Radio stars (Oct 1938)

RADIO STARS September, 1937, when she joined Ted Straeter's chorus on the Kate Smith program. Baruch was announcer on that show. A photographer wanted a picture of a girl on a man's shoulder. He picked Andre and Bea. That started something. She had sung exactly four weeks with Straeter when she got a call from a new bandleader. He had a recording date at Victor the next day. Would she come and ask for Larry Clinton? He heard her sing for the first time when she made a record of True Confession with his orchestra. He asked her to join his band and sing on a Thursday night NBC program comix-ting with her own show. It was a big gamble : Should she leave Straeter and Baruch and take a chance on an unknown? She took the chance. She didn't lose. She married Baruch in May. Today, Clinton is no longer an unknown. Neither is Bea Wain. ONCE OVER LIGHTLY According to the crystal ball, Morten Doivncy and Eddy Duchin will be an air team this coining radio season . . . If anybody bothers about my opinion, I'd like to state officially that Artie Shaw has the best swing band in America . . . Benny Goodman goes into the socially nice Empire Room of the Waldorf-Astoria in the fall. Unless Goodman makes drastic changes in his music style, the engagement should not be too successful . . . Nan Wynn has done so well on Brunswick records that the company is now issuing platters starring Nan with her ozvn orchestral combination. One of her first recordings is Monday Morning, written by a CBS guitar player. Bar the record: On the Gershwin Memorial Program, Deems 'Baylor remarked that the Rhapsody in Blue was played for the first time on Washington's Birthday, 1924. It had its premiere on Lincoln's Birthday . . . Kay Kyscr stays at the Pennsylvania Hotel's Madliattan Room this fall. Ginny Simms, Kay's vocalist, is an exschool teacher . . . When Joan Edwards went on tour with Paul Whiteman, Mrs. Edzvards went along to take care of her daughter. Joanic is feeling swell — Mrs. Edwards lost so much weight, she's on a recovery diet . . . Glenn Miller wrote a tunc called Sold American, burlesquing the chant of the tobacco auctioneer. Because the cigarette company docs a lot of radio advertising, CBS and NBC have banned the tunc. LARRY CLINTON SONG TITLE CONTEST WINNERS! First Prize — Membership in the RCAVictor Record Society. To: HOWARD LEWIS, Bethlehem, Pa., with Lament of a Lonely Lion. Second Prize — RCA-Victor Record Player. To: ELYIRO FELCO, Mount Vernon, N. Y., with Spinning the Big Top. Third Prize — Set of Larry Clinton's Victor Releases. To: ROSE ANNE DAUGHERTY. Lancaster, Ohio, with Monkey's Matinee. On behalf of Larry Clinton, Radio Stars and the Bandzvagon, I want to thank each of you who sent us your title suggestion. The battle to pick the winners was a tough one. We had to eliminate such swell titles — just to list a few — as Three Ring Sii'ing, Sazvdust Serenade, Big Top Jamboree and Beast on a Binge. Honorable mention should go to Readers K. D. Stern and B. R. Snyder, too. I hope you all had as much fun working on it as I did. Thanks again ! -J. M. Marion Talley cavorts with Jean Sablon, French singer, on the beach in California. Both are heard on programs broadcast from Hollywood. MAKE YOUR HAIRDRESS Hie STA-RITE BUnd-dUe BOB PINS in! Ugly, conspicuous bob pins, like a run in your stocking, spoil everything. Don't take a chance. Choose Blend-Rite "Glare-Proof" Bob Pins. They blend softly with your lovely hair — give it new allure -added charm. Smooth' ly finished on the inside, Blend-Rites slide in easily. "Tension-Tite" they hold the hair securely — yet secretly. Four different colors. Insist on Blend-Rite "Gl.ire-Proof " Bob Pins. Sold everywhere. Large card I Off. STA-RITE CO., SHELBYVILLE.ILL. J&reoielesi, pore wfc urtfMptk (Or SIZE AT I0< STORES . . . FAMILY SIZE AT DRUG STORES lO^KJffi* MAKE S25-S35 A WEEK "» "i e.m It . un practical nursing at home in -|i:iio unit-. Course endorsed In ph>-ii inns Tin ii, .in. Is hi graduates. 3'Jth yr. One graduate lias , h.n re , I 10-bed hospital. Another s.ued <l(iu while learning K.iuipmcnl ineluded Men and women IS to 60. High School not re.illired ha-s tuition payments Write now CHICAGO SCHOOL OF NURSING Dept. 2310. 100 East Ohio Street. Chicago. Ml. Please send free booklet and lti -ample lesson pages. 83