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Tune Detective Radio has figured largely among the activities of Dr. Sigmund Spaeth, handyman and jack-of-all-trades among U. S. musicians. Last year Dr. Spaeth directed for National Broadcasting Co. a "Keys to Happiness" program of piano instruction...
...TIME, April 6, 1931) which brought in 4.000 fan letters a week. Since last November Dr. Spaeth has been broadcasting as the "Tune Detective" in a 15-min. program (Tuesdays at 10 p. m. E. D. S. T.). Last week he added a new one, the "Song Sleuth" (Thursdays, 8:15 p.m.). NBC sustains them both but hopes for sponsors...
...Tune Detective is expert in tracing down the ancestry of current songs. In lectures and pamphlets Dr. Spaeth has explained his method, which anyone can learn, of separating a song into melody patterns, which may run from two notes to the whole chromatic scale. Some songs come piecemeal from the classics, like "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows" which is found in Chopin's Fantasie Impromptu. Others are scrambled together like "Yes, We Have No Bananas," which contains bits from Handel's Hallelujah Chorus, "My Bonnie," "I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls," "Aunt Dinah's Quilting...
...Saturday morning course directed by Musical Handyman Sigmund Spaeth over WJZ will have famed musical amateurs for teachers: Writer John Erskine last week, Aviator Charles Sherman ("Casey") Jones this week, with Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, Speaker Nicholas Longworth, Poetess Edna St. Vincent Millay, Architect Kenneth Murchison and Artists Peter Arno and Neysa McMein mentioned as other possibilities...
...Princeton eights are to row together as the guests of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the regatta being arranged by A. W. Rowe of the M. I. T. advisory committee on athletics, in conjunction with W. J. Bingham '10, director of athletics at Harvard, and Dr. J. D. Spaeth of the Princeton board of control, both of whom have expressed their approval of the existing scheme...