THE PALOUSE REPUBLIC
7
FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 195~
I
YOUTHFUL SINGER
Chi Y-outh Is Nation's
First Television Opera Star
A 12-year-old boy from Chiliicothe
Ohio, has become one of the na-
tion's first television opera stars
a personality as well-known to the
greats of the musical world as to
the folks back home.
In Chillicothe (pop. 18,340) Chet
Allen developed his first taste for
singing, along with cartoon sketch-
inS, stamp collecting and football
line play. When his family shifted to
Columbus several years ago, Chet
was already emitting the clear
soprano tones that recently moved
the great Arturo Toscanini to tears
and wrung unrestrained plaudits
from the nation's foremost music
critics.
His father, a chemical engineer,
enrolled the curly haired youngster
in the Columbus Boychoir at Prince-
ton, N.J. Under the careful super-
vision of Herbert Hoffman, director
of the Boychoir, Chet became a star
soloist. He accompanied the choir
on a bus barnstorming tour of 32
states.
He was, in fact, a veteran musical
campaigner by the time that opera
composer Glen-Carlo Menotti visited
the Boychoir in search of a lead for
his television opera, "Amahl And
The Night Visitors," commissioned
By INEZ GERHARD
EILEEN O'FARRELL is the per-
fect soloist for the ",Telephone
Hour" on St. Patrick's Day, so she
is being announced way ahead of
time. This broadcast will be a spe-
cial event, brpadcast from Carnegie
Hall, where she scored a brilliant
success with her recital in 1950-~ The
daughter of Irish parents formerly
billed in vaudeville as "The Sing-
tag O'Farrells', she has fulfilled
EILEEN O'FARRELL
their dreams by becoming one of our
outstanding dramatic sopranos. But
she is not one of our temperamental
prima donnas; she refuses to be
glamorized, and will let nothing in-
terfere with her home life with her
husband, Robert Reagan, and her
son, Robert Reagan, Jr.
The size of the audience reached
by Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis on
television was proved by the result
of an appeal for funds to support
research in muscular, dystrophy,
which they made recently. The ap-
peal brought in more than 7,000
responses. There were scores of
letters from dystrophic victims who
never knew there was a Muscular
Dystrophy association, despite wide
publicity.
Twelve - year - old Chet Allen,
Ohio's gift to television opera,
sings with Rosemary Kuhlman
in a rehearsal of the Gian-Car-
1o Menotti opera, "Amahl And
The Night Visitors." Chef, who
was born in Chiilicothe, Ohio,
and now lives in Columbus, had
the starring role of a crippled
boy in the Menotti opera which
had its TV premiere over the
NBC network.
two years ag~b by the National
Broadcasting Company.
Menotti seized upon the Chillicothe
youngster as a natural for the role
of the crippled boy whose impover-
ished mother was visited by the
Three Wise Men. The. youth's im-
pulsive gesture in offering his crutch
as a present to the new-born King
in Bethlehem led to his miraculous
recovery.
CHET MOVED on New York with
all the assurance of a widely trav-
eled adult. He became an over-
night hit with the opera's cast at
rehearsal. His role was an exacting
one, requiring a wide variety of
emotions, and eminent musical men
like Toscanini, who dropped in on
rehearsals, were both moved and
amazed by his vocal and acting
capacities.
So, too, were ordinary folks
throughout the nation. The opera
had its premiere Christmas Eve on
a national television hook-up. The
next day NBC was deluged with let-
ters, telegrams and telephone calls
praising the young artist.
Chet liked what he saw of the big
city, but he still feels that a small
town has plenty of advantages.
"You can get in touch with folks so
much easier," he explains.
Chet is now back at the Boyeholr
where Directoi" Hoffman reports
with pride that all the attention
focused on him has not gone to his
head "one whir." He makes occa-
sional trips to New York to dos-
plots a full recording of the opera
for :RCA Victor, and the remainder
of his time is devoted to his school
and to extracurricular activities.
Whether Chet will continue as an
operatic performer, or whether he
will pickuP'%he old life and perhaps
specialize as a cartoonist or become
an engineer like his father, depends
upon nature. Director Hoffman es-
timates that in one year, possibly
two, CheFs voice will mature.
Whether the post-adolescent Chet
*ill have the vocal capacity for an
operatic career is something that
neither Chet, Director Hoffman or
anyone else will prophesy. In the
past, instances of boy sopranos who
successfully bridged the change of
voice have been rare. But few have
been as successf~ in pro-adoles-
cence as young Allen and even few-
er have demonstrated his remark-
able adaptability for operatic act-
ing.
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THE
FICTION
CORNER
DOUBLE MISTAKE
By Richard Hill Wilkinson
IT was convenient thought Martha
Sidney that Larry had money.
"You see," she confided to Dorice
Merton, who was to be maid of hen-
or at the wedding, "Larry could
hardly expect me to accompany
him on these ex-
• Mingte wilderness. After
Fiction all he has enough
money so that this
forestry business he's interested in
could be classed as a hobby."
notice was dubious. "I sometimes
wonder, Mart, whether or not you're
wise in marrying Larry. Somehow
I feel thab he expects you'll be
eager to follow him into the woods."
"Asburd! How could he expect me
to get a thrill out of trees. Besides,
there's that little summer home of
his jmst outside of town. I'd much
prefer to live there where I can en-
tertain my friends and make some
good use of his money."
It was rather an elaborate wed,
dins. Martha's mother, who called
her daughter extremely fortunate at
making such a catch, went the
limit. She didn't want Larry to think
Martha was hopelessly poor.
The couple spent a two weeks'
honeymoon on Long Island and re-
turned to Larry's summer home in
Albany in late September. All dur-
ing the boat ride up the Hudson,
Larry talked of the woods cad their
glory in autumn. That night he
said:
"Better get your packing done,
honey. We're leaving early."
Martha arched her brows in
surprise. "My packing! Why,
Larry,~ dear, you don't expect
me to accompany yon into the
wilderness!"
When Herbert Hoover Talks, All America Listens
to Chile, Mexico, Belgium and Italy;
William R. Castle, forme~ director
European division department of
state, under-secretary-of-state, am-
bassador to Japan; Hugh Gibson,
former ambassador to Belgium;
Spruille Braden, former assistant
secretary of state an~ ambassador
to Argentine, Colombia and Cuba;
Joseph A. Kennedy, former ambas-
sador to Great Britain; Arthur Bliss
Lane, minister to Estonia, Latvia
and Poland; Jesse Jones, former
secretary of commerce, chairman
reconstruction finance corporation.
All of the above endorsed Hoover's
statements that the nation should
concentrate on the construction of
more sea and air power rather than
on additional ground forces as a de-
fense against Russia, and that we
must also protect our economy, and
not wast~ our resources in Europe.
It was the agreement with and the
approval of those statements in the
7,000 long hand written letters re-
ceived by Mr. Hoover from Amerl-
can homes which he so much ap-
preciated.
It would be well for those of us
who are interested only in provable
facts that we prepare in advance
for the storm of invective, mud,
filth and generalities that will be
showered upon us by political ora-
tors of both parties through the pe-
riod of the coming presidential cam.
paign of July, August, September
and October.
The coming one will be such a'
mud slinging campaign as has not
been known since the days of the
70's and 80's of the last century, and
both parties will indulge in the same
type of invective.
President Truman set the keynote
of the campaign in his address be-
fore the national Democratic Wom-
an's club at Washington in Novem.
bet. He was greeted with applause
because he was talking to an audi-
ence who have voted Democratic
because father and grandfather
voted that ticket,
His generalities did not change
any votes, nor will the orators of
either party who indulge in the
same type of generalities. Those
whose votes can ~e changed want
provable facts.
For example, the president
charged the Republicans with the
expenditure of vast sums contributed
by a small minority for purely self.
ish reasons in an effort to attain a
result, in which they failed.
The fact is the Republicans spent
in that campaign a total of $1,444,-
894.77. In the same campaign the
Democrats spent $2,066,372.50. The
figures are those submitted to con-
gress as required by law, by the
national chairmen of the two par.
ties. In the Ohio senatorial cam-
paign, he charged that Senator Taft
received vast sums from "special
interests" in their attempt to in-
fluence legislation for corporate
wealth, but he said nothing abput
the assessments levied against all
members of organized labor, and
spent to defeat Taft that organized
labor bosses might benefit from leg-
islation in behalf of a minority,
By Wright A. Patterson
WHEN HERBERT HOOVER talks.
all of America listens. When
the people of the nation have the
opportunity of both listening and
sealing, they take advantage of both
opportunities. They had both on
January 27 when the man whom the
people recognize as a national lead-
er was on both radio and television.
Then millions of Americans, re-
gardless of political affiliations, both
looked and listened. Those letters
that Hoover appreciated most were
from the homes of the nation, writ-
ten in longhand on plain stationery,
nearly 7,000 of them. Tlinse letters
indicated a willingness to accept the
leadership of the former president
on so vital a subject as our national
defense. For him, those 7,000 let-
ters constituted a heart-warming
experience, but there were many
others coming from those r~cognized
as experts in defense lines, and e~-
pressing firm approval in what he
had said.
From the army there were let-
ters from Lt. General Albert W.
Wedemeyer, It. General Leslie B.
Groves. Lt. Gen. Harold L. George,
Major General Hugh Knerr and Gen-
eral Brice P. Bisque.
From the top brass of the navy
there were letters of approval and
commendations, with the privilege
of quoting them, from such officers
as Admiral William V. Pratt, Ad-
miral William H. Standiey, Admiral
Harry E. Yarneil, and Capt. James
E. van Zandt, nOw a congressma~
From the realm of diplemacy:
Henry P. Fletcher. former under-
secretary-of-state and ambassador
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"Larry, darling," she said,
"please let me stay."
Larry looked at her in bewilder-
ment. He saw the whiteness about
her lips, and knew suddenly that she
had never intended to go with him.
There was a quality in his voice
when he replied that frightened her.
"So that's how it is? I'm the sea-
son's outstanding sucker, oh?" He
shrugged. "Tomorrow I'm leaving
for the woods and you're going with
me--whether you .like it or not."
They departed by traln the next
morning. At Saranac they shifted
to a power boat, and for hours
drove steadily in the wilderness. At
the head of the last chain of lakes
they disembarked. The power boat
sung away. Martha and Larry were
left alone, standing on a narrow
strip of wilderness **hat projected
out into the lake. There was a log
cabin, a canoe and nothing else.
Martha felt afraid and very much
alone. Larry had been painfully for,
real during the entire trip. The
mountains, the stillness, the vast
solitude awed and frightened her.
She stood quite still until the ~ast
faint put-put-put of the power
launch had faded. Then she turned
and entered the cabin ~hst was to
be her home.
IN spite of herself Martha could
not help enjoying her new exist-
ence. For the first time in her life
she knew sheer joy at just being
alive. The cabin wa~ comfortable
and home-like. There were .books.
There was work to be done.
Larry made no effort to assist her
about the cabin. His eyes still held
the same cold glint that' had fright-
ened her on the night before their
departure. He seldom spoke, was
away from the cabin a good deal
and spent his evenings bent over
drawings and reports.
It was a month before Larry let
down the barrier. He came up from
behind Martha as she stood alone
on a bluff overlooking the lake. She
turned at his step and looked into
his eyes. The cold glint was gone.
"The power launch is due
back tomorrow," he said. "You
may go back with the driver it
you llke. 1--guess I made a mis-
take.','
Martha felt a lump in her throat
and swallowed hard.
"Larry, darling, please let me
stay. I--I've been selfish. Can't you
forgive me?"
Larry's head Jerked up. For one
brief moment he stared.
"Martha, Martha, I -- hoped, -- I
wanted you to--love the woods as I
do. I brought you here for that put.
pose, and thought I'd failed."
Martha pulled his face down and
kissed it, "Let's forget the past,
Larry, sweetheart, and start an over
again. I really don't feel as if I've
had a real honeymoon. Let's begin
over again. Nowl HereF'
Kremlin Fliers
IT ISN'T pleasant to contemplate,
but the inescapable fact is that
Russia is not only outproducing us
in planes, but is building up a res-
ervoir of battle-tested pilots to fly
them. The blunt fact is that the
Kremlin is using Korea as a grad-
uate school to train Russian pilots
how to fly against American planes.
Rotating "classes" of Russian
pilots have been manning the MIG's
over Korea and learning American
combat techniques first hand. The
present class showed up in Korea
on November 1, is now about ready
to graduate.
Each class takes the same pre-
scribed course. The first month is
spent making navigational flights
across Korea. The second month is
spent observing American forma-
tions at a safe distance. During this
period, the MIG's will occasionally
make a pass at a bomber forma-
tion, but it is all in practice. They
never fire a shot. The MIG's also
take care to keep out of the way of
air force F-86 Sabrejets during their
breaking-in period.
By the third month, however,
the Soviet student-pilots begin to
tangle with American fighters--
preferably with slower F-80
Shooting Stars and F-84 Thun-
der jets. As the Russians gain ex-
perience, they mix it up with
our crack F-86 squads.
The result is that the green Rus-
sians are shot out of the skies at
the rate of 13 to our one. But the
survivors become tough, skillful
pilots, baptized by fire and able to
hold their own against our best.
Note.--In contrast, we send only
our crack pilots to Korea, give our
new pilots no battle training. Reason
is that we are so short of F-86's
that we cannot risk letting green-
horns fly them in combat.
Messages to Moscow
A lot of schools all over the coun-
try are taking advantage of the ar-
rangement whereby the school chil-
dren of America can broadcast via
the Voice of America to school
children behind the Iron Curtain.
Many newspapers are also cooper-
ating.
In Charleston, W. Va., the Gazette
is running a four-week contest
among high-school children for the
best "Messages to Moscow." The
winner of each week's contest will
'be announced weekly, and at the
end of the month the final winner
will be given a trip to New York to
visit the United Nations and broad-
cast personally over the Voice of
America.
The Los Angeles News and the
Wichita Eagle are cooperating with
California and Kansas schools in
running similar contests.
The messages should not be over
150 words, should tell about condi-
tions in American schools, and how
the youngsters of this country want
peace and resent the artificial
barrier to friendship imposed by the
Kremlin. Since the youngsters of
today will have to carry out the
American foreign policy of tomor.
row, this is an'opportunity for them
to help mould that foreign policy
now.
Cosfello's Friends
For the first time in years, s sen-
ate committee will defy the un-
written code of congress and ques-
tion congressmen.
Specifically, Arnold Bauman of
the senate D.C. crime committee
wants to know why certain congress-
men have been so chummy with
racketeer Frankie Costello's Wash-
ington lobbyist, Murray elf.
T-'men have actually traced long-
distance phone calls to elf from
Costello's partner, Dandy Phil Kas-
tel. elf also kept racketeer Joe
Adonis overnight in his hotel room
while Adonis was hiding out from
the senate crime committee, elf
himself has a criminal record.
Yet this same Off has been
living in style at the Congres-
sional hotel, has entertained at
least 50 congressmen at cock.
tail parties. A handful of con-
gressmen have been extra close
to Oif, and at least one has ac-
tually run errands for the rack-
eteer.
Bauman intends to find.out why.
He personally will call on the con-
gressmen and take their state-
ments. Among those who can expect
a visit are Congresman Morrison
of Louisiana.
Note.--Fear that something like
this would.happen,wv, s one reason
why the senate crime committee
had a hard time getting its work
extended.
Franco's Successor
Secret agreement has been
reached among the principal ad-
visers and supporters of Spanish
Dictator France to make Martin
ArtaJo, present foreign min/ster.~ the
heir-presumptive to the dictator
when the generalissimo retires--
which will probably happen early in
1954.
France himself took the initiative
in this decision and backed ArtaJo
as his official successor. Until re-
cently France dreamed of a dynasty.
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Hanging Brooms
Nail two empty spools to the
wall of your kitchen or the inside
of your closet so idle brooms
won't be f o r e v e r falling over~
Hang the broom upside down os~
the spools.
Save Old Seeks
Don't throw away old wooles~
socks, Put them over your shoes
when you start painting walls o:
furniture. If paint spills you ca~
wipe it up with your foot.
Pie Dough
A good way to handle pie dough
is to place it on waxed paper,~
Gather up the paper into a bag anc}
manipulate the dough through the
paper until it forms a ball and i~
well blended.
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Waldorf Salad
To make a Waldorf salad~
squeeze the juice of a lemon over
about two cups diced apples, ad~
a cup of finely cut celery and-s
half cup of broken walnut meats,.
Mix with enough mayonnaise t~
moisten and sprinkle with paprik~
before serving on salad greens.
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