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Some of her pupils in the last five years have been Marge and Gower Champion, Rory and Lita Calhoun, and 1 Janet Leigh. Ginger Rogers takes a lesson every day and is never late. Alexis and Craig Stevens have both studied with her for the last 10 years. Janet Leigh is responsible for Harriet's beautiful studio. "Some years back I went on her picture 'Two Tickets to Miss Lee said.

"I thought I'd be three weeks but the job ran 11 months and I used the money to build my studio." Barry Sullivan studied with Harriet to do Goldilocks on Broadway. He's her hardest worker. "He came daily with the regularity of clock work, had a recording machine at home and worked there with the exercises and songs I'd tape for him," she went on. "Unfortunately, the show didn't go over. Barry regretted he hadn't started to study years before.

"Scott Brady worked for a week before he auditioned for 'Destry Rides Again' with Michael Kidd and got the job." I Van Johnson worked with her but told her ultimately he didn't want to be thought of as a song-and-dance man, preferring to develop his acting. Jane Powell learned her first pop tune with Harriet. Her pleasantest surprise was Zsa Zsa Gabor who was not only punctual but usually early. "I'd expected her to be NO STAR is an idol to a voice coach. Harriet Lee should know.

She has taught more of our famous bow to sing than you could shake a stick at. During her years at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Universal International some 600 glamorites came to her for training. Those who didn't work or refused to recognize their limitations didn't last long with Harriet. A dynamic blonde with a never-say-die quality who started life as a singer herself, she will take on any problem on the basis of its challenge. But she admits the present crop of Hollywood youngsters have put her to Jie test.

I practically call myself Madame Lasagna, teaching singing in six easy lessons," she said when I asked her how she dealt with those who feel they can sing without study or preparation. "I attribute it to the fact these kids make a success overnight There's no such thing as long range planning, and you rarely find a young person willing to study and who's aware that 10 years from now he might want to sing well." You couldn't toss a rock around Hollywood without hitting someone Harriet Lee has helped. In 1938 she was under personal contract to Dorothy Lamour and made all her song arrangements for three and a half years. When I was at Metro," she told me, "the kids under contract could take as many lessons as they wished. We once figured the company gave their young actors the equivalent of $150 a day in acting, singing, and dancing lessons in addition to their salary." I asked Harriet if she can teach anyone to sing or if there are some who just can't hit key.

She said: I've had only two completely tone-deaf irregular in attendance," she said. I went to Las Vegas with her when she first did her act at the Riviera. She saw to it my accommodations were as good as hers and told me not to bother bringing any furs as she had so many I could use hers. She was being tactfuL She didn't know if I even owned a fur." About Joan Crawford I asked: "Didn't she send for you? "Which time? She got hold of a teacher who told her she could have an operatic voice, which she couldn't. She did a picture which called for singing after I left Metro.

Johnny Green sent for me and I worked with her daily. She tried like the very devil and they left in one song which she did herself. Before we started, Johnny brought me all her operatic records, but opera wasn't for her. Most so-called legitimate teachers don't understand the popular field and will have none of it. Many popular singers are bad because they won't study.

If Elvis Presley were smart he'd realize he's not going to be doing rock 'n roll 10 years from now and study so he can find his next medium." Of Sinatra: "He studied for years with John Quinlan but hasn't worked with him lately and it's showing." Jacques Bergerac: "He realizes that to be a good singer you must go into training almost like an athlete." Of Tony Curtis: He started to study, gave it up, saying: 'I'm not a singer and I know if" Of Kim Novak: "A hard worker, often took a lesson after a day's work at the studio, has a low, lush voice and could sing if she sticks with it" Harriet Lee says 14 or 15 is the right age to start studying voice. She refuses to teach younger children. Chicago Sunday Tribune MAGAZINE Protect YIUJ LI V10EIN Wheat Germ 03 Helps Heart Action-Improves Strength Vigor PROVED9years 500 persons University Experiments REFUSE SUBSTITUTES- oniy VioBin Oil PROVED helpful Send MOW-Vialis Story FREE Rook 9 PROMETOL 8tol vigor odor 13 liquid RHCopwU concentrate VioBin OiL Same benefits NO of calories. VIOS1SI MONTICELLQ. ILLINOIS 28.

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