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The musical comedy Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, with music by Jule Styne, and starring Carol Channing, is presented at The Ziegfeld Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 740 performances.
Hot Lips Page and Savannah Churchill are playing at The Apollo Theater, Harlem, New York City, USA.
Radio station WTOP in Washington DC, USA, begins a campaign to promote the playing of ocarinas [small, prmitive wind instrument], which has become popularised by the use of an ocarina on air by disc jockey Gene Klaven, who punctutates the tracks he plays with bursts of ocarina notes.
Popular songwriter, pianist and arranger Eliseo Grenet dies aged 57 at home in Havana, Cuba, Caribbean.
The musical movie Two Tickets To Broadway, starring Tony Martin and Janet Leigh, begins production in Los Angeles, California, USA. The film also includes an appearance by bandleader Bob Crosby as himself.