(Xavier Cugat).The Hollywood Bowlsheviks. A Humorous Chronicle of the 1927 Season of the “Symphonies Under the Stars.” By the Spanish Cartoonist du Bru.

(THEATER).

Hollywood Bowl Association

Hollywood, California

1927

First Edition . ff. (15). Illustrated throughout with 28 caricatures of Hollywood-based musicians and actors.

Caricatured among the so-called Bollywood Bowlsheviks are Alfred Hertz, Bruno Walter, Vladimir Shavitch, C.B. de Mille, Louis B. Mayer, Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford and Alfred Hertz who inaugurated the first season of music at the Hollywood Bowl in 1922. Spanish born De Bru (1900-90) named at birth Francisco de Asís Javier Cugat Mingall de Bru y Deulofeu was taken as a child to Cuba where he was trained as a classical violinist and played with the Orchestra of the Teatro Nacional in Havana. Moving to New York and entering the world of show business, he put together a tango band which by 1931 had become the resident band of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York. A dramatic showman, one of his trademarks was to hold a Chihuahua while he waved his baton with the other arm. He was also a skilled and humorous cartoonist.