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This Clipfrinu From NEW YORK, N. Y. SUNDAY MIRROR This Clipping From F BROOKLYN, N. Y. LONG ISLAND ADVOCATE 1 uL u LEE MORTIMER Kathryn Grayson Sings And the Latin !4 Rings BROADWAY, July 5?╟÷Fd prob-'i ably ffike a, Fifth Amendment if anyone asked how long I?╟╓ve been j covering these places. But in all | those years, I?╟╓ve never been as | excited over any act as I am about ! Kathryn Grayson, Hollywood?╟╓s | loveliest, making her Main Stem j ginmill debut at the Latin Quar-ter.,.. This girl in person is almost too delightful to be true. It can?╟╓t be. There just isn?╟╓t anyone as beautiful, ethereal and wispy, yet as full of female fire as this refugee from the Holly woods. AND WHAT A VOICE! Kathryn Grayson?╟╓s has everything, from the sureness and authority of the opera diva to the soul-stirring notes of the torch singer/ When she sang ?╟úUn bel Di?╟Ñ from '?╟ Butterfly,?╟Ñ I reflected that not since Geraldine Farrar sang it 10 blocks south a couple of lifetimes ago, has there been as divine a Cio Cio San on Broadway. Surely Kathryn Grayson missed her calling (but delighted many more millions) when she went into flicks instead of highbrow Art. Kathryn Was justifiably nervous at her debut before a big-time, big-town audience, and more so because her wardrobe and music ended up in Houston instead of Times Square. But she quickly overcame it (and the stage fright made her even more girlish and lovable and ZINSY FRENCH SONGS. Liii, the French chanteuse, spreads her repertoire ol continental numbers effectively at George Eberhardt's House of Vienna. went on to do a show that will long be remembered by the jaded who came to scoff at another ?╟úpersonal appearance?╟╓?╟╓ and went away cheering. NEW IN THE Latin Quarter?╟╓s 1 comedy spot is the oldtime Latin 1 Quarter favorite, Jack Durant, a ?· perennial who returns every yearns to yoks and yaks. Some wondqr I how he does it, and laugh at his I efforts to make others laugh, buj.l when the chips are down he has I ?√ßeveryone laughing and "repeats 1 until there?╟╓s none other like him 8 in the business. All I can say is that he has the 1 audience rolling in the asles?╟÷and | that?╟╓s what counts! Another new turn is the amaz-ing St. Leon troupe of acrobats 1 who are balls of fire, singly and 2 collectively. 1 The balance of the big and j' beautiful Donn Arden show re- < mains pretty finch as it was L when E. M. Loew and Ed Risman i gave it to Broadway. Scads and B scads of exciting gals in exciting 1 costumes and some of the best 1 supporting acts I?╟╓ve ever seen 1 anywhere. , THAT GOES FOR the per-1 fectly sensational girl adagio S dancer in the Bob DeVoye trio, || and why she doesn?╟╓t get billing M I?╟╓ll never know. She?╟╓s a sprite 8 that will go to the very top just 8 as soon as she?╟╓s discovered. (So 8 here I?╟╓m discovering her.) Gina Genardi, the pint-sized soubrette with the great big p magnificent voice and Martha Errolle, the operetta canary with H the magnificent gams, are still ft there to deligh you as well as all 8 the other splendid tuirns I?╟╓ve al- 8 ready written about. Wraxer's This Clipping From NEW YORK, N. Y. DAILY MIRROR LEE MG LI'L ABNER It may come as a surprise,'but actress Uzabeth Scott | lean sing. In her initial effort on'Vik Records she made arri intimate gimmick-free album titled, ?╟úLizabeth?╟Ñ--Tommy i Sands and his mother aren?╟╓t oh the best of terms?╟÷money | trouble___Patrice MunsePs expecting the long-legged bird | Sin November....Donn Aden?╟╓s sixteenth anniversary extra- f, ?√ß vaganza at the Latin Quarter is a masterpiece of staging. | JThe lavish two-hour revue has N?╟╓Yawkerh talking.... .Street! "'Scene: Greer Garson, the ?╟úAuntie Marne?╟Ñ star, was saluted | smartly by a group of naval cadets as she was entering the f Hampshire House .... Georgia Price was warned by his] medics to curtail all activities ?╟÷ he?╟╓s recuperating from a \ recent heart attack.....Lana Turner was scheduled to play the role of a murderess in ?╟úUp at the Villa,?╟Ñ but it?╟╓s been j cancelled, natch.,. .One reason why Sophie Tucker stays off j TV, ?╟úAny medium where you can?╟╓t utter the word H?╟÷L is j mot my cup of tea.?╟Ñ * * : ? α .s * '?╟≤ ?√ß ; /: : A short while ago, a song shot to the top of the Country and Western lists and stayed there for a tremendous 52-weeks: ?╟úFraulein.?╟Ñ Now, by coincidence (believe it or |not), 20th Century-Fox is ready to release a film titled, 1 ?╟úFraulein,?╟Ñ which was shot entirely on location in Germany I... .Camden Records presents Its initial album in a newly i recorded series designed especially for the audience who de-| sires big sounding sweet music,; lush and mellow, Domenico | Savino and his fifty-piece orchestra offers South American Moods. .s. .Columbia Pictures will release ?╟úThe Gene Krupa Story?╟Ñ Vith Sal Mineo in the title role. Mineo is an ardent jazz drummer and a long-time fan of the famed Krupa. Lou Walters?╟╓ six-stage supper dub, the Cafe de Paris, will be open to the public at Broadway and 53rd Street on May 22, following a preview performance of Betty Hutton, with her own miniature revue, the preceding evening for the benefit of the Sick and Relief Welfare Fund of the American Guild of Variety Artists... .Playwright Rick All-men is having a weird mural job done on the bare bricks of "the old garage at 108 W. 3rd DON?╟╓T GO'WAV." THEM FELLAS SEEMS LET GO, VOU Jen _ _____________ vjkIWa^r?roUAS/EA ^ PQOLlf ^JLLE For Cate de Paris Stint (Street, in Greenwich Village, ?√ßwhich he turned into a res- jjjyjr taurant, The Bizarre, cater-IjAjj^yog to the late, late coffee-llvil,,break crowds TDUfc BROADWAY, June 3?╟÷If Eng-i land doesn?╟╓t want him, we do. Anyway Lou Walters does, lor *r Jerry Lee Lewis, the noted cradle % snatcher, opens at the new Cafe I de Paris next Tuesday, following || Betty Hutton and her record 1 breaking run at the new theatre j restaurant. I The Cafe de Paris, in business I just two weeks, proves Walters?╟╓ I (and my) contention that New 1 York is big enough to take ?╟ em 1 all, that competition is the life trade. THE GINMILLS has been dold rum bound for weeks. But the conversation and interest generated by Lou?╟╓s gigantic new cafe pepped business all over town, indicating a new cabaret consciousness among the simple folk of our community. Some said New York couldn?╟╓t absorb 15 to 20 thousand hew ?╟úcovers?╟Ñ a week what with things not so okay anyway. But the reverse happened. Every saloon is doing better now in the face of the Walters?╟╓ competition, than | IT did before Lou opened his doors I and as for. Lou, he?╟╓s doing mag-1 nificently. ]f The curious are visiting him. Many persons who haven?╟╓t been on Broadway for years, come back to sde what?╟╓s happening. TJiey go away talking it up big. Naturally they want to see what ?╟≤the other clubs are doing too. r OVER AT LOU?╟╓S did home, the j Ibeloved Latin Quarter, the inimit-l able Johnnie Ray heads the inim-litable Ponp^^Tden revue and J manager Ed Risman says he | can?╟╓t take care of the erbwds, Jack Silverman, whose Old Romanian is Lou?╟╓s party wall neighbor at Broadway and 53d, never did so well as Julius La-Rosa is. doing for him now. Same on the East Side. Maestro Podell had sell-outs nightly at the Copacabana with George DeWitt and G^^ia Gibbs. He plans to . ride the wave with a new all star show headed by Ella Fitzgerald tomorrow. THE LEXINGTON Hotel Ha- Sammy ay and his Swing and Sway JEBlBfband are conducting a series of weekly Thursday night dance sessions at the Roosevelt Grill, awarding prizes tortile* best fa-ther-and-daughter and mother-and-son dance teams of the evening... Openings: Tony Martin at Town and Country, Celeste Holm at the Persian Room of the Ho tell .Plaza, Patricia Wilson at the Maisonette of the St. ^ Regis Hpte\ Johnny Mathis at the OOflTScabana, and T, J. Jones, on May 13, at Le Cupi-don. - V;.'' ' ?╟  Chris Alexander, prominent portrait painter who appeared on the Broadway stage as a Macy?╟╓s floor manager in ?╟úAunt Marne,?╟Ñ has been signed to recreate his role in the Warner Bros, motion picture based on the long-run hit .. .EJbbets Field, former home of the Brooklyn Dodgers, will be the scene of lively activity this sum- mer, opening on the Memorial Day weekend, Friday and Saturday evenings, May 30-31, with the Dick Clark . Caravan, featuring top recording * stars in a gala musical show, and continuing throughout the season with the presentation of popular personalities in the s musical world of singers, rock-and-rollers and jazz instrumentalists ... John A. Keel, traveler and author of the expose on oriental magic and hoodoo, ?╟úJadoo,?╟Ñ will -speak op May 28 at the Starlight Restaurant, on .Irving Place, on ?╟úHow to Eat A Rejection Slip?╟Ñ...! Carlos Ramirez, who has appeared in several motion pictures, is the new singing attraction at Angel Lopez?╟╓ Chateau Madrid, starring in the pleasant revue, ?╟úTropical Serenade?╟Ñ.. .In response to many requests, the Roxy Theatre is offering, on successive Saturday^, through June 21, an extra earlybird performance of Louis de-Rochemont?╟╓s 1 ?╟ Windjammer/* the first production in the new Cine-miracle process, with tickets selling for $1.75, seats unreserved.