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BY LEONARD FEATHER
■ MODERN SCREEN'S new, top notch Swing and Jazz Editor, Leonard Feather swings right into the mood of this, our 15th Anniversary issue, and jogs us back to the music world of boop-boopa-doop and Rudy Vallee — into the year 1930. So climb on the bandwagon with Leonard and Joe, his purely figment of -the-imagination
assistant, for a big name musical memory tour. — Ed. Note.
Les Brown, Doris Day, and yours truly, Leonard Feather, Cafe Rouge'ing at N. Y.'s Penna. Hotel
Well, here we are in 1930, and the music business certainly is in a state of turmoil this year. Looks as though these talkies may turn out to do some good for us after all, instead of throwing all the musicians out of work. They
say that 9,000 out of the 22,600 movie theaters are wired for sound now, and it's going to take a lot of musicians to make the sound tracks for all these musical films that are springing up.
(Joe, better get some arrangements made up on that rumba number, "The Peanut Vendor." Looks like it's a hit. And fix up those songs we heard on the radio last night — "Dancing With Tears In My Eyes," "Crying For The Carolines," "Tiptoe Through The Tulips" and "High Society Blues," willy a?)
Yes, everybody's going movie minded; songwriters and publishers and actors are invading Hollywood and it's another Gold Rush. They say Gershwin's on his way out West to write the score for a new musical. Those "Girl Crazy" songs of his sound all right, too — "Embraceable You" and what's the other one? Oh yes, "I Got
Rhythm"
This kid Lewis Ayres, the boy who was a banjo player and medical student at the University of Arizona, he's making quite a name for himself as a movie star, what with "All Quiet On The Western Front" and another one coming up. Not bad for a banjo player, huh?
{Joe, get these out for the next set — "Boop-Boop-A-Doopa-Doo Trot" and "Betty Co-Ed" (Continued on page 91)
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