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...such tunes as Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man, Bill, Only Make Believe, have ever really waned in popularity-and 01' Man River has become more famous than most folk songs. Back in their original places, the tunes have almost all their original pull. One new song, Nobody Else but Me, which Composer Kern wrote before his death last fall, finds itself in too fast company...
...since sung the part more than 1,200 times. He has also made concert tours, taught singing, had a key spot in Broadway's Cabin in the Sky, floundered through a jive film called Syncopation. (Says Todd Duncan: "Hollywood's not looking for my type. Dis, dat, dese-I can learn to talk that way but not very well...
...themselves on the back for their efforts. Through the entire picture there is an endless account of how hard Hollywood has worked to set up the canteen and how wonderful it is. The self-praise reaches its peak when the usual representative of Flatbush praises the canteen with, "Dat's real democracy for ya; all dem big shots listening ta us little shots...
Next day I picks up th' 'poon again an looks at it cold sober. 'Sfunny thing, but dammed if it don't have that last year's test schedule on th' cover. Now dat's a useless thing to have there...
...sheer curiosity I looks at th' small type on th' second page, an' y' know how bad th' printin' situation's got? Some damn fool put a 1943 dateline on th' paper. Dem's d' conditions dat prevail...