[Promotional Card] April Fool's Comedy Dance
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- Lyons, NY: Sevalen's Hall, 1933
Lyons, NY: Sevalen's Hall, 1933. Very Good +. Lyons, NY: Sevalen's Hall, 1933. Broadsheet palm card; printed promotional card (12.8x7.5cm) for an "April Fool's Comedy Dance" in the New York Hamlet, featuring the Colored Night Hawk's [sic] band; advertisements for Lyons Soda Spa to verso. Light rubbing and a couple smudges; Very Good or better.
Drummer Boots Ward's band was variously called the Colored Night Hawks or simply the Night Hawks and sprang from its Worcester, Massachusetts antecedent "Mamie Moffett and Her Five Jazz Hounds," which was headed by Worcester's "First Lady of Jazz." A lovely record of small town Depression-era good times when tickets went for 25 cents to the ladies and 35 to the men. .
Drummer Boots Ward's band was variously called the Colored Night Hawks or simply the Night Hawks and sprang from its Worcester, Massachusetts antecedent "Mamie Moffett and Her Five Jazz Hounds," which was headed by Worcester's "First Lady of Jazz." A lovely record of small town Depression-era good times when tickets went for 25 cents to the ladies and 35 to the men. .