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Local opera fans will have a chance to hear a preview of the forthcoming Lowell House production "Solomon and Balkis," when the Columbia Workshop presents a half-hour condensation of the opera at 2:30 o'clock Sunday over a nationwide CBS hookup...
They heard the opening adventure, in Jalisco, of a good-natured young man from the U.S. By the end of the half-hour, boy had met girl (Mexican), had danced, heard much music, learned some handy Spanish words and phrases and at least one simple song. Last week's chapter, laid in Michoacan, taught him another. As the radio audience was informed, all songs used in the eight-week series can be had on records...
...California's short-wave KGEI the Army Signal Corps on Bataan now picks up and rebroadcasts some two hours of English programs every day. The stuff begins to come in on Bataan at 5 every afternoon (2 a.m. in San Francisco). It starts with a quarter-hour of straight news. Another quarter-hour is devoted to a roundup of editorial comments from the U.S. Since Bing Crosby's request performance (TIME, Feb. 9), KGEI has added a daily half-hour of entertainment from fresh recordings: Monday, Jack Benny; Tuesday, Cavalcade of America; Wednesday, Bob Hope; Thursday, Eddie Cantor...
...weeks-highest pay in radio. General Foods last week meditated giving Jell-O to Kate Smith, shunting Grape-Nuts Products to Benny. Benny was elaborately unconcerned. In an unprecedented deal last year he persuaded NBC to give him, not General Foods, a personal ten-year option on the choicest half-hour in radio (Sun. 7 p.m. E.W.T.). He can take Grape-Nuts Products or leave them alone...
...radiomen the best thing that happened last week was a half-hour talk to them on a unique closed telephone network (i.e., not on the air) by OFF's Director Archibald MacLeish. Coherent and down-to-earth, Mr. MacLeish dispelled apprehensions, cleared up the "What can I do?" question and told the broadcasters what kind of guidance they could expect from his office henceforth. Among matters soon to be set right by OFF and a Broadcasters' Victory Council in Washington: excessive bunching and repetition of appeals, pep talks, the national anthem...