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...BING Crosby was christened Harry Lillis, but no one dares call him Lillis now. He got the Bing because in his first breeches he always asked to have the Bingvilie Bugle comic strip read to him. He entered Gonzage University (Spokane) after a taste of running away from home, and did what theatrical people in college seem to do, organized an orchestra and paid more attention to drums and clarinet than philosophy and religion...
...theater manager liked Bing's style of Boo/doo/ta/dooing a song, and Bing met. A Rinker, a pianist, whose for tunes were locked with Bing's through enough slap bang, up-and-down footlight experience to kill two normal lads, including tours with Paul Whiteman as two of the Rhythm Boys who used to render a powerful Mississippi...
Some shorts in Hollywood convinced producers they should take a chance on this boy with a way of singing In the Blue of the Night to send raptures world wide, and the rest is a story of lush success, much banking of Bing, horses, golf and three sons already well publicized...
...Empire by announcing that he had really intended to visit London before Washington but had changed his plans because of the impending British elections (see p. 18). Then he dropped in at the British Embassy and the South African Legation to show that Canada really was not snub- bing the Empire. Next morning the Canadian Prime Minister called on Secretary Hull, but his important interview was reserved for later. That evening the President and Mrs. Roosevelt had at their dinner table the Prime Minister; Secretary Hull; Oscar Douglas Skelton, Canadian Undersecretary of State for External Affairs; Hume Wrong, Canadian Charge...
...moments when The Big Broadcast offers its audience some respite from the story the most enjoyable are those in which Bill Robinson demonstrates that he is still the ablest tap-dancer in the world, Bing Crosby sings I Wished on the Moon and Ethel Merman cavorts with a chorus of elephants to a tune called It's the Animal...