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1. It all began on the Warner lot during the filming of Jack’s newest picture. It seems there were six beautiful extra girls and six beautiful extra bugles. But together — alas! — they made most unbeautiful music. So Maestro Jack stepped in.
4. Now Jack gives out on a rather broken-down cornet as audience (offstage) almost gives up. Eyeball control, often useful for vision, is induced here by the Maestro’s surprise in finding the mouthpiece a good six inches from where it was born.
1. Undaunted by problems big or little, Jack hitches on to a sousaphone with a grip more suggestive of tree-climbing than music-making. (Mr.
Benny would like to say something right now but his mouth is full.)
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2 « “Horn-blowing calls for proper lip-puckering,” says “Hot Lips” Benny. Trained in the art by his co: star, Alexis Smith, Jack has little or no trouble getting little or no music out of this combination trumpet-automobile horn. (Leave it to Jack to utilize every part of his Maxwell! )
5. An old reveille-blower at heart, Jack blows the bugle with an easy nonchalance. The strained expression from the eyebrows up is characteristic of that almost extant species—the bugler from World War I—the guy who had to get up first to get everybody else up.
8. The guy’s plain lucky! Anybody else’d have raised the cops by now—but not Benny! A latterday Pied Piper, he’s attracted two girls who are plenty attractive in their own right—Dolores Moran and Alexis Smith. They seem to be all ears, too. (What's more, they can’t stop them quickly enough.) Even the trumpet seems surprised.
(WITH PLENTy OF BRASS!)
Benny the Bungler becomes Benny the Bugler in a few easy lessons and shows here how it’s done. Music lovers will be relieved to learn, however, that it’s all in fun— just part of the day’s work for Jack’s current film hit, “The Horn Blows At Midnight.” Co-starred with Jack in the Warner Bros.’ comedy is screen lovely Alexis Smith.
3. “Progress,” says Jack, “is important, lest you become a Johnny-One-Note.” So, with characteristic lack of logic, Jack goes on to a difficult instrument, circa 13th Cent—the German zinke. (If he gets half-a-note out of this, he'll be lucky! )
6. Benny gives out with a few hot licks on the euphonium (From the Latin: You-phone-’em, Idate-’em). Says Jack: “I think the fellow who invented this thing must have had weird dreams about spaghetti.” The extra mouthpiece is designed especially for a two-headed horn-blower.
9. “I didn’t really want to blow a horn, anyway,” Jack says, as his old friend the violin comes to roost in its familiar groove just below his left cheek. “By the way,” he continues hopefully, “have you heard me play ‘Love In Bloom?’... Well! Where IS everybody?”
For feature sections, Sunday supplements, ete. ORDER “Horn Blows” Feature Mat No. 501-B. 7éec, from Warner Bros’ Campaign Plan Editor, 321 W. 44th St.. New York 18. N.Y.
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