Radio Digest (June 1932-Mar 1933)

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WLWy Cincinnati TO PAUL WHITEMAN goes the credit for the discovery of WLW's latest harmony sensation, the Randall Sisters. But a few weeks ago these charming maids from Bogue Chitto, Mississippi, were "just another act" in vaudeville. Today — thanks to the great jazz maestro — they are being proclaimed one of radio's outstanding finds of the season. Startled by the distinctive novel harmony effects and the perfect blending of their voices when he chanced to hear them in a Detroit supper club, Whiteman lost no time in signing the Randall Sisters and taking them to New York for a four weeks' engagement at the Hotel Biltmore. Nothing quite like their unique harmonies and quaint "hill-billy" songs from the South had yet been heard by blase New Yorkers. People liked them because they were different. Rudy Vallee heard them and shortly afterward the Randall Sisters made their radio debut as guest artists on Rudy's Fleischman hour with Otis Skinner. Next, talent scouts from WLW heard them and Whiteman was induced to part with the Randall Sisters in order that they might join the staff of the WLW studios in Cincinnati. Although they were born and reared on a Mississippi plantation, for the past several years the girls — Bonnie, Ruth and S h i r 1 e y — have made their home in Memphis. It was there, two years ago, they made their first stage appearance as amateurs in a Milk Fund benefit performance. A Fanchon-Marco executive heard the girls, was impressed with the novelty of their singing and next day they were signed for a vaudeville tour. As the "Aaron S's Bonnie, Ruth and Shirley Randall ters," they remained in vaudeville until their lucky break with Whiteman ushered then: into radio's spotlight. A f\ A WSM, Nashville A ROMANCE of American minstrelsy is revealed in the story of Lasses White, who first put on the burnt cork about twenty years ago with the Honey Boy Evans Minstrels, at that time among the top notchers in the business. Mr. White is now producing the Lasses White All Star Minstrel Show which is presented by WSM, Nashville, Tennessee, each Friday evening at 7:30 o'clock, and the Lasses and Honey radio cartoon which goes on the air at 7:30 on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Mr. White and his partner, Honey Wilds, after many years as minstrel stars and vaudeville headliners, recently joined the staff of WSM and are making friends by the thousands in their first radio venture. In the big fan mail which the boys receive each week came a letter a few days ago from Nick Carter, of Sheffield, Alabama, which reads in part as follows : "Some twenty odd year ago, Honey Boy Evans was booked appear at the old Jefferson theatre in Birmingham, Ala. This particular performance on this particular night was a complete sell out; the house was packed, but sometime before the curtain word was whispered around that Honey Boy was sick at the Hillman hotel and his part would be carried by an understudy. "The crowd was disappointed, some leaving to seek their entertainment elsewhere, but most of them stayed. I was curious to see the youngster who had nerve enough to try to entertain a sore disappointed crowd and fill the shoes of the great Honey Boy Evans. "Your performance that night was great. You went over so big that for ten minutes the crowd would not let the curtain descend on the last act. Since that night I have never missed one of your shows where it was possible for me to go and I have my reserved seat in front of my radio each performance over WSM Here's wishing vou long life on the air." c Another WSM Headliner ONTRALTO voices with rich, warm coloring are rare, especially those voices which register in a microphone, but in Christine Lamb, WSM has one of the finesl radio contraltos in the South. MisLamb has been a member of the WSM family ever since the station first went on the air in the fall of 1025, appearing as a featured • ist and as a member of the WSM Mixed Quartette, which presents a sacred concert each Sunday eve ning at 6 o'clock. The Sacred ConThree young gentlemen from the middle west, featured for several months on WHB, Kan cert draws a tremendous mail each sas City, have gone up. George Bacon, Jack Wilcher and Russell Crowell, "The Song week, as a result of the half hour copators," now appearing with Mike Child and his Orchestra on the Phillips Flyers nightly program which is non--ectarian half-hour over a split CBS originating at KMOX, St. Louis. Columbia recording artists, «* * ' these boys recorded a best seller in "Old Man of the Mountain" last summer. M»ss LamD appeals .is