The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-11-12
GAYETY REVIEW
THE VOICE OF
BrOadWa y
BY Louis SObOl
Down Memory Lane!
with Ballard MacDonold)


with Ballard MacDonald)
To ask anybody down Memory Lane
Is like casting guy for q part
For that show that plays notwithstanding ones
AS written by Kaufman and Hart
I've neither the talent the time the words
I'll admit that my weary brain lags
Far behind the reviewing of thirty odd years
OF dialogue lyrics and gags.
MY very first effort was pleasing the irish
Extracting the RED. White and Blue"
From song Of the day. Good Bye, Little Girl"
In Dublin in Nneteen-O!Two.
Lyric by lyric plodded my way
And the going weary and long.
But at last succeeded with what was conceded
Britannias best selling song.
Then home to New York and ]. W. Stern
A publisher then of great note,
Whose partner Edward B. Marks-Youu recall
The old fashioned hits that they wrote.
With Lehar and Lncke and Berger toiled
Tho never met up with the gents
Into English for Sixtyfive cents.
Interlude
wrote q gorgeous grand revue
show to grace the floor
OF Wanach's Hotel dining room
With Sigmund RombergS score
Then came Harry Carroll with tunes in each hand
Destined to live while there fingers band.
zegeld took notice snadGa D OS you ED show
With Marilyn Miller, Lorraine and the mob'
Errol Bert Williams-and later the job
Atop of the Amsterdam writing the bits
That helped Fannie Brice in her character hits;
MCGOWAN. Herb Hoey, Dolores and others
Today they're all married and fathers and mothers
But then they were youthful and brimful Of fire
Il refer you to press agent Odd Mc1ntyre).
Then out of Chicago came James Francis Hanley
I took to his character. upright and manly
And looked through his pockets to see what me nad
And found had found melodious lad
He wrote Indiana" and not stopping there ~
Love Birds with Romberg the Rooneys were starred
Cain and his horses outside IN the yara oo
The show hit and the critics protuse
Then units for Carroll and off to the Coast
The Orange Grove "Pickings" and, pardon my boast,
Six months to the night its marvellous run,
A record that stands as an unbeaten one.
Prom Carroll to pictures and to George White
With Gershwin and Buddy De sylvia, to write
fnT Frances Williams and Richman would star;
Tom PATRICIA, Mahoney and danes
velvet and satin and spangles and pearls
Music and talent and more and more girls
Then came the offer of Rufus LeMalres
Chicago and triumph with his first Affairs
Then came legacy out Of the blue .-
just when the song-writing racket was through
Singapore Borneo Java and China,
warning to tourists who seek out its charms
Fair Honolulu is Newark with palms..
Earl E. T. Smith let me In on the joke
The market had skidded My fortune was smoke
Back to my chicken ranchE .. its last leg
Ate the last pullet and boiled the last egg
packed I'D my family, blessed by the Stork,
Boarded the Chief and came back to New York.
SdetraeSed by Fowler and Hechts "Great Magoo."
Writing directing and acting in shorts
Universally bad-no conflicting reports.
III and away to the Sunny South Seas
Where the temperature varies but seven degrees,
Five months of that without writing a line
Back on the mainland and Broadway for mine.
Roses new Music Hall just in the making,
Joined in the task of that swell undertaking,
Helped with the shows in the c. de Paree
Met Yermie Stern and Yerrnie met me.
Rose went to Europe-Lew Brown blew IN town
Nothing to do so signed with Brown
genius that guy and pile it on thick,
No one can think, write or flare up as quick
Three months Of that and my nerves went to hell
You can get confirmation from Doctor Michel.
Lew and parted I'm sorry to say
For went for Lew Brown in a very big way
Gosh, how he writes and with ev'ry new line
I'd swell up with pride just as If it were NINE
Regardless of chickering's quarres and jars
I wish him success with his Calling All Stars
There was no use to cry over milk that was Split
So I put on my sporan and frightened my XIII;
That day Eddie Bowling I sought in his den
Came away with contract and Eddles new pen.
One word for BROADWAY, its files and its ranks
I owe you my living For which many thanks
~;ooo Dave Gor+r, vda 1~TX "