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Born. To Cab Galloway, 30, famed Negro jazz bandmaster, and his wife: a daughter, their first child; in The Bronx...
Early one evening a lean, white-haired man of great dignity was led by three bowing captains to a table in Manhattan's noisy Cotton Club. He watched Tap-Dancer Bill Robinson perform, listened with interest to the music of Cab Galloway. As he left, Maestro Arturo Toscanini said he had had a fine time...
...musical whirligig cir-cularizing Leo Carrillo, Phil Regan, Ann Dvorak and James Gleason, with bursts of crooning, hoofing, variety specialties, a baseball game (with a glimpse of Baseballer Joe Di Maggio), a rodeo. Brass rings: Tamara Geva (Chauve-Souris, Flying Colors, On Your Toes) as an opera singer; Cab Galloway's "Yascha"; Ted Lewis' "Baby" still smiling at him; Gene Autry, the singing cowboy, reminding folks that it is Round Up Time in Reno...
Everyone knows that the Whiffenpoof Song is a parody of Kipling's Gentlemen Rankers, whose refrain it uses almost intact. Not everyone knows that the score was written by an Amherst man, the late Tod Galloway, who put a lot of Kipling to music, or that the words date from the autumn of 1909 when cadaverous Meade Minnigerode, since famed as the author of The Son of Marie Antoinette, The Magnificent Comedy, and George Pomeroy composed them for the delectation of a drinking group formed the spring before and called the Whiffenpoofs. G. Schirmer, Inc. contest that they...
...programs using at least five names (some chosen by the sponsors). Bored by the U. S. Naval Academy, he spent his $150,000 patrimony on a leisurely trip around the world. Unsuccessful on the stage, he got a job at $18 a week introducing Jimmy Durante and Cab Galloway at the now defunct Silver Slipper night club, shortly stepped up into radio. He is one of very few public announcers whose voice can be used both in the U. S. and in England. Of his voice said the London Sunday Referee: "It has neither an American nor an English accent...