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...Carnival Week, as in any week, the most spectacular figure in Memphis was still 71-year-old Mister Crump. When he passed, in a gleaming new Chrysler, sidewalk idlers gawked as if they had spied the Mad Mullah of Tud, nose ring and all, cracking pecans on the Hope Diamond. Ed Crump did not ignore them. As he rode on casual journeys through his domain he watched the pavements as sharply as a kingfisher hunting shiners; his pink face lighted at the first sign of recognition. If people turned, he snatched a wide-brimmed grey hat from his ear-long...
This week Trenet sang some of his songs in a Gallic English. As translated by Broadway Lyricist Harold (Pins and Needles, Call Me Mister) Rome, J'ai ta Main lost most of ifis charming mystery, sounded like dozens of other Tin Pan Alley banalities...
...Broadway these heavenly days, angels are everybody in general. Said Cinemactor Melvyn Douglas (producer of Broadway's newest smash hit, Call Me Mister) to Columnist Lucius Beebe: "You can't keep the investors off you with Flit or a bodyguard. They secrete themselves around your hotel apartment. . . . Total strangers . . . stuff wads of currency in the pocket of your jacket...
...latter-day angels had really gone to work on Call Me Mister. Two days after its first audition it was completely capitalized (for $150,000)-something of a record. Its backers were many and various: an accountant ($27,000), a publisher ($21,000), a music publisher ($15,-ooo), a Broadway producer ($9,000), a tobacco magnate ($5,000), a socialite ($4,500), a reporter, a broker, an actor, a housewife, a secretary ($3,000 each), a dancer ($1,000), a half-dozen others...
This week, what with Mister's advance sale crowding $150,000, its angels hoped to get their first dividend. Tobacco Magnate Howard Cullman, Broadway's archangel, could tell them all how lucky they were. By pedantic calculation of risks, he made the black on only six of the 15 shows he had backed during the 1945-46 season. Three were dead losses; six were still to be produced...