Singer Bea Wain tells this wonderful story about the signing of autographs. It is an old question: "Who did sign that photo in your autograph collection? The artist or the secretary?" In most cases, a secretary signs photos for performers. The only time you can be sure your signed photo bears the actual signature is when you actually see it signed....but even then "Is it really the person you think it is?" Read on!
Once, at the Victor session held on June 3, 1938, Carole Bruce sang in place of Bea Wain. "Carol was a lovely singer. She was a fairly good friend of mine, and she ended up on Broadway. She did the musical shows," Wain said. "But I had strep throat. I was sick. And that's when we were at Glen Island Casino. And I was terrible. I was in bad shape, and I couldn't sing. I had to take off a couple of weeks. Larry Clinton hired Carol to replace me, and she sang at Glen Island for a couple of weeks . . . When the band went on the road, it was Larry Clinton and Bea Wain - my name was in the contracts, which I didn't know until much later. And if I didn't appear, they didn't get paid. So, when he went on the road and I was sick with the strep throat, Carol went, and she had to sign my name, on autographs."
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