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... vaudeville circuit in the 1920s and 1930s. Here he met his first wife, Estelle Mansfield (Madam Lamar) Cooper..., and they created the Cooper and Lamar Music Coimany. Cooper's entry into radio was due not to his early career... as an entertainer, but to his work as a journalist. While he toured with Madam Lamar Cooper, he wrote for black