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Show WE by LYN CONNELLY ONE of the greatest troupers In show business Is pert, saucy Mary Martin and she proved her showmanship once more on Easter Sunday when she put on two separate sep-arate TV shows, one in the afternoon after-noon and one only four hours later . . . The gal leaves you gasping she's so lively . . . Fabulous Is the only adjective to describe her, time-worn though the word is . . . She certainly makes it easy on any press agent who represents her talent. Within seconds she was a winsome win-some nurse singing about her "Wonderful Guy" in the South Sea Islands; a precocious, delightful Peter Pan flying through the air to the Never Land;- a lovely Chinese Chi-nese maiden doing "Valley High" from "Lute Song"; an ambitious Annie Oakley in buffalo-cloth cowgirl cow-girl trappings itching to turn In her rifle for a man. She did old songs and new ones and somehow, though she Just sang all through both hours with no guest stars, there just didn't seem to be enough of her and each time you were sorry It was ending . . . There's a lesson to be learned by so-called stars who rely solely on guests to help carry a show. PLATTER GUTTER WARNER BROS. Young company, com-pany, but it's on the right beam turning out some great hi-fl albums al-bums ... Like western tunesT Then try "Western Sunset," orchestral or-chestral moods - let by Robert Prince and his orchestra . . . Tunes Include such popular favorites as "Red River Valley." t "Cool Water," "Last Roundup," "Tumbling "Tum-bling Tumble-Weeds," "Home on the Range." "Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie" and other great ones. |