Word: tomlin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week American Records celebrated the opening of Master Records with a party at which Bandleaders Hal Kemp and Paul Ash, Vocalists Baby Rose Marie, Dolly Dawn and Pinky Tomlin were due to appear. Mr. Mills does not permit such relaxations, nor the luxuries of his fantastic suites of offices, to divert his eye from the verities of Broadway. When his son Sidney, breaking in with Mills Music, called up to get Calloway to play a tune he was promoting, Mr. Mills had him turned down cold "to convince him that song-plugging is a tough racket...
King Solomon of Broadway, however, manages to be ingratiating when Band Leader Pinky Tomlin is blinking with fright or playing his guitar, when Miss Page is singing and strutting...
LIKE Fred MacMurray, another successful ex-ex- coollegian in Hollywood, Pinky Tomlin got a fair start at the higher learning, but tunes and rhythms kept running through his head in the classroom, and he ended up by having only a fraternity shingle to show for his academic days. MacMurray and Tomlin now have about $1000,000 apiece--a very disconcerting fact to Ph.D. a who stuck it out--and didn't have any tones to plague them...
...Oklahoma farmband, Pinky Tomlin can look either forty or his actual twenties, depending on the camera used and the amount of re-touching. He was a professed hick and already losing his tin, flame-colored hair rapidly when Delta Tau Delta at the University of Oklahoma pledged him. That made no difference; the brothers hoped to tame their alfalfa cowboy. In the meantime, he went to work leading a college orchestra. That got him three meals day low grades, and a reputation for having a singing voice with a twang to it. In spite of the Delta, he remained...
...cleverly redecorated and shot from new angles. (Boyer's apartment in Shanghai is the penthouse in Smart Girl; the Stock Exchange bar. the New York cafe.) Smart Girl was previewed six times before its official Hollywood unveiling in an effort to decide whether Pinky Tomlin ought to sing or not. Finally his song was removed but his jackass laughter and owlish solemnity as the milliner's Dummkopf of a son were left in with happy results. He is in real life an Oklahoma crooner who arrived in Hollywood five months ago with $100 in his pocket, half...