Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-07-25 | Page 7 | Along Broadway with Walter Winchell Singer Who Startled B'way by Comeback Pens Column

ALON ALON BROADWAY AY WITH WALTER WINCHELL Singer Sing Who w- w Startled a arg rg Comeback Pens Column Fields Felds the singer who startled Broadway by his hs sen- sen is today's vacation substitute for fot Mr Winch Win V ch chelk R By BENNY FIELDS f. Additions Interpolations and Asides by Blossom Seeley I It It came to me like a flash that the best way to open a guest guestt t is to whip right out with a snappy gag Nothing too ex- ex p mind you but something that will put the readers reade s in that mood which seems to say That Benny Fields Isn't fl fc the one and then sit back to some rollicking good literature S So as I 1 begin writing this slab of this de do devie dovie vie ie I pluck this bon boa hot right out of ot the air I x was born in Chicago on the corner of Balaban and Katz He doesn't know a a. word of ot French and what's whal's more hes he's been saving that Balaban and Katz for 15 years waiting for lor a a. chance chanco to use it B. IL-B. B. B S. S A writer named Jacob Tacob Wasser- Wasser man once wrote a book called The Worlds World's Illusion And all you read of it jt was the tho title B. B. B S. S But I lived it Alt All of or it In a a. night between Coney Island and New York And all because of ot Blossom Seeley That was way back when 65 a a. week that I was getting was plenty of With a weeks week's plunder rustling in my pockets I determined to see just what it was this Blossom Seeley had that made her talked about as a a. singer Dont Don't get gel me wrong It Il wasn't the girl I was interested in it was her style lyle of or singing Hmm Now it comes come out out out- B. B S. S By the time thi thin appears appear I ma may maybe maybe be of off to California where you Walter are tare now and where that princely fellow Abe Lyman could dould be elected mayor right now If It he I wanted the office The movies are going to pay mo me to sing singon on one one so song g. g Im I'm not crowing and Im I'm not riot afraid to mention the amount because anybody with whom I haven't ha squared my ac accounts accounts accounts ac- ac counts is welcome to tear hi his hunk out of It IL I 1 mention it Ity rather because life particularly in my profession profession profession sion is ti tied d up figures I got 5 and a a. watch for singing my first song and doing my roy first cakewalk on the sidewalks of or Milwaukee Your father look took the five and your you brother took look the the watch B. B S. S And since Blossom had to drag my family into it I 1 might say here ere that the last thing they wanted me ma to be is an actor At 1 15 I 1 was drawing down my 3 a a. night regularly in Danny Goodman's Goodmans Goodmans Goodman's Goodmans Goodman's Good Good- mans man's cafe in Chicago until my ray brother had me tossed out and sent ent back to Milwaukee The High Life LICe cafe care was the hot hotspot spot of my home hom town Lown then and the mana manager er had trouble with the star of the trio The chap had taken a great fancy tancy to the strong waters He H gave him notice notice- and andI I heard about the job being beina- open I was required to sin sing baritone play the ther piano jiano dance and accompany accompany accompany pany on the guitar I had bad never touched a a. a. a guitar in my life But ButI I promised the owner that if It he h gave gave- me the job Id I'd be 00 able to play the guitar by the time I opened I 1 got me a a. 3 instrument in o a 4 hockshop and struggled with it for a a. week By that time 1 1 could play our numbers but only in one key The other night I took look a a. cab cabIn cabIn cabin in front of ot Lindy's and the driver recognized me He told me that th the previous evening he carried two passengers a a man and his wife The woman he said thought I was swell swell swell-at at least my I billing Your Minstrel Man fitted me The husband said the cabbie cabble thought I was terrible I didn't know music My style was rotten I 1 I had a terrible voice and furthermore fur fur- even J if I 1 was good he wouldn't like meThe me inc The reason reason Im I'm telling you this said th the cabbie cabble is js because you know the man You meet him almost every night and he always pats you on the tha back and Ba says s how great reat you yo ou were in the night club on the radio and everywhere By this time Lime the cab reached my hotel I l' got out and started payIng payIng payIng pay- pay Ing the driver Well I aint telling you this he explained to suck a a. big tip out of ot you yon Im I'm telling you just because you might want to know Maybe I was the sucker M Maybe yb I fell for tor a new method of ot chisel ing I gave him more than he bargained for on his promise that he would never never tell me or anybody els else