Show t 1 A New Yorker at Large 1 t I 1 By GILBERT SWAN SWA I NEW V YORK March 23 It 3 It was something like a year ear ago that the nasal toned Jerky-toned hill billy ballads bal bat lads accompanied by fiddles ocarinas ocarinas ocarinas oca oca- jews' jews harps and such came caine 1 i floating down doi to I Manhattan from y assorted mountains mountains moun moun- h and val val- II 1 leys Today an cn- cn vogue is threat threat- ened Launched by the radio dlo t the h e the theaters aters 1 night clubs and f the hill billy is no longer a lonely lone b obscure obscure ob ob- ob- ob product of the southern hills Hes He's s meat Almost anyone who can drawl out a given set et of words sing through his nose or whine the dirge of old Lem Loco Is almost certain to get a hand At the moment one Important music revue is featuring three hillbilly Shill hill billy sisters Two successful successful suc sue night resorts have Mandy SI Bi and someone else once identified as rube entertainers have adopted the new formula and do it very well wellA A memorandum reminds me that Mons Coles Cole's Mountaineers have signed up a new air contract for something more than a hundred h thousand a year And the Crocketts fiddle dance and sing over another network Three or four soloists on whose numbers I have recently tuned in found it advisable to break into one of the sentimental out drawled ditties which l rapidly become so o familiar feat fame and mar and seemingly popular 6 The next good bet unless I miss mi's j i J my guess will be box music tunes of the fhe Germanic type the of t thing g that can trace its an to the Tyrol and Vienna Al AJ Jolson has lias one such In his new new- new new-i show Thc The Wonder Vonder Bar which is is is' likely to help set off oft this vogue ogue AlI Al- Al cody I however It has been started in ina Jj a a. small way WAr v ii vI iiI t tI I first heard about it recently from Leon Belasco who operates a band for Morton Downey Downe radios radio's popular whispering tenor Belasco InI Informed In- In I formed ormed me mc that this tune was first first first- heard around Paris He heard i It ItI there and liked it Making he te found the words were in tn GeTman German Ger GeT man but that tho the music had b n com composed b by bya a Russian At Atthe the 7 nto- ment t it was being sung sting in Frances Franc v u l They dancing to it at It the swanky Delmonico night club dub and 4 unless rearranged or rewritten is gO go- tog bis to t be b used sed by Jolson Which makes it somewhat inter J national g oa 1 Nor can one overlook the posit Z I.- I. of cowboy songs coming back in a big way war Several Se s sets ts of wild Ud west gents have already been humming humming humming hum hum- ming their way to good contracts hereabouts In the thc Theater Guilds Guild's most rec recent nt product Green Grow the LUa Lilacs a troupe of ten-gallon ten perform perform t ers burst Into western ballads at the fl slightest lightest provocation Other buckaroo bucks bucka- i roo too balladeers have met with cons con cone cone- success on the radio screen and md wa way points Some of them them them-so so it seems ems to this old cowhand cowhand might brush up a aon little on Get Little Degi Dog Deg i gies gics and Covi cov Cow Cowboys i- i boys boy's Lament and Bury Bur Me Mc Not on the Lone Prairie S I and a few others that we chanted l j when I was a Q au lad u I younger r v Speaking of ot muI mu- mu I Il matters ret reI re- re I minds me that 3 t J note on n my tf desk L. says that Lew thc the band leader threatens to take out Gut insurance on his f famous mou I hair It seems that has hasa a habit of falling asleep in barber barb chairs and twice has narrowly es escaped escaped eSt es- the shears of barbers who vrho thought he needed a 0 haircut for Tor which you jOU cant can't blame them Copyright 19 1931 NEA Service Inc |