Word: cabs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cab Calloway, the hi-de-ho man who brought Minnie the Moocher everlasting fame, occupies the stage of the Boston Theater this week along wit a newspaper film, "Woman Wise". Calloway sings and struts to a number of Harlem favorites with a little more restraint than usual, introduces six lindy hoppers, who add considerable zest to the program, and presents a home-made band which nearly steals the show. This group, led by a colored gentleman who is even lazier than Steppin Fetchil, swings high and swings low on a washboard, a couple of toy trumpets, a guitar, a decrepit...
...turned down $750,000 from Twentieth Century-Fox for the properties of Mills Music, Inc., which owns the world's largest collection of copyrighted popular tunes. On the books of Mills Artists, Inc., are such dance orchestras as those led by Paul Whiteman, Edward Kennedy ("Duke") Ellington, Cabell ("Cab") Calloway, Jack Denny. Mills bands and Mills music have long been a mainstay of American Record affiliates. Last January, in Hollywood, Mr. Mills began making his own records. Decca put out a feeler for Mills and his songs and artists, but before anything could be done, American had given...
Elliott Roosevelt (second son), struck oil (500 bbl. a day) on the Ed Hughes ranch in Crane County, Tex. which he leased with Elder Brother James, John Daniel Hertz of Yellow Cab Co., Poloist Tommy Hitchcock...
Many times heralded as one of the best photographs of the year is this actively impressionistic photograph of Bandleader Cab Calloway by Bert Longworth. It is reprinted here by special permission of the editors of U. S. Camera 1936. He'd make a swell interference runner Giant Neil Simpson and Gerald Kagel, coaches the South Dakota School of Mines 1037 graduates shake hands with Tyramusruns Rex, a reptile what the Redlands 40,000,000 years ago and is now a resident of the WPA's Dinosaur Park near Sioux Falls...
About 4:30 a. m. they emerged to find rain pouring. They took a taxicab and drove around the block, dropped the Princess Therese de Caraman-Chimay at the Savoy-Plaza, then went on around to the Plaza, just across Fifth Avenue. As their cab paused, waiting an opportunity to turn in, a car drew up alongside. A man with a pistol leaped out, covered the taxi driver. Two others opened the door of the cab and leaned in. One made a grab at a necklace of square-cut emeralds and diamonds, the most obvious item among several hundred thousand...