Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-20

Town. Come 10 LLllIlk OF IL, Ill
merit more than others and tn
Connie Towers are. Miss Bergen
ct the Hotel Statler. will be tn
Miss Towers arrived Saturday n
sazerac Room at the Old New
Orleans.
: You hardly need to be told,
unless you have been leading an
unbelievably sheltered life. that
Miss Bergen Is a delight to the
eye. Since making her screen de-
but in 1850, she has decorated a
number of movies. including
some in which she provided the
antidote for Dean Martin and
Jerry Lewis. The full list. by last
available record, includes AT
War With the Army" That's
My Boy" "Warpath." THE
sStooge," "Cry of the Hunted"
'Fast Company" Arena" Half
q Hero" and Escape from Fort
Bravo"
/ Miss Bergen's big blue eyes
keep turning up in the living
room, too tgray. Of coursel. She's
done Tv drama and she was a
regular panel member on I've
Got q Secret" And she Is for
ever popping up on the Cyclops
to sip that soft drink so Sc
ductively that the urge to rush
out and buy a case is virtually
inconquerable.
What you may not have heard
about Miss Bergen is that she is
Q little girl who sings like a big
girl. She is delighting Embassy
Room patrons by being a singer
with an act rather than a mere
parade of songs. She has fetch
ing personality and she can ten
derize a ballad beguilingly or belt
out q blue note.
She has quite a talent for her
line Of work. does Miss Bergen,
and she has learned how to APP
ply it effectively to the delivery
Of q song. She has variety about
her polished style. too. She can
slip easily. for instance. from
such items as Without Love"
"what Is a MANI" and Il Con-
centrate on You" into "A Good
Man Is Hard to Find" She also
polishes of You'd Be SO Nice
To Come Home TO-" did You
Ever See a Dream Walking?"
and a set Of Helen Morgan hits
In fine fashion.
If you like singers who can get
q real growl into the lower reg
lister, Miss Bergen is your girl.
In color and in-the-round. as it
were, she is quite an improve
ment over the Polly Bergen
you've seen on those fat screens,
no matter what their size.
Now to get back to Miss Tow
ers at the Sazerac Room and the
enthusiasm of this report on the
singing girls will be undimin-
ished. Miss Towers Is a tail, trim
blond, distributed about as prop
erly as a girl needs TO be. She
also is q soprano. but one Of the
warm rather than brittle ones.
She. too, has talent and effec-
tive delivery to make some spe-
cial arrangements truly special.
One of her best Is . medley OF
"Carousel" songs. sung most
happily and zestfully. Another
top-notch contribution Miss
Towers makes to the good cheer
of the evening is her own YER
sion of Love Is 9 Many Splen-
dored Thing"
You may never have noticed
1t, but this ballad has close
kinship to "Un Bel Die" from
Madame Butterfly" Miss
Towers does not merely point
this out. She proceeds to prove
1t by slipping from one song to
the other and back again with
ease.
She proves further than she
is another singer with range in
her style as we'll as her voice.
She beguiles the Sazerac Room
ringsiders with such varied
items as Don't Blame Me-"
Don't Mention My Name"
1.-THE Boy Next Door" and Put
Your Arms Around Me- She
can embellish o ballad with fin
esse or become a real rouser
when the song demands it.
Miss Towers also is q movie
star, though a freshman COM
pared to Miss Bergen. She made
her movie debut last year. Her
picture (one) is Bring Your
Smile Along" a musical in which
she is billed as Constance Tow
ers, and in which she acts as
well as sings. frankie Lame and
Keefe Brasselle are the male
stars, the latter the one who
wooes and wins Miss Towers. II
Hollywood is keeping its wits
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