The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1942-02-21
'Sweethearts' Quit School to Find Rightful Place
TOURIN' THE
RADIO WORLD
BY ISAAC JONES
De, clipping Snapshots Here And
There In Radio

As We set-up our camera in the
radio world To bring you pie
lures OF happenings here sud there
=. il is Friday =. the Eth. ! have
had my bad luck already =. placed
my carbon paper in the typewriteg
wrong Instead OF making a
carbon copy produced TWO
copies on the same sheet dis
ca, cred it after doing half o! this
column results ~. had 10 type
II all over again. 50 here are the
pictures for the week
FATS WALLER the piano
composer became an important fac
tor in l'ncle Sans effort, 10 lick
the Jsps. Germans and Italians
he Is recording for defense. His
latest Bluebird recording was Just
released according TO reports. The
title OF the song is Cash FOR Cash =
and Is recorded in an about swing
groove.
Remember The Voice 81 Expert
ence that used 10 come lnta
your loud speaker over the Mutual
network over CkLW! Well. you
will not hear his voice again he
fell dead on n downtown street in
Holly wood. talli.. last week. The
Voice Of Experience had not been
heard over n cOast.t0-c0ast hOok-up
for several years, hut had been
broadcasting over local network
In the west. He i said 10 have Civ
en- thousands OF dollars for charity
~ help others. The Voice oi Ex-
perlence was - years of age.
Now. here is Believe II or Not
about Robert Ripley the man
who created the famous cartoon
bearing the above name. Ripley
owns five automobiles never
has learned 10 drive. Draws all the
pictures for his cartoons bottoms
up first and was born on
Christmas Day.
HORACE HENDERSON .
younger brother Of Fletcher Hen.
derson. Joined Benny Goodman~
orchestra this week. The younger
Henderson j. termed a n talented
piani>t-arranger. He has been busy
writing several specials for The
liking OF Swing" Liza 81 Don't
Want 10 Walk without You" l. one
of the new crops produced by Hen
ders0n.
DO you get tired OF hearing the
same old story over and over again
from the various neNS commenia
tors about The war? If SO. tune 10
Boake Carriers broadcast . heard
over station NXYZ As to :
pm. Monday through Friday. Nj.
Carers broadcast would be termed
as something different Instead OF
devotng all his time TO talk about
( the war he gives some out
standing facts about the history Of
the country or people. Here's few
lines quoted from his broadcast a
few DAYS ago.
Eighty per cent of the worlds
tea supply come from the vicinity
oi Singapore. Four million persons
are employed cultl,ating the tea
in speaking OF the one hunder
and nifty million doilas that
President Roosevelt asked Com
gress for war purposes f. Boake
Carter analyzed the amount Ike
this III the properly of nine
cities the siz eof New York CITY
was sold F. Il would not amount
10 that much. All the gold that has
been mined since Columbus dis
covered America d. would MOI
amount to sl50O00 eco 600.
Are Jon q LINN and Abner fan!
Well. II so. and yon uould like 10
listen 10 the old Arkansas boys
twice a day four days week
-. You may tune 10 Wills +.
Port Huron. Mich. 1890 pm.
-. and hear them again over
NXiZ ut q :3a pm.
You will note that your column
is written in new style this
week II you prefer this style
drop me post card and LOT me-
know. NV address is 575 East Co
lumbia street.
MRS. MARIE JONES -. (wlie 81
yours truly will appear on WJl.B
Friday night. Feb. 20 At 1O:30 PM.