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Died. Frank Crumit, 53, Julia Sanderson's genial, longtime stage and radio teammate; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. A banker's son, Crumit tried vaudeville while waiting to land an engineering job. He became Miss Sanderson's leading man in 1922, married her in 1927. Singing, ukulele-playing Crumit wrote more than 25 songs, sold more than 4,000,000 recordings...
When the Jones clique learned he wanted to be a prize fighter they formed a syndicate to back him: 22 of them, including Jones, Sportswriter Grantland Rice, Actor Frank Crumit, Socialite Tommy Tailer, Stockbroker Clifford Roberts, L. B. Maytag (washing machines), Bartlett Arkell (BeechNut Co.), Aired Severin Bourne (Singer sewing machines) and many another gold-spooned golfer. To manage their waif, they got Chick Wergeles, a Broadway press agent...
OHIO UNIVERSITY'S Alumnus No. 1 is another man of huge bulk: Frank Crumit, radio network singer heard Sunday afternoons from coast to coast. A Phi Delta Theta, he once returned for a visit and gamely sang two of his own songs on a serenade program in front of Lindley Hall. To those who asked who Frank Crumit was, came the information: a jovial undergraduate with baseball and football ability, he left Ohio U. in 1912 to study music in Cincinnati. Thence, by way of vaudeville, he was featured in Broadway shows like Oh Key, Betty Be Good...
These were shows dedicated to girls, among them a stage star, Julia Sanderson, whom Frank married in 1927. They now co-star on the networks. To Ohio U., Frank Crumit, ex 12, has dedicated two songs. The Buckeye Battle Cry of Ohio State is also Frank's work, as is Gay Cabaliero. The latter is one of those things Frank can really deliver...
Smart Jack Kapp left Brunswick lately, decided that popular records would have to be cheaper. He founded his own company, Decca Records, Inc., which for 35¢ apiece will have discs on the market this week made by Bing Crosby, Guy Lombardo, the Mills Brothers, the Casa Loma Band, Frank Crumit, Victor Young, Isham Jones. Jack Kapp's claim: All other cheap records have been made by obscure or mediocre performers. His white hope: Bob Crosby, young brother of Bing...