Variety (Nov 1948)

Wedneaddy, November 17, 194S MCSfeSIKA-MCSIC 49 Bands at Hotel B.O/s Eddy Ducfain W«ldot( (400; $2) Vt t,^ ?eil3 fuor McKiAlcyX' V«w Yorker (400: 11-ll.SO).... I 900 6,100 Ouy Lomtwrdo .... KooMvelt (400; 91.90^) T |,77( 17,975 Tommy Dorsey ....PcnnsylvuiiB (450; $l.B0-$2).., • 1,000 11,025 • New Yorker, ict thow; Waldorf, Peter Llnd Haytt-Mary Healv. Chicago Skitch Henderson (College Inn, Sherman, 000; $2.50-$3.50 min.). •'Salute to Gershwin" revue causing interest; snappy 3,800 first wk. Victor Lombardo (Marine Room, Edgewater, 700; S1.20 cover). Weather biting Into take, plus no Noi-thwestem grid game. Moderate 2,900. Joe Merman (Mayfair Room. Blackstbne, 3S0; $3.50 min.-$l coy«r). Mata & Hari, Nancy Donovan, Merman, doing fine 3,000. . Benny Strone (Boulevard Room, Stevens, 650; $3.50 rain.-fl cover). Ice show still lures out-of-towners. Neat 3,000. . GMff Williams ^Empire Boom, Palmer House, 650- $3.50 min.-Sl cover). C'onvensh ci^wd likes it here. Buzzing 3,100. Top* of the TofM Ke tall DUk Seller " *9uttont and Bows" BeUn Sheet Maria SeUet "Buttons and Bows" *9I«st Keqoesfcd" IHsk "Buttons and Bows" BeUer ra Cote MmUbm "Buttons and Bows". British Best Seller "So Tired" On die Upbeat Los Angeles Hildeearde, Eddie Oliver (Ambassador, 900; $l:5Qr$2). Good 3,'500. Jan Garber iBiltmore, 900; $1-$1.50). Nice 3,100. I Location Jobs, Not in Hotels (Chicago) Cee Davidson (Chez Paree, 500; $3.50 min.). Harvey Stone, Gracie Barrie, Vagabonds, band; nice 3,200. Teddy Phillips (Aragon; $1-$1.15 adm.). Slight dip, but still fine 15,500. AI Trace (Blackhawk, 500; $2.50 min.). Big as ever in closing week; high 3,500. Orrin Tucker (Trianon; $1-$1.15 adm.), Doing well in first week; 14,000. Syd Kornheiser to Coast For Morris TakeoTer Sydney Kornheiser, assistant to ; Edwin H. * Buddy) Morris has gone ! to Hollj'Vi^ood to begin the job on I which he rejoined Morris several months ago—to head up the com- bine's relations with top song- writers. Kornheiser ." will remain ] on the Coast a minimum of three , or four months this trip and even^ tually expects to headquarter there. He has been in the east since re- joining Morris because of Frank Loesser's show, "Where's Charley," the score of which Morris is pul>r. lishing via a contract ^th Loesser. Buddy Morels, head of the or-: ganization, who will spend much more time in the east now that he has taken over operattoB- -of his firms, returned west last week. He had been in Ne^v York more than ; a week. Los Angeles Lawrence Welk (Palladium B,, Hollywood; Sd wk.). Very strong 16,000. Fred Ablert. American Society of Composers, Authors: and Pub- lishers, president, and Paul Cun- ningham, exec committee chair- man, now on Coast for semirannual meeting with Hollywood members Nov. 22. New York Ray MeKlQleT's orchestra trans- fers to Fraak Bailey's Meadow- brook, Cedar Grove, N. J., Dec. 10, from its current New Yorker hotel spot... Dean Hodsoa'signed with General Artists...J. J. Bobbins will publish a Leonard Feather, book titled "Inside BeBop".. Lester Younr band into Royal Roost, N. Y., Nov. 23.. Joe Glaser's Associated Booking signed Do^Ray-Mf trio as result of the group's Commodore label hit, "Wrapped in . a Dream," breaking in N. Y. and Chi.. Butch Stone, Dare Barrr (Yiddish comic) and Blue Lu Barker, added to Capitol Records talent list . ^Bea . Wain- Andre Baruch. WMCA, X. Y,. disk jocks, and DeCastro Sisters, at Havana-Madrid, now being man- aged by Jack Philbin. Pittsburgh Ersklne Hawkins?, band plays one- nighter at Savoy baUroom Thanks- giving night (25) . . Phil Cavcx- :sa,. who goes back.into Vogue Ter- race, on Dec. 20, has a new vocalist; Linda Zaiden, . replacing three Beasle Sisters, who have disband- ed . . Tommy Reed orcb into BiU Green's for a limited- engage- meni. . . Bandleader Jinuny. (Di- Painu) Palmer convalescing at his parent's home in nearby Canons- burg from a stomach ailment ^ . . Bamon Torres ordi.' has had option picked up «t the Laetus Club in New Kensington . . . Bemie An^ derson allrgirl orch tagged for in- definite period to play weekend dance sessions at Don Mets's Ca- sino .. : . Howdy Banm temporari^ ,ly gave up band to siiigle at piano .at Club 636 .. . Team of Char> . lottc Moser on accordion and Fredl Castle on electric guitar joined , Molly Papile, solovox soloist, at I downtown Horseshoe Bar . . . ; Walter Gable orch renewed again ,.at Ankara until first of year . . . ,Pa£e Cavanauth Trio came hi « I day ahead of their Vogue Terraq* ; opening'to play for big Variety : Club banquet. They'll be followed Monday (22) at Vogue by Jinuoy , Dorsey band . . . Charlie Tentnm ! outfit cracked records at Savoy . ballroom and was immediately ' booked for a one-night return In • two months. I HoUjrwood j Lawrence Welk band inked for ' $2,000 net to play National Guard Show Dec. 4 at Minneapolis. Chore ] includes dishing dansapatlon : as ' well as playing CBS' show emceed ] by Ray Heatherton . . . Pare Cav- ! anaueb Trio inked for vaude week I at Hippodrome, Balto, Nov. 25, at ,v$1.250 for stanza. Connie Haines toplines bill, at $1^500 . . . Eddy Howard opens threerweek stay at the Chase hotel, St.* Louis, Friday , <19>. Chicago ' Benay Venuta in town \isiting ! disk jockeys to plug new Mercury j: album . . . Charioteers and Nick : Esposito bob-set opens at Bag Doll. Friday (19) . . . "Salute to .Gershwin," musical drama pre- '. sented at Hotel Sherman's College j Inn, staged at Hines Hospital for -vets, Wednesday (10) . . . Charlie i Ventura and Billy' Eckstine doing ' big at Blue Note . Music Notes Clark Dennis' Capitol biscuit of "Tenderly" and "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" gets national release Nov. 29 . . . Benay Venuta huddling with Merc«)-y Records execs in Chicago on a foUowup package .of Gay '90s songs to "Record Gazette" album ... Eddy Howard's Yule waxings lor Mercury consists of "White Christmas," "Dearest San- ta." "I'll Be Home for Christmas" ai\d "The Christmas Song" . . ; Johnnie Johnston in fortnite stand at Radisison hotel, Mpls., Nov. 25 at $1,250 for stanza. Connie Haines toplines bill at $1,500 . . . Darrell Colker set to cleff background mu- sic for first of Red Ryder series, "Bide, Ryder. Ride" . . . Lutz Bros. Music has purchased Ben Pollack's Crossroads Music 40-tune catalog. Pollack has left Black and White Records and is setting up shop on his own with Jewell l^bel . . . Wal- ter Scharf set to write score lor Maxwell Shane's "The Amboy Dukes" at U-I. Bernie Pollack, Mills Music con- tactman, turned out a biog on his late songwriter brother, Lew Pol- lack. Latter, who died in 1946, wrote such tunes as "Charmaine," "Diane" and "Two Cigarets in the Dark" . • Phil Lang orchestrat- ing the score of "He and She." a new Vernon Duke - Ogden Nash musical, which Ken Englund may bring to Broadway in late Decem- ber . . Slim Gaillard's waxing of "Down by the Station" due for re- lease Dec. 3 on the M-G-M label. Disk is done in form of a "round," similar to "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" . Hal Singer, former tenor sax With Duke EUinBton/ leading a combo made up.of side- men previously with Arnett GobV . . . Stasny Music revived the 1926 oldiCi "Am I Wasting-My Time on .You,'' originally published by ■ Bibo,: Bloedon & Lang. Portia Nelson-Margaret Martinez tune, "The Gilded Lily," has bccrt purchased by Republic for "Mon- tana Belle." . Walter Scharf set to compose .score for "Gambling Lady," and Frank Skinner for ".Ma and Pa Kettle," both at U-I Andre Previn a.s&igned to sfore "Big Jack" at Metro . Bronislau Kaper, having wound up- scoring stint on "Act of Violence," is scor- ing "The Great Sinner" at Metro . . . Georgie .Stoll a.ssigned as jnu- sic director on Metro's "Good Old Summertime." . . . Frank DeVoI winding up scoring of "The Way the Twig is Bent" for Jack Smith's picture bow in Columbia's "Make Believe Ballroom.'' . . ."Recess in Heaven" being waxed by Ink. Spots for Decca and Deep River Boys for RCA-Victor. Columbia will release a Dan Grisson etching purchased from Jewell Records. "Dainty Brenda Lee" goes out by Jack Lathrope on the RCA-Vlctor label and by Eddy Howard on Mercury as one of the platters taken over from Majestic. Both tunes are pub- lished by Lutz Bros. Music firm ^ and /th J J .flSOOO'*^'^""- ■■■ " ■■■■■ Until Short Velk" di^'b- •'"dlo f... l^o/veVt*«>u«f l^^off \ Openine Trianon BalifMin, Chicage, December 25 Latest Decca Release — "Canadian Capers and Back Home In Illinois" Exchisiyeiy M Staidaii TranscriptiMS DirectiM. 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