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Pee Wee King is playing during a week of shows at The Orpheum, Omaha, Nebraska, USA.
The musical Bet Your Life is running at The London Hippodrome, London, England, UK, starring Julie Wilson, Brian Reece, Arthur Askey, Sally Ann Howes. Songs in the show include I Love Being in Love, It’s the Female of the Species, Hook Line and Sinker, I Want a Great Big Hunk of Man, All on Account of a Guy.
The Irving Berlin musical and political satire Call Me Madam is playing at The Coliseum, London, England, UK, during a run of 485 performances. Main cast members are Billie Worth (Sally Adams), Anton Walbrook (Cosmo), Jeff Warren (Ken Gibson) and Shani Wallis (Princess Maria). Songs include The Hostess with the Mostes', It's a Lovely Day Today, The Ocarina, They Like Ike and You're Just in Love.
Lenny Herman And His Orchestra play during a six-week engagement at The Baker Hotel, Dallas, Texas, USA.
Hal Otis is playing during a two-week engagement at The Cairo, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Ray Pearl And His Musical Gems are playing during four weeks at The Rice Hotel, Houston, Texas, USA.
The Three Peppers play at The Capitol Lounge, Chicago, Illinois, USA, during a four week engagement.
The Andrews Sisters are playing at Amato's Theater Cafe, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
The Johnny Hodges Sextette is playing at The Tiffany Club, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Sugar Chile Robinson, Hal 'Cornbread' Singer, Lowell Fulson (with Ray Charles on piano), Lil Green, The 3 Buddies and others play during a one-week season at The Regal Theater, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Bob Crosby with guitarist Barney Kessel and The Louis Basil Band is playing during a week of shows at The Chicago Theater, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Ray Anthony And His Orchestra are playing at The Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
A mastering session for the Boyd Gilmore tracks All In My Dreams and Take A Little Walk With Me is held at Sun Studios, Memphis, Tennessee, USA. The tracks were recorded for Modern Records.
Stanley Black And The Dance Orchestra perform live on the half-hour long BBC Light Programme radio show Rhythm In The Sun, which is broadcast from London, England, UK.
Rosa Passos, a popular singer and guitarist, is born in Bahia, Brazil, South America.
Charles Samuel Bush is born in Bowling Green, Kentucky, USA, He will find success as Sam Bush, a bluegrass mandolin player considered an originator of the Newgrass style.
Popular singer Jane Morgan appears on the Toast Of The Town tv show, hosted by Ed Sullivan inNew York City, USA. Also appearing is The Notre Dame Glee Club.
Virtuoso mandolin player Sam Bush is born in Bowling Green, Kentucky, USA. He will gain acclaim with the progressive acoustic group New Grass Revival, but will also demonstate his prodigious talent on hits by Pam Tillis, Kathy Mattea and Garth Brooks, to name but a few.
Red Allen (trumpet and vocal) leads a quartet including Conrad Janis (trombone), Bob Lovett (clarinet), Elmer Schoebel (piano) and Bill Stafford (drums) in a live performance at Central Plaza, New York City, USA.
The Roy Rogers Show, starring singing cowboy Roy Rogers, on NBC-tv in the USA, features an episode entitled Peril From The Past.
A quartet consisting of H. Evans, Joe McClure, T.P. Fields, and F.A. Teague records Where We Will Never Grow Old and Bring Them In, at Coggin Baptist Church in Brownwood, Texas, USA, for Gilliam Radio And Sound.
A feature by Kenneth Tynan in the New York Times, under the headline Why London Likes American Musicals, speculates (among other things) that the increasing use of accompanying music and songs in the theatre and cinema could mean that "in the very near future, a visit to a straight play with no music will come to be regarded as a bleak cultural exercise, rather like going to a silent film".
The musical comedy Wish You Were Here, is presented at The Imperial Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 598 performances.
The musical Love From Judy is playing at The Saville Theatre, London, England, UK, during a run of 594 performances. The cast includes Jean Carson (Judy), Linda Gray (Grace), Bill O'Connor (Jervis) and Adelaide Hall (Butterfly) and songs including I Never Dream When I'm Asleep, Dear Daddy Long-Legs, Here We Are and A Touch of Voodoo.
The revue An Evening With Beatrice Lillie is presented at The Booth Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 276 performances. As well as its actress-singer star, the show features piano duettists Eddie And Rack.