Cliburn Holds Allegiance
Mon. April 13, 1959 The Newj-Review, Roseburg, Ore. 9
To Church,
Concert Smge
'RAMONA' principals ore shown in a scene from the ploy
scheduled ot Glide High School April 24 at 8 p.m. in the
auditorium. The two are Mary Dell Casebeer and Gary
McCormack. The play is being presented by the student
body. Admission will be charged.
Starlet Says People Talking
Can Assist With Popularity
"People can make you popular
by talking about you," says blonde,
16-year-old Tuesday Weld who
says "the only time a Hollywood
' starlet should worry is when 'they'
say nothing. I'd rather have 'them'
say something."
She says she has been called:
"A child woman."
"The next Marilyn Monroe"
"A firey Brigette Bardot."
"Jayne Mansfield, rear view."
"Sixteen, going on 30."
"But these references do not
distress me," insists the voluptu
ous starlet, who could give any
glamor girl a run for her money.
Tuesday has been in three mo
vies, her latest with 'Danny Kaye
in "The Five Pennies."-She was
born on Thursday, two days late,
which accounts for her name, she
says. Her hobby js "philosophy."
Writing Loved
"I love to write philosophy stor
iesmy thoughts, emotions, concep
tions, sort of Freudian type ex
cerpts. But I don't share my phi
losophy. Each must find his own.
Our ideas change as we grow.
They must, otherwise we would
get static, and it's no fun to be
static."
There is no danger of Tuesday
becoming static, she assures with
her infectious smile and merry
laugh.
She has many beaus, but "I like
the gentlemanly type." she says,
"though they should he rugged. 1
don't like yes men. And I prefer
a man with a wide scope of in
terests horseback riding elec
tronics, history. I like to learn
things from men."
That's how Tuesday became
fond of pool, a game she loves.
"I don't see why more women
do not play pool," she says. "They
bowl, ski, fish and skin dive. Why
do they frown at pool?"
Many young girls ask Tuesday's
advice about Hollywood. Is it
worth it? Should they try for it?
"I tell them to stay home." Tues
day says.
Why? Because it s not all gla
mor, fun, gay life, she says.
Strain Is Great
Ts a great strain, even giving
an interview to the press, she
laughs.
It you still insist on trying your
luck in movieland, she says, re
member there is enormous compe
tition, and that you'll need a good
drama coach, and no matter what
you've heard to the contrary: The
wolves are still there.
"As a matter of fact, they re
hanging from the trees." laughs
Tuesday who says that though
"some are fun, you must know
how to handle them."
"Oh, yes," she adds. "And don t
forget to take your mother with
you."
Tuesday began her career mod
cling for Harry Conover at age 2'i.
At 6 she was a television perform
er. She is an accomplished singer
and dancer. She depends on swim
ming, dancing and other activities
to keep her weight down.
She explains:' "I just can't lie
on the floor in the morning kick
ing my legs around for exercise
even though I gain weight easily."
Riddle Girls Hoping
To Keep State Plaque
The Riddle High Girls League
will again this year be vying for a
plaque for top percentage of at
tendance at the Girls League state
convention, reports high school
news Bureau director Mona Scho-
field.
The convention is scheduled May
9 at Springfield High School. Regis
tration is scheduled from 8:15 to
9:15 a.m.
Last year. Riddle had such a
laree turnout, it won the percent-
'age of attendance plaque.
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NEW YORK, (API "Faith in
God, love for people, and vision
of a better world" this is not
the credo of a preacher but a
piano player who exactly a year
ago was catapulted over night into
fame. I
Once in a while a singer comes
out of a church choir; actress Kthcl
Waters enthusiastically proclaims
her belief; Jenny l.inil was notably
devout. Here is one more musician
who, instead of hailing from Bo
hemia, comes from Baptist Sun
day School and prayer meeting,
and persists in his double allegi
ance to pulpit and concert platform,
cnurcn and music nan.
When it came to writing a book
about him, "The Van Cliburn Leg
end" (published next Monday by
Doubleday), it seemed natural that
two authors were needed to cover
the subject's two brisht facets,
and the work is described on the
title page as "By Abram Chasins j
with Villa Stiles." Chasins is the
musician. Miss Stiles the inspira
tional writer.
Hugged by Khrushchtv
On April 13, 1958, Van Cliburn
won the first piano prize of the
Tchaikovsky competition in Mos
cow, where he was hugged and
bussed on both checks by Nikita
Khrushchev. It could be that with
out the prayers of the church goers
of Kilgore, Tex., young Cliburn
would never have been kissed by
the Communist boss of atheist Rus
sia: As he got ready for the severe
ordeal of appearing before the
judges, says Chasins unless this
is Miss Stiles speaking "He did
not neglect to telephone his par
ents in Kilgore to notify them of
the time he would be playing and
to elicit their spiritual support.
They, in turn, elided the support
of the local ministers, and 'later I
learned (says Cliburn) that the
ministers had asked the whole town
to pray for me. My parents did
not pray for me to win, because
winning in their minds is not al
ways the best thing. They prayed
that God's will be done.' "
The news of his victory came
to the senior Cliburns by phone
call from Moscow just before they
left for a prayer meeting. For a
previous competition in Chicago.!
the first time he missed a major
prize, he also had prayed, explain
ing, "I'm praying to God to give
me the strength to hear it if I
don't come through." One conduct
or "blew his stack," in Chasins'
words, when during a performance
a pedal on Cliburn's piano broke,
and the devout young artist
promptly walked the enraged and
profane maestro off the stage say
ing, "Let's pray." They did.
"God's Language"
Music is God's language," Cli
burn believes and often says.
One photo in the book shows him
with hands clasped in prayer just
before he did his first Carnegie
Hall concert after the Moscow tri
umph. He had a private box in
Madison Square Garden for evan
gelist Billy Graham's rally.
What with the prayers, the tick
er tape and the incredible adula
tion of which this book contains
an apparently complete and de
tailed record the boy makes one
of the really extraordinary stories
in the art life of our time. Though
you may have heard him in a con
cert, and seen him, you need this
biography to give an adequate idea
of the intensity of the storm and
furor he has kicked up, in all
innocence, wherever he has appear
ed in the last 12 months.
Before he went to Moscow, he
got $100 or less for a concert;
since Moscow, he has on otic oc-
casion in California collected $18,
000 for two nights, and in his na
tive Texas, $10,500 for a one-day j
affair. Once he got $75 on a TV i
show; now the same show paid him
$3,000. His sinalo recording of the (
Tchaikovsky may sell one million i
discs this year.
Somt Critical Objections
Chasins points, fairly, to some
critical objections raised, in par
ticular lately, to some of Cliburn's
playing, but mostly he sticks to
the almost incredible success storv.
The boy was born July 12, 1931,
and named Harvey Lavan Cliburn
Jr., for his businessman father.
His mother, Rildia Bee O'Bryan,
taught piano, and the boy decided
when he was three or four that if
she could teach his playmates she
could teach him.
He was a fast grower, till he
reached his present 6-fecM, and
perhaps in connection with that he
has had more than his share n
boils and carbuncles; he has been
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laid up jut recently with one bail
finger, and when hp went to Rus
sia, iorearnied against sickness he
took along 300 vitamin pills and
some gelatin.
lie fell early into the habit ol
winning priz.es both in his home
town and in Texas. In 1951 he en
tered Juilliard, in New York. He
greeted his teacher to be, Mine.
Itosina Lhevinne. with, "Itonev, I'm
here to study with you." When he
squeezed two pianos into his room,
he told his landlady excitedly,
"Honey, it looks just like home'"
When he won the coveted I.evenlritt
award, he reported to Mine. Lhe
vinne, "Honey, I got it!"
Wherever he goes ho is spotted,
and followed. Girls want to sit lit
the restaurant table whore he sa',
old men bless him for what he has
done for America, cab drivers blow
their horns, and policemen cra:'k
In in on the hack. He stays up to all
hours, keeps a schedule that would
kill an ordinary man, and doesn't
even have time to buy himself
clothes he played one Carnegie
Hall concert with the sole of one
shoe flapping so loose he fastened
it with a rubber band.
Chasins remarks that, though
Washington has been coldly for
mal about Cliburn's success! local
governments have shown the wild
est enthusiasm, lie suggests it's
time we gave more recognition to
the invaluable service performed
for us at home culturally and
abroad both culturally and politi
cally by a youth of Cliburn's mag
netic appeal.
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htLrlNlj lHtIR OWN CAUSE are these young people from Roseburg High School. They
are shown putting together brochures in preparation for the YMCA building fund cam
paign April 21-May 1). From left to right are Bernie Young, Allyn Ford, Dorlene Hurd
and Roger Johnson. Also helping in the preparation project were several junior high
schoolers under the direction of Mrs. Robert H. O'Neil. Mrs. O'Neil, representing the
Roseburg Woman's Club, which has taken the building as its community project, also
directs the work of women volunteers. (Photo Lab)
MARCH GIRL at Sutherlin
High School is Donna Gwyn.
She was selected as girl of the
month by the Girls League
and was tapped at the
annual style show by February
girl Louisa Crippen. She was
picked for her academic
achievements, her four-year
participation in Girls League
and Girls Athletic Assn. activities.
'Print And Cord Day'
Planned At Sutherlin
Friday is "Print and Cord flay"
at Sutherlin High School, reports
correspondent Sue Sikstrom.
On this day, all boys and girls
will wear cotton spring outfits.
Prizes will be awarded the best
couple and the girl with the pretti
est dress.
This is an annual event sponsor
cd by the Girls League.
Multnomah County's
Crime Record Uppcd
PORTLAND (AP) Crime in
creased in Multnomah County last
! year. There were 1,733 cases of
j burglary in 1058, compared with
1 1.426 the previous year, the shcr
i iff's office reported.
Thirty-three persons lost their
lives in county traffic last year,
five fewer than in tho preceding
year, but traffic accidents re
mained at about the same level:
1,551 in 1958 and 1.536 in 1957.
Students Escape
Penalty For Two
Tilts With Police
NEW HAVEN. Conn. (AP) -
City Court today decided not
to prosecute 42 Yale students
charged with participating in two
tussles with police.
Judge Charles ltenchcl gavel
nisi continuances until June 1 in i
all cases. In effect, this means the I
charges will be dropped at that I
time unless there is a change in j
the situation.
These cases should not and
ought notito bo prosecuted," Asst.
City Attorney Frank Meadow told
the judge. Few of the students
were even in court to answer the
charges, mostly breach of peace.
They were accused of throwing
snow balls at police March 12 and
14. Police used fire hoses and
hilly clubs to put down the March
14 uprising.
Meadow said he was making his
recommendation because Mayor
Richard C. I.ee had appointed a
three-man commission to look into
relations between trie community
and the university.
The two riots created a big stir
in the community and among city
and university officials.
Yale President A. Whitney Gris
wold called it "hnorishncss" on
the part of the students. He placed
undergraduates on general proba
tion. The students called police brutal
in their methods of putting down
the riots.
Many See Presentation
Of Myrtle Creek Play '
The junior class of Myrtle Creek
High School presented its produc
tion of "The Curious Savage?," by
John Tatrick, to packed houses
recently in the high school auditor
ium. The play was staged arena style
for the first time at Myrtle Creek
and was received well by the
crowds at the two performances,
reported correspondent Ruth Ev
ans. The cast included Ann Kelly, Rod
Trask, Fred Earwood, Dorothy
Doggett, Lee Winetrout, Dolly
Bailey, Raclcne Bryant, Joanne
Gilmore, Terry O'Neall, Marlena
Scllick and Ken Watson.
Director was Boyd Dcven,
speech and English instructor. He
was assisted by Carol Grimm.
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A National School Assemblies
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Yoncalla High School today, re
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Gauer sang folk songs, vodelcd
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CENTENNIAL DAY at Glide High School was celebrated last week. The young people
dresssd in centennial outfits such as those shown above. The best outfit for boys was
judged to be that of David Cellars. Phyllis Singleton won the prize as the , best outfitted
girl. The event was staged by the Girls League.
Spanish Contest To Draw
Seven From Roseburg
Savan students will reprasant
Roiaburg High School at tha
stata Spanish Contest in Eugana
May 2.
Tha studants, chosan for their
achiavamant and interest in tha
language course at the high
school, are Ted Sohn, Sheran
Brown, Janet Martin, Janet In
man, Dan Duian, Ciyle Harris
and Larry Crain. The seven will
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