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Musical revue The Show Is On, starring Beatrice Lillie and Bert Lahr, plays at The Winter Garden Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, where it will run for 236 performances.Celebrated ragtime composer Harry J. Lincoln, whose best-known composition is The Midnight Fire Alarm, dies aged 59 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Popular American singer Edward Meeker, who enjoyed bestsellers with Harrigan and Take Me Out to the Ball Game, dies in Orange, New Jersey, USA. Meeker was also well-known to pioneer recording aficionados as Edison's song announcer and sound effects specialist in the first two decades of the century.
The musical, Babes In Arms, including the Rodgers And Hart songs Where Or When?, My Funny Valentine and The Lady Is A Tramp, is running at The Shubert Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a total run of 289 performances.
Harry 'Big Daddy' Hypolite is born in St. Martinville, Louisiana, USA. Hypolite will work as a sideman for more than forty years, notably alongside Zydeco great Clifton Chenier, before establishing himself as a blues singer, guitarist and bandleader and recording artist in his own right.