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Ernst was the maitre d' at Manhattan's Hotel Roosevelt Grill, and he was talking to 27-year-old Guy Lombardo the night the Royal Canadians opened there. A Chicago critic had called Lombardo's airs "the sweetest music this side of heaven," but still it made Ernst nervous. Lombardo was leaving out the boop-poop-a and just giving the dew. But Lombardo ignored him and kept fogging it into the room-for 33 years-to become one of the most popular and durable performers in U.S. show business. He has sold more than 100 million...
Last week the Hotel Roosevelt announced that Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians will not be appearing there any more. It was like Athens announcing the departure of the Acropolis...
...Lombardo, now 60, is not retiring; his band will continue to play all over the U.S. But in the winter season-when he has always been at the Roosevelt-he will be engaged in a new venture in Florida...
...island-city off St. Petersburg, a dazzling tropical paradise connected by causeway with the mainland. He is also investing in a $4,500,000 "yachtel" called Porto-O-Call. Its restaurant will seat 1,300 people -but most of them will be up dancing to the music of Guy Lombardo...
Jones Beach, Long Island, N.Y., Marine Theater: The musical extravaganza this year is Paradise Island, a more or less original fantasy produced by Guy Lombardo and starring Elaine Malbin, Arthur Treacher and William Gaxton...