Evening star. [volume], April 08, 1947, Page A-13, Image 13

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After Dark
The Movie* Don’t Do Right
By Muflie and It* Maker*
By HARRY MacARTHUR >
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If Hollywood doesn’t care whethei
or not it alienates a lot of potential
customers, it can go right along as 11
has been going. If it would like tc
keep the musicians of the land
among its happy ticket-buyers
though, it had better change some
of its ways. It never had occurred
to us that things were so serious
until the other night, when we sat
talking with Sammy Seymour, Hugh
Barteman and Nini Baker, at the
Roger Smith Hotel’s Cafe Caprice
“Can’t you do something about
the movies?” Hugh wanted to know
We told him Hollywood had been
going along for years not taking oui
excellent advice and it was not likely
to change suddenly on this score.
“Well, some one ought to do some
thing,” he went on. “Radio is bad
enough. You can’t turn on the radic
without hearing some would-be
comic tell the boys to put down theii
Racing Forms, to play the notes in
stead of the handicapper’s odds
But the movies are really bad. In
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the movies every musician is a bum.
They’re always drinking, they don’t
have any homes and nobody treats
them with respect."
“Yeah," Mr! Seymour cut in, “I
saw a movie the other day. Fellow
and a girl were sitting at a bar talk
ing. Way off in the background,
not bothering anybody, was a piano
player, playing softly. The girl
complained that the music bothered
her, so the man turned and growled,
‘Hey, you with the hands. Go
home!’ He can’t even say, *Hey,
fellah.’ He’s got to say, ‘Hey, you
with the hands.’ No respect at all
for musicians.
“What really gets me,” Sammy
went on, “is the way they handle
big musical scenes in pictures. The
girl walks into some big, swanky
night club and tells the boss she’s
a singer, she wants a Job. ‘You’re
a singer, huh?’ he says. ‘Okay, let’s
hear ya. Go up there and sing.’
So she goes up to the bandstand
and sings. She doesn’t say a word
to the leader, but he’s got a special
arrangement all ready for her. He
not only has a special arrangement
ready, but he knows without being
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and what hey she’s going to sing it
in. Oh, brother."
Okay, Hollywood. If you want
musicians to be your friends, stop
mairing them all look like buns and
stop making musical sequences look
so silly to them.
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Miss Sue Milroy, the pretty girl
who has been doing her singing
most recently at Sacha Bucas’ Coral
Club, may be doing it soon at (me
of those intimate East Side rendez
vous in New York. The deal is in
the on-the-flre stfcge now.
* * * *
Many have voiced the wish that
more “name band" music was avail
able in Washington, without doing
anything more than wishing. John
P. Hoberman of the Washington
Aviation Country Club, out Bethesda
way, is doing something about it.
Specifically, he has dedicated the
club to a “name band” policy, which
gets under way Thursday night when
Carmen Cavallero, the young man
known as the “Poet of the Piano,'’
brings his orchestra down for a one
night engagement. Mr. Cavallero
will be followed on Friday and Satur
day nights by another band of some
rrnoWn, the one conducted by
Richard Himber.
Mr. Hoberman, right now, has
plans for presenting “name bands”
three nights a week only. Thursday,
Friday and Saturday next week
(April 17* 18 and 19) the music will
be provided by Sammy Kaye, the
“Swing and Sway” man. Follow
ing Mr. Kaye, things aren’t definite
yet, but the tentative list includes
Vaughn Monroe, Harry James, Ted
Weems, Gene Krupa, Louis Prima
and Glen Gray. As plans go, Mr.
Hoberman’s are impressive ones.
* * * *
Future Bookings: Jan Murray of
the New York cafes and Sid Caesar,
of the movies, at Paul Young’s
Romany Room. (Mr. Murray’s “fu
ture booking" might or might not be
tonight: Mr. Young’s phone seemed
to be ringing when we tried to check,
but he didn’t seem to be answer
ing.)
* * * *
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New arrival: Martha Raye, as you
probably have been made aware,
opened last night at Sam Schanker s
Club Cairo, something which Mr.
S. regards as “the biggest event in
Washington night club history.”
Others in the show: Bill Baird, Ben
Yost’s Royal Guards and Clarissa.
More of all this later.
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