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BASHFUL
HIS is a story to refute the
theory that Dame Opportuty is a shy, old spinster who nidly knocks but once, then ips away to return no more. Pitted against a timid genius, e old dame can be most percent— as witness the case of arry Sosnik, most recent of the >pular dance maestri to occupy
featured spot on the airlanes. After a long run with rhe Parade of Melodies," his band is now featured with Isen and Johnson on those hilarious "Swift Revues" ch Friday night over a coast-to-coast Columbia network. The average radio critic will tell you that Sosnik has st "arrived," at the ripe age of 27. Musicians have a fferent version of it.
"Sosnik just arrived?" they repeat. "Why he arrived year ago and the public is just finding it out. He uld have been where he is now four years ago were it "t for his insane shyness!"
For Harry Sosnik is that rarity of the entertainment tsiness, a bashful orchestra leader. He can't get out in ont of his band and "clown" for the amusement of the dience. He can't go from table to table in the night lbs slapping the critics on the back and gathering for
Harry Sosnik "arrived" four years ago. Radio is just finding it out. And so is Harry
himself a few additional lines of publicity. He has no desire to announce his own numbers at the microphone and thereby impress his name upon his listeners.
Those things help in the world of entertainment — but Sosnik just can't do it. That is why, even in this radio world of meteoric reputations, it has taken the listeners a year to "discover" a really fine orchestra leader.
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ALL of the musicians thought Sosnik was good years ago — that is, all except Harry Sosnik.
One example of the manner in which Opportunity was forced to pursue him is contained in his meeting with Paul Whiteman. The "King of Jazz" had just arrived in Chicago with his band for an engagement at the Granada Cafe. He had been in town less than a week when a music publisher called Sosnik.
"Go out to the Granada Cafe and see Whiteman," the publisher said. "He wants to see you about some arrangements."
"Oh, yeh?" said Sosnik, "and when I finish with that I suppose I'm to hop up to (Continued on page SO)
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