Show TOM WAT WATERS RS TELLS i Wily V HE E CHOSE STAGE Fe r sta stage c people have ha experienced more of tho upa and aud downs towns of theatrical cal life than Torn Tom Waters who rho is m making I n nona one ona of the tho biggest bil cst hits at nt tho Orpheum this week The most remarkable thin thing about Mr Ir Waters Waters' work worl however is that he be cannot annot read a note of music and I yet vet ct his musha musical repertoire includes a t number f for of or difficult pieces of f both boll po popular l iud and ud cla classical construction How do I mana manage manago e it iU he ho r repented repeated searching fora for fOl a 3 Medley of Waltzes Waltzes' for which he is responsible and which be intended running over for tb the interviewer Oh I get a sort of disjointed idea ide which usually haunts mo me mo for awhile I whistle and hum huni it and finally when J I get et it sufficiently connected I pIa play v jt It If I think it its it's s 's worth while r I callin callin call callin in a friend fric or 01 two and inflict it on 00 them JIa Having I secured their J approval al I L pin play it for a cOI composer who puts it iton iton iton on paper That's the way war a my songs on s get getto getto ot otto to the public I wrote tho the entire score aud wd plot for Cor The Tho Mayor Maor of Laughland Laugh Laugh- land lant in which I J starred a f seasons ca ons ago Yes Ys he grinned appreciatively oh the title tithe has stuck to m me mO t hasn't it Tom Torn Waters Waters' career had a very coma bC beginning His father was a tinsmith and Tommy expected to follow fol- fol follow follow fol fol- low in the pater's pator's fo footsteps Besides the work he be din did in ill aiding his father h however the tho lad had adms ms erh 11 we cr was property ro boy Lroy it at t his hit home home town u theatre e. e In addition to lo this ho lie occasionally alternated with th the pianist who represented the or for the thc tiny opera hou house e. e This ho no did rUd merely for his ow own amusement ant and having h. played since sinco his hii eighth year 11 he took the gift ift as a amat mat matter cr of course couTs At 15 ho supplied mo most t of the village o music music and antI was at still property rh ho hei boy nt at the theatre Ill iii tell you how bow I pot ot my start said he I 1 was walking homo home from front work vork with l dads dad One DC ni night bt in rc regulation regula- regula ula tion tinsmith r paint alja paint smeared o etc and and stopped at tho tub theatre the atre atro to get t tho tim props prop for a Ii ashow show that opened t. t that at ni night ht That wa was in melodramas melodrama's melodramas melodrama's melo melo- dramas drama's days and the show how was Ono One of the Bravest The Tho house mu musician hian simply couldn't t achieve o t the he impossible and ind although the company manager hung over o the an and hummed every cry tune tunc until it was stamped cl on m my brain still the tho pianist merely grOw r more and moro more dis traded Ono of If the stagehands who considered jno iio a ni sort port of infant the Ilic manager p to p my humble efI ef cf- forte i I Tan Can all ou you play I was n u Of Of course nr e. e I C could pia play I ra ran rau u over O overa a n march or live t two and finally went through tho the pic piece e that hail had pr proven vt too loo oo for Cor the pianist t. t The Tho fOn song had hind hen lu-en written especially for Cor that par par- show arid and my of a I PH CC I J bad never heard before foro pio- pio ro something of f a l sensation I f And An you youre you're ro a tin tin smiths s apprentice Il tice hooP J ho he wanted tOj to know Why Ill I'll give c you JO 1730 1150 a week WIlk j if It r you'll 11 come I wit with thi the show ho That runt 1750 jO looked irresistible to nw mc flit Ivo vo been on tho the stage twenty years f 4 |