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Vie-Ra'i:': Guide Ten Cents Canada VIE-RA'I:': GUIDE TEN CENTS CANADA QUIZ KID GERARD Gerard Darrow, eigh + -year- old Chicago boy who has be- come famous as a member of the "Quiz Kids" (Wed., NBC) A E A i 7 B Why Cary Grant Sticks to Bachelorhood, P. i Want a New Radio or Christmas? See page 33 www.americanradiohistory.com MOVIE - RADIO GUIDE The National Weekly of Personalities and Programs This Is Indeed the Golden Age of Music WE ARE indebted to Viva Liebling, our music to find new songs and develop new song -writers editor, for calling our attention to the un- and make new arrangements of all the old tunes paralleled number of fine music programs now for which the copyrights had expired. All that available to listeners. One look at our renewed BMI has been doing very successfully. "March of Music" department is abundant con- What may happen soon is this: On January firmation. Turn to page 14 now and see for I the networks may throw all ASCAP music off yourself. the air. The networks want to pay for ASCAP Those names may mean little as yet, but read music by the piece -so much for every time it them through. The Cincinnati Symphony offers is used -which sounds fair enough to us. ASCAP The Swan of Tuonela," "The Marriage of Fig - wants a lump sum, a percentage of all the money aro comes from the Metropolitan Opera Com- taken in by a radio station. Right now, ASCAP pany, the NBC Symphony offers an all-Sibelius and the broadcasters aren't speaking. show in honor of the great composer's birthday, If ASCAP music goes off the air, it will mean Radio City Music Hall brings another Sibelius a new crop of popular music for our ears. Which celebration, so does the New York Philharmonic; isn't a bad idea. It will mean the loss of a lot "The Ford Sunday Evening Hour," the new of old theme songs. Well, theme songs are a Coca -Cola hour, "The Telephone Hour," the THE REAL DIETRICH -which is she? Hell- hangover from radio's diaper days, anyhow. It "Voice of Firestone" -these are weddings of cat or hothouse ( "box -office poison ") glamour will mean that Kay Kyser's musical quiz show commerce and art which give much satisfaction. girl? Movie -Radio Guide tells next week may have to be reorganized, because he will be Perhaps you have not yet learned to like fine prohibited from playing most of the favorites of music -and it is something to be learned, as we the last fifty years. Which may not be such a have discovered for ourselves. We beg of you a hardship as ASCAP apologists believe, either. favor, then. Tune to either the NBC Symphony or New York Philharmonic's "Fin - playing of CONTENTS MARLENE DIETRICH is a new woman, and landia," by Sibelius. The time and hour are on that fact led us to one of the most interesting page 14. This is music, I feel classical but certain Movies stories in years. Remember the glamorous glacier that it will thrill you right down to your toes. Let who slunk like a contented tiger through hundreds your heart, not your head, enjoy that moving Laughing Bachelor (an article) 2 This Week in Hollywood (news) 4 of feet of overstuffed film in the early Dietrich anthem which is the last movement and you may Reviews (a department) 7 days? Recall the legend of her inscrutable face begin to understand why Finlanders fought so The Gower Street Gaieties (an arti- and her irresistible charm for anything wearing furiously and so patriotically against Russia, for cle) 8 pants? Compare them, above, with the Dietrich out of the spirit of brave Finland grew such music. RKO Studios (cartoon) 9 of 'Destry Rides Again" or "Seven Sinners.' Fine music does not always mean fancy music. Song - Plugger Saga ( "Tin Pan Al- Here is a tigress with her hair down, a rootin'- Viva Liebling's guide comments can you to many ley") 10 tootin' one -woman riot. Clearly, one of the two new pleasures on your radio dial. Scoops! Judy Garland Makes Love; Dietrichs was a phony. We wanted to know John Doe Makes Faces 12 which. We got the story the hard way -by talk- THE BATTLE BETWEEN ASCAP AND BMI ing to everyone but Dietrich herself. We were zontinues toward a knock -down- and -drag -out Radio right; one of the Dietrichs was a phony and no- struggle. What is this fight all about? The pub- This Week's Radio Events 13 body knew it better than Marlene herself. But lic doesn't know. Prob- The March of Music (a department) 14 which? The story will be in next week's Movie - ably the public A Radio Is Your Best Christmas Gift Radio Guide- Better reserve your copy. doesn't care. As in (Christmas Gift Section) 33 -36 most fights, however, On the Bandwagon (a department).37 BOY ON THE COVER: When Gerard Darrow the public suffers. Along the Airialtos (news) 38 was six months old he said his first word, "pret- It all started years On Short Waves (a department). 40 ty"; when he was three, he could identify three ago when Victor Her- hundred birds; when bert had an operetta Programs he was four he could playing on Broadway. tell you the differ- Week of December 7 -13 16 -32 One evening he went ence between "Poly- into a restaurant and phemus Moth" and heard his own tunes "Parnassius Smith - being presented in an Curtis Mitchell, Editor Kay Kyser eus." Just before this elaborate musical re- personable young No. 9 December 7 -13. 1940 vue. He ordered Vol. 10. gentleman passed :hem to stop using his music, but they refused. 731 Plymouth Court, Chicago, Ill. his eighth birthday Herbert sued for damages. he became a pioneer When he won his suit, tic 1,.,,,,,a, r:d,r,,. 11:ulin 1.,.,i.: 5/,1,,,,rr,r cdin,. organized his I:iazrll: lolr.lnenr 8dria,.+: Curdml S uilOuuL star of "Quiz Kids" friends who were authors, composers and pub- Ih,n,n. New 5rk: óv:ul. l'luuun,r. IIolUlniti: Iton when this junior "In- ylid,u4: Ili,h:ud Kuu.bu:ul. Jame. Quiz Kid Gerard lishers into a group, the purpose of which was 51,,,ri.nIh,"k Ìl /il9oinl I..i.Lu,r.: .Inhn I:ulsm,. l7anr1. l'l,:br. Jr.. formation, Please" to collect money for the use of music owned I1,,,1bnI Il:nl,nl, Chalk., InrlAlln. .\Illnlr Miller. l'lalrnwr by IL,nr,. 5lrhin Slircel. made its bow on those authors, etc. NBC last summer. Since his mother's death, None will quarrel with the fact that every song- Ielttnn, IS,nf: 1Trade NI ail, Itrci.tered S when he was four months old, Gerard has lived l'.rl. ofllrr,. 1',iluuu S. Number 9 11rek of Ilrrrinber writer is entitled to payment for the use of his : I:: IYIa. l'ul,ll.brd rekh' by the t'rrrlla l'mnp:un'. with his engineer- father, Joseph A. Darrow, his works. that : :I I'It1nnh Iu,l. tLirau,,, IIIin,,i With principle, none among the em- Ilx llrr ,d Ihr l',t III1irr, l'hir.r. Illr1, I aunt "Bessie" and his grandmother in Chicago, TI I1, ,,,de, the act ul 51:1,6 battled broadcasters of today is in disagreement. I, torn, 1t. where he now attends public school. He likes What broadcasters do object to is the monop- IaUer, Ilqry ikllnm,l9In. I,y tbr l'r.Ih,'i 1II luh. , ra. Il,ullrird rha, shmtidmV.1rY he a swimming, roller- skating, comic strips. His hob- oly which they ASCAP (the b c ' ,r11-xklre .rv Ì e ehgn 14.1 Irh1u Ten.uri,r n allege American So- r11, nrr ropy in Ih, United St:le. Sub.rrihtlnn late. In bies include collecting birds' nests, marine life ciety of Composers, Authors and Publishers) has !he I'. S. anl nnt..iollx anti r lulrle, of the Irae.11rrirall specimens, other natural phenomena. His most In4n1 rlllr,l As Month.. 7^i1 one yea.., F Lnn. SW,- become. They object to high- handed methods .r,hdiml tate, In foreign rwudrie.: <&0: n unusual hobby: the hair his pals. $6.00. It,udl by nl.lal r 1á1r. rcnfess tl Collecting of of doing business, of dictatorial decisions, of md,r 1 cheek dratcn to mdrr"m"5llyle.-Itnnll 1. Ine His favorite dessert: Ice -cream soda, to which his 1'unrn,v :rut xt +ubarrlbrr's rlsk. l'Ir: nlimr t,nr heck, In11, like- it -or- lump -it attitudes. Last year they got Irrt ,I,a1k, 01 add,t<s. Ile sore to gis, old and I dad treated him after each "Quiz Kids" addle,:. PRINTED IN D. 5.'A. broad- sick and tired of it. They organized BMI, which cast on which he appeared. Natural -color photo- means Broadcast Music, Incorporated. BMI was graph is by M. L. A. Studios. -C. M. ln /9 S www.americanradiohistory.com NEW YEAR TO HAPPY NEW YEAR, HAPPY YOU, MY BUDDY JACK! FRED, OLD PAL! (I'll bury the hatchet, all right, (Wait'II 1 dent him with this!) in that jackanape's neck!) Both Your Favorite Comedians in the Season's Biggest Holiday Show! A Paramount Picture with TO DADDY" 'M' HEART BELONGS DAREST I" "DEAREST, LOVE" 11.IST LIKE "ISN'T THAT KNOW VIM" "DO YOU Produced and Directed by MARK SANDRICH Original Screen Play by William Morrow and Edmund Beloin, Ernest Pagano and Z.
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