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Show DESERET In Entertainment, Everything Grew By H0V7APD PEARSON C-l- ). Another success has been the University of Utah's new Sports and Special Events Center. Comedian Bill Cosby christened it last month with a rave performance, and on Dec. 6 the largest basketball crowd in Utah history saw Utah State defeat the Run15,121 That teeord won't stand Redskirs. ning long, however, because BYU is planning a 22,000-sea- t basketball arena. Utah State, in a more modest venture, will build a 10,500-sea- t facility. The Visual Arts Color Sells Fast Those TV commei eials (colorful, of course) say everyone should have a color set. Almost everyone agrees, and Utahns with the means are contributing to record national sales by showing uie color of Television something old . . . new . . . color . , . instant replay! Fine arts centers at BYU. USU. VSC and Southern Utah State College (SUSC) helped promote the visual arts the past decade, providing places to exhibit art Other exhibit facilities were built by dealers and art groups. The situation today is vastly different from I960 when there were few art exhibits and onl a handful of commercial galleries. The Salt Lake Art Center plans a new building at Reservoir Park. During the decade it began an art a:rhft project, with exhibits being down to neighboring communities. The Utah Institute of Fine Arts built a new gallery at 609 E. South its annual Temple and has statewide exhibit at the State CapitoL The Utah Associated Artists have regular exhibits, including two traveling show? to their money Utah television tastes ran to situation during the Sixties, with I Love Lucy and the Andy Griffith Show topping the list Other favorites ha"e been Perry Como, Red Skelton, Lawrence Welk, Andy Williams and the Ed Sullivan Show (although there was anger when the colorless host let the Tabernacle Choir perform for only five minutes). Utahns also Lked Laugh-Iand its predecessor, That Was The Week That Was. n Close to Utah hearts are the King the from Pleasant Grove, family Osmond Brothers from Huntsville. Central Utahs Clinger sisters, and Rouvaun (Bingham's Jimmy Ha uni, all of whom snpeared on national television and in eight clubs. schools in the stae. One of Utahs first art centers, the Spnngville Art Gallery, has become nationally famous, and the state's art paUtahns trons are more knowledgable. are becoming more sophisticated about art, more aware of which art is of real quality," a leading dealer says. The Tabernacle Choir between 1960 and 1970 sang from one side of the United States to the other, sang on the fust Telstar broadcast, at two presidential inaugurations, at world fairs in Seattle, New York. Montreal and Mexico Gty. It released 16 recordings with world wide distribution, and its weekly broadcasts re now more widely aired than anytime For Sports Buff The sports buff found plenty to watch: The Olympics, both winter and summer; football and basketball high school, college and professional ; golf, tennis, swimming, hockey, auto racing, boxing, soccer, baseball, hunting and fishing. In fact, you name it and the Wide Worid of Sports probably had The Sixties also saw the beginning of educational television, with stations at the University of Utah, Brigham Young University, Utah State University and Weber State College. And today about 98 per cent of the states population is within range of television via regular signals, community antennas or TV cables. The motion picture industry, pushed to the brink of bankruptcy by television in the Fifties, fought bade. Once the sloMcvies Are Better Than gan was Ever. In the late Sixties a new trend developed, and the slogan today could er Than Ever. well be Movies Are it -- during the past Some Do, Don't eled The theater arts received a A new look in both movies and theaters. The Ballet West was born. two-wee- k theaters-in-tr.e-roun- For Hemorrhoids By GEORGE C. THOSTESON, M.D. Dear Dr. Thosteson: Please write v hat you can do about hemorrhoids, food ; ou shouldnt eat, etc. T.V. Answer: Food has scant effect on ! emorrhoids except to the degree that bel our diet may prevent constipation cause once hemorrhoids have appeared, avoiding constipation is the most imporget- ting worse. While I have a booklet on hemorrhoids discussing causes, treatment, etc., 1 really think you would benefit more by for another booklet, "The Way to which involves prop''top Constipation. er eating along w ith other factors. For a ropy of it, send 25 cents in coin and a long, stamped envelope to Dr. Tliosteson. in care of the Deseret News, Box 1257, Salt Lake Gty, Utah (54110). (Or for the hemorrhoid bookie, The Real Cure for Hemorrhoids, also send 25 cents and the stamped envelope.) j i The Tabernacle Choir traveled the world and carved a great reputation. Entertaining It Was Fun , Fun , Fun By HARRY JONES There was more varied entertainment offered to the residents of our wonderful City of Salt this past decade than any other period since statehood. There was great comedy on television, in the movies, in personal appearances and high on the comedy list, the commission President Nixon , WASHINGTON has sent a confidents memorandum to his most lnhmate advisers calling for most thoughtful analyses of our basic massive personnel cuts in all areas of economic problems 1 have read. The memo, signed by the President on government White House stationery, urges each of his The memo, intended for the eyes only to aides read the Bums speech. of Members of the Cabinet, Members of the Council of Economic Advisers, Key It explodes the myth that increase In White House Personnel, complains that military expenditures is the cause of our of fiscal government officials spend one-haproblem, says Nixon in answ er to their time writing papers to each those who have blamed inflation on the ether. This and other bureaucratic Vietnam war. have left the President sadly disThe President strongly Indicates that satisfied. the Bums speech will be the touchstone We have not even begun to scratch for the White House views on economics. the surface in the vitally essential task of Burns himself becomes Federal Reserve reorgamzaing the whole structure of govon Feb. 1. Qiairman memorandum. the declares ernment, lf bog-dow- views on The .Presidents year-enthe economy repeatedly hark back to a Dec. 2 speech by White House counsellor Dr. Arthur Bums to the Tax Foundation in New Yore Nixon calls it one of the d tried to reform and cut government reaus. MERRY - GO - ROUND By JACK ANDERSON Nixon, however, ha3 some personal observations on what could be done to bring some efficiency to th? hodgepodge of departments and agencies he supervises. ft I think each Department should consider giving annual awards to individuals in the Department who come up with workable ideas for savings in personnel, paper work, program duplication, etc. The President's stress on the need for massive personnel cuts Li all areas of government has a firm ring to it in his confidential memorandum. But bringing such a program out into the open is something else again. Reform of the Fort Office Department, for instance, has run head on into Hou.se Post Office the patronage-hungrCommittee and the United Federation of Postal Gerks. y Stepping on the Agriculture Department's sprawling bureaucracy invariably brirjs Sowls from rural congressmen and senators. The same outrage has greeted Presidents for years who have down meetings on Washington Square. 3ne commissioner can be funny, but when you get three or five of them together, it can be a riot! Some of the poetical races were tragedies. Howard Pearson, our man in the movies, finally got his name up in lights. Mildred, his wife, spelled it out in Christmas bulbs when she did the ouside lighting of the family home. Ballet West was organized and became the Dig ballet not only in Utah but many of the surrounding states. They made an especially big splash when they did their thing high on the hills of Zion Canyon . . . and the gals still stood on their toes! The Utah Symphony went to Greece and visited Maurice ' Abravanel's home couldn't get in because there were so many mature The Tabernacle Choir sang for a Democratic president and a Republican president. '"ley also sang in several foreign countries. When the choir and the symphony are out of town at the ame time, the mall Isn't so crowded. Television went to color . . and off color. If you happened to miss an film, just wait and it will turn up on TV. The first television broadcast by Tel-stincluded the Tabernacle Choir. Thats how high people across the nation have become on our famed group. Valley Music Hall introduced theater-in-thround. And went to theater in the hole. It was due maybe to the acts being square. On the other hand, the groups which are fugitives from the bathtub and the barber shops jammed the Salt Palace with their electronic ear destroyers. The kids had a blast! Tiny Tim raised the dickens wherever he went. He finally got married and on television of all places. We happened to catch it on the inrtant replay. The Salt Palace just made it under the wire after several delays. We should have named it the Mint because every county taxpayer is hoping it will make e- money. ... Wit's End Man cannot live on bread ar:e, but some of the actors who came to the valley to perform got by on a lot of crust! iuiuiiiuiiuiiiiiimmminimniiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiimuiiimuiiiiiiiiiiiuia BIG TALK bu- Iresident Nixon, for all the vigor in his confidential memorandum, may find that the only cuts he can make without bringing down the UTath of Congress on him are in the White House. He has loaded the White House payroll with the largest staff in the history of the presidency. ROW'S and Doves It has been hushed up by the Pentagon, but the three helicopter crewmen just released from North Korean captivity are bitter against the Senate's doves. During their secret debriefing, they related how their North Korean guards brutally pummeled them with fists and rifle butts. But even worse than the physical ordeal, the crewmen said, was the demoralizing impact of dovish statements from such senators as J. William and George McGoFulbright. vern, D-S.- -- ' Sports took a big hunk out of the entertainment dollar. The ice skaters of the Salt Lake Eagles seem to have the . edge. And that has to be the worst pun of the decade. Pioneer Theater was completed early in the 60s and was an instant success. . The curtain wont go down there for a long tome. Jurt this year. Puppeteers of America held their national meetings here sponsored by Craft House. It was the first time that the group made money. It happened to be when the political campaigns for city office were just getting under way. It wasnt too difficult to tell the difference . . . you could see the strings being pulled by the puppeteers. It was a decade when many a great actor came on the Salt Lake scene. There was Richard Burton . . . Mayor Lee . . . Donald O'Conner, Liberace . . . so many more. The biggest play is still awaitirg the final act, and ihe critics the Salt Lake County Grand Jury. Lets hear for them! Economy Begins Af Home , Mr. Nixon What To Do tant step in preventing them from The Utah Symphony and its conductor, Maurice Abravanel, toured Europe .from Athens to Yugoslavia, to Austria, Germany and London. The symphony tours in virtually has made exten-iv- e every western state, and a long Pacific Northwest and Pacific Coast tour is scheduled for ApriL Most of its two dozen recordings received high praise, and sales are greater in Europe than In the United States. Fortune Magazine called it one of the 14 uest symphony orchestras in the United States. One of the most exciting Utah artistic packages is the Rocky Mountain Regional Ballet West that evolved from the Utah Gvic Ballet. Under Wiliam F. Christensen's direction, it toured extensively in many states west of the Mississippi, and next spring has a, seven-weetour that will take Utah's name and culture to two dozen new communities. Then there is the Repertory Dance Theatre. It has performed from Pasadena, Calif., to New York Gty as the only professional modern dance company in the West and the only company in the US. to receive substantial grants from the Rockefeller Foundation. The decade also saw the creation of the Utah Shakespeare Festival on the campus of SUSC in Cedar City. The ane.er.t has achieved an ennual viable national reputation. Utah patrons find it difficult to realize how many of the states performing artists are seemingly constantly on tour outside the state. One hopes local chambers of commerce realize what an advertising asset they have in there artists. Artists, managements and patrons cannot play any rests in die Seventies if they are to equal the accomplishments of the Sixties. One important unearned increment for the musical builders of the next decade is the wide scope and increased maturity which has developed since 1960 in the performing arts. Hoi-broc- k. oun r.iAti jorittS ar Cedar Festival boost in 1962 with construction of the Pioneer Memorial Theater at the U. of U. In its opening attraction, Hamlet died in the first act, but since then many fine plays and musicals, starring both Broadway and local performers, have been presented. YOUR HEALTH years. k long-need- VMH Attractions The Valley Music Hall opened in 1965, featuring good musicals with name performers, as well as special attractions such as Libera ce, Jimmy Dean, Buck Owens, Rouvaun, Ed Ames and Hal Attendance for the musicals began to dwindle, however, and VMH, d praised as or of the finest in the country, ran into stiff 41 Symphony Toured Di-ti- Despite (or because of) Ithe censorship stir it caused, Candy drew well in Utah. But two other pictures, Midnight Cowboy and "Easy Rider, did not Happily, less lusty films have been more popular here. On the basis of population. Utah was the nation's top buyer of Walt Disneys Mary Poppins. Utahns are big Disney fans, with the Salt Lake area providing 3.4 to 7 per cent of the national box office take, compared witn 1.5 to 2 per cent for films produced by other companies. In spite of the furor causd by films labeled For Mature Audiences Only, movies definitely are moie popular today. To meet this popularity, new theaters have gone up, along with ticket prices (from 90 cents 10 years ago to as much as $3.50 today). These tew theaters are being built in the sdburbs, but downtown houses also are being remod- rew-I- v in ns first Tabbed a money-make- r vear, the Sait Falace (despite sound system problems) has packed 'em m lor performances by Glen Campbell. S.mnn and Garfjnkel, and several rock rnucic groups (Pop music of the Sixties is reThe Palace viewed today on Page also is the home of the Salt Lake Golden Eagles. The professional hockey club has been an instant success at the box office even though a disaster on the scoreboard drawing more than 10,000 fans to a single game. The wide field of entertainment and from Bach to rod:, from the arts monies to spectator sports grew rapidly during the Sixties. Everything grew: facilities and audiences ticket prices and performers' fees, the noise level of the rock groups and the size of the television tube. The Utah Symphony got bigger, the Tabernacle Choir traveled farther ar.i the Utah Civic Ballet grew into Ballet West AC three got better. Television provided more entertam-rren- t for mare people than any other medium in history. And the next decade promises even more, because now we COLOR. Every new have LIVING program is cclorfuL It may not be good but it's colorful. Each football telecast has a color man. His commentary may not be very colorful, but his blue eyes and his snazzy jacket certainly are. 5 Friday, December 26, 1969 competit on from 1969s wonder, the -penei Salt Palace. HAROLD LUNDSTROM and CUNT BARBER Deseret News Staff Writers NEWS . Salt Palace chloride because sodium palace sounded silly!" 'They called Pm ly photos lirlMiy it the lakts nr M Dessrsl Nmn nwtor iMtorm. gmuEiiiiiimiiiiitiinmiuHtumiimiitiunmuiinUiimBiiigiiiama - V |