Coffee & Cream

Sweet-faced, velvet-voiced Singer Maxine Sullivan, the darling of nightclubs, schoolboys and college youths, last week found a new, choicer audience. Sweet-swinging such ballads as Barbara Allen and Who Is Sylvia?, cafe-au-lait-colored Miss Sullivan was the cream of a "Coffee Concert" in Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art.

The program, called "Salon Swing." included subdued riffs by Benny Carter's Septet, tap dancing by an extraordinary young Negro named Baby Lawrence, songs by Maxine Sullivan, three of them to harpsichord accompaniment. The recital got chastely in the groove when the harpsichord, precisely pecked by willowy, red-haired Sylvia Marlowe, gave forth Pine-top's Boogie, rolling bass and all.

The Coffee Concerts serve largely to further the aims of their founder, a musicians' manager: Louise Crane, 28 this week, daughter of the late, rich Governor of Massachusetts, Winthrop Murray Crane. Agent Crane lost a bit on her first series, jacked prices to $2.20 for the second. She is the only agent who specializes in artists who shuttle between concert hall and nightclub. Members of her stable: Tap Dancer Lawrence, a Trinidad dancer and Calypso singer named Belle Rosette, a Negro singing quintet called the Sophisti-chords, three dancing Ecuadorian Indians.

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