Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-08-29
or Radio Listeners
By Ben KabIan.

SHORN FOR GLORY: Paul
Whiteman has worn a mustache for
Is years, man and boy! But, for the
first time in that many years. Pops
Is minus his lip-duster. He shaved II
for his role (as Paul Whiteman) in
the film, Rhapsody in Blue" the
story of George Gershwin's life, now
being filmed in Hollywood. His re-
cent mustache was too casual" too
unlike his "waxed spike" of past
days, so he will glue on an "oldie''
for the film role!
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INSIDE THE AIRSIDE: Walter
Greaza Of the Crime Doctor cast
has been signed for the leading male
role in Elmer Rices "A New Life +"
Inner Sanctum, succeeded on
the Blue by a musical program
starts a CHS schedule next Satur-
day =. The Kate Smith program.
heard last season as half-hour
series, definitely returns to a full
hour basis beginning October l
The guest policy, dropped last year,
Will be resumed Dinah Shore
co-stars with Don Ameche in the
new What's New series starting next
Saturday E. New September entry
on the airlanes is Gals a. Poppin'
starring Steve Olson and Marty Nav
It's intended as a half-hour
hve-day-a-week series It's never
too late to get sponsor After
IL years as a sustainer, Let's Pre-
tend, a juvenile series, goes COM
mercial when it returns Septem-
Der Is :. Jane Pickens is due back
in the fall as the star of her own
network series Tommy Dorsey
has fired his entire band and will
arrive in New York City next month
with those of his musicians who
wish to rejoin him to build a new
outfit . Mutual is lining up two
and a half hours of mystery shows
to compete against the musical con-
certs being offered by NBC and CHS
on Sunday afternoons . Blue Net
work has added three affiliates,
making a total of 1862 stations =.
Edgar Bergen and Charlie Nc
Carthy are back in Hollywood after
a month of camp shows for United
States and Canadian servicemen
-. They return to the air Septem-
Der ). Hunt Stromberg, United
Artists producer, is negotiating with
the mad Marx Brothers to bring
them back to the screen in a farce
comedy to be filmed in technicolor
Keepsakes, featuring Dorothy
Kristen and Mack Harrell, is the
show to replace Inner Sanctum be-
ginning September Anne
Nichols, writer of "Abie's Irish
Rose" has arrived in Gotham from
a Hollywood vacation i. &. First thing
she must do is find another Solo
mon Levy to replace Charlie Can
tor, who is now on the coast to do
a picture.
Gertrude Lawrence gets regular
weekly spot on the radio beginning
September 80 d. Present plans call
for a series of dramatic sketches
from well-known plays and movies,
with guest leading men including
Paul Lukas, Walter Pidgeon, Paul
NUM- and others :. Sidney Rez-
nick, former gagman with the Mil
ton Berle show, now is writing jokes
for the Jimmy Durante- Garry
Moore program =. Starting Oc-
tober 10, Mutual will carry the
Cleveland Symphony Orchestra . :.
Beat the Band with Hildegarde,
originally a summer replacement for
Red Skeletons show, will continue
on NBC when the comic returns to
the air, but will be heard Wednes-
days :. Janet Eberhardt, who
articulates the foghorn commercial
on the Fred Brady and Lionel
Barrymore shows, opens her mouth
but utters not a sound while form
ing the letters with her pretty lips
on the Sonovox microphones.
(Relea sed. 1913, by the Bell Syndicate, Incl