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Abe Lyman is considered the first to broadcast a dance orchestra over the air in America. 'Way back in 1919, when a radio studio loked like the interior of an amateur radio "bug's" workshop (which is what it was), Abe Lyman's band was heard. They listened to him over crystal sets and head-phones and he shared time on the air with the first radio performer — Static.
'Member the old bromide, "You be Frank and I'll be Ernest?" Well, KFRC has a neat piano team by the same name. It's not a gag, either — one is Frank Schivo, and the other is Ernest Hesketh. Both are 18. Tommy Harris happened to hear them and invited them up to the Jamboree one Monday night. They're still there.
Columbia shorts: Guy Lombardo shaves twice a day and has movable lights on a special mirror to make it snappier: Morton Downey has row on row of bookshelves and books in his boodwar — but they're not really books, they're bureau drawers; on the back of Bing Crosby's closet door is a special patented tie rack which records the dates (calendar) he wears a particular cravat. No chance to slip up there! George Olsen gave his two sons an electric train, and plays with it more than they do. Kate Smith has plenty of overstuffed davenports and comfortable chairs, but insists on sitting on a small, carved antique bench.
Tony Wons was describing the merits of a fireproof safe company he once worked for to a friend of his. "We used to do a bit of experimenting," said Tony. "I remember one time in particular. We took one of our safes, put a rooster in it, surrounded it with wood, coal and gasoline, poured turpentine all over that and when the fire got to going the safe turned white with heat."
"Don't tell me now that when you opened the safe the rooster hopped out and crowed," replied the friend.
"Nothing of the kind!" Tony retorted. "The rooster was frozen stiff!"
Cecil and Sally, popular "seventeen" act, are now presented over the NBCKPO network nightly, except Sunday,
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between 6:45 and 7:00. Heretofore, Cecil and Sally (John Patrick and Helen Troy) have been heard outside of San Francisco only on transcriptions, broadcasting direct from KPO alone. Stations releasing the program are: KPO KJR KECA and KFSD.
This happened in the Columbia studios after an audition in which several sopranos figured largely. As the orchestra director
emerged from the studio, someone asked him, "How did the singers rank?"
"They didn't" was the reply. "They were!"
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Van and Don, Columbia's "Two Pro fessors," broke down the other day and confessed that they had been secretl married recently.
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Just a little medal of honor for Pedro Gonzales (alias Eugene Hawes), whose splendid comedy work on the Blue Monday Jamboree has stamped him one of the cleverest actors in western broadcasting.
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