The Los Angeles Times from Los Angeles, California • 32

AUGUST 21, 1932. PART III. 6 SUNDAY MORNING. "CabT went into vaudeville and re cently succeeded Duke Ellington at 'SCAT' NOT MEANT FOR CAT the Cotton Club permanently, FRONT AND BACK YARDS TRADE PLAGES iWorld's Most Modern Home Built Here by Writer HOMES RISE IN SHERMAN OAKS AREA and hourly broadcasts three times a week made him one of the entertainment stars of New York. He and his Mlssourians followed Duke Ellington at the Cotton Club during the three months Duke and his band were on tour.

From here, Salonikl, Greece, will noli "Cab" Calloway Originates Type of Singing, Now seventh annual International fslr All the Rage Among Jazz Orchestras in September. Omaha Man Stirs Activity i "Scat" once was a term employed solely for the purpose of effectively informing a member of the feline family that his presence was- unde siraoie. song and dance work. The youth also took vocal lessons from one of Today it also Is a form of sing Baltimore's leading teachers. ing.

Trained musicians might not call So Calloway blossomed forth as an actor. He became a member of the Regent Theater stock company In Baltimore, his first work being In it exactly "singing," for it la the novel mode of vocalizing used by "Cab" Calloway, leader of the Mls-sourians of radio and night club -sr. -v WJ Nil -lff fame. It consists of shouts, weird sounds tne musical comedy, "No, No, Nan ette," in which he sang the famil' iar "Tea for Two? song. Next he became a trap-drum play er and joined Johnny Jones's or Si chestra.

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20. (Exclusive) Several fine homes are being erected here and in Cahuenga Park, including a $15,000 Mexican type summer home for George T. Nilson, Omaha (Neb.) capitalist. The site is a large lot on Valley Vista Boulevard at South Sherman Way. The dwelling will be of brick and steel construction, built around a large patio, with servant and chauffeur quarters adjoining.

Work also Is to start next week on a two-story Monterey type home for Mrs. Nan Ballard on Valley Vista Boulevard, east of Kester avenue. Morey Eaton, local realty dealers, during the week reported they nad sold thirty new home sites within the last two weeks. Sherman Oaks Is the San Fernando Valley foothills section immediately south of the Van Nuys district, and fronts on the Ventura Highway. Sir Henry Coward, who took up music as a profession at 40 and be-ramn fumoua In Eneland.

recently show, "Plantation Days," with which he went to Chicago. When the show disbanded, he went to work at the Dreamland Cafe. Here he Blng Crosby, Stuart Erwin, Leila Hyams, Kate Smith, the four Mills brothers, Burns and Allen, the Bos- attracted attention as the orchestra leader. Customers used, to gather in one end of the balcony merely well sisters, Guy Lombardo, Donald Novis and Arthur Tracy, the street 31. 1 A A i ro wawn mm wield tne baton in his own novel way.

"Cab's" fame as a master of ceremonies soared, and he signed with the Music Corporation of America and headed for Harlem. Here, at the Savoy ballroom, he became such a favorite that he was signed for a part In last season's "Hot Chocolates." With Margaret Simms, he sang the hit song of the show, "Ain't Misbehavm'." A contract at the Krazy Kat Club singer. "Cab" Is another "enfant terrible" produced by' modern music, for It Is as recent as 1927 that he received his high school diploma from Douglas school In Baltimore. Calloway, whose real first name is Cabell, began to think seriously of melody when he was captain of his basketball team. His sister was attaining some success on the stage and undertook to instruct "Cab" in Prices? Less than you imagine no more than any good corset.

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Societe tarn of blael tuede broadcloth, trimmed tcilh mall bow and metal elatp. $18.75 and, as the driver whistles, he begins jotting it down with new words as a waltz. "He gets on a train, where he continues to compose, singing as he goes. A group of soldiers overhear him and adopt It in their Individual manner of rollicking song. As they get off the train, they start away singing It as a march.

"A gypsy boy hears It and begins playing it on his violin as a gypsy song. The music travels to the neighboring castle, where Jeanette MacDonald stands on a balcony outside her bedroom. She takes up the song and presents it as a sentimental ballad. She, too, sings of a loverbut this time the sought one Is a charming prince who bows and rescues. "The Idea came from fairy tales I heard when a child.

"My grandmother knew hundreds of fairy stories and told them to me. One of the favorite themes was a prince, to whose feet a handkerchief was blown by the wind. He thereupon set forth on horseback to scour the world for the owner. She always was a beautiful princess and he married her. Character establishment of a group of vastly different persons with one single song number has been accomplished In Maurice Chevalier's Paramount starring picture, "Love Me Tonight." This is one of the Innovations made In talking pictures for this production by Director Mamoulian.

The song Is "Isn't It Romantic?" written by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart It changes In mood and tempo as It progresses through an opening sequence, but the melody remains the same. "The song first Is introduced by Chevalier In his tailor ihop," Mamoulian explains. "He to a customer his song of what he wants In a wife. Some day, he relates, he will find the girl to make him onion soup and sweep out his house. It is a fox-trot here.

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The former Betty Noble, writer and protegee of Harold T. McCor-inlck, Chicago millionaire, Is responsible for the building of this unique home, located at 1428 Woodbine avenue. "It Is a dream of many months," aid Miss Noble, the wife of Alberto Bolet, Cuban musician. "I got the Idea to build the house when my little daughter and I used to drive on this hill to look at the lights of the city at night." The house Is built entirely along straight lines and the furnishings are the same. Miss Noble describes the architecture as being primitively modern and not modernistic some may think.

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