Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 May 1949 — Page 9

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Bop he nto Higher Mathematics =

‘M + H+ R X 3ee — 00 Over 4/4 aad = Bop’ Sounds Like Something Beyond Description

By DONNA MIKELS They get zanier and zanier, the tities for the newest “bop” waxes. The one that takes the fur lined beret with attached goatee this week is Jo Stafford's equation in bop , ““M plus H plus R times See minus 00 == Bop”

Horatio. Alger Is Right Again

Vera-Ellen’ s Success Proves tn Old Virtues Pay OF

y Earl Wilson NEW YORK, i th oa atthe oti Golden-Mayer commissary in Hollywood, I lunched with! | vivacious, venturesome, vibrant, velvety Vera-Ellen. © | : Some gents thought then that she was washed up ees 8 : Today some of the most vital, virile, versatile,

4/4 aad What does it sound like? Well, liké the title, there's no descrip« tion that covers it. It's juat “Jolly| Jo" on a vocal bop attempt that bler blends with Johnny Hodges that tha purist in bebop wouldn't honey-toned alto sax on one of claim for all the tea In China. he best Ellington's of recent years Second side is a bopped-up version “Don't Get ‘Around Much A

iuses appraise her as the JUNGLE JIM

"May, 1049,

voluptuous dancer, on the American ‘screen. Vat hope’

telling how after she finishes her second picSure as Gene Kellys dancing putt.

of “Smilin” with our gal Stafford,

[More It's backed by an instru imental “Singin’ in the Rain” & {typically fine Duke arrangement,

ner, she’s going to dance with , : Fred Astaire. I An album that's a little differ ent is Columbia's “Secret Music of Ohina,” an unusual collection of eight “tone pictures” of Chinese {life. The music was composed by Alexander Laszlo, who conducts the chorus, orchestra and cast of 60 people. Most dramatic fs the SS RATS . of Nanking," the account of that city's invasion by the ae oe em Pp Miss Stafford Japanese 11 years ago. It's avatlRoad" and “it I Could Be With) “"5 J "GILL Goan his. lights ; eart best » Wonderful Charlie Shavers Backed. by ig eo eiiebuel trumpet work is only one of the Spring.” Equally listenable is his selling points on Tommy Dorsey's

“Right Girl for Me” and “Night er uckisbuek; backed by the pop- » lar * After Night.

Jane Pickens sings a travesty Dinah Sots does Hice things on

“ ”" “ “Kiss Me Sweet,” “I'm Gonna oh “Pixie” and “1 Only Have Eyes| Wash That Man Right Out of My

3 Hair,” “A Wonderful Guy,” and Tony Martin makes fans’ hearts| “Younger Than Springtime." beat faster with “My Heart Beats

Here's a sad commentary on Faster” and “Angels Never Leave Progress: Fifteén years ago when Heaven.” Likewise Perry Como|Ethel Waters recorded one of on “Everytime I Meet You” and! Cole Porter's finest bits of Ameri “Two Little New Little Blue Lit- Cans, “Miss Otis * it was tle Eyes.”

Es banned by major broadcasting {The mellow Thornhill keyboard

Little Women" and “Henry, ; “ sparkles in “Maybe It's Because,” in “the music business,” either, na gen Jom at the 43--Wing Se Pit" and “The Pirate." susan EE hiayuicn of Cponins “Mis:

45-—Pile op TAl=IEl Tals ol | 4 Her mother brought Vera-Ellen a/Dancing With Tears in My : ong BELMONT.'Littls Women" and “Arthir| ATGrnoon” and “Pittsbursney Ton¢*7 ute Waltz” “Life Begins When to New York and worked as 2 myeg??). Shen My Love” and “Intrisge.” GROVE — Whispering Smith.” and, You're In Love.” secretary in a school to help pay ss Con fr Biation West” and Velvet|p conden Gere rns Paietsce| “Portrait of Jennie” and “ig y for het daughter's advanced] VERA-ELLEN’S so little that DAY “Wake of ihe Red Witch’ and] 88d leis £Ive & Tht; Could ” dancing lessons. is REAM Southern Yankee" and “Loadet “HSS Hone” A inns ‘Sie a tai Cold Care” 14 the Bew Freddy VET Do Martin wax, both with Mery Grif-

elm. - PRETTY SOON Vera-Ellen was Sibi hort subjects.” % glam. fin vocals. Ray McKinney vocalizes on novelty “I'm Not Too Bure

& Rockette at the Music Hall,

STICKTOIT TIVENESS, tenacity, etc, did it, kids; ah those things that are supposed to be corny. : Sorry to be so unsophisticated about it. You see, Vera-Ellen was born of poor but Ohio parents. Her dad, Martin Rohe, was a Cincinnati piano-tuner—a guy who would never disguise his nro-

Lawrence's twol 4 “South Pacific” I hits

Nearly Mine.” Another nice Lawrence ig

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Stevens and Olivia de Havilland in “The Snake Pit" (Bell, Peter Lawford and Elizabeth Taylor in "Lite Women" (Belmont, Granada, Riv, Sheridan and Zaring) and Rhonda Fleming and Bing Crosby in "A Connecticut Yankee" (St. Clair, Strand and Uptown}.

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3 LITTLE Attractions at the neighborhood theaters are Robert Cum. mings. in in "Let's Live a Litt" (Tuxedo and Maywood Drive-in), George Reeves end character actors in "Jungle Jim "" (lrving), Joel

in "South of St. Louis” (Fountain Square and Ritz), Mark CROSSWORD PUZZLE

30--To write 3 J=-Ondutghous tree

“So I said to her, ‘Look, in this picture, yow’ll have a chance to prove you're an actress. You have a big scene where you have to

(This proves you're an actress?) So I'm told she cried sbeautifully (probably due to the fact - that she had to be away from good ole Ohio) and pretty seom the word got around that she could cry like everything. Now a girl who can cry—and dance—well, what more do you want? Bette Davis can't even dance.

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While here the other day, she was doing some scenes for “On

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Regrets.” It's still on wax in “a Decca A of Waters,

then she wasn't workin for Gold- to do a “Rooftops of N. yr dance 11-Arabian seaport A With this rel : a A i OI )y dune | : g ea ieRear gin “hab ing unknown Luncheon Wednesday | ™ © feitase. incidentally, [XT RE ) "dl “We reh for about three Pana and.” a ssuing principal Wy Welnsulurn Sam dropped her after she'd e rehearse 19-Fastidious ‘Untamed Breed” and “Jungle! Mrs. Raymond Siebert, 3002 noreattor been in four technicolors weeks.” she said. 20—Identical ad popular records on the new 48 Alan Ladd-—-Donna Reed a And this is where IT came into] “Three weeks!” I said 2i-Beirian, Brovinm Ado__one s Sunday, Afternoon” snd(Boulevard Pl, will he hostess to “BEYOND GLORY” . . Row hes

the commissary where she'd just become Gene Kelly’s dancing partner in “Words and Music,t a big catchall ploture : » “WHEN x wasn't working, 1 had a chance to go back to New York and appear in the show, ‘Sally’,” she said. “I carried the contract around for three weeks saying, ‘Should I?’ “I mally ‘decided to stay in’ Hollywood no matter wha “Becatise 1 had made er to get mom and dad together with me out here in a house of our own. And sure. enough, the picture came slong." ~

The Wait That Paid

SO WE shoot along a year and Vera-Ellen’ 8 at El Morocco in

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