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The ''Meet the Artists'' birthday program. Thirty-nine stars! $25,000 worth of talent! Better
says. Bob whispers to her and vanishes in the crowd.
Let's move around and see who's here. Be careful where you step. We wouldn't want to smash a celebrity. Hey. hear that voice. Sounds like a torpedo plane in full flight . . . br-r-r-r-r! That's Ted Husing^. They say he even talks in his slee]). And there's David Ross, Fred Waring. Xino Martini. Colonel Stoopnagle . . .
THE clock shows hands straight against the 5:45 mark. • Musicians suddenly chin their in.struments, shove them again.st pur.sed lips. A slim, dapper man, immaculate in brown, lashes at them with a baton. He's sun-bronzed Freddie Berrens. CBS leader. The melody of '"When Good Fellows Get Together" crackles around the mikes. Hold everything. We're on the air.
Bop Taplinger stands at one mike, a sheaf of jiapers in his hand, an anxious look in his eyes as he searches the crowd for his celebrities. Harry Von Zell — remember his "Time Marches On"?— is the announcer. Athletic, blond, with a forelock that flings a reckless mane across his forehead, \'on Zell booms out the introduction.
"Yes, ladies and gentlemer. when good fellows get together . . . and good arti.sts. too. For today you are cordially invited to join our studio party. You're going to hear more radio headliners than have ever graced a single broadcast. Yessir, it's going to be a .star-a-minute."
Look ! That's Colonel Stoopnagle shoving up to that other mike. Broad of beam, beetle-browed, with a milewide smile, he's up to some mischief. Listen.
"Pardon me, Harry, but Budd and myself sort of think it would be peachy to tell just who's giving this radio part\' — on account of our getting washed and dressed
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up for it."
(Top) William O'Neil. Colonel Stoopnagle, and Maestros Nat Shilkret, George Hall, Kostelaneti and Belosco. (Middle) Bob Taplinger, who is host and master of ceremonies of the "Artist" program. (Bottom) Announcers Von Zell, Musing and Ross with Waring.
In a moment, Harry is introducing Bob Taplinger and Bob takes over a mike. His initial introduction presents Fred Berrens whose orchestra alwavs furnishes the period's music. Freddie swings into a mile-a-minute tune but Bob cuts him oflF after a half dozen