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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 1951
Television Relegates An Actor To Front-Room Back-Seat Spot
Hollywood (U.P.)—Television has accomplished some pretty weird things—but it's upset the Dennis O'Keefe household completely. All of a sudden, actor O'Keefe is playing second fiddle to his ex-actress wife.
It gets even weirder when you remember the Missus, Steffi Duna, hasn't worked for 12 years.
A while back somebody slapped some of her old dancing movies on T.V. They turned out to be hits, and now Mrs. O'Keefe is famous all over again.
"People had almost forgotten she used to be an actress." O'Keele grinned. "Now, overnight, she's a big thing. Milkmen . . . garbagemen . . . mailmen . . . they all ignore me. They're too busy telling Steffi she saw her on television last night."
At first, O'Keefe says, she couldn't figure out what was cooking. Especially when the fan mail started coming in.
"She's cute about it," he says. "All the letters rave about how beautiful she looks. Steffi just says they oughta see her now—12 years later.
"But that's a lot of bunk. She's just as gorgeous as she ever was."
But things sure have changed around the O'Keefe joint. In the old days, when newspaper reporters came to the house, everybody took it for granted they came to interview O'Keefe. Now, like as not, they want to talk to the Missus.
"Magazines call up wanting stories on Steffi," O'Keefe said. "I'm really old stuff around here."
This has been going on for quite
while now and he has resigned
while still on back pack.
"The servants used to pamper me because I was the movie star in the family," he added. "Now we've got a new celebrity—and on television yet!
"None of my pictures can be shown because I made most of 'em for big studios and they've got a five-year "no T.V." clause.
"But Steffi's movies were made for independent producers in the days when nobody worried about
television. And she's really livin'." Gets more attention from eight-year-old Jimmy, too.
"Up to now Steffi was just mom. The gal who made him eat his spinach." O'Keefe chuckled. "Now she's a famous dancer and actress . . . the kids at school think that makes him something special . . . and he's really impressed.
Steffi thinks the whol thing's a big ioke.
Alpha Delta Pi sorority announces the initiation of 23 girls. Nancy Glenn, College sophomore, of Kansas City, Mo., was honor initiate.
"Keeps asking: 'When you gonna go on T.V., dad?'
"Iagine," she laughed, "A whole career's started for me—and I didn't even have to take my hands out of the dishpan to do it."
Others initiated were Kay Lehmann, Dodge City; Marilyn Miller, Independence, Mo.; Billie Loflin, Fredonia; Janice Perry, Wichita; Evelyn Lough, Chicago; Sally Duke, Wichita; Shirley Morehouse, Clay Center; Helen Olmsted, Lawrence; Ruth Stutz, Utica; Joyce Cazier, Wamego;
Alpha Delta Pi Initiates 23 Women
Beverly Brent, Overland Park; Barbara Dunn, Wichita; Georgia W. Schrader, Lawrence; Mary Ann Irwin, Columbus; Mary Ann Arbuthnot, Ellinwood; Nancy Gill, Mission; Hermina Ricart, Lawrence; Patricia Beal, Lawrence; Howard Neuer, Kansas City, Kans.; Elaine Orlowskie, Leavenworth; Barbara Findley, Osawatomie; and Marilyn McDowell, Great Bend.
Delta Gamma Gives Annual Pinafore Party
Delta Gamma sorority held its annual Pinafore party March 17. Clyde Bysom's orchestra played. The chaperons were Mrs. Burt A. Weber, Mrs. C. H. Wentworth, Mrs. Arthur H. Little, Mrs. A. G. McKay, and Mrs. W. S. Shaw.
Guests included John Wurst, Calvin Spradley, Richard Randall, James Stringfellow, Robert Hanson, Michael Mature, Vern Sutton, Glenn Shaver, Jack Greenwald, Ralph Younkin, Howard Gard, Jerry Waugh, Marshall Hughes, James Fowler, Clark Grimm, Joseph Fink, and William Grosser.
John Simons, Max Merrill, Mahlon Wheeler, William Schaake, Jack Stonestreet, Richard Lance, Albert Campbell, Larry Silks, David Ellis, Richard Cameron. Robert Kline, Robert Roth, William Frizell, Paul Bartholow, Eugene Hatfield, Robert M. Petitt, Jack Kay, and Kenneth Cox.
Arthur Nease, James Martin, Walter J. Hastings, Bill Todd, Don McFerson, Neil Lilley, Lynn MacDougall, John Huber, James Thompson, Robert Knightly, Scott Sterrett, John Anderson, William Lyle, Richard Hale, Dick Engle, Lee Douglas, Ronald Thomas, Antony Merz, Ralph Lamb, Jerry Smith, Max Whitson, Don Ament, Arden Isom, and Bill Eberhardt.
Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Moddelmog, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Pierson, Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Bales, Mr. and Mrs. Wallace McKee and Mr. and Mrs. George Francis.
Cosmetic sales in 1949 again recorded an increase. Sales for 1949 were $782,000,000, a 4.3 per cent increase over the 1948 volume of $749,-750,000, and a 5.1 per cent increase over 1947.
Delta Chi Pledges Peterson Delta Chi fraternity recently pledged Hans Peterson, Luray.
The first wireless signal, according to Dunlap's Radio and Television almanac was transmitted by Guglielmo Marcioni in 1895 on his father's estate at Pontecchio, Italy.
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Delta Chi Fraternity Initiates 11 Men
Delta Chi fraternity initiated 11 men recently. Robert Garrity, Kansas City, Mo., was honor initiate.
Others initiated to Harry Nelson, Topeka; Reuben Short, Kansas City, Mo.; John Pearson, Tonganoxie; Ralph Younkin, Bonner Springs; Lee Herboth, Kansas City, Mo.; J. Harold Morris, Kansas City, Mo; Leland Metz, Kansas City, Kan; Raymond Voskamp, Kansas City, Mo; Charles Gallup, Kansas City, Mo; and Donald Meeker, Garnett,
The pledge class of Sigma Alpha Iota, music sorority, recently elected the following officers: Mildred Hobbs, president; Christine Wiley, vice-president; and Harriet King, secretary-treasurer.
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Sigma Kappa Entertains Sigma Kappa sorority entertained the patients at Winter General hospital with a variety show Monday night.
Two Pledge Phi Psi
Phi Kappa Psi pledged Brooks
Gauret, Kansas City, Kan., and John
Stevens, Stafford, recently.
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