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Music hall The Melba Theatre closes in Melbourne, Australia. The building will undergo art-deco style renovations and will re-open as the Liberty Theatre later in the year.
Musical comedy The Boys From
Syracuse, with songs by Rodgers And Hart, plays at The Alvin
Theatre, Broadway, New York
City, USA, during a run of 235 performances.
Based on a survey of 7,500 high school students, Miss Ernestine
Badt, co-ordinator of Social Activities for the Chicago Public
School Sysytem, announces that the jitterbug dance is on the way
out and dismisses it as 'merely a fad'. She reports that the school
system is however, "giving the boys and girls the modified version
of the collegiate shag, of which jitterbugging is an offshoot."
Bing Crosby, with John Scott Trotter And His Orchestra, records You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby, I Have Eyes and I'm Just Wild About Harry, for the Kraft Music Hall radio Show, in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Count
Basie And His Orchestra, with vocalist Helen Humes, record Sing For Your Supper and the Cole Porter song My Heart
Belongs To Daddy, in New York City, USA.
Having recently moved to New York City, USA, Jelly Roll Morton writes to his friend Roy Carew, reporting that he has seen his agent is trying to get a new band together.