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...Rose's nightclub success only made his pinwheel imagination whir faster. Why not stage a circus in a Broadway theater? Billy hired Hecht and MacArthur to write the show, Rodgers & Hart to do the songs, Paul Whiteman and his orchestra to play them. Jimmy Durante as the star, and Broadway's biggest showcase, the Hippodrome, to house the spectacle. He called it Jumbo and induced Millionaire John Hay Whitney to back it with a down payment of $200,000. Cracked Rose: "This will either break Jock Whitney or make...
After Evelyn Knight's first big-time broadcast (with Paul Whiteman), her singing teacher wired: "YOU NEED ME," After her second broadcast, he wired: "YOU HAVE NO MORE VOICE THAN A GOAT AND A MOUTHFUL OF CONSONANTS...
...Broadway's Iceland Restaurant a new, five-man band made its debut, under moon-faced Drummer Paul Whiteman Jr., 21-year-old son of the moon-faced "King of Jazz." Paul Jr.'s own billing: "The Crown Prince of Rhythm...
Business Deal. Mary Margaret grew up in Missouri, studied journalism at the University of Missouri, got a job on the Cleveland Press, went on to the old New York Evening Mail, soon crashed the Satevepost with a profile of Paul Whiteman. By this time she put her business affairs in the hands of Stella Karns, a businesswoman as bright and hard as a new dime. Stella muscled Mary Margaret into radio practically on her own terms. She also does as she pleases with Mary Margaret, of whom she snorts: "She chews the rag so much, it's a wonder...
...contract carried a minimum guarantee of $1,750 a week; every important recording company in the country had put in a bid. "Pops" Whiteman had signed them for a 13-week spot on the ABC network beginning this week, intends to announce each program himself. Says he: "For four or five years we've had nothing but screaming. It's almost unexplainable the way a crowd will quiet down and listen to Joe and his boys. I'll bet they'd listen for an hour without making a noise if they didn't have...