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...Kyser is a pretty fair orchestra leader. Harold Lloyd was a very funny comedian. But when Kyser drops his baton and tries to gallop along in Loyd's footsteps, he's not only a horribly un-funny comedian, but an anemic imitation of an orchestra leader as well...
...Favorite Spy," Kyser's band plays about one and a half musical numbers, and spends the rest of the time following its one-lunged maestro around through an aimless plot involving--surprise!--Nazi spies and saboteurs, and an assorted bunch of blondes and brunettes. If Kyser is worried about his future, he can eliminate acting as a possibility. He'd better hold on to that orchestra...
Most popular, and most played, are the tunes of the hour. Glenn Miller, Artie Shaw, Kay Kyser, Bing Crosby rate high. When Consolidated Aircraft Corp. tried heavy classics on its programs, workers hooted. But Portland's huge Oregon Shipbuilding Yard draws no complaints when it goes as high as Brahms' Fifth and Sixth Hungarian Dances...
...Treasury Department, juke-box makers and operators tried to get Irving Berlin's promotional song, Any Bonds Today?, into the No. 1 spot in every one of the 300,000 coin phonographs of the land. The song (sung by Barry Wood for Victor, played by Kay Kyser for Columbia) is owned by the Treasury Department. A preliminary test in 5,000 Detroit juke boxes upped defense-bond sales in the area...
...radio's big ten were the deftly written serial The Aldrich Family (sixth), the schmalz of Band Leader Kay Kyser (ninth), the soap-opera One Man's Family (tenth). Beating the graven image Charlie McCarthy by a whisker, Jack Benny led the pack for 1940. Others in Crossley's peerage: Fibber McGee & Molly, the Lux Radio Theatre, Bob Hope, Kate Smith, Major Bowes...