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...Jose himself points out that his career in show business began long before Hollywood-in Valencia, at the age of seven. A child prodigy, he got the job of beating out tunes in the local nickelodeon to help support his family. "From the beginning, music meant money to me-it was very serious...
...Good Fellow." Jose is well accustomed to the money now, frets that anybody should think he is not serious about the music. Resting from his latest tour in his porticoed mansion in Beverly Hills, where he lives like a grandee, he reflected last week on his Hollywood career. "When the movies first asked me to play for them, I was worried that they might ask me to play popular music and to play it in a way quite different from the standards of concert playing. But I was allowed to play classical music...
...Then one day Mr. Pasternak said to me: 'Jose, you don't have to do this if you don't want to, but what about a number with Judy Garland-semi-popular?' I thought I would be a good fellow so I said O.K.-on one condition-that it should be a really hot number, at the top of its own class. You know the result. I played boogie-woogie, and I enjoyed it!" (The movie: Thousands Cheer, with Gene Kelly, Kathryn Grayson, Judy Garland and a clutch of other stars...
...Please. Playing boogie-woogie once, says Jose, did not mean that he was giving up classical music. "I did it to please. It was like a joke at a party. A man tells one story and it comes off. Maybe he tells another, then another. But if he keeps on telling stories, very soon people do not take anything he says seriously. I did not want this thing to happen to me so I cut the boogie-woogie short. I tell only one joke-then I stop...
...fallen-angel school of critics just disagreed. They thought Jose had never stopped...