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v2 % y : ' ; gfe : y In Indianapolis By Ed Sovola NEW YORK, Nov. 19 — Herb Shriner, “the fella from Indiaha,” took a Sunday off two weeks ago and is going to live (he hopes) to regret it. comedian doesn’t sleep on a bed of roses.

: I spent two hours in the vicinity of the young man who is currently knocking New Yorkerg

off their seats in front of television sets. But you

have to feel sorry for the guy. His soul, body. time belong to TV. We decided to get together over a. cup of coffee’ to talk about the possibility of Herb being the roastmaster for, the Indianapolis Press Club's annual Gridiron Dinner, May 15. Herb said he was interested. oo oo < “WILL YOU MEET me at the Hotel Ansonia about four?” asked Herb. “We should be through with the rehearsal and I'll have a chance to talk.” A bellboy in the lobby said Herb could be found on the second floor. In.a fairly large ballroom, right in the middle of the floor, a group of intense men ‘and women poured over the papers they held in their hands. Everyone was excited, and there was a feelIng of urgency in every gesture, every spoken word, I couldn't pick out anyone who looked or sounded like Herb Shriner. When in doubt, ask. Ten faces glared at me. “This is the ‘Stop the Music Show,’ ” growled the man nearest me. “You'll find Shriner down the hall.” Ooops. . The scene in the rehearsal room for the Shriner show was more hectic. Black tape on the floor marked off sets. Actors moved about in the manner you see expectant fathers pound the floor in the waiting room of a maternity ward. . - & b HERB, THE EASY-GOING COMEDIAN, with head down and hand pulling his cheek and chin, paced the floor like a caged lion. We exchanged greetings in a whisper and were chided by the director—quiet. A press agent took me off into a far corner and wept on my shoulder. Every show gives him a new ulcer, It is criminal, he said, the way television shows have to be put together. In New York, there isn't enough space in studios for rehearsing shows. “One day we rehearse in an empty garage, the next in a bakery, when they're not baking, the next we come to this hotel. It’s awful,” the man wailed. He also explained that Herb Shriner gives his personal attention to every detail of his show,

It Happened Last Night

By Earl Wilson

"NEW YORK, Nov. 19—PublicitV-shy Frank Costello and Frank Erickson, each worth millions, tete-a-teted the other day in the Biltmore Baths wearing only towels. As they moved nakedly about, a bysitter said, “Like the old nudist gag, nobody has pinned anything on them.” > Db BILLY ROSE and Joyce Mathews now hunt dinner privacy far off Broadway. One night it was the Villa Victor, on Jericho Turnpike, several whoops and a lot of hollers from Times Sq. Other times it's been the Rochambeau, 78 W. 11th St, where Billy got the seven-table “back dining room” which could be curtained off so they could dine ungaped-at. They were popular customers, even though they didn’t mingle.” Joyce never looked prettier nor Biliy richer.

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NOTE from Ingrid Bergman

Rossellini: “With us all is well, 4

Isn't it dull?” 6 + > BS and Tommy Dorsey's mother has At the Statler, Jimmy twitted his mother about her answer when somebody asked her what she thought of Frank Sinatra. “He sings pretty fair,” she said, “but anybody who couldn’t be a star after singing to my Tommy's trombone, ought 4 4 FRED MacMURRAY — just back from the Royal Performance for the Queen and party in London—confesses he was surprised about Their Majesties, He was told to do an act in which he came ous with a broom and swept the floor, and then remarked. “I always said that if I came to England, I'd clean up.” He didn't think they'd laugh. They howled. < ® » HOT DASHES Liz Taylor's been out three nights with Britisher Michael Wilding; even showed him to her parents at Fl Morocco—Joe Louis may become co-owner of Sugar Hill night club-—Editor Harold Ross goes back into that Boston hospital--Judy Garland’s beau and man ager, 8id Luft, rushed back from Hollywood to guide her to good health—Jack Benny did so much on Frank Sinatra's show that a B'wayite said, “Wasn't Sinatra great on Benny's program?” --Frankie, owner of one-fourth of “Meet Danny Wilson,” the new film, should make a packet. “ o> oH “HOW'S THAT hamburger?” a famous restaurateur asked Dave Chasen, Hollywood's equally famous restaurateur, “There's nothing wrong with this hamburger,” Chasen assured him, “except the meat.”

JIMMY

Americana By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, Nov. 19—Every time some surly waiter spills the soup onto.the tablecloth and snarls gently at a request for the fork he forgot or the water he didn't bring; every time this obvious hater of his job of service looks the other whose

way or conducts a ijoud argument over station the table bélongs to; every time I feel like crowning this tip-hungry incompetent’ with the bus boy—then I mutter: “Whoa, lads, remember your friend Hugo Schemke.” Then mayhem goes uncommitted. Then the blood pressure eases back to normal, Once in a while, when the pressure of living too fast in New York seems likely to blow the boiler, I amble downtown to Luchow's, the nld German restaurant that stil dwells in the past. It is a past of grace and quiet courtesy, the past of Victor Herbert and the young Gish girls. I never know what I am eating in Luchow’s, since I speak no German and take what they suggest that day. I do not go to Luchow's to eat. I go there to stretch the nerves, and perchance, to listen to Hugo. Hugo is a peculiar man for these times. He is happy. He has been a waiter at Luchrow’'s since 1905. He is pushing 73 now. He loves his work. He lik#s people. Hugo once was in love with a countess, and he still has an eye for the well-turned ankle. Hugo was rich, once, too, when everybody was rich during the '20°s boom. He lost it, of course. * + “BUT I NEVER CARED when I lost it,” Hugo says. “I never lived out of my station, so when I lost it I didn’t feel it. How can you love what you never really had?” Hugo believes he will be reincarnated, and when he comes back to carth again he has one desire: He wants to be a waiter, all over again. However, he says, could a man meet so many wonderful people otherwise? However; he says, could a man give so much pleasure to so many people as by seeing they are well fed” Hugo 1s a student of astrology, and he can quote Schopenhauer at you, or Goethe, and he will casually refer to Ninon De I'Enclos in the same breath with a personal reference to Anna Held, When he conducts you to a table you feel, through the courtly sweep of his arm, that you are a duke being led to table by the old family

servitor, Yet there is nothing servile in Hugo,

I have heard him say: “I am a man of independent means, Do not pother about a tip.” <> THE MEAL that Hugo brings you is the meal that Hugo himself would order that day, if he were sitting at the table with a lovely lady, just

to be shot.”

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Lite of Comedian No Bed: of Roses

Every week he has new. actors. Every week he has a new story. Herb Shriner introduced a new type of commercial for the Arrow Shirt people which is getting many compliments. The commercial, scenes from the factory on film, is geared to Herb Shriner personally. . Interspersed among the selling scenes are shots from. Herb’s personal collection of home movies. He tries for the ridiculous situation by cutting in fantastic scenes that lend themselves to gags. The three-minute film clip commercial is timed with live comments. :

on

I SAT and watched laughs being born and thought humor couldn’t possibly be so expensive, so difficult, so worked over, It is. At a quarter of five Herb Shriner was through. Our coffee date was shot. He was sorry. Oh, at four-thirty Herb had his.coat on but couldn't get out. Details kept coming up. He stood 10 minutes in a doorway ironing out rough spots with the director,

“We can talk in a cab on the way to the advertising agency where 1 have to see the film clip and see that my talk is timed perfectly,” said Herb. “It shouldn't take long and then we can really have a drink. Say, I'm sorry about this.”

He told me about the Sunday he took off to spend with his wife and 8-month-old daughter. That bit of luxury threw his schedule for a loop. He may never be able to catch up. “The most important thing at the moment is this week's show. But I have to think about the two that follow. They're going to be important shortly.”

Walking along the street for half a block, six people yelled, “There's Herb Shriner.” Popular boy. In the building, office workers, through for the day and free to go home to their television sets and criticize, called to. him. Herb didn't see how he could be roastmaster for the Gridiron. He'd love to do it. He wants to get back to Indiana and visit his home town, Ft. Wayne. Unfortunately, it's impossible.

The five minutes in the film department went into 30. Herb was sorry and apologetic. That's television. Certain things have to be done and time is fleeting.

“I understand, Herb. Maybe some other day.” Worried is the head, bent, too, that faces the TV camera. When the red light appears, though, the. star shines brightly, the show goes on. Laugh, clown, laugh.

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Costello and Erickson Meet in Turkish Bath

SHOULD ATHLETES and entertainers who make big money for only a few vears be allowed to spread. their income taxes to take into consideration their lean years? Another such move is soon to be launched here. Joe E. Laurie Jr, who worked five years with Abel Green on the book, “Show Biz,” has just been on 18 programs plugging it. “Writing a book isn't hard,” he groaned, “it’s tha radio and television programs afterward that are hard.” . . . Denise Darcel's new guy is Pan-Am pilot Bill MacDougall. . . . Herman Timberg's in Memorial Hospital. . . . Eddie Foy’'s much better since his operation. . . . Mary Collins, the beauty, was signed for the Sheriff Bob Dixon show—as an actress. “ & & MARRY-GO-ROUND — Razor heir Jack Coleman announced he broke his engagement with Virginia Bailey because she had another date when he called—Milton was at El Mordcco with Vida Jenkins, the candy kid, ignoring Ruth Cosgrove, his recent the next table—The Arturo

companion, at Ramoses Jr. (he's the son of Mrs. Millicent Rogers! have an heiring in June—Ava Gardner, asked whether Frankie is sick as one columnist re-

ick of newspapermen.”’ > @ THE MIDNIGHT EARL . .. Joe E. Brown, the Ohio small town boy who made good in the big city, had to rush back to Hollywood for the very fancy debut of his two daughters . .. Yogi Berra gave autographs at Majors Cabin with his wife's eyebrow pencil. Taxi drivers will yell for a rate raise to 30c for the first l¢ mile now that other rate raises are requested . . . John Barrymore Jr.'s in line for the road company lead of “Stalag 17.” They say he saw his pop only once. db oO EARL'S PEARLS —Herb Shriner knows a woman back home who learned to drive pretly good in only 53 cars. : & & &

ported, replied, “Yes. >

OFTEN when people bury the hatchet, says Comedian Myron Cohen, axe marks the spot... That's Earl, brother.

Hugo Makes Eating A Real Pleasure

prior to a spin down the avenue with a coach and four. The way in which he brings it to you is indicative of the fact that he has the entire day to.spend in seeing that you are made happy. Hugo's gentle, white-haired countenance is mildly sad when he contemplates thes rush, the fevered pace, of living today. He is the merest touch impatient with an age that dashes madly off in no particular direction. He is intolerant of his younger associates in the waiting trade. “They are not gracious,” he says. “They are just in a hurry, and crazy for tips. They take no pride in their craft.” “A waiter,” he says, “is a special man. He can make your day or spoil your day by the way he serves you. When I go out to dine, myself, 1 do not wish to have my evening ruined by some voung fool who is only in a hurry to collect his tip and get off the job. A waiter has an obligation to his guest. You do not see that often today.” Hugo says the trouble with us today is we think too much, harass the brain too much. “When you become too intellectual,” he says, “you lose intelligence. Intelligence is inside the man. Intellect is falsely acquired. One kills the other.” Hugo says he feels fine, at 72-plus, and that he regrets no single instance of his life. He does, however, hope some day to retire. “I intend to retire,” Hugo says, “exactly one week before I die.”

Dishing the Dirt By Marguerite Smith

Q-—~What kind of mulch is best for winter protection? (This query is bothering various readers.) Sh A—No mulch is best for every purpose. For beds of flowers ‘like the spring bulbs that simply do not mind cold weather at all or for strawberry beds you want a blanket to hold the plants in Nature's cold storage all winter, Then they

Read Marguerite Smith's Garden Column in The Sunday Times don't start growth too early in spring. For them you want light airy materials such as straw or ground corncobs. Around evergreens you do want moisture held in the ground, so peat moss or tree leaves are-ideal Whitever you use, do wait until ground is frozen (there are a few exceptions to this rule). Do not smother your plants with a too thick layer of covering. Do not cover tops of such plants as delphinium and chrysanthemums with leaves or anything else that will mat down over them,

Send garden queries to Marguerite Smith, The Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis 9, Ind.

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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1951

At Butler This Week—

Students Interested In Re

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PLANNERS—Dr. E. Robert Andry (right) and students (left to right): Robert E. Kirkman, Bonnie R. Hardin and Donald H. Walpole arranged Butler's Religious

Emphasis Week now in progress on the campus.

GUEST—Methodist Bishop Ivan Lee Holt of St. Louis, one of the celebrities who addressed students.

By EMMA RIVERS MILNER Times Church Edite

7OU will find Butler students discussing

religion as

it applies to “mix2d” marriages between Protestants

Wednesday night with fireside chats in fraternity and sorority houses, iz now at its peak. Dr. Robert Andry, héad of the miversity religion department, is serving as faculty representative with the Butler Religious Council to make a success of the week. In addition to hearing addresses by distinguished guests, Dr. Andry says the students are talking about “religious questions of a vital and personal Kind.”

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* and Catholics if you visit the campus now. For Religious. Emphasis Week, which

began last

THEY WANT TO know if it ever is right to get a divorce and what about mixed marriages, those between Catholics and Protestants. They seem_to feel it is important to broaden one's religious conceptions in order to acquire an understanding of the other fellow’s beliefs, he said. Following the formal discussions led by experienced adults Wednesday night. students lingered to ask many questions

Inventions Cut Cost—

Shrimp Prices Drop; Other Proteins Up

By GAYNOR MADDOX

Times Special Writer

EW ORLEANS, Nov. 19—Not all essential foods have

gone up in price.

One reason is that a young man in rubber boots accidentally stepped on a few shrimp on a cannery floor in

Houma, La. often called the shrimp capital of the world. He examined the result. The shell adhered to the rubber of his sole, but the tender shrimp itself slipped away.

The outcome of this discovery is the first successful mechanical shrimp peeler. Perfected after seven years of trial and error, it is today materially helping to bring down the price of a first-class protein food at a time when most other protein foods are skyrocketing. It also

is releasing several thousand

« needed workers to the Louisi-

ana defense industries, EJ ~ ALTHOUGH BEEF STEAK {s America's favorite source of first-class protein, in view of

. the current meat. situation this

pricé drop in another first-class

protein, nutritionally just as valhable, has economic significance

The human body must have protein to live and the shrink ing food dollar is forcing Amer fcans to seek more of their pro tein in foods heretofore only occasionally used in their menus, That is why the boy in the rubber boots has become a symbol of the part science can play in our present battle with the cost of living. > » - 8. TODAY, THE wholesale price of a dozen cans of medium size shrimp is $3.25. Last year, it

was $4.00, and In 1948 it was $450. A .pound of canned shrimp costs $1.02 and provides 81.6 grams of. protein as compared to a pound of beef sirloin which costs $1.18 and provides only 74.8 grams of protein. ® = »

BEFORE DRIVING out to Houma, I talked with Fernand S. Lapeyre, vice president and general manager of the family corporation which developed the boat-on-shrimp principal into the-highly successful machine being used today in many of the biggest shrimp ,cannaries and freezing plants in the world. He is a tall, soft spoken, patient young man, the ninth of 11 children, of Italian, French and Spanish descent and a graduate of Tulane University. He has been inventing things all his life. When his nephew discovered that the shell of a shrimp would cling to. rubber while the meat slipped away, Lapeyre started on his biggest invention. He began by putting shrimp through the rubber rollers of the family wringer. That was in 1944. “I started working on & commerical peeler in a shed behind our house,” he told me, “I had never worked with shrimp before,, although by brothers have a cannery in Houma. My wife said the smell from the

shed was pretty trying, but she:

stuck by me.”

ligious Issues

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FIRESIDE CHAT—The Rev. Fr..Paul Courtney conversed with Kappa Kappa Gammas Tomeen Garrett (center) and Barbara Newton, before a talk “fest with all the Kappas. Many leaders held chats in other Greek letter houses.

COUNSELOR—Rabbi Nandor Fruchter of the Central Hebrew Congregation spoke in the Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity house. Various clergymen are Butler's guests.

and talk over points of interest, Dr. Andry reports. Dr. J. Warren Hastings, minister of the National City Christian Church, Washington, D. C., widely known preacher of the Disciples of Christ, was due on the campus today. Dr. Hastings will be busy speaking at convocations of students and group meetings starting with a raily today at 10 a. m. in Jordan Hall, He will talk on “Fire in My Bones” at the banquet tomor-

row at 5:30 p. m. in the Northwood Christian Church and on, “All This and Heaven Too” at the closing Thanksgiving service Wednesday at 11 a. m. in the Field House. Methodist Bishop Ivan Lee Holt of St. Louis addressed a students’ convocation Thursday morning, = = = ANOTHER HIGH POINT of Religious Emphasis Week will be the interfaith panel tomorrow at 9 a. m. in Room 131.

UNLOADING—The shrimp fleet is in.

TWO YEARS LATER, when the machine had reached a preliminary state, they moved it 60 miles up the Mississippi. ~ “But we didn't dare put it

into my brothers’ factory then,” Lapsyre explained. “We were

fearful of labor. Our machine was going to take a lot of hand pickers off the payroll and they knew iti Also, it was yet far from perfect. It still caused a

lot of mutilation to the shrimp.

But we kept on struggling.” By 1948 they had a fairly

' progress,’

Speakers will include the Rev. Fr. Raymond Bosler, editor of the Indiana Catholic and Rece ord; Rabbi William P. Greene feld, spiritual leader of Temple Beth-El Zedeck, and Dr. Hastings. The Butler Choir of 80 voices directed by Richard Whittington will sing for the Thanksgiving service. The assembly will join in responsive readings and in hymns of praise. The President's Thanksgiving Proclamation will be read.

satisfactory model and moved into the plant. In 1949 they built a second and better machine, and had orders from other packers for seven more, Today, they have 30 in operation and six more are being built. The machines cost $7000 to build and are leased, uot sold. “However, the rearmament program may slow down our ' he explained. “We use aluminum because it is corrosive resistant. Our supply may be cut.”

I WATCHED the baskets of shrimp being swung off the trawlers alongside the dock and taken into the plant. They are inspected and washed and then conveyed to tanks filled with water. A paddle gently urges them into the peeling machine, an intricate-looking contraption of many rubber-covered rollers of various sizes, By the time the shrimp have reached the end of their journey, practically every particle of shell, including head and tail, even shell on the tiny legs, has been removed. Yet the body is ey

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LAPEYRE ESTIMATES the machine replaces from 15 to 30 hand peelers depending on the size of the shrimp. Small shrimp, considered the sweetest, take a much longer time to peel by hand than large ones. The mechanical peeler also gets from 5 to 10 per cent more unbroken meat from the shell than by hand. Therefore, a processor can get from five to 10 pounds more shrimp a barrel by using the mechanical peeler.

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