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Showboats MERICA'S WEEKLY RADIO LISTENERS WEEK ENDING SEPTEMBER 8, 1934 TELLS WHAT`S ON THE AIR -- ANY TIME - DAY OR NIGHT Volume 9%d Number 46 in This issue: "SHOWBOATS" CAP'N HENRY'S FORTY YEARS OF TROUPING FINDING THE HUMAN SIDE OF THE NEWS- EDWIN C HILL THE BANDITS OF BURR OAK" RADIO DRAMA SEE PAGE 12 FOR THE START OF PROGRAMS Seiith fier 8) The Voice of the Listener This department Is solely for the use of the readers as a place In which to Coofus Business voice opinions and exchange views about radio. Address your letters to VOL editor, 423 Plymouth Court, Chicago, Ill. You are urged to send in your Getting on the Van Dear VOL: Los Angeles, Calif. photograph when writing but failure to include a picture will not bar your Dear VOL: Toledo, Ohio Heaps o' thanks to you, Claiborne Upchurch, letter. RADIO GUIDE assumes no responsibility for returning your photograph. I want to thank Miss Nadeau wlro brought Arthur Claire, Marie Kozma and George Avakian to the attention of myself and several friends and all other Lombardo fans for their letters. that we, too, are for Miss Van 100 per cent. Guy Lombardo does have She has the loveliest the "sweetest music this Back to Good Old Days voice on any network and side of Heaven." He is certainly deserves Dear VOL: Independence, Mo. radio's many wonders. When I was a girl my to be much better than Wayne sponsored I always have thought RADIO GUIDE a great grandmother had those meetings at her home because she King or Jan Garber. Guy surely magazine but it has risen very high in my esti- once a week and I played the organ. The first could sell any Lombardo is so far ahead good product mation since it came to the defense of Phillips time I tuned in on the Seth Parker program that would of both that you can't feature Lord. and the organ began to play "Let The Lower her. even compare the three. I'd like Phillips Lord is a great actor, "The Cruise Lights be Burning", I eyes was very much if In a contest held re- closed my and of the Seth Parker" gave our whole family you would have a story cently over the radio in keen back again in Grandma Carlton's old parlor. enjoyment but I will tell you what and some photos of Miss Milwaukee over their re- has made No matter what anyone else says about Phil- me a booster for Phillips Lord. lips Lord, I he shall re- Van because I'm a regu- cordings of "Goofus". say, "Verily, have his "Seth Parker's Meetin' House" was one of ward." Mrs. Bailie Swenson lar customer and nothing Lombardo came out vic- would please me more. torious over King. Wayne How about it, public? Betty Mulholland Kine might have had Stand by and let one Thomas R. Hughes brains enough to write the song, but Lombardo of the best singers go by without some support? had to supply the music. Well. Pm not. Thomas R. Hughes Guy, with his three brothers, Carmen, Leibert and Victor, and the other talented Royal Cana- dians, have built up the finest musical organi- The Price of Plugs Danger! Menn at Work zation in the world Betty Mulholland The general feeling Dear VOL: Casper, Wyo. against the so-called "commercial plug" Well, I have listened patiently for several The Logan -berries on radio programs seems to be dying out. There are months now to the silly voice and the Jane still some listeners Ace-Gracie Allen-Mary Livingstone imitations Dear VOL: who violently object to sponsor credit Augusta, Ga. by Portland Hoffa, and believe me if somebody I want to lines-but most sponsors have gone a long way in the past six express my enjoyment at' the doesn't do something about it, I'm going to. "prunes" hurled months to eliminate at Jimmie Durante by your boring, lengthy advertising talkers. These I'll go to work at registering every protest I very discriminating' Mr. critic, Evans Plummer. sponsors deserve commendation for the adroit way in which hear and send them in to NBC as a remon. Here's hoping he's still tossing them at him they handled a delicate are strance against the ruining of an otherwise and if and dangerous situation. They he should run short I will send him receiving perfect hour. Abner Mean a whole box. That "schnozzle" of Durante's their reward in larger audiences and fewer complaints. may be worth looking at but I ask you, has any- For awhile the advertising material on most programs one enjoyed listening to it? Thanks for such threatened to divorce the interest of the listener. Many really Cabbages and Kings good throwing Plummer really knows his fine programs actually lost listeners because the entertainment Dear VOL: . Portland, Me. PRUNES. H. R. Logan was being presented as a secondary awhile I thoroughly agree with A. R. D. of F'rinceton consideration. For but the majority many sponsors seemed to vie with one another in seeing how of your contributors seem to A B. B. Shot at Crime have completely ignored Glen Gray and his or- much advertising they could stuff into the ears of the listeners. chestra. I feel sorry for Ruth Montgomery of Dear VOL: Jersey City, N. J. When announcers started on the merits of products, they went Decatur, Ill. She appears to be a good-natured, I have been reading your true stories of on and on forever. easy-going girl but in her letter she seems to be crime mysteries It became an epidemic. Something had and wish to commend you for to be done before the was just as ambitious for gold as is Mrs. Vallee, the printing of such interesting stories week goose that laid the golden eggs herself. Just because she dislikes Rudy. she after week. I believe that anyone criminally in- talked to death! needn't throw herself in with someone the courts clined may be deterred on reading stories that One amusing incident was the introduction of a "speech- and press have unanimously laughed et I'm do not glorify crime but, on the contrary, depict less" radio receiver. The instrument was designed with a relay surprised that a male should openly express his that a criminal cannot win. B. B. Moskowitz that automatically opinion of Bing Crosby, but Joe Bolinger of cut off a program after ten words had been Knoxville. Tenn., has exactly the right idea. spoken. Fortunately, better and shorter commercial announce- Johnny Kelly The Tactless Script ments stopped this innovation in its tracks. Dear VOL: Butte, Mont. No fair-minded listener blames a sponsor for mentioning A Pair to the King A remark made on one et my favorite radio his name-the name of his product-and telling briefly about programs last evening has cut me to the heart. Dear VOL: Brooklyn, N. Y It was on "One Man's Family" and during the its merits. This is the price we are rightfully expected to pay We certainly do agree with Sandra Smith dialogue Jack was ribbing Clifford about how for our entertainment. Without the sponsors' announcements about that talented maestro, Eddy Duchin. In funny a girl might look, she might even wear there could be no radio as we know it-not unless we are will- our opinion he has one of the most delightful glasses. I, for one, wear glasses, not because dance orchestras on the air. Only, why can't ing to pay for it in coin of the realm. The price would be we hear more of him? We are I want to but because I must. It doesn't sound rather heavy two ardent very funny to me to be considered a freak just considering the amount of money it takes to Duchin fans. Adrienne Wolff because I wear glasses. There must be plenty supply entertainment to the American radio audience. Last Bernice Golder) of funny material for gags without poking fun year more than $200.000,000 was spent. at an unfortunate affliction. I've been think- If the audience had to foot this bill, each set owner would Cummins and Goings ing; "Will the boys' brotherly razzing. be as laugh provoking to me as it has been?" be taxed about $18.00 a year. A fair idea of the type of Dear VOL: Wilkinsburgh, Pa Mrs. L. M. Munroe program we then would get can be had by reviewing a British I don't think much of Charles J. Borovy Broadcast Company program. In Britain the fee is only ten whose letter appeared in a recent edition. What right has he or any one else to judge other shillings a year-vet their foremost critics men Blanketing the Air think the public by himself, making a statement that only females is being robbed. would listen to such singers as Johnny Marvin? Dear VOL: Manhattan, Kan. In view Kenneth Cummins Let's award a carload of plums to Mr. Arbo- of the attitude abroad, we might be a bit more gast who, in a recent letter, expressed a wish, tolerant of or even friendly towards the sponsors whose money felt, I am sure, by many radio listeners. Let's is spent to feed us our daily radio fare. They supply us with Jukes and Jokes have more radio stars, the best entertainment that money will buy just to have the Dear VOL: Chester, Pa.
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