Evening star., 1931-12-13
T the height of the season
for selecting "all-Ameri- l.

A the height or the season
| ~ for selecting "all-Ameri-
IA cans" of one type or an
other, an "all-American
radio team" has Just been chosen
In a compilation undertaken by
Jack Foster, radio editor of the
New York World Telegram.
Foster sent out a QUESTIONABLE
to his confreres throughout the
country and received 1872 answers.
Included in the QUESTIONABLE
were items relating not only to
performers and programs, but to
news broadcasts of this and other
| years.
The first 20 questions asked of
the radio reviewers gave the ALI"
team for entertainers, orches-
traS and announcerS. The win
ners in the various groupings fol-
low:
Dance orchestra-Guy Lom-
bardos.
Symphony orchestra-Philadel-
phia Symphony.
Male singer of popular songs
morton DoWney.
Female singer of popular songs
Kate Smith.
Male singer of classical or semi
classical songs-James Melton.
Female singer of classical or
semi classical songs - Jessica
Dragonette.
Feminine harmony team-Bos-
we'll Sisters.
Male harmony team-Revelers
Dialogue act-Amos n Andy.
Master of ceremonies - Ben
Bernie.
Sports announcer-Ted Husing.
Studio announcer Milton
Cross.
Commentator-Lowell Thomas.
OrganiSt-JesSe Crawford.
Instrumental Soloist - Toscha
Seidel.
All-dramatic program - Sher-
lock Holmes.
Musical program - Rapee Or
chestra with Virginia Rea and
Frank Mum.
Comedy act-Gloom Chasers,
the Colonel and Budd.
Children's program-Lady Next
Door.
Advice to women in the home
Ida Bailey Allen.
"MYRT AND MARGE," the new
IL flvea-week show over the
Columbia network, has one of the
largest casts in radio. Thirty
actors and musicians take part in
most of the presentations.
Myrtle Vail, authoress of the
script, plays the part of Myrt;
Donna Damerel is Marge; Ray
Hunt, the stage manager, is
played by Otis Gordinier; Vinton
HaWorth takes the role of Jack
Arnold, the leading juvenile;
Eleanor Rella, Patricia Manners,
Helen Ray and Dorothy Day take
chorus girl parts in the script
Miss Rella is the hard-boiled one,
Miss Manners takes the dumb
Patsy" role. The part of Clar-
ence Tiffingtuffer, designer, is
played by Ray Hedge.
Ray Appleby is Jimmie, Marge's
brother. Carl Way is Bill Houston,
the gangster. Aside from this
array of talent there is a 14-piece
orchestra, two Sound-effect men,
an extra pianist and Bobby
Brown, director, on whose shoul-
derS falls the task of handling
cast of this magnitude in two
productions daily, except Sat
urday and Sunday.
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! A TIDE Of fan mail increasing in
"A volume daily has forced the
Columbia Broadcasting System to
move its mail receiving room to
/ new quarters in its New York
office building, with four times the
space previously allotted to it. A
| new high record for audience mail
received in one day by any net
work was set recently when a little
more than $4,000 letters and tele-
grams were delivered.
More than 44,500 of the COM
municationS were received in the
New York office. The Audience
Mail Division has been moved
4Lolli 4IS olO QuoI VCi . W lbS pI cStI1l
quadrupled space, and in the past
few weeks the staff Of fan mail
Sorters has been increased from
three to eight.
The $4,000 count represented an
expenditure of approximately
$4,000 on the part of the senders,
for paper, envelopes and stamps.
According to the statistical de-
partment of the network, the
count was of mail received at the
Columbia Offices in New York,
Chicago, Philadelphia and Los
Angeles, and did not include any
of the almost equally large mail
addressed directly to program
sponsors.
NIHY call them hams? Far
w from being a term of oppro-
prium, that term applied to the
J army of $4,000 or more amateurs
who pursue radio -telegraphy and
adio-telephony as a sport and
hobby is one of deep-dyed affec-
ti0n and Qnnrpno tior Az, fo,,~