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An amiable soul, Eddy can take a joke. He's with Ken Murray and Shirley Ross.
A syncopated recital of the latest band news, stressing Eddy Duchin in particular
Two years later, he opened with his own orchestra at the Central Park Casino-1— then New York's swankiest dance spot. Since that opening, exactly seven years ago, he has become officially recognized as the favorite band of the social set. What's more surprising, he also seems to be the favorite — or near-favorite — of that much more numerous "social" set to which you and I belong, for the simple reason that his music is good.
Eddy more than holds his own at. every tea-drinking, little-finger-bending affair in the country. He does just as well when he plays theatres or one-night stands. The boy must have something.
In fact, when you add up the gross earnings of every name band in the country, youll find that for the last seven years Duchin has finished among the nation's first five in cash receipts. And it wouldn't shock me too much to hear that, personally, he clears more than any other bandleader. He pays his men very well but nets more for himself because he splits with no one — no personal manager, nor organized staff.
Eddy doesn't surround himself with much fanfare. Rather quietly, he's chalked up some interesting firsts to his record. The first girl vocalist he ever had sang with him at the Hippodrome Theatre in Baltimore, in 1932. When he hired her, the name she gave was Dorothy Lamour.
Back in 1931, he made his first phonograph record. He employed a promising radio (Continued on page 80)
The title of "society's favorite bandleader" was given him when he opened at the Central Park Casino seven years ago.
The Duchin Band, one of the highest paid, will be heard from the Plaza Hotel, N. Y., this fall.