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"JUBILEE
Webster says a jubilee marks an event that happened either fifty or twenty-five
years ago and also is a common term to describe an all round good time. The
latter is what this USC Shows package provides with a pair of modern folk singers,
Jerry and Myrna Music, who are making their first U50 tour thisaway. The troupe
includes a favorite comic, who hasn't made the trip for over two years, and every
one will welcome the sight of Marl Nickel again as the Master of Ceremonies to
move a show along. He is helped along with the dancing of Miss Kelly Robbins and
the music of Ray Qualey, Karen Springer and Jim Robinson.
If Jerry Music looks like the old family doctor it’s because of his beard. His
contract with USD Shows permits it so long as it doesn’t get long enough to tangle
his banjo strings. Jerry and his wife, Myrna with her guitar, turned professional
with a comedy folk singing act and became favorite entertainers for places like
the "Purple Cnion" in San Francisco, "The Icehouse" in Pasadena, and the "Bitter
End" in New York.
M.C. Earl Nickel is rated by his professional contemporaries as a very funny fellow
with ability to sing, dancoor stand up and panic a packed house. He has had book-,
ings at. the Palladium in London and the Alhambra in Paris* He has been on Sid
Caesar’s T.V. show, and Earl has toured Mexico in a road show with another noted
c omi c, Cantinflas.
Miss Kelly Robbins from Sun Valley is a pert looking dancer, who has been under
contract with 20th Century Fox. She has done work in television as well as movies,
including appearances on the Garry Moore and the Red Shelton shows. She made tours
for USO in I96I and 1962 and this tour will give her a chance to renew acquaintance
with Alaska and the Pacific.
Music for this show is provided by a versatile trio led by drummer Ray Qualey from
Los Angeles. He can sing, dance and during his career in niteclub work has done
comedy bits. Karen Springer is a student at University of California, Los Angeles,
and during this tour will serve as pianist. She sings and dances as well as being
able to work the keyboard, having kicked as a chorus girl in numerous shows. The
black-haired girl has learned to twirl batons, played in Little Theater productions
and has taken turns at modeling fashions. Jim Robinson from Sun Valley rounds
out the trio with his electric bass, Jim is rated as a solid musician and is work
ing practically all the time in clubs along the Pacific coast. This will make hJ_s
third tour for USO shows.