E RO RAMS WEEK ENDING MAY 29, 1937 THE TRUE STORY OF TRAGEDY IN LUCY MONROE'S LIFE -WHY SHE QUIT THE AIR! IN THIS ISSUE Week Ending May 29, 1937 M. L. ANNENBERG Publisher anvils MITCHELL, Editorial Director BALLOT OFFICIAL STAR OF STARS ELECTION Smash Features - I My favorite Star of Stars is Stories of the Songs You Love My favorite Musical Program is How a muddy river became the My favorite Dramatic Program is "Beautiful Blue Danube "! My favorite Actor is by WALTER KOONS 3 My favorite Actress is - Tragedy in Lucy Monroe's Life My favorite Chidren's Program is by JAMES H. STREET 4 My favorite Dance is Bob Trout Speaking Crchestra Thrills in an announcer's life! My favorite Male Singer of Popular Songs is - by Bos TROUT 8 My favorite Female Singer of Popular Songs is Moron Madness My favorite Singer cf Operatic or Classical Songs is by ARTHUR KENT 16 My favorite Comedian or Comedy Act is My favorite Announcer is Personalities I My favorite Sports Announcer is My favorite Commentator is Helen Broderick & Victor Moore 6 favorite promising new star is Twin Stars of Mirth My Housewives Are Happier My name is by HALLY POMEROY 11 My address is Burns and Allen's Housewarming 22 Street and Number City and State 5 -29 -37 Bobby Breen at the Circus 28 News. and Comment. I Plums and Prunes by EVANS PLUMMER 12 Inside Stuff by MARTIN LEWIS 13 The Radio Week The Latest Radio News 15 Music of the Masters by CARLETON SMITH 17 Short Waves by CHARLES A. MORRISON 20 I Pictorial Features I Scoop! A Star Is Born! A RADIO GUIDE News -Beat 10 Dial Time Stars 14 Mail your ballot to the Star of Stars Election Tellers, Radio Guide, 731 Ply- Your radio favorites! mouth Court, Chicago, Illinois. Paste it on a penny postcard, if you wish. We Applaud - Seven history- making stars of the airways 21 You Asked For Them -And Here They Are! Stars of outstanding merit! 24 Behind the Murder Scene LAST "Gang Busters " -in the making! 26 Your Chance! I Departments I Stories of Near -by Stations 18 Voice of the Listener 18 THERE will be no bal- in! Will yours be among RADIO GUIDE's X -Word Puzzle 19 lot for your Star of them? If it is, you can be Star of Stars Standings 46 Stars Election next is- sure that yours will be Contests on the Air 46 sue. This is positively the one of the deciding votes Your Program Locator 47 last one for this year's in this year's poll. contest. It's your last Now, if you have a fa- I Programs I chance to vote! 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Strauss was not entirely satis- Mack-but it required the wizardry of fied and changed several lines, which Johann Strauss II to change the color probably did not please the original of a river. author. He and other members of Through the magic of a waltz the chorus were far from enthusiastic rhythm he transformed a dirty-yellow, when the composition was finally de- livered for for green- and -black stream into the rehearsal the program The Beautiful Danube Waltzes" were row which was bitter in its conse- of Feb. 13, 1867. A movement "Beautiful Blue Danube," and in so even included in that important program. quences. doing left the world one of its most got under way to boycott the song. became the The elder Strauss' plans included no Naturally, the singers gave the work This captivating melody dearly beloved, most treasured melo- hit of the week. It lasted to become professionals in his family other than dies. less than a half- hearted performance and continued to himself. His vanity was insatiable and it fell flat. the hit of the year Search the Danube from its source -and be the hit of a generation, several gen- he meant to keep it safe from rivalry high up in Germany's Black Forest to STRAUSS did not worry about it. He erations, and it will probably live as a from his three sons. Johann II was to the Black Sea -and you will not find was not superstitious about dates, hit for many generations to come. become a banker, Josef an architect, a single trace of the Straussian azure and since this was his three hundred Mention of hit -songs recalls dance and Eduard-he was too young to along its entire 1,750 miles. But as and fourteenth opus, bands, which inevitably worry about when the father left home. hard as your eyes try to disillusion flops were nothing new reminds me that Jo- But one night he came home unex- you, your ears convincingly argue that to him. He even forgot hann Strauss' father, pectedly. And there he discovered, to the Danube is as blue as it is beautiful the work until later Johann I, with Josef his great distress, that young Johann -and to prove it, you recall the that year when he was Lanner, was co- founder was playing the violin in front of a hauntingly "Beautiful Blue Danube" invited to conduct in of the modern dance mirror. "Ingrate," he shouted. "Up- waltzing through time, richly endowed Paris. Parisian hospi- ' orchestra which first start! What is the meaning of this ?" with romance, memories and senti- tality was so lavish popularized cafe danc- ments! that he had no time to ing in Vienna in 1825. JOHANN II tried to explain. He had Yet, just as the bubbling little compose the new waltz The following year, been giving the daughter of a springs that unite to form the head- that was inevitably Wo! te r during the Viennese neighborhood tailor piano lessons, waters of the river whisper no hint expected from a guest carnival, Strauss and thereby earning enough to study vio- of their important destiny, neither did conductor.