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...honey," says Georgia Gibbs. "Look at the way they axed Ginny and Dinah." But next week torchy Songstress Gibbs contradicts herself by stepping into a show, the first that has been tailored to her tiny (5 ft. 1 in.), alluringly tough measure. Georgia is the summer replacement for Eddie Cantor (NBC, Thurs. 10:30 p.m., E.D.T...
...radio comedians got on the record, too. The ten: Benny, Cantor, McGee & Molly, Gardner, Burns & Allen, Bergen, Amos 'n' Andy. They formed their own company, Audience Records, Inc., and this week will release one eight-side comedy album of each act. Price: $4.50. The records will be banned from the air and from jukeboxes. They are designed, the company pressagent explains, for posterity and such of the living as would like to be the life of the party. So the folks at home will know when to laugh, the records were made with a studio audience...
...usual trumped up battle between the hero's music and his wife, it is less ferocious and more human than in the Gershwin and Porter epics, and ends on a breakup instead of in a clinch. Best of all is the tasteful portrayal of Jolson's mother and cantor father, who are given some dimensions instead of being molded into a minority group comedy type...
...radio shows of their own (Al Jolson, Tallulah Bankhead, Bea Lillie) who don't mind picking up a few grand on someone else's. Jolson is currently the most-hitched-to star in radio. He recently upped Bing Crosby's Hooper 4.9 points, boosted Eddie Cantor's a full 5. Offered a show of his own, Jolson declined: he can make too much money guesting-with no worries over script and sponsor. At week's end, Jolson signed for ten appearances on the Crosby show next fall-$50,000 guaranteed...
...hardest-working speakers. It can call on Gypsy Rose Lee to bare her navel and William Rose Benét to write a script. Lena Horne will sing at any rally and Walter Huston will recite the Gettysburg Address. Fredric March belongs, and so do Eddie Cantor, Charles Boyer, Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Charles Laughton and Robert Young...