Evening Star Newspaper, August 15, 1937, Page 55

Two More Radio Drama Programs Due With Fall C. B. S. to Present Written-for-Air Plays, While N. B. C. Central By Chris Adopts Grand Locale. Mathisen. \WO more recruits have been signed for the already imposing ranks of aponsors presenting drama over the air. One plans to follow con- ventional pattern, offering a half-hour play over the Columbia network, beginning October 3, while the other promises an innovation, employ- ing the “Grand Hotel” technique, except that the locale is to be Grand Central Btation, New York City's massive railway terminal. s to be inaugurated on September 28, $- utilizing the N. B. C. blue network, of which WMAL is the local affiliate. Leading stars of the stage and films are to face the microphone during the C. B. S. series, which will set a pre- cedent in the manner in which ma- terial is to be sclected. The require- ments of radio presentation alone are to stressed, to which end use will be made, primarily, of novels, magazine stories and original manuscripts, to the virtual exclusion of plays written for visual audiences—the established Broadway and Hollywood vehicles. The chore of “cutting down,” there- fore, is to be eliminated. Dialogue found in the stories themselves will not be held in awe. In the case of Grand Central Sta- tion, which is the name of the program as well as its mythical scene, each broadcast period is to present a com- plete play, with the depot serving as a place from which to pluck a plot. From the almost limitless possibilities afforded by a spot in which there are §0 many happy welcomes, sad partings The latter presentation gian lyric soprano, and Irene Jessner, German Wagnerian soprano. Five other Metropolitan singers have joined the artists’ service—Giovanni Marti- nelli, John Charles Thomas, Karin Branzell, Emanuel List and George Cehanovsky. To these have been added three highly regarded violinists, Nathan Milstein, Adolf Busch and Erica Mo- rini; two Russian pianists, Rudolf Ser- kin and Alexander Brailowsky, and numerous other singers and instru- mentalists of national and interna- tional repute, which fact of associa- tion with the network affliated agency insures frequent air appearances by these personalities, known to the lovers of fine music. NEWS and things—Phil Baker gets a coast-to-cast network when he returns on October 8 . ., Tommy Riggs may move to the Fields-Bergen- Ameche show if he clicks with Vallee .« . The Marx Brothers will be signed THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, AUGUST 15, 1937—PART FOUR. On the Air—So Many Fascinating People I Olga Andre (left) is the only known young lady in broadcast- ing holding a master of ceremonies assignment, but it is neces- sary to tune in N. B. C.'s short-wave transmitter to hear her. Mazxine (center) sings in the contralto bracket with Phil Spitalny’s all-girl orchestra, and, like all of Phil's performers, her last name never is used. Margaret Speaks (right) has risen in popularity during the past season as the singing star of a Monday night program. | disaster. The first Edwin C. Hill Personifies! ‘Star Reporter’ Conception i has been regarded one of the of network program directors, but Hill much cajoling to persuade him to ac- cept a contract. Shortly after acquiring his first job | in the business at $15 per week the young Butler Col- lege graduate, de- ciding that he wanted to work on a metropolitan % daily, headed for New York with a fund of $100. Luck was with Hill, for ‘‘some. thing happened” almost immedi- ately—a tenement story he wrote in Gotham raised him from » space writer to staff man. | i1l was started on the career which made him the pride of the New York | Sun’s city room, for “Hill of the Sun” | | was there when the big stories “broke.” | | He has interviewed more than 1,000 | headline personalities, including Mus- | Edwin C. Hill. not a radio speaker, and it required &——- Regarded as One of Finest Newspaper Men in Profession—Was Confidant of Theodore Roosevelt. HE glamour attached to a ‘star reporter” by the general public is represented most effectively in the life of Edwin C. Hill, who has merited that designation for a quarter of a century. As a newspaper man Hill finest in the profession, even by his colleagues of the fourth estate. His reputation brought him to the attention considered himself a newspaper man, land, and also the Geddes family. Hs is related distantly to Senator Gerald Nye of North Dakota. He probably is the only American dance band leader to have Indian blood, his great-grandmother on his father’s side having been half Ine dian, half French. An ancestor, Ezra Nye, was the famous New England sea captain who commanded one of the first steam passenger vessels to cross the Atlantic. There are seven children in his fame ily, including five boys and two girls, His four brothers are all musicians, Two of them, Gus and Bob, play the trombone and cornet, respectively, in his orchestra. Jack plays the saxoe phone with Johnny ‘Green, and Rav, the oldest brother, has a music store in New York Mayhew's father was a farmer and as a youngster Nye worked on . farm. When he was 1 his family moved to Milford, Ill, where he received his elementary and high school education, He learned how to play the piano from his two older sisters when he was Baker, Von Zell is presenting an array Air Headliners Audience at Rehearsals. of guest stars who bring their man- I.IARRY VON ZELL, pinch-hitting | agers, press agents, friends and fami- | for Phil Baker this Summer, can | lies—making an average total of 100 | boast of ene thing that the accordion- | visitors at each Sunday morning prac- ist-comic could not: A tremendous | tice session. Their reaction aids Harry studio audience at rehearsals. Unlike | in editing the script before airtime. CAPITAL'S RADIO PROGRAM TODAY'S PROGRAM solini, Al Smith, David Lloyd George, | Ramsay MacDonald. His assignments have included every major political campaign since Theodore Roosevelt's. Roosevelt referred to him as a member | of his “unofficial cabinet.” Hill's particularly unusual distinc- tion is his undisputed title of “best- dressed newspaper man.” With gray suit, gray felt hat and inevitable cane, | he resembles an important business to0 | executive. Only when writing does he |long. The boys took to the road, | fiy the popular conception of & re- but still “no go.” Suddenly, at the | porter, sleeves rolled up, frown on face, Palomar in Los Angeles, where, inci- pounding the keys of a battered type- dentally, they are now scoring another | wyiter at terrific speed, and, despite signal succeas, everything jelled. In|the impressive prosperity which has the biggest place of its kind in the come to him as a commentator, he world, Benny Goodman and company | would rather be pounding those keys | Child's Concert | had definitely arrived! after coming in from an assignment. ] But they had announced them- |Harold Nagel's Or. Elder Michaux selves as a “swing band,” merely to! e s get a colorful handle, and soon found that they had turned “swing” into | & popular ter mto describe a way and accidental meetings each day, the producers intend to evolve stories, which, when dramatized for the air listeners, will have their first scene In the station after which the im- aginary locale will shift as the plot develops to a climax. The N. B. C. thow has enlisted the services of no “names” from other fields of drama | activity, but has signed a group of | capable radio performers who have distinguished themselves in individual productions and serial dramas. Himan Brown, although unknown to audi- ences, has been in evidence around | network studios for some time. He will act as producer. Clicked With Swing. TRADEMARK originating on the spur of the moment has grown into the best known music definition in the world. Benny Goodman and his orchestra, playing at New York's Hotel Roose- velt, made their debut as a unit in April of 1935, They lasted four un- | happy weeks, during which patrens said they played too loud—and for a Fall show any day now . . . Willie Howard probably will be on the air minus his brother Eugene when the leaves begin to drop off . . . “Porgy and Bess” is being adapted for radio with an all-colored cast . . . Radio Newsreel, featuring personalities in the news, commences on October 24 . .. Kate Smith returns at the head | of a new full hour show September 30 ... Gen. Hugh 8. Johnson has been | signed as a news commentator with September 27 set as the starting date | . .. Johnny Davis and Rosemary undi Priscilla Lane have been signed by | Warners and will leave the Waring band . .. The Raymond Scott Quintet | is expected to become a permanent | feature of the Bing Crosby show— | Angling now in progress . . . Paramount | is rumored to be contemplatin, a full hour program in the Fall, presenting all its big stars. | Those Promenade Concerts resume about able to stand up. His brother Ray taught him to play the clarinet | when he was 6. By the time he was 8 he had mastered the allied reed in« struments. At that age he played the clarinet for local barn dances, his brother Ray playing the guitar and his father’ the fiddle. He received $2 a night. Mayhew learned the trumpet when he was 11, and by the time he | was 12 he was playing dance jobt on that instrument. When he was grad- uated from high school at 17 he joined the first “big” band of his career, Schoenbeck’'s Syncopators, in Dane ville, IIL. He came to New York two vears later with Pee Wee Byers and plaved at Barnev Gallant's in Greenwirn Village. He joined Paul Whiteman's orchestra in 1926. His brothers Bob, who was only 15 at the time, and Jack joined him two years later. Be- tween 1930 and 1932 he played with Afternoon Programs. 1:00 pm.—WMAL, “The Magic Key. 2:00 p.m.—WJSV. Columbia Sym- phony Orchestra. Evening Programs. 6:00 p.m.—WRC, Jane Froman. 6:30 p.m.—WJSV. Harry von Zell. 0 p.m.—WRC. W. C. Fields; WJSV. Milton Berle and Wendall Hall. 7:30 p.m.—WJSV, Eddie Stanley. 8:00 p.m.—WOL. “Five Star Fi- nal”; WJSV, Rhythm Show: WMAL, Rippling Rhythm. 8:30 p.m.—WRC, American Al- bum of Familiar Music; Walter Winchell AUGUST 15, 1937 | WRC—950k. | Ensembls /> WOL--1,310k. | WJSV—1,460k. ’1‘0!\-\\' S programs—Cornelia Otis | Skinner brings her dramatic | monologues to James Melton's Sun- | day Night Party—WRC at 9. Wynn Murray has been signed as a per- manent member of the cast of that show . . . Allan Jones. screen singer, PLIT seconds are the bugaboo of all ; radio people. They mean the de- | lightful feeling of having a program News Bulleting Concert Ensemble iy Morning Concert on October 3 . . . and Loretta Lee, rhythm songstress of the airwaves, will be heard with Wern Janssen’'s orchestra—WMAL at 6:30 . . . Songs by contemporary American composers are to be featured on the Fireside Recital program to- night—WRC, 6:30 . . . The world’s | birling championship (birling is roll- | ing logs and trying not to fall off) will be described over WRC at 4:30 . .. The struggles and courage of the | American farmer are portrayed in | How Dark & Harvest Moon,” drama to be presented over WMAL at 7 .. . Alice Brady plays a scene from Eu- gere O'Neill's “Mourning Becomes Electra"—WRC, 7 o'clock . . . The | Soap Box Der race of home-made | toy autos, will be described by both | | | Maurice Chevalier is going to come back to America for & new network series, backed up by a name band . .. Lenore Ulric is to be heard on the air again in a little while . . . Ed Wynn is going back to the musical comedy stage as the lead in *“Hooray for What?" . Don Wilson will be the announcer on the new Lanny Ross program . . . Reed Kennedy, Kitty Carlisle, Frank Crumit and Gus Henschen's Orchestra have been contracted for & series that bows September 10 . The Clem McCarthy-Edwin C. Hill team will handle the Louis-Farr fight broadcast . . . Lawrence Tibbett prob- ably will not be able to take over Frank Parker's spot in September— other engagements . . . Burgess Mere- 9:00 pm.—WRC, Sunday Night Party; WOL, Good Will Hour. Short-Wave Programs. 7:30 pm.—CARACAS, Dance Music, YVSRC, 51.7 m, 5.8 meg. { | 9:40 p.m —LONDON. “The Eng- land I Find,” GSG, 16.8 m., 17.79 meg.; GSL 19.6 m, 1526 meg; GSD, ! 255 m., 1175 meg ! GSB, 315 m., 951 meg. | | 11:45p.m. —PARIS, Recorder | Concert, TPA4, 256 m., 11.72 meg. | | Russian Melodies I L 858585258 String Quartet 2 Bible High Lights Morning Concert Dixie Harmonies Your Washington Romany Trail Church’ Songs Church of the Air 10:00(News—Songs | 10:30 Green Bros. Orch. 1045 10:15 Nellie's Daughter | Bravest of Brave Vogues | Watch Tower {Hawaiian Echoes Art Brown Chi | News—Bulleting u Science Major Bowes 1:00 Southernaires i) e 1230 Music Hall | B e sl e 12:30 Soap Box Derby 1245 | The Hour Glass {Round Table [Moods' and Modes |Art Brown :Chuuh S r. H. V. Kiltenborn | Poet's Gold the Air | Major Bowes 1 Watch Tower | Tabernacle Choir | or shoulder, to 'be exact. of playivg jazz. Plays Celeste, Too. TOCK studio equipment at the Jack at right angles to the studio grand used by Loretta. On her program, heard each afternoon over the Co- lumbia network, Loretta uses the celeste and the piano in combination, playing the bass on $he piano and the treble on the tink!ing celeste. To studio visitors this ambidextrous performance, with the right hand working so far from the left, provides an interesting sight. To Loretta, how- ever, it is just & pain in the neck— To simplify and Loretta Clemens broadcasts | is a battered old celeste that stands | go off the air “on the nose” or the terrible sensation of overlapping on another program, the bane of every radio worker's existence. Few broad- casts on the air waves are as accurately and correctly timed to the ultimate | second as Phil Lord's “Gang Busters.” | And the person behind the control | room giass wielding the stopwatch and penciling figured natations on the “crusade against time” script in this | case is a young woman named Gwen Jones, secretary and general factotum | for the busy Mr. Lord. | | In appearance “Jonesy.” as she fa- miliarly is known to radio people, is average in height, possessing sparkling | brown oyes, a gay personality, and | chestnut brown hair. “Outside,” pleas- | | antness is the word for “'Jone: but | | Eddy Duchin. In the late Fall of the last year Nye organized his own band and played at the Post Lodge in West chester, N. Y, following with engage« ments at the Westchester Biltmare, Meuhlbach Hotel in Kansas City, Clin« ton Hotel in Albany, the Pierre in New York and the Deauville Beach Casinn in Miami. While at the latter spot his band replaced Rubinoff for several weeks on the show with Eddie Cantor, IF‘ YOU could spend enough evee nings in the reception rooms of the National Broadcasting Co. in New York's Radio City you would see a great deal of Juan deJara Ale motne, N. B. C.’s night executive, who does the honors of the estab- Audiences Debated. HETHER or not a radio broadcast should have a studio audience is | Sunday Drivers Thatcher Colt dith and Helen Gahagan are among | the stage stars to be heard during | the new season. Soap Box Derby lishment with the courtly grace of s an Old World chef de protocol. Al monte has been N. B. C's one-man N. B. C. and C. B. S. lfldfl_\'—WJSVJ at1and again at 5:30; WMAL at 12:30 ®nd again at 5 ... Viola Philo, so- prano, and Carmine Coppola, flautist, :00 Magic K o matters for herself, she is thinking | once she steps into the confines of the | of ordering a comibnation piano- | control room, business and a strict celeste. This instrument, which would | sense of discipline are the order of | Art Brown Bible Diamas J. Houss B Or. are soloists on the Music Hall this morning—WMAL, 11:30 . . . Lee Wiley, singer, and Harry McNaughton, who is Phil Baker's Bottle, are the guest etars on Harry von Zell's show, to- gether with the Phantom Strings, an instrumental group, and the Kidood- | ders. who play toy instruments— | 6:30 . . . “Miracles of Our is the title of the Ave: r presentation—at 5:30 } | \"OL‘ through Madeline Ensign, | asks, “Do you know that the | Mutual Broadcasting System has set aside 7:30 to 8 o'clock on Thursday nights for Guy Lombardo?” No. not until now, but it is inter- esting. It seems that when M. B. S. organized, it wanted to procure the services of the finest dance band ag- gregations, and considered the Royal Canadians of Guy and Bros, a par- particularly desirable plum. Lombarcy acquiesced, and as a gesture of appie- ciation for his willingness to send his music into the microphones of a new and not-yet-established network, Mu- tual dedicated the period to Guy and his ageregation to be used by him whenever he has a yen to broadcast. Under the system now in force, the Lombardo rhythms are picked up by the nearest Mutual affiliate whenever the band is playing at a hotel or night club to which stringing wires would be practical. If the band is on the road or unavailable for broadcasting for any other reason, the network fill in with another musical program. L/IOHE program notes—The Magic Key moves to Hollywood t'nis‘ afternoon, picking up humorist Bob | Benchley as master of ceremonies, Nat Bhilkret's Orchestra, scenes from a new motion picture and a bit from Hono- Julu. Doris Weston, blues singer, and Frank Forrest, baritone, also will con- tribute. The film “Flight From Glory” with the excerpt being en- acted by Chester Morris, Onslow Stev- ens and Whitney Bourne, while from Hawaii will come the authentic native music of the Joani Namokueha Sere- naders—WMAL, 1 o'clock . .. Bob Hope assumes a “great lover role’— WMAL at 8 . Bye's Prehistoric Sluggers and Lowell Thomas and his Nine Old Men clash on the diamond today. It's a base ball game with members of the opposing teams in- cluding Gene Tunney, Westbrook Peg- ler, Deems Taylor, Frank Buck, Hey- wood Broun, Lanny Ross, Frank Hawks, Stoopnagle and Budd. Kath- arine Cornell is to be the umpire— WMAL at 4 . . . Henry Hunter has been chosen as Irene Rich's leading man for her new :eries—WMAL at 7 ... Jerry Belcher takes his micro- phone into the home of a family of Hollywood motion picture extras— WMAL, 2:30 . . . Overture to Mozart's opera, “The Marriage of Figaro,” and “Symphony in C Major, No. 7,” by Bchubert, compose the last in the Lewisohn Stadium Concert series— WJSV, 9 o'clock. 'A LIST of 27 distinguished names of the music world is sent out by N. B. C.—latest additions to the group of performers whoh ave been taken under the wing ofo N. B. C. Artists’ Bervice Management. The organiza- tion now is handling the affairs of 102 artists for the 1937-38 season, Four European singers who first ap- peared at 'he Metropolitan Opera House last season are to make their | initial American recital tours under N. B. C. sponsorship. They are Gina Cigna, French-Italian soprano, who has been acclaimed for her work in the roles of Aida and Gioconda; Kers- tin Thorberg, Swedish contralto, s ‘Wagnerian specialist; Vina Bovy, Bel- e cation 'HOSE people up in the Heurich Building are always up to some- thing. “Those people” are the powers that be at WOL, and what they are up to this time is a children's school in radio technique. The school will be conducted at no charge to the pupils, because the station believes, and rightly, that many local children pos- sess real talent for broadcasting but are una of it, as the saying goes, because of lack of proper training. The course, scheduled to begin some time in September, will consist of 13 weeks' training in the appli- of talent to the microphone and the practical side of radio work. Members of the staff and invited in- structors are to participate in con- ducting these classes, which are open to children of Washington and vicini- ty, 16 years of age and under. Kiddies can troop up to the air-conditioned premises any time now, as registration | is under way. Two communications of the past week, among others, were those from Ed Grunwald of Variety, that paper which the layman likes to look at because it has such funny head- lines, but which is Broadway's Bible, and from Ray Bell of Loew's, Inc. Mr. Grunwald, who edited the volume, announces that he is sending a copy of the Variety Radio Directory. The Variety Radio Directory comes, and proves to be a thick book, but the postman doesn’t want any money for it. It contains practically all the information any one in or out of the business would want to find about the broadcasting industry—sta- tions, programs, production, law, physical facilities, agencies, SpONsors. This is the first edition of the di- rectory, but it should prove to be to radio what the Film Daily Year Book and Motion Picture Almanac are to motion pictures, what the Billboard Index is to the legitimate stage. For it, thanks to Mr. Grunwald. It gives & feeling of security to those who ars supposed to be able to answer questions about broadcasting, but usually can't. . Ray Bell, about whom Jay Carmody, Bob Phillips and Harry MacArthur always seem to be writing on the drama page, never is satisfied. He points out that “You Can't Have Everything,” now playing the Capitol, deserves mention on the radio page ble to make much of & thing | becoming one of the moot questions of the day. M. H. H. Joachim, pro- ducer of “Your Unseen Friend,” agrees that there is much to be said for and against the idea, but there is a solu- tion to the problem. “Comedians contend, and rightfully, I think,” states Joachim, “that an audience aids them in timing and | that its reactions make for better pro- grams. Many producers of dramatic | shows have a similar opinion. On Lhe; other hand, musical directors and | vocalists often regard the studio audi- | |ence as a distraction and handicap. | “The whole matter might be settled | to the satisfaction of all concerned, if | prior ,to the broadcast, complete dress | rehearsals were given to which the public could be invited. This would | give the comedian and the dramatic producer the reactions they are seek- ing. The musical director and vocal- ist could please those who enjoy watching them perform in a similar manner, and the actual broadcast could be a production for listeners in the home only.” . . Plays Many Parts. THE chances are that the clipped speech of the college professor and the “heavy” accents of the villain heard on a Court of Human Relations drama come from the vocal equip- ment of one person. Young Ted de Corsia speaks more than 12 dialects with equal ease and competence and frequently plays several characters on a single court show. Almost Live in Studio. ’I‘HE “Pepper Young's Family” cast is referred to by their studio as- sociates as “The Information Bureau.” With 10 broadcasts a week and at- tendant rehearsals to do, the actors almost live in the studio, where they help out the page boys by directing tourists to points of interest in Radio City. because the cast includes Don Ameche, Rubinoff, Capt. Henry, Tony Martin, Alice Faye, Louis Prima’s Band, which seems to be true. In addition, Ray, microphones are used on film sets as well as in broad- casting studios. That's another point for future reference. Busy A. ROLFE and his trum- pet” . . . “Vincent Lopex at the keyboard” . . . e “Rudy Vallee and his throbbing saxophone” . . . “Peter Van Steeden and his romantic violin” . . . Reminders of an old musical school which is falling gradually by the way- side becaupe radio today requires that so much of a maestro's time be spent in arranging and conduct- ing. Before radio it was almost axiomatic that an orchestra leader would play an instrumental solo or two, but these days it is & novelty when a conductor does anything more than wield a baton during a broadcast or smile broadly to the dancers who pass by. Modern radio requires that timing must be “on the nose,” the group- ing of instruments and orchestral ar- rangements must be letter-perfect. Today's air maestros have less and less time to give to instrumental solos. Outstanding adherent to the old [13 Maestros of Radio Orchestras Less and Less Display Own Ability man, exponent of the most modern of music, “swing.” Goodman is not only the idol of music-minded Young America in an orchestral way, but he is also conceded to be radio's fore- most clarinet specialist, whose vir- tuosity is worshiped both as & mem- ber of his “swing quartet” and as a soloist. “Lenny Hayton, Joe Reichman, Hughie Barrett, Eddy Duchin and Johnny Green are specialists at the piano,” Goodman points out. “Russ Morgan is a trombone virtuoso, as is Tommy Dorsey. Bunny Berigan toots & mean trumpet and Glen Gray fea. tures a saxophone. Rubinoff is fa- mous for his violin. But on the other side of the musical fence there are a score of talented musiclans who are letting their instrumental ability be crowded out by press of other duties on the podium. Oszie Nelson, Hal Kemp, Phil Harris and Ben Pollack have given up the drums. Mark "2:00 Variety Show Symphouy Concert| Church of the Air| Wil McCune's Or.| C. B. S. Symphony | 3:15 3:30 Sen. Fithface 3:45) " * 73:00|National Vespers | In Briggville World Is Yours Radioland Orch. “You H Spelling Bee "4:00| Joke Ball Game 45 e 4:30 Tea Time 4:45 Encore M 00/ Soap Bex Derby Qv SES | Paul Martin's Or. D. | Log-roll'ng Catholic Hour A Tale of Todsy | [Dapee B News—Music IE Soap Bex Derby Our Neighbors Lombardo's Or. Hairis® Or. | Godolbaa | I 3 W. Jantsen's Or, | Jane Froman Fireside Recital Jingle Program w. C. Fields Sports Resume {Dick Jurgen's Or. | Watch Tower News—Music sham Jomes” Or. Hi, There! St Glenn Carow |Arch M:Donald Harry von Zell Milton Berle Eddie Stanley : |Rippling Rhythm :30 | Walter Winchell 45 Irene Rich 8&ZZ2 2GS > Merry Go Round Familiar Music Five Stur Final [ | . [Sylvia Froos Rhythm Show Sunday Party Good Will Hour Stadium Concert udy and Bunch ymphonic Choir 0 Ed Varzos' Or. | News Jerry Blaine's Or. News—Molina's Or.| C. Mol News—Mu M. Alpert’s Or. Andy Tonas' Or. P. Napoleon's Or. Jay Freeman's Or, Henry Bill Coyle usse’s Or. J. Hawkins' Or. | Ozzie Nelson's Or.| | Jan Garber's Or. 12:00] Sign Off 12:15| AM. 6:45 Sign Off Dick Jurgens’ Or. Jack Litlle’s Or. Sun Dial The Witching Hr. [News Bulleting 12:30! 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Three [Myriad Voices Mary Marlin shalls M. :45|Fran Allison Rosa Lee We Are Four Our_Gal Sunday lews—Music Dan Hardin, i Words and Music S Morning Concert Bill Lewis ance Music Organ Reci Harold Turner wing tty and rent Blues Your News Parade Helen T . Home Hr, U.S. Nuvy Band Farm z8& Jery Sears’ Or. Mary Mason Salon Orchestra Spotlight Revue Folk Scngs ok Hymn Program Grimm's Daughter In_Hollywood A Woman's Ey Home Council . Afternoon Rhythms Between [U. 5. Navy Band Talk It Over Biee Vouss Ma Perkins Vic and The O'Neills Radioland Orch. |Club Matinee Torenzo Jones Piano Recital Syncopstions e Guiding | Light Texas Jim Lewis News Bull Wi Lucille and Lanny Escorts and Betty Singing Even'g Star Flashes| 5858 R8RS &Y Don Jackie Top Hatters Home Folks Frolic Winslow Heller A W-hn:n'. Sports D Bob Byion Dictators Pla; Col. Jack Major Pop Cancert U. 5. Army Band Warnow has deserted the piano. Pe- regime is, oddly enough, Benny Goode % ter Van Steeden and Hariy Salter have abandoned the violin. 353 Tea Time Lowall > New: 4 Sundown Revue Rural Reporter ~[Washboard Biues Black and White Cocktail, Capers < Evening Rhythms Feur Stars News—Sports Geerge Hall's Or. have to be built specially for her, would have two keyboards to operate the two instruments. o Two From Stage. JXLEANOR LYNN and Phyllis Welch, “7two Broadway stage actresses, have been signed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for film work. Miss Lynn flew to Hollywood from New York last week to make a screen test which today resulted in her con- tract. She was found by Metro-Gold- wyn-Mayer talent scouts last year while appearing in “The Golden Jour- ney,” & Shubert production, but re- fused to enter pictures at the time. She has been seen on Broadway in “The Good Earth,” “Bridal Quilt” and “Come, Angel Band,” besides “The Golden Journey.” Msis Welch, one of the newer act- resses of the Theater Guild, will report at Metro-@Goldwyn-Mayer in October, following completion of present stage contracts. Role for Glenda. GLENDA FARRELL, borrowed from Warner Bros, will play one of the important leads in “A Love Like That,” soon to go into production at R-K-O Radio, with Barbara Stan- wyck and Herbert Marshall co-star- ring. Edward Kaufman will produce and Al Santell direct. In addition to & number of Eng- lish films, Miss Farrell's more recent pictures include “Adventurous Blonde,” “Here Comes Carter,” “Flyaway Baby” and “Dance, Charlie, Dance.” “A Love Like That” written by David Garth and adapted to the screen by Charles Kaufman, places Barbara Stanwyck in the role of a millionaire oil man's daughter seeking to transform her playboy sweetheart Into a worker. Rochelle to Star. ROCHELLE HUDSON has been borrowed from Twentieth Cen- tury-Fox to star in R-K-O Radio’s new gridiron feature, ‘“Saturday’s Heroes.” Opposite the brunette star will be Van Heflin, youthful ®ading man who, in this picture, will get his biggest screen opportunity to date. Miss Hudson, whose beauty and ability have made her an outstanding screen figure, last appeared in “Born Reckless.” Among her other recent film successes were “Reunion,” with the famous Dionne quintuplets; “She Had to Eat,” “That I May Live” and “Woman Wise.” % The cast of “Saturday's Heroes,” an original story by George Templeton, also will include Richard Lane, George Irving, Frank Jenks, Walter Miller, Paul Guilfoyle, Alan Bruce, Crawford Weaver, Dick Hogan, Bob Hatch, Wister Clark and Jean Garrick. 3.Alarm Broadcaster. ANDR.I BARUCH, who has to be down at the studios early in the morning for a 7:30 news broadcast, calls up the C. B. S. press department every evening to remind the night man to phone him next morning at 6. Besides the phone call, Andre has two alarm clocks set for 6—just in case the telephone’s tinkle should fail in its duty. DETERMINED. ‘Wayne Morris is a very determined young actor. He has already seen hic latest plcture, “Kid Galahad,” 13 times in an effort to discover er- Jors in acting—end hopes to rectify them ¢n his next film. the day. Her method of timing, due to long experience, is to clock by stopwatch | the top and bottom of each page, the | script pages running on an average of one a minute. The average "G-ng’ Busters” script runs approximately 28 | pages from start to finish. On a par- ticula difficult show 10-second tim ings are taken, but this is an excep- | | tion. It is Gwen's proud boast that the | program has always, since its' incep- | | tion, gone off the air “on the nose.’ | even during the hectic Merle Van- | denbush case when it was not possible | to time the script at all, due to the hurried substitution of new material because of its timeliness. | INYE MAYHEW, whose band now |+ ¥ plays three times weekly over the | Mutual Broadcasting System from the | Glen Island Casino, was born on a stock farm near Medaryville, Ind. May 17, 1903. He is French (Norman) on his father's side, that branch of the family having first settled at Martha's Vineyard, Mass. His mother’s parents were Scotch of the prominent | Nye (this accounts for his first name) | family which settled also in New Eng- | advertising man Welcoming Committee ior a decade, and he greets distinguished guests and artists as though he were born to the job. That's not surpnsing, since he was, in more ways than one, born to a task which requires a maxie mum of worldly tact and affability. Born in Paris, the son of a Spanish diplmnat stationed in London, Ale monte grew up in England and on the Continent. A visit to America turned into a period of years of work in this country as a journalist and After working for to Siuth to England as a telegraph come the Marconi Co. he went America and again representative of pany. Almonte’s international background | bore fruit sbon after he joined N. B, C. as & member of the sales depart- ment. In common with other mem- bers of the sales staff, he spent an evening now and then acting as N, B. C’s official welcomer. Liking the work, he volunteered to take the place of his fellow workers, and soon showed that he had special talents for the job. It wasn't long before he was night sales representative, then night general manager and, finally, night executive, DDLY enough, Andre Kos- telanetz often becomes most irritated with his musicians when they are paying him the greatest compliment a conductor can achieve—giving him their undi- | vided attention. Those are the times | when Kostelanetz doesn’t want their undivided attention: when he doesn't want their attention at all. If he steps down from the conductor’s stand while the men are rehearsing their program, and if he goes into l’ far corner of the hall, it is because he wants to hear his orchestra's music | just as the radio audience will hear it. But instead of regarding him as an audience his men never take their eyes from him. Since Kosty possesses | an expressive face and has the nervous | habit of using his hands to follow a score even when he's not on the podium, the net effect is much the same as it would be if Kostelanetz had never left the director's stand. leaves the stand, this time to go into the glass-incased control room in the playhouse to hear how the music will sound as it comes over the air. Again | his musicians are unable to take their [\ " PHILCO SALES AND SERVICE L.S.JULLIEN. 7. 1443 P St.N.W. N0.8076 Careful Attention to Your Car Cuts “Let me care for all of your automobile needs.” Dave Morris AutoService 1529 M ST. N.W. ME. 1230 The same result ensues when he |- Kostelanetz Is Unable to Listen To Own Orchestra From Audience eyes off him and to follow the motions of the substitute conductor. They gauge their playing by Koatelanetz's expressions and gestures behind the glass cage, And again, Kosty's out- look on the music can hardly be said to be impersonal. 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