MOST COMPLETE PROGRAM LISTINGS PUBLISHED! E8B7DCTS213M463 TEN CENTS WEEK ENDING JULY 31, 1937 The Thrilling Story of a Preacher's Son Who Turned Gang Buster­ On The Air! DOROTHY LAMOUR Who wi l l be heard Sunday night Vol. 6, No.4 I IN THIS ISSUE WEEK ENDING JULY 31, 1937 CURTIS MITCHELL Editor Smash Features Stories of the Songs You Love " Dixie's" am azing hisio1'Y' by JAMES H, STREET 3 The Week's Biggest Thrill Ai7'ing America's Cup Races! by KEN W, P URDY 4 Medal of Merit Why Deanna Durbin Quit Singing H e1'e is tlte untold Si01'Y ! by LORRAI NE T HOMAS 11 APT AIN HENRY brought his were Lanny Ross, Muriel Wilson, An­ Show Boat back down the river nette Hanshaw, Tiny Ruffner, Conrad Personalities C last Thursday, Thibault, Rosaline Greene, Molasses and To us it sounded delig htfully like the January. There, indeed, was young love ' Helen Men ke n - Sweet Spitfi7'e good old Show Boat of 1933 and 1934. and ambition. Some climbed to amaz­ by DORA ALBERT 8 The crew was new, the mythical ship ing heights and some faded quietly into Jessica Dragonette was afloat in Hollywood instead of New broadcasting history, but all glittered We AppLaud her! 19 Les Tremayne York, but the spirit of the program had brightly enough as long as Charlie Win­ " Bob D7'ake" Goes Fishing 20 the lilt a nd zoom of old. ninger was at the helm of their brave We who listen can thank the Captain little ship. News and Views Henry who is Charles Winninger for that Yes, radio has a new Show Boat and a spirit. It is no secret that the old pro­ young, untried crew, but the skipper is Plums and Prunes gram began to flounder when Charlie old in wisdom and wiles. ' Those who by EVANS PLUMMER 12 Winninger left the Show Boat for a new brought him back to radio's most roman­ Inside Stuff by MARTIN L EWIS 13 career in the movies, The vigor of his tic river believe he will do again what he The Rad io Week voice, the upswing of his "It's only the did before, Those who loved the old The Latest Radio News 14 Beeee-ginnnning," and the rollicking Show Boat hope so, too. Music of the Masters by CARLETON SMITH 15 touch he imparted to even the slightest Captain Henry is back on the river Short Waves proceedings were sadly missed. Listen­ in a shining new packet. With the magic by CHARLES A, MORRISON 18 ers complained that, without Winninger, that is his special talent he has already it wasn't the same old show. painted a glittering and colorful picture Pictorial Features Well, Charlie Winninger IS back. on the curtains of a million minds; he Once again he is directing scenes, help­ has peopled his scenes with virile and The Photo Week ing unfortunate young men, lending a alluring personalities. He has begun to Newspictu1'es of yom' favo7'ites 6 spry hand to this ten­ Glen Gray Presents. , , give to a nation hot The Casa Lama Band! 10 der romance or that, and weary from the A Preacher's SOI1- and selling with all his urgencies of strikes Tm'ns Gang Buste1" 22 might and main his fa­ They've Got Those Bathroom Bl ues and wars and violence Ai1' sta7's-in the bCLih! 26 vorite coffee, He IS the means of happy 1 back with Jack Haley, escape into crinolined Departments Thomas L. Thomas, yesterdays, Patricia Wilder, Na­ Radio Guide's Radio Guide's X-Word Puzzle 16 dine Conner, Virginia medal of merit is re- The Cover Portl'ait 16 Verrill, Warren Hull, served for programs Stories of Near-by Stations 17 and Meredith Willson. and performers who Short-Wave Programs 18 These are bright tal­ Charles Winninger: His Show Boat render great service to Contests on the Air 31 wins Radio Guide's Medal of Merit! ents in the world of listeners, It is our be­ radio, but it is Charlie Winninger's gift lief that Charles Winnjnger and his Show Programs that he can polish them to an even more Boat are rendering such service, We dazzling luster. For remember, he has give, therefore, to Charles Winninger Sunday, July 25 27 done it before. and the Show Boat, our highest award, Monday, July 26 29 R ecall those early days when his crew the Radio Guide Medal of Merit. 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The drops beat a patter on And it was written in New York, his window. The horses' hoofs beat a sung first in New York! Now get bass. A melancholy twilight-gloomy. ready for the saddest blow of all, for­ Men's hearts get heavy at such times. if some historians are to be believed BY JAMES H. STREET They didn't call them the blues in -the original Dixieland is not our ,those days, but that's what Dan Em­ dominion of cotton and corn lilcker, to­ met, the Yankee minstrel, had. bacco and 'taters, mud and mortgages He thought of the warm fields of the and mules, but is a grubby little patch South--the miles of waving tobacco­ of earth in old New York! the fields of cotton, green, pink and Before you take your pen in hand white. and write a blistering letter to the edi­ "Wish I was down South," he told tor, hear me, please! I'm a Mississip­ his wife. "Down in the land of cotton. pian and it hurts me more than it does Old times there are not forgotten-" you to write ,this. Also, the story that Suddenly, he turned and faced his Dixie was named for the Dix bills or wife. What was that ditty he had "Dixies" of New Orleans certainly is heard the slaves sing at their work? credible. But the contention of some What was it? Something about Dixie! historians that Dixie got its name from "'Wish I wuz back on Dixie's Ian'!" a Manhattan farm is worthy of con­ sideration, and the story is worth tell­ ET a quill," he told his wife. "Get ing. G paper!" Old Dixie was a man, a good old " I've got it," shouted Dan Emmet, man. A jolly Dutchman, he went to the funnyman. "A patter song! A song Africa's Congo basin, bought some to make people laugb, and love!" Krumen slaves and brought them to Papidly he wrote. His wife made New Amsterdam in America. him throwaway the first verse, be­ lieving it too ribald. But the second­ HE RECKONED he could grow to- "Way down South where I was born bacco on the rocky land of Man­ -early on a frosty morn, hattan, so he bought a farm out on the "Lookaway." Island, on the banks of a little river Hour after hour he wrote, there in named Haarlem.