Variety (Feb 1933)

48 VARIETY Tac8day» FebrnMy 21, 1933 NEXT WEEK (February 25) THIS WEEK (February 18) Numerals In oennectlon with bills below Inc'.cate opening 6my tit •how. whether full or split week RKO NBW TOBK CTTT Hiulo Hall Merlo & Seralne Patricia Bowman (Fonr to flII) (16) John Pearce Natalia Bodansky Joseph Macauley Patricia Bowman Ayres, Renee Co 'Qreat Jasper" Academy lat half (26-t8> 4 Jewels fraythe S'am'n A F Ctaas Ahearn Co .(Two to All) 2d half (1-S) Anthony Trlnl Orch (Four to All) 2d half (22-24) Toki Japs 4 ■ Carleton Bros 6ylvla Froos Bert Gordon Co Art Landry Orch BBOOKLYN Albee (26) Klkuta Japs Britt Wood Aarona'n, Fayre ft It Ray Bolder Gambarelli (18) Gloria Lee Co Ulllan Shade D|tT« l^rrls Co ■ JEBSET CITT FultoB (19 only) RIcardo Leavn ft Watson Lewis Uaok Kramer Lamar ft R Alyco ft Jackie KANSAS CITT Mnlnatreet (1S» Howard Sadelle ft B Walter Walters Bin Telask Co Baddy Rogers LYNBBOOK Keith's (0 ooly) Cerenes t Alvin Boys Doris Baton Brown ft Bioh Pent House Rev MKWABK Pnlace (2S) Olaen ft JohnsoB a«) Grade Scbenk Co. Honan ft Arden Glenn ft JenUna Harry Burns Co Voice of Bxperlence John 8 Oainblln*' NEW OBLKAMS State (Sn DeWolf VetcaltftF Bayes ft Speck Gray ft Claire Roscoe Arhnckle Baocaneera - JACKPOWELL 2nd Big Week at the CAPITOL, NEW YORK TiMed by LEDDYASMITH Walter O'Keefe - Howard Marsh Co let taarf (2S-2«) Aran ft Broderick ' Othe DeQ' Lewis Parker Cowen Co Hat Boyd H'maace In Rhythm 2d halt (22-24) Tvonne & Victor XfMk Bros & B Lydel Macy ft C Bddle Stanley ALBANY Palace 1st bait (2S-2B) Dave ApoUon Rev 2d hall (22-24) Irene Vermillion Co Btmaway 4 Vera SchWars Koscoe Ates 4 Pearls BOSTON Keith's (SB) James Evans Co Joe May & O Chle Bale (Two to fill) (18) A A S La Mont Reynolds ft White Rae Samuels Ray BolKer Oambarelll CHICAGO Palace (85) Ted Lewis Bd (18) IDetoregoes Oamer Wolf ft H Aarons'n Fayre ft^ Chio Sale Hudson Wonderr (18) Die,z ft Powers KIrby ft Daval Alice Joy Co Jlmmie SaVo Adler ft Bradford OBEAHA Keltk'« 1st halt (16-n) Howard Sadelle &B Walter Walters Bert' Walton Buddy Rogers Co 1st halt <1.9-S1> Campo Co Bolce ft HArsh Mel Klee Ross Colnmbo ,Or PARK lANB Keith's (M ealy) S Pauls (Two to fill) (19 only) Shields Sldare ft L Connie ft Ben Danny Duncan Co Bddle Halt Co Dalton & Rosa PATERSON Keith's lat halt (26-28) Don Redmond Rev 2d half (1-3) F'rsythe S'am'n ft F J C FItppen Vanessi Co (Two to fill) 2d half (22-24) a Victor Otrls Joe May ft D Miles ft Slegel Bob Hall California Co PBOVIBBNCB Keith's («S) Loew NEW TOBK cnr Capitol (S4) Show Boat Jules Bledsoe Boalevard 1st halt (24-27) 8 White Flashes Lionel Ames Co Joe Hay ft D Rolsmaa's Co (One to fill) 2d halt (28-1) Oautler'a Toy Sh<H> Joseph Pope Jones Terrell & Fawoett Gene Sheldon Go Parker ft Sedano Orpheam 1st halt (24-27) Hat SIdatre Co Helen Lynd Benny Leonard Carlton ft Ballew. Henry Tobias Co 2d half (28-2) Tonng Kam ' Tr Whitey Roberts Irene Franklyn, Bernie & Walker Burt Frohman Co Paradise (M) Ohesals Frances Arm* Sid Marlon Co Rita. Bros K T O Rer r St«te >(«4) Cab Calloway Rev BBOOKI.TM ^ - 41atee Ave • . - 1st-halt (24-27) Atade^B ft- Allen Whttey . Roberts . Herbert Ray Co Irene Franklyn Parker ft Sedano 2d hall (28-2) Arthur LaFlear Co Pettit ft Douglas Anna Chandler Gaudschmldt Bros Henry Tobias Orch MetrepoUtaB (S<) Ed -Wynn Co Valencia (2«) Desert Song BALTIHOBB Century (t4) Olvera • Bob Fisher Lowe, Bumolt ft W CliOord ft Marion , Olseh Orch CLKVKLAND State (M) 3 Cossacks Lee Morse Collins ft Peterson Herb Williams Sammy KrevoR Co JERSEY CITY Loew's <84) >^ France ft LaPell Trade 2 Medley ft Dapree ^ Rex Weber Frledland Rev MONTEBAI. I«eWe (84) Gregory ft Raym'nd F ft J Hubert Kev|lle Fleeson Co Marty May 4 Danubes MBWARK State (24) Honey ' Fam ■Itewls (ft Moore Sid Gary Rnis ft Bonlta WASHINGTOII Ibx CM) Stames ft Kover Co Sheila Barrett Bill Robinson Torke ft King MEW TOBK OITV Paramoant !2d week) Am West georgea Meteza IIR Bdwards 'Done Him Wrong* BKO Boxy (11) Maria Smason Cardell Z 4 Step Bros Gould ft Shefter Karce, Noyes ft LeB Hilda Bckler Nicholas Daks 'Face In the Sky* Boxy (IV) Harry Rose Jimmy Lyons Tacopi Tr Belet ft Lamb Peg Leg Bates Frank Dukes 'Ghost Train* BBOOKLTH PanmooBt (II) Mary Eaton Jack Waldroa T Roy Barnes Hal -iToung Miss HARRIBT George Guild Harry Stafford Leia BItss Jack Dully Jack Began BAIAmOBB HIppodcome (M) Jones ft Hare Ray Hughes ft P Plushera Merle's Cttckatoos 'Topase' BOS'TDN MetroneUtaa (19) 'SpotllghtsT Charles Melson Irmanette , Bredwlns Chalmera- Co DETROIT Pox (17) Girl Trouble ., WARNER EDINBUBGH Empire Layton ft Johnstone Co as booked OI<ASGOie WInneton ft Cbarlle Marco ft Max H Mangean Girls XBWCASTLB Hlppediome Nervo ft Knox BUZABRH. Bits lat bait (24-27) 4 Frankenburgs - (Four to fill) Id half (28-2) , Carl Breed Co - ■ (Four to nU) Ist bait (17-20) Stuart ft Violet Harold Boyd Co Johnny Marvin Harry Howard Co R'mance In Rhythm 2d halt (21-23) J ' ft J HcKenna H ft D Downing Geo Price Plckard'a Co OFFICIAL DENTIST TO THE N. V. A. DR. JULIAN SIEGEL 1560 Broadway nh Week: Heonr Clint«rt«l<l: Abe LartfSflH CI* CINCINNATI Albee (25) Bemlce'ft Bmily Robs ft Edwards * Ir^ne Rich Co _ Gamer Wolf ft H Felovls (18) Stone ft Gibbons Vlo Oliver Bomby Co Will Mahoney Ike Rose's Midgets DETROIT Keith's (26) Gilbert Bros Bolce & Marsh Kitty Bncr Co Mel Klee Ingenues (18) Klqtlngs' Co Ada Brown Joe Morris Co A ft F Lake Betty Jano Cooper OBAND BAPIDS Keith's let half (26-28) Betty Jane Cooper Charlie King Co Leavitt ft Lockwood Jack Owynne Co 1st half (18-21) Libonatl 3 Wills & Davis Kitty Doner Co Bert Walton -V Buccaneers HEMPSTEAD BlvoU let half (26-28) Winnie ft Dolly Angus & Searle Joe Toung Itee Galls (One to fill) 1st bait (18-21) ■ Olympics Case & Lehn Hobart Bosworth S Sylvia Clark ^JUdlolltes 3 French Misses Hayes, Halg ft H Dave Harris Co Rae Samuels Grade Scbenk Co (18) Martin ft Martin Berry Bros Welst ft SUnton Co Senator Murphy Ren'off, Renofai ft B SCHENECTADY Keith's Ist halt (18-21) Walter Powell Orch TORONTO Hippodrome (25) Harry Small Co Clyde Haeer RImacs Orch Roscoe Ates Don Valcrio (18) 4 Nelsons AI Verdi & Thelma Flfl D'Orsay Bob Murphy Jack Randall Co TBENTON Capitol Ist halt (26-28) Billy House Co (Four to All) (2d half (22-24) 3 Acea Aren ft Broderick Helen Menken Plnkus & Sedley TROT Keith's (2d half (1-8) 4 Frankenbergs (Four to nil) (2d half (22-24) Songs & Satires Idrry Rich Co WESTtrOOD Kelth^26. onlyJ__ 3 Pauls (Two to mi) (18 only) Shields .Sldare ft L Connie & Ben Danny Duncan Co Eddie Hall Co Dalton & Rose PHnAOKIiPHIA Earie (Z4) Geo Campos Co Ooss A Barrows 4 Blondes George . Price 4 Phantoms (17) Kate Smith Co WASHINGTON Earie (24) DaCardos Nell Kelly Arthur Tracy (One to, nil) (17) Campbells Sid Pas;e .Co . auB Van Aristocrats Marco NEW TOBH CRT PammoBBt (SS) 'Sally' Mary Eaton Ja^ck Waldroa T Roy Barnes Hal Toung Miss Harriett George Guhl Harry Stafford LeIa Bliss Jack Duffy Jack Egan BBOOKLTN Valencia (24) "Desert Song' Perry Askam Tanzl Barl Askam Nanette Vallon John Merkyt Charles Boyle Sylvia Shore John Wagner BRIDOEPOBT PoU (t«) Irene' Kathryn Crawford Bobby Watson George Dobbs Walter .Regan George Ball Buddy Karsen George Fox Sydney Reynolds Anolyn Arden Ruth Fay Netty Farrlngton Dorothy La Marr Wanda Allen Karsen ft Oretel BUFFALO Buffalo (84) 'Whoopee* Buddy Doyle Bobbe Arnst Jane T.>ee John Rutherford Pletro GentlU Carter De Haven Jr William Dyer Bddle KMo Howard Nugent Virginia L Bouldln Juan Vlllasana DETROIT Fox (24) •nig Top' I Jaclc Sidney Adcle Nelson Co Flo Mayo Harrison's' Co Beehee ft Rubyatte Dolly Kramer BABTFOBD CiapUH (Z4) 'Joy Bells' King Bros ft C Stetson Nadine Gae Tommy Atkins Boys Ann Roberts Sunklst Ens OAKLAND Orphenm (17) 'Snapshots' Stone ft Les D ft 'H Murray Grace Du Faye Robert Williams A ft B Mowatt Oscar Taylor Bets Blair SAN PBANCISCO Watfleld (17) "Movie Circus' > Monte Blue Mofrqe Bros Jeaiile TOBONTO Imperial (S4) "Girl Trouble' Chester Fredericks Warren Jackson JuUa Curtis De Long Sis California Reds Joey Cey LK>n OttlUe Georrf 6 Thoroughbreds TANCOVVEB Orphenm (16) Miller, Peterson & L Arthur Ward Mabel Blondell WOBCESTEB PoU (24) •School Days' Milton Douglas Mary Price Freddie Craig Jr Ollle Morosco Edna Sedgwick Charley Myers Bobby Bernard Muriel Moran Arlette Toung O'Connor Bros Buster Kelm Dorothy Keim Sue St John Week February 20 At Rode Orch Acchle Glen Billy Danvers The 5 BIglns .Will Hay binkle Denton 3 Billy Denton Anna Rogers Maldle ft Ray The O-Qormnn Bros Russell, M ft J Kafka Stnnley & M Jack Pepper Co HOLBOBN Empire Flanagan ft Allen Co as booked NEW CROSS "Emipire ' Goo. Barclay Co Kate Carney Co as booked STRATFORD Empire 'Birds of Nlfihf Frank O'Brien Pkhire Theatres Chester Fredericks Uaehlgan (17) Prowni Joe B Radio Robes Beltords 'B'ployees Bntr'nce' NEW ORLEANS l4>eWs Stat* (17) Zelda Santley Victor Pelligrlnl Jndson Cple Atbenas Muriel Gardner ■Wax Museum' SaeBger (17) Joe Lewis Pa»l Small CUierntavaky PHIIiADBLPHIA rm^m (17) S S Leviathan Bd ■Pride ot Legion' Fox (17) Dave Apollon Danal Ooodell Nora Wlliams •State Fair* Kelth'a (17) Fred Ltghtner ft R 4 VanderbllU •Officer 13' _ FIXTSBUBOlI Variety (17) Nat Nasarro Jr 'Red Haired Altbl' 8T. UOVtS Ambassador (17) George Beatty King. King & K F'rsythe S'amin ft F Bdwln George Harvey L Rowley 'Devil Is. Drtrlng* : Vox (17) Wally Jackson Bdgar Gardner Helen Howell S Le Paul Myrah' Lanjr Al Lyons State' Fair* PROVNCUL Week reLmary 20 Co as booked SOVTH SHIELDS Kaplre Derlckson ft Brown Co as booked SirNDEBLAND Kmpire Albert Sandler Hary Hagan Murray ft Mooney Cabarets HEW TOBX CITT BIttmore Hotel' Panl. Whitemaa Or Jane Vance Red McKenele- Peggy Healy Irene Taylor Jaok FaltoB Jr Bamona CsBtral -rn Casine Morton. Downey Eddy Ducbin Orob OMb"M(Byfalr Millard ft AnIU Oscar Davis . Margie .Landr Hadlyn Moore Beth Cannon Lee Al Crawford Orch Mayfalr BM.utlea OoBBle'a Imm Cora Green Bobby Evans Jazzllpa Richardson P ft B Meeres Emma Smith Bessie Dudley I<llllan Cowan Red ft Struggle Slmms ft Bowie Louise Cook Willie Jackson Lucky Seven > Cotton Clob Alda Ward Henri' Wbssal Swan ft Lee Anise Boyer Roy Atkins Peaches ft Duke Brown & McGraw Nicholas Bros Leitha Hill Cab Calloway Orch Glab Blchmaa Jack Osterman Richman Rev Jerry Freeman Or Arthur Brown C ft C Herbert Francis Faye El Chlco's Du'ran ft Moreno IiOrenzo Herrera Bl Flameago Al Valencia Orch Bl Flamenclto Nina ft Moreno Marqulta Floras Ignaolo Rufflno Harta de la Torre Accordion Luis Bl Patio Beatrice Llllie Fontana & Coles Endor ft Farrell Henry King Or Embassy Clnb Georges Metexa D ft D jruegibbon Loomls 2 H Rosenthal Ore Don Carlos Oro Gypsy TraO Baroness Brssl Louis Hagedush Bthel Pastor Kokosch Gypsy Or H'lyw'd B'stanrsBt Fowler ft Tamara Collette Sis Frank Hazzard Blanche Bow < Cllmas Marquerlte ft Leroy -Theo Phane Barbara Blaae Jean Muna Ahl Vercell ft SInnott Gladys Leslie Iris Adrian Marian Martin Isham Jones Orch Hotel lexlngteM Don Bestor Orch HnirfBlr Tacht Clab Ross ft Sargent . Meyer Davis Orch Hotel Moatclair Charley Bckels Or Honte Carle Val Vestoff Vlto ft Plrl Donald Burr Medtsca ft MIctaaell Dorothy Dell James Hall Bthel Allls Nat Clab Jack White Jerry Bergen ImIu Bates Brooke Adams Bill Spencer Blanche Latell Dorothy Maxtne Al Parker Jimmy Murphy 8 Blake Sis Lew Dolgoff Joe Haymas Orch PWadlse N T G Rev Cantor's Beauts Abe Lyman Orch Paramoent Grin Ted Healy Co T Manaban Ore Parh OeatTBl Hotel RnsS Columbo Orch Hannah Williams Park Ceatral Freddie Martin Or Frances Langford Rachel Carlez 4 Sizzlers Channel Selbya Place Plgnlle Peggy de Albrew Veioz ft Yolanda B Madreguera Orch D Alberto Tangolata Hotel Peaasylvanhi Ted Weems Orch Roosevelt Hotel Guy Lombardo Or Arts Joe Morantz Orch Renee & Laura Nickolas Hadarlck Barra Blra MIsha Usanoff St. BegU Hotel Anson Weeks Orch Small's PBcadlse 'Black Rhythm* R Nyra Johnson Meera ft Norton 3 Speed Demons Geo Walker Wm Spellman 3 Palmer Bros May Alex Mabel Scott Roy White Dorothy TQmer Chas Johnson Orch Teft Grfll Geo Hall Orch The Caarda Karoly Bencze _ Zslga Bela Mme liona deTbury Karoly Nyaray Tillage Ban Brook Adams Val Vestoff FlorU VestoS Bddle Bar Kris Gerald T ft F Hoa* Byrnes ft Swansoa Slave Dance Mollf HaeOoTera Joe Parat*s Oroh Waldort-:AsCoffte Nina LaughllB Jack Denny Orch CHICAGO DIaehhawk Rose ft Ray Lyte Deane Jania Hal Kemp Orch Bismarck Ann Greenway Donna ft Darrell Jean ft Joan Frieda Sullivan Art Kassel Oroh Blue Grotto Tina Tweedle Marjorle Tate Marge ft Marie Honey. Sis Jean Miles Jaokle Daw Oroh Cafe DeAIez Alfredo ft Dolores Marie de la Vega Leola Ackman Bnrico Ciausl Dennis O'Nell B Hoffman Orch Ches Patee Collette Sis Bryan McDonald Helen Wherle Caston Llbby ft K Georgle Taps Bdlth GriflUb Ben .Potlodk Orob CoUoti Ina Fawn ft Jordan Jackie Heller Pat. Barnes 4 ' Abbotters Ben Bernie CoBgress Hotel Baron ft Blair Katya Llbby ft C Robert Rnyce Lopez Orch Fk«Uo's Tex Ouinan Gang Florence Barlow Ralph Cook Yvonne Douvler June Carroll - Bernie. Marshall Baster ft Hazelton DIolii Lane - ' Dick Rock Oroh Pk^rsMOBd Bddle Clifford Vaughn Sis Julia Lyons' Robinson ft Louise June Hurley Norma Ballard Carl Lorraine Oroh ParamooBt Anita LaPlerre Mary Nolan Peggy Moore Genevieve Hoore Billy Carr Mary Neville 8yd -liang Orch Terrace Gardens Paul sis Hagifleld S The' Daniels Alice Blue AI Kvftte Oroh Taaltx Fair Ollff WInebtll Alexander -ft 8 Doris ' LOnihaa Bobbie Cook Phil Sax Orch Via Ijige Jackie Hamlin Todd Sis PaUla -Tymes Wlkl Bird Al Handler Bd .WlBtergardca Buckley ft Bennett Miss Lydia Lovey Twins Joreska ft Lydia Frankia Masters Or MO Clnb LaHignon Johanna Nagle Jimmy Noone Orch Radioes Menace (Continued from page 39X chase sheet music when, from morning to night, there's so much of It free on the air. Music, bands. Jazz, songs, quartets, even dramatic themes with special song themes as signature -songs of Identification, In endless parade. And records. Phonograph disks are exactly 10% of what they used to be pre-radlo. No exaggeration— it's all too sad and true. Why pay for something on wax when there's so much on the air waves for noth- ing. Why bother putting a record on, turning it over, change needles or anything olse when a horn spouts and spews In generous gobs. Any favorite song hits you not once but often in the course of any session. No wonder they're so sick of a tune before long that no one wants to buy or preserve it either in sheet music or disk. As to Performers Radio has made overnight stars and killed oft many who have struggled long and hard through tedious steps tracing from bur- lesque, Gus Sun, Pantages, WMVA, Ackerman & Harris, Loew, Proctor, Orpheum, Keith and musical com- edy progressions. All this before achieving fame and distinction which, today, has made it necessary for even the Jolsons, Cantors, Pearls, Wynns, et al., to give audi- tions for soap or breakfast foods or cigaret manufacturing commit- tees of vice-presidents. Any of the above circuit heads and the showmen in those chains were names to conjure with, even before attaining Zlegfeld, White, Carroll or Shubert glorification. To- day, these same stars bandy in- timate nAmes such as' John Reber, Monte Hackett, Frank Hummert, Aylesworth, Royal, Sngles, Paley, Tormey, Seebach, McMurtrle, Klau- ber. Wonders, and the like with bated breath and even greater con- cern than with the showmen of the past. Nor do these famed ones of the theatres begrudge this bowing down to the oracles of the new theatre of the air. It's progress. Perform- ers are the first to recognize and respect progress. These very en- tertainers, for all the comforts of present-day backstage dressing room suites with private telephones, tubs and showers, know best how they had to dress enmasse with a curtain between the sexes In some of the tanks of their novltate days. Since it was progress, and a general better understanding of the per- former, made the later backstage niceties possible, that's one very di- rect and intimate equation In the interpretation of progress in 33 years of the 20th century. So when radio compels its candi- dates to go through certain motions to qualify, many may chafe, but few rebel. That they're eager to audi- tion themselves until unconscious is evidenced in plenty by the months some have spent undergoing this behtiid-the-inike baptism before il nally ooniieoUng. Breaks As Well As Makes * But ths performers are begin n!ng to recognize how this same m topus, which seemingly pays them so well ajid makes them so famoiw almost overnight. Is proving their professional undoing with almo«» the same effect »«moat They're on the air. They're in shortis. They're in feature pictures They're making personal appear,* ances. Before long they're profea- slooally played out, overdone, use- less for almost anything. But this phase is also provoca tlve pro and con. The air thlnir upped Pearl, Wynn and others not from such prominent stage antece- dents, ■ into much irreater renown than the confines of the sUges in New York, Chi, Detroit, Phllly Pittsburgh, Boston, etc., would peri mit, but whether the same good effect -win obtain some hence is subject of conjecture. At the same time radio devoiit^ everything so fast that it points tu/T the ultimate that the pace mn't^ir' The very biggest on the ether to- day soon become boresome simply because .It's not showiiianly to dlah up a new aot 62 times a year. In the past an author wrote a vehicle for an act, collected (600 ad- vance and 10% royalty for two or three seasons, only occasionally con- tributing topical quips, if It was that kind of an act, to freshen it up. But for the air a battery of authors Is trying to oijitflt a comedian with new material to run a full hour, or halt hour, when 10 or 12 minutes of good, socko script material was cause for an orgy, almost, In celebrating In the pasL Not to mention how, in former times, the comedians broke IV in oh Plalnfleld, Union Hll and south, Brooklyn audiences before subjecting themselves to the crucible of metro-, polltan judgment. Now the sam^ painstaking, cautious, timid and tim- orous funster thinks nothing of rest* ing his fate as an entertainer be- fore 20,000,000 to 60,000,000 people one n|ght e.very week and perhaps undoing himself with one fell swoop; of an inept barrage. Its being don^^, every week, 13, 26, 39 and 62 times a year. As ■ Rocket What's more, the star performer is treating the whole thing as a racket. It's all Xoo bizarre and mad, this whole thing of getting a week's wages (or more) for spouting into a mlchrophone 16, 30 or 60 minutes on one day of that week. It must^ be a racket, they say, so they're" placing their fate In the hands ot some advertising man who, when he's not trying to edify these United States, 'by courtesy of Whoozis Dog Biscuits,' also draws graphs and merchandise charts. This dog bis- cuit ezploiteer then becomes the great entrepreneur who motivates the destinies and talents of his 'slgned-for-13-weeks' talent and in those three months makes 'em do things for which these same people went temperamental on Flo, Georgle, Barl, Jake and Lee. An aerial 13 weeks can be the un- doing of a lifetime's career. Thirteen weeks is a career nowadays, some figure, especially with what radio has done to vaudeville and picture presentations. So performers aro between the devil and NBC or CBS, or the Joe Doakes advertising agency who assays to tell 'em why dog bis- cuits will not sell in Georgia if such and^such a gag were broadcast; or, perhaps, such a song, with its cos- mopolitan sophistication of expres* sion, might brook unfavorable reac- tion from the matrons of loway and Kansas. The performer, perhaps too late, may learn that his best value is apt to come from a hard-to-get attitude of properly limiting his public per- formances and not overdoing a good thing, and thus quickly , wearing out the welcome on the mat at boxofflco windows. Meanwhile, the ether lads are paraphrasing that old tune, into, 'Don't Blame It All on Radio.' Radio has evidenced the educa« tion of millions into the idea of stay* Ing home and obtaining their amuse- ment from a square box with the least possible effort—merely the twirling of dials. Its even gone further than that—it's invented con- traptions which can be parked at your bedside, on a table alongside your favorite easy chair, and even on your dinner table, so that by pressing a button it will automatic- ally change stations. And meantime, struggling against almost overwhelming odds, another scientific marvel of this 20th cen- tury, down the street, or downtown, or Just around the corner, which of- fers shadows that talk on the screen, can't begin to draw the same num- ber of people Into the theatres as before the industry of motion pic- tures learned to talk.