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Evening star., 1946-10-06
Song-Writing Team On a Spot
Now Every One Wants Movie Tune From
Composers of To Each His Own
By HoroId Heffernon
By HoroId Heffernon

to write a Dear Ruth would be to
have a man addressing a message
to a girl named Ruth. That would
preclude It's being hit because
women would sound silly singing it.
We got around that by making 1t
a third person message over which
either man or women could rem
inisce."
Began With q Line.
There have been other hit title
tunes in the past. such as Farewell
to Arms" Ramona" IT Cover the
Waterfront" and Lilac Time" but
none has enjoyed the slow-starting
but phenomenal success Of ITO Each
His own" And nobody, strangely
enough, has been able to put I'm
ger on the reason for its popularity.
Least of all Evans and Livingston.
"The title" they said, didn't
sound like a song. Maybe that's the
reason. All we had to begin with
was a line that went two lips must
insist on two more to be kissed
From that came other words, then a
bit of music. and we had what could
be called q song"
Livingston, whose brother is head
music scout for Capital Records,
laughingly recalls that Capital was
the only company that did not re-
cord the tune. ALLEN, my brother,
didn't think it was so hot, either"
he says.
incidentally. Ray and Jay feel
that naming song for a movie Gre
ates obstacles to its success. "Or-
chestra leaders look down their
noses at them at first, asking, Why
should I plug a song which is only
q plug for movie?' Once the tune
catches on, Of course, they have to
play it,. u
Met ut University.
Forced by their sudden success 10
keep producing. the boys are digging
deep into the trunk for material.
Their Square In the Social Circle"
and the novelty, "Stuff Like That
There" sung by Betty Hutton In
"Stork Club" came to her covered
with four years OF dust. They wrote
them, they say. with Hutton In mind
and saved them until the time was
ripe to offer them to her. In that
same trunk are $50 other tunes,
most of them rejectees, which are
destined inevitably for up-to-date
treatment. Those tunes are the ac-I
cllmulation of 10 years singular fail
ure broken only by the fair-to-mid-
ding Goodbye Now" published In
1941.
They started accumulating shortly
after the two met at University of
Pennsylvania where Livingston
played the piano In his own orches-
ira and. Evans the saxophone and
clarinet. Both had had a thorough
backgrounding in high school
Evans at the Salamanca High
School, 60 miles south of Buffalo,
Evening star., 1946-10-06
HOLLYWOOD.

Twist your radio dial to almost
any station these days and nights
and chances are you won't have to
wait too long before somebody
starts grooming "To Each His Own" !"
The No. / song on the Hit Parade,
and leading seller in four out Of five
brands of phonograph records, is
one of those unexplained hits that
has Hollywood music circles rocking.
Most important aftermath Of ITO
Each His own" Is the trend 1t has
started for matching movie titles
with song hits. It isn't played or
sung In the excellent movie starring
Olivia de Haviland. It was written
ION orders" after the film was fin
ished, merely as something that
might boost ticket-buying interest
in picture admittedly handicapped
by an uninviting title.
No one, much less the two writers
Of the song, was prepared for what
followed. They are couple OF stu
dious young truants from the June
moon school named Ray Evans and
Jay Livingston. Both are 81, both
are bespectacled and the skinny
frames of the pair show the rigors
of 10 years of failure In the song
writing field.
Emotionally unprepared for sud-
den wealth and the cascading de-
Emands for more hits to match screen
titles, Evans and Livingston sit on
the edge of their chairs In Room 215
Of the Paramount music depart
ment alternately counting the
record and sheet music take from
their unbelievable hit and jumping
when the telephone rings.
Almost Unreasonable.
"It's all wonderful, too wonderful
for words" chimed Ray (words) and
Jay (music) when we walked into
their modest workshop to interview
the still dazed trend-makers, "but
we're on the spot now and can't
get OF. It's knocking our nervous
system to pieces. Every producer on
the lot now wants a song Tor MS
film. They call us up six hours be.
fore they're tearing down set and
tell us they've got to shoot a song
on that stage. It must fit the action
and, above all, carry the name Of
the picture"
They've just finished ditty called
Golden Earrings" for the Marlene
Dietrich-Ray Milland movie now
shooting. Bob Hope wants them to
do a my Favorite Brunette" to ex-
plot that picture on the air. An
executive wanting to change the
title name of the Alan Ladd-Dorothy
Lamour THE Big Haircut" has
asked them to write "hit tune"
with a new title to fit. The success
sion of demands bordered on the
unreasonable when another producer
wanted "hit" title tune for his
Dear Ruth" starring Joan Caul-
field and William Holden.
1--WE sweated over that one," said
Ray. It seemed that the only way
Evening star., 1946-10-06
CowardPs a Smart One
And Smartest in Repeating That Every One
Else Is Pretty Dull
By Joy 0rmody

The past week was the one which marked the return Of radios
listening
public Their welcome the constantly growing number Of profess
surprise them Instead
glad hand mailed fists which the
critics let fly without regard to the prestige OF the renees their
places veneaby Of their comedy
This the critics walled obviously to be repetition OF
other with particular emphasis the jokes and
This chush reception strngly with the given
the National Present Laughter Cowads
plot his vocabulary the comedy
century, all the back to his nrst play
Naturally they are some years apparently struck
being dappr ever And certainly no less vie
1t Go for Decades.
Every agreed again most amusing fellow and
thought to the obvious fact that Present
jes precisely the thing to the equal
amusement o. equally packed houses.
every and especially those IN RADIO might well
copy. - -
His subject which treated with
hn quality like cowards would still be inoeaoe TO the net.
works number OF other less danger
behavior which are the permissible material
Of the ether authors.
The keystone bright and successful
deception laid in his first play By nveighng in that against
procaimng that else dull
century his reeraon OF this
position that brought
from them The majority agreed with Coward that NE was
ghened it, which they did, and do they could af-
ford be toerany amused toward any arrogance IN his basic at
titude
The vast body heaegoe bothered
laugh with him at his rque treat
between the He have an ANUS
asked OF him. AS time
let the matter rest there That probably
Coward comedies In his but
Is OF consequence in
ingrate thing in this world could use
make against the clever
fellow cIche family dinner IN BROOKLYN
difference these Cowards own cches
when the curtain rises on Donao
deserted studio living OF the matinee IDOL
nook can bet 1t was
also looking Design Living" and Private Lives Or
the Applause Is Terrific.
cynic thinking of that the curtain
suddenly driven into his brain tut of
applause deserted but the set itself old friend and
enthusiastic Minnie Maddern
Fiske
begin walking the set seconds later
clkes friends The dbutante who filings herself into
tired stage in whose bedroom
the others in steady
wise beautiful we-moter type there And the
phandering predatory beautiful
them The ppant butler also and horoscoc
the wonderful Nine Arca in "Bdthe
Spirit" &#t g#%= an
old Coward did not write "The Green
to claim its laugh In the third act Of Present
Laughter"
any about this repetition?
than those radio people No one
him to change And he would not dare to do It, II
he could.
Evening star., 1946-10-06
Today's Film Schedules

CAPTToI-The Searching 4:2o, 7o and $50 pm
stage shows: i:10, $50, $40 and 9:20
CONTRADICTORY of Lae" $780, $780, $780, 1885 and 935
EARLE-"Two Guys from Milwaukee, 10 32o 5:25, 735 and
Gas
HPPoDRoME-"Grand Illusion: 2o5 $40 and $50 pm
Killers: so, sos, TBS and 945
Happened the Inn 3:l0 $50 7:30 and 945
AETROPOIITAN-"Galant Journey $780, 345 54o 745 and
$50 pm.
PAIAcE-"Ioiday Mexico" 1890 245 s. tbs and $50
PIX-"Twn Beds" 1:10 4:10 ITO and 1910 pm
TRANs-LUX-New and shorts. Continuous from pm
Coming Attractions
NATTONAI-"The Student Prince" starting October a.
CAPITOL-The Cockeyed Miracle with Keenan, Wynn starting
Thursday.
EARLE-cloak with Cooper starting Thursday
with Edward G. Robinson and Loretta
Young
METRoPoIITAN-"Her Secret" with Nancy Coleman
starting Thursday
PALACEThree with Vivian Blaine
PIx-ashadows Suspicion" starting Tuesday
Evening star., 1946-10-06

N. r, and Livingston at the NC
Donald High School, Is miles from
Pittsburgh. Their parents still live
In Salamanca and Pittsburgh.
After playing for countless dances
and dinners around Philadelphia
the boys got their diplomas and
itchy feet at about the same time
and toured the world with their
band for transportation and coffee
and cake money. Jay, Journalism
major, and Ray who took an eco
nomics degree. decided upon their
return to New York in 1896 that
those respective professions were not
for them.
RAY had a few lyrics In note
book, SO we decided to become song
writer's" Jay explained. This deci-
sion was met with considerable
apathy In Tin Pan Alley, forcing
Ray to turn to bookkeeping and Jay
to playing piano in honky tonks
to pay their rent In a Greenwich
Village apartment which they shared
with three other struggling musi-
clans.
Finally . Contract.
In 1910 they summoned the cour-
age to write to Olsen and johnson
telling them they had a lot of ideas
plus gobs Of talent for song writing.
The producers Of "Hellzapoppin' !"
and "Sons of Guns" strangely be-
lieved them, invited them around to
prove 1t. o. and J. picked them up
for q song. SO to speak, and they
worked with them on several private
productions including some risque
song skits for Lambs Club shows,
where they learned to tailor a song
q Ia Hollywood to q situation.
Olsen and johnson brought them
to Hollywood in 1943 where they be-
came enamored of real oranges
growing an trees" commodity
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-08

way from Pamlico sound to Beau
fort harbor "a side-channel lead
ing into Davis and the repair
work on the Cape Fear river bikes
near Kelly. These projects, which
do not call for large expenditures,
are uncertain of being approved
by Steelman's survey, the office
said.
Study Goes On
The order does not affect the
engineers study of the IS foot
channel project, the new construc-
ton work at Fort Bragg, the Vet
Grams administration hospitals in
Durham and Charlotte, or any
other district projects for which
contracts have already been award
ed, the office added.
Meanwhile, as the projects come
to what may be only a temporary
standstill, the Army Engineers
headquarters in Washington is re-
ported to be matching Steelman's
survey with one of it's own to de-
eide which projects may be carried
on during the current fiscal year
under the new and stringent regu-
lations. Local interests are hoping
that the optimism of Congressman
Clark and the local engineers will
prove correct.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-08
MORE ABOUT
TOBACCO
FROM PAGE ONE

a large volume of tobacco on the
floors for sales today. The market
sold approximately 800, 900 pounds
yesterday at an average of S58.
Top price was $40.
214,226 Pounds At Fair Bluff
The Fair Bluff market sold
314,226 pounds at an average of
$3.50, crossing the growers $124,-
465.30. Top price was SIS, accord
ing to C. B. Townsend, supervisor
Of sales.
Fayetteville's new market sold
1926, 700 pounds, a record for its
five days of sales. Average was
S54.65 with top price for the day
listed at $40, F. E. Crawford,
supervisor of sales said.
The Lumberton market sold &c.,
982 pounds at an average of $58. rs
with the top price for the day $50,
Bob Rankin, sales supervisor re-
ported.
$685. 1925 At Tabor City
Tabor City reported 1903, 1928
pounds marketed for an average of
$56.23. Top price was $78.50 &C
cording to Willard G.. Cole, super
visor of sales.
Supervisor of Sales Walter H.
Paramore said the Whiteville mar
ket sold 584, 1858 at an average of
$50 per hundred. Top price was
$40. Offerings consisted of quality
Tugs and few tips.
Most markets reported that
medium grades are selling high
er, and that even the lower grades
are showing an upward trend in
price.
The Clarkton market could not
be contacted last night because Of
telephone trouble.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-08
MORE ABOUT
O'NEILL
FROM PAGE ONE

fellow members of the Wilmington
Light Infantry in front Of the WILL
armory.
No Inquest Planned
Coroner Asa w. Allen said last
night that no inquest will be con-
Quoted into MI. O'Neill's death,
saying that from his investigation
it obviously was an accident. The
supposition was that he suffered a
heart attack and fell, striking his
head upon the sidewalk or steps Of
the Armory with sufficient force to
cause the brain injury.
Mr.. O'Neill was for many years
a member of the banking staff of
the former Murchison National
bank, and for the last Is years he
has been representing life, acct
dent and health insurance COM
panies in Wilmington.
Reserve Corp Member
He was a member of the Reserve
Corps of the Wilmington Light In
fantry, and vas also one of the orr
ginal members of the W. L. l..
Beach club at Wrightsville Beach.
For years he was a member of
the old Wilmington Light Infantry,
having attended many National
Guard encampments at Fort Cas-
well, and during World War l he
was a lieutenant in the WILL home
guard unit.
Attended Schools Here
He was a son of Mrs. Charlotte
Daniel O'Neill and the late DR.. W.
P. O'Neill, having been born in
Charleston, S. c., Nov. 20. 1888.
He attended elementary schools in
Wilmington, and later took a COM
merclal course at Belmont Abbey
college, at Belmont, N. C.
He is survived by his mother,
Mrs. O'Neill, % Carolina apart
ments; two sisters, Miss Harriet
O'Neill, Wilmington; and Mrs. Eu-
gene P. Hoke, Augusta, Ca; one
brother, Bernard O'Neill, Whining
ton: and two ~nephews, Hugh V.
Hines, Wilmington; and Eugene
Hoke, with the United States Army
Air Corps, Panama Canal Zone.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-08

basement Of the county court house
was swept by fire Tuesday morn
ing. after the room had been ig-
nited by a spark from a short cir
cult, DR.. Elliott said.
Partitions Burn
The medical officer explained
that the room is s~ub-divided into
several small rooms, and although
the building is fireproof and has
not had a fire of any note within
20 years, the wood partitions blaz-
ed inside.
Other specimens are expected to
be processed here as microscopes
and incubators for these tests were
not destroyed.
Estimates of damage on the
laboratory equipment, office furni-
ture and building, had not been
made last night.
The fire department was success
full in extinguishiag the blaze be-
fore it spread to other parts of
the building.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-08

a good chance Of securing addi-
tional airlines as quite a few com
panies have signified interest in
making this city a flight point. AL
though the field is fully equipped
in the matter of light, the airport
at present is closed at night, the
speaker said, and is only operated
and lights turned on by advance
request.
In reviewing possibilities for
the future, Parker told the service
clubmen hat although the CAA
had authorized construction of a
rotating beacon, it has not been
placed in operation, but he said,
he believed that such a beacon
would be a good advertisement for
Wilmington as we'll as an aid to
pilots. Operating cost Of the ro-
tating beason from sunset to sun
rise would entail a bost of approx
imately $25, 900 a year and he said
that he felt, that this added facil-
ity would come within a year or
two.
Walter Cartier, executive secre-
tary of the Wrightsville Beach
Chamber of Commerce appeared
before the club to urge endorse
ment of the power boat races to
be held at Wrightsville on Septem-
Der 7. The club, IN motion, put its
okay on the project.
Two New Members
Visitors of the club George
Skinner and Bill McCumber, and
DR.. Thoms acted as installing Off
Ger for two new members, Neil
Bolton of Tide Water Power Com
pany, and Joseph L. Freedland,
owner of the Friendly Department
store.
The attendance prize for July
went to DR.. A. H. Elliot.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-08
FLAMES DESTROY
| TEST EQUIPMENT
Health Department Facili-
ties Damaged At Court
house Yesterday

Blood for Wassermann tests
which are ordinarily made by the
Consolidated Board of Health
te%chnicians in Wilmington will have
to be sent to state laboratories in
Raleigh because of damage to
equipment from a fire which de-
stroyed equipment and badly
damaged properties, DR.. A. H.
Elliott, health officer said last
night.
The laboratory located in thf
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-08
MORE ABOUT
KIWANIS
FROM PAGE ONE

INV nj the range proceeded with.
rbe speaker told Kiwanians that
l.. new facility, which will en-.
p nIa airlines to make night land
w. here, will be a two-bean
' We" with one beam pointing to-
rard New Bern and one to Myrtle
zach. This type of beam, he said,
!, a1most free from static but it's
f.1se Of reception is limited to
,nnToximately IS miles.
r,,s+ as soon as the new WIFI
..rge is placed in operation, Ma
lanai Airlines will Argument its
sa fight north and south from
'acb day with an additional flight
'.rivina here about $40 p. m.
i.+er a third flight each way may
~. added by NAL, Parker declar-
ed.
touching on the local airport
4.,iIitv. Parker said that it was
lord TO grasp the full potentential-
NV of Bluethenthal Field with it's
-oo0 feet of runways, aprons and
..vi.strips, all Of which have to
~. maintained by the Wilmington
ysw Hanover County Airport
srrhority is good condition at all
.%nps. And in spite Of the fact
.bsre is still much to be desired
IN The way of adequate administra-
Am buildings, ETC., Wilmington
!, away ahead of scores of cities
.sroiohout the nation in the mat
H., Of airport facilities.
Management of the huge field,
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-08
MORE ABOUT
CHANNEL
FROM PAGE ONE

istic about the outcome. I'VE hope,
and We believe, that the allclear
signal will be given by October l."
an office spokesman said. IF SO
it will mean only a comparatively
short delay in getting the actual
dredging task underway"
Steelman's order also puts the
clamp on several other local en-
cheering projects. Among these
are the job of dredging the water
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-08
U

WASHINGTON, Aug. 7. -UD-
Secretary of Treasury John W.
Snyder said Wednesday that more
than Ill, 900 delinquent tax returns
totaling S170, 900, 900 were filed vol
UNFAIRLY in the fiscal year ended
last June 30.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-08
Blockade Planned

LONDON, Aug. 7-(R)-A British
official source said Wednesday Bri-
tain has prepared to blockade
Palestine and launch naval and
army operations-pe-haps by the
end of this week-to choke the flow
CT thousands of illegal Jewish i'm
migrants into the Holy Land.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-08
TOBACCO HEIR WEEDS

NEW YORK, Aug. 7. -R- R
j.. Reynolds III, heir to tobacco
millions, and actress Marianne O..
Brien we're married Wednesday ir
a quiet ceremony at the East 52nc
street apartment of the brides
mother.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-08
MORE ABOUT
BASIN
FROM PAGE ONE

The ships are expected to reach
the basin at a rate of 40 or more
a month, or better than a ship a
day. They will come from pract1-
cally every Eastern coast port.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-08

The doctrine that the earth is
spherical can be traced back to
the Pythagorean school of Greek
philosophy, in 800 B. C.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-08

the speaker said, presents many
problems daily, but with a good
break or two, Wilmington stands
Evening star., 1946-08-28

Side of Heaven" Tomorrow's new
bills are Monsieur Beaucaire"
at the Palace, The Big Sleep" at
| the Earle, Smoky" at the Capitol,
Shadow of a Woman" at the Met
ropolitan and Anna and the King
Of Siam" at the Columbia. Saturday
brings Madonna Of the Seven
Moons" to the Hippodrome. Delayed
because of an unexpected rush of
patronage for Canyon Passage"
the Danny Kaye kid from Brook
lyn" will not arrive at Keith's until
Monday.
The local drama scene:
"The Curtain Rises with Mimi
Norton in a leading role, opened
last night at the Olney Theater.
The Crossroads Theater Is con-
Guiding its season with the two
week run. starting last night, of
Here Today" with Grace Pearson
in the leading feminine role.
The Falls Church Community
Theater wants 1t known that it will
SfSAi Aec oVoSoli Wllll d. LILY
outs will be held tomorrow night.
y
If you have been thinking what
a fine life you would lead If you
were movie press agent, we have
at hand an item that may dis
courage you slightly. There are
artistic trials in movie press
agents life and he often discovers
that he is expected to write for the
front Office rather than for the
papers to which his stuff is sent. A
press release from the Warner Bros.
New York Office, for example. would
appear nude as sentence without
ia verb if it did not contain the
phrase sit was announced today by
Jack L. Warner, executive producer"
Then here Is the item we mentioned
above, If you will please take deep
breath:
This story is about Rise Stevens.
the clear voiced girl who plays an
important role in the new Federal
Films, Inc. production, Carnegie
Hall sharing the spotlight with
such other outstanding musical
celebrities as Leopold Stokowski,
Jascha Heifetz, Bruno Walter, Artur
Rubenstein, Walter Damrosch, Lily
Pons. Ezio Pima, the Vatican Choir,
Gregor Piatigorsky, Fritz Reiner,
the New York Philharmonic SYM
tphony Orchestra, Artur Rodzinsky,
Jan Peerce, Vaughn Monroe and
his orchestra, and Harry James, in
addition to the Hollywood acting
cast headed by Marsha Hunt, Will
liam Prince, Martha ODriscoll,
Frank McHugh, Felix Bressart and
Hans Yaray, all under the direction
Of Edgar G. Ulmer."
The story about Rise Stevens?
Oh, 1t didn't amount to much.
Evening star., 1946-08-28
Stage Door to Open Again
For Some More Newcomers
BY Harry Macarthur

Somewhere. Just the other day,
we were reading that story about
the young man suspected of genius
by great motion picture studio.
What, they asked of him, would be
his first move If they made him a
producer?
I'D do remake," he replied
The wise men beamed, then asked
what picture the young man would
like to remake
Going My Way he said.
There is no doubt that new screen
versions of past film successes, the
pictures called remakes, are here to
stay. Hollywood never was one to
stop Using story just because that
one was Used successfully before. If
the public liked it once. Hollywood
figures, the public will like it again.
At least two of the imminent new
films are remakes, in their fashion,
Danny Hayes Kid From Brooklyn
once having been Harold Lloyd's
The Milky Way" and Bob Hope's s
Monsieur Beaucaire" once having
been d more serious version with
the same title.
The latest of the remakes an
nounced is one you might have ex-
pected any time. Out at the RKO
Evening star., 1946-08-28

lot the boys suddenly remembered
that they had whale of success
full picture nine years ago called
Stage Door" and after the usual
conferences the production wheels
started turning. Executive Pro-
ducer Robert Sparks and Producer
Warren Duff have been conducting
tests for weeks. it develops, looking
toward the casting of the second
screen version of the Edna Ferber-
George kaufman play.
Plans right now call for casting
some OF the studios lesser players
in leading roles. The first Stage
Door" starring Ginger Rogers and
Katharine Hepburn. gave impetus
to the then-budding careers of Lu-
cille Ball. Andrea Leeds and Ann
Miller, and it is hoped that some
thing of the same sort may happen
for some others this time. One of
these latter is Jane Greer, a Wash
ington contribution to the cinema,
who is being considered for a role
in the new Stage Door"
Changes of programs come to all
the downtown screens but one this
week. Today it is the Little, which
brings back Bing Crosby's East