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...daughter of Roy Bargy, orchestra leader and onetime arranger for Paul Whiteman, Jeanne got into show business at the age of 13 on Toledo's station WSPD ("It was pretty much the same show I do now"). After graduating from New York University, she scored a modest success touring the Midwest, playing and singing in cocktail lounges. Then she married Salesman Sid Landau ("I can't understand why people always laugh when I tell them Sid sells zippers") and moved to Brooklyn...
Last week, spurred by their television success (they averaged third in the Hooperatings), the Goldbergs were back on radio (Fri. 8 p.m., CBS) after a three-year lapse, doing a weekly repeat of the TV show. It adds seven more hours of rehearsal time to the 26 already required, but only minor editing of the TV script is required for radio. "I'm writing just the way I've always written," says Gertrude Berg. "The only difference is that you can sustain a scene longer on TV. In radio, you break up short scenes with musical bridges...
This week the Bargy formula began to pay off. She got a sponsor (the Duffy -Mott Co.), at least one settled time spot (Tues., 10:15 p.m.), and was hailed by Columnist Walter Winchell, who gushed that she was "new and refreshing . . . soft, sweet and dreamy." Mildly surprised by success, Jeanne Bargy said: "I'd been thinking of adding guest stars and things like that to my show. Now, I guess I'll keep...
Soulima did not have much to work with. He had pieced together a score from his favorite Scarlatti sonatas for a revised version of Choreographer Antonia Cobos' middling success of 1944 and 1946, The Mute Wife. Even with Soulima's new-music, the new version was just middling. He had had less than two hours to rehearse the ballet orchestra, a part pickup outfit seldom two rungs better than a good firemen's band. And about the most charitable word the critics could find for the Ballet Russe's ragged performances was "drab...
...type which apparently hides under logs in the daytime, was lured into Boston's huge Symphony Ballroom. The Shaw faithful, plus a few horn-rimmed jazz intellectuals, clustered around the bandstand, stood through it all without moving much but their gum-chewing muscles. Right there, any resemblance to success stopped...