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Show a three weeks' visit here with his sister, Mrs. Norma Holladay. Mrs. Bernice Burkinshaw and Mrs, Betty Gillam gave a surprise sur-prise party for Mrs. Ethel Evans at the home of Mrs. Burkinshaw last night, Thursday. Mrs. Evans is retiring president of the Jordan Jor-dan P-TA Council. Anna Von Michaelsen of Midvale Mid-vale was overnight guest of Diane Di-ane Reed Monday, April 16. if 1 By LYN CONNELLY MARCH 17, the world lost "one of its more illustrious entertainersFred en-tertainersFred Allen ... If he could have chosen a day to pass from this world, we're sure Irish Fred would have picked St. Patrick's Pat-rick's Day ... His death was a shock, for he was one of those rare humorists who did not indulge In idle chatter and what he had to say was worth hearing . . . Unfortunately, Unfor-tunately, the very people who restrained re-strained him in his efTorts to entertain enter-tain his way, were the ones who wept the loudest on the announcement announce-ment of his death . . . Had they thought so highly of him we're at a loss to see why they did not give him a free reign in television. Always a radio hit, Fred never got his feet off the ground In the new medium until he reached the panel of "What's My Line?" He had several shows, all of them un-suited un-suited for his particular brand of humor . . . We remember meeting Fred in New York when he was at his peak In radio . . . His best gags were used for warming up the audience because they were censored from use on the air . . . Many persons, therefore, really never knew how extremely witty this man was. His bitterness at this state of affairs resulted in some of the funniest gags on executives heard In many a moon . . , One, we recall, was the definition of a vice-president: vice-president: "he is a man who enters his office at 10 a.m. and finds a. molehill on his desk ... he has until un-til 4:00 p.m. to make a mountain out of It" ... A radio conference, he said, is a meeting of vice-presidents vice-presidents who singly can do nothing noth-ing and collectively decide that nothing can be done. He will be missed by his many fans and we hope the executives who squelched his natural wit have a twinge or two of conscience . . . They beat death to depriving the country of a few good laughs. ACCORDION LESSONS One Free Lesson PRACTICE INSTRUMENT FURNISHED Deadline For Registering May 25, 1956 Call AM 9-4537 |