Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 September 1941 — Page 28

Burns and Gracie Employ ~~ Grocery Chore Boy

Jimmy Cash, 25, former Arkansas

George Burns and Gracie Allen, film and radio stars.

Mr. Cash was going about his “routine chores in a local grocery

Burns wanted “to hear him sing. Mr. Burns had listened to a -home-made recording submitted,

the singer’s voice instructor. Five years ago Mr, Cash won a

amateur contest but he failed to get a singing job then and returned to Arkadelphia to work ina gasoline station. = With .only $7.50 capital, ‘he married Camille Wyatt] and came to Hollywood. ;

ROMANCE TAGGED _. "CASH AND CARY"

. HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 19. — From ~ the Hollywood wags—Tag for the romantic team: of Cary Grant and Barbara Hutton: Cash and Cary. Producer Y. P. Harburg complains: “Now that I've got enough money to go around tke world, there’s no world to go around.”

LLYN SLVR

Downstairs Department

These are unbeatable # bargains! Though: they look equal to higher quality shoes they are not —but they are splendid values. for the money.

TIRE MAROTT SHOE STORE

Song Brings | ‘Him Contract

HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 19 (U. P.).}

service station attendant, had aj Tve-year contract today to sing for}

8 week ago when he was notified|

without Mr. Cash’s knowledge, : by

trip to New York in a Little Rock

“Mr.

| Ka ne’ Moves Ho Lyfic’ Theater

Bespattered by a passing vehicle, Publisher Kane (Orson Wells) is befriended by a girl (Dorothy Comingore) who later is to become his second wife. “Citizen Kane” moves from the Indiana today to the Lyric for its second week in Indianapolis. 3.2

How to Write New Song

In 15 Uneasy Minutes

By PAUL HARRISON Times Special Writer

HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 19.—The prolific team of Harry Revel and Mort Greene today told this department how in 15 uneasy minutes to write a popular song. Without separating the jive from the andante, I shall pass-along their remarks—not as an inspiration, but as a warning. It’s an incurable affliction once a person’ gets something published.

Greene is a good example because he has been monkeying with

VOICE from the Balcony by FREMONT POWER

UPON THE OCCASION OF his accepting the position of artistic

director for the Chicago Opera Co, the other day, Giovanni Martinelli, the tenor, made a rather pointed remark about the personalities of

| those in his trade.

All true artists, he said, have two sides to them: One, an exacting critic that is his own integrity and is never content; second, a public personality that has grace enough to take plaudits as if he really de-

served them.

“Mr, Martinelli seems to have hit on something. The idea, and it’s a prevalent though mistaken one, that all public performers consider

themselves respectively the greatest in their field possibly may be explained by Mr. Martinelli's keen observation. : A performer takes bow after bow, encore after encore, giving all the impression that even he himself is highly pleased with the way the concert or play went off.

- But as he bounces into the wings,

he may be muttering to himself, «“1f I get any worse, I'll have to quit.” The audience never hears that. Several fine artists have just such a suspicion about their abiljties. It’s not modesty and a chronic feeling of inferiority, it’s self-evaluation. :

: lo ‘Not to My Credit’ A case in point is Luise Rainer. Twice winner of the Academy

Award for her work in the pic-

tures, “The Great Ziegfeld” and “Good Earth,” Miss Rainer was ultimately given two third-rate roles in films unfit for penny arcade exhibition. She felt, prompted to walk out, and did. That, of course, is slightly beside the point here, The incident merely illustrates the peculiar workings of the Hollywood mind. ‘You might call it dumb.

What pertains to the subject

at hand are a few recent re-

Fears Cupid | HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 18 (U. P.).—Alexis Smith, young movie actress, ed her studio ‘to insert a clause in her new contract forbidding her to marry for three years. The studio complied. r : Miss Smith explained that -§ she thought such a clause would protect her from her own “romantic inclinations.” “I like the idea-of getting married,” she said, “and I'm afraid that if the right man came along about now, I'd marry him. Just so this doesn’t happen, I'd like to be legally protected.” .

the Lyric “green room”. that he was never much good in pictures. No apologies, no explanations. He merely said he wasn’t much good in them. :

Mr. Harris had himself figured rightly, to be sure, but-to hear it Jom him was at least surprisg. ¢ ” S The Marx Bros. quit because they were sure they'd reached the end of their Hollywood rope. Yet, there must be a half-million people in the coyntry who would like to see a new Marx Bros. picture. Commenting on his last picture, “Hold That Ghost,” with Abbott ‘and Costello, Bandleader Ted Lewis expressed a hope that it wouldn't be as bad as another one of his called “Here Comes the Band.” That one, Mr. Lewis calmly opined, was strictly inferior. And he's one of the greatest showmen in his particular line. Others, no doubt, have had similar feelings about themselves. It quite possibly is the reason they are able to maintain their high

ranking. If a musician is to become more than an ordinary performer, he must be able to hear himself play, just as an actor must be able to see himself act. That is, the musician ‘must be able’ to listen to

lyrics ever since he fell terribly in love at the age of 15, wrote a song about it and spent. $80 to have it printed so he ‘could give his girl a copy. After that nothing could save him. Orn his 30th birthday, Oct. 3, he will inherit a great deal of money left by his grandfather, an Ohio banker and industiialist, but it won’t make any difference to Mort—he is lost in the far-flung

The other day they got a riot call from Paramount for a song for Dorothy Lamour, and. could the boys please have it in a ‘couple of days? La rie “You can have it in two minutes,” said Mr. Revel, reaching for a sheaf of ynpublished ditties in the Lamour file. x And now, in “Malaya,” the sarong-

himself as he would another mu-

marks py Miss Rainer about her- | gician or as nearly as possible.

self. She mentioned casually that under an assumed name she had been an assistant in a hospital for insane war veterans on Long Island since her walkout on Hollywood. After that, she said, she had been a nurse’s helper in Bellevue Hospital in New York without revealing her identity. “I was useful. Can you under-

an easy job. But it’s probably one of the hardest things a musician has to attain if he is to become extraordinary. . His ultimate rank will depend in large part on the standards he sets for himself. He must know himself whether his playing is good, average or bad, and he must

On the surface, this might seem

that

eld

They

| argument which resulted in a song being written in 15 minutes. -

They

labored in seclusion to build up a backlog of material. = In a year they wrote 268 -songs, each one with some particular en-

CIE EEA RL LRU

_|tertainer in mind, from Shirley : Temple to Stepin Fetchit. i

environs of Tin Pan Alley.

Never Studied Harmony Mr. Revel, an established composer with hundreds of tunes to his credit, has written for Holly‘|'wood ever since the invention of sound did the music for the last

ad four shows running in four different European capitals at the same time. Incidentally, he never studied harmony or counterpoint, was born 35 years ago in London, started as a pianist in an Hawaiian orchestra, and speaks seven languages. Mr. Greehe, who quit courses in banking and business law to major in English and art at Akron, came here nearly 10 years.ago to find what he somewhat strangely refers to as a “normal life.”

. Snappy Song Service, He was doing fine as a scenarist at Metro, and writing a. few songs on the side, when he began deviling Mr. Revel for a chance to do his lyrics. 2

stress is warbling” Greene & Revel’s “A Full Moon and an Empty Heart.” Songs used to be tossed into movies willy-nilly, but Mr. Revel and Mr. Greene have a program for putting: mood in their music and reason in their rhymes. : They pow-wow with executives, study completed scripts, get acquainted with the singers, and then «it down and figure out situations rvhere songs actually can give impetus to the action and story in~tead of delaying it. More and more they're expressing story ideas a song comes from a title, ’ When I saw them, for instance, Mr. Greene had come out of a trance with “The Light of My Life Went Out Last Night—With Somebody Else,” and Mr. Revel had done a melodic phrase to fit it. In a few minutes they added more music and lyrics and the chorus was almost complete. But there’d be hours of polishing and verse-writing and conferences, and the session might go on most of the night. : Mr. Greene and Mr. Revel get pretty tired of some of their songs before they're through with them, “It’s a helluva life,” they said. “And we love it.”

Follies in ’29, and before

teamed up after a stormy

went to New: York and

stand what it meant to me to know I was useful? I almost do not wish to tell you this,” Miss Rainer said, “because it will be said, ‘Oh, the actress is playing a game.” This was not so. I swear it was not so. ; _ “There is so little love in this world. Not love that means the

communication of truth, of emo-

tion, of dignity between human beings. If.-I cannot do this I cannot do anything. Perhaps I have not enough talent to do this.” And there you have a fine actress being humble about her work, ; “I am made of certain things. Things that were given to me and things I gave to myself,” Miss Rainer said. “I am made up of experiences of a certain kind, of emotions, of hopes, of desires, of fantasies, and for me to act is to be able to give these things to others. It is not to my credit.”

Others, Too

THIS PRACTICE of being one’s

be able to arrive at that opinion

regardless of what his well-mean-ing friends tell him. : The real musician always is able to do this. Likewise an actor. It has to do. wjth being humble with oneself and the ability to turn around and give yourself a good look-over.

ree tee F THE REAL THING Harry Rosenthal, who plays a “pit” piano in a scene for “Birth of the Blues,” which stars Bing Crosby,

Mary Martin and Brian Donlevy,|"

felt right at home, for he actually played piano accompaniment to pictures years ago.

COOL 20c to 6 RE

* HURRY! LAST 2 DAYS! *

The ‘Indiana Roof" | To Reopen Tonight

MBASSADOR||

Cleaned, dressed up and polished, the Indiana Roof reopens tonight for the fall season to the music of Jimmy James and his orchestra, featuring Vocalist Linda Page.

James will be here tonight, tomorrow and Sunday nights and will broadcast each. night over Station WISH at 11:15 p. m. ; The Roof will begin the season

‘| with a policy of dancing four hours

nightly on. Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays.

Fridays, It will

‘|operate on ‘a semi-night club and

ballroom plan, with table accom-.

soda grill and in the balcony. = = Manager ‘McMahon said the dance floor been given a bright polish and that a new stage setting had been installed.

POPULAR PIPES Charles Boyer’s voice receives more fan mention than that of any other dramatic star in films, . = ©

OTE

aA RETURNS" ; Young

J Blondell—Roland “Rochester”’—Carole Landis —Plus— “PRISON WITHOUT BARS”

HELD

OVER!

gl Dod TERRIFIC a 7744

One ruined his] career! The other : broke his heart! What was the fatal weakness of the world’s most powerful man?

with Gabby Hayes—Sally Payne | is A ee Se SIT SIH

JED. (Mr. Jones) PROUDY (358) Frank Albertson—Lorna Gray 4

Joseph Cotten Dorothy Comingore + Everett Sloane * Ray Collins George Coulouris « Agnes Moorehead : Pgul Stewart : (IV

} “SCATTERGOOD BAINES MEETS BROADWAY" with GUY KIBBEE

i DON'T MISS THAT

7 FEATURE STARTS

£ .n

Com ARRAY

FIRST SCENE!

12046 + + 4 +: 3130 6:45 . » . 10:00

25¢ Til 6—Plus: Tax 10¢, Children: Under 12

GRAND. ENTERTAINMENT —FOR YOUR EYE! 42 —FOR YOUR EAR!

HERE'S

—FOR YOUR HEART!

Woe

: HS

ORCHESTRA UHR EEE: Lynn Bari Joan Davis

her husband.

own critic doesn’t ‘end in the by Rogar Edens snd Arthur Freed higher brackets. You'll Never Know ma Harts, ushand oof Alice by Roger Edens Faye and popular er an Ti ! radio comic, told me one day in Tis Lust Vim Saw aris . v and Oscar Hammerstels Il Oh, Lady Be Good by Goorgs and ira Gershwin:

What every women knows and will: sometimes, under pressure," tell

She couldn’t forget the wolf, because he kissed her one night and she wanted him to do it again!

52 2

r }

Marvelous Music! Your Words And My Music

Fascinating by George and Ira Gershwin.

> | Watch those dancing .| BERRY BROTHERS wonderful! Keep your eye on VIRGINIA O’BRIEN, dead-pan sensation—and

singing don’t miss CONNIE | RUSSELL—New York's favorite torch singer!|

Lo : ’ Right off the funny .page co smack onto you

i ee

«esA lucky load of musical laughter and joy for you...Two great love stories set to fascinating rhythms (Gershwin, Kern and others) against_a brilliant background of thrilling spec- ~ tacle. Don’t miss it!

".u LIONEL BARRY JOHN CARROLL + RED SKELTON . VIRGINIA O'BRIEN

Directed by NORMAN Z. McLEOD - Produced by ARTHUR FREED - Screen = Play by Jack McGowan, Kay Van Riper and John M y = “Original Sto

AIR-CONDITIONED.

¢ funny-bonel y

by Jack McGowan + An M-G-M PICTURE

yoihe:

wm " vo

¢Clain. Based on an

. #