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being natural Perfect example
of how much fun there is in music is
Fred Warnings hilarious song about the
boy who could only sing on one note.
1t was literally musical comedy =.
Columbia put one Of the better known
girls of the Junior League on the air
recently to describe the social register
ties at Saratoga's track. I don't think
the rank and file of radio folks need
worry about competition from Park
avenue if that young lady's micro
phone efforts we're an example.
p ADIO-or perhaps, Winchell-is
responsible for the prostitution of
the most hair-raising word ever heard
in a newspaper office. That work is
flash"
Originally, the word fash was used
on the Associated Press wires to warn
the receiving operator Of news of
extra edition importance. For exam
pie: President Harding died. Came
Flash. Harding Dead" On the paper
1 happened to be working at the time,
there was an extra on the streets l3
minuts after that galvani1ng flash.
Flash meant news of such importance
that everything else was forgotten. If
an important fight was being described
via leased wires, the account of the
fight was usually round behind the
actual fight. Hence, a blow-by
description of the tenth round might
be interrupted by Flash: Marlarkey
Wins in Twelfth" Alas, the term
flash has been lifted by certain writers
terms news of terrific unimportance."
COLUMBIA has barber shop quar-
tet contest scheduled for Sep
tember 10 Alfred w. McCann,
jr, returns to WOR's air September
9. Short description of the movie
chatterer on Hollywood Hotel!-a
character study for Cornelia Otis
Skinner log, Son of Fire" q very
good kid show, returns to c. B. S.
Septmber 80 =. And Johnny Battle
is back from Florida to continue his
job of writing about Bobbie Benson
.. Nina TaraSova, c. B. S. singer
you can hear at 4:45 o'clock Mon
day afternoon, is worth hearing. Dial
WABC Charles Ruggles will be
starred in "Whistling in the Dark
on the Radio Theater from C. B. S.
on Monday night September ~ ...
H. v. Kaltenborn is back from Europe
and will be on Columbia next Friday
night (September g. -. Clap hands
for N. B. c. Teaming May Singh
Breen, Peter de Rose and Andy San
nella in morning program called
Calling All Sweethearts." It isn't
sophisticated program, but the lis
teners love 1t Maybe you'll be
hearing the very pleasing voice OF
Kelvin Keech on c. B. S. now that he
has left N. B. c. to become a free
lance announcer. He's one Of the
best Gertrude Berg has another
script show slated for production for
a soap sponsor this Fall. There will
be music by Billy Artz and his or
chestra Red Nichols and his
band playing vaudeville this week
Harry Horlick plans to present some
more guest performers with his Gyp-
sizes later this season. Only he'll offer
instrumental soloistS rather than vo-
calistS, and 1t is about time.
EVERETT MARSHALL may follow
Fred Astaire on Lennie Haytons
Hit Parade" =. Jack Benny will be
back on N. B. c. September 20
And Sigmund Romberg's very good
series will start its second season Sep
tember 10 Though Kate Smith
will be heard three times a week when
her new series starts in October, her
contract gives her sponsor the right
to present her six days a week II he
so decides. And he may decide to do
just that :. Not since They Needed
a Songbird in Heaven So God Took
Caruso Away has Tin Pan Alley
reached the depths of maudlin Senti-
mentality exemplif1ed in a current
ballad entitled There's a Vacant
Chair for Will Rogers in Every Home
Tonight"
FN@AN~'AS6 n SS<A44eASf N&4O o14A6S WC4ls
owns a ranch she has never seen.
Her folks saw it, liked it and advised
her to buy it. She did Clifford
DAILY of the Happy-Go-Lucky Boys is
sans tonsils Ford Bond is plan
ming to broadcast the reactions Of a
passenger in a Stunting plane. If
Ford can do more than grunt when a
fast plane is in tight power spin or
during q series Of loops, he's a man
Of iron. Maybe he can-and I'll be
listenin' o.. Igor Gorin is a singing
star of Hollywood Hotel" but he's
just a little boy in speech. In this
country less than a year. studying
English constantly, he is now proudly
romping through the fifth reader! D..
A program teaming Victor Moore with
Ethel Shutta and George Olsen is
available for sponsorship "The
ONeill's" now a vaudeville act. This
series returns to the air in mid-Sep-
tember Johnny Green leaves for
the coast September Barry Nc
Klnley, the young baritone, may get
his chance in Hollywood Jack
Johnstone, who writes Buck Rogers"
is planning a plane trip into the
stratosphere to get some more ideas