Betsy is missing because she is starring in a production of The King and I in Phoenix.
Channing has a new album out entitled Carol Channing Entertains (Command 1965).
Shura Dvorine from New York City: “I’m a piano player…My piano is
in this brief case.”
Dvorine was a
child prodigy who could read music at the age of two. He was profiled in a 1928 newspaper article
when he was four. He refers to himself here as a “supper club performer” but is
an accomplished classical pianist and composer.
For fun, he learns to play music on a simple toy piano he purchased in a
store. Here he performs the Eastern
Mediterranean folk song “Misirlou” with members of the Norman Paris band. “Misirlou” had gained worldwide popularity
through a surf rock version performed by Dick Dale (1962). Dale’s version would later be memorably
featured in the film Pulp Fiction (1994).
John Cannata from Melrose Park, Illinois: “I baked the best cherry
pie in a contest against 4000 girls”
Cannata is an
accomplished high school senior who won a $1000 college scholarship in the
contest sponsored by the Northern Illinois Gas Company. He is the first male contestant in the
program’s eight-year history.
Special guest Vivian Vance: “There’s a man backstage recording
every word we say – in shorthand…He can write faster than we can talk (over 300
words a minute)”
To put that
feat to the test, Vance has everyone talk as rapidly as possible. Morris Kligman is the man taking dictation,
by hand. Kligman is considered one of
the country’s leading court reporters. He is the author of the appropriately
titled volume How to Write 240 wpm in
Pitman Shorthand (Pitman 1963).
Vance is starring in the sitcom The
Lucy Show (1962-1968) but would leave the series at the end of the current season due to disagreements and misunderstandings between her and star Lucille
Ball. She would return for occasional
guest appearances in the show’s final two seasons.
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