Word: calloway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Calloway, Negro jumpleader, landed in court after a tussle with Claude Hopkins, whose band plays at Broadway's Cafe Zanzibar on Cab's night off. Claude appeared in court in a black-&-white-checked suit with bright green necktie, complained that Cab had yanked him off his piano stool and slapped him around "for no reason at all." Cab, also in a black-&-white-checked suit with a red-white-&-blue bow tie, said that Claude had made the first pass. The Man with the Hi-de-Ho was held for assault...
Boston music doesn't seem to have been particularly affected by the current heat wave. The Ken was left dank and dismal last Sunday afternoon, with not even Pete Brown showing up to relieve the monotony. Cab Calloway and the RKO stage shows. Louis Jordan at the Tis Tec, had a pretty good little hand back in the days of the Decco into six album, and even later than that is the days of "Knock Me A Kiss, and Mama, Mama Blues"; but now he's building up a reputation for having the biggest little comedy band in the country...
...Robinson), from the moment after World War I when he marches up Broadway to the strains of Jim Europe's wonderful band, to the moment after Pearl Harbor when a proud singer (Lena Horne) finally sees it his way and they face the stentorian marriage blessing of Cab Calloway. A great many types of Negro entertainment are represented: some good, some not so good...
...Calloway is more a matter of taste-a haberdashing showman who is bound to worry the discriminating by tearing the passions of jazz to tatters. Lena Horne sings with high lavender virtuosity, and audiences will divide on whether she is truly elegant or merely too refined. Katherine Dunham's pretentious ballet troupe is also likely to split the vote...
...success of Will Calloway Grant, 36, of Chicago, is the current sensation of the U.S. advertising business. Few weeks ago one rival ad salesman grew so envious that he started a rumor that Grant Advertising Inc. owed its vertical rise in gross billings to such dubious practices as taking split-commission contracts.* Grant's answer was typical-and, as usual, irritating to the rest of the secretive advertising world: last week an auditor was going over his books right back to the day when he got his first account. Grant then blandly-and publicly-suggested that the entire industry...