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.IN PAN ALLEY can't resist that impulse to inject naughty insinuations into its ballads. And the Hollywood songsmiths, if anything, are even more dextrous in devising dirty ditties. Between them they are taking many liberties with the lyrics and producing numbers altogether too hot for the kilocycles. Result is, the song censors are again functioning in the air castles.
Really, the radio rajahs are being hard pressed to preserve their vaunted 99 and 47/100 percentage of purity. Heretofore their stars have been immune— or lucky — and they have been untainted by the breath of scandal. Now their records — and such records ! — of bed time stories are being played in the divorce courts, and the front pages of the newspapers are ablaze with their didoes. And whisperers are circulating spicy yarns of great goingson between sponsors and songbirds, the same presaging no good to the industry.
To further confound the microphone moguls, Actors Equity charges graft, favoritism and a surprisingly low standard of wages and working conditions with the smaller fry of radio actors. Famous band leaders are represented as refusing to play numbers unless song publishers cross their palms with silver, gold no longer being legal; directors and minor officials are reported compelling the better paid performers and musicians to "kick-back" part of their salaries; and numerous other rackets are played in the studios — according to common gossip.
.'Ml these things are causing executives of the National Broadcasting Company and Columbia sleepless nights. They don't like to think that Radio is going Hollywood but that conviction is being forced upon them. It would appear that Radio, now fourteen years old, is no longer in its infancy.
All is not joy in Alice Joy's home. She is suing her hubby for divorce in Chicago. He is Captain E. Robert Burns, an ace in the Canadian Air Corps during the World War. . . . Buddy Rogers is all upset because people persist in engaging him to Mary Pickford. "I'm engaged to no girl and never will be", says Buddy. "I'm always going to be a bachelor." Always is an awful long time. . . . Will Osborne's new radio contract becomes null if he marries. . . . At the time of the raid on New York City's Welfare Island prison with the exposure of conditions among a certain