Golden Age of Radio

Star Lines Guy Lombardo Star of CBS' "Guy Lombardo Time" BORN in London Ontario Canada, June 19, 1902. He attended St. Peter’s School in Ontario 1909.20. While in school, he organized a four-piece band consisting of himself, his brothers Carmen and Lebert, and Fred Kreitzer, all of whom are still with his Royal Canadians orchestra today. ORIGINAL LOMBARDO GROUP played at church socials and similar affairs, eventually expanded to nine musicians and thereafter gained fame throughout Canada. IN 1923, American booking agent Mike Shea engaged the Royal Canadians to play at an Elks’ convention in Cleveland. Lombardo gave notice to the Toronto hotel where he had been playing steadily and stayed in the U.S.A. FOLLOWING YEAR, after several hotel engagements, Lombardo persuaded Cleveland’s radio station WTAM to give him air time. At his own expense he took his crew to the studio in city’s outskirts to broadcast every night. AS THE NETWORKS came into bei...

FIBBER McGEE AND MOLLY JOIN “PARADE OF STARS” ADD OF GREATEST ARRAY OF TOP RADIO ENTERTAINMENT EVER HEARD IN SOUTH FLORIDA; OPEN TUESDAY Mrs. Uppington, Wally Wimple, Harlow Wilcox, Included In Cast The WIOD-NBC “Parade of Stars” is just about complete— FibberMcGee and Molly are back! The famed comedy team, long at the top of any list of America’s favorite entertainers, have returned to Wistful Vista for another season of homey, hilarious fun. STARS RETURN— Fibber McGee and Molly open another great radio season Tuesday night in their old familiar spot at 9:30 p. m. preceding the Bob Hope program. They’ll be heard every Tuesday night in their familiar spot at 9:30 p. m. beginning this week. With them will be their program “regulars.” Including Mrs. Abigail Uppington, Mayor LaTrivia, Wallace Wimple, Old Timer, and Nick De Populous. Announcer Harlow Wilcox resumes his duties in the show for the sponsor, while Billy Mills and his orchestra and the King’s Men quartet ...

THE MILKWAUKEE JOURNAL—SCREEN and RADIO Sunday, December 30, 1945 The McGees Are Just Folks By Carlton Cheney ON A RECENT trip to New York, Jim Jordan, better known as Fibber McGee, of Fibber and Molly , was standing in the main corridor of the NBC studios when a little crowd of sightseers approached. Led by a uniformed guide, they nore down on Jordan, elbowed him out of the way and continued their hunt for glimpses of stars. That no one paid him the least attention did not surprise Fibber’s other self. Even after some eight years of life in Hollywood, where stars rarely pass unrecognized, Jim and Marion Jordan, though tops among radio teams, can usually walk down a crowded Vine st. without being mobbed by autograph hunters. The fact that they remain relatively inconspicuous once they get away from the microphones does not disturb or displease the Jordans. Plain folk from country and small town, the one the son of a farmer, the other the daughter of a coal miner, they ...

SAY HELLO TO . . . BEN ALEXANDER –the announcer on tonight’s Chase and Sanborn program on NBC. This expert master of ceremonies is the same Ben Alexander who was a child actor when the movies were young. He’s 29 now, and still appears in pictures occasionally, but devotes most of his time to radio. You’ll hear him on his own program, Little Ol’ Hollywood, at 9:30 tomorrow night over NBC-Blue.