Modern Screen (Jul-Dec 1946)

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She used to work with Bob Chester, and she also appeared regularly on the Basin Street show. She married Alec Fila, the trumpet player, and went to live in Philadelphia (yep, Philadelphia again) and had four handsome children, and now she's gone back to work. As for Alec, he's playing with Elliot Lawrence (yep, Elliot Lawrence again) . RUMORS ARE FLYING— Betty Rhodes (Victor), Saxie Dowell (Sonora)— There's one big thing the matter with Betty Rhodes' version of this number, and that is that you can t see Betty Rhodes. She's the most beautiful girl making records at the moment (not counting movie stars who make records, although she can hold her own with them too) and you really ought to listen to her discs with a big picture right in front of you. "Rumors Are Flying and the number on the other side, "How Could I?" were both written by the authors of "Oh, What It Seemed To Be," and I'll stick my neck out and say that by the time you read this, they'll be on the Hit Parade. If they're not, you have my permission to write nasty letters. To Al and Henry. WHICH WAY DID MY HEART GO?— Teddy Walters (Musicraft)— I've talked about Teddy Walters before. He's the boy who's sung with Tommy Dorsey's band, and Jimmy Dorsey's band, although originally, he was a great guitarist. I'm glad that on his new Musicraft releases, he s doing a little playing as well as singing. Incidentally, record labels are getting sillier. Teddy's listed now as Teddy Walters, His Voice and His Guitar. And the other day, I got a new record with the label to end them all. It read, "Claude Lakey, His Saxophone, His Trumpet, and His All-Veteran Orchestra!" BEST HOT JAZZ and personality. Now he's written a book for Random House (he collaborated on it with Bernard Wolfe) and it's one of the most fascinating jazz histories I've ever read. Interwoven with Mezz' personal experiences are the stories of the musicians he's known, and he's known them all. The book's called "Really The Blues"' (the name of a Victor Record Mezz made in 1938) and it ought to make him some money, too. TENOR SAX ALBUM— Ike Quebec (Blue Note) ; TENOR SAX ALBUM— Volume III (Savoy) — Suddenly, everybody wants tenor sax records. Suddenly the tenor sax is the fashionable instrument, and suddenly Ike Quebec, the very able sax player with Mr. Calloway, has a whole album out under his own name. Not only that, but the Savoy people have put out a tenor sax album in which Ike appears too. Other tenor saxes featured on the Savoy records are Vido Musso from Stan Kenton's band, Charlie Ventura, who was with the Gene Krupa trio, and Allen Eager, who sounds more like Lester Young than Lester Young. And what I want to know is, whatever happened to the clarinet? Nobody puts out an album of clarinet music. Hardly any of the big bands feature clarinets. BEST FROM THE MOVIES NIGHT AND DAY— Cole Porter Album: Artie Shaw (Musicraft) ; Title Song: Claude Thornhill (Columbia); Selections from Rosalie: Frankie Carle (Decca) ; I've Got You Under My Skin: Lee Wiley (Decca) —I bumped into Lee Wiley the other day. She was walking down the street with her husband, Jess Stacy, the band leader, and I asked them what they were doing. They said they were playing at this place out in Jersey, and I asked Lee if she'd made any records lately. "No," she said, "but I've heard that a re-issue of an old 12-inch Cole Porter number I did is going fine." She couldn't even remember what tune it was, but she did remember how she came to make it. Victor Young had asked her to, and she wasn't especially keen on the deal, and then the morning of the waxing, she didn't show, and Decca called up and asked howcome, and she got herself over there finally, and made the record. Then she forgot about it. Louis Armstrong met her a couple of years later, and told her 104 ROSE ROOM— Benny Carter (De Luxe) Any time Benny wants to, he can bill himself as Benny Carter, His Compositions, His Arrangements, His Saxophone, His Clarinet, His Trumpet, His Mutes (a fine assortment) and His All-Star Orchestra. He's really a genius, and plays everything wonderfully. His big all-star band for "Rose Room" (the other side is "Digga Digga Do") includes Flip Phillips, Don Byas, J. C. Heard and Emmett Berry. The fellows turned out the records at a four to eight a.m. session. GONE AWAY BLUES— Mezz Mezzrow (King Jazz) — Mezz Mezzrow, at fortyseven, is one of the most fabulous characters of the century. He's played the clarinet for years, off and on. He likes old-fashioned, simple blues, and hates bebop music. (He's what some musicians call a moldy fig.) Although he doesn't claim to be a great musician himself, he's made records with the great ones— Fats Waller, Benny Carter, etc. — and he's been more of an influence on jazz than a jazz artist. He's been a sort of general hanger-on ARE YOU TOO BEAUTIFUL? Of course, if you're too beautiful, we don't presume to be able to help you. But — if you can stand some improvement (and who can't?), turn to the Super Coupon (page 24) and find the chart that solves your particular problem. Under 18 and graceful like a kangaroo? "Glamor For the Teens" is your meat. Straggly, mousy hair? Try "Hair Dos and Don'ts." Clumsy with your rouge? "How To Use Makeup" will have you patting it on like Elizabeth Arden in a matter of minutes. Just check, clip, mail — and all this priceless knowhow will be your own private bag of glamor tricks.