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...notch orchestra leader] may receive a salary of $2,000 per broadcast. . . . If the average band leader retains 20% of his salary, he's doing very well...
...want to be captious but arithmetic is arithmetic. Twenty percent of $2,000 is $400. One broadcast a week for a year, at that miserably low figure, is $20,000 per year, and that is only from one radio engagement. If he is really a top-notch band leader, and he must be, to command that salary, he is doubling in a large hotel or night club at God knows what figure; he will undoubtedly play in picture houses: make a movie short or appear in a full-length picture; and his his value as a cigaret or camera endorser...
...good NBC show, Tom Riley may be the man whose pencil and quiet word gave the script its magic touch. If the base fiddler didn't arrive for the broadcast, that may have been Tom Riley you heard, taking it. He's one of many well-paid but unsung NBC producers...
...Broadcast of 1936 (Paramount), a collection of specialty acts by radio entertainers, might have been much more satisfactory if its producers had not insisted on incorporating them into a story. Any narrative framework designed to include Amos 'n' Andy, Ray Noble, Ethel Merman, Henry Wadsworth, Lyda Roberti, Burns & Allen, Sir Guy Standing, Mary Boland, Charles Ruggles, Jack Oakie, Ina Ray Hutton and her Melodears, Wendy Barrie, Bing Crosby, the Vienna Choir Boys and Bill Robinson could scarcely be distinguished for its spontaneity. The device which shackles them together in The Big Broadcast is a "tele-radio...
...moments when The Big Broadcast offers its audience some respite from the story the most enjoyable are those in which Bill Robinson demonstrates that he is still the ablest tap-dancer in the world, Bing Crosby sings I Wished on the Moon and Ethel Merman cavorts with a chorus of elephants to a tune called It's the Animal...