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Show 9 VI J'"- ' ' " "J- ' By LTN CONNELLY THIS IS THE TIME of the yeai when those constant objects oi public envy the radio and tel""!-sion tel""!-sion stars wish f 1 , I they could be jusl plain butchers, bakers or even bankers as they watch the- happy tourists arriving in Movietown in droves and all enjoying en-joying annual vacations va-cations . . . Few fans stop to realize MASSEY it, but their entertainers enter-tainers rarely get to participate in the great Ameri-can Ameri-can custom of vacations on holidays holi-days . . . Come the Fourth of July, Thanksgiving or Christmas and John Q. Public is home with his family but he only has to turn on his radio or TV set to find out that the stars his family admire so much are working just as-though the day were another ordinary Monday Mon-day or Thursday. Come summer and some big "names" get a vacation from radio, ra-dio, but they turn up across the country and even in England doing do-ing six performances a day . . . Elliott Lewis, to whom "vacation" is only a word in the dictionary, recalls re-calls a quote of some phrase-maker to describe it: "All work and no play makes Jack!" But he adds that "12 months of work may make a pile of Jack but every entertainer lives in constant fear of those be-tween-shows periods and, like baseball base-ball and football pros, have to make it while they can get it." CURT MASSEY also has an explanation ex-planation of why stars dread the usually pleasant word "vacation" ... As he sees it, "Summer ordinarily ordi-narily means the 13-week period between the end of an artist's last series and the starting date he hopes of his next in the fall . . . He's afraid to leave town because he might miss offers and auditions . . . And if he has that angle covered, cov-ered, the poor guy is afraid to start out on an expensive vacation because be-cause he might need the money for groceries next winter if things go haywire." Curt, incidentally, is getting hi first real vacation in his life. |