Bob Hope Show Makes '] to Life Brighter for Needy by MACK WILLIAMS

-Star-Telegram Staff Photo. THE GREAT LOVER-They had to drag Bob Hope on con the stage Friday night after he met an old friend, Mary oth1 offi Frances Roberson, in the audience. As Punkins Parker, F Miss Roberson danced in Casa Manana and in the movies. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Roberson, 2812 Benbrook, and as "Mary Parker" has a te)evision show ove~ WBAP-TV. every week-day. ' . ~ min ing Bob Hope Show Makes '] to Life Brighter for Needy BY MACK WILLIAMS. your c he ck books," Hope Bob Hope, still looking for "the announced. guy who painted 'men' on my Hope confided all his troubles ne B-24's bomb bay door," kept 6,508 Friday night. He talked about the ye ai persons in a 2½-hour uproar here race track: FHI Friday night. p "I had $2 on a horse. Of course atl He made life brighter, too, for I had to pick the only one that me1 many needy children who weren't started from a kneeHng position. exe in the audience at Will Rogers I won't say she was slow but when gov Memorial Coliseum. she finished a colt was running the The ski-nosed comedian's show beside her." was for the benefit of the Star• And he admitted with a leer NE Telegram Free Milk and Ice that he had a favorite school Fund. He will help fill some teacher: CA more ice-boxes at 2 p. m. Sunday, "She's all c 1 as s and n o A in a golf exhibition at River Crest principal." Wo Country Club. Glaring at his partner in a da] Nelson to Play. West Texas oil venture, Hope the Byron Nelson, Raymond Gaf• said sadly: FH ford and Jimmy Nichols, one­ "Monty (W. A. Moncrief Sr.) stri armed Fort Worth golfer, will hit peanut butter at 7,000 feet. team up with Hope for the match. He insisted on drilling 1,000 feet anc Admission is free "but bring deeper. He said maybe we'd hit age soda crackers." elli Lewis With a Needle. 1 Hope clicked his teeth at Cur­ vel ermils Reach ley Broyles' bandsmen. ha, "Petrillo-that's John L. Lewis hot with a lifetime needle." Hollywood, said Crosby's road Record Total partn~r, is wonderful. Fort Worth construction spiral­ "They called my movie 'The ed Saturday above the 1947 all­ Paleface' for a. good reason. If time record in number of build­ you spent 12 weeks with Jane ing permits issued for one year. Russell you wouldn't have any Through Friday, there were blood left either." 7,450 permits issued in the, city Inhaling hard, he jeer~d at during 1949 as compared with Jack Pepper's waistline. 7,420 for all of 1947. Four more "Is that all you .or did you weeks remain on the current stop and get ,it filled witl:i helium calendar. on your way over?" Pepper, a member of Hope's There were 164 permits issued wartime troupe, came from Dal­ during the week for a total of las to sing' and dance for the $429,762, according to Bill Riegal, benefit show. "It's all right to city building permit clerk. They let him stay in Fort Worth," d pushed the year's construction Hope assured the audience. "He'll value to $26,558,592, only slightly just be here a little while." behind the 1948 record value pace which had reached $27,142,• Hope said he plans to go on television himself-"Just as soon 706 during the same week last as they get a wider screen." year. With an eye on Maj. Gen. Roger M. Ramey in the audience, sl Hope told of his wartime flights: THINK IT OVER "Once it got so rough even t the automatic pilot bailed out. 1~ "The first time l crossed the Pacific I wasn't nervous a bit. No failure is a total s if I I read a novel. all the way over. ___from it__;c.__ you______learn a less__;.,. _____ Turn to_ Bob Hope on Page 2. FORT WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM Saturday Eve., Dec. 3, 1949.

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-Star-Telegram Staff Pnoto. . THAT FUR BRA-Cheryll Clarke, center., models the "infamous" fur bra that . caused Bob Hope to ·make one of his equally infamous double-takes Friday night · at Will Rogers Memorial Coliseum. Ann Hutt, left, and Pat Smith, right, also modeled for Hope's approval on the 2½-hour show.

was Chur, Sm of Fe don < Mrs. and a Rives Thi neral held burif' JOSE Ser m. M for J1 pente his . Blvd. will Mero< the g Wa -Star-Telegram St aff Photo. Dako1 KIDS' FAVO RITE-Crosby says Bob Hope's humor is infantile. Well, youngsters Wort] who enjoyed the show Friday night included Ronald Johnson, 9, left, and Larry meml Neville, 6. Ronald is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles C. Johnson of 3308 E. 1st. cal 1: LarJ'j''s parents are Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Neville of 1000 Winnie. IRE 1E ARL IS SILENT -Star-Telegram Staff Photo . 4 Killed in Continued From Page 1. . ' HOPE ENTHUSIASTS-Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Christopher. and daug~ter, Avis, ing, started grass fires in the sur- Queen's Ki · aboye, were among th,e 6,508 persons who roared at Bob Hope's Friday night show 1! unding area, burning over sev­ :ual acres. Aul·o Crash The president's office listed the - m ollowing persons as injured but Accused of ALVl ~~;;:t~~riaf ;o;E T~;;o;rsidB0~022~o;E PLAINVIEW, Dec. 3 (A'). - 10t in a serious condition: Rev Four persons were killed in a two­ Charles Edwin Brower, Eldo­ duct i Continued From Page 1. "Old Folks,".a Negro scat dancer, oar crash seven miles north of rado, Kan. in Sh Plainview at sunup Saturday. Mario Eagenti, New York City. Royal Flush Alvin ■ G Coming back, I read the second and Mary Carroll, singer. Three died instantly and an­ M dI page." "You're looking beautiful," Norman Hardwick, San An- PERTH, Scotland, Dec. 3 (A'). W0rtl ar ras Hope assured Miss Carroll. other died later in Plainview Hos­ tonio. · Frida· pital. Two others were injured. Queen Elizabeth's nephew, the Hope's show was like a revival Then ne hugged her. "Now you Jene Hunter, Duncan, Okla. earl of Strathmore, was accused skull · The dead were: Bill Johnston, Joplin, Mo. his at I{. 1· II 1·ng Gu1· lly of vaudeville. It included Nor- know how I feel," he said. Bob Willis, 70, of Floydada, of drunken driving .Saturday. , man Brown, tap dancer and drum- Hope announced a style show Rob ert King, New York City. The 31-year-old ex-soldier plead­ 3900 I drivei: of a northbound car. Rob ert Klinko, Binghamton, ed innocent. Buria NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 3 (INS). mer from the Skyline Club; the with Ann Hutt, Janet Morgan, William Youngblood, 31, of Tu­ N. Y. The exact charge was that he wood. The case of the Mardi Gras slay- Parker Brothers, acrobats; Nor- Virginia King, Cheryll Clarke, cumcari, N. M., who died at a hos­ Gene Lichenstein,,.. New York drove a jeep while under the in­ ing of millionaire Virginian James ris Greer .of 1201 W. Allen, TCU Pat Smith, Billie Long, Fern Cole­ .pital. City. fluence of drink to such an extent MRS . A. Mahoney ended Saturday in a voice tea_cher, Ed Coatney,, Tulsa man and Bobbette Winkle as Fred Geer, 58, . of Amarillo, James Melnyk, Big Valley, as to be incapable of having prop­ Ser ~ New Orleans courtroom when a harmonica player, and, ai; a sur- models. brother-in.Jaw of Youngblood. anada. er control of the vehicle. Come: jury pronounced 25-year-old Louis prise, Mrs. Hope, who sang. · He kissed some of them. The Mrs. B. E. Robinson of Ama­ Harry J . Owens, Coffeyville, The offense·was alleged to have for 1 Eugene Hoover guilty as charged. From Dallas with Pepper came others Fan faster than he did. rillo, niece of Youngblood's w'ife. an. taken place Friday night on the aftern Death in the electric c ir is Millie Davis, 365-pound blues Hope introduced Miss Nona Lou Logan L. Riggs, Monroe, Okla. road between Perth and Forfar, Satur1 mandatory for the Louisvill Ky., singer (warbling "All of Me"), Green, Star-Telegram fashion wri­ E. W. Vorlop, Dallas. about six miles from Perth. el, Ms youth convicted of batterin the Jack Ladelle, a· one:man orchestra, ter, who arranged the style show. Jack Schneps, Oklahoma City. A Perth lawyer appeared for fi ciati Bristol, Va., bachelor to deat ·n ------'-- Amon Carter introduced the James Edward Williams, Sul­ the earl. Strathmore himself was Ser a French quarter hotel room I t comedian and ,praised him for Continued From Page 1. , phur Springs, Texas. silent throughout a brief arraign­ Mond: Feb. 21. ederal Employ.e helping• the ]i'Fee Milk and Ice market value protection," Harvey Caren, Livingston, N. Y. ment in Perth sheriff court. Churc Hoover, unruffled by a 15-hou Fund. • aid. Guy Mixon, Shreveport. The court fixed March 10, 1950, will wait . for the verdict, heard the II n· ------.C . Nowlin, chairman of the James L. Mohon. Council, Okla. for a trial. The earl, whose name mausc clerk intone "guilty as charged" apses., 1es B'IRTHS ty zoning board of adjust- is Timothy Patrick Bowes-Lyon, tery t . with no show of emotion. . .ent and · 'fortner president of was not held. The verdict ended a four-day arles E. Kelley, about 47, of .....:.------411 the Real Estate Board, termed -25 From Texas · The earl's address was given ThE trial in which Hoover's former 3621 Lipscomb a government em- Babies bo,n in Fort worth Friday: the policy as "disgraceful and as Glamis Castle. This is the an­ snake wife, Alberta Stroh, appeared . ' . All Saints Hos1>ita1. ridiculous." cient seat of the Strathmore fam­ voluntarily to testify to -his bru- , ploye, died shortly before noon ! 22 f2°Yt-:-1~{iilnfnfl\r.Pi~"l ~~:"1~'.1e¥: "When you take the taxpay- ily. 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