Show Ex-Ellington thrush sings lead Lee local singing sensation and former with Duke was signed yesterday to play the role of in the summer festival production of Jerome Kern's known professionally as Chick Green when she appealed with Ellington and other name bands will play opposite Kenneth leading negro who will enact the role of which he played in the Broadway They previously appeared together in 1939 in which was presented in the Hollywood THE NOTED SINGER has won several scholarships and was discovered by Lillie wife of band leader Louis who paid her audition at the Harvard theater in New That audition won her an engagement with and an east coast vaudeville circuit Following appearances in night clubs of New D. Philadelphia and she went to Los There she became a member of the noted Hall Johnson which produced Little This show ran for nearly two years after which time she entered a in she joined the Duke Ellington aggregation and sang all the work in for DURING THE Flake worked as a riveter in an aircraft factory and later became a typist with the army air Following the Flake joined the Illinois Jacquet club seemed we had been everywhere but Salt Lake she cne day I just quit the orchestra and came to I'm sure glad I because it was here that I got tr X- ff LEE FLAKE Local songbird sings top |