Evening star., 1936-08-16

Of a razor blade manufacturer
Don't believe a word you hear about
that August % show on N. B. c.
WEAF. it being your old friend Baron
Munchausen who is scheduled to ap.
pear at the microphone at pm. on
that date The orchestra is still
to be picked for the Saturday C. B. S.
show in which Ed Thorgerson, sports
commentator, will star for the watch
outfit which put Eddie Dowling and
Ray Dooley on the air last season
This series gets under way October 3
-. Sid Silvers, one-time vaudeville
stooge, will star and have a couple of
stooges himself on a radio commercial
from Hollywood :. Fred Astaire, get
ting back from Ireland and visit
with Sister Adele LADY Cavendish to
you), begins his N. B. C.-WEAF series
next month by turning piano-accor-
dion piccolo player, in addition to
tapping and vocalizing.
A hearing device outfit Is towing
with the idea Of putting Dorothea
Brande, who penned the best-seller,
Wake Up and Live" at the micro
phone for a new series. She audi
toned at Columbia the other dav
-. Paul Gerrits. the roller skater, will
keep things rolling on an air CONNER
cial if his recent addition as master of
ceremonies went as we'll as expected
Staccato-voiced Floyd Gibbons
and the smooth. insinuating rhythms
OF Guy Lombardo should make a we'll
balanced bill in that new program for
on automobile manufactu
Richard Himber may have the
solution to the unnatural death be-
setting popular tunes which now get
killed OF by weeks intensive air
ing. Himber prescribes getting a
few days exclusive rights to the
tune you plan to air, a plan which
meets the approval of dialer whose
only solution now is in switching
the dial when the hit tunes sssaiI
too frequently.
WATCH for the Good Will Court"
to get oensoring, but by the spon-
sor himself, before it takes to a
network audience. Some of its real
istic drama is too grim realism for the
school children who will still be up
and about by the time 1t hits a
Western audience. now that it gets
a coast-to-coast broadcast area.
Along with the rest of the students
the radio audience gets ready 10 go
back to school. Columbias School
of the Air" scheduling classes in
everything from vocational guidance
10 literature and foreign folk music,
gets down to business for the Fall
term on October IS -. Gabriel Heat
ter has a new series coming up at
WORM. B. S. on September 28 =.
DR.. Allan Roy Dafoe is Ethel Mermans
successor for a sponsor planning q
three-a-week airing at c. B. s., be-
ginning October S When Jack
Benny takes to the air again it
won't mean the departure Of his pre-
sent pinch-hitters. Tim Ryan and
Irene Noblette will just move over
to N. B. C.-WEAF for a different
air-time Jimmy Fidler's Holly
wood gossip will be back on coast
to-coast hookup in the Fall for
cough-drop manufacturer Red
Nichols says he may revive his famous
Five Pennies" when he takes to
the air again on a new five-a-week
commercial series.
The American radio audience will
have opportunity to hear portion of
Beethovens "Fidelio," conducted by
Arturo Toscanini, as feature OF the
Salzburg Festival via N. B. C.-WEAF
today. Special broadcasts now on
network schedules include two ad-
dresses by President Roosevelt. The
first, when he addresses the joint ses-
sion Of the third World Power Confer
ence and the second Congress on Large
Dams. will be heard on the major
stations September II. The Presi-
dents September 1S address will cli-
max the current radio series marking
Harvard University's tercentenary cele-
brstion.
Ellsworth Vines, jr., will himself
be- at the microphone for N. B. C.s
play-by-play coverage of the Forest
Hills matches September 3 to IL -.
Sophie Tucker will do the guest hon.
ors for Ben Bernie Tuesday night
Fritz Mailer, who will do the
batoning for Columbia's Chamber
Orchestra on Tuesday, is a nephew
of the distinguished Bohemian COM
poser James Thornton resur-
rects his lyrics of oscar Hammerstein's
day when he appears at the micro
phone for Grandson Ted Hammer
stein Tuesday night . :. Richard Max
we'll will urge the singers along at
that community sing show at c. B. S.
today -. When you come right down
to it, isn't it curious that sophisti-
Gated New York should be the scene
for that newest network craze. the
community sing, which smacks of
nothing so much as Sunday night
around Aunt Het's piano in the parlor?