HOLLYWOOD—And so there I
sat with the sun beating down, a
bath towel around my neck, hav
ing my hair cut by the composer
pf the immortal “Stardust”!
1 I called at the secluded West
Los Angeles home where Hoagy
Carmichael lives in ivy-grown
luxury with his wife and two
}k sons on the royalties of such fav
orites as “Rockin’ Chair,” “Lazy
Bones” and the current “Doctor,
Lawyer, Indian Chief.”
Hoagland "Hoagy” Carmichael,
in his gray checked sports shirt
and blue slacks, looked less like
a composer than, say, a profes
sional golfer. He’s a sun-tanned
relaxed, smallish guy, “over 40.”
with big ears, a big nose and a
handsome, long-jawed smile,
that Hoagy cuts his own hair, by
that Hoagy cuts his own bair, by
raking it with a safety razor, and
has barbered his sons, with scis
sors and comb, since their birth.
Hoagy Bix, 7, is named for the
late Trumpeter Bix Beiderbecke;
Randy Bob, 6, for Randolph Scott.
“I quit going to barbers about
10 years ago because they always
cut my hair too short in back,"
| Hoagy said. I ahemmed and pres
ently I was sitting in a canvas
chair in the brick-paved patio be
side the swimming pool while
Hoagy painstakingly snipped my
locks.
“flow'd you happen to compose
‘Stardust’?” I asked.
“It was in the summer of 1927.
► I vvas 23, starting law practice in
Indianapolis. I went back to the
University of Indiana for a visit
and was walking across the cam
pus one night whistling, when this
strain popped into my head.
“I ran back to the Book Nook,
a soft-drink campus hangout, as
it was closing. Pete Costas, the
Greek proprietor, let me in and I
worked out the first part on his
piano in about a half hour. I fin
ished it at home in Indianapolis.”
Hoagy reckoned that “Stardust”
has paid him about $300,000.
The composer is also a movie
, actor now and the star of a week
ly radio program. His autobiog
raphy, “Stardust Road,” is in the
hands of a publisher.
I protested that Hoagy was go
ing to too much trouble; but the
thorough artist, he snipped care
fully for 45 minutes.
Afterward, on the big black
Steinway in the living room, he
tried to recall “Stardust” as it
had sounded on Pete Costas’ Book !
Nook piano.. Poking out his right
cheek with his tongue, he played
the opening phrase and sang,
“Na-nu-na-nu-naa.”
“That’s as much as I got that
night,” he said.
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U. S. ATTORNEY BINGHAM
LEFT FOR WASHINGTON
Frank C. Bingham, United
States Attorney or the Second
Division, left by plane Monday
night or Washington, D.C. to at
tend a conference of all U. S. Dist
rict Attorneys.
I This is the first such meeting
since the United States entered
the war.
Bingham plans to return to
June.
SPORTS
TIPTON BATS .242
BUT GETS RAISE
WILLIAMSBURG, Va., (/Pi —
Eric Tipton, who has been more
or less a permanent fixture in the
outfield of the Cincinnati Reds for
the last three seasons, lost little
time signing his name to a 194tj
contract. Tipton, 31, had a bad
season in 1945, batting only .242.
The player said he couldn’t resist
signing without batting an eye
when he noticed the Reds offered
him an increase in salary.
HASSON PILOTS CUBS
PORTSMOUTH, Va., 0P>—
Charles Eugene <Gene> Hasson,
30-year-old former first baseman
for Syracuse of the International
League, has been named manager
of the Piedmont League Ports
mouth Cubs. He succeeds Ival
Goodman, former Cincinnati star,
who was released outright in De
cember. Hasson also will will play
with the team.
LET 'EM EAT HAY
JOHANNESBURG. </P> — Race
horse owners fear a serious de
cline in the standard of racing as
a result of an oat famine. South
Africa’s oat crop was only 25 per
cent of normal last year. As a re-,
suit, the fovemment has fixed the i
oat ration at four pounds a day
per horse as against the average
requirement of 15 pounds a day.
GOODMANSEN HERE
ON BUSINESS TRIP
Ed Goodmansen of the Trans
Alaska Company, with headquar
ters in Ketchikan, is in Nome on
business.
ALTAR HALTER
GREENOCK, Scotland, (/P»—“I
will neither marry nor bury you
nor baptize your children,” the
Rev. J. Noel Lyth wrote his par
ishioners, “unless your claim in
terms of church-going is good. I
am on strike.”
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