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Show ' W. ----- 1 " '"i By LYN CONNELLY COMEDIAN ALAN YOUNG'S ailing ail-ing appendix forced him to withdraw from a leading role in a new film with Bob Hope . . . There would have been a team to end all teams . . . In- I J stead of Alan, however, how-ever, Hope will combine forces with Mickey Koon-ey, Koon-ey, married and divorced three times but still in the Andy Hardy stage at heart . . . David Niven has written a novel KOONEY which will be published pub-lished this month .'. . It's entitled "Once Over Lightly" Light-ly" . . . Maggie Whiting is making two TV pilot films, one for a half-' hour weekly series in which she'll play a singing teacher, and the ; other a 15-minute musical. PLATTER CHATTER ' CAPITOL: Kay Starr's latest is; "Two Brothers" backed by "On A: Honky Tonk Hardwood Floor" Gordon MacRae does his usual i neat job on a couple of new ditties, j "Be My Guest" and "Laughing At Love" . . . "I'll Remember April" is revived in a lush rendition by ! popular Ray Anthony . . r It's i backed by "My Concerto" . . . Norman Kaye offers "A Petal' From a Faded Rose" in a new wax- i ing that should go big . . . "Blue ) Velvet" is on the flip . . . You'll; like "Domino" as done by pert i Mary Mayo . . . "Find Me" backs ! it . . . And Dean Martin comes up with one of his best recordings to date in the haunting "Solitaire." ' COLUMBIA: This company offers of-fers a terrific album called "Hawaiian "Ha-waiian Blossoms" featuring Arthur Ar-thur Godfrey on his ukelele and Haleloki Kahauolopua, who has been on his radio and TV shows for ; almost a year . . . Lovely standards such as "Lovely Hula Hands" ! "Sweet Leilani" and "Hawaiian' War Chant" are augmented by new songs of the island that include, "Kuu Ipo,M "Lei Aloha," "Taaka Hula Hickey Dula", "White Ginger Blossoms" and "Ke Kal Nei An" ... This is a must for discriminating discrim-inating record library owners. In singles, best Columbia gem of the week is Frankie Laine's latest, "Jealousy." |