Word: albums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Frank Stanton, president of CBS (owner of Columbia Records). In a matter of minutes, he had a $70,000 loan. "Of course," says Bing, "it wasn't just because of my pretty blue eyes." The tour will be a high-class plug for Columbia's new Fledermaus album...
...other news of Marion Davies, see PRESS. **For her part of Julie in Show Boat, Metro dubbed in the voice of a trained contralto, used her own expressive but small voice for the M-G-M record album...
Whispering Campaign? Lanza's paycheck for Caruso was $100,000. For his next picture he will get $150,000 (less 10% to Manager Weiler and another 10% to his agent); for the next record album, he is dickering to improve the deal that now gives him a 10% royalty on sales. But he is none too happy about the new movie script, which he rejected several times and accepted only after what he calls "a vicious whispering campaign" about his temperamental refusals. The whole thing was making him so nervous that he could not sing. To Lanza, nothing seems...
...present, Jim is putting the finishing touches on his latest book, The Thurber Album, which will be published next fall. In some of the chapters that have appeared in The New Yorker-particularly one -called Daguerreotype of a Lady-Thurberites believe they have detected a new Thurber, still very funny, but somehow deeper and richer; the most exciting Thurber, they claim, since his sight failed...
When The Thurber Album is completed, his next big effort will probably be another play. On Men, Women and Dogs, Thurber has a percentage-of-box-office deal with United Productions. If the picture is a success-and nearly everything Thurber touches creatively is successful-he will earn a great deal of money. For a man who has never once demeaned his talent for profit, nor ever aimed at mass appeal, he has already earned quite...