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Show By LYN CONNELLY NWNS Radio-Screen Editor AMERICA'S most cheerful, 14- year-old family tradition In popular entertainment returned to the airwaves recently when local outlets of the ABC network brought back the famous rJif-s "Original Amateur I JNffikl hour" Ted Mack' H; 1 veteran performer ' and former under- study to 01,5 Jate PJb : MaJor Bowes. Pre-IllW Pre-IllW ,P sides over both shows . . . Mack, li4?i ta theaters every- I " where, helped Ted Mack Bowes discover thousands of "amateurs" "ama-teurs" who have since become successful suc-cessful . . . "Farm raised youngsters are usually the most talented applicants," ap-plicants," Mack contends. The first second-generation Quiz Kid girl was bom recently to Mrs. Margaret Merrick Scheffelin, 20-year-old ex-Quiz Kid now married, to an air force officer . . . She shares second-generation honors with nine-month-old Philip Teeter, son of ex-Quiz ex-Quiz Kid Barbara Hutchinson . . . The airlanes are filled with range music these days, with with Autry and Rogers singing and acting on their shows . . . The latest one to be smitten by the bug is Tex Ritter, who is negotiating for a network series. Platter Chatter Things are slowing down these days in the record world but there are a few new releases that should be able to supplant "A Tree in the Meadow" and "It's Magic" fairly soon . . . Capitol has several good ones you might look up . . . One is the very popular uWhiffenpoof Song" done up handsomely by the Pied Pipers ... A yummy rendition on the reverse of that favorite "Dream" win lull your worries away. Nick Lucas, that crooner of yesteryear, yes-teryear, has been signed by Capitol in line with the modern trend toward to-ward banjo-playing and singing troubadours . . . Nick's first release consists of two songs he popularized in his hey-day and they're still every bit as good "Tip Toe Through the' Tulips" and "Side by Side" . . . Capitol has also re-issued Dennis Day's recording of "Danny Boy" backed by "Phil the Fluters' Ball," for these who like Irish music and lilting Irish voices. |