Broadway Barren in Music Droath
Broadway is musically barren as the Pulitzer committee’s Oklahoma prize highlights weak scores across current Broadway musicals. Weill, Duke, Dietz, Porter, and Don Walker produce limited hits, while revivals like The Merry Widow and Rosalinda offer only partial strength amid a wave of absent top-tier compositions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kurt Weill
Weill
Rosalinda
Helen
Troy
Carmen Jones
Carmen
Oscar Hammerstein II
Jerome Kern
Arthur Schwartz
Harold Arlen
Sigmund Romberg
B. G. DeSylva
Day Henderson
Broadway
Hollywood
Irving Berlin
Broadway with Walter Winchell and ROOSEVELT secrets
On Broadway Walter Winchell reports never before published Roosevelt stories from a 1930s exchange with a Republican ally. The column adjoins notes on Mark Twain’s adventures, Joan Blondell book plans, Selznick and United Artists rumors, musical hits, theater bets, and wartime social observations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Mark Twain
Alexis Smith
Joan Blondell
Bouncing Blondells
David O. Selznick
United Artists Studios
Mary Pickford
Winter Garden
Bing
Crosby
Tony DeMarco
Sally Will
Ride
Segregated Audience Recalled in Jamaica Racing Notes
Lou O Neill of the New York Mirror reported a flat bed profit of 23950 dollars on a ten dollar play at the Jamaica racing meeting. Ten winning bets among twenty one picks are cited as a Ken Kling final. Havana Madrid's Tuesday nights feature opposition-spots entertainers. Street scenes describe the Victoria hotel barbershop on West Fifty first street with a crowd of mainly men outside while Sinatra is getting a shave.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lou,O’neill
The
New York Mirror
Jamaica
Ken Kling
Havana-Madrid
Victoria Hotel
West Fifty-first Street
Sinatra
Red Cross Water Safety School Starts Monday
A Linn county Red Cross sponsored swimming school will begin Monday night in Mt. Vernon and run through Friday night. Dawson E. Grim leads the instructors with Carl Ross supervising. Ross, from Missoula Montana, teaches first aid life saving and accident prevention and is a former University of Montana swimming coach. Grim notes the program’s value for both peacetime life and for those entering the armed forces. Puppet shows historical note ends the piece.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Linn County Red Cross
Mt. Vernon
Dawson E. Grim
County Water Safety Chairman
Carl Ross
Red Cross
Ross
Missoula
Mont
University of Montana
Grim
Kiss and Tell heads to Cedar Rapids stage Monday
A long running comedy based on F. Hugh Herbert Corliss Archer stories, Kiss and Tell will be staged at the Iowa theater in Cedar Rapids for one performance on Monday May 22. Katherine Alexander Jack Davis and June Dayton headline with a large supporting cast and a dog. Tickets are on sale at the Town box office and by mail. all seats are reserved.
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Seventeenth Precinct
New York Newspaper Guild
Commodore
Jack Harris
Ernie Pyle
Paul Schoenstein
George Abbott
Iowa Theater
New York
Chicago
Australia
Hawaii
F. Hugh Herbert
Corliss Archer
Katherine Alexander
Jack Davis
June Dayton
Cedar Rapids
Arthur Hughes
Eric Burtis
Kenneth Casey
Mary Jackson
Wallace Lawder
Barbara Bruce
Edwin Cooper
John Clubley
Kirk Brown
Charles Parsons
Dog
Towa Theater
Paul McGrath
Edith Atwater
Iowa
James Gow-Arnaud d'Usseau
Horst Wessel
Germany
America
Dickie Tyler
Joan Shepard
Pickfair Sprinklers Upset RKO Stockholders
Frederick C. Othman reports on the Pickfair delay of the film That Hunter Girl at Miss Mary Pickford’s Beverly Hills estate. RKO saves a costly scene from pneumonia fears but faces a sprinkler saga with stars Laraine Day Marsha Hunt and director Richard Wallace awaiting sun as rain clouds linger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick C. Othman
Pickfair
Beverly Hills
Calif
R-K-O Radio Pictures, Inc
Laraine Day
Marsha Hunt
Alan Marshall
Alan Joslyn
Marc Cramer
Miss Pickford
Miss P
Wallace
Radio Special Salutes Mother's Day Across Networks
A Mother's Day broadcast slate features Eddie Cantor as emcee on NBC and WHO at 8 30 a m with speakers Mrs James Doolittle Dr Ross Snyder and others. Other programs include Mothers for Victory 9 30 a m on Blue with Ace relatives and performers, Hall of Fame 5 p m on Blue and KXEL, We The People 6 30 p m on CBS, Bid for Victory 1 p m on CBS and WBBM, Dist. Guest Hour 1 15 p m on WGN, and The Army Hour 2 30 p m on NBC and WHO plus summer substitutes and guest stars across major stations.
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NBC
WHO
Eddie Cantor
James Doolittle
Eighth Airforce
Ross Snyder
University of Chicago
Clara Savage Littledale
Parents Magazine
Dominick Incerto
Mothers For Victory
Carl Bong
Ace Richard Bong
Patsy Gentile
Ace Don Gentile
Morey Gertrude Parle
Ensign John J. Parle
Paul McNutt
The
Hall of Fame
Blue
KXEL
Morton Downey
Jeanette MacDonald
Frank Morgan
Milt Herth
We the People
CBS
Joseph W. Byron
Army
Special Services Division
Army Exchange Service
Eddie Dunn
Floyd Bennett Field Chorus
of Waves
Bluejackets
WBBM
Hildegarde
Boyd Raeburn
WGN
John Charles Thomas
Symphony
Riley
al Pearce
Faith
Oneee
Edgar Bergen
Walter Pidgeon
Walter Winchell
Basin Street Sterns
Fred Alien
WMT
Bob Crosby
Maupin Music
Shirer to take full CBS network spot on Sundays
William L. Shirer, former Cedar Rapids man and top Columbia network commentator, will move into a full CBS network sponsored spot effective June 4. The program airs Sundays at 4 45 p m, the same time he previously held before moving to a 6 p m slot cleared by half the CBS stations.
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William L. Shirer
Dar ‘Rapids
Columbia Network
CBS
New York
Shirer
Radio Schedule May 14 1944 Hour by Hour Cards
Hour by hour broadcast listings for Sunday May 14 1944 across WHO WMT WGN KXEL EXEL and other stations. Programs include news Horison Army Hour Bandwagon Quiz Kids Charman Hour Bob Crosby and regional music shows with morning and afternoon blocks.
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Wwmtr
Tutheran
WGN
Oorty
San Exel
WMT
John Thomas
WMT World
KXEL
Church of A
Wno World
Ware Philharmonic
Riley
WGN Lutheran
WGN Horizons
al Pearce
Oyly
Mary Valley
Jack Benny
Stone O. Exel
Pears
O Chas
McC
Exel Village Choir
EXEL
Andy Russell
WHO
Man
Pam
Foster
Bom
B. J. Palm
WGN A
Kasselo
WHO Farm
Wrship
Jerry
Zelda
Drele
V.lind'r
WGN Reveille Exel
Cowboy
Shelley
Reveille
Godwin
Rosa Rio
Sam' x. HO
Edith Webber
Mae
Jack Berch Exel
H. R. Gross
Shellie Water Pee Rams
N. V.lope
Exel Pluchvitiee
Longfellows
1540 Club
Maree
Mxel
Micre
Cadet Calisthenics and GIs Laugh at Camp Jokes
A collage of wartime service jokes and parodies from various bases. Bits poke fun at pushups rhythm, woodchopper strokes, and marching details while soldiers and officers trade quips about drills, mail, insurance, and fox holes.
Record of pace event at Drummond WGN Chicago
Fragmentary notes show a pace event at Drummond WGN in Chicago with names such as Heidi and Lewis. Mentions exel report, 10:38 pm time, and a record by War Board Ne. It references a great effort and a possible Viet 4 activity.
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Drummond
WGN
Chicago
EXEL
Heidi G Exel
Fred Warlns
Lewis
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Mary Martin
Jane Cowl
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Silver Theater
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