i l i » Ä l t i i 4 M Il i.ImM , i>w < ïMÈMiÈÂ \Ssm ... V . ____siij CAPITOL NEWS CAPITOL N E W S PACE 3 news Published Monthly by Jo Stafford Show' CAPITOL PUBLICATIONS, INC. Sunset and Vine, Hollywood 28, Calif. Printed in U. S. A. In Nov. 11 Premiere EDITED BY DAVE DEXTER, JR. jo Stafford’s first broadcast for Revere cameras will come off on Nov. 11 with Paul W eston’s music backing her. The program will be known as the “ Jo Stafford Show.” I To be aired over the A BC net from Hollywood, the presentation Leaves Come Tumbling Down, Etc. also will feature the tenor pipes of Seems like old times, to use a tried and true cliche, with Artie Clark Dennis and songs by Star- At Shaw and Benny Goodman both woodshedding new dance bands lighters, vocal group, in addition to N. Y. Site Of And don’t think they aren’t aware of each other’s activity. With the Weston orchestra. PERT PIA N IST featured on the things as they are these days in the band biz it’s likely that both D eadline Will Continue For Chesterfield New Shaw Ork Meredith Willson show over ABC will strike gold with their newly-formed crews in the east. War- j Jo will continue her regular appear­ is Paulena Carter, who’s also quite Artie Shaw came to Hollywood dell Gray, young tenor saxist who went from Los Angeles to New ances on the Chesterfield Supper Club a composer. Cov. Earl Warren per­ This will be a big month for York with Goodman last spring and who tooted with Basie briefly a few on NBC, it was emphasized. last month, as the Cap News pre­ sonally congratulated her, just last Dennis will be the only holdover act top-flight entertainers in the weeks back, will be one of the key sldemen in the new, full-sized BG unit dicted he would. He was impressed month, on her new “ California Cen­ and Buddy Greco is likely to be the singer. Shaw will try to popularize his from the current Revere package, which with the new Bob Keen orchestra tennial Fantasy.” Greater Los Angeles area. old “ Begin The Beguine” music again. features Marion Hutton. She will go But when was it ever unpopular? over to the Jack Carson-Frank DeVol which Dave (Ace) Hudkins had or­ N ig h t clu b s are expected to show on CBS when the new combination ganized with the view of Artie taking Squibs From An Old Notebook jump. The slump, it is hoped, will of Stafford, Dennis, Starlighters and it over. Maggie W hiting gets the call to be the “ Sweetheart” of the Notre Dame M a rtin and Lew is Weston take over. The new series will Then Shaw returned to New York have ended. alumni Dec. 4 at the L. A. Coliseum when the South Benders bend USC be aired every Thursday night. and announced he would start rehearsals around and around. Mag brought Leahy’s men luck last year and they figure Sock Thursday Schedule with Keen and “ about four or five” of O p e ra to rs are spending extra she can t do any harm again next month. The new year will bring Bow On Discs ABC nabobs were licking their chops the California musicians. For personal money— fa n ta s tic sums'— to beat forth more new songs than any year in history. Tunesmiths have been saving (Picture on Page 8) over the forthcoming Thursday eve reasons, Shaw disclosed he would prefer empty tables. ’em up since last Dec. 31 and the recording firm guys already are being to reorganize in Manhattan. But he inundated with notes. lineup across the board, for effective on Pactlng of the comic team of Armistice Day they will be able to offer promised that Keen would be with him You Can Bet Your Life . It’s Wrong Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis to a H ere are the most important the new Revere package along with when he goes out, later this fall, to play Chalk up a score for Erroll Garner, the sly and subtle piano-plucker from Capitol Records contract last month events: the Abbott Gr Costello entry. The new theaters again as a bandleader. Pittsburgh, who is making an admirable comeback on the west coast. Gar­ Revere presentation also is unique from It appeared that Tom Rockwell’s CAC came about simultaneously with ner departs Hollywood for a Nov. 17 opening at the “ Say W hen” Club in another standpoint— Jo, Dennis, Weston would book the new Shavian crew, with H a rry Jam es at the Palladium San Francisco. But they don’t say when he will close. Haw! Life mag the announcement that the two and the Starlighters are making records Keen getting billing. It also was indi­ starting Nov. 23. His fee is said pictured Benny Carter greeting Diz Gillespie with a series of phony bop fast-rising entertainers also will be exclusively for the royal purple Capitol cated that Penny Parker, who has been salutations and tagged Carter (who was Dizzy’s boss at one time— and to be “ around” the $5,000 weekly label. working with Keen and Hudkins in Los starred in the Hal W allis production teacher) as a Gillespie “ disciple.” Couldn’t have picked the wronger man. of “ My Friend Irma” which goes into mark. Mike Nidorf agented the deal. Angeles, also would go to N. Y. to be­ . The USC and UCLA bands are better to watch, this season, than the come Artie’s girl vocalist. The band will production soon at Paramount. football teams. W hy doesn’t someone stage an annual Rose Bowl for music have only five brass, four saxes, four Martin is not only funny, he’s one of K a y Thom pson at the Hotel with the very best college bands battling it out for the national title? rhythm and Shaw’s stick. the finest singers in America. At New Beverly-Wilshire at a record $10,­ So You Think You’re A Booted Character? York’s Copacabana and at Hollywood’s 000 per week against a percentage How hipped can you get? Gang of young musicians in Los Angeles—all Slapsy Maxie’s he and Lewis proved of the gross. The ornate hotel has under 20— consider bebop, Gillespie, Parker and crop strictly old-fashioned, Cricket Club To sensational. passe, extinct. Seems they’ve devised what they call a “ super-progressive Capitol’s James B. Conkling, head of redecorated its smart F lo re n tin e jazz” which makes the bop boys as reactionary as Bunk Johnson. Well, when repertoire, rushed their first sides out. room especially for Kay and her in doubt punt. Billie Holiday is now expected in Los Angeles next Get Hodges Ork “ The Money Song” Is coupled with Generally regarded as Duke Ellington’s aides, the William s Brothers. January. For a Stuffy Norman concert, no doubt. And who’d think that “ That Certain Party.” most famous soloist through part of li’l pete Daily of hot horn renown once bested the fabulous Satch Paige in Conkling also signed the veteran Nick the 1920’s, all the 1930’s and most of a mound duel in Cary, Indiana? “ He must have had an off day,” Pete recalls, Spike Jones and band at Slapsy the 1940’s, Johnny Hodges will appear Lucas to a waxing binder with Capitol. “ but my knuckler was clicking.” Bing Crosby, incidentally, tells his buddies Maxie’s beginning Nov. 8. Jones at the Cricket Club in Los Angeles this that Pittsburgh will be in the ’49 World Series. The owners— including Croz— month as leader of his own little combo. will get $10,500 a week for his will spend a million, if necessary, getting the right men for next year’s Hodges, highly-regarded on both alto Old Film Used zany act. N. L. campaign. and soprano saxes, advised Cricket Club Of course you can’t talk to Bob Hope these days— not since “ his” Cleve­ bosses he would feature the vocals of landers became champions. He’s still on Cloud Nine. For New Flick Morton Downey at Ciro’s Nov. Al Hibbler, who also Is ex-Ellington. Universal-International has dug up 12 at $5,000 per. Announcing . Another Popularity Poll portions of old musical shorts made up All the polls are starting again. And all the winners will be different, Hildy Heads To S. F. by Stan Kenton, Jack Teagarden, Sonny as they always are, every year, in every magazine. W h y not a poll of polls? Freddy Martin at the Hotel Am ­ Hildegarde will open at the Mark Dunham, Henry Busse, Louis Prima, Do readers of the Cap News want a poll to determine which poll is their Hopkins, San Francisco, for a four-week Frankie Masters and Harry Owens and bassador’s Cocoanut Grove com­ favorite? run after her current Cocoanut Grove spliced certain numbers together to Send us your votes. There’s lots of possible winners— Down Beat, Or­ mencing Nov. 9 at a reported stand. She closes here Nov. 7 and bows make a short feature which will soon chestra World, Metronome, your daily paper, your college weekly, the neigh­ $ 3 ,5 0 0 . Hotel also will feature at the Mark Nov. 9. Itinerary after be released under the title of “ Rhythm borhood shopping news, even the polls conducted by theaters and record Florence Desmond with Martin.