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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...
...extremely limited and for this reviewer, at least, his appeal has utterly worn out. He is a past master at the art of letting his supporting cast take the picture out from under his nose, as Edward Everett Horton, the Yacht Club Boys, and most of all, Cab Calloway and his band, do in this picture. If the Cab and his band had had more of a part the whole thing might have been worth seeing. As it is he appears only a few short times and you live in hopes he'll come back, despising Al Jolson...
...nationally famous orchestras drew a crowd of 200 couples and 100 stags to the Kirkland House Spring Dance last night. Cab Calloway and his original Cotton Club orchestra were featured, with Irving Aaronson's Studebaker Commanders, 15-piece broadcasting band formerly with Bing Crosby, alternating during the Cab's intermissions. Dancing ran from 10 to 3, with a buffet supper after midnight...
...Kirkland House Committee announces that Irving Aaronson and his Studebaker Commanders, 15-piece broadcasting orchestra from New York, will be added to the congregation of entertainers at the Kirkland House Spring Dance tomorrow evening. Cab Calloway and his Cotton Club orchestra will hold the spotlight for dancing in the Junior Common Room with the Commanders alternating from the Dining Room. Amplifiers will assure continuous dance music in both halls from 10 o'clock to 3. Admission is $5 a couple and $3 stag...
...Calloway and his Cotton Club Orchestra will supply the music for the First Modern Arts Ball which will be given this evening at the Copley-Plaza Hotel...