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Potnckri Sku-Ntw* UbttAoy.k*. 12, 19ft3LET'S SEE NOWBrother Act Goes Over With SmashBy RICK OU BROWThe name of the act Is the Osmond Brothers. That’s O-S-M-O-N-D. And what they do is make you feel good.Last April, when they were 6# 8, 30, and 32 years old respectively (the bass' was 12; the lead, 6), their captivating way wiih harmony on a program called “Disneyland After Dark*' was noted here, along with a not-too-dilficuk prediction that their astonishing] poise and showmanship would) probably soon have variety' shows snapping them up..Well, Ihcv are aging: I hear the bass has turned 13, But the snapping -up has exceeded even their own hopes of last year. NBC - TVs Andy Williams had them on his weekly musicalc several times; and, almost needless to say. Just as they stole the show from Louis Armstrong on the Disneyland program, so they have done the same with Bette. Da vis and other head* liners In their latest efforts.Thursday it was announced that the youngsters, from Ogden, Utah, were signed to a longterm coniract by Williams. And Thursday right, in another of their brief appearances on his show, they ran away with it again against such competition as Keely Smith, George Gobel, Red Xorvo, the new Christy Minstrels and the star himself. They are something.To be specific, their voices are the closest things you willand Intelligence and simple good nature.*Last night, I they knocked out Bye, Bye Blues/' Then Williams joined them .for “Aura Lee,” but couldn’t help breaking up as the Tittle one sang and mugged to a fare-t hoe*well The boys wore red dinner jackets and black bow ties; and with the youngest aided immeasurably by a strategically - missing front tooth, they just couldn't miss.It is a phenomenon of show business when an act comes along that can pick up a program from dead center and get it moving, or can soar it to heights of pleasure. Thehear to chimes. The youngest name is O-S-M-ON D,brother is a magnificent ham, and the others play off him beautifully, giving him hLs head. And to lop it off. they ; have faces that absolutely shine with handsomeness of a natural and unaffected sort,★Friends, it is sad 1o report that the sword of. grammar is a double-edged one. . Last week, commenting on the English of sportscasters,' I used a sequence-of words saying “1of an original '90 - minute drama April 4 on NBC-TV's “Hall of Fame” ,. , . and yet another original play, a one-hour story about international fugitives trying to avoid extradition, Is In the works at CB3-TV, starring Robert Horton, Walter Slerak, Hedy La-Marr, . Cyril Ritchard, Anglo Dick insoni Buster Keaton and Hoagy Carmichael; no 'date is set for JUs airing.NBC-TV signed Mary Martin ior an unspecified number of special appearances . . , same network’s 4The Catholic Hour** will’show scenes from the movies “La Dolce- Vila,” “Cabiria,” “Moby.Dick” and “Hamlet”' tomorrow in the second , part -.of its -fouipro-gram study of the popular arts . . . in May,/ The.Catholic Hour” will present another four-partef, this one about the history and development of the Roman Catholic Church-
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Sat, Jan 12, 1963
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