The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 5, 1935, Page 2

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, ‘SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 1935 Connie Gates, ‘Let’s Dance’ Blues Singer, Had Ignominious Start —Geo. Olson and Orch Uncle Josh and His Hired tT pine in the Twin Cities nt Mo: ¢ bpm He Devotions Friday, ere " a Meeder, Organist Radio Ne se—sonnny Mervin. Tenor Colgate-Palmolive. (0—Organ Program j5—Weather t 0—Manchester Program —Markets — te, Seeeg aon Ma ni rk Hour of Memort a World ‘Bookman Tenor Ww orld elitist ‘Sears, 1 Farm and Home Hour | 5—NBC Music Guild 0—Retall Merchants Committee for Study of Unemployment Legislation e—Organ Rhapsody las ghton College Chole jc of Speecn \—To be announced —Farm Flashes larkets § Marine Band 5. Marine Band Bob”—General jetty apa Bob" Genera) Mills —Hokum Boys Hokum Boys O—Oxydol's Own Ma Perkine 5—Procter and Gamble “Camay” 4 ZeboManden Cream. ery & Produce Co, 6:30—Studio }e0. ‘Devoron and Orch. 00—Harry Turner and Orch. Studio Frances Bernstein, Pianist Child, Family, School and Church Zeb"—Mandan Cream. ory. & Produce Ce, j0—Harry Turner and Orch. Morin Sisters j—Dodge Program ssell_and Orch. Tire and Rubber en House nation Progra: e—Nerth Dakota "Farmers Union 5—Studio O—Weather and Piano Mood 5—Jesse ford, Organist 0—St. Louis Symphony Orch. ven] ag Sosnick and Orch. tecoaay, o—B, AT Holte and "Oren. Saturday, Jan. 13 o—Morning Devotions — Wi Meoder, Organist U. 8. Marine Band Markets and World Bookman 5—U. 8 Marine Band tional Farm and Home Hr. Lane nd World Seeger! —Genla. Fenariova, Solotet tional ‘™m a Home Hr. 0—Willie Bryant & Orch. 2345—Rh: ance Club with Babe and gn tty and Bob” — General s—Hokum Boy O—Oxydol's Own Ma Perkins ‘anni ner iatanertare Opera Co.-Lambert des \—Our American Schools —Kaltenmeyer's Kindergarten 0—Press Radio Radio News ‘o be announced 5—Little Orphan Annie ‘To be announced 5—Eb and Zeb—-Mandan Cream- ery and Produce Co. 0—Harry Turner and His Orcl 0—Smith Bros. Prosram 0—Procter ai oat ‘adio News e ty ‘Theatre of 0—Late Evening Weather Fore- ast and Piano Moods :18—Voice of Romance '80—Dorsey Bros. Orch. with Bob the Alling louse 30—Major Bowes Capitol Theatre Party 330—Radio City Music Hall of the r 30—National Youth Conference 1:09—Immortal Moments Dramatizas tion of Bible Stori gomery Ward ednesday, Jan. 9 A. oe and Orch. t Club by the Side of the lout Road” 8. C. Johnson and Son, 00—Cathollc Hour gai 0—Organ progra' praenonaster, ‘Weather and Ma: —General Foods with Jack Benny Broadcast”—Standaré Sanborn Hour o—Late Evening Weather Fore. si There's such @ thing as too much y |of this “white Christmas” business, | thinks Bill Hay, who announces the Amos ‘n’ Andy program. Bill usual- ly plays golf all winter long, in sub: zero weather and all, but the blan. am ota Serenade ation in the News in Bale Nea 5—Cr er: Quartet Lite, Orphan Ani 0—Talk by Rep. Hamilton Fis! Jr. S—"Eb & Zeb’—Mandan Cream- ery & Produce Co. 0—Studio S—-George Devron and Orch. O—Royal Gelatin with Mary ge 3 Turner & Orch. o— Phyl is Wolverton rae tf rene, ports Review e—"Lembardoland” Plough E—Wertern Romancing with Ede na La Moore Waldo (Conoco Program 20:00—Late Byening We Weather Fore- 0 links now for three weeks. ket of snow has kept him off the: Portland Hoffa, Fred Allen's wife | | PIN HER FIRST REAL ~ PROGRAMS OVER AIR Star With Kel Murray’s Orches- tra Feted During Holidays at Cleveland WAS ACTIVE YOUNG WOMAN Interested in Basketball, Track, Hockey, Tennis, Stage, Publications New York, Jan. 5—Connie Gates, featured blues singer with Kel Mur- ray’s orchestra in the new three hour “Let's Dance” program, heard lover NBC-WEAF nation-wide net- Joe Penner, NBC comedian, with the aid of his patent “duck-fisher- outer,” retrieves Goo-Goo from fein Mosel abr pool at the Madison Square Garden LOUIS WITTEN REAL VETERAN OF WYNN-M’NAMEE BROADCAST “!Dapper Presiding Officer Ob- served 123rd Program him—as he probably did New Year's Night, when he went on the fire- chief broadcast for the he will see himself in a great radio parade with which he has long been marching. This dapper presiding officer aerial programs is the oldest veteran in point of Tuesday night perform- jances on the firechief broadcast over NBC, having served even more con- | sistently than Ed Wynn or Graham McNamee, but his record in radio! goes back to the days of crystal sets, although Witten is still a young fel- low. In the infancy of radio, Witten be- gan to make sets, mainly for his own amusement until he found broadcast- ing to be a promising and profitable business. At suburban Bayshore on Long Island he started a small sta- tion, holding simultaneously the jobs of announcer, station operator, pro- gram director, president of the own- ing company, advertising salesman and bill collector. Grounded in Fundamentals ‘Thus grounded in the fundamen- tals of microphoning, he came to New York and became chief an- nouncer for station WOR before that now popular and independent metro- Ppolitan outlet had become for a time the key station of the Columbia Broadcasting System. His talent for doing everything about old WOR; made him a valuable executive as Jack Benny’s Dramatic Company 123rd time— [CoP of | and bursting with pride an tate girl who came to jand made good. Her smooth contralto voice, com- well as production man and chief|bined with her tricky sccompani- jannouncer, ments on the piano, were heard over Six years ago he joined the Hanff-|Cleveland stations for several years Metzger papa ihe, agency to head |before she decided to storm the gates its newly created radio department,|of the radio metropolis. It was in and in this position he has worked !1929, in Cleveland, that she first since, assisting in the debut of Ed|stepped before the mike. She play- Wynn on the air, and bringing to the /¢d the ukulele and sang @ song on & microphone 9s guests—most of them {children’s program. That appearance for their first broadcast—such per-|netted her @ contract under which anckities as Chaliapin, Gluck, Gar-|she sang thirty-minute MacDonal nine which exists, with the exception of |the president. Planned to -apoehaerodl | As ® youngster, Witten every ping intention of becoming a physician] York apartment and in embroidery land surgeon, and at 14 already had|—believe it or not! made unusual progress in elemen- tary chemistry and biology. With this| {thought in mind and with encour- /agement from his father, who was of |@ scientific and mechanical turn of ;mind, young Witten came “over the ;bridge” from his native Brooklyn and jentrained for Ithaca and Cornell. Here he was in the midst of a pre- medical course when the World War started, but although under Seyer| age, he exaggerated his years and before long found himself in the artillery, with which, after many months, he finally was on the high seas bound for France as the Armis- \tice was signed. Louis A. Witten long has’ been [speaking for the firechief’s sponsor; ine record speaks for Louis A. Wit- jten, London, Berlin and Rome Took Lead in Colorful Interna- tional Programs to Give Radio Version of Noted Novel conra Jack Benny's dramatic com- pany will present a radio version of the motion picture based on Alexander Dumas’ famous novel, “The Count of Monte Cristo,” over @ nationwide NBS-WJZ net- work Sunday, Jan. 6, at 6 p. m. (CST). Benny will play the title le. role. Mary Livingstone will appear as Mercedes, the faithless sweet- had told him he would find a fortune. All he finds are a couple of old jokes from last week's pro- gram, Moving at break-neck speed, the drama approaches its bril- Mant climax. Benny returns to Paris (where he has never been but it was too late to change the script as we went to press), and forces Mercedes Livingstone to love him. As the curtain goes down, Benny. and Wilson are duelling and the Count deals the felon the fatal blow. f Lady Blacksmith | Tune in on One of These Stations | ‘WEEK OF JANUARY 6 Station av HJIABB Colgste-Palmolive-Peet ‘Program it i H ferry jational Farm and Home Hr, irbreaks Music Gulld 30—To be announced 5—Farm Flashes ‘kets itles of Romance itudio o be announced tal Ch with Babe and tt lay 4’ Bob” General Mille kum Boys jol’s ‘oun Ma Perkins Sitter = a cS | geen ve pgp Radio News aaé Waiter Seese oo sss “£2 58583 spas 8sekss sare” an Pes LI k B 7. : i i i : HR i i at & ZF i i j ! i F : § f. Hittee sie i ede ; F f rt il ithe fat "Geraldine Farrar, raconteuse of the Metropolitan Opera deasts, and John L, Johnston, who sponcors the series over NBC networks. Wallington Wins Announcers’ Award | James Wallington (left) and Richard C. Patterson, Jr., executive vice president of the National Broadcasting company, examine the trophy awarded to Wallington by Radio Stars Magecine as radio's outstanding announcer, great diva during her first brcad- cast'in the new Sentinel Seren- ade series, Sunday, Jan. 6. ‘One of these songs, “Sap- Pische Ode” will be sung by the contralto on the program to be heard at 4 p. m. (CST), over an ~_ BARITONE AND TENOR g (TO SING LEAD ROLES IN OPERA BROADCAST Richard Bonelll and Joseph ~ Bentonelli Will Be Heard Sunday Evening New York, Jan. 5.—With Richard Homan Metropolitan Opera baritone, Joseph Bentonelll, young Amer- a tenor, singing the leading Offenbach’s popular “Tales with music by Jacques Offenbach, was first performed at the Opera Comique in Paris in 1881 and the next year it was produced in the United States. Offenbach died sev- eral months before the first per- formance and never saw the opera himself. HOSKINS-MEYER The Home of KFYR