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Her Op'ry
At Grand Ole Opry show in Nashville, "Minnie Pearl" reSales studio and radio network audiences with gossip of latest doings at Grinder's Switch
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Without reservation, Mrs. Cannon says she would rather work among neuropsychiatric patients, for her amusing characterizations seem to strike response where they are most needed.
"At the hospital in Tuscaloosa," she recalls, "I was attempting to help those fellows as Mrs. Henry Cannon. I talked and I talked to one of them — a boy who hadn 't entered into any conversation for months, according to one of the nurses. I was getting nowhere fast, so I went out, switched into my Minnie Pearl character and costime and came back to that silent lad.
"The minute I began to talk about Grinder's Switch, the boy perked up and began to drop a word in now and then."
By the time Mrs. Cannon, alias Minnie Pearl, had left the hospital, the nurse in charge of that patient's ward, told the entertainer that he was already carrying on a conversation with another farm boy. That was his first conversation since he entered the hsopital.
"There are some acts and some types of entertainment that in themselves are not capable of making a contribution to the morale of some patients," Mrs. Cannon observes. She adds that there are, on the other hand, some kinds of comedy that produce results in some sections of the
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country and fall flat in a veterans hospital in another area.
With emphasis on the comic Minnie Pearl side of her dual personality, Mrs. Henry Cannon's talent, first displayed in small town halls, drew hearty laughter — the kind of laughter which led her to larger auditoriums and theaters and finally, to her featured role in the Grand Old Op'ry radio show.
With this testimony to her abilities, it is no wonder that now, in the quiet and calm wards and assembly rooms of veterans hospitals across the country, Minnie Pearl "gets across."
MARCH, 1949