Trail's End -For Paul Whiteman Hildegarde- Radio's New Sensation
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HOW SAFE ARE NEW YORK NIGHT CLUBS? 0 THE NATIONAL WEEKLY OF P WEEK ENDING JAN. 23, 1937 TRAIL'S END -FOR PAUL WHITEMAN HILDEGARDE- RADIO'S NEW SENSATION www.americanradiohistory.com IN THIS ISSUE Week Ending January 23, 1937 HERBERT KRANCER, Publisher HIS CURTIS MITCHELL, Editorial Director Smash Features How Safe Are New York Night Clubs? Where to Go and What to Do! by HELEN HOVER 3 It Isn't High -brow Any More Symphony -Down to Earth President "Desert by JULIAN FUNT 6 The First Stick -Up -And Last! Roosevelt Song" A Calling All Cars Story by ARTHUR KENT 12 We, the People, Speak Radio salutes the country's Selections from the roman- America's Program Explained chosen leader, as all three tic operetta will be sung by WILLIAM L. STUART 15 networks com- by World Short -Wave Timetable nationwide silver -throated Jessica A Convenient Form for You. 46 bine forces to broadcast Dragonette on her program his second inauguration of musical love stories Personalities Irene Rich Wednesday, January 20 Wednesday, January 20 Her Thrilling Life Story (1I) by HALLY POMEROY 4 Paul Whiteman He Sees the Trail's End by JACK JAMISON 8 Ken Carpenter His Radio Jinx by JACK SMALLEY 10 Hildegarde "Tales of Cinderella from Milwaukee by RICHARD G. HUBLER 11 Hoffman" Wendell Hall Casper Reardon Francis Craig The Metropolitan Opera's Celebritopics 14 Lawrence Charles Butterworth Tibbett, Stella A Giant- Gravure Portrait 24 Andreva, Hilda Burke and Lanny Ross Margaret Halstead render Around the Clock with a Star 28 O ffenbach's great music News and Comment Plums and Prunes 23 Saturday, January by EVANS PLUMMER 13 Inside Stuff by MARTIN LEWIS 13 Music in the Air by CARLETON SMITH 18 Short Waves by CHARLES A. MORRISON 20 Victor Pictorial Features "Varsity A Gallery of Portraits Lennie Hayton 21 McLaglen Show" Mary Eastman 22 Tom Waring 23 The Academy Award win- Action on the Air 19 & 47 John Held, Jr., cartoonist Daytime Dialing ner brings a preview of his of American Youth, begins Your Sunshine Favorites 26 movie, "Coast Patrol," to a collegiate series with the Hollywood Hotel. He Departments University of Michigan Hits of the Week. 16 guest -stars on the show honored in the first show Stories of Near-by Stations 19 Short -Wave Programs 20 Friday, January 22 Events of the Week 29 Friday, January 22 Contests on the Air 43 RADIO GUIDE'S X -Word Puzzle. 44 Handwriting Contest Winners. 47 Programs Sunday, January 17 - 30 Monday. January 18 - - 32 Tuesday, January 19 - - 34 ACROSS THE MOV- Wednesday, January 20 - 36 Thursday, January 21 - 38 ING STAGE PASS Friday, January 22 - 40 Saturday. January 23 - 42 GREAT ACTORS IN Official Photographer: Delar. RADIO'S ALWAYS- Radio City, New York SHIFTING SCENE. Cover Portrait by Mar/and Stone RADIO GUIDE (Trade Mark Registered U. S. Pat. Office; THESE ARE YOUR Volume VI. Number 14. Week Ending January 23, 1y:17 Published by Regal Press, Inc. Issued Weekly Itenx. OUto., 731 Plymouth Court, Chicago. Illinois PLAYERS IN THIS Entered as second class matter at the Post Office. Chicago. Illinois, February 24, 1932. under Act of March 3 18:9 Copyright 1937, by Regal Press, Inc. All rights ebc;ved Executive. Editorial, Circulation and Business office. 731 WEEK'S GREATEST Plymouth Court, Chicago, Illinois. M. L. Annenberg Chairman of the Board; Herbert Krancer. Executive Vice - I'resident and General Manager; Curtis Mitchell. Vice - SHOW ON EARTH! Ptesident and Editorial Director; Ed 'Loty, Circulation manager. Eastern Editorial office, 551 Fifth Avenue. See Program Pages for Details S, -, York City Advertising offices, 551 Fifth Avenue. N -;s York City; Mills Building. San Francisco. 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Lieutenant Winslow head wai er of the Rainbow Room: emerged with a black eye; Johnny "But I've come all the way from came out with a headache and an or- Kansas to se what it's like." der from M -G -M to come home to The head waiter was adamant. "I Hollywood and explain himself. beg your pa ion, but unescorted ladies But all this jovial gunfire seems like are not adm tted." Finally, a sympa- milk and toast compared to the grand thetic mana ;er solved the problem. "Seltzer- Squirting Skirmish" which He ordered a table for two and sat wrecked a night club and ruined with her hi nself while she "oohed" $50,000 worth of gowns. It does no and "aahed' at the lavishness of the good to name the club, but it was in Rainbow Ro ,m, the wonder of its re- one of the gaga joints on the West volving dan e floor, and stared excit- Fifties. A prominent debutante, bub- edly at Fra din D. Roosevelt, Jr., and bling over with her own youth, play- Ethel Du P at at a near -by table. fully picked up a seltzer bottle and Never has there been such an inter - squished it at one of the entertainers, est in New 'ork night life as there is ruining his act and his tuxedo. That this year. Tisitors pour in, eager to humorless young man, instead of re- see this du that night spot. It might garding it as a harmless prank, imme- be due to th e repeal of prohibition, to diately grabbed a seltzer siphon from the return f prosperity -or, as one a near -by table and squirted right night -club oprieter told me, because back. The girl's escort retaliated in of radio. In zmerable broadcasts from like manner, and soon the craze spread. the Franch C asino, the Paradise, the Everyone in the club started squirting. Onyx, the ;tor and other late spots, Expensive tapestries and furnishings have made he names of night clubs were drenched beyond repair; Hattie part of our very -day language. Carnegie gowns were soaked. New Yorl night life, like all Gaul, is divided i>d to three parts: The Glit- THEN suddenly the bottle battle ter Palaces- such as the "French Ca- turned into a fisticùff fracas. On.? sino," the " aradise" and the "Holly- man broke a bottle over someone's wood," whey you get everything from head and he in turn received a smart a bubble -d ter to a flea circus for the uppercut from some mysterious price of din ner; the Gaga Joints- stranger. The place was a bedlam of "Leon and Eddie's" or the "Onyx," water, black eyes and screams. The where doul 1 e entendres and hot jazz police arrived, the patrons were rushed predominat and loud noise is no ob- into the Black Maria and carted away jection; the S nooty Spots -such as "El to explain the whole business to a Morocco" a, d the "Stork Club," which judge, and the night -club proprietor cater to th `better people," and gen- viewed the wreck mournfully. The erally oper it e on a $15- to $50 -per- club was closed and later reopened couple basis under a different name. The first c ategory believes in mass Since the repeal of prohibition, night- consumptio (the French Casino alone club activities are saner and safer. accommod e s 1,600 people, attracts During the days when night - club 2,500 on go d nights) and caters to the PROH BITION'S REPEAL PROSPERI- drinking was done openly but ille- general p b lic, which demands its AND gally, such characters as Al Capone, money's wart h. The gaga places lu. e Dutch Schultz and Owney Madden ran the musician s and the Broadwayites. TY'S RETURN -HERE ARE THEIR RESULTS! the places. Today, respectable business- The third eta:cta draws a patron list that men conduct them, and the bloody in- reads like a list of Walter Winchell's cident of the Club Abbey, which oc- personal r e rentes. curred six years ago, is not in danger Night -cl b extravagance, at the mo- of being repeated. The notorious ment, is gi in g off a yip and a yammer Dutch Schultz and a henchman, such as h not occurred since the "Chink" Sherman, were sitting in the Coolidge o m. The "lid's off," and club -when suddenly the lights went mirth, me ri ment, and fisticuffs pre- out. A bullet cut through the air, some dominate. women fainted, and the club was in But howih of are the hot -spots? And an uproar. When the lights went on, how safe -Lfo e you and me? Chink's lifeless body was dragged out. An exampl e of what can happen in It was to the old "Frivolity Club" the gilded Go Cham haunts is the John - that Colonel Lindbergh allowed him- ny Weissmu; Ier fracas, which took self to be taken after his epochal place at the Stork Club.