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Then big things happened. NBC-Blue signed Dinah as jive-diva on its Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street program. She became the darling of le jazz hot. Then Eddie Cantor hired her. She recorded Yes, My Darling Daughter, which sold half a million. A year later she started her own show. Now a minor Big Business (her earnings this year will run about $115,000), Dinah is handled by a board of five...
...Married. Jive-diva Ella Logan, 29; and Writer-Producer Fred F. Finklehoffe, 32; in Greenwich, Conn. He collaborated on Brother Rat, produced Show Time, now starring his bride on Broadway...
Unfortunately there are only four records now listed which represent Newton's genius adequately, three on Bluebird under his name. "Minor Jive" is momentarily unavailable, but the other two may still be found in the record shops. "The World Is Waiting" is a marvelous example of Newton's modesty and simplicity, and "Blues My Baby Gave To Me" is among the finest blues solos ever recorded. Frank's solo on the remaining record, Bessie Smith's "Gimme a Pigfoot," on UHCA, is already legendary...
...great Rubber Scandal, far from being solved, moved into an even dizzier confusion, a Wonderland where jabberwocky jive talk about buna, butyl and guayule was the only language spoken...
...July 13). Each morning he drilled with the rest of the cast on a vacant lot in Manhattan. Two mornings a week (Sundays 8:45 a.m., Thursdays 9:30 a.m. E.W.T.) his strumming guitar and his warm tenor voice plugged the Army show over CBS. He took the daily Jive stint happily in stride...