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This Clipping From NEW YORK, N. Y. JOURNAL AMERICAN THE KNIGHT WATCH 5 Morgans Will Head Latin Quarter Revue By GiNI KNIGHT MISS JAYE P. MORGAN and her four brothers?╟÷Bob, Dick, Duke, Charley?╟÷will headline a new edition of Donn Arden's spectacular revue, "All About Dames," at the Latin Quarter, starting tomorrow night, it was announced today by managing director Eddie Risman. They'll entertain for four weeks. Jaye P. is, of course, RCA's room and adjacent buildings! are to be torn down to make! way for a multi-million dollar] addition to the Berkshire, gen eral -manager John J. Hylandj reports ... From the Sherry' Netherland has come Jane Mack to take over the keyboard at the Bird 'n' Glass . . . recording artiste and stylish song stylist from television who also has registered successfully irr the Vegas and Miami night clubs. Her brothers play instruments and sing, too. Miss Morgan has worked with Dinah Shore, Steve Allen, Jackie Gleason, Ed Sullivan, Perry Como, Pat Boone. And they certainly know a good singer when they hear one. By the way ?╟÷ her correct name, I happen to know, is Mary Margaret Morgan. New featured attraction in this latest L.Q. show is Harry Mimmo, international panto- mimist. I recall seeing Mimmo mimic the mighty at Bill Miller's Riviera in Fort Lee several years ago. He's a clever performer. Rest of the star acts in "All About Dames" are being held over, including those Latin Quarter chorus cuties. Plus ^ Gigi, the busiest maitre d' in town. There'll be dancing to the bands of Jo Lombard! and Buddy Harlowe. At the Roundtable THOSE DUKES OF DIXIELAND, well known N'Orleans jazz septet, will rouse the Roundtable, smart winery and dinery, for two weeks, I learned today. They'll take off and hit in beginning Monday eve. Tyree Glenn's quartet is to alternate. The Dukes include Frank As- sunto on trumpet; brother Fred on trombone; and their dad, "Papa Jae," on brass and banjo. And the way I heard it, they're hotter than the nose cone of a missile. * ?╟≤ * Bye, Bye Barberry A DANCE BAND will play in that new specialty restaurant which will be built in the Knott Berkshire Hotel, Madison ave. I and 52nd at., I learned today j . . . The famed Barberry Room closes Friday . . . Later this This Clipping From NEW YORK, N. Y. JOURNAL AMERICAN JAN 10 1959 THE KNIGHT WATCH Jaye P. Morgan Clicks By GENE KNIGHT MAKING HER FIRST APPEARANCE in a New York night club, Jaye P. Morgan bowed in last night as the new headliner of Donn Arden's scintillating revue, "All About Dames," at theXatin Quarter. Miss Morgan is a singer who adds her own distinctive touch to her vocal offerings. She is big on records and television. Last evening she tried the nitery bit. i Today I'm here to say Jaye P. Morgan is big in the night clubs, too. I So Eddie Risman, managing director of the L. Q-, ought to be a happy man. Miss Morgan is a tall, slender, green-eyed blonde. She was assisted by three of her brothers ?╟÷ Duke, Dick, Charlie?╟÷-who played instruments and sang, too. She opened with "Running Wild"; swung into a new arrangement of "Nola" (with a wave to Vincent Lopez); suggested "Let's Fall in Love"; closed with "BilJ Bailey" (reminiscent of Jimmy Durante and Pearl Bailey). Jaye P. danced, too. Fine Family Act Miss Morgan and her three brothers comprise a fine family act. It really isn't what she sings, but how she sings it. While I would have liked to hear her do some of the newer songs, I realize all the rules and regulations of ASCAP. So, under the circumstances, I think she did exceedingly well. Best. I believe, was the way; she gave new life to "Nola. Listening to Jaye P. Morgan sing is like having money in the bank. It's a nice comfortable feeling. Incidentally, O. B. Masengil arranged and conducted her entire act. Also new at L. Q. is Harry Mimmo, the international pantomimist, who talks now. He is a clever, observant young man with a flair for caricatures of others. He's especially apt as a dancer. Superior, in my appraisal, were his impersonations of other dancers: Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Bill Robin son, et al. Many of the star acts in this lavish Latin Quarter revue, which premiered some time ago, have been held over. Including Francis Bruun, the nimble Frenchman, who is the greatest juggler I've ever seen. Then there waa Boubouka, the Greek dancer, who acted like a graduate of the carnival midways. Not offensive, though. There are some new girls in the chorus line, I noted. They are big and beautiful and they{ parade around in $120,000 worth of costuming. Customers danced to the music of Jo Lombardi and Buddy Harlowe backed, of course, by their bands.. Gig! waa the cordial host at the doer and Jack, the page boy, kept tha many reservation slips moving rapidly. Attendance was Standing Room Only, as it always Is at this night spot. Come to think ?√ß of it, this new show at the Latin Quarter is the best buy in town for the money. HOLLYWOOD REPORTER HOLLYWOOD, CALIF. MAR 2 1959 THE MOULIN ROUGE As clicko as an act can be, it wol be an understatement to say that Doi aid O'Connor fractured his Friday deb audience at the Moulin Rouge whe the mirth waves alternated betwe* chuckles and howls, with never a It moment. Ably abetted by his longtime par ner, Sidney Miller, in the latter half < his show, O'Connor nicely held up tr first half with song ("Anything Goes and "When I'm Not Near the Girl Love" from "Finian's Rainbow") an stories, which, although anything bi new, garnered their fair quota c laughs. Spelling O'Connor in the front enc Los Gatos (:j cats) Trio socked a tO| level aero and hand-balancing routin and joining Donald in a terrificall' novel song-and-dance was the diminU' tive midget, Olive, of the vaude tearr of Buster Shaver and Olive, the little mite as cute as ever (once acknowledged as the world's prettiest anc shapeliest midget) with nifty terping and a powerful pair of pipes. The big howls came with the solid hoke past the midway mark when the "songwriting" team of O'Connor and Miller zipped into fast costume changes to satirize Sammy Davis Jr., Sinatra, Bing, Elvis and Sophie Tucker. Show- stoppers in this department were Miller's Dietrich (with Marlene at ringside choking with laughter), O'Connor's Chevalier ("76 Hormones ?╟÷ Does the Trick For Me") and Van Cliburn (with prop hands down to his knees). The team's impresh of Louis Prima and Keely Smith was another rouser, with the black-wigged O'Connor an amazing likeness of the poker- faced Keely. The Donn Arden Revue was cut down to only their excellent western production at opening and, since the entire show timed at 75 minutes, could have tacked on a closing production, such as the fine jungle spec, with no pain. ?╟÷Hank Grant. .?╜?╟÷r?╜xtru lyric J 20 mi J *c*rto and easy descents to lower, tone ifl ??er registers, she can pipe any folk M ?√ß of a song. ?╟≤* ?·don'tf