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Jackson and Songstress Patti Page, Crosby ambled from Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries to Irish and Italian folk songs. He even threw in a few songs in response to "requests," a device he admitted having copped from one Perry Creamy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Old Master | 10/13/1958 | See Source »

Battle of Monocles. In the third Covent Garden, designed 100 years ago by Architect Edward Barry, the fires have been artistic or temperamental, set by such prima donnas as Giulia Grisi, Nellie Melba, Emma Albani. In the '90s, Adelina Patti, who imperiously ignored rehearsals, once filled the stage with detectives disguised as supers to guard her diamonds. Famed Manager Augustus Harris made Covent Garden London's choicest nightspot for rich and royal patrons who came to monocle each other-and protested violently when he doused the house lights during performances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Not So Bad for England | 6/16/1958 | See Source »

...whose early success inspired the idea, enjoy the personal touch and the production support that still set them apart. Though her ratings have been ungallant, ABC's Patrice Munsel has given TV a welcome fillip of talented sex and voice appeal. But the Pat Boones, Giselle MacKenzies and Patti Pages have drawn neither rating nor rooting, and Guy Mitchell will get the ax at ABC this month. Biggest disappointment: Frank Sinatra, now busily trying to puff some life into his costly ABC-Chesterfield series...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Year of the Horse | 1/6/1958 | See Source »

Born. To Jerry Lewis, 31, raucous movie and TV comedian, and Patti Palmer Lewis, 32: a fourth son, fourth child; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Christopher Joseph. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 21, 1957 | 10/21/1957 | See Source »

...through. The Hit Parade was back (in stunning color for the 200,000 color-set owners), with a bevy of new performers led by young, moist-eyed Jill Corey, whose vocal renderings come with a lush, built-in sob. On the densely populated show called The Big Record, moonfaced Patti Page was mostly what the late Fred Allen called a Pointer, i.e., someone who points at someone else doing an act and says "Watch him"-the sort of trick that "you could teach a dog to do by smearing meat on the actors." But when Patti lent her big, plain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Review | 10/7/1957 | See Source »

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