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Kingsport Times Page 7 SiCy Nov 2 1941 Ghekhov Studio Presents 'Twelfth Murder A La Mode Formula For Carleton Morse Thrillers There are waits' between scenes In the Michael Chekhov bov producer and director found production of "Twelfth' to the 80iution to the anathema of be presented' here Tuesday as the producer of Shakespeare final dramatic offering of Cbm-! the many scene shifts and the long dull waits imposed by them on an audience munity Programs Inc Murder a la mode piping hot each week by Carlton Morse is the menu for Love a Mystery" As has been the case since Love a first went on the air in 1939 the principal characters are Jack Packard brains of the A-L Detective Agency and its master of strategy: Doc Long the long-legged red-haired Texas cow Radio Roundup Enemy Within' Bares Australian Fifth Columnists "The Efcemy a smashing expose of the Natl Fifth Column in Australia goes on the air twice (Weekly beginning Tuesday November 4 The timely story of how the Australian Secret Service broke up the spy ring and saboteurs will be heard each Tuesday and Thursday at 7:15 over WKPT i Jack Benny and his gang of pranksters will be involved in the aftermath of a wild and woolly celebration when they take to the airianes via NBC-WKPT tonight at 7:00 EST Indulging their desire for childhood devilment Jack Mary Don Phil and Dennis put sedate Beverly Hills in a state of confusion with hob-goblins cornstalks pumpkins and ghosts Rochester is the sole member of the cast who fails to enter into the spirit of the party because of an inherent aversion to spooks and Spookey doings The Barions i Jane Webb (Midge Barton and Dick Holland Bud 1 Barton are featured on THE BARTONS a five-aweek serial heard over Station WKPT at I 11:30 a Monday through Friday '0 Although there are eleven scenes the curtain is lowered only once for an intermission during the entire show The transactions between scenes become an integral part -of the dramatic movement of the play without a break or letdown in its rhythm 'or cadence The change of scene flows with the beat of the play There are no shifts from scene to scene but rather transitions from mood Jto mood All scenery is moved by the actors right in front of the audience So deftly is it woven into the movement rhythm and mood of the play that the audience is scarcely aware of the method by which the change of locale is effected Scenes are moved from indoors to a gar-denrto the street and-back again tcyyricrs Treesa give way to thves before very eyes and it is all part of the action of the play One scene blends into another with the swift ease attained in modern movies This new treatment of an old technical problem permits of continuous action throughout the play thus gaining pace and providing novelty The attention of the aud ienee is never distracted by the physical limitations of the stage It in his artistic approach to the comedy that Michael Chek- The touring company of the Chekhov Theatre Studio has covered a large part of the Atlantic coastal area of the United States and a section of the' Southwest since it began its touring activities in Albany in October 1940 The tour is regarded with unusual interest in theatrical circles where it is considered unique in many respects For one -the repertory of plays was directed and supervised by a former of the First and Director of the Second Moscow Art Theatre Michael Chekhov the director and guiding genius of the Chekhov Theatre Studio Associated with him in directing the repertory was George Shdanoff Co-Director and Alan Hafkness Assistant Director to Mr Chekhov Another respect in -which the tour differs from others lies in the fact that the scenery costumes and props for the entire repertory were designed and executed by members "of the company faculty and students at the Chekhov Theatre Studio in Ridgefield The Chekhov Theatre! Players were seen in New York io 1939 in dramatized at the studio by George Shdanoff from Marge Absent As Myrt Celebrates Tenth Radio Year boy who can admire a pretty ankle pick a lock or win at poker with eqba facility and Reggie York the giant Englishman who is the youngest member of the modern three masketeers and whose brawn is invaluable in the fights which just naturally seem to break out whenever he 'Is in the offing As usual they will be played by those talented actors Michael Raffetto Barton Yarborough and Walter Paterson The three comrades met in Shanghai two and a half years ago and have been inseparable ever since Their' adventures live up to the slogan of Murder a because is the most powerful word in the English language" he says something to conjure with in Which brings us right back to the reason 'why Morse is called because he has spent most of his 30-odd years as cowboy student columnist and radio writer just sitting back and listening to folks A Vifcr iltt talk Criminals celebrities bril Hants bores and Just plain folks somehow keep from telling him their troubles and ambitions Morse listens and then passes on hls discoveries to the listening audience If whet he is hearing ia new him mind automatically stores it away for future use? if it Is an old story he watches the way it is told and the reaction it has upon its teller Morse is a big deliberate fellow who somewhat resembles the char acter of Doc Long in Tiis story Born in Louisiana he was brought up on an Oregon ranch educated at the University of California and has been police reporter copy reader featurq writer columnist and book critic on a number ef important Pacific Coast newspapers Patient quiet and unassuming he shows a tremendous capacity for hard work as well as an amazing knowledge of human nature So far he has written 1500000 words for "I Love a without-repeating himself once WKPT Announces Program Changes To the soothing accompaniment of ASCAP music returning to the air after a ten-month interlude WKPT announces the streamlin- ing of programs in the early evening period effective Monday November 3 i The missing from the schedule for the past month will return to the air in the 5:30 spot Monday through Friday will turn in his spectacular feats fifteen minutes earlier at 5:45 Monday and Friday The daily 15-minute review of United Press news heard heretofore at 6:15 will be presented at 6:00 The thrice-weekly Own- 1 programs will continue to be heard ok Tuesday Thursdays and Saturdays' at 5:55 five minutes earlier than in the past the works of Dostoyevski At the tour was prepared which now in cludetf Cricket on the Hearth" and an American fantasy for children by Michael Chekhov and Arnold Sundgaard close of the Broadway run Mr Chekhov and his associates decided that they should appear before students and lovers of the drama who seldom find opportunity to view New York productions A repertory for am extensive Toscanini Reconsiders Retirement 1 Takes Up Baton for Another Season I Diqah Shore Makes Solo Debut 01 NBC tonight Dinah Shore raven-haired songstress of whom it has been said music but also to all listeners who Ten years ago tomorrow Myrtle Vail and her daughter stood before microphone in Chicago nd broadcast the first and program And still the series originated i and written by Myrtle Vail herself is heard over the Columbia network Mondays through Fridays I (CBS 10:15 to 10:30 am EST) Last February the sudden death of daughter Donna Dam-erel who was the Marge of the script brought deep personal tragedy to Myrt andthe young friends but true to the tradition of the stage the show and its star carried on Helen Mack of the movies was enged to fill the role of Marge The story continues the adventures of a theatrical mother and daughter 'More than 2644000 words have been poured into the typewriter since the day Myrt pawned A diamond ring to buy new Clothes to wear to her first broadcast Myrt had been on the stage since she was fifteen having started as a chorus girl in a musical production called When the depression swept away her savings in 1930 Myrt created the radio version of her own life back stage Still with her from the Chicago company is Ray Hedge as the flut-tery Clarence Tiff ingtuffer Others in the cast are Arthur Elmer as old friend and newspaper columnist Bill Boyd little Betty Jane Tyler who has the role of Midgie daughter Raymond Edward Johnson as wealthy Jim Barnett and William Pod-more who portrays John Ficken seek musical form beyond rhythm Bhe strikes fireJ by rubbing twQ and yf re I te will be heard over the Nationwide NBC-Blue Network cording of it by Power Biggs on Harvard New York Arturo Tos-S canini who at the age of 75 has shown symptoms of wishing to retire has reconsidered and will conduct this season in York Philadelphia and Washington The maestro who 'said farewell to the New York Philharmonic-Symphony at a gala concert on April 29 1936 conducted the National Broadcasting Company Sym Foot In a radib play adapted from a Warner soon-to-be-released motion picture of the same name will be presented by Cavalcade of America-Monday November 3 at the usual curtain time 7:30 EST Fredrfc March and Florence Eldridge will be the featured players This Cavalcade story as far from the formula of most radio dramas as the title implies will tell of a person and his typically American family Typical in that they laugh at the same things share the same joys and sorrows and have the same problems as most families in the United States Joan Davis the slapstick comedienne will send a few verbal blowd in the direction of John profile when she returns for another guest appearance on the Rudy Vallee program next Thursday November 6 at 10:00 EST over NBC-WKPT The quip-silly Miss Davis who is known on the screen for her rubber-legged impersonations will take part in a comedy sketch to be presented as Haunted one of those nightmarish affairs described by Rudy as Freud might The sketch more precisely is a take-off on the filmj "Hold That in which Miss Davis helps to partake of the spooky atmosphere Hattie McDaniel noted for many comic screen roles will be another guest Lbavg dreamed the Baroque Organ in University-Ten 12-lnch recorus in twd albums I Among the Victor singles for the in aj new series of weekly broadcasts to be inaugurated Sunday Nov 2 at 9:45 pm EST Tfcp new program will present the lovely radio and recording e-ji in fifteen minutes of song phony thereafter but then retired month a rendition by Jose Iturbi SCOTT THEATRE Gate City Vs Columbia Show To Put Weekly Spotlight On Asia on a new Monday series presented by CBS in cp-operation with the American Council the Institute of Pacific Relations makes its debut Monday CBSr 3:45 to 3:55 EST The new program according to Sterling Fisher CBS director of education1 aims at giving the peo-1 pie of the "United States mation on the problems of the Par East to provide understanding among its peoHts explain the in-1 terests America has? at stake and the crisis thatconfropts'the United States there Harold'1 Davis transportation expert who ha's just returned from China speaks on Burma in the opening broadcast While in China he showed the Chinese Government how ft could speed the flow of war and other goods along this lifefine from the South Later speakers on the series include -such experts as Rear Admiral H- Yarnell former commander of the United States Asiatic Fleet Robert Aura Smith former Manila correspondent of the New York Times and Richard Wt editor of Vhat's In a Name? i Latest Worry For Swingsters SUN and MON of the Debussy Arabesques No 1 in major and No 2 in major is worthy of attention Th versatile Spanish pianist and conductor again surprises with his Versatility Other Victor singles of the month: i from and demeure" from by Jussi Bjoerling- tenor two arias from Rossini's and by Rose Bamp-ton soprano Renaldo and mes vers avi-ent des by Kerstin Thor-borg contralto Finally on the Victor November list is a novelty the Dickens dramatized to a musical background and narrated by Ernest Chappell It has jin excellent cast and is dramatically effective Four 12-inch rec ords Blue Net's Baker To Collect Fans' Autographs i 1 i Chicago Man bites dog may still have news value but Jack Baker tenor star of the NBC-Blue popular programs heard Mondays through Saturdays at 9:00 a EST has found a new twist Baker who celebrated his tenth anniversary on the air this fall is reversing the tables and has taken to collecting autographs Not the John Hancocks of celebrities but the signatures of some of his favorite his fans Presented with a huge over-sized scrap book five feet high I and three feet wide as a pre-anniver-1 sary gift from Don McNeil and the "Breakfast cast Baker's studio colleagues have decided to make the anniversary a memorable one by inviting listeners to send in signatures autographed pictures and bits of verse to be pasted in the giant volume The celebration will run for five weeks during which McNeill vocalists Marion Mann aind Nancy Martin and conductor Walter Blaufuss will ask listeners to submit material for the scrap book Jack who first became acquainted with a microphone at station WMC Memphis back in 1931 made his debut on the Breakfast Club sessions December 21 1936 He started his network career without a Cent in his pocket A native of Shreveport La and son of choir singer Jack has made it a point tofi answer all his fan mail personally 'during the five years with McNeill and company If results of the celebration come up to ex pectations probably spend the next twenty years writing bread and butter notes to listeners When the scrap book is filled it will be hauled to library to remain evermore as his most prized possession 's assiiSed by Paul i wooiwind orchestra I Ecdie Cantor famed Wednesday night boss will "be on han when the vocal star of his "Tiie to show launches her dwn quarter-hour of songs and tnusK Caitor who discovered and started many present-day radio and motion picture stars on the roadJ to fame is dropping preparations for his own show to visit his' taven-haired protege and give her typical Cantor send-off te new series is Jnaddition to her regular Wednesday appearances A reward for her outstanding work on the comedy series the new assignment is another triumph for the Tennessee-born vocalist who last year was named the- "outstanding vocal discovery of in two major radio popu larity polls on this program for the millions behind the which will WKPT this afternoon Tuesday morning 10:30 Thursday 8 at 11:30 The will spotlight trigger-witted comic ceremonies Murray i Arthur Kennedy Wayne Morris Tom Brown from that activity Now he has agreed to conduct the i Philharmonic-Symphony in a two-week post-season festival this spring between April 20 and -May 3 The number of performances he will give is yet to be announced It will climax the centennial celebration of oldest symphony orchestra and make a total of 10 world-famous conductors to appear for the centennial 1 The others are Leopold Stokowski John BarbiroUo Bruno Walter Artur Rodzinski Serge Koussevitz-ky Dimitri Eugene Goossens Fritz Busch and Walter Damrosch It previously was announced that Toscanini would conduct eight concerts this season with the Philadelphia Orchestra six in Philadelphia and one each in New York and Washington i The Symphony which started as a sustaining program is reportedly in the market for a sponsor because of the financial burden of maintaining an organization of such high caliber Meanwhile it has been decided the5 orchestra will play to paying audiences when Leopold Stokowski takes over next month Since its inception tfre orches-1 tra has been heard in the flesh only by invited non-paying guests in studio 8-H of Radio City which seats 1400 I I i 'Requests for tickets far exceed in Kaltenborn Ace At Playing Hookey Despairing parents wrhose off spring hold a distinct aversion to school may find some comfort in the career of Kaltenborn the distinguished news analyst some autobiographical reports like school and the feeling was Then atf14 the commentator left his native Merril Wis to see the world and seek his fortune At 28 the appalling need for an education struck home and he became a Harvard freshman Working his own way he eventually won the coveted Phi Beta Kappa Key the Boylston Prize for public speaking and the Coolidge Prize for debating Incidentally he later earned the money for his subsequent marriage by tutoring young Vincent Astor and preparing him for Harvard "THREE SONS O'GONS The Inter-American Cultural Association formed to promote cultural understanding between the nations of North 'and South America will sponsor the North American debut of Rey de la Torre Cuban guitarist in New Town Hall on Jan 24 He is now on a concert tour in Cuba Fallen Sevitzky and the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra will open their season with the first of 10 pairs of concerts on Nov and Nov 8 The opening program includes i Fith Sym- ff Also NEWS and COMEDY ed the supply Although they could h0 arrangement not be bought from NBC price they were at Flivver Tern' by fantastic prices by unscrupulous FOJt THEA-TR sent at least one work by an American on every program he conducts I Scholars Find Modern Radio Hardy Centenarian New York Most people think of ridio as an art imported from Europe about 40 years ago But the first broadcast was made in New Jersey exactly a century ago according to Dr Orestes Caldwell radio magician and Dean Kenneth Condit of the Princeton! niversity Engineering School The vo recently aired a discussion of remarkable discoveries of Jo-ph Henry great American sci-ntist who experimented with air-aves i I wh tke Princeton Jn 1832 rivaled Thomas phil-1 Edison in inventiveness He de-ippe If sed th first method for insulat-composer Prix'P? wlr- Iaid down the or esi8n of efficient slectro-magnets set up and dem-Among Lonstrated at Albany the first Dago- itro-magnetic telegraph produced fir8t electric motor and by his (researches made possible the elec-council ftric transformer 1 I It was in the fall of 1841 that IHenry made his broadcast i at Princeton He accomplished this by discharging a battery of Leyden i jars into a wire stretcred across the campus measuring the indue jtive effect produced in a parallel 1 wire several hundred feet front the Is the Idea of programs be heard over at 4:00 pm November 4 at morning November four-day series Ken Murray as master of will introduce a wealth of additional talent Kenny I Baker once known as Jack timid tenor and now ca-vortinjg on the air in the Fred Allen stanzas will take care of the vocal department Music will be under the baton of Meredith Wilson composer and conductor who is a mainstay on the Thursday night programs Harlow Wilcox personality announcer whose distinctive delivery ha enhanced many network shows emanating from Hollywood will do th honors for the sponsor I Viennese Jeweler Has Own Index For Prosperity lotto Grun a courtly Viennese who once was jeweler to theAus-j tro-Hungarian nobility has his own index of prosperity If his former clients many of whom are titled expatriates herecall on him with ideas for jewels they want! designed he knows that better days are at hand or just ahead He feels they would not dip into hoards all too slender unless they had word still illustrious channels that there was new hope And of late he has had dealings with figures in the Almanach de Gotha who dropped from his lists when the Treaty of Versailles crushed the monarchy Also of point to this story is the circumstance that Grun has a cousin whose nickname is i The other day his secretary informed him that was oh the phone Grun lifted the receiver and began to scold hls cousin about some misdeed or other He froze with horror for the unmistakable voice that answered him ia German was that of His Royal Highness the Archduke Otto pretender to the Austro-Hungarian throne I The archduke laughingly cut short the apologies He said he needed an alarm clock SUNDAY AND MONDAY OPEN SUNDAY Matinee 1 To 4:30 Night 8:30 Several first performances will certs will be held in the Cosmo-! politan Opera House which seats hls Sevitzky Wl11 Prc' 3300 and tickets will be on public sale Prices will rangp from 55 cents to $165 The 1 guest list will be suspended i I current recording triumph is the" Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No 1 in flat minor by Vladimir Horowitz with the NBC Symphony Orchestra tinder Toscanini It is a superb performance conspicuous for the virtuosity of the pianist and the community of feeling with his distinguished father-in-law and the members of the orchestral? Thg word for it is It comes in an album of four 12-ihch records and is mechanically good I Victor offers a new recording of Fifth Symphony by the Philadelphia Orchestra under Ormandy Listeners 1 never I seem to tire of this favorite The 1 Marcel Samuel Rousseau has been nominated director of Paris Opera in succession to Aubert Rousseau is a French of note Hd won the de Rome in 1905 and subsequently the Rossini and other awards his operas i are and Bon Roi He is professor of harmonics and a member of the superior of musical studies at the National Conservatoire Town Crier Still Rings Bell in a Radio' Row still wonders and some lose sleep trying to figure odt the answer The latest pair to worry about it are two hot musicians Erwin and Spanier Both have been advised by advisers that the nicknames are too undignified for bandleaders and henceforth the accent should be on George and Francis ther respective first names But will it really make any dif Terence? Would Harry Crosby have done better under that handle than he has as Is it the naipe or the talent that succeeds? do well with short names some with long some with dignity some with frivolity Andre Kostelonetz bought all counselors who wanted him to shorten his last name for "box-office He has cracked manyattendance records anyway 'Maestro Voorhees is known as Don on one of his programs and Ronald bn another' The music is Squally good on both Emma Otero the Latin-American soprano was told she ought to change her first name to something more glamorous She stuck with Emma It affected her vd-or her success Spitalny has steadfastly declined to become which hurt his music and has saved the gag about the fiddler-dialectician who came up to him and said Feel! How do you Ray Block the expert voice-blender and maestro on sums up the name situation this way I Joe Blow were put on the air leading a symphony and were announced as Toscanini the listeners would soop be saying that Toscanini is terrible On the other hand if Toscanini posed as Joe Blow the critics would say Blow- is musical genius If the talent-is there the name Mickey ROONEY Lewis STONE! Ann RUTHERFORD -EVEN A CRAPE- FRUIT 'LL KICK BACK AONVfl in New Official town crieri Primary current Henry was not surprised at this 0f Town Meeting of the Why kick about lack of cash when you can arrange a loan here promptly and confidentially? Sums of $5000 to $ld00 are obtainable repayable in 10 monthly installments "ANDY HARDY'S PRIVATE SECRETARY cloying self-pity of the composer which 'Air since the inception of the! can be read into the score by less NBC-Blue- Network forum hasi KIND5PDK result although it long anticipated the experiments of Maxwell Hertz and Marconi as is proved by a note he wrote at the time that effects are the results of currents in alternate directions so they must produce in surrounding space a series of plus and minus motions analogous- to if not identical with Thif is the very first mention of radio waves In scientific history been William Shelley genial rud- dy-faced radio actor In the early! days he used to wear an olde colo-t nial town crier costume buckled shoes and all but the studio ahdi ences giggled To rellefj the costume was abandoned He still rings his i own bel though accompaniment to hi "Town Meetin' Tonight" cry Also COMEDY and NEWS CORPORATIONJBI PH0Ni4WKlNGST0RT RALPH BELLAMY SAYSz 4 pmvER symsTF-TEsr Week's Air Theatre expert hands Five 12-inch records I opera Fan which just operfed the first season of jthe New Opera Company in New York is presented in its entirety by Victor in a recording by the -Glyndebourne Festival Opera Company under Fritz Busch made in England and brought over despite the war It fs the same version now being presented by Dr Busch in New York The spaikling music is transferred to the sdiscs by expert singers and for those who care about the dialogue of the hare-brained plot the set is accompanied by a complete libretto in Italian and English Twenty 12-inch records in three albums The Rumanian Rhapsodies Nos 1 end 2 of Georges Enesco are orchestral favorites Their melodic qualities are ably presented in order by Eugene Ormandy and Hans Kindler and the National Symphony Orchestra in an album of two 12-inch records by Victor Art of by Johann Sebastian Bach is a work to be approached with reverence but also with enthusiasm and enjoyment Jt should be invaluable to Students of the great master of this Ralph Bellamy drank 1 radius coiaa from unlabeled cu pa voted for Royal Crown Cola aabeet-taatiag-Thia aame eola won 6 out of A group taste-testa-from ooaatto eoastl Radio premieres week include the following1 Sunday: Helen Hayes Theatre m- Old Lady shows Her by Sir James Barrie Screen Guild Theatre mf Amazing Dr with Edward Robinson ahd Humphrey Bogart 1 Monday: Lux Radio Theatre Wife" with Msaa Loy and William Powell ade of America "One Foot iin starring Fredric March and Florence Eldridge cniA Ststff JG Royal Crown Bottling Co Main St Telephone 4M 4i.