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...comedian, Sam ("Zero") Mostel, a 27-year-old six-footer barely out of his swaddling clothes as a professional entertainer. A painter by training and profession, Mostel was only the hit of his friends' parties until February, when a press agent landed him in a Manhattan night spot, Cafe Society. Since then he has been signed for the forthcoming Victor Moore-William Gaxton show Keep 'Em Laughing and last week rode off on a 13 -week Basin Street contract...
Chomp. In Los Angeles, hospital patient Letha Mooney, speechless, explained in writing that a woman named Lollipop had bitten her tongue off in a cafe brawl. Asked just how it happened, she wrote: "I don't know. It happened so fast...
Unless you're planning to be around Boston during vacation, it might be a good idea to drop in at the Savoy Cafe tonight for a farewell glimpse of Frankie Newton's band in action. For the boys received their two weeks' notice last Sunday, and will be on the road the day after Easter. Frankie has been pleasing the regular paying guests and bringing a lot of new fans into the Savoy as well, but apparently he didn't always preserve the most amicable relations with his boss. But he nevertheless deserves a really good job where crowds...
...Baby" is perhaps the best of the sides, for it includes a great trumpet solo by Bunny Berigan as well as the rousing antics of the trio.... I also liked "There'll Be Some Changes Made," sung as a blues.... Someone asked me how to get to the Savoy Cafe to hear the Frankie Newton band. Take an Egleston car from Park Street, get off at West Newton Street, walk a block north to Columbus Avenue and make for the green-lighted sign across the street. I envy you a most satisfying evening...
Well, the other musical oasis around town is the Savoy Cafe out on Columbus Avenue, where most of the Ellington menage repaired almost every night after their last show. There Frankie Newton's seven-piece colored band holds forth these winter nights before an enthusiastic mixed audience which doesn't miss the little dance floor that isn't there. For the past week such Ellington notables as Ben Webster and Lawrence. Brown have been sitting in with the boys regularly--high tribute in itself. There are interesting soloists on every instrument, but at least when I was there Frankie...