YMA SUMAC ‘Such voices happen only once in a generation" t CAPITOL NEWS PAGE 3 D a v e Dexter’s s u r f a c e n o is e n. Artists Put Show On Road O'Connell Beats Kay Starr No So You W anna Make Records? Robins North "Laziest Gal" "Just how does a young singer go about getting Helen O 'C onnell w ho Winding up her role in audition from a big record company?" Billy Johnson retired to occupation Hal Stanley's musical pic­ writes. "I live in Atlanta. And I have no way of getting housewife at the time ture, "Come Out Singing," late in to Hollywood or New York to show what I can do." when she was polled February, Kay Starr planed out of Hollywood to pick up the per­ True, true. Yet most of the waxworks will listen to America's top femme vo­ sonal appearance tour of Eastern home-made acetate disc, no matter how crude it sounds calist will augment her cities begun in January. Here are a few tips one should follow in submitting or already successful come­ Kay will give the early-spring audition platter: back on records w ith personal thaw treatment to citizens of To­ appearances during the m onth o f First, the record company is not responsible for any­ ronto, Canada. She opens there March. at the Casino Theatre first week thing submitted. And that goes for songs, song ideas Helen will drop the latch on in March then moves on to short­ and album suggestions as well as audition biscuits. Don1 her Brentwood California home en the winter in Buffalo, N. Y. expect to have your material returned—hundreds of and trek to Boston to open her where she'll play Town Casino. entries are received every day and it is physically four week tour a t Loew's State The unique style o f the Mem­ possible, as well as unfeasible from the financial stand­ on 1 March. Dates follow at the phis Miss has provided audiences Capitol, W ashington, D. C. o pe n ­ point, for the discery to sort out, keep track and return with a lift that's been missing ing on 8 M arch; Loew's C leve­ everything unsolicited that the postoffice trucks delivei since Sophie Tucker was a girl. land, 16 March, and Loew's S tan­ so re gu la rly. Can't stack those dishes this The evidence: Kay's boff perform­ ley, Pittsburgh, 23 March. time. Pretty Helen O'Connell ance at the Paramount, N. Y. Second—and this could easily be first—label everything Helen will share the headline winds up the household chores Sandwiched among theatre submitted with care. At least half the songs and records spot on all engagements with before leaving on a four week dates, club dates, recording ses­ sent to Capitol are not identifiable—our trash baskets Vic Damone who has just fin­ personal appearance tour. sions and picture commitments fill up fast with poorly-marked entries. ished "Rich, Young and Pretty" The lovely Miss Terry Moore at Metro G oldw yn M ayer. Helen Kay has made TV appearances stars in Columbia Pictures' musi­ Be patient. It takes time, lots of time, to carefully has sung no duets since her pop­ with Paul Whiteman, Don Ameche, cal, "Sunny Side of the Street" Nero Burns Up check over unsolicited tunes and demonstration discs. ular etchings w ith Bob Eberly Jack Harder and Bob Crosby. along with Frankie Laine, Toni when that team warbled for Arden, Billy Daniels and the If they are well above average, you'll hear from the Jimmy Dorsey. Highways Rhythmaires. Now Mrs. Glenn record com pany w ith in 30 days. If they are unimpressive, Paul Nero packs his hot fiddle Davis, w ife of the form er Army Helen hopes to spend a week Nat "King" Cole you may get no answer at all, ever. We can't-although and hits the road for a series of grid star, Terry has Hollywood's in N. Y. before starting tour. we wish we could—report on everything sent us. If we one nighters and promotional en­ most beautiful shoulders accord­ Sleds Northward tried to, we'd never get a record made. gagements during the months of ing to "experts." Who's going to March and April. Paul will hit Nat King Cole heads for the argue with a shoulder expert? Unpublished songs cannot be considered. Get them Anthony Springs most of the bigger cities in a tour real cool country after winding published, then we'll gladly consider them for recording. that will take him from Los An­ a week's engagement at the Club In Meadowbrook geles to New York and back Horlem in Philadelphia, March 12 That's the way to do it. Hardly any big time talent again. Dallas, Oklahoma City, St. through 18. From the Friendly City Ray Anthony's band winds up was born and trained in New York and Hollywood. The Louis, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, De­ Nat takes his group to the Diana a long string o f one nighters greatest stars, singers, musicians, actors—even the men troit, Cleveland, Chicago, Des in Montreal for two weeks then 21 ° ^ H 8s^ with a week's stand at the Click Moines, Denver and Salt Lake and women who produce, engineer, publicize and hustle pushes on to Standish Hall Hotel, in Philadelphia. On M arch 16 City are on the agenda. out and sell the records—have come out of America's Anthony opens a t Frank D aly's Quebec. The jazz violinist who once held small towns, off the farms, from cities and villages far Meadowbrook for an indefinite stay. The band has been set for down first chair with the Pitts­ distant from Broadway and Sunset Boulevard. Nellie Wraps It Up the Cafe Rouge in N ew York's burgh Symphony will ramble across the country alone. Nellie Lutcher carries her late Published Monthly by Hotel Statler during the summer Follow the rules and you'll have your chance, too. February engagement at the Par­ CAPITOL PUBLICATIONS, INC. months and expects to trek back A violin virtuoso as well as an amount Theatre, New York on in­ Sunset ond Vine, Hollywood 28, Calif to the West Coast in the fa ll, accomplished composer, Paul's Printed in U. S. A. opening with an engagement at work has attracted the interest of to the first two weeks in March, the Hollywood Palladium. long hairs and boppers alike. then it's a rest for Nellie. PAGE 4 CAPITOL NEWlCAPITOL NEWS PAGE 5 ( Yma Sumac Story Fabulous y m e Yma Sumac stopped the show, s u n s e t then stopped the traffic w hen she Peruvian Singer’s Life Story tried to leave the theater. Here's the way we see it: There's a deal cooking between Universal Pictures Unusual as Her Great Talent There's a mystic aura about Yma and Spike Jones in which Mr. Jones would star in Sumac. Her mother, Atahualpa, is a full-blooded Inca, directly the story of his own life (tenta­ descended from the Inca rulers. tively titled, "The Spike Jones saYs, 50 suits pending . from You probably wouldn't believe it if we told you. (The last of the Inca kings, ex­ Story"). If the picture gets into the computers of such fascinating But it's like this. ecuted by Pizzaro, was Atahualpa. production an unprecedented m*scellani comes the word th a t This unhappy event occurred over number of "crummy" cracks ^e^ty Grable will be seen a gainst Writing about canaries and four centuries ago near Ichocan, about Mr. Jones not being the ^2 different backgrounds in her chirps has been our job for years, Yma's native town, 16,000 feet type may be expected. new picture, "Meet Me After the t's easy. First, get the ang le , then high in the Andes of Peru). a *i oo j it Show" . Bing Crosby and Judy Opening on April 23rd, Muggsy ' Old Sol, nobody's fool, coiJrot ° ut ,he cl!ches:. " smash'" Yma's fa th e r is p a rt Spanish, Spanier and his combo will Garland set to co-star in musical out for M itzi Gaynor, 19 year oli' sensat‘on/ / "a g a* w ‘t*1 a 9 reQt and is a principal authority on about a songwriter who tries to featured dancer and vocalist 9ate w ^ ° stoPs t^ e show and has take over San Francisco's Hang­ civic affairs of the State of Caja- keep his kids out of show busi- who's going places with 20lia 40 mule train pull." (She also over Club for a four week stand marca. Yma was the youngest of ness . Olga San Juan set for Century Fox. The cute miss loves her m other and tends pe­ six children, and according to . Edmund O'Brien, it is re­ lead in Broadway musical, "Paint 1°ac^ed with talent. tunias in cute shorts.) Inca legend, the royal line is ported from a source close to his passed on through the Your W agon . To match, Now we have to write about youngest press agent, is taking singing les­ child, on the theory th a t such a How Could You Believe Me Yma Sumac. W e s ta rt w ith a sons because he wants to keep up child benefits from the experience When l Said I Love You When Haymes Treks sheet of copy paper and a tired with his wife, Olga San Juan and wisdom of the eldest of the You Know I’ve Been a Liar All typewriter, like always.