WEEIC'S COMPLETE A's STARTING FRIDAY, iiI0e 10 -1 (e-wit51,como The Secret of JACK BENNY'S SUCCESS Page 5 GAINES IN ONE ONLY 10 CENTS WorldRadioHistory MORRIS HOLLANDER, ANGELENO SMILIN ED McCONNELL seems who recently won $25,000 in a little distraught over the prizes on the CBS "Sing It Again" show, speed with which his camera collecticn donates $2000 in games and candy to is growing. Ed's jolly children's pro- the Hollywood - Los Feliz Community gram can be tuned in Saturdays, 8:30 Camp, where his son Jeffrey, seven, a.m., NBC. (NBC-Ball photo.) spent last summer. Accepting the prizes from the Hollanders is Ruth Lippin, camp )4. counselor. (CBS-Braslaff photo.) 4- SEEN ON THE RADIO SCEN II& THE LOVELY LYRIC soprano voice TYPICAL OF top-flight personali- heard Saturdays (Mutual, 9:30 ties who regularly visit ABC's p.m.) on "Chicago Theater of the Air" 4"Betty Crocker Magazine of he belongs to lovely Nancy Carr. Air" is Betty Hutton, mugging here with announcer Win Elliot. 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YOU HEAR MEL BLANC ALL THE TIME on CBS's Jack Benny show—as Jack's violin teacher, his parrot, the train caller and Al Jolson's most persistent impersonator. Here Benny seems skeptical about hiring Mel as a Jolson, but Asa himself seems satisfied BLANC'S CARTOON VOICES INCLUDE those of "Bugs Bunny," _Mum. 4 muumuu "Daffy Duck" and "Little Tweedie Bird." His novelty voices ummenut lafflum are available on Capitol Records in children's albums. Here his appreciative audience is son Noel. with his "Yeee-aaaaas, Mr. Benny?" laugh line. The Man With the Versatile Tonsils Is Back at the Mikes After His Annual Big Bear Summer Spent Hauling In the Trout And Casting aSpeculative Look at Video By Lynn Roberts Sandal', 4:00 p.m., 930 p.m. as my voice." On the radio, even L8S-1(.VA. KeR(j. fiCILS Mel's own mother doesn't always Q e*I414 Salurday, 7:00 , recognize his voice. HE SPECULATIVENEC1.1LAVRe-1eFITKII..SEI),ook lue Mel has, however, developed a Blanc is casting to- half-dozen vocal interpretations that ward TV is a cautious one. have become identifiable Blanc crea- Mel is as eager as anyone tions—among them, his roles on Jack to have a fling at the fabulous new Benny's CBShow including those of medium—but he also feels there's Jack's violin teacher, his parrot, the never been a wiser place to apply train caller and perennial Al Jol- the philosophy of that old axiom son's perennial impersonator, and on "Look before you leap." "And I've Judy Canova's NBC,omedy series, the gained ounces of prevention multi- parts of "Pedro" ("I thee-eenk!"), fold just keeping a watchful eye on "Paw Canova" and "Tex." M eI my own set. It's a good way to learn stressed the importance of consistent the 'don'ts' of television." character identification, citing the Currently, Mel remains a TV hold- case of Frank Nelson, who has con- out while wisely waiting for "the tributed so much to radio's big com- right vehicle." "On television, Iwon't edy shows, for so many years, but have the chance to do as many shows who only recently has begun to es- as on radio. My face isn't as flexible tablish his identity with the public November 10, 1950 WorldRadioHistory 26,0Pounds Pad J. Scott Smart, ABC's Famous "Fat Man," Who Has Exemplified How an Actor Can Be eeee By Gaye Howe Friday, 8:00 p.m. it "too much nonsense." The Maine ABC-KECA. KGO, KFMB coastline is his home throughout most of the year and a fisherman's shack his abode, where he can ) acterIKE THEhe has corpulent so aptly char- por- "batch it" and "sit and watch the :trayed for the past four other guys go fishing." A confirmed years, J. Scott Smart tips bachelor, he describes his solitude r•••«....../.. the scales at 260 pounds. as including "Just me and the sea- However, his resemblance gulls." (Smart claims to have an to ABC's "Fat Man" is purely physi- artist's inferiority complex which cal, for Smart is a direct opposite of may explain his reticent behavior the pretentious private eye. when he is with strangers.) Perhaps even more fabulous a character than the one he fiction- Only during the summer does izes is Smart, who is a recluse, a Smart leave his hermitage, for then painter and an extremely shy, even it becomes, like other ocean resorts, lonely, man. a "forty-cent tour." The rest of the time he flies once a week to New All Alone l a, IN THE FIRST of "Fat Man" films York for the "Fat Man" show, re- by Universal, J. Scott, a former By no stretch of the imagination turning immediately to his shack, dancer, displays his terpsichorean talents could Smart be called a typical New to paint water-color seascapes (many with his leading lady. While here he Yorker. Although he has lived there of which have hung in New York's also won the Charleston contest with more than ten years, he detests the celebrated Twenty-One Club). clatter-and-clang way of life, calls partner Hedda Hopper at the Mocambo. Vicious Circle Just as incredible as his personal- ity is J. Scott's career, which began VI. AFTER APPLE PIE AND ICE CREAM AT THE BROWN DERBY, "The Fat Man" in the theater at the suggestion of told Radio-TV Life's Gaye Howe of his hobby, playing the bass with Dixie- everybody except himself and his land combos. He was a frequent performer with Ben Pollack's band at the Beverly family. He used to be a dancer as Cavern during his stay in Hollywood. well as a drummer, musical talents he channeled into spots with Eastern straw-hat circuits, consequently to appear in musicomedies like "No! No! Nanette!" and "Pink Lady." Dur- ing the early '30's, J. Scott developed into a dialectician, a talent he used on varied radio shows including "The March of Time" and the Fred Allen .show. Around 1938-9 Smart came to Hol- lywood to appear in "100 Men and a Girl," the Deanna Durbin starrer. He was given a Universal contract, but since nothing came of it he went back to New York, and this time it was the stage that saw him next. ("Separate Rooms," with Alan Dine- hart, Glenda Farrell and Lyle Tal- bot, was one of his plays). In 1946 he auditioned for "The Fat Man," won the role and again came back to Hollywood, this time to star in the Universal "Fat Man" series, the first of which was filmed last summer. Wants Pictures Although he will return to New York for the "Fat Man" radio pro- (Please Turn la Page 38) November 10, 1950 WorldRadioHistory .......................... =7Z- -our BENNY DELIGHTS IN LAUGH CHARACTERS which have di> "BENNY'S BACK!" WAS THE JOYOUS CRY heard every- been developed on his show-among the newest of where when Jackson and his happy crew returned to their which is "John L P. Sivony," a portrayal excellently drawn by old stand at CBS. With him for his opener were Mary, TV's Alan youthful comic Frank Fontaine. (CBS-Braslaff photo.) Young, CBS vice president Howard Meighan-and, far right, "Blue Eyes." rile Secret of Jack Yew is Success Sunday. 4:00 p.m.. 9:30 p.m. CBS-KNX. KCBQ. KCRN ENNY'S BACK!" That was Is a Blending of the 0 and New—the the by-word around radio Anticipated Topped b he Unexpected this fall when Jack Benny and his familiar team of laughmakers returned to the mikes for their nineteenth sea- son.