Word: calloway
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...Kamp, Guy Lombardo, Horace Heidt, Benny Goodman, Eddy Duchin, Ted Weems, Phil Harris, Glen Gray, Cab Calloway and Shep Fields...
...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 piano...
...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 Mr. Mills...
...began Mills Artists, now the largest and most profitable string of talent man aged by one man. Mr. Mills's "piece" of Negroes Ellington and Calloway is 50% and 33% respectively. From white per formers, Manager Mills usually gets 10% and 15% of their earnings...
...Rose Marie, Dolly Dawn and Pinky Tomlin were due to appear. Mr. Mills does not permit such relaxations, nor the luxuries of his fantastic suites of offices, to divert his eye from the verities of Broadway. When his son Sidney, breaking in with Mills Music, called up to get Calloway to play a tune he was promoting, Mr. Mills had him turned down cold "to convince him that song-plugging is a tough racket...