Music Purchases Reach Record Musical Spending in U S
New York AP reports Americans will spend over two billion dollars on music this year. Radios pianos records juke boxes and concert revenues drive the surge with high earnings from Met Opera broadcasts and top concert appearances.
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New York
United States
James E. Healy
Emby Distributors
Metropolitan Opera Company
New York City
Lauritz Melchoir
Met
Jose Iturbi
America
Cbs-Wmt
House Jameson
Edith Arnold
Max Marcin
Broadway Backstage Rumors Stir Gigs and Projects
Jack O Brian on Broadway and Sigmund Romberg curating a radio show while prepping a Hollywood adaptation of Sunny River. Monte Proser signals Copa Girl sequel with International Pictures while his wife Jane Ball recalls Copa Girl days. Ralph Bellamy takes a break from State of the Union as Ethel Smith rests in Bermuda. Peter Lind Hayes gains Broadway praise as Kaufman Johnson shape Park Avenue. Mary Healy plans career shift after Around the World. Ellington drafts tunes for The Beggars Opera in Broadway. Konni Hale arrives in New York to pursue a comic career. Mary Raye and Naldi perform a Riviera number with Bill Stern reciting poems.
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Hollywood
Oscar Hammerstein II
Monte Proser
International Pictures
Monte
Jane Ball
Ralph Bellamy
State of the Union
Ethel Smith
Bermuda
Peter Lind Hayes
Copacabana
George S. Kaufman
Nunnally Johnson
Uke Ellington
Radio Notes and Comment by Nadine Subotnik
Nadine Subotnik surveys NBC and CBS radio and NBC television listings. EAN TIGHE collaborates with Alec Templeton on a six o’clock NBC-WHO program featuring Mignon, Grieg and Filet Mignon with Daniel Saidenberg conducting. Other items note Porter music on The Robert Merrill show, The Family Hour on CBS, Alcatraz’s first broadcast, and guests like Carolyn Long Vera Brodsky Janis Paige, plus upcoming specials and personnel shifts.
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Alec Templeton
Nbc-Who
Templeton
Grieg
Daniel Saidenberg
Cole Porter
Robert Merrill
Porter
Audi
Frank Black
Family Hour
Cbs-Wmt
Eileen Farrell
Earl Wrightson
al Goodman
Alcatraz
James A. Johnston
James V. Bennett
Federal Directors of Prisons
THER
Carolyn Long
Raymond Massey
Vera Brodsky
CBS Symphony Orchestra
WBBM
Janis Paige
Warner Brothers
Barney Bigard
Abc-Kxel
Slim Gaillard
Tommy Dorsey
WGN
Roundtable Aaueaeae
WMAQ
William Shirer
WMT
Silver Theater
KXEL
Viva America
Frank Morgan
WHO
Grauer
Reynolds
James Melton Ester
Reece
We the People
CBS
Tyrone Power Swerves Through LA in Mail via Helicopter
A Los Angeles Post Office test lands a helicopter on Twentieth Century Fox lot delivering Tyrone Power mail along with Anne Baxter. Power notes most mail is bills. officials joke about future routes while pilot Lt. David Anderson and Capt. Gael Sullivan observe no mishaps after a 15 mile flight from Beverly Hills.
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Tyrone Power
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Miss Baxter
Actor Power
Henry King
Harry Tavener
Lockheed
Tavenor
Beverly Hills
Los Angeles
Michael Fanning
Darryl Zanuck
North Hollywood
Lt. Anderson
Gael Sullivan
Army
Power
Radio Schedule Highlights for August 4, 1946
A hour by hour listing from 6:30 a.m. to 5:45 p.m. covers programs on WGN WMT WMAW WIO and other stations. Notable items include News by WHO Farm Markets Queen KXEL Markets Perry Mason and Burns programs plus serials like Ma Perkins Cinderella and Be Beautiful.
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Hal Gibney
Abc-Kxel
Nbc-Who
von Zell
Gibney
Phil Baker
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WGN
WGW
WMT Farm
WGN Queen
Songfellows
WGN O Franklin
John Ken
Pam
Ma Perkins
KXEL
Hanniness
WNO
Ad Peard
Stella Dalia
Dick Bake
Lorenzo Jane
Sneak VU
Widder Brox
Johnson
Perry Mason
Sygn News
Jack Berch
Portia Wow
Rosemary
Mort
Burton
Licht
Groom
Superman
Wilson
Crosby
Exel
Terry
WMT Sports
Ann
Father Mauer
Orson Welles
Christian Br
Longmire
Ble Exel
No Man's Family
Carl
Cross
Vera Holly
Ible
EL Wesleyan
WGN Traveler
EL Veterans
Corr Btor Exel
Pettewell
Unity
NBC
WMT Licht
Couch
Chris
Br. Ap.m
Silver Theater
WMT Serenade
WGN Comics
Xixe
America EL Rev. Crawfor
Courtney
Legion Exel
God
Legion
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Stan Lamar
Adja Lenguu
WGN Lutheran
Gene Autry Exel
Frank Morgan
Sinatra
Sacred Heart
Robert Merri
Wirt Farm Forum
Reveille
Jerry
Zelda
New Lough Muncy
Dick Baker
Bud and Lou Top Success Story in Show Business Rise
By Robert H. Myers Abbott and Costello climb from burlesque to top stardom. The pair, known for their sharp timing, began together a decade ago after early breaks with Kate Smith in 1938 and built a national following through radio and stage acts.
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Robert H. Myers
Ollywood
Bud Abbott
Lou Costello
Bud
Lou
Kate Smith
Abbott and Costello: From Paterson to Hollywood Riches
In a four hour talk, Lou Costello reflects on a career that began in poverty and an MGM stint for five dollars a day. The duo now nets weekly sums well into the thousands per project while their 17 films grossed over a hundred million, with Eddie Sherman noting their expanding earnings and a generous youth foundation in a San Fernando Valley project.
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San Fernando Valley
Lou
Bud
Samuel R. Blake
California Superior Court
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