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Appeal-Demoerat Marysviile-Yuba City, CaliforniaFriday, January 11, 1963 SHlt;rwoodOsmond Brothers Still Stealing Shows On TVBy RIC K DU BROW United Press Internationalever, adamant. I am wrong, qualify as a sportseastcr.butcHOLLYWOOD (UP1) — Thname of the act is the Osmond Brothers. That’s OSMOND. Andwhat they do is make you feelgood.Last April, when they were 6,8,10, and 12 years old respectively (the bass was 12; the lead, 6, their captivating way with harmony on a program called “Disneyland After Dark was noted here, along with a not-too-difficult prediction that their astonishing poise and showmanship would probably soon have variety shows snapping them up.Well, they are aging; I hear the bass has turned 13. But the snapping up has exceeded even their own hopes of last year. NBC-TV’s Andy Williams had them on his weekly musicale several times; and, almost needless to say, just as they stole the show from Louis Armstrong onthe Disneyland program, so they have done the same with Bette Davis and other headliners in their latest efforts.! Thursday it wasthat the youngsters, from Ogden, Utah, were signed to a long-term contract by Williams. And Thurs-wday night, in another of their brief appearances on his show, they ran away with it again i against such competition as Kee-ly Smith, George Gobel, Red Nor-vo, ihe New Christy Minstrels and the star himself. They areI something.To be specific, their voices are the closest things you will hear to chimes. 'Hie youngest brother is a magnificent ham, and the others play off him beautifully, giving him his head. And to top it off, they have faces that ab-elv shine with handsomenessannouncedof a natural and unaffected sort, and intelligence and simple good nature.The Channel Swim: CharlesDickens is suddenly a hot property; NBC-TV recently presented a cartoon version of his story, “A Christmas Carol”; a musical based on his book “Oliver Twist, * and titled “Oliver!”, has opened on Broadway; and now CBS-TV will offer a one-hour dramatization of the author's life and workson Feb. 13.The life of another famous Englishman, statesman Benjamin Disraeli, is the subject of an original 90-minute drama April 4 onNBC-TV’s “Hall of Fame” Andyet another original play, a one-hou r stOry about international fugitives trying to avoid extradition, is in the works at CBS-TV,starring Robert Horton, Walter Slexak, Hedy Lamarr, Cyril Ritchard, Angie Dickinson, Buster Keaton and Hoagy Carmichael; no date is sst for its airing.Water Diversion Request FiledAn application for diversion of 1.25 cubic feet of water a second from a stream tributary to Jack Slough and the Feather River has been filed by George W. Vi-vion of Marysville.The application, for irrigating 100 acres, was among those filed with the Slate Water Rights Board during December.There was no cost given for the requested diversion project in Yuba County.Tatoma Pines. Inc. Saratoga, lias applied for diversion of 2 cubic feet per second in Butte County. The water, from Berry Creek, tributary to the North Fork Feather River, is to be used for irrigation, domestic and
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Marysville Appeal Democrat
Marysville, California, US
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