Show m 1 vii W ipw I The Herald Journal Logan Utah Wednesday August 12 1998 — Page 17 ONE BIQ HAPPY ll&! 1 ru!mlSfe 5CMEMNGIT Classic comic songs used for PBS’s August pledge NEW YORK (AP) — Maybe you remember Flanders and Swann’s “The Hippopotamus Song" in which audiences sang the chorus: "Mud mud glorious mud nothing quite like it for cooling the blood” Donald Swan played the piano and Michael Flanders sang amusing songs from his wheelchair They were England’s counterpart to Tom Lehrer the American satirist in song Between 1956 and 1967 in 1700 performances Flanders and Swann devel oped quite a following Flanders died in 1973 and Swann died in 1994 For people who remember them fondly and others just discovering their wit and music PBS is prevideo of Flanders and Swann senting a during its August pledge drive (check local listings for day and time) te footage of the pair performing their show "At the Dn of a Hat’f for the BBC in 1962 is Mowed by color film from die final night of their Broadway engagement “At the Drop of Another Hat" fat 1967T fhey had decided it would be their last performance though they refrained from calling it a Swum song Many of the songs — music by Swan lyrics by Flanders — are about quintals One of the best- known is "I'm a gnu” with the “g” pronounced Film of Flanders and Swann u rare “Flanders had a phobia about TV” the show’s narrator John Amis a friend of both men said in an interview “He thought it would ruin their material Dlogically he was all in favor of making records” Born in 1922 Flanders an actor joined the Navy in World War II His ship was torpedoed and he then contracted polio He lost the use of one lung and thereafter used a wheelchair which Amis says he rolled vigorously around the stage using it like a prop Flanders met Swann born in 1923 when they were teen-age- rs at the Westminster School in London Amis met Swann at an even earlier age in school Amis who hosts a BBC radio series "My Music” also is a musician musk critk and lectur- CATHY ELEOKA! mwir Ml SKET UflE BABVf imuEDvousomH! 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UNS VDU 80 MUCH I AN PRECIOUS BAIN rr te it Black-and-whi- BEETLE BAILEY A4 HAGAR THE HORRIBLE d er “They started off as a public duo because they came to a musk summer school I ran” Amis says "They helped me in the office I asked them if they would help with the cabaret we did every Friday evening They did one and it was such a wow HU everybody said ‘You've got to go on with this and do it in a proper theater’ “They wrote a lot of material for little revues that were rather popular in England in the early '50s They performed the songs to show people in the revue business how they went that’s why they had this material rehearsed And they had performed at a few parties” The two men rented a tiny theater in London Amis says “The press gave them wild favorable notices After two months they were offered a theater next door to the Drury Lane They wowed everybody They became punk figures The prime minister went to their show The royal family went and joined in singing about glorious mud One number which obviously referred to Princess Margaret who was having a little tut of trouble then they took on the chin and applauded” That song “Misalliance" about a honeysuckle vine and a bindweed that twined in opposite directions was the duo's reference to Margaret's roman-t- k interest in a commoner l PEANUTS Sheen will out of jail stay — Even MALIBU Calif (AP) though he violated his probation by using drugs Charlie Sheen will outofjaiL i imk SUDP6MW A CALL FOR H6LP extend an extra: FROMTHE BATROOM himtoj bilitation was a better solution the star of “Wall Street” and "Platoon” had been on probation since June 1997 after pleading no contest to to knocking his FOXTROT MMIShoWNlO HoW some Kkcoum? v EESAO'HT'MO HUMS MO PUToN dcvbo Ml stfcrrNJB MUST MAC lfc--T ficrioE?' 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MIH'XODWR CTUCk MmwUMUMMT then-girlfrie- nd msmmt die floor In May Sheen was hospitalized for use of an undisclosed illegal drug Sheen’s father actor Martin niNEVEK EMNlUOl Sheen I uked prosecutors to - charge his son with violating -- good-humor- ed ' “And Swann wrote such good music well thought out and passionate in its way I find the musk rather beautiful OK it’s light musk but very well done” Flanders and Swann stopped performing Amis says because Swann had had enough "He wanted to do other things He wrote opens and other kinds of shows and religious musk" Flanders did radio shows and voice-ove- rs The song "The English Are Best” ends the show on PBS Amis says “Donald always insisted on doing that — everywhere” Elsewhere in television ROAST ON THE MENU: For nearly a century die New York Friars Gub has "roasted” me of its own and this year’s fine is Drew Carey On Oct 28 on Comedy Central the Roast will be televised for the first time totalling the charge as master of ceremonies will be Ben Stiller star of the film comedy “There's Something About Mary” along with "Drew Carey Show” co-stKathy Kinney Richard Belzer Pat Cooper Red Buttons Buddy Hacked and Margaret Cho Alan King who owns die exalted tide of “Fri ars Abbott” says: “Since 1904 we have kept the ar Rout jokes stories and secrets behind closed doors” Now viewers can share die Roast’s dish Sheen’s former girlfriend argued that Sheen deserved a yearrinjaiL But Municipal Judge Lawrence Mira ordered Sheen to remain on probation until June 2000 Sheen CLOSE TO HOME also must complete 300 hours of community service and submit to regular drug and alcohol testing “I’m in a much better place these days” Sheen said outside “since I have decided to walk with God it has changed my entire life” health back I’m really looking forward to getting back to work” LONDON (AP) — Poet laureate Ted Hughes has been named a member of the Order of Merit one of the Britain’s highest hon ors Hughes 68 who has been poet laureate since 1984 won acclaim this year for "Birthday Letters" a volume of poems chronicling court “It’s nice to have my a preacher? ROSWELL Ga (AP) — comic Jeff Foxworthy says he considered becoming a preacher after his TV show wu canceled Fox worthy told a high school audience Sunday about his newly rediscovered Christian faith He said his wife was skeptical he brought op the possible pro- Gloria Allred die attorney for REAL LIFE ADVENTURES “The material as I see it is still valid” Amis says "The jokes are still funny Young people who hear their Miff in England like it — and we know they're the most difficult to woo” A Flanders and Swann songbook contains about 30 songs Amis says and in England a three CD set has been compiled from their recordings Amis describes the men and their work as and never malicious “I think Flanders’ lyrics are absolutely brilliant” Amis says “He was a master of rhyme and double rhyme He was witty and literate I think he approaches the lyrics of Ire Gershwin and Noel Coward Foxworthy Sheen Ckftlf The comic duo of Michael Randsts left and Donald Swum shown backstage at Broadway's Golden Theater In October 1958 rosppaar In a PBS vldao lapriee of their hit 1900s show ‘At the Drop of a Hat" Names in the news MOTHER GOOSE AND GRIMM MMTDelWWr ME1MMM AP photo "She looked at me kind of like a cow looks at a new gate and said that great Southern word: ‘Dowhat?’” he recalled Foxworthy who lives in suburban Atlanta said money and success didn’t make him happy But Hughes honored his courtship and marriage to American poet Sylvia Plalh Plalh committed sukide in 1963 after D Hughes left her for another woman The Order of Merit founded in 1902 is awarded by the king or queen Membership is limited to Queen Elizabeth II and 24 others Other members include former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher actor John Gielgud and violinist Yehudi Menuhin on Win at bridge Bv PhiWo Alder Those of you who know something about atomic physks will have heard of quarks They are supposedly the basic building blocks of all matter and have quirky names like strangeness and charm Those two words sum up some bridge deals To exhibit how would you play in either six or seven spades sifter West has led This deal exhibits the advantage of Roman Key Card Blackwood When South replies five hearts North knows his partner When estimating how much print obtohidethe of your body mm youl need RJ CmWmMnXXf IamRJu vQUl pVODQDiy W1Q MW more sbenuoue tan afharlmdml lasts youV taken” 'I1 vf' ' p has the heart ace and spade king but no spade queen With that critical queen which would make being in seven desirable South would have bid five spades not five hearts In the 1962 Bermuda Bowl played in New York City North America bid accurately to six spades whereas Great Britain 01998 by NEA Inc ItartE overreached to seven And here is the strangeness: The American declarer won all 13 tricks but die Brit went two down Why? Well in seven it wu normal to take the percentage play in the trump suit The declarer Kenneth Konstam cashed dummy's ace then finessed his spade jack However West scooped up the A 9 V I I AQ JS AK J 9 9 trick with his queen and led another diamond which East ruffed In six spades Eric Murray was about a diamond ruff so he started with the spade ace and king When the queen dropped he drew the last trump took two diamond tricks then cashed top clubs When the appeared he claimed all 13 : five spades one heart four i and three dubs No ddubt North America wu i ft as® Opening lead: I HHi m Wf mpmm : - |