All banquets have a speakers' table, and no exception was the banquet given last week at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria by the trust division of the American Bankers Association. But from the speakers' table came no speeches. Trust-division President Merrel P. Callaway announced that the evening's entertainment would be "something more acceptable." At 10:12 p.m., expectant bankers & guests saw the gold plush curtains of the ballroom stage draw slowly apart, reveal a piano against which leaned Miss Helen Jepson. A pretty, blonde soprano who reached radio fame with Rudy Vallee and Paul Whiteman, Miss...
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