Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 July 1936 — Page 20

Anna Sten Sch Retirement for Appearance Tonight

Amateur Hour Broadcasts Starless After 25 Years.

Gov. McNutt has been chosen to ‘ fire one of the opening guns of the Democratic radio campaign tonight, with a speech over WIRE st 8:30 .p. m. He is to be introduced by Senator Sherman Minton. The local station will key the broadcast to the NBC Retwors.

In case Yoo rae wondered what become of Anna Sten, she is still in Hollywood, and is scheduled to come out of a lengthy retirement for an appearance on Rupert Hughes’ Caravan program tonight at 7:30 p. m,, over WFBM. Arriving in the screen capital from Russia several seasons ago to an accompanying fanfare of publicity, Miss BSten’s popularity drooped after a number of mediocre roles. Her first picture was “Nana,” and her last, “We Live Again,” was shown here in the 1934-35 season with Gary Cooper as co-star,

She is to do a radio version of Fodor's play, “I Love an Actress,” on tonight's program. Walter Abel will be the leading man, Mr. Hughes has been on his new radio job only a month, but he al- . ready has picked up a “discovery” ‘in the person of Frank Forrest, tenor. The author-commentator heard' the singer's rehearsal at a movie studio and brought him in for the program two weeks ago. The success of his premiere is responsible for the return engagement.

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Wednesday night seems to be the only evening in the week that highlights Simon-pure radio talent, Stage and screen visitors are heard regularly on the Radio Theater, Caravan, Vallee, Crosby, Hollywood Hotel and Smith Ballew programs through the week, and concert and symphony hours get the top Sabbath spots. Ben Bernie is offering plenty of competition to the expanded Caravan broadcast with an interesting and varied guest parade of his own. Tonight, at 7 o'clock on WLW, he is to feature Ethel Waters, popular Negro blues singer currently starring in “At Home Abroad.” 2 #4 n

Those in the know say that it takes two years to build radio talent to stardom. The amateur hours, now two and one half years old, have not graduated a single star. CBS has had a bit of bad luck in some of its star grooming. Benay Venuta, who ended her song series last week, was the object of a buildup campaign. She failed to click as an air headliner, but caught on as a stage and night club singer instead. She succeeded Ethel Merman in “Anything Goes” and now is starting out on a vaudeville tour. They had the same luck with husky-voiced Gertrude Niesen. Her radio vogue was only so-so, but she is doing a lot of revue'and cebaret singing. 8 8 ' The public seems as anxious to see its radio favorites in person as to catch a glimpse of movie stars in the flesh. Recent personal appearances at the various expositions this year bear out the assertion. The Sinclair Minstrels broadcast, originating in Cleveland last night, played before a 13,000 Great Lakes Exposition audience. Down in Texas more than 5000 requests for tickets to the Paml Whiteman radio show were received in one week. The Whiteman outfit broadcasts from an auditorium at the Frontier Centennial Celebra-~ tion at Fort Worth - which seats only 600. Frantic program officials are pondering ways and means of increasing seating capacity. Of course, most of these broadcast tickets are free, but Major Bowes’ various troupes of. “amateurs” have packed them in all over the country at movie prices. Perhaps that is why NBC Artists Service is sending out a Radio Revue for a 10-weeks series of engagements starting in Pittsburgh Friday night. With James Wallington as master of ceremonies, the cast will in.

clude the Pickens Sisters, Honeyboy |

and Sassafras, and Bobby Gilbert, who, with his “talking violin,” has been featured by Rudy Vallee. The following ¥Priday Dickie Moore, juvenile film star; is to join the troupe in Toronto, and on Aug. 7 Maurine Ward and Florence Muzzy, duo-pianists, and Don (Prof. Figgsbottle) Johnson will be added to the cast in Detroit.

‘Radio Guide, fan magazine, will air its own program next fall over the Blue network. Tentative plans schedule its inauguration for Friday night, Oct. 2. ” » =

The King's Men quartet took to the sky-ways to be on hand. for their last Ed Wynn series appearance in Cleveland. Expensive wire charges made a plane trip from Fort Worth cheaper than a Texas broadcast.

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More Gotham music trouble is foreseen since the New York ruled ‘all new commercials must have standby musicians for each instrument on which an artist doubles,

2 » . Remote control will supply Russ Morgan's orchestra accompaniment for Phil Regan when the vocal star

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will play from New York.

Best Short Waves

TUESDAY

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Because Rubinoff has to get in three hours of daily practice wherever he may be, and because it isn't always convenient to cairy his $100,000 Stradivarius with him, he has designed a collapsible violin which Frank H. Callier (right) built for him. It is practical in every sense, but the sound is muted. The inset gives a close-up view of the fiddle folded and stowed

noyncements caused by station changes

TUESDAY EVENING PROGRAMS.

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Good Music

BY JAMES THRASHER Since - musicians, like ordinary mortals, need summer vacations, the present season brings a decided dearth of serious radio music. Excellent recordings, however, seem to maintain their year-around schedules, and offer avid listeners new interpretations of the highest order. Or, as disc devotees will tell you, “music you want when you want it.” It almost amounis to sacrilege to refer to Mozart's compositions as “pleasant summer music,” yet their

measures are particularly Setighuful to Jaded. 8 dog-day appetites. Which makes the recent release of the G

“There are few things in art that are perfect. The G Minor Symphony is one of them. Its apparent simplicity ‘is an adorable triumph of supreme art.” The symphony is the second of Mozart's three greatest which the incredible master wrote in the s mer of 1788. The one in E Flat dated June 26; the G Minor, July and the “Jupiter” in C Aug. 10. : © Unrest Is Felt An ‘undercurrent of unrest pervades the first movement, and to a lesser extent the whole symphony, setting it apart from the classic serenity of most of Mozart's music.

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