Banner Graphic, Volume 10, Number 200, Greencastle, Putnam County, 26 April 1980 — Page 4

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The Putnam County Banner Graphic, April 26,1960

People in the news Randall's Celebrity Round-up not funny to governor c. 1980 N.Y. Times News Service The New York promoters of what was billed as a humorous benefit celebrating "How the Old West Was Won in the East" ran into trouble with the governor of South Dakota. William J. Janklow, who thought that at least part of the event was not funny The event, to be held in Madison Square Garden next Friday to benefit the National Myasthenia Gravis Foundation. is called “A Tony Randall Celebrity Round-Up." To lend authenticity, the sponsors sent out their program to a group of Western governors and asked them if they wouldn’t mind being listed on an honorary committee. One of the items on the program “An American Indian Firewater Pow Wow”— angered Janklow, and he shot back a letter charging “racism.” "This is the 20th century.” Janklow said in his letter to Tony Randall, the actor who is also national chairman of the Myasthenia Gravis Foundation. “Television, movies and show business personalities should stop promoting the stereotype of Indians being drunks.” The promoters changed the name of the event to the “Manhattan Firewater Pow Wow.” Friday Randall, who grew up in Oklahoma, said the original title was the work of publicity people “with a flair for fancy schmantzy words.” Audrey Darwin Wetheim, who is handling publicity for the event said: "We didn’t consider anyone would take it seriously.” In Pierre. S.D.. Jim Sawyer, a spokesman for Janklow said: “We’re just happy they changed it. Perhaps it was an oversight on their part." • LOS ANGELES (AP) Comedian Lou Holtz had a line even for heart surgery. “The first thing he said when he came out of surgery was: ‘Death is for suckers,”’ his wife, Gloria, said Friday. She said the 87-year-old comedian has been moved from the intensive care unit at Cedars Sinai Medical Center into a regular ward. Holtz had a heart valve replaced and had two blood vessels bypassed in the surgery Wednesday. Famed for his dialect stories, the comedian starred in vaudeville, Broadway revues and radio. His early stage act, which included singing and dancing with partners, was put on in California and Seattle and later in New York. His first solo appearance flopped, but his act prospered when he did it in blackface. Buddy DeSvlva and Ira and George Gershwin wrote a show especially for him, “Tell Me More.” • —For years it had been a futile effort, but Mrs. John Warren never gave up her fight, contacting “everyone I could” to gain recognition for herself and 335 other women who heeded the call from Gen. John J. Pershing and volunteered as telephone operators in World War I. Mrs. Warren served in France with the Army as a French-speaking operator. Finally, Mrs. W’arren won her point that the telephone operators, hired originally as civilian workers, were really members of the United States armed forces and eligible for a military discharge. This week, Mrs. Warren, an 87-year-old widow, was awarded an honorable discharge and a Victory medal in a ceremony at the home of her daughter in Boston. • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) The search is on for 20 undiscovered country music singers or groups. The best of the 20 will win SII,OOO and exposure to some of the most influential people in the Nashville music industry people who can build careers for others. He or she will earn the title, “The Country Music Star of the Future.” The 20 are being picked at local auditions sponsored by a network of 20 country music radio stations in the South and Midwest.

'Room on TV for someone like me'

By TOM JORY Associated Press Writer NEW YORK (AP) Robert Klein was asked over lunch with Fred Silverman, NBC’s president, whether he’d like to do a couple of comedy specials for the network, and maybe a series down the line. “I’d been offered over the years about eight sitcoms, maybe more,” Klein recalls, now several months later, “and the idea never did interest me. “I'd done a show called ‘Klein Time’ for CBS that didn’t make it, and had this summer series, ‘Comedy Tonight,’ that was never picked up. “But in this one, I thought the stakes were really pretty high. It was an excellent, straightforward business lunch,” Klein remembers. “Silverman told me he was a fan of ‘Comedy Tonight,’ and that he thought it actually fortunate that the show didn’t go, that it was ahead of its time. “I don’t know how that was fortunate,” Klein says, but in the end, he agreed to put together the two specials for NBC. “The Robert Klein Show,” the first of the two, was taped before a live audience in NBC’s Studio 8H in mid January, and so far has not been scheduled for broadcast. A May date is likely. Robert Klein, at 38, concedes he’s not as well-known as, say, Steve Martin or Richard Pryor. He has nonetheless, a large following, and says, “I think the feeling now is there’s room on television for someone like me.” Klein was born in New York City and began his acting career while a student at Alfred University. He attended the Yale School of Drama, and then moved on to Chicago’s Second City improvisational company. His television debut came Jan. 19,1968 with a comic routine on NBC’s “Tonight” show, and he has returned to Johnny Carson’s late-night program several times since. Producing “The Robert Klein Show” for NBC was exciting in several respects, Klein says, an attitude intensified by the group of writers assembled for the project David Axelrod, Tony Geiss, Jeff Greenfield, Sean Kelly and John Weidman. “Those boys have heads on their shoulders,” the comedian says.

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RANDALL: Fancy, schmantzy It may not be everyone’s retirement dream, but an Army surgeon and his wife now living in Colorado Springs, Colo., are looking forward to an eventual life of ease in Maplewood, Lizzie Borden’s old house in Fall River, Mass. “We’re very excited,” Frances Kraft said in a telephone interview Friday as she and her husband, Lt. Col. Barry Kraft, prepared for the flight East to get their first look at the old Victorian mansion on which they had put a $3,500 binder payment. Lizzie Borden, a Sunday-school teacher, moved into Maplewood after she was acquitted in August 1892 of charges that she had murdered her mother and father Miss Borden died in 1927 at the age of 67. “My husband and I have always been interested in Victorian houses, and when we saw a picture of the Borden house in a newspaper with a note that said it was for sale we were especially interested,” Mrs. Kraft said. It was not so much the association with Lizzie Borden that attracted them but the fact that the mansion was so well preserved “with original woodwork and five working fireplaces.” “The historic angle was secondary at first,” Mrs. Kraft said, “but then we decided to go to the library and pretty soon we had every book we could find on Lizzie Borden and we got very interested.” Mrs. Kraft said they hoped they might be able to turn the mansion into a museum for the next 10 years until they could retire and live in it full time. Mrs. Kraft said she thought the asking price for the mansion, $79,900, was very reasonable. “Maybe people thought there was a hex on the place,” she said. Maplewood is being sold by Frank and Mary Silvia, who have lived in it for 33 years. Now all their children have moved away and Silvia, a lawyer, said he and his wife were looking for smaller quarters. Asked if the house was being sold at a bargain price because of any Lizzie Borden stigma, Silvih replied: “No, it’s higher than the going prices.” He suggested there was another reason large old Victorian houses might not have skyrocketed in value: “They’re hard to heat.” • —A sleek 94-foot, 340-horsepower diesel yacht called the Carin II rides unused at a dock in Hamburg, West Germany. She was a gift in 1937 from the German automobile industry to Herman Goering, the Nazi leader. Now the craft is for sale by the estate of Goering’s widow, who died in 1973. but customers have been scarce. “No one will touch it in Europe,” said Melvin Belli, the San Francisco lawyer, who had agreed to try to sell the boat here. “I was led to believe that it just couldn’t be disposed of on the Continent.” Belli said the yacht was in fine condition and contained, among other things, scores of photographs of the Nazi hierarchy and dozens of the fancy gold-trimmed uniforms Goering favored. Belli said he had already been approached with an offer to buy the uniforms. “I said no, they go with the boat,” he said. A multimillionaire and one of America’s leading malpractice lawyers, Belli said that no sale price had been set on the yacht and memorabilia package, but that he would get to “keep everything over $500,000.” Belli said he was also considering buying the Carin II for his own use.

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