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Show JIGHT OUT OF THE AIR !;V By EARLE FERRIS publicly in ten years. The contralto . star is the daughter of a minister 1 and was a member of his choir. Don Hancock takes no chances when he is called upon to announce a symphony program. On one occasion, oc-casion, he checked with four foreign for-eign waiters and a friend, who la a college professor, when the script called for the pronunciation of words in six different languages. iilf "filil iiiiiiftiisi for 4 Lehmann, above, of the Met-I Met-I itan Opera Company, was one pe first concert people to "let i their hair" on the Thursday year it "Music Hall" broadcasts. Now aerce says she enjoys nothing more iletic; a good old Crosby-Burns rib-State- session in between numbers Re-C M. H. the v ..." n of-' Vallee is an "ear-tugger" jii he rehearses for his Thursday .,. variety hour. He holds the i-JSSJt in his right hand, and un-I un-I consciously pulls his left ear-lobe. Orrin Tucker, popular dance and radio maestro pictured above, plays what he terms "conversational music." mu-sic." He explains it as rhythms I which won't disturb talking and ; though the style is predominantly sweet, his band is so ensembled ; that it can also do justice to "conversational "con-versational swing." Tuners-ln to the Saturday night "Johnny Presents" program over CBS are finding that in October the program is being broadcast a half-hour earlier with the eerie stories of Dr. Hereward Carrington, who knows all about telepathy and ghosts. 'f. jf ' Music Director Oscar Bradley, above, refuses to side with John j Nesbitt, the "Passing Parade" star, j who claims brunettes make better j actresses than blondes. The dimin-! utive maestro picks blondes and worked across the footlights from actresses blonde and brunette in theatrical productions for fifteen years. "Living In a Great Big Way" has finally won out over "Hello Everybody" Every-body" as the title of the new Kate Smith autobiography. It was almost al-most as much of a job to find the right title as to write the book, according to the songstress. Elizabeth Lennox knows the words and music of 400 hymns, despite the fact that she has not sung one "Aunt Jenny," above, whose "Real-Life "Real-Life Stories" are heard Mondays through Fridays over CBS, says: "Modern psychology books may show how to make a young boy behave be-have well, but a cookie jar in the nantry ain't a bad second." |
