Modern Screen (Dec 1954 - Dec 1955)

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BISHOP SHEEN frankly answers those questions on LOVE SEX ana MARRIAGE that challenge every couple THREE TO GET MARRIED now a big-selling DELL book 35/^ ONLY on sale everywhere THREE TO GET MARRIED THE CASUAL TOUCH ■ A couple of weeks before his show was due to start its fall schedule, Perry Como, looking like a little boy lost, began to show up daily at his office in Radio City. He would shuffle through the mail, look through the stack of new tunes and make a few phone calls. He seemed edgy. "What's the matter, Perry?" asked his brother-in-law, Dee Belline, who looks out for things for him. "I got tired of sitting around the house," Perry replied. "Thought maybe I could find some new songs I liked or something." It certainly wasn't that his summer had been dull. With his brotherin-law, he spent a couple of weeks in the north woods, catching the kind of big fish you read about. Then he went back to his Sands Point, Long Island, home and spent another four weeks with the boys. Ronnie, his thirteen-year-old son, got him interested in some more fishing. He played golf and took the family to the beach. It was an ideal lazy summer, but something was missing. So much has been written about Perry Como's relaxed conduct as a television performer, that people tend to forget that the singing Perry does is an important part of his calm way of life. He has been standing up before a howling crowd of teen-agers three times a week for so long that he frankly misses it when he's away. "What do you think makes my home such a delight?" he To Perry (Perpetual Phenomenon) Como, life is a never-ending vacation — as long as he's at work! once asked. "A hard day's work." During his first few broadcasts for Chesterfield this fall, Perry behaved like a spring colt let out to grass. Backstage, he kept the Fontane sisters doubled up with gags. Margie most of all; when Perry's feeling good, according to Margie he's the funniest man on earth. At forty-two, Perry Como is one of America's leading popular singers, responsible for several million record sales each year. Without the aid of make-up, wigs or special attention to his looks, Perry seems to get younger every year. His voice is as mellow as ever, and more than likely, he will come up with another 1,000,000-sale-hit-record (he's had seven to date ) before the season is over. His fan mail, mostly from girls, runs more than 2700 letters a week, principally requests for pictures. All this though he is happily married, and bitterly opposed to the dramatic staging of love songs on his show. Last year, one advertising agency man worried overtime about Perry's failure to project enough romantic feeling during his ballad numbers. "He doesn't make me feel he knows what love is all about," the man said. "Don't kid yourself," said one of the men in the band. "Our boy Perry could stand out there with both hands in his pockets, grin for eight bars, then read the lyrics off a prompting board — and gas the people. What more do you want — tears?"