Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sexational, robustious Cinemactress Mae West appeared on a commercial broadcast for the first time in four years. Result: the most indignant wave of protest from radio listeners in radio's history. Cause: Miss West had turned the Biblical story of Adam & Eve into a burlesque act full of drawling double-entendres, elliptical references to fig leaves and nakedness, talk of the "original applesauce." No sooner had the program closed than angry comments began to pour in to the sponsors (Chase & Sanborn), the broadcasting company (NBC), the advertising agents (J. Walter Thompson). The National Legion of Decency threatened to clean...
...have included: Negro Composer William L. Dawson, who conducts the Tuskegee Choir, and whose Negro Folk Symphony No. 1 was performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra under Conductor Stokowski three years ago; Otto Cesana, onetime staff composer at Manhattan's Radio City, whose two jazz-inspired symphonies have been broadcast by Radio Maestro Erno Rapee; 23-year-old Radio Arranger Morton Gould, whose Swing Symphonette is scheduled for performance later this season...
...Aranyi, grandniece of Joachim, had "discovered" the existence of the "lost" concerto while interviewing Schumann's ghost at a spiritualist seance. Miss D'Aranyi wanted the performing rights for herself, had announced that she would give the world premiere of the concerto in London with the British Broadcasting Co. Orchestra in October. Nazi authorities, seeing the honor of an important premiere slipping from under their noses, decreed that the concerto should be introduced to the world in a broadcast by Violinist Georg Kulen-kampff in Germany. The Nazi fiat was carried out November...
Roscoe Pound, University Professor, and former Dean of the Law School, will speak tonight in the University broadcast on "The Future of Law." The lecture will be broadcast at 8 o'clock over station WIXAL...
Divorced. Leopold Antoni Stanislaw Stokowski, 55, since 1912 conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, now also conducting and acting for films (Big Broadcast of 1937, 100 Men and a Girl); by Evangeline Brewster Johnson Stokowski, daughter of the late Robert W. Johnson, surgical equipment manufacturer. Conductor Stokowski called rumors of a romance with Actress Greta Garbo "untrue and absurd...