Evening star., 1943-08-08

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is going to have on the young girls
who run after unitorms?" asks
"Fearfur Mother" whose letter has
/ just arrived in your reporters bag
of mail. Perhaps this new radio
/ program is entertaining, but good
ness don't you think pa and ma are
having trouble enough now trying
to stop l5-year- -old sister from 60
ing downtown to, find a date with
out covering it with this kilocycle
cloak of respectability?'
For the benefit of those who haven't
heard Blind Date. emceed by Ar
lene Francis, let me explain that
the program, a summer replacement
for the Fanny BriceFrank Morgan
show, gives six men from the service
to three girls Three win and three
lose and the losers have an oppor-
tunity of winning from s5 to SIS
with last lines to a jingle after the
/ dating" is over. The winners get
to take their blind dates to the
Stork Club, with everything paid
/ for, including corsage.
Fearful Mother" really brings up
/ an important question here We
may shrug our shoulders and say
as one radioman did-"Its up to
/ the mothers to take care of their
| daughters Nevertheless broadcast
erS, who are so careful that neither
blue" lyrics nor comedy lines get
on the air, have duty to the Amer
ican listening public-that no pro-
gram have i'll effect upon any lis
tener's morals.
Whether Blind Date really has
I such an effect l dare not say. But
l do agree that it won't help moth
er's protestations against khaki
chasing when daughter hears it
done every Thursday night over
the air with the sanction of the
networks and the sponsor Under
the expert handling of Arlene Fran
cis-and she's the only actress in
the U. S. A. who could handle such
a program-Blind Date Is enter
tanning
Familiarity with techniques of the
worlds leading conductors is char
acteristic of the 81 members of the
orchestra conducted by Donald
Voorhees, for the Great Artist Series.
Inquiry Voorhees, made among his
men revealed the following:
Thirteen have played under WAL
ter DamroSch, II under Toscanini.
IS under Bruno Walter, six under
Sir Thomas Beecham, six under Leo
pold Stokowski and others under
l3 under Bruno Walter, 6 under
Sir Thomas Beecham, under Leo
Richard Strauss, Mengelberg, Mon
teux, Safonoff, Ravel, Henry Had
ley, Karl Muck and KousSevitzky.
Two played for John Philip Sousa
and in the brass section the boys
have played with every band from
Paul Whiteman to the present swing
kings.
Slips that pass in the mike: This
time it was the engineer at WCOS,
Columbia, S. c., who was responsible
for funny fluff. The station, carry
ing both Mutual and Blue Network
shows, got Jack Armstrong instead
OF picking up Superman as sched-
uled. The announcer caught the
mistake in time for listeners to hear
Jack Armstrong, Jack Armstrong,
| Jack Armstrong it's Super
mani"
They ought to know! The Barries.
girl trio, have made up their minds
that they are not sisters. The vo-
calists were billed by their agent as
sisters. Then they in person dis
claimed even the slightest kinship
when they premiered on the Fred
Brady Show!
Joke department.: Jimmy Du-
rante's crack on his Durante-
Moore show the other night, when
the phone rang and he answered
with, Hello! For whom does the
bell toll?"
Inside the airside II Milton
Berle can pass the physical he's
slated for Uncle Sans service
shortly Marion Claire of the
Theater of the Air returns to the
program after months vacation
Alfred Wallenstein has been
engaged as the permanent conduc-
tor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic
Orchestra ThereIl be a new
director coming up for Stage Door
Canteen Ira Ashley, who has
the job, has passed his Army physi-
cal and dons khaki soon His
successor will be Lester Vail, who
has ceen doing duty in radio and
for stage plays The Cantor
Gordon affairs have been cemented
and the Mad Russian" has been
signed by Eddie to appear on his