Show ‘SeazESJEtr Tall Bloindle Add ) When Virginia Martin tings you can’t hear a freight of doctors who attended her during the first weeks after “New Faces” opened She was feeling low — run down and achy around the throat Doctors kept telling her not to sing loud Finally she found one who allowed that her trouble might be allergy “Turned out 1 was allergic to cucumbers and household dust” she laughs triumphantly “I knew it couldn’t be my throat — I only use chest tones” So Virginia has now foregone cucumbers in any form as well as sweeping her apartment Today she’s as healthy as train going by It is always a pleasant duty to welcome a pretty new blonde to Broadway particularly one with the unusual accomplishments of Virginia Martin Miss Martin has all the glamour of the average Broadway blonde but over and above that she has two important plusses First the refreshing ambition to be funny rather than beautiful second a pair of lungs that would blow the hat off the Statue of Liberty It is fairly safe to say that when Virginia opened recently in the musical revue “New Faces Of 56” Manhattan had not heard vocal power like hers since the Indians held their big celebration over selling the place to the white men If the first-nigaudience flinched during her big song number it was not because they didn’t enjoy it — it was merely general fear that she might blow herself apart right before their eyes Said “Variety”: “She sounds like Tannhauser in the Holland Tunnel !” It may be an exaggeration to say that Miss Martin's voice is a puzzle to medical science but it certainly is to the parade a foghorn An Urge To Bust Loose of science This Week Magazine conducted In the interest tests of her volume on a decibel meter She came out with "The Road To Mandalay” and scored ”in excess of point 3 on standard VU meter” Translated this means she makes roughly as much noise as a freight train at close range Virginia comes from Chattanooga Tcnn and began her singing career as a church soloist “But it always made me a little nervous” she says “I mean I'm very religious basically but 1 also have a terrific urge to be funny or shocking or something I had to sted myself all the time to keep from busting loose in the middle of ht BEAUTIFUL 1 — but she'd rather be funny A SVV7 - '' Arthar Godfrey sayis ' H Beauty Buy " unzm! Here's why we make this offer This giant 1 1 Sale— giving you the chance to save dimes quarters half dollars— is made for one very sound reason: To introduce you to the soap so pure and mild that it is preferred by 9 out of 10 leading cover girls Beauty is their business beauty is every woman’s business And we know you will be thrilled with the new loveliness' that comes to your complexion through thorough care with SweetHeart So right now during this moneylc Sale get regular and e SweetHeart saving bath-sii- STOCK UP! The 32 More You Buy the More You Save I TW— |