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...sort of climax in Cass Daley's confident rendition of You Can't Blame a Gal for Tryin'. Best acts: Betty Hutton singing The Hard Way in self-explanation to a psychoanalyst; Eddie Bracken suffering superbly as a double in a horse opera; Robert Benchley showing Bing Crosby's four young sons an illustrated biography of their father...
There were still skeptics; they pointed out that she had a sure-fire spot-right after Bing Crosby. Now long-nosed, twangy Joan Davis is on another network, with another sponsor (CBS, Mon., 8:30-9:00 p.m., E.W.T.) and all on her own. Her first step on the new show was to change the village store to a tearoom. Like most successful female zanies, she would now like to be a little more dignified about it; Joan Davis' manhunting haunt act on Tea Room is considerably more decorous than her old show. Says she: "In my heart...
...years Tenor Jack Smith has sung on the air almost as often, but neither as well nor as profitably, as Bing Crosby. An old radio hand at 29, Jack Smith has never had a sponsored show of his own, has sung for his supper on scores of sustaining programs. Last week, the biggest spenders in radio, Soap Makers Procter & Gamble, gave him one of radio's best spots: a four-times-a-week Jack Smith Show (CBS, 7:15-7:30 p.m., E.W.T...
...first big job at 16, as the tenor of a trio which followed Bing Crosby and the Rhythm Boys into Hollywood's Cocoanut Grove in 1931. (Like Bing, he has never learned to read notes, but knows harmony from his trio days.) Tough times followed until he clicked with a one-song shot on Kate Smith's program. Since then, Tenor Smith has sometimes appeared in as many as 19 programs in one week. Among them were several variety shows for P & G, who reckoned that he would go over with housewives who tuned out the bobby...
...used to call him the Crooner on the Paramount lot in those days. When Bing Crosby finally got the dressing room next to Coop, his singing suddenly stopped. We never learned...