| Show PER PERM PERSONALITIES i JIMMY M McHUGH SA ASCAP in music li A Truant From The Classics By 81 Daniel I. I McNamara JIMMY McHUGH composer of d popular songs Is a truant from the classics He lie has bas been writing lIUn many of the nations nation's popular song Bong hits for twenty years melodies such as I Cant Can't Give You Anything But Love Baby Daby On the Sunny Side o of the Street Par Par- lez let lez My Own Youre a Sweetheart and hundreds of others for tor New York revues and Hollywood Holly Holly- wood films But Dut in the studio of his Hollywood home he loves best to topIa play pIa the grand opera music he first learned as an office boy in the Boston BOiton Opera House Jimmy rubbed elbows with the musically great during his bis three years yean at the opera house A versatile versatile versa versa- tile pianist he often accompanied them at rehearsals envisioned a career as a concert But Buthe be he left all aU this behind even a scholarship at the New England Conservatory ot or Music when he plunged into popular music as aa a short cut to fame and fortune Born in Boston July 10 10 1893 Jimmy eldest of five Ave Inherited his mothers mother's musical talent A younger brother Larry now a Bay Day State legislator started out as a clarinet player for Eddy Duchin Jimmy left the classic atmosphere of ot the opera to become a song long plug lr and professional pianist first In Boston then In ID New Yorks York's Tin Pan Alley An early associate of his songwriting song song- writing career was Al At Dubin a Philadelphia youth who like the young youn Bostonian had come to Tin Pan Alley to augment the early successes of his home town Together Together To To- gether Jether they wrote Parley My Dream of or the DI Bis Parade and other post war successes Both were elected to membership in the American Society Society So So- clety of Composers Authors and andI I hers bers McHugh became both a a. publish publishing ing lug house honse executive charged with the responsibility of ot important phonograph recordings and an Increasingly increasingly In successful composer For five fire years be he wrote the song Bong hits of U-t U annual shows ot or the Cotton y dd b 1 r Jimmy McHugh ASCAP CAP Club and with Dorothy Fields daughter of or the veteran stage star Lew Fields be he produced the popular lar tar song Bong hit hU I Cant Can't Give You Anything Anything Any thing But Love Baby outstanding song of the Broad Broadway way revue Lew Leslie's Blackbirds e eThen Then Hollywood called For al ale almost most a decade now the tho erstwhile I opera house office boy has been under contract to write music for forthe forthe forthe I the films Lily Pons Deanna Durbin Durbin Dur Dur- bin Bobby Dobby Breen Dreen Alice Faye Joan Crawford have ha sung Bung his creations McHugh spends most of ot his time in Hollywood but occasionally via visits visit the East usually flying to and fro Music is both his profession and his hobby popular hobby popular music his bis profession profession profession pro pro- classic music his hobby Puccini Is his favorite composer lie He treasures an autographed picture pic plc ture of ct the Italian composer a memento of the premiere of 1 Puccini's uc- uc cinis cini's La Figlia dOr In Jimmys Jimmy's youthful days at the Boston Doston Opera House Another prized possession is a piano owned by the late George Gershwin which has a place of ot honor in his Hollywood home borne J. J e Mgr sli 8 Photo Syndicate N N. Y |
