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Then big things happened. NBC-Blue signed Dinah as jive-diva on its Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street program. She became the darling of le jazz hot. Then Eddie Cantor hired her. She recorded Yes, My Darling Daughter, which sold half a million. A year later she started her own show. Now a minor Big Business (her earnings this year will run about $115,000), Dinah is handled by a board of five...
King George VI (Thurs. 9 a.m. Mutual, CBS, NBC-Blue) addresses the British people...
Nifty and haunting little songs from South Africa, sung for all that is in them, have made Josef Marais (pronounced Ma-ray) a favorite radio balladeer. Over an NBC-Blue network as usual last Sunday at 1:30 p.m. E.S.T. his program, African Trek, opened with a few bars of his theme song, Sarie Marais; but as a special treat this time he sang the whole thing first in Afrikaans, then in English. He could be sure of a bilingual audience, because for almost a year NBC has been sending his program by short wave to the Afrikanders...
...Most pretentious and certainly the corniest air newcomer last week was Celebrity Minstrels, off to a four-week try-out on NBC-Blue (Tuesdays 9:30 to 10 E.S.T.) as a possible summer substitute for one of the big shows. To prove his point that there is a bit of minstrelsy in every man, Producer Mort Lewis (If I Had The Chance) got Cartoonist Ham Fisher (Joe Palooka} and Illustrator James Montgomery Flagg as regular endmen, Actor Ezra Stone and Announcer Harry von Zell as extras, Jay C. Flippen as interlocutor. Celebrity Minstrels opened with Oh, Dem Golden Slippers...
Last week, over 92 NBC-Blue stations, Cavalcade put on its most ambitious radio venture to date-a half-hour digest of Carl Sandburg's packed, four-volume biography, Abraham Lincoln: The War Years. Gangling Playwright Robert E. Sherwood wrote the script, Lincolnesque Raymond Massey, in Chicago playing Sherwood's Abe Lincoln in Illinois, read the lead. The radio version was an episodic but surprisingly well-linked Lincoln cycle, from Springfield in a stovepipe hat (1861) back to Springfield in a cortege...