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...Phonograph Record, Player Piano, and Carmen Lombardo," a satire by Alec Templeton is very, very funny, especially the first and last. Wish Templeton would do more of this instead of trying to play jazz (at which he is very bad) and classical (at which he isn't too good) His satire and musical sense of humor is better than anyone I have heard, and it would seem as though a little division of labor is necessary...
...Onyx Club has closed and it looks like for good. . . . Sonny Dunham of Casa Loma fame, starting another band again. . . . Not content with raising general hell with the Metropolitan Opera and its "great gold curtain," blind pianist Alee Templeton has just developed a fifteen tone scale. The only instrument he can find which it will work on is an old zither, so unfortunately his invention is a bit limited...
...Sportscaster Bill Stern, Newscaster Lowell Thomas, Studio Announcer Don Wilson. Favorite dramatic program: Cecil B. DeMille's Lux Radio Theatre; favorite children's program: Nila Mack's Let's Pretend; favorite quarter-hour: Fred Waring's. Outstanding 1939 star: blind British Piano Wag Alec Templeton...
...days when, as a flip, conceited kid playing in vaudeville, he high-hatted stagehands, raised hell over his billing. But as Cohan matures, the story mellows, draws an affectionate picture of the Great Flag-Waver in his prime. Playing the old songs, bringing on the scene David Belasco, Fay Templeton, George Arliss, Yankee Doodle Boy marches up to 1939. Of young James Graham's take-off of Cohan's take-off of F. D. R. in I'd Rather Be Right, Cohan remarked: "The kid did it better than...
...Malley is a fruity, beet-red, Lancashire-born Irishman who was introduced to the U. S. four years ago with Templeton and Jack Hylton's orchestra. His specialty: English North Country songs, the phlegmatic Lancashire monologues that have made Gracie Fields Britain's top entertainer. From Pat many U. S. radio listeners have learned for the first time of stubborn old Sam Small, who held up the Battle of Waterloo until the Duke of Wellington, no less, soft-soaped him into picking up his musket. They know, too. of young Albert Ramsbottom who got et by a lion...