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...auditioning singers, CBS's Robert Q. Lewis listens with one ear to a girl's voice, watches with both eyes to see what tricks she may have up her sleeve. He values Vocalist Jaye P. Morgan because she can "read a line," work on a trapeze and do acrobatics. He is pleased that Lois Hunt, once a junior soprano with the Met, "has come out of complete stuffiness to rise to any occasion." Carol Bushman, one of the four Chordettes, wins his praise for her "farm-type humor...
...Sanders Theater the program featured a team of mimics who didn't show up, a hip-swinging vocalist who almost didn't show up, and the Wellesley Widows, who did show up and wished they hadn't Al Capp, billed as a "personality extraordinaire," told "one of the worst audiences I've ever faced" that "there are some people here who don't belong here...
...misery: both Sylvia Sidney and Diana Lynn suffered and suffered because they chose careers instead of settling for marriage and babies. But the ladies shared some of the week's agony. The General Electric Theater offered Johnnie Ray, the crybaby singer, in a drama about an emotional vocalist named Johnnie Pulaski who nobly spurned fame and fortune because his boss wanted him to sing under an Anglo-Saxon stage name...
Storey and fellow committeemen declined to comment on other possible entertainers besides saying that a comedian and probably a vocalist might also perform. Tom Lumbard, publicity chairman, stated that the committee wanted "quality, not crudity," but promised a show that no critic, even a burlesque fan "will be dissatisfied with...
Died. Lee Morse, 50, blues-singing star of early radio, vocalist for the Blue Grass Boys in the 1920s and '30s, song writer (Shadows on the Wall), sister of Glenn Taylor, former left-wing Democratic U.S. Senator from Idaho; in Rochester...