Screenland (Nov 1942-Apr 1943)

DO YOU . FEAR J k new romantic team! Jeanette MacDonald and Robert Young, above, are appearing together on the screen for the first time in "Cairo," a spy film with the mystery of ancient :gypt as a background for the love, laughs, adventure and intrigue that make up the story. asn't a vacant space to be found. "Look,_ liss MacDonald," he exclaimed excitedly, thousands of men ! Thousands of them ! j jjjid it's pay day!" Before she started the concert Jeanette lade a little speech. "Frankly, boys/' she iid, "I wouldn't have been surprised if you ad walked out on me tonight. And I am attered, believe me, that you preferred to lay here and listen to me sing." And then '-hen the last encore had been sung, she ailed to them, "Well, boys, look at the "boney I saved you tonight !" At Camp Tyson, near Paris, Tennessee, le rains came again just at concert time. <o Jeanette suggested that she sing to the jen in relays inside the barracks hall. In he middle of her first performance the ffijghts all over the camp went out. But a ['.ttle thing like that didn't bother Jeanette. ,,1!lf the Army can fight in the dark, I guess can sing in the dark," she -announced ■aily, which called for a round of cheers rem the appreciative men. At Fort Knox, Kentucky, she gave four grinning soldiers omething to write home about. They were etailed to put her on the train. Now eanette never eats before a concert, so she pad missed dinner at the Fort, and she knew here wouldn't be a diner on the train there never was) so she had the boys take per to a "jernt" near the railroad station, ;nd there they ate sandwiches and played 'he juke box until train time. At Scott ?ield, Illinois, the skies were threatening so rather than run a chance of missing out m the concert the men there had hastily "leaned out a hangar for her. "I'm a little disappointed it didn't rain," Jeanette told he men when she was leaving. "I'd like to lave the experience of singing in a hangar." Back in Hollywood again, Jeanette said }f her trip, "It was one of the most gratifyng jobs I've ever done. I had perspiration lripping off my nose, my arms, my body :or twenty-four hours a day — but what of it, those boys are perspiring month in jmd month out, surely T can take it for a Ifew weeks. The boys were wonderful. Their genuine gratitude, their attentiveness, their eagerness made it all so worthwhile. I kept chinking to myself, 'Oh, God, I am thank Eul that I can do this.' Heat or no heat, I IGHT I'm going to try and do it again real soon." Postscript : I feel that this story would not be complete without the following letter which was forwarded to the star by Mrs. Herman J. Bittler, the mother of "Bud," one of the soldiers who heard Jeanette on her tour of the camps. "Dear Mother : I'm walking in the clouds ■ — along with thousands of other soldiers. This evening Jeanette MacDonald visited the field and thrilled everyone. She is one of the loveliest persons I have ever seen on the stage. I can't begin to name all the songs she sang— she sang so many — but the highlights of the evening, for me, at least, were the Italian Street Song, Ave Maria, and two popular songs, Johnny Doughboy and Keep the Light in the Harbor Burning. I must mention Lover Come Back to Me. I'm going to be sentimental for a week! All the men were thinking of their mothers, wives, and sweethearts and they all were in sympathy with Miss MacDonald, knowing how she must feel because her husband is in service overseas. One could feel it in her voice. For such a crowd of men, there was an unusual hush and quiet during her songs. She asked all of us to join her in Auld Lang Syne and I could hardly sing a word. It seems that we were all overcome, the chorus of voices was so subdued — one just knew how we all felt and what we were thinking. 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