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...autograph of Negro Bandmaster Cab Galloway ("ho-de-ho"'), 100 white girls and their tipsy escorts crowded about the platform of Memphis' Casino Ballroom. While they pawed his trousers, grabbed at his coat, Galloway, whose skin is much lighter than his players', referred to his "boys" as "Mr. Payne. Mr. Maxey. . . ." At the first "Mister" the crowd grumbled. At the second chairs began to fly. Off the stage scuttled resplendent Bandmaster Galloway and his frightened blacks. Up over the platform swarmed resentful whites, brawling, falling over each other until police cleared the Casino...
...real "hot" jazz will be shown as coming from Negro performers like mad Buddy Bolden-free-lance trumpeters, saxophonists and trombone players who started the hot jazz cult which today has such heroes as Cab Galloway, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington. Galloway and Armstrong are predominantly showmen. Galloway plays no instrument, sings with his orchestra in a bleating, high-pitched voice, relies partly for his effects on his white dress-suit with ludicrously long tails. Windy, muggle-smoking Louis Armstrong has never had patience or skill to build an orchestra of his own. He is happy strutting before any good...
...half when Rusty Gill and Hank Schaldach pounded Tech back to its own 12-yd. line. In the next quarter, California kicks kept Tech backed up against its own end-zone. In the last half a dozen quick plays ending with a long pass, Flowers to Galloway, scored a touchdown for Tech, made "the score Tech 6, California 7. A safety for Tech would have won by the score of the 1928 game, but this time no one ran the wrong way. Irritated into action, the California offense swung down the field twice in the last quarter. Schaldach scored...
...Harlem, Negro Bandmaster Cab Galloway admitted that Songwriter Irving Mills (white) had written the words to the verse of the Negro song, "Minnie the Moocher," but proudly insisted he wrote all the words to the chorus himself. The chorus...
...upheld by the Supreme Court, Dean Madden was re-elected president at last week's stockholders' meeting. Among other directors re-elected were Dean Dexter Simpson Kimball of the College of Engineering of Cornell University (board chairman); Leo Greendlinger (vice president, treasurer and general manager); Dr. Lee Galloway and Bernard Lichtenberg (vice presidents...