Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 August 1936 — Page 16

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Political Broadcasters Given Less Consideration When They Buy Time; - Lewis’ "Main Street’ on Air Tonight

Democrats Must Pay Evety Time They Put ‘Happy Days’ on Radio.

Political broadcasters are getting less ccnsideration for their money this year than they formerly received when they paid nothing. The paradoxical situation arises from the fact that in a campaign year they have to purchase their time instead of getting it free. When important political figures broadcast on free time, traditional practice allows them to finish their talk. But should there be any minutes of grace when parties are buying a quarter or half hour, the same as any commercial sponsor? The official answer is “No.” Pp Incidentally, when the Democréts wish to put their campaign song, “Happy Days Are Here Again,” on the air, they have to obtain special permission from the “Hit Parade” sponsors, who own all radio rights on the tune.

n » 2 Sinclair Lewis’ “Main Street,” which has been produced as a play and flimed twice, is to have its first radio performance at 6 tonight on WFBM's Radio Theater program. Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray are to have the principal roles. Several years ago there was a radio serial called “Main Street,” but it had nothing to do with Mr. Lewis’ story of the “big city” bride who tries to remodel the lives of her husband and her Gopher Prairie neighbors to suit her own tastes. The two stars have the proper background for their respective parts in tonight's performance: Miss Stanwyck was born in New York City, and Mr. MacMurray in Kankakee, 111, ” ” ” CBS has added three Olympic events to its schedule of broadcasts from Berlin. They are the 800meter race, from 10:25 to 11 a. m. tomorrow; the 1500-meter run on Thursday at 9:10 a. m., and the 400meter race at 10:25 a. m. on Friday. 2 ” ” It was a real event when Lionel Barrymore appeared on Amos ’n’ Andy’s program last Wednesday. He was the first guest star ever to ap-

pear with Correll and Gosden in the.

long years of their collaboration. It was a last-minute arrangement, and both performers were excited. They sent hurried telqzrams to NBC press bureaus all over the country—*“Ask every radio editor to listen in”—and gave no other reason. ” ” ” Those who heard the program remember that Amos and Andy finally had reached Hollywood in a trailer and were seeking vainly for a movie celebrity on a studio lot. Finally they were drawn into conversation by a stranger. It was not until he left that they learned he was Lionel Barrymore.

” ”® ” It was slightly more than a year ago that the blackface comedians first used a woman character on their program. She was Harriette Widmer, and her lines, if we remem-

ber correctly, consisted of the words, | 1

“I do.”

on ” ” Sooner or later, some one will tell you about the time that Jerry Bowne, Horace Heidt's trumpeter, hit the King of Denmark with a dinner roll, so we might as well do it now. It came about when Horace, having established an all-time record at the Palace, New York, treated his boys to an engagement at Monte Carlo. The band was supposed to” be playing dinner music when Jerry ups and fires a roll at the tall orchestra leader. But he caught the Scandinavian monarch in the back of the neck. Instead of declaring

war or something, the King merely.

made a friendly remark to the effect that “boys will be boys.”

Good Music

BY JAMES THRASHER

In commenting recently on answers to the “Everybody's Music” questionnaire on “What do you dislike in music?” we got only far enough to quote the 11-year-old Indianapolis correspondent who was inspired to write “dashing and unusual” novels by Howard Barlow's “fascinating music.” CBS has published opinions from several other of the hundreds of letters received, however. Presuming that a majority of these were from non-professional music lovers, we are convinced that Mr. and Mrs. Average Listener are not so stupid in matters of musical taste as sometimes is imagined. There is more than a grain of truth in a majority of the divergent opinions published. Some look upon modern music as an abomination, others demand more of it, and a third group requests, in the words of a Cincinnati writer, “music, yes, everybody's music, from Palestrina to (Roy?) Harris. Even that squeaky ‘katzenjammer’ of so-called ultrémodern music is worth hearing at least once.” One critical San Franciscan writes of modern music: “I like most of it, but not all of it by any means . . . de Falla never seems to arrive anywhere ... if you never play anything by George Gershwin it will be too soon for me . .. and as to my pet abomination, Maurice Ravel, to put it mildly, his junk is the last word

in smart-aleck, self-satisfied, cheap

sophistication.” Some Works Liked

We should like to salvage de Falla’s “Night in Spain” (or some

"HIGH-FLYERS" MEET AT AIRPORT

Two high-flying skippers get together at Municipal Airport. Capt. D. W. Tomlinson (left), who pilots a TWA Skyliner between Los Angeles. and New York, meets Louie Lowe, Severin Skyroom pilot. Louie and his band are heard over WFBM, Tuesday through Sat-

urday nights, at 11 o'clock.

MONDAY EVENING PROGRAMS

(The Indianapolis Times is not responsible for inaccuracies in program

pouncements caused by station changes INDIANAPOLIS INDIANAPOLIS WFBM 1230 WIRE 1400 (CBS Net.) (NBC Net.)

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TUESDAY DAYLIGHT PROGRAMS

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Lyricist to Discuss

Writers’ Troubles

“Better Business” talks by & song writer are promised when Gus Kahn, famed lyricist, broadcasts “from Hollywood soon a series called “Liars and Lyrics.” Mr. Kahn will have

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Best Short Waves

MONDAY BERLIN—4:30 Bi m.—Famous Musicians. DJD, 11.77 meg. LONDON—5 p. m.—‘ ‘London Pie.” GSP, 15.31 meg.; GSF, 15.14 meg.; GSC, 9.58 meg.

ROME—5 p. m.—News in English: Selections from the Opera ‘‘Cavale Jeria Rusticana.”” 2RO, bes meg.

MADRID—§ p. m.—Retransmission from Barcclona, EAQ. 9.87 meg. )

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two series of broadcasts to begin Aug. 28. Ope will be on a nation-

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