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eyes, Arthur Godfrey can do no wrong. a crack rifle shot on the show, well, nothing to do but Arthur’s got to grab a gun and out shoot the rifle expert. And then that time when we all went skating. Well, there was Ar¬ thur, him that never had on a pair of skates in his life.” Janette and Godfrey himself are the only Friends left from the original cast (Friends made its television debut in 1949). It included three other vo¬ calists, Marshall Young, Patti Clayton (who also had her own show, “Waitin’ for Clayton”) and an Irish tenor named Frank Saunders, whom God¬ frey had uncovered tending bar at a restaurant. “It was a wonderful show. We had nothing, no sponsors, no commercials, no nothing. We had a zero-minus rat¬ ing. Then, suddenly, we caught fire. People began to realize what a ter¬ rific performer Arthur is.” Janette can remember, too, when strife came to Godfreyland. BiU Law¬ rence, Julius La Rosa, Archie Bleyer' the Chordettes, Marion Marlowe, the Mariners and Haleloke are gone, but Janette remains—steadfast as ever. How does she explain her ability to survive each crisis on the show? “Well, it’s like this: I grew up with the show. I gradually became part of it. I started making suggestions way back in 1949—and Arthur al¬ ways has wanted people on the show to make constructive suggestions. Well, when the others got on the show, it already was a big show. There wasn’t so much room for sug¬ gestions.” Has she any plans for the future? “Future? Look, my future is right here on Friends. I like it here. I want to stay. This is what I’ve worked for all my life. I never thought I’d stay up on top so long. But now I’m gonna stay around just as long as I can sing. They’ll have to drag me out of here by the heels.” turned them all down. I said, ‘No thank you!’ I said, ‘I like it here.’ I said, ‘Listen,’ I said, ‘I’ve watched them coming and going and I’ll tell you one thing,’ I said. ‘I’m going to be better off right here singing for Ar¬ thur when the rest are in the soup.’ ” In Janette’s opinion, Godfrey can do no wrong esthetically. She does disapprove, however, of his disregard for his own physical safety. In fact, she worries about him. “You know what he did the other day—the other week-end, down in Virginia? He fell off a horse, that’s what! He fell off a horse and got a black eye! Imagine him on a horse, him with that bad hip he has! And that time we went out to Coney Island on the show—that night he went down those slides. Imagine! “He’s always been that way. And he can do these things better than anyone else on the show. If we have 15