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...chances at the big time. When he was 18 he got as far as Manhattan's expensive Copacabana, even though his talents were hidden behind a bevy of beautiful arm-waving chorus girls. Two years ago, he won an Arthur Godfrey Talent Scouts contest. Last fall, Eddie Cantor heard Fisher singing at a summer resort on the Catskill borsch circuit and signed him to tour the country with his own show. But each time, the big chance seemed to fizzle out, and Fisher went back to dates in small clubs and theaters, cutting an occasional record for RCA Victor...
Great Day (Sat. 2 p.m., NBC). Comedian Eddie Cantor, back from Europe, reporting on the Marshall Plan...
Dick Whiting tunes made famous by such stars as Nora Bayes, Maurice Chevalier and Eddie Cantor. By the time she was 14, Family Friend Johnny Mercer decided that Margaret's velvety voice was good enough for a guest spot on his radio show. By 1941, 17-year-old Maggie had struck out on her own, got on Lucky Strike's Your Hit Parade. But her sweet and slow singing did not please irascible Tobacco Huckster George Washington Hill, who "liked 'em loud and fast." She was fired after four weeks...
...cantor chanted the blessing of the wine and drank deeply from the silver goblet, one young woman whispered to her companion: "And that's real wine...
...Great Pain." He had gotten invitations to other bicentennial Bach festivals in Europe and the U.S. Among them: bids to play in Strasbourg with the great Bach organist, Albert Schweitzer, and in Leipzig's venerable Thomas-Kirche, where Bach himself had been cantor. He had turned them all down, although "It gave me great pain to refuse...