Judge — March 22, 1930 — page 18: what you’re looking at

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Joe and Moe, Songwriters They Do One for Jolson “Lstes. I hear Al's lookin’ for songs for a new picture he wants to do,” said Joe, seated at the piano. “Al who? I don't know any Al,” his _word-writer. only one Al as far as we're d that’s Jolson. L I got a tune as great as It is but it 's the same and , but still #t’s differ- > part sounds like ittle Pal,’ but t quite. you see, it’s right down Jolson’s alle: “That's where it ought to be.” “I gotta great title for it, too. See f you don’t think so. Listen, ‘Starry Gal.’ Ain’t that swell? Starry instead of sonny, and gal instead of pal. Get the connectio: And with this tune, nobody could miss it.” “Nobody would.” “So all you gotta do is gimme some words like ‘Sonny Boy’ and we're all set.” “There aren't any more words like ‘Sonny Boy.’ And besides, Jolson al- ways works with a boy, and you want the song to be about a girl.” “But listen, he can have a girl for a change, can’t he? I got it all figured out, see. If it’s a little girl he’s got, he can sing the same song to this little girl about climbing on his knee he sings to the wife that deserts h “Oh, you're writing the picture? “No. But when they get a great tune like this, they can write around it.” “Well, they better write as far around this as possible.” ain't. The some of the no! The voice “Awright, wise-cracker! But know what those punks DeSylva, Brown and Henderson made on that one number alone?” “Enemies.” “Awright. Never mind. someone else to write this.” I'll get “How're y’ fired for insurance, Herb?” 16 of Spring. “Say, can’t you take a joke? Look, I got the first line already. Play it and I'll sing it. ‘Cuddle in my lap, Starry Gal.’ Like it That's the ide: finished tomorrow cah, I'M be u think it'll b Cc ‘an you have it finished tomorrow a success.” n't fail. Think of the plug it'll get. “Itll deserve a plug. See you to- morrow.” “Well, s‘long!" S'long !" —Canrrott Carroii Two of the most blessed events we can think of offhand are—Arthur Brisbane taking an airplane ride and Phil Scott being fouled. And as we look at it, there's about as much meat in one of these modern novels as there is in a lamb chop. Ask Any Singer They tell us we have lived full oft on other planes than this, Accumulating heaps of things to fur- ther ill or bliss; But I would give a life or two to find this out right now, “Why does a singer know it all?” Task—“and how: —Maste Bepvoe comicbooks.com