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Donald Rondeau is born in Ware, Massachusetts, USA. He will find success in 1956 as popular singing star Don Rondo
The High Flyers present Hebrew Justice, billed as an 'Up-to-date musical revue' at The Lyric Theatre, Lima, Ohio, USA. The show stars Izzy Cohen and 'a big chorus of pretty dancing girls'.
Lionel Augustus Martin is born in Croft's Hill, Jamaica. He will find success as Saxa, a saxophonist famous for performing with the British ska band The Beat. He will also play with many early reggae stars, including Laurel Aitken, Prince Buster, and Desmond Dekker.
Babes in Toyland, an operetta composed by Victor Herbert, is playing at Jolson's 59th Street Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA.
The musical comedy short [22 mins] A Night in a Dormitory, starring Ginger Rogers, with bandleader Eddie Elkins playing himself, opens at cinemas in the USA.
Richard Herbert Hayes is born in Brooklyn, New York City, USA. He will find success as popular singer Richard Hayes.
Maynard Solomon is born. In 1950, he and his brother Seymour Solomon will found the influential folk and blues label Vanguard Records.
The musical comedy Fifty Million
Frenchmen, with songs by Cole Porter, plays at the Lyric
Theatre on 42nd Street, New York City, USA, during a run of 254
performances. Perhaps the best-known song in the show is You
Do Something To Me.