Modern Screen (Dec 1953 - Nov 1954)

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Eddie got the best seats in the place, Box No. 32, for Debbie and her parents; center and smack in front of the stage. Debbie's folks were in it, all right. But not Debbie. She quietly walked to another box where Eddie's father, Joseph Fisher, was all alone, and sat with him. Before the concert began she was backstage with her folks and they all gave Eddie their good wishes, Debbie sealing them with a kiss — and re-sealing them several times. And Debbie came back again after the show, of course, and you could tell it meant a lot to Eddie. After which Debbie went even further and revealed a fine understanding of the professional niceties involved in the event. She took a chair out of everyone's way — and let the rest of the world come and deliver accolades to the young artist. Besides other singers, actors, musicians, managers, songwriters and producers who trooped into Eddie's dressingroom to congratulate him, a whole girls' club had somehow wangled permission to get autographs en masse. They lined up to see Eddie. At this, Debbie, for fear she might be recognized and thus intrude on his big night, shifted further into the shadows to be sure no one would recognize her. Eddie had sung some of Irving Berlin's songs at the concert and there are plans for him to do Berlin's life on the screen. When the famous songwriter came back stage he wanted to take Eddie out for the evening. Eddie ran to get Debbie. There were others in Irving Berlin's party that night but, except for rare moments, it was a twosome as far as Eddie and Debbie were concerned. "You've got a real flip girl there," Berlin said to Eddie once, as they took seats at a Mocambo table. "Yeah, she comes up with the good ones," Eddie agreed. Up to that particular period in the evening Debbie had been talkative. But a little later when they were on the dance floor, and Eddie was singing to her, she was a girl existing in rapt silence. "They were really sufficient unto each other that night," said a friend of the pair who was there that evening. "Believe it or not they had one drink — a soft drink — between them from the time they came in until they left. One drink and two straws. If it weren't for their evening clothes they would have looked like small town kids on a soda fountain date." Eddie's birthday gift from Debbie was a pair of gold cufflinks inscribed, "A wonderful thing happened today — you." Almost everyone Eddie meets seems to think it important to point out his youth to him (he's twenty-five) and emphasize that he has a great future if he doesn't make any false moves. No one tells him to his face that marriage would be a mistake but it is plainly the general idea. Eddie, a kid who hasn't had an easy life (although he always says, "It was okay with me having been poor; I didn't know any different"), sometimes gets fed up on this trend of conversation. And he often can be heard unconsciously trying to create the impression that he is older than his years. "I bet you think I haven't been around much," he said to Irving Berlin once, "but how about this song?" And he sang one of Berlin's own numbers, written so long ago that Berlin barely recalled it. "You weren't even born yet, when I wrote that one," Berlin said. "Well, I grew quick," Eddie replied. He is also a little sensitive about complaints that his tremendous success has so complicated his life with an endless round of rehearsals, shows, interviews and conferences that nobody can get in to see him. He can't forget that for most of his life nobody ever wanted to get to him. He was a judge on Peter Potter's Juke Box Jury TV program in Hollywood last summer when Donald O'Connor guestsang a song published by O'Connor's firm. "That's the kind of song I would have liked to do last season on my Coca-Cola program," Eddie commented. "Why didn't you?" Potter wondered. "Nobody asked me," Eddie replied. Potter turned to O'Connor and asked him why he hadn't brought the song to Eddie's attention since its use by Eddie would help make it a hit. O'Connor raised helpless hands. "How do you get to Eddie?" he asked. "You have to climb over people." PRESS-AGENT SUPREME Two years ago, 1 was standing outside of Lucey's Restaurant in Hollywood when a group of movie stars came out. A crowd of autograph seekers formed, and above their excited cries a husky voice was heard booming out, "G et Jean Si mmonsl Get Jean Simmonsl" Presently the owner of the voice, a tall, broadshouldered man, approached me and suggested that I get the autograph of "that fine British actor, Robert Newton." To my surprise, the man giving out the advice was Victor Mature! Miss G. H. St. Paul, Minnesota The others laughed but there was truth to Donald's excuse and Eddie was a bit embarrassed. For a simple boy from south Philadelphia the high levels of the amusement world to which he has ascended present many complications. The demand is not only for his professional services as a singer; his personal life gets involved. Take his love for Debbie. One way or another there'll be repercussions in his career if they marry, maybe good, maybe not. It was clear last August when he was on his way to Europe that his romance would certainly be one subject he would discuss with his manager, Milton Blackstone, whom he was to meet in London. "Milton is not just my manager, but my friend," Eddie pointed out a few days before he began his trip. "When things have come up I have listened and come to my own conclusions, but always, too, I have passed the problems on to him. He's got my interest at heart, I know." ENO