St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1957-03-08
THE LOWDOWN
by MASCO YOUNG

New GOrg-- ANP)-Once again
luscious Eartha Kit has shown
her uncanny skin at doing some
thing sensational enough to get
her name into print in all Of the
worlds newspapers. No one but an
Eartha would dare to stand up an
important world figure like Prime
Minister Jawaharlal Nehru of In
dia. The voloptuous Il Wanna Be
Evil" girl missed her luncheon
date with the internationally es-
teemed Nehru, but finally manag-
ed to make and keep another date
with midas Prime Minister.
midas newspapers are stin in
venting new, glowing tributes to
Miss Kit, who was touring the
world, seeking truth, fulfillment
and knowledge" One Indian writ
err, describing her voice wrote that
it is "a CONNECTION of nostalgia,
velvet, pre-typhoon tension and
bee stings."
BIGTowN LowDowN: At 81
Edna (''Heavenly Father'D Nc
Griff, is making one of the young
est "comebacks" in showbusiness.
She's singing now for the new
Gale label, and her first titles are
81 Get The Feeling and II Hurt
Too Much To Cry" When the
Billie Holiday life story is filmed
in Hollywood Jesse Belvin will
have a featured role in the film
For the benefit of those who
would think otherwise, Jackie
Robinson is only drawing expense
dough while he's on his nation
wide tour on behalf of the MA
ACP. Robbie's not scheduled to
start working for his new boss
| CChock Full ONutsl until March
4. But he did manage to get a
two-month bonus in advance to
help tide him over the bumps
Teenage song-sation Solomon
Burke and his guiding light
Philly DECAY Kae Williams, are
due in New York for What Will
Hams says will be "the most inn
portant recording session in Solo
mons entire career"
DISK N DATA: RCA Victor is
about to sign Harry Belafonte, its
top-selling Up artist, to a long
term contract that will guarantee
the folk song artist an income Of
about $4,000 a year Bin Dog
getts "Ram-Bunk-S hush" has al
ready pushed past his "Honky
Tonlx" on Binboard's Top 1907
hits list Mickey and Sylvia,
Just finished at Harlem's Apollo
theater, so impleSsed owner Frank
Schiffman during their stay there
that he booked them to return
again starting on February % -
which is something very unusual
at the Apollo. And they'll be there
fof two weeks! Busy Ben Waller,
the personal manager and brains
behind Louis Jordan's comeback,
says he has Louis and his lynn
pany Five all set for a Far East
ern tour. with Australia, the Phil
ippines and Honolulu already
scheduled Screaming Jay
Hawkins, the guy who shouts,
screams and means his way
through. i've Put A Spell On
You. says, I've been screaming
songs since I was siv years old.
and I never changed my style-ex-
cept that now I'm screaming them
louder"
Sugar Ray and Edna Robinson
waited too late to get plane res
ervation. so they drove down to
Miami for the Ray Mitchell annual
golf tourney Milton Hinton.
the bass player. also spent few
days in Havana, Cuba. taking the
family along for the winter vacs-
ton fling. Hinton's on the CHS
staff, and is frequently seen per-
forming the bass violin chores on
Dave Garoway's Today" show.
Krazy Kris Kolumbo and his COM
DO move back into Smalrs Para
| disc on the 18th.