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Show i , 1 v s ! x P?" ' : v - - Jill SHIM CONWAY AND BRUCE YABMLL SM FOB UTAH POLIO TELEBAMA A giant in the entertainment world was signed this week for the 1964 March of Dimes Tele-rama Tele-rama to be seen on KSL-TV, Channel 5, beginning at 10:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 18. Tall, virile Bruce Yarnell is six foot 5 inches in his western boots. He admits to feeling right "at home" in western attire, even though from childhood a musical career was his goal. At 26 years of age the affable young man has made a terrific impact on stage, television, night clubs, opera and recordings. Singer, dancer, horseman, fencer, and swimmer, Bruce Yarnell is now at the peak of his career. His first professional engagement as a young man was with the Roger Wagner Chorale. In addition to pursuing a concert career, h? then began a series of highly successful engagements as singing sing-ing actor. For his portrayal on Broadway of General Kinesius in "Happiest Girl in World," ha. won the Theatre World Award for the "most promising personality person-ality of the 1960-61 season." In the or'ginal cast of the Broadway success Camelot, he d the way in the Jones Beach summer production of Hit the Deck and other major musica1 shows in the country. Yarnell is currently being seen as Hippolyte The Ox in Irma La Duce, opposite Jack Lemmon and Slrrley McLaine. Charming Shirl Conway, now known by millions of teWis'on buffs as Liz Thorpe, R.N., the head nurse on the top ratd Thursday evening TV show "The Nurses," flies into the Beehive state Friday evening slightly more than 24 hours before she joins the Defenders star Robpr1 Reed in the March of Dimes Telerama. With noticeable anticipation in her voice, Miss Conway, tall, slender, brown haired and blue eyed, said, "I'm happy to come to Utah for this Telerama which will benefit the March of Dimes fight against crippling diseases like birth defects and arthritis." |