PROt1LIS ! WEEK BEGINNING APRIL 2 e +-v.pst WEEKLY Radio's "Young Matron" See Page 6 5 www.americanradiohistory.com Sharon Lee Cooper, 1617 Hollyridge, Hol- lywood, Calif. Sirs: In your February 25th issue Z!'he dar Inspires the Pen of Radio Life, you published a story about Andy Russell's new airshow. Included in this article was a picture Mrs. Edwin Woodward, 718 Santa 'file:, to having Red Skelton, Fred Allen, of Andy and Mel Torme's Meltones. San Gabriel, Calif. Spike Jones, Benny Fields and Kay This singing group was supposed to Sirs: Here are four more votes for Van Riper back. She had the best appear on the program, accord..Tg to "Vic and Sade." It was the only day- radio voice of all. the article. I've seen the Meltones time program we ever listened to. We definitely don't like the pro- in a motion picture and enjoyed their grams of Fan n i e Brice, Eddie singing very much, so I listened to Can't something be done to bring the ' "Boston Blackie" back? was Bracken, Dinah Shore and "Let's Pre- Russell show only to find that It the tend." The last named was a favorite the Pied Pipers were on it, instead. best- written show of its kind. "Nero Meltones Wolfe" was pretty good, too. until the obnoxious advertising came What happened? Are the into it. We liked "Gaslight Gayeties" appearing on any other program? What is doing with "Duffy's "? It until Michael O'Shea left. Immediately after our February 25th was one of our favorites but seems to issue had gone to press. the Me tones, he skidding. We are looking forward We do like Lurene Tuttle, Earle were replaced on the Andy Russell show Ross, Vera Vague, the duets of Eddie by the Pied Pipers- The Meltones have Cantor and Nora Martin, and Elvia also been heard frequently on the "Fitch Bandwagon." but al the present tine. Allman. Her talents aren't half -used are not permanent members of any air - in radio. show. We love all mysteries, enjoy plays and the children like "A Date with Judy," "Fibber," "Blondie." "Henry Louise Marti., Pasadena, Calif. Aldrich," "Alan Young" and Burns Sirs: My radio is my liberal educa- and Allen. tion as well as my most delightful First, last, and always, we love source of entertainment. I would do Danny Kaye. without almost any other single item in my home rather than give up my radio. Mrs. Dorothy Hoag, 1040 East 15th St, Loy leach, Calif. So I feel I am privileged to offer a few suggestions for radio improve- Sirs: Have been a constant listen- ment. er to Charlotte Greenwood's program and enjoy it very much. Would ap- Why, in dramas or dialogue, is it preciate it if you could write an ar- ticle about her in Radio Life. Who plays the part of "Cousin Cassie" in "Death Valley Sheriff"? Four Hits for You in DEFINITELY I look forward to that enjoyable DIFFERENT! half -hour every week. Is the Jack 11r r /Ir Kirkwood Show supposed to be fun- (rangy . sparkling . and lb THE BROADWAY'S '.r.1' I rut/ Marmalade ny? Maybe I don't like vaudeville on the radio. RADIO LIFE It is Ol,fn Landick who plays "Cous- in Cassie' on "Death Valley Sheriff." * BROADWAY NEWS . hot Mrs. Helena Cummins, 1241 West 105th St, oFF the wire . KHJ, every WITH YOUR Los Angeles, Calif. day at 12 noon and the night 7ee-fi Sirs: I want to send a few words of edition 10:15 p.m. Monday thru fr NEIGHBORS praise for two new 1945 radio shows: Friday. KMPC, every day at Andrews Sisters' "Eight to the Bar 8:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. Ranch" and the "Danny Kaye Show." They are both fast moving, enter- SEWING SCHOOL OF THE AIR taining programs with plenty of good music and laughs. commentary on fashion Contrary to the opinion of one of news by Sally Spinner. KHJ, your readers, I think the Danny Kaye 1:15 p.m. Wednesdays. Show is a great improvement over Kenny Baker's half -hour, although I HOME CHATS . For the like his singing style. Now, they homemaker by Miriam Lane. have a versatile star who can sing KMPC, 10:45 a.m., Monday ou don't hove to be envious of your neighbor's any kind of song, from an Irish bal- thru Saturday. beautiful garden if you plant Aggeler & Musser lad to the original numbers by his eeds; because the seeds in the Aggeler & Musser wife and read tongue- twister lines FELIX DE COLA and His Musi- ockets ore taken from the with identical bins used to amazing facility, amusing au- cal Notebook. KHJ, 1:15 p.m., apply the thenticity and versatility. professional flower and vegetable grow - Saturday. e rs. Fresh, true to type seeds are yours, when you oy, "I WANT AGGELER & MUSSER SEEDS" TO Miss Cora 8aertseh, 6003% Yucca, Holly- Y OUR GARDEN SUPPLY DEALERS. wood 28, Calif. Regarding your letter of February 15th: Radio Life received the informa- tion that Mr. Linkletter was born in AGGELER s'MUSSER Massachusetts, from a studio release. SEED COMPANY We regret our lapse of memory-or DOWNTOWN 651 MAT 0 0. 4.L,, 11, C.111 lack of energy (1) -in not remember- MAICOtM N,NAGMIIN, ICS. ing; or looking up, the actual facts re- Where Los Angeles Shops with Confider(. garding Mr. Linkletter's beginning. The stork by- passed Burton, delivered Art in .Nooaelew. Canada. )age Two www.americanradiohistory.com N\JV\\VV V\\V'J necessary for the actors to speak \ broken English when they are sup- posedly talking in their native tongue? The illusion is destroyed by this anachronism. Why do many news commentators say "YOUR" announcer when it is really their own announcer. None of us wants title to an announcer. Why is it necessary to keep up the maddening clatter of a squealing telegraph instrument before and be- tween certain broadcasters' lines? Unnecessary noise should be totally eliminated. (Winchell and Dispatch from Reuters.) And why are men allowed to read news reports when they have not taken the pains to learn to pro- nounce commonplace American names of places properly, much less foreign cities or districts? A few hours' study of other languages will 5 give the key to correct pronuncia- tions. Particularly so in German where one of the first rules you learn is that there are no accented sylla- AS A FREE -LANCE WRITER, Dorothy Thompson, in the bles in the German language: each words of John Gunther, "blazed her way through Europe syllable has an equal value. like a blue -eyed tornado." Miss Thompson's book, "I Saw Hitler," This is for the sound effects man. published in 1932, was the beginning of her crusade to warn the The clicking of heels during a dram- world of Naziism. She is now in Europe again, and can be heard atization is very often vastly over- weekly on Mutual. done and misplaced. You hear the characters talking as they walk in a room. Are we to believe that there are no rugs on floors or stairs in DYNAMIC DOROTHY modern fine homes? They all sound like the barren hall of an office - building. By Mary Ellen Ryan And still, despite previous protests, the buildups announcing the feat- Sunday. 6:45 pm. miration of Fleet Street when she ured player continue to blast one's Mutual Don Lee -Kill ear drums. A quiet, distinct an- brought in the last interview given by nouncement is much more effective HE HAS discovered the se- the famed Irish hunger- striker, Ter- from all points of vantage. cret of perpetual emotion." ence McSweeney. Newspaper a n d The lady so credited is dy- article work sent her dashing all over namic Dorothy Thompson, Europe ... by bribing a palace guard Jack Stromy, 3f15 Newport, Long Settek, who brings to her new Sunday eve- she interviewed Empress Zita in Bu- ning Mutual Don Lee program, dapest after the second Karlist Sirs: I think there should be more "Topics of the Day," all of the crystal putsch; wearing an evening dress, educational programs on the air like clarity and understanding of the po- she covered the Pilsudski revolution, "American School of the Air." There litical and human scene that has and was almost shot while In are so many Murder stories crowd- made her one of the two most influ- Bulgaria. ing the airways. A child should ential and widely quoted women in To Berlin have something else to think about America. or Dick In the words of John Gunther, "She besides how Jack Armstrong From a gawky, tomboyish daugh- blazed her way through Europe like a Tracy will come out. -eyed tornado." The crest of this The handwriting of this letter indi- ter of a Methodist minister, living in blue cated that writer is a youngster. up -state New York, she has become tornado carried her to Berlin as chief an imposing international figure, of staff for the New York Evening femininely handsome with soft gray Post and Philadelphia Public Ledger, hair, dressing inexpensively with vis- the first woman to hold such a jour- * * RADIO LIFE * * ible disregard for clothes and with a nalistic position. April 22, 19 -05 Volume 11. Number 7 capacity for work and laughter un- matched. Her book, "I Saw Hitler," published Published Weekly at Los Angeles 15, California in 1932 after an interview with the Rosiness Offices: 1I!9 West Washington Blvd., First signs of the crusading spirit Phone Richmond 5282.