Screenland (May-Oct 1938)

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It is a fact that Jack's big hit was made only because Eddie Cantor declined to play that phantom crooner in the first WinchellBernie film and Darryl Zanuck, remembering that Jack was under contract to the studio although nobody ever saw him around, threw him into the breach. Jack, of course, read the 'script and protested that he couldn't do it. "You've got to do it," decreed Zanuck. "We're going into production and there's nobody else available." That's how Fate thrust a ring through Jack's unwilling nose and dragged him to cinema fame. In the old days, whenever an agent would offer booking over a circuit, Jack would always hesitate. "Let's try it out for a week first and see how I go over," he'd say. If he did well at the opening he was still not to be denied. "Wait until tomorrow," he'd palpitate, "and see how they like me then." Life, for Florence, has been just one pep talk after another. She had to sell Jack himself exactly as a salesman sells vacuum cleaners. And Jack always figured he was the wind in the bag. When they were together in vaudeville, Jack and Florence, in their hotel room, would frequently rehearse new gags for the act. But as soon as they got in front of an audience Jack would get stage fright and revert to the old routine. "Then I'd start my end of the gags anyway," said Florence, "and there was nothing for him to do but go through with them. That's' how I got him over that." All the world knows now that Jack is a singer, but he still is holding out. Even Hollywood doesn't know that he's an amaz ingly clever dancer as well, and no wonder. Jack loves to dance — in private. In public, it's something else again. "He could always dance beautifully except in front of an audience," observed Florence. "He's the best back-stage dancer I ever saw." However, one time in Winnipeg Jack became unaccustomedly bold. He decided that nobody in Canada knew him anyway and therefore he could risk a dance. He rehearsed it perfectly, then when the seats were filled he came out and tripped. Before the next performance he told the orchestra leader to take out the music, but unknown to him Florence had it put back in. So Jack had to do his dance, and this time he stayed on his feet. That dance led to an offer to book the act over the entire Keith circuit. Jack, true to form, wrote a wire saying "no" and gave it to his wife to send. She tore it up and sent another saying "yes." "All I've ever tried to do was fight him against himself," she explained. "His greatest fear is against failure, and that way he had two strikes on him before he began. Feeling as he did he couldn't relax, couldn't be natural, couldn't do his best. Of course when he flopped I had to tell him the truth. Otherwise he wouldn't have believed me when I told him he was colossal." Not only Florence, but everybody around Jack had continually to shoot him full of mental hop. Thus, when he was playing for Fanchon and Marco in Los Angeles, Marco had to make a ritual of the "pep talk" before every show. And there were seven shows a day ! It was here that Jack got an offer to go to New York and play in "Good News," his first smash on the stage. Naturally he was scared stiff to cancel his contract with the picture house and take the chance. "What would you do if you were in my place?" he went around asking all his friends. They, primed with the proper answer by Florence, told him he was bound to knock 'em cold. Jack took their advice, but instead of cancelling it he kept the Fanchon and Marco contract as an ace in the hole. He was sure he'd be back. He never did come back to those prologue appearances but only Florence and Laur WAKE UP YOUR LIVER BILE... Without Calomel—And You'll Jump Out of Bed in the Morning Rarin' to Go The liver should pour out two pounds of liquid bile into your bowels daily. If this bile is not flowing freely, your food doesn't digest. It just decays in the bowels. Gas bloats up your stomach. You get constipated. Your whole system is poisoned and you feel sour, sunk and the world looks punk. A mere bowel movement doesn't get at the cause. It takes those good, old Carter's Little Liver Pills to get these two pounds of bile flowing freely and make you feel "up and up." Harmless, gentle yet amazing in making bile flow freely. Ask for Carter's Little Liver Pills by name. 25c at all drug stores. Stubbornly refuse anything else. 92 Tea for five. Pausing between takes for a Fox-Movietone fashion reel, are Vyvyan Donner, who direct the films (seated, right), the cameraman, and models. SCREENLAND