Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 71, Decatur, Adams County, 25 March 1954 — Page 9

Lavish Oscar Awards Show On TV Tonight

(Editor's note: This is the second of a two-part series by United Press Hollywood correspondent Aline Mosby who In this dispatch compares the history of the sometimes glamourous, sometimes dull academy awards fcitli the lavish 12*6,000 production to be tele-, vised tonight.) By AUIN< MOSBY HOLLYWOOD. UP — Thanks to the movies’ rival, television, the Academy Awards program tonight is slated to be the biggest and most colorful Oscar event in his-

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tory. , , ~ A TV sponsor is picking up the tab for the presentations because the movie studios won’t foot the bill. To make sure the usually dull ceremony is a good one, NBC is staging the Academy Awards for the first time as a lavish |276,000' telecast from 9.30 to 11 p.m., c.s.t. Movie stars wno got out black ties, mink and diamonds lor the event agree tonight’s ceremony will be the first “fun” Oscar event in a decade. Back »h tne ’3o’s the awards were presented at a banquet. It

was a casual affair. So casual, in fact, that everybody made long speeches and the H top Oscars were handed out after midnight. By this time the reporters were sleepy and the champagne - imbiding guests unintelligible. Ten years ago the awards were moved into a theater and pared to the bare essentials. But this year NBC planned an elaborate affair. Twenty-one cameras w|ll be stationed in the Pantages Theater on Hollywood Blvd. At the "branch” gathering of nominees in New York; at NBC studios in Burbank, and in a Philadelphia theater to record last’ year’s winner, Shirley Booth. Gary Cooper, lait year’s best actor, is in Mexico on location so his presentation of the best actor aw-ard was filmed, omitting

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only the winner’s name. •' The songs nominated for prises will be presented as production numbers. Mitzi Gaynor and Donald O'Connor have been rehearsing for nearly two weeks oq “The Moon Is Blue,” complete with dancing girls. Even the commercials will be song-and-dance numbers. Backstage at the Pantages, crews are busy hammering on special sets and installing TV equipment and revolving stages. Film clips will illustrate what such awards as “special effects” are about. Young actresses including Sara Shane and Marjie Millar will model the costumes that were nominated for Oscars. The movie studios have issued a blanket clearance so such stars of the show as Elizabeth Taylor and Esther Williams can be tele-

vised. The academy predicted this event will have one of the largest combined, radio-television audiences in history. After the winners have clutched their statuettes and modestly insisted somebody else should have won, they’ll all repair to Romanoffs Restaurant for a party the academy is hosting. Choral Society To Present Oratorio Sunday, April 4 "The Passion of Our Lord According to St. Matthew,” by Johann Sebastian Bach, will be given by the 96-voice chorus of the Fort Wayne Lutheran choral society, Sunday, April 4, at 2:30 p.m. in the Scottish Rite Auditorium, Fort Wyne. Four nationally-known soloists yill appear with the chorus, as Vrell as a 100-voice girls glee club Jrom Concordia high school. A ouble orchestra from the Philharmonic will play accompaniment. Featured will be the rare and unique harpsichord which was bought in Germany in 1950 and is now owned by Valparaiso University. William John Gravesmill from the pberlin college conservatory of music will play the harpsichord for the tenor soloist, Harold Haugh. Ann Arbor, Mich., as he sings the role of the Evangelist Matthew in this elaborate oratorio. Mary Ellen Meyer will play the organ accompaniment. Besides Haugh, John Macdonald, bass-baritone from Chicago, will sing the role of Jesus; Maude Nosier, soprano, Chicago, and Ruth Slater, also of Chicago, contralto, will sing the arias. Henry Simminger. Fort Wayne, will sing the roles of Peter, Judas, Pilate and the High Priest in “The Passion.” George Gerhard Arkebauer. V6Hdirctop _ 16 years, wilfAlireet the entire production. If you nave something to sell or <rooms for rent, try a Democrat Want Ad. It brings results.

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Disabling Injuries Lower During 1953 Slight Decrease In Workers* Injuries WASHINGTON, UP — Some 2,031,000 American workers received disabling injuries on their jobs during 1953, according to U. S. Department of Labor statistics. The 1952 figure was 2,040,000. “In view of the somewhat higher leveU of employment in inost of 1953, the failure of the. injury total to rise is a favorable indication of achievement in the efforts to bring greater employment safety,” the department said. The 1953 estimate included

about 15,000 deaths and 84,000 injuries which resulted in some permanent disability, such as the amputatioii of a body member or the permanent impairment of some body 'function. The latter group included some 1,500 cases in which the disability was serious enough completely to incapacitate the injured person for any gainful employment for the remainder of his life. The remaining victims, approximately 1,935,000, suffered temporary injuries which disabled them for one full day or more, but from which they recovered without any ■ ...•,xxHunt v 11. X* f* fxxx'x-t 41 - - - perm it nr In ri rciirvw» When allowance is made for the future effects of the deaths and permanent physical Impairments, the total economic loss from injuries amounts to about a year’s-full-time employment of about 687,000 workers. Mining was the one industrial group to show substantial improvement in Its safety record. The total of 61;000 work injuries in this industry represented a 19 percent 'deferease from the prCV- - ious year — considerably greater than the 5 percent drop in average mining employment. Too Big WOODSTOCK, Vt., UP —Looks like Woodstock will have to appropriate more money than expected in order to have a new fire truck. The four-wheel-drive pumper was purchased and delivered. But now the fire station has to be remodeled. It's not big enough for the truck. Trade in a Good Town — Decatur.

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Younger Cops BOSTON, UP—This city could have 18-year-old policemen if a measure now under consideration were approved by the state legislature. The bill would lower the age limit from 22 to 18 for both policemen and firemen. I BMr Jet ... IH jMTOHfc i ■ 2K& Tj&'XW*’ JSEk ' ■- : ? ■■ ■•'■limff HH. ■w ■ ELIZABETH RYBRANDT, 11. who 11 s being haUed a» “The Garbo of Tomorrow,” poses in front of the historic Colosseum in Rome. Like , Garbo, Elizabeth U a native of ’ Sweden, where she made her first stage appearance at the age of six. She la blonde and blue-eyed with ■ 1 hair that reaches to her waist