Word: heidt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gold. Horace Heidt's kampuskut orchestra has been rah-rahing since 1923, but has had to play frequent second fiddle to such fraternity-row favorites as Fred Waring, Kay Kyser. But this season, sponsored by Turns, a carminative, Horace Heidt's Musical Knights went out in front with a burp. During Turns' Tuesday night half hour, a wheel of fortune is ceremoniously spun several times, eventually coming to rest on a telephone number somewhere in the U. S. A call is put in for the unnamed subscriber. The band plays on, but when the phone is answered...
...twist the dial very rapidly on a new radio--sounds silly as hell, but "Man With a New Radio" is still very funny-- as is "And the Angels Sing"--done in the best grand opera tradition . . . Ten years ago: Lobe, the dog, was the star attraction with the Horace Heidt orchestra . . . Sacramento, Cal.: The Superior Court held a Sacramento city ordinance prohibiting music of any kind after 11 p.m. unconstitutional! No local reference needed...
Last week was National Cherry Week (as it is annually because of Cherry-Chopper George Washington's birthday). It was also whole or part of "National Defense Week," "National Orange Week," "Better American Speech Week," "National Horace Heidt Record Week."* Last week, too, the biggest U. S. industry revealed that it would for the first time appropriate a week for its special pleading: in Manhattan President Alvan Macauley of the Automobile Manufacturers Association announced that all U. S. motorcar makers would join in spending $1,250,000 to make March 5-12 "National Used Car Exchange Week...
...Horace Heidt is a dance band leader...
...Kemp, Guy Lombarda, Horace Heidt, Benny Goodman, Eddy Duchin, Ted Weems, Phil Harris, Glen Gray, Cab Calloway, Shep Fields...