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Once on a vacation trip to Los Angeles, Bing and Al ran out of money, had to find jobs or head home. They polished up a couple of tunes, landed a job in a local theatre. Al played the piano and Bing stood by, tapping a cymbal while they harmonized on some speedy ditties like Paddlin' Madeline Home and Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue. It earned them $65 a week apiece, which bought all the fun they wanted. Just when everything was going smoothly, Paul Whiteman heard them, offered them $150 a week to join his show...
...That was Bing's start. From then on he violated the strictest tenets of success...
...weekends to Palm Springs and Agua Caliente, and Mack Sennett hired him to act in some movie shorts. Prohibition booze gave him laryngitis which muffled his voice to a whisper, and he received a $3,000-a-week radio contract. Eddie Lang, his best friend and accompanist, died, and Bing wound up making pictures for Paramount. He seemed listless, but his income always increased...
...Bing's future was summarized by coony Hollywood Producer Sol Wurtzel at the time Bing was singing at the Grove. Wurtzel noticed that Dixie Lee, one of his actresses on the Fox lot, seemed to be spending a lot of time with Bing, so he warned her: "Dixie, you'd better give that fellow up, because if you marry him, you'll have to support him for the rest of your life...
Success. Ever since his fight with the Grove in 1931, Bing has let other people run his affairs. They are crack Los Angeles Attorney Jack O'Melveny and his two brothers, Everett and Larry. At that time his brother, Everett, and O'Melveny incorporated him into Bing Crosby...