Word: toni
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Cab Galloway first heard Toni Harper, he paid her the highest compliment in the Galloway scale. "That little gal," said he solemnly, "is real gone...
However real she is gone, Toni Harper is obviously going further. A dreamy, fidgety little girl of ten, Toni is one of Hollywood's about-to-be-discovered wonders. Columbia Records will shortly release her first two records, and last week she was signed up for a Hollywood musical...
...words were written specially for her, to an old blues tune,* but otherwise the musicians make no concessions to her age. Toni doesn't need any. Her breathy voice is grownup, her phrasing fresh, and her rhythm as good as if she had been singing since the birth of the blues...
...Toni got her rhythm naturally. Her mother was once in the Cotton Club chorus, has always wanted her kids in show business. And her father, a redcap at Los Angeles' Union Station, owns a roomful of hot records-Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Louis Jordan. "Daddy likes to riff," says Toni sternly. "'Sometimes he keeps us awake all night." But two years ago, Toni began riffing...
...days. Interviewed by a CRIMSON reporter in September, 1940, a Miss Toni Sorel, contender for the title of Oomph Girl of the Nation, was quoted in the style considered appropriate for Radcliffe references in this wise: "Here I stood in Harvard Yard, lousy with its ivy and tradition, when the whole picture was ruined--a couple of strange creatures came waddling along. They should only be allowed out at night...