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...long ago, Francis Albert Sinatra seemed at the other end of his string. The crooner and his career dangled hopelessly as one competitor after another zipped up the popularity and bestselling list, and Frankie's public and private relations (i.e., with his second wife, Cinemactress Ava Gardner) grew progressively worse. Over their coffee and cheesecake at Lindy's, the Broadway arbiters of show business pronounced their verdict: Frankie was about washed...
Frankie finally switched to a different firm (Capitol). Sales of his records began to pick up. His movie success helped. Audiences decided that he was not just a mannered crooner, but a mature...
While Cinemactress Rita Hay worth and her fourth husband, Crooner Dick Haymes, tooled back north from a Florida vacation to New York City in a borrowed Jaguar, a children's court judge in suburban White Plains acted to give Rita a jolting homecoming. Sicked on the case by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, the judge placed Rita's girls by earlier marriages-Rebecca, 9, and Yasmin, 4-in court custody pending a hearing on the society's charges that Rita had neglected them. Rita had left the children in the modest White Plains...
...Crooner Johnnie (Cry) Ray arrived in London with a revolutionary approach to his art: "I think that crybaby routine has had its day. I was lucky to get over with it." But Johnnie was not certain that dry eyes would assure success. "I'm saving my money. Maybe next year I'll be through. Who knows?" On his first evening in England, Johnnie dined at the House of Commons with an old friend. Laborite M.P. Tom Driberg, long an admirer of Ray's standard technique...
...Crooner Dick Haymes, who sat out World War II in the U.S. as a draft-exempt neutral alien, got final word that he is now an undesirable alien. A U.S. immigration official ordered Haymes deported to his native Argentina. Dick's thoughtless error: he illegally re-entered the U.S. last year after a flying visit to Hawaii, where he trysted with Cinemactress Rita Hayworth, now his fourth bride. Last week, back in Manhattan after two futile days of rushing around the capital and trying to talk to the right people, Haymes took Rita nightclubbing. They were joined by table...