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Last week CBS gave listeners a chance to hear some of the superb talent that few advertisers dare to sponsor. From Montreal came the rich voice of Marian Anderson, from Hollywood the mean rhythms of Duke Ellington, from Manhattan one of the jaunty routines of the world's No. i tap dancer, Bill Robinson. Among others who crowded a lively hour were Trumpeter Louis Armstrong, Actor Canada Lee (see p. 76), Violinist Eddie South. Of all the performers only three had sponsored berths in radio: Eddie Anderson, the Rochester of the Jack Benny show, Band Leader John Kirby...
...Marian Anderson, 33, patrician Negro contralto, daughter of a onetime washerwoman, won the $10,000 Philadelphia Award (founded in 1921 by the late Edward W. Bok), given annually to the person who does most for the community. Contralto Anderson promised the money to "poor, unfortunate, very talented people...
Last week Mrs. Roosevelt deftly slipped the quartet into the program* of the Inaugural Gala, an omnium-gatherum of music and anti-Fascist vaudeville last Sunday night in Washington's Constitution Hall. That hall, owned by the D. A. R., two years ago was forbidden to Negro Contralto Marian Anderson. Last week the D. A. R. moodily approved the Golden Gate Quartet...
Continuing on the Board of Directors are William F. Hetherington Mrs. Virginia T. Tierney. Mrs. Marian Tomlinson, and Hugh R. Mattison...
...date been dominated by negative complexities. They are, perhaps, not important tales, but in each one there is something good, a touch of skill, a bit of freshly original thought, a hint of stability and understanding prevailing over modern themes and techniques. Best of them all is Marian Castleman's "Helen," a story which combines psychology and modern technique with a real narrative and objective character portrayal. Symbolically enough, all these stories are told through the months of children. A new generation is coming of age, looking at the world through its own eyes, and lending a new freshness...