Radio romances (July-Dec 1945)

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I * 8 Used more than all other products offered exclusively to relieve menstrual suffering 1 CRAMPSHEADACHE -BLUES <l A Product of General Drug Company (Continued from page 6) Last June 1st, The Victory Parade of Spotlight Bands reached its millionth mile of travel in Independence, Missouri— President Truman's home town. 129 different name bands have appeared on the program to date. To keep Spotlight Bands on the road requires three engineering production units working out of Hollywood, Chicago and New York, depending on the site of the broadcast. The show is put on exclusively before war workers or service men in war plants, camps and hospitals. Each crew takes along nearly half a ton of delicate broadcast equip U p-to-the-minute girl from an oldenday program — CBS' Doris McWhirt of the daily Light of the World. ment. So far, the only state in which a Spotlight Bands show hasn't been produced is North Dakota — but maybe that will be fixed up soon. ♦ * * Bing Crosby is full of ideas. One that hasn't had as much publicity as his famous race track and stables — maybe because it isn't open to as many gags — is his Research Foundation, a project which the groaner takes very seriously. He likes to help inventors put their ideas to commercial use and the Foundation is his way of doing it. Bing has invested a good deal of money in the Foundation and he admits the chance that he may never get a full return on his investment, but that doesn't bother him very much. He feels that inventors are people who generally are trying to make life a little easier and, he says, if by helping them he can contribute even a small share to making the world a better place to live in — that's reward enough for him. Maybe what we need is a great many more inventors and a few more Bing Crosby type characters. * * * Every once in a while, as you're standing around in the CBS building in New York, waiting for an elevator or talking to someone, a blond, compactly built man goes streaking by and stirring up the air behind him. One day, we tracked him down. He's Dick Liebert, baton waver for the Two On A Clue show. The racing around is due to his sideline — a music publishing firm which he set up last year. He called it "Noteworthy Music." And he runs the business each day in the 45 minutes between the broadcast of Second Husband, for which he is also the musical director, and the re hearsal for Two On A Clue. His secretary prepares in advance all documents and letters that need his attention and waits, pencil and steno-pad in hand, for him to show up for his closeclipped business session. Irene Hubbard of the A Woman of America cast has got used to relaxing now. She's had her son, Sgt. Samuel C. Monroe, home for long enough to believe that it isn't all a pleasant dream. Sam, who before the war was a member of the NBC sound effects department, was captured by the Germans during the now famous Battle of the Bulge last December. He was in five different German prison camps — sometimes worked 16 hours a day — and lost 60 pounds in the process. Thanks to Merril Mueller, NBC correspondent in the Pacific, GIs there have a new slang expression — "NBC leave." It means a three day pass to Manila and began when Mueller arranged for soldiers to come from jungle fighting lines to the capital city for broadcasts to the United States. * * * Valter Poole, conductor of Mutual's Symphony of the Americas, had a rather tough tussle to get his father to agree to let him play the violin. The first fiddle he ever owned was given to him for his sixth birthday by Point-free laughs are on the menu for listeners to Parkyakarkus, of Meet Me at Parky's. one of his father's cowhands, who carved it from a cigar box. Papa Poole was so outraged at the idea that his son wanted to be a fiddler that he smashed the toy violin. Valter's mother then took things into her own hands. She sold her best dress, bought a fiddle from a circus musician and got the local barber to give Valter secret lessons until he could play one piece all the way through. Confronted with this accomplishment, Papa was so impressed that he ordered a "good fiddle for my son" — from Sears-Roebuck. It took Valter another six years to grow big enough to play the full size, mail order instrument. * * * Dinah Shore is cherishing a collector's item among recordings given to her by one of her fans. It's the first platter Dinah ever cut, when she was singing with Xavier Cugat's band. Dinah's (Continued on page 54)