Evening Star Newspaper, August 1, 1937, Page 59

" Helen Hayes Of O’Neill Plays on Air “Bevond the Horizon” Night Will Be Latest in Radio’s Summer Dramatic Offerings. By Chris Mathisen. RAMA continues to maintain th has achieved recently in the network studios. Tomorrow night, Helen renowned dramatie actress, takes the script of “Beyond the Horizon” in hand, inaugurates the N. B. C. cycle of Eugene O'Neill Succeeding presentations in this series will star Henry Hull, Ian Keith and Peggy Wood, completing & quartet of air dramatizations from the works Hayes plays of the first American dramatist to at- tain world-wide recognition. In “Beyond the Horizon,” O'Neill, master at delineating frustration, pro- Jects the story of a dreamer who did not possess the courage required to pursue his dream. James M(‘lnha“ who played opposite Miss Hayes in the radio serial "Bambi,” has been selected to handle the similar function in the production tomorrow night with Neill O'Malley as the third performer. Meighan is the dreaming one who plans to sail away and keep on sailing because of love that seems destined to remain unrequited. It develops that his impression was erroneous, how- ever. and the brother, who appeared to be the favored suitor, played by | O'Malley, takes to the sea instead Miss Hayes is the girl in the case. | The O'Neill cycle represents the | third phase in N. B. C.'s current| rama program, commenced with the amlined Shakespeare” presenta- tions starring John Barrymore and Elaine Barrie. Ina Claire is doing & trio of lighter plays. and the monu- mental work of George Bernard Shaw, “Back to Methuselah” has been echeduled for the not very distant fu- ture in & special 75-minute condensed version prepared by the author. The gucceeding vehicles to be offered listeners in the group to be initiated | by “Beyond the Horizon" are “The Straw,” “The Fountain” and “‘Where | the Cross Is Made.” Little quarrel may be had with the eombination of Helen Hayes and Eugene O'Neill. Miss Hayes has been | on the stage since the age of 6, and, of course, she is a Washington girl. | Mest recent additions to her exten- | give list of Broadway successes were “Mary Scotland” and “Victoria | Rezinia In motion pictures, her laurels include the award of the Mo- | tim Pi Academy of Arts and | Bciences for the best performance of | 1032. No apostle of the “escape” | theory of playwrighting, O'Neill has won recognition for his graspings with | the perplexities of life. The Pulitzer Prize in his fleld of endeavor has | baen his reward three times, the Nobel | Prize, once. vond Horizon” has been | scheduled 8:30 tomorrow night over the blue network of N. B. C., of which WMAL is the local outlet. of the for 'l‘OhA\'s PROGRAMS. Bruna Castagna, mezzo-soprano of the Metropolitan Opera Co., will be a guest gtar on the Ameche-Ficlds-Bergen ghow tonight, WRC. at 7 o'clock, with Ameche and Dorothy Lamour doing & gcene from his latest film, “You Can't Have Everythin . The life and works of St. Isnatius Loyola is the gubtect of the Ave Maria Hour—WOL, | 530. ... Allan Jones, screen player, sings a medley of songs from the pic- | ture “Firefly” as the guest of Wer-| ner Janssen—WMAL, 6:30. . . . Dick Palmer, casting director for RKO.\ is to be interviewed in his home by | Jerry Belcher during the Our Neigh- bors program—WMAL at 12:30. . . . President Roosevelt and President Le- | brun of France head the list of speak- | ers to be heard this morning in con- | nectich with the dedication of a war | memorial commemprating the part | plaved by the United States in the | Meuse-Argonne offensive—WMAL at ... . Frances Farmer, screen and Wynn Murray, star of | al comedy, appear with James | Melton tonight, the former playing the lead in a one-act drama. the latter | singing “Alabammy Bound” and “Was | It Rain?”. . . . Independence Day in Switzerland, featured by Swiss yodel- | ers, Alpine horn-blowers, ringing of cow bells and the music of a peasant | band takes a place on WRC's sched- ule at 3 o'clock. h ORE PROGRAM NOTES. — Os- good Perkins heads the support- ing cast when Ina Claire stars in the late Sir James M. Barrie's “What Every Woman Kno a story of a| retiring, helpful wife whose efforts are largely responsible for her hus- band’s success, a fact that he does not realize—WMAL at 7.. .. An am- bitious “production” number based on the song, “That Southern Hospi- tality,” is to be presented by Bobe Hope and his cohorts over WMAL at| 8 o'clock. . . . Cornelia Otis Skinner, famous character actress, and Donald Dickson, promising young baritone | of the Metropolitan Opera Co., are | the guest stars of Harry von Zell's| ghow tonight—WJSV, 6:30. . . . Fred- die Lightner is making it a habit, for he makes his fifth “guest” appearance | on Jane Froman's program—WRC, 6 oclock. . . . Vina Bovy, “Met” so- prano, and Ozzie Nelson and his or- chestra are the added performers on the Magic Key show this afwr-l noon—WMAL, 1 o'clock. . . . Extracts | from the music of Moussorgsky's *“Boris Godounoff” will be heard when Howard Barlow conducts the Colum- bia Symphony Orchestra over WJSV at 2. Boris is to be sung by Sidor Be: larsky, while Charles Haywood, teno: Russell Dorr, baritone, and a chorus of 25 conducted by Lan Adomian complete the singing cast. . . .Ecuador end Colombia are to be honored on the Our American Neighbors program, with Gloria Gerla as singing star— WISV, 4 o'clock. . . Music written for the plays of Shakespeare features the Lewisohn Stadium Concert tonight —WJSV, 9 o'clock. . . Aquaplane races from Catalina Island to Her- mosa Beach, Calif., will be broadcast by WOL at 2 and again at 2:45 this afternoon. . . . Edwina Eustis, con- tralto, is soloist on the Music Hall of the Air—WMAL, 11:30°this morn- ing. ... The Rev. Thomas A. Carney discusses “Christian Service”—WRC, 5 o'clock. DORD'I’HY THOMPSON, columnist, whose commentaries appear in The Star when she isn't on vacation, which she is now, has been signed for a series of news broadcasts, scheduled to begin over the N. B. C. red network Friday, with WRC airing the pro- grams locally at 9:45. Under the title “People in the News,” Miss Thompson intends to discuss national and inter- national news developments in & man- ner designed to place emphasis upon the personalities involved. Declares Mrs. Sinclair Lewis (the same lady), “I want to show the peo- ple who are making the headlines, the people who are really important in the world today. I want to tell how Shey live, what their families are llke‘mnu out, “seems more directly grown Opens Cycle on N. B. C. Tomorrow e new position of prominence which it and, in short, what kind of men and women they are.” Dorothy Thompson should be able to do just that in a thorough and in- teresting way. In a decade of report- ing the really “big” stories of Europe, she has interviewed practically every important political figure in the Old World and since her return to this country has develoned an impressive insight into the complexities of the domestic scene. That business of “meeting so many fascinating people” in the newspaper business has been exaggerated greatly, but not in the case of the feminine journalist who Jjust up and decided that she wanted to be a European correspondent after dabbling in social service and adver- tising, did free-lance reporting for English newspapers, wrote the last interview story of Terence McSweeney, who died in an Irish prison in a hunger strike; scored the coveted *'scoop” by interviewing ex-Emperor Karl of Aus- tria when he was attempting to re- gain his lost throne. At one time she boarded a train in Vienna attired in evening dress (no, not the train) because she had re- ceived a “tip” on a brewing revolution in Poland. Through strict censorship of the military authorities she smug- gled her story, first news of the Pil- sudski coup. She has interviewed Hit- | ler and was expelled from Germany | when the Nazi regime began. Her background of personal con- tacts should make for prompt ac- ceptance as a top-flight network com- mentator. i AY NOBLE has been accustomed | to make his substantial living by | waving a little stick in front of a group of musicians, but he has been signed for a motion picture role—as | an actor. Noble is one of the sea- | son’s broadcasting finds. Of course. he was found some time ago because of the popular musical aggregation | Which he headed in London, was brought to this country, placed on the networks. His music was enlisted as support for George Burns an? Gracie Allen on their comedy show, and Noble was given a few lines in the scripts, as are all band leaders on variety shows using dialogue. Ray’s lines were of the “straight” variety, Burns and Allen were getting | paid to draw the laughs, but the band leader demonstrated an uncanny faculty for making the most innocent verbiage sound funny, or silly, or something. Anyway, it came out of the loudspeakers as anything but straight.” Realizing that their straight man “had something,” Burns and Al- len accorded him increasing oppor- tunities in the fleld of mirth provok- | ing. And now, R-K-O has signed him | to appear in a cinema based upon the | P. G. Wodehouse novel. “A Dame in Distress,” wherein he will support Fred | Astaire and his funny assoclates of the air. NE’WS AND THINGS—Metro an- nounces that it will produce a film version of Philip H. Lord’s radio show, “Gang Busters.” Lord has been commissioned to supervise the prepa- ration of the scenario and production of the picture, which is to be full- feature length Bob Hurleigh, former WOL announcer and dabbler in local show business generally, phoned last Wednesday, declared simply, “This is July 28." It meant that the popular news commentator of WFBR, Baltimore, and probably the youngest in the business, was | completing a quarter century on this mortal coil . . . Walter Compton of WOL has devised a new idea in news presentation, combining last-minute news, commentary and sound effects Madeline Ensign, who sees to it that the Mutual station’s programs get in their proper places on the schedule, confides that the idea has been snapped up by a local sponsor and is being auditioned by a Nation-wide news | syndicate . . . Bert Wheeler will take Jack Haley's place on Show Boat Oc- tober 8 . . . Georgia Price comes back to a regular spot, this time on Mutual, August 8 . . . kddie Dooley will be the foot ball news man again this Fall over Columbia, beginning September | 13.... They say that Joe E. Brown is to | be heard before long as a rural char- | acter in a new variety show . . George Jessel has been signed for a supporting role when the Al Jolson show returns in the Fall. A new morning dramatic show, pre- senting the romance and color of a large metropolitan hotel debuts on N. B. C. red Wednesday . . . Boake Carter has decided to do all his broad- casting from home in the future after special arrangements made on the occasion of his recent illness convinced him of the desirability of airing from his domicile . . . Incidentally, the new thrice weekly schedule for Car- ter was designed to permit him more time in which to move around col- lecting material for his talks. He now has a coast-to-coast hook-up, which is something new, too . . . Radio Joe wants it known that guests are wel- come to rally 'round and watch his broadcasts, heard on Tuesday eve- nings over WMAL at 6:30 . . . Flor- ence George, N. B. C. singer, has been signed for pictures. T M HE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, Vivian Fridell (left) has been engaged in developing a sizable following through her enactment of the “Mary Noble” role in “Backstage Wife,” the serial dramatic program. Jeanette Mac- Donald (center) is known best for her stage and screen work, D. C, AUGUST 1 but she has been signed for a series of Sunday night programs, beginning in October. Jeannine Macy (right) is the ballad singer heard regularly on whose voice programs. is 1937—PART FOUR ajority Goes to Warblers in This Array the Universal Rhythm Showboat Stars. | descended upon the N. B. C. stu- dios since the Showboat program be- took itself to Hollywood and Lanny Ross and Molasses and January with- drew from the show. On a few occa- | sions Ross had taken vacations, but | heretofore, no Showboat broadcast | had been minus the presence of the | comedians. Fans find it hard to believe | that the program is official without the duo’s amusing contributions. However, N. B. C. is only too happy to be able to inform the letter writers that they need not worry for the departed stars The reputa they made on the Showboat have served them well. No| sooner was it announced that the; would sever their Showboat connec- tions than Ross was signed to fill the vacancy left by Fred Astaire on an- | other program and offers began to pour in on otherwise known as Pick and Pat. For | the present, they are continuing \ulhl their Monday evening C. B. S. show, 1S | on which they are billed as Pick and | Pat, and conferring with several spon- sors about a new Fall program. Robinson’s Cycle. JSPWARD G. ROBINSON'S appear- | “ ance in the role of Petruchio in | “The Taming of the Shrew” will close the circle of his career—almost. He started off as a Shakespearean actor | playing heavy tragedy, and now he's | one again, plaving Shakespearean comedy | “My first role was in ‘Jul Caesar,’ " he savs. “I did the quarrel scene between Brutus and Cassius as my entrance examination to the Amer- ican Academv.” But Caesar very soon became Little Caesar. With extraordinary rapidity, Robinson developed into a sinister fig- | ure—and when he entered the movies in 1929 he became the No. 1 gangster | of all time. In such films as “Outside the Law,” “The Hatchet Man,” “Smart Money.” “The Kid With Two Faces “The Little Giant.” “Bullets or Bal- lots” and “Kid Galahad” he scared the Nation and became the last man on earth anybody would ever have | associated with Shakespeare. Goodman Improvises. HE Benny Goodman Quartet never | uses any scores or written or- | chestrations for their featured spot on | the “swing school” programs. Benny | and the boys, including Gene Krupa at the drums: Teddy Wilson at the | piano and Lionel Hampton at the | vibiaharp, improvise their special ar- rargements during rehearsal. Honeymooner HUGH CONOVER, Youthful member of the WJSV announcing staff, com- menced a combined vacation and belated honeymoon yes- terday. Conover was married earlier in the year, but his request, made to Station Man- ager Jess Willard, for time off immediately after the event was met with the reply, “You can have the same length of time I had when I got mar- ried.” The benedict garnered eight hours. —Photo by Bachrach. Broadcast Researcher Finds Parallel In Cowboy Songs and Those of Pampas HE plaintive song of the Western plains that the cowboy sings a3 he rounds up his dogies is not likely to sound much like the gaucho melodies of the Argentine pampas. Today they are peculiarly indigenous to their respective regions, thousands of miles apart geographi- cally and scarcely closer musically. But Frederick Bethel, head of the music division of a network program department, without failing-to recog- nize this, has found some interesting parallels in the sources of these music forms. They have been revealed in the research required to produce Sun- day afternoon “Our American Neigh- bors” series. Bethel has gone to con- siderable lengths to find original and typical music, music indigenous to the peoples of the 22 countries of Latin and South America, to which this program each week addresses itself in tribute. “Some of the eountries’ music.” he out of their native dances than oth- ers. These show a close similarity to our own original music. For instance, our cowboy songs of the Western plains have a parallel in many of the gaucho songs of the pampas of tne Argentine. Similarly, the fast cueca dances of Chile and Bolivia contain & bit of the monotony ahd repetitious melody patterns of our own hill-billy dances. “Although these folk-music idioms are practically in no wise alike, the backgrounds of the music played on ‘Our American Neighbors’ strongly in- dicate that they have sprung from similar emotional sources and sociolog- ical situations,” . Olsen and Johnson. "DOUBLE TROUBLE,” starring those redoubtable comedians Olsen and Johnson, will scon go into production on the Republic lot, under the direction of James W. Hcg. sorts of amusing “mugs.” Conducts With Face. VERITABLE deluge of mail has CANDID camera fans have an old- fashioned fleld day at N. B. C. every Monday avening, as Hughie Bar- rett conducts his orchestra. A round- faced, jovial-appearing chap, Barrett is able to contort his face into all When the composition being played calls for a TOD. Molasses and January, |~ :00 15 :30 145 12:00 Music 'nnl News Kaye's Or. Church of the Air | ce'araaluwew NNNN’—T‘-—-_ [t Al S35 SR EBEBLBFS E35E3 & 75:00 5:30 5 100 6:15 6:30 6:45 alaw 11:00 1:15 11:30| 11:45 12 :00 12:15 AY'S PROGRAM WMAL—630k. | WRC—SSOI(: to the musician who is to play the passage, makes & laugh-provoking ges- ture of playing the violin. He per- forms similar antics throughout the | broadcast, while the click and whir of | camera shutters may be heard | throughout the studio. But Hughie has something eise in mind besides the camera addi ’ “If nothing else,” he says, “I keep | | violin solo, Hughie, instead of pointing ! the musicians amused and relaxed.” CAPITAL’S RADIO PROGRAM AUGUST 1, 1937 |_WOL--1310k. | WISV—1460k “to Coant Ensembl Child's Concert Concert Ensembl Harold Nagel's Or. | | Psalms Elder Michaux News Bulletins | = e Morning Concert 1 i Bible High Light s | Morning Concert | Church of the Air e Romany Trail [Your_Washington | To Be Announced_ Vogues et of Brave [Hawaiian Echoes Watch Tower Church Songs Christian Science |Art Brown | Major Bowes Southernaires Music Hall Our Neighbors | The Hour Glass {Round Table TDance Invitation Midday Musicale [Maods and Mod |Art Brown wes Church Services lm,'.; [Tabernacle Choir Sonny K. es e's Or. tor Shapiro | To Be Announced Poet s _Gold Magic Key Sunday Drivers Thatcher Colt Watch Tower |St. Louis Blues |Art Brown i e {Bble Diam | Waltz Themes Eag |From Vienna | | To Be Announced 'Kidoodlers Symphony Conc ert Church of the Au C. B. S. Symphony | Will McCune’s Or. | National Vespers Sen. Fithface Red ix.v.el Valle Swiss Program y | Radioland Orch. | Spelling Bee Interlude Music | Drama Encore Music Paul Martin's Or, Helen Traubel . |Dance Music [Our Neighbors [Irving Conn’s Or. | Lombardo's Or. Tea Tine 5 Guards' Pand Calif. Concert Catholic Hour /A Tale of Toda Dancing Moods | Phil Harris' Or. y |Ave Masia Hour |Chicagorns Godolba, W. Janssen's Or. | Jane Froman | |Fireside Recital |Jingle Frogram Sports Resume Grace Vitality |G. Willams™ Orch. Arch M-Donald Watch Tower Harry von Zéll Memory Songs . C. Fields Concert Eddie Stanley erry Go Roun r Music d | Five Stur Final Rhythm Show Shep Field's Or. Good Will Hour News Organ Reveries News. | C. Molina's Or. Molina’s O Rhythm —Romance News— Dailey Or. {G. Williams" Or. | Frank Dailey's Or. Dance Music G. Arnheim’s Or, New Stations Slumber Hour Bill Coyle Don Bestor's Or. Henry Busse’s Or. |Ozzie Nelson's Or.|Al Trace's Or. Eddy Duchin's Or. Jan Garber's Or. | Sign Off [ Sign OFf G. Williams' Or. The Witching Hr. Dick_Jurgins’ Or. News Bulletins 12:30 oe Sanders’ Or._'Sign Off AM. TOMORROW'S PROGRAM. 6:30 Gordon Hittenmark News—Sun Dial B ey ) S3555 vvvo ®PE® Morning Devotions Today's Prelude [Gordon Hittenmark | Art Brown Art Brown | Brkft. Club—News Gordon Hittenmas News—Hittenmark Art Brown I Godfrey and Salb News—Art Brown|Bachelor's Childr X0 Mary Marlin [Ma Perking News Bulletins Myriad Voices Mrs. Wiggs Just Pluin Bill | Toda John's Other Wife Children | Sweethearts Pretty Kitty Kelly Choir Loft | Song Strlists Tunes for Two [Between Bookends News—Police Angelo_Patri 0 The O'Neills |Personal Column |Vic and Sade Edward MacHugh! David Harum Backstage Wife [To Be Charming Myriad Voices Get Thin to Music|Air Magazine Pianologues S Yacht Races Big Sister Martha and Hal Real Life Stories_ Tern Franconi Grace and Scotty Yacht Races My Voices Mary Marlin Three Marshalls Swing_Blues Your News Parade | Helen Trent Morning Concert Yacht Races 145 | Fran Allison Rosa Lee, Soprano|We Are Four | Our Gal Sunday 2:00|Love and Learn | News—Music Yacht Races Eny and Bob 15 :30 45 00 |News Bulletins Farm & Home Hr. Dan Harding’s Wi Mary Muson fe| News—Mu Organ Recital Dance Music Hymn Program Grimm's Daughter In Hollywood 00| Farm & Home Hr, Yacht Races U. S. Nuvy Band Salzburg Featival [Salon Orchestra Serenade: Organ Recital News Bulletins Myrt and Marge Organ Reital Hawaiian Echoes Organ Recital &858 | 58 S wwuwwloonos! U. 5. Navy Band Talk It Over Pepper Yousg Ma Perkins Vic and Sade The O'Neills Wakeman's Sports| Rhythm Orch. Wakeman's Sports Col. Jack Major Pop Concert | Club Matinee - . Lorenzo Jones Piano Recital Rhythms The Guiding Light Yacht Races News Bulletins Yacht Race Ray Keating's Or. Bob Byion Dictators Playdays Lucille & Lanny Escorts and Betty Singing Lady Even'g Star Flashes! Carol Weymann Home Folks' Frol Don Winslow Jackie Heller Clyde Barrie Eton Beys Doris Kerr lic| |Roger Pryor's Or. |Milton Berle Funny Things SEEEEI8EE u-uuv-‘;;& & U.S. Army Band Tea Time Lowell Thomas Sundown Revue Yacht Races News—Musie Chasin’ Blues Washboard Blues Cocktail Capers J. Messner's Or. Evening Rhythms To Be Announced New ores Gwr‘ Hall's Or. Hunt OId Bridges. ARKS JOHNSON and Wally But- terworth, the Vox Pop interview | team, are on another radio hunt; this | time to locate old-fashioned covered | wooden bridges. They want to find out which is the best known covered | bridge and which is the oldest still in | use. Already, they have reports from listeners all over the United States | with the States of California and Oregon in the lead. The County of Lane in Oregon Lias some 1.400 cosered | wooden bridges and still s building them Vermont, & listener reports, | has 203!, with the other half of one bridge in New Hampshire. Parks and | Wally believe this will be their most successful search, exceeding by far their hunt for wooden cigar store In- dians. They also looked for the oldest automobile in operation, discovering one of 1890 vintage, one-armed paper- hangers and left-handed dentists. In to the large volume of mail receiving from fans, none of the people they have interviewed on the air in the past two weeks could tell where there are any covered wooden | bridges. L Personal Signals on Air. "[HREE THOUSAND MILES means | nothing to Walter Compton, WOL | announcer. Though Compton is sepa- | rated from his best girl by the entire continent romance continues unbated, for his has d sed & means of send- | those ng “sweet little nothings” rough the airwaves from the East- | ern Seaboard to California, and it's a | | simple proceeding. When the Mutual announcer pre- | sides over a program from Washington, | he varies his method of “sign-off.” To the little lady in California, “This is Walter Compton speak:ng” means one thing, while “Your announcer is Walter Compton” means quite another. | The ingenious young man advises that | there are limitless combinations, but | he refuses to divulge their meanings. e Newcomer’s Contract. (CYNTHIA WESTLAKE, dark-haired Los Angeles girl who made her | screen debut in “New Faces of 1937, | has been signed to a term contract by | R-K-O Radio Pictures, Air Headliners .‘\ll!l‘nl;; Pl:ngf.lms. :00 p.m.— WMAL, “The Key." 2:00 p.m.—WJSV, Columbia Sym- phony Orchestra Magic ening Programs. :00 p.m.—WRC, Jane Froman 30 p.m.—WJSV, Harry von Zell. :00 p.m.—WRC, W. C. Fields: ‘WJSV, Milton Berle and Wendall Hall. :30 pm.—WJSV, Eddie Stanley. :00 p.m.—WOL, “Five Star Final"; WJSV, Rhythm Show. :30 pm.—WRC, America Album of Familiar Music. :00 pm.—WRC, Sunday Night WOL, Good Will Short-Wyve Programs. 7:00 p.m.—PRAGUE, for Slovak Day in Chicago, OLR4A, 2534 m., 1184 meg. 7:30 pm.—CARACAS, dance music, YVSRC, 51.7 m,, 5.8 meg 10:00 pm.—LONDON, band of the London Fire Bri- gade, GSG. 168 m, 17.79 meg.; GSI, 19.6 m., 1526 meg.; GSD, 255 m, 1175 meg.; GSB, 315 m, 9.51 meg. CUSTOM § il | 3 Auto Radio LEETH BROS. 1220 I3th St.NW. ME+ 0764 B Tonicht UGN?oo GULF/ UMMER ) . “mef:: e CORNELIA OTIS SKINNER WISV 630 For Singing OSSESSED of one of the oddest to do something about it, but muddle through. his checks and referring to himself as tracting much favorable for his work with the Metropolitan | Opera Co, Thomas would seem to! be “muddling through” in impressive | fashion. Thomas was born in Maesteg, South Wales, in 1913 and is the son of & professional flutist. He be- gan musical studies abroad, but came to | America at the sge of 12, pro- ceeded to be- come thoroughly Am ericanized, g | joining the Boy | Scouts and com- | pleting u course | in the Scranton, | Pa., High School. A period of en- | gineering and ™ - | draftsmansh ip homas L. Thomas | study followed, after which Thomas became an oiler in a Scranton machine shop, working on the night st His | study proved an asset, however, for | the management boosted him to a! post in the drafting department of the shop. After winning the $1.000 prize awarded in the Atwater Kent audi-| tions in 1932, Thomas decided to re- main in New York, studying under | Oscar Seagle, during which period he | was assisted financially by his brother | David, who, although musically in- clined himself, remained in a machine shop back in Scranton. Winning that | audition focused attention on him and guest offers were frequent there- afeer. Thomas has appeared with the Steel Pier Opera Co. in Atlantic City, the Boston Opera Co., the New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra and the New York Hippodrome Opera Co. He was a member of the “Show Boat” in 1936, where now he is the baritone s His success came this year when he captured the Metropolitan Opera auditions of air, made his debut during the Spring season in “Paghacci.” \1ARJORXE HANNAN used to YL have ner shins kicked by Tyvrone Power, that engaging young man of the movies, but only because Marjorie and Tyrone happened to be learning how to tap dance in the same class That was in a school in Cincinnati Both Tyrone and Marjorie also stud- | jed dramatics there and Tyrone's mother taught one of the classes When the two friends graduated. they | went their separate ways, Tyrone to the stage and Marjorie to a Cincin- | nati radio station where she made her air debut in 1929. | For the next two years Marjorie de- | veloped her radio career and appeared in numerous Little Theater groups in and around Cincinnati. There was & brief fling at vaudeville dancing. Then. in 1931, she went to New York to be| cast in & musical comedy opening on | Broadway. But six months went by | and the musical comedy still hadn't opened, so Marjorie, forced by lack of funds, returned home. Back in Cincinnati, she undertook radio acting exclusively and soon was on her way to Chicago to play in a network show. She has been in the Windy City ever since, adding to her radio laurel 1In 1936, she made her Columbia debut, has had four programs on this net- work to date. and now is cast as Ruth Ann Dexter in the popular dramatic show “Bachelor’s Children.” | Besides her acting ability. Marjorie | Hannan is an accomplished pianist and singer. She still studying voice and recently added French lessons to her activities. | ALTHOUGH Conway Tearle is a scion of one of the oldest theatri- | | cal families in England, he made his professional debut as a boxer in the PHILCO SALES AND L.S.JULLIEN. . 1443 P st.NW. N0O.80T6 Appearing at present as the baritone of Capt. Henry's * comment - = | success | than did SUNDAY, AUGUST 1, ONLY! Recause of an international hook-up from krance from % o'clock until 10 o'clock. the National Memorial Park broadeast over from 10 o'clock to National Memorial Park. beautiful Gurden of Memory on Lee Highway in Virginia, announces its Bunday afternoon Vesper Service for August 1497, The hour is changed {rom 5. A litue earlier, you gradually the days Erow On the first four Sundays of August the concerts will be organ recitals with Mr. B Smiley st the console play reauest numbers, each of these Bundays. shorter. National Memorial Park hopes you will enjoy these concerts. 1t also aske you to tune into the Sunday morning radio_hour from #:45 to 10 o'clock on WJSV and—its three and Saturday morn- Thursday evenings at Tuesday and Wednesday Save 250/0 to 500/0 F—7 Thomas L. Thomas Hailed on ‘§hgw Boat’ Baritone Quits Worrying About Odd Name and Muddles Through to Position Among Leaders. names to be found in the ranke nf featured radio artists, Thomas L. Thomas tried for a number of years decided finally to cease worrying and Previously he had adopted the practice of signing “Tom Thomas” or Tommie Thomas." Show Bo: London prize ring at the tender age of 16 and won an enviable reputation under the pseudonym of “The Boy Wonder"” re bet abandoning that € career for the stage After & successful tour with a Shakespearian repertory company in 1892, he returned to London and be- gan looking for more important roles Invariably, he was told by directors that his acting ability was splendid, but that he was too young trusted with important characteriza- tions. So Tearle unblushingly jumped his age to 26, won the leading male role in “The Queen’s Double” at Garrick Theater, and ever since that time has been listed in “Who's W as eight years older than he rea The juvenile leading man won s in his first show that he w invited to travel to Australta to pla the title role in “Ben Hur” But Her Majesty's The to be the | down on the ey had to return to making a single appearance. S by this misfortune, Tearle was on 1t verge of returning to the ring w the great Ellen Terry invited him 1o join her London company. After play- ing Thorolf in “The Vikings Claudio in “Much Ad ing,” his future success on the stag was assured. After appearing in more than a score of stage successes in England and America, Tearle turned to mo- | tion pictures in 1910 and became one of the first great stars of silent films, Unlike most of such plavers, his pop larity continued unabated when sour was introduced and his work has re- mained much in demand, as can be seen from the fact that he rece; was chosen for an important role i “Romeo and Juliet le is extremel give him a chance to in the work of his {i T more people than ever heard t formance of his famous ancestors “The technique of narration to ex- plain actions and motives which eo not be shown on the stage was invented by the great Greek dramatists and The narrator or chorus sometimes plaved more important part in their worl e actors themselves,” &a Tearle gh the custom h fallen into disuse during recent due to the demand for at erea on the stage, I am convinced that Director B ster Morgan's revival of this de do much to retain the full flavor Shakespeare's dramas over the air despite the fact that thev must be somewhat compressed on ac- count of time limitat i of She’s Been Around. 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