Photoplay (Jul-Dec 1959)

iHontftlp Eecorb continued music to sigh by The first classical pianist in eons to set the girls sighing was Van Clihurn. Now, it looks like there’s a second one. He’s John Browning, twenty-three, sixfoot-plus, with brown hair that’s combed a la Kookie. Like Van, he’s a good-looker (at least that was the staff’s verdict the day John visited my corner cupboard in the Photoplay offices). John’s a concert pianist, yes; but he loves pop music. “I'm nuts about Doris Day, Frank Sinatra and Kay Starr,” he told me. But he also admitted that he split with a girlfriend after she told him she didn’t like him to play Bach. "What’s wrong with playing Bach?” he asked. “You know, some very popular songs have come out of classic themes. . . Here he rattled off a list on which the quiz below is based (answers are upside down). When John isn't practicing — hours and hours each day — he’s reading Agatha Christie or whodunits or digging into a sirloin steak. What does he do on dates? He loves weepy movies or dancing the cha-cha at a juke joint or driving through the countryside in an open convertible. Come October, John will tour the U. S. and appear in every major city. He’ll play Mozart and Rachmaninoff, but he hopes this won’t scare the gals away. He’d like to meet music fans, so when he comes to your town, why not drop by and visit him backstage? Be sure to tell him George sent you. WHAT POPS DID THESE BECOME? 1. Chopin: Fantasie Impromptu 2. Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 3. Lalo: Symphonic Espagnole 4. Schubert: Symphony No. 8 5. Rachmaninoff : Piano Concerto No. 2 6. Grieg: Wedding in Trolhagen 7. Leoncavallo: Mattinatta 8. Borodin: Prince Igor •^^lauisi^,, uiojj (SJ91JJ0 |BJ9.\3S puB) „asip -BJBJ ut J9SuBJJg„ "8 ;,jlJB9J^ Xj\[ Sui>(B9ag OJ^nO^,, 'I t^^XBAVJO(y[ JO §UOg„ UI0.1J ^^‘ois -n]\[ oSuBJtg,, '9 t^suijy Xiduig puB uooj\[ 'S i“0®®0195, uiojj ,,‘a.'vo'^ jo Suog aiy noj^^, -p i„uij^-Xddij^-Xddij^„ '£ ® '2 ^,SAvoq -uiBjj SuisBqo sXBMjy ujj„ :gHaAiSNIV THE MONTHLY RECORD CHECKLIST A BIG HUNK OF LOVE. Elvis Presley. (RCA) And how! RAGTIME COWBOY JOE. David Seville. (Liberty) Kookie LIKE I LOVE YOU. Edd Byrnes. (Warner Bros.) Hip SMALL WORLD. Johnny Mathis. (Columbia) Wow BEI MIR BIST DU SCHOEN. Louis Prima and Keely Smith. (Dot) . . . .Bouncy LONELY GUITAR. Annette. (Vista) I’m with you HUSHABYE. The Mystics. (Laurie) i Dreamy IT WAS 1. Skip and Flip. (Brent) Ooh SWEETER THAN YOU. Ricky Nelson. (Imperial) A honey ANGEL FACE. Jimmy Darren. (Colpix) Neat MY HEART IS AN OPEN BOOK. Carl Dobkins Jr. (Decca) Good boy FORTY MILES OF BAD ROAD. Duane Eddy. (Jamie) Look out THERE GOES MY BABY. The Drifters. (Atlantic) Ummm TABOO. Arthur Lyman. (Hi-Fi) Smash Tuesday Weld’s tip to Judy DiBuono, Mary Jo Palone, Barbara Bost, Peggy Riva, Michele Giannini, Babs Gustin and Marcie Cenkner, all of whom wrote in for advice in restyling their hair to satisfy the boys, is; “Get yourself a phony pony!” Tuesday explained that she owns several ponytail hairpieces and uses them to sit atop her head, as a braid hanging down her back milkmaid style, sometimes just straight pony style and, to dress up, sometimes, she makes a braid and uses it as a crown around her head. “Nobody ever knew it wasn’t me,” she went on, “until I went to a dance and started to jitterbug. I felt lightheaded but I thought it was the beat. Was I red when my partner saidi ‘Tuesday, I think you’ve dropped something.’ It was my hairpiece! I was in such a rush I didn’t tack it down with enough bobby pins.” I will be frank. I’d never given the matter much thought, I mean the matter of what a girl with short hair does when she wants to impress a guy who goes for long hair. That’s why, when Doris Fleischer, who makes chignons and braids for lots of top stars, including Audrey Hepburn, invited the girls on the staff to a showing, I tagged along. I saw everything there — from raffia hair pieces, fun for |2 to $7 only — to complete green wigs. And •s Tuesday said, the ponytails were realer than life. How can our readers get hold of information on this? Mrs. Fleischer suggests; “Send on their letters to me.”