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THE WORLD AND ALLBy CHARLESNew York—Thinking out loud: I have thought up a job for Gene Buck, who always seems to have twice as many jobs 'as a man can. handle. Gone should be writing a fat volume of memoirs. It could be a pretty good history of a great era in American entertainment in manyfields. ,, ,Gene has known them, all, since the early days of this century, which is so rapidly frittering itself away.Qcno started in the show business na a song writer, and aiwaya qualifies as such, but his experience has gone far beyond that. He started doing the songs for zicgfeld in 1D12, and continued as long as there were Follies.Here's a title for your book. Gene: -From the Wings.” Yes, I know, you could call it Buck and Wing, but that would be too tricky.Gene hasn’t been out in the wings during all of his theatrical life, but he has viewed some of the best of them from that position. How did you get along with .the temperamental Misclm Elman, Gene, when you collaborated (you old collaborationist,) with him and Augustus Thomas in an operetta? Many folk think Mlscha might want to have his own way.Zicgfeld himself Is a tale that Is* A ami rI ■% J .1 TT.I- 4- UB.' DRISCOLLTell us all about Victor Herbert, the grand old master, with, whom you worked, and Ring Lardner, the story-teller who really was funny. We want to hear how Herbert came to compose the oratorio, The Captive,” for a festival at Worcester, Mass. How he did The Wizard of the Nile” and Cyrano do Bergerac. All about Babes in Toyland, with 5ts immortal melodies.You knew George M. Cohan well. You could tell of his long battle with Equity, and all about the Whko Rats.’the Players, and the Friars, to say nothing of the Lambs and its long lino of great actors and musicians.You could tell of Cohan’s gay spirit, despite many sorrows and troubles. A story worth telling, Gene.Will Rogers and Odd Mclnt.rye were your longtime friends, as was Captain Dennis O'Brien, gallant champion of the artist, producer, or whoever earned his respect.You remember Florence Moore, and her starring in Tire Passing Show of 1916,” and surely Harry Lauder in his many tours of America. Margaret Anglin, whom Charles Frohman put in Shenandoah,” and who later helped to dramatize The Garden of Allah, must have impressed you in Pygmalion and Galatea.
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Winona Republican Herald
Winona, Minnesota, US
Fri, Nov 21, 1947
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