........... f*OW HOUY*OOD DECEMBER, 1946 I THE CAPITOL THE CAPITOL PACE 2 PACE 3 DAVE DEXTERS THE Tuckers Fight Betty Hutton Published Monthly by surface noise For L. A . Biz CAPITOL PUBLICATIONS, INC. Returning to Sunset and Vine, Hollywood 28, Calif. THERE’S MORE to the breakup of the fine little Eddie Heywood In Ballrooms Capitol Discs EDITED BY DAVE DEXTER, JR. band than his managers admit. Friends of the young pianist, who It’s Tucker vs. Tucker in Holly­ Bouncing Betty Hutton of Para­ has been hospitalized several weeks, declare he has tuberculosis— w oo d . mount Pictures and Capitol discing and it struck just as Eddie was achieving the accla im and financial Tommy opened at the Palladium fame has returned, after an absence pop-offs remuneration he has so long deserved. and Orrin followed Eddy Howard of a year, to the Capitol label. And Here Is the Tom Dorsey Story into Casino Cardens, the Tommy Blonde Betty, who made her first TO M M Y DORSEY may play the N. Y. Capitol Theater sho rrly , b ut Dorsey ballroom in nearby Ocean Park, discs two years ago and created no small commotion, will resume as a if he does it w ill be a strictly pickup Local 802 c ombo backing his in mid-November. And the signboards Cuban Kenton Fanatic Capitol artist in December following a golden tram. TD is serious about abandoning his ban d. He wants to and radio spots are something to see Cienfuegos, Cuba conference with B. C. (Buddy) De- travel several months, and return to Hollywood to dabble In film produc­ and hear as the two Tuckers battle it I’m an announcer of one of the local Sylva, chairman of Cap’s board of di­ tion and hypo his Casino Cardens Ballroom Into one o f the nation’s best. stations. We have several programs of out for a lion’s share of the town’s rectors. American records and I always tell the Benny Carter Wins Race for Rest terp patronage. BIG TEA is back in California after Betty, who has been taking time out Cuban swing fans all the news I read gENNY CARTER, third of the Jazz Giants to disband h is orchestra Hal McIntyre originally was to have hitting the road a year and a month fo r motherhood, said she was “ so happy without a rest. Teagarden hopes to in The Capitol about the bands and in the last month, found himself physically pooped after all those appeared at Casino Gardens. But he I’m silly” about returning to the label favorite singers. I want you to let cancelled out. Dorsey then obtained remain on the west coast for “a which gave her a start. Her first records years on the road. But he luckily got home— and chec ked carefully Stan Kenton know that he is my favorite Orrin (Tucker, that is) as a fast re­ long time, the longer the better,” under the new contract will be out in by medics— before keeling over as did Heywood. “ I’ll probably do some bandleader and we have a club named placement. He said. Featured in his band are his January. Capitol also renewed Ella Mae picture scoring,” Carter says, "and a lot of original writing and arranging brother Charlie on trumpet and sis­ “Stan Kenton Cuban Club” with 158 Charlie Barnet is due next at the Morse’s binder for the umpteenth time. when I get around to It. But first I’m going to eat and sleep u ntil I can’t ter, Norma, at the Steinway. Jack members. They call themselves “ Artistry Casino, w ith Charlie Spivak tagged for stand It anymore.” still blows a potent sliphorn. And in Rhythm Boys.” Please keep The a Dec. 24 opening n ig h t a t th e Pallad­ Jerry Wald: “My New Band W ill Swing— With Strings” Californians are glad to have him Anifa O’Day Singing Capitol coming my way. You can’t im­ ium replacing Tommy (Tucker, that is). back. agine how much I enjoy it. JERRY WALD junked his band last month for still a diffe re n t Meanwhile, there’s plenty of Tucker In Hollywood Bistro ARM ANDO C. RIOS reason. “ It simply wasn’t good enough,” he admits. “ My new outfit javailable in the Los Angeles area. Local Coming out of retirement without Radio Station CMHM w ill emphasize strings but it w ill swing. These colum nist cornballs dancers, in fact, are just about tuck- advance publicity, Anita O’Day popped have been quoting me, falsely, that I’m woodsheddlng a schmalz group. ered out. 'Copacabana' up at the Morocco Club in H’wood in Actually, we’ll jump more than we did before.” November as the Tuesday night attrac­ Still Undecided: Sir Harry and the Big Cate tion with the Alvin Quintet. Tuesday is Red Nichols’ nig h t o ff. A n ita s till Front Cover J^ARRY JAMES may or may not have abandoned his band, and Pegged on Page One of this, the Lands Russell wants to build her own night club, Christmas issue of the Capitol News, there are persistent reports that jack Teagarden, too, may fold, Andy Russell will star with Car­ she says. are Stan Kenton and three of the side- vacation, and then reorganize with a smaller aggreg ation that can men Miranda in the film that Monte men who helped make Stan’s “the” be booked exclusively In Southern California. All of which adds up to four Proser is producing, “ Copacabana.” band of 1946 just as it was generally name bands junked and two more doubtful. Christmas In Hollywood this rated, 12 months ago, as “the” band year will be a little different. at least for music fans. The young baritone, still heard o f 1945.* Two Great Young Stars in Louis Ohl’s Ork every Saturday on the Lucky Strike It was just five years ago that Stan LS/MFT program via CBS, has an un­ J_OUIS OHLS, a young trumpeter, is back in Hollywood w ith his made his debut as a bandleader. usual contract which allows him to re­ In 1945 he made it, as did Woody band. And young altolst Art Pepper, as well as his juve singer, ject any scenes th a t displease him. Herman, Clenn Miller, Benny Goodman Toni Aubin, had better be under contract. The big boys are sure Newspapermen Earl W ilson, Louie and Paul Whiteman ahead of him. He’s to steal ’em— they’re that great. Sobol and Abel Green also w ill be seen been making it since. Witness his cur­ Reflections Off a Corona Portable in “Copacabana.” United Artists will rent 8-week run at the New York THE ART LUND-Benny Goodman Imbroglio has a lot of th e ir pals release it in 1947. Paramount Theater, in which he has attracted the biggest grosses in the chuckling. Both are great guys, both like each othe r m ore than theater’s history; his solid bookings either cares to admit, and both are bull-headed eno ugh to hold out ‘ If You Knew Susie’ well into 1947 at the nation’s finest indefinitely just so the winner can claim a moral victory. Mel Powell Next for Banjo Eyes hotels and ballrooms; the motion pic­ now teaching in Manhattan. And taking lessons himself, on the side, from And now Eddie Cantor is being given tures he has completed, and the pictures another teacher. Nat Cole will have a bylined story In the 1947 Esky the green light in the movies, following and network radio show, sponsored, Jazz Yearbook, and the way that he praises California w ill certainly bring the success o f the A l Jolson celluloid. which are now being negotiated in his him an honorary card In the C. o f C. The hysteria surrounding be-bop Cantor himself will star In “ If You behalf. Take note, too, of his new Is fast declining; trumpeter-leaders of the “ hit ’em and miss” school are Knew Susie” which rolls Dec. 3 at WALT DISNEY and Johnny Mercer , “ Artistry in Rhythm” album which may fast becoming extinct. and that reminds that Charlie Emge’s and Ross RKO. The musical score w ill be handled toy with an oldtime slide viewer likely wind up as the hottest-selling Russell’s efforts to promote a benefit for Bird Parker (w ith Down Beat by Harold Adamson and Jimmy Mc­ which Disney keeps in his Holly­ package of wax in a full decade. mag officially sponsoring) rate a deep bow. Bird still is in bad shape. • Hugh. This— Stan K enton’s— is the band o f George Von Physter, bass-playing artist whose lithographs adorn the wa s wood studio. The slides they see, the year. For the second year. For more of boites everywhere, displayed his newest work Nov. 18. I t ’s In oils, an however, are from Disney’s new news about Stan and his gang of spir critics applauded. Bobby Sherwood bounced back from a Broadway LECCY Joan Fulton is th e pride o f Ciro’s Nabs Arnaz “ Song of the South” movie. Mercer, ited young champions, and what Kenton play as If he were on a pogo stick. His current theater tour with Lena Universal-International Studios. She Desi Arnaz and his Afro-Cuban combo a m in t julep Georgian him self, has a hit record in “Zip-A-Dee-Doo- plans for the coming year, gander “ Off Horne is proving buffo, and many believe his band will h it the charme gets her big chance in “ The Michi­ followed Carmen Cavallaro into Ciro’s, gan Kid” due soon in Cinecolor.