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From her villa on Capri, old Music-Hall Trouper Gracie Fields, a temporary victim of rheumatism and a bride of two months, announced that the British army had arranged for her to make an early summer singing tour of Korea. Would, her radio-tinkering husband Boris go along? Not likely, said Gracie, he is a stateless person without a passport. Besides, "he can't sing...
...trouper since she was five, Cleveland-born Dorothy has waited a long time for people to start looking. As a child, she toured the South in "a kind of package show" with her mother (Ruby Dandridge of the Beulah and Judy Canova radio shows), sometimes singing hymns and "sweet songs," such as The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise, in churches. At 16, she was singing with her sister in Jimmie Lunceford's band at Manhattan's Cotton Club, but nobody paid much attention. In 1942, she got married; now divorced, she has a daughter, Harolyn...
...Hard work and an oldtime trouper's skill enable this comedian to be top dog in the new musical...
Comedy Hour (Sun. 8 p.m., NBCTV) is the first live, commercial TV show to be broadcast to the nation from the West Coast. What the nation got: an hour-long trouper's travelogue dominated by swivel-eyed Eddie Cantor, who sang such showstoppers as Makin' Whoopee and Bye, Bye, Blackbird, bounced through an old-time burlesque routine, delivered a flood of show business anecdotes in an emotion-choked voice. As usual, Cantor narrowly escaped the final plunge into bathos, came closest to it while singing Ida to his wife as the TV camera sought her downcast face...
Flagstad said that she was not overexcited about her return: "No, I have stopped being sentimental." It was a trouper's speech, and Flagstad is a trouper. She has been singing opera now for 37 years, and the theater is in her blood and background. Her father worked in Oslo's Central Theater as a violinist and conductor, her mother as a vocal coach. The first score that flaxen-haired Kirsten ever "yelled out" as a child was Gilbert & Sullivan's The Mikado. She learned Lohengrin before...