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lyBEHIND tN MHO DHLThe IV ay I Heard It.re1By Will Rict.JOE. ARK —Cousin Char-jx C'lTHER female tastes In radio ^ entertainment have changed or ^ the persistent critics of soap operas .have made their point. The cheer-'* less dramas of Life Can Be Monot-onous,” John's Other Wife,u ‘Right to Unhappiness” and the ' score of other “unforgettableST. Jley says that the only real friend is the fellow who will lend you money when you need it, He says on that score he has not one friend in the township, even the fellow who won all his money in the card game refusing to buy his breakfast. He says kind words are no good, and a pat on the back doesn’t relieve the hunger in the place where it is being manifested., obu ! It whe the tods to n feel jtim« so eh women’* have passed into theatrical limbo.;r Radio's daytime programming structure gradually is changing, ac-53 cording to a Radio Daily survey.1 e As of December 1, 1940, there was a total of sixty-one quarter hour d broadcasts daily devoted to soap lC operas by networks. At present 0 there are thirty-three. Only two d post-war additions have been made o All the dramas are on either N. B. C.or C. B S. t, It isn’t that the sponsors have e dropped out, because all the serial - barkers of seven years ago still are if on the air but with different type a shows—mystery, comedy, adven-One critic says that the mark of the educated man is to use his native tongue correstly so that he may make himself easily understood. Uncle Ike must be well educated as he can even make the old mule understand, although that shocks the women of the neighborhood. Two neighbors have so completely understood him when he expressed his opinion concerning them during the past month that he is now wearing two black eyes and a patch on top of his nose.At church Sunday the preacher took a large, beautiful peach ard a mummy of a peach ruined by brown rot and made comparisons. He said the difference was all from youthful influences. The beautiful peach in its “childhood'* had been guarded against evil Influences, fungus and worms, by careful spraying at the right time. He likened this attention to the peach to the parental care and Sunday School attendance which mold noble characters. He declared that the mummy peach had received no care to guard against Juvenile delinquency, being given no help or training to guard against the evil influences that surround it. He called the fine peach an example of a useful life and the mummy the example I of a wasted life.that a major comedy show has been made available on the basis. Kate Smith is a co-op on her Mutual series.The time and day of the program has not been determined.On tfte Radio Scene —Tony Martin’s real name is A1 Morris .. .Ginny Simms has snagged a new sponsor and will start a new show with Percy Faith’s orchestra next { ture. variety and news. The most Sunday afternoon on CBS...Shi Plays the Roli or Pamela North on Mr. and Mrs. North, Comedy-Adventuri Series . . . Alice Frost.striking example of change is by the Jlmmv wlll t„ ,soap company which is the biggest „ . . 4 ,c radio sponsor. At one time the com- scasnn when he two Sunda pany had twenty-four daily serials. cvcninK gossip programs, one on ’ Now it has only eleven. Mutual and the other on A. B C.« Probably the change has been en- He will come before and after \ couraged by the fact that listeners Walter Winchell and be able to cor-8 don’t tune as they did before. The rection Walter's correctionsaverage soap-opera rating in July was 3 8 against 4.9 in 1940.,7! During her early day* in «tage1 and radio acting, Alice Frost spe--^ialtred in authentic dialect roles, e portraying everything from Swedish { servants to Oriental royalty. The e entertainment business being what 3 it is, it should not be a surprise to ^anyone that she is best known to o radio audiences today as the typi-3 cally American Pamela North of6 the Mr. and Mrs. North adventure-^ comedy series.9 She has co-starred with Joseph7 Curtin in the scries since it started on the air in 1943. That she por-* trays Pamela’s comic uncertainty 0 so effectively is a tribute to her background as a stooge for such . masters of comedy as Walter 0 O’Keefe. Stoopnagle and Bud, Bob a Hope. Fanny Brice, Ken Murray and the late Robert Benchley.2! Born in Minneapolis some thirty-2 five years ago, she will not say ex-3 actly, the daughter of a Lutheran a minister, Alice had theatrical as-o pirations at an early age, ap-n pearing in amateur productions as - early as 10 years old. During high, 2 school days in Mora, Minn., and 7 later at the University of Minnesota she was active in student dra-p matlcsGeorge Burns and Gracie Allen will return to the air September 4. . Comedian Henry Morgan will make his screen bow in “So This Is New York.’* . . . Jackson Beck, featured regularly on Counterspy, is the voice of Bluto on those ccreen cartoons. . . . Lum and Abner will switch to C. B. S. September 29. . . . Jack Armstrong and Sky King thrillers will go to 30-minute stanzas late this month and each episode will be complete. . . . “We Went Back,’’ a documentary* on the second anniversary of VJ-dav will be broadcast on C. B. s. at 8 o'clock this Thursday night. . . . Fred Waring may have a nighttime show during the regular season if a deal with an electric sponsor goes through.5i The Chautauqua circuit offered1 Alice the first professional engage-; i. ment as the gold-digging Lorelei , in “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.”I, [2 Then came stock company parts / ;8 and Broadway and some fifteen io year* ago she entered radio.;2 As the star of Big Sister sev-i2 eral years ago she met Willson [2 Tuttle, director of the show, and :o they were married In 1941. Tuttle •o now is vice-president and co-di-53 lector of radio for Ruthrauff Ryan, Inc., a big advertising ^ agency.Abbott and Costello have Joined the transcription parade and will oecome the second big-time program to go on wax. 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Kansas City, Missouri, US
Wed, Aug 13, 1947
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