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Frozen Singers. After the big moment on the air. most of the amateur performers fall back into obscurity. But some have gone on to fame & fortune, including Opera Singers Mimi Benzell and Robert Merrill, Ventriloquist Paul Winchell, Dancers Vera-Ellen and Ray Malone, Comedians Jack Carter and Bert Parks, and such singers as Teresa Brewer, the Mariners, Monica Lewis and Frank Sinatra (who appeared on the show in 1935 as one of a quartet called the Hoboken Four...
...sharp-eyed and lively as a sandpiper, flits in and out of restaurants and nightclubs picking up tidbits on kings, stars, villains and dog-biters. His office files bulge with more than 20,000 of their names from A (Fred Allen, Konrad Adenauer, Dean Achesoh) to Z (Darryl Zanuck, Vera Zorina. Babe Didrikson Zaharias). The names are his cast of characters in anecdotes which are interrupted only by items of news and occasionally "the kind of gossip that doesn't hurt anyone." A typical Lyons anecdote: "I owed the Trumans a dinner, for they had been our hosts...
Greece's ubiquitous King Paul and Queen Frederika turned up in Hollywood, where they dropped in on the White Christmas set at Paramount. Stars Vera-Ellen, Danny Kaye and Rosemary Clooney greeted Their Majesties with a little ceremony in which they puffed out the candles on a large, dummy birthday cake. Amused but confused, the King observed: "It's not my birthday...
...bobby-soxers for years have shed pleasant tears at the plight of trapped royalty, and breathed a happy sigh of relief when at last the royal one escapes into a commoner's arms (Olivia de Havilland and a handsome pilot in 1943's Princess O'Rourke; Vera-Ellen and a tap-dancing reporter in 1953's Call Me Madam). As the princess in Paramount's new picture, Roman Holiday, the newcomer named Audrey Hepburn gives the popular old romantic nonsense a reality it has seldom had before. Amid the rhinestone glitter of Roman Holiday...
Armstrong and Dancer Vera Zorina. Sponsor Procter & Gamble tries to captivate viewers with bathtub shots of Mom, Pop and Baby soaping themselves with Ivory...