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rag* Twt119\tivaniiKRUPA NEW YEAR’S EVE ATTRACTIONITo Be Featured at “Show ofthe Week”Omitting its performances next c Sunday. “Show of the Week will B resume at the County Center on the following Sunday afternoon evening, December 31, with three shows which the management promises will he ‘packed with all the gayety and festivity of New Year’s Eve.‘'Show of the Week” will literally swins? from the Old Year into\ 'the New with the music of Gene \ Krupa and his famous swing band; plus the sweet strains of Lennie Hayton and his orchestra. Plans now are being made to continue; “Show of the Week’’ into the 1940 | season with more name bands and j y stage revues on successive Sundays | j,at White Plains. ! giNearly S,000 modern music fans j packed the Center’s auditorium in ^ the two performances last Sunday. [; to applaud, whistle and shcut their approval of the offerings of the “world’s greatest saxophonist”, j y Jimmy Dorsey and his orchestra, \ and .Mai Hallet and his band, ;.r'Reservations already arc coming E in heavily to the Center box office for the December 31 performance, j. Jack Brown, the Center manager, j reports. Equal popularity is shared lt;by the matinee, set for 8 o’clock j in the afternoon and attracting the young element and their parents, 1 and the two evening shows at 7:30 and 11:30 p.m. Adding to the demand is the announcement of the management that there will be no advance in the popular prices which prevail. Many a Westchesterite is •planing either to while away the! early evening hours at the 7:30 show, or see the'New Year in at themidnight performance starting at 11:30.Gene Krupa and his orchestra will play the post-intermission solo ; spot, while Lennie Flay ton and his ' orchestra will accompany the stage revue and have a featured act on ’ that first portion of the program.1 A popular master-of-ceremonies is engaged for thcs special holiday , all-btar stage revue. jFeatured with Krupa's band will1«be Irene Dave, while Krupa him-! self will hold the spotlight with his j inimitable drumming speciality. * Hayton. who is equally a composer, ! arranger, conductor and pianist,' will be heard in piano specialties.Iand will feature his attractive vo-1 calist. Linda Keene. All three] shows will be identical in their i offerings, the management states. !Ii
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Irvington Gazette
Irvington, New York, US
Thu, Dec 21, 1939
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