Variety (Jul 1940)

'AitBOTT AND'COSTELLO jWlth Beiwy- Venuia» PeUr Van :Stce(len Q rchestra • ■ Comedy, Sdries, Band SO Mins. ; IP ANA-SAL HEPATICA ' Wednesday, 9 . p,in; ' WEAF-NBC, New Tork F^ed Allen has retired froini this «pbt arid Mdie Cantor, will move into it in October. In betweeh there are 13 weeks and Bud Abbott arid iibu. Costellb. Pair have come up in shoW business the hard but / firm way; with help from. the. Rate Sriiith revile: This is the first timie theyVe • had. theii: . own prbgrarn, 5 thieir previpu's niike 'servitude being ; confined to the -Smith, show. Abbott I arid Costellb's ; initial .effort (3); on • theirVowh rjiri from belly \ylipppers V to away off the laiigh lih.b, but the i perfbrrriance in ; general, was quite ; proiriisirig. They should Keep Bris-, : tol-Myers pei;ip.d well warmed, :up and, in the interim, ;tl(evel6ip> them- . seiyes into an iritegrated piece Of . radio-propierty. -. -- Now that they are oh thtir own, AiibPtt arid Costello.. could' reject a .; lot of those hbldbvers from the 23rd ■; St. Grand Opera House,- or ait least . -bring 'crn tip to date. ; A. case in ' point is-th^t gag; about: mounted po.-. : lice arid thie re.ioinder;; -1 didn't know. theiy were .stuffing copis these days? This nugget was at the lore part of. [ the. show but as the; boys really got linwound .arid . started io pour on. some corking lauji^h; material this : one, apd a few ■others, wer§ easily i fprgiyen.' ..Their, highpoint of .delivr '; ery came with the intrbductiob of V: 'The Genius bf -the Week/ This " twist is : :n i fty. bne ahd allows" Gos^: teUb to make his style of-.cj?.rn6dy • ^ell in a big way. .The guest fo^ this ' particular ^^xchabge :was young :;. fellp\w who h.as invested in a musical f: typewriterv/br Typo^tone. : Beriay Vrxiita .lurnished pleiasant ■' listening-during the time takeri out !'■ for vocals. She had .t\yo such in- ! nings and they sufficed to shOv*^^ that --she can make them spund. distinc- iively her pwn , ' and; impressive 'I whether it's ia tutrent. rpniantic pop such ias:'Say It,' or ft Dixie rouser of 'u the 'Tennessee Fishfry' .school, Peter Van SteediBn.:gpt in at least • one .nifty orchestration. ' . 4 ' The cbmmercials pri' Jparia and Sal. : Heipatica disclosed^ ■ Usual Y&R flair. . fbr smart sugarcoating, iriterpola- i-i tio^i arid phrasing; Odec. Dubious Reward : . Edward MurroW, chiel of CBS' 'European staff, - in- his broad- . cast from Londcri -yesierday mbrriing (Tuesday) included an item which got a chuckle ,from the radio trade. Murrow ; wa^^^^ : telling; about; a;/story;. ; about Major Quiislirtg, 'ftblori'ius Nbi--, wegian Fifth Cblumriist,' carried in that mprning's issxMJ <»f the VLondpn Expr)essv :V. t''^ .'rhs.Expi'ep^ wrote, .siiid :Mur- irbwi;: that^ all thiat Quislirig's / . treachery hsd brought him ■was a job {is ' icicai hews .cbriimen- . {tatpr; and that he;is now <{oing , broadcasts f rom . Oslo try irig to get ' the Norwegian, pebplp tO. setnt! down, under; Hitlen- 'The . Express- irtiplies,' added: Muf rpw, 'thai Cjuisling : as.. a . radiP com- , mehtatbr. has. iricleed., reached ? low statibn/ iri life.' :;if ';!( .15! a.. •HOLLTWOOb DREAMS^^ With Ted Steele, :Phyllii> Jeiih Creorc Songs, Novachord , 15 Mlins.^LOcal : EOMAN MEAL FLO,I}B iTaies.-Thnrs., .11 a.m.,. 2. p.m. .: ' WABG,' atyr.Totlc: . One Of those 'sohg story' set'^ups,. this onei has- Bob and: Molly, who work in. a summei: hbtel as, it .ap- pears, waitress and, wailer-^b'ut mu- sicial. They: are very ."anxious to please a. Mrs. Allen, who likes their Rp.ngs. The cbntiriuity is simple, but riot so i simple that. it doesn t ioccai-' sibnally seem a bit : unriecessary, sirice the triiie excuse of the program is the music. : However, the ways of daytime programs are alvirays strange and dialog may be iesteeme'd. simply because it dialog; arid supposed to be the way to a-wbmari's hieart; ■ And before singing a song the boy must whisper about takiflg a yralk in the' mopnllght after the dishes are; done. Ted Steele's riovachbrd and singihg is .supplemented by the singing of Miss Creore. ' They warble 'Little Gray Honiie in the We.st' or '*My'Blue Heaven,' or :others of that kind. The cohnriiercfal sells a thinning kind of bread- which . Barbara Stanwyck liever fails to .serve at her table ih' Holly wopd. ■ The ililhi cplony is much stressed on the . stay*'glamorous- around-the-waistline-approach. , . Steele is jpartly in and partly out of character and it would seem'pos- Eible . that, some listeners would be confused where the ifnake-believe begins and ends. He talks at the public directly, and then about the public'to the igiVl. Land. •MUSICAL\ivitSTEIIliES' With Melviii Elliott, David Stone ; ;: 30 Min>7-Locar''^'-. ' Sustaining Mchd.iy, 6:30 p> wi. WINS, ;NeW York.;, One 'of the innuriierable musical quizzes, this oriie hasn't been, helped by . the swarm of sbniewhat parallel offerings thati have .sincie sprbuted arpund the. ozone. ^ Still, it remains Teasonably ariiusinjg: novelty: re- .quiring riij.nimum putlaiy; Currently prigiriating at the -New Yprk; 'Wbrldls Fair; , the program of- fer!? three .problems. :£or the candi- dates from the studio audience and a fpurth for the listeners. Brief drainati/ed situation, then a musical 'clue.' tatter- is recorded,; while the: background music is supplied by an organ. Correct guessers i receive a {)honpgraph r«!CPrd thev select, while, psers ihi sympathv.. ■ "Thb.se corraled in the studio for the edition caught. 'XD. must/Jiavie been out of the morbri exhibit '■ Show- ;is .the ,bfain-offS|j(ring of. Alexander teftwich. Jr., with Melvin . Elliott -a.s m. c. and David Stone as annouriicer., -Arid by way of mys- teries, there's a break of abbiit five minutes at the halfvvav mark,. With some bozb -spielirifir off a flock of horse tesults; It's, fust clariky «riough to ,have been suggiested by ■ <ine of those, dimwits Of ,the. stiidio. sudiehce.; . • Hobe. DAVID BRQEKMAN ORCHESTRA Wltiii Frances Lariftfoird, Kenny ; Baker, Jimmy. WaJUnglqn- Music,'Songs': Sd^.'Miiis..: ; ■ ■;;/■:■:■ -TEXACO . Wedriesday, :9 p.m. : ^WABiC-CBS^'Ne>y::.1'.ork . '{Buclianun} The cbriclusiori was '-. ine!;capa.ble following the -.first- i broadcast i Ijaist, Wednesday (3) of the Texaco sum- mer - fill-in series tha t; the . program's producer was tionfinin.e himself to stopwatch-watching. . H^^ was ' prer sumably unaware : of; br indifferent tb, the spund ■ vplume. ' Seldom :has there pccurred i .a major iiel'wbrk spprisbred entertainment such :a batr tie between orchestra and singers as that Which David : Brbekriiari, fbught out with Frances Langford -and Kenny Bake/;. , each iin t.urn. Brbek*- niari opicned ifp his: big guns and suc- tessfuUy fiddled While the singers may havie,been burning and, if npt,. certainly Were fizzling. . It in variably must bring up the question of wheth- er High-priced^ isingers are. sujpposed to be heiard or the orchestra. " It would certainly be imderstateriienti to describe": the aggressive selfrasser- tion of Brbekman's cbnducting as an accompahimerit. ' It was not a bridge, but a dam, he . built. • 'The; conflict startleid almbist imme- diately, .with; ; Prances . Langford's 'Blue Love Bird,' •was more prb- nbunced with ■-The Wbodpedter Sbnp.', as, forced .through left tackle; by ' Baker, aiid- in;' 'Make Believe island' the fighting fiddles ; were jbihed by Ibw-flying electric guitars. The .orchestra came in iand over like high tide in an bff-sea -wind, every time the voices, braced for a reach, 'The prbgrarn was unrestrained and unedited iri other . departments, too.; Ilhe inpidental talk /was ;tpo glaringly, just that—incidental talk. A long, rather pPintless3rionolog by Baker was cpncierned with an alleged recpl-' lectibh. Of ihe . day • When he, aged eight, .wrapped up 5Pme peanut but- ter saridwiches to seeki out an jsiland. The imagiriary island deyelbped into' a nearby vacant lot, where presently a small, boy's;hut wais-in process;of creatiPn. Along came ,a : girl- (Miss Lan.gfprd), who wished to join, the gang and make pink curtains for the hilt. It all enocd with a drooling re- mark that one's own backyard is best after all. " Or peanut butter . sand-' wiches gather .no irrioss. ''...' ;. Kenny Baker's: speaking voicie (npw 'that he is:straighting and. nbt stppgirig) is hard to place in terms of characterization.' . Since there is con- siderable talk on the program about France."! Langford being married' to Jori Hallv there is no script pretense of rbmantic interest between sopriaho and tienor.; Miss Larigford's deport- ment is, ori the whole,' that of aii adult but Baker is either directed or self-olaced On an uncertain ajge level.. He sounds like Penrod grbwh old enough to take up radio log-roll- ing.- . It, is a boyish i-ath^r than a manly perspriality that; is pairited. Spme rriay fancy that kind of a bby^ Others yery eniphatically will not . : In a half hoiir. that; Was pretty un- haijpy, Miss: Langford perhaps was the least scathed. - Hei:s is primarily a cute pop style and in: that range hier authority as a stylist is consider- able. HoWever. her 'Summer TTiriiie' from 'Porgy and Bess' seemed a thip :arid:bverly-pretentibuE striving. She and Baker gerierated some agreeable harmbhy, ph.'Sweet Laliilia.' . Coriimerciaily ■ the : prbgrarn was notable for; the nice gesture to Can- ada (and ':the- tpurist. trade) and- for the Texaco emphasis . Upon its isu- peribi* lavatories. Jimriiy Wallingtori presides for the; sponisor. Land.. • •AMERICA SINGS' Wi»h Meredith wHlson Orcheetra, I Cliff Nazarrb, Kay Si. Germain, Ray Hendricbs Miislc,-.Talk\;. ;.v-- • 30 -lVIins.: ■■ JOHNSON'S WAX , : Tuesday, 9:30 p,m, WEAF'NBC, New York : (Needham, Louis & Brorby) Pacific Coast musical cbnduiEtpr Meredith Willspn. special izes on the older pbi)s, ispccializatiox) in his .case riieahirtg ;shining them up. like j>n Athenian fruit peddler shiries up his apples. The resMlt in term.s bf .sum.- mer ;;eritertaininent is. ve.iy ...bright and -attractive.'; .;. - ■ • '■■ '.. • Proving ariew that it s not what you do, but -how you do ,jt, WiJlso.n makes-the familiar stuff take on a fresh lustre due to the arrangements arid the .style; of..stringing ■ nunibers tbgethier in groups.; He leads: the ear and the meinory into .shaded wiMow grbves, into nostalgic canoes in sum- mer mobnlight; It's all pretysohdly agreeable, an .effect encbuiragcd by the srnall' and un-Strc^sed' doses of talk', i The talk is in-part. ;:smartly written explanation by Willspn of what he offers, pairtly the; 1 ight spoof- ing bt Cliff Nazarrb (playing a busy- bbdy NBC production .si pervisor ) arid partly a; judicious definitibn. of the merits of the Car-Nu wax which the Johnsbriians;manufacture. For vocal interludes: .the program eommarids Kay St. Gerriiain, whose voice is faintly sultry, aiid Ray Hen- dricks, Who always wbrkrriahlike. The orchestra arid the ;.s.ingers tOss off such 'folk sori.^s of tomorrow' .(a.s: Willsori calls , them) as-'Carolina in the ;Morriing,' ■ 'Mis.souri Waltz,' 'Valencia.' 'Down on. the Farm,' 'I'll Get By,' 'All the Things You Know' and 'Melancholy ■ Baby.' Huriibers are played- first,, announced in .the pbstscript. ; ;. : Land. . €an-t Laugh Here : HpUy>ypod, July ». Discouraging laughs at a; com- edy show is the unorthodox procedure followed by Producer William :N. !Robson On the Wood- bury Playhouse sumriier series. He ha$. decreed against,a slU- dib audienee : for: the Jim Ameche-Gale .Page serialiiiatioh. of 'Prbmbting PrisciUa' the tbebry. that audience chuckles ithrbw tbe player? o|P ih e pace. : M 'ADVENTURE IN READING' . With Lcif Ericksbn 30 Mins.. Sustaininc ; Monday, 10:30 p.m. ■ W.TZ-NB.G, New York •The networks continue' the task.ol ihtellcctualizing t h e i .r . sustainers. This new series: alternates .scripts by Helen Walpole arid Zachaty Metz on Monday evenings.; ;The; themes; deal with writers and. their lives and be-;- gan with Lord Byron,' the impulsive English poet and libertyrlover, who; a; century arid rtiore ago,: went to. Greece to help the people throw off the sultan's yoke. :;;:. This script held passages of yigor-. ous. writing and hadi ari^ odd sort of character, despite certain faults. The latter included a haze that o.ver-lay the Whole' brpadcast. :'It Wa.^, pos- sibly like. Byron's:.life, not; very con- clusive-.: Chronible-type ■ narration has .that danger; at all times as di.s-; tirict frOrii sheer inVentibn, which can adhere to. the rules, of starting some- where, going somewhere. arid eriding somewhere. ' ■ ■■.:■ . ■ Th'e' .pplitics of the Greek ;rev6iii- tion, the wraith-like nature of the Unidentified; 'prince' and the story briidges w.ere iridistihct tbrbughOut The program burst into flame only wheri, Byron, .played, arid : Well, by Lief Ericksori,: had something rather fine to say. The .half-hoiir opened on a note of etnotional .intensity, the tarijgent of Byron ia's :he Watched- the funeral byre on an Italian beach of the: poet Percy: Shelley. The; tern-; pestiiotis riatUre of thie man Was well conveyed.. Less clear, because abrupt in intrpductibn, was the scPrn and abuse he ppured upoh his companion ahd^ fellow-mourner, Leigh Hunt. Hunt was the symbol of.the English respectables th^t had exiled Byron,, but in the unfpldment this was r.3ther like a quarrel between twb.strangeis pverheard by a chance pedestrian. The drama of the quarrel is present, but. not the explanation, not the roots. In many programs that set out consciously, tb deal with literature and the literati, the missing element is editirig. Actually the choice of Byron was' plausible; There were melodrarnatic phases of bis life that seeriied basic ; radio'. Cohipared to a Herbert Spencer or a Ralph W^ldo Emerson, whose lives; Were almost Without dramatic incidierit, this By- rOii was Sunday supplement Lijnd,' Id Saiiiinis Oiiits CBS ■ Edward: Ri ::Samriiis^ bf. the inagszine divisipn; :iri CBS' press der. pahment, is -joining the New; York staff Of Look magazine Monday- Q as an associate, editor.;; Samriiis caroe' with Cplumbia seven yearis and Iwas responsibie for, the; ince{)tion of the web's, iriagazlne' diyisi.ori.' " Before, that hfe wais eastern editor of ■ tht^ Fiawcett publieatioris,: PEARSON and ALLEN With Mrs. F. D. R^iosevelt ■talk;-. ^:; :■ .30 Mins.-'. : J. Bi; WILLIAMS ; i ; Mondey/:8:30: p.m.. .: WJZ^NBC, New York ; (,^,; Waiter .TltOTHpson) ■ It imay. br may not become a; mat- ter of embarrassment- to NBC, the Williams Gompariy; or. the. wife of the President of the United States, that two Washington : jburnalists. hi the . presumed " presence of . Mrs, Roosevelt Who had just appeared as their guest: speaker,.. bluntly ; pre-, dieted the defeat Of. Great Britain by the Nazis. This istatement cbuld. hardly have failed to please permari propaganda -agents and was in no wise lessened; as ,a contribution to defeatism b.v, the: fact that the pair 'regretted^ their ,cbnvie;tipn, thoped* it wasn't true and added at the end; the qualifying phrase .'if aid doesnlt cbme.-' •.•:';;■■'; ■ -•■ jNfBC spurces were, repbrtied.: ari- hbyied at Pearsbh.and Allen.preserit- irig therid with such- a .>Our bit bf comment on the very, first; prograin. NBC had previously beeii disinclined to Okay the pair/because of their ;crack :;about . ex-president Herbert -Hoover: in 'their, radio,: series laSt winter. However, pbjectiPris were, withdrawn because of fear of be-, ing charged' with ..'ceri.sbrship.' : The J. Walter.. Thompson bunch ; lalso reported ; to .have :had. nothing to. do~ With picking the, pair,; the choice be- .irig made directly by the sponsor.' ' It IS this' fear of interfering with free speech that- protects: Ariierican radio commentators in thei'i' .inalienr .'able 'i;ight to pretend ..to inside in- fprmatipn bn anything ; and; every- thing arid tp.peddle this for a prbflt PearsOri arid Drew in their 'predic- tions', are similar; to ;Transradio's slicie of Sunday .supplement sehsa- •tipnalism called 'Confidentially .YburS'- arid also tb the. v eve-popping dis- closures Of Wythe Williams. It's a kind Of 'broadcasting:: that the ^ net- wbrks don't like, but certain advei:- tisers don't ihind. In the; midst bf: greater problems besetting a. troubled arid confused humanity not much note perbaps Will be: taken bf commentators in ia demociracy ; who, for'-ari . attentiorir getting stunt, echo, the sentiments Of Berlin with ah a.pplogetic 'this hurts us more than: it does .you.' SUch are the times We live in. Then, tobi there's the current be- lief that bad news is realism, any- thing srnackirig of optimism is stig- matized as. 'wishful thinking,* > -'-. Land.; ;. ednesday, July 10, 1940 'WINGS fOR AMERICA* With ElUra Lamdi, Phillips Holme*, Willl«ni Green, Verne Smith, . Lewis Kroffman, Bret; Morrison, Lester Podwell, Pierre Andrr, Harold Stok98 Oreh. Serial SustAinlDf 30 Mins. Friday, 7 p.nA. WGN-MBSi ChiCRKo Written and directed by Blaiir WalUseri. this program hais -semirtie- up with the Chicago' Sunday Tri- buiie's Graphic Sectibn which will also carry the weekly story in nar- rative prose along with, pictures.: Nbt to be confused with 'Wii^gs Over America' series on NBC, program is, pure hbke; fiction and purports to expose the activities of the fifth col-, lunri in America. As plot and litem- ■ ture its strictly,: Sunday.; supplement but highly patriotic thenie is keyed for^ the present American temper. As such it is plausible radio that may garner attetition.. . -.; It tells the story .of' a radib girl Commentator and a. newspaper, re- porter (with \ an eye on the tie-up between the' Chicago Tribune .and its WGN), with the first epi.sode de- .scribing the theft of deferise plans by spies and the harrow escape from death, fbr the!, girl who is rescued by the reporter. Girl is locked ' a. gas-filled chamber ;but .brings, aid by sticking a hatpin in . electric Wire and ishbrtrcircuitinig , a ' Morse code call fpr help pn a florist shop's electric sign, .. which is seen by'.the reporter who;is cruising around witli- a police car.-looking for the girl. (It: happened iri pictures, and ribw it's happeningin radio/) Fortunately,, this prbgrarn - is protected by a tag from the announcer istating that ihe shbw. is .purely .flctionai: and that n:p depiction of actual events per-; son.s■ is intended. '■-': .;, Show should: snatch off «. good share of ■. listeners, particularly among, the ybiirigsters arid ; the.; ad-, venture magazirie readers. As: for. the femme audience, .this is a .que.s-. tion accbrding to the" present set-up of the program. Thriller was paced but rather la* bbribusly on the first episode, with plenty of mix-Up of music cues, dia- • log, police 'whistles arid police radio. and other'factors. But for. all that, it: kept riibving ; forward and man- aged to breathe thrbugh the loud- speaker sbirie of the excitement and pace that was: intended, i ■ ; ' Ciast was suitable,; turning - in un- derstandable stuff and handling their lines satisfactorily. Writing- was to: the point, with no attempt at ch.aracterizatibhi; the . entire energy being loosed en simple and straight- forward plot development; It's' rather a pity that the reporter char- acter -Was not built more, since basi- cally the hero-reporter, has a ' hold Ori the iriiaginations of the! American puWic. . . He ,iS' : an iriimediate pro-; tagoni.st and-.ari iridiyiduality ; could, easily be arranged for hini. Gold.; MOTOR CITY MELODIES , With Don Large Choir, Cyril Weze- mael. Bill McCulIou^h Musical ' . "•■•:.. z^',; 30 Mins. ;..,•;. ;■-■.- Sustaining .'-, Saturday, 1:30 p.ro. WABC-CBS, New York :. ■ This prpgi^arii from WJR, Detroit, is not hew, but has sonie new, per- -sbrinel. , There was lot ' that was pleasant in the 30 minutes last week, coming shortly before the blare , of daily baseball, Studip .orchestra: accented' the strings. Dbn: Large chbii' arid vocal soloists mixed up the songS nicely. Highlight of the Saturday (6) pro- gram, however, Was the last-half presentation of 'Ballad for Ameri- carisi' with Cyril Wezemael, bari- tone, as;soloist in front of the mixed chorus. He's not quite as robust as. Paul Rpbespn, whp .intrpduced this inspired cpmposition on the. air soriie months ago, but Wezemael gave a good accbunt; of himself apd the tough. a.ssignment ■ Another neat chOral'fendition up; ahead was 'Casey Jones.' . . //■ [. . • Bill McGullough was e very un- derstandable announcer. • Seho. Sdturdiiy Shows .Cohtinued from page 23, plbit the. two or three hours immedit ately ahead, of that supposed moment when, just before noon, the house- wives in their myriad; millioris. set forth, basket in hand for the week end provisioning. Sales prorii'otiori idea; involved was that this Was the ideal time for advertised goods to whisper, into the shoppers ears. Although the full CBS network Is hpt. in operation coast to coa.st until 11 a.m. because of the time zone differential most of the eastern and midwestern statipns are expected: to Clear for the new CBS quartet of Saturday morning programs. Build- irig Up Saturday mbrning is a fairly general ambition of all .stations, but the average rietwprk affiliate is not thought to have . any particular.; Wish to attempt local •piroduction.s. The commercialization piL Saturday .morn-, irig via the network Would probably be strictly Okay. Heretofore this un- commercial time has been .filled with: standard' filler program.sy littleVcalcu- .lated ■ to attract sponsorship. Arid not related to a general, balanced program schedule. CBS new sched- ule (see radio reviews this issue for critical comments irictudes the fol- lowing: . . 9:30^'Let's Be Lazy,' with Tprii Moore, Dale Evaris;. Caeser Petrillo orchestra '(from WBBM, Chicago)— Light comedy rioyeUy arid musical program. .' • iO—.'Honest Abe', with Ray Middle- ton. Standard .patriotic drama: 10:30 — Welcome Lewis' Singing Bee. A hpoked-up quiz, not taking itself or questions tpo seriously. De- signed for laughs. -. ; . . -. 11—Five minutes of News. . ■ ; 1I:15—"The Old Dirt Dobber,' a talk series f rom WLAC, NaShyille^. aimed at the selective (but larg^) audience of amateur gardieoers,. EVELYN LAYE With Charles Heslop 40 Mins. Sunday (16) 9:20 BBC, London Billed as a biography, show cariie,. out as a sohg recital—a lot of Eve- lyn Laye, but fbrtunately, she could ising all night and no listener'd kick. First half of show was given over to reprise numbers, 'the Way audiences would want me,' was the' manner in which Miss Laye described it; for the second stanza she'd do it her way. The audience wori, if only be- cause the reprise numbers had that certain class, with the jest so-so and uncomplimentary tb singer. ; . She went hard agrbund in a point- less sketch, presumably developed to show that Miss Laye could par- ley the Cockney. She better hadn't -rnot with material bf that calibre. Heslop served as cb-parther in, the show, feeding the stellar name into recollections of her warbling arid .stage parts; Her best novelty Was in a satirical lyric around 'Hate tO Be a Glariior Girl.* Miss Laye has, recently entered cabaret arid, on the ether occasion;- iridicated irii- pending film. •yf-f ♦ .♦♦ ♦♦♦ » ♦ ♦ V V a. * ♦♦'♦•-♦ 44 Telcvisioii Review EUGENE JELESNIK With Eduard Futran, Charlotte Clair Tristraniehtal, Daricinc - Friday, July 5, '40 NBC-RCA, New York -.. This 'cbriibinatibri,: Of Continental eritertairiment reacted pleasantly on the eye and ear, Eugene Jelesnik, gypsy .violinist, did a returri (engage- ment before the electric' eye but this time he was backed up by a three- piece unit consisting of a piano, a 'cello and a marimba. At intervals he was relieved by :Eduard Futran, specialist on the aCcordion, while Charlotte Clair Came in for a fa^t batch Of pirouettes.- It was a smooth sample; of radio photography all around. .■:■■ - . ■: ■• Jelesnik's repertoire rari the gamut of gypsy melodies. Continental waltzes .and,exc.erpts> from; operettji,. Futran, who photographs like a Val- entino, also . vocalized a ' medley of < Spanish, French, Dutch, etc., num- bers.,■■ . Odea