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Bill Daughaday is a strong favorite to defeat his Jumbo opponent, Al Bennett, in the 165 bracket. Tudor Gardiner meets an unknown quantity, Charles Ciaffone, in the 175 pound bout...
...other guests jumbo type has been used, and for presbyopic Impresario Daniel Frohman the script was hand-printed, in letters several inches tall. More difficult was color-blind Manhattanite Robert Reuschle, who wanted his lines typed in "red," the color he could see best. (The script had to be typed in green, which he saw as red.) Worst of the lot was 119-year-old Flora Williams, a onetime slave. Mrs. Williams had never learned to read, could memorize nothing, had to ad lib her interview with Commentator Gabriel Heatter. Even under the strain of broadcasting she could not keep...
Most radio shows laboriously present audience surveys and other statistical mumbo-jumbo to prove to sponsors that they can pull in listeners. None of this was necessary, however, when Orson Welles's Mercury Theatre of the Air was sold to Campbell Soup last week. Week before Mr. Welles had proved that his program had grip when his production of The War of the Worlds and the U. S. radio audience's gullibility had created a national panic. Mercury Theatre will replace Campbell Soup's Hollywood Hotel on CBS December...
...decided it was not enough just to be good at the job; they had to be constantly different also. The one possible formula was: Don't have a formula; the one rule for success: Don't follow it up. Their last five shows explain what they mean. Jumbo was circus set to music, On Your Toes a spoof at ballet, Babes in Arms about kids in a depression world, I'd Rather Be Right a rubdown of F. D. R., I Married An Angel a pure extravaganza that started in Heaven and ended in Radio City...
...delight, but he is constantly at search for new forms across the known boundaries of his medium. The dream music for Peggy-Ann, and twelve years later for Married An Angel, the "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue" ballet music for On Your Toes, the march of the clowns in Jumbo, while probably causing Richard Strauss no alarm for his laurels, are imaginative and charming be yond the accepted standards of musicomedy music...