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sponsor combines his experience and
the experience Of others with whole
lot Of luck-and sometimes he has a
program that the public really likes
Which brings US to a heated argu-
ment that Is constantly going on
backstage in radio. What sort Of mu-
sic does the public really want. Some
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radio producers play safe and their
| programs feature the honey" tunes
of Stephen Foster and like composers.
Others 60 conservatively highbrow
with Wagner, Beethoven, Liszt, ct al.
and that's playing very, very safe!
| This Winter, however, we're likely
to hear some really revolutionary
music. Not only the modern COM
positions Of Stravinski, Debussy,
Ravel and others, but the ultra mod
ern works of composers whose names
baf1e both my spelling and pronun-
citation.
The sponsors Of that Sunday night
at symphony concert an N.
B. C. offering-may do quite a bit
of pioneering in testing public tastes.
The very fact that Ivor Stravinski
| will be guest conductor on the
series is evidence of a broad outlook
on the part of the sponsors.
Perhaps there will be some real
musical adventures on the air this
season-and, naturally, few mis-
| adventures.
COME people have all the luck .
- and most of it bad.
Take the case of Vera Brod-
sky, a very clever and talented pian-
ist. You probably heard her with
her partner, Harold Triggs, on that
Sunday night symphony concert a
few weeks ago. Miss Brodsky had
been i'll for two weeks before the con-
cert, but insisted on playing. The
| night of the broadcast her fever ran
above 102, but she played and played
well. Next day came pneumonia and
she only passed the crisis a little
| over q week ago.
The girl has had jinx after her
for a long time. Last year when she
and Triggs played Radio City Music
Hall, a bad case of grippe almost
turned into pneumonia. A few years
back, scheduled to play with the Roth
Quartet in Paris, she missed a train
and had to take a plane through one
| of the worst storms of the season in
| order to keep her date with the
Roths.
She's trouper.
VARIETY is conducting poll to de-
Y termine the 10 most popular
commercial programs Won
der who'll supply the material for
Bea Lilies broadcast? Too bad
Noel Coward isn't available :.
One reason the Benny broadcasts are
so pleasing is, I believe, because the
performers have so much fun per-
forming And one reason Vallee
has been such a success Is, think,
because he is ready to work long
and hard with every person appear
ing on his program. And any one
who has ever worked with Vallee
will tell you he's swell guy. He
hates stupidity.
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DEGGIE CHILDS is off shortly with
n his orchestra for 20-week tour
of the Midwest Bog Grant
and his band leaves the first week
in January for Miami Vincent
Lopez due back in New York in jan
uary. He concluded his st. Louis
engagement yesterday and stops of
in Chicago on the way home to play
| for deb parties Charles Previn
celebrates the second year Of his
present commercial January Is :.
Joe Haynes and his orchestra are
playing for the McAlpin's new series
of celebrity nights Joe Reich
man Is playing at the Statler In Bos-
ton Allen Leafer has been
signed indefinitely at the Brass Rail.
He broadcasts from that spot twice
weekly over G. B. s. net New
ell Chase, accompanist for Grace
Hayes and Neville Fleeson, has formed
song writing team. Lennie Hay
ton will be leaving New York the
last of January to 60 to the coast.
| The reason why Is that for the last
four years he's been spending his
birthday anniversary with the Bing
Crosbys and it's habit he doesn't
want to break =. Henry King has been
forced to part with the services Of
his songstress, Eleanor Talcott; her
family objected to the professional
spotlight for her Oscar Brad
ley's orchestra and VIII Rogers begin
another f1ve-week session tomorrow
Isham Jones and his orchestra
will have Virginia Rae, the Olive
Palmer of other days, as guest star
on their Christmas night program
Buddy Wagner's orchestra, play
| ing at the New Stork Club, and heard
thrice q week over the A. B. s. net
work, has taken "Samba," adapted
from native music heard in the in
terror of South America, for its radio
signature.
lTATE SMITH is doing q Gus Ed
n wards. The good lady is going
out into the highways and byways
and garnering talent for her pro-
posed New-Star Revue which she's
launching Christmas eve. The New
Star Revue is part and parcel of an
impressive array of holiday air en-
tertainment N. 3. G. brings in
ternational programs from Switzer-
land, Berlin, England, Rome and
Warsaw ;. c. B. s. goes abroad, too,
for part Of its Christmas programs,
and here at home there Is to be an
elaborate pattern Of symphony and
choir music, and programs featuring
some Of radios favorite bright plan
cts A. B. S. specializes in choir
music and carols. One Of the features
of its Christmas schedule will be the
broadcasting of "a special Christmas
program by the National Capitol
Choir from the National Press Club
Christmas Eve party at Washing