Modern Screen (Dec 1949 - Nov 1950)

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You shouldn't be thinking about girls." Gary: "Well, girls are more fun than football. Besides, they're not so seasonal." Bing: "I guess that's right. But I always thought you were so bashful. I always thought of you as being timid around girls." Gary: "That's good." Bing: "What do you mean?" Gary: "A shy guy does a lot better than a wise guy." here's always a lot of good-natured 1 bantering around the Crosby home among Bing and the four boys, and supposedly on another occasion when Gary was going out, he asked the Old Man for an advance on his allowance. "I don't want to play the stern parent," Bing's supposed to have said, "but if you want extra money, you can do what I did when I was a kid." "But Dad," Gary insisted, "I don't want to stand on street corners and sing." All six Crosbys are known for their sense of humor. Probably the sharpest of the lot is Linny, the youngest, who is 12. Several years ago when all four boys were enrolled at St. Johns Military Academy, they were like most young kids, a little boastful. "My father could buy this whole place out in three minutes," they'd tell their little friends. Perturbed at their attitude, so the story goes, one of the instructors at the school phoned Paramount, got hold of Bing on the set, and told him that his boys were bragging a little too much. Bing got down to the school in a hurry. He lined his offspring up and began to let them feel, one by one, his big fat palm on their backsides. When finally he got down to Linny, the youngest Crosby said, "Don't spank me, Pop. I didn't say a word. Honest, I didn't. I didn't say a single word about how rich you were. I even said that the government took most of your money, and what the government didn't get, Uncle Everett stole." "Decause Gary— his full name is Gary Evan, the Gary for Gary Cooper and the Evan for Bing's maternal grandfather — has developed into a personable, talented young man, Bing has been on the receiving end of a lot of praise. He's been congratulated for not spoiling Gary, for bringing him up correctly, for having himself developed into a good father. As Bing himself says, "Most of the credit goes to Dixie. She raised Gary, she raised the twins, she raised Linny — heck, she even raised me." Dixie has modestly stayed in the background where Bing and the boys are concerned, but Bing will make no move involving any of his clan without first consulting his wife. During World War II, the U. S. Army asked Bing if he and the four boys would appear on a command performance to be broadcast to the troops overseas. "I'll appear on it," Bing said, "but I can't say for the boys. You'll have to ask their mother." Dixie gave the okay, and for the first time, the boys appeared before a microphone. Even as a youngster, Gary showed great stage presence. He was never nervous. He read his lines beautifully, and he seemed always to have an instinctive sense of timing. Best yet, he photographed do you want a star to visit your home? see page 8! and still photographs exceptionally well. Five years ago, Gary made a picture for Paramount when he was 12. Bing and the other three boys were in it, too. It starred Ed Gardner in Duffy's Tavern, and it wasn't much of a film, but the boys liked it, and Gary remarked at the time. "This isn't a bad racket." Over at Paramount, the studio bigwigs say that show business is in Gary's blood and it's just a question of ten years before he supplants his old man as filmdom's number one attraction. "Matter of fact," one executive recently said, "I was speaking to Bob Hope only the other day. He heard Gary's latest recording and wants the youngster to appear in his next picture." When Bing was told about this and asked if he would give his okay, he shook his head and broke into that wonderful grin of his. "Gary with Hope?" he repeated, simulating the outraged parent. "Absolutely not. We've tried to keep that boy in a good environment." 'T' hanks to his parents, Gary Crosby is x today a level-headed young man who knows the value of money, family, education, and religious training. Bing and Dixie sent him to a Catholic military school as a youngster, and Bellarmine is a parochial school where Gary's religious faith is an integral part of his schoolwork. He mixes well with the other fellows in school, and like his mother, he's quiet, reserved, and well-behaved. He takes no liberties because his name is Crosby, and his recordings are selling like mad. He thinks this is more of a fluke than anything else, and would rather make the varsity football team at college than the first-string star list at Paramount. Every summer, along with his brothers and father, he heads for the Crosby cattle ranch at Elko where his 185 pounds hold him in good stead and Bing pays him a regular weekly salary. Even though the royalties he's earned from his recordings probably make him the richest of the four Crosby kids, he doesn't think too much of that accomplishment. What pleases him most is what Bing told newspapermen last summer. "Gary is just about the best haying hand I've got on the ranch," Bing said. "Coming from Pop," Gary later admitted, "that was sure sweet music to my ears. Pop isn't a fast man with praise." The End PHOTO CREDITS Below you will find credited page by page the photos which appear in this issue. 6 T. Wide World. B. Bob Beerman — 7 L. Bob Beerman, R. Larry Miller. L.A. Examiner — 14 International News — 29 International News 30 Bert Parry — 31 MGM — 32-33 Bob Beerman — 34 Bert Six — 35 MS Staff — 36-37 Bert ParrvWalt Davis — 38 T. Walt Davis. C. Walt Davis. B. International News — 39 Bert Parry 40-41 Bert Parry 42-43 Bob Beerman 4-4-45 Walt Davis 46 T. Bert Parry, B. 20th Century-Fox — 48-49 4 Warners. 6 Universal. 3 Paramount, 13 MGM, 10 20th-Fox, 6 RKO. 2 United Artists, 3 Columbia, 1 Hal Wallis — 50-51 Walt Davis 52 T. MS Staff, C. Bert Six. B. MS Staff — 53 L. MS Staff, C. Bob Beerman, R. Bert Six — 54 T. 20th Centurv-Fox, B. MS Staff — 55 L. CBS, C. MS Staff, R. Bert Parrv — 56 Graphic House 57 L. Reuterphoto, C. Graphic House. R. International News — 58 Jack Albin — 59-62, 80 Kevin McCarthy. Abbreviations: B., Bottom; T., Top; L., Left C, Center; R. Right.