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WHAT'S NEW?
By TONY SEYMOUR
Buddy Rogers, at right, leads the band on the new Friday show with Helen Broderick and Victor Moore.
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Joe Cook's last in this trio of new stars on old programs— on Saturday night's She Chateau on NBC.
WALTER O'KEEFE created a new radio "first-time" when he walked out on the Saturday Night Party. ... It was the first time a featured radio performer had ever up and left, just like that. Ed Wynn threatened to, after the first broadcast of his present series, but didn't.
Alexander Woollcott is back on the air with as inappropriate a sponsor as he had last time. Granger Rough Cut tobacco is pay rolling him — and can't you just see those pipe-smoking he-men rolling on the floor in delight at some of Alec's carefully polished whimsies?
That Professional Parade show on NBC Wednesday nights sponsored jointly by the WPA and NBC really is helping out some old vaudeville actors who haven't smelled grease-paint for years. We've seen several of them turn up, later, playing small parts in big commercial shows.
Rumors that Walter and Ireene Wicker were separating for good seemed even more like the truth when we discovered that Walter has left Chicago and no one — except perhaps Ireene — knows where he is. He used to be co-author of Today's Children, but not any longer. The rumors started when Ireene moved her Singing Lady program to New York.
Sid Silvers, Al Jolson's comedian on Al's new CBS program, can't help being funny. Fate itself plays practical jokes on him. He came to New York for a brief vacation before the program started, full of plans to have a gay old time among the bright lights — went down with the flu — and when the vacation was over was still so weak he had to be carried to the train. The only bright light he saw was the one by his bed.
AFTER next spring, when Lanny Ross has become the father of a family, the change which has been coming over him for the past year and a half ought to be complete. He really is a different Lanny — in fact, we wouldn't be surprised any day to hear that he'd officially dropped his nickname and become Launcelot.
When he first shot into radio fame Lanny was just a boy, happy-go-lucky and willing to take things as they came. Then came his marriage to Olive White, and a new sense of responsibility. He began to work harder. He wanted to make his voice over from the light popular baritone his first listeners loved, into a medium for more serious music— and his Town Hall concert this winter was the outcome of that ambition.
And now the decision of Lanny and Olive to have a baby in the spring adds the last touch to Lanny's new maturity. Believe me, everything will be ready for that baby when he arrives. Lanny and Olive are the sort to Make Plans. * * *
TED MA LOME'S another big star who is expecting an addition to his family — and there's a story back of this bit of {Continued on page 70)
A REPORTER WHO KNOWS HIS
RADIO TELLS THE STORIES
IN BACK OF THE HEADLINES