Debt To Dance Bands
p 1 1: cinema owes a debt of some kind to the institution of dance bands, for several of the screen’s popular lending men were recruited from 111 \ ißin orchestras, Fred Mar Murray was discovered by studio scouts while playing the drums in a dance orchestra.
Lew Ayres was a ban joist in a ban Diego band which obtained an engagement in I .OS Angeles, where Ayres was
advised to take a screen test that re suited in his present career.
Bing Crosby was one of Paul Whiteman's well-known Three Bliythm Boys. Budy Bailee is a first-class saxophonist, and Dick Powell, former conductor of a motion picture theatre orchestra irt Pittsburgh for several years, is an aide performer on niosi instruments in a dance band. Buddy lingers began his career as a clarinetist, and Jimmy Durante once made his living playing the piano in a night, dub.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19121, 16 September 1936, Page 9
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