Radio mirror (May-Oct 1936)

RADIO MIRROR Secrets We Have Never Tol_d (Continued from page 21) and Gracie are very good, too!) The united front they present professionally is the united front they present in their private lives. It is a protection, a wall behind which they can retire, and the only times they have been deeply hurt or have suffered have been when that wall could do no good. When, to be more explicit, the others could only stand by and let one work out his own problems. Victor's case was a great one, for it threatened, for a while, to cause the first break in the brotherhood. You caught only a faint reverberation of it when you read in the papers that Victor Lombardo had joined his brothers' orchestra. There was much more to it than that. It took Vic two months to puzzle his problem out. They were anxious months for Guy and Carm and Lieb. Vic had been a boy when his brothers left Ontario, the kid who was always being chased away from hockey games because he would get hurt. He was thirteen. They were all over twenty. He didn't know them very well. He stayed in London for six years. He listened to the Royal Canadians on the radio and on records; and he listened to the swing bands: Joe Venuti, Duke Ellington, the Dorseys. He decided he preferred swing bands. WHEN he formed his own orchestra, he called it "Victor Lombardo and his Junior Orchestra" and went to town. It was hotcha and razzamataz for Vic. That, to him, was the new music. Something worth working up a sweat over. But Mrs. Guy Lombardo, Sr., his mother, had a different idea. She wrote Guy, Jr., that if Vic had to be a saxophonist, she wanted him where her big boys could keep an eye on her little one. So, after six years, Victor journeyed off to join the Royal Canadians. He was to have a tough time of it. The reasons are pretty easy to see, now. These famous, sophisticated brothers whose musical thoughts ran in the same smooth channel were strangers to him, and he was no less a stranger to them; he believed their sweet harmonies outdated and felt he should introduce his own swing style; they had trouble fitting him into a combination that worked perfectly as it was and had no need of him. So, for two months, Victor, the newcomer, fought against the Lombardo style. There was a place in the brotherhood for him, but he didn't know it. Even if he had known it, it is probable that he wouldn't have wanted it. Guy and Carm and Lieb tried hard, but at the end of that time, there was only one thing Guy could do, and it was pretty desperate. He fired Vic. And Vic, not at all daunted, quit. It came out in the wash. The manager of the club in which the Lombardos were appearing talked to him and he returned. He also settled down. He has taken his place with the others by now. He listens to swing music, but he doesn't play it. During Victor's apprenticeship. Carmen was certainly of great help to him. Carmen is one of the best of the country's saxophonists and certainly one of the most ingratiating of the popular singers. In spite of that, he is self-conscious and just a little afraid that he is cluttering up the air with his voice. He gave Victor the advantage of knowl IMow.. aTjat^JueA usa/s to avoid You are so ^-L/aliity when you bathe with this lovely scented soap! First it brings sweet cleanliness . . . this exquisite Cashmere Bouquet Soap! Its rich, deep-cleansing lather leaves no chance of unpleasant body odor. Then, its lovely, flower-like perfume lends you added glamour. It lingers about you long after your bath . . . gives you the fragrant daintiness men find so adorable. Use this pure, creamy-white soap for your complexion, too. Its generous lather is so gentle and caressing. Yet it goes down into each pore and removes every bit of dirt and cosmetics . . . keeps your skin radiantly clear, alluringly smooth. And now Cashmere Bouquet costs only 10^ a cake. The same long-lasting soap which for generations, has been 25^. Exactly the same size cake, scented with the same delicate blend of 17 costly perfumes. Cashmere Bouquet Soap is sold at all drug, department and 10{i stores. NOW ONLY IQ-t ike fetmefi 2^< tiae BATHE WITH ^^puguJzZ. THE LOVELIER WAY TO AVOID OFFENDING 61 J