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1940 Cab Calloway Lowell Memorial Auditorium Advertisement & (2) Ticket Stubs
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1940 Cab Calloway Lowell Memorial Auditorium Advertisement & (2) Ticket Stubs
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The picture below shows a larger view of the 1940 Cab Calloway Lowell Memorial Auditorium Advertisement & (2) Ticket Stubs in this lot. These items had come from an old scrapbook and they are still on lined paper from the album pages. These were from a show that took place at the Lowell Memorial Auditorium in Lowell, Massachusetts on September 22nd, 1940. The pair of ticket stubs have consecutive numbers. The advertisement pictures Cab Calloway and a globe cartoon or comic character. It is marked as follows:

THE HAPPIEST 2-1/2 HOURS OF THE ENTERTAINMENT WORLD
ONE DAY ONLY – SUNDAY SEPT. 22 – 2 SHOWS
“KING OF HI-DE-HO”! CAB CALLOWAY
AND HIS COTTON CLUB ORCHESTRA
HI-DE-HI! HI-DE-HO!
ALSO HELEN MORGAN SINGING STAR OF STAGE, SCREEN AND RADIO
AND BILLY DEWOLFE ALWAYS A FAVORITE
2 BIG BANDS AND A HOST OF ACTS
LOWELL AUDITORIUM
SUNDAY – SEPT. 22
MATINEE 3P.M. 40c & 65c – EVENING 8:15 P.M. 60c & 85c TAX INCLUDED

The ticket stubs read as follows:

NO. 523 (& 524)
MEMORIAL AUDITORIUM
SEPTEMBER 22, 1940
EVENING – BALCONY
SULLIVAN BROS. - PRINTERS

To judge the sizes the advertisement measures about 4-1/16'' x 6''. The ticket stubs appear to be in excellent used condition as pictured. The ad has the lower right corner missing and a small tear. As mentioned above, all three of these are pasted on paper.

Below here, for reference, is some additional information about Cab Calloway:

Cab Calloway
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Cab Calloway
Background information
Birth name: Cabell Calloway III
Born: December 25, 1907 in Rochester, New York, United States
Died: November 18, 1994 (at age 86) in Hockessin, Delaware, U.S.
Genres: Jazz, Blues
Occupations: Bandleader, Singer, Songwriter
Instruments: Vocals
Years active: 1930 - 1994
Associated acts: The Cab Calloway Orchestra

Cabell ''Cab'' Calloway III (December 25, 1907 - November 18, 1994) was an African American jazz singer and bandleader. He was strongly associated with the Cotton Club in Harlem, New York City, where he was a regular performer. Calloway was a master of energetic scat singing and led one of the United States' most popular African American big bands from the start of the 1930s through the late 1940s. Calloway's band featured performers including trumpeters Dizzy Gillespie and Adolphus ''Doc'' Cheatham, saxophonists Ben Webster, and Leon ''Chu'' Berry, New Orleans guitar ace Danny Barker, and bassist Milt Hinton. Calloway continued to perform until his death in 1994 at the age of 86.

Early years

Cab Calloway was born in a middle class family in Rochester, New York, on Christmas Day in 1907. He lived there until moving to Baltimore, Maryland in 1918. His mother, Martha Eulalia Reed, was a teacher and church organist and his father, Cabell Calloway II, was an attorney. When Cab was young, he enjoyed singing in church. His parents recognized their son's musical talent and he began private voice lessons in 1922. He continued to study music and voice throughout his formal schooling. Despite the disapproval of jazz by his parents and teachers, Calloway began frequenting and eventually, performing in many of Baltimore's jazz clubs, where he was mentored by drummer Chick Webb and pianist Johnny Jones.

After his graduation from Frederick Douglass High School Calloway joined his older sister, Blanche, in a touring production of the popular black musical revue, Plantation Days. (Blanche Calloway became an accomplished bandleader before her brother did, and he would often credit her as his inspiration for entering show business.) When the tour ended in Chicago in the fall, Calloway decided to remain there with his sister, who was an established jazz singer in that city.

Calloway attended Lincoln University (a historically black university) in Pennsylvania, but left in 1930 before graduation. His parents had hopes of their son becoming an attorney following after his father, so Calloway enrolled in Crane College. His main interest, however, was in singing and entertaining, and he spent most of his nights at the Dreamland Ballroom, the Sunset Cafe, and the Club Berlin, performing as a drummer, singer, and MC. He eventually left law school to sing with a band called the Alabamians. At the Sunset Cafe he met and performed with Louis Armstrong who taught him to sing in the ''scat'' style.

Success

The Cotton Club was the premier jazz venue in the country, and Calloway and his orchestra (he had taken over a brilliant, but failing band called ''The Missourians'' in 1930; later on, the band changed its name to Cab Calloway and His Orchestra) were hired as a replacement for the Duke Ellington Orchestra while they were touring (he joined Duke Ellington and Mills Blue Rhythm Band as another of the jazz groups handled by Irving Mills). Calloway quickly proved so popular that his band became the ''co-house'' band with Ellington's, and his group began touring nationwide when not playing the Cotton Club. Their popularity was greatly enhanced by the twice weekly live national radio broadcasts on NBC at the Cotton Club. Calloway also appeared on Walter Winchell's radio program and with Bing Crosby in his show at New York's Paramount Theatre. As a result of these appearances, Calloway, together with Ellington, broke the major broadcast network color barrier.

Like other bands fronted by a singing bandleader, Calloway initially gave ample soloist space to its lead members and, through the varied arrangements of Walter 'Foots' Thomas, provided much more in the way of musical interest. Many of his records were ''vocal specialities'' with Calloway's vocal taking up the majority of the record.

In 1931 he recorded his most famous song, ''Minnie the Moocher''. That song, along with ''St. James Infirmary Blues'' and ''the Mountain'', were performed for the ''Betty Boop'' animated cartoon shorts ''Minnie the Moocher'', ''Snow White'', and ''The Old Man of the Mountain'', respectively. Through rotoscoping, Calloway not only gave his voice to these cartoons, but his dance steps as well. He took advantage of this and timed his concerts in some communities with the release of the films in order to make the most of the attention. As a result of the success of ''Minnie the Moocher'', he became identified with its chorus, gaining the nickname ''The Hi De Ho Man''. He also performed in a series of short films for Paramount in the 1930s. (Calloway and Ellington were featured on film more than any other jazz orchestras of the era.) In these films, Calloway can be seen performing a gliding backstep dance move, the precursor to Michael Jackson's ''moonwalk'', Calloway said 50 years later, ''it was called ''The Buzz'' back then''. The 1933 film, ''International House'' featured Calloway performing his classic song, ''Reefer Man'', a tune about a man who favors marijuana cigarettes. Calloway made his ''first proper Hollywood movie appearance'' opposite Al Jolson in ''The Singing Kid'' in 1936. He sang a number of duets with Jolson, and the film included Calloway's band and cast of 22 Cotton Club dancers from New York. According to music historian Arthur Knight, the film aimed in part ''to both erase and celebrate boundaries and differences, including most emphatically the color line''. He also notes that ''when Calloway begins singing in his characteristic style, in which the words are tools for exploring rhythm and stretching melody, it becomes clear that American culture is changing around Jolson and with (and through) Calloway. . .''. Watch Calloway's was one of the most popular American jazz bands of the 1930s, recording prolifically for Brunswick and the ARC dime store labels (Banner, Cameo, Conqueror, Perfect, Melotone, Banner, Oriole, etc.) from 1930 - 1932, when he signed with Victor for a year. He was back on Brunswick in late 1934 through 1936, when he signed with manager Irving Mills's short lived Variety in 1937, and stayed with Mills when the label collapsed and the sessions were continued on Vocalion through 1939, and then OKeh Records through 1942. After a recording ban due to the 1942 - 1944 musicians' strike ended, he continued to record prolifically.

Calloway's vocal style is a blend of hot scat singing and improvisation coupled with a very traditional vaudeville like singing style. Many of his ballads are devoid of tone bending jazz styling. In 1941 Calloway fired Dizzy Gillespie from his orchestra after an onstage fracas erupted when Calloway was hit with spitballs. He wrongly accused Gillespie, who stabbed Calloway in the leg with a small knife. In 1943 Calloway appeared in the high profile 20th Century Fox musical film, ''Stormy Weather''. ''Stormy Weather'' was one of the first films that featured an all star black cast. In 1944 The New Cab Calloway's Hepsters Dictionary: ''Language of Jive'' was published, an update of an earlier book in which Calloway set about translating jive for fans who might not know, for example, that ''kicking the gong around'' was a reference to smoking opium.

Calloway and his band starred in ''Hi De Ho'', an all black full length film directed by Josh Binney. Caricatures of Calloway appeared in the Porky Pig cartoons, Porky at the Trocadero and Swooner Crooner. In the late 1940s, Calloway wrote a regular humorous pseudo gossip column called ''Coastin' With Cab'' for Song Hits Magazine. It was a collection of celebrity snippets such as this one, in the May 1946 issue: ''Benny Goodman was dining at Ciro's steak house in New York when a very homely girl entered. 'If her face is her fortune,' Benny quipped, 'she'd be tax-free'''. In the late 1940s, however, Cab Calloway's bad financial decisions as well as his gambling caused his band to break up.

Later years

In the 1950s Calloway moved his family from Long Island, New York in order to raise the three youngest of his five daughters in Greenburgh, New York. In his later career Calloway appeared in a number of films and stage productions that used both his acting and singing talents. In 1952 he played the prominent role of ''Sportin' Life'' in a production of the Gershwin opera, Porgy and Bess, with William Warfield and Leontyne Price as the title characters. Another notable role was ''Yeller'' in The Cincinnati Kid (1965), with Steve McQueen, Ann Margret, and Edward G. Robinson.

Calloway appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show on March 19, 1967 with Chris Calloway. In 1967, Calloway co-starred opposite Pearl Bailey as Horace Vandergelder in an all black cast change of Hello, Dolly! on Broadway during its original run. It revived the flagging business for the show and RCA released a new cast recording, rare for the time. In 1973 - 1974, Calloway was featured in an unsuccessful Broadway revival of The Pajama Game alongside Hal Linden and Barbara McNair. 1976 saw the release of his autobiography, Of Minnie the Moocher and Me (Crowell). It included his complete Hepsters Dictionary as an appendix.

Calloway attracted renewed interest in 1980 when he appeared as a supporting character in the film The Blues Brothers, performing "Minnie the Moocher", and again when he sang ''The Jumpin' Jive'' with the Two Headed Monster on Sesame Street. This also was the year the cult movie ''Forbidden Zone'' was released, which included rearrangements of, and homages to, Calloway songs written by Calloway fan Danny Elfman, performed by Elfman and his band, The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo.

Calloway helped establish the Cab Calloway Museum at Coppin State College (Baltimore, Maryland) in the 1980s, and Bill Cosby helped establish a scholarship in Calloway's name at the New School for Social Research in Manhattan.

In 1986, Calloway appeared at World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE)'s WrestleMania 2 as a guest judge for a boxing match between Rowdy Roddy Piper and Mr. T that took place at the Nassau Coliseum. Also in 1986, he headlined to great success a gala ball for 4,000 celebrating the grand opening of one of the top hotels in the U.S. at the time, the Dallas based Rosewood Hotel Co.'s Hotel Crescent Court in Dallas, Texas.

In 1990, he was the focus of Janet Jackson's 1930s themed music video ''Alright'', and he made a cameo appearance at the end playing himself. In the United Kingdom, he also appeared in several commercials for the Hula Hoops snack, both as himself and as a voice for a cartoon (in one of these commercials he sang his hit ''Minnie The Moocher''). He also made an appearance at the Apollo Theatre.

In 1994, a creative and performing arts school, the Cab Calloway School of the Arts, was dedicated in his name in Wilmington, Delaware.


On June 12, 1994, Calloway suffered a stroke. He died five months later on November 18, 1994. His body was cremated and his ashes were given to his family. Upon the death of his wife Zulme ''Nuffie'' Calloway on October 13, 2008, his ashes were interred next to her at Ferncliffe Cemetery in Hartsdale, New York.

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