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Show March of Dimes TV Show Slated For Airing Jan. 13-14 J MIL "i MARILYN MAXWELL One of the most spectacular electronic fund-raising events ever seen in this area will be broadcast over KCPX-TV Channel Chan-nel 4, January 13 and 14, 1962 featuring famous Hollywood stars. In addition, most of the top-notch entertainers of Utah will be getting into the act for the 1962 New March of Dimes Telerama, Maurice Warshaw, Utah state campaign director announced an-nounced today. Featured on the show will be Marilyn Maxwell, well-known Hollywood star who plays "Grace Sherwood" in the ABC television series, "Bus Stop." The show will begin at 10:30 p.m. Saturday January 13 and continue for 18 hours around the clock to 4:30 . C 3 T 1 A Ti. pan. im ouuucty, ucuiuary x. 11 will originate out of the studios of KCPX-TV, 130 Social Hall Avenue, Salt Lake City, under the direction of Dan Rainger. Proceeds will be added to other funds from the month-long January campaign to be used in the war on crippling birth defects, de-fects, arthritis and polio, Mr. Warshaw stated. Chairmen in charge of the event are Mrs. Sylvia Eager and Mrs. B411ie Clay, operating under the general gen-eral driection of Harry James, Salt Lake County March of Dimes chairman, and Hal Gardiner, Gar-diner, publicity director. Eugene Jelesnik will coordinate the talent aspects of the production, according to Mr. Rainger. A veritable veri-table army of volunteers will man telephones and important persons and officials from the business, civic, religious, educational, educa-tional, medical and municipal worlds will be on hand to answer phones and take pledges. uuring inis campaign we are emphasizing the fact that the successful techniques used against polio, thanks to March of Dimes contributions to The National Na-tional Foundation, can be directly direct-ly translated to the attack on birth defects and arthritis which are also disabling diseases," Mrs. Eager said. An all-time favorite of the silver-screen and American servicemen everywhere Marilyn Mari-lyn Maxwell has recently starred as "Grace Sherwood," proprietress propri-etress of "Grace's Diner" in 20th Century-Fox Television's "Bus Stop" series. An all-American beauty, Marilyn Mari-lyn was born in Clarinda, Iowa, and christened with the marquee-appeal name of Marvel Marilyn Maxwell. Her father, Hal Maxwell, was an insurance salesman. Her mother, Anne Tomlinson Maxwell, Max-well, was a serious musician and composer, and an organist, and for years, accompanist for the famed dancer Ruth St. Denis. When her parents separated while she was little more than a baby. Marilyn remained with her mother and accompanied her on the tours she made with Ruth St. Denis. |