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Show Tied Country JBoys WJn, 1 ... jJ'ameJnJrelCitu IP-PII i liiiiifiifl , .Frank -Kurtz & ' M? t M &?i&per" Hal-lo, ll o-hohow areou rm brininrj ybu Kiss-ftSj frcmovar Hie sea. ' Jack Culpepper and Frank Kurtz Succeed Beyond Dreams New York City. Sometimes the Middle Western boy who leaves home to become famous in the big city achieves his ambition -without the gruelling waits and heartbreaks heart-breaks that fiction usually decrees and fact often corroborates. The success story of Jack Cul-bepper Cul-bepper and Frank Kurtz is a Brief but thrilling one. Culpepper is 23 and used to have a job in . Iha Federal Eeserve Bank at Dallas, Dal-las, Texas. Kurtz come3 from Coffeeville, Kansas and was formerly form-erly a student at the College of Agriculture, University of Kan-Bas. Kan-Bas. He planned to be a farmer until he caught the stage infection. infec-tion. Then he came to New York. He is 25, t When the two had been here a short time, both diligently hunting hunt-ing work, they met and decided to ; fi form apaTtnership. Although that day was Friday the 13th, it was a lucky one for them. Ir fact, they now call it the luckies day of their lives. Each one now draws down abor. twenty times' the salary he go back home. With Culpepper at thi ukclele and Kurtz singing in his high tenor voice, the two have become be-come a riot in the "Merry World1' at the Imperial Theatre, where! thay out-Hawaii Hawaii with "Hello Aloha." "The city is the place to make money", declares Culpepper. "J only wish I had come earlier." "That's just the way I feel," agrees Kurtz. "Best of all, the folks back home have got all reconciled rec-onciled to our being on the stage. They agree that we never could have done so well if we had stuck with the careers that were picked out for us. Culpepper has already bought his folks a fine home in Dallas. And we have no fear but that we can go ahead all the - |