Word: sinatras
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...Frank Sinatra, long troubled about the "millions of people listening in" who have been irritated by the squealing of his fans, finally discovered how to keep the girls from chitter-barking. "I . . . tried everything-talking to them, reasoning with them-but still they squealed," so, he said, he decided to ban all applause till the end of the broadcast, and the faithful obeyed...
...tied, boyish Frank Sinatra gave his listeners just what they had tuned in for: he mooned his way through My Melancholy Baby and I Fall in Love Too Easily. Then, as is his custom, the swoonmaster turned schoolmaster to lecture his charges about a "very, very important subject known as tolerance." The subject seemed to have quite a lot to do with Frankie, too. He gave his bobbysox listeners an earnest preview of a film short he had just made, and of the kind of thing they can expect from him every few weeks in his Old Gold radio show...
...Sinatra comes upon a group of kids chasing a Jewish boy named Danny, because, as Danny says: "I got a different religion." Sinatra, taking charge, convinces Tommy, one of the tormentors, that the blood plasma Danny's father gave may have saved the life of Tommy's G.I. dad. Explains Sinatra: "Don't you get what I'm telling you? Religion doesn't make any real difference, except to a Nazi or a dope. . . . My father came from Italy. But I'm an American and should I hate your father, Tommy, because he came...
...Sinatra, now determined to give his following something besides a swoon, has also gone to work on fellow performers. He has persuaded Comic Danny Kaye, Dancer Gene Kelly and Crooner Bing Crosby to make movie shorts along the same lines. Said he last week: "I have never believed in anything so zealously in all my life...
...view of the time-wars nature of the plot, this is the most musing and entertaining result possible. All musical tastes are satisfied with numbers ranging from Iturbi's rendition of Tschaikowsky's B. fiat minor Concerto to Sinatra's saccharine ballads...