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.4 Biggest little show: Tony goes all out to stage a song; this one is from 'Brigadoon.' the Hollywood Bowl) would be the first to admit the headline summed up his 24 years of vaudeville, night clubs, radio, pictures and recordings. “I am often asked,” he remarked one day, “for the secret of my suc¬ cess. I tell people the secret of my success is making comebacks. I’m no sensation, never have been, don’t want to be. I just do my work. But every time I score a hit, I read the same thing—‘Tony Martin has made another comeback.’ So now I’m mak¬ ing a comeback in TV.” Martin first hit the top—for him— in show business at the age of eight or nine when he scrapped his way to the stage door of a San Francisco theater for the privilege of holding Tom Mix’s horse. The horse’s name was Tony, but Martin’s was Alvin— Alvin Morris, Jr. Born in Oakland, Cal., he was mak¬ ing $100 a week as a saxophone play¬ er at the age of 16, but did not begin to think seriously of music as a career until he was a sophomore at staid old St. Mary’s College near Oakland. “I sneaked in one day continued Lots of words have been used to de¬ scribe Tony Martin. His own are “a frustrated opera singer.” But the six that perhaps best sum up his life ap¬ peared in an East Coast newspaper last summer: “Tony Hits Top But Still Tries.” Martin, who doubtless never saw the story (he was up to his ambitious ears in preparation for a concert in Mrs. Martin is dancer Cyd Charisse. ►