Hollywood Studio Magazine (April 1972)

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Call for our low prices and thrifty terms. 6000 HOllYWOOD BlVD. ^ Quicker! to the West Coast where Joan will be trying out new material at Ye Little Club. Joan, the versatile Barnard College graduate, is the first female in years to make it big in the almost exclusively masculine world of after-hours comedy. *** “Husbands prefer wives wearing their dresses longer — about three years longer,” Jerry Dunphy observed at the 17th annual Fashion Luncheon benefit of the Women’s Division of the Arthritis Foundation. Dunphy, commentator of Werle’s spring collection, “Tomorrow’s Fashions Today” at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, kept over 600 women (and a handful of men) laughing with remarks like “The latest thing in men’s clothes is women,” and “That dress costs $2000. I wouldn’t pay that much for anything without a motor in it.” *** Three days before she opened at the Grove, Juliet Prowse announced that she is pregnant, but she certainly didn’t look it. The father of the expected baby, singer John McCook, was in the show with her. Evidently, Juliet is turned on by singers as past Romeos have included Eddie Fisher, Elvis Presley, and Frank Sinatra. Her only marriage - to Eddie James — lasted less than a year. But he’s a dancer. Following a trip to South Africa with John, to meet her parents, Juliet is in seclusion at her English-style cottage in Beverly Hills awaiting the birth of the baby in August. She says she will not marry McCook, even though his divorce will be final in April. *** If you’re over 40 such tunes as “Sophisticated Lady,” “Misty,” “I Apologize,” and “Mood Indigo” are synonymous with Duke Ellington, Billy Eckstine and Sarah Vaughn. All three on the same bill at the Grove gave us a pleasant trip down memory lane. Working as a 13-year-old soda jerk, Edward Kennedy Ellington was nick-named Duke because he was so proud of the stiff starched uniform he wore on the job. He organized his first band in 1918 and nine years later hit the big time at Harlem’s Cotton Club. The 72-year-old composer-pianist- conductor has been swinging ever since. Billy Eckstine won an amateur contest at 18, which was followed by his first professional engagement with Second only to the upcoming Academy Awards in prestige are the Hollywood Foreign Press Golden Globe Awards. This year, the 29th annual black tie banquet and presentation was held at the Beverly Hilton International Ballroom. The turnout was tremendous including such rarely seen luminaries as Topol, Peter Ustinov, John Huston, and Dino De Laurentis. Harvey Korman, accepting for flu-ridden Carol Burnett, got the evening’s biggest laugh with “first of all, I want to thank Harvey Korman.” We were told Loretta Young was backstage, but had to wait so long she was refusing to come out in an old dress. *** Earl (Fatha) Hines’ orchestra. At 57 Mr. B. is one of the few to maintain £ degree of popularity after his explosive discovery in the forties when he became the boby soxers’ idol. In a close parallel, Sarah Vaughr won an amateur contest at 18 and alsc was hired by Earl Hines. It wasn’t long before the scrawny choir singei became “Mistress Cool” singing hei way to great success. Following their two-hour opening night performance a reception was held honoring the trio at the Ambassador’s Venetian Room, Toasting them were Jane (Powell) and Jim Fitzgerald with their houseguests, Wendy and Dick Haymes here from Spain; Melba Moore and Flip Wilson, Joanne Carson (Johnny’s ex-wife) with Dennis Cole, Lou Rawls and his blonde wife, and another member of musical royalty, County Basie. *** “Douglas Fairbanks shimmied on one hand (he’s an acrobat) Mary Pickford did a toe dance grand, and Charlie Chaplin with his feet stepped all over poor Blanche Sweet”. Once again Bobby Short took us to the Moving Picture Ball. What fun! And what a pleasure in this day of guitar, rock, and funky sounds to hear the great show tunes of Gershwin and Porter, as Bobby tiptoed through the verse ad lib and swung into the chorus with his voluptuous vibrato. The night life is the right life for this pseudo cafe society favorite, but he left the smoky supper club circuit for a short fling in the concert field. He’s now back at Manhattan’s Cafe Carlyle where he performs 35 weeks a year.