| Show Del Courtney to Play at Rainbow Del who brings his famous music to Jerry Jones' Rainbow on Friday for one full transformed a great college band into a nationally known musical Born in Del's musical career began as soon as he attained sufficient height to reach the keyboard of the family The son of a musical he gave most of his time and energy to played in his public school and high school bands and then majored in music at St. Mary's a school better known for its football As a freshman at St. he also organized a dance attained great popularity not only but also at the larger University of California at near-by To be closer to most of his Del eventually transferred to California and received his A. B. there in Following he was equipped to follow the vocation for which he had been that of teach- ing but the depression was in full swing and there weren't any jobs in that None of the boys in ins campus dance graduating simultaneously at both St. Mary's and could find any jobs so they started o u t to buck the depression as a professional dance The depression was too much for and before the end of the summer the band broke Del reluctantly took a job but one semester of pedagogy got In he rounded up as many of his men as he could filled out the rest of the band with new and got a job at Oakland's Athens former stepping ground of Horace He was booked for a two-week engagement and held over a At the end of that Dei Courtney and his orchestra were established favorites in the and when they invaded the east two years the result was a foregone |
