December 1940: Crowning Kay Kyser
Mary Herbert Pollok (left) crowns big band leader Kay Kyser, while Avalon City Manager E.R. Pollok (right) crowns band member Ginny Simms, December 1940.
Kay Kyser in 1939-40 according to his website, www.kaykyser.net: "Kyser orchestra opens at Catalina Island casino, completes first film for RKO in Hollywood, That’s Right-You’re Wrong, co- starring Lucille Ball and Adolphe Menjou. Plays Gone With The Wind premiere in Atlanta, records multi-million seller, Three Little Fishes for Brunswick parent company, Columbia. 1940 sees the band at the top of the charts continually (as in ‘39), and 2nd film You’ll Find Out opens in late ‘40, with guest appearances on radio show by Kay’s 3 costars, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, and Peter Lorre."