Monterey Jazz Festival Afterthoughts Highlight Flaws and High Points
Leonard Feather critiques the Monterey Jazz Festival noting uneven planning and late starts but praising standout performances by Dizzy Gillespie Lalo Schifrin Stan Getz Bola Sete Benny Carter Earl Hines Ben Webster and Stuff Smith. He cites showmanship excess and poor pacing yet credits the weekend with generally first-rate music and Brazil inspired highlights.
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Monterey
Dizzy Gillespie
Gillespie
Lalo Schifrin
Festival Workshop
al Porcino
Stan Getz
Bola Sete
Rio
Dizzy
Benny Carter
Earl Hines
Ben Webster
Stuff Smith
Newport
Stan Kenton
Eddie Condon
Peewee Russell
Gerry Mulligan
Ferlin Husky Showcases Simon Crum Voice and Career
Ferlin Husky performs as Simon Crum while enjoying 1958 career momentum. The piece notes Simon Crum as Husky’s notable alter ego, his Capitol Records contract, and hit songs like Country Music Is Here To Stay. It mentions Husky’s stage appearances at the Merri-Mint Theatre and a 1962 Artists & Models review at The Mint.
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United States
Simon Crum
Simon
Ferlin Husky
Ferlin
Bakersfield
Calif
Missouri
Capitol Records
Billboard
Cashbox
Music Reporter
Little Tom
Capitol
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Husky
Jathers
Merri-Mint
Mint
Pat. Moreno
Artists & Models
Billie Bird
Les Waltinos
Roberto, LaBarr
Sid Fields
Tongalele
Publicity Tour Planned for Arabia Film
John R. Woolfenden, publicity director for Lawrence of Arabia since 1960, arrives in New York to coordinate an 18 city tour over ten weeks with Columbia. He will be joined by his wife to give illustrated lectures and media interviews targeting clubs, schools, and women’s pages.
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New York
John R. Woolfenden
Columbia
Woolfenden
Noted Author Signs for Film
Paris report James Leo Herlihy hailed as a rising American writer signs to co star with Jean Seberg and Stanley Baker in In the French Style a Columbia release directed by Robert Parrish from a script by Irwin Shaw Parrish and Shaw co produce. Herlihy wrote Blue Denim with William Noble and the bestseller All Fall Down and will play Dr John Haislip a young American doctor who falls for Seberg in Paris
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Paris
James Leo Herlihy
America
Jean Seberg
Stanley Baker
Columbia
Robert Parrish
Irwin Shaw
Parrish
Shaw
Herling
William Noble
John Haislip
Nationwide search for new Gidget begins at Columbia Pictures
Sol Schwartz announced a nationwide talent hunt to cast the title role of Gidget in the Jerry Bresser production Gidget Goes To Rome for Columbia Pictures. The studio seeks a sparkling young girl to play Gidget in the forthcoming film.
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Sol Schwartz
Columbia Pictures
Gidget
Jerry Bresser
Columbia
Business Trip Returns of Jack Sattinger
Jack Sattinger Allied Artists resident attorney returned this week to his office after a three week business trip to Madrid for the Samuel Bronston production 55 Days at Peking and to Paris and Tangier.
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Jack Sattinger
Allied Artists
Madrid
Samuel Bronston
Peking
Paris
Tandon
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Leonard Feather
Norizon Press
Ted Carson
Jeanne Lee
Ron Blake
Yaffa Yarkoni
Lawrence Welk
Quincy Jones
Monterey Festival Jazz Orchestra
Jones
Brubeck
David Raksin
Laura
Getz
Paul Desmond
Adolph Saxe
Ferlin Husky Merri
Arabia
Stan Irwin
Louis Basil and His Orchestra
Moro - Landis Production
Aun
Diana
Diana Dors
Riviera Hotel
Miss Dors
the Vagabonds
Damita Jo
Morty Storm
Dinah Shore
Versailles Room
the Riviera
Congo Room
Kitty Kallen
Hotel Sahara
Alan King
Miss Kallen
King
Louis Basil
Driftwood
Red Nichols
Don Cornell
Charles Gould
Bob Sims
Selma Marlowe
Bill Reddie & His Orchestra
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