The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-21

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lem program, tried out in recorded
form last week, is to be given a
Live" presentation tonight at
$3.50 over the Mutual network.
VXTHEN Joe Louis knocked out
w Charley Retzlaff Friday
night. he also knocked out lot
of radio plans and made the WIZ
broadcast confusing, both to lis
teners and announcers. To begin
with, the sponsor had paid more
than $4,000 for radio time alone,
and was planning on getting in at
least a couple of commercial an
nouncements between rounds.
Announcer Glen McCarthy's
reputation wasn't boosted when he
failed to see that Retzlaff had
gone down and reported that he
merely had fallen. The ANNOUNCE
er's task was difficult after the
Knockout, with seven or eight min
utes Of radio time to fill, even after
he spent some time getting the
voices Of both fighters on the air.
An organ was playing in the audi
forum, but when the announcer
tried picking up little of that,
the station Immediately sent or
ders to stop the music. Some of
the numbers might be restricted.
To add to the confusion, one Of
the parties in the fight after the
Louis-Retzlaff battle" was named
Lewis, which sounded Just like
Louis over the microphone. This
added final confusing touch to
an already mixed up broadcast.
Autograph hunters find the go
ing harder at Columbia than at
the NBC studios. In Radio City,
NBC headquarters, spectators
watch the broadcasts and then
rush past the microphone, note
books ready, to plead for sigma
lures. Columbia uses Times
Square theaters for its broadcasts,
where autograph seekers would
have to climb up OF a stage TO
corner their prey. Since that is
impossible, they wait for their
prey at the stage doors.
AIHETHER she dances Or just
w sings and acts, Eleanor Pow
ell always wears trousers for her
broadcasts. Her costume has
varied on only one OCCASION, when
the evening program called for
crinolines. Miss Powell obliged
Ray Noble is showing this fan
note to his broadcasting col
leagues. 1t reads: "My boy
friend dances better to your music
than to any other orchestra's.
Can't you please arrange to play
more than half hour each
wednesday?
Amateur detectives get big
play when John HiX's Strange as
Tt Seems" broadcast is heard from
WIRE at 6:45 tonight. THE Man
Who Solved His Own Crime" is
said to be one of the outstanding
oddities yet unearthed for this
series.
CHE didn't like him the first
~ time she saw him, and he felt
the same way about her.
The second time, she thought
he was nice fellow" but just
another ham actor"
She changed her mind seven
times in. the week before they
finally were married
That, in short, is the story of
the romance of Jack Benny and
Mary Livingstone. who celebrated
their ninth wedding anniversary
last week. Despite the inauspi-
cious beginning, the comedian and
his most persistent heckler con-
stitute one of radios happiest
couples.
1t took some years for Mary to
overcome her keen dislike for show
business and become part of Jacks
act. Her ambition was to become
a housewife. Instead, she found
herself living out of a suitcase in
Pullmans and hotel rooms, while
her husband trouped across the
country.
Jacks entrance on the radio
scene meant more to Mary than
the chance to become a popular
star in her own right. It has Civ
en- her chance to settle down in
the permanent home to which she
has always aSpired.
That ubiquitous mCrsel. "The
Music Goes Round and Around"
has been dressed up again, this
time by Lud Gluskin and his or
chestra, who are to play il in the
styles of Beethoven, Wagner and
List on their WABC- Columbia
broadcast at $3.50 tonight.
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Beginning tonight. Jimmie Fid-
Ter is to bring his Hollywood Cos
sip through MICS WEAF net
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