Music: Black Brothers

In Manhattan, a few months ago, four black brothers were hanging around Harlem jobless. Four years ago vaudeville all over the U. S. was flat on its back. Talking pictures, long & short, were filling entire bills. But talking "shorts" did not satisfy. Today, cinemansions are putting on 60% more flesh & blood acts than in 1929. Radio-Keith-Orpheum spent $12,000,000 on its vaudeville last year. The four Mills Brothers, their engagement at Manhattan's Palace Theatre extended for a third time, rolled about town last week...

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