RADIO PICTORIAL, May 12,1939. No. 278 rTJLXEMB0URG Registered at the G.P.O. as a Newspaper NORMANDY PARIS : LYONS : EIREANN PROGRAMMES May 14-May 20 EVERY FRIDAY lipt* RAMO CAN SAVE THE WORLD ays The Bishop of Chelmsford Interview with Radio Favourite NORMAN LONG We're the News -Narks" by the ESTERN BROS. LISTENING in the BALKANS All about the ROYAL BROADCASTS B.B.C. JACK HULBERT and PROGRAMME CICELY COURTNEIDGE SEE PAGE 37 GUIDE Photo :Courtesy Goumont British RADIO PICTORIAL May 12, 1939 DON CARLOS RADIO'S Golden Tenor can be heard in a new series of programmes presented by Armour's from Normandy on Wednesdays at 9.15 a.m. and Luxem- bourg, Thursdays, 10.15 a.in. Supporting are Eddie Carroll and his Orchestra, Michael Moore, the impersonator, and such famous guest artistes as Leonard Henry, Hazell and Day, Bennett and Williams, Rudy Starita... 2 May 12, 1939 RADIO PICTORIAL we..-.-e-ere....- No. 278 ...........-.. RADIO PICTORIALviEiktiffretijoi The All -Family Radio Magazine Published by BERNARD JONES PUBLICATIONS, LTD. 37-38 Chancery Lane. W.C.2. HOLborn 6158 MANAGING EDITOR K. P.HUNT ASST. EDITOR JESSIE E. KIRK IN THEY say the only time a IftE,41Rii certain singer ever got an encore was when he was born.He was a twin. Because,sweetheart,allB.B.C. AND now they tell us, though we announcers have tobe perfectlittle don't believeit,that Charlie We ran into a Scottish comedian gentlemen. Kunz has bought a bicycle with a and a strip -tease girl the other day, loud and soft pedal. ON OTHER as they came out of a store. The Scottish comedian had been to EPI-LAFF buy a packet ofsalt.He'd been APLAYWRIGHT, needing HEARD of the son of the hot PAGES AL.s.d., invited to a cocktail -party and wasWrote radio shows quite N.B.G. jazz -singerwhohollered Page hoping to give himself a thirst. in his father's footsteps ? RadioCan Save the The strip -tease girl had bought six "You need a plot," said the .. ... World inches of rope. For a clothes -line. B.B.C. Here he found one.R.I.P. MORE BAND WAGGERY Visiting Norman Long Act I Marjorie Stedeford- THE SONG IS ENDED ASPIRANT : I'm afraid I've never Radio Garbo . ... 10 ABARITONE was prone to shout, SHE walked to the microphone In trying to beat Caruso. thinking she was a shining light, played so badly before. I Listened in the Balkans II BANDLEADER :Then you have Humour with the West- The other night a shot rang out, but she was only a flash in the pan. played before ? ern Brothers 13 So now he doesn't do so. Act II. GUEST : Yes, I must ASPIRANT : I understand you're Picture Page of George SMALL ADS. BORINGsay I adore music. Music of a great lover of music ? Formby . 16 WANTED for new radio seriesany kindsimply carries me BANDLEADER : Yeah, but that's This Month's Royal V V compere with lantern -jaws away ! all right. Go on playing. Broadcasts .. 20 to provide light relief. HOST (to daughter) :Aggie, Act III. B.B.C. Programme LOST, from doctor's waiting - switch on the radio ! BANDLEADER : Do you know the Guide 22 & 23 room, radio set, probably picked Arthur Song ? Luxembourg Programmes up in mistake for a box of pills. ASPIRANT : What's that ? "COWBOY SWING,"says a 24, 27 & 28 BANDLEADER : Arthur any more Normandy Programmes heading. as dumb as you are ? " Say, that Scottish comedian cer- Rodeo -do ! 30, 32 & 34 tainly has mike fright ! He's trembling Eireann Programmes 34 like a leaf !" "That's not mike -fright.He's left ADOCTOR states that through SEE THE POINT ? Paris Programmes 36 his wallet in another studio." women smoking, there has been "I've been robbed !I fell for an Lyons Programmes ... 38 a decrease in soprano voices. advert.offering a hundred musical . This is the best argument we've instruments for £1 the lot " FAN -LETTER to comedian : heard so far in favour of women "What did you get ?" "Congratulations on your last smoking. "Gramophone -needles !" PUBLISHER :I didn't.I said broadcast. Here's wishing you great " I've considered your song and a prosperity, and may you live to be lot like it." as old as your gags." " WHAT television wants to SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT V V make it really popular," COMPOSER :But when I saw WEEK'S WORST PUN cracks our precocious office -boy, you yesterday you said " I've AND now they tellusof a " Q TOP singing !" - "Why ?" "is a chorus -girl show working considered your song and like it a radio censor who was so 0 -"You've got adenoids." up to a terrific panty -climax." lot." strict,he even banned "The -"What about it ? "-"Adenoids Blue Danube." me intensely." Writes a reader :" What was the Then there was the burglar who first talking -machine. Edison's ?" stole a radio and got Hawaii with it. No, Eve's. Edison invented one we could shut off. TETTER to sax -player :" Dear LSir,-We beg to remind you AADOCTOR says that one person that you are six payments behind in every hundred is mentally on your easy -payment saxophone." backward. Letter from sax -player :" Dear But he's only got to think of a Sirs,-Your advert. said 'Pay As You new dance, and the othar ninety- Play,' and I play terrible." nine of us are soon doing it. " w E comedians," writes one SAYSanewsitem :"An V V modestly,"aremerely American broadcaster plays fractions in the great system of the violin, though he hasn't any radio." hands." We'd hate to name the vulgar That'snothing.A British fractions. broadcastersings,though he hasn't any voice. An actress tells us she's going to spend her holiday this year by an A Scottish comedian, calling at the oasis in the desert. B.B.C. for an appointment, was given But that'sonlyanother way of a form to fill in.This is how he did saying she'll be resting between dates. it NAME : Sandy McVite. SOME radio aspirants wake up BUSINESS : Mustn't grumble. " one morning and find them- selvesfamous,"saysourOffice Philosopher,"whileothersfind FAMILIAR SOUND themselves famous, and then wake ABARITONE -SINGER named Gold Will only eat veg. when they're cold. " Why don't the B.B.C. have lady For bubble -and -squeak announcers?" demands TOOTS Makes him trembling and weak. (Tooting). "I brought it with me because Idon't want to miss Music Hall" He can't stand the hissing, we're told. 3 May 12, 1939 RADIO PICTORIAL GHOST AT "ALLY READ WHAT HAPPENED TO "PRISONER OF ZENDA" STAR ROBERT DOUGLAS, playing Rassendyll inYork women in advertising chose her Glamour Queen B.B.C.'s "Prisoner of Zenda," is only just recently. recovering from a ghastly Alexandra Palace Hildegarde is said to have been getting £250 a. week adventurethat Anthony Hope himselfin New York radio.Not so many years ago she was a wouldn't have thought of. counter -hand in a department -store, and cinema -pianist. Bob went to Ally Pally to rehearse for televisionWas borninWisconsin, U.S.A., of German father, play, "Royal Family of Broadway," found itFrench -Swiss mother, christened Hildegarde Loretta Sell. warm work, decided to take a bath before leaving. .4nd if I'd been a patron of that department-store- Strolling into one of the Palace's empty dressing -well, Miss Sell would have been able to Sell me anything! rooms, he flung off his clothes and made a bee -line for what looked a most inviting bath. Hereupon Bob's blood ran cold, for over the edge AFTER completing another Radio Rinso Revue of the bath appeared a large black head, a large at the Scala Theatre the other day, band- black shiny body !Coulditbe Black Dukeleader Billy Bissett suddenly broke off in the Michael, Bob's arch -foe of Zenda ? middle of a sentence and rushed to the stage door. No, just a seal. The seal, a performing one, was Curious, I followed and was just in time to spot being used for television show, "Cabaret Cruise,"the hind end of a fire engine fading into the and Bob had saunteredinnocentlyintothedistance. "Cabaret Cruise" dressing -room, where Black "Excuseme,"saidBillyapologetically. Duke Seal was kept in the bath 1 "Every time I hear a fire whistle, I have to run and see the engines roar by. It's a mania. * * * "You see, when I was a kid back in St. Cather- TNSURANCE-CLERK three years ago, now pioneer -ine, Ontario, I wanted to be a fireman. I used to star' of radio and television. That's the achievementhang around the fire station on Saturdays and of young Cyril Fletcher, rising comic with a distinctSundays and holidays, until my mother had to style, yet double of Hollywood -idol Robert Young tocomplain to the Fire Chief that I never came home look at. for meals. Cyril has joined the Hastings Fol-de-Rols and you'll "The chief told mother he'd fix it, but even the he hearing him anon with his now -famous stock-in-cold ducking he gave me with the hose didn't trade-his Odd Odes, Sordid Sonnets, and peculiarcure me.I still wanted to he a fireman." rounded "vowel sounds," not to mention his "Dream- If Billy wasn't so busy with his commitments- ing Of Thee" and "Yersss, thenkin' yew." Radio Rinso Revues, late dance sessions and Cyril Fletcher was discoveredfortelevision byplaying nightly at the Cafe de Paris -he would secretary to Cecil Madden, Television's Productionjoin the Auxiliary Fire Brigade, he tells me.