Radio and television mirror (Nov 1939-Apr 1940)

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Though he paid their hotel bills and gave each one a dollar a day for meals, no salary was included. To evade the children's societies, Rich made his wife the girls' legal guardian. "Think of the experience," Rich told Daddy Andrews. Their father did, but just to be on the safe side, he gave his little girls $500 and employed a tutor to accompany them. "Daddy was doing nicely at the time," explained Maxene. CVER since Peter Andrews came to * these shores from his native Greece, he had done nicely. After a job in an ice cream comany, he married his best friend's sister, borrowed $15,000 and opened a bowling alley. A year later he paid all his debts, told his wife Ollie that they must now have plenty of children. "Ten of them," he reiterated, "and all boys." Four children came but they were all girls. The first one named Angelyn, died of pneumonia before she was two. There were fifty-two other people in Larry Rich's act and every one of them managed to borrow part of the Andrews' $500. But the girls didn't write home for fear their angry father would stop their singing. The act played ten months and broke up in New York. In a magnificent gesture, Rich staked the girls to a fortnight in the big city. Afterwards, they intended to return to Minneapolis. But a midget who had appeared with them in Rich's act told them Joe E. Howard, a song writer, was looking for singers. Howard hired them at $100 a week, calling the act "Joe E. Howard & Co." Flushed with this happy turn of events, the girls implored their mother to tour with them. But vaudeville was on its last legs in 1933 and when the Howard act finished in Milwaukee, the girls sought a job with a dance band, and eventually joined Teddy Mack's orchestra. This engagement was pleasant enough. But the Andrews Sisters were just another trio. Good voices and a natural sense of rhythm were not enough to excite the populace. "You kids all sound like the Boswell Sisters," complained one critic. This criticism stunned the girls but they knew it was partly true. "We got to thinking then," says Maxene, "that if instruments could phrase and play the hot licks in harmony, why couldn't we apply it to voices?" After work the girls listened attentively to Teddy Mack's musicians during jam sessions. As the boys would improvise, the Andrews would adapt the instrumental technique to their voices. About this time, Daddy Andrews met financial reverses, and the whole family turned its efforts to making stars of the Andrews Sisters. The girls managed to get frequent engagements all over the country. Although musicians and booking agents raved about their act, the public simply refused to get excited. The trouble was they were singing too much for the musicians and not enough for the audience. When they joined Leon Belasco's orchestra early in 1937, the veteran bandsman gave them some sound advice: "Just look at the best song sellers. If the public likes the tunes, you sing them!" The girls immediately chucked all their difficult arrangements that brought praise only from swing addicts and concentrated on more commercial music. But this decision came almost too late. They were out of work again and back in New York. From the next family conference came a dramatic decision. The girls would give themselves six more months in which to click. A band directed by Billy Swanson was then playing at the Hotel Edison. He struck a bargain with them. The girls would get $15 each time Billy broadcast over Mutual. The girls accepted. The money would pay the rent bill and give them valuable air time. However, the arrangement didn't last long. Swanson's regular vocalists resented this thrice-weekly intrusion. One night Lou Levy, an astute manager, heard the girls, saw possibilities, and signed them up. He got Dave Kapp of Decca Records to hire the girls for one recording. The record flopped but two months later Decca asked them to do another platter. The "A" side would be Gershwin's "Nice Work." No one knew what tune should be sung on the other side. Levy scouted. Decca scouted. Even Daddy and Mother Andrews toured Tin Pan Alley. Then one day Levy rushed into their hotel room, waving a music sheet, and roared: "Sing this song in Jewish and you'll kill 'em!" While the girls struggled with the foreign tongue, the manager hired songwriters Cahn and Chaplin to write English lyrics. 82 WHEELS of DEATH ■ Dragged beneath the heavily loaded coal car from which he had been hurled, this railroader says, "I felt myself being shoved toward the rail." Would he be ground to a lifeless pulp? What passes through the brain of a man who is only a step from eternity is vividly told by Hugh Holton in his story I HAVE SEEN DEATH in the March issue of the nonsectarian magazine YOUR FAITH At Your Newsdealer's A MACFADDEN PUBLICATION RADIO AND TELEVISION MIRROR