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I agree.FROM: PRESS DEP^l WILLIAM MORRIS Mptifel} INC. Page $ TtiS WILL MAST IK TRIO Stirring SAMMY DAVIS. JR. Though "Bojangles" left very little financially when he passed away, he had left his legacy of dance to young Sammy Davis ?╟÷?╟÷?╟÷and no greater gift could he have bestowed. Earl Wilson of the New York Post has written of Sammy's dancing,".his feet remind one of liquid rhythm." The years passed and the Trio played nightclubs and theatres across the country and back again, constantly sharpening their act, shining up bits of business, smoothing out a spot here and there, getting even the minutest tap down to the most perfectly formed rhythmic pattern. In 194.3, at the height of World Warr II, Sammy went into the Army, where in addition to his regular duties, his talents were pressed into service producing camp shows, many of which he wrote and directed himself. He was discharged at San Francisco in late 1945 and immediately rejoined his dad and uncle who were then working in Seattle. The switch from Army life back to show business was so fast that for a week Sammy worked in a costume that was half khaki, half "civvies." In April of 1946, the Trio, unheralded and unsung, opened at the now defunct "Slapsie Maxie's" in Hollywood on the same bill with Ben Blue. The Trio was the opening act-----they scored such an overwhelming success that they were signed to come back as the headliners. On their returns (more)