OCR Text |
Show 1 0F Wednesday, October DESERET NEWS, 1 8, 1 972 Bob (Santa) HAPPINESS Hope Sets IS A HIGH POWERED Yule Tour DRILL! hoofer on the vaudeville circuit to being Bing Crosbys stooge to an American institution and the countrys product Hope these davs is as much a Christmas figure as Santa Claus or Dr Seuss Gnnch or Rudolph the Reindeer By JACK W EBB Copley News Service Hes got a nose like a man t gled Tootsie Roll, tms Santa Claus who tames lus jokes Lke so many gaudily wrapp d gifts to the G I s abroad. And not only jokes, for as Bob Hope begins his 22nd he Christmas trip overseas will carry with him the usual bevy of beauties for the delight of homesick soldieis in Korea, Thailand Japan. Guam and a ship or two on tile high seas Hope at b9 is of his unusual at the career, which has earned him from being an d jet-se- Bob Hope entertains troops in England, left, during World War II; right, in Vietnam You'll find all kinds of new and like-netools for sale in today's Want Ads. Check now! w Don vote ( Brooke CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING 143 So. Main dut ucl LAVOPTIK wtthevccupal ifeaPdCDma Oerocfat 521-353- State Senate 5 5 Pa 6 y,? D it! 'fir 'Raisin In The Sun' Finale he clear eye ol an angel may be when you care for them with jours LAVOPTik. Medicinal fcye Wash Rinse away smog, smoke, dirt and I r'Gl fn G b A, try U af CrTi onue Sey jt AL ' I IUN AUy Raisin in the Sun, Lorame famous Hansberry's play about a ghetto family, will have its final performance at Theater 138 tonight, at 8 30 Pm The play, directed by Anel j f n 11! Jer-ris-e Jen- Ballif, mngs, Judee Williams Marilyn Etheridge, and Endya Adadun- o Other cast members are Jim Fanning. Mamn Daws, Richard Williams. Ronald DeBies, and Stu Falconer Red-Nos- e ruh IV is ? years Which is what I intend to reporter, hat 25. has spent 30 Hope a in the with years s because of illness, carrying a attle bit of home to America s ov erseas soldiers. He has seen lus share of the action too Bob mid-poi- lay-o- mid-50'- it I 20 do, Hope told a laughing. "No, make a i he could inends say pass for someone vounger His During World War 11 Eisenhower once told him that things ' had been quiet for a few days i I M W VicA a The a nest day during a began show, a bombardment BEFORE YOU BUY A MATTRESS AT A WAREHOUSE OUTLET... COMPARE I I f ii' wm nrr in i UrYi3 I U 1 hJ I I iLU Lv i ill r, c - OWN i i Then theie was the time that Hope and his troupe landed on a lonely beach m Korea They looked around for the Marines they were supposed to entertain and couldn't find them. a , n k Finally they located a small group of Marines who turned out to be advance scouts One of them pointed out .o sea, where some landing craft were hoving into sight : COUNTRY! PLUS FREE DELIVERY & FULL SERVICE! haven t landed said the Marine "We sir Now you can afford to sleep in luxurious King Size comfort on a famous Serta mattress and box springs. From the makers of the famous Serta Perfect Sleeper, the King Size mattress with matching box springs is built to healthful support and sleeping comfort. hi call "This is what you quiet' Hope cracked t yet. In 19b4 Hope was supposed to stay at a hotel in Saigon while doing a show Just before the comedian arrived in his car a bomb went off, nnss ing the comedian bv a few 1 minutes I S intelligence later said Hope had been the intended target of the bombers Though Hope is a close triend of President Richard Nixon, not even friends can escape the Hope scapel Back m 1971 one of his fa vonte jokes went something like this I Nton went down to "the Lincoln Memorial one night, and he looked up at Abe and said, Abe you had a war, you i had a civil rights problem. And a deep whatll I do voice said, DON T GO TO THE THEATER " 1 Even the newest Hope joke sounds like you ve heard it before. Its the Hope style, the one on top of the Laugh-In,- " other, like a that sets him apart Peo-pie laugh at and with Hope' partly because his jokes are funny and partly because its Hope who is telling them I one-line- one-ma- n 1 Not that Hope doesn't keep up with the times During the 1971 Christmas tour Hope told a few marijuana jokes i saw a guv watching 12 and he didnt High even have a TV set I 0 Clock I saw a guy with a Ian shade on his head said was waiting for someone turn him on " ) Vietnam has also been the theme of quite a few other jokes, all aimed at G.I. audiences. At Long Buih South Viet- nam, Hope once told the sol-- i diers This place is not fit for man or beast The girls tell me its full of both World War 11 soldieis may have heard that one Hope has said many times that hes seen too much of war ever to think it a good thing that we should learn to settle our differences around conference table s i r But as long as there is war, or the threat of war, there will be American troops to It wouldn't seem like Christmas without Hope I t i J t Ml 91 up tli iW. iv tfTimffrii i rfn nfriii ft in fli ift ff h iti jiftin illhq Pi Mi FI nli 1 |