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C A P IT O L NEWS CAPITOL N E W S PAGE 3 news Palladium Pacts New DeVol Band Published Monthly by CAPITOL PUBLICATIONS, INC. Sunset ond Vine, Holly wood 28, Colif. Printed in U. S. A. Helen O'Connell To Sing; Opening
Here's That Man Again! Set For Nov. 14 W ith Helen O'Connell "It's like this," the man said, turning on his padded stool and pacted to handle the sing tapping his swizzle-stick on the long mahogany plank. "I see 'em ing chores with his new dance come and go. You remember Ace Brigode and his Virginians? band, Frank DeVol is rehearsing Al Katz and his Kittens? Fred Waring when he actually featured for a five-week run at the Holly a couple of native, unspoiled Pennsylvanians? wood Palladium commencing "Why, I can go back to the days when Freddy Martin wore a Nov. 14. The engagem ent, first to sailor's suit—it was at the Bossert Hotel in Brooklyn and the outfit be played by DeVol's new dance was known as 'Martin and his Mariners' and they aired clean out crew, will follow the current run of Ray Anthony's ork. to San Diego just as Paul Tremaine and his Lonely Acres gang broadcast from a chop suey joint on Broadway. Irving Aaronson's Still Keeps CBS Show "There will be 15 musicians in Commanders? Knew 'em well, Bud. Once roomed with Irv's first the band," DeVol said, "includ fiddle in Cleveland. ing men like Ray ConnifF, on trom "If you wanna get interspective seriously, Bud, I'll lay this on bone; Paul Smith at the piano; you. I saw Ted Lewis down on one knee blowing a clarynet when Jimmy Pratt, drums, and Jimmy ; he was a punk sideman in New York with Earl Fuller's Jazzbos. Salkow, trumpet." And Hank Busse came along later, maybe 1923, playing lead horn Because of his heavy radio with Whiteman. Thank you, sir, just one more and I've gotta run schedule, the musicians heard in ; —easy on the ice, n o w —and w here w ere we? Phil Harris? Haw! DeVol's band on the CBS "Oxy- ^ He was teamin' with a slide player name of Lofner—called it the dol" show with Margaret Whit- i LOOKING TEN years yo un g e r w ith his new hairpiece, Frank DeVol Harris & Lofner orchestra and Phil did right well on the coast ing, Jack Smith and Dinah Shore : with his cornpone humor and curly hair. stops a rehearsal to preview his new look with blonde Helen O'Con are not allowed by the musicians' nell, who will be DeVol's featured vocalist when the new DeVol "Y ep , yo u're righ t. W a lte r Davison d id lead the Louisville loons union to work the Palladium. dance band opens at the Hollywood Palladium on Nov. 14 fo r a five- DeVol, therefore, has been hand and Clyde McCoy was featured on cornet. Cab Calloway—you'll week run. Miss O 'C onnell is re tu rnin g to action fo llo w in g marriage picking his Palladium ork from remember his early Cotton Club band but did you know that there and motherhood. the best of the Local 47 member were three other Calloway bands, too? Blanche, Harriet and Jean ship not tied to radio work. Calloway all led orks and even made records, Bud. And whatever Helen O'Connell, like DeVol, happened to that big police dog Horace Heidt always featured in came out of Ohio a decade ago. his stage shows? Heidt isn't important but that dog is—or was. Whiting, Now a Mother, First with Larry Funk, then with He could always get a big hand, and Vince Lopez used another Jimmy Dorsey's crew, she became gimmick, running up a small American flag from his piano at the established as the most popular— close of the show while his ork played 'My Country 'Tis Of Thee Starts New Air Series and many thought the most beau or something equally as patriotic. tiful—oriole with a band. A doz "Madcap Maggie" Whiting became plain old Mom Whiting on en of her records sold in the "Yes, thanks, d o n 't m ind if I do—one ice cube is plenty and Oct. 10 when she up and presented her husband, Lou Busch, w ith millions before she voluntarily re how 'bout Harry Reser's Eskimos? They sure had a nifty theme a king-sized dau g h te r w e ig h in g m ore than nine pounds a t Cedars tired, in 1943, in favor of mar song, dogs barking and sleighbells jingling. Sounded great when of Lebanon H ospital in Los Angeles. riage and motherhood. Helen also I was in Florida one winter, lyin' in the hot sand and listening to Maggie, m arried secretly to the p ianist, conductor and C apitol will be featured as vocalist on a Friday Cliquot Club broadcast. Or am I goin' back too far? Records exec last winter, was making records a few days before DeVol's dance records for Capitol. "Coon-Sanders, Bernie Cummins, Garber-Davis, the Ipana Trou the arrival of the baby. She was named Deborah Irene Busch. And Polk Set To Sing badours, Isham Jones, Bert Lown, Danny Russo, Boyd Senter and already, Mag is back in action. Her first assignment was to launch DeVol also announced that HERE'S THE w a y V irg in ia M ayo a new series of transcribed radio programs for Armed Forces Radio Gordon Polk and the Dream- appears in Warner Brothers' soon- out west, Earl Burtnett, Anson Weeks, Abe Lyman, Art Hickman Service—to be heard all over the world—which feature W h iting as Makers, a vocal group, also will due musical, "The West Point and Gtis Arnheim, in his later days featuring a big raw kid from ° singer, news com m entator and intervie w e r o f H ollyw o o d stars, sing with his new outfit at the Kansas name of Stan Kenton as piano-plunker—sure, Bud, I r® Story" with Jim Cagney and ■»'s a daily show. Palladium. The Pally booking Gordon MacRae. And for news member 'em all well. And I often get to thin kin' if the bands o She also is heard re g u la rly on the CBS " O x y d o l" show w ith Frank came a bout as a result o f the about another pretty blonde 1950 will be remembered 10, 20, 30 years from now. DeVol's ork, Jack Smith and Dinah Shore. During her maternity period tumult aroused by DeVol's discing named Mayo, see page 5 of this "Hey, speaking of that Kenton kid, whatever happened to him. she transcribed her songs ¡n advance on tape—and never missed of "Dream Awhile," one of the issue. Both Mayos are much too 0 broadcast. fall season's top sellers. lovely to be related.
r it e PAGE 4 CAPITOL NEWS -a« PAGE 5 . M Stardom Neared By Blonde Mary Mayo; She’s Al! Set On Discs And Sinatra’s TV Show
She has a range of three octaves, EIGHT DIXIELAND bands grossed $1 2,327 after taxes A personable little blonde singer whose which is about double the range Oct. 6 at the big Shrine Auditorium In Los Angeles, o f most fern thrushes, and she voice has been featured on hun marking one of the larg has studied classical music exten Pianist-Singer Jerry Marlowe, dreds of radio jingles—from Halo sively. She therefore crosses a est mobs ever to attend a recently signed to make children's shampoo to Van Cam p's beans— warm and intimate pop style with strict musical event at the Shrine. discs for Capitol, spends his nights will make her debut as a record a clear and legit style peculiar Presented by Frank Bull and Gene entertaining at the Kimball at ing star this m onth. Her name is to the longhairs. But it's all very Norman, the third annual Dixie Carl's Sea Air Cafe in Santa Mary Mayo. natural for Mary; her father was land Jubilee missed by some 500 M onica. patrons of equalling the 1949 Mary, just 21 and married to a tenor with the Met Opera and overflow but plans for another, a New York musician, Al Ham, her mom toured as a concert Frankie Carle bobbed up with soprano. next fall, already are being made. sliced her first discs for the Capi a new girl singer, Joan House, to Sharkey and His Kings of Dixie tol label a few weeks ago in M ary studied b alle t a t 3, replace Terri Stevens. Change NEWEST S IN G ING sensation in land flew in from New Orleans Manhattan after Walter Rivers, started piano at 5 and became came about last month, in Holly the New York area is Mary Mayo, to top last month's show and re Cap talent scout, and George T. the soloist in her church choir be wood, when the pianist and Miss who recorded her first sides last ceived a warm welcome from the Simon, music mag editor, heard fore she got out of the doll stage. Stevens flared over a number of month and also made her video more than 6,000 howling Dixie her piping in the Four Chicks and From her home in Statesville, radio and TV guest shots she was debut on Frank Sinatra's CBS fanatics. Other clicks included the Chuck combo. N. C., she studied at Juilliard, making, some of which, Carle show. Mary has made hundreds Firehouse Five Plus Two, Dave sang with the Princeton Tigers complained, interfered with her Featured By Sinatra On TV of radio jingles; now she's on hei Cavanaugh's Curbstone Cops, Ted dance ork and, eventually, won job with his band. Both agreed to own and destined for stardom. Vesely's combo, Pete Daily's Chi "The most exciting girl since an Arthur Godfrey Talent Scout call off their deal and Carle im cagoans, Eddie Skrivanek's Sextet Dinah Shore in 1939," Simon show in New York. mediately took on Miss House. From Hunger and Ben Pollack's barked, pecking out his praise for Vocal corps now comprises her, Strange Twist Revealed Pick-A-Rib Boys. The Castle Jazz Metronome magazine. "The next Alan Simms and the Sunrise Sere But—and Mary thinks this is Philharmonic Ork band from Portland, a hit in '49, really top vo c a lis t," Rivers n a d e s . ironic—nobody knew or cared flopped this trip. gasped, pushing M a ry to w a rd s a studio. that she later was heard on many Ready To Tee Off Nearly 60 musicians joined to of Jo Stafford's best-selling rec gether to climax the bash with Vido Musso took his combo to Now, enter Frank S inatra. He ords, unbilled and buried in the The 32nd season of the Matty Matlock and Zutty Single San Francisco for a run at the heard M ary's first tw o record oblivion of various vocal groups. Los Angeles Philharmonic ton conducting. The long show Blackhawk nitery. sides, "I Never Dreamt" and ork will get under way Nov. 16 was transcribed, moreover, by the "Just a W e a ryin ' For Y o u ." He The S inatra TV show, ofF to a at the L. A. Philharmonic Audi State Department for "Voice of was just launching his new CBS fast start in October, will show Dick Haymes waxed a radio torium with Alfred Wallenstein America" broadcasts all over the SLAVING AW AY, before the television show last m onth. Frank Mary on her own. Millions of audition platter, "I Fly Anything," conducting. Featured on the first cameras at RKO, Janet Leigh this viewers will watch Mary every w orld . for the ABC web. Show is strictly signed M ary to a p p e a r every week. More millions will hear her program will be Kirsten Flagstad. dram atic. m onth is perform ing in her first week. big screen musical, a Howard records. Other soloists dated for ap Helen Forrest replaced Art Ta No naive newcomer to music, Hughes idea—which w ill also star pearances with Wallenstein and tum as the attraction at the new Miss Mayo once subbed for Look out, Dinah—and Maggie "Jazz At the Philharmonic" will Tony M artin and Gloria DeHaven the big longhair aggregation in TifFany Club in Los Angeles, which Frankie Carle's singer fo r a week. and Kay and Jo. This blonde is resume Nov. 13 a t the Los A n —titled "Two Tickets To Broad clude the pianists Robert Casade- Julia Lee fo rm a lly opened on She chirped in the big Roxy The moving in. She can even jingle geles Shrine Aud, where the re w ay." Until now, Janet has frit sus, Oscar Levant, Lillian Steuber Sept. 1. ater chorus fo r six weeks. She her way to the top! cent Eckstine-Shearing and Dixie tered away her time working in and William Kapell; singers Fe- even toured with the Tex Beneke Jubilee concerts proved so suc ruccio Tagliavini, Bidu Sayao and d ram a tic roles. band. But it w as her w a y w ith a Mel Henke, Chicago pianist, cessful. Norman Granz, promoter, Suzanne Danco; violinists Jascha jingle—radio commercials, to be Carter To N. Y. and his trio have been playing will feature his usual lineup of Heifetz, Zino Francescatti, Isaac ClifFie Stone just moved into his crude—th a t caught the ears o f Benny Carter left his Hollywood nightly at the Saddle & Sirloin bop and no-bop musicians with Stern and Ruggiero Ricci. new Toluca Lake home in the San Rivers, Simon and a m illion or in Studio City, Cal. Ella Fitzgerald a possibility as home in mid-October for New Fernando Valley outside Holly two New Yorkers. Hubby Ham Guest conductors during the headliner. It's a one-night deal. York, where he will meet with wood, and is still airing his radio started writing arrangements and coming 1950-51 season will be Al Jarvis and wife, Marilyn, and TV shows. Cliffie's "Home a new career had been born. bookers and mull the forming of Artur Rodzinski and John Bar still bemoaning the fate of the Dimitri Tiomkin will score the town Jamboree" program v/os a new band. The "Amazing Man nett. There will be 18 pairs of Phillies in the World Series. They film version of "Cyrano de Ber transcribed last month by the Vet Voice Has Wide Range Thursday night and Friday after of Music" made the trip by car fle w back to see the tw o Yankee gerac" for Stanley Kramer, pro erans' Administration for 2,400 Mary's gimmick — and every noon concerts at the auditorium Stadium massacres with a gang ducer. Music will run for 85 min stations, including many in Alas singer must have one—is th ro w - and is expected back on the west in downtown Los Angeles, it was of Hollywood radio editors. utes. ka, Hawaii and Philippines. ln9 her voice an octave higher. coast late in November. revealed.
. ^ CAPITOL NEWS PAGE 7 'Music Biz Is M issing The Boat’ Robbins Urges Action In Schools " W h a t w e need is a long range public rela tions program for the music pro LITTLE CHRISTMAS TREE fession—the music publishers will have to contribute both money and effort," Jack Robbins pleaded FROSiy THE SNOWMAN last month. "Our merchandising methods are ridiculous for a busi ness of our size." Robbins, for three decades one 'CHRISTMAS CANDyStLVjER BELlS' of the most successful and astute KvJhiHvig - J-WAkely publishers of music in the world, argued that the public must be m ade "m ore a w a re " o f music. lyUST GO nuts AT CHRISTMAS' "We've got to get more music in to the schools," he said, "and M AX STEINER, long considered j there are 50,000 schools waiting Y lNG l B B E L L S - yocjj yorqesson one of the topflight composers • to be tapped. We can even go into the grade schools. In San for motion pictures, makes his > ALTHOUGH HE'S pla ye d on the Francisco they teach music as debut as a recording artist in i soundtracks o f dozens o f movies, early as the seventh grade. Why Capitol's new Steiner album, fea- 1 SONKSS OF CHRISTMAS-Stafford-Maci?ae Buddy Cole has never donned can't we get schools everywhere turing the maestro conducting his1 pancake and faced a cam era. A ll to do that? ow n themes from film s. The that has been changed, how ever, themes include "Now, Voyager," JINGLE BELLS' - 'SANTA CLAUS IS with Warner Brothers casting Cole "Why concentrate our fire on "Since You Went Away" and for a speaking part in "Lullaby of getting sheet music into the syndi "The Informer." Steiner has won C O M IN G T O T D W M ^ — Mercer * Red Rpers Broadway" starring Doris Day. cate stores or on cigar stands, Buddy is pictured with his wife, with only 20 songs on display at more Academy awards than any the former Yvonne Cole of the once, when we can work on open other musician. singing King Sisters. ing up entire music departments 'C h r i s t m a s i s l a n d '- b l u e C h r is t m a s ' in million-dollar department store Bob A+cher • Dinning Sisters units? Why, instead of trying to It's A Long, Long Chi, Minneapolis bury our music on small counters in syndicate stores, can't we get the large department stores, like Road For Stan R udolph th e r e d -n o s e d r e in d e e r ' Next For Starr Sears, Roebuck and Montgomery Stan Kenton's November book - Smiley Burnette Kay Starr is living, this month. Ward and the new Macy's in Cali ings are proof of how a band ha: She leaps from Las Vegas fo r a fornia, to set up music depart to hustle, these days, to make Nov. 2 opening at the Oriental ments and present music in the payrolls. Theater in Chicago and a fte r tw o ' BLUE CHRISTMAS'- Jan Garber proper atmosphere and on the After closing at the Click ir . weeks, goes into the Hotel Nicol proper level? We've got to get Philadelphia Nov. 4, Kenton': let in Minneapolis for another music before the public, and the gang hits the one-nighter trai fortnight, starting Nov. 23. On public will be drawn to music dis CHRlSTOPHEP R o B im IS SAyiWG again, hopping to Kentucky, Mas r both jobs she'll com m and $2,500 played in roomy, pleasant sur sachusetts, back to Pennsylvania! per week. roundings, where it's presented His PRAVERS'- Kay Starr Delaware, West Virgina and Ohici as it should be, in a cultural light. —all in November. It's been arl Peggy Lee East "We can't leave it to the older exhausting tour, Kenton reports! Peggy Lee skipped to N ew York men and the older firms. The pic but "a profitable and enjoyable! after a run in Las Vegas w ith ture company publishers are in one." In early 1951 he w ill star j Dave Barbour's combo and was terested only in exploiting films. another tour from California w itlj spotted on several n e tw o rk TV We've got to get men who are his 1951 "In n o v a tio n s " concern shows in late October. She will interested in the music business be back home in Hollywood this and who love the business and ork fe a tu ring 15 strings. His curT month. are willing to work for it. rent tour is strictly for dancers. I W i t h the success o f the American Legion's'white and Blue"
stage show assured, after a three-weehn Los Angeles,
• M arilyn Cleek (at right) will hit the roi ith the troupe.
^ She's featured as a harp soloist and er in the lavish
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,■ K w ades through an autograph ion during his
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since returned to Hollywooi I is back in his
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casts and motion pictureWJ squally excited,
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■; real gone this month, ployi^ters in London
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.. .These, then, are the names makings his November. PAGE 10 C A P ITO L NEWSJAPITOL NEW S PAGE 11 Kincaid, Old-Timer, Slices W ax Agaiieremin Might Boost
"p o ts o' g o ld " out, object to raisi Renowned Singer money fo r needy families, Sand Business, Argues R am blin' Jimmie Dolan's Tl Gets Cap Ticket show on Sundays is rated amrni the highest for the Sabbol By BEEP ROBERTS stretch. . . . Eddie Kirk will colHoffman, Its Master Bradley Kincaid, the and serve his family s Thanksgiv ^ / nothing mystical about the theremin, and ing Day dinner, all by himself 1 , , i / . ... , , . Kentucky mountain boy O le Rasmussen and his C or» he first dance band to come out with one and feature who grew up to become one of huskers w ill spend the holidaylalong with the reeds, brass and rhythm is "quite the all-time immortals of the folk p la yin g fo r a big western dan«y« to create a million-dollar attraction, music field, certainly has one dis a t McDonnell's Ballroom in Comp . . tinction. ton, a fe w miles outside Los An Opinion COmes ment." He may, eventually, at He w as 19 years o ld w hen he geles. ram Dr. Samuel HofFman, tempt a band like that. entered the sixth grade of school! W illiams Pleads For Music former dance band fid- Hard To Keep In Tune Later, Kincaid attended college ler with young ideas, whose An unorthodox thing both from Tex W illiam s is hot about the in Chicago, became interested in laying of a theremin on num er its appearance and its sound, the corn on western radio and I\ radio and now—20 years later— !us motion picture soundtracks theremin is electrically operated. . . . £ ., he is renowned all over the world. .. mndn him nno nt tno mnet But the player never ever touches W estern Caravan shows, "he says Signed just last month by Capitol foted musicians in the w orld. it. By changing the position of "we guard against the .... to make a series of records, Kin his hands as they hover over the phrases which are more fitted to Invented 17 Years Ago caid's first is "Brush the Dust console, different tones are ob From That Old Bible." burlesque western life than to the "But," the good doc insists, tained. "The big trick," the doc EXPERT . . . Dr. Samuel Hoff real thing. I've found that M L theremin is used alm ost ex- confides, "is to perform with per man, virtuoso of the theremin, Burnette, Ritter On Tour vious retort isn't always the besL;ve|y for eerie moods. |t fect intonation. That's the pitfall. demonstrates how one is played. November is the month for retort-the way real people «L|dn't be; it is an instrum ent A skilled thereminist must mas touring, no matter what the horo " TENNESSEE ERNIE gets the the west talk. But I don't go w%ich !s suitab|e fo r aM moods ter intonation first. Maybe that's scope may say. Smiley Burnette good word, via a call from Nash people w ho say a cowWy a)| situations. It can even why it never became a household California Tastes has wound up another "Durango ville, that he's been invited, again, shouldnt sing. And if the producerouncj funny/ ' necessity like a ukelele." Kid'" movie for Columbia and to star on the "Grand Ole Opry" o f the show can afford it, Isay Dr. Hoffman, also an authority will be heading east again, while program. And you know who his songs w ill be more effective— D r. H o ffm a n N ew Y orker Sharkey's Jazz on feet, and correcting foot ail Tex Ritter heads out for Virginia, called him? Kay Starr, who was more m u s ic a l-if accompanied byho moved to C alifornia several ments, has a wide practice in Los California got a brief but sweet the Carolinas and Kentucky. On down there and helped set it for a large orchestra. Thot Is slmpl ™r* a9°- *ays that the therem in Angeles and works hard as an taste of the real, magnolia- Thanksgiving Day, Tex will sit Ernie. and strictly dramatic, or m«o 17 years °ld- "A 9reat M . D. But come nighttim e and he's flavored Dixieland last month down to a table loaded with license, and I'm sure that everyusjlan saen,ist ¡"vented ¡*," he when Sharkey and His Kings of Ca'lina, suh, and Tex can hardly one understands that the orch«?ld- ^ t later, the Russians shot a musician. smoked turkey, country ham, mus Dixieland played for eight wait to get there. Featured In New Album tard greens and candied yams, tra doesn't have to be on horselm- A"d because ° " 'y » "« straight nights at the Beverly His latest recording fe a t is prepared by his mother's family Jim m y W a ke ly is back fro m Ko back w ith him just because it I °n^ ere tbe United States Cavern in Los Angeles following p la y in g accompaniment. If musi'er manufactured theremins, and packaged in a new album, "Peace on their 1,000-acre farm (and rea with Bob Hope, and preach their appearance at the third an Of Mind," with Les Baxter's or loaded with black, mean, snort ing the great job our boys out in westerns is considered con,0pj* d <;roduc,ion' ¡t is extrem e- nual Dixieland Jubilee. ing Angus cattle). That's in No'th there are doing. Jim ¡ust sent 100 then I'm a ll fo r succotash." dlffieult |° 9et hold ° " e chestra, a series of recorded mu )day. They just aren't available." sic moods not unlike his earlier Sharkey, reputed to be the best trumpeter in the South, featured Would Like To Have Band (and best-selling) "Music Out of Monk Hazel on drums, doubling the Moon" album for Capitol. The doc, who first hit the bell hot mellophone; Les Bouchon, "This is real p re tty m usic," Doc I ,|'e" be played for the "Spell- clarinet; Charlie Miller, trombone; Hoffman says. "We didn't try to 1 »end" soundtrack behind Ingrid JefF Riddick, piano, and Chink get ghostly, nightmare sounds. It ergman and Gregory Peck, de- gives you an idea of just how M artin, bass. 0,es ,here are only three pro the theremin can be used to best . The Kings have w axed 20 sides visional theremin players in advantage—like a legitimate in for Capitol within the last 12 "menca- Anci. he says, "th e other strument. Maestro Baxter, of months, and several have been J*° are in the east." course, understands the theremin released throughout Europe as Dr. Hoffman's ambition to and its ve rsa tility. He knows how well as in Canada, Mexico and I V I U I E V DIILUD IMECULCD } JOO eac|, ave a dance band o f his ow n , to arrange and conduct. South America. Sharkey, now netting like Freddy M a rtin's, "But I still think the theremin back again in New Orelans, has needles for use in e opines, with a good dance should be featured by a dance been featured nightly at the Fa e°t and "lots of schmaltz, topped orchestra. It would start a whole mous Door on Bourbon street in muted type cartridges permo, inc., «— » I , e Yeremin both in the en- new trend and maybe put the the Crescent City's ancient French imbles and as a solo instru- music business back in business." Quarter for many years. PAGE 12 PAGE 13 CAPITOL NEWS CAPITOL NEWS I f i - i t e . g f l B S in g e rs
HAS ANYBODY stopped FRANKIE LAINE DINAH SHORE and Al Jol- to consider that not a single first- In "C ollier's" son are signed and ready class musical program is emanat to start w ork in "Stars ing from New York's TV net " I t curdles me when anybody And Stripes," a big-budget musi w orks? squeals 'Oh . . . Frankie.' I don't want to be a crooner. I just try cal with a war theme which the Sure, Manhattan's TV menu of to use my voice as a horn. . ,, new W ald-K rasna u nit a t RKO drama, comedy and special events Sometimes I get so confused by Pictures will undertake this month. is rapidly becoming Grade A. But the things that have happened Dinah, mentioned last summer Hollywood, via a small indepen that I can hardly think. Many a as up for the Julie role in MGM's dent station, at that, is presenting night before I can get to sleep "Show Boat" musical soon to a better musical stanza. the w hole business jumps around start, failed to land that plum. The program is the Don O tis before my eyes and I can't be But so did a good many other top hour on KLAC—not a network sta lieve it." singers who tested for the part. tion—every Tuesday eve. Otis puts Jolson, still fresh after his recent it on right on the bandstand at HOLLYWOOD click, during her HAROLD FIELDS trip to Korea, spends most of his the Hollywood Palladium, with recent visit on the west coast, was British Music Publisher time in the nippy fall and winter the Pally band (currently, Ray An Julia Lee. She's shown as she Via Associated Press months at his Palm Springs home, thony) backing him, and the acts, guested on Don Otis' KLAC video and thus will have to forsake his spectacularly. And although his program from the Palladium; "The Korean war marks prob usual hiatus to work in the Wald- budget allows him to pay only Harry James also digs Julia's sly a bly the first time in history that Krasna production. Groucho Marx $100 for a guest shot, Don has "It Won't Be Long" lyrics. Art men have marched ofF to fight and Marie Wilson also appear had dozens of top names, names Tatum followed Julia at the Tif w ith o u t songs. I think it's largely likely for the same film. as big as they come. Then, too, fa n y Club. because w a r is too grim these there is KTLA's "Dixie Show Boat" days fo r song. The first World Another flicker role goes to a with Nappy Lamare's ork. Lots of W a r had dozens o f good songs, singer, pert little Dorothy Dan- music, good music, there, too. Nat Cole Back, but there w ere fa r less in the last dridge. She will play the role of We're not crowing. We only w ar—'Lili Marlene,' 'Praise The an African queen in Sol Lesser's wonder why Manhattan, with its Lord' and 'We'll Hang Out the "Tarzan's Peril." money, technical facilities, money, Opens In N. Y. W ashing On the Siegfried Line' array of great talent and money were among the three best. Yes, Vic Damone underwent medical can't equal two tiny west coast Nat (King) Cole and his trio re I've seen a few weak efforts this treatment last month in Holly stations boasting nothing much turned from Europe in late Octo tim e. One w as titled 'Korea Makes wood for severe case of athlete's more than inventiveness and ber and were to open on Nov. 1 Me See Red' and another was fo o t. showmanship.—Dexter. at the Elmhurst Ballroom in Elm 'Katie From Korea.' Someone, hurst, L. I., just outside New York p ro b a b ly , w ill w rite a vivid bal Jo Stafford left Capitol after City. JUST ABOUT the biggest sensation of the year, with her phenom MEET THE JOCKEY! lad linking the United Nations six years and Dinah Shore has Cole's combo played the Palla perhaps based on an incidental' enal four-octave range, Yma Sumac is shown w ith the fam ous Peru ED PENNEY of WFGM in Fitch switched from Columbia back to dium in London and several other the war, and that could be It.' vian composer, Moises Vivanco, and a native Incan instrument which burg, Mass., skipped from a col her old label, RCA-Victor. European cities during their Oc they recently presented to the Hollywood Bowl. Miss Sumac's "Voice lege classroom to program direc Of the Xtabay" album, just released, has aroused more raves than tober trek to Europe. CAB CALLOWAY Judy Garland, who received her tor in less than #r"' _ any album in 25 years; she's headed for a Broadway stage show On Nov. 28, the group will In the L. A. Mirror release from MGM, still is in the a year. But his shortly and has also been signed for motion pictures. Yma, in addi open at the Paramount Theater east and refusing all TV and pride and joy "There are too many singers tion to her native "Quechua" language, speaks Spanish, French and in New York for three weeks, nitery offers. The Wm. Morris of is his own these days. Take a look at any Italian. Composer Vivanco composed many of her most-requested then the boys wing west in order fice, which represents Judy, ad "Penney Sere juke box. Every record spotlights songs. to be in California for Christmas. nade" program, a singer. Romance used to star vises she w ill next app e a r in a Broadway show, and that, for the beamed two on the dance flo o r—years ago a Town House Offering Venuti Band hours daily and Diz Shows Again fella would take his girl on ( time being, is not available for sold out with Dizzy Gillespie, forgotten man dance floor and spend the whol< Joe Venuti is back, leading a small dance crew again, at the swank any other comitments. Nor is Judy sponsors. Unmarried and just a of 1950, put in two weeks at the evening dancing . . . Platter spin Town House on Los Angeles' Wilshire Boulevard. The veteran fiddler interested in films right now. She spry 24, Ed writes humorous fic Oasis Club in Los Angeles in O c ners? They influence the publi also has been doing sporadic TV appearances recently; his wife last will hike to Europe soon for a va tion for a hobby. You can hear tober following Cab Calloway's too much. As long as the deejoy month helped him make headlines in the papers when she sued fo r a cation, the Morris spokesman said. him at 1580 on the dial. run. He fronted a sextet this trip. control the air, they'll play junk. divorce. It was granted. Her health is excellent.
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RAY ANTHONY: Palladium through Nov. 12. NAPPY LAMARE: Palladium through Nov. 12. 'ORANGE COLORED SK Y - Cole- Kenton FRANK DEVOL: Palladium, open ing Nov. 14. PETE DAILY: Royal Room. RED NICHOLS: Sardi's. . 'A BUSHEL AND A PECK' Margaret Jiwwy TED VESELY: Beverly Cavern. O N HIS FIRST b irth d a y , a t the Shamrock Hotel in Houston, Kevin BEN POLLACK: Club Bayou. Michael Dennis demonstrates his flutter-kick to his pop, Clark Dennis, 'BEYOND THE REEF ' wh‘tm 9 ’Wakelid KID ORY: Mike Lyman's. who was headlining the Shamrock's floorshow at the time. The youngster actually learned to swim at 7 months. Dad Dennis will pull TED FIO RITO: Cocoanut Grove. himself from the pool and open, on Nov. 13 for four weeks, at the RUSS MORGAN: Hotel Biltmore. luxurious Hotel M a y flo w e r in W ashington, D. C. And he's also sked- MARVIN JOHNSON: 1841 Club. ded to appear on Ed Sullivan's CBS-TV program this month. 'G O O FU S '- Les Paul HAPPY JOHNSON: Clover Club. ZUTTY SINGLETON: Club 47. MARVIN ASH: Hangover Club. JIMMIE GRIER: Paris Inn. Bing, Hope Plan Cowboy v BON APARTES RETREAT * ~ Kay Starr CLAUDINE CARTIER: Music Box. JOHNNY DAVID: Burgundy Room. MATTY MALNECK: Ciro's. Flicks With Hoppy, Roy PETE PONTRELLI: Figueroa Ball vliL ALWAYS LOVE Y O U - Dean Martin room . Bing Crosby and Bob Hope are gonna make an ERNIE FELICE: Sarnez. other movie together. But first, they've got a bit of cowpokin' to do—separately. vu. . t Kay Tennessee MEET THE JOCKEY! Crosby will co-star with husband role. He's now at RKO M U. NEVER &E FREE "Starr Ernie Hopalong Cassidy (Bill working in "Two Tickets To "BOUNCING BUD" Sunkel holds Boyd) in a musical sort of western Broadway" with Janet Leigh and down the mike over WDAN, the Gloria DeHaven. after first making "Here Comes CBS outlet in Danville, III., and Lena Horne, meanwhile, ar the Groom," which starts this vONC€ IN A LIF ET IM E Peggy Lee has, for three years, spun discs rived in Hollywood after her long month. Hope is starting "My and gabbed to to u r o f Europe and is looking for Favorite Spy" at the same studio, the lllini natives a film musical in which to star, Paramount. Then he makes a on a variety of She broke off her contract with western with Roy Rogers. subjects. During Metro last spring and is now free 'THE 6EST THINE* FOR y o u ' “M. Whiting And in early 1951, the Bingo the war, Bud lancing. managed an and Bob w ill launch "R oad To Armed Forces Paris." The sixth of the "road" Pollack Switches; station (WXLH) series o f flickers, it is to be p ro o n Okinawa, Little Tea Joins 'JING-A-UNG, JING-A-LING -DeVot duced by Paul Jones, and Dorothy Ben Pollack and his Pick-A-Rib and has come Lamour may get the fern nod. Boys moved from the Beverly Cav- up rapidly since leaving high Paramount also has virtually ern to a new club, the Bayou, school in his home town of Zanes set Betty Hutton to portray Blos mid-October. And Charlie Teagar o ville, O. Sunkel is married, has a 'AUTUMN LEAVES'- J Stafford som Seeley, old-time vaude star den joined Ben's Dixie crew on 4 -m onth-old d a u g h te r w hom he and wife of Benny Fields, the trumpet. The Bayou, until recently, regards as a "living doll," and singer. This production will be was a Russian restaurant. Ted may someday make the networks based on the career of Miss Vesely's combo is now playing with his gab and stacks of plat Seeley, who a generation ago at the Beverly Cavern following C1L m edkcu1# oi 45 y»* ters. He's a Danville Dandy who was the Kay Starr of show busi- Sharkey's band return to New gets mail from all over Illinois. ness. Tony Martin may land the Orleans.
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Winning TV Tune Pegged
CELEBRATING the selection of "It's Too Late Now" as the winning entry in the recent "Search For a Song" competition sponsored over KTSL, the Los Angeles television station, by Peter Potter, this group poses for a victory shot. Left to right. Potter, Al (Sleepy) Stein, Lou Busch of Capitol Records, Lloyd Ellis, composer o f the winning ditty; Benny Wilson, trumpet, and Travis Anderson, bass. At the piano is Glenn Brewton, who teams with Ellis, Wilson and Anderson to form the "Four Deals" combo. Stein, a noted Arizona disc jockey, manages the group. The song w ill be recorded by Capitol. Ellis, the winner, has never before had a song published.