A new ^ong tn ra i i s lioiii> ol',*li 'riinoiis pla>iris ior Hoaf;>- I n l i l hi' fictst h e melody , he a c c o m p a n i e s lilniselt' i \ i lh a uordU-ss rni i i t ibo- jui i ibo.

\ r t 'ho laga in^ l n iuny thing's , including; " h a r h o r s wlut c u l >oiir ha i r too short inh a c k . " t h e s t a r - d u s t tuati t r i m s bis fnin—a> vscll u> i h a l iii' lii.s twu >ons, altOM-,

Star-Dust Troubadour0,

By PETE MARTIN

HOAGY CARMICHAEL. movie actor, radioperformer and composer ol some sixty nongs.among them Old Rockin' Chair. Old Butter-

milk Sky, Am 1 Blue?. Georgia on My Mind. I GetAlong Without You Very Well, Little Old Lady.Small Fry. Thanks for tlie Memory, and HongKong Blues, as well as that classic tbeme fiong ofthe love-smitten. Star Dust, describes his entranceinto the world thus:

"On a dull November day near the turn of thecentury a child was born in a small four-room cot-tage at the soutbern end of Grant Street in Bloom-ington, Indiana. My mother's mother. GrandmaRobison, was there to rub my bead back into shapeand pour stuH into my eyes. I've been uncomforta-ble ever since."

Tbe statement is not just Hoagy yakety-yaketying for tbe sake of making a wry crack. TheCarmichael seen on the screen and heard on tbe airis a slowpoke, a lazybone.^. Privately he is in-troverted and intense to the point of acute discom-fort. He once wrote a song called Two SleepyPeople—about a girl and boy rnucd too mucb in loveto say good nigbl. Hoagy himself is two people, butonly one of them is sleepy.

When his noiicbalaiit performances on the screenor air waves bring bim critical acclaim. Hoagy stallsoff a comfortable state of mind by brooding about

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how much better he would have been if the cuttershadn't scissored his beat song or kicked his mostelVective footage around, or by bawling himself outfor delivering bis radio lines too fast.

Tbe saying about him: "He's got so many careersbe has to make a date with himself to turn out atune," is not wholly an exaggeration. Handlingtbo success that has come his way after many afrustrating detour keeps him mighty active. ForHoagy is big business now. It takes him quite a spelljust to mention the sources from which his currentincome rolls in.

His singing, done in a Southern Indiana drawlthat sounds as if it were being strained through arust-caked trombone instead of a buman larynx, hascaught on witb tbe juke-box crowd like crazy. It is asolid click witb disk buyers and movie-goers. Hegets wads of fan mail from both bobby and nylonsoxers, many of whom write that they infinitelyprefer him to either Sinatra or Crosby. As manysingers work on the theory that it's profitable toimitate his bighly stylized song delivery as tbereare cartoonists who woo atfluence by aping theartists wbo draw Superman and Flash Gordon. Inshort, at the moment Hoagy is as hoi as a two-dollar trumpet.

When, in accepting the Oscar for producing thebest movie of 1946, tbe world's No. 1 name fumbler.

'lire kicked out of a

college quartet because he

e(nildii''t sin<r, Iloajry Car-

michael is now not ouly a

famous composer (Star Dust,

Old Kockin' (^hair) hut a

radio and nu>vie star to hoot.

Sam Goldwyn, reciled the names of the actors whohad helped him make The Best Years of Our Lives ',memorable, tbe audience beld its breatii in delighted 'anticipation. Sam navigated all tbe nomenclafuralsboals without a misbap, except Hoagy's. Then hecame through nobly. He referred to Hoagy as"Hugo Carmichael."

Hoagy wasn't amused. The proceedings were go-ing out over a national hookup, and be complainedtbat it was tough for a guy to spend a lifetimefamiliarizing tbe public witb his name, only to havean unreasonable facsimile of it receive such publicity.

All the evidence proves that he was unnecessarilyworried. Hoagy and his compositions are knownwherever jazz music i& played. In the United States,the trade calls numbers like Star Dust swing stand-ards. In England, they are known as "evergreens."

Up to mid-June of this year the Carmichael re-cording of A-Huggin' and A-Chalkin' had sold750,000 platters. His recording of Old Buttermill'Sky was doing as well. He gets a royalty of threecents a record, which means that those two record-ings alone made him $45,000. This did not includehis writer's royalty of a fraction more than one halfcent on all records made of his songs by all compa-

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.Merle OIMTOII and Hoagj discuss their nv\l picture "itli Din-rtor (!roin\MClarmicliafl only i'e<-cntl> leat'Dcil to road niii^i*', {)<•<•> it slot%|ii UIKI hallin^

lloa;;> anil Laiimi IJarall in T<» lluvi' and Havf >Jnt, tlii' |>ii'lurv thaitaiiiii-lird hi-- movie carcrr. lli» rendition ol' lloiii: knn;> ltln<->. \tim a liit.

nies. By the same dale Old Buttermilk Sky had sold659,000 sheet-music copies, on which Hoaf^y's cutwas five cents a copy.

Hoagy has an ASCAP rating of AA, which hringshim an average of $20,000 a year. AA—Irving Ber-lin, Cole Porter and the late George Gershwin arealso listed AA—is as high as such ra( ings go. ASCAPmeans the American Society of Composers. Auliiora,and Puhlishers, and an ASCAP rating i.s hased onhow many times a song written hy one of its mem-bers is played by a band, selected hy a juke-boxaddict before dropping in his nickel or used ;IK partof a broadcast. Fees for such use are collected hyASCAP and passed along to its members.

Hoagy's price tag for movie work is $500(1 a week.To all of this he adds his revenue from his weeklyradio show, from his guest appearances on otherradio shows—this year (hey will bring him in altout$20,000—and fees for endorsing such Items as radio-phonograph combinations, hats, beer, a writingpaper called "Star Dust." There is also the money hemakes through selling his song.s for use in movies.

The paradox of the easygoing Carmichael versusthe broodingly intense Carmichael is only one ofseveral such contradictions in his life. He is a top-Hight plugger of popular songs, yet he was hootedout of a quartet at Indiana University because hecouldn't sihg for sour apples. Hoagy describes hissinging as, "I do it the way a shaggy dog looks. . . .I figure there is hair hanging on my voice." And hesays he has "Wabash frogs and sycamore Iwigs"in his throat.

Hoagy isn't the only one who (inds describing theway he sings an intriguing challenge. According lo•John Crosby, radio reviewer for the New YorkHerald Tribune, "Hoagy has a voice like a tiredrasp, although it provides a pleasant and relaxingfifteen minutes. . . . He sings as if he were lyingon a hammock, dressed in a warm sweater and hisoldest flannels, on the verge of falling asleep."

The secret of Hoagy's song-plugging elVeclivt'nt.'SSlies in his [ihrasing. Phrasing means estahllshlng awedding hetween words and music as they're sung." I talk a song to you so you know exactly wh;il itmeans and says," he e.\plairis. " I'm A guy who triestu enunciate."

Some women claim he possesses the sexiest malevoice they ever lipard. In the opuiion of one distall'writer, he is "Lin extrai)rr|]n;irilv tiisleful idiomaticjazz singer. . . . His .style is a rcstrnirifd oll'-hlue."While they were at it. Ihe music iirmlysls also de-scribed Hongy's person. According to (iiem heis "a dark-haired, hrown-eyed fellow with foxyfeatures . . . an Indianii .limmy W.ilkt-r.'"

Mere menl ion of somt- nf t he t ujii-.s bf IIH.S writ I ITIis calculated lo sturl millions of people to humming,hut when he faces a microphone, Ho.'igy can't re-memher t he lyrics of his r)wri sonf H. 1 le has to havethe words written out far him.

By his own admission, he Ls no great shakes as apiano player. " M y playmg has deteriorated." hecomplains. " I can't honestly say it aniountu toplaying any mure. Ijusl tinger niy own iiltle compo-sitions. If they ••ire slow enough, I don't have tofinger fast. And I oompab tbe ba.-vs :if ;nTist my ownvijcalizing."" Only recently lias he k-arned to re;idmusic. He still does it slowly and haltingly, l-tesweats out the notes on the sheet as a lip-movingchild sweats out the sentences in a tirst reader.

Tho list of Carmichael jjaradoxes seems endless.Among the re[»eat customers who went back to seethe movies To Have and Have Nol, Canyon Pas-sage and Johnny Angel for a second or even a thirdhelping, there were many who went to see Hoagy dohis character bits rather tlian watch Lauren Bacall.Humphrey Bogart, George Rafl and Randy Scottstar in those piclures. Yet, his only previous experi-ence ns an actor was as a monkey in a college skit inthe annual Christ mas Showdown at Indiana Univer-sity. Hisacf required him to stay aloft on a limh.

clad in a union suit, for iifti'on minutes, .'\fter lliat,he descended tn deliver his single line of dialogue tothe keejier of the monkey house: "Wliere've youheen all this time, daddy'.""

Hoagy's memory <if this incitlenl is not too clear,but, apocryphal or not, a.^siduous researcbers dugit ti[i and li;ive labeled it fact.

Whuii be was married, llic nienibers of bis wed-dinfj jiarty ponied their resources tn speed bim onbis bonfymoon. He bail for^^otti-n to tiraw anymoney frnm ihe hank for that purpose. Yet he wnscatmy L-nough In shake rinwn Oppnrtiinity for asi/abit' cbunk of goiit wlien I lial iiiipri'ilictabli- visilnrliii.'illy nipped ,'it Ins dnor.

l.asl season Ins Sunday cnast-lo-coast program,A Visit to Hoagy"s, during which he plufjs a productcalled I III' Kiftli Avenue t'linily Bar, was rated att asucces.'fful one. It has been described as having"ijuift informality," as being "nn All-American-souniling as I-'ibber McGee," Yet his dislike forradio work approacbcs a pboliia.

Hoagy's met bod of .m'Iccling tbe . oiif H In- singson bis weekly bniadcast is In sit in his own bome anilwarblf a do/on or more tulu'.^ to bis producer oyertbe phone. From ibese, liye ,'iri- chosen. This pro-cedure helps to keep tlie nmrc .'ihrasive aspects ofradio out ol bis hair, Tbere are no clockers standingaround wit b stop walches, no tongues cluckingworriedly over whether nr not the program willoverliow itsalliKted fifteen minutes,

Anotber pianist. Buddy Cole, helped him oul onhis tifteen-minute air show: or rather, Hoagy occa-sionally helped him. Cole carried most of the show'spiano burden. He played a grand, while now andthen Hoagy beat it out on an upright. Thereha-s been an uprigbt in his life ever siriL-e he canremcmbc-r, "1 can't seem to get anytbing out ofa grand," he .-yiys. " M y fingers are trained foran upright's action, I like the way its keys go upand Hop hack." {< oKiinnr.i ,.•> I'an,- ti n

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In (IK; beginning there wns "the oldgulden oak." "That golden-onk up-rigbt was very important to me,"Hoagy says. "Back in Bloomington,Indiana, we didn'l bave much of tbisworld's goods, but tbe golden oak witbmotber playing it while all of uslistened kept tbe Carmichaels to-getber. Wben we went away, it wassometbing to come back to."

Hoagy's motber played for tbeIndiana University fraternity andsorority dances. "She took me with herto those parties when I was little,"Hoagy says, "and I slept on two chairsplaced side by side."

One day a back-lot baseball gamewas ramed out. Young Hoagland—hismotber and hia grandparents calledbim that, althougb no one else did —came bome feeling let down. Hurlingbis baseman's glove into a comer, hewandered into tbe parlor and drummedon the keys of tbe golden oak with hisfists. Through the dripping rain heheard the college carillonneur playIndiana Frangipani in the campus belltower. " I started picking out the noteswith one finger," Hoagy remenibers."To my amazement, I found I waspicking tbem out accurately. That dayan incompetent sixty-pound third base-man died. The piano had me."

His motber showed him tbe simpleconstruction of tbe bass and the fifthuntil his ear wouldn't let him play asour note. After listening to her, Hoagygroped for tbe chords sbe'd fingered,then sought the ones she hadn't playedtbat were there in the upright waitingto be discovered.

The Carmichaels lived in half of adouble bouse. A thin wall separated

them from the foIkH next door. YoungHoagy'B heelH stomping " i Ibe HoorQB he rode th« piano pedwlH muHt havedriven his neighbors crazy. But theywere gentle, kindly folk, patient with akid trying to learn. They never beefed.

When the piano tuner left after oneof hie visits, Hoagy tore tbe golden oakdown and tuned it himself. He tried tomake it sound tinny. He fixed it BO astring here and there would be slightlyoff key and give out a "whanging"sound.

Camiichael, Senior, was in tbe hackbusiness and had a fast line of rubber-tired conveyances for hire. Hoagy'sfather moved to Indianapolis, then toMontana, then back to Bloomington;finally to Indianapolis again. In 1916Hoagy entered Manual High in Indi-anapolis, but tbe school filled bim witbrebellion ratber tban learning, and bequit. ("I parted from Manual Highwith neither of us grieving.") AfterManual be ran a cement mixer andworked in a slaugbterbouse.

Came World War I. Studying theArmy weigbt requirements, be loadedup witb water and bananas until be wasa few ounces above the minimumpoundage, but en route to the recruit-ing headquarters he shrank and hisskinny body failed to balance thescales. Undismayed, he kept on trying.One day be made it. The day wasNovember 10, 1918. He drilled for awhole hour the next morning. Then thewar was over.

His first conception of what jazzcould be like came to him in Indianapo-lis from a long-fingered Negro boynamed Reggie Duval. "Reggie fea-tured a broken rbytbm and a fiightyand unfinisbed syncopation," HoagysAys. "He stressed tbe afterbeat andlaughed with the keys, as unrestrainedand unreserved as a hyena." It wasReggie who told Hoagy, " I want that

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AT thL- peak yf tht wiir'a iranspur-_r\_ tation strain, when the rail-mads were putting all their oldtiiiichfs back on the road, I rodewith a group of naval men fromone station to nnotlier. Our groupwas put in two cars, both of which,we decided, must have been builtlong before Wf werf born. We ex-amined the odd, narrow windows,tile converted gas lamps, thef tniiglil HfatH and tiny rest roomsin each car, but we couldn't de-tide which L-ar was the older.During lunch tbe argument grew

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hot, with riders of each car churn-ing loudly that theirs was moreancient. At last we decided to ap-point an inspection committee,which would go through both carsand make a final decision. Justabout this time, one of the men inmy car slipped away. Later, whenthe committee inspected the car,we discovered the reason for hissudden exit. There, midway on thecar wall, was a neatly printed mes-sage: PLEASE D O NOT SHOOTBUFFALO FROM THESE WINDOWS.

— CHARLES W. HYATT.

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liiiriTiririy (o hulliT. Ni'vur |iliiy iiny-IhJrifj Ih.'il ain't nphl. You miiy notriHiki'.'iiiv rruini'V, liut you'll never gothoHl ill- willi yoursflf."

DfH[)il''nuL'h inlerludfH, Hoiigy wnnlonely for BloomingloiK In Jnnunry.1919, wilh ten pninfully sLTJi[wri iu-f^elher dollars (is capilnl. ho roturnodthere (o rp-enter high Hchool. He livodwith his Grandma Robieon. Beforelong the president of his high-schoolTratemity heard him doodling away ona piano in the fraternity rooms whileanolher fratemily brot her stroked a setof drums.

The president's reaction wjis imme-diate: "Let 's throw a dance! I'll giveyou guys five bucks apiece if we takein that mucb."

That night Hoagy played in an up-stairs hall over a hardware store. " I tooka deep breath and hit the keys," hesays. "And the building began to roll.The dance was on." There were twentycouples present when the dance began.Soon Ihere were thirty. In the end.couples were being turned away.

The fraternity ne.xt heard of a hotNof^o band in Louisville—Jordan's—and signed it to play for a dance,Hoagy learned still more about jazzfrom Jordan. "He hit the notos on thehead and made them pop at you," hesays.

In the summer of 1921 Hoagy metGeorge Johnson, a Chicago hoy. "Heshowed me how a saxophone should hvphiyed." Hoagy says. " It wiis dont-sinoothly, but with an occasional jtrkto accent a beat, here and there. He hadgot it from the New Orleans HhylhmKings, who had come up from NowOrleans to play at the Friars Inn inChicago."

Hoagy couldn't wait until he wontto Chioiigo to hear the New OrleansRhythm Kings. "Whon the cometplayer played his notes they smackodme in tho face at unexpected moments.They went right through my gizzardand dropped on the tloor. making myfeet jump."

But tho greatest single intluonco inhis life was a Davenport. Iowa, boynamed Bi.\ Beiclerbecke. Bix playedcomet for a hand called t he Wolverines.Hoagy first hoard Bix's t-ornol on iheIndiana University campus whon theWolverinos playod thoro for an SAEdance. To Hoagy, the notes BJX blewwere as clean as a mallet hitting achime. "Hix showed mo that jazz couldhf musical and Ijeautifiil as well HHhot," says Hoagy. "He showed mo thattempo doesn't nocessarily mean fast.He had porfect pitch. He could tell thepitch of a heallhy burp in the no.\t

room jind pick il ')ut on the piano un-erringly."

Hojigy'H horo-wnrHhip of Bix was BOall-consuming th;it ho liought n cornetand tried lo mastor it until he blew hinlipB row. In self-defonHe hiH frater-nily brothers hirl the comet in achandelier.

On Septemhor If., 1922, he enteredthe univornily, where he was pledgedKappa Sigma. He had entered Indianato study law, but before long he assem-bled a band of his own, Carmichael'sCollegians. The Collegians playedeverything by ear. Their ambition wasto play hot licks and play them clean.They liked to throw their saxophonesand firumsticks in the air. Duringthose spasms Hoagy pushed the pianostool aside and assumed the position ofa praying man! is lo play while thedrummer tossed his drumsticks aloftand chewed his tongue.

The rest of his seven-piece bandcould read music, but once they teamedup witb Hoagy they seldom saw writtenmusic again. Il was difficult to followhis load. At first he played a lot of hlackkeys and Hats. Then, when they gotused to tbat. he changed ovor and didmost of his playing in sharps. Thoycalled their music "sock" music or"dir t ." which meant (bat thoy ac-centuated the second and fourth beatsinstead of the finst and third. They"doodled" the harmony and impro-vised on tbe tune.

M usicians pa.-ising through Indi-anapolis sirotchod thoir journev as faras tho univorsity campus at Bloom-ington. Word had got around that thekids thoro "had something" when itcame to accentuating tbe afterbeat." In my day, college boys were invent-ing tbings musicallv." Hoagy claims.

It was a timo of kicking over thetraces, of yoast working m tbose whohad lived Ibrougb a worUi war. Hoagyand :i group of kindred souls wero thomoving spirits of (ho revolt againstconformily on the Indiana campus. Asfar as Hoagy was concerned, the revolthad its exprossion m "sock" music andin associating with a rampantly unin-bibitod group of studonis who calledthemselves tho Bont Eaglos. WilliamMoonkbaus was founder and chiefspokosman, and Wad Allen, now direc-tor (if pulilicity for the Johns-ManvilleCor])oration, was a Bont. p]aglo too.

Tho hoadquartorsof tiio BenI Eagleswas tlio Book Nook, a campus res-taurant. In Its past tbe Book Nookmight bavo conlainod books, but wbentho Bent Kagles discovered it, it waset|iiipped with bootbs, a beat-up playerpiano, collee. ogg sjandwichos lacedwilh catsup, wedfjos of lemon-meringue

m.';in,i liihlcs mi litmliM. It wjiHownudby i> l»nK-«ul1.-rinn C,t;-i-k iiiunwl Pe(eC«wtii».

AfU'i-iinonH m tbo Honk Nook foundHi>!iK.V ll'iKK'i'K ' l'.> pimu. while Mocnk-liJUiH fomi>OH,'d ;ind n';id iiiouii ;i |iliiy-lot i-nlitU'd, 'rbiiiikn|;iviM[; CoTncH Hu(Onoo ;i Dozen, or !\ culiif^y lu-fjiiininK:"Tbi- yt':ii-« biivc |):UI(H!'" 'I'he Hentl'lugU's llioufjbl lit' wiiM II f i'iiiuH. [ ov-iiij;ly llu>v i|uolfd (he liiu' Ihey Ihouf-btliis best: "1 jun( wiw ji cow jjo liy . . .line hy one."

Wad Allen aaya of Hoiigy, "Everylime he gol inleresled in lenrninf:; howlo do BomethinR, bia friends thouKhthe was going crazy before he mustered(he problem. When be puts his mind tosomething he really f eta on Ihe out-side of it before he lets go." At In-diana, sitting at the feet of Praf. PaulV. McNutt —later national commanderof the American Legion and High Com-missioner to the Pbibppinea—HoagyIried to gel on the outside of sucb tbingaas torts and misdemeanors.

Neither Hoagy nor tbe otber mem-hers of bis band thought of them.selvesas musical prof ess ionalfi. After makinga few recordings of their dance rhythmsfor a record manufact urer in Richmond,Indiana, named Gennett — Gennettrecords are now collector.';' items—they received a telegraphed invitationto come to New York lo record forBrunswick, then a large disk producer.Thai wire scared (hem half lo death.They didn't go.

But something was gnawing a(Hoagy. He wanted to know how tocompose a tune. One winter he. leftcollege and joined a small hand inFlorida to play at private parlies. Alsucb a party be heard Irving Berlinplay his latest song. Berlin played itwitb charm, but Hoagy noticed thatthe author of Alexander's RagtimeBand felt for the ivories uncertainly.Hoagland, be told himself, if unyoiipwbo plays tJmt feebly can write thatnobly, you can write a song liio.

Back in Bloomington, studying lawonce more, tbe idea of composing stillsimmered in him. That simmeringcaught up with him in the Book Nook,His fingers picked oul a phrase. Heplayed it again and again, unlil themonotony of his playing emplied IheNook. Before supj>er he had il. WbenBix heard tbe melody he suggested Ihalthe Wolverines record it for Gennett.It's title was Riverboat Sbuffle.

One morning Hoagy drifted into tbeBook Nook again. All that day he triedto capture a tune. Tbe harmony hepulled from tbe keys sounded like a col-ored mammy wasbing a stack of dirtyclothes. He called it Washboard Blues.

Curt Hitch and his Happy Harmo-nists, a band that played in the Wolver-ines' style, recorded it for Gennett.Before tbat recording tbe tecbniciandiscovered that Washboard Blues wastwenty seconds sbort. Hitch suggestedthat Hoagy put in a piano solo. In fiveminutes, Hoagy dreamed one up. Yearslater, when a movie Btudio needed asong in a burry, be took that eight-barsolo and built it into a song. JobnnyMercer wrote the lyrics for it. It wascalled Lazy Bones.

Hoagy was graduated in law at mid-term in 1926. His family had moved toFlorida—everybody in tbe world, it8eem.ed, was either moving to Floridaor voyaging to Europe, student thirdclass—and Hoagy decided to join themand bang out bos sbingle. His work inWest Palm Beach consisted of help-ing to sew legal patcbes on tbe pantsof tbe real-estate boom when theygrew tattered and tramplike. Even thatdidn't last long. After playing in ten-

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cent dinu'i- IIIIIIH lor 1 wn iniini |in in ki-epetiling, he weni b;ii-k {u lnili:inii.

He met I'.nil Wliitem;in wbonWliileinnn'N li^nd cumu (o Indi;in-iilinliH. nix Hciflerliecke wasa memlierof the Wliilejnan organizutinn. andintroduced Hoagy to the HliythmR'iyn Hiiig CroHhy was one of them.

Whiteman's grefling wan, •Tvelioard n lot jil.oul you. little fella."DoHjjilc line fad (bal any reference toPauKH hulk wan regarded as lese maj-esty, Hoagy replied, "I 've bearrl a lolahoul you. too, big boy." But White-man liked Hoagy's spirit.

Whileman had heard the recordingof Washboard Blues. He led Hoagy toa piano antUaid, "Sing it." The upshotof his singing was an invitation fromWhiteman to go to Chicago and sing forthe record Whiteman had promi.sed theVictor Company to make of WashhoardBlues. Hoagy didn't tindout until laterthat Whiteman had Bing Crosby allwarmed up and ready to do hi.s singingfor him if he weakened.

On a visil to Bloomington just be-fore the opening of the university's fallterm, the melody of Hlar Djsl tloatedinto his head. Walking through t le uni-versity campus late one night, he wasconscious of Ihe hrighl lu-.' s of Ihe MilkyWay and of the North Star hanginglow above the trees. He sat on the••-sprioning wall" whil'' a pbrnse ofwhislled music stole from hi.-; lips. Heran backtolht- Book NnQk.exciiemeni,driving him. "(lot ti> u.se ynur jiiMnu,"he told I lie prf>[}riftor,

Stu (jorrt-!!. Hoi^'v's r'nirninatf alIndian;!, n/imetf I hi- melorly, ToStu, itsountled like I lie dust from stars drift-ing flown through a summerwky. Some-what later Hoagy wrntu the originallyrics. It (r,(,k him twc-nly minutes.Two years passed before i\, il cbellParrish, a member of the stalT of amusic-])ijhlishing house, polished tbemand jiut Iheni into iheir fiii il form.

Tryiri},; to lie a lawyer in Indianapolisdidn't work out Utr Hoagy, und lieg:i\'c'it up. Folks w;tnte(l him to wrilf musicor play il. Some who know liini heKithink he is stili sad l.it-c;iLsc lie i n't anattorney.

Wilh Ihe law hehiiul lu'n, he foundhini.solf pliying sf-coiid piano wllb anitinerant liaiul. Then lie decided tohave a Iry a( Hollywood, He- .slart*.-doul in an upper liert h wilh a couple oisuits and a few sonfjs under his arm.He had thought ii\ •> w uf tlinsc siin);^.Old Hockin' Chair, early one tnoriiingswimming in a Bloomington ri-sfrvoir.He tried t he movie studios witliouIsuccess; but he wasn't Innely. PaulWhileman and his band were thert-making The King of Jazz, and witliWhileman were Bix Beiderbecke andBing Crosby. Hoagy beal his way backto New York on ihe special train thatcarried tlie Whiteman oullit p];ist. Heslept in an upper bt^rtb witb Bijifj,

In New York he lived in a culilivbiilein Greenwich Village. " I figured atleast twenty old men had died in thathouse during the hundred years it hadexisted," he says. In sucb surroundingshe wasn'l liking New York fast, hul hestuck it out. doing a little recordingand arranging lor prHclically nodough. After tbe ''19 crash he went towork as a t.hird-slring banker, Hfthird-stringed as an investment analystand in the Irust department of theChase National Bank and the 8. W,Straus Company, Wben Imnds bpganto fold, people kept coming in toscream, "Wby are my bonds worth somuch less?" Hoagy was supposed topacify them. When the bollom fell outof Wall Street he took another job in a

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This past Aupusl a Gallup poll,delving inlo (he habits, manners, andlikes and dislikes of the Americanpublic, came up with the informationthat America's three best-hked songsare Star Dust, Ut Me Call You Sweet-heart, and Peg o' My Heart.

For Hoagy the next few years were ablend o£ many things good and bad.Bix Beiderbecke died. Bix had reachedthe top, but he heard notes in his headhe couldn't blow out tlirough bis cor-net. Hoagy thought that finding thatout killed him.

Hoagy \\Tote Lazy River, Georgiaon My Mind, and for a Broadwaymusical revue starring Bealnce Lillie,Little Old Lady. His Lazy Bones, withlyrics by .Johnny Mercer, sold 15,000copies a d.iy and helped pull Tin I'anAlley out of (he depression. He alsomet an aKraciive girl, Ruth Meinardi,and married her.

Aiter his marriage, at Rutb's urging,Hoagy decided to have another try atHollywood. He made a two-rceler aspart of a series featuring musicianM,then moved to the Paramount lot as asong WTiter. He wrote Small Fry andTwo Sleepy People for that studio.Between 1936 and 1939 be contributedsongs to such films as Anytbing Goes;Sing, You Sinners; Thanks for I heMemory: and SI. Louis Blues.

Slim Hawks, Ihe wife of movie pro-ducer Howard Hawks, was responsiblefor giving him his big chance—a partin To Have and Have Not. Beforethat he had been briefly in a moviecalled Topper—so briefly the audiencesaw only the back of bis head.

"Slim is a neighbor and one of mybest friends," Ruth Carmicbael says."Sbe came over to see us one day wbileHoagy was on n stepladder belping thegardener. He hadn't shaved for twodays. His corduroys were rolled up andhis hair was down over bis face. Slimtook one look at him and said, 'Youought to be in pictures.'" Her bus-band had already been tbinking ofHoagy for the jiart of Cricket, a hot-piano player in a Martinique honky-tonk, for bis next tilm, but up to tbatpoint Hawks's t hinking had only got lothe point of deciding, "Hoagy mightbe a good actor because he makes sucbscrewy faces wben he sings." WhenSlim went to work on him tbaL cincbedit. To Have and Have Not marked thedebut of a new Carmicbael.

A newspaper writer, inspired by tbeprevious labeling of Lauren Bacall asThe Look, Frank Sinatra as The Voice,and Marie McDonald as Tbe Body,tagged Hoagy The Throat. Hoagy'sHong Kong Blues bad been wri((en in1938, bu(; when Hoagy played and sangit in To Have and Have Not, it alart^drolling like a snowball down a cliff. Atone point, after its release, records ofHong Kong Blues were selling 25,000dailv. The sone finally racked up a

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All iif IhiH hclpcrl him purchase ahorni' Hci in I hnv acres of f iilily maiii-I'urefi land at a cost of more than$100,000. I( ia U-shaped and builtaround a Mwimming pool. Us windowslook out over yellow-sl ripcd lieacbcbairw and purple jacaranda \rvm. Thecarc'fiillv giianl.'d l.'armicliacl thildri-n— Randy Holi, seven, and llojigy Bix,nine—sleep in a small house at (In- farend of (he pool. Hoagy cuts his o>vnhair and has barhered his Hons' hair

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According to Ruth Carmithm.-!.Randy Bob is already "ten-ific" on tbepiano. "He UKud to go to Ibc jjianofind pick things out for bimself, jiLst asHoagy once did on tbt golden oak.Hoagy made up bis mind he wouldn'tpusb him into being a pianist. Finallyhe begged bis dii(i to let him take les-sons and Hoagy consented. He has allof HoLigy's inanniTisins at tbe piano,and bis chording is amazing."

Not only is Hoagy now i rying (o " getoutside of" acting, as be once tried togot outside of law, be also applies hisintense brand of perfectionism to golfand (ennis. In his second year as agolfer he broke eigbly over tbe difficultBel Air course.

Some time ago. al the Bel Air Coun-try Cluh. he made a hole in one. Tbeother riii-mbers of his fourstiine sug-gested an adjournment to Ihe nine-teenth bole for a celebralloji. Hoagysaid, " I think I'll fry to do it again."It wiisn't a gag. He was dead serious.

Hoagy's first radio program was forIbe S.'ifew.-iy grocery-store chain. Lin-gan A. Warren, president of Safeway,one of Hoagy's admirers, sold the ideaof building .i radio program lu-ound himto the producer of the radio sjiot. NewYork writer and editor Harry Kvans—now editorial director of the FamilyCircle mngazme—was signed to writeHoagy's radio script. ".'\.'; I saw it, thebest way for bim to acbieve informalitywas by having tbe announcer appear toi)e a guest in Hoagy's home," Evanssays. "The trouble was, Hoagy has avery active imagination. Instead of be-ing content to open tbe spot by wiying'Hello, folks.' be had radio ideas youcouidn't have put across with eighty-tive men and a boy." For his orchestnihe hired a group of men, all of whomnow bave their own orcbestras, Tbeyloved working witb Hoagy. They man-aged to run up about live bours of jam-session overtime at every rehears-'il.Tbe overtime on one rebear^il alonecost $12110. ..\fter the Safeway hour,Hoagy took tbe air for Luden's CougbDrops.

Last year, be found time lo wrile anautoliiDgrapliy. Tbe Slar-Dusl Hivtd. Itis cbronr.logically chaolic, but other-wise exIriTot'ly effective. A large por-tion of it is dovnted to giving credit tothose will) bi-lped ja/zgropi>,'ind r bumpits way into being, Hoagy ibink.s (li.ittbe best daiice band ever :is,senil)lewas Ibe Jean Goldkette Band tbatplayed in Detroit's (5rcys(oiie B;ill-room. In it, among otbers, wore .JoeVenuti, tbe Dorseys. Bix Beiderlieckeand Frank Trumhauer.

He h.iK .s.)ld Sl.ir-Dust Koad tn tbeMary Pick ford-Buddy Kogers-RalphCohn ("iimpanv to be niafle into amovie, Hoagy will slar in (be piclureand, aflding anotber aclivily (o t bowalready crowding bi.' life, will also helpproduce it. Tbose who like ibcir rniivieCarmieb;iel neat s;iy t hat, given t hatmucb Krreen room to rnovi' aniund ill.be'll come ciut of it a full-llt-ilgi'il slar.

On November 23, 1910, to ivlebnitetbe publii'/Lt itin of Hoagy'.s aulobiogra-pby, Ral|jb F. Gates, governor ofIndiana, proclaimed Hojigy ('ar-michael Star-Dust Ronil Day. In-dianapolis and HIiiciTTiniglori t urnedout ;is for ,'i Hciijsier-huckeye big g,iiTie.When llii.igy ate, il was ni-n-ssary (iiput serecns ii|) ln.'f(jre restaurant wni-d'jws to keep people from pushing (li.-irway in and slashing them.selves onbroken glass. The phones in hi^ lir)ti-lroom and in his inotber's bome r:iiigconi inuously iinlil some good Samari-lan linally removed Ibeni from tbeirbooks, A Blitomington newspaper s;iid,"Around bere, Hoagy could till anauditorium witb a capacity of 10,0t)U."

Hoagy viHile<i a new cocktail moianamed (be Slar-Du.'^t Har. made tworet'it.d apijc-arances in Indiaii^ipoHs, abri.judcasl —a.-Jsisted by bis mot her--and recited one verse of Ain'l GodGood to Indiana, set to bis own music.

Because be writes primarily to pleasehimself, Hoagy's music is not easy forothers to play. According to a friendwho has known him for years. " InHoagy's case, when he manages to dis-till the essence of tbe special somet liingthat 's his, it's too compliciiled to bepopular. Wben be comes up with only afragment of it, it's half-baked. When hehits in between those two, it's sheergenius." Till-; K>n

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