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Tommy Christian And His Orchestra are playing during a three-month engagement at The Mounds Country Club, East St. Louis, Illinois, USA, operated by the notorious St. Louis gangster William Patrick 'Bow Wow' McQuillan.
The musical comedy Fifty Million
Frenchmen, with songs by Cole Porter, begins tryouts at the Colonial
Theatre, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, where it will run for 254
performances. Perhaps the best-known song in the show is You
Do Something To Me.
Jazz cornet virtuoso Bix Beiderbecke spends the thirty-second of 36 nights in the Keeley Institute, Dwight, Illinois, USA, being treated for delerium tremens caused by his heavy drinking.
The Midnight Minstrels, a pseudonym for The DeBroy Somers Band, record Tiptoe Through The Tulips, Painting The Clouds With Sunshine, If I Had A Talking Picture Of You and I'm A Dreamer, for Regal Records in London, UK.
Duke Ellington and his Cotton Club Orchestra record Breakfast Dance [Every Day], March Of The Hoodlums, Jazz Lips [Zonky Blues] for Victor Records in New York City, USA.