Modern Screen (Jan-Jun 1946)

"Hey, Mister Sinatra — wait a minute — come back." Frankie grinned and strutted back as if he were the greatest lover since 3arrymore. "Here," said Fay, "is a quarter change!" That's the way they rode and ribbed Sinatra all through the show. It lasted two hours, and it was an hour and thirty minutes before Frankie ever got to stand in the spotlight and warble one note! A pleasant surprise hit Frankie right under the heart in Newfoundland. Frankie didn't expect to do much there. He'd been tipped off the GIs took a pretty dim view of most everything. As usual, Frankie played the Sad Sack fall guy, but when he got into his songs, the show-starved soldiers wouldn't let him stop. Pretty soon he ran out of every encore number. "Okay, fellows," Frankie offered. "Yell out your requests." The first title they chorused was, "'Nancy With the Laughing Face." Frank looked at Phil accusingly. Phil looked at Frank the same way. Both of them swallowed hard, but especially Frank. How did these guys way up in Newfoundland know about that? Who'd primed them to ask? Frankie was puzzled, but he sang it, then he sang it again. It was the evening's biggest hit. But when the show was over, both Frank and Phil chorused, "How come?" Because ''Nancy With the Laughing Face" was a private, a personal Sinatra song. Phil had written it one day when his pal Jimmy Van Heusen (who writes most of Crosby's melodies) was noodling away at the piano. He rippled over a tune and Phil, who never writes songs, suddenly ourst out, "Jimmy, I'll give you a lyric for that one!" Evening before, he'd had dinner with Frank and his wife, Nancy, out in the Valley, and the way Nancy Sinatra's eyes always twinkled and her lips smiled stuck with him. Jimmy said, 'Okay," and in a few minutes Phil worked out the 'words. On Nancy's birthday Frankie sang it over the air on his show as a special sentimental tribute to the gal ne loves — and that was all. And now nere up in bleakest Newfoundland — that, Df all songs, was the people's choice. 9ow ties and decollete . . . One thing Frankie insisted on was being limself in his Dogface Debut. So he ugged along a complete, super-typical rrankie Sinatra wardrobe — ;a sport coat hat would blind a racehorse, shoulders jadded out like the Brooklyn bridge. ie had collar points that tickled his tummy ind some of those black bow ties Nancy nakes for him whien are stricuy irom L.atin Quarter. In spite of GI barbers, he ;ven managed to keep his floppy haircut. 3hil operated in civvies, too, and his turned;ip gag hat. Fay McKenzie had nothing But the slinkiest dream formals cut down 0 the eye treat limit, and in purples, ellows, reds; "exciting" colors. • It was swell to spell back-home glamor ind take the curse off olive drab. But it vas also a problem. Frankie's gang travlled in C-47s all the way. 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