Modern Screen (Jan-Dec 1960)

How could a girl resist Martin Denny? He sweeps you away to a tropic paradise and the gay glam fjjfHMIHM our °^ New York m a breathtaking evening...with his new BP^|^9H| EXOTIC SOUNDS VISIT BROADWAY album. Catch the way he HTq jWB^^" weaves tropic sounds into "Hernando's Hideaway" and "Love for Sale/' Exciting! You'll love his other albums too— like quiet village and silver screen. But the man who really tickles me (makes me laugh, I mean) is Dave Barry. I have a ball with Dave and his new album laughs for losers... 3 ten laugh loaded routines like "The Unfair Sex" and "Dis H gM honesty is the Best Policy" recorded from an actual Las BctImIt tH Vegas nightclub performance. Honey, you haven't lived till |^HHKflH you've met Dave Barry ! There's another funny man in my love life— Spike Jones. Just wait till you hear his latest Liberty album 60 years of music America hates best. You'll laugh as I did when you hear some of his "zany" takeoffs on tunes like "Three Little Fishies" and "Hut Sut Song." More surprises than a carload of crackerjack boxes and just as nutty! If you're a Spike fan like I am, you'll want his omnibust album too. P.S. Like to MraSp^^HH put the man in your life in a romantic mood? Leave it to ■gJMMlM|| me. My new around midnight album has twelve tan MjK^HRM talizing love songs like "Misty," "The Party's Over" and hBHHHB "Don t Smoke in Bed " For an encore try my other Liberty albums your number please & and julie is her name. Just write me for a complete catalog of all the new' Liberty albums... Julie London, Liberty Records, a Dept. MS-11, Los Angeles 28, California. EXOTICSOUNDSVISIT BROADWAr — MartinDenny — LRP3163/LST 7163 60 YEARS OF MUSIC AMERICA HATES BEST — SpikeJores — LRP 31 54/LST 71 54 LAUGHS FOR LOSERS— Dave Barry— LRP 31 76, monaural only • AROUND MIDNIGHT — Julie London — LRP 31 64/LST 71 64 MIDNIGHT LACE suspense in London Doris Da Rex Harriso Roddy McDowal John Gavii Myrna Lo ■ Marry an American and anything can hap pen, but suave financier Rex Harrison neve imagined that his wife (Doris Day) woul< pounce on the idea that someone was tryin to kill her. What for? First she's walkinj through the London fog and a threaterrin: voice floating out of it nearly scares her t death. Next a load of steel girders just misse falling on her head. Contractor John Gavin a husky bloke, hurls her out of the way When Doris notices that her housekeeper' son (Roddy McDowall) happily walks o! with all his mother's wages there's more foe for thought. And when Roddy leaves, ttv phone rings — another threat. Rex informs he that London is full of practical jokers but h takes her to Scotland Yard anyway, when Inspector John Williams decides she just like attention. She gets plenty — more phone calls split-second rescues from a stalled elevato and a wayward bus, more phone calls. Ir desperation Rex says he'll take her to Venice Who can harm vou in a gondola? Who, in deed ?— U.-I. AIM AT THE STARS conquering outer space Curt Jurgen: Victoria Shav Herbert Lon Gia Seal; Dal) ■ Does a scientist's desire to conquer oute space excuse him from the necessity of mak ing moral choices on this earth ? That's a ques tion nobody wants to answer in this film Playing it safe the story concerns itself mainl; with a boy whose infatuation for designing rockets never dies. The boy grows up int< Wernher von Braun (Curt Jurgens) who while Hitler is marching through Europe, i busily perfecting the V-2 rocket in Germany Yon Braun doesn't join the Nazi party at first he does so later in order to continue his work The fact that his work may reduce London t< rubbish is somehow ignored by Jurgens whost only desire, he insists, is to reach the stars (His attitude, to be fair, even makes the Nazisuspicious.) When he and his co-worker finally surrender to the Americans, Majoi James Daly resents the special treatmen,, given him. But Daly's resentment is explainer away on a personal basis — that is. his wilt and children were killed in a London ail raid. The war over, von Braun goes on T\, in America to warn the people about the im portance of winning the "space race." The President, himself, asks him to launch ar American missile into orbit — which he does It is Explorer I. It's chilling to think that ii the Russians had captured him he might havi been on their "team" now. Victoria Shaw plays his childhood sweetheart, whom he mar-i ries. Gia Scala is one of his secretaries who was able, despite the German secret police, tr. do a little spy work on the side. — Columbia THE DARK AT THE TOP OF THE STAIRS Dorothy McGuirc Robert Prestor , ., , Eve Arder family drama Angela Lansbury Shirley Knighf ■ Family life in the '20*s was not radicalh different from life in the '60's. Traveling salesman Robert Preston is the kind all customers love and all wives (e.g., Dorothy Mc Guire) complain about. He's not home enough he doesn't make enough money, he's not a good enough father. Teen-ager Shirlev Knight need: