The Omaha guide., 1934-02-17
Irniyg Mills
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field at the Trocadero, the largest
music hall in that city.
Negotiations have already been
consummated for Galloway to appear
in Holland, Paris, Manchester and
Glasgow, among other European
cities, upon the completion of their
London engagement. Mr.. Mills is
also sending ove the following col
ored attractions to appear on the
European stages with .Calloway's or
chestra, The Three Dukes, a dance
team Of unusual calibre and Elma
Turner, acknowledged n of The
ccuntry's foremost tap dancers.
Upon Cab Calloway's return to ehis
country, he will be followed in Eu-
rope during August by an immense
colored revue which Mr.. Mills is now
producing This revue will feature
a colored band Of note, the country's
leading colored speciality dancers and
a grup of the most attractive colored
chorus girls in the entire country.
Mr.. Mills has already sent out a call
for the most beautiful colored girls in
the country, who will be given a part
in his chorus. His representatives in
the various cities throughout the
country are scanning all the local
colored show girls for this purpose.
Mr.. Mills intends to make sure that
this chorus of colored girls will rep
resent the most attractive of their
race in this country.
Five of this country's greatest col
ored bands now comprise the list of
attractions being handled by Mr..
Mills. The two latest to come I'M
der the genius of his sponsorship are
Jimmie Lunceford's orchestra, feat
ured mighty at the Cotton Club and
Fletcher Henderson's orchestra, play
ing vaudeville constantly and soon
to be featured in one of the leading
night clubs in the Times Square sec
tor. The other two bands under Mr..
Mills guidance, in addition to Gallo
way, are the Mills Blue Rhythm
Band, conducted by Lucky Millinder,
and the outstanding group under the
direction of Duke Ellington.
Duke Ellington's orchestra is sched-
uled to arrive on the coast February
10 where they will be featured in the
Paramount screen version of Earl
CAROLS Murder at the Vanities."
Mr.. Mills, who returned from the
coast February 13, completed ar
rangements for Duke Ellington's or
chestra to be featured at a night club
in the vicinity Of Los Angeles while
working on the picture as well as in
the leading Los Angeles picture
houses during the same time.
The Mills Blue Rhythm Band, feat
u1ing Lucky Millinder, George Dewey
Washington, Alma Smith, Nicodemus,
the Four Flash Devils and Josie Oil
yer, are currently touring the mid
western vaudeville houses where they
are meeting with unusual success,
breaking records in the majority of
the theatres they have played. Fol
lowing an eight week tour of RKO,
the Mills Blue Rhythm Band will go
into the Kentucky Hotel, Louisville,
Kentucky, for the opening of the
Kentucky Derby season. The Mills
Blue Rhythm Band will be featured
at the Kentucky Hotel for six weeks.
Mr.. Mills has long been acknowl-
edge1 the country's leading genius in
the management of colored attrac-
tions. He has built everyone of his
units into a national figure and not
content with that, into an interna-
tional figure as well. He believes
that there is as much of a demand for
good colored entertainment in Eu-
rope as in this country, if not more
SO, and intends to make it a policy to
send every one of his attractions to
Europe at least once a year, thus
building them into leading interna-
tional theatrical figures