Evening star., 1936-08-23

some OF tne CrleQ ana True arLlStS from
the talent roster for the new season in
the immediate offing.
Where, oh, where for instance, are
the names Of Lawrence Tibbett, John
Charles Thomas, Gladys Swarthout
and Helen Jepson? Not on a radio
contract as yet. Nor have definite
broadcast plans been made for Conrad
Thibault, James Melton and Donald
Novis. Bob Hope may even be too pre-
occupied with his coming stage show
that he will have to forego microphone
chores. Yet so far as comedy goes,
humor is due to ride high on the Fall
air shows. Phil Baker bows back at
c. B. S. September 81 in the Sunday
spot he held last year. Fred Allen and
the Mrs. lock the door on their Old
Orchard cottage in Maine and come
back to Manhattan to resume at N.
B. c. October Z. Ten days later the
listeners will learn how Jack Benny
plans to fill the Schlepperman spot
vacated when Sam Hearn teamed up
with Show Boat" tie other night.
YOU may also take heart from news
that Jane Fromsn will be the song
bird on the new Ed Wynn show and
that Helen Hayes will stick to con-
tinued drama when she returns Sep
tember 20. Even if you usually turn
thumbs down on following the week
to-week adventures which clutter up
many morning and afternoon broad
cast spots you'll surely agree that a
continued sequence affords Miss Hayes
the best possible chance to work up the
type Of characterization at which she
excels, just as legitimate drama pro-
vides the same opportunity during a
lengthy stage run. And, speaking of
drama, the gaslight melodramas from
Carnegie Hall contribute bit of nice
pointed satire on some of the other
dramatic shows of the air-many of
them as "hammy" as the new Sunday
night show itself, though with no con-
scious effort in that direction.
Television would undoubtedly be an
aid to handsome young broadcaster
like Carveth Wells, but apparently he's
doing all right without it, too. Ex-
plorer Wells steps up to the micro
phone next month in behalf of the
wares Of an oil company -. Harry
Frankel. resuming the role of Singin'
Sam, gets Monday and Friday COM
mercial September 4 on N. B. C.'s blue
network Another adventurer,
Talbot Mundy. is penning the new
Jack Armstrong show, which gets un-
der way on the red network late this
month.
WALTER WINCHELL bows in and
Cornelia Otis Skinner, bows out
on that Sunday night spot September
6. New York Town" echoes again
beginning September IL, via WIZ :.
So does Bob Ripley October in COM
pany with Ozzie Nelson's Orchestra
again Warden E. Lawes' Sing
Sing narration shifts to a Monday
s:3e spot when he resumes October
on N. B. C.'s blue network :. Mary
Martins first radio date of the season
is September IA. when she moves over
to N. B. C.-WEAF to air daily at 1915
pm. Death Valley Days" moves
over to a Friday N. B. C.-WJZ spot.
Margaret Speaks will sail on the
Normandie September 2 for some con-
cert dates before she returns to that
Monday N. 3. C.-WEAF series the first
week in October to alternate with
Richard Crooks as soloist Jeannine
Macy is back at WLW after the ar
rival of Thomas Edward Richley, jr.,
last Spring Another standby Of
that station, Ray Perkins, winds up
for the season on September %. He's
airing a quarter of an hour earlier
than usual these days, incidentally.