The Waterbury Democrat. [volume], December 20, 1944, Page NINE, Image 9

About The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946

Image provided by: Connecticut State Library, Hartford, CT

                
Walter Winchell
On Broadway
tn* Mm* wmmw« «mM wm. bm*> hum
memos about song writers
Twenty years ago Irvin* Berlin
wrote for Green Book magazine:
“There’* no such thing as a new
melody. There has been a standing
offer In Vienna of $35,000 to any
one who can write eight bars of
original music. The offer has been
up for more than 30 years. Thou
sands of compositions have been
submitted, but all of them have
been traced back to some other
melody.'1
In the old days song writers
usually wrote their songs In hotels,
and there were frequent com
plaints from neighbors. Howard,
Diets, after having been moved out
a few times, once said to Arthur
Schwarts, "You’ll notice nobody
oomplaints about the lyrics.”
Rodgers and Hart once wrote a
prayer song titled, "Oh, Lord, Would
You Make Me a Star?” Because
it had beautiful lyrics, the publish
er (Robbins) persuaded Hart to give
it a more suitable title. Hart said,
“J suppose you want me to call It
something like ‘Blue Moon’?” It
became “Blue Moon” mid sold 1,
000,000 copies.
The best way for a beginning
song writer to turn out a hit is to
stick to the subject of love.
Borfte songs take a long time to
write, and some are dashed of
Hammerstein three weeks to write
the lyrics for “When I Grow Too
Old to Dream,” but “Louisiana
Hayride,” waa written In half an
hour.
Vincent Youmans whistles his
music Instead of using a piano.
Song, writer# are often inspired
at odd moments. One night Rodg
ers and Hart were speeding through
Paris in a taxicab when they had
a near collision. The girl with them
said, “Gosh, my heart stood still.”
That became the title of a hit.
Arthur Sehwarta broke Into song
writing with the New York Univ.
touchdown song, “Smash, Crash
Right Through.”
One night Schwarts was stuck
for a song for “The Bandwagon,"
He went to a hotel and for a week
couldn't get an inspiration. One day
a Swedish maid came in and asked
him what he was doing. Arthur
told her he was trying to write a
song. In a heavy Swedish accent
she suggested, “Why- don't you
write about how you love Louisa?
That's me.” Arthur wrote the song
which became the hit of the show—
the ditty, “I Love Louisa,’’ On
opening night the girl was Intro
duoed from the stag* and given a
big check.
One song writer. Dave Clark,
specialises in tunes with crazy titles.
He’s written, ‘‘Don’t Miss It If You
Can” and "I Felt So Blue I wanted
to Jump Out of the River.”
The most famous of all musical
producers in England is Charles B.
Cochran, who gave Noel Coward his
first chance. He will be character
ised in the Cole Porter picture,
“Night and Cay."
There are many freak songs that
don’t become hits until years after
they are written. "Begin the
Beguine- became popular three
We Are Pleased To
Announce
That We Have
RESUMED
BUSINESS
We Regret That
We Were Obliged
To Close For Two
Days Due To A
Power Failure
As A Result Of A
Fire In The Upper
Floors Of The Building
Which We Occupy.
years after it was first introduced
—when Artie Shaw made a- record
ing of it. Arthur Schwarts one
wrote a song titled. “I Guess I’ll;
Have to Change My Plans." It
never became a hit until a vaude
vlle tleam named Delys and Clark
sang It by request every night for
an old German beer baron, who
called the song "Blue Pajamas" (a
word combination in the song).
The popular song that sold the
most copies is "Till We Meet Again."
It sold 6,000,000 copies.
Fred Fisher, the song writer,
worked 34 hours a day when he
was inspired. "Billy Rose relates
that one 4 ayem Fred called him
and said, "Billy, I got ltl I can
rhyme Nicholas with ridiculous."
People in other fields have writ
ten big hits, 1. e.. Producer John
Golden wrote “Poor Butterfly," ex
Mayor James Walker wrote “Will
You Love Me in December As You
Do in May,” Dorothy Parker wrote
“How Am I to Know?"
Much criticism has meen made
that songs of this war aren’t as
good as the songs of World War I.
But here are some of the oig hit
war songs of this war: "White Cliffs
of Dover,’’ "Praise the Lord and
Pass the Ammunition," "Coming
in on a Wing and a Prayer” and
“White Christmas.’’ e
During the last war humorous
song titles weret.he vogue. For in
stance, "Would You Rather Be a
Colonel with An Eagle on Your
Shoulder, or a Private with a Chick
en on Your Knee?’* and "If He
Fights Like He Makes Love, God
Help Germany!”
While "The Peanut Vendor" was
one of America’s most popular
dance numbers, it was a flop in
England because peanuts there are
known as “monkey nuts,” which
proved metrically impossible.
For years in New York Wool
worth’s was the hangout for song
writers who stool around the coun
ters watching the 10c sheet music
sell. “Smiles" sold 3,000,000 copies,
a great chunk of which went over
the counter at the 5 •’n’ 10s.
Today song plugging is a high*
pressured, high-powered business,
but when it first began the main
duty of the song plugger was to
make the rounds of movie houses
and talk to pianists there. A
plugger would usually reach about
ten a night. Today a plugger. by
getting a song played on a net
work broadcast, reahces millions.
When anyone asks Dick Rodgers
•what comes first, the words or the
music, he says, "The check!"
• Thousands of amateur song writ
ers send their words to profes
sionals, but professionals, afraid of
plagiarism suits, send the manu
scripts back without looking at
them. (Please don't send any to
me as my waste baskets are crowd
ed now!)
SOOTH CROSSING FOR ATC
Presque Isle, Me. (UP)—The Air
Transport Command recently made
Its 550th Altantlc crossing between
Maine and England.
“FOR MEN ONLY”
Attention, men! When yon buy lingerie for the little woman’s birth*
day, anniversary or Christmas does your face get red and do yon look
around for a nice comfy foxhole when you notice women shoppers
looking on with that amused side-glance? Well, a gal has come to
your rescue. She’s Mrs. Antoinette Qullleret, who has opened a “for
men only” shop in New York City where you can do your shoping
(see above) without hearing giggles to the right and snickers to the
left of you.
; Chaplin On
Stand Today
! By VIRGINIA MacPHERSON
, (United Pres* Staff Correspondent)
> Hollywood, Dec. 20 — (U.P.) —
t White-haired Charlie Chaplin re
turns to the stand today to continue
his dramatic denial that he is the
■ father of Joan Barry’s 14-month
! old daughter, Carol Ann.
Joseph Scott, 77-year-old attor
! ney for Miss Barry was expected to
, keep the multi-millionaire comedian
• in the witness box most of the day,
remanding intimate details of his
love affair with his one-time drama
■ protege.
, Miss Barry asserted she was inti
i mate with the aging actor twice on
> the night o£ December 23. 1942, the
> same night, she says her child was
> conceived.
■ Chaplin was wildly emphatic on
■ that point yesterday. He did noth
' tng more that night than offer Miss
Barry a place to sleep, he shouted,
waving his hands. HU intimacies
• with her ended he said, more than
1 a year and a half before the birth
of the curly-haired plaintiff in the
paternity suit.
Chaplin got his first glimpse of
; the dimpled baby he U accused of
fathering as he strode through the
' courtroom on his way to the stand.
• HU eyes flicked in her direction
’ briefly and then glanced away with
’ out expression.
Carol Ann spent the day in court
alternately babbling baby talk and
watching the legal proceedings with
wide brown eyes.
"Isn’t it a fact that you had a re
lationship with Miss Barry that
night?” Scott asked Chaplin.
“No, it U not!” snapped the com
edian.
"Didn’t you sleep with her?”
"No!” Chaplin shouted.
He said hU last relationship with
Miss Barry was in February, 1942,
when he broke off their intimacies.
"Ybu mean sexual relations?”
Scott asked.
"Yes, I mean that, but that’s a
harsh word,” Chaplin replied.
"Yes it is," drawled Scott. "That’s
a harsh word. I’m sorry I hurt your
feelings.”
Scott asked him what his answer
was when Miss Barry told him she
was going to bear hU child.
“I told her that whatever her
condition was she had brought it
on herself,” Chaplin said.
“It was not your fault?”
“No!” Chaplip shouted again.
Then he lost his temper and
gestured wildly toward the bench.
“I’ve committed no crime, your
honor,” he roared, pounding the
witness stand with his fist and
tearing his hair. "I’m human;
I can’t help it. This man is try
ing to make me look like a mon
ster!”
Superior Judge Henry M. Willis
told him to tone down his drama
tics. The Judge said that applied
to Scott, also.
Chaplin wiped his brow and
emphatically denied he made love
to Miss Barry the night she broke
into his luxurious home waving a
pistol in suicide gestures and then
changed her mind and spent the
night. Neither, he said, did he
make love to her when she told him
of her condition and begged him
to marry her.
Chaplin’s version matched only
in spots the one Scott said he in*
tended to-prove.
“We will show,’’ the attorney told
a seven-woman-flve-man jury,
"That Chaplin had intimate rela
tions with Miss Barry the night
she threatened to kill herself and
again the next morning.”
The same thing happened a week
later Scott said, when the com
edian invited Miss Barry back
again for another brief interval of
romantic passion.
“Then he drove her home,” Scott
continued, “and Miss Barry asked
him how she could live on $35 a
week. They happened to be pass
ing the Beverly Hills Jail and he
told her 'here's a good place for
you- to live’ and let her out.”
Scott said Miss Barry visited the
oomedlan on May 8 to tell him of
her condition, but scooted out fast
when she surprised an unclad young
lady in his bedroom.
"She went back late in May 01
early June,'’ he continued, and
Chaplin admitted the baby was his
and promised to care for it. He
made love to her on the edge of
his fancy swimming pool, but re
fused her tearful pleas of mar
riage.”
Scott said Chaplin told Miss
Barry a baby was a “biological
mistake" and that he had a great
gift as an artist and he intended
to protect it.
“I’m not marrying anyone," Scott
quoted Chaplin as saying. “I must
have peace—if I have to spend 20
years in jail to get it!”
Petroleum production in Bolivia
is nearly 30 per cent above last
year.
Your Gl Rights
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
ON SERVICEMEN'S PROBLEMS
VETERAN’S ADMINISTRATION
OFFERS GI LOAN AID
By ANN STEVICK
NEA Staff Correspondent
Washington, Dec. 20 — Letters from
veterans In rural districts.
Q. How do I go about getting a
government guaranteed home loan?
I’ve been to the bank here, but no
body seem* to know anything about
It?
A. You’re really on your own un
til you find a money-lender—home
loan agency, bank, or rich and will
ing local citizen. There isn’t any
government machinery oiled up to
find a lender to make the 50 per
cent guaranteed home loans seht up
in the GI BUI of Rights.
Veteran's Administration has done
its utmost to get information to
home loan agencies and banks, but
is also hearing from veterans who
meet a blank stare when they ask
about GI loans. Since some 1,500 ap
plications for home loans are now
on their way through VA approval,
however, there must be a goodly
number of lenders who are ready to
make loans.
VA Washington spokesmen ad
vise you to leave no stone unturned
looking for local agencies to help
you, such as American Lgion, Vet
erans of Foreign Wars, or Red Cross
If that gets you nowhere, write to
your regional Veteran’s Administra
tion office, whose address you prob
ably have in your mustering-out
documents, or.to the national VA at
COMPANY PUTS
IN SCHOOL FOR
GRADUATE WORK
FIND SYNTHETIC BETTER
Akron. O, (UP)—Synthetic rub
ber is being used entirely in the
manufacture of rubber printing
plates and stamps made by the
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Oo., be
cause, the company says, the syn
thetic produces outwear those
made of crude rubber by 300 to 300
per cent. The synthetic rubber's
greater longevity Is said to be due
to iU rosSsUnco to min
the rWn<n|
Africa’s only larfe
china clay has been found in Tan
ganyika. , ,
^ j
Milwaukee. (UP)—The lUnois In
stitute of Technology has estab
lished a complete program of grad
uate instruction for engineers at
the Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing
Co. paving the way perhaps for
many such programs after the war.
Organised at the request of the
company under the leadership of
Dr. J. E. Hobson, director of elec
trical engineering at Illnois Tech
and representative of the committee
on graduate study, the plan is be
lieved to be the first of its kind in
the Middle West.
Courses leading to the master's
degree in electrdlcal and mechan
ical engineering are offered .The
students are engineers, emlpoyes
of the company, and the instruc
tors are five faculty members of
Illinois Tech. With the present cur
riculum the average student can
earn his degree within four years,
carrying on full-time employment
at the same time.
Dr. Hobson said that such train
ing must be conducted beyond the
graduate level if young engineers
are to be thoroughly qualified for
their work and that the study will
be more effective since done in
close co-operation with the indus
try.
The plan, therefore, provides re
ciprocal gains for the industrial
plant seeking qualified workers
and for the educational institution
which wishes to keep abreast of
new industrial developments.
Many of the students are mid
dle-aged men, holding responsible
engineers are available after the war
the company intends to employ sev
eral hundred and expects to ex
pand the new educational program
to meet an anticipated heavy de
mand.
One-third of the tuition costs of
each student is paid by the com
pany and if the course is completed
satisfactorily, the firm will con
tribute another third. Enrollment
in the five courses offered during
the present term totals 122. Teach
ers are Dr. LeVan Griffis, Dr. W.
A. Lewis, Dr. Halm Reingold, Prof.
P. J. Vogel and Dr. Hobson. Sub
jects taught are electrical engineer
ing, mathematics and mechanics.
Illinois Tech has developed sim
ilar plans in co-operation with the
Commonwealth Edison Co. and con
ducts a course in mathematics at
the Caterpillar Tractor Co., Peoria,
in.
BARGAINING AGENCY
PETITIONED BY CIO
Claiming that it has already
signed a substantial number of
workers, Local 251, CIO, seeks rec
ognition as bargaining agent for
employes at the Waterbury Rolling
Mills, it has been disclosed by Ovide
Garceau, union representative.
Robert D. Somers, president of the
firm is said to have received a let
ter from the union requesting a
management labor meeting.
Washington, D. C. They should see
to it that a nearby home loan
agency or bank gets information on
the subject or refer you to one that
knows the arrangements.
(Copyright 1944, NEA Srvice, Inc.)
Buy War Bonds Now!
Prices Include Federal
Tax
} Tax
Give her a Ring this Christmas ... one
set with her birthstone, or perhaps a
diamond studded antique reproduction.
Whatever her preference you will find
it in the vast collection of modestly
priced rings at M. A. Green.
1. —Unusual onyx ring with a fine dia
mond set in platinum —$69.50
2. —Genuine blue zircon set with 2 cut
diamonds. Natural gold —$55.00
3. —Large real topaz or amethyst, 14
karat solid gold setting —$75.00
4. —Unusual modern design ring, coral
gold and natural gold. $24.75
5. —Choice of real birthstones, 2 dia
monds set on the sides —$45.00
6. —Antique reproduction with a cluster
of genuine garnets —$65.00
7. —14 karat solid gold ring. Choice of
black onyx or sardonyx. —$27.50
m-fl-GRcen
/o\. DJamoncU"
JCUJCLCRS linCC 1896
117 BftllK STRICT
Evening Gowns
All Colors $1 ^-*^8
Evening Wraps
$14Mt«$18M
Open
A
Charge
Account
Tdineis
149-153 So. Main St. Waterbury
FUR SCARFS
4 SKIN KOLINSKY DYED SQUIRRELS.
KOLINSKY DYED GIVETS—MINKOLETTES
Sale Price for
4 Skin
Scarfs .
*29=‘o*79=
Tax IncL
BUY YOUR
FUR COAT
With
CONFIDENCE
2 Yrs. Free Storage
2 Yrs. Free Repairs
CLEARANCE
SALE ON
UR
COATS
Jackets
Neckpieces
Trimmed Coats
BUY HER A
USEFUL
GIFT
BUY HER A
FUR COAT
FOR XMAS
FUR COATS
"NORTHERN SEAL
"MENDOZA BEAVER
*MINKOLETTE
*SQUIRRELETTE
(*DYED CONEY)
SIZES 10 to 52
»9850
*150
*198
TAX INCLUDED
Fur Coats
Leopard Cats
Bombay
Lamb
Persian Paw
Marmink
$19350
*250
*350
TAX INCLUDED
A
Liberal
Allow
ance
On
Your
Old
Fur
Coat
Fur Jackets^
SILVER FOX Q
RED FOX
SKUNK
*MENDOZA BEAVER
3 PC. * SQUIRRELETTE
3 PC. MINKOLETTE
WITH HAT and MUFF
TO MATCH
(♦Dyed Coney)
$495°
$9850 |
*150
TAX INCLUDED
SPECIAL
Women's — Misses’ — Children’s
COATS
Reversibles
Fur Trimmed
Sports
Formerly to $M
SPECIAL
WOMEN’S and MISSES’
Winter COATS
Sports—For Trimmed—Chester
fields and Boy Coats
$10 $15
$20
JUMPERS
$4.98
All Wool DRESSES
Abo Velveteens C AL Oft
All High ^ fl*7
Shades
COATS
TUXEDO FUR TRIMMED
All Colors — AU Furs
*39= *49“
LARGE SIZE
Chesterfields
AH Colors—Sixes M to 84 -
*24= 34"
i _• ..
LARGE SIZE
FUR TRIMMED
COATS
SIZES 38 to S3
*24^ to *39
CHILDREN’S
Coot fir Legging
Sets
ALL COLORS
*10 *12-98
$18-98
s&> AU Size*—AU Coiora
. toPTI Also Far Trimmed
$1.98 $2*98
$3.»8
LARGE 8IZE
COATS
TUXEDO FUR TRIMMED
SiBM SS to 44
$59.50
LARGE SIZE
DRESSES
All Calon—8ke* J8 to B