Evening star., 1936-07-19

III I4lC Wcck. llhL ICCOIu CfcA puIo
her own show at c. B S. Monday at
7:30, with Monsieur Vallee, her dis
coverer, on hand to give her send-of
for the series for Thornton Fisher,
back at N. B. C.-WEAF Saturdays,
7:45 pm, and DR.. Frederick K. STAN.
who gets back at the same micro
phone August 2.
At long last some of the really big
time sponsors have learned that the
dialers prefer good transcription.
program to an ordinary show put on
by live talent. Witness the success Of
WNYC's Operate Matinee" . and
now Bob Crosby's new series for the
same fellow who sponsors the Fred
Waring show .. Meanwhile, though,
Warnings sponsor is finding it neces-
sary TO rush in two orcheStraS to do
the vacation pinch-hitting for War
ing with B. A. Rolfe doing the
N. B. C. stint, on which Richard Bo-
nelli handles the solos, and Jimmy
Dorsey taking over the C. B. S. pro-
gram Waring departs from the
air waves the last of the month and
won't be back until September /.
There's another sensible move atoot,
but it's going to take the co-opera-
ton of the listeners to put it across.
It's up to you whether or not your
favorite entertainer has a chance TO
be heard on C. B. SIS new "Tomor-
rows Headliners" show-all 1t takes
being the effort to sit down and write
letter, saying whom you'd like to
hear Meanwhile WOR Is hauling
some former favoriteS back from
limbo to feature them on that Re
turn Engagement" hour Tuesdays.
$50.
You're indebted to WJSv for the
laughs on WABC-C. B. SIS new show
featuring Prof Quiz and his Brain
Busters these Saturday nights
That's where the program started
out Even A. L. Alexander can't
entirely gloss over the notion that
those Good Will Court" stanzas
would make better listening If more
of the cases were concerned with
problems with a capital P, instead
of so many trivialities.
Back to preparations for Fall, word
goes around that another cleanup
campaign will be directed toward the
broadcasters that the Revelers
have signed for a commercial series
and, you can be sure, without
awaiting word from any one, that
Irving Refs will blaze some new radio
trails in his new Workshop" drama
series at c. B. s.. in which he prom
ises to stage some experiments with
the aid of new writer's and new dra-
matte talent.
WONDER If the mantle worn so
long and so gracefully by that
well-loved minister of the air, DR.. S.
ParkeS Cadman, may not succeed to
DR.. Charles L. Goodell, Shepherd of
the Air." whom you hear these Sum-
mer Sundays -. if Paul MaSikonsky,
1l-year-old violinist. who takes the
spotlight as Yehudi Menuhin goes into
two-year retirement, won't be net
worked to radio as well as platform
renown . And while we're on the
subject of things musical, don't for
get that the splendid Chautauqua
series gets off to its Summer start
via N. B. c.-WEAF today at 8 -.
and that the "Cavalcade of America
is doing an excellent job in its Mid
summer task of delving into the musi-
cal history of this country.
Guest bits are due from Ethel
Waters, whose blue songs will be
backed up by Bernie and his lads on
Tuesday night .. Wallace Beery and
Stuart Erwin, who revive villa" Mon
day night for c. B. S. Radio Theater"
=. A little later in the month, July
%, to be exact, your regular radio fare
will be augmented by a program whose
star could scarcely be catalogued as
guest talent, yet will probably draw
thousands and thousands of dialers
The ceremonies at which King Edward
will speak at the unveiling of the
Canadian War Memorial at Vimy
Ridge, in France.
Kenny Baker is making the rounds
in vaudeville Jane Froman has
stepped out of the Big Broadcast"
movie and Shirley Ross has stepped
in Carmella Ponselle is producing
folk operas at the Portland County
Playhouse while she's vacationing up
in Maine Frank Black is tearing
out from the studio three or four
nights a week to check up on work
on his new farm house in the Pennsyl-
vania hills.
Tim Ryan, stepping up to the micro
phone these Sunday nights. fatty re-
fuses to don his toupee . Wonder
why Willie Morris is going in ~ w
jitsu over at the r. C. 4. gyxi II
Amos n Andy will make up their
minds to tour and to do a stand at
the San Diego Exposition Tenth
tive plans have them flying over the
circuit with Andy at the controls -.
Wonder If Gertrude Michael won't rate
Fall radio commercial.