Radio revue (Dec 1929-Mar 1930)

38 RADIO REVUE JTATIC pccm the XtLDICI [Continued from page 34) dependence, Kans., and the wedding took place while he was there. He and Miss Sickels had been life-long friends, She is said to be a talented pianiste. Leon sings on the Enna Jettick Hour and also with the Ballad Singers, the Sixteen Singers and on other NBC programs. Leon brought his bride back to New York with him and they plan to make their home at some point convenient to the NBC studios. "Bill" Schudt's "Going to Press" began as a one-station feature last December. Not yet a year on the air, this feature, dedicated to newspapermen and newspaper topics, is now on the coast-to-coast facilities of the Columbia Broadcasting System. Paul Dumont — and we have no means of knowing how he secured the proper technical information — is unusually realistic in the drinking scenes of tlie NBC light operas. When Harold Sanford was conducting "Her Regiment," Victor Herbert's bright light opera, one of the characters invited the soldiers to line up and take a drink. "Colonel" Dumont lined up a little ahead of the others, at the "mike," and behaved as one does late in the evening in Those Places. He staggered around, despite the caution of the production manager, and caused poor Harold Sanford to smack his lips unthinkingly. * * * Bernie's Lexington Hotel Orchestra is broadcasting over WOR for the hostelry of the same name. ^C ^I ^ In response to 4,971 inquiries, Da. riel Jones is a perfect lady, Leslie Frick is a contralto, and Leslie Joy is a baritone. Vernon Radcliffe has the same difficulty as Jerome K. Jerome, the British novelist. Some people call him by his first name and some by his last, but nobody seems to know which is right. * * * "My beautiful 'seven-passenger Nash sedan has been stolen," Henry Shopc, NBC top tenor, recently telephoned to the police. It seems that Henry had let a friend use his car. The friend, who was leaving town, parked the car and left the keys and a note, telling where the car was parked, in the care of a drug clerk at 711 Fifth Avenue. When Henry went to look for his car, he could not find it. Afterreporting his loss to the police, he bought a Ford to replace his Nash. Four days later the friend returned and, when informed of Henry's loss, went in search of tlie car. He found it exactly where he had parked it. There had been a misunderstanding as to the street. The car Imd not been touched for four days. The police had not come across it in their search — nor had they picked it up for exceeding the parking limit. Now Henry is wondering what to do with the "other car." * * * Stuart Avers, Don Juan of the NBC continuity writers recently discovered on Madison Avenue what he believes to be the height of futility. A blind beggar, hopelessly crippled, was playing a battered guitar, accompanying a song. . . . "The Pagan Love Song !" * t * "Elsie Pierce Class in Beauty," a new program under the sponsorship of Elsie Pierce, beauty specialist, and the National Grocery Company, are two new commercial broadcasts over WOR. % H* ^ Augusta Spette, soprano, who until recently was a member of the girls' octet at the NBC, is reported to have joined a trio of girls that is singing on the "Moonbeams" program at WOR. In making the change she replaced Mary McCoy, soprano, who has joined the NBC forces. * * * The Spaghetti Winders' Association and the Society for Louder and Better Yodelling, both housed at 711 Fifth Avenue, report the prospect of a busy season with the advent of the cool weather. Walter Kiesewetter, official pianist of the Yodellers, spent his Summer in Europe. He says Munich is still wet. * * * Further foreign news comes from Leslie Frick, contralto, who returned recently from Munich. She says "the beer was beyond words, not to mention the Wagner and Mozart, which were wonderful." ^c :[; $ Genia Zielinska, the Polish coloratura soprano, recently was seen proudly carrying a lovely song, with lyrics by Mildred Merle, music by Henry S. Gerstle, the boy arranger, entitled "Autumn's Coming." The song, which is dedicated to Miss Zielinska, went on the air recently. It sounded verv well. "Say, Walter," said Mary Hopple, contralto, in the NBC studios the other day, "I have just taken a new apartment and I've bought one of those no-end day-beds for it." "I don't know why you mention it to me," said Walter Preston, baritone, "but, at that, you should have 'no-end' of comfort from it." Among the most recent of America's citizens is Miss Genia Fonariova, soprano, heard weekly in Troika Bells over the NBC Miss Fonariova, a native of Russia, received her final naturalization papers recently. She has been in the United States for nearly fifteen years.