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ystraps in order to oe completely London these days, Dut we are from its modern setting, is one of free when they strike the water. | going there with hopes of settling the oldest. In a matter of seconds, they (down for a long run." Ame ican musicals which have are trained to link up by belts| It has no big names. Bern- flopped in London include Fannyy with their comrades. In this way stein's music is not everybody's! Plain and Fancy, Dam Yankees they can check each others' oxy- | dish of tea. The story, apartiand Bells Are Ringing. gen equipment. > OE TR cara [J ' TF] h A Canadian Press Agent 1... rs Top-Notch In NY. | Of Tamers "550i, on on os COLLIORES, France (AP) -- (23 feet) underwatér. Their oxy-| The French Army is training a gen reserves then allow them to group of parachutist - frogmen!swim six miles underwater. who can jump from 1,300 feet in , - UK. Theatre JO THE OSHAWA TIMES, Wednesdey, November 26, 1958 ALBERT'S National & Imported that hoop-da-doo," he said, add-|theatre is Les Appleby, native of ing with a smile: Perth, ig who handles uring (CP) _ "I don't know whether press shows but does not normally op- ; Mi SURE CP War agents have become more digni- erate in New York City. . dl ihe "ugoft sell," has a rare dis- fied, but they no longer plant Alford has travelled widely with tinction for > Canadian: He's a stories about chorus girls parad- various atractions, visiting 19 dl topnotch press agent in the bit- ing in the nude and that sort of cities in 11 countries, including | By JOSEPH MACSWEEN Cdnadian Press Staff Writer to the sea and swim underwater for cix miles. ' Their role in wartime could be sabotage actions on the open seas ae well as in ports. 8 thing." Russia, with the Boston Sym- 1 ER ROL I PR i terly - competitive, helter skelter New York theatrical field. These are busy days for Alford as the Broadway season reache: its peak with his firm, the Play- 4 wrights' Company, handling six ""AIplays. It's also a happy time for the former.newspaper man. "I have one foot in the theatre and one in the newspaper world-- what more could a man ask?" says the Ottawa-born agent who has numerous famed friends. UNUSUAL TRADEMARKS A mild and self-effacing person, | he's unusual in a business where the trademakers of a press agent ilare liable to be the fast hand- {thanks phony. He went to Israel with Alford Katharine Cornell's last play, The | Firstborn. "The press agent's job is the same all over the world," said ACCEPTABLE STUNTS "On the other hard," amended, "a stunt with a digni fied and valid tie-in with a show is very acceptable. Our job, of T course, is to get word to the pub. Alford, who has a working knowl- lic about our shows." edge of French, Spanish and Ger- Alford, in New York 20 years, man. the influence of three press agents for his show busi- Ottawa, he took a degree at ness savvy--the late Ray Hender- Queen's University, studied at son, the late Paul Greneker, and| McGill, worked for the Montreal William Fields, now his senior Herald, taught school at Belle- associate at Playwrights. ville, Ont., then went back to Ot- "Three southern gentlemen with tawa in 1936-38 with the Ottawa courtly manners, masters of what/Journal, editing the weekly Madison Avenue today calls the|drama and music page. MATERIAL NEEDED son of Dr. J. H. Alford of Many tourists have been able to watch these flying frogs spec- tacularly parachute info the Med- iterranean, off this port city ofl The day when almost. any New southern France. The flying frogs, in addition to two parachutes, have to jumn with the heavy equipment of a frogman -- some 60 pounds alto- gether. It includes waterproof dress, flippers, a helmet, an oxygen de- vice with a life of three hours, a lead belt of about 15 pounds, a depth meter, diving mask and a compass. The flying frogs are usually {dropped about 400 metres (1,300 Has Change MANCHESTER, Envland (AP) A Complete Selection In ® Meats and Groceries York musical scored am auto.) matic hit in Britain has gone, perhaps forever. That's why Je rome Robbins is keeping his fin- gers crossed. Robbins has brought over West Side Story and is giving it a month's run in Manchester be- fore taking it on to Lopdon in mid-December: At the opening here the cast took 14 curtain calls. Everybody liked the dancing fine. There were critical reservations about SEE OUR FINE ASSORTMENT OF PERFECTION BAKERY BREAD AND CAKES, El. {shake, the empty smile and the soft sell," said Alford. agressive sales pitch, Incidentally, Fields also has a "I started coming to New York But outwardly the six-foot, 1%- Canadian connection, having en-|for material to brighten up the linch Alford was the perfect pic-|listed with actor Raymond Mas-/page and for the first time came ture of the Broadway press agent sey in the Canadian Army dur-|in contact with that wonderful or- |when'a visitor found him in his ing the First World War. An ap-ganization, press agentry, |office in shirtsleeves pounding a|prentice press agent with Fields|through which you can get tickets | typewriter beside a ringing tele-and Alford is another Canadian,ito shows free if you are qualified. | phone. A forgotten snack--a pear,|Mae Lyons of Regina. Of Alford, |] fell more and more in love with M biscuits and coffee -- was lost Fields says: the theatre. "4lamong the papers on the littered "He has the greatest knowledge," "1 moved to Broadway with Y desk. of the theatre, from the time of high ideals. To me the theatre ee A // Alford, bachelor, Shakespeare to the present day, meant Shakespearé and O'Neill-- : on woes' paused in his attentive way to dis- of any press agent of any na- but my first job was with Olsen [cuss show business. An expression tionality working in the American and Johnson in Hellsapoppin. DISRESPECTFUL CALL IT PINCUSHION lof distaste crossed his face when theatre. His closest competitor "It was a wonderful experience lit was suggested that press would be Richard Maney, the|(o gee how this play, snubbed by | | lege has just as many admir- agents sometimes stage wild|dean and best known of pressithe critics, was selling out month ers. Built to set off the new |stunts to publicize their clients. |agents. after month. What went into it? 17-storey apartment building | "The days of the phoney stunts CANADIAN AGENT What was its secret? behind it, the sculpture has ex- are over--for one thing, news- A respected Canadian press questions like this I cited far more interest than [papers today have no space for agent-manager in the American aware of box office values." | the conventional skyscraper. - -- Sett-------- - - = 4 Winter Works Program ! "Hi Ti From Our Host Of n "Hit-And-Miss | : ost Of Seen '] (CP) -- The|litthe for the people of Northwest. Charming and Intimate Gifts! ! i tarmes Ontario minister of lands ern Ontario." & wa pT rr {and forests says the province has| "I 'don't Believe in bolldig} [a hit-and-miss winter works pro- hifvways dhe Rar Nowa, | gram "designed to just get us|south of the CNR line." 'over another bad year." Mr. Mapledoram a it is high » time the Ontario and federal gov- : Clare Mapledoram, Progressive ernment studied a program sim- ¥ William gram ilar to the long-range program in 4 | Manitoba which aims to combat Monday night in an address at| ; i +« unemployment by initiating long. { the annual meeting of his riding's|, ork which will | Conservative Association. erm works programs | Hy |be advanced +a litfle each year) ¥ "It'c high time that the provin-| during periods of slack employ-| : ernment, with assistance ment. ' federal 'government, He said Premier Frost's winter { feet) above the sea but, training|Leonard Bernstein's music and officers said, the drops can be|Arthur Laurents' story. which is lower if needed and in winds of a modern version of Romeo and up to 35 miles an hour. Juliet against a background of The drop from 1,300 feet takes teen-age gang wars. 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