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Vol. 1 - No. 14 Cbicago, III., Week 01 January 24-30, 1932 Price 5c Opera Stars to Radio Beauty *Cantor Remains Sing on Swift on Sunday Hour Garden Hour for Two Weeks • • 1932 Vigor~ Programs to Include Will Share Chase and Sanborn Leading International Artists Hour With JesseJ Until Feb. 28 • • International stMS of lhe Grand Eddie Cantor, saucer-eyed comedian, Opera and concert stage will partici has changed his mind about leaving pate in the 1932 "Swift Garden the Chase and Sanborn Hour, as pre Hour," sponsored by the Vigoro viously announced. At least he will Plant Food Division of Swift and appear this Sunday when he and Company, to begin Sunday, January George Jessel put on a comedy skit as 31, over tbe blue network of the NBC guest artists of the program to be system from 2:30 to 3 p. m. There broadcast over NBC networks at will be fifteen programs in the present 7:00 p. m. series. With tbe lwo comedians on the While lhe .mists who wilt appear program wilt be Dave RubinolT, who have won the highest honors in their will feature a special arrangement of respective fields, the programs to be tunes appropriate to the title. "CoIJe~ offered in the present series have been giate Overture." Rubinoff has com so arranged as to present old songs and posed a song entitled "Now That I melodies of popular appeal. Each pro Have You," which his orchestra will gram will be supp!"mentcd by a brief play on this broadcast. practical talk on gardening and home Local outlet WLS. beautification by the Master Gardener. These discussions will bring a sound • practical knowledge of gardening gain THE DODGE SIXES ed in years of research and experiment. AND BILLY WHITE and wil! be of interest cOlh to the pro ON WBBM WEEKLY fessional and amateur gardener. • Some of the artists wbo will ap A new series of bi-weekly broad pear in these Sunday afternoon con casts. headlining the "Dodge Sixes," certs arc; Tito Schipa, John Charles a fast-moving musical aggregation, and Thomas, Richard Bonelli, Claudio Billy White, the "platinum-voiced Muzio, "Men About Town", Marian tenor," is now being heard. This Andetson, Geotge Meador, Mario feature will be heard at 8 :45 p. m. Chamlee, Attilio Baggiore, Ensemble, each Monday and Thursday, until Everett Marshall, Dennis King. the first week in February when a Wednesday night broadcast will be • added, making the series a tIi-weekly Polish Music on presentation. Above is a new picture of Countess Olga Albani, National Broad Billy White. the soloist, is a mem~ WLS Each Sunday ber of Frank Westphal's WBBM staff casting Company soprano, who is one of radio's most popular orchestra. He is widely known to radio Native Polish music features a new singers as well as being (as anyone can see) one of its most beautiful audiences for his previous work in foreign program over \VLS, Sundays women. Countess Albani, formerly featured on the Maxwell House Chicago under Ted Fiorito and on the at I: 30 p. m. The program is spon Pacific Coast, where he was featured sored by the Polish-American Building and the Eastman Kodak programs, is now heard every Sunday at with Gus Arnheim's band. White's and Loan Associ,Hions. and temporari 8:45 p. m. over a coast to coast NBC network on the Buick Revelers voice has somewhat lhe same quality and high clear range as that of Morton I}' discontinues th" Cross Roads Sun Program. Local outlel WENR. day School, which has been heard at Downey. Billy's side specialty is the this time heretofore. banjo. I Read Intimate News of the Radio Stars on Studio Gossip Pag;-j , I Aileen Stanley In Thompkins Comers New WBBM Series Final Opera "Problem Child" IS • Broadcast Guest This Sunday FeaLUred on the new "Speedway" program series prcsentl'd each Tuesday When Mayor Matt Thompkins and and Saturday at 8:00 p. m. over his "Real Folks" of Thompkins Cor· WBBM. is Aileen Stanley who enjoys ners, U. S. A., go on the air over the an internationally famous reputation Columbia network from 4:00 to 4:30 as a musical comedy star. Otber artists p. m. this Sunday, the occasion of tbe in~lude " Gus" Haenschen and his 0[ moment will be a dinner for the under chestra. the " Scrappy" Lambert Quar privileged boys of the village, with tet. and the four piano team of Rufus Loper, the reclaimed "problem Ohman. Arden, Rodemich and Lieber child" as its inspiration and its guest field. A song favorite of mOIl' than a of honor. Interruptions of various quarter of a century ago, "In My sorts disturb Mayor Mau·s speech~ Merry Oldsmobile," will form the making, trouble devops in the kitchen, theme song of each program In this Horace's insistence on rendering his new transcription series. trombone solo causes something of a • commotion, and other events lead to an unforeseen ending to the banquet. H ockey Discussions Local outlet WGN. on WIBO Each Week • • Tile Hot Stove League, a new Whiteman's "Finds" hockey feature. will be broadcast over The final opera of the W ill S ing Friday WIBO each Saturday at 1 :45 p. m. season, bOtll for patrons of the Civic Opera House I will feature a fifteen minute discus on Pontiac Series and for radio listeners, will sion of hockey games, plays and • be heard this Saturday night Auditi-on Winners Will be Heard players, under the leadership of J oe at 8: 00 when NBC presents ' on Youth of America Progra.ms Springer, veteran WIBO sports re "Martha", the opera by von Flotow. porter. The new broadcast was created in four acts. It will be sung in Italian by a large cast, starring Leola • Cleveland, Chicago, Detroit, Buf in response to requests from countless Turner, soprano, and Tito Schipa, tenor. who are shown above. The 110ckey fans for this type of program. falo and Boston will be the next cities conductor will be Frank St. Leger. The local outlet is "WLS. visited by Paul Whiteman in his • nation-wide search for new radio AL AND PETE CHANGE WBBM Thespians In WESTPHAL poo-poos THE talent. BROADCAST TIME ON WLS SONG WRITING BUSINESS In Cleveland, the third audition is • a Program "Scoop " • already under way. and the winner Al and Pete, the WLS "Nut- "Song writers earn big pay!" Every will be introduced over a coast-to crackers" have changed their broadcast A series of sustaining programs en time Frank Westphal. WBBM orches coast NBC network next week, on the schedule at WLS to 1 :00 p. m. each "Youth of America" program spon litled "The Scoop," has been launched tra director. runs across one of those day, in order to broadcast at the time sored by the makers of Pontiac auto when most listeners have progressed over WBBM. They are presented in advertisements. he lets out a loud guf mobiles, and heard every Friday at from soup to nuts at their noon-day dramatic form and concern the activ faw. T hen he will tell you about a 9:00 p. ro. Hereafter Whiteman. meal. ities of P hil Peters, a newspaperman, framed check of his for $1.30 which whose orchestra w ill be heard each and bis fia nce, Ann Lewis. Each epi~ represents h is song royalties for one week in the "You th of America"· sode of the series is a complete story. year. And Frank is an old timer in the series, will hold an audition in tach city he visits. Vincent Haworth. well known business. Local outlet WENR. Radie4iuideNATJOMA~ J ~u '1:1, W"Uy 'J I'ooo.u.. •• h.so.. .... radio leading man, takes the role of "Why kid the poor amateurs," Vol. 1 - No. 14 .Ja nvar y U-31t, 1932 Phil Peters. Bess K. Johnson, dr a ~ Frank says. "even the hits of the day • A LA WINCHELL matic star, takes the role of Ann. Ray wear themselves out with the p ublic PobU. bed ..-...,\;:1, b7 nadlo Go l d~. lae. t :l3 1'l.Jmoatll Court, CI>Ic&Po ill. 'teL l'I'a"".b !M! Appelby and Jack Daily play various before the royalties start coming in. Paul Whiteman•. one of the fore- character parts. , Of course there are the few Bed ins most furnishers of the nations dance J; nt~red ....~ond ~I ..a matter Octo~ r 21. 1001, at the 1'Olt Oltice. 010.'0. IlJJoo]_ under T he skits are presented each Friday and Gershwins. but it's just a w aste music. has never learned to two-step, tb • .let ot Ihrel> 3, 1879 at 9:00 p. m., and each Sunday at of time for the rest of the mere according to Walter WinchelI , NBC 8:15p.m. mortals... master of ceremonies. (I STUDIO MIKE Likes and Dislikes S O!'YOUR TtlE 'IE-A!! I'M THE eO)l FR.IE.ND 60Y FRIENOP AN YOU R.E.M lNO ME OF A GUY t USe.D TO \"o\NQW P ALWAYS PULLIN A WISE eRA ~K .f' IirOH:::;;;;~;-;;;;;;;;;;~ 1 2 Dickson to Star Bess JOhllS0ll on -"--, NBC With "Skippy" MBBT the AIlTIST EAST AND DUMKE "Dear East and Dumke," wrote a pheum circuit sent for them to offer a frantic housewife one day last year, six-year Keith-Orpheum contract. "how can I kcep my husband from Of course they took it. Six years snoring? He is driving me mad." The later, during a Mississippi flood dis two Sisters of the Skillet, who broad aster.