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CONNIE BOSWELL LEADS 'IT' GIRL VOTE; I ___________________________________DRAGONETTE (TllrnSECOND; fo Page ThreeJ 'MARGE'----- THIRD- ---'- I The NATIONAL WEEKLY of PROGRAMS and PERSONALITIES Volume 1 Chicago, III:, Week of October 9-15, 1932 Number 51 'Why I Made a Million' -Ben Bern ie HERE were ele\'cn little Ancds. There is only one Ben Bctnie. T You know him-the suave, sophisticated, wise ctaekin' Hud Man. He is paid $9,000 a week. He's probably tbe biggest attraction (with his band) on the air today. He is famous wherever there is a radio set and wherever humans dance. In Kalamazoo and Kam chatka. in the Bronx and in Baluchistan, in Chicago's ultra-ultra cafes. and in Hawaii's hula-hula shacks. they dance to his syncopa tion. roar at his gags, and discuss his passion for horse races and long black cigars. Sure. YOll know him-the Old Maestro! You know Ben Bernie. Do you know Bernard Ancel? They lived-this Ancel tribe-in Bayonne, New Jersey. Papa Ancel was a blacksmith. His father before him had been 3 blacksmith. Papa An'cel was· pious, black-bearded, brawny. Mama Ancel was a raven-haired, dynamic woman. In her veins beat the wild melodies of tbe Hungarian rhapsodies. There were eleven little Ancels, and the birth of each meant that" Papa Ancel's sledge had to (Continued on Puge Fiue) • Meet the Old Maest r o ! And t he bon h .. hind it . 11. Both h i. father a nd gr andfatber were hlad"'lXIith., h ilt Ber nie do ...n ' t . hoe 'em, he pIa,.. 'em. YOIl r ea d, in thi ••t or,. .. hollt Bernie, of a H e ..d M an whom peopJ .. don' t k now ab out-a bo,. who lived in poverty •• little Bern. ard Ancel, OnG of e leven child, ren , You lee Bern ie het'e "po., in&' .. .. ceniu."---or .0 he ••YI. c· Page 2 RADIO AND AMUSEMENT GUIDE '" Downey Returns • Radioddities • Guide-WLS Stars to Air; What Price? to Vary Broadcast I\lorton Downey is back on (he air! The Three Contraltos, heard ea~h Thurs The inference is that he has. at last, been day at I :45' p. m. over WLS on a special offered a contract after his own hcart. When program sponsored by RADla GUIDE, are go Downey went oll the air at the termination ing ta vary their hroad~ast this week to in of his contract on the Camel Quarter Hour, clude a number of modern jazz numbers. he was immediately applO3ched by several Usui\lly the Contraltos feature old fash· commercial interests. Downey refused the ioned lyrics in harmony with an old fash contracts they offered and wenl jauntily off ioned Garden of Melody, but 011 Thursday, to Europe. October 13, listeners will tune in on "Pent On his return, according to report, he was house Serenade," "Hiding in the Shadows of approached several times again to go on the the Moon," and "The Night Shall Be Filled air for olher companies. Again he refused. With Music," as featured songs on this At that time, observers slaled that Downey special broadcast of strictly modern design. was holding out for more money than he had yet been offered. While he waited for THE corltract, he accepted a vaudeville m· Week's New Programs gagement and made peTsonal appearanl;Cs A list of new programs is listed be all over the middle west. and the south. low: 111 the meantime, listeners flooded Colum Musical Mernories takes the air on bia offices with mail asking when the tenor Sunday. Oetober 9 at 6:30 p. m. over could be heard again. the CBS chain. Kellogg has reserved time with CBS Morton is back~with a program dedicated for Il new program whleh wilt make "To The Ladies,." His first broadcast went its debut on Sundlly. October 9 or 16. Columbia on Friday, October 7. at 8:30 The time Is 6:15 p. tn., but nothing p. m. With Leon Belasco playing a sym more is known at this writing. pathetic background. the lyric tenor will RODS Canary Choms, a choir 01 twelve be heard singing sentimental love ballads at WI'lERE rea.l canlU"Y birds will sing In eoneert the same time each Friday. "To The Ladies" ANEW each Sunday at 10:30 a. m. over is sponsored by Woodbury. WBBM. AND START OtiIJ Glenn program, consisting of a Whether Downey has achieved the price ROAD TO HI S he has put on his talents, or whether he has series of talks by promJnent business TtlI1 3X SltTEIU' SUCCESS men. will be broadcast every Sunday compromised in order to satisfy the thou NOVa HARMONY mlO at. 2 Po m. over WBBM. IMI'ORT£O COUJMeM' $OI.nds of fans who have been clamoring for ev wiD FROM £UROPE ~ MIM(C Pat Flanapn live play-by-play his return. is not known. NiYTHING f'"ROM e,IIG descriptions of the pl'Gfessional foot Loclll outlet WGN. PIPES TO A GERMAN ball games eaeb. Sunday at Z:IS Po m. STREET ~ND AND over WBBM• • SI"IG IN NINE HARRY IURSHrlE~D "Anti&"oDe" becins the Radio GnlJd's DIAl..ECTS CR.EATOR Of' MEYER llIE BUY£R season on October 10. Eacb Monday "'AS AfTE.R DI"INER SPEA~ER for twenty·rune weeks a different play Fleischmann Hour AT 240 SANQLlETS DORING will be dnunatited. Tune in WMAQ. THE 365 DAYS IN 1931 NBC at 3:15 p. m. Red Cross Melodies will feature Starts New Series Barriet Cruise and the FoUl' Norse When the Fleischmann Hour went on the men dally exeept Tuesdays and Sun air Thursday, October 6. at 7 p. m. listeners days at. 10:15 a. m. over WBBM. On Tuesdays the prop-am will be heard heard an entirely new set of performers for the first time. The new series goes overl ____________________________________ at. 10 a. m. over the same station. HIlton Ilal'monles with Arthur Na NBC • varro 'Will be heard Mondays and The initial program £If the series featured Wednesdays at 6:45 p. m. and Fridays Otis Skinner. veteran stage Slar; Greta Kel N. Y. Philharmonic Starts Season Sunday at '1':30 p. m. over WBBM. ler, popular Viennese songbird here in Amer Organ Interlude with Wilson Doty takes the air each Monday for the ica 10 take part in the Fourlh Little Show: The New York Philharmanic-Symphony Itras in Dresden. Berlin, Sofia and Oslo. He next twenty-six weeks at 8:15 a.. m Block and Sally, vaudeville comedy team: Or(.~ estr~ will be. heard in forty-two concerts has also been guest conductor of the San over WBBM. ~he Randall Sisters, southern harmony team in its third consecutive season of broadcasts rrancisco Symphony. Nut Factory with the Maple City lnd, of course. Rudy Vallee and his orches Four will inelude musie, burlesque and :ra. Locili Olltlel WMAQ. over teventy CBS stations, beginning Sun- Soloists during the series will include Egon straight comedy. The station is WLS , day, October 9, from 2 to 4 p. m. over WGN. Petri, distinguished Dutch pianist; Lotte and it will be broadcast dally except Conductors for this season will be Arturo Lehmann, dramatic sopano; and Ossip Saturday and Sunday at 1% noon. The Information Desk consisting of Toscanini, Bruno Walter and Issay Dobrow- Gabrilowitsch, Russian pianist, composer and classieaI selections and aeeounts of en. Toscanini will launch the series and Vaughn de Leath conductor. their origin. aud five minutes or gen. will continue in the role of conductor during eral information on any subjects that the first eight weeks. On November D, Programs will originate from Carnegie Ustenen; request. John Reed Tyson on 5 Day Schedule Dobrowen will assume leadership of the Hall. the Metropolitan Opera, and Ihe will condud tbe broad east. over WLS Brooklyn Academy of Music, all in New Vaughn de Leath, America's "original radio Philharmonic and will lead until December eaeh Monday, Wednesday and Fri York City. The detailed program schedule day at 3 p. m. girl," is billed on a five-day-a-week broad 25. Bruno Walter will canduct from De cember 26 to February 26, when Toscanini follows: Folk Songs and BaUads by the cast schedule over Columbia, including two Cumberland Ridge Runners will be ,pecial periads for juvenile listeners. will again assume charge of the orchestra Sunday altunoolls, 2 to -4 p. m. O1JtT Columbia. From Carnegie Hall: October heard daOy exeept Sunday at. 6:30 Her program for juveniles is heard Thurs until the close of the 1932·33 season on a. m., and Saturdays at 8:30 p. m. days at 4:45 p. m. April 23. 9 and 23; November 6 and 13 ; December over WLS. Unlike Toscanini and Walter, wha are well 4, II and 25; January 5 and 12; March 5 Wayne King starts on a new series known to radio audiences, Dobrawen makes and 26; April 2, 9. 16 and 23. From Metro tbIs Tuesday, Oetober 11, and will be his debut as a microphone conductor on this politan Opera House: October 30, November heard ea.eh Tuesday thereafter at. '1':30 series. Bam in Russia and graduated from 27. December 18, January 8 and 22; Febru Po 1ft, over WMAQ ADd tbe NBC net. the Moscow Conservatory of Music, Dobrow ary 25; March 12. From Brooklyn Academy ...... en has conducted for many years at the of Music: October 16, November 20, January JJmJny GrftI"s Orehestra, electrical. Iy Vanseribed, will be bl'Gadeast at Vol.