Evening Star
(Washington DC)
January 14, 1943
Because of a previous commitment, Dave Appallon, popular continental comedian who has been appearing at the Earle Theater for two weeks, did not appear in any stage shows there today. Harry Anger, producer, arranged for the Kim Loo Sisters, harmony singers, to replace Appallon for the last day of the engagement of “George Washington Slept Here.”
Evening Star
(Washington DC)
February 4, 1943
Evening Star
(Washington DC)
February 6, 1943
Oriental Beauties—The Kim Loo sisters, Chinese vocalists, who are a featured attraction on the stage program of the Earle Theater this week.
Boston Herald
(Massachusetts)
February 17, 1943
Stage Show for Esquire
Beginning Friday the Esquire, the intimate M & P house on Huntington avenue, opposite Symphony Hall, will present the first in a new series of stage and screen shows.
The initial presentation is headed by the comedy star of the Kate Smith hour, Olyn Landick, the Hackensack Gossip. Landick is surrounded by a stellar company including Archie Robbins, top-flight m.c. and comedian, with Stan Toss; the popular Kim Loo Sisters of “Scandals” and “Hellzapoppin”; Virginia Austin and her puppet revue; Armstrong and Costello, acrobats, and the Esquire Rhythm Band.
The screen offering is “That Other Woman,” with Virginia Gilmore and James Ellison.
Boston Herald
(Massachusetts)
February 18, 1943
Boston Herald
(Massachusetts)
February 19, 1943
Billboard
February 20, 1943
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Boston Herald
(Massachusetts)
February 20, 1943
The Theater
Esquire Stage Show
The Esquire Theater on Huntington Avenue opposite Symphony Hall, began a new policy yesterday of a four-day stage show combined with a feature picture, “That Other Woman,” with James Ellison and Virginia Gillmore. There are five acts plus an orchestra and Archie Robbins, the master of ceremonies. This pleasant little playhouse lends itself exceptionally well to stage entertainment, so much so that there really seems to be no need for the microphone to which most of the entertainers gravitated, and the acoustics are amply good enough for voice to carry without mechanical assistance.
…the Kim Loo Sisters, Chinese singing trio from “Hellzapoppin,” offer three popular ballads in close harmony….
Boston Herald
(Massachusetts)
February 20, 1943
Olyn Landick at Esquire
The Esquire’s new policy of stage shows and feature picture, Friday through Monday, got off to a good start yesterday with Olyn Landick heading the five-act show and the Esquire Band, conducted by Frank Ryan, providing excellent accompaniment.
…The show opens with the Kim Loo Sisters, that attractive Chinese trio from “Hellzapoppin” and “Scandals.” Their well harmonized numbers include “Mr. Five By Five,” “Can’t Get Out of This Mood,” and “Hip Hip Hooray.”…
Boston Herald
(Massachusetts)
February 21, 1943
Billboard
February 27, 1943
Boston 4-Day show
New policy calls for a musical combo on stage and five sets plus first-run films. Opening four-day bill which started, yesterday, booked out of the New York Paramount office, consisted of Kim Loo Sisters, Virginia Austin, Jeanne Blanche, Archie Robbins with Stan Ross, and The Hackensack Gossip….
New York Post
March 8, 1943
Loew’s State brings Will Osborne and his new Hollywood band in on Thursday, with Johnny Burke, the comedian; the singing Kim Loo Sisters and Bobby Whaling, the novelty cyclist.
Billboard
March 13, 1943
Esquire, Boston, Quiz
Boston, March 6.—Esquire Theater, after an attempt to present vaudeville to the Back Bay, returns straight pic. First bill included Archie Robbins, Virginia Austin, Kim Loo Sisters and the Hackensack Gossip. Prices were 50 cents matinees and 75 cents evenings. Three shows daily.
The bill did fair business opening day (19) and got better Sunday (21) and Washington’s Birthday, but it was not enough. Copley Theater’s traveling stock at pop prices did not help the Esquire.
Detroit Times
(Michigan)
March 18, 1943
Billboard
March 20, 1943
State, New York
Bobby Whaling, Kim Loo Sisters, Johnny Burke, and Will Osborne ork comprise this week’s show….
…Three Kim Loo Sisters opened with a, novelty tune, I Shut My Mouth for Uncle Sam, do Can’t Get Out of This Mood and walloped over a modern version of Take Me Out to the Ballgame. Grabbed solid applause and encored with a mellow You Ain’t Nowhere. Were handicapped until Bobby Zwerling cut the band volume. Easy on the eye and sing rather than shout.
Detroit Times
(Michigan)
March 21, 1943
Wilson’ Merry Revue
Every one in town is talking about the “Merry-Go-Rounders,” that lively variety revue at the Wilson. The all-star combination of Belle Baker, Dorothy Stone, Charles Collins, Salici’s Puppets, the Kim-Lii Sisters, “Think-a-Drink” Hoffman, Sid Marion and Cliff Hall, certainly fills the bill judging from that line outside of the Wilson Theater….
Detroit Times
(Michigan)
March 22, 1943
Sing, You Sisters, Sing!
The Kim-Loo Sisters are three Chinese lovelies who give out with rhythms as one of the features of “Merry-Go-Rounders,” the variety revue hit at the Wilson.
Billboard
April 3, 1943
“Merry Go Rounders”
(Wilson Theater)
Detroit
…The three Kim Loo Sisters are vivacious Chinese lovelies with splendidly balanced and blending voices. They sing blues, rhythmic old-timers like Take Me Out to the Ball Game and others with a cuteness that clearly won the house….
Detroit Times
(Michigan)
April 4, 1943
The Kim-Loo sisters appear in “Merry-Go-Rounders” at the Wilson Theater. The variety show is in its third week.
Detroit Times
(Michigan)
April 12, 1943
Add Star to Wilson Revue
…The Salici Puppets are as clever as ever, the Kim-Loo sisters even cuter, and the Three Sailors mad as sailor-hatters….
Detroit Times
(Michigan)
April 19, 1943
Pitts, Darwell in ‘The Bat’ May 2
Zasu Pitts, noted picture comedienne, is coming to the Wilson Theater May 2, starting with Sunday matinee, in “The Bat,” according to an announcement today by Henry Duffy….
…This means that only 19 more opportunities remain to watch Henry Duffy’s comedy revue, “The Merry Go Rounders,” which is in the last two weeks of a profitable run.
In fact the engagement might be extended indefinitely were it not that Zasu Pitts has secured a leave of absence for only a limited time from the screen and therefore the production must be made at once. “The Merry Go Rounders,” will continue through the midnight performance of Saturday May 1 at which time it will have run six and a half weeks. Continuing in the revue are Jay C. Flippen as master of ceremonies; Susan Miller, Dorothy Stone and Charles Collins, “Think a Drink, Hoffman,” Salici’s Puppets, Sid Marion, and Cliff Hall, the Three Kim Loo Sisters, the Three Sailors, Maysy and Brach, Marie Winsor and Ray Kavanaugh’s orchestra….
Billboard
April 24, 1943
Billy Rose Seeking New show; Fischer Inks Imogene Coca
Judging from the present line-up it appears that Fischer will lean toward a novelty formula. The Maxellos, Kim Loo Sisters, Helen Reynolds Skaters and Terry Sisters ork have already been pacted. Lester Horton will produce the 16-girl line.
Buffalo Courier-Express Pictorial
(New York)
May 9, 1943
The Kim Loo Sisters, Alice, Patricia and Margaret, in The Merrymakers, opening a week’s engagement at the Erlanger with a matinee today.
The New York Times
May 16, 1943
News of Night Clubs
A rather imposing collection of entertainers has been signed by Clifford C. Fischer and Arthur Lesser for their Folies Bergere Club, according to an informed source. The list is said to include Harry Reso, comedian; Rosita Royce, the dancer of World’s Fair fame; the Maxellos, acrobatic team; Frakson, magician; the three Kim Loo Sisters, Chinese vocalists; Helen Reynolds, skater; the Terry Sisters’ orchestra, the Clausson Triplets, Gil Johnson, Tullah & May, Florence Hinloo [sic], Paul Gerritts and the Lester Horton Girls. The club’s headquarters, which will occupy the grand ballroom of the Hotel Edison, are still being remodeled and should be opened to the public around the end of this month or early July.
New York Post
May 22, 1943
Horseshoe, Folies Bergere Both Open Shows Friday
For weeks we’ve been hearing about the Folies Bergere and it looks quite spectacular from this distance. As a “theatre-restaurant,” a European institution, it will have, a revolving stage and the interior will be like a theatre, with tiers, loges and balconies rising from the stage. It will have 62 performers in the revue, including 7 Chinese chorus girls (said to be the first Chinese chorus in New York), 7 Negro and 14 white chorines; and Irvine Orton’s and the Terry Sisters’ orchestras. The acts will include our old girl friend, Rosita Royce, the dove dancer; the Kim Loo Sisters, Chinese singers; the Clawson Sisters, harmony trio; the Lester Horton ballet troupe, and Imogene Coca, comedienne.
It’s a non-star show, but lots of attention has been paid to selection of the chorus, and Ladislas Czettel, costumer for the Met, dressed the gals. The room was decorated by Franklin Hughes. Dinner at the Folies Bergere will be from $3 to $5.
Elmira Star-Gazette
(New York)
May 28, 1943
The Voice of Broadway
A Stone’s Throw from Broadway: The Kim Loo Sisters, that cageful of canaries who will warble for the new Folies Bergere, have a Polish mother and a Chinese father. They were born in Minnesota.
Olean Times-Herald
(New York)
June 2, 1943
The Voice of Broadway
A Stone’s Throw From Broadway: The Kim Loo Sisters, that careful of canaries who will warble for the new Follies Bergere, have a Polish mother and a Chinese father. They were born in Minnesota.
New York Post
June 3, 1943
Cafe Events
Folies Bergere, 232 West 46 St.
Clifford C. Fischer and Arthur Lesser, savants of girls, entertainment and food, link forces to open their theater-restaurant extravaganza. The room decorated by Franklin Hughes to resemble a modern interpretation of the ultimate French Music Hall has the traditional loges, tiers and balcony and a revolving stage with four sliding plastic curtains. From behind the curtains over sixty-two artists appear including sexiful chorines in all languages and races. The tunes of two orchestras background the show which features Paul Gerrits, The Murtah Sisters, Lester Horton Ballet Troupe, Harry Reso, the Maxellos, Toni Gilman, Imogene Coca, Kim Loo Sisters, Florence Hin Lowe, Malcia, Noel Toy, Gil Johnson, Clawson Triplets, Ming Chu, Rosita Royce, Tullah and Myi and Robert Laurent. The Terry Sisters and Irvine Orton front the bands. Prices run from $3 featuring the French dinner with drinks beginning at 75c. Minimum on weekdays $2.50 and Saturday and Holiday evenings $3.50. No cover. Two shows nightly, 8 and 12.
New York Post
June 4, 1943
It Happened Last Night by Earl Wilson
New Folies Bergere Opens, Accent on Girls and Beauty
My fans, as I jokingly call them, are always writing in, asking why I don’t take them to a night club.
So today I am inviting all you lugs, jerks and crumbburns to accompany me to the opening of the Folies Bergere, the smartest, most lavish night club that has dawned on New York in a long time.
…A Chinese chorus trips out. Here are Noel Toy and the Kim Loo Sisters. But it takes your Saloon Editor, who is always alert to such things, to detect that the next Chinese dancer, Florence Him Lowe, has a powder puff stuck up one leg of her panties. There are many witty remarks as to whether it is an old Chinese custom to carry a powder puff up a panty leg and whether this wouldn’t be a good idea for American girls.
But Florence Hin Lowe removes the powder puff and uses it as a chin rest as she gets down on the floor and performs some contortions. She doesn’t use it to powder herself at all.
Billboard
June 5, 1943
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June 12, 1943
New Folies Bergere Opens with Flashy, Exotic Girlie Review That Ought to Do Biz
…a glittering Chinese production number that has pretty Noel Toy singing the intro, and the Three Kim Loo Sisters warbling a Chinese ditty, returning later for an American jive tune. A cute novelty. Jadine Wong and Li Sun do a quick ballroom routine nicety, and six Chinese charmers parade in spectacular costumes, followed by Florence Hin Low doing a punchy contortion, and acrobatic specialty—real rubber-body stuff. The Horton Dancers follow for a Chinese boogie-woogie routine that’s arresting….
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June 19, 1943
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June 23, 1943
Cafe Life in New York
Folies Bergere Revue Has Been Subjected to a Masterpiece of Cutting and Blending.
Since its recent opening, when the show ran overtime, the elaborate Folies Bergere revue has undergone a masterpiece of cutting and blending by its guiding geniuses, Clifford C. Fischer and Arthur Lesser. The entertainment has been revised for a run of an hour or so and retains the best of the original scenes—Return of the Folies Bergere. Chinese Serenade, Impressions d’ Afrique, Saludos Amigos and Victory Ball.
…The lovely little Noel Toy, as China, introduces the Kim Loo Sisters, who portray dolls; the Chinese chorus girls, who are richly costumed as goddesses; Ming Chu as the Living Buddha, Florence Hin Lowe as the temple dancer. This highly imaginative, exotic scene ends with a Chinese boogie-woogie routine from the Horton group….
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June 26, 1943
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Evening Recorder
(Amsterdam, New york)
June 26, 1943
Lights of New York by L. L. Stevenson
Gadabout Notes: To the Folies Bergere, New York’s newest night club, which with its Franklin Hughes’ decorations, is highly reminiscent of an intimate French music hall with tiers, loges and balcony looking down on a deep-semi-circular stage. Behind the venture, said to represent an investment of $100,000, are Clifford C. Fischer,who has pioneered similar enterprises on two continents, and Arthur Lesser, of the picturesque cabaret, La Vie Parisienne. Despite the intimate atmosphere, heightened by lighting effects, the Folies Bergere is by no means small since it seats 500. The show itself is in keeping with the size of the club, Messrs. Fischer and Lesser having gone in strong for production numbers and thus a cast of more than 60. There has been no stinting in costumes either. The attire worn in the opening number by Toni Gilman, featured singer, cost $1,500.
The number that struck our fancy most was “Impressions d’Afrique,” with dances, accompanied by wild drum beating, the high light of which is “Les Ouled Nails,” by the Horton dancers, four men and four women, who are really the foundation of the entire show. “Chinese Seranade,” with the Kim Loo Sisters as three little dolls and the beautiful Jade Ling as the chief goddess, also appealed to us….
Billboard
July 10, 1943
Orchestra Notes
Of Maestro and Men
Kim Loo Sisters joining Ina Ray Hutton when she opens at the Hotel Astor, New York, August 9.
Buffalo Courier-Express
(New York)
July 31, 1943
Bandyisms
Ina Ray Hutton is using the Kim Loo Sisters, a Chinese vocal trio.
Brooklyn Eagle
(New York)
August 6, 1943
Going Places
Ina Ray Hutton. Queen of the name bands, follows in the footsteps of Benny Goodman at the Hotel Astor Roof on Monday. Featured with this orchestra is Stuart Poster, vocalist, and the famous Chinese Trio, the Kim Loo Sisters.
New York Post
August 7, 1943
Film Vod-vil Series Planned by Columbia
In line with company policy of introducing new ideas in the shorts field, Columbia announced this week that the first subject of a new series to be known as Film-Vodvil has been completed and will be released early next month.
The series, as the title implies, will actually bring vaudeville to the screen, with all of the subjects having a number of acts, each independent of the other. First of the new series headlines Mousie Powell and His Brother Rats, comedy band, the Kim Loo Sisters, a trio of Chinese rhythm singers, and the Howard-Paysee Dancers, Harry Reso, pantomimist, serves as Master of Ceremonies as well as doing a specialty act.
Cafe Calendar
Ina Ray Hutton’s band, with Stuart Foster and the Kim Loo Sisters, go into the Astor Hotel Roof.
Cafe Events . . .
Astor Hotel Roof, 44th at Broadway, brings back Ina Ray Hutton and her band, with vocalist Stuart Foster and the singing Kim Loo Sisters featured. She follows Benny Goodman’s engagement. The spacious roof is still on a no-cover-no-minimum policy for dinner, with a $1 cover charge after 10 Monday through Thursday and $1.25 Friday and Saturday; drinks start from 75 cents.
New York Post
August 8, 1943
“Palm Beach Story” Due at Loew’s State
“The Palm Beach Story,” Preston Sturges comedy co-starring Claudette Colbert and Joel McCrea, and also featuring Rudy Vallee and Mary Astor, will start an engagement at Loew’s State on Thursday. The vaudeville bill on that date will be headlined by Will Osborne and his new Hollywood band featuring Marianne and Dick Shanahan. Also in the lineup are Johnny Burke, comic; the Kim Loo Sisters, singers, and Bobby Whaling in a novelty bicycle act.
New York Sun
August 9, 1943
News of the Studios
In line with company policy of introducing new ideas in the shorts field, Columbia announced this week that the first subject of a new series to be known as Film-Vodvil has been completed and will be released early next month. The series, as the title implies, will actually bring vaudeville to the screen, with all of the subjects having a number of acts, each independent of the other. First of the new series headlines Mousie Powell and His Brother Rats, comedy bands, the Kim Loo Sisters, a trio of Chinese rhythm singers, and the Howard-Paysee Dancers, Harry Reso, pantomimist, serves as master of ceremonies as well as doing a specialty act.
Brooklyn Eagle
(New York)
August 10, 1943
“Film Vodvil” Series Now
In line with company policy of introducing new ideas in the shorts field, Columbia announces that the first subject of a new series to be known as “Film-Vodvil” has been completed and will be released early next month.
The series, as the title implies, will bring vaudeville to the screen, with all of the subjects having a number of acts, each independent of the other. First of the new series headlines Mousie Powell and His Brother Rats, one of Broadway’s most popular comedy bands; the Kim Loo Sisters, a trio of Chinese rhythm singers, and the Howard-Paysee Dancers. Harry Reso, pantomimist, serves as master of ceremonies as well as doing a specialty act.
New York Sun
August 13, 1943
Cafe Life in New York
Here and There
Ina Ray Hutton’s band, playing atop the Hotel Astor, is enjoying a big run. The Kim Loo Sisters, a lovely little Chinese trio, have joined Miss Hutton’s organization.
New York Sun
September 2, 1943
Cafe Life in New York
Ina Ray Hutton Made Successful Career of Pretty Band Director Fad.
Little Miss Ina Ray Hutton, leading a topflight band at the Hotel Astor Roof, is an illustration of what sometimes becomes of one of those innumerable young prodigies whose careers started under the aegis of Gus Edwards.
…The lovely little Kim Loo Sisters, the Chinese vocal trio of Folies Bergere fame, add a picturesque touch.
Philadelphia Inquirer
(Pennsylvania)
November 26, 1943
Actress Delayed in Rain Scene
What happened to Louise Allbritton shouldn’t happen to her stand-in. And it didn’t during the filming of “Fired Wife,” opening today at the Earle.
Intentionally, Director Charles Lament had saved the rain sequence until the last day’s shooting, for in them Miss Allbritton was to be thoroughly dunked.
So they turned the rain on Miss Allbritton, who was neatly tailored and wearing a pert red hat atop her beautiful hair-do. Before the scene was ended, the hair-do was a wreck and worse, the red dye in the hat had soaked into the blonde Allbritton tresses, turning Louise into a water-logged redhead.
Ina Ray Hutton and her all-male band, with the Kim Loo Sister [sic] and Walter “Dare” Wahl, head the new stage bill.
Boston Herald
(Massachusetts)
September 7, 1943
Ina Ray Hutton Band at RKO Next
Ina Ray Hutton and her all-male jive band will be the principal feature of the RKO Boston’s next stage show beginning on Thursday. In supporting spots are Henry [sic] Youngman, Elton Britt, the Three Kim Loo sisters and the Carr brothers, while the film feature will be “We’ve Never Been Licked” with Richard Quine and Ann Gwynne. Stuart Foster is the vocalist with the Hutton band, which specializes in jive, jitter and jump. In addition, RKO is sponsoring a Frank Sinatra singing contest for a cash prize of $100 and a gift from the swooner himself. Contestants may enter by applying to the manager of the theater.
Boston Traveler
(Massachusetts)
September 7, 1943
Ina Ray Hutton at RKO Boston Thursday
Ina Ray Hutton, queen of the name bands, directing her all-male orchestra which she organized last year, headlines the stage show opening Thursday at the RKO Boston. Stuart Foster is the featured vocalist.
Henny Youngman, the lanky comedian of lightning wit and star of Kate Smith’s Bandwagon, is another headliner. Elton Britt, the singing cowboy, the Three Kim Loo Sisters and Carr Brothers complete the bill…
Springfield Republican
(Massachusetts)
September 7, 1943
Ina Hutton’s Show Proves Very Popular
Ina Ray Hutton and her all-male band scored a big hit today in the opening day of a three-day engagement at the Broadway theater. Miss Hutton and her band would be enough entertainment for any audience, as her fans will testify, but she has added several acts to her show that set very well with yesterday’s holiday crowds.
The most popular act seemed to be the Kim Loo sisters, who recently joined the Hutton show. They are three very attractive Chinese maids and their voices are just as easy to listen to….
Springfield Republican
(Massachusetts)
September 8, 1943
Boston Herald
(Massachusetts)
September 9, 1943
Durham Morning Herald
(North Carolina)
September 11, 1943
Musical Variety Revue Is Scheduled at Bulner
“Ballyhoo,” a musical variety revue produced on Broadway, will be presented by USO-Camp Shows to Camp Bulner soldiers at their outdoor theatre at 8 o’clock Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday nights of next week.
The show features versatile and attractive Gloria Parker and her all-girl band. Besides fronting the band Miss Parker performs on the violin, xylophone, musical glasses, vibraphone and conga drums, and handles some vocal assignments.
Other artists scheduled to play with the show are the Kim Loo sisters, vocalists, Joe Phillips and Marion Colby, comedy act, Canfield Smith, ventriloquist, and Al Gordon, comedian.
There will be no admission charge for “Ballyhoo,” but attendance will be limited to soldiers.
Boston Herald
(Massachusetts)
September 12, 1943
This Week’s Photoplays
RKO Boston—Ina Ray Hutton and her orchestra top the stage show, other vaudeville acts being Henny Youngman, Elton Britt, the Kim Loo Sisters and various vocalists. The film is “We’ve Never Been Licked,” with Richard Quine and Anne Gwynne. Also a Frank Sinatra singing contest nightly.
Canton Repository
(Ohio)
September 20, 1943
Ina Ray Hutton on Palace Stage
There are 17 men in Ina Ray Hutton’s stage show cast at the Palace theater, but you’ll come away remembering four charming women. They’re Miss Hutton, of course, and the three Kim-Loo sisters.
Prettier even than her pictures, blond Miss Hutton directs her 15 piece orchestra in her own peppy fashion and takes over the microphone for some well-sung tunes.
The Kim-Loo sisters, Chinese vocal trio, recently joined Miss Hutton after an engagement on the Astor roof in New York and you’ll be hearing more about these young ladies. They’re good….
Canton Repository
(Ohio)
September 21, 1943
Billboard
October 13, 1943
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Milwaukee Journal
(Wisconsin)
October 15, 1943
Two acts from the Riverside theater will add to the gayety at the Milwaukee Officers’ club Saturday night. The sweet and hot singing Kim Loo sisters will give out with songs, and Frank Gaby, a ventriloquist who has made Edgar Bergen shriek with laughter, will do whatever his conscience dictates.
Milwaukee Journal
(Wisconsin)
October 16, 1943
The Screen
At the Riverside—Ina Ray Hutton has a good stage show this week….
…Good, too, are the acts. The Kim Loo sisters, Chinese harmony singers, have looks and class to burn….
Evansville Press
(Indiana)
October 25, 1943
‘Blond Bombshell’ to Bring Band to Stage at Grand
Ina Ray Hutton, billed as “the blond bombshell of rhythm,” brings her all-male band to the Grand stage Nov. 11, heading a show scheduled to run a week….
…It’s the Kim Loo Sisters, American born Chinese, who sing in the Andrews manner.
Times-Picayune
(New Orleans, Louisiana)
October 29, 1943
New Stage Show Will Open Today
The St. Charles theater will open today what the management describes as the “most promising stage show” since inauguration of the current policy of presenting big name bands and top-flight vaudeville at the theater. Ina Ray Hutton and her “Men of Music” band, the Kim Loo Sisters, Stuart Foster, Al and Margie Calvin compose the stage show….
Times-Picayune
(New Orleans, Louisiana)
November 5, 1943
Hutton Ensemble to Play at Dance
Ina Ray Hutton and her “Men of Music” orchestra will play for a public dance in the Municipal Auditorium Saturday from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. The Hutton ensemble closed a week’s engagement at the St. Charles theater Thursday night.
The Kim Loo Sisters and Stuart Foster, also of the St. Charles theater’s stage show this past week, will appear with the Hutton orchestra in the show to be staged for the auditorium dance.
Times-Picayune
(New Orleans, Louisiana)
November 6, 1943
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Evansville Press
(Indiana)
November 11, 1943
Chinese Singers at Grand
The Kim Loo Sisters (above), trio of Chinese vocalists appearing at the Grand with Ina Ray Hutton and her orchestra.
Evansville Press
(Indiana)
November 12, 1943
Miss Hutton’s Good, But So’s Rest of Grand Stage Show
Ina Ray Hutton, one of the First Ladies of the dance band business, is surrounded by a solid orchestra that plays some excellent arrangements in her current appearance at the Grand Theater.
…Stuart Foster, the band’s vocalist, and the Kim Loo Sisters, three charming American born Chinese girls associated with the orchestra the last few months, are entirely satisfactory on the lyric side….
Evansville Press
(Indiana)
November 12, 1943
Ina Ray Hutton Stage Show and Skelton Film on View
Ina Ray Hutton, piny-maned impresario of jive, brought herself and all-trousered orchestra to Evansville yesterday in now of the better stage shows which the Grand has booked of late….
…Three little maids of China, the Kim Loo sisters, and three little songs of America, one of them being that 30-year-old flop and present-day hit-parade, “Paper Doll.” All three are cute as buttons and about as big….
Evansville Press
(Indiana)
November 13, 1943
“Moonshine” from China Is Served Up at Grand Theater
Three girls as cute as you’d hope to meet any place are the Kim Loo Sisters, now appearing on the Grand stage with Ina Ray Hutton’s orchestra.
Although American born Chinese, the girls have two loyalties in this war—the United States and the vast land of their parents’ birth. As a consequence their talents go on double duty when applied to patriotic causes.
They are the originators of the American bloodbank for China with headquarters in New York, and touring the nation, they never miss an opportunity to put in a plug for plasma for the men overseas—and never forgetting to mention that the beleaguered Chinese need it, too.
At Sunbeam
Friday the girls appeared at Sunbeam Electric Manufacturing Company where they entertained about 400 employees in person in a program carried throughout the plant by the P.A. system. They were aided by Lennie Gale, impersonator on the Grand bill, and the Sunbeam orchestra.
Friday afternoon they broadcast in an interview regarding the importance of plasma, and Monday were scheduled to appear at 11 a.m. on the Navy recruiting broadcast sponsored by Hoosier Lamp and Stamping Corporation.
They’re practically keen about Navy, since their brother, Lowell, 18, is in the South Pacific.
The Kim Loos, who make like the Andrews Sisters, are all left of a family singing-dancing act the once numbered six—two other sisters and their mother.
Have Restaurant
The parents are in their home town of Minneapolis where they operate a Chinese restaurant. Sister Jenee is married and living in Chicago, and sister Neree, the youngest, is in school in Minneapolis.
The family name is Gam Lui, which in Cantonese dialect is pronounced Kim Loo, which anyone will admit is much simpler for professional purposes.
For further simplicity the girls have adopted American surnames: Alice being the oldest, Margaret second, and Patricia, known also as Bubbles, the youngest.
Real Names
Alice’s real name is Yuet Ching, which in Chinese means “clearness of the moon”; Margaret is Yuet Laun (pronounced “lawn”) which means “flower of the moon,” and Bubbles is Yuet Ying, which means “reflection of the moon.”
It is customary, they explain, for children in the same family to bear the same first name.
The girls have made a hit with Grand audiences, with the Grand management, and also with Vince Markee, who is Miss Hutton’s publicity agent.
“Mark my words,” he says confidently, “you’ll hear much more about them.”
Evansville Press
(Indiana)
November 13, 1943
War Workers Talk on Local Broadcast
Evanville’s first theater broadcast on a national hookup, presented at 9:30 p.m. Friday on the Grand stage, featured comment by three local was plant workers.
…The program was broadcast over the 244 stations of the Blue Network for the War Manpower Commission. Entertainment was furnished by Ina Ray Hutton and her orchestra, with vocalist Stuart Foster, and the Kim Loo Sisters, three American born Chinese. It’s their eleventh program in the series. They donate their services.
Philadelphia Inquirer
(Pennsylvania)
November 26, 1943
Actress Delayed in Rain Scene
What happened to Louise Allbritton shouldn’t happen to her stand-in. And it didn’t during the filming of “Fired Wife,” opening today at the Earle.
Intentionally, Director Charles Lament had saved the rain sequence until the last day’s shooting, for in them Miss Allbritton was to be thoroughly dunked.
So they turned the rain on Miss Allbritton, who was neatly tailored and wearing a pert red hat atop her beautiful hair-do. Before the scene was ended, the hair-do was a wreck and worse, the red dye in the hat had soaked into the blonde Allbritton tresses, turning Louise into a water-logged redhead.
Ina Ray Hutton and her all-male band, with the Kim Loo Sister [sic] and Walter “Dare” Wahl, head the new stage bill.
Philadelphia Inquirer
(Pennsylvania)
November 27, 1943
Ina Hutton and Band on Earle Stage
Ina Ray Hutton, the gal who wears those backless, practically frontless gowns and does her best conducting with her lips, appears to have the man shortage licked. At any rate, she turned up at the Earle yesterday with her new all-male orchestra, and the boys not only provided the blonde conductress with a sturdy background, but proved themselves excellent musicians.
…Kim Loo Sisters Back
One of the chief delights of the bill is a welcome return appearance of the Kim Loo Sisters, pretty China lasses, who can and do out-swing many of their Occidental sisters. Beautifully costumed and cuter than ever, they romped through “Victory Polka” and “Paper Doll” before stopping the show with “Pistol Packin’ Mama.”
Philadelphia Inquirer
(Pennsylvania)
November 28, 1943
Film Fare
Earle—“Fired Wife,” dealing with the comic complications of a secret marriage, stars Robert Paige and Louise Allbritton as the unannounced mates; tosses in Diana Barrymore and Walter Abel to make trouble. Ina Ray Hutton and her orchestra head the stage bill, which
also features the Kim Loo Sisters.
Variety
December 1, 1943
Earle, Philly
Philadelphia, Nov. 26
Ina Ray Hutton Orch (15) with Stuart Foster, Kim Loo Sisters (3), Ella Mae Morse, Walter (Dare) Wahl, Jane Slater; “Fired Wife’ (U).
Warner
New York City
Passaic
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Evening Star
(Washington, DC)
December 8, 1943
Variety
December 15, 1943
Capitol, Wash.
December 9
Ina Ray Hutton Orch, with Stewart Foster, Kim Loo Sisters, Bill Ames, Sam Jack Kaufman’s House Orch, Lynn Allison, ‘Happy Land’ (20th)
Detroit Times
(Michigan)
December 16, 1943
1944 Eve Attractions Announced
The United Detroit Theaters want you to do your Christmas shopping early so that you can get ready for their New Year’s Eve shows.
…The Michigan Theater’s combination stage and screen show will open at 10:45 a.m. Friday. Dec. 31, with two complete matinee performances in addition to the three evening shows. Ina Ray Hutton and her all-male orchestra with Stuart Foster headline the “in person” stage show at the Michigan which also includes the Lane Brothers, “Believe It or not Acrobats”; Dick Buckley, the talented Kim Loo Sisters with “Charm from China.”…
Billboard
December 25, 1943
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Detroit Times
(Michigan)
December 29, 1943
Films to Have Gala New Year’s
The theaters are going to ring in the New Year by ringing up the curtains on some very happy entertainment.
…The Michigan will have a stage and screen combination for its last show of the New Year, with Ina Ray Hutton and her band on the stage and “The Fallen Sparrow” for the screen attraction.
With Ina, the “oomph” baton girl and her all-male orchestra will be Dick Buckley for a master of ceremonies, the acrobatic Lane Brothers, the charming Kim Loo Sisters and Chester Fredericks.
“Fallen Sparrow” is the exciting psychological mystery drama based on Dorothy Hughes’ novel and co-stars Maureen O’Hara and John Garfield.
Detroit Times
(Michigan)
December 31, 1943
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(Washington DC)
January 14, 1943
Because of a previous commitment, Dave Appallon, popular continental comedian who has been appearing at the Earle Theater for two weeks, did not appear in any stage shows there today. Harry Anger, producer, arranged for the Kim Loo Sisters, harmony singers, to replace Appallon for the last day of the engagement of “George Washington Slept Here.”
Evening Star
(Washington DC)
February 4, 1943
Evening Star
(Washington DC)
February 6, 1943
Oriental Beauties—The Kim Loo sisters, Chinese vocalists, who are a featured attraction on the stage program of the Earle Theater this week.
Boston Herald
(Massachusetts)
February 17, 1943
Stage Show for Esquire
Beginning Friday the Esquire, the intimate M & P house on Huntington avenue, opposite Symphony Hall, will present the first in a new series of stage and screen shows.
The initial presentation is headed by the comedy star of the Kate Smith hour, Olyn Landick, the Hackensack Gossip. Landick is surrounded by a stellar company including Archie Robbins, top-flight m.c. and comedian, with Stan Toss; the popular Kim Loo Sisters of “Scandals” and “Hellzapoppin”; Virginia Austin and her puppet revue; Armstrong and Costello, acrobats, and the Esquire Rhythm Band.
The screen offering is “That Other Woman,” with Virginia Gilmore and James Ellison.
Boston Herald
(Massachusetts)
February 18, 1943
Boston Herald
(Massachusetts)
February 19, 1943
Billboard
February 20, 1943
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Boston Herald
(Massachusetts)
February 20, 1943
The Theater
Esquire Stage Show
The Esquire Theater on Huntington Avenue opposite Symphony Hall, began a new policy yesterday of a four-day stage show combined with a feature picture, “That Other Woman,” with James Ellison and Virginia Gillmore. There are five acts plus an orchestra and Archie Robbins, the master of ceremonies. This pleasant little playhouse lends itself exceptionally well to stage entertainment, so much so that there really seems to be no need for the microphone to which most of the entertainers gravitated, and the acoustics are amply good enough for voice to carry without mechanical assistance.
…the Kim Loo Sisters, Chinese singing trio from “Hellzapoppin,” offer three popular ballads in close harmony….
Boston Herald
(Massachusetts)
February 20, 1943
Olyn Landick at Esquire
The Esquire’s new policy of stage shows and feature picture, Friday through Monday, got off to a good start yesterday with Olyn Landick heading the five-act show and the Esquire Band, conducted by Frank Ryan, providing excellent accompaniment.
…The show opens with the Kim Loo Sisters, that attractive Chinese trio from “Hellzapoppin” and “Scandals.” Their well harmonized numbers include “Mr. Five By Five,” “Can’t Get Out of This Mood,” and “Hip Hip Hooray.”…
Boston Herald
(Massachusetts)
February 21, 1943
Billboard
February 27, 1943
Boston 4-Day show
New policy calls for a musical combo on stage and five sets plus first-run films. Opening four-day bill which started, yesterday, booked out of the New York Paramount office, consisted of Kim Loo Sisters, Virginia Austin, Jeanne Blanche, Archie Robbins with Stan Ross, and The Hackensack Gossip….
New York Post
March 8, 1943
Loew’s State brings Will Osborne and his new Hollywood band in on Thursday, with Johnny Burke, the comedian; the singing Kim Loo Sisters and Bobby Whaling, the novelty cyclist.
Billboard
March 13, 1943
Esquire, Boston, Quiz
Boston, March 6.—Esquire Theater, after an attempt to present vaudeville to the Back Bay, returns straight pic. First bill included Archie Robbins, Virginia Austin, Kim Loo Sisters and the Hackensack Gossip. Prices were 50 cents matinees and 75 cents evenings. Three shows daily.
The bill did fair business opening day (19) and got better Sunday (21) and Washington’s Birthday, but it was not enough. Copley Theater’s traveling stock at pop prices did not help the Esquire.
Detroit Times
(Michigan)
March 18, 1943
Billboard
March 20, 1943
State, New York
Bobby Whaling, Kim Loo Sisters, Johnny Burke, and Will Osborne ork comprise this week’s show….
…Three Kim Loo Sisters opened with a, novelty tune, I Shut My Mouth for Uncle Sam, do Can’t Get Out of This Mood and walloped over a modern version of Take Me Out to the Ballgame. Grabbed solid applause and encored with a mellow You Ain’t Nowhere. Were handicapped until Bobby Zwerling cut the band volume. Easy on the eye and sing rather than shout.
Detroit Times
(Michigan)
March 21, 1943
Wilson’ Merry Revue
Every one in town is talking about the “Merry-Go-Rounders,” that lively variety revue at the Wilson. The all-star combination of Belle Baker, Dorothy Stone, Charles Collins, Salici’s Puppets, the Kim-Lii Sisters, “Think-a-Drink” Hoffman, Sid Marion and Cliff Hall, certainly fills the bill judging from that line outside of the Wilson Theater….
Detroit Times
(Michigan)
March 22, 1943
Sing, You Sisters, Sing!
The Kim-Loo Sisters are three Chinese lovelies who give out with rhythms as one of the features of “Merry-Go-Rounders,” the variety revue hit at the Wilson.
Billboard
April 3, 1943
“Merry Go Rounders”
(Wilson Theater)
Detroit
…The three Kim Loo Sisters are vivacious Chinese lovelies with splendidly balanced and blending voices. They sing blues, rhythmic old-timers like Take Me Out to the Ball Game and others with a cuteness that clearly won the house….
Detroit Times
(Michigan)
April 4, 1943
The Kim-Loo sisters appear in “Merry-Go-Rounders” at the Wilson Theater. The variety show is in its third week.
Detroit Times
(Michigan)
April 12, 1943
Add Star to Wilson Revue
…The Salici Puppets are as clever as ever, the Kim-Loo sisters even cuter, and the Three Sailors mad as sailor-hatters….
Detroit Times
(Michigan)
April 19, 1943
Pitts, Darwell in ‘The Bat’ May 2
Zasu Pitts, noted picture comedienne, is coming to the Wilson Theater May 2, starting with Sunday matinee, in “The Bat,” according to an announcement today by Henry Duffy….
…This means that only 19 more opportunities remain to watch Henry Duffy’s comedy revue, “The Merry Go Rounders,” which is in the last two weeks of a profitable run.
In fact the engagement might be extended indefinitely were it not that Zasu Pitts has secured a leave of absence for only a limited time from the screen and therefore the production must be made at once. “The Merry Go Rounders,” will continue through the midnight performance of Saturday May 1 at which time it will have run six and a half weeks. Continuing in the revue are Jay C. Flippen as master of ceremonies; Susan Miller, Dorothy Stone and Charles Collins, “Think a Drink, Hoffman,” Salici’s Puppets, Sid Marion, and Cliff Hall, the Three Kim Loo Sisters, the Three Sailors, Maysy and Brach, Marie Winsor and Ray Kavanaugh’s orchestra….
Billboard
April 24, 1943
Billy Rose Seeking New show; Fischer Inks Imogene Coca
Judging from the present line-up it appears that Fischer will lean toward a novelty formula. The Maxellos, Kim Loo Sisters, Helen Reynolds Skaters and Terry Sisters ork have already been pacted. Lester Horton will produce the 16-girl line.
Buffalo Courier-Express Pictorial
(New York)
May 9, 1943
The Kim Loo Sisters, Alice, Patricia and Margaret, in The Merrymakers, opening a week’s engagement at the Erlanger with a matinee today.
The New York Times
May 16, 1943
News of Night Clubs
A rather imposing collection of entertainers has been signed by Clifford C. Fischer and Arthur Lesser for their Folies Bergere Club, according to an informed source. The list is said to include Harry Reso, comedian; Rosita Royce, the dancer of World’s Fair fame; the Maxellos, acrobatic team; Frakson, magician; the three Kim Loo Sisters, Chinese vocalists; Helen Reynolds, skater; the Terry Sisters’ orchestra, the Clausson Triplets, Gil Johnson, Tullah & May, Florence Hinloo [sic], Paul Gerritts and the Lester Horton Girls. The club’s headquarters, which will occupy the grand ballroom of the Hotel Edison, are still being remodeled and should be opened to the public around the end of this month or early July.
New York Post
May 22, 1943
Horseshoe, Folies Bergere Both Open Shows Friday
For weeks we’ve been hearing about the Folies Bergere and it looks quite spectacular from this distance. As a “theatre-restaurant,” a European institution, it will have, a revolving stage and the interior will be like a theatre, with tiers, loges and balconies rising from the stage. It will have 62 performers in the revue, including 7 Chinese chorus girls (said to be the first Chinese chorus in New York), 7 Negro and 14 white chorines; and Irvine Orton’s and the Terry Sisters’ orchestras. The acts will include our old girl friend, Rosita Royce, the dove dancer; the Kim Loo Sisters, Chinese singers; the Clawson Sisters, harmony trio; the Lester Horton ballet troupe, and Imogene Coca, comedienne.
It’s a non-star show, but lots of attention has been paid to selection of the chorus, and Ladislas Czettel, costumer for the Met, dressed the gals. The room was decorated by Franklin Hughes. Dinner at the Folies Bergere will be from $3 to $5.
Elmira Star-Gazette
(New York)
May 28, 1943
The Voice of Broadway
A Stone’s Throw from Broadway: The Kim Loo Sisters, that cageful of canaries who will warble for the new Folies Bergere, have a Polish mother and a Chinese father. They were born in Minnesota.
Olean Times-Herald
(New York)
June 2, 1943
The Voice of Broadway
A Stone’s Throw From Broadway: The Kim Loo Sisters, that careful of canaries who will warble for the new Follies Bergere, have a Polish mother and a Chinese father. They were born in Minnesota.
New York Post
June 3, 1943
Cafe Events
Folies Bergere, 232 West 46 St.
Clifford C. Fischer and Arthur Lesser, savants of girls, entertainment and food, link forces to open their theater-restaurant extravaganza. The room decorated by Franklin Hughes to resemble a modern interpretation of the ultimate French Music Hall has the traditional loges, tiers and balcony and a revolving stage with four sliding plastic curtains. From behind the curtains over sixty-two artists appear including sexiful chorines in all languages and races. The tunes of two orchestras background the show which features Paul Gerrits, The Murtah Sisters, Lester Horton Ballet Troupe, Harry Reso, the Maxellos, Toni Gilman, Imogene Coca, Kim Loo Sisters, Florence Hin Lowe, Malcia, Noel Toy, Gil Johnson, Clawson Triplets, Ming Chu, Rosita Royce, Tullah and Myi and Robert Laurent. The Terry Sisters and Irvine Orton front the bands. Prices run from $3 featuring the French dinner with drinks beginning at 75c. Minimum on weekdays $2.50 and Saturday and Holiday evenings $3.50. No cover. Two shows nightly, 8 and 12.
New York Post
June 4, 1943
It Happened Last Night by Earl Wilson
New Folies Bergere Opens, Accent on Girls and Beauty
My fans, as I jokingly call them, are always writing in, asking why I don’t take them to a night club.
So today I am inviting all you lugs, jerks and crumbburns to accompany me to the opening of the Folies Bergere, the smartest, most lavish night club that has dawned on New York in a long time.
…A Chinese chorus trips out. Here are Noel Toy and the Kim Loo Sisters. But it takes your Saloon Editor, who is always alert to such things, to detect that the next Chinese dancer, Florence Him Lowe, has a powder puff stuck up one leg of her panties. There are many witty remarks as to whether it is an old Chinese custom to carry a powder puff up a panty leg and whether this wouldn’t be a good idea for American girls.
But Florence Hin Lowe removes the powder puff and uses it as a chin rest as she gets down on the floor and performs some contortions. She doesn’t use it to powder herself at all.
Billboard
June 5, 1943
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Billboard
June 12, 1943
New Folies Bergere Opens with Flashy, Exotic Girlie Review That Ought to Do Biz
…a glittering Chinese production number that has pretty Noel Toy singing the intro, and the Three Kim Loo Sisters warbling a Chinese ditty, returning later for an American jive tune. A cute novelty. Jadine Wong and Li Sun do a quick ballroom routine nicety, and six Chinese charmers parade in spectacular costumes, followed by Florence Hin Low doing a punchy contortion, and acrobatic specialty—real rubber-body stuff. The Horton Dancers follow for a Chinese boogie-woogie routine that’s arresting….
Billboard
June 19, 1943
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New York Sun
June 23, 1943
Cafe Life in New York
Folies Bergere Revue Has Been Subjected to a Masterpiece of Cutting and Blending.
Since its recent opening, when the show ran overtime, the elaborate Folies Bergere revue has undergone a masterpiece of cutting and blending by its guiding geniuses, Clifford C. Fischer and Arthur Lesser. The entertainment has been revised for a run of an hour or so and retains the best of the original scenes—Return of the Folies Bergere. Chinese Serenade, Impressions d’ Afrique, Saludos Amigos and Victory Ball.
…The lovely little Noel Toy, as China, introduces the Kim Loo Sisters, who portray dolls; the Chinese chorus girls, who are richly costumed as goddesses; Ming Chu as the Living Buddha, Florence Hin Lowe as the temple dancer. This highly imaginative, exotic scene ends with a Chinese boogie-woogie routine from the Horton group….
Billboard
June 26, 1943
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Evening Recorder
(Amsterdam, New york)
June 26, 1943
Lights of New York by L. L. Stevenson
Gadabout Notes: To the Folies Bergere, New York’s newest night club, which with its Franklin Hughes’ decorations, is highly reminiscent of an intimate French music hall with tiers, loges and balcony looking down on a deep-semi-circular stage. Behind the venture, said to represent an investment of $100,000, are Clifford C. Fischer,who has pioneered similar enterprises on two continents, and Arthur Lesser, of the picturesque cabaret, La Vie Parisienne. Despite the intimate atmosphere, heightened by lighting effects, the Folies Bergere is by no means small since it seats 500. The show itself is in keeping with the size of the club, Messrs. Fischer and Lesser having gone in strong for production numbers and thus a cast of more than 60. There has been no stinting in costumes either. The attire worn in the opening number by Toni Gilman, featured singer, cost $1,500.
The number that struck our fancy most was “Impressions d’Afrique,” with dances, accompanied by wild drum beating, the high light of which is “Les Ouled Nails,” by the Horton dancers, four men and four women, who are really the foundation of the entire show. “Chinese Seranade,” with the Kim Loo Sisters as three little dolls and the beautiful Jade Ling as the chief goddess, also appealed to us….
Billboard
July 10, 1943
Orchestra Notes
Of Maestro and Men
Kim Loo Sisters joining Ina Ray Hutton when she opens at the Hotel Astor, New York, August 9.
Buffalo Courier-Express
(New York)
July 31, 1943
Bandyisms
Ina Ray Hutton is using the Kim Loo Sisters, a Chinese vocal trio.
Brooklyn Eagle
(New York)
August 6, 1943
Going Places
Ina Ray Hutton. Queen of the name bands, follows in the footsteps of Benny Goodman at the Hotel Astor Roof on Monday. Featured with this orchestra is Stuart Poster, vocalist, and the famous Chinese Trio, the Kim Loo Sisters.
New York Post
August 7, 1943
Film Vod-vil Series Planned by Columbia
In line with company policy of introducing new ideas in the shorts field, Columbia announced this week that the first subject of a new series to be known as Film-Vodvil has been completed and will be released early next month.
The series, as the title implies, will actually bring vaudeville to the screen, with all of the subjects having a number of acts, each independent of the other. First of the new series headlines Mousie Powell and His Brother Rats, comedy band, the Kim Loo Sisters, a trio of Chinese rhythm singers, and the Howard-Paysee Dancers, Harry Reso, pantomimist, serves as Master of Ceremonies as well as doing a specialty act.
Cafe Calendar
Ina Ray Hutton’s band, with Stuart Foster and the Kim Loo Sisters, go into the Astor Hotel Roof.
Cafe Events . . .
Astor Hotel Roof, 44th at Broadway, brings back Ina Ray Hutton and her band, with vocalist Stuart Foster and the singing Kim Loo Sisters featured. She follows Benny Goodman’s engagement. The spacious roof is still on a no-cover-no-minimum policy for dinner, with a $1 cover charge after 10 Monday through Thursday and $1.25 Friday and Saturday; drinks start from 75 cents.
New York Post
August 8, 1943
“Palm Beach Story” Due at Loew’s State
“The Palm Beach Story,” Preston Sturges comedy co-starring Claudette Colbert and Joel McCrea, and also featuring Rudy Vallee and Mary Astor, will start an engagement at Loew’s State on Thursday. The vaudeville bill on that date will be headlined by Will Osborne and his new Hollywood band featuring Marianne and Dick Shanahan. Also in the lineup are Johnny Burke, comic; the Kim Loo Sisters, singers, and Bobby Whaling in a novelty bicycle act.
New York Sun
August 9, 1943
News of the Studios
In line with company policy of introducing new ideas in the shorts field, Columbia announced this week that the first subject of a new series to be known as Film-Vodvil has been completed and will be released early next month. The series, as the title implies, will actually bring vaudeville to the screen, with all of the subjects having a number of acts, each independent of the other. First of the new series headlines Mousie Powell and His Brother Rats, comedy bands, the Kim Loo Sisters, a trio of Chinese rhythm singers, and the Howard-Paysee Dancers, Harry Reso, pantomimist, serves as master of ceremonies as well as doing a specialty act.
Brooklyn Eagle
(New York)
August 10, 1943
“Film Vodvil” Series Now
In line with company policy of introducing new ideas in the shorts field, Columbia announces that the first subject of a new series to be known as “Film-Vodvil” has been completed and will be released early next month.
The series, as the title implies, will bring vaudeville to the screen, with all of the subjects having a number of acts, each independent of the other. First of the new series headlines Mousie Powell and His Brother Rats, one of Broadway’s most popular comedy bands; the Kim Loo Sisters, a trio of Chinese rhythm singers, and the Howard-Paysee Dancers. Harry Reso, pantomimist, serves as master of ceremonies as well as doing a specialty act.
New York Sun
August 13, 1943
Cafe Life in New York
Here and There
Ina Ray Hutton’s band, playing atop the Hotel Astor, is enjoying a big run. The Kim Loo Sisters, a lovely little Chinese trio, have joined Miss Hutton’s organization.
New York Sun
September 2, 1943
Cafe Life in New York
Ina Ray Hutton Made Successful Career of Pretty Band Director Fad.
Little Miss Ina Ray Hutton, leading a topflight band at the Hotel Astor Roof, is an illustration of what sometimes becomes of one of those innumerable young prodigies whose careers started under the aegis of Gus Edwards.
…The lovely little Kim Loo Sisters, the Chinese vocal trio of Folies Bergere fame, add a picturesque touch.
Philadelphia Inquirer
(Pennsylvania)
November 26, 1943
Actress Delayed in Rain Scene
What happened to Louise Allbritton shouldn’t happen to her stand-in. And it didn’t during the filming of “Fired Wife,” opening today at the Earle.
Intentionally, Director Charles Lament had saved the rain sequence until the last day’s shooting, for in them Miss Allbritton was to be thoroughly dunked.
So they turned the rain on Miss Allbritton, who was neatly tailored and wearing a pert red hat atop her beautiful hair-do. Before the scene was ended, the hair-do was a wreck and worse, the red dye in the hat had soaked into the blonde Allbritton tresses, turning Louise into a water-logged redhead.
Ina Ray Hutton and her all-male band, with the Kim Loo Sister [sic] and Walter “Dare” Wahl, head the new stage bill.
Boston Herald
(Massachusetts)
September 7, 1943
Ina Ray Hutton Band at RKO Next
Ina Ray Hutton and her all-male jive band will be the principal feature of the RKO Boston’s next stage show beginning on Thursday. In supporting spots are Henry [sic] Youngman, Elton Britt, the Three Kim Loo sisters and the Carr brothers, while the film feature will be “We’ve Never Been Licked” with Richard Quine and Ann Gwynne. Stuart Foster is the vocalist with the Hutton band, which specializes in jive, jitter and jump. In addition, RKO is sponsoring a Frank Sinatra singing contest for a cash prize of $100 and a gift from the swooner himself. Contestants may enter by applying to the manager of the theater.
Boston Traveler
(Massachusetts)
September 7, 1943
Ina Ray Hutton at RKO Boston Thursday
Ina Ray Hutton, queen of the name bands, directing her all-male orchestra which she organized last year, headlines the stage show opening Thursday at the RKO Boston. Stuart Foster is the featured vocalist.
Henny Youngman, the lanky comedian of lightning wit and star of Kate Smith’s Bandwagon, is another headliner. Elton Britt, the singing cowboy, the Three Kim Loo Sisters and Carr Brothers complete the bill…
Springfield Republican
(Massachusetts)
September 7, 1943
Ina Hutton’s Show Proves Very Popular
Ina Ray Hutton and her all-male band scored a big hit today in the opening day of a three-day engagement at the Broadway theater. Miss Hutton and her band would be enough entertainment for any audience, as her fans will testify, but she has added several acts to her show that set very well with yesterday’s holiday crowds.
The most popular act seemed to be the Kim Loo sisters, who recently joined the Hutton show. They are three very attractive Chinese maids and their voices are just as easy to listen to….
Springfield Republican
(Massachusetts)
September 8, 1943
Boston Herald
(Massachusetts)
September 9, 1943
Durham Morning Herald
(North Carolina)
September 11, 1943
Musical Variety Revue Is Scheduled at Bulner
“Ballyhoo,” a musical variety revue produced on Broadway, will be presented by USO-Camp Shows to Camp Bulner soldiers at their outdoor theatre at 8 o’clock Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday nights of next week.
The show features versatile and attractive Gloria Parker and her all-girl band. Besides fronting the band Miss Parker performs on the violin, xylophone, musical glasses, vibraphone and conga drums, and handles some vocal assignments.
Other artists scheduled to play with the show are the Kim Loo sisters, vocalists, Joe Phillips and Marion Colby, comedy act, Canfield Smith, ventriloquist, and Al Gordon, comedian.
There will be no admission charge for “Ballyhoo,” but attendance will be limited to soldiers.
Boston Herald
(Massachusetts)
September 12, 1943
This Week’s Photoplays
RKO Boston—Ina Ray Hutton and her orchestra top the stage show, other vaudeville acts being Henny Youngman, Elton Britt, the Kim Loo Sisters and various vocalists. The film is “We’ve Never Been Licked,” with Richard Quine and Anne Gwynne. Also a Frank Sinatra singing contest nightly.
Canton Repository
(Ohio)
September 20, 1943
Ina Ray Hutton on Palace Stage
There are 17 men in Ina Ray Hutton’s stage show cast at the Palace theater, but you’ll come away remembering four charming women. They’re Miss Hutton, of course, and the three Kim-Loo sisters.
Prettier even than her pictures, blond Miss Hutton directs her 15 piece orchestra in her own peppy fashion and takes over the microphone for some well-sung tunes.
The Kim-Loo sisters, Chinese vocal trio, recently joined Miss Hutton after an engagement on the Astor roof in New York and you’ll be hearing more about these young ladies. They’re good….
Canton Repository
(Ohio)
September 21, 1943
Billboard
October 13, 1943
Additional Routes
Kim Loo Sisters (Riverside) Milwaukee 18–23
Milwaukee Journal
(Wisconsin)
October 15, 1943
Two acts from the Riverside theater will add to the gayety at the Milwaukee Officers’ club Saturday night. The sweet and hot singing Kim Loo sisters will give out with songs, and Frank Gaby, a ventriloquist who has made Edgar Bergen shriek with laughter, will do whatever his conscience dictates.
Milwaukee Journal
(Wisconsin)
October 16, 1943
The Screen
At the Riverside—Ina Ray Hutton has a good stage show this week….
…Good, too, are the acts. The Kim Loo sisters, Chinese harmony singers, have looks and class to burn….
Evansville Press
(Indiana)
October 25, 1943
‘Blond Bombshell’ to Bring Band to Stage at Grand
Ina Ray Hutton, billed as “the blond bombshell of rhythm,” brings her all-male band to the Grand stage Nov. 11, heading a show scheduled to run a week….
…It’s the Kim Loo Sisters, American born Chinese, who sing in the Andrews manner.
Times-Picayune
(New Orleans, Louisiana)
October 29, 1943
New Stage Show Will Open Today
The St. Charles theater will open today what the management describes as the “most promising stage show” since inauguration of the current policy of presenting big name bands and top-flight vaudeville at the theater. Ina Ray Hutton and her “Men of Music” band, the Kim Loo Sisters, Stuart Foster, Al and Margie Calvin compose the stage show….
Times-Picayune
(New Orleans, Louisiana)
November 5, 1943
Hutton Ensemble to Play at Dance
Ina Ray Hutton and her “Men of Music” orchestra will play for a public dance in the Municipal Auditorium Saturday from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. The Hutton ensemble closed a week’s engagement at the St. Charles theater Thursday night.
The Kim Loo Sisters and Stuart Foster, also of the St. Charles theater’s stage show this past week, will appear with the Hutton orchestra in the show to be staged for the auditorium dance.
Times-Picayune
(New Orleans, Louisiana)
November 6, 1943
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Evansville Press
(Indiana)
November 11, 1943
Chinese Singers at Grand
The Kim Loo Sisters (above), trio of Chinese vocalists appearing at the Grand with Ina Ray Hutton and her orchestra.
Evansville Press
(Indiana)
November 12, 1943
Miss Hutton’s Good, But So’s Rest of Grand Stage Show
Ina Ray Hutton, one of the First Ladies of the dance band business, is surrounded by a solid orchestra that plays some excellent arrangements in her current appearance at the Grand Theater.
…Stuart Foster, the band’s vocalist, and the Kim Loo Sisters, three charming American born Chinese girls associated with the orchestra the last few months, are entirely satisfactory on the lyric side….
Evansville Press
(Indiana)
November 12, 1943
Ina Ray Hutton Stage Show and Skelton Film on View
Ina Ray Hutton, piny-maned impresario of jive, brought herself and all-trousered orchestra to Evansville yesterday in now of the better stage shows which the Grand has booked of late….
…Three little maids of China, the Kim Loo sisters, and three little songs of America, one of them being that 30-year-old flop and present-day hit-parade, “Paper Doll.” All three are cute as buttons and about as big….
Evansville Press
(Indiana)
November 13, 1943
“Moonshine” from China Is Served Up at Grand Theater
Three girls as cute as you’d hope to meet any place are the Kim Loo Sisters, now appearing on the Grand stage with Ina Ray Hutton’s orchestra.
Although American born Chinese, the girls have two loyalties in this war—the United States and the vast land of their parents’ birth. As a consequence their talents go on double duty when applied to patriotic causes.
They are the originators of the American bloodbank for China with headquarters in New York, and touring the nation, they never miss an opportunity to put in a plug for plasma for the men overseas—and never forgetting to mention that the beleaguered Chinese need it, too.
At Sunbeam
Friday the girls appeared at Sunbeam Electric Manufacturing Company where they entertained about 400 employees in person in a program carried throughout the plant by the P.A. system. They were aided by Lennie Gale, impersonator on the Grand bill, and the Sunbeam orchestra.
Friday afternoon they broadcast in an interview regarding the importance of plasma, and Monday were scheduled to appear at 11 a.m. on the Navy recruiting broadcast sponsored by Hoosier Lamp and Stamping Corporation.
They’re practically keen about Navy, since their brother, Lowell, 18, is in the South Pacific.
The Kim Loos, who make like the Andrews Sisters, are all left of a family singing-dancing act the once numbered six—two other sisters and their mother.
Have Restaurant
The parents are in their home town of Minneapolis where they operate a Chinese restaurant. Sister Jenee is married and living in Chicago, and sister Neree, the youngest, is in school in Minneapolis.
The family name is Gam Lui, which in Cantonese dialect is pronounced Kim Loo, which anyone will admit is much simpler for professional purposes.
For further simplicity the girls have adopted American surnames: Alice being the oldest, Margaret second, and Patricia, known also as Bubbles, the youngest.
Real Names
Alice’s real name is Yuet Ching, which in Chinese means “clearness of the moon”; Margaret is Yuet Laun (pronounced “lawn”) which means “flower of the moon,” and Bubbles is Yuet Ying, which means “reflection of the moon.”
It is customary, they explain, for children in the same family to bear the same first name.
The girls have made a hit with Grand audiences, with the Grand management, and also with Vince Markee, who is Miss Hutton’s publicity agent.
“Mark my words,” he says confidently, “you’ll hear much more about them.”
Evansville Press
(Indiana)
November 13, 1943
War Workers Talk on Local Broadcast
Evanville’s first theater broadcast on a national hookup, presented at 9:30 p.m. Friday on the Grand stage, featured comment by three local was plant workers.
…The program was broadcast over the 244 stations of the Blue Network for the War Manpower Commission. Entertainment was furnished by Ina Ray Hutton and her orchestra, with vocalist Stuart Foster, and the Kim Loo Sisters, three American born Chinese. It’s their eleventh program in the series. They donate their services.
Philadelphia Inquirer
(Pennsylvania)
November 26, 1943
Actress Delayed in Rain Scene
What happened to Louise Allbritton shouldn’t happen to her stand-in. And it didn’t during the filming of “Fired Wife,” opening today at the Earle.
Intentionally, Director Charles Lament had saved the rain sequence until the last day’s shooting, for in them Miss Allbritton was to be thoroughly dunked.
So they turned the rain on Miss Allbritton, who was neatly tailored and wearing a pert red hat atop her beautiful hair-do. Before the scene was ended, the hair-do was a wreck and worse, the red dye in the hat had soaked into the blonde Allbritton tresses, turning Louise into a water-logged redhead.
Ina Ray Hutton and her all-male band, with the Kim Loo Sister [sic] and Walter “Dare” Wahl, head the new stage bill.
Philadelphia Inquirer
(Pennsylvania)
November 27, 1943
Ina Hutton and Band on Earle Stage
Ina Ray Hutton, the gal who wears those backless, practically frontless gowns and does her best conducting with her lips, appears to have the man shortage licked. At any rate, she turned up at the Earle yesterday with her new all-male orchestra, and the boys not only provided the blonde conductress with a sturdy background, but proved themselves excellent musicians.
…Kim Loo Sisters Back
One of the chief delights of the bill is a welcome return appearance of the Kim Loo Sisters, pretty China lasses, who can and do out-swing many of their Occidental sisters. Beautifully costumed and cuter than ever, they romped through “Victory Polka” and “Paper Doll” before stopping the show with “Pistol Packin’ Mama.”
Philadelphia Inquirer
(Pennsylvania)
November 28, 1943
Film Fare
Earle—“Fired Wife,” dealing with the comic complications of a secret marriage, stars Robert Paige and Louise Allbritton as the unannounced mates; tosses in Diana Barrymore and Walter Abel to make trouble. Ina Ray Hutton and her orchestra head the stage bill, which
also features the Kim Loo Sisters.
Variety
December 1, 1943
Earle, Philly
Philadelphia, Nov. 26
Ina Ray Hutton Orch (15) with Stuart Foster, Kim Loo Sisters (3), Ella Mae Morse, Walter (Dare) Wahl, Jane Slater; “Fired Wife’ (U).
Warner
New York City
Passaic
Central (3)
Kim Loo Sis
Evening Star
(Washington, DC)
December 8, 1943
Variety
December 15, 1943
Capitol, Wash.
December 9
Ina Ray Hutton Orch, with Stewart Foster, Kim Loo Sisters, Bill Ames, Sam Jack Kaufman’s House Orch, Lynn Allison, ‘Happy Land’ (20th)
Detroit Times
(Michigan)
December 16, 1943
1944 Eve Attractions Announced
The United Detroit Theaters want you to do your Christmas shopping early so that you can get ready for their New Year’s Eve shows.
…The Michigan Theater’s combination stage and screen show will open at 10:45 a.m. Friday. Dec. 31, with two complete matinee performances in addition to the three evening shows. Ina Ray Hutton and her all-male orchestra with Stuart Foster headline the “in person” stage show at the Michigan which also includes the Lane Brothers, “Believe It or not Acrobats”; Dick Buckley, the talented Kim Loo Sisters with “Charm from China.”…
Billboard
December 25, 1943
Acts, Units, Attractions Routes
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Detroit Times
(Michigan)
December 29, 1943
Films to Have Gala New Year’s
The theaters are going to ring in the New Year by ringing up the curtains on some very happy entertainment.
…The Michigan will have a stage and screen combination for its last show of the New Year, with Ina Ray Hutton and her band on the stage and “The Fallen Sparrow” for the screen attraction.
With Ina, the “oomph” baton girl and her all-male orchestra will be Dick Buckley for a master of ceremonies, the acrobatic Lane Brothers, the charming Kim Loo Sisters and Chester Fredericks.
“Fallen Sparrow” is the exciting psychological mystery drama based on Dorothy Hughes’ novel and co-stars Maureen O’Hara and John Garfield.
Detroit Times
(Michigan)
December 31, 1943
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