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Show By INEZ GERHARD WHEN SAMMY KAYE entered college he was headed for a civil engineering degree. But long before he was graduated he had formed a college band; after he left he kept the crew together, radio called, and his famous "swing and sway" style soon became a national favorite. No other bandleader band-leader has brought so many different differ-ent types of air shows to the net- SAMMY KAYE works. His "Sunday Serenade," music interspersed with readings of poetry, was in direct contrast to "So You Want to Lead a Band." "Sammy Kaye's Showroom," on ABC, presents his crisp versions of popular songs. Now he admits that its success has made him start planning a new one, for later this year. Someone with a statistical mind sat down and figured out that more women named Mary have been picked as "Queen for a Day" than those with any other name. Rating second on Jack Bailey's hilarious program is Betty, followed by Alice, Helen, Ruth and Ann. Some that stretch the imagination have been recorded on the program such as Malgorgata, Gummel, An-jani An-jani and Minal. RKO returns to the field of big-scale musicals with the announcement an-nouncement that it has purchased pur-chased "Two Tickets to Broadway", Broad-way", and will produce it on the scale that made movie history his-tory with their Astaire-Rogers films years ago. ' Ralph Edwards is trying hard to live up to his new title, "Mr. Cele-bri-tie", awarded him recently when the necktie industry gave him his annual award to a star performer per-former from motion pictures and radio. The theme this year, as last, when it was won by Bob Hope, is "celebri-tie". Presentation took place before 1,200 tie manufacturers manufactur-ers from all over the country. |