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$ nna!,. but tha attendance
is ot. r4 if tha comparatively
Qent tthel Merman musical
"Hppy Hunting," should con
tinue its current pace for 52
weeks, it would shade "My Fair
Lady" on both counts.
"My Fair i.aciy" took in more
dollars in year because its
prices ar- higher than those of
past musicals of similar smash
Jt proportions with which it
frfust be compared.
Ticktt Costs High
For example, it played for the
first six months at a top price
of $7.50. Since then the orches
tra seats have sold for S8.05.
But "South Pacific," which had
just as sensational a first year
back in 1949-50, had a top price
of only $8 and grossed approx
imately 2,600,000 in its first 52
weeks.
However. "South Pacific"
played to more persons in the
comparable period because it
was in a theater of greater seat
ing capacity than that of the
Mark Hellinger Theater where
"My Fair Lady" is housed.
"South Pacific" accommodated
approximately 690,000 paying
cutomers in its first year.
"Oklahoma!" Suffered
The long run record holder
for musicals, "Oklahoma", which
lasted five years and nine weeks,
has to suffer in comparison with
both of the other shows because
it was in a house of considerably
less seating capacity and during
its 1943-48 career the top price
was $4.80.
The pressure to see "My Fair
Lady" is just as great as ever.
Tickets must be bought legiti
mately months in advance, and
the scalpers still find persons
willing to pay $50 and up a
pair.
This pressure may become a
little less before the year is
out. at least from out of towners
visiting New York, because the
national, or second company of
the production goes into action
Monday night in Rochester. N.Y.
This company, headed by Brian
Aherne will swing quickly to
the West Coast and San Fran
cisco and tour widely after that.
Cabled Protest
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oMichiMn State university and
the Vest Coast Lumbermen's as
sociation have joined .forces to
dsin and supply farmers with
a ttndrd, general - purpose
farm building that can be bought
in a package, at a package price,
from retail lumber dealers across
th country.
Tha) basic design is for clear-
n construction, with parts for
lls and roof cut at the retail
yard, all ready for erection upon
faViver at the farm.
Clear spans may be had from
24 to 40 feet, providing shelter
for trfctor and other heavy
farm afluipment and for such
uses as hay storage and automat
ic feeding of livestock.
A frey to this clear-span ser
vice is roof truss of Douglas
fir lumber, which is cut to pat
tern and bolted up at the retail
yard. The bolted joints are forti
fied by use of the modern ring
connectors of timber engineer
ing. Main Features j
Agricultural Engineers James
S. Boyd, M. L. Esmay, and B. F.
Cargill, of Michigan State uni
versity, have worked for sever
aVyears on developing and test
iiaa clear-span farm-building con-
The success, of the show has
the parodists busy. Composer
Frederick Loewe and librettist
lyricist Alan Lerner sent a tele
gram of protest this week to
the proprietor of the current
"Ziegfeld Follies" because of a
ske'.ch called "My Late, Late
Lady." Possibility of legal action
seemed to be behind the pro
test, although such parodies
have been commonplace in the
ater history and generally are
regarded as not actionable.
A recently issued 12 inch LP
record entitled "My Square
Lady" reverses the story line
of the original by having a
couple of gals from Brooklyn
remold the speech habits of a
swell to match their own.
On Tlie Side
By E. V. Durling
(Distributed by King Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
Therp are two births, th one
when light.
First strikes the new awakened
senre.
The other when two souls unite
And we must count our life Irom
sense.
When you loved me and I loved
you.
The both of as were horn anew.
Love makes those young whom
aee doth rhill.
And whom he linds young, keeps
young sun.
Cartwright
Can you say offhand what is
an appropriate gift for a 20th
wedding anniversary? If not
please be reminded that the
20th anniversary is the China
wedding. On May 1 this year,
the General Douglas MacAr-
thurs will celebrate their china
wedding. They were married in
the City Hall in Manhattan on
May 1. 1937. For. their wedding
breakfast at the Waldorf-Astoria
they ordered ham and eggs.
Sidelights
In Sweden and Norway auto
ists who can prove they are to
tal abstainers from strong alco
holic drinks get a 10 per cent
reduction on accident insur
ance policies . . . Which do young
women named Elizabeth prefer
to be called, "Betty" or "Liz?"
Queen Elizabeth of England is
called '"Betty" by her husband.
Asking
Queries from clients. Q.
Where in New York was the
night spot known as "The Club
Napoleon?" A. Thirty-Three West
56th st. Was operated by Tommy
Guinan, brother of Texas Gui
nan. That spot was the inspira
tion of Louis Bromfield's story
"Night After Night," the film
version of which gave Mae West
her first big chance . . . Q. How
is the surname of Bernard Ba-
Monday. March 18. 1S57
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIVX
ruch pronounced? A. The first
syllable should be pronounced
as if spelled "Baah'.' and the
second as if spelled "rook," pro
nounced to rhypie with "spook."
Horses and Women
Monsieur Christian "New
Look" Dior, the world's most fi
nancially successful dressmaker,
says his dress designing ideas
are based on the belief that the
average intelligent woman pos
sessed of style sense "wants to
look as much like a woman as
possible, and as different from
a man as she can. She wants to
be feminine plus."
Asides
In Dublin, Ireland, all pubs
and bars close for one hour
every afternoon. This is known
as the "Holy Hour" Although
the Scotch have mastered the
art of playing the bagpipe, they
are not very skilful in manufac
turing, the instrument. The
. ,
world's best bagpipes are made
in England. Even the Scots
Guards play English-made bag
pipes. Remembering
Of which of your life's accom
plishments are you most proud?
Thomas Jefferson believed peo
ple should write their own epi
tsphs and in them indicate which
of their accomplishments they
wished remembered. For him
self, Jefferson rote the follow
ing epitaph: "Here was buried
Thomas Jefferson, author of the
Declaration of American Inde
pendence and of the Statute of
Virginia for religious freedom
and father of the University of
Virginia.''
San Diego, Calif. (U.R) Cor
oner Al Gallagher has sent out
invitations to tea, cookies and
punch for an open house affair
celebrating the opening of tha
county's first morgue.
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struction principles right out on
typical Michigan farms.
The goal was to demonstrate
that general-purpose farm buil
dings could be cut to pattern in
the retail lumber yard, and then
sold to farmers as a package at
a package price.
To get clear spans in buildings
24 to 40 feet wide, and do so
economically, some type of roof
truss had to be employed. The
engineers discovered that wood
trusses, fortified by ring con
nectors developed by modern
timber engineering would do
the job.
Their tests proved that simple
lumber trusses that could be cut,
framed and bolted right in the
retail lumber yard would bear
roof loads of 24 to 40 feet when
spaced four feet apart.
Then it was demonstrated that
big. rugged Douglas fir trees
had just the right kind of wood
in them to meet the specifica
tions of the buildings designed
by the Michigan State engineers
and that a permanent supply
of farm-building lumber was
growing on millions of acres of
West Coast tree farms in Wash
ington, Oregon and California.
How to Buy a Barn
There are dependable retail
lumber firms everywhere. Call
on one during your next trip to
town while your wife does her
shopping. Your local lumberman
is pretty sure to have sets of
diagrams and instructions for
each of four building sizes
24 feet, 30 feet. 36 feet, and 40
feet of clear span width. You
tell him your choice of width.
and he will explain page one of
the instruction booklet that
sketches the correct foundation
plan.
Page two of the instruction
booklet is a cost sheet. There's
a space for the lumber dealer to
enter all costs of materials, item
by item, to arrive at the pack
age price. The remaining pages
give framing and erection details
for the crew that actually puts
up the building on your farm
whether furnished by the deal
er or done by you and your
help.
You can easily come to an
agreement with the dealer on
erection, for the package plan
supplied each dealer includes
suggestions even on this prob
lem. Actually, more and more
farmers want a one-stop source
of complete building service
from plans to erection just
like they buy tractors and other
products.
Havana Students
Proclaim Mourning i
Havana -IU.R) Students at
eight Havana high schools pro
claimed six days of mourning
Saturday for the teen-age rebels
killed in Wednesday's attempt to
assassinate President Fulgencio
Batista.
Leaders of high school student
organizations designated March
18-23 as the period of mourning
and appealed to students
throughout Cuba to observe it.
Millo Ochoa, president of
ousted ex-President Carlos Prio's
"Orthodox" party, left by air
Saturday for Miami, saying "My
life is in danger" in Cuba.
Cuban authorities had sought
Ochoa during the hours immed
iately following Wednesday's at
tack on the presidential palace,
but they made no attempt to
prevent his departure yesterday.
MO KITTEN'S MITTENS
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have trouble if she decided to
knit mittens for her six new
little kittens. Shelito said the
distribution of toes per kitten
respectively is 25. 24. 22. 18. 17
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