The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1943-04-24
Sweetheart Back
At The Paradise

Voted one Of the years creates;
bands, the international Sweet
hearts OF Rhythm will return TO the
Paradise theatre for a weeks en-
gagement starting Friday, April %
Having used 80 Of the United States
as proving ground for their
rhythmical wares. the International
Sweethearts OF Rhythm have been
called by patrons and theatre OPP
orators alike The Greatest Mu-
steal Novelty OF the Century" The
personnel. all girls. include Is versa
tile ard talented musicians, plus the
director the lovely Anna Mae Win
burn. who fronts and sings and
Evelyn MCGEE. vocalist. Other tai
ented "Sweethearts' include Pauline
Brady, Queen OF the Drums" and
pretty Helen Saene, "Saxophone
Star"
First an Amateur Band
First formed as an amateur dance
band at the Piney Wood school.
Piney Wood, Miss. this outstand-
ing talented group were long jumps
ahead of the average orchestra in
discipline at the offset. The girls
had learned to live together. prime
requisite in any orchestra, because
they knew how to cooperate and
work as a unit. They have enjoyed
success which points toward even
greater fame.
Lovely Anna Mae Winburn Director
Though in her mid-tWenties, Anna
Mae Winburn. director Of the
"Sweethearts," is one Of the smart
est girl band fronts in the business
No wonder. she has packed a lot
of experience in the decade she
has been in the Demonstrating
the hard way. too.
Meager family circumstances
changed Mss Winburn's childhood
ambition Of becoming school
teacher 10 field where success
would be more lucrative AT Is she
left home in borrowed evening
clothes to 60 10 Chicago-"stretched
her age" and became a night club
singer. Changing jobs and names
often 10 evaoe authorities was her
biggest hindranee in those days &c
being a big success, which other
wise would have teen certainty
When she joined the International
Sweethearts OF Rhythm. Anna Mae
had for several years been a torch
singer with a number OF bands
aspiring TO the big name field. For
| two years before that she led her
own band ard wrestled with the
complex behind the scene" prob
lens OF her band as we'll as those
Of fronting the unit. Anna Mae Win
burn Is strictly "Self-made girl"
Evelyn MCGEE Star Vocalist
Miss MCGEE is one Of the few
singers in the world who has
learned the secret Of literally pour
Ing herself into the mike" She
sings so intimately 10 the audience
that she has the crowd won over
as individuals, from the very open
ing strains of her preventative. She
sings in a style which is Eatura.
strictly her own, and as she pts
it--"never had a lesson in my LIFE.
Margie Doc" Pettiford With Band
Americas Ace Girl Swing SaXo-
phonist" Margie doc" Pettiford is
more contented playing music than
doing anything else IN the world
Strangely and she admits it--sho
Was forced TO practice by .er Ma
who found il necessary 10 have a
ocoomStick handy Just in case.
Tie pettifords had a family or
! chcstra.
OF Americans dian and Negro
ancestry, Marsic seems to lead !
/ charmed life She has been n two
bus accidents and u automobile
! crashes without being scratched
She attended the University OF Min
nesota. Duke Ellington's Johnny
! Hodges is her cousi,.