Variety (August 1953)

OlUIIESTKAS->HSM On the Upbeat Pubber Dan-Fisher left Saturday (1) on a four-week motor trek to New Orleans and Mexico. City . . . Billy Ward's Dominoes opened -at the Bandbox yesterday. (Tu es.) . . > Pianist Billy Taylor currently at L6u Terrasi’s midtown jazz spot, . . , Mike Hall handling press tor George Shearing Quintet while Milton Katie is doing' ^hearing's disk promotion .. . . Wally .Gingers orch into the C’enterinial Terrace.. Sylvania, O., for a .'three-day stand . Aug. 7-9 ; . . New Orleans deejay: Frank Donaldson switched from WNOK .to \VTPS ; .... Groonei; Pat •Terry guist ing on Robert Q, Lewis’ CBS show Aug; f),. . . Mafestrov composer jpe Ri card el " off to Europe.'^ London Al Martino waxed four sides at; the British Decca. studios. West Ilampstoa d; o n Mon day (27),... a c-; companiod by a Apiece orch un- der the baton of Roland Shaw ... Dave Comer, one of the; pioneer, dance band; pianists, retired this week from his position as general manager and director of Feldma-n’s music publishing house.. Aged 70, he completed 50 years with : the firm ; . Cat e. Anglais, Leicester; Square nitepy, placed in the hands of a receiver ; •' Tito Burns orch leaving August 1.7 for: two months’ tour of U. S.' Forces’ camps in It,aly,: (1 ermany,; France.' an d ■ Aus- tria . . . Charlie Kunz, U. S.-born pianist who is. a top-seller here on records, has undergone a plastic surgery operation to correct; com tractions of the finger ligaments of both hands . ", Frankie Laine’s “I Believe” still, heads the .list of best-selling pop disks in. Britain, Doris Day , and Johnnie Ray’s * 4 1t’.s VVa 1 k Th a t -a wa y” is a new- coiner fast (-reeping up. Chicago ' Hal McIntyre inked, for four frames at Edgewater Beach, begih- nihg Aug. 14 . . > GAC has signed Dan Belloc orch for. management/ also Leo Peepers band . . Buddy Morrow doing :one-nigh.tcr in the area through August . . Clyde McCoy playing Tri State Fair* Amarillo, Texas, Sept. 21-27 /;/ Beachcombers into Fazio’s; IVIilr waukee, for fortnight beginning Aug. 7 . . . Woody Herman open- ing Colonial Hotel, Rochester, Aug. 11 for single stanza . Ray An- • thonv doing nighfers here in Sep- tember / , / Ted Weertis hooked , for L‘iquo/s Gardens, Louisv«lle. ! Aug. 17 for two weeks, then to. Sheph erd AFB, Witch it a Fal Is, froni. Sept. .13-20 . . . Jan Garber into C la ridge Hotel,; Memphis. Aug. • 21 .for two frames, following with ! slx-tiay stint at Indiana State Fair j beginning. Sept. 6. - i Pittsburgh Eddie Spahr, Jr., playing the organ this summer in the dining room of the Oakland BeachHotel in Conneaut Lake.. H.e’s a pre- medical. student at. Westminster College . . Four. Mile Inri/has: just lifted the option; of' jack Mahony’s combo through fche. end of the year , .. . Joe Negri Trio signed for summer in : Conneaut Lake and does ne.w Buzz Aston-Bill H’nds teevee show every evening on WDTV. ; Scotland Buddy Logan, Scot Crooner, to join Geraldo as vocalist . . . Stan- i ley .Black orch doing .one-night stands in Kilmarnock. Dundee/ Aberdeen,, Inverness, Falkirk and Kirkcaldy . V Glasgow Jazz Club planning a “battle of bands” for St. Andrew’s Hall Sept. 15, con- testants to be Mick Mulligan's Magnolia Jazz Band, and the Chris- tie Stompers, U.S. Talent for Third RECORDS ‘The finest sound on record’ Gladys Shelley & Abner Silver’s HOW DID HE LOOK Recorded by FELICIA SANDERS with rtnuI mil hs uren LINCOLN MUSIC CORP. 140 Central .Park South, New York . 'w■ v M *fc***ua m vui^ , ■. ; Seven Nations Join In Berlin,. July 28. Tim Third Berlin. Cultural ■Fes- tival tees ofT Aug, 30, with a vari- ety of outstanding cultural, contri- butions, and continues until Sept. 27. The list of entries so far, in- cludes Italy, France; Great Britain, Austria, Sweden, Switzerland and U. S.; assuring the festival an in-., ternatiomil eharaeter.. The various programs will be presented in all West Berlin name . ho uses, in cl u ding the Staed Use he Opera, the- Titania Pa last, Schiller Theatre, Schlosspark Theatre, Mai-. son de France and the Olympic Stadium; ..Last named will have several outdoor events/ ■ / There will be 18 operas per- formed by the ensemble of the Staedtische Opera, Berlin, includ- ing the German, preem of Von Einem’s “Der Prozess/’ In addi- tion, there will be a guest perform- ance of Frankfurt’s Staedtische Opera, with Hindemith’s “Cardil- iac." A number .of chamber, operas complete this substantial program, Concerts will be presented by the Berlin Philharmonic and the;. 1UAS Symphony Orch, Conduc- tors . are Wilhelm Furtwaengl.ef, Herbert von. Karajan, H-a-hs Ros- baud. and Ferenc Friscay. Cham- ber music will be given by several international groups, including the Virtuosi di Roma, Quintet Instru- mental Pierre Jamet of Paris, Golden Age Singers of London, and Paganini Quartet of New York. U. S. contribution also includes the appearance of the American National Ballet Theatre with sev- eral night and matinee shows. Be- sides this ballet, Berliners, will see the Ballet of the Royal Opera Stockholm and performances of the ballet of Benin’s Staedtische j Opera. ’ ' The theatre lineup ihdu'des the j Theatre National Popuiaire de [. Paris, the Piccolo, Teat ro from |;.Milan;an.d-...a. ; giiest.''pe'rfdnnahc % e' of j Werner Krauss! ensemble- With I Shaw’s “Don Juan in Hell.’ . Wednesday, August ^1953 RETAIL DISK BEST SELLERS Survey of fctail disk best sellers based on reports ob tained from trading stores■ in ■: 12 . cities ahd showing coni:, parative sales rating jor this and last trerk.- National: .-Rating ■ ■ This Last wkV wk^ Artist, Label, Title PAUL-FORD iCapitoD \. 1 / • 2 “Vaya Con Dibs” . ■ ■ ■ ■ • • y. ■ • " "'PErRY'-COMO' ivicton • 2 1 ‘‘No Other, Love” - ^eDDIE _ FISHER (Victor).,;. 3 3 ‘‘I’m Walking Behind You” —- hIllTOPPERS (Dot) • ■. 4 6 “P S. I Love You”. ' AMES BR6s7'rVictor). '. 5 5 ‘‘You, You, You” PERCY FAITH (Columbia) 6 , 4 “Song from Moulin Ro uge”..... r ■^"'"^eXrTHA'KITT 1 Vieto'r) , •: 7 9 / “C’est Si Bon”, .. . . . .. ; . , PEE WEE HUNT »Capitol.) 8 11 “Oh!” FRANK CHAcKSFIELD (London) 9 6 “Limelight Theme” , ■■■ . DARRELL GLENN (Valley) 10 .11— “Crying in the Chapel”. , ■ Or .0 C. w : n 1 S •§' V . s 5 / % • 2 6- 1 2 3- 5 2 2 78 2 4 . 3 9 1 ’4 .■ 4 . 4 3 . , . 6 63 2 1 6 1 9 10 6 6 7 4 53 6 2 7 5 10 1 8 9 46 5 3 5 a 7 1 8 41 3 39 8 5 2 . 3 10 4 ... 1 32 .3J. 16B 19B 20 FIVE TOP ALBUMS “Little^JRed Riding Hood” EDDIE FISHER^(Victor) “With These Hands” Toni j am es i/m-g-m » “My Love, My Love’L . _ 1 _ L1 MONTE' KELLY (E.ssex), “TrOpicana” . .. . - . , :_ 1' - ' ME & JULIET T Q p BrQadway«Cast Victor. . t mrc oc 1012 J M b EOC 1012 LOG 1012 EOA 458 4 TO 10 . 3 10 .,. 7 5 CAN-CAN Broadway Cast Capitol S 452 EDM 452 VICTOR PRESENTS .MUSIC FOR LOVERS WONDERFUL EARTHA KITT Victor EPB 3062 LPM 3062 ONLY TOWN Jackie Gleason Broadway Cast Capitol H-352 Decca DL 9010 DA 937 9-391 C ontinued from page 3 Ano(l,ef RAfI ,, pjK (jh* iii i , YOU. YOU, YOU • m ■ Dtr/Vl • * Victor Columbia mgm AMES BROS RECO *os KENGRIFFIN • Victo, KEN REMO • Cofomiia •’•sssss^'* 1 *'; *** JOHNNY HORTON • Victor Mercury Published by «' . - . MEUIN music, INC doy; subbing for the vacationing John Koftend, called it “slick, clever and convincing.” Cancellation in Conn. Putnam, Conn,, Aug. 4. Wilbur . Neumann, manager of the Bradley Theatre here, can- celled showing of “Moon Is Blue,” booked for this week. He said he cancelled at request of Roman Catholic Cliurch pastors in this area. ‘Moon’ Futqt Creates An Alabama Censor Board' Birmingham; Aug, 4. I This city’s newly-appointed-Mo- ' lion Picture Review Board gathers 1 for its first organizational meeting j tomorrbvY. (Wed*.) at. City. Hall. Pro-1 tests for and against: the showing ; ■df-'“The/.Mb.6n,|Is Blue” at .the'Em-. pire Theatre resulted in the estab- lishment of a board made up of ; 18 women and one man. .Criticism hit Police Chief E; H. Brown as a one-man censor, for his cutting of the taxicab scene and limiting the . audience to 21 years of age. A. group of Catholics, led by Father Francis Wade, editor of Catholic Week, objected to showing the film altogether. Pressure was too much for City Hall, At the Commission • meeting last Tuesday (28i, the. three eom- mis.vioner.s app rove d _a n ew ordL mance', seffting"”up aTviaM/of"re to scr.een : pictures that . are “sus- pect,” Exhibitors were Instructed ■ to inform tlie* board of all film showings 24 hours in advance, The Police Chief is to enforce the board’s recommendations for film cuts and bannings. Public Safety Commissioner Eugene Con- nor, the rban who picked the board, said he put so many women on it because “they have more time to see the movies and; would be. more conserentious about their job.” Commissipner Connor didn’t an- ticipate the board would have to screen more than five or six films a. year. He said he didn’t believe the police chief should have so much responsibility in film censor/ •ship. Most of the 18 -women are; club women. The One man, ThePr dore Wrighty is an assistant super- intendent of education. Several of the women are those who objected to Chief: Brown’s censorship of “Moon Is BlUe/’ • Exhibitors here aren’t happy about the: setup; they remember several, recent censorship advisory boards .that turned into “free movies for clubwomen and their friends.” Two exhibitors got a quick brushoff frorii City Hall last week when they went by to try and head off the censorship. From the MGM Picture LiIi' Hi- Lili, Hi-Lo ROBBINS MUSIC CORPORATION tFV America's-zFostest -'Selling-Records!