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INDIANAPOLIS WIRE 1400 WLW 00 ) (NBC-Mutual)

Here we have the first picture of Anne Seymour and Bol Griffin NBC-WLW listeners know them as Mary and Joe Marlin,

Mary Marlin,” which the Cincinnati

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By JAMES

Forty vears are represented in chosen by Serge Koussevitzky for t

The concert will open with the opera and the first to win him consi

cast from the Berkshire Festival tonight. 6:30 to 8:45 o'clock on the NBC-Blue network.

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Houseboat Next Door Singing Lady Fiddler's Or. Swing Tt Sally Nelson

Travel Tour Californians

Tov Band Tommy-Betty In-Laws Lowell Thomas

stations: Chicago, WBBM 770; WENR 870;

Detroit, WIR 750! Gary, WIND 560.

Good Radio Music

THRASHER

the program of Wagnerian excerpts he second Boston Symphony broadThe program will run from

overture to “Rienzi,” Wagner's third derable recognition, It was produced

To Get Second Tryout on Vallee Hour; Bob Burns Schedules Claude Rains

HEADLINERS ON AIR WAVES

‘Scholarship Hour' Mail At WFBM Nears 25,000 Mark.

Local radio listeners — and Lyric Theater patrons, some of whom may not be regular dialers—have good reason to be interested in Rudy Vallee's program tonight, and possibly on Thursday nights to come. The network impresario, in his newest talent hunt, ferreted out WLW's Tommy Riggs, whose “Tom-« my and Betty” skits have a big radio following, and whose act was a program highlight when the WLW troupe played at the Lyric recently. Just in cese you haven't heard him, Tommy Riggs is the man with two voices, and at the microphone he uses one as his own, the other as a little girl he calls Betty Lou. Riggs, a personable young man, creates no continuity for himself and his imaginary partner, Instead, a joke is a joke, to be used and discarded. Funsters of this type find the going hard in radio, for almost every possible “gag” has been used too frequently already. That's unimportant just now. The important thing is that a Vallee scout heard about Myr. Riggs and the response he was getting to his WLW program. So Tommy and Belty were asked to come to New York and last week the skit was put into the "Variety Hour” without previous announces ment, And more important, Mr, Riggs will be back tonight for a second tryout, If the Vallee overlords like him, he probably will continue several weeks as a program guest entertaine er, just as Joe Laurie Jr, did. Then he will be signed or dropped, I'm sure a great many Indianapolis people hope he will be signed. Other Vallee guests tonight will be Miriam Hopkins, to be heard dn a dramatic skit; Ramon Novarto, long-time film player; Red Skelton, comedian and Doc Rockwell, also a comedian and master of ceremonies. ® ® =n You know what success on the Vallee show means to a radio news comer, Though Joe Laurie was dropped after a half dozen or so programs, the chances are he will be in demand as a guest performer next season, and that's important to a vaudeville veteran when there isn't much vaudeville. Most fantastic of the success stories, 1 written by Edgar Bergen, although Bob Burns’ spectacular rise to radio and film stardom was equally startling. But the scenes change so quickly, it's hard to remember that only a couple of years ago, Robbin Burns was practically unknown when he was signed for a Vallee show on June 13, 1935. He had auditioned for the program a couple of years earlier, when the maestro was in Hollywood, but nothing came of it, It was a month after his first ape pearance before he was asked to toot his bazooka a second time, and it was not until the fall of 1035 that he was signed for regular ape pearances.

Vallee suppose, was

” ” » Then early in January, 1036, Mr. Burns moved back out to Holly« wood, where he had been before without much success, to join the new Bing Crosby “Music Hall” program. This time the film bigwigs camped at his door, and with film and radio contracts and his syndicated writings, he is on his way to millionaire status. Queerest thing about Mr. Burns’ success story-—and Mr. Bergen's tbo, for that matter—is that he did for Mr. Vallee, and still does, the very things in the very same way that he had tried for vears without ate tracting much attention. ” ” ” While Rudy has developed several topflight stars, Maj. Bowes since March 24, 1935, has presented more than 8000 “amateurs” at his NBC and CBS microphones. Can You name more than one or two of them who has gained any recognition in radio or the movies? Probably ybou can't, for few, I believe, have en joyed anything like spectacular sug Cess. There are several, though, well started on the road to success. Doris Weston, who appeared opposite Dick Powell in Warners’ “Singing Marine,” probably heads the major’s “Who's Who,” which includes Lucille Browning, under contract to the Metropolitan Op era; Clyde Barrie, Negro tenor,

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LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

and Bob Gibson, also a singer both contracted by CBS; Ray Ross, in the Broadway musical,

Approves Radio

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SUCCESS in school studies by all odds. There are exceptions but this is the rule and is becoming more so. Especially since the depression many firms will not even ask to interview an applicant whose school marks were not in the upper quarter and some insist they be in the upper 10th of their class. However, extra-curricular activites pay, if coupled with good marks.

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NO, according to E. L. Thorndike, psychologist. He ascertained the hours of leisure time of the ‘employees of a large concern whose employees are probably above » in education and found of time spent in

NOW THAT PEOPLE HAVE ~ uBRTeR WORK HOURE ARE THEY ALLY 05ING THEIR FOR SELF-IMPROVEMENT? LEISURE

INTELLIGENT? YES OR NO css

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conversation, radio, theater, movies, music, automobiling and gardening”

as follows: Professional group, men 76, women 90; sales group, men 90, women 85; factory group, men 87, women 78. Far the largest share was spent in automobiling, movies, reading magazines and radio. They devoted less than 2 per cent to religious work and less than 5 per cent to lectures and studies for self-im-provement,

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NO, but they are behaving naturally. As biologists point out, we are descended from the men who loved to fight, take chances, to gamble with death ag every moment, to risk their lives in order to defeat ‘ah enemy or get a bite of food. The

ones who lacked this “nerve” stayed behind and perished. And now we go on with the old habits and instincts just for the thrill they give.

NEXT-—Does the manner in which you face your problems indicate your real character?

COMMON ERROR

Never say, “He was sick because he drunk too much ice water”, say, “drank.”

It may be impolite to say so but father's speech failed to impress me.—Fumitaka Konoye, son of Japan's premier commenting on his father’s first speech to the Diet.

Only two choices are open to the United States . . . Fascism or the middle way (reform under democracy.) —Dr. H. E. Barnes, sociologist.

Best Short Waves

THURSDAY

LONDON-5:20 p. m.— “An Island off the Beaten Track,’ a talk. GSP, 1531 meg.; GSO, 15.18 meg.; GSP, 15.14 meg.; GSD, 11.75 meg. SCHENECTADY — 5:30 p. m.— Science Forum. W2XAF, 9.53 meg.

PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia—6:05 pn. m.—Light music and Songs. OLR4A. 11.84 meg. PARIS=T7 Bi m.—Talk by Mme. de Gramont, PA4, 11.72 meg. BERLIN--7:30 p. m.—New German Books. DJD, 1177 meg.

CARACAS-—7:45 p. m.—Theater of the Air. YVSRC. 58 meg. :

BUENOS AIRES, Argentine—7:30 p. m.—Chamber Music. LRX, 9.66 meg. LONDON — Pp. m.-—"Paradise Isle.” GSG, 17.79 meg.; GSI, 15.28 mes.’ GSD, 11.75 meg.; GSB. 9.51

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:30 a. m.-—Radio Drama.

15 meg.; OJR

TOKY 11:45 , Mm. ~-Japan Guitar Selections. IIE 15.10 er

Prelude and Love Death from “Tristan and Isolde.” Closing the program's first half will be the more-than-popular “Ride of the Valkyries” from the Ring cycles second item, “Die Walkuere.”

The “Forest Murmurs” from “Siegfried” is to open the second group. Then will come the Prelude to ‘‘Parsifal,” Wagner's last opera which had its first performance in 1882. And, for another telling contract, this serene and exalted music will be followed by the “Tannhaeuser” Overture. Olin Downes, New York Times music critic, will be the entr'acte commentator. Dr. Koussevitzky returned recently from Europe to conduct his orchestra's second appearance at the Berkshire Festival, now in its fourth season. Tonight's is the second and last broadcast of the six orchestra concerts being given. n 8 ”

In case it might slip your mind from week to week, the Kreiner String Quartet is still on the air with its admirable presentation of all of Mozart's string quartets. For tomorrow's broadcast (CBS at 1 p. m.) listeners are to hear the D Major Quartet (K 499). This is the 18th in a 20-broadcast series.

province than in mine, but if you are ‘interested in child-prodigy pianists, you may hear them on CBS-WFBM at 3 p. m, tomorrow. They are Laura Topalian, 4, of Arlington, Mass.; Mickey Epstein of Philadelphia, also 4, and Preble Donohoe of Washington. Preble is practically a mature artist at 6. He's been on 50 radio programs, played before an audience of 4000 in Washington's Constitution Hall last year, and in the same season won first

prize in five contests.

This may be more in Maj. Bowes’!

Industry Probe

By United Press WASHINGTON, Aug. 12.-The Senate Interstate Commerce Com= mittee yesterday reported favorably a resolution by Senator White

(R. Me.) authorizing the committee to make a thorough investigation of the radio broadcasting industry in the United States and of the acts and policies of the Federal Communications Commission in regard to broadcasting.

Emphasizing that broadcasting’s two pressing problems are labor and legislation, Indiana station managers met here yesterday to form a state unit of the National Association of Broadcasters. Eugene C. Pulliam, WIRE owner and manager, was chosen temporary chair man. WwW. W. Behrman, manager of WBOW, Terre Haute, was named representative to.the National Association of Broadcasters. The group will meet on call of the chairman to consider problems arising out of the American Federation of Musicians’ demand that networks, independent stations and | transcription companies increase {employment of musicians. Sept. 16 has been set as the date hy which the Federation hopes to reach an agreement with broadcasters throughout the country. Station representatives from Evansville, South Bend, Muncie, Elkhart, Terre Haute, Indianapolis and Purdue University attended yesterday's meeting at the Indianapolis Athletic Club. Mr. Pulliam entertained the group at luncheon, followed by a business session,

“Babes in Arms,” and Robert Blakeman, under contract to 20th Century-Fox. There are others, including seve eral soloists with dance bands, and the list is not unimpressive, though it lacks topflight stars. ” ” ~ Getting back to Bob Burns, generalissimo of “Music Hall’! in Crooner Crosby's absence, we find a program scheduled for this evening which includes Claude Rains and Fay Wray of the films, Dalies Frantz, young American planist, and the Foursome, a vocal aggregation. ” ” ” Network and local station mail response always amaze this depart ment, and the newest figures to come this way are just as surprising as their predecessors. NBC, for instance, during July received 248,000 different pieces of mail for its performers. Then Frank Sharp, WFBM program director, is responsible for some equally startling statistics, Mail response to WEFBM’s “Scholarship Hour” during that program’s concluding month, May, totaled 23,239 letters or posteards, If this response had been entirely by postcard, the mailing cost to listeners would have been $232.39. The cost actually was much greater, for many responses were letters, and some of these came from out-of-town, bearing 3-cemt stamps. Still more statistics — WFBM'S “Children’s Hour” during its concluding month, June, elicited 10,020 mail replies. This Was. a morning program featuring amateur talent from Indianapolis and other Indiana cities. 4 The Kentucky mountaineer quote ed by Credo Fitch Harris in ‘“Mi« crophone Memoirs” was right when he said that radio is “phenomigpl.” Every day there's something new to

prove it