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COAST-to-COAST HIGHLIGHTS
By RUSS KING
ALONG THE WAVES— One of America's youngest sport announcers is a brother of * The Ancient Mariners. It's done with microphones. Gene Shumate, Iowa network sports announcer, is only twenty and the brother of the four Shumates who sing over St. Louis' KMOX
as The Ancient Mariners.
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Babe Ruth wasn't the only big leaguer who didn't strike out when he went from the diamond to the microphone. Atlantic City's WPG has an ex-baseballer who is now scoring with his Irish wit and ballads instead of the bat. He is Charles "Reds" Dulin, former Phillies managercatcher, featured on WPG's Celebrity Broadcasts. * * *
Mabel Fields, WCKY's blonde music director in Cincinnati, not only serves in that capacity but when the occasion requires she fills in most capably as either pianist or singer. Miss Fields is a graduate of a Cincinnati conservatory and spent several years doing concert and vaudeville work as a vocalist before facing her first microphone. As you can see by her picture, she won't need any preparation to face her first television camera.
Mabel Fields rates as WCKY's most important star. She not only sings but is music director.
Joan Kay (left) and Frances Carlon are the stars of Kitty Keene, Inc., heard five times a week.
DIXIE DOIN'S
From way down south in Charlotte, N. C, comes word that Kate Smith was literally "The Songbird of the South," recently. Spending a week-end in WBT's home town, the Bandwagon star took her lowest bow when from the fifty yard line at half-time she gave 35,000 football spectators her famous "Hello, everybody." The goal posts rang with applause and critics accorded it the biggest hand she ever got from a visible audience.
WBT'S President-manager William A. Schudt and Charles Crutchfield, program director, headed Miss Smith's long list of hosts for the week-end.
And perhaps it was Kate's cheering visit that broke what "Chock" Crutchfield had begun to think was a jinx. Along with his program directing "Chock" also handles the microphone at sporting events, and with an important mike-date upon his calendar he found himself down with laryngitis. Three days of that and he emerged with a grin, but not for long. He had a toothache.
While tending to that ache the dentist chipped a piece from a nearby molar and a balloon-sized jaw resulted. But wait! The day the jaw was throbbing its worst, he stepped out of the elevator to make a stab at returning to his labors and his wrist watch band broke — sending his favorite timepiece to the basement seven floors below. But the watch was retrieved from a dark corner of the elevator shaft and (we believed it up to this point, too) was ticking away without having lost a second. We expected it to have laryngitis. * * *
BEAUTY AND TALENT, INC.
In Kitty Keene Inc., the program featuring a woman detective, both stars, Joan Kay and (Continued on page 99)
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Only twenty, Gene Shumate stars as the Iowa Broadcasting System's sports announcer.