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...sleeved waiters, sweating, bumping against chairs and calling hoarse warnings, ferried outsize trays of corned beef & cabbage. Powers models swirled among the 1,031 guests, handing out clay pipes. On the stage, aging Funnyman Arthur ("Bugs") Baer cracked wise, a line of Bloomer Girls pranced through a dance routine, Bing Crosby crooned Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ral, and then Morton Downey sang it again...
Last week June Kovachs, who has already played four times with the Chicago Symphony, introduced Barrymore's First Piano Concerto. It proved to have a, Tschaikovsky-like lyricism. As music it was like Bing Crosby's golf-not of championship caliber, but pretty durn good for an amateur...
...G.I.s, played all around such jazz standbys as Body and Soul and Sweet Georgia Brown, and really got hot on Benny Goodman's old Don't Be That Way. Pace setter was the hot sax of Private Arthur Pepper, formerly with Gus A.rnheim's band-where Bing Crosby first got his start as a soloist...
...stayed ever since. There he has quietly revolutionized makeup. First he invented the panchromatic base, a tan cream which would evenly reflect all lights, thus keep faces or lips from fading out. Then came the "hair lace wig," which added years of professional life to balding oldsters like Bing Crosby, Charles Boyer, Jack Benny and Fred Astaire, and molded rubber faces for Frankenstein's monster & Mr. Hyde. He also devised a foolproof method for other make-up men to use. He catalogued all women's faces in five basic types, i.e., Claudette Colbert has a "diamond" face...
Rudy Vallee, the Vagabond Lover, was singing the Stein Song With Yale-boy gusto. America's other favorite band, Paul Whiteman's, played a promising new song called With a Song in My Heart. Bing Crosby was touring in vaudeville. That week the stockmarket crashed, and Manhattan's Hotel Roosevelt introduced a Chicago band to its customers. The band, fancily titled Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians, played Stardust and My Blue Heaven. They still...