Evening star., 1935-12-08

hot brass, Dut gettlng the CAP CaHo-S
way effect across by means Of plucking
the strings Of his violin That instru-
ment, by the way, was Caruso's gift to
the young musician, when as a violin
virtuoSo Of II, Madriguera toured
America shortly after he came over
from Spain.
Jacques Renard, Leonard Keller and
Richard Himber are playing their own
fiddles this season, too. Hal Kemp,
the leader who went on strike the
other night and refused to let his
orchestra go on unless it was heard
on the whole mutual network, did bow
In on that complete hook-up last week.
Other big-name bands who have Just
returned include Anson Weeks and
Kay Kyser's. The orchestra of Joe
Haynes, former C. B. S. bandsman. is
now under N. B. C.'s wing and is slated
for an early comeback.
A LII the recent changes on that
= Friday night Beauty Box Theater
show may result in the program going
dramatic instead Of musical, or at
least provide for airing some dramatic
bills instead of all-musical entertain
ment. Marion Davies recent guest
star engagement was in line with the
experimental policy by which the
sponsor is trying TO find out just what
the audience would like TO hear.
Meanwhile, James Melton and Rose
hampton are due back in the show
next week. But Jane Froman, just
back from a Bermuda vacation, will
not return to the cast.
Another sustaining bill will be
showed into N. B. CT Sunday 3 pm. red
network spot today while awaiting
decision regarding paint concerns
proposed airing Of Metropolitan Opera
talent additions. The network re-
fuses to sell the hour to another
sponsor yet, preferring to wait and
see what the legal decision regarding
the show will be.
To date, the same broadcasting
outfit has found no sponsor for the
airing of the Saturday afternoon
operas, which begin December 81. But
the 14-week season will be made
available to the radio audience Just
the same.
Nor will there be a commercial
sponsor for the airing of the Olympic
games from Berlin next season E.
not that there wouldn't be plenty of
folks eager to pay the bills. Both
N. B. C. and Columbia will air the
Olympics, but both networks have
turned thumbs down on commercial
izing the events.
The latter network is looking around
for a sponsor for the Riley-Farley
Band now being heard on a sustaining
show with Ella Logan as vocalist
and the boys of the blue network are
on the lookout for a new show for
Elsie Hitz and Nick Dawson now that
Dangerous Paradise" is winding up
its adventures.
7 ENNTE HAYTON, who confdes
that he answers to the nickname
Of Shranny, is still trying TO make up
his mind between two proffered Sat-
urday night shows. Plan to tune
in on the comedy serial, Nine to
Five" when it makes its N. B. c.
network bow December l9 at 7:15
pm. if for no other reason than
that it brings Jack Smart and Parker
Fennelly together. The shows
bills will be paid by a typewriter out
fit bent on clarifying the American
sfarOOror6ar Tod c
N. B. c. Monday night show bills
Allan Kearns and Aunt Jemima (Tess
GardelD. =. Frank Mum celebrates
his twelfth year on the air this week
and who wouldn't. the average
network life of a radio star being the
brief thing it is?
While John Barrymore was signing
| up to Go Napoleon's barber on Wallace
Beery's Chateau show Saturday, his
pursuer on that recent tranScontinen-
tai junket, Elaine Barrie, has been
stepping up to a Boston microphone
:. Another Barrymore. Lionel, who
has a f1ve-year contract to play in
Dickens Christmas Carol" for Co.
lumbia, has a radio rival in Sir Sey-
mour Hicks, British actor, whom N.
B. c. will present from London in the
same role on Christmas Eve. Lionel,
by the way. is the most air-minded
of all the screen and stage folk. He
positively haunts the studios, never
missing broadcast of Hollywood Ho-
TEL on which you have heard him.
GOOD business move, the adoption
of Leslie Howard. jr., as the stage
name of Leslie Howard's young
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