Word: bbc
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Britishers will see him on the stage, hear him broadcast more expensively from Radio Normandie, Radio Luxembourg (continental stations which carry sponsored programs in English). In leaving BBC for greener pastures, he follows the lead of Band Leaders Jack Payne, Henry Hall, Variety Director Eric Maschwitz, many another...
...BBC's popular favorites receive plushy publicity, heavy fan mail, much kudos, little cash. Unwatered by freshets of advertising appropriations, British radio pays its stars out of a sustaining budget, and radio listeners often lose their best performers to the prosperous music halls...
Most recent BBC deserter is Organist Reginald Foort, whose fan-letter pile towers highest in British radio. Foort left a seaman's job to play a piano in a Lyons Corner House restaurant,* became Britain's most popular cinema organist. Organist Foort this week was officially on vacation, actually en route to Manhattan to pick up a new organ for an assault on the big money. He has resigned from BBC, will open in November a music-hall tour which guarantees him $13,000 for a year, almost three times his annual BBC earnings...
...BBC is also getting a vigorous new chief. Despite the loss of his left arm in the War, Professor Ogilvie drives an automobile, flies a plane, plays a fair golf game. He has never broadcast, but the twelve-year-old eldest of his three sons recently wrote a play which was aired on a Northern Ireland children's program. BBC knows him as the man who persuaded it to broadcast pop concerts for his Belfast students during lunch time. But Director-General Ogilvie comes to BBC at a time when there is talk of spending...
When Vice-Chancellor Ogilvie accepted the BBC appointment, he told the press: "I am not director-general until October and I hope to be in cold storage until then." Jumping to the conclusion that this meant that he would continue the Reith tradition of aloof frigidity, the Daily Mail snapped: ''We do not want any more Sphinxes at Broadcasting House. The BBC is an organization paid for and designed for the ordinary listener and is not an Egyptian desert...