Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 October 1951 — Page 27
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Inside Indianapolis By Ed Sovola , .
THE Internatiohal Dairy Exposition at the Falr Grounds lacks one thing-—-visitors. Last year there was an admission charge. This year you can get in free. And still attendance is off. One is tempted to suggest that in 1952 visitors: he paid a small sum at the gate. The idea will never sell. Persons closely associated with the exposition frankly admit the State Fair milks most of the interest for shows of this type. Another reason for poor attendance, especially in the evening, is the temperature, It is easy to understand why. There is something, however, that becomes quite disturbing. In a round-about-way you get the idea that Hoosiers are an awful tough lot to get excited over anything. That's why we lack the glitter and tinsel that “makes a state or a city outstanding. ww. & ©» HOOSIERS are accused of sitting on their hands and pocketbooks. They love to leave things as they are. Hoosiers are content to let the old get older and the new for someone else. That is why transplanted citizens, traveling men, you are told, hate Indianapolis and Indiana. Iry to defend your town and immediately a broadside hits you.
ONE - Indianapolis doesn't have a first class hotel where you can dine, dance, see a show or he entertained, You can sleep, eat and work,
that's all.
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THEY: ALL. SCREAM—These youngsters found tha Internattonal Dairy Exposition and the ice cream to their liking.
It Happened Last Night
By Earl Wilson
NEW YORK. Oct. 12.— Tha passing vears have made a quiet, sensible girl out of Veronica Lake unfortunately Unfortunately for columnists, I mean. The first time I met her, eight vears ago, she wore a slinky dress, and her famous sheep dog hairdo. She greeted me at lLaGuardia Field when she needed some change. 1 gave her 15¢ for a tip vou could buy a Cadillac for
15¢ in those davs. Afterward, she had a scotch, refusing to hoard her plane till she'd drunk it “I've never been known to leave a scotch till it's finished.”
were her exact defiant words wm that distant day. I've just talked to the new Veronica--the one with the boy's haircut who'll go on a stage tour with “Peter Pan.” “] go to. a man's barber shop now,” she said, as we faced each nther in a little W. 40th St. restaurant ‘ext door to the theater where she’s been rehearsing.
Veronica (Old)
<> o* <* “I LOVE IT,” she said. “I was pretty tired of being just a hank of hair and a beaded dress. Remember all that ‘peek-a-boo bangs’ publicity? “Oh, well, Dorothy Lamour had it with sarongs. And for several vears Lana Turner went out of her mind with sweaters. 3 “And riow, I think,” Veronica said, “I'll eat dinner.” “Here?” I asked. It was a nice little place with good food but not swanky or glamorous. . “Dear,” she said. “when dragged across the floor like this in rehearsal’ she pointed to some spots on her suit “you don't go anywhere else.” She has three children, she and her husband Andre de Toth are uncertain of their future, and she has to make a buck. “I'm not bitter about pictures,” she said. “I more or less sat out my contract. So this stage career has heen coming on for four or five years. “A MAN NAMED MAX has this man’s shop where I go.
Veronica (New)
“These tough characters come in there and they couldn't imagine a woman customer. You see, the barber in the first place I went—a regu-
Americana By Robert C. Ruark
NEW YORK, Oct. 12—Like to make a public apology today—much overdue, -such as about 15 years—to a Mr. Red Skelton, lately of the" TV racket, and for long a resident of the radio and movies. Mr. Skelton, sir, you are not as funny as a duodenal ulcer, as once I claimed. With video to work with, you are a very funny man. . Mr. ‘Skelton will remember a brash cub reporter in Washington, where Mr. Skelton was performing at the old Fox Theater, along about 1936 or early '37. The cub was sitting in as .second-string drama critic, and he had been reading an awful lot of Dorothy Parker and Alexander Woollcott, What he did to Mr. Skelton was a horrifying thing. This antipathy to Mr. Skelton, comedian, continued down the vears as Mr. Skelton plied his trade on stage, screen and that other ancient medium of torture, radio. It seemed to the critic that Mr. Skelton’s humor was of ‘the best possible moronic denominator, and that it impraved, on fhe moron level, as Mr, Skelton progressed to larger fame.
> 4 2 BUT I caught the boy on the television the other night, and I swear he's the funniest thing since the. hogs ate grandpa. His humor is simple, very basic, extremely clean, and if he isn’t run-ner-up or a dead heat with Sid Caesar very shortly, I am Mary Margaret McBride, an improbable “coincidence at best. Skelton—the new Skelton, evidently with new writers —came into my ken after a particularly harrowing evening. with a’ Mr. Jackie Gleason, billed as a very funny fe]low, indeed. Mr. Gleason was appearing as the protege of a deodorant and a laxative combine. The performance, I think, would have been in questionable taste in one of the old grind houses of burlesque, and er admirably adapted itself to the basic pro-
ducts of the sponsors.
» position, for Indianapolis, for Indiana.
ee” Dairy Exposition Is Worth Taking In
TWO-—After 7 p.m., on most days of the year, the town rolls up the sidewalks and the populace cuddtes up to television" sets, radios, fireplaces. THREE--Hoosiers are fine, hospitable, kind, often generous... No criticism there; But Hoosiers lack the dash, the zest for life, progressive outlook, and this condemns the state to mediocrity. “Now you take Cincinnati, for example, , , .” Ouch.
ALL THIS BOOSTER for Hoosierland and Indianapolis knows, {3 he "likes what is here and always hopes for the best for any venture that gives Indiana a chance to get: bigger and better, The International Dafry Exposition comes here 80 late because the final show of the year ig to be the climax of summer showings and work. It gives the farmer’ recognition and stimulus in the same way the International Livestock Exposition in Chicafo does to the meat animal farmer, THE SHOW is designed to dramatize to consumers the value of dairy products as a food. Winners in each dairy cattle breed showings are given international recognition. The facilities of the Indiana State Fairgrounds are unsurpassed for a show of this type. Indiana can boast of a Coliseum, seating 10,500 persons; the ‘dairy cattle barn of 4', acres under one roof can accommodate 3000 head of cattle; the Manufacturers’ Building is Ideally suited for exhibits; Youth Buildings, the most modern in the country, can house up to 900 and there is additional space for 400 herdsmen. We have evervthing but the enthusiasm for a new idea.
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ANY WAY vou look at the International Dairy Show's attendance, it's miserable The worst part of this disappointing look is that vou don't have a solution. You simply go through all the exhibits and try in a‘'small way to be the solution You talk for a moment with an exhibitor and tell him what a fine Red Poll bull he has. You smile at a voung lad who just won himself a handsome trophy. It's fun to joke with the ladies who dispense orange and apple flavored milk and whistle -at the largest hunk of cheese at the Festival of Dairy & Related Foods Show.
A FEW SILVER coins are exchanged for ice gream and popeorn, and the stand operator is
2328-10-geL-1he-Pusiness. —At-the- Manufacturers.
Buildimg you make the man with the milking machines feel he isn’t wasting his time. The International All-Star Hippodrome Show gives you a pleasant case of heart failure and it's difficult not to feel a little sorry for the entertainers who undoubtedly notice the great expanse of empty seats. : - Tomorrow’ will be a better day. for the ExCan't feel ytherwise or you begin to slip, and that's” one thing I'll never admit, never. 1
Veronica Is Older And Aren't We All?
lar woman's joint— couldn't get with it. “It"wasn't artistic enough for him to cut hair like men wear ijt.” Around Christmas, her road troupe will hit l.os Angeles, and she can join her children. “This I'm looking forward to.” she said. “But I hope I haven't bitten off more than I can chew. “I've got to go to the gym to get hardened up. “You see, I'm playing with eight children and I'm supposed to be the 9th and the most agile. But, Earl, I'm NOT a child!” I told Veronica I knew exactly what she meant, I'd been out bicyecle-riding with my boy Slugger and I stopped quite a bit—especially on
the hills. ‘I told him 1 was stopping to repair the bicvcle, but I was really stopping to repair my wind.
THE MIDNIGHT EARL: Danny Kave is going to Korea for USO-Camp Shows next month, with a troupe. Hurray! There should he more. What about Joe DiMaggio, the greatest clutch hitter vet? In the crisis he hit a home run and saved not just a ball game he saved his career. oe o> oe WISH I'D SAID THAT: Taffy Tuttle, the wellread chorus gal, hearing somebody talking about reading Zola, inquired, “Emile or Schnoz?” -— (Geo. Schindler). oo oo oo GOOD RUMOR MAN: Monte Prosser, one of the city's best imbibers, has been on the wagon two whole weeks. Pearl Bailey will reopen his l.a Vie en Rose Oct. 28 , .'. Ralph Kiner doesn’t speak to Umpire Jocko Conlan since they clashed in a ball game . .. All the guys are hunting footloose Janis Paige's phone number now, but she’s busy posing in panties and bra, to plug her new show . .. Martha Stewart of “Guys and Dolls” is alleged by some to have the purtiest ankles on B'Way.
B'WAY BULLETINS: Henry Wallace pulled out of “Keep Posted.” the new TV show he was to be questioned on. Attorneys insisted . .. When Rudolph Halley and Bennett Cerf ate together in Toots Shor’s, a bysitter asked, “Is Halley investigating the gag racket now?” , ,. Sugar Ray will play himself in his life story for 20th Century Fox . New Doctors Hospital arrivals: Cole Porter and Prof. Einstein's dtr. Margo . .. Blair House twosome: Milton Berle and Ruth Cosgrove.
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EARL'S PEARLS: Herb Polesie mentions that his mother-in-law has a nice open face: “Open day and night.” <> &* oo “WHY IS IT.” asks Bovce House, “that the guy who has the least privacy of anvhody in the world is called a private?” , , , That's Earl, brother.
Bob Learns Skelton Not So Bad After All
Mr. Gleason, in a simple skit, extracted humor from spilling booze (mixed in a hot-water bottle) on his parents, and a simple, subtle touch was derived from flourishing an old-fashioned chamber pot. Delicious wit was obtained from bad breath, and much merriment came from making poverty funny, while using it as a blackmail device, “ > 9
AND AS the tag line, when the man flagwaved the national amputation foundation as a gimmick, and mentioned pointedly that if you gave money you would help erect a building where you could drop in and show your friends your name inscribed as a contributor, I got slightly ill. IT have heard of many weird asso-ciations—name-droppers, place-droppers-— but this ig the first time I ever saw amptatation and amputees used ag a show-business device to make the giver important. So "w¥ panned to Mr. Skelton, also'a practitioner of the trusty prattfall and the old burleycue black, but the stuff was clean as the baby he showed you how to wash, and amusing even to the commercial. There was nothing of the hard-mouthed humor that has developed since video came to our house to stay, where the crude insult is construed as funny--and when the backhouse is back, television's got it.
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I am very proud of Mr. Skelton’s progress, and Mr. Skelton’s format for fun, and would like him to know, without benefit of pressure from press agent or even friendly intervention, that I am now in the word-eating business, dating back 15 summers. The cub retracts his vintage, bitter prose, and someday when the guy has time, I would like to buy him a drink.
In the meantime, we can use more of his current happy: exhibitionism in a medium that
seems to be withering before it has flowered. - There is still nothing wrong with television that ’
a little less Berle and a little more taste can't cure, ¥
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Hoosier Navy Tribute—
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Armory Shines For ‘Old Man’
For sailor men in battle fair Since fighting days of old
PRIDE OF THE GREAT WHITE FLEET—In her great might. She fought at Santiago.
CURRENT HOOSIER PRIDE —The new USS Indiana is a veteran of heavy Pacific action and accounted for a great number of Jap ships and planes during World War il.
THE OLD
time the old USS Indiana was a battleship of
BLUE JACKETS AND RIFLES—The rifle still plays an important part of every sailor's training. James Panyard {right], qunner's mate first class, on duty at ths local reserve Armory, instructs three men preparatory to range firing. Pictured (left to right) are Richard Bea, 1107 N. New Jersey St. Richard Thompson, 722 Clarendon Place, and Stanley Sackett, 2809 N. Adams St.
Speaking of Exclusiveness, Buster—
Royalty’s U.S. Visit To
By DOUGLAS LARSEN
Times Staff Writer \ ASHINGTON, Oct. 12 —The nation's capital is in for its first real social
showdown since the war
when Princess Klizabeth and Prince Philip of England arrive,
Socially, as the saying goes, it should separate the men from the boys. For the past 10 years in Washington anyone with the price to hire a caterer and his staff a couple of afternoons a month could consider himself in the swim. But after the of the royal pair, if you can’t prove to have met them at one or an= other of the exclusive affairs being frantically cooked up for them, buster, vou might just as well fire your social secretary and head for the hills That's the way it worked after the vigit of the King and Queen in 1939. Those who didn’t get to meet the royal couple were social outcasts. There's something about British royalty that knocks Washington for a loop.
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THE MAD finagling for bids to the shindigs being planned for Liz and Phil (you refer to them that way here now to let people know you've met the couple before) is under way in real earnest. Their visit is actually sort of a side junket from a visit to Canada, so the Canadian Embassy here is in on the
planning along with the British
Embassy and the protocol office of the State Department. Officials of those embassies and the protocol, office, who might have something to do with invitation lists, are being swamped with requests. If this trip works like the 1939 royal visit, the lucky ones who get bids will he sleeping with them under their pillows. And the- frenzy isn't confined
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to Washington society. Most of the big hotels are being booked solid by names from the social registers of New York, Chicago, Philadelphia and other big cities, who'll arrive, it just so happens on Oct. 31, the date the roval visit begins. Elizabeth had to approve the schedu.: of events, but it will be just about the same as all visit-
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ing dignitaries are exposed to here. The Royal Canadian Air land Nawhere they will
Force will them at
tional Airport be greeted by the Truman family, including Margaret. Then the motorcade back to the
White House through the crowdlined streets. Bands playing. School children waving flags—
Have proved the sailor's right to wear . The Navy Blue and Gold “SWEEPERS man your brooms, clean sweep down all weather decks-gfore and aft.”
The bosun’'s pipe shrilled early th . U. S: Naval Reserve Armory, 30th St
is morning at the and White River
Pkwy., and local part-time swabbers laid to on the double, Today wads USS Indiana Day at the Armory and
everything ‘had to be ship shape. He is Rear Admiral Francis
came to town to sce to that
The old man himself
P. Old, now commanding the Ninth Naval District. During the day the reserve sailors paid tribute te the 892 members of their group who are now sailing: the seven seas on active duty and to the two mighty warships which have carried the Hoosier State's name to fighting fame in remote places in the world.
THE OLD USS Indiana won glory at Santiago, July
3, 1898, during the Spanish-American War.
She also was
active on patrol duty over the world during the heyday
of American nationalism
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The new Indiana served with distinction during World War II and was commanded then by the now Admiral, Old, who is today's honored guest. Hoosierland's current pride is now a part of Uncle Sam's ace in the hole mothball fleet and is tied up at the
The day's celebration will end with a dance tonight on the drill deck at the Armory.
SPIT AND POLISH—Scrubbing decks and keeping things shined are as traditional as Navy blue and gold. Here Ronald M. Miller, fire c¢antrolman second class, 711 Gerard Drive, spruces up a Mark 16 floating mine which was displayed today.
Be Super-Social
no school that day. Presentation ‘of the key to the city. ~ n » THE FIRKT night's will be so exclusive it's not ce tain yet that Mrs. Truman will be there. It's a formal dinner in the Blair House where the couple will stay for both nights. If they use the fan-back chairs only 16 seated around the table, If they
event
guests can oe
REPEAT PERFORMANCE IS COMING—What's in store for Washington when Elizabeth and Philip of England visit at the end of this month is previewed in this photo of the polite mob scene at the British Embassy when the King and Queen visited in 1939. Hera the King stands at the center
of the crowd beside top-hatted Sir Renald Lindsay, whe was then British Ambassador te U, §,
use other chairs there can be 18 guests. Secretary of State Dean Acheson will be lucky te
get in That, of course, will call for a party next night at the Canadian embassy for the “Presi dent which will be less exclugive, It mav even include a couple of Supreme Court jusices or perhaps a Senator or two.
Gala event of the visit, the
society folks feel, will be the garden party at the British embassy. Biggest limiting factor on the number of guests is the possibility of rain that day. ‘No more can be asked
than can be safely handied inside In case of rain. The 1939 garden party was quite a day. Top officials, bus.
iness moguls and socialites were there, to help consums 360, gallons of strawberries
topped with 60 gallons of thick
cream and mavbe meet their roval highnesses, 5 ~ ~ THE GREAT RHUBARB
over whether or not ladies pre
sented to the Princess should
curtsy, bow, shake hands or
just gape is already under way,
It rocked Washington before the Queen arrived in 1839, As it turned out, the gals tried every possibility and they all seemed to work out all right,
For good measure the King got a hearty swat on the back from Vice President Garner just to show there was no hard feelings over unpaid war debts. Financier J. P. Morgan had long talks with His Majesty, There's significance in the visit taking place in October, Is5z's mother, the Queer, made her visit in June, hitting a 94degree day. She got frightfully sunburned during the ride from the station and at the garden party in spite of a large protects ing hat. There can ha little doubt that the Queen warned her daughter to go tn Washington when it was a little cooler,
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