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Tfecaingerco^ the Biggest in Chicago Spurt Listening Monday Roundup the Treasury Henry Ciety: Baritone * Messages to She Had Baltimore Stadium He Gears Scripts A. P* Newsman’s For Radio L isteners As Client’s Vocal New Orchestra Tone Demands Offer expire* $ept. 19 and requires that By Ben Kaplan. Is Introduced this advertisement must accompany or be presented when C. O. D. NEW YORK. a new male star to be found as NEW YORK. made. the C. E. Kurchase Because its approach is different, Les Tremayne replacement When William Shakespeare's long- By Butterfield. and because its reach is so wide- Julie Steven* and Dick Coogan will hair sonnets m^et up with jive talk NEW YORK. radio is a be —anything can When spread. doing pretty good escorted to their Abie's Irish happen! Four new songs, each an Integral Don't Wait Until Winter! job these days on interracial rela- Rose broadcast by two NBC studio Bob Crosby and radio's newest part of the musical story, last night! Les tions, while Hollywood trails a poor cops tonight, but not because they're comedy discovery. Tremayne, went on the air for the first time All Sizes Now Available team up on the former’s j second with its lavish all-Negro under arrest The pair will have program, when the new operetta. "About the ; the Bard of Avon takes a musicals and reviews. The difference exactly one minute to get from powerful Girl,” music and liberetto by Kent j one of radio's 1 lies in the fact that radio gives its Ellery Queen, where they will guest, beating. Tremayne, Cooper, executive director of the As- to to the Abie outstanding serious dramatic stars, Negro performers something say studio, five stories up, sociated Press, has its premiere in j be new to the chatter * Storm Sash —pictures give them something to and it will take a special elevator may snappy •gH a special presentation by the Chi- ] and but he's do; radio gives them characters to | and two cops to do it! gagline department, cago Theater of the Air on the the week. play—pictures give them musical * * * * getting "groovier" by MBS network at 9 o’clock Satur- and smart "cat" Bob Let Us Estimate routines, elaborate settings and cos- Super "hep” day night. Alan Dale is the new’ Carmen Is a master at the talk. tumes out of this world. past jive They are the title song, "About Cavallaro vocalist, replacing As former maestro of the On Your List “Abie's Irish Rose,” of course, has Larry sing ag- the Girl,” as well as “Song of the Complete Douglas who goes into a musical known for as long been in a class by itself when gregation years the Alaska Highway,” "June Time” and next month Sixty-three min- Bobcats, Bob the scat lan- j it comes to plumping for religious acquired "Don’t You Want My Heart,” an- ! P—........ utes of continuous speech can be guage back when the tolerance. But last season, when way swing- other Cooper composition previously recorded on 11.500 feet of hair-like started Amanda Randolph was added to the dings sprouting drape shapes presented, "Sunset and You,” has steel wire on a no than and reet He can twist the radio cast, its authors made an at- spool larger pleats. been woven into the theme. the ordinary doughnut, in a new most sentimental tempt to plump for interracial un- Shakespearean The operetta has the Alaska type of wire sound recorder quote into But back derstanding, too. The result was being icky parlance. highway as its principal locale, tell- built Earl "Father" of his chatter and Tremaynes chat- that liberals of both races deluged Hines, ing the love story of a highway en- is ter, as well as behind the chatter the Negro pianist-maestro, spending of j and a club he authors with complimentary 1 gineer night singer more than $15,000 the first two weeks is a much fan mail. Amanda got the first Bing Crosby, unpublicized had heard on the radio from Chi- in forming a new band with the but very actual contract of her long radio important gentleman— cago. inclusion of eight women instru- Carroll Carroll. career and this season her part in It is Cooper’s first full musical mentalists When Charlie Burnet the script will be increased in pro- Rhythms in Voice. presentation, although within the! and his band open at New’ York portion to the message the authors The man with the musical name last two years or so several of his ; City's Park Central Hotel have to deliver. September is not only a writer of remarkable popular tunes, Including “Dixie 24. they get eight network w’ires a * * * * ability. At least half of his work Girl,” have been heard on the net- | week, four on CBS and four on must be attributed to his works. Music has been his hobby Out in Hollywood two big pro- Mutual. manner of interviewing talent. Carroll con- for years, however, and he writes j grams are following suit. On the The end of September will find tends that the human under both words and music for his com- Great Gildersleeve program. Aman- voice This will save the Stage Door Canteen programs, Coupon you da’s Lillian normal conditions moves in a rhyth- positions. sister, Randolph, is a now’ heard on -- Thursdays, moving to mic measured like For the operetta Marion Claire, money cast regular. On the Judy Canova pattern, music. Fridays Beginning today, Thom- It is this which he soprano, and Thomas L. Thomas, y°ur entire program, Ruby Dandridge does a rhythm attempts as L. Thomas will begin a are the Z\sT™ efficient one-year to capture in his script. A Crosby ! baritone, singing stars, with ; list of Storm Capable, job. contract as soloist for the Manhat- line is geared to the rhythm of the dramatic leads portrayed by' An odd side light on this trio is tan j Sash, as all Merry-Go-Round program, fill- voice: a i Laurette Fillbrandt and Marvin that all of them have a Cleveland Crosby's Tremayne line the so — other ing spot held long by Conrad to the rhythmic motion of Tre- REFRESHING GLIMPSE Mueller. The orchestra will be con- stock background. The Randolph sisters Thibault Fred j Brady, comedv mayne's voice, or a Ken Carpenter | These are some the ducted by Henry Weber and the sizes are re- were daughters of a Cleveland star of of young the Thursday night Fred to the motion of chorus by Robert trendler. minister, while Actress Dandridge speech rhythmic, ladies whom you will hear, duced pro- _r)K11VF:ltEI> Brady Show, has been assigned to the Carpenter voice, thus studied there at the Cleveland preventing but not see, the male lead in the Judy Garland stumbles. unfortunately portionately. coupon e<ptm 9*19 School of Dramatics. All three cacophonous musical, "Meet Me in St. Louis,” during the coming broadcast From started their careers as 1 A Great Chatter. Homey Doings Sash professional which goes into production in about week. On the top left, it is are made of the finest singers—the sisters in This gives his script the flow and To Randolph two weeks Spike Jones returns Virginia Morley of the duo- National Affairs ponderosa pine, toxic treated movie houses, Actress tempo, the importance of which Dandridge to his drummer's post with and against rot and glazed with With the Hall Johnson Choir. Billy Carroll believes should never be un- pianist team. Morley Switches Mrs. Gook Mills orchestra Vhen the Fibber Libbey Owens Ford clear derestimated. In interviewing a Gearhart, heard on the WRC- McGee and Molly returns NEW YORK. glass. program guest, he is observing the motion of NBC “Pleasure Time” show. Housewives are facing the day to the air this month MGMoguls Sade, the one sane and sensible j the voice as well as the words that Lina who on the member of the Vic when they’ll have to decide whether are definitely interested in Lon i Romay, sings and Sade house- Storm Sash Hardware is still are being spoken. Being an excel- is they'd rather hear Jack Benny, the Clarke, heard in Bright Horizon, and WMAL-Blue Network Satur- hold, soon to turn network com- available, but our stock will lent conversationalist, Carroll chats mentator. Aldrich Family, Burns and Allen who also does a swell day morning show with Xavier Sponsors of the highly not last out the season. sleuthing job w-ith radio artists or their guests and other network as "Nick Carter." rated daytime serial, which cur- major broadcasts with Cugat’s band, smiles down great informality and they un- is heard on this than the accus- * * * * rently both the NBC Bring Coupon to any of soap operas they’re tell him the from the right, while Susanna consciously things and CBS networks, are withdraw- our four stores with en- tomed to getting as daytime radio which make scheduled your INSIDE THE AIRSIDE ... up entertaining and Foster, for tomor- fare. A ing the repeat broadcast of the folks tire list of Storm Sash re- The Mutual net's experi- interviews. revised pattern on amateurs for interesting Carroll is row night's “Radio Theater” who live in the small house half quirements. 3 mental plan to rebroadcast (by re- of radio is Stars for a due on capable great concentration down the cordings), during the daylight hours, Night, presentation of “Phantom of way block, and beginning the Blue soon when he is working. It's doubtful the time of Regular film the Opera,” appears September 20, will replace it with a night programs such if an air raid on his directly ; stars will have the leads but office could dis- news on advertisers who care to the ex- sup- to the commentary based national try tract unless a bomb left.
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