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...With thousands of the early disks lost or destroyed, many bygone jazz greats are no more than legends today. A new company called Riverside Records is now making things considerably easier for seekers after the oldtime gospel. It has obtained rights to Chicago's 30-year-old, pioneering Paramount and Gennett catalogues, is busily transferring the best numbers to durable LPs. Result: some of the earthiest jazz heard in captivity anywhere. Best of the lot: some really gone blues by Singer Ma Rainey, known as the teacher of more famed Bessie Smith, and eight stomping numbers by Fats Waller...
Most U.S. movie critics thought that Paramount's Shane (TIME, April 13) was just a rattling good western about homesteaders v. cattle owners. Last week Manhattan's Communist Daily Worker got around to reviewing the picture, which has just moved into neighborhood theaters, and found a significance in it that all the bourgeois reviewers had missed...
Five thousand excited Pondo and Gaika tribesmen put on their best feathers one day last week and poured into the Great Place, the Royal Kraal of Paramount Chief Archibald Sandile of Gaikaland. They gathered for the greatest social event in the history of the tribes: the wedding of Chief Sandile's son, Anthorpe, to Eunice, daughter of Paramount Chief Victor Poto Mdamase of Pondoland...
...recent years Bing has made fewer films, and has scarcely made a pass at TV. The old pipes don't give quite the same old sweet song. But Baritone Crosby is doing all right. His contract at Paramount has seven years to run. He grosses better than $175,000 a picture; record royalties bring in a steady $150,000 a year or more. He also has a million or so in real estate, shares in a profitable frozen-juice business, owns a 25,000-acre ranch near Elko, Nev. And if all else should fail, "the income from...
Scared Stiff (Hal Wallis; Paramount) is a shrill blend of spooks and slapstick set on a mysterious tropical island. While trying to help Heiress Lizabeth Scott take possession of the island, Cabaret Performers Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis get tangled up with treasure-hunting mobsters and perambulating zombies. When he is not being locked in a trunk or imprisoned in a haunted castle's torture chamber, Jerry also imitates Carmen Miranda, and Dean sings (I Don't Care If the Sun Don't Shine, San Domingo). Interesting bit players: Bing Crosby and Bob Hope. For Comedian Hope...