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Show J1JI s By VERNON SCOTT UPI Hollywood Corretpondent HOLLYWOOD (UPI) - The capacity crowd didn't knnw that about 90 percent of his material is based on fact. John Denver, for the first time in his life an opening act, led the applause for the octogenarian star as he headed for his dressing room. Backstage, George Burns, 84 sipped a cocktail and puffed his cigar with the serenity of a man sure in the knowledge he has outlived his critics. looks like while I was flopping. I wouldn't have been happy as a success making felt hats. The old - "It J' i v yJw 4 wHd: George lauirinis Outlived gentleman tapped the ashes from his cigar and blew a kiss to the standing at 20a head cheering crowd of 5,300 and ambled off into the darkness of universal atuaios outdoor am- phitbeater. - I I K A Jl I'm going to stay in show business," George said, peering owiishly from behind his round hornrimmed spectacles. George had just completed 50 minutes of stand-u- p comedy, most of it based on his age and reminiscences. He hinted that people love him not so much for what he can do on stage as for the fact that at his age he can do it at all. George is a shining example of the virtue of persistence. He still can't sing or dance worth a nickel but his laid back personna. his humor and obvious relish for the spotlight are thoroughly endearing. The maddening thing about George is that he enjoyed himself every bit as much for 20 years when he was the biggest flop in small time vaudeville. "It's true " 1927 he said. "From 1907 to I never played anything but around New York in flea bag rs theaters. Most of the time they canceled me after the first performance. "I was in love with what I was doing Penicillin May Reduce Harmful "1 never became discouraged. I knew I had talent but not on stage. I knew about exits, entrances switching jokes and I had good instincts. My only problem was the audiences didn't like me." George changed his name as often as he changed his shirt in those days. His name didn't matter as long as he could get on stage. He almost always worked with a partner, changing them as often as his name. advertising himself as a black-fac- e comedian. When he went into banking. I took his name and his cards and blackened up for a few weeks. "I worked with a seal in Captain Betts and Flipper, I did a rollerskating act with a dog once. They wanted a dog act so I caught a dog on the stmt with a piece of liver and rollerskated on stage with the dog under my arm, "My name was Glide in the act of Goldie, Fields and Glide. We lasted one performance but we were a hit on rainy days selling umbrellas for a buck outside theaters. We paid only 50 cents for "I was Brown of Brown and Wil- 'em. liams " he said. "Then I was Williams "I thought I was doing great. I ate of Williams and Brown. And Williams meals at Wienig's restaurant and I of Williams and Williams and Brown of Brown and Brown. And Williams of owed then 1163 which gives you an idea how I was doing financially." the Williams Boys and Brown of the Brown Brothers. George is as bright, his mind as alert, as a teenager. He has almost total "A friend of mine, Willie Delight, recall of songs, comedy routines and had a thousand calling cards made the outrageous circumstances of his this century. He credits his good health sharp mind and clear eye to smoking a dozen cigars a day, enjoying a couple of stiff drinks "and dancing very close." goes to "his office almost every day to confer with three writers whom he keeps on the payroll. He devotes an hour or two to bridge games at the Hillcrest Country George high-stak- Club. His schedule this year would test the endurance of a man half his age. George starred in "Oh, God! Book II," due in theaters this month. He cut a new album, "George Burns Goes Nashville Again " and starred in a Nov. 15 NBC-Tspecial, "George Burns in Nashville ??" - V In addition he played three weeks of concerts in New England and packed Universale amphitheater for four nights. Moreover, he's been meeting with Warner Bros, and Universal Pic a.m.-i- o introducln ii - BOSTON (UPI) Doctors hope a single injection of penicillin, less than an hour after birth, will prevent a group of relatively dangerous infant diseases without opening a Pandora's box of other infections. A report on the procedure, published today in the New England Journal of Medicine, showed promise that penicillin can reduce "group B streptococcal" infections, which occur in up to three of every 1,000 live, births and are fatal about 50 percent of the time. , Group B streptococcal infections can cause "early onset syndrome," which typically occurs within a day of birth, leading to respiratory distress or pneumonia. Babies may go into shock or develop meningitis. A two-yeresearch program at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Dallas, involving 18,738 infants, found the antibiotic in some cases reduced the frequency of group B streptococcal infections from 2.26 cases per 1,000 live births to .64 mm nt i the study. iimmnii'. j , Silver Spirit Sound of Silence Style Panasonic now Offers Microwave Speed Combined with convection Browning 1. Microwave Microwave speed lets you cook foods in a flash, thaw and cook frozen convenience foods and prepare delicious stews, casseroles and meats. Dimension 3 has 6 .variable power settings plus defrost, time and power cook settings, and temperature probe with Temp Hold to keep foods at serving temperature. - It used to be the only sound inPARIS (UPI) side a RollsRoyce at 60 mph was the gentle ticking of the dashboard clock. 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This year's Silver Spirit, with a top speed irf 120 mph, gets only 12 miles per gallon in town. ' But Rolls says work has already started on a lighcar for the next tweight, more decade. fuel-efficie- nt : Herald Want ..... Ads Bring Results . 3. Combination Now you can cook at microwave speed and brown to perfection with convection cooking all at the same time. Microwave power and oven temperature are for use in combination cooking, eliminating guesswork on your part, its the first countertop oven to offer combination microwaveconvection cooking and it s available In zcmi Major Appliances. Panasonic Dimension 3, see it First Page 23 star without her. "Our first date was at the Odeum theater in Ronkonkoma (N.Y.I." George recalled. "We got paid $10 as the opening act. "The manager asked if we sang, danced or did some juggling. I said 'We re a talking act." And he said, 'My father hates talk. Cut out the talk.' But we went on anyway. The audience loved uidtie. They didn't like me." Today audiences do love George. They even tolerate his singing. "I sing better today because I believe the words " he said. "I know how to talk now. A lot of Gracie rubbed off on me. "It's hard for me to be a flop. I'm soft, easy and underplayed. I don't sweat. I try to work like I'm not being paid. Most important, I love the II , Rolls-Roy- ce become a : cases per 1,000 live births. But researchers remained cautious and said they were continuing their study because of the chance using penicillin would open the door to other, penicillin-resistabacterial diseases. Dr. Jane Siegel, who headed the investigative team, said penicillin, when administered less than and did 60 minutes after birth, reduced infections during one year of , not increase other diseases Utah tures for more movies. Had it not been for the late Gracie Allen, his wife and partner. Burns might indeed have become a felt hat manufacturer. He is quick to acknowledge he would never have p.m. ar " But she said the treatment increased the ap- -' pearance of bacteria resistant to penicillin while it did very little to stop group B infections. I In a telephone interview, Dr. Siegel conceded the ; results were contradictory and said doctors should proceed with caution. "The message that we have is that penicillin may prevent the infection, but it should not be used on a wide basis at present because we have net ruled out : that there is an adverse effect," she said. Penicillin could be used "as a temporary : measure" to prevent group B streptococcal infec-- ; tions in a limited way, "but not on a widespread basis," she said. "We certainly don't want to trade off one disease for another." : For instance, one of the bacteria resistant to penicillin is Escherichia coli, a normally harmless bacterium in human intestines. It can, however, cause infections that are especially hard to treat in . infants. " Doctors were studying use of penicillin, Dr. Siegel said, because of the danger involved in group B streptococcal diseases and the accidental discovery in 1979 that the antibiotic seemed to protect babies from the infectjons. ,nr" niutALii. rrovo, His Critics youth going back to the first decade of Shop Salt Lake Downtown Saturday 9 Infant Diseases w- - at zcmi |