GUY LOMBARDO ORCHESTRA (GUY A. LOMBARDO) - AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED CIRCA 1942 CO-SIGNED BY: PAUL DOUGLAS - HFSID 452
Price: $200.00
GUY LOMBARDO and PAUL DOUGLAS
Inscribed signatures on opposite sides of an album leaf, acquired in
the New York area
Autograph Note Signed: "To Mae/With Best Wishes/Guy Lombardo",
4¼x5¼ album leaf. Ink note (unknown hand): "Central Theater, Passaic, New
Jersey, April 23, 1942". Also signed on verso "To Mae
Brown/Sincerely/Paul Douglas". Ink note (unknown hand): "Chesterfield
Broadcast, Broadway at 53rd, New York City, September 30, 1938-June 2, 1939".
Popular bandleader GUY LOMBARDO (1902-1977) played "the sweetest
music this side of heaven". He formed his band, the Royal Canadians, in 1924.
Known for his traditional New Year's Eve musical program, which ran from
1929 through 1976, first on the radio then on TV, he was an avid speed-boat
racer and was the national champion from 1946-1949. PAUL DOUGLAS
(1907-1959) was a sports announcer in the 1930s and a radio and stage actor
in the 1940s, including a co-starring role in the Broadway version of
Born Yesterday. His first film, Letter To Three Wives (1949), was
followed by several more, including the popular baseball movies It Happens
Every Spring (1949) and Angels in the Outfield (1951). Jagged at
bottom margin. Lightly wrinkled. Fold crease through signature. Otherwise, fine
condition.
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