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...amateur magician, Professor Chaffee, directs the "Slide Rule Symphony" made up of his colleagues and officers from the Radar School. First debut of the orchestra was at a party last April at which the feature presentation was "Deep in the Heart of Texas" a la Chaffee. Chaffee himself plays the cornet and cello...
Warcaster Baldwin's series debut reviewed the military news of the week with a clarity and detachment not common to radio newscasting. His voice was believable-a happy departure from the standard radio announcer-commentator voice, which suggests that its owner has been thickly padded with heavy cream. The rest is up to Baldwin's listeners. If they like his realism-in contrast to the bombast and theatrics of scores of commentators-he has a new career. If they do not like it, he still has a wide reputation for professional learning, personal acuteness and balance...
After his U.S. debut three weeks ago, Sweden's wraithlike Gunder Hägg stood at a microphone and told his countrymen he was sorry that Arne Andersson had not come along with him. Andersson, a 27-year-old Gothenburg schoolteacher, had set the pace for Hägg in most of his seven world's record runs, had always finished a shadow length behind...
Paris Green. Come Down, My Evenin' Star was the work of a tunesmith named John ("Honey") Stromberg, who wrote for the revues at the old Weber & Fields Music Hall when David Warfield, Fay Templeton, DeWolf Hopper and Willie Collier were among its stars. When Lillian made her debut there in 1899 in a travesty on The Girl from Maxim's, Honey Stromberg was her musical director. For four years he wrote his finest tunes for her. One day in 1902 Honey, an acute sufferer from chronic rheumatism, was reported seriously ill at his home in Freeport, Long Island...
Miss Gilbert is making her stage debut; she should do well. He poise is not quite all there, she tends to awkwardness, but her voice is good, her sense of simple dramatics is fair, and she is a pretty girl...