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Last month, in its report on radio monopoly, the Federal Communications Commission kicked about the dual roles played by the talent bureaus of the two major networks in acting as both agents and employers of artists, each buying talent from themselves and selling talent to themselves and charging the talent a commission. Last week, in a hasty effort to avoid at least one future headache, CBS sold, subject to ratification, its Columbia Artists. Inc. to Music Corporation of America for a reputed $250,000. NBC was dickering to unload for the reputed same amount its Program Talent Sales and Concerts...
Last month saw another encouraging bit of evidence that in the field of jazz at least, racial prejudice is taking a back seat to recognition of talent. Roy Eldridge, the small colored trumpeter, whose size doesn't seem to prevent him from blowing as dynamic a horn as any of his fellows, stopped fooling around with his own little band in Chicago and joined up with Gene Krupa. Judging from a few late evening broadcasts I have heard in the past few weeks, I wouldn't say the change is doing Roy's reputation much good, for with...
Saturday, E.D.S.T.) began with a broadcast from Buenos Aires and will jump each week from Latin-American capital to capital, featuring local talent which will be mostly musical but also oratorical...
...dutiful husband,* an ardent dog-lover, an amiable drinker, and loved by his friends. Despite Latin-American fondness for the sanguine (bullfights, the annually-produced slaughter melodrama Don Juan Tenorio, the "Day of the Dead," etc.), Cooper will not in his new job employ his weird Lights Out talent...
...thought much about sketching in Cairo; but he reported last week from Budapest that the more he talked with talkative German soldiers the more certain he was that the Nazi machine would aim point-blank at Cairo and the Suez Canal very soon. Making the most of his talent for getting around, Correspondent Brock pieced together the following agenda: By the end of this week the Nazis intended to bulldoze Turkey into permitting the passage of German troops and equipment, lending air bases to the Luftwaffe, placing roads, railroads and wires at complete disposal of the German High Command...