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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Sammy Davis, Sr.
		and Will Mastin, the leader of the dance troupe he worked for, taught the child how to dance.
		Will Mastin, also credited as Will Maston (1903 - 1975), was the leader of the Will Mastin Trio, a trio of dancers and singers which included Sammy Davis, Sr.
		The Will Mastin Trio (also Will Maston Trio on some bills) was a trio of dancers and singers formed by Will Mastin, Sammy Davis, Sr.
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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Sammy Davis Jr.
		Davis joined the act as a young child and they became the Will Mastin Trio.
		Mastin and his father had shielded him from racism.
		Sammy, his father and Will went back out on the circuit, eventually opening for Mickey Rooney, who was so taken with Davis's impromptu impersonations that he urged Davis to include them in the trio's act.
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	WILL MASTIN TRIO : Encyclopedia Entry
		Will Mastin led the vaudeville dance troupe Sammy Davis, Sr.
		Soon the child joined the act and they became the Will Mastin Trio.
		Even if Sammy Davis, Jr.'s solo career was greatly successful, he still performed from time to time with his father and uncle as the Will Mastin Trio during 1950s and 1960s, frequently giving them billing on his shows and singles.
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		As a child he learned how to dance from his father, Sammy Davis, Sr., and his "uncle" Will Mastin, who led the dance troupe his father worked for.
		Mastin and his father had shielded him from racism.
		Davis was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California next to his father and Will Mastin.
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	Will Mastin Trio - Wikipedia
		Il Will Mastin Trio fu un trio di ballerini e cantanti, formato da Will Mastin, Sammy Davis Sr.
		Will Mastin era il capoballerino della compagnia di vaudeville cui faceva parte Sammy Davis Sr.
		Ben presto il bambino si unì a loro negli spettacoli, e i tre divennero il Will Mastin Trio.
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	American Tap Dance Foundation
		In 1929 at the age of four, Davis joined the act, which was re-named the Will Mastin Trio, and toured the vaudeville circuit, accompanying his elders with flash tap dance routines.
		In short time, the act was renamed Will Mastin's Gang, Featuring Little Sammy; and still later, The Will Mastin Trio, Featuring Sammy Davis Jr." In 1942 at the age of eighteen Davis was drafted into the Army where he encountered, he says for the first time, blatant racial prejudice, which he countered with his fists.
		Davis will be remembered throughout his career as one of the world's greatest entertainers, as a remarkably popular and versatile performer equally adept at acting, singing, dancing and impersonations -- in short, a variety artist in the classic tradition.
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	Kennedy Center: Biographical information for Sammy, Jr. Davis
		His father was then a lead dancer in Mastin's "Holiday in Dixieland," a vaudeville troupe in which young Sammy's mother, Elvera (Sanchez) Davis, was the lead chorus girl.
		Featuring Little Sammy" then "The Will Mastin Trio, Featuring Sammy Davis Jr." It was during those years that Davis met Frank Sinatra, who was then with Tommy Dorsey's band, and Bill ("Bojangles") Robinson, the "Mr.
		During the lean post-World War II years, breaking in a night club act in the "boondocks" and occasionally in Las Vegas, which was in its infancy as a "show town," he perfected his performance, doing flashdancing and impressions of popular screen stars and singers, playing trumpet and drums--and singing, with Sammy Sr.
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	Crystal's Classics: Sammy Davis, Jr.
		His father, Davis Sr., was a lead dancer in Will Mastin’s Holiday in Dixieland — a vaudeville troupe for which his mother, Elvera Sanchez Davis, was the load chorus girl.
		The story goes that when he was judged by the authorities to be too young to perform (in violation of child labor laws), he was given a rubber cigar and billed as a dancing midget — although it’s hard to believe this fooled very many people.
		By now the Will Mastin Trio was solidly established in the new, mass media show business which was replacing (and killing) vaudeville, and was reaching a much larger audience.
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	A FIRST LOOK... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		He'd corner nightclub owners and promoters and tell them he was a dancer with the Will Mastin Trio, a dance act, new to town.
		Mastin and his father didn't have the young legs anymore, and Sammy knew it, so he'd run for them, he'd be their legs, he'd pounce like a lion.
		Will Mastin was old enough to remember that, in the aftermath of World War I, plenty of acts had simply fallen apart.
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	Sammy Davis Jr.
		and "uncle" Will Mastin carefully shielded the youngster from racial discrimination, explaining away slights and snubs and ensuring that Sammy's early years, at least, were free from the limitations imposed by racial ignorance and hatred.
		Eventually, the Mastin Troupe was reduced to a trio consisting of Sammy, his father and Mastin.
		The Mastin Trio's momentum was interrupted when Davis turned 18 and was drafted into the United States Army.
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	African Americans - Sammy Davis Jr., Entertainer, Singer, Actor and Member of the Rat Pack
		Coached by legendary tap dancer Bill Bojangles Robinson, Davis achieved success on the vaudeville circuit, dancing with his father and adopted uncle in the Will Mastin Trio.
		In the late 1940s, Davis (still with the Will Mastin Trio) opened for Frank Sinatra at the Capitol Theatre in New York, which ignited a friendship that would last a lifetime.
		He debuted on Broadway in 1956 with the Will Mastin Trio in the musical comedy Mr.
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	Sammy Davis, Jr. - Biography - Moviefone
		A member of the famed Rat Pack, he was among the very first African-American talents to find favor with audiences on both sides of the color barrier, and he remains a perennial icon of cool.
		Upon his return from duty, the group was renamed the Will Mastin Trio.
		Where previously they had exclusively performed music, the addition of comedy brought new life to the group, and by the beginning of the next decade, they were headlining venues including New York's Capitol Club and Ciro's in Hollywood.
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	Biografie
		After continuing to perform with Mastin throughout the 1930s, at age eighteen Davis was drafted and served in the Special Services in World War II.
		When the war ended, he resumed dancing with what was now the Will Mastin Trio, after Davis’s father joined the troupe.
		In the late 1940s, Davis (still with the Will Mastin Trio) opened for Frank Sinatra at the Capitol Theatre in New York, which ignited a friendship that would last a lifetime.
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	Sammy Davis Wallpapers .:. Mega Wallpapers
		and his "uncle" Will Mastin, who led the dance troupe his father worked for.
		Three centuries of prophetic teaching had given them an unwavering spirit of resignation and had created in them a will to live which no disaster could crush." The next year, he released his second album.
		The next move in his growing career was to appear in the Broadway show Mr.
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	When Words Are Spoken Featured Artist
		After his parent's marriage dissolved, he was taken on tour with his father and Uncle, Will Mastin, who led a dance troupe.
		Inevitably he joined what was referred to as the "Will Mastin Trio", where he honed his skills for a long and sensational career.
		Sammy felt that the plight of the Jews, specificily their unwavering spirit of resignation to prophetic teachings gave them a strong will to live and, in his opinion, this paralleled the plight of fl people.
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		The only son of two dancers in a fl vaudeville troupe, called Will Mastin's Holiday In Dixieland, Davis made his professional debut with the group at the age of three, as "Silent Sam, The Dancing Midget".
		By 1950 the Trio were headlining at venues such as the Capitol in New York and Ciro's in Hollywood with stars including Jack Benny and Bob Hope, but it was Davis who was receiving the standing ovations for his singing, dancing, drumming, comedy and apparently inexhaustible energy.
		Also in the show were the rest of the Will Mastin Trio, Sammy's uncle and Davis Snr.
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	CNN.com - Transcripts
		He was a child star, too, with the Will Mastin Trio.
		KING: You will agree, Sammy, that you probably saw less of it than the average American fl.
		He was the baby of the Will Mastin Trio.
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	Solid! -- Sammy Davis Jr.
		In order to avoid child labor laws the young Davis sometimes held a cigar while he performed and was billed as ''Silent Sam, the Dancing Midget.'' The group came to be known as Will Mastin's Gang featuring Little Sammy.
		In 1941 the Mastin Gang opened for Tommy Dorsey at Detroit's' Michigan Theater, and Davis became friends with singer Frank Sinatra.
		Upon his discharge he joined his father and uncle to form the Will Mastin Trio.
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		, and his "uncle" Will Mastin, who led the dance troupe for which his father worked.
		But during World War II, Davis served in the United States Army, where he was first confronted by strong racial prejudice.
		Davis died in Beverly Hills, California on May 16, 1990 (the same day as Jim Henson) of complications from throat cancer at age 64.
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	Sammy Davis, Jr.
		Still working with the Will Mastin Trio, Davis toured six months with Mickey Rooney, played a three-week engagement at New York’s Capitol Theatre on a bill headed by Frank Sinatra, and gained a featured spot in a Bob Hope benefit show.
		By now the Will Mastin Trio was solidly established in the new, mass media show business which was replacing (and killing) vaudeville, and was reaching a much larger audience.
		The trio were a smash at New York’s Copacabana, and Decca Records signed Davis.
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	Sammy Davis Jr.
		He became a Mastin Troupe regular at the tender age of 5 in 1930-- and by age 7 he made his film debut in the musical short "Rufus Jones for President." Davis Sr.
		Eventually, the larger Mastin Troupe was reduced to a trio consisting of Sammy, his father and Mastin.
		The Mastin Trio's momentum was abruptly interrupted when Davis turned 18 and was drafted into the United States Army.
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	Amazon.com: "Will Mastin Trio": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
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		his need for the grand gesture, far outstripped whatever he made, whether it was $5,000 a week with the Will Mastin Trio in the early 1950s or $175,000 a week as a Las Vegas star in the 1970s.
		Star-struck Sammy first met Bogart when he and his father and uncle-known professionally as the Will Mastin Trio-opened at the trendy Slapsy Maxie's club in Los...
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	Review \| Sammy: An Autobiography by Sammy Davis Jr. & Jane and Burt Boyar
		Davis toured for much of his early career with his father, Sammy Davis and the man he often referred to as his uncle, Will Mastin.
		Occasionally other -- white -- performers would protest at sharing dressing rooms or billing with the Will Mastin Trio.
		A stint in the Army opened Davis' eyes to the reality in a way that would make an indelible mark on his life.
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	Sammy Davis Jr.
		Son of a fl vaudeville star and a Puerto Rican dancer, Sammy Davis Jr.
		He continued appearing with the Will Maustin Gang throughout the 1930s.
		He appeared on Broadway with the Will Mastin Trio (formely the Will Mastin Gang) in 1956 in Mr.
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	DAVIS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Sammy Davis Junior (1925 - 1990) was born on the 8th of December 1925, in New York City, New York, U.S.A. He was an American singer, dancer, and entertainer.
		At the age of three Davis began performing in vaudeville with his father and his uncle, Will Mastin, in the Will Mastin Trio.
		After serving in the U.S. Army he became the central figure of the Mastin Trio, not only singing and dancing but also playing trumpet, drums, piano, and vibraphone; moreover, he was an accomplished mime and comedian.
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	Sammy Davis Jr. left legacy of Nevada entertainment (printable version)
		Arguably America’s first fl superstar, Davis, is identified with Las Vegas, where he performed solo and, early in his career, as a member of the Will Mastin Trio.
		By the 1950s, Davis played Las Vegas with his father and Will Mastin as the Will Mastin Trio.
		I will not be doing it,’” Silber said.
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	Sammy Davis Jr. Bio - Sammy Davis Jr. Biography - Sammy Davis Jr. Stories
		Sammy learnt how to dance from his father and his uncle, and as a young child he became a member of their group, the `Will Mastin Trio`.
		After serving in the United States Army during `World War II`, Sammy rejoined the `Will Mastin Trio`.
		Once he achieved success with the group, and after releasing his second album, Sammy explanded his career by appearing in the Broadway Show, `Mr.
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	Porgy and Bess News
		Set in the poverty-stricken ghetto of fictional Catfish Row, George Gershwin's masterpiece "Porgy and Bess" is the story of a crippled beggar, the troubled woman he loves and the nefarious souls who surround...
		The Tigers may be the big story in town, but it will be a shame if the World Series obscures this weekend's inviting schedule of classical music and jazz in metro Detroit.
		Trevor Nunn will direct a new adaptation of Gershwin's 'Porgy and Bess,' opening in November at the Savoy Theatre.
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	"Sammy Davis, Jr." AL STEWART'S "View from the Bandstand" THE PHOTOGRAPHY PAGE: The Scream Online ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		When I first started playing for Sammy he was a member of the Will Mastin Trio.
		It included his father and his uncle Will.
		They, in fact, were billed as "The Will Mastin Trio with Sammy Davis, Jr." I played for them a number of times before Sammy went out on his own, and many times since he went solo.
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