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Richmond Times-Dispatch Sunday Dec 30 1945 7-B High Spots on Air Today Sideshow of Radio Attractions new swingfest titled A Miss and a Male (NBC Saturdays 9:43 A M) The jam was stirred up one afternoon by an energetic young singer named Jeanne MacKenna when she felt in a mood to make with the melody So Jeanne cor- i raled Bobby Christian NBC staff drummer hauled him off to an emptv studio and they got off vocal pianistic and tymp hot licks for a couple of hours What they didn't know was that an appreciative engineer lurked in the dim control room and that he had the musicale waxed tor' posterity A Miss and a Male re- suited 1 Improvisation is second nature to Jeanne who made her debut with her two sisters (they were called the Three Queens I over NBC-affiliatc KMOX in St Louis When the trio broke up (marriages claimed two of the girls) Jeanne struck out for herself She made her NBC debut in 1913 and also is heard on Roy Shield and Company and Design for Listening Christian an NBC veteran of seven years is a Paul Whiteman alumnus who earned the big maestro's commendation as of the best drummers in the business" He also is heard on the Shield programs and on NBC's Contented Hour Students at Fordham University have voted Kate Smith their favorite singer SEAT COVERS That Ara Different! 845 Leather Trimmed SEAT COVERS 'MADE TO ORDER 3rd AND GRACE DIAL 3-2421 New singing star is sultry-voice Janette Davis who has recently begun a new five-a-week network series at 11:15 Monday through Friday via Columbia offered him a job with the Pennsylvanians Mark Woods president American Broadcasting Company and Leonard A Versluis president Associated Broadcasting Corporation have announced the amicable out-of-court settlement of their differences in the use of the ABC symbol to designate their networks A suit tiled by Associated against the American Broadcasting Company to enjoin it from the use of the letters ABC has been settled with the Stipulation by Associated that the American Broadcasting Company is now free to use ABC In the future Associated will be known as the Associated Broadcasting System and will use the letters ABS as the symbol to identify its transcontinental network 'Nancy Norman who recently resigned as Sammy Kaye's vocalist to marry crooner Dick Brown is collaborating with her husband in the production of a program which will feature the voices of the husband-wife team in solos and ducts with a segment of time apportioned to interview with bandsmen and singers Interviewees already lined up include ex-boss Sammy Kaye Benny Goodman Dinah Shore Kate Smith Barry Wood Woody Herman the Andrews Sisters etc Jack Owens cruising crooner of ABC's Breakfast Club has written the words and music of a new song "Sing and Be Happy" which will be heard as the theme for a series of Universal shorts of the same title Owens along with other guest stars will be featured in one of the shorts The appearance will not mark his cinema debut He previously was seen with Mae West in On" and earlier served as the singing voice of James Stewart and other stars Now that "Partners in the sixth picture that Lum and Abner have made for RKO is in production the two rural comics pratically have moved "bag and into the studios for the duration of the shooting Because of the long hours they must spend on the set made even longer by the complicated it take! to convert Chet Lauck into and Norris Goff into the boys arrive at the film studio long before daylight and leave well after nightfall Consequently they have complete living facilities including a stove a refrigerator and even a cook (Ruby Golden who has worked for them during the making of their other five films) in their studio bungalow Their arrangements also Include a special remote broadcast line to their private dressing-room from which they will do their regular 8 broadcasts heard Monday through Thursday over ABC A jam session that bore fruit Is the background story of the Radio Programs Time Is Eastern Standard Time MORNING NOSTRADAMUS EXPERT Henry Roberts PREDICTS EVENTS FOR 1946 TONIGHT ON "WE THE WRVA 10:30 MILO IOUITON OSCAR IRADLEY'S ORCH New Year Greetings! We thank you for the patronage yon have giion us in the past! We will endeavor to merit it in the Intnrc! H'r will be dosed Monday and Tuesday ones footling Electrical Appliance 3130 CARY ST Park and Shop Center DIAL 3-5001 Mile Wea I Cite iJmita Richmond! Va DIAL 6-1581 urn urn mu iiiii util mui i 2:30 31 VMBG John Nesbitt's New Year's Eve will be the feature of the John Charles Thomas program Thomas will sing Haydn's Firmament on Sweet and with the ensemble Out Wild Bells The Ken Darby chorus will offer Lang Syne" Victor Young and the orchestra will play Rachmaninoffs in Sharp Minor" and Relicario" by Padilla 3 Artur Rod-zinski will conduct the Minor Symphony as the major offering on the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Also to be heard on the program will be the Overture to opera and the De-buiwy orchestral nocturnes and and the Miniature Overture and March from the Ballet by Tschaikowsky 4:80 1 Bob Car-roll just discharged from the armed forces will celebrate both his new civilian atatus and New Year's by singing Begin to Tell during his guest appearance on The Mary Small Show song will be You Glad 4:30 Maxine Sullivan and Armand Vinay tenor will be guests on the RCA Show Raymond Paige's orchestra and chorus and Commentators Deems Taylor and Kenneth Delmar round out the cast of the weekly between classics and swing Highlights will Include Miss Sullivan's famed arrangement of and Vinays rendition of Lucevan 1'Estelle" from "La WMIU5 Joseph Szi-getl Hungarian-born violinist will observe the twentieth anniversary of his American debut today when he is guest soloist with Dimitri Mitroroulos and the NBC Symphony Orchestra December is also the tenth anniver-aary of the death of Alhan Berg whose for Violin and to he the featured work of the broadcast The program also will include Ihe Overture to Berlioz's and the Overture and Allegro from Couperin's 5 The Family Hour will greet the approaching New Year with appropriate song The program also will highlight selections from the new edition of "Show soon to be seen on Broadway Cbloratura Patrice Munsel Tenor Jack Smith and Baritone Earl Wrightson with A1 Goodman leading the chorus and orchestra will be featured Symbolical of the season is Earl Wrlghtson's solo Out Wild by Fletcher The soloists will combine on a composite "New Song In the preview of the new edition or Patrice Munsel will sing Else But The ensemble will take part in a medley presenting selections from the production The program also will include a solo by Jack Smith Been a Long Long Time" and Rachmaninoff's Frelude In Minor hy the orchestra 31 RN Sophie Thicker will review her 40 years in show business and tell Songstress Martha Tilton and Announcer Glenn Riggs and perhaps even Paul Whiteman in song and story how New Eve was celebrated in a more flamboyant era when she appears on the Radio llall of Fame Last of the Red Hot as she has been billed for many years will shout out the lyrics of such old songs as Me and My of These and Ya Gonna Keep Down On the as well as a new one written especially for her in recognition of her years of stardom Begins at 6:80 31 In keeping Music Off By Fred son Bowers tVRNL 1S-K WRVA 1II0-K 7:00 News: Sunday Off Mis 7:15 Prelude Air 7:50 New Prelude Off the 7:45 Sunday Prelude Air 8:00 Newa 8:15 Ballad Box 8:30 Reading the 8:15 Comics Newa Sunahlne Hour Organ Lott Mui for Millions 9:00 Correspondent a 9:15 Bnothhy-Mpna'U 9:50 Harmonizing 9:45 Four News Renfro Valley Folks Redeployment 10:00 Lessons in 10:15 Living 10:30 Take 10:45 Romance Church of the Air Wings Over Jordan 11:00 ah 11:15 'Saints 11:30 Church 11:45 Servlre Second Presbyterian Church Service A DISCASI 8EQUI8IN0 SPECIALIZED CASE AND T8EATMENT Tin Sanitaria la Ornate ndwlnii ta Me aare er aleehelle mm Let im hala raavla tha aatua af Ilia araafia aa aseatine aa aaarsiaa la aleeheL Me aataaliaa Ereataieat PkaM ar arila Ear Iraa aaaariatlea AFTERNOON Broad St Road with the holiday period Phil Davis and hit orchestra will play a Make the medley mi Sunday Evening Party The selections will be Face the Music and and In Louise Carlyle will sing to Watch Over and Be Satisfied" and Felix Knight will offf Are Love" and Eagle and 99 7:80 Carmen Cavallaro will board Cass Bandwagon Casa will sing for the Train to Come accompanied by 18-piece orchestra Cavallaro will feature a special arrangement of "Auld Lang Syne" 8 WRNL-The Sunday Evening Hour will feature Martial Singher French baritone of the Metropolitan Opera Company and Eugene Ormandy conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra Edna Phillips young American coloratura soprano also will be heard joining Singher and the Ford Chorus in excerpts from "In a Persian and as soloist' In the of the aria from Magic Singhers principal aria will be that of Valentine in de He also will sing by Debussy and a Ormandy will open with the Purcell-Caillet Trumpet Voluntary" Also listed are "Dance of the from "La "Claire de Lune" and "Czardas Rhapsody" The program will conclude with Croft's hymn "Our God Our Help in Ages Past" 9 SI Plastics the miracle matter of modern man is to be the subject of an "Exploring the dramatization "Plastics Nature Gone Modern" Sherman Dryer twice Peabody Award winner for public service programs produces and directs the series Don Bryan conducts the original background musing which is composed by Arden Cornwell 9:80 I 31 Danny Kaye will be guest of James Melton on the Star Theater with Soprano Annamary Dickey the Lyn Murray Singers and David orchestra The cast will participate in a medley of song hits of 1943 including "Laura" Atchison Topeka and Santa "If I Loved and "June Is Out All Melton will sing "It's a Grand Night for Singing" and the "Schubert Serenade" Anna-mary will sing Cole "I Love You" Danny will do his comedy song "Concerto for Tongue and Orchestra" and an opera satire 10 81 RNL Walter Huston in his original role of Governor Peter Stuyvesant in Maxwell Anderson's "Knickerbocker the musical comedy of old New York with melodies by Kurt Weill one of which is the famous "September Song" will be the presentation of the Theater Guild on the Air 10 31 Phil pita lny and the all-girl orchestra will devote the final Hour of Charm of 1943 to "Song Requests of the Year" The orchestra and choir will open with hit from the musical comedy "Carousel" titled "June Is Bustin' Out All Over" Jean-nie soprano and the choir will offer Heart by Rome Evelyn concert mistress and violinist wHl play and by Porter Next heard is to be Day Is Done" by Francine contralto and the choir' A special piano arrangement of "Etude in Flat" by Elenore and Jean-nie singing "Indian Love will follow Concluding the program the choir will sing hymn "Another Year Is the Record 1014) by Sir Thomas Beech am and the London Philharmonic This Sixth seems to be a transition symphony between the somewhat small form given to the Fourth and Fifth and the massiveness of the Seventh and the Unfinished Although it shows glimpses or the maturity of expression to come Schubert seems to be struggling here for mastery of a larger form and not altogether succeeding In spite of Schubert's usual tunefulness therefore the work seems somewhat formless and disappointing without the beautiful finish of the delightful Fifth or the power of the Seventh or Eighth Nevertheless the syiqphony should be of interest to those who wish to add to their collections which already contain the Fifth Seventh and Eighth Beecham plays with his usual perfection and the orchestra is warmly recorded Long-Haired Fan Among the admirers of the Woody Herman band is Igor Stravinsky the eminent composer The measure of his admiration may be judged by the fact that he has written a score named "Ebony expressly for band and presented it to Herman as an outright ''gift The composition will be played when Woody conducts a concert at Carnegie Hall on March 29 Woody and the band feature ing Singer Frances Wayne are heard at 8 every Saturday on the Woody Herman Show over ABC JOHN LUND young Hollywood discovery and the Town Criers musical foursome are the newly signed regulars on the Bob Crosby Show which makes its debut at 10 New Day over CBS As previously announced Dinah Shore will be guest on the opening program Lund's recent performance on Broadway in Hasty Heart" won him a long-term contract with Paramount studios For his screen debut the blond six-footer will play opposite Olivia De Havilland in Each His While working in the theater Lund was writing for radio also acting and announcing The tuneful Town Criers are brothers and sisters They are Elva Lucyann Vernon and Gordon Polk Lucyann is still in high school but will be graduated in time to join the rest of the quartet in January at Los Angeles City College sung on radio shows in Spokane and Seattle and were features with Kay Kyser and A1 Pearce a Eddy Duchin recently discharged froift the Navy will return to the air Monday as a regular on the NBC Music Hall Eddy will be featured throught-out the script and will do piano spots backed by John Scott orchestra Duchin plans to go into the concert field and of course keep his weekly Thursday night date at the Music Hall Being a concert pianist has always been one of Eddy's ambitions and through the years he has been taking lessons leading toward this career In the Navy Duchin attained the rank of Lieutenant-Commander During almost four years of service he went from a junior officer of a patrol craft to operations officer of a squadron of destroyers He had tours of duty as sound officer aboard a destroyer escort in the Atlantic and on a destroyer transport in the Pacific Duchin played very little piano in the Navy but when he had the opportunity to play he rcallv enjoyed it Several times when base recreation officers heard that his ship was in port they came down to ask him to entertain for the boys The American Broadcasting Company again in 1946 will donate the peak listening hours of 6:43 to 7 EST on Saturdays to air current labor and management problems via its Labor USA series "We feel that by extending these public service features we can help to keep America fully informed on one of the most crucial issues of our time" Charles Barry ABC's national program manager said today in announcing continuation of the series Labor USA will continue to present labor news dramatizations and interpretations with the CIO presenting their views for the first 26 weeks and the AFL taking over for the second half of the 52-week scries Immediately following Labor USA a new management pro- gram It's Your Business will make its debut over the ARC network on next Saturday The program will present news reviews of business headlines by well-known authorities in the business field Stuart Churchill featured tenor soloist with Pennsylvanians has returned to the Fred Waring Show (Monday through Friday NBC 11 A M) after serving three yean and eight months in the Army Churchill will be remembered as the GI who sang Does a Soldier Dream in the production "This Is the Churchill joined the Pennsylvanians in 1929 While at Camp Upton his tentmate was the ballad singer Burl Ives who taught him to play the guitar Churchill was singing in a local restaurant while working his way through college 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Smith elves song salute to the New Year with Patrice Munsel 6 Jehu Charles Ikaua 7:00 Jack 7:30 Bumsteads Blondle Dithers test of 100 plays made with a plastic record using a light reveals that the wear ng qualities are superior to shellac whether the same would be true with a heavy pickup will require a further test I have also found that plastic has the additional ing that It does not warp even under very bad conditions Victor's policy has changed to the issue of only about one plastic album each month 'The newest is a four-record album V-2 i 3850) of four Rossini overtures played by Toscanini and the NBC Symphony: "The Barber of Gazza Ladra" "La Grnerentola" "II Signor Brus-chino" with the odd side devoted to the a dance from Act I of These very pleasant overtures follow the familiar Rossini pattern and are played to the hilt by Toscanini The regular four-record album of Schumann's Tiano Concerto IVM-1009) played by Claudio Arrau with the Detroit Symphony conducted by Karl Krueger 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