Radio stars (Dec 1938)

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RADIO STARS THE BANDWAGON ( Continued from page 47) • Put your eyes in the holiday mood — liven them up with KurLASH's flattery! Curl your lashes up from your eyes, show off their size and brilliance — and sing carols with the wide-eyed, angelic look that only Kurlash gives! Learn what shades of eye makeup are becoming to you — how to apply them skilfully! Send your name, address and coloring to Jane Heath, Dept. E-12; receive — free — a personal color-chart and full instructions in eye make-up! fTHE KURLASH COMPANY. Inc. Rochester. New York. U. S. A. Canada: Toronto, 3 FEMININE HYGIENE A TO the perplexed woman seeking to do away with the bother of measuring and mixing solutions, we suggest Boro-Pheno-Form. This forty-six year old product is widely preferred for Feminine Hygiene because it needs no water or accessories for its use. Each dainty suppository is complete in itself. No danger of "overdose" or "underdose." v Soothing, harmless, odor |)r Di ^n^'c 'ess. At all drug stores. f IC'rC 5 Boro-Pheno-Form PPEEI Mail Coupon today for ^-^v ritCC. "TheAnswer';-an inform ^SZZtP: ative booklet on Feminine Hygiene. Dr Pierre Chemical Co., Depl.l4-N 162 N. Franklin Street, Chicago, III. Please send me booklet "The Answer. Name _ _ _ „. Address _.; _. Town State 56 Mr. Kaye with dangerous emphasis. "Our syncopation and our ideas are just as modern and streamlined as any outfit you can name." I said : "Sammy, you're wrong." He said: "Jerry, you're wrong." We left it at that. GESTURE Xo rivalry in radio is quite so great as that between the two big chains. So here's a little incident that makes you •wonder : Eddy Duchin began liis new commercial series over NBC in September. First rehearsal was called for a Friday. But. in all of gigantic Radio City, there zvasn't a rehearsal studio which wasn't occupied. Linger over that situation for a minute : an important new radio premiere; thousands of dollars invested; a billion-dollar skyscraper with the last word in radio equipment — and not a studio which the stars of the new program could use. The solution zvas just as odd as the situation : CBS offered to lend NBC and its client a studio. So Eddy Duchin and his band rehearsed on Friday in a CBS studio for a program that made its debut on a Monday night over NBC. PIPE OF PEACE Closer than Walter Winchell and Ben Bernie are Bernie and his cigar. You think of Ben and you think of his tobacco cylinder. Ben's face would look positively nude without that stogie. So the years have passed and Ben and his cigars have been inseparable pals. All went well until Bernie made the fatal mistake of signing up with a sponsor who manufactured pipe tobacco. Ben, thinking not of what lay ahead of him, inserted an ad in Variety — that primer of show business — telling all about himself and his new sponsor. His sponsor needed only one look at that ad to reach a trembling hand for the telephone. For there was pictured Ben and his cigar — and he was supposed to sell pipe tobacco! That little crisis passed and all was well until word came that new decorations were being planned for McGuinness' Tavern, a favorite Broadway resort. And one of the new murals depicted radio's Ole Maestro accompanied by his never-missing cigar. Quickly, an employee of Mr. Bernie's office was dispatched to see Mr. McGuinness. The latter was impressed with the solemnity and danger of the situation and agreed to remove the cigar from Ben's mouth. Just to make sure, a scout was sent out the next morning to see if that fateful cigar had been severed so that sponsor and Ben might rest easily. But — cut to the quick was the scout when he observed that the cigar hadn't been moved an inch — not even to dust an ash. He quickly inspected the empty room, reached in his pocket for a penknife and delicately and hastily removed the cigar from between Mr. Bernie's lips. Then he drew pencil from pocket and filled in that denuded space with a neat cupid's bow. Today Mr. Bernie strides up and down Broadway with a pipe. A pipe in which he may smoke his sponsor's tobacco. But who knows what he does in the privacy of his little room? PAGE DAVE ELMAN Harry Salter is musical director of Dave Elman's Hobby Lobby — the program which has hit top-flight success because of its novel idea. Each week a group of oddly assorted people are presented who tell all about their unique and interesting bobbies. Week after week, Harry has watched the parade of every imaginable kind of hobby. Finally, I asked him about his hobby. It seems that Harry has never had one ! TURNING OVER A MUSICAL LEAF After many long years, Al Goodman has reached the disheartening conclusion that there is very little future for straight musical directors in radio. The only niche for them is on the super-terrific variety shozvs, and even there they arc buried at the bottom of a large mass of talent. The only way out, Goodman feels, is to build a reputation as a dance-band maestro. He reached this decision after the latest of several odd experiences. His name was submitted to some of the advertising agencies in the process of building new radio shozvs. "Al Goodman! Who is he?" was the general attitude. All this despite the Goodman background : conductor of radio's Showboat, Beauty Box Theatre and Ziegfeld Follies of the Air. Creator of the Hit Parade style in 1935 and director of the series eight times — more often than any other leader. Conductor of more than 150 musical comedies and operettas on Broadzvay. ■waving the baton for such names as Eddie Cantor. Al Jolson, Frank Morgan, Fannie Bricc, Ethel Merman. But now he wants to forget about all that. He wants to drazv on that tremendous background of his and bring forth a band to compare with Lombardo or Duchin or Clinton. He has even invented a catch phrase to compare with the best — "Al Goodman and his Everybody Dance Music." All this may give you some idea of the poiver of radio. FURTHER PROOF That Al is right (and that we were right in the first place) is proved by the fact that the aforementioned Larry Clinton's brand-new outfit has walked away with two commercial radio shows for the new season. They are the Tommy Riggs program and the production starring Bob Benchley and Clinton, set to start on November 20, over CBS.