Evening Star Newspaper, February 7, 1937, Page 51

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FEBRUARY 7, 1937—PART FOUR. F—3 RATING POLLS FAIL TO SOLVE BENNY-ALLEN RIDDLE Editors Clash on Which Is the Better Co_median Bazooka Bob Burns Voted Third in Both Selections—Nelson Eddy Unanimous Top for Male Concert Singers. By the Radio Editor. HILE there are no national radio sets, two methods of insight into the matter. W the bills. Two polls of radio editors have just been taken, one among 252 editors throughout the United States andes Canada by the New York World-Tele- gram and the other among the score or so of Hearst radio editors, the latter being confined to members of that publishing organization only. Surprisingly enough, the two polls show a striking uniformity and the same names appear in each, although programs and artists are grouped in different classifications. Unfortunate- 1y the polls have not been of any help in clearing up the mist that surrounds the ratings and performances of Jack Benny and Fred Allen. ‘ HERE the World-Telegram poll shows Benny for the fourth time to be the No. 1 comedian, with Allen as runner-up, the Hearst poll puts them in the reverse position. To make it worse, the two performers have started one of these fictional air en- mities, a you-and-me type of mutual promotion that smacks of the Ben Bernie-Walter Winchell “feud,” now | built up to the point where they are making & movie together! Just as the latter two are old cronies, Allen and Benny are quite cordial off the air and their wives are known to feel the same way about each other. S when Fred slips in a few doubts as to the veracity of Jack's claim that he played “The Bee” on the violin at the age of 6, no hard feelings ar: involved. It's good comedy—now, & any rate, although it may get a bit boring like the Winchell-Bernie thing miter it has been worn threadbare. Bazooka Bob, who Burns up the relatives from Ar-kin-saw way, is ranked third among the comedians by both the radio editor polls. The drawling hillbilly got his radio start on Rudy Vallee's program and soon was picked up for the then projected Bing Crosby program. HE World-Telegram poll listed outstanding programs generally, covering the gamut of radio offerings according to thei popularity regard- less of type, but the Hearst poll had no such general classification, pre- venting a parallel listing. Selected from all types in the World-Telegram poll were these programs in this order: Jack Benny, Fred Allen, Rudy Vallee Hour, Bing Crosby Hour, Radio Thea- ter, New York Philharmonic Sym- phony, Detroit Symphony, Erno Rapee Symphony, Andre Kostelanetz, One Man's Family and Eddie Cantor (tie), Hollywood Hotel, Magic Key, George Burns and Gracie Allen, Fred Astaire Hour, Metropolitan Opera, Fibber Mc- Gee and Molly, Nelson Eddy and Amos *n’ Andy (tie), March of Time. The Hearst poll listed “best variety programs” as Rudy Vallee, Bing Crosby, | drama | Hollywood Hotel. As “best programs” it selected Radio Theater, Hollywood Hotel, First Nighter. Fa- vorite “programs of classical music” were Sunday Evening Hour (Detroit Symphony)), Sunday Night Concert (Erno Rapee), New York Philhar- monic. Following Bing Crosby as the No. 1 popular male vocalist in both polls, & rank he has held for some time, is Frank Parker, with Lanny Ross and Kenny Baker next in favor among the radio editors. Among the feminine instigators of light lyrics are Frances Langford (first on one and second on the other poll); Kate Smith (first on one, third on the other); Kay Thomp- son (fourth on one poll), and Gertrude Niessen (third on one poll). AMONG male concert singers Nel- son Eddy is the unanimous choice for first place. Others high in popu- larity are Nino Martini, John Charles ‘Thomas, Lawrence Tibbett and Rich- ard Crooks. Lily Pons is favored among feminine concert singers, others in the top rank including Jes- sica Dragonette, Rosa Ponselle and Gladys Swarthout. Missing from top-flight ranking is Maj. Edward Bowes, who rode to the heights aboard his amateurs just a year ago. One poll ignores him, but the other lists him second among mas- ters of ceremonies without giving his program any rank. Guy Lombardo still tops with his throbbing saxa- phones, passing all the swing hands in popularity, with Andre Kostelanetz, Wayne King, Benny Goodman and Bhep Fields dividing high honors. Irene Wicker still heads the list of children’s programs, remaining hon- ors going to Popeye, Orphan Annie and Dorothy Gordon. Among sports commentators, Ted Husing has the field to- himself, the few remaining crumbs going to Clem McCarthy, Bill Slater, Ernie Smith, Hal Totten and Don Wilson. AMONG studio announcers, Don Wilson and Harry Von Zell split honors, followed by Milton Cross, Da- vid Ross, Graham McNamee, Jean Paul King, Paul Douglas and Ken Car- penter. Edwin C. Hill and Boake Carter share the spotlight among news commentators, with Lowell Thomas, H. V. Kaltenborn and Gabriel Hunter retaining their hold. Deanna Durdbin was picked by both polls as the No. 1 outstanding star de- veloped recently. Heifetz seems the most popular classical musician, al- though Rubinoff and his trenchant tremolos burst into the high-hat ranks of one poll as third choice, 8 selection some of the concert artists are likely to resent privately. AN’Y one twirling the dials of his radio during the more anxious moments of the Ohio River rampage must inevitably have halted from time to time on one or the other of two “clear” wave lengths carrying identical broadcasts 24 hours a day without cease during the first six or seven days of that great disaster. Even if you were not tuning for distance, you must have heard either or both of the powerful stations on the wave lengths of 820 and 650 kilo- cycles, for the big radio networks and several hundred individual broadcast- ing stations, quickly forming them- selves into a “voluntary intercity wire- less network,” were periodically pick- ing them up via wires or directly off the air in order to give the Nations and the world’s listeners a graphic acoount of what was transpiring in and around Louisville while the flood radio performers of those who listen to about 30,000,000 American ‘The first is the vote of newspaper radio editors and the second is the choice of artists by the sponors who foot elections to decide who are the favorite tapping public sentiment give a lot of | waters ' were still rushing to their crest and engulfing everything in their path. F YOU tuned to 820 kilocycles and receiving conditions were favor- able, you heard the 50,000-watt WHAS, of the Louisville Courier-Journal, ex- cept for the day or so its power supply failed and it was forced to remain silent on its own wave length. If you tuned to the 650-kilocycle channel, you heard the 50,000-watt WSM, Nashville, which itself was not in the danger zone but which from the mo- ment the flood menace appeared | “hooked up” with its sister station in Louisville and stayed on the air day 1and night to carry anything and | everything the Louisville station want- ed broadcast. | You could hear official directions | and reports broadcast over these sta- tions simultaneously (thus doubling the likelihood of reception) to police, | military, Red Cross and other rescue |and relief workers. You could hear Mayor Neville Miller of Louisville and his staff giving orders to their aides lor telling the Nation what Louisville |and its neighboring communities needed from the outside world. You | could hear calls for missing persons, rders to patrols to rush to such- nd-such an address to rescue the tranded or bring them food and | clothing and medicine. | | You could even hear instructions | to police and soldiers to shoot looters | on sight as official reports were broad- cast of such ghoulish activities at certain places. You heard nothing over these two | channels of the ether but urgent flood | orders or messages for a whole week— | no trifling entertainment, no jazz orchestras, no pifing commercial | blurbs. WHEN the story of the great 1937 flood is written, a chapter will certainly be devoted to the work of the | broadcasters and to the amateur, police and military radio services for their performances during the crisis. | One of the high lights of that chapter | and the tradition it will set for the youthful radio industry will be the story of the devotion to human needs and the aid to its beleaguered fellow broadcaster which the big Nashville station was able to furnish because it can be heard quite clearly in and around Louisville by reason of its clear channel and its high power, | though located some 160 air miles | away. This is not to belittle the work of | other broadcasting stations during the flood. In Louisville, a smaller | station, WAVE, kept on the air just as many hours as its bigger sister, was quite as important to the local rescue and relief work, fed just as | many reports to the network, and at | | times “hooked up” in much the same | way as WHAS-WSM with the giant 500,000-watt WLW in Cincinnati to ' get its messages farther and wider to | the outside world. But WAVE itself, because it is a regional channel in the flood area could not be tuned in from very far outside their immediate areas and thus were forced to render largely a local service. That they did magnif- icent work is acknowledged on all| hands, and in many instances the radio authorities in Washington had to order other stations of their wave lengths to avoid interfering with their | emergency broadcasts. These smaller stations were the local captains in the quickly mustered | army of radio, which needed generals | and found them in powerful clean‘ channel outlets such as WHAS, WSM | and WLW. | | | | | [ IT WAS more than a mere Damon | and Pythias act which WSM staged | when, the moment the danger to| Louisville became apparent, it of- | fered its facilities to WHAS (though the two stations are members of rival networks) and stayed on the air with WHAS broadcasts until after the | Ohio’s crest had been reached and | had eased the rescue job. Thus Louis- ville, except for the hours that its|11:45 | | power supply was lost, was on the air | | constantly and the rescue workers | fhad an outlet at all times for their | | orders. | WSM swept aside all other programs for Louisville’s relays, which were | carried to it over a telephone wire | momentarily expected to go out of | | commission and thence rebroadcast so that Louisville workers could hear one or the other station at all times. That the outside world might also | tune in WSM was secondary to the main purpose—that of reaching the rescuers in the boats and on auto | patrols, the people in their beleaguered homes and the outside world from which supplies and assistance were | constantly called for. ! When Louisville'’s power supply failed, ordinary electric radio sets were of course useless, but automobile radios | were hastily torn out with their bat- | teries so that emergency broadcasts could be heard. If WHAS and WAVE could not be heard, it was a poor | radio indeed which could not depend ' upon WSM for local reception. i Television Results. ‘vamon broadcasts now being | carried two hours daily by the | | British Broadcasting Corp., have, with | a few notable exceptions, been only | moderately successful, according to' & report to the Department of Com- { merce from Henry E. Stebbins, assist- ant United States trade commissioner in London. While the technical problem con- | nected with such broadcasts appear to | have been solved, the report points | | out, the broadcasting company is ex- | periencing difficulty in developing the | most suitable types of television pro- |grams. So far the only fllms shown aside from newsreels have been of an | educational and documentary char- | acter. Local critics feel, the report |smes. that the British Broadcasting ! Corp. is retarding progress in not im- mediately making full utilization of television and that the productions so far have not been very good. Famous Singers Given Outstanding Radio Spots _ Lovely Gladys Swarthout (left) will be starred in a new radio series starting Wednesday on N. B. C. The celebrated soprano of stage, screen and radio, will be accompanied by Frank Chapman, baritone. Margaret Speaks (right) the prim a donna of the Voice concerts on N. mausic in her new series. CAPITAL'S RADIO PROGRAMS TODAY’'S PROGRAM M., WRC—950k | WMAL—630k FEBRUARY 7, 1937. | WOL—1,310k WJISV—1460k 'A.M. 8:00 \Pope Pius XI 8:15 |Goldwaithe Ensemble 8:30 |Children’s concert sisi e Pope Pius XI Melody Hour Tone Pictures 9:00 |Harold Nagel's Orch. 9:15 ‘ L b 9:30 | This 'n’ That 95| = Coast to Coast - ‘Top o' the Morning News Bulletins |Pianologues Morning Concert Dixie Harmonies ‘Timely Tunes 110:00 /Radic 10:15 o = 110:30 American Youth 10:45 | ke Cloister Bells K. C. Radio Guild Roth String Quartet Sl Watch Tower—Music John Ford, lecturer Art Brown 11:00 Vogues and Vagaries |11:15 o | 11:30 The 11:45 World Is Yours 2:00 'Midday Musicale 2:15 Southernaires 1 1 12:30 |Chicago Round Table 1 2:45 | = 50 iAnce Remsen, contralto |Hendrik Van Loon “Dress Rehearsal” | Myriad Voices Radio City Music Hall 1:00 |N. B. C. Program i 1:30 'Melody Matinee 145 :00 |Moods and Modes 2:15 | o - 2:30 Thatcher 2:45 = {Red River Valley Days :15 Bud Barry—Sports 22 Musical Camera Colt Mysteries, Ports of Call Visiting the Famous e The Magic Key - - ““Capt. Diamond” Tea Time Lee Sullivan | Art Brown Church Services 'WOL Forum Police Flashes—News icantor Shapiro Watch Tow Art Brown, Organist Under Italian Skies | Pope Pius XI |Elder Michaux At Aunt Susan's 'Songs of the Church {Church of the Air The Bandwagon i Maj. Bowes' Family Maj. Bowes’ Family ‘Tabernacle Choir Afternoon Music Church of the Alr Joe Brown's Kiddies Joe Brown's Kiddies Musical Interlude Alice Blue, pianist National Vespers Jerry Belcher Cocktail Capers “ _!salon Music Kiddies' Revue Music of the Theater Malcolm La Prade - - Church of the Air = | .Y Philharmonic Orch. Sr N. Y. Philharmonic Orch.| 8:00 | The Bandwagon — We the People lswapmle and Budd California Concert Evening Album Golden Gate Band 7:00 {Jack Benny 5 Cipger 7:45 'Sunset Dreams Dreams of Long Ago Bob Ripley e — | Album of Church Service Freddy Martin’s Orch. Tony Wakeman Swing Time Watch Tower—Music Album of odies Music for Today Eucharistic Congress Americana |Guy Lombardo’s Orch. Joe Penner Rubinoff Arch McDonald Grace Vitality Phil Baker 00 Want to Be an Actor? |Cohan and Harrls s .. i Catholic Action Award 9:00 'Merry Go Round 915 =i .45 “ 11, 9:30 Album of Familiar Music| Walter Winchell Rippling Rhythm Edwin C. Hill | Father Coughlin {Jewels of Madonns "~ |Five-Star Pinal Curtain Time P Erno Rapee’s Orch. e Edwin C. Hill News Bulletin Romance of "76 “ W " |Sky Melodies News Bulletins Nelson Eddy Eddie Cantor Community Sing “ H. V. Kaltenborn “ "|Organ Reveries 11:15 |Vincent Traver’s Orch. 11:30 |El Chico Slumber Hour “ . - “ = Johnny Dorsey’s Orch. o e Ted Weems' Orch. Phil Lampkin News Bulletins Abe Lyman’s Orch. 12:30 0 Henry Busse’s Orch. 12:8, % ¢ Eddie Pitzpatrick’s Orch. Sign off Dick Jurgen’s Orch. George Hamilton's Orch. | Vincent Lopez's Orch. P Isham Jones' Orch. Sign_oft 3 EARLY PROGRAMS TOMORROW 6:45 | 0 |Gordon Hittenmark s .- e Today's Prelude 'Wake Up Club Musical Clock Sunday Evening Hour i "12:00 11:00 | 11:15 11:30 | 11:45 | 12:15 12:30 | 12:45 | | 0 | Gordon Hittenmark “ u | 5 0 3] 0 | The Streamliners - ’Gordon Hittenmark Morning Devotions (William Meeder, organist Cheerio News Bulletins Breakfast Club Art Brown Morning Concert News—Band Music 45 \Mornlng Glories 10:00 Mrs. Wiggs 'John’s Other Wife ‘Just Plain Bill 5 [Todl s Children iDavid Harum :15 Backstage Wife :30 How to Be Charming Voice of Experience Alr Sweethearts Viennese Sextet Josh Higgins Neighbor Nell Police Flashes—Music Timely Tempos 'The Choir Loft o Sun Disal. Metropolitan Parade Richard Maxwell [Fireside Singers Betty and Bob Modern Cinderella Mrs. Frances Northcross Hymns of All Churches 10:30 {John K. Watkins The O'Neills Personal Column iVic and Sade \Edward MacHugh The Choir Loft IEd Fitzgerald & Co. Radio Romeos |“Angelus” Magazine of the Air Fr The Big Sister Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe PM. TOMORROW AFTERNOON PROGRAMS 12:00 12:15 Story of Mary Marlin 12:30 | Merry Go Round |Honeyboy and Sassafras Curbstone Queries Salon Music Gene Arnold Rosa Lee, soprano Farm and Home Hour « Joe White, tenor 'Dan Harding’s Wife Farm and Home Hour Love and Learn - - Rochester Civic Orch. “ - )Meynn_dhnflt Leo and Ken Black and White | Through & Woman’s Eyes School of the Air Myrt and Marge ‘Wakeman's Sports Page Studio Orchestra Lew Salvo, Organist Wakeman’s Sports Page Wl.kfimln:, Sports Page - - Your Name, Please ‘Westminster Choir « ow Westminster Choir Treasures Next Door s Vareis 10:15 10:45 C., who is featuring rhythms of modern In the inset is Harry Richman, night club singer, who will be the guest of Phil Baker during his broad- cast next Sunday on Columbia. Air Headliners Domestic. 11:30 am —WJSV, Maj. Bowes' “Family.” 12:30 pm —WMAL, Radio City Music Hall Concert. 2:00 pm.—WMAL, “The Magic Key.” 3:00pm.—KJSV, New York Philharmonic Society Orchestra; WRC, Met- ropolitan Opera Audi- tions. 5:30 p.m.—WMAL, and Budd. Stoopnagle Evening Programs. 6:00 pm.—WJSV, Joe Penner. 7:00 pm.—WRC. Jack Benny. 7:30 p.m.—WMAL, Ozzie Nelson and Bob Ripley. 8:00 p.m.—WJSV. Nelson Eddy: WRC, Want to Be an Actor. 8:30 p.m.—WJSV, Eddie Cantor. 9:00p.m.—WOL. “Five Star Final”; WJSV, Sunday Evening Hour, 9:15p.m —WMAL, Rippling Rhythm. 9:30 pm—WRC, Album of Fa- miliar Music. 10:00 pm.—WRC, Erno Rapee'’s Orchestra; WJSV,Com- munity Sing. 11:00 pm —WMAL, Slumber Hour. Short-Wave Programs. 1:00p.m—PARIS, Concert, TPA-3, 252 m, 1188 meg. 1:20 pm.—ROME. Varied Pro- gram, 2RO, 31.1 m., 9.63 meg. 7:00 p.m.—MOSCQW, “Who's Who in the Soviet Union,” RAN, 312 m, 9.6 meg. 7:30 pm.—BERLIN, “Masquer- ade and Carnival Con- fusion,” DJD, 254 m., 11.77 meg. 7:40 pm —LONDON, Weekly News Letter and Sports Summary, GSC, 313 m., 9.58 meg. 10:00 p.m.—HALIFAX, Atlantic Nocturne, CJRO, 48.7 m., 6.15 meg. 10:30 p.m.—LONDON, “Songs of the English Country- side,” GSC, 312 m., 9.58 meg. Submarine Television. A system of television has been is- sued by the Patent Office to Hans Hartman, an inventor of Monaco, the principality of Europe that includes famed Monte Carlo. Radio engineers for years have been working on means of transmitting and | receiving ordinary radio impulses on submerged submarines, and a system that will embrace television is re- garded as a great military advance. 33,000,000 Sets in U. S. wl'l'fl the sale of 8,000,000 radios during the last year, the radio trade journal Radio Today estimates that there were 33,000,000 radios in use in the United States as of January 1, 1937, of which about 4,000,000 are second or extra sets in the home. Auto | radio sales last year numbered 1,700,- 000, bringing the total number of autos equipped with radios to 4,500,000. AUTO RADIO : SERVICE L.S.JULLIEN. Iz 1443 P SLN.W. N0.8076 '/} your radio needs repairing Phone MEt. 0764 LEETH BROS. 1220 13th St. N.W. DELCO-PHILCO AUTO RADIOS SALES AND SERVICE NATIONAL SERVICE ESTABLISHED 1919 IE30 147 ST.NW. PATENT covering a submarine | Radio Laugh Trend Based On Professional By-Play Gags Seem to Be Getting More and More Obscure to Average Listeners—Pearce Gang One Exception. By Dorothy Mattison. UMOR on the airlanes is getting to be a family affair—with a good many nuances and shadings in the laugh lines getting more and more obscure to the average listener, now that all the top-notch comedians are leading the gags around to bits of by-play between members of the family of the theatrical profession. Lone exception to this flair for comedy lines based upon behind-the- scenes foibles and feuds of broad-4» R casters—among the big night-time |, 1 one yne.yp with a three-a-week shows, at least—seems "’tbteh:lvl:e“cf' | 1:30 pm. sputp, beginning February 17. Whose gang came out of est 10 yis reminiscences will be pried out of rate a build-up to a '”",“’“hdp‘“;' him at the microphone by Actress among the afternoon shows and Who | v, el Shields—but only as a clever has, this season, stepped into a fea- | o yying gevice The new Leo tured evening spot in behalf of that Riesman-Ray Hestherton Sunday Detroit motors magnate. night series opens today on WOR- Metropolitan dialers may chant all |\, B. §, the same network which they like that the homey-down-to- | has turned over a Thursday spot for earth flavor is being overdone by Mr. another Junior Leaguers’ juvenile pro- Pearce’s gang, but there’s much to be gram series, “Orgets in the Air,” be- sald for a comedy show with some ginning next week . . . Mildred comedy that can be understood by lay Bailey and Red Norvo get their new dialers who don't follow all the ins “swing concerts” going on the Mutual and outs of the threatrical profession hook-up Tuesday night, and Richard and its next of kin—the show business Himber, Stuart Allen and Gogo De Ly. of radio. |also bob up in a new program on | [NCIDENTALLY, comedy lines penned Mo 5 Frcays asd g, | * by the late David Freedman will go lon and on along the airlanes, these | posthumous programs being culled | from unused material in the Freedman library, now owned by Trans-American Broadcasting & Television Corp., with Mrs. Freedman being retained to carry on the research work of her husband in compiling comedy material. It's high time those “Snow Village Sketches” should be acclaimed for what they are, instead of what listen- ers who never dial that Saturday N. | B. C. show insist upon believing them | to be. Write it into the record—if you | aren't already in the know—that they positively are not the usual, rural, folksy dramas the title would lead you to believe. They have a genuine Amer- ican literary flavor, with some sound bits of philosophy and commentary on | human nature the world over. Inci- | dentally, Parker Fennelly of the “Vil- | 1age” sketches has a permanent role in the Helen Hayes radio shows, being heard as Ephraim Peck these last few | weeks. | THIS 'n’ That: Abram Chasins is back on the N. B. C. Red network with his Saturday noon-time mu- gdeals . . Marge Morin is doing the arrangements for those sweet | songs of the King's Jesters, as well as for her own Morin Sisters’ Trio . . . That continental voice emoting on the “True Story Court” these Friday nights is that of Isis Brinn, one of the many pupils of Isadora Duncan. There’s something to be said for the advice meted out by John Held, jr., who emerges as radio master of ceremonies instead of in his familiar role of cartoonist of American youth. Asked to fill out a questionnaire, one of the queries wanted to know “What is your acvice to others contemplating a radio career similar to yours?” Said Mr. Held, “Get a sponsor.” Wonder what Lucille Manners, Patti Chapin, Ethel Merman and many another radio star along Radio Row would have answeredc—“Get to be some- body’s stenog’—perhaps. Anyway, they all started out as just that. TITO GUIZAR is mourning the death of his mother . . . Jack Benny's father, visiting in Hollywood from his home in Waukegan, IIl, at- v rehearsal and broadcast ams . . . Phil Baker lWl’l‘!«! all the controversy which raged among members of the legal profession—not to mention that among the listeners themselves—be- fore the banning of the “Good Will Court,” the advent of that “Radio Clinic” would appear to be destined | for similar trouble if the medical pro- fession tunes in. Chief point of dif- ferences between the two programs seems to be that the latter will be preoccupied with physical illness in- | stead of mental disturbances—with | persons suffering from all manner of diseases from bronchitis to brain fe- | | ver being recruited to recite their symptoms on the so-called show. | Another husband and wife team | takes to radio with the premiere of Gladys surtho.uts new series for | u.¢ followed by necessity for a the ice men who sponsored Mary o mastoid operation . . . Conrad Thi- Pickford on the air last season. Miss | = s " = | bault, broadcasting from Hollywood Swarthout's husband, Frank Chap- = . e these days, sneaks off to Arrowhead man. will be the baritone star of the a A Inn in the San Bernadino Mountains series for which Robert Armburster i - for a bit of the skiing he used to get has the orchestral assignment. The | in his native Northampton | show goes on Wednesdays at 10 p.m. § on the N. B, C. Network, beginning o S | et week All-Wave Sets Popular. IALERS, already hearing the| F THE 24,260,000 homes now query, “Do You Want to Be An | equipped with radios in the Actor?” are about to parry another | United States, according to estimates question, “Do You Want to Be a|of the Radio Manufacturers Associa- | Writer?” via the loudspeaker. It'slflon. about 6,700,000 have so-called | Novelist Margaret Diddemer’s idea— |all-wave receiving sets, which means | to be aired Wednesday at 3 on N. B. |that they can pick up foreign short- C.s Blue Network—and will be ad-|wave broadcasts as well as domestic dressed to every listener who feels (as | programs. what listener doesn’t?) that he has | latent writing talent. | ‘Walter Huston and Frank Morgan are auditioning for stardom on some regular radio program . Jack Benny's ex-scripter, Harry Conn, has | signed to do the Al Jolson shows, which should be a help. Meanwhile, rehearsals of the Jolson programs | have been moved from studio t~ Al's | home at Encino, in order that he and Sid Silvers may be a bit nearer the race track. E ‘ MATT CROWLEY is in the “Myrt and Marge” show for good, what with Vinton Haworth staying on for & moving engagement . . . It looks as if Joan Banks, 17-year-old actress you've been hearing with Stoopnagle | and Budd, would fill the bill perma- nently as the feminine star they've been looking for Radio Row | won't be surprised if Herman Bing, dialectician of the screen, gets the | former Parkyakarkus spot on the | | Eddie Cantor show. | George Rector joins the regular radio | | new commercial interfering with plans | to do the Baker show's accompani- | ments for a couple of weeks . . . | While we're on the subject of the Baker personnel, Mona Roberti of his show is a sister of famed Lyda Roberti. reene Wicker, off the air because of laryngitis, spent most of her time out revising scripts so *hey could be carried | out without her during her illness ... Howard Barlow's session with the flu SEE US BEFORE YOU BUY YOUR NEW FORD BIG ALLOWANCES Q ON g FORDS—CHEVS.—PLYMOUTHS NORTHEAST MOTOR CO. 920 Bladensburg Rd. N.E. One of Washington's Oldest Reliable_Ford Dealers AT. 0200. 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