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Sinus-whinus Fred Allen, the reluctant comic, was last week voted far & away the best performer on the air. Polled by the magazine Billboard, 324 U.S. radio editors also liked, as tops in their class: Information Please, Bing Crosby and Dinah Shore, H. V. Kaltenborn, Bob Hope, Sports Announcer Bill Stern, the Lux Radio Theater, Guy Lombardo (for light music) and the New York Philharmonic (symphonic music). The editors thought Norman Corwin's On a Note of Triumph the outstanding broadcast of 1945, voted Kenny ("Senator Claghorn") Delmar the newest radio star...
...give voices to his furred and feathered folk, Impresario Disney signed up Nelson Eddy, Dinah Shore, the Andrews Sisters, Edgar Bergen. To supply the cartooned creatures with plots and dialogue, he has engaged such litterateurs as Novelist Huxley, Playwrights Marc Connelly and Edwin Justus Mayer, Author George Rippey Stewart, Author-Critic Sterling North and Folklorist Carl Carmer. Some Disney projects...
ABSIE's pride & joy were its musical programs, as American as pie à la mode. According to captured Germans, the favorite Allied program heard in Germany was Music for the Wehrmacht, which featured songs by topnotch performers like Bing Crosby and Dinah Shore. Beaming almost a third of its air time to Germany, ABSIE had solid assurance that its efforts were not wasted. The Nazis tried jamming ABSIE broadcasts, answered ABSIE's news comments on their own stations...
Paul Whiteman set the pace with his 1,500th-odd playing of the Rhapsody. All four major networks agreed to stick in Gershwin tunes on almost every musical show that comes along. Among others, Todd Duncan (the original "Porgy") and every songstress from Lily Pons to Dinah Shore will give out with Gershwin in July. The climax will be a big outdoor concert, starring Oscar Levant, at Manhattan's Lewisohn Stadium on July 12. That will be exactly eight years and a day after Gershwin's death-a rather odd-figure anniversary until one considers that it coincides...
...have had a lot of entertainment from home since the first five U.S.O. units waded ashore in Normandy last July and promptly merged into one mammoth revue, practically on the beach. Dozens of other units have jested and jeeped their way around the fronts; such headliners as Bing Crosby, Dinah Shore, Edward G. Robinson, Morton Downey, Fred Astaire have come & gone...