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Section A~Page Fourteen The Show Case Patient Singer Kept Smiling By JOAN QUARM THIS COLUMN is ad dressed to a large, fat, bald ing man who went to La Nueva Cucaracha in Juarez Saturday night, to hear Vaughn Monroe. Since, unfor tunately, he probably will not read it, it is to be hoped that others. A curius misunderstanding of the nature of freedom exists in immature minds. People such as our fat friend honestly believe that liberty for the pursuit of happiness means that they per sonally can do exactly as they please, even at the expense of other citizens’ liberties. If told that they are behaving in an ob jectionable manner, they become truculent and inclined to fight. “Its a free country, isn’t 10?” they yell, including all of Mexi co and Canada in the U. S. A. AT THE RISK of a cliche, I have news for them. Nobody, by any moral law, is free to behave as the gentleman at La Nueva Cucaracha behaved. Of course, he may have been drunk. I hope he was. I hope his head hurts very much today, so that he de cides never to go night-clubbing again. His presence will not be missed. If by any horrible chance he was sober, I hope that he was merely passing through en route for Cuba. AND PERHAPS even Castro does not deserve him. Nobody de serves a shirt-sleeved tourist sin gularly lacking in grace, charm, or talent, who attaches himself to the mike, groans through ev ery tired song he ever learned, directing the orchestra what to play next, while several hundred patrons watch their evening turn to ashes. Nobody deserves the loud shouts from the corner table, the raucous howls of ap plause and encouragement to the floor show which interrupted it every few minutes. Vaughn Mon roe, patient showman that he is, was hard put to keep smiling and singing against interpolated “That's my boys’’ and ‘‘Let’s go's’ A less experienced per former woud have given up or broken a trombone over the ex hibitionist’'s head. ARTISTS AND nightclubs have no defense against this kind of assault. Respectable clubs, like La Nueva Cucaracha and La Fi esta, offer their patrons good food and entertainment, for which the average guest is grateful. If a boar chooses to be obnoxious, he must be ignored as long as pos sible, because the customer may never be wrong. When Fatso at tempted to join Monroe in close harmony, he was asked to sit down. Nothing more could be done. But many Mexican ladies and gentlemen thought the worse of us because of the incident, and the famous singer must have gone away disgusted. How did he sing? I don't know. That is the point. One nuisance can destroy the freedoms of many.
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El Paso Herald Post
El Paso, Texas, US
Mon, Apr 30, 1962
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