Baby" and other oldies But it isn't nearly as interesting as the true story of how Hams discovered Mary which I have pieced together here during the past few days Phil Sees Mary The first time Harris saw Mary wlio hasn't been in Beaumont Texas in the three years since her parents Mr and Mrs Glaston Miller moved from there to Memphis she was right on the stage of the Painted Desert Room at the Desert Inn belting a song She was rehearsing for the Jimmie Durante Show which played the Desert Inn just ahead of Harris Sitting out front as Harris strolled in was Ed Sullivan who was preparing a live telecast starring Durante and featuring Mary Harris listened a minute and bc- Ran to get excited "Hey" he dc- manded "who is that kid?" Someone Miss Miller toU-5jIly Miller Mary Miller! Hey ain't that the kid Robinson (of Robinson Music Co) ('tilled me about a couple weeks ago?" Ed Sullivan in Audience On stage Mary was still trying to sing over the disturbance Sullivan' his back to Harris was still listening Meanwhile Memphian John Osborne little Mary's fi-foot-2 312-pound manager had walked over and introduced himself to Harris "Listen" boomed Harris with the full volume of his rustomurily well-lubricated tonsils "I want that kid Got to have that kid for my show" Osborne said he was sorry but that Mary was already signed to appear with Durante and to go on the Sullivan show "That's out Clyde" said Harris "If she goes on Sullivan I can't use her got to be my discovery" Mary was finding it impossible to continue now and Sullivan turned around Harris walked up and thumped him on the chest "What can you do for her man?" he demanded "One show and turn your back on her I'll give her six weeks here and two weeks in Tahoe" After a few minutes more of this Sullivan turned to Frank Scnnes who supervises the Lido Revue at the Stardust and books the Desert Inn and the Copacabana in New York and said "We'll talk about this in the morning when he (Harris) can talk sense" They Sleep on Her Future Mary's future was now in Scnnes' lap fur her contract was with him We had better go back's bit here and explain that Osborne was for about a year and a half in 1956-57 one of Elvis Presley's $I50-a-weck traveling companions During that time he met Marty Melcher Doris Day's agent-husband When he took Mary to Hollywood after discovering her in Memphis he got Melcher to listen to her and Melcher in turn got her an audition with Sennes the next morning Sullivan proposed that Harris go on his show with Mary and introduce her as his discovery but Harris refused She must debut with direct from Beaumont or nothing Thanks to Sennes and to Sullivan it eventually worked nut that Mary could have her cake and eat it ioo She is making her night club debut with six weeks here and two and a half weeks at Hnrrah's at a salary of $2000 a week (With Durante she would only have got four weeks' work) After the Tahoe engagement she will go on to New York to tape two numbers for one of Sullivan's summer shows for a flat $3500 And That's How It Was And that's how Phil Harris who hails from Nashville Tcnn himself discovered Mary Miller in Beaumont Texas" Mary is philosophical and full of little-girl excitement about it all Even when Osborne tells about how he turned down a 20th Century-Fox offer of a two-picture-a-year contract sliding from $20000 the first year up to $110000 the sixth year all guaranteed and with freedom to do outside pictures she contentedly smiles her confidence in him And not without reason Fox production head Richard Zanuck and Director Henry Koster who wanted Mary to play Jimmy Stewart's daughter in Her were back to see Mary at the Desert Inn last Saturday night and asked Osborne to come back to talk to them the next time he is in Hollywood TOMORROW: Red Skelton and Ella Fitzgerald ELVIS PRESLEY la at hia kaal: GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS with Alalia 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Ca-my-y) STtffK ANKE BANCROFT tmmums PATTY DuXE gions the smoking urns heightening the eerie scene singing of "I Have Lost My' Euridice" and the two motionless statues Ted Kalb and Leslie Wood who must have welcomed the curtain that finally allowed them to relax Pin Hart lanratrr la "Birdman Of Alcatraz" aSBE ALSO AT SUNWSEtll WWISTMIMPMIW Saeclal nloa for irfNMl a ad arb-pr a maps Call MrmuibH area caOa 00U17JU1 hr OMaih sap Kimuiis uaiat SESSZ5 13 HMjS8iiitKJjnifJ WALT mSNRVW la Saan-h Of Tha CASTAWAYS llaylay Milla Maeriaa Charaller 1:11 ff Vinaaat Paiaa la TALES of TERROR at 7:00 (any-yt LOVE IS A BALL Mirim Kurd llwp LaRg SERGEANTS THREE ith Fraak Mantra NOW Opaa 11:11 Firit SO io the pool tomsrrew yet FRES PASSES far retero iwim MAYWOOD rlflLI'ANDJLEROCN ON IHEffiGB 1- Just 12 Minutes South of Lamar And Getwell on Lamar Highway 78 cT L-g J) if Seven Sensto Quus THE SOUND OF MUSIC enhanced by KING BAND INSTRUMENTS SOLD ONLY BY COLIE STOLTZ MUSIC CO By LOUSE AIIKENS '-'or a change of pace from fering from a throat ailment typa of opera it has pre- induced by overwork but there ited each spring for many was no evidence of it trs Memphis State Univer- There did not seem to be any this year turned back the forcing of tones as he project-ges of opera 200 years and e(j his fine-textured voice with ose Gluck's andfog phrasing and beautiful iridice" the great great- quality Judy Berbig Goins andfather of operas was a decorative and pleasing The opera in understand- Euridice and Linda McGehee le English opened last night took the smaller role of Amor will be repeated at 8: 15 effectively completing the trio night in the MSU Audi- of principals Both female rium voices were a little bit metal- Thrce acts with five scenes lie however used to tell the simple un- Paul Eaheart conducted implicated story of how Or- with his usual skill and taste 'icus Greek poet and musi-but why oh why will people in brings his bride Euri- talk during an overture or in-ice nut of Hades with thetermezzo which are integral mwer of his music loses her parts of a performance? The breaking his promise to sublimely beautiful of mor the god of love not to i the Blessed was rok at her until the journey spoiled for some of us by chat-s completed and then is hap-tering young people When the lv reunited with her again jdancing began the voices the action is slow moving stopped but the first part for 1 ut the opera never drags be-1 orchestra alone seemed to be tusc of the beautiful cho-'a cue for conversation Older iscs and dancing with which people are often guilty of this is laced and the pure and too but last night most of the ively music with which it offenders were young bounds Floyd Herzog stage direc- Willijm Sellari one of the tor and designer and Loretta 'id-South's finest baritones Floyd choreographer are due irried the burden of theno end of credit for their ex-I'pra in the role of Orpheus 1 cellent work Highlights of the role more often taken by a production that we remember ezzo soprano It is one of most favorably are the roles at the Met- ing spirits in Hades the chorus pnlitan Friends said last tastefully deployed on the ght that Mr Sellari was suf- rocky ledges of the nether re Ill Madisaa at Mala JA 7-3S Start Tkarcilay AND TECHNICOLOR TO ROME SPECIAL SCHEDULE SUN 4 Mey 12 13 MEMPHIS QUEEN II 1 public trip aaly at 1 FM baard ban at faat -Muarita far rraiaa ericlaatlne at MrKallar Laka at aarifac doaratuwa Mrmphia at PM I sparlal puhllr trip at AM at Ihr font at Maarua HIIC KI ISKS DAILY ON THE Mississippi River Charier Reservation! 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