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...first time. The song: As Time Goes By ("A kiss is still a kiss, a sigh is just a sigh, the fundamental things apply as time goes by").* The composer: massive, white-haired Herman ("Dodo") Hupfeld, who wrote it in 1931. The plugger: a short, stocky Negro named (Arthur) Dooley Wilson, who started this forgotten ditty toward its sensational present success by the loving way he sang it in the Warner Bros, movie Casablanca (TIME, Nov. 30). Dodo and Dooley met at Manhattan's Greenwich Village Inn, where the veteran Negro minstrel was doing a singing turn...
Then, last year, Warner Bros., seeking a love theme for Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca, fished As Time Goes By out of the files. Instead of giving the tune to a conventional crooner, Warners picked Dooley Wilson. He is something special. He has one of the warmest personalities that ever got into show business. He sings with understatement and a sense of mood worthy of a great lieder singer. Dooley gave As Time Goes By everything he had. When Ingrid Bergman in the film says that no one can sing the song like Sam (Dooley), millions of moviegoers...
...Knew Europe. Since Dooley started, As Time Goes By has sold over 300,000 copies. Recording companies, searching their files for the old Vallee and Renard records, have found their biggest bonanza since Boss Petrillo's ban on popular recording (TIME, June 22). While that ban exists, no disc can be made of Dooley's version. But both Dooley and Dodo are doing all right...
...occasions, Claude Raines, as the boot-licking, opportunistic Vichy chief of police is at his best. Conrad Veidt plays a Gestapo chief who, unlike the usual blustering buffon that Hollywood Nazis usually are, is more sinister than laughable. Peter Lorre, an unseen corpse after the first few scenes, and Dooley Wilson, playing "As Time Goes By" to repair broken hearts, complete the list of ingredients in this North African melting...
Looked on with considerably suspicion at first, the Dooley and Dietz team now gets fair cooperation both from labor and management. Biggest kick of labor (especially from craft unions) was that Dooley-Dietz methods might replace the old-tie system of apprenticeships, break down the union's monopoly on education and create too many trained workers for too few skilled jobs at war's end. To hardworking Dooley and Dietz, faced by as many as six million new war workers in 1943, this objection will be academic for some time to come...