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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Chick Webb, 30, hunchbacked Negro swingmaster, who with Chantress Ella Fitzgerald made a nursery jingle (A-Tisket, A-Tasket) a national musicraze; after a urological operation; in Baltimore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 26, 1939 | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

Other members of the cast are: "Moll," Miss Shirley Bernstein; "Mrs. Mister," Miss Lillian Wolfson; "Sister Mister", Miss Francis Morrison; "Sadie," Miss Sarah Kruskall; "Ella," Mrs. Lynn Gordon; "Gent" and "Junior Mister," Myron Simons '40; "Mr. Mister" and "Dick," William A. Whitcraft '39; "Cop," Rendigs Fols '39; "Reverend Salvation" and "Stevie," Kendall Smith 3G; "Editor Daily and Dauber," Rupert Pole '40; "Yasha," Arthur Szathmary 2G; "Prexy," Robert Rothschild '39; "Scoot," Jonas Muller '40; "Doctor Specialist," Alfred Eisner '39; "Druggist," John Wahlke '39; "Bugs," Robert Seidman '41 and "Gus Polack," Roger Henselman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Union Thespians Will Give Timely Musical Drama | 5/26/1939 | See Source »

...rumor, but definite fact is it that the swing end of the Freshman smoker the other night was really swell. Jack Hill's band was very solid backing and played good swing on its own numbers, Roy Eldridge and Albert Ammons stole the show with their fine jazz, Ella Fitzgerald really made a tremendous hit (she later said to me that she had more fun working the Smoker than anything she had done in a long while) by here very swell singing, and Hildegarde proved herself far more than just a good piano player and better singer by her showmanship...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 5/5/1939 | See Source »

...thousand onthusiastic students jammed Sanders Theatre last night as the annual Freshman Smoker, starring Albert Ammons, Roy Eldridge, Ella Fitzgerald, Hildegarde, and Buddy Hasset, 'wont off on schedule. under the chairmanship of George Kuhn and his Committee of eight Yardlings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THOUSANDS THRONG SANDERS THEATRE AT ANNUAL SMOKER | 5/2/1939 | See Source »

...first artists to appear on the stage, Ella Fitzgerald, "the first lady of swing," brought forth ringing applause from every one, when she sang "Hold Tight" and "It Ain't What You Do, It's The Way What...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THOUSANDS THRONG SANDERS THEATRE AT ANNUAL SMOKER | 5/2/1939 | See Source »

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