Radio Mirror (Nov 1936-Apr 1937)

RADIO MIRROR ists — wishing to make sure that no matter what happened to him his friends wouldn't find themselves out of a job. Maybe it's no more than a rumor, but Edith Caldwell and Leighton Noble still sing the vocal refrains, just as they did when Knapp was alive. For Agnes Gearhart — Rudy Vallee hasn't any girls singing with him now, and probably won't have for some time in the future. Maybe you mean the Swing Kids, two boys and two girls, who appear on Rudy's program now and then — but Rudy tells me that even he doesn't know their names. That's radio for you. UP AND DOWN THE MUSIC SCALE Arnold Johnson, maestro for the National Amateur Hour on MBS, has organized a dance band for himself and will be installed soon in a swanky New York hotel, with a Mutual wire. He promises something new and different in dance music — no less than "sound effects." As he explained it to me, if he plays a tune about bells, he plans on having a lot of bells handy to ring; if the song's about the ocean, you'il hear the waves. But what if the song is something like "Moon Over Miami"? How do you get sound effects for a moon? Isham Jones has a CBS sustaining broadcast from the dance floor of the Lincoln Hotel . . . Bernice Claire claims she'll start a vegetable garden next spring. If so, it will be the highest vegetable garden in Manhattan,' because Bernice lives in an 86th street penthouse . . . Enoch Light, bandleader on the Mutual system, is still studying medicine between bouts of waving the baton. He used to be a student at Johns Hopkins University. Hal Kemp's staccato rhythms will be heard from the Cocoanut Grove in Los Angeles, starting the first of the year, over the Mutual system. Unless memory's up to its old tricks, this will be Hal's first visit to the West Coast. There's talk that he may make a picture while he's out there. There's more talk to the effect that Skinny Ennis is thinking of leaving the Kemp organization to start his own band. Not talk, but a fact, is Maxine Gray's departure from the Kemp fold. ifc % j£ THEME SONG SECTION Since marrying Virginia Gilchrest, Al Kavelin has appropriately changed the title of his theme song from "Love Has Gone" to "Love Has Come." For L. T. Shiflett — The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes program uses an unpublished original manuscript by Graham Harris for its theme song. It hasn't a title . . . One Man's Family uses "Destiny Waltz;" and the First Nighter uses "Neapolitan Nights." THANKS AND APOLOGIES First, thanks to Vernon Hiester, for his suggested All-Maestro orchestra. It sounds pretty swell, but alas, I'm afraid nobody will ever hear it in action. Here it is: violins, Joe Venuti, Dave Rubinoff, Reggie Childs; saxophones, Wayne King, Dick Stabile; clarinets, Benny Goodman, Glen Gray; trumpets, Clyde McCoy, Henry Busse, Red Nichols; trombones, Russ Morgan, Tommy Dorsey; drums, Phil Harris; guitar, Nick Lucas; pianos, Eddie Duchin, Ted Fio Rito (why not find a place for Johnny Green, Vernon?); vocalists, Rudy Vallee, Bob Crosby. Apologies to Lillian Bloom, president of the Igor Gorin Fan Clubs, for listing Igor Gorin's screen name incorrectly. In his screen appearances for M-G-M, Igor will be known as Charles Igor Gorin. To make up for my mistake, I hope Miss Bloom gets many new members for the Igor Gorin club. Her address is 822 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, New York. Use the coupon below as a convenient way of asking us for answers to your questions. But remember, sometimes we've answered those questions elsewhere in Facing the Music. Ken Alden, Facing the Music, RADIO MIRROR, 122 East 42nd Street, New York City. 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