Portland Public Library Portland Public Library Digital Commons The Maine Broadcaster Local History Collections 4-1948 The Maine Broadcaster : April 1948 (Vol. 4, No. 4) Maine Broadcasting System (WCSH Portland, ME) Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.portlandlibrary.com/mainebroadcaster TBE ~~-~~ BROADCASTING MAINE BROADCASTER~_,/SYSTEM\ A fflllat" PUBLISHED AS AN AID TO BEITER RADIO LISTENING Vol. IY, No. 4, P ortland, M.aine. A pril. 1948 Price, Five Cents TOSCANINI -TO CELEBRATE TENTH YEAR ON NBC " My Philosophy In Rhyme" Maestro Completes Decade Of Great ---·Whe·, n Troubles Are Knocking At Your Door··· By Symphony Music U~CI.Jt H EZZIE Q. S1 OW \\ ·hen troubles hit ya awful hard, Arturo Tusc:mini \\'ill cclcbrntc the much more so than before, completion of his tenth full season as Twul\t du ya one darn bic of good conductor of the NBC Sy mphony to•lav down on the floor OrcheHm with the prescnrntion of And pou.nd )' a head and kick ya feet Hecth01·cn's "Nint h Symphony" Sat­ and groan with all y:1 might; urday, April 3, over \VCSH, \VRDO Go out and cake a nice bdsk walk, and \VLBZ (6:30 to 7:30 p. m.) things wilJ curn ouc all right. Robert Shaw's Collegiate Chorale There's nothing any bencr when will be heard with che N BC Sym­ troubles hie ya hard, phony Orchestra. Anne McKnight, Than getting out and walking around siprano; J ane H obson, mczzosopraoo, your own barnyard, :rnd Norman Scott bass, w ill sing the Or if ya from the city, go walking in solo parts. (Choice of a tenor will rhe park he announced soon) . And loo k around, sec God's hand­ Aided Bond Drive work, then things won't seem so T oscanini first conducted rhe NBC dark. Svmphony Orchesrrn on Christmas There's an awful lot of comfort in a night, 193 7. Since then, he has been good brisk, snappy walk, absent as regular conductor for only lf ya II Ice your brain snap like a whip, one season, during whic h he directed as to your mind ya talk, the o rc hestra in foru· concerts for the L-\nd say: " I guess it ain't so bad; my U. S. Treasury Deparrment Defense LA T ESIT PICTURE of Unce H ez:r.ie, neighbor down the road - Bond Drive. posed for the Moine Broadcaster. he's hurting twice as much as me­ The N BC Symphony Orchestra Maine's favorite character presents Ycp, twice as much the load.'' was organized by NBC especially for his downeast wit and homespun phil. And soon you're feeling better, after V ISJTJNC NRC STA RS- Jackie Kelk (left), who plays Homer in the Aldrich Toscanini's return from semi-retire­ osophy on two daily programs. One taking count of scock ; Family, and Yir,iinia Payne, known to radio listeners as the popular " Ma ment in lraly. Brig. G en. David Sar­ is the Tradin' Post, heard Monday Ya sec it paid to git r ight out and Perkins," dropped in at the WC~H studios recently Jurin~ a personal appear­ noff, chairman of the board of direc­ through Friday et 9 :30 a. m. over walk around the block ance in Portland. They were interviewed by Bob Darl(o (center ), WCSH tors of die National Broadcasting WCSH, Portland. The other is A Or ·round the ban1¥ard, which 'ere announcer. Company and president and board it be, it helped ya- Huh? Old Vis it With Uncle H e:r.:r.ie, he,ard over chairman of Radio Corporation of Sock! W ROO, Au,iustl\, and WLBZ, Ban­ America, sent S:in1uel Chotzinoff to Jest cause ya cook the time ta go right )lor, Monday throuith Friday at 5 :jO Europe to urge Toscani ni to return. p. m . out and walk and walk. T oscanini's JO seasons \\tich NBC Yep! 1Vly little poem is very true. have been memorable in rhe annals Nm rnonth~~~of !1~!~e~ ro~c~~ - ~ ~ e's only publica- o f musical perfor~ancii ir1"1",;tis coun- Of course if ya a shut-in, ya got to tion ~,•oted e_Eclusively to rll.!ii.o_ n~~- m!I br.imLs11bsc.Iil>~ts 11...J!.le.a,omt. l -Baagor--Roop-T lial"C T ai th mtnc i\Trni"gl,ryariil try" to-- - surprise. In response to the growing popularity of the publication dur- t'n..-.- 1\ itr~-ic-C'ntrcr '\tncr-dU!' puttn:- .-­ think of all the nice things chat have in,! the pest two years, the publi~her and editors have ·decided to expand al1ke have acclaimed him as rhe fore- To Replay Games happened in ya lifetime. \Vhcn y a a the paper's facilities in order to brin,i more features, pictures and stories most conducmr o f our time. Re- By Wire Recording shut-in, yer memories are very im­ to the listening and readin~ pub I ic-at no additional coSt ! List en to your quests fur tickets for T oscanini brod- portant- chat and hobbies. Yep, every MeRS station during April for full derails on the new and ,ireate, Maine casrs have long since passed the fan- Rroadcoster. The Bangor High School basket­ shut-in should have ac least one hobby tastic mark. For his special opera hall team will ha\"e an opportunity - a scrap book, saving poetry, or broadcasts, requests exceeded 15,000 for each performance. tu "replay" some uf rhc pasr season's something. And every shut-in should games through the medium of wire ha,·e a Bible too. Yep, they should recordings. Station \VLBZ has kept read it and look to chei.r God for a tile of several contests which tOtals comfort. Critics Approve Batoneer's Art Work some six :rnd one-half hours of play. \ Ve ll, I think th:1c takes care of The play-by-play broadcasts of the most of us ordinary, li ving folks games were reco rded by t he station ·round che State of 1\ lainc. H ope ya Some people relax by reading, for rebroadc,1st during the basket• find some comfort in what I tried co others rune in the r:1dio o r go to the ball season. put into rhrrne. Take Care O f Your­ 111m·ics, Lloyd Shaffer tries chem all, but when he is particularly fatigued Plans have been made w give the selwl"- 1V on't Y 11 Cl.nnmnies? after a long day of rehearsals as lead­ Bangor hoo pman a "busman's holiday" Mo.rt sincerely you.rs w ith an uff-che-record play ing of this er of t he NBC "Supper Club" ord1es­ U, CLE H EZZlt Q. S OW cra, he finds relief and pleasure in transcribed review of their season's East H orn Spoon, Maine cfforrs. purring down the baron and picking The .Bangor team annexed the up the paint-brush. Easrern 1\ la inc Schoolboy crown and Lloyd got his first box of paints lost ,i onc-haskcr thriller to Portland's Youngsters Shine in 1933 as a gift from George Gersh­ Chc,·crus High for the Smee Title. win, for whom he w,1s chen working In Radio Work as chief :irmngcr on Gershwin's weekly radio show. Mose of the boys Youth will be served and radio has played cards after the band rehenrsals lung been known for the opportun­ wc~e over. Bue Lloy d w,1sn't much iries ic offers youth. Bue recently, it of a card player in t hose days, and he apparently has gone out of its way tu admits he's nu better today. prove it. Gershwin realized this and figured There's JO-year old Bobby \Vhite, w ho Inst month mode his third np­ that Lloyd should have a substitute pear.incc of the season with Fred recreation. Gershwin liked to paint, and thought that maybe Lloyd would, Allen. Bobby, boy singer and actor, roo. is the son of J oe \,Vhitc, famous in the early days of radio as ''The Silver Lloyd accepted the paint sec a bit 1\ lasked Tenor." apprehensively; he doubted that he And there's Quiz Kid Ruthie Dus­ had a spark of talent. \Vhcn he had kin of Chicago, whose book, "Chemi finished his first painting, however, the Magici,1n," will ope,, the fall sea­ nmsician Shaffer was singing a differ­ son of the famous Goodman C hil­ ent tune, one that sounded scr:mgely dren's Theater in Chicago. The book like an artist who had recently ''dis­ is being put into dramatic form and covered" himself. later will be available for use i,1 Now ·the N BC conductor paints T H E EASEL WAY- Lloyd Schaffer says t hat he paints as a means of relax. schools throughout the country . eagerly at every spare upporrunicy, in~ alter a busy day of rehearsals leading the NBC Supper Club orchestra. On the west coast, the first graders and is happy to learn from critics H owever, critics say that much of his art work, which already has been ex­ of Vir ginia Road Elementary School rhar his work shows remarkable skill hibit·ed shows real talent. He's heard, leadini( his band, over WCSH, WRDO in Los Angeles are proud of their fel­ and maturity . and WLllZ on the Chesterfield Supper Club. low classmate, six year old Li\lan Barry , who made a guest appearance on J immy Durante's Wednesday CHECK YOUR SUBSCRIPTION DATE, PLEASE ! night N BC show, and made such a ~CRI PTER- S'O actresses have II cor.