Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week, as Grandstaff headed back for Tennessee and the penitentiary, he had the cheers of Big Springers in his ears. Mayor G. W. Dabney summed it up: "Our biggest boost since we struck...
...February 1928 the little nine-piece band had made a big hit with dance fans, and was all set to make an even bigger one. For their first appearance on a vaudeville bill in Chicago's Palace Theater, they had a wow comic-hat routine to go with I Wish I Was In Peoria and a noisy harness gag for Thanks for the Buggy Ride. But they put their new act on only once. Stormed the theater manager: "For the $4,000 a week we're paying you, we can get a good comedian for every...
...Bulwark. It had been just 25 years since Guy with his fiddle, brother Carmen with his saxophone and brother Lebert with his trumpet had crossed over from London, Ont. to Cleveland, fired by Paul Whiteman's records, to get their own band into the big time. It had been 20 years since the band began its first season at Manhattan's Roosevelt Hotel; last week, when they began their 20th straight season at the Roosevelt, eight of the original nine members of the Royal Canadians were still there. And finally it was just 15 years since...
...Family Affair. A confident but unpretentious and modest man of 47 who goes in for motorboat cup-racing (TIME, Aug. 18, 1947), Big Brother Guy gives most of the credit to brother "Carm," 46, whose distinctive singing, saxophone and phrasing have always set the tone of the band. Lebert's trumpet playing Guy rates almost as high. He puts his own talents at the bottom: "My fiddle never did anything." In fact, it's been years since he played...
This week, in a bedside manner familiar to many an ailing big business, Expert Bernays was ready to tell the patient all. "If the rate of decline continues," he warned at the outset, "in a decade or two we may expect to see the legitimate theater in New York disappear completely . . . [But] in spite of everything, the American people like the theater more than ever before, if it meets their desires and needs...