Word: crumit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...studio was discovered a phot graph forged with the signature: "I owe everything to you.-Frank Crumit...
Last week, to fight such fake concerns, a committee was organized at the Lambs Club, Manhattan. Members were such big radio-earners as Frank Crumit, Jazzmen Johnny Green and Mark Warnow, Dr. Marion Sayle Taylor ("The Voice of Experience"). At first meeting they reviewed many an instance where innocents had been hoaxed by promising advertisements ("Be a Star in Six Weeks," "A Radio Job for Life"). Many had paid fancy fees on the assurance that a high-priced engagement automatically went with a diploma. The new committee proceeded to chronicle such cases, to warn the public that no authorized "radio...