By Daniel I. McNamara
«TTOAGLAND CARMICHAEL,
ll Attorney-at-Law ”
If the owner of the shingle bear
ing this legend had been content to
remain an obscure young lawyer in
Florida, the music-loving American
nation might never have sung
"Stardust.'1 For Hoagland Car
michael. attorney, and Hoagy Car
michael. composer of popular songs,
are identical Chief difference in
the extremes of his dual personality
is that the lawyer was a dud—the
composer a top-ranking success.
Today Carmichael is one of Hol
tjyvood’s creators of song with
dozen* of the nation's favorites to
bis credit. "Lazybones,'’ Rockin’
Chair." "Georgia On My Mind,"
"’One Morning In May.” "Little Old
,Lady” . . . these are a few of the
songs that have spread hi3 fame
as a composer, and effectually
buried all recollections of his hav
ing ever been an aspiring young
attorney
Carmichael learned to play piano
by ear from his mother, whose rag
time playing was the delight of the
(Bloomington. Indiana, neighborhood
where he was born He played his
way through law school in Indiana
.University with a three-piece orches
tra, aud by way of diversion com
posed "Rlverboat Shuffle." in the
iNegro spiritual Idiom A group of
•professional musicians, the Wol
verines. Itk»d the number, learned
It from Hoagy and recorded it A
New York publisher heard the rec
ord and printed the music. It was
•Hoagy's flrs» published work. Then
Paul Whiteman picked up his
('‘Washboard Blues.” but even that
distinction did not impress Hoagy
Itritb hi* aptness in music. His
imlnd was on the law
He entered a New York bank as
/» step towards a legal career, de
dining an offer from a New York
publishing house; then went to
Florida to hang out his shingle.
Clients failed to materialize. He
returned to Indiana, wavered for a
year between law and music, then
joined Jean Goldkette’s orchestra.
A few months later he organized
his own orchestra, in Indianapolis;
then with the completed manu
scripts of "Stardust” and "Lazy
bones” set out for Hollywood. Ht3
reception was disheartening. He
returned to Nett York, entered a
music publishing house as arranger,
and after two years, resurrected the
almost forgotten "Stardust "
It was an overnight sensation.
The young lawyer-composer vaulted
into the spotlight. He was besieged
with offers. "Lazybones" followed
"Stardust." Hollywood called. He
has been in the film capital for three
years, interrupting his work in pic
tures occasionally to write a song or
two for musical shows, for example,
“Little Old Lady." which was the
hit of Beatrice Lillie’s Broadway
vehicle. "The Show Is On."
Hoagy is of medium stature, slim,
athletic, a crack tennis player.
Happily married, he enjoys his
Hollywood home, is a culinary ex
pert. and confesses he'd rather con
cod an appetizing new dish than
turn out a new song hit. .
(Music Featuret d Phata Syndicate >
Fashions with Connie Ai„nthe guide
ROBESON HOME; LAUDS
SOVIET EDUCATION
New Yo~*k, May 25 (CNA)—
Paul Robeson, internationally fam
ous actor and seinger, arrived in
New York this week on the S. S.
Normandie.
He explained that he had re
turned to the United States in
connection with a concert our pos
sibly to act in the legitimate
theatre.
Robeson said that his son Paul,
who has attended school in Mos
cow, is now in a Soviet school in
London. Pointing out that under
the Sonriet system there ib no dist
crimination, Robeson declared:
“The boy gets a cultuyl ad
vantage in that school that he
would not have in an American or
British school. I am tremen
ously interested in the social as
pects of Russia. My Boy is al
ready interested in aviation en
gineering. You could imagine
what chance a Negro aviation en
gineer would have in the United
States or in England.”
The Soviet School in London
which young Paul attendh, is main
tained primarily for child”en of
Soviet citizen* residents in the
Brtiish capital. , ,
Robeson has lived abroad for
several years, only visiting the
United States occassionally to
make a concert tour or .to appear
in a motion picture. For a num
ber of years he has spent three
or four months annually in the
Soviet Union. He is well known
and as popular with the great
maft>es of the Soviet people as he
is with the Negro people of the
United StaX'T.
I .awronce Brown, his close friend
and piano accompanist arrived
with him.
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BIRMINGHAM EDITOR HAS
PLAN FOR AMR'S
Birmingham, Ala., June 1 (.0)—
Editor Robert Durr, of the Birm
ingham Weekly Review, 416 17th
street, N., has come forward with
the suggestion that the AME
church consolidate all its colleges
and universities into two univer
sities—one in the deep South, and
ono in tho North; consolidate the
three denominational papers into
one; and drastically -otltice the
dumber of presiding elders.
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»Harry T. Burleigh
BIRTH OF ”A SONG
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vr-a ITT- ^ He sanq so well in Erie churches that friend, sent him to Dvorak learned "Swing Low. Sweet Chariot” rom bur
/-RANDSON of a blind Maryland slave. Harry first saw The young Burleigh worked as a lamplighter, deck stew- ^ ^ & af the Thurber Scholarship. Composer leigh and it found a place in the second theme of the first
G light in Erie. Pa. His mothers college degree got her a *'<* and *u<=h l0^* He haJ.a fin® vo,ce and a 9 ^ MacDowell’s mother helped Burleigh make the grade. . ^ movement of h.s New World Symphony. Harry meanwh.|®
school job, as janitress- * memory for the plantation songs his mother sano. Macuoweii s morner r * joined the choir of St. George's Church.
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