Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 June 1950 — Page 25

Earl's Prophesy

‘Singer, 21, Goes to Hollywood

oy en Soon for MGM's Sinatra Roles Mead up acurrent - JR EEE, Minor (Op. 74), ucted by Herbert sh LP ML-4301 ’ A ata 1s one of the La Martinique Cafe, then one of our best cellars, to hear B ibs Ee. an 18-year-old singer named Vic Damone. usic, vlasstoal in : Somchody Ja afin bin the 30% Shales melodious. Afterward I wrote: . . Ho “The boy, great now. bodyguard, 1 dows toel 1.nend

“He's putting weight on me.

should be a national heart-| I weigh 160—I'm 6 feet now. We

Eh Se warbles throb in a year or so... . This (box a lot and he doesn't kid ber of the best 15.4 xeve bout this buy.go, Bust around. We fight with skin oves.

Most of my prophecies turn out so wrong that I hope you won't] mind me gloating so loudly about! this one. My Beautiful Wife says in some alarm, that usually when I get ecstatic know that?” : about somebody’s future, the guy, He evidently was atraid of| winds up as a runner for a book- Silvani messing up the features:

“He knocked me out +wice.” » ~ nr A FELLOW with Damone said | “Does M- GM

‘Chere Nuit” and maker, {that M-G-M hopes to peddle to! pahan.” Damone, now just under 22, the panting females, ,-n goes to Hollywood in a few! To be such a success at 22 is al

weeks to report to Metro-Gold-test for a fellow's ego, but wyn-Mayer, where he's expected Damone’s taking it well. He sup-| to do some Frank Sinatra roles. (posedly has 1100 fan clubs, alFrank and M-G-M have split up though it may be only 1009. He| and Frank will probably be anidoesn’t smoke or drink, is not| independent player. M-G-M an- married or engaged, and gets 10! nounced that Frank haa asked or 12 hours sleep a night. He| for his release,

NNER in Scotch gs, with Sylvan cting the Columirchestra. A Co--LP, M1-2116. The etropolitan Opera eight tender and Frank’s parts in ‘Hit the Deck,’ Brooklyn fruit store. ‘Jumbo,’ ‘Student Prince’ and “I was thinking just. today other pictures,” Young Mr.,| that I'm going to pick up with Damone informed me when I just anybody and get married,” cross-examined him at Toots Damone said. Shor’s recently, ~

' “A Little Bit of re the River Shan- { “Loch Lomond.”

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cause I'm a Sinatra worshiper. (thought, ‘When am I going to

interpreters of songs that we've I'm going to be 22, I'd better get got. 1 always wanted to sing somebody.” like Frank, phrase like Frank--| and look Ike Tony Martin,” Vic sald. w Vic is such a Sinatra enthu- [Marry one of the young Holly- b

that he eve: m Al wood glamour pusses. 7 8last tha ven, employs Vie confessed to this

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ly 9-23 ‘“Silvani, who used to be Sin- e won on Arthur Godfrey's Tal- [Av ALON-..' ‘Mrs, Mike” and “Make Mine Pxy . ein Ww “ +] { es include Martha atra’s bodyguard, although Vie views he said It was the firstient Scout contest singing “Pris-| BELL— Daughter of Rosle O'Grads” and ®

"says, “I don’t use him as a time he ever admitted it to a re-o

Embhardt, William |porter—that he neve finish d| « MONT Ble" Hangover’ wnd/® Hendricks, Rose- “jelgisiaialeiaieieiatalaioteiotololodotedel high school. T i on re Vas there, that |; NEMA Tile "Third Man" and “pleasel Mary Drury, Caroe 3 wa-sis *| “Ileft Lafayette High in Brook. | 21ERt.. and he told Je you ognoNEr Me johnny Holiday” and “Des {SAN hariés Sharp and x Coliege at 10th - lyn because I had to go to work. [vin, I've got a surprise for you. hi | SHERIDA ,. . * x {- Berle: helped Vic land a fob | PAINY—— Daughter o of Rosie o'arady” and| Th the Dust * That was in my third year in high X STAR — en Kemp, former X .. TODAJ-MONDAY ONLY %| school,” he said. singing at La Martinique where I DREN 5 SHA, fh the Dwertt end FEAR ications at Mane 3 James CAGNEY-—Virsinia MAYS %| He became an usher (at the heard him. Vic didn’t own a blue | | EMERSON "Hue Lagoon” and AIR" Dau member of the IU * WHITE HEAT” } Paramount Theatre), and since Suit or a tuxedo, and sang In a| [FOUNTAIN ‘square: The, Bix Hang- sa Nand Sg charge of the in- % Bud ABBOTT & Lou COSTELLO %| then there has been a B'way gag| sports jacket — which drove the gig, 2p¢ REN Solids” and Twe| | TACOMA You're, « “RIDE EM COWBOY" x that goes: “I know a big actor! La Martinique boss, Dario, a nerv-i aa in the he, Slerres Maa®. and te he bo” jomine. "for. gate * ’ ous man, anyway, into a new fury | A POY Makes Three 3 OVE--The Tejon ge Cab Man” and “Cap-| |v OWN"

who wasn't an “usher.” But one

s Of Crowd

|was born Vito Farinola, and at| screens are: Allen Martin and Stanley Clements in “Johnny Holi“They tell /me I'm to take over 10 was already working in a! day" Stevens in "Please Believe Me" (Cinema, Emerson and Hamilton), Van Johnson and Elizabeth Taylor in "The Big Hangover" (Belmont, Fountain Square, Irving, Rivoli and Zaring), George Brent and . {day while helping run a backstage] I happened tojsee a guy walk- | {elevator he got Perry Como in the| |ing down the street with a beau- elevator, stopped the elevator be- | “THAT'S a big thrill for me, be- tiful girl, holding hands, and I (ween floors where Como was|

“I think he’s one of the greatest find her? Here I'm an old guY,!to him. Perry encouraged him.

prophecy: Damone will eventually singing experience,

— |each. night.

"BRIDE FOR SALE Now appearing on the neighborhaod and drive-in theater

(Coronet, Garfield and Rex), Deborah Kerr and Mark

"THE DAUGHTER OF ROSIE O'GRADY" 1s Claudette Colbert in “Bride for Sale" (Tuxedo and Shadeland Outdoor), June Haver and Gordon MacRae in "The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady” (Arlington, Bell, Daisy, St.Clair, Strand and Theatair Drive-In), and Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles in "The Third Man" ' (Cinema and Granada).

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atrociously dressed - $700 rubber dummy of Sammy Cahn lyrics rib the Fir Groaner about his clothes, his money, his toupee and his stomach.

laughing: ribbing I've taken from Bing.

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Song Will Poke Fun af Bing’s Clothes, Money, Toupee ¥

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your nose clean, son.” Mabel's story should ke . = = exciting tilmbiography. She's A PUZZLING sign in the bar| training tigers for 33 years | at the Mocambo reads: has brushed death so often

“Maximum load-—300." : Drinks, peopls or pounds? ” ” ” COLUMBIA and Margaret (O'Brien called off “City Girl” for obvious reasons. The script, originally slated for a boy and titled “City Boy,” fust didn't jell when it was rewritten for Margaret, - Xt turned out to be a glorified Our Gang comedy with not a single adult In the cast. The studio now has writers at pork on something more adult’

| and throws up his arms in at mere mention of her Doctors took 175 stitches In J bel's arm last January when was clawed -by one of her pets but a previous clawing a record 358 stitches, ol - - ~ . 4 MAE WEST is back in town after a long run with “ LIL" Her agent denies that and the Nassour Brothers | ve come to an agreement about any of the stories submitted to her for a film comeback. The garism suit over “Catherine Great” has shelved it as at possibility.

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