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...Pianist Artur Rubinstein, but to a 25-year-old television actor named Edward Byrnes, who in three short weeks has become the hottest new property on records. The source of Byrnes's top-of-the-head fame is a peculiarly wolfish ditty called Kookie, Kookie (Warner Bros.) in which Byrnes sings scarcely a note. His contribution is a series of jive lingo replies to a marshmallow-voiced girl who implores him over and over again: "Kookie, Kookie, lend me your comb!" Sample answer...
...inspiration for Kookie, Kookie comes from the character of the same name created by Manhattan-born Actor Byrnes on the TV series 77 Sunset Strip. In the show, Byrnes plays a parking-lot attendant who continually combs his hair as an antidote to thought. Warner Bros, noticed how teen-age televiewers dug Kookie, so it signed Byrnes to cut a disk and set a comb manufacturer to turning out "Kookie Kombs" by the thousands. When a Los Angeles disk jockey casually asked his listeners "Should Kookie cut his hair?" he promptly got 5,000 replies (100-to-1 against cutting...
Following Paddock's lead in gunite construction are the Anthony Bros., Inc. of South Gate, Calif. (1958 sales: $8,000,000 ). The four brothers this year will market 50 models, including starfish-and boomerang-shaped pools, priced from $2,800, expect sales to top $10 million. For the nation's largest pool-equipment maker, Swimquip, Inc. of El Monte, Calif., the torrent of 1959 business has come so fast that all materials allocated for the first half were used up in the first quarter. Said President William O. Baker: "This year the business has gone crazy...
...earnings of $1.08 per share for the 28 weeks ended March 12, a gain of almost 1,000% over a year earlier. United Artists Corp. announced that it boosted revenues 20% and earnings 30% for 1958 to set new records. In 1959, higher earnings have been reported by Warner Bros., National Theatres, Inc., 20th Century-Fox and Columbia...
Wall Street has shown its faith in moviedom's future by sending stocks of producing companies steadily upward. United Artists has jumped from 15¼ to 32¼ in 15 months, Paramount from 30⅝ to 50, 20th Century-Fox from 21¾ to 43½, Warner Bros, from 16⅞ to 40. Though Standard & Poor's recently prepared an analysis warning that movie stocks are "quite speculative," it gave bullish reviews to seven of the ten companies it examined. Says a leading Wall Street movie industry analyst: "There's a great deal of skepticism...