New Records Reviewed By Joseph H Kitchin
Christmas season notes highlight Victor Boston Pops Leroy Anderson Christmas Festival and Clock plus Columbia's 10inch LP with McDonald Children’s Symphony and Brand Wonderful One Hoss Shay. Capitol German Lieder with Karl Schmitt Waller praised, and a sampler under All Time Favorites features Caruso Anderton Jones MacDonald Peerce. Positive Dixieland picks from LeRoy Holmes and Sammy Kaye, Ray Anthony and Jo Stafford strong vocal turns and lively big band tracks wrap the review.
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Columbia
Harry McDonald
Max Brand
Hoss Shay
Philadelphia Orchestra
McDonald
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Victor
Enrico Caruso
Marian Anderton
Old Virginny
Allan Jones
Jeanette MacDonald
Jan Peerce
LeRoy Holmes
MGM
Billboard
Holmes
New York
the Waldorf
Boomie Richmond
Charlie Shavers
T. Dorsey
Stull
Pee Wee Hunt
Copenhagen
Capitol
Red Dorris
Wax
Sammy Kaye
Kaydets
Flip
Tony Alamo
Judy Johnson
Kaye
Ray Anthony
Ronnie Deauville
Anthony
Cleopatra
Jo Stafford
Harry Barris
Radio Troupe to Perform at Town Theater This Week
The Town Cowboy Phil and the Golden West Girls tour the nation and will appear on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. The group, formed nearly 12 years ago, entertained servicemen in the Pacific during World War II under the USO. Esther Abbie Neal, three time Kentucky world’s champion girl fiddler, joins the troupe.
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Cowboy Phil
Golden West Girls
WHO
Pacific
USO
Esther
Abbie” Neal
Kentucky
Cromer at Armar For Christmas
The Sparkling Rhythms of Tex Cromer and his orchestra will be offered at Armar ballroom Christmas night. Cromer, formerly with the Lawrence Welk orchestra, organized his band under Welk's guidance, and has been climbing with it. Featured with the unit are vocalists Patti Paul and Bill Wayne.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tex Cromer
Armar Ballroom
Cromer
Lawrence Welk
Welk
Patti Paul
Bill Wayne
Durante and Pitcher Reunite on Universal Set
Hollywood reunion brings Jimmy Durante and his cow Pitcher together on the Universal set. Durante shares a kiss with Pitcher from his co starring role in The Milk Man. The bovine star has a long screen history dating back to One In A Million with Sonja Henie and has appeared in films for over 13 years.
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Hollywood
Universal - International
Jimmy Durante
Pitcher
Donald O’connor
Durante
Earl Carroll
Jimmy
O’connor
Sonja Henie
Downing Article in Theater Annual
Robert Downing former Cedar Rapids man contributes a piece to the Theater Annual giving insight into the stage manager role. The article titled Street car Conductor draws on his work as stage manager for Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire in its New York run. An extensive Playbill review accompanies the note.
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Robert Downing
Cedar Rapids
New Theater Annual
Theater Library Association
Downing
Tennessee Williams
New York
Rooney and Martha Vickers Reconcile After Divorce Talks
Hollywood report says Mickey Rooney and wife Martha Vickers have reconciled and she has called off divorce plans. They resumed their relationship after his eastern trip and are parenting eight month old Teddy, avoiding a family split during the baby's first Christmas.
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Hollywood
Mickey Rooney
Martha Vickers
Miss Vickers
Teddy
Rooney
Seventy Years Ago the First Lights on Broadway
On December 18 1880 Broadway in New York shifted from gas lamps to arc electric lights. The 22 arc lamps lit a 20 block stretch from Fourteenth to Thirty-fourth, drawing crowds and shaping the future Great White Way. Early trials were costly and risky but merchants welcomed the glow as Edison and others advanced electric lighting. The transformation spread northward by 1900 with signs and theaters expanding, creating a neon lit commercial corridor famous as Broadway.
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Great White Way
York
Broadway
Forties
Fourteenth Street
Thirty
New York
Brush Electric Light Company
Thomas A. Edison
Edison Electric Illuminating Company
Twenty-third Street
Herald Square
O. J. Gude
Pueblo
Colo
Forty-second Street
Times Square
Critics and stars spar over Margaret Truman voice
In a lively column the author recalls the clashes between critics and artists, noting President Truman’s to Stephen Hume and Margaret Truman’s reception. The piece also questions Hollywood sequels and urges preservation of beloved memories.
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Truman
Paul Hume
The
Washington Post
Margaret Truman
Hume
Margaret
Mr. Hume
United States
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