sentences:  Born July 20, 1896, in Tiflis, Russia, Horlick remained in Russia when his family left for America at the beginning on World War I, and he became a prisoner of war.His family and the American consul helped him get to the United States where he performed in cafés in the early 1920s.Horlick's six-piece ensemble was playing unsponsored on New York's WEAF (the station on which the group had its first broadcast) in the winter of 1923 when they were seen by a Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company executive who was taking a tour of the radio studio.