CAPITOL NEWS Herman Herd Revamped; Swears 'No More Bop’ Woody Herman grabbed his whisk broom and cleaned house again in January, as he does every few years, to shake up his orchestra and discard many of the ar- Life In America —The Amateur Songwriter jrangements he's been featuring the past three years. H. Allen Smith once wrote of the man who collected lint fry But No Return To Dixie Planned navels and managed to amass an enviable collection, which f |n Hollywood on a brief vacation, during which hiatus he and his hoarded and revered above his family, his house and his be; mentor, Abe Turchen, started hiring new faces for his herd, the P'P6, IMilwaukee-born clary and sax star admitted he was "through with Other mature folk who, otherwise, behave comparatively nojbop and everything connected with bop." mally risk limb and life in the pursuit of matchbook covers, fo| "W e are not going back to the o rig in a l D ixieland style Woody eign stamps and—it's deadly serious to them—crumpled cigt featured when he took over the old Isham Jones band in 1936,' bands found in pavement gutte [Turchen said, "but there will be no more of this so-called 'progres- But more eccentric than all these species of homo sapiens f sive' stuff th a t so fe w understand. the songwriters of America, particularly the simon pure who ha\ Woody, Capitol Part Company NAT COLE made discs in New never had hits. Firstly, they are indestructible. No rebuff damper "Woody will strive for a vastly more melodic orchestra, and there York recently with an apprecia­ their ambitions. Physically, they are, to a man, as hardy as Job will be more emphasis on dance tempos, too. The bop era never tive audience, June Hutton and Wayne in a celluloid foxhole. They are on the job 24 hours a do) did amount to much, except among a few immature adolescents Neal Hefti, the arranger. Later, waving their lyrics and their melodies at singers, bandleader! and a fa n a tical frin g e o f e x h ib itio n is ts ," Turchen went on. "We are the King bee-lined for California publishers and record company savants, constantly urging, de out to play good, musicianly dance music. You'll soon hear the for nitery, TV and radio work. manding and threatening that their efforts be performed. diffifference." His "Mona Lisa" was one of There's the beauty shop operator in Kansas who decepticeptive ^ (Capitol and Woody parted company in January, but the split 1950's biggest sellers. stacked a dozen or more of her ditties in gay Christmas gift boxe/bad nothing to do with the style change, beautifully bedecked in ribbon and holly, and dispatched ther off to anybody everybody—whom she thought might sing, pic or record them. Chicago Awaits And the man in Texas, who once a month for 35 years has sub mitted his On the Dusty Rusty Stagecoach to Heaven" maste1 piece to untold thousands of radio stations and record companies King Cole Trio One aged amateur repeatedly loads the mails with her song King Cole's combo, after a stay accompanied by a note—always the same note—that she is ties in California since Christmas, perately ill, and that the royalties received from her song wouls swings east, to Chicago, for a permit the operation which will save her fast-ebbing life. She week at the Regal Theater start­ used the system since 1919. ing Feb. 16. Then it's on to N ew The con men, lifers, second-story gents and snatch men if Jersey for a nitery engagement. America s prisons and ¡ails who turn out songs they are convinced N at's January run in Reno was should place from one to ten on next June's Hit Parade are legiojl cancelled because of floods and These men have time to write and rewrite, shape and reshapl his trio, instead, worked the Tif­ their tunes. And they exhibit considerable more patience thaJ fany Club in Los Angeles. their colleagues on the outside. Housewives? Let's not get into that phase. For every one wM brandishes a broom, two write songs. Washington Next Cole Porter? Frank Loesser? Johnny Mercer? Berlin? They're c bums. No talent. They've got "ins" with the big publishers. That'; For Peggy Lee what the amateurs say in their letters. And the record companies Peggy Lee, back in C alifornia are in cahoots and w ill somebody please advise this column hov after a brief appearance in the a cahoot functions?-with the professionals. The door is closet ill-fated American Legion show, to an unknown. It's a monopoly, that's what it is. "Red, White and Blue," which Well, we're gonna tell a secret. There is no monopoly, no CAPITAL AIRLINES, flying 450 flights a day in and out of 73 cities, folded in Chicago, will train out POLLY BERGEN has made two even a third-class cartel. It's just that the record company mer last month started an added service for its passengers—a complimen­ again for a week at the Capitol movies with Martin and Lewis actually sit down and carefully listen to songs. And if some o' tary copy of the Cap News to every traveler. Hostesses Hoekstra and Theater in W ashington, D. C., and will work with them this those aspiring, struggling writers would do that with their owr GNson distribute the mag, in this shot, to M ary Mayo, who is making starting Feb. 22. She's also due month in Florida. In private life, tunes, they'd never get a rejection. They w o u ld n 't dare sub-*^ast time as a singer on the Capitol label and who frequently takes to perform with her husband, m it 'em ! Polly, a singer, is the w ife of to the air for engagements. Some 5,000 copies are required by the Dave Barbour, at the N. Y. Wal­ srceen actor Jerome Courtland. airline every month. dorf-Astoria in March. ■T'Ä*ö|Bi

PAGE 4 CAPITOL NE»CApiTOL NEWS PAGE 5 Leaves DeVol; Whiting Jaunt Helen O ’Connell Off; She W ill OutOnHerOwn Go East Later Blonde Helen O'Con­ (February Cover Girl) ALTHOUGH HE will continue to clef his "Surface nell, who recently Noise" column and contribute occasional news and Margaret Whiting's oft- emerged from a long retirement feature articles to its postponed personal ap­ The song, hiked up on the Hit ¡to work as featured vocalist with pearance run at the New York pages, Dave Dexter this Parade chgrts by Nat Cole's sleek Frank DeVol's dance band at the Capitol Theater with Frank De­ month is stepping aside version, was composed by the Hollywood Palladium, is going Vol's music and Jack Smith as as the editor of Capitol same team of Livingston and out on her own as a singing added attractions again has been Evans which previously scored shoved back. So Mag will remain News to concentrate on single. with "Buttons and Bows" and in Hollywood. finding and recording tal­ The Ohio finch banged her way "To Each His O w n ." , Busy With Army Dates back into popularity quickly at ent for Capitol Records, The Capitol engagement origi­ the Palladium, and w as regarded Inc. Moving in to supervise the Coast songwriters honored nally was scheduled for January, * as being partly responsible for m ag—w hich is now in its ninth Harry Tobias at the Hotel Roose­ but radio commitments on the year of publication—will be John velt. He wrote "Sweet and Love­ the hefty box-office m arks chalked west coast kept Maggie, DeVol (Bud) Freeman and Lou Schurrer. ly" and many another smash. up by DeVol's new "Music of the and Smith from shoving off for Freeman, a former Variety Century" crew. She is also in de­ the east. Then, in February, Smith writer, will boss the editorial end The 94-piece Israel Philhar­ mand for TV shows throughout landed a role in a film at War­ of the mag and Schurrer, until re­ monic orchestra, with Dr. Serge the Southern C a lifo rn ia area. ners and couldn't go. cently head of his own advertis­ Koussevitzky and Leonard Bern­ With major film factories pon­ Margaret, meanwhile, has con­ ing agency, will direct the art tinued her airshow with DeVol's stein alternating as conductors, dering the O'Connell pipes—and ON HER OWN . . . Helen O'Con­ side. Ray Polley continues as pro­ band and Smith (Dinah Shore is will perform at the Los Angeles oeauteous face—¡t seemed likely nell, who recently returned to duction head. Dexter, who started Shrine Auditorium March 3, 4, 5. featured on the other days of the lhat she would be testing within music as a vocalist with Frank Peggy Lee, Kay S tarr, N ellie The unit, on its first tour of Amer­ week) and also piled one army the next fe w weeks. She's no DeVol's ork, has left DeVol and Lutcher, Julia Lee and others on camp show atop another. Prob­ ica, will play 55 concerts in 40 will work as a single act. An Cap wax, and who with Glenn cities. novice—her scenes in "The Fleet's ably no other singer in the busi­ Ohioan, "Button Nose" will con­ E. Wallichs also was responsible ¡In" at Param ount and "I Dood ness has visited as m any m ilita ry tinue to record for Capitol. for Stan Kenton and King Cole |lt" at MGM during the war years hospitals and camps as Whiting recording for the Cap label, will Alfred Hitchcock engaged Max FLUFFS MUSIC. . . . Cleo Mooriestablished her visual appeal, since the Korean war started. frequently be out on the road Steiner to compose and score threw aside her chances to be-And she's had a d d itio n a l film e x ­ Going East Anyway ogling new bands and singers original music for "Strangers On come a singing star and switchedperience m aking shorts w ith Jim - and cutting platters. a Train." Drama features Ruth Russell Near "But I'll be playing eastern the­ Roman, Farley Granger and Bob over to straight acting. Resull'my Dorsey's band back in the aters this sp rin g ," she said. "W ith Walker. It's being made at War­ She's got a fancy role ¡«early 1940's. or without DeVol and Smith, I'm Roc H illm an, long fe atured ner Brothers. RKO-Radio's "Gambling House ... , booked now for personals in a . .x , „ Helen w i head east, b ut p ro b ­ Death In S. F. with the old Dorsey Brothers and drama opposite Victor Mature ' r Charles (Pee-Wee) Russell, most dozen eastern cities." later, Jim Dorsey's band, on gui­ W ell, Betty Grable, June Have. ab|y not before sPrin9- Her Part­ Vernon (April in Paris) Duke is colorful of all hot clarinetists and "Over and Over Again," a new tar, is leading the music on Joe Gloria De Haven and Doris D«|(ln9 wi,h w°s amicable, in Hollywood, and working with one of the few remaining vets of ballad with strange and exotic Graydon's new TV show over made the same move, too, not tow . . . KLAC in H'wood. Carol Richarck Sammy Cahn on new songs for the old rip-roaring Chicago jazz overtones, composed by a tal­ long ago. And Cleo thinks a musical tentatively titled "Casey |\6(1 IHQIC lAflll school of the 1920's, was hover­ ented Polish refugee, Henry Vars, does the fern vocals. can do as w ell. ® Jones." ing near death in a San Francisco meanwhile looms as Whiting's first hospital as this issue went to big smash hit, on discs, in '51. On the same station, Carl Cons, Play In England press in mid-January. No hope for a decade co-owner of Down Bobby Troup's group is now at Pinza Set For Red Ingle and his Seven (na­ was held for his recovery. Beat (the musicians' newspaper Cafe Gala on the Sunset Strip, tural and otherwise) will start an Al Nicholas To in Chicago) is producing and di­ with the leader at the piano and Russell, who originally came Comedy Flicker 8-week tour o f G reat B ritain on recting two shows of his own, Lloyd Pratt, bassist, and Al Viola, out of Missouri, has been ill many Ezio Pinza w ill team with Jane! March 4, w ith Ingle fe a tu rin g fo u r with a third skedded to tee off g uita r. months. He came to the west Manone's Band Leigh and former band singer. American musicians and fo u r Brit- in M arch. coast last summer, spent some Spotting Albert Nicholas on Gale Robbins in a comedy film ¡sh sidemen. time in Hollywood and left for clarinet and Cajun Verret on slide Clark Dennis ticketed for two "Strictly Dishonorable," whicf The zany fiddler and singer had San Fran in December. A liver ail­ trombone, Wingy Manone, his Hollywood music men concede weeks a t the Thunderbird, Las rolls this month at MGM. The for­ a best-selling record over there ment and multiple complications cornet and combo have been "Mona Lisa" to be an easy win­ Vegas, starting March 1 at $1,500 mer opera and concert star's first a few seasons back, "Cigarets were blamed for his critical ill­ playing nightly at Showtime, a ner of.the Academy award, even per week. He just closed in Spo­ picture, "Mr. Imperium," W-land Whuskey." It will be the first ness. Russell has recorded hun­ nitery on Ventura Blvd., in Encino. though it was poorly spotted in a kane. Tenor also is recording pro- made last fall with Lana Turner/cappearance of Ingle's combo out- dreds of sides and virtually all of Wingy's billing reads, "Bing Cros­ mildly popular Paramount film. lifically for Cap label. and is being released this month, side the U. S. them are collectors' items today. by's Favorite Trumpet Player."

m so PAGE 6 CAPITOL I ^CAPITOL NEWS PAGE 7 New Orleans Paramount, MGM Bag Armstrong Next Stop For Satch Has Big With Crosby In Hot Garber Ork Part in 'Strip' 'Groom' Picture Jan Garber's ork will Influenced by the spirit Louis Armstrong en­ remain in the deep, warm ¡and bounce that a dozen dured a hectic month in South this month follow­ ^different D ixieland bands have January following his two-weeker ing an engagement in iven to niteries, those on the at the Oasis, for in addition to Jackson, Miss. zest coast in particular, MGM facing MGM's big cameras in llast month went to the source for "The Strip," old Satchmo' and The little North Carolina fiddler special music in its b ig -b u dg e t his musicians also checked in at w ill open on Feb. 8, fo r fo u r [musical, "The S trip ." LOUIS ARMSTRONG Param ount fo r scenes in Bing weeks, at the Roosevelt Hotel in . . . Hits his peak in Hollywood's Crosby's forthcoming "Here New Orleans for a fee in excess 13 Tunes Planned motion picture studios. Comes the Groom" flicker. of $4,000 a week. Roy Cordell t Louis Armstrong and his band, Phil Harris In, Also is the Garber vocalist. They're excited, out at MGM's mighty no less, drew the assignment from * "Fluff's," operated by an old­ Produced and directed by Frank A bandleader for more than a Culver City film factory, about Sally Producer Joe Pasternak. The g re a t time vaude star, Bill Demarest. Capra, "Here Comes the Groom" quarter of a century, Jan is do­ Forrest. She's got the lead in "The New Orleans trumpeter and sing- Armstrong's combo plays in the will find Armstrong and his men ing better in 1951 than he did Strip" opposite Mickey Rooney. But |er used his regular band fo r the spot. Kay Brown is a cigaret girl —the same guys who work with five, ten or 15 years ago. A first you'll see Sally in "Excuse My ¡stint, a band w hich includes Jack who does intermission vocals. But Louie in the MGM pic—kicking up steady stream of Cap records has Dust," a big and blatant musical star­ Teagarden , Earl Hines, Barney the big musical interest centers their heels on "Christofo Colum- created a big demand for his ring Red Skelton. Sally cuts a boogie- Bigard, Cosy Cole and A rve ll around Armstrong and his time- bo," a novelty composed by Jay simple, danceable music, and woogie dance in this 'un, against a ¡Shaw. According to the studio, tested sidemen. Livingston and Ray Evans. It's the Garber is the kind of guy who New Orleans waterfront setting, which ■he Satch recorded 13 tunes fo r A last minute addition to the first Crosby picture in ages which loves to hit the road and let the will have the males howling like coy­ Whe soundtrack, including prized powerful cast was Jacqueline hasn't featured songs by the vet­ people, even in the smaller com­ otes. This pose is a clip from the film. [evergreens like "Rose Room ," Fontaine, the hard-hitting little eran team of Van Heusen and munities, watch his aggregation .''Ja-Da," "Wabash Blues," "Ba- blonde shouter who has won a Burke. in the flesh. jsin Street Blues," "O n e O 'c lo c k -Lump," "Young Man With a big following in California via Crosby also w ill have Phil Har­ her records with Nappy Lamare's IjHorn," "I'm Sittin' On Top of the ris with him in the "Groom" band, and appearances on TV II World" and "I'm Cornin' Vir- movie, as well as Cass Daley and Movie Nabobs Tur and in night clubs. Jackie has a Frank Fontaine. feinia. sort of youthful Sophie Tucker ap­ Nothing New For Louie Hines, long know n as "The proach to a lyric. She's worked Armstrong, an institution in Father" to jazz purists, has two with Lamare on KTLA's "Dixie Am erican music since he got his solo spots with his facile piano­ Show B oat" program as w ell as To Musicals Again start as a musician while living fingering on "Father's Retreat" on biscuits. By BUD FREEMAN and "Father's Time." Vic Damone in a Waif's Home in New Or­ Adjusting to the TV threat and a world situatio ¡and Monica Lewis also will be leans before World War 1, also which will apparently increase in tension, Hollywoo ¡seen in short guest spots, along That's M y Boy' appeared on two of Crosby's ra­ with the Four Fresh men, small dio shows last month. But making ftlmakers will plunk their blue chips on Technicolor musicals as fl . i movies is no novelty for Louie. best bet to keep the turnstiles tripping during 1951. Fred Astaire h W IC waxes biscuits for Irks The Schnoz Capitol. He's been featured on celluloid signed with Metro to do two additional color musicals after 0 There's a feud brewing be­ in shorts and full-length features starring with Vera Ellen in "Belle of New York," now in prepon Rooney Has M ale Lead tween Jimmy Durante and the fo r 15 years. One o f his most Sally Forrest and M ickey Roo­ team of Dean Martin and Jerry memorable appearances was with ney are the stars of the pic. Danny Kaye will make two Technicolor toonies for Sam Goldwy Lewis. Crosby in "Pennies From Heav­ "The Adventures of Walter Mitty," and a story based on the life "The S trip " is so nam ed be- Martin and Lewis are winding en" more than a decade ago. Flans Christian Andersen. Latter w ill co-star Moira Shearer, the BritiJcause it is a narrow parcel of up work in "That's My Boy," a comedy produced by Hal Wallis GENIAL JAN, as his fans call ballerina who played the lead in "Red Shoes." land along Sunset Boulevard from Lutcher On Road Finished and in the final stages of editing at Metro-Goldwyn-Mo) Laurel Canyon to Beverly Hills in at Paramount. Durante has long him, looks for his biggest year Nellie Lutcher, when she ends are: "Rich, Young and Pretty," the Jane Powell, Vic Damone starrii Los Angeles county. Many a used the title as a "catch phrase" in '51 with a half-dozen records her run at the Tiffany Club in vehicle, and the remake of "Show Boat" with Kathryn Grayson, Ai plushy night spot has boom ed, in his comedy routines, and has helping him snare the biggest L. A., goes north for a three- Gardner and Floward Keel. Tony Martin, Janet Leigh, and Glor bloomed, faded and died there. protested its use by W allis. But fees his band has ever received. weeker at the Swing Club in San De Haven have completed their labors on RKO's "Two Tickets Mocambo and C iro's are the tw o apparently Wallis, Martin and Garber will open on Feb. 8 for Francisco starting Feb. 2, then it's Broadway," while Warners is shooting the Doris Day, Gordon Mu! best-known Strip bistros and will Lewis are ignoring the Schnoz's New York again for the Real four weeks at the Roosevelt Hotel Rae vehicle, "Moonlight Bay." "Meet Me After The Show," mj\be seen in the Metro film. As pleas, for the picture is virtually Gone Gal. She w ill play tw o in New Orleans. And he will net "Friendly Island" are in final stages of preparatio n a t 20th-Cen!«| The Strip" went into production completed with Polly Bergen and weeks at the Paramount on Times more than $4,000 per! as is "Painting the Clouds with Sunshine" at Warners, January, the story centered Ruth Hussey handling the lead­ about a fictitio u s club ailed ing fern roles. Square starting late in February. THE WEST COAST is ready and waiting for jromised and hoped-for return to California oienton and his Artistry in Rhythm, which glide:

on Feb.;lfive-week run after a lengthy and spectacular eastern l:|on first worked the Palladium in late 1941, has playspot many times since, and has always proved a potent bte lure. Returning with the big pianist will be Jay Jorioll-winning vocal soloist, and a stellar lineup of sideho help make Stan's music the fresh and stimfcrce that it is. This will be a strictly "music fotg" engagement —Stan won't return to ^ sncert field until next fall.

PHOTOS BY GENE HOWARD

JOHNSON

FERGUSON CAPITOL NEWS PAGE 11 Eddie Dean, Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son, Etches New Discs For W estern Fans This Month By BEEP ROBERTS Capitol this month will Smiley Burnette is currently on introduce its newest west­ tour with Gene Autry in theaters in Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania, ern recording artist, Eddie Dean, West Virginia, Tennessee and Ar­ whose name is w e ll know n a ll kansas, and he w ill be m aking over the nation to lovers of west­ another "Durango Kid" picture ern ballads. Eddie says his repu­ the latter part of this month. tation as "seventh son of the sev­ Tennessee Ernie will be guest­ enth son" w as w h a t gave him ing on Biff Collie's show at KNUZ, his start back in Chicago, where Houston, and Floyd Whitney of he was heard on all four net­ KRTM radio programs down Texas works, for Eddie was born in the way. Ernie really packed 'em in seventh month o f 1907 d ow n in down at the San Diego Naval EDDIE DEAN joins Capitol this Posey, Tex. Matter of fact, Eddie Base on Jan. 28 when he played month, making his debut on the is heard and seen on Los Angeles to 5,000 middies. Snader Tele- label with a long string of suc­ TV Channel 7. scriptions will later be releasing cesses in the western singing field Dean's w o rk w ith g u ita r and some video films that Ernie is behind him. Eddie hails from fiddle was completely self-taught planning to make this month. Posey, Tex., but it was in Chicago and he soon joined a q ua rte t, Tex Ritter is touring the Pacific that he got his start as a top later doing concert work on tours Northwest this month for the first sagebrush chanter. He's a favor­ through Texas, Oklahoma and time, and we advise all you ite with Los Angeles television Arkansas while still in his teens. readers of this department to be viewers, too. Following his ra dio deb u t in C hi­ on the lookout for some of the cago, Eddie began to make many new Ritter records which will be fine recordings and to o k up song­ released this month. They remind writing in 1932. Among many of us of the old days, and inciden­ And Hope Was the tunes which he composed was tally Tex recorded them while at "One Has My Name and the his Van Nuys home during these Other Has M y H ea rt." past Christmas holidays. In Most Of ’Em George Murphy, president of During the "forties," Eddie the Hollywood Coordinating Com­ made a series o f pictures fo r mittee, reports that prominent en­ Eagle-Lion and w as active on the New Date For tertainers in the film colony made Judy Canova show and in enter­ 1,529 voluntary appearances at taining our Armed Forces. Duke’s Concert benefits during 1950. The Com­ Jimmy Wakely recently guested Gene Norman has juggled the mittee approved 542 events, in­ on Cliffie Stone's "H o m e to w n Jam ­ date of his coming Duke Ellington cluding 210 for the armed forces. boree" television show here be­ "Just Jazz" concert in the Los An average of more than four fore leaving fo r N ew Y ork to Angeles Shrine Aud from Feb. 3 prominent entertainers from the appear on Ed Sullivan's "Toast to Feb. 9. Ellington, m aking his Hollywood colony were appear­ of the T ow n" on Jan. 21 along first appearance in a year in the ing in the name of some worthy with Margaret Truman. far west, will feature some of cause every day of the year. The Tex Williams started off the his new works, including "Mono­ number quoted by the Coordinat­ new year by re org a n izin g his logue," "Duet" and "Trio." The ing Committee, an organization own band fo r an extended en­ usual Ellington stars will be on established to protect performers gagement at the Riverside Rancho. hand, including Hodges, Brown, against "racket" charities, does We were advised it was the big­ Greer, Carney and Procope. not include individual visits to gest opening the Rancho ever had N orm an also sponsored Louis veterans hospitals, wards and with a capacity crowd of over Armstrong at Pasadena Aud on clinics by individual artists. 5,000 fans, and Tex is presently Jan. 30 successfully. Heard nightly The entertainers in M urphy's airing three transcontinental re­ on KFWB in H'wood, the jockey report included scores of singers, motes from there, via NBC. He's has been offering his "Just Jazz" who frequently contribute their also making a new musical short concerts now for four years, and time and songs with nothing more for Universal-International. all but a few have made money. than piano accompaniment. . PAGE 12 CAPITOL NEW! CAPITOL NEWS PAGE 13

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SINGERS, SINGERS every­ MOST THEATER and night When the talk turns sellers. Most of them were pretty, where and not a ham in to unforgetable dance tasteful ballads featuring Bowlly's club men curse TV. But dramatic singing and superb en­ sight. That's the situation this bands, Ray Noble and his music Ray Noble's Herman Hover, who oper­ sembles. But occasionally Noble month at Warner Brothers as must be w eighed c a re fu lly . Fo'r would swing, with Freeman's three topflight chirpers work the ates Ciro's on the Sunset back in 1935-36, when Noble ar­ 1935-36 Band honking tenor and Irwin's long big stages in starring roles in rived in New York fro m London Strip in Los Angeles, be­ Son of a noted British doc­ trumpet blowing hot. Among the "Moonlight Bay." and formed his first Yank crew lieves a great attraction tor, Ray Noble became one of most-requested titles by this NEWLYWEDS. . . . Roy Cordell, for a long run a top the RCA The film , produced by W illia m England's most famous musi­ group, on the old Victor label, featured baritone with Jan Gar­ w ill draw business de­ Building in Radio C ity — they Jacobs and directed by Roy del cians in the early 1930's with were "D inner For One, Please ber's crew, poses with Mrs. Cor­ spite video. called it the R ainbow Room—his Ruth, not only features Gordon his M ayfair orchestra which James," "Where Am I?," "Way dell, who until Dec. 28 was Bar­ was one of the most danceable MacRae and Doris Day, but also Hover p ersonally conducted c broadcast regularly over BBC. Down Yonder In New O rleans," bara Jane Smith, a California and most musical aggregations the happy boy of the music biz, poll last month at Ciro's, among A gifted pianist, Noble, oddly "When I'm With You" and "Easy model. The ceremony was in Long ever assembled. Jack Smith. It is Jack's first big his patrons, to learn just how enough, never played piano To Love." Beach while Garber's gang vaca­ chance in films. He's been seen many television fans patronize his Noble, son o f a British surgeon, in his own orks. But his ar­ Noble later toured with the tioned over the Christmas season. in shorts—short films, that is—but place. At Dick Contino's opening, had conducted excellent bands in ranging and conducting skills band, winding up in Hollywood. never in a big money production. for example, 97 per cent of those England fo r m any years. But this and his knack of hiring great As the years passed, so did his MacRae and Miss Day, on the who came to watch the young was something special. His own musicians made his music best musicians. Finally, in the other hand, think nothing of do­ Bob Crosby Set accordionist admitted they had arrangements, his uncanny selec­ epochal. 1940's, Ray began using straight ing four or five a year. The same TV sets at home. Most of those tion of tempos and his insistence studio orchestras for the big studio also is shooting "Painting on featuring a young South Af­ people further admitted they had D'Andrea formed the reed section. commercial radio shows and he The Clouds With Sunshine" with For RKO Film never seen Dick in person, but rican, Al Bowlly, as vocalist, were Trumpets included Charlie Spivak became an actor himself. Today, Virginia Mayo and Dennis Mor­ Noble's own contributions. Bob Crosby was a last-minute w ere anxious to w atch him be­ and George (Pee-Wee) Irwin. Noble is fa r better known fo r gan. a d d itio n to "T w o Tickets To cause they had seen him perform But Ray w en t even fa rth e r. In George Van Epps was on guitar, his British wit than for his rich, o ver TV. Broadway" last month, the RKO building a new band, he hired Delm ar Kaplan on bass, Bill unbeatable dance music o f 15 Tony Martin got his tootsies musical which has been shooting Checking into the situation dur­ the best musicians, a lth o u g h , a t Harty at the drums and Claude years ago. Miller, Spivak, Brad­ smashed, and ruined a pair of longer than any musical in years. ing the recent holiday season, that time, they w ere still u n ­ Thornhill, piano. Fiddles com­ ley, Thornhill all became famous new shoes, when a piano rolled The ex-leader of the "best Hover discovered from his patrons knowns. Glenn M ille r and W ill prised Nick Pisani, Fritz Prospero leaders themselves. Bowlly, Can­ over him at RKO where "Two Dixieland band in the land" will that they regularly left their Bradley played the trom bones. and D'Andrea, who doubled on non and Miller are now dead. Tickets To Broadway" was being be seen along with Tony Martin, homes and th e ir TV sets if a truly Bud Freeman, Milt Yaner, Johnny reeds. But it was great while it lasted. film ed. Janet Leigh, Gloria De Haven and g rea t a ttra c tio n w as performing Mince, Jimmy Cannon and Danny Noble's records were best­ —Dave Dexter, Jr. others. James V. Kern directed it, in person somewhere in the Los Billy Daniels, his face healed in color. Angeles area. But less than the after that vicious knifing in Hol­ top performers couldn't get lywood, left Mocambo for Florida. Avodon Ballroom to leave their living rooms, Hover He refused to prosecute the wom­ w as told. an who widened his smile a few Now a Garage "All I have learned from this inches. Los A ngeles' A vodon B allroom , little survey," opines the Ciro's boss, who also does a disc Jockey Frankie Laine also left Califor­ which right after World War li stint over the Liberty web, "is nia to work the New York Copa. gave the Palladium competition with bands like Woody Herman, that when an attraction at o Billy Butterfield and Bobby Sher­ movie theater, night club or sport­ Eddy Howard and his band wood, folded permanently last ing arena is w h a t people want opened Jan. 30 a t the St. Francis month and the building is being to see, neither television nor oj in San Francisco for six weeks. converted into a garage. The Avo- blonde can keep a guy at home." It's Eddy's first west coast en­ don's bands were aired nation­ He m ay have something there, gagement in years. ally during its "hot" period, but as normal times returned it faded dem anding separate maintenance, This one really fits our "Strict­ into a weekend rumba spot. Mrs. Brown asked that Brown pay ly Singers" file: Mabel Scott, the her $5,000 every month, basing 30-year-old thrush who popu­ Rear row, left to right: Glenn Miller, Will Bradley, Charlie Spivak, George Irwin, Bill Harty, Jimmy Blues" renow n, in Los Angeles the figure upon his estimated larized "Elevator Boogie" two Cannon, Del Kaplan, Johnny Mince, Milt Yaner and Bud Freeman. Jan. 2. M abel charged th a t earnings o f $100,000 annually. years ago, filed suit for divorce Charley forcibly put her, and her They w ere m a rrie d Jan. 16, 1949, Front row: Al Bowlly, Frlti Prospero, Nick Pisani, Danny D'Andrea, George Van Epps, Claude from Charles Brown, of "Driftin' belongings, out of their home. In The divorce was granted. Thornhill and Noble, In tails. PAGE 14 CAPITOL NEW"

W ho’s Eckstine Bucks P Weavers, Ice Billy Eckstine, th 0 , > Weavers and a new i( ft È I show will battle it out for po STAN KENTON: Palladium, ronage early this month in Holl opening Feb. 20 for five weeks. ______~~ W ^ i * wood. Eckstine opened Jan. 3 RALPH FLANAGAN: Palladium , at Mocambo, his first job then now. The Weavers were to open c ' " \ ) j ¿ o w v PETE DAILY: Royal Room. C iro's on Feb. 1, also their fin RED NORVO: The Encore. RED NICHOLS: Sardi's. appearance on the Sunset Strip ZUTTY SINGLETON: Club 47. And Earl Carroll's huge theatei KID ORY: Beverly Cavern. restaurant, which has been dai i ^ i / ( J -— MARVIN ASH: Hangover Club. tw o years, w ill lig h t up agai EDDIE BERGMAN: Cocoanut with an ice show featuring a cai Grove. o f 48. This is a radical chang RUSS MORGAN: Biltmore Hotel. * fro m the type o f entertainmef ARTHUR VAN: Colonial Ballroom. which Carroll, before his death i ____ V ------— TL / 1 WINGY MANONE: Showtime. a plane crash, offered for moi FREDDIE SLACK: Astor's. than a decade. BOBBY TROUP: Cafe Gala. — - í ¡ » That's Red! That's Liz! Flocking out to the Encore, Elizabeth Taylor, pride of a Hollywood eatery where Metro, poses for the first time Red Norvo's fly, sleek, subtle in her glamorous career in trio is currently playing were tights (right) as she presents Dick Contino, Muggsy Spanier, George Sanders, KFVD jock in Les Brown and Russ Morgan, Los Angeles, w ith a tro p h y who are pictured below chin­ * — t j T v ------symbolic of his being named ning w ith Red d urin g an inter­ "King of Disc Jockeys" for mission. Spanier has since 1951. The trophy was offered jumped to Boston with his by Movie Stars Parade, a fan leaping Dixie combo. Red fea­ mag. Just what Liz had to do tures his own vibes, Tal Far- with this coup isn't quite low's guitar and Charlie Min­ clear. But her attractions are! gus' bass. ’ ”06 HAM ^

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MEET THE MISSUS. . . . Ray Anthony, during his recent run at the New York Hotel Statler, met Skitch Henderson's bride, Faye Emerson, for the first time during a midnight supper session. At right, visiting Anthony from Hollywood and rounding out the foursome, is Dick Jones of Capitol Records, in charge of the classical division. Skitch and Faye rank among the nation's most popular radio and TV attractions. They were married in both Mexico and New York in December.