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The Tennessean from Nashville, Tennessee • Page 72

Publication:
The Tennesseani
Location:
Nashville, Tennessee
Issue Date:
Page:
72
Extracted Article Text (OCR)

etty likes to sing-anyplace and anytime. At noma she often tings in hor bath, which may have suggested to tho director this tub scene from Street ftose O'Grady. James blows a trumpet that rates only a little below Gabriel's for taking jitterbugs out of the world. There you are. Coogan Shaw James.

What's the common denominator? Music! This discovery may come as a blow to many of Miss Crable's male fans who don't know a sharp from a fiat Or perhaps they won't care. Probably they will just go on admiring- her at a distance for reasons quite unconnected with music. An enterprising press agent has figured that one out of every 15 men ki the armed services of the United States belongs to a camp, regiment, company or other unit which has elected Miss Crable its mascot, dream girl, honorary commander or to some similar position. Half of the rest just keep her picture around someplace without bothering to elect her to anything. It is fairly safe to say that Miss Crable's legs, not her musical ear, are responsible for this.

Legs have taken Betty Crable farther and to richer rewards than they have any other woman of our time. "Teople talk about my legs as if I were a centipede," she mourns now. "But my legs would never have taken me without years of training in dancing, drama and music" She resents the over-emphasis on her legs, and says: "People seem to have forgotten that I have a face, a form, and perhaps some ability as an actress. I'd like them to forget my legs." But it's pretty hard to forget Betty Crable's legs. They're the only legs immortalized in cement in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood.

More photographs have been taken of them than of any other legs in history. Whole motion pictures have been produced which, to the hasty observer, seemed to be devoted to displaying the glamorous Crable limbs. That kind of publicity is difficult to live down. But just the same, if you ever meet Miss Crable and want to make a hit with her, don't mention her legs. Sit down at the piano instead and dash off a bit of boogie-woogie, a trifle of Chopin, a little something from Stravinsky.

That ought to do the trick. Jackie Coogan Artie Shaw Harry James all of the men in pin-up girl Betty Grable's life have been jazz musicians Any gentlemen who want to attract the notice of IX. a girl like Betty Crable had better start practicing their harmonica playing, or otherwise brushing up on their musical abilities. Because Miss Crable, whether she knows it or not, seems to be drawn to men with musical talent Take a look at the record. Miss Crable's first hubby was Jackie Coogan, an actor by profession but an amateur expert on the drums.

Then after she and Jackie parted Betty was for a time "that way," as the saying goes, about Artie Shaw, an eminent bandleader and musician in his own right. And when Miss Crable remarried, she chose Harry James. Even the non-musical know that Bandleader ceNTMMice.

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