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Durelle Alexander, Eddy's cute vocalist, shores his between-numbers supper.
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BY JERRY MASON
EDDY DUCHIN was born on April Fool's Day. That, he says, is a probable index to his career. He started out to be a pharmacist — that never happened. He wanted to be a concert pianist, and that never happened either. Instead, he became the most famous jazz piano-playing dance maestro in the country. His kid sister showed great talent and Eddy was all prepared to sit back and watch one member of nis family make good on the concert stage. Instead, she fell in love and married an interne.
But Eddy is going to be a concert pianist yet. He's going to wait for just one thing : an assured future for his son. For the first time, he talked of motherless, year-old Peter to a reporter. He told me that until the baby's future is guaranteed beyond any need of worry, he will continue to lead his band. But once that goal is reached, he intends to devote himself to serious study and a classical career.
That idea is not merely a buzzing bee in the bonnet of a light-thinking dance batoneer. Jose Iturbi and Serge Rachmaninoff — to name just two internationally famed pianists who have watched him — feel that Duchin can be one of America's great classical pianists. Eddy intends to prove that they're right.
Duchin, who never took a jazz piano lesson in his life, graduated from college in May, 1929. Two weeks later, he was working as pianist with a New York dance band.