Modern Screen (Dec 1948 - Oct 1949)

church and school affairs, at clubs and such, with a boy partner, Jerry Doherty. They got so good that Alma Kappelhoff and Mrs. Doherty toured their young hopefuls out to California and Hollywood. Fanchon and Marco snapped up Doris and Jerry and toured them around on kiddie stage shows to do their comedy dance routine. By the time she was 13, Doris was a fairly seasoned stage veteran. It looked as if the only thing that could stop her from being an Eleanor Powell some day was a couple of broken legs — which is exactly what she got next. She was visiting in Hamilton, Ohio, and had gone for a ride with a boy she knew. On the way back, they crossed some gateless railroad tracks a split second before a fast freight high-balled through. The whole front of the car was ripped off and they got dragged a block and a half. Nobody was killed, but both Doris' educated legs snapped like pipestems. It was 15 months before she could walk again. That was goodbye to dancing right there. But long before Doris was cracked out of her plaster cast, she was planning to take a crack at another life's ambition. Her brother, Paul, had heard her humming around the house and told her she'd been wasting her time tapping her toes. "Ought to sing," he said. As it turned out, Paul had something there. Because the minute Doris put herself in the hands of Grace Raine, a voice teacher who'd started Jane Froman and other songbirds off to fame, Doris started off in the same direction, and on the fly. About a year later, bandleader Barney Rapp needed a new singer for the Cincinnati nightery he'd bought, "The Sign of the Drum." He called Grace Raine. "Got anyone who's ready for band work, Grace?" "Yes, I have," she told him right back. "Doris Day." (Only she said, "Doris Kappelhoff." I've told you how Barney changed that pretty quick.) Doris got the urge to travel as soon as she'd polished off the rough spots in her pipes by working with Barney. Soon she heard news: Bob Crosby could use a girl to sing with the Bobcats up in Chicago. That looked like the spot. Being young and cocky. Day had no complexes about asking for the job. But she used her head, too. She cut a record of "With the Wind and the Rain in Your Hair" and sent it right off to Brother Bob. A wire bounced back, "come up right away." So she was in at the Black Hawk. From then on, Doris has had nothing but Big Time. She sang for Fred Waring next. Then came Les Brown, New York and a taste of national fame when she waxed "Sentimental Journey" and the GI juke-box bunch ate it up. She was a Number One favorite I SAW IT HAPPEN Many of Mel Torme's fans went to see him after his show at the Chase Hotel in St. Louis. I and many other of his fans tried to speak to him all at once, and at the other end of the hotel lobby, another group of people were making more noise. Suddenly, Mel pulled out a little gold whistle, blew it, and the whole lobbyful of people paused to listen and then laugh. Rosemarie Stroeher St. Louis, Mo. r~ v. ' ■ ■ • ' 9 Your hair behaves so beautifully with Rayve Creme Shampoo Even on shampoo day you'll see the miracle in your own mirror! Your hair does just what you want it to — when you use wonderful Rayve Creme Shampoo! Rayve leaves your hair silky soft, clean and lustrous — yet so easy to manage ! Here's the secret! Your hair has a natural body that helps keep it in place. The pure lanolin in Rayve is specially blended with other important ingredients to help preserve the natural body of your hair. That's why Rayve makes hair behave beautifully — even right after it's shampooed. Rayve is not a soap so it can't leave dulling soap film! Rayve billows into rich, active lather that cleans — rinses thoroughly. No flaky dandruff remains. Always use Rayve — the perfect shampoo before and between home permanents. To make your hair behave beautifully use wonderful Rayve Creme Shampoo. See your hair shimmer with highlights — your curls lie softly obedient — the very day you use Rayve! In handy tubes or jars at drug and cosmetic counters — costs no more than ordinary shampoos.1 SHAMPOO} Another fine product of Pepsodent