Word: songstress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was a faraway look in the marinated eye of a waiter at Manhattan's Copacabana nightclub. He leaned back against a plaster palm tree, listening to the liquid tones of the songstress running over the lyrics of Bali H'ai. A yokel at a side table dropped his fork. The waiter glared, snatched up the fork, jabbed a clean che at the customer, and sank back against his palm tree...
...Songstress Mindy Carson has been melting the steel ears off the song-weary help for the last four weeks. Wrote nightclub critics: "Sensational," "ear-caressing," "the most exciting gal singer we've heard in a long time." Next week the Coba moves Mindy to the top of its bill. She is the youngest singer (22) who has ever headlined the big-time Copa...
...producing catchy, shortlived jingles about leaky faucets (Bloop, Bleep) and slow boats to China. But Baby was not even written for public consumption. Loesser ran it off five years ago as a comedy number for himself and his wife, Lynn, to sing at parties. It was surefire when his songstress wife, with appropriate handwringing, began singing "I really can't stay . . . I've got to go 'way," and Loesser answered pleadingly, "But Baby, it's cold outside!" After that the pace picks up, with her reasons for saying "goodnight" getting sugar-coated neverminds, line by line...
Hollywood's John Payne and Gloria DeHaven called off their second trial separation in 3 ½ years, "because we love each other and . . . .our two children." Songstress Ginny Simms-because "we still love each other"-considered dropping her two-week-old divorce suit (their first in nearly three years) against her architect-husband Hyatt Dehn...
...current Judy is 16-year-old Barbara Whiting, pretty, pudgy kid sister of Songstress Margaret Whiting. Agent Barren Polan found her in a Hollywood record shop, where she was heard asking for some "really sincere" recordings. "I looked," said Polan, "and it was a perfect Junior Miss." It was, indeed. Barbara played a supporting role in the cinema version of Junior Miss, has grown up into an accept able lead. She wallows in a bubblegumbo of teen-talk ("Johnny had on a suede coat that just wouldn't quit!"), is really sincere about her role. She longs to become...