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...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...
...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...
...Jack Blackburn, trainer of Joe Louis, some 30,000 citizens hung on the ropes. The crowd on the streets shouted and sang hymns. Women were knocked over, children screamed. When the services were over and the casket came out, borne by pallbearers that included Soldier Joe Louis, Swingster Cab Calloway, Tapster Bill Robinson, the mob broke through the police lines to touch the casket for good luck. When the hearse finally moved off everybody was still shouting, and the fallen were picking themselves...
...sides of terrific undisciplined jazzy Dinner For the Duchess and When I Get You Alone Tonight (BLUEBIRD). Wingly's seat choruses are featured on both sides, and Dixieland fans will get a kick out of the ensemble jam on the finishes. . . Cozy Cole and Chu Berry grace Cab Calloway's OREB recording A Chicken Ain't Nothing But a Bird. Tune was featured in the Southland floor show last year. . . lna Ray Button's new out offers two riff tunes: Five O'Clock Whistle and Make Me Know It (OREB). Band shows lots of promise, particularly in the rhythm section...
...strutted up and down the stage, the king of Hi-de-ho. Cab Calloway soon got over two thousand hands "booging it" in time and later yielded to demands for his "Minnie the Moocher" and a few minutes of "Hep talk...