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Show Radio Beams FROM Coast-to-Coast Ey Jack Hoins MUSICAL MUSE The show that gets your Toe-tap startin' Is Monday nights With Freddy Martin. QUESTIONS Bob (How'm I Do-; in') Hawk has no answer for, are (a) In what state is Statue of Liberty? Lib-erty? (b) Which of 7 wonders of world was man-made? Latest puzzle puz-zle is: If New York was bought from Indians for $24 in 1620, would compound interest at 3 per cent be more today than present assessed tax value of city? FAX & FIGGAS Bob Becker points out most dachshunds today are 20th generation Americans & recently an NBC scriptwriter won $270 on a CBS quiz pgm . . . Anne Nichols Nich-ols sends in believe be-lieve it or not to effect that longest long-est European run of her Abie's Irish Rose was in Berlin! . . . Producer Pro-ducer Charles Vanda's Sunday Sun-day night "They Live Forever" is getting fan mail avalanche I ... . Robert J. L.andry, wnos Charles Vanda 'Land' to Vari-ety Vari-ety readers, just published comprehensive treatise on radio business in 128 pages . . . Shirley (Duffy's Tavern) Booth says having 3 Fridays the 13th in one year won't happen again 'til 1953 . . . Amos 'n' Andy, no v in 15th year of bdesting, have own studio with auxiliary power plant . . . the bass-noted 'bee-yoh' you've been hearing on air is created by .playing recording of fog horn through vocal chords of a girl- CTDDSJoan TValianT tau" 1 Blaine recently aged 30 years in 1 hour and 45 minutes of bdesting ... Bill Thompson who plays non- ogenarian Old Timer with Fibber .McGee is in his 20s .. . Hal (Gil- dersleeve) Peary's right name is Harrold Jose Pereira de Faria. . DATES Mar 29 via CBS, Quiz Kids & Howard University student stu-dent with Fred Allen; Howard Barlow condux Randall Thompson's Thomp-son's original opera, Solomon & Balkis; Jack Benny in Screen. Guild; Laraine Day in Silver Thtr. Via NBC, Synagog Council of America. Via BLU, Violinist Ossy Benardy in Music Hall . . . Mar 30 via CBS, Vox Pop interviews torpedo survivors at Seamen's Church Institute. Via NBC. Music Mu-sic Educators Nat'l Conference.. . . Mar 31 via BLU, Stokowski con-dux con-dux Symphony . . . Apr 2 via CBS, Death Valley Days does story of Diamond Bill . . . Apr 3 via BLU, Good Friday pgm with symphony & choir . . . Apr 4 via CBS, Erich1 Leinsdorf condux Brahms Requiem. Requi-em. Via NBC, Finals Violin Contest; Con-test; Tropical Park Ponce de Leoni Hdcap. Via BLU, Toscanini TreaV sury Concert. I l SCRAMBLES Bob (Maudie's Diary) Walker was born in CALL) AT SKY TIE. Unscramble capj f tals & find famous American city (3 words). Last week Parks (Vos Pop) Johnson's Alabama home town, iX she fled' became Shef-j field. ' L7ASHION FLASHES: Dorothy Kilgallen in her first Spring hat black brim of woven straw with twisted red cone crown . . . Alice ("The Man I Married") Yonrman wearing an actor's talisman, talis-man, enamel comedy and tragedy masks hanging from a bowknot of l'rhinestones . . . Dolores ("Young 'Dr. Malone") Gillen proudly displaying dis-playing a birthday present from (aer husband, a large rbinestone i American eagle lapel pin with .'.aglet earringt to match . . . Sam-mie Sam-mie ("Jones and I") Bill looking like a college queen in brown wooLrait and aqua cashmere pullover pull-over sweater. ' |