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Port Perry Star (1907-), 12 Apr 1962, p. 2

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Fat 3 (RHEVIESS ye) ; ; ¥ Pinas AR Mr Dd PE «a ae = EE EL L = Ft Wriasinh Why All The Stir About Oscars? In Hollywood an Oscar means much more today than just an award for cinematic achievement, It is the sun and stars and Alad- din's lamp lumped into one rigid, impassive, gold figurine. It can make careers, And in cold im- persona} box office cash it is quite literally worth a million. 'ping 321 pages of ads ran before nominations and 217'% between nominations and awards night, writes John C. Waugh in the Christian Science Monitor. Nobody in the Academy really objects to this. It's not the quan- tity of ads that irks, but their sometimes offensive quality, - "We don't really care how many ads a person wants to run urging Academy members to see his picture," says one high-rank- | | | She Prefers Love To Liberty The family of Paulius Leonas would never forget that reunion at Chicago Midway Airport two short years ago. It was a raw, gray, and windy day -- but a joyous one. Reporters, photogra- phers, and more than 200 Chi- cagoans of Lithuanian extraction crowded around Paulius and his FESS Having failed to bring Stasys here, she was going back to Lith. uania to marry him, "I think she is taking a very big chance," he# father said. "There's a great pos- sibility she might not be allowed to leave. I think she's making a mistake, and if it were up to % I'd stop her from going. But is inevitable, So I have to live' with that. A "When they are married, she - will apply for his entry. Since It is only human, therefore, ed Academy official. "What we | wife, Elena, as they waited for he is her husband, he will not that people no longer merely object to is when a performer or. | the big DC-7C to touch down. come under any quota. Whether walt and work and hope and somebody comes out flatly and Then at the top of the plane's the Russians will let him leave pray to win one. They campaign for it. Nominations for the 1961 Acad- emy Awards are now known. Performers and craftsmen in two dozen categories are now within reach of this most coveted award in the motion picture world. And the "campaigning," which began with the New Year, will continue in the weeks between says 'vote for me'." Last year quality became par- ticularly offensive, causing the Academy's board to promulgate a ccde of advertising ethics. This code was aimed not at stemming quantity, but at cutting out ques- tionable quality, There is no proof that "cam- paigiing" for an Oscar has ever influenced any outcome, People NI a TONY ATTENDS FIRST § S ION -- The Earl of Snowdon and his wife, a Princess Margaret, | ramp, pausing for just a second, stood blond, blue-eyed, 20-year- old Regina Leonas-and her tow- headed, square-jawed, 17-year- old brother Tomas. For fifteen years, they had been separated from their parents by the Iron Curtain, . The crowd cheered and 'ap- plauded and the two children raced down the ramp into the is to be seen." It her husband is refused permission to leave Lith- uania, Regina will remain there with him, . Late the next afternoon, Re- gina went to Chicago's O'Hare airport to begin the long jour- ney back behind the Iron Cur- tain. Her .parents were there, her brother, seven family friends, and a priest. There were no now and April 9, when at least repeatedly win © who haven't arms of their parents. All four smiles this time, two dozen dreams will come true spent a img CL leave the House of Lords after Lord Snowdon's first attendance at a session of the upper wept and embraced as micro- "This is like a funeral to me," in a misty-eyed climax before And despite some admitted house of Parliament Less than an hour after he took his seat in q quaint and colorful phones were thrust at them from | said Paulius Leonas. Will Regina millions of television viewers, faults, the Academy has kept every direction. "1 oan thank | return with Stasys? "I have no It was not always thus. Back in 1927 the Academy Awards 'were established as a family af- fair, The idea was that the award ceremonies would be quiet, un- pretentious occasions in which performers would be honored for outstanding achievement by a jury of their peers. There was never any intention or expectation then that it would become newsworthy. Motion pic- tures in those days were held in low repute, widely regarded as mostly frivolous timekillers, in- tellectually only a cut above pro- fessional baseball and perhaps a cut below the Chautauqua, the Oscars in the cinematic world the Oscars free from taint. No award in the cinematic world is so enduring or so dearly covet- ed. And this would not be so if the winners were determined by full page ads in Daily Variety. There is little doubt, however, that an Oscar can skyrocket ca- reers and fill pocketbooks, And nobody in the Academy really objects to that either. An Oscar is widely conceded to be worth an extra $1,000,000 at the box office for whatever pic- ture wins one, "And if an agent had a client who had won an Academy Award or a nomination," adds ceremony, ha found himse If in still another controversy over his job on a The Institute of Journalists the National Union of Journalists. expressed *' profound regret' that he : London newspaper. had joined another union, HR ONICLES "GINGERFARM Khrushchev and the American press," said Paulius, "This is a Joy. This a free and wonderful country, This is the most excit- ing day of my life. They are free +. . they are free ..." Paulius Leonas did, indeed, we the Soviet Premier thanks. he Leonases, Lithuanian-born American citizens, had fled the Russian wartime advance into their country, leaving Regina and Tomas with grandparents, When Khrushchev visited the U.S. In September 1959, the Leonases caught up with him in the lobby of a Des Moines hotel, tearfully begged him to let their children come to America. Khrushchev grudge against. Khrushchev, He fulfilled his original promise. But if he wants to be 150 per cent, he can do this and let them return." From NEWSWEEK How You Can Kill Any Organization 1. Do not come to the meeting; or, if you do, come late. Do not think of coming if the weather 'does not suit, or if you have another engagement of less im- portance. 2. If you attend a meeting, find fault with the work of the offi- But as the years rolled by Mr. Corey, "and didn't us (Particularly the secretary) - 2 d a se that cers (Partic y radio began to cut in on the last ( a . at romised he would and after a d other members. - : ; act as a level for negotiating - : and o s 15 minutes of the ceremonies to contracts, he would be a pretty Gwendoline Pp. Clarke four month delay, kept his word. 3. Never be nominated for the record who won the acting uy mr : Yet even as Regina radiated committee. It is far easier ta awards. Then radio began airing the entire ceremony, and the Academy Awards began moving toward its present mixture of sober recognition of quality and br Bd ren : ly going into orbit? For the next other eye-specialist. So I made sweetheart, 25-year-old musie 4. 1 you are asked by the | ~ TV spectacular. ~~ ~~ | [helt 31 years done anything to | 8 0 ead of lr ext | ot "appointment with him and | teacher Stasys Bikuloius.____ fo VOU EE Re evition 88 Last year's Academy Award pictures? : s0 I won't add what you al- liked him immensely. Instead of E As time wore on, Regina went 'on an important matter, teil him presentations drew a larger TV That was the main reason ready know -- e t to say this. a ten-minute consultation I was ug) to work as an inventory taker that you have nothing to say. audience than the Presidential : : To me the most heart-warming in a downtown Chicago clothing ! Inaugural. And in direct propor- tlon that the Hooper ratings have Increased, so has the yearning fter an Oscar within the film in- ustry, Actor Wendell Core y, the handsome, affable president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, says with can- -dor: "An Oscar must mean some- thing or people wouldn't struggle 30 hard to get it." The most obvious outward evi- ...dence that people do indeed struggle hard to get it, or at least to be nominated for it--which is almost as good for egos and ca- reers as winning--is the adver- tising campaign hopefuls wage in Hollywood trade publications, One observer who has foilowed the Academy since its earliest days estimates that the number of ads run each year in the trades has increased 10 times in the past 10 years. ' Only five years ago, before nominations, 77 full pages of ads appefred in the trades calling attention to potential awards win- ning performances or pictures. Another 77 pages appeared after lousy agent." But none of this is really so' important as another question that is often widely overlooked: Have the Academy Awards in they were established in the first place. But anybody who tries to assess the success or failure in this fundamental goal must re- sort to hunches, impressions, and dead reckoning. Nobody knows. for certain if films have become better because of Oscars or not. Mr. Corey can't even- say for certain if they have. But he will say that "an award for excel- lence is bound to upgrade some- thing. More people -are trying now to win Academy Awards. And you've got to make a --picture~to-do it." Modern Etiquette By Anne Ashley C. When a girl introduces the man to whom she is engaged, should she refer to him as her fiance? A. Yes, Q. When sending a reply to a wedding invitation, should it be addressed to the bride-elect or to her parents? A. Since the wedding invita- tion is usually issued in the good Well, have you all caught your second wind? Who would have thought last week would be so momentous. . . John Glenn final- incident of the whole.marvellous achievement was the attitude of John Glenn himself. His modesty, and his generous insistence that the success of the entire project was the result of good team work from start to finish. No doubt he was right but a man with less - personality might have been ex- cused ha more of the honour and glory for himself. Another thing 1 like about him is his delightful sense of humour -- which he certainly needed -to-help him endure all ~ the publicity that came his way. So, like everyone else, I am glad to say "hats off to Lt.-Col.. John Glenn". Now I hope the public will show a little understanding and give the poor fellow a chance to get a little peace and quiet- ness. ; As you know, after the Glenn excitement, almost everyone in Ontario towards the end of the week came out of the clouds and down to earth with a vengeance -- lo an earth that was covered by ice and mountains of snow, driven by a strong east wind. he retained a little - were on an assembly line. He asked little and said less. I start- od making inquiries and a friend told me how much she liked an- in his office two hours. As I said before he didn't change my glass- es. This doctor said my main trouble was dry eye-sockets -- terribly dry. "Don't I know it," 1 exclaimed, "I have been trying to tell doctors and oculists that for five years. I don't suppose I could cry if I wantéd to!" "And that's a pity," said the doctor, "a little 'cty sometimes does a lot of good." He gave me a prescription for some kind of eye-drops to act as a' lubricant for the eyes. «In less than two days there was a tremendous im- provement. I suppose the human body is much like any other form of machinery -- and we know ball-bearings won't work. with- out Iubricatian, That was the same day 1 was supposed to stay overnight with my daughter and to go to the Girl Guide Festival with her. Buf I phoned her that I was go- ing straight home -- I couldn't take the mud.and slush any long- er. I never saw Toronto in such a filthy mess. While waiting for the bus if I stood near the kerb I get plastered with slush; if 1 FLU FIGHTERS --These young women are among many To- kyo residents wearing surgical masks as protection against a flu epidemic. tiddler's tune. It afforded glimpses of the blue lake to the south, and the smell of the lake was In the air, Farms did not face ' upon the road but backed up to it, and wild ducks offen flew in from the marshes along the lake's edge to feed in the grain fields. memory as it was in- October, with a lively: wind out of the flying across it, and apples on the neglected old trees along the way already 'touched by frost. The lake had changed colour, reflect ing the clearer blue of the sky, and those were good days for The land lay bare, and its beauty, now that the hardwoods had lost their leaves, was rather of line and form than of colour, Only the That road stays most clearly in west sending the fallen leaves watching the habits of clouds. name of the bride's parents, -| This morning our driveway was, stood well back there was a 3 : : : nominations. Last year a whop- your reply should be addressed completely fiiled in and the back- |: chance of missing the bus. But bi BO i 9 id to them. door blocked by a huge snow- 1 feglly made Hand Was sky would fill with the honking | SALLY'S SALLIES "10 2 WASH] & CAR YASH 1 i Cpa ------ Q. Should garage attendants or service station attendants be tipped? A. Only if some special ser- vice has been performed outside drift. It was a mercy it was Sat- urday so that fewer people had to fight their way to work. Even so driveways had to be cleared from every house, so shovels never so pleased in my life to get back home. Next day there was promise of more bad weather on the way so I got the car out and rushed! around paying bills and pointed south. of Canada - geese, To one on foot, whose only concern was to fill his eyes and their wedges A smiles at the reunion with her parents, there were strains of sorrow in her heart. Left behind in Lithuania was her schooldays' store, 'attended night classes to learn English. But she was shy and refused to date American boys. She thought only of Stasys, and in the two years since their separation they wrote about 160 letters to one another. She also tried to have him brought to this oouniry, but her efforts failed. Having reached a hard deci- sion, Regina was-interviewed one day last week in the red-carpet- ed living room of the Leonases' -new; two-story brick combina- --tion home and real-estate office ---on- Chicago's South Side. Her -talkative father sat on a sofa on one side of her, her quiet, ner- . vous mother on the other. Re- gina, too, seemed nervous, and - spoke in Lithuanian. Her father - acted as translator for the inter- view. criticize than to do things. Be sure, however, to be annoyed if you are not appointed to a com- mittee. After a meeting tell everyona what should have been done. 3. Do nothing yourself. If other "members get busy, grumble and declare that the association Is run by a clique, _ 6. Do not listen to the business, and afterwards say that nobody ever tells you anything. 7. Vote in favor of something, and then do exactly the oppo- site. "8. Agree with everything thaf "Is sald in the meeting and dis- agree outside. 9. Get all the benetits you can through the work of the asso." ciation, but do not contribute anything yourself. 10. If you are asked to pay your overdue subscription, re sent such impertinence and ten. der your resignation. Ei SG a Ly i v, his mind, there was nothing sad about October weather. It tingied --with life;/and yet it was leisurely oe = Which spring never was. _. were soon in action. Then alter a double wheel track was clear- __ed to the road the inevitable hap- 'pened -- along came the snow=" shopping. The storm came all right but it found our refrigera- . _tor well filled. Today is Ross's birthday . . . more excitement. of what is regularly charged for. . Q. When. it is necessary for a "=[=~house guest-to make:-a long=dis= - 0 Fog Tuten Gobo Co vm) Watt ih moe nd an ". . and don't forget to: wash behind the fenders." tnce telephone call, how should this be handled? > A. First, of course; the guest asks permission of his host or hostess. Then, after his call has been completed, he immediately calls the operator, asks for the charges of his call, and then re- mits this amount to his- host er- hostess. YOUNGSTE §--Astronaut John Glenn, in his tha Senate Space and Aeronautics Com- ng. men who want to take part in the the finest general education they can. plough and blocked the entrance to all the driveways. More shovelling! But yet everyone, _|..around here anyway, seemed to be in good spirits, neighbours resting on their shovels once in a while, joshing each other about our nice Canadian winters. In ---one house there was a temporary grass widow with two small chil- dren. Naturally the men rallied to her assistance although she insisted on helping with the job "herself. Partner was busy most of the day and had wheel tracks dug before the delivery men came around. 'As for the things I meant to do during the week,. some of them got 'done, some. of them didn't, Between storms I man- aged to get to the hairdressers for.a "perm" sbH'I now feel like a different person. Wednesday "was such an awful day == snow; went to bed quite sure I couldn't make it-to Toronto next day. But in the' morning it began to clear thirty. bus, After all, you think twice these. days before cancell« ing dn appointment with an eye- "apecialist, And am 1'glad 1 kept . changing -- but they didn%. I'll tell you what happened: because my experience may help someone else." For years I have been go< ing to a well-known o6culist who has built up a trefendous prac- tice. Recently however, I'haven't been sapfstied. His patients were ; -- ISSUE 11 -- 1962 rain, fog and' drizzle -- that I and I was 'able to catch the ten- - it! I thought my glasses needed dn and out of his office as if they 'marked off as what the province . one reason or anotHer they had ; 'beginning or end, gnd to hurry 'along them was impossible, "ia going way about it, and this paf=" And weather "probs" are for an- other storm from the east! There's never a dull moment any more; If variety -is'the spice of _ life, we're getting it! ! Even the Maple Leafs managéd to wrest a game from the Bruins! Idling Along Old Ontario Roads This begins with praise of certain roads in southern Ontario as they were thirty or more years ago. They 'were not. considered : important roads. Sofie had been ' called concession lines, .but for never been opened"to traffic -- roads in intention 'only. Others had fallen into partial or: com- plete disuse, 'S 0 mi were not properly roads at all, but abans doned railroad rightg of way. But they all shared this one peculiar- ity that, for the few human trav- elers who. frequentéd them, the road itself was a debtination, 'in- stead of merly leading to one. They were for thoseywho believe: that it is better to travel than to arrive . They had no particular One of the best of these roads ran from east to "west through part of the township of Enn - ismore, a long peninsula between two lakes of the Kawartha chain. Ennismore had' a ¢asual,: easy~ Heular road was stgeped in the very essence of Ennigmore. It ran and dipped and turned as if to a bloom even before the last of the "were clamourous with 'peepers, | - but October nights had the wind | ------ in the pines and the danging, moving lights in the northern sky. . living freedom..It 1s the return of 'a prodigal, the resumption of a Spring was all hurrying growth, willows in bud and hepaticas in snow was gone. Spring nights Just possibly, this idling along old roads may be condemned as escape, as an attempt to get away from duties and responsibilities. But the workaday world is only part of an older and much wider world into which we are born. If this is escape, it is to a rich and birthright. It is going back to a place we may leave but never wholly lose.--From "Speak to the Earth," by William A. Breyfogle. THROUGH THE LOOKING GLA quite make it to Wonderland a $$ -- Jimmy Pitts, 5, didn't s Alice did, but a construction project through one of th superintendent-type portholés. COMPACT JET-~Made by a motor new jet plane rests inside a hang either civilian or military use. Powered By two i Into production by 1963. A ny A a i SRR SA aia i i : s shot SEAR ' "scooter. company that is reaching er at Genoa, Italy. The 6 to et engines on its si : J { e did see e six sidewalk for new, height -seater. is ca des, the Plone ey go et +: | p---- Sgr i a EO i TEES. Ts HE AN ----t RI TT

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