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BUDDY AND JEAN AND US
CHARLES "BUDDY" ROGERS is going on the air! \f that isn't enough to make several million palpitating young femmes start for the radio set, then Graham McNamee is tongue-tied.
For the past year or so, Buddy has been seen and heard very frequently in Jean Leonard's Hollywood Studio, tickling the shimmering ivories. Jean has taken him under his wing and given him piano lessons, in preparation for Buddy's radio engagements.
And according to Jean, Buddy is so darned wrapped up in his music that he can't be jerked away from the piano. When he takes his lesson, Jean has to threaten everything from blackmail to mayhem to get him to quit on time. • You see, it was this way. All the other movie stars were taking up singing, or saxaphones, or trombones, or piccolos, or something, in order to be able to broadcast, and Buddy decided he ought to do something. He could play every instrument in an orchestra already, from trombone to banjo, but he'd always wanted to play the piano. So he suddenly announced that he was a piano player, started taking lessons to back up the statement, and now he is and a darned good one, too.
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Anyone who knows one note from another, or can whistle, knows that "From Out of Nowhere" is a pretty difficult piece to play. But when Buddy sits down and rattles it off, with all the frills, runs and breaks that Jean has taught him, you wonder why he's wasting his time as a common movie star. And little more than a year ago "they'd have laughed if he even so much as started to sit down at a piano."
• Buddy is all enthusiastic about radio.
"There is a fascination about a radio mike.
"I think it is essential for a moving picture actor to prepare himself to entertain over radio and television. More and more, they are being mustered to broadcast, and if they can't do anything but act, they're simply wallflowers."
Buddy is soon going East, where he will join Rudy Vallee at the Paramount. What a team that will be!
• From there they tell us he is going to broadcast regularly on the Paramount hour playing the piano and singing (Oh, by the way; he has been taking vocal lessons, too) over the National hook-up.
You have to hand it to these movie people. When they want something they go right out after it. Nothing seems impossible to them. Their motto is "Be Prepared," and no one is more prepared right now than Charles Rogers.
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