Hollywood Studio Magazine (December 1972)

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Bist Du Schoen/ Please let me explain / Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen means that you’re grand.” The three girls and their father stood in the midst of the sea of people and listened. Success had come at last. The Andrews Sisters remained with Decca for nearly 25 years and sales of over 80 million records — including such now-standards as “Beer Barrel Polka,” “Rum And Coca Cola” and “Don’t Sit Under The Apple Tree.” Along the way, they appeared in night clubs and theatres ranging from the 7-shows-a-day Paramount in New York City, to the London Palladium, to the plush resort rooms of Las Vegas and Lake Tahoe. Somewhere along the line they managed to squeeze in an extensive USO tour during the war, their own CBS radio shows and some 17 motion pictures. These films, beginning with “Argentine Nights” in 1940, were made at Universal Studios, and starred the girls, who frequently played themselves and sang 5 or 6 songs, with such teams as the Ritz Brothers and Abbott and Costello. The pictures were filmed quickly and were highly successful. “Deanna Durbin was the Queen of the ‘A’s,’” Maxene said in a recent interview, “and we were the Queens of the ‘B’s.’” Their personal lives hit a less happy note at this time. Following the death of both of their parents in the late ’40s, and some resultant court suits over the settling of the estates, the Andrews Sisters went their separate ways. At that time Maxene was divorced from their former manager, Lou Levy, La Verne was married to liquor-store-owner Louis Rogers, and Patty, divorced from agent Marty Melcher, was married to musician-composer Walter Weschler, to whom she is still wed today. After two years of going it alone, the girls “buried the hatchet” in a publicized ceremony at Hollywood’s Brown Derby in 1956, and began a new round of singing engagements and recordings with Capitol Records, and later, Dot Records. Early in 1967, Joyce DeYoung, a group singer who had always admired the Andrews Sisters and knew their style, was brought in and trained to substitute for the ailing La Verne. On May 8, 1967, while this trio was appearing at Lake Tahoe, La Verne died. Patty, Maxene and Joyce fulfilled contracts in New Orleans and at the Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen, and performed on several television A recent pose of Patty and Maxene. Patty is a resident of San Fernando Valley. shows, before disbanding in 1968. Maxene, in a complete change of pace, became Dean of Women at Tahoe Paradise College, Lake Tahoe, for 2 years, where she, in addition, taught Drama and English. Patty, who has lived in the San Fernando Valley for the past 20 years, toured the country with her singing act, appeared in one film (THE PHYNX, Warner Brothers, as yet unreleased), and had a 7-month run as the star of the musical “Victory Canteen” in Los Angeles and San Diego. Today, Patty and Maxene are appearing together more and more as a team, doing radio, some TV work — particularly on the Merv Griffin Show, and an occasional singing engagement. Here’s hoping they keep it up. As Robert Q. Lewis said recently on his radio show — “Fd love to hear what you girls could do with some of today’s songs.” *** 21