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...Broadway-wise customers, how to flash his bright smile at the right moment, how to pitch his voice for the best effect. Eddie landed wintertime jobs after that, e.g., singing during the chorus-girl numbers at Manhattan's Copacabana. But his real break came when Eddie Cantor spotted him three summers later at Grossinger's and took him on a vaudeville tour. Since then, Fisher's easygoing voice has made 14 hit records in a row-his I'm Walking Behind You is this week's No. 1 bestseller-and his four radio...
...mixed leadership with showmanship. The showmanship display began in 1947 when a left-wing group among the 34,000 members of Local 1031 threatened to take over at union meetings because the attendance was so small. Darling met the challenge by importing topflight entertainers, e.g., Jimmy Durante. Eddie Cantor, Jack Carson, and Sophie Tucker, to perform at meetings, soon had the 3,500-seat auditorium filled to overflowing. The union now spends $10,000 a month on show's, which include its own chorus of union girls, "the 1031 Dancing Darlings." The leftists haven't had a chance...
...Star Revue (Sat. 8 p.m., NBC). George Jessel, with Fred Allen, Eddie Cantor...
Comedy Hour (Sun. 8 p.m., NBC). The hundredth telecast, with Abbott & Costello, Eddie Cantor, Bob Hope, Martin & Lewis, Donald O'Connor...
...Hollywood, his movie career had tobogganed to the point where he was playing second lead to a talking mule in the Francis pictures. But after one guest appearance on TV with Jimmy Durante, Donald was signed as one of the rotating stars (the others: Martin & Lewis, Abbott & Costello, Eddie Cantor, Bob Hope) of the TV Comedy Hour (Sun. 8 p.m., NBC). Even Hollywood took another, longer look at its perennial adolescent. O'Connor began to get good song & dance jobs in such top-budget musicals as Singin' in the Rain and Call Me Madam...