Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1935)

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The regular clientele of thirty-five couples was swelled to three hundred and fifty when Pinky introduced "The Object of My Affection," which enjoyed a season's vogue. Jimmie Greer, who conducts the dance orchestra at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, had heard Pinky sing in Norman somewhere along about then; at the time, he told Poe, "If you ever come West, look me up." One of those things. HUT Poe — and Pinky — took him at his word. ^They went West. The first man they contacted (for reasons which escape me) was Dave Dreyer, of the music department at the RKO-Radio studio. "Coy Poe did most of the talkin'," Pinky recalls. " 'We've just written a song,' he says, 'and all we want is five minutes of your time.' " I got out the old guitar, and started on 'The Object of My Affection.' I got as far as the 'break,' and Dreyer says, 'That's far enough.' We thought he was giving us the gate. Instead, he tells us, 'Irving Berlin wants that song.' You see, Dreyer was representin' Berlin's publishin' house." This was on a Thursday noon. Dreyer gave them a note to Jimmie Greer: "I'm nuts about the tune. Can't wait to hear you play it." The boys went right down to the Biltmore and saw Greer. He gave them — and the song — an immediate audition. "The band played it through — for a laugh," said Pinky. "They were smilin' all over ^ faces. But pretty soon they sat up . notice. Baron Long, who runs the walked in. He took one look at me and d 'That country guy? Throw him out!' ' But Pinky stayed on. Greer had tal j fancy to this boldly shy clodhopper in the tand-pepper suit. "You're hired!" sai but Pinky didn't care about that. "All I want is my song plugged," heobje i "Have you got a tux?" Greer want' to know. Pinky said he hadn't. " Don't get one," Greer advised. That same night, he introduced Pinky nlin, "the Oklahoma Flash," to the thro in the Biltmore Bowl. "I'd just had I Pinky remembered, "to clean up and I my teeth." Apparently, it sufficed. It crowd went wild. Pinky, who had never jg professionally before in his life, was a s I tion. He had to repeat "The Objc Affection" a dozen times; and even the in his own words, " Everybody hollered forrr ." Pinky's swift rise began that night, i n was paying him seventy-five dollars a 'I When the local Paramount Theater put a bid for him, Coy Poe bounced over id blithely announced that his client mig.it available for six hundred dollars per, or le such fantastic sum. The management v, up. Poe practically dared them to ta.a chance. "If he doesn't stop your show le challenged, "the whole thing's off!" THIS clause was written into the con :t ' Pinky stopped the show for five \R straight, and then went back for two re Whenever (like a faun inflight, but less grai ill he came loping onto the stage, a wave of s id like a roar would sweep the house. B( B his piece de resistance, he sang hil ditties — curiously nostalgic yet absurd I .like "Ragtime Cowboy" and "CurhjM Helen Flint, Will Rogers (Do you have to be told?), Frances Grant and Alison Skipworth as they rehearse their lines for the Fox picture, "Doubting Thomas