Chicago world. (Chicago, Ill.) 1918-????, 1949-06-25
SEEM STARS
With Dolores Calvin

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With Dolores Calvin
NEW YORK-Just between
you and me, DUKE ELLINGTON
=, is mighty busy these days get
ting ready for a gigantic revue
to be staged On Broadway
Hes calling it "Take the "a
Train,' after one of his famous
| songs, meaning take the "A
train to Harlemtown Maybe
that's why Billy Strayhorn was
seen at 4 a. m. walking a lonely
Harlem avenue with pencil and
scorepad near-at-hand Re
hearsals, | hear. are in the max
ing but the whole business has
been a deep secret with an
nouncements just about ready to
break.
We always like those Duke
Ellington show with mystic
charm and unusual lighting eff
fects And the newest seems
to be fantasy of his hit tunes,
rolled into magnificent revue
which promises to be one of
those 'once in lifetime aft
fairs
Little did | realize tie other
week when LIONEL HAMPTON
confided in me On the park
bench that his one big desire
was to "get into television'
that opportunity would knock so
soon Well it did /. = And
if Lionel accepts, ONE of the
largest manufacturing firms will
sponsor a ACKNOWLEDGMENT show
beginning this summer Only
Lionel will have to be stationed
here in New York 80. Mot banti-
here in New York Most BAND
leaders have stunned shows of
this type unless the income war
ranted it, for it cancels out any
! theatre Or nightclub dates. which
excludes a band from circula-
ton However, as Vaughan
Monroe, Phil Harris, etc. rose
to glory on radio shows via the
| airwaves' publicity department,
it will be decided "great break"
for a Negro band if the Hamp-
| TONS accant NToa,,uSilo itc
pays far less dividends than RAJ
dio, Though it's newness attracts
quite an audience Yet we
! know that Lionel, with his bril-
/ 'ance of playing the vibraharp,
the, actuality of eeing the per-
Ipiration roll down ito his white,
collar as the vibes get hotter
and hotter-that' a treat to mill
lions we hope won't be denied.
Watching PEARL BAILEY,
the greatest seller of songs, bill
ed at little Billy Roses Diamond
Horseshoe, brings back meml
cries. Pearl, hot tempered and
curt as any. had to curb that
temper one eve in Baltimore and
we never shall forget She
Was opening one Of the more
avlsh spots On the avenue down
town and Pearl needed shoes
to match that certain evening
gown 1t was after and not
MANY stores were open The
/ manager, frantic with despair,
called, every shoe store he knew,
until he got l. Miller & Sons on
the phone and discovered they
were open until 9 ''There
is Miss Bailey here" he began.
! apoHgetically, '"and we would
appreciate it deeply if you would
sell her pair of evening slip
pers" Nm. He paused and then
continued rapidly, Il will send
my personal secretary to escort
her if She may come at once
Y. Evidently they said Eyes"
So off went the ''tired girl
to buy the shoes \. On arriW-
! ing, Pearl and the secretary
were shipped through the freight
entrance Of the STORE. Hot tenn
pered Pearl bit er lip as the
manager glided over and smiled
charmingly, tWelcome Miss
! Bailey, we have a selection wait
I ing for you" If it hadn't been
that the curtain was due to ring
up within the hour and the shoes
were most essential, we rather
! think hell might've broken loose
i'm the back Of that store in
Baltimore.
On August 4 the Queen Eliza
beth will sail away with our
FOUR INK SPOTS balling on
the decks below and counting the
sea gulls to England 1t
wouldn't be right to say this is
''just another trip for thaem3
because this is THE trip Of the
season and theyihe rarin' to 60
III. Billy Kenny has bought an
J English Derby (Which takes
I every comical line from his face)
pinkies with teacups and learn
and the boys are balancing their
ing to arch th/lr eyebrows and