Show - - America's top social historian talks about celebrities AMORY ANSWERS I c first called Ms Who CLEVELAND AMORY'S t r LI tr-- -0 (- L ' PATTI PAGE: In an age of rock 'nl roll Patti sometimes seems a page from the past Rut she's sold 40000000 records and on her recent trip to Japan (her fourth) they were still asking how much is that doggie in "I wasn't born on the wrong side of the tracks — I was born on the tracks It was in a railroad shack in the town of Claremore Oklahoma My father was the head of a section gang lie earned $50 a month There were it children — eight girls and three boys I was the next to youngest girl At home my mother always tried to spend the same amount of time with each of us but when I got to school I thought if I don't have the right kind of clothes to wear at least I've got to be good at something" 4-- - "A road manager for a band discovered me His name was Jack Rae' He came into Tulsa and checked into the hotel and turned on the radio and I was singing 'To Each His Own' He called me and asked me to come to the hotel I was terrified It was like 'How dare you!' I told him I wouldn't come to the hotel but I was singing at a club and he could come there And even then I got two of my sisters and their husbands to come too" -- "Ile had expected a so- - phisticated sexy singer When 'E: V f c 4 1 ' 1 0 f ii i I C I '1 1 I - I4 1 ' i i-- r veil' '' - 1 f "' 1 -- - - : i '-- v'' '''' ' ' e)ipt t"---6--4:t'------- 0 voice was no her big problem A1TT Romney had SEATTLE A Yes it iS But of course Mormons no longer 'either believe in or practice polygamy and in fact there is probably no one in politics with stricter viws on morality than the Governor AM oars 04 ALBUM e 4n1p 4 I log ' 41"4 i y eftell: '' 1“ I Al '-- 4A 'St ! Ct 444 d rs s iloPy 0 Next time anyone maligns that most lovable of animals — the Sloth Bear — think of Nepomuk This refreshing new celebrity hero of Hermann Tirler's new book "A Sloth in the Family" (Walker & Co) might very well be telling us "No matter what happens grin and Bear it!" - i PATTI: iler - ever-lovi- n' J diso v Is it true Governor fine grandmothers? MRS VMD in general and the record business in particular of having too much to do with world problems today I think music can affect your life — but' I don't thinkoit affects world politics Take the Beatles There's too much emphasis on the protest having to do with long hair and everything But after all the song publishers and the record executives aren't They're grown people It all gets back to that buck — and the passing of it:' teen-age- ' - '44 e004 L --- 'V -- t' ' 1 II ifi - 4 ' II t I t :1 1') -- r 1 ' i s 1 I r 4 ' II 1 singer — particularly of protest songs But in this case we think she doth protest too much After all Mr Capp may have been unflattering in what is obviously his cartoon portrait of her But he is in his way just protesting too — he is protesting protesting "I think a lot of people have accused show business 1 14'1 (4:411 The flip side Seriously Miss Baez one of our favorite performers She is an extremely talented and moving is - ol n A have two adopted children Daniel Benjamin who is two and Kathleen Patricia who is four They go everywhere with us They're going with me to Florida Kathleen walks up en point with her toes curled underneath — like a ballet dancer She actually started walking like that I thought maybe I should stop her but the doctor said tm never to stop a child from doing anything if it's natural Who 41 knows? Maybe she'll turn out IC i) to be a ballerina" A11 side are yon on in the Al Baez feu& — CHICAGO Whose Capp-loa- "My husband is Charles O'Curran He's a dancer as well as a choreographer and a director We "I never had a singing lesson One of my sisters wanted to be a singer but she went into the Marines instead She married a Marine too and brought him home I think if you have a natural voice you can have it literally taken away from you by the wrong kind of teaching And some things you can't teach It you don't have a beat for in- stance you 4an't sing" because when she won one in 1935 it reminded her of her husband at the time Harmon Oscar Nelson Jr But the Academy itself says it happened four years earlier when Margaret Herrick who has since become its executive director exclaimed "Why he looks just like my Uncle Oscar!" and a reporter in the next room picked up the quote and printed it Will the real Oscar please stand up? I came in his face hit the floor I was five feet four he says fat But I wasn't inches tall and plump him either Anyway we both with very impressed left with the feeling we'd never hear from each other again But I took two air checks off the radio and sent them to him Then when he heard the voice again he remembered what he'd first heard And not what he'd seen: He told me afterwards he thought 'Well maybe we can make her look like something' Something! And you know what? He's still my manager" the window Our questions however started back of that: 1 A Bette Davis says she did Iir N r) Academy Award statuetfr an "Oscar"? — RS NEWARK As we left Patti Page we told her that hers was one record we'd like to see stay unbroken for a long long time h - '' 1 THIS WEEK 1 IM:- 2 - April 9 1967 The National Nawspaper Magazine For A Salter America BEN G Witicirr Pretidetti ONA ChairINN WILLtAll I NIcsoul Pladiptet and Edalorust Dirttir e Joon( J O'CoNismt Editor CRAILLII ROSIPINS Gavtro &maw Elam' Art Direttor I STANLEY HONSTMAN Manatiost NELSON ) Mut 1967 Wised Newspapees Magazine eorporotioe 485 Lexington MO New York N Y 10317 TN Week All rightt sserved lundo Interactional sod Pas America CoaYr14761 Co9v99"0" Ile whole ilt seiteout teprodettias ot paw pettnissioo h prohlketedl |