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l-ourlThiAtul -A Girl... AND GUESS WHO'S THE BOSS! Paula Kelly, a fifth and female wheel in what used to be a male quartet called The Modernaires, a stalwart component of The Bob Crosby Show, has been keeping the boys under con¬ trol since 1941. She was vocalist at the time with Glenn Miller’s-band, and The Modern¬ aires had just signed on. She married one of them, Hal Dickinson, and be¬ came housemother to all four. “It’s not easy,” she admits, “for I’ve long since found it’s physically im¬ possible to outshout four men. But somebody has to look after them. They can still turn up for a show with their ties on crooked, or either wearing the wrong suit or a white shirt instead of a TV blue one, or bringing the wrong music, or sporting a shiny silver tie clasp that will burn holes in a camera, or groaning and moaning about hav¬ ing missed their morning coffee.” The Modernaires—Dickinson, Fran¬ cis Scott, Allan Copeland, Johnny Drake and Paula—all live out in the San Fernando Valley, Paula and Hal holding down an English farmstead in Tarzana with their three daughters, ranging in age from seven to 13. After years of riding herd on the four men in her life, Paula recently has found the tables turned somewhat. A thyroidectomy and chronic laryn¬ gitis have at times reduced her to the highly unfemale-like position of being forbidden to talk for as long as three weeks at a time (she is al¬ lowed on these occasions to sing on the show, but nothing else), and the boys hover over her with all the awkward solicitude of four husbands. “But I still have to straighten their ties and pour their coffee and see that their hair gets combed,” she says. “I carry a little gold whistle on my charm bracelet, and when I blow it they jump. They’re the only men I know who get whistled at regularly by a woman.” Under control: Paula feeds Allan Copeland, husband, John Drake, Francis Scott.