Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-09-05
For RadioL listeners ,,:;I; :.
BY Ben Kaplan.

Terry is supposed to play his
harmonica.
This works out very well for
Michael because. since he has no
speaking lines, he doesn't have to
join AFRA. and since the Musi-
clans Union does not recognize the
harmonica as a musical instrument,
he does not even need card in
Local 802.
INSIDE THE AIRSIDE: Holly
wood stars auditioning for new
radio shows include Janet Gaynor,
Lloyd Nolan, Claire Trevor and Roy
| Rogers Paul Whiteman and his
orchestra may furnish the music
on Duffys Tavern when the comedy
show resumes in the fall :. An ad
agency is trying to sell Orson Welles
as radio comic CHS is plan
ming to test mystery serial on it's
daytime schedule Metropolitan
Additions of the Air begins its ninth
consecutive season November 81 :. :.
Another juicy plum falls in the lap
OF Lud Gluskin, maestro on the
Astor-Ruggles-A uer opus He'll
baton the music for Amos n Andy
when they return to the air -. 1t
looks as though Bob Hope will be in
| Sicily when his program returns to
the air, and that Vera Vague and
Jerry Colonna will take over the
program with Well-known guests
until his return. ... ..
Looks as if Shirley Mitchell. the
| Fred Brady comedy foil, Veronica"
will be seen on the screen next WIN
ter :. A major movie lot is ready
| ing a test for her =. The Landt
Trio has hidden farewell to fellow
worker for the third time in as
many weeks :. First it was organist
Fred Feibel, who passed his Army
physical; then piano accompanies
Curley Mahr, who left to take job
in a West Coast defense plant, and
now the trio's press agent, Harry
Feeney, has left to join the colors
i. Vicki VIOLA, who portrays the
secretary in Mr.. District Attorney,
has been written out of the program
for two weeks while an appended
tony is performed John B.
Hughes has been signed for an i'm
portant role in the forthcoming film
/ biography of the life of George
GerShwin . . Ginny Simms is au-
thoring book of tales told her by
seIvicemen who have appeared on
her program For the first time,
Town Meeting will do trans
Atlantic two-way program with part
OF the audience in London and the
rest in NYC's Town Hall There
will be two airings of this kind. first
OF which will be heard September 80
-. A national magazine asked Bea
VAIN OF the Hit Parade programs to
write piece on how it feels to CO.
star on the same program with
FRANK Slnatra -. She turned it
down, saying there's only one man
with whom she'd like to be on the
same program-her husband, Capt.
Andre Baruch, former announcer.
OF MIKES AND MEN: Last
year Orson Welles asked John Mes
bits permission to air a Passing
Parade original called That's Why
l Lett You" When Welles got
around to payment, Nesbitt refused,
stating he'd rather be paid off in
Beethoven records, in fact would
like all available ones d. The I'M
suspectlng genius said okay, but de-
nvered anyway, even after discov-
erlng there were more than 80 al
buns of Beethoven's works on the
market James Monks and
Stefan Schnabel. radio actors. have
been signed for the Theater Guilds
Fall production of Shakespeare
'Othello" >. Monks plays Cassie
and Schnabel is to be Iago.
released by the Bell Syndicate, Incl .,