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.,,ii 4 . $ . _ Jr° -,k- . = :f _ ', 145e .. " ' ' ?, 1. USEN_ y ,.< , } ./, ó - o`a .-' . mt rc w o . '} _ . , . 4 t 'g Y ,;+ > 0'. '9p4,'e 4 ° " ,Ñ. 2t #y 9,'.aCi}u - 14m9. ,J -.,r {:'7..° .!G@eart , NATIONAL WEEKLY of PROGRAMS and PERSONALITIE$ Y., Week of April 24-30, 1932 Number 27 Volume 1 t low York, N. I 1 erect boo r e ED WYNN, LONG IMMUNE TO THE "MIKE -BUG" TURNS AT LAST TO RADIO .901.prelylr.,.44>.; To the radio comes another of theater's finest! Ed Wynn, laugh parader, zany, clown and utter loon, is the latest stage celebrity ..M o to go "air -struck." He will make his bow to radio audiences ,this Tuesday at 9:30 p. m. over the WEAF-NBC network as V' the Texaco Fire Chief. k d` , ' ÉiyF, 4m .&- broadcast! Stage whisper: And they do say he is receiving exactly $5,000 for each offering to before in the history of radio has the theater played such a part in Never of money radio world the best of its talent. Perhaps the enticing offers of fat sums the the master, Ziegfeld. and' a larger audience has helped to bring about this change. With we are told that George his horde of theatrical assistants now glorifying the microphone, and to the ai' waves. is also playing with the idea of bringing his famous "Scandals" White place for and Allen, long time vaudeville favorites, have now found a permanent Burns Tibbett, Grace Moore themselves in the radio world. Eddie Cantor, George Jessel, Lawrence theater, are now and many others who formerly restricted themselves to the world of the stars. radio the stage Truly, many have fallen by the wayside, utter failures, and have gone back to that the radio has no berth for them. But it is not always the fault of the micro- convinced experienced stage phone; that cold, hard object is devoid of any reaction so necessary to the artist. The michrophone requires a technique of its own. Stage (Continued on page 12) . 1,..-` a 9 ? Bi]fE* ¡ , ' .VrRNPK ;;Wrmil,.~>2 R .'v, < wé 4 . Ed Wynn (above) in a scene from his l'45 Broadway success, "The Laugh Pa- _ + ..',¢',. rade"; at the right are shown the shoes -"" worn by the "Perfect Fool," and which have become a part of his traditional right, Jeanne Hu- stage make-up; upper ti<iá; . bert, who played opposite Ed Wynn on the stage, in a scene of pulchritude which Mr. Wynn is foregoing in favor , of the radio. .... :..:.b. ?E:GrU11; :c . , . ..... ... 'i,:.,, Mills Brothers To Tour Middle West NOTICE All times shown in dais edition of M 6 K,c. 0 - G H S Radio Guide, . both in the program The Mills Brothers, nationally known imi- - RAP schedules and in the news stóries, are Itators of complete orchestra ensembles, are Eastern Daylight Saving Time. For now GEORGE FRAME BROWN Eastern Standard Time subtract one touring the Paramount-Publix theaters hour from time shown. ín the principal cities of the East and Middle By Nona Benet West. They will resume their broadcasts from His llonor New ... MAYOR MATT Ti IOM I'- " Joined the cast of "The York Columbia studios on Tuesday, KINS Manhatters." Part Ye ... storekeeper of mythical Thomp- of the show was broadcast and the station Editor Picks August 9. kins Corners, U. S. A. lie was christened manager told him he had an ideal voice for in the meantime their new series will be GEORGE FRAME BROWN in his native radio. On the strength of that he The Week's Highlights Seattle. quit the broadcast over the Columbia network every theater and got a job on old WABC. Did He and the an Tuesday and Thursday at 7:15 to 7:30 p. m. twentieth century were born Oxford Chinese dialect on his first program SUNDAY in the same year. Is five feet, eleven inches which from the cities in which they are appearing. was called "Musings of Dr. Mu." tall ... weight 175 pounds ... straight brown Decided a rural Many of us will be doubtful, but the Victor Young and His Orchestra, also program would go over fea- hair parted on the side . gray eyes .. well. Created the role of Luke the Philos- Buenos Aíres Symphony Orchestra will 'at- tured on the series, will be heard from New and a ready, friendly smile. He combines the opher . and later that of Luke iliggins, tempt to prove that South America York. unusual dreamer has pro- Cities in which the Mills Brothers ... ... accomplisher. Ile the leading role in Main Street Sketches duced is still single. worthwhile music other than the Tango will appear and the dates on which they will which you all remember so well. An argu- Father Brown was a piol at 12:1.5 from WABC. open follow: i:rchant in ment with the station followed and lie came Seattle. Ran a general store ário-...at's where to April 29-Syracuse NBC for the Chesebrough people. Now he Jose iturbl, the most temperamental of is May 6-Rochester sponsored by Post living musicians, makes his second radio ap- Toasties in May 13-Buffalo "Thompkins pearance as guest artist in Corners" every Thursday the last of this May 20-Toronto seasons May 27-Detroit night. Philharmonic -Symphony concerts at June 3-Toledo Learned to add in the 3 p. m. over WA BC. June public schools in Seattle 10-Chicago It is said that the which June and the Paris Ecole cymbalum, Alice l7-Chicago Ehlers June 24-Chicago Des Beaux Arts taught will play in a concert front Berlin at July I-Chicago ,. him to speak ... that was 4:30 p. ni. over \VE\F, is the only musical while July 8-Minneapolis with the A. E. F. instrument ever used by European peasants. July 15-Open Doesn't dance ... doesn't July 22-St. Louis like to. But he will amuse WEAF presents another star of the "Met" July 29-Indianapolis you with stories. at 5:30, when George Cehanovsky, baritone, His fan mail runs into turns salesman for G. E. products. four figures. He is one of the best-known dra- At 7 p. m. Dr. L. P. jacks is going to tell Kodak Returns To matic us ó : characters on the what to do with our leisure, over WABC air. While enacting a scene The Maybe the Doctor will also tell us how we Air Friday ' in Main Street, he threat- can get some of that rare 4 ened his nephew (by proxy commodity. The Kodak Week-end Hour returns this of course) with a beating. Ziegfeld will fling another million dollars Friday as a regular weekly The next week CBS feature. thousands worth of stage talent into the air at of fans wrote him 10:30 Nathaniel Shilkret will be its musical director, implor- p. ing leniency m. front \\'ABC, with Dennis Ding head- presenting a series of guest stars, a large for the hoy. Such is his lining. novelty orchestra, the realism. Kodak Male Quartet Doesn't a keep diary MONDAY and Thelma Kessler, soprano, every Friday ... because he is not in- from 9:00 to 9:30 p. m. The quartet will trospective enough. Isn't Of course we'll all want to hear the pre- include Jack Parker, Willard Amison, Vernon superstitious... but thinks miere of a new network quartet, Jacobsen, and James the Maple Stanley. there might be something City Four, . at 12:45 p. ni. over WABC. Shilkret announces that he has written to astrology. Anyway, the special They're from Chicago, hut we're open arrangements for a swift -moving half stars foretell his marriage to con- hour of novel viction. orchestrations, quartet har- this coming year ... and mony, duets and solo numbers. He also is he cagey! Tune in any has engaged a group of "surprise" artists, day this week with the excep- ranging When he talks with you, tion of from noted concert singers to he Saturday or Sunday, at 8 in the harpists. runs his hand thru his hair continually. Values evening over \V:\BC to hear Harold Van .°, . his own good opinion of Duzee, of Roxy fame, warble a few semi- 'k-íá*x:'^ :W 51- - himself (if you know what classical tunes for the Bath Club. Dance Hour Heard I mean). I.ikes what he We're going to be George got his background. Doesn't like listcnin' when the - , to is doing at present . but someday he's be alone ever. From Liner At Sea ... Always has someone stay- going to produce show after show and movie Boswell Sisters get blue with Duke Elling- ing with him at his farm in ton's "Mood Saugerties. after movie . .. and then when he's tired lie's Indigo," and we wont- feave--''I'"' Louie Sobel Harbors actors who are idle for them 'till and Harry Reser's Orchestra months at going to retire to the farm and go in for the strains of "Moonlight on the will be heard from the grand ball room a time at this place. 'There is Ganges" dies of a faint sug- some more producing . away. the S. S. Leviathan only of the teg- this Tuesday evening gestion of the theatrical in his dress and at 10 o'clock. When the ... etable variety. TUESDAY broadcast starts, the he has a distinct giant liner will he an hour tendency to brown. On Speaks slowly in a deeper voice at sea on her than he At 8 this evening, over WJZ, a college first trans -Atlantic crossing the farm, however, it's a different matter uses pro- this year.