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Best box-office attraction in the Near East is tall, sleepy-eyed, sickly Mohammed Abdul-Wahab, Egypt's premier crooner and actor. Once an unlettered tailor's assistant in Cairo, Crooner Abdul-Wahab has since amassed a fortune by composing tunes which were a hybrid of Oriental and Western music. He put the songs in screen romances and, with himself in the leading role, soon became the matinee idol of Cairo, Bagdad, Damascus, Jerusalem and outposts...
...Crooner Abdul-Wahab will take no less than $400 for singing in the flesh-a fee the Italians never saw their way to giving him. On the British program, besides a coterie of other Arabic talent, broadminded Crooner Abdul-Wahab in person cleared his voice, began his popular warbling, sang in Arabic an "ode to Shakespeare." His fee for helping British imperialism along: $625 an appearance...
Autry's revolutionary contribution to westerns was a soft, sleepy-sounding baritone voice. A onetime telegrapher for the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway, who had used his ample spare time in learning to sing and strum the guitar, Autry had later become a crooner of plains ballads for smalltime radio stations. When Republic decided to try to save westerns with the experiment of a singing cowboy, he was selected for the spot and succeeded instantly...
Died. Con Conrad (real name: Conrad K. Dober), 49, famed songwriter (Barney Google, Memory Lane, Margie), divorced husband of Actress Francine Larrimore, discoverer of Sob-singer Helen Morgan and Crooner Bing Crosby; after long illness; in Van Nuys, Calif...
Married. George Robert ("Bob") Crosby, 26, swing bandmaster, younger brother of Crooner Bing Crosby; and June Audrey Kuhn, 19-year-old Chicagoan; in Spokane, Wash. Swingmaster Crosby divorced his first wife last spring...