> Duke Ellington played the Cotton Club from 1927-30. He got many air dates giving him a national reputation. Harry Carney played for him from 1927-74; Barney Bigard, 1927-42. A-Train 1941. Tempo Music 1942. Cab Calloway: "The bandstand was a replica of a Southern mansion, with large white columns and a backdrop painted with a weeping willow and slave quarters. The band played on the veranda of the mansion." The club barred blacks, and touted its chorus line as 50 beautiful creoles, "SUCH LINES, SUCH SPEED, SUCH CURVES. The aristocrat of Harlem at 142 and Lenox 10 p.m. to 3 a.m."
Duke: "I told those guys in 1927 they were never going to drive me to the nut house. . . We may all go there, but I'm going to be driving the wagon." Fletcher Henderson dominated the scene when they arrived in 1927. His friends in D.C. called him Duke because of his elegant style. His ads in D.C. billed his Serenaders as "colored musicians" and "colored syncopators", "irresistible jass furnished to our select patrons". His ads referred to him as E.K. Ellington.
> The Dorint Hotel in Weimar is based in part on Adolf Loos' project for a residence for Josephine Baker in Paris.
> The first Deutscher Werkbund exposition in Weissenhof near Stuttgart
> Soong Mei Ling, the Wellesley College graduate married Chiang Kai-shek
> Eileen Gray (1879-1976) designed a classic modern side table, E 1027, still available from the Gallerie Jean Desert, Paris.
> Philo Farnsworth's Green Street Lab (at Sansom in Philly), where the one year old lab invented and patented the first operational all-electronic television system in 1927. (The basic concept came to him when he was 16!)
> Clara Bow (1905-65) starred in 1927 in Elinor Glynn's "It". She was a Brooklyn girl trying to make it through beauty contests.
> Lindy, the "Flyin' Fool"
> Patrick D. Hazard, born February 8, 1927
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