Swing (Jan-Dec 1945)

Record Details:

Title:
Swing
Date:
Jan-Dec 1945
Publisher:
Kansas City : Donald Dwight Davis
Volume:
Swing (Jan-Dec 1945)
Leaf #:
000722
Language:
English
Subjects:
Radio broadcasting -- Missouri -- Kansas City -- Periodicals, Radio broadcasting -- Kansas -- Periodicals","WHB-AM (Radio station : Kansas City, Mo.) -- Periodicals","Kansas City (Kan.) -- History -- Periodicals","Kansas City (Mo.) -- History -- Periodicals","Cook Paint and Varnish Co. -- Periodicals","WHB Broadcasting Company (Kansas City, Mo.) -- Periodicals.","Cook Paint and Varnish Co -- Periodicals","WHB Broadcasting Company (Kansas City, Mo.) -- Periodicals","Radio broadcasting",Kansas,"Kansas -- Kansas City","Missouri -- Kansas City
Collection:
Broadcasting & Recorded Sound
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
University of Maryland, College Park
Sponsor:
LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
The official magazine of Kansas City's WHB radio station, SWING printed far more than the station's schedule (which, as the title SWING suggested, relied heavily on music). From 1945 to 1953, SWING offered readers something eclectic every month -- profiles of entertainers on one page, discussions of citizenship in the postwar world on the next, with write-ups of nightlife offerings in KC, Chicago, and New York mixed in. WHB spent decades lobbying the FCC for clear channel status; the magazine's ambitious scope may have been part of the station's attempt to legitimate itself. But it was SWING'S first editor, Jetta Carleton, who later wrote a celebrated novel, that gave the magazine its distinctive style. -- Eric Hoyt, 2015
Date Added:
March 28, 2024
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SWINGIN' WITH THE STARS PICTUflES EXPECTED IN DECEMBER • KANSAS CITY (Tentative Schedule) LOEWS MIDLAND WEEKEND AT THE WALDORF — U playing at the Midland for longer than you can keep a hotel reservation. Ginger Rogers, Lana Turner, Walter Pidgeon. and Van Johnson mix emoting and romance in the 1945 version of GRAND HOTEL. KISS AND TELL — Adolescence learns the facts of life in this movie adaptation of the stage play. All about a junior miss who feigns prepnancy to help her brother and best friend out of a jam. Watch for Shirley Temple and Jerome Courtland. I LOVE A BAND LEADER (Companion Picture) — Phil Harris (Alice Faye's hubby, to you) leads and is loved in this talc of a band as it might have been. NEWMAN STORK CLUB — Betty Hutton, Don Dcfore and Barry Fitzgerald in a musical set against the background of you-know-what. SAN ANTONIO— Romance, action, technicolor and Errol Flynn — all in one picture! TOWER On the stgac— a new bill each u.'eek. plus the Tower orchestra and pretty Norma Werner. On the screen — double feature* designed solely for entertainment. You get your money's worth. Mondays at 9 p.m. are "Discovery Night". Such dear madness — someone always wins. THE THREE THEATRES Uptown, Esquire and Fairway DOLLY SISTERS — Jancsi and Roszicka hold on and on at the three Fox theatres. A big song and dance show, far removed from the original Dolly story, but nice entertainment for those who like Betty Grablc and June Haver (and who doesn't!). With June Payne and S. Z. Sakall. UNCLE HARRY — George Sanders, Geraldine Fitzgerald and Ella Raines star in this triangle drama. MEN IN HER DIARY (Companion Picture) — Lanky, leggy Peggy Ryan takes to comedy like a duck to water. If you're a P. R. fan like we are, you'll roll in the aisles. THE DALTONS RIDE AGAIN — Alan Curtis, Kent Taylor, Lon Chancy, Martha O'Driscoll. Blood 'n" thunder in the frontier days. ENCHANTED FOREST— Edmund Lowe, Brenda Joyce, Harry Davenport. LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN— A v.irn about a very disagreeable icalous woman — the trouble her hypcr-possessive instinct causes a lot of nice people. Gene Tierney. Cornel Wilde and Jeanne ("rain. • RKO ORPHEUM RHAPSODY IN BLUE— Dramatization of the life of George Gershwin — jam-packed with wx>nderful Gershwin tunes. Robert Alda, Joan Leslie, Alexis Smith. Oscar Levant, Paul Whiteman, etc. JOHNNY ANGEL— George Raft. Claire Trevor, Signe Hasso, Hoagy Carmichaei, Margaret Wycherly. BELLS OF ST. MARY— Ingrid Bergman and Bing Crosby.