Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 November 1940 — Page 13

MONDAY, NOV. 11, He Names Song Hits

But Ted Collins Can't Even : Read a Bar.

By ROBERT MUSEL United Press Staff Correspondent

NEW YORK, Nov. 11.—There are |}

any number of strange phases to the business of making popular songs, and not the least of them is the fact that two of the people who have a lot to do with pushing a song into the hit class can't read a note of music. One of them is Ted' Collins, a genial Irishman, who was a song picker for a recording company ‘until 13 years ago when he saw a young girl being used as the target of the gags in a musical comedy because of her bulk. The other is

the buxom girl—now 30—whose|:

name is Kate Smith. Mr. Collins has played Svengali * fo Miss Smith's Trilby almost since the day he sat out in front at the musical, “Flying High,” and it has been one of the longest and most profitable associations in show business. Mr. Collins, for instance, can afford to, and does, drop $40,000 in professional basketball in which he owns the franchise of the Original Celtics.

He Has the Knuck

And a great deal of this profit has come about because of his knack of picking the right songs for his protege. Every song she has ever sung under his tutelage has been selected with the utmost care and -he estimates that his Judgment has been accurate virtually all of the time. So sure is he of his instinct that he offered to pick the songs that will be among the 10 most popular in the* country soon and to name the one that will head the list. He gaid: “If I Feel the Same Way Tomorrow, Then It's Love” would “sweep the country.” It has not yet been published. He also named “Somewhere,” “The Last Time I Baw Paris,” by Jerome Kern, and «A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square.” “1f I Feel the Same Way Tomorrow, Then It's Love” is the first

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The theatrical parade is beginning to roll toward English’s, and here are two of the stars whose arrival is close at hand. Clifton Webb is shown in the resplendent beard of Sheridan Whiteside, which you may see for five nights and two matinees beginning tomorrow. And Mr. Webb's companion, Katharine Hepburn, will arrive a week from Wednesday for a four-day stand in the first resounding hit of her stage ca-

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song written by Lew Brown and Ray Henderson since they split the most fabulous partnership in Tin Pan Alley history a decade ago. The other member of their trio was Buddy De Sylva, now the first producer in many years to have three hit musicals on Broadway at one time. Best ‘Plug’ Possible

Mr. Collins said he had no qualms about risking his reputation as a prophet because he had missed so infrequently in the past. Outside of Bing Crosby, a song sung by Miss Smith is said in music business parlance to have received the best “plug” possible. The success of a song usually is due to the number and quality of the “plugs” it receives. As a radio producer Mr. Collins feels his best achievement has been convincing film producers that the use of film stars does not harm box office grosses. His technique is to use the stars in a special playlet akin to but not an exact replica of the film, and in all cases, he said, there has been a salutary effect on theater attendance.

TONE IN ROMANTIC ROLE Franchot Tone, who heads the cast of Universal's “Trail “of the Vigilantes,” will appear next in the new Deanna Durbin picture, “Nice Girl.” He and Robert Stack will share the male romantic honors.

PLAY GOES TO FILMS Clifford Odets has completed the first draft of the screen play of his

recent Broadway production, “Night Music.”

HOLLYWOOD Carole Lombard Turns Director, Puts Hitchcock Through Paces

HOLLYWOOD, Nov.

movie he makes, for luck. durance of actors. Not often do they get to turn the tables. Take the black-and-blue Miss Lombard. During the production of “Mr. and Mrs. Smith,” her current picture, Mr. ‘Hitchcock did these things: 1. Kept her in a bathtub of hot water for four hours to get one 15second shot. 2. Had Robert Montgomery take her head under his arm and drag her around a hunting lodge from 1 p. m. until 6. 3. Made 17 takes of her being pushed into a hard-bottomed chair; she was unable to break her fall because she was wearing snowshoes. 4, Hoisted her 30 feet into the air in a replica of the New York World Fair’s | parachute jump ‘and doused her with imitation rain blown by a bogus hurricane; held up the shooting of this scene until her last working day so that if she caught pneumonias his picture wouldn't be held up. = » o8

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wherein he rushed up to Mr. Montgomery as the latter left his New York apartment ‘and called, “Oh, Mr. Smith,” Mr. Montgomery .mistook him for a beggar and handed him a dime. That's all there was to the scene. As Director Lombard lined up the actors in the blazing sun on the R-K-O ranch, where two blocks of New York had been built, complete with rubbish in the gutters. So the camera - group and the sweating Mr. Hitchcock rushed to Montgomery.,, Miss Lombard laughed. “Don't be an audience,” Hitchcock shouted. “Why you laugh at us like a perfect fool,” retorted Director Lombard. “Try again. Now Alfie, when he gives you that dime, I want you to turn around here and pout. And when you walk down the street be subtle. I want you in a pensive mood, Alfie.”

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SO, MR. HITCHCOCK tried it again, after Emil, the makeup man, had wiped the sweat from his brow. “I don’t like it,” snapped Director Lombard. = “Stop your mumbling.” “I always mumble,” Hitchcock. “I'd like it a little clearer,” Miss Lombard said. “This is for an American audience.” The cameraman had to put in a new load of film, “Emil,” called Director Lombard, “powder Alfie’s nose.” Emil did. Mr. Hitchcock complained about the battery of goldleaf reflectors shining the sun into his eyes.

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By PAUL HARRISON Times Special Writer 11.—Carole Lombard traded places other day with Alfred Hitchcock, the director, and put him through his paces as an actor, but she didn’t do it for fun. Revenge was what she was after—and revenge was what she got. It seems that the 250-pound Mr. Hitchcock appears briefly in every It seems also that he likes to test the en-

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“You can close ’em, dearie, until we're ready,” said Miss Lombard. = ” = THEN SHE MADE him do his act again. She had Emil powder him some more and when he wanted to sit down she made him stand until it looked like he was about to melt into a grease spot. “Emil,” - called Miss Lombard, “comb his hair.” Emil combed what remained of Mr. Hitchcock's hair and Director Lombard started the camera. “You overdid it,” she told her victim. “Do it again and better.” “Which hand did I have my hat in?” demanded Mr. Hitchcock. “Can’t you remember anything?” inquired the director. “Your right.” Once again Mr. Hitchcock ran up to Mr. Montgomery and got his dime. “Print it,” called Director Lombard. “That's all of him I want in this picture.” Then Miss Lombard put on a fur coat—it was supposed to be a wintry day in New York—and became an actress again. Mr, Hitchcock was the politest, kindest, most thoughtful director in all Hollywood for the rest of the afternoon.

SCOUT SUES AGENT OF SUSANNA FOSTER

HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 11 (U. P.).— The earnings of 16-year-old Susanna Foster, the singing star, brought a talent scout into court today for a portion of her agent's fees. Claiming to have discovered Miss Foster and trained her, Rita Stanwood Warner sued Agent Milo H. for an unspecified amount. . She claimed she made possible Mr. Marchetti’s introduction to the songstres.

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Ladies® Garment Workers’ Union Delegates to Take Fight to Convention.

By RICHARD LAMB Times Special Writer PITTSBURGH, Nov. 11, — While the C. I. O. is wrestling with the John L. Lewis problem in Atlantic City next week, the A, F. of L, meeting in New Orleans, will be confronted with a ‘demand for a purge of criminals. The demand will originate with delegates representing the 250,000 members of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union, so instructed by the garment workers’ convention in New York last May. The I. L. G. W. U. made clear when it re-entered the fold last summer, after two years’ absence from the federation, that it would not tolerate the criminals who infest certain A. F. of L. unions, “Under the cloak of autonomy,” President David Dubinsky told the garment workers’ convention, “the A. PF, of L. has been derelict in its duty to the labor movement by permitting individuals who should have had no place in our movement to occupy important positions in national and international unions and discredit the entire labor movement.”

Purge to Be Demanded

President William Green of the A. F. of L. read published reports of this speech and hastily assured Mr. Dubinsky, in a letter read to the I. L. G. W, U. convention, that his other objections to reaffiliation with the federation could be overcome. His letter ignored the question of criminals. So the garment workers, conscious of the isolation their independence of A. F. of L. and C. I. O. imposed, decided to cast their lot once more with the Federation but pledged their delegates to demand the purge. Accordingly, the I. L. G. W. U.

a resolution insisting: 1. That the A. F. of L. through its executive council or any other authorized agency, be empowered to order the removal, by any affiliated union, of any persons ‘“convicted for any offense involving moral turpitude or convicted of using their official positions in their unions for personal gain.” 2. That all affiliated unions adopt constitutional provisions for “adequate disciplinary action against such of their officers” as any have been so convicted. 3. That when any affiliated union fails to take such disciplinary action, the A. F. of L. itself “shall use its full moral force to compel the filing of charges and the hold= ing of a hearing upon the same.” The I. L. G. W. U, did not attempt to define “moral turpitude.” The committee considering the reaffiliation proposal, however, felt that the ban should include “any individual whose record reflects discredit upon and is therefore injurious to the best interest of the labor movement.” Of the 4,247,443 members who pay 2 cents a month per-capita tax and assessment into the A. F. of L. treasury, the known criminals are few. Scripps-Howard reporters during a checkup last summer found 69 holding office in A. F. of L. unions. Chicago Fruitful Field Since that time, Westbrook Pegler, who started all the fuss about the criminals, has found and verified more. And he still has a couple of satchels of mail from rank-and-file members containing reports he has had no time to investigate. Chicago offers a particularly fruitful field for a purge. Within the past six months, corruption in the Bartenders’ and the Building Service Employees’ unions there has come to light. There has been sworn testimony that specific locals of both unions were taken over by remnants of the old Capone mob. In St. Louis, two officers of the

convicted two months ago in Federal Court of labor racketeering, were fined $10,000 each and sentenced to five years’ imprisonment. In New York, District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey, who won a conviction and stiff penalty for George Scalise, the one-time white-slaver and ex-president of the janitors! union, is still nosing into the labor rackets.

CHARACTER ACTOR,

HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 11 (U. P.).— Fritz Feld, film character actor, and Virginia Kraft, a young co-ed who became a radio actress by winning a dramatics contest, were honeymooning today. They were married in Beverly Hills late yesterday by the bride's father, the Rev. J. T. Kraft. One of the wedding guests was Ernst} Lubitsch, the director, who was an actor with Mr. Feld in Ry a) before the World War. Mr. Feld, 40, was born in Berlin and came to Hollywood with Max Reinhardt. His 22-year-old bride was graduated from the University of California at Los Angeles. Inc.

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ARMY IS ORGANIZING SKI, SNOWSHOE UNITS

WASHINGTON, Nov. 11 (U. P). —Ski and snowshoe troops, similar to those employed by Finland in its war with Russia, will be added to the U. S. Army, the War Department announced today. The Army already is experimenting with parachute troops and has organized several armored combat divisions because of their successful use in the European war. Contracts have been awarded for $82,691 worth of ski and snowshoe equipment, including trousers, windbreakers, parkas and heavy socks and mittens. Elementary ski training will be given to the 1st Division at Ft. Devens, Mass.; the 5th Division at Fu. Custer, Mich., and the 6th Division which is being concentrated in the 7th Corps area training center at Rolla, Mo. and the

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