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Unorthodox in the extreme is Bartlett's method of gathering material for his programs. Every day promptly at 2:05 he whirls into the Chicago Home Arts Guild, an institution supported by national advertisers, to lunch and show 100-odd women the sponsors' 100-odd products. Tommie shouts "Hello, girls!" at the assembled matrons. Ten minutes later, after the girls are all in spasms at Tommie, who thinks nothing of rolling on the floor to get them giggling, WBBM technicians begin to record Meet the Missus. Twittering like sparrows, yanking nervously at their girdles, some of Tommie...
Veteran Fran Leo, a fast-improving Greeley Summers, speed-merchant Ray Guild, and Caleb Loring are the ranking wingbacks. Captain Joe Gardella, Bill Brown, and Mort Waldstein are a trio of good buckers, making this position as well fortified as any with the exception of the bumper end crop...
...swept the U. S. Liberals Lewis Mumford and Waldo Frank quit the New Republic, after 13 years as contributing editors, criticizing the do-nothing policy of the magazine (although the New Republic afterwards plumped for aid to the Allies); Assistant Secretary of State Adolf Berle resigned from the Lawyers Guild because "It is now obvious that the present management of the Guild is not prepared to take any stand which conflicts with the Communist Party line." There was a greater reversal when 30 educators, writers, lawyers, businessmen joined in a statement urging that...
...cities last week, hundreds of children and younglings seated themselves at pianos, pounded for dear life. Some had memorized as many as 20 pieces. Ear-weary judges, sitting behind screens so as not to fuss the youngsters. heard everything from The Happy Farmer to full-length concertos. The National Guild of Piano Teachers had been holding such local "Auditions" since last April. By next week, 10,000 piano students in 92 cities will have tinkled their stuff. Almost all will get certificates, suitable for framing. on which various colored seals and stars indicate ratings from "commendable" to "superior." Best players...
...National Guild and its tournament were the bright ideas of a slow-spoken, quick-thinking Texas music teacher named Irl Allison, who started the whole thing on a shoestring in 1929. Touring the land to sign up piano teachers for the Guild, Mr. Allison was once down to his last 7?. Today 2,000 members pay $3-a-year dues to the Guild, and Mr. Allison is permanent president. Guild members get their names in an annual directory, their pupils in the Auditions, which this year brought in some $15,000 in entrance fees, cost $4,000 in judges...