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...Mooney, free at last in the California sun. They listened to a Cavalier officer's clipped story of his ship's disaster, thrilled to the drama of the Squalus rescue work. They heard a new Pope proclaimed. They heard three men launch a war. And, as conductor of this medley of events, they heard the cool, trenchant voice of Raymond Gram Swing, MBS's one-man brain trust on world affairs, U. S. radio's "find" of 1939. Some radio programs listed him under Dance Music, as "Raymond Gram, swing!" But last week Variety voted Raymond...
...Louis' song-loving German-Americans. Billed as soloist on his program was a tall, buxom, blonde St. Louis soprano named Helen Traubel. When he heard her sing he excitedly mopped his brow, advised her to apply for a job at Manhattan's Metropolitan. In 1937, when Conductor Damrosch's opera The Man without a Country was premiered during the Metropolitan's minor-league spring season, Helen Traubel sang its leading role, and springtime critics gave her top marks...
Mendelssohn: "Reformation" Symphony (Columbia Broadcasting Symphony, Howard Barlow conducting; Columbia: 8 sides). A converted Lutheran, Jewish Composer Mendelssohn wrote his "Reformation" Symphony to commemorate the Lutheran credo's 300th birthday. Conductor Barlow gives its neat, tuneful phrases their first modern recording...
Until the brassbound car conductor came...
...Greenwich Village, at Columbia University's School of Journalism the Santa Claus editorial was held up to students as the perfect example of its type. Finally, as sooner or later happens to all such classics, the Sun's credo was set to music. The composer, NBC Conductor Rosario Bourdon, made a cantata out of it, with chords of booming brass, a soprano soloist and a male chorus, broadcast it (1932) with Soprano Jessica Dragonette. This year, for the Christmas trade, Jessica Dragonette made Is There a Santa Claus? immortal on a Victor phonograph record...