The Daily Journal from Flat River, Missouri • 12

Page 12 The DAILY JOURNAL, Flat River. Mo. Friday, December 27, 1974 however, because it requires him to memorize his lines fast, xVCLOr make decisions fast and relax despite the pressure of working OBITUARIES Leach at the Miller Funeral Home in Farmington. Interment will be at the K.F.P. Cemetery in Farmington.

The body will lie in state after 2 p.m. Sunday. H.H. and Sarah Bacon Nemeyer. He was born July 22, 1891 in Milo, Iowa.

He is survived by his The funeral will be at 2 p.m. Monday with the Rev. James 358-3569 CONTINUOUS MAT. SUNDAY "ONE OF seeking stardom for 20 years and "they're really just about as far as they were when they started. Some are very depressed, some are philosophic and some have found other pursuits." "I had a long dry spell a couple of years ago myself," he says, "and I got into the photography business." He photographs other actors and plays for publicity purposes.

He chose to become a photographer to learn something about composing pictures on film, "a pictorial means of visualizing things." He believes what he learns with a still camera will be helpful to him as he moves into directing television dramas, films and plays, as he hopes to.do. Writing also interests him. "I plan to move on. I don't intend to be an actor for the rest of my life. I intend to be a director and a writer and an actor," he says.

"My die is cast, as they say. There's no way I could give it up," he says. Neither could he and his wife easily give up the exciting life of New York. They go to plays, films and museums, sail on Long Island Sound and enjoy their friends, most of whom are in show business, he says. "No, there's no way I could give it up," he says.

But he also warns, "It's a ridiculously tough life and I would discourage anybody from trying to be an actor." Editor's Note: "The Doctors" is broadcast locally at 1 :30 p.m. weekdays on Channel 5. Landrum now appears in a commercial for Tea-Plus cold remedy and, beginning in January, will appear in a commercial for Excedrin P.M. headache tablets. Fri.

Sat. THE BEST HOWARD STRAUGHN A change in the funeral of Howard Francis Straughn has been announced by C.Z. Boyer and Son Funeral Home. The service will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church with the Rev.

John Halleman officiating. Rosary will be recited at 7:30 p.m. tonight at the Boyer and Son Funeral Home chapel. Interment will be at the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church Cemetery. Mr.

Straughn, Route Four, Farmington was born Oct. 12, 1923 in Desloge and died at Farmington Community Hospital Dec. 26. ROBERT NEMEYER Mr. Robert Nemeyer, 405 Houser, Flat River, died Dec.

26 at the Farmington Community Hospital at the age of 83. He was the son of the late flex Reed Released thru United Artists Continuous Mat. Sunday 0 It takes up where Billy Jack left off. fast. But there are also drawbacks.

"The dangerous part about soap operas is that they also teach youto be facile and glib. Since you're not given rehearsal time in order to get into depth with the character, you're not permitted to work as I would really liHe to work as an actor. I think acting is an art. The Soap opera doesn't call for art as much as craft," he says. Landrum says soap opera plots sometimes strain the viewer's credulity.

As he puts it, "It's a challenge sometimes to believe in the situation, to make some kind of meaningful scene." Because soap operas are written with great attention to plot rather than character development, Landrum says it's his job to add character to the dialogue he's given. The writers "write the same kind of language for everybody. The individual actor by the power of his personality imposes a character on this sometimes-unfortunately nondescript dialogue, he says. For Landrum, imposing a character on the dialogue written for Dr. Mike Powers actually amounts to being "as natural and as much myself I can.

For one thing, it's simpler that way." So, the personality of Mike Powers, M.D., is that of Mike Landrum, actor If you like him on the screen, you'll like him in person. Words like "celebrity, star and superstar" are meaningless, Landrum says. "Those words are nebulous and I don't understand their meaning. I'm an actor who's lucky enough to be working on a popular nationally televised show. Of course, I'm recognized now and then, but, no, I wouldn't call myself a star." Landrum says a star is someone who is offered roles rather than required to seek them.

Being a star would mean "people would send me scripts and say, 'Will you do like they do for Dustin Hoffman and Steve McQueen. They are stars and they get treated a certain way." Most actors don't become stars and don't receive that special treatment, Landrum says, describing friends who've been (continued from page 1) pretty green. I'm just starting out." And there are reasons other than pay for being an actor, although none pay the rent as well. Travel is one. In the headache tablet commercial, in which Landrum plays a husband walking with his wife in the snow, was filmed in the West.

"It's a Rocky Mountains picture. Thirty seconds of the Rocky Mountains," he says and laughs. Public recognition, almost always by women who are soap opera fans, is another reason to be an actor, he says. "It's nice to be recognized. I'm still new at this and I get a kind of kick out of It doesn't happen that often; I mean I'm not getting mobbed on Fifth Avenue," he says.

As Landrum describes it, his becoming an actor was almost inevitable. He was in plays at Farmington Senior High School, where he graduated in 1960, and then became active in drama at Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau. He attended college there for three years before moving to schools in Detroit and Montreal. Then he spent two years in the Army, including one in Vietnam, before joining friends in New York early in 1969. He says he made the decision to become an actor while in Cape Girardeau.

"It (drama) was my main interest and you tend to continue to do what you do fairly well. I was encouraged a lot. They made it easy for me," he says, recalling his student days in Cape Girardeau. He creates the impressipn "fate and destiny and big words like that" may have controlled his becoming an actor. "I don't know if I ever really had a choice.

There's no need to be an actor. I think I've always had a need to perform in some other way or other. And it's always been a great satisfaction," he says. Landrum says acting on a soap opera is difficult because of the pace of doing a show or more a day. It's good experience, 'The Trial BillyJack Sat.

7:00 9:55 i 22X1 223 i Ol. Hjik. swing DELORES TAYLOR TOM LAUGHLIN 3 Ford DRASTIC REDUCTIONS NBS's Petrocelli: Girls Won't Leave Him Alone INVENTORY TIME IS HERE AND WE HAVE TO MOVE THESE YOU MUST SEE TO BELIEVE BRAND NEW PIANO MADE BY KIMBALL NEW 37" SPINET WALNUT FINISH REGULAR LIST PRICE $995 Ambulance Calls Coplin Ambulance Service Goldie Cash from residence in Frankclay to Farmington Community Hospital. Glennon Hedrick from residence in Desloge to Farmington Community Hospital. Eva Clay from residence in Flat River to Farmington Community Hospital.

Mary A. Snook from scene of accident on Highway 67 to Farmington Community Hospital. Elizabeth Stillwell, from residence in Farmington to Farmington Community Hospital. Eugenia Russell, from residence in Desloge to Bonne Terre Hospital. Mabel White from Medicalodge to Farmington Community Hospital.

Sherman Odell, from residence in Farmington to Farmington Community Hospital. Oswald Steinback from residence in Libertyville to Farmington Community Hospital and on to Barnes Hospital in St. Louis. Bessie Allen from residence in Bonne Terre to Bonne Terre Hospital. (continued from page 1) were summoned from Washington for a morning meeting that Nessen said would produce no final decisions.

The energy advisors are Interior Secretary Rogers C. B. Morton, Treasury Secretary William E. Simon, Federal Energy Administrator Frank Zarb, chairman Alan Greenspan of the Council of Economic Advisers and Ford assistant L. William Seidman.

Because of the energy meeting, Ford said he would forego skiing today. He had been on the slopes five days in a row. The President will meet Saturday with his chief economic advisers as a prelude to preparation of his January State of the Union message to Congress. Nessen said the message would "zero in" on energy and economic problems and would deal with little else. The press secretary said it would be delivered to Congress within a week after Congress convenes Jan.

14. Benny (continued from page 1) president was getting along in office. Benny was regarded as the master of comic timing the pregnant pause, a blank look or a simple drawn out "hm-m-mm." Comedian Steve Allen once commented that Benny was "to humor what Artur Rubinstein is to music. His 'laugh-at-me' posture made him 'straight man for the whole Despite his smash success on radio and television, his films received only modest attention. Among them were "Love thy Neighbor," and "Charley's Aunt." Funeral services have been scheduled for noon Sunday at Hillside Memorial Cemetery in suburban Culver City.

refrigerator," he said. "If I want coffee I send out for it. But there was this one time when there was this beautiful girl who was a guest star on the show. She's a health food nut. "She came over to my room to make me a salad.

And, poor kid, she had to keep running out to get something else because I had nothing. She wound up bringing a blender she got somewhere and making her own salad dressing. She had a fantastic body." The fine young actor has had experience in this arena before. He made a movie, "The Salzburg Connection," in the Picturesque Austrian City. He got to move in Salzburg society while he was there, hobnobbing, as he says, "with all those impoverished barons." And he says that each impoverished baron appeared to have a lovely daughter.

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A bulletin board in the hotel lobby reminds him that the Alfalfa Improvement and Forage Insect Conference is now in session. He's exploring the state on his days off. He has a contract which is very liberal, as TV contracts go. He has both Sunday and Monday off. "My contract," he says, "was based on the one Jim Franciscus had.

Jim got it after he had done several series and knew what he wanted. One of the big things he got and I got, too, was two consecutive days off." "Sundays' I just relax," he says, "and Mondays I explore the state." Home, to Barry Newman, is still New York, His parents are back home in Boston. But here, he lives in a hotel room, which is unusual. Most stars, when on location, insist on an apartment or a rented house. "I tell you why I prefer a room" Newman says.

"It all goes back to Bud Freeman." Freeman was the great sax player. As a young man, Barry played the sax, too, and Freeman was one of his idols. "I met him and got to know him pretty well," Newman says. "Until he recently got married he was in his 60s when he married a psychiatrist he spent all his life in hotel rooms. And he always said that, for a single man, that was the best way to live.

I like hotel rooms; anything I want I just ring for room service." And, in case there's a girl around, room service can be a very pleasant, unobtrusive thing to have. "I keep nothing in the TUCSON, a big well, medium-sized -Hollywood star in a small -well, medium-sized city, a man has to know how to handle himself, girlwise. Especially if a man is single. It's not an unpleasant problem. But, for Barry Newman, who shoots the NBC series Petrocelli here it's something that is always in the back of his mind.

And, often, it is thrust into the front of his mind. They were shooting out in the desert, some 15 miles west of Tucson. Fantastically beautiful country. Barry, looking out of his place in his citified suit, shirt and tie, was halfway up a mountain with guest star Strother Martin and some others. After the lunch break, they would move on to another spot.

It would mean lugging the heavy cameras and the rest of the equipment to another place, back down the mountain. At the break, we had lunch in Barry's neat but not gaudy trailer. He took off his Countess Mara tie "I'm supposed to be an impoverished lawyer but I have to wear expensive ties because they are the only ones heavy enough to support one of these microphones." He talked about the girls. What made him think of girls was a box of cupcakes left in the trailer. "Have one of these," he said.

Then he laughed and added, "They were made for me by the mother of a girl who said, 'you're not going to leave Arizona without There are all kinds of girls pursuing him here, not just the nice, homey kind who have mothers that make him cupcakes. "The prop man this morning told me," Barry said, "that one of the strippers at the Blue Note wants to meet me. She may be very nice, you never know." There are, he said, with a satisfied smile, plenty of girls around who are intrigued by the star of a Hollywood TV issued after he forfeited the bond made on the first charge, according to authorities. Bonne Terre Policeman Randy Black arrested Brewer, who was conveyed to the jail by Deputy Sheriff Bill Edwards, according to a spokesman for the sheriffs department. NOW ONLY A former Bonne Terre man, who has been living in Texas since forfeiting a bond posted here, was being held in the St.

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