Variety (February 1959)

TACBEVIUJE Yaode, (Me Dales New York Three Stooges go to the Gay! Haven, Detroit, *or 10 days start¬ ing April 17 ...Betty CTNelJl and; Cfcdy St Lindy inked for the Col-; ony Club, London, April 6 and; May 4, respectively . . . Kob^ta pwW aM on a three-weeker at the; Drake, Chicago, Feb. 27 .. . Renee! Babbits, formerly with Johnny Greenhut, has opened her otsr*i agency. Exhibitors Talent Co, Hollywood Singer Johnny Cech is m a ki ng p.a.’s in Atlantic City, N.J., and White Plains, N.Y., to plug h!s Co¬ lumbia recordings . - . Molly Bee will headline a Durham, N.C., one- niter March 10 . . . Jimfiay Clark Js Co. holding down at Lgriy Pot¬ ter’s supper club . . . Stan Kenton orch opens along with comic Lenny Brace tonight {Wed.) at Gene Nor¬ man’s Crescendo . . . Loots Jordan St Tympany Five join The Me Spots at the Interlude this week . . . Singer Ann Daro and emcee Mickey Finn at Sunday Palm Springs Bauch Club luncheons — Bobby Breen opens a two-week stand at the Cave in Vancouver] Feb. 16 ... Mort Greene will write material for songstress Lisa Car- rail. Pittsburgh Kingston Trie, coining to Car¬ negie Music Hall Feb. 20 for a one- night concert, will lie bade again May 1 for a week at Twin Coaches . . . Theodore BIkel giving a folk song recital at Soldiers 2c Sailors. Meraeroial Hall Feb. 25 ... Duke* of Dixieland set for May at Town House . . . Steve Gibson & Bed- caps play Twin Coaches Feb. 20- 21 and Petticoats on following weekend . . . Marie McDonald signed for New Arena week of March 2 and Sarah Vaughan comes in the next week . . . Dave Barry into Holiday House March 2 for a "fortnight. Chicago Comedy pair of (Bobby) Wick & (Ray) Brand signed to MCA ... Hike & Elaine return to Mister Kelly’s March 23 for three weeks . . Jimmie Komack set for the interlude, Hollywood, March 12 ... New comic Bill Daily (an NBC- [ TV, Chi, director) launches at the Black Orchid March 3 . . . Dan [Adams has a May 23 date at the Cloister . . . Bud & Cece Robinson and Bobby Winters set for the Minneapolis Home Builders Show March 14-27 . . . Castle Waters open Friday (13) at the Muehle- bach, Kansas City. Olsen Sc John¬ son tee off there April 10 fpr three frames . . . Three Stooges to De¬ troit’s Gay Haven. April 17 for a pair - . . Doodlers open Monday. (16) at the Elmwood, Windsor, Can. ... Playmates play the Wichita Auto Show Feb. 18 . ... Peggy King signed for the Kansas City Auto- Show Marc h 5. Atlanta Aero-tapper Joni Revlon, backed lip by exotics Penny Page and Barbara Cavanaugh, are at -down-] town Chib Peachtree .. . Comedian Dare Gardner holding at Imperial; Hotel’s Domino Lounge. Ditto Pee Wee Hunt * His Twelfth Street: Rag Band (6) at Henry Grady; Hotel’s Paradise Boom . . . Gloria Oakley and Johnny Lee continue. in Biltmore Hotel's Empire Boom Ice-O-Bama, produced and directed; by Freddie Martell . . . Pianist Eddie Newman, featured in Zebra Lounge of Howell House-Lobby... Dixieerats at Hank & Jerry’s Hid- away . . . Pianist Jimmy Edwards featured at Bed Carpet Lounge 88, . . . Accordionist Graham Jackson playing at Johnny Beb’s Dixieland. . . . Singing and danring team, Bobby Ravel, guitarist, and Patti] Lyase, accordionist, spotted in. Pappy’s Plantation Lounge at Mammy’s Shanty. Dallas Clara Cedrone & Damian Mitchell open at the Tree Club Feb. 14 for two weeks ... Club 3525 has Jo Ann Miller opening today (Wed.) for a fortnight, with Meg Myles following on Feb. 25 . . . Statler- Hiiton follows Hiidegarde with Trade Adams, singer, and ventro Sheets Minton,- Feb. 19; Gretchen Wyler, March 5; Varel & Bailey, ■March 19; Jack Durant, April* 2; 1 Johnny Pnleo’s Harmonica- Gang, "THREE GUYS and a DOLL' THE DIOR DANCERS (Produced by BOB 6ANJ0U) Currently RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL New York (Booked by GEORGE GANJOU, Ltd. 26 Aibemorie St., London Wll March 4ih—CARILLON HOTEL, Miami " (Booked by AL DOBRITCH, New York) Jest Coactadod 30 WEEKS LONDON PALLADIUM Also Appeared: ROYAL COMMAND PERFORMANCE AR tbe Loadoa Cofosena, November 3,. 1958 Personal Manager; BOB GANJOU April Id; Nelson Eddy with Gale i Sherwood, April 30, and Dick Shawn, May 14 . , , Lucffle Cnn- ningham, singing 68’er, andJuan Alvarado, guitarist, at Herb’s Lounge ... Dorothy Shay due Feb. 12 at Adolphus Hotel, succeeded by Edgar Bergen & Caroline Rich¬ ter, Feb: 26, with Olsen Sc Johnson infod for March *26. Leighton Noble orch bolds over for these dates . - . Anna Russell set for benefit concert Feb. 17 with Dallas Symphony at State Fair Music Hall. ... Sr Walter Hickey playing a return date at Colony Club, with exatic dancers Judy Jerome, Shari Angel and Sue BaBey featured ... Phyllis Williams singing at new Club Contempo . . . Mai Fitch, singing pianist, into the new Holi¬ day Inn ... Folk singer Ron Ship- man opened his own spot, the Rubaiyat . . . Tail Gate Ramblers, dixieland crew, held over, at mid¬ town Orleans Room . . . Don Jose orch new at Chez Maurice. Houston Denise Lor playing Tidelands . Club for two weeks ... Jack Lutey produced the Feb. 6 one-nighter at : Shamrock Hilton’s Emerald Boom for the District Bankers’ Conven- : tion, featuring The Moderaaires. DuVals and Gali Gall... Don Cor¬ nell also at the same room (10) for ; the Operating Boom Nurses con¬ vention ... Nardiae St Miller opened at Club La Bistro . . . Charlene Morris concluding book¬ ing at Lackland Air Force Base ... Simp Fields orch completed a week of one-mghters in Mississippi and; Florida . . . Paul Neighbors think¬ ing of. making Houston his head¬ quarters. The city also has as per¬ manent residents the Shep Fields and Henry King bands. Detroit Ginny Simms is at Elmwood Casino ... Art Van Damme quintet m aking first local appearance at ’ Baker’s Keyboard Lounge. Also new to Detroit are the Ted Forest IV singing instrumentalists at the Knife & Fork . . . Mary Ann Mc¬ Call into Flame Show Bar .. . Faye DeWltt afClub Alamo ... Maureen Sheen an is new at Killarney Sup¬ per Club .. . Vocalist Drama Dani¬ elle and pianist George Primo and his orch continue at Eddy Shep¬ ard’s Cbophouse ... Helen Scott is back from Chicago to play the organ and piano and sing in Hotel Park Shelton’s Sapphire Boom . . v Gloria^ Brooks is at Falcon Show Lounge. ___ Control Dipping Continued from page 65 Miss Singleton so that the board could start an inquiry. Bright sup¬ porters immediately urged its de¬ feat saying that it was merely Miss Singleton’s opinion, and peo¬ ple shouldn’t be persecuted for their opinions. This attitude represents a com¬ plete about-face for administra¬ tion supporters. During an Octo¬ ber meeting, when board member Bussell Swarm suggested that one of Bright’s statements didn’t jibe with mi earlier remark, he was immediately charged with con¬ duct unbecoming a member and given a four-month suspension from his duties as a board mem¬ ber, When Miss Singleton, at the June convention in Mexico City sent out a statement charging that the administration didn’t act con¬ stitutionally in the manner pf ele¬ vating her to that office follow-- k ing the resignation pf the then president Georgie Price, Miss Sin¬ gleton was censured. The about-face indicates that the days of absolute power by Bright, through his. influence on various members, is over. It’s felt that he now has, to take it easier and go slowly if he is to use the tradi¬ tional means of keeping power by I rewarding friends and punishing opponents. The state’s attorney general will be asked to determine whether a union may own real estate. Berg and Bright claim that they may not, while Miss Singleton says there is nothing in the law that prevents them from doing so. Just when they will get together with the attorney general isn’t known as yet. However, a con¬ ference may be sought before Miss Singleton returns to the Coast. One of the actions taken by the j board was striking many of Miss Singleton's remarks from the rec¬ ord over her protests. Some of, the alleged strong language Miss Singleton used in the speech was voted to be deleted from the offi¬ cial minutes. Also ordered stricken from the record were several of her conclusions on the AGVA Founda¬ tion. ,_Wednesday, Febmary 11, 1959 Inside Stnff—Vaude Tom Martin’s resignation from General Artists Coip, and his per¬ sonal management of . Jimmy Dean (not Jimmy Rodgers as erratumed) requires some clarification and amplification. On the Bodgers-Dean name snafu, Dick Gabbe handles Rodgers, \vho takes over March 31 in the 8:30-9 pjn. slot at NBC. when Eddie Fisher vacates. As for Martin, while in ^Baltimore hospital for a checkup he states that he exited General Artists not for reasons of health but because he and the late Tommy Rockwell, president of the company, as the two seniors, were the first qualified either for 65-retirement or the 20-years-of-service pension, whichever came first While only 55, but as senior veep Of GAC he had 23 years with the agency so he -chose to loosen the day-to-day load and take on personal management for Jimmy Dean. In the latter’s instance it must be a 100% exclusive so Martin is forfended from adding any other personalities without Dean’s okay. Poor health has forced Joseph LeChard to resign as president of the Miss America Pageant, which annually in September produces the Miss America beauty and. talent contest in Atlantic City’s Convention HalL LeChard was elected last October after service as vice president for two years. Pageant directors, meeting recently, elected Robert Nesbitt, telephone executive, to head the Pageant. Nesbitt has been with the group for many years and was named first vice president during the October election. Albert A. Marks, who has headed the tele¬ vision committee for the past two years, was named first v.p. suc¬ ceeding Npsbitt The Wall Street Journal in a survey of the Miami Beach Hotel sea¬ son concludes that this is a crucial season for the resort’s inns. The is¬ sue of Feb. 5 describes how mortgages are piled upon mortgages in several instances; hOw accommodations that in 1956 cost $40 daily without meals are now going for $11 with two big, fat meals, and how credit is being strained in the area. One hotelman said, according to the article, that ’‘Show business ain’t worth nothing You have to pay $25,000 for a star who can’t draw that much.” Mortgage money, ac¬ cording to the writers, Edward Cony and Henry Gemmill, can run to 15% and loans have even higher interest rates. Sports Skew Review K. C. Sports Show (MUNICIPAL AUD.) Kansas City, Feb. 7. Johnny Dieckman, Les Marthys (2), Loral Armstrong (2), Ann Marston (3), Ketroys (4), Excess Baggage with.Alma Michaels, Mary Ann, Joan A Jane, Zippy, 7 Ash¬ tons, Les Geraldos (2), Orch (12) director by Don Gil Torres, Char¬ lene & Darlene Crane, Earl Dunn, Dean Sherman ; twice daily, Jan. 30-Feb. 8, *59 Municipal Auditor¬ ium, Kansas City. The fifth annual Boat, Sports- & Travel show moved into the Mu¬ nicipal Auditorium, taking both the arena and exhibition hall levels, starting with a rush and never letting up during the entire rum despite some fierce weather on opening week-end. The 1959 show topped the $100,000 figure on the. total gross, besting the 1958 score of $96,000 materially. The .formula of producer Nick Kahler is to load the' auditorium with exhibits of boats, travel and sports subjects, and to present a vaude show built around novelty and outdoor acts at 3:30 and 8:30 daily. The exhibit roll went strong¬ er, too, there being something over 300 exhibitor in the roundup, nearly a 10% gain. Show itself Is largely muscle acts and animal novelties, although at least one turn, the Schmitz Sis¬ ters, Mary Ann, Joan and Jane, are in as a standard act for pure en¬ tertainment purposes only. Three gals class as strong in the vocal trio sweepstakes. They’re on mid¬ way and register strongly. Otherwise, the show is almost a rundown of the outdoor world leading off with champ fiycaster Johnny Dieckman, and including women’s world champion archer, Ann Marston, a cutie from Mich¬ igan; Loral Armstrong and her retrieving dogs from Minnesota; Zippy,, the roller skating chimp; and acrobats, Les Marthys, Paris, balancers, the Ashtons and their risely turn, the four trampoline Kelroys from Australia, Les Geral¬ dos and their trapeze work; and not to Overlook Alma' Michaels and her troupe of sheepdogs from London. Quin. Henry Dunn’s L. V. Switch Las Vegas, Feb. 10. Henry Dunn, host at the Dunes Hotel here, has moved over to the Tropicana in a guest relations ca¬ pacity. He will be in charge of the . Gourmet Boom which will be re¬ converted into a celebrity roost. Dunn (ex-Cross &) was at one time administrative secretary of the American Guild of Variety Artists. Saranac Lake By Happy Benway Saranac Lake, Feb. 10. Anna Van Buren, mother of Bay (IATSE) Van Buren, planed in to help celebrate the progress he has made since his major operation. Mose Lafountain, local boniface (Durgan’s and the Birches), took time out to ogle the hospital and hello many of the patients. He furnishes entertainment for (he gang here on holidays or'any time that “We The Patients” hold a party. Sophie Medes, former cashier at the Utica (N.Y.) theatre, who graduated here, class of ’48, in for an o.o. and general checkup. Write to those who are ilL VIVIAN COOK Carreatly Cop yfl hfliw Rep: BERT JONAS 1650 Broadway CO 54101 THE COMEDIAN” THE LATEST — THE GREATEST — THE MOST-UP-TO-DATE ST Now In Its 102nd Issue, containing stories, one-liners, Roomettes, song titles,- hecklers, audience stutf, mono¬ logs, parodies, double gags, bits, ideas, Intros, Impressions and Im¬ personations, political. Interruptions. Thoughts of the Day, Humorous Views of the News, etc. *20 yearly. 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