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...minutes of gags, songs and malapropisms ("I have an apperntment with some NBC indignitaries"). Unlike most revues, this one is not cluttered with long dance sequences calculated to give the star a breather. Durante was on camera virtually all the time, sharing honors with Metropolitan Opera Soprano Helen Traubel and old-time Partner Eddie Jackson. Durante, as usual, tore a piano apart, but he was at his best in the short sketches. Samples: in a supermarket, Jimmy trundled off with a beautiful girl sitting in the rolling market basket, told the audience: "I'd have taken two, but they...
Fresh from a cross-country concert tour, Metropolitan Soprano Helen Traubel turned up in Burbank, Calif, to check on one of her sideline investments: the hapless St. Louis Browns, midway through their spring tune-up. Part-Owner Traubel, in good voice, gave a pep talk to the players, then retired to a rooter's bench to watch her team win (6 to 5) an exhibition game with the Cleveland Indians...
...last opera has found a new golden voice,"' reads the Billboard ad for a new RCA Victor Red Seal record this week. The eminent critical authority behind the statement was Wagnerian Soprano Helen Traubel, but serious opera fans would do well to read the small type on the label. Traubel's plug was for her new duet partner, Jimmy Durante, a man whose voice has all the golden quality of metallurgical coke...
...idea of a record was a natural after two Traubel appearances with Durante on television (TIME, Dec. n), in which she used her full Wagnerian range on the Durante specials, A Real Piano Player and The Song's Gotta Come from the Heart. The new record, now on its way to distributors, consists of the same songs done as duets. It is on Victor's classical label because Traubel's exclusive Red Seal contract prevents her from recording for any less elevated series. Says Traubel: "It's a pleasure to record with a great artiste whose...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 1:30 p.m., ABC). Götterdämmerung, with Helen Traubel...