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Kid Boots, a successful Broadway musical comedy starring Eddie Cantor and Mary Eaton, with music by Harry Tierney, and lyrics by Joseph McCarthy, transfers from the Earl Carroll Theatre, New York City, USA, to the Selwyn Theatre.
Country music singer and guitarist Ernest Stoneman auditions for Columbia Records in New York City, USA. They immediately offer him a flat fee of $100 to record about twenty songs for their OKeh label, and his first session is held three days later.
Popular American violinist and bandleader Ben Selvin comes to the end of his exclusive Vocalion Records contract and will soon after begin recording for Columbia, Paramount and The Plaza Music Company.
Time magazine reports that a proposed strike for more money among theatre musicians in Chicago, Illinois, USA, has spread from Chicago to St. Louis, Cincinnati, Washington, Philadelphia, New York, Syracuse and Boston, where musicians are now threatening to down tools within a week.
Stewart Roussin Fischer is born in Durand, Michigan, USA. He will find success as jazz composer, arranger, educator, trumpeter and valve trombonist 'Dirk' Fischer, aka 'Dirty Dirk' Fischer.
Rufus 'Puddin' Taylor, who will play bass with Hank Williams' Drifting Cowboys, is born in the USA.
The musical comedy The Chocolate Dandies, starring Josephine Baker, with music by Eubie Blake and lyrics by Noble Sissle, opens at The New Colonial Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, where it will run for 96 performances.