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...will go on with Lucky Strike cigarets, Amos 'n' Andy with Pepsodent toothpaste, Rudy Vallee with Flelschmann's Yeast. Jack Benny this year performs for Chevrolet Motor Co., Burns & Allen and Guy Lombardo for White Owl Cigars, Bing Crosby for Woodbury Soap, Al Jolson and Paul Whiteman for Kraft-Phenix Cheese...
...Would it help my records sell in Cambridge if I told you that I think all Harvard men are nice?" asked Ramona, star on the Paul Whiteman program at the Keith-Boston theatre this week, as she was interviewed by the CRIMSON last night. "I hope they aren't as hard to please as the audiences we've been trying to please in Boston. In Baltimore a week ago we had really remarkable success, but up here it's one hard job arousing enthusiasm in a bunch of highbrow codfish...
Other reducers: Bandman Paul Whiteman shrivelled from 293 Ib. to 189 lb. in one year. He started with a diet of grapefruit juice and green vegetables, and no liquor. For breakfast he had black coffee and grapefruit juice; for lunch some greens, but no dressing; for dinner lean meat and a green vegetable. One day a week his menu was composed entirely of starches and sweets...
...orchestras through the formal winter concert season. In the summer, U. S. jazz bands go to Europe to demonstrate in music halls and night clubs their country's one & only original contribution to music. Europe in the past few summers has heard smooth, suave jazz played by Paul Whiteman, Rudy Vallèe, Guy Lombardo. It has also heard Negro syncopators who scorn sweet stereotype melodies and easy orthodox rhythms. But this summer Europeans will have a chance to hear hot, pulsing jazz played as they never have heard it before. Last week on the S. S. Olympic Negro...
...interpolating wild, melancholy notes not written in his scores. He ended in an insane asylum. The jazz history will also tell about William Christopher Handy who brought "St. Louis Blues" north from Memphis, and about the Negro bands whose frenzied improvisations took the Barbary Coast by storm, inspired Paul Whiteman, Ted Lewis and countless other white-skinned imitators...