Editorial
THE CHARLOTTE LABOR JOURNAL
AND DTT’t- p\rm NEWS
Published at ' a. North Carolina
OLDEST LABOR PULIM < IN THE TWO CAROLINA8
H A. Stalls. Editor and F u W. M. Witter, Associate Editor
Entered aa second-class in- tflatter September 11, 1931, at the
Pont Office at Charlotte, N C, under the Act of Congreaa of
March 3. 1879. _'
Endorsed by Charlotte Typographical Union, Number 338. An Af
filiate of Charlotte Central Labor Union and the North Carolina Fed
oration of Labor.____
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By GEORGE LILLEY
NEW YORK, N, Y.—There i* a
boom in ukulele sales, once
about as fieud as the dodo bird. A
Bronx (New York) dealer has a
backlog of 100,000 orders. The Bal
timore Bun reDorta that the uke in
Arthur Godfrey
.old ukt man
that town is al
most aa hot a
dealer item as
cowboy holsters.
The source of
the boom: that
man again, Ar
thur Godfrey, on
the Monday
night radio-TV
program “Tal
ent Scouts”
(CBS).The uku
lele is not new to
Godfrey listen
Pi ». A SKliiiui up uiu^iu
to use the instrument by a Hawaiian
shipmate while in the Navy at Great
Lakes Naval Training station. When
he broke into radio, via an amateur
program in Baltimore, Godfrey gave
his first uke lessons on the air. He
is doing the same thing today, but
to an audience of millions. He just
likes the instrument, has no “deal”
with any manufacturer,
"TELEVISION THEATER'S" THIRD
The Wednesday night (NBC)
“Television Theater" is the oldest,
and one of the most successful, dra
matic programs in television It has
just celebrated its third anniver
sary. With viewers, as on radio,
light comedies
appear to do
best. Of 166
“Tel•visio n I
Theater" per
formances, 82
have been come
dies, 60 Straight
drama, 13 mys
teries, 11 fanta
sies. Some 480
actresses have
been employed
on the show,
compared to 247
TV Sight
. top tpmbtAf
wiiuiviuii ^uviai in ■ *. iu
fill 1,641 roles, 5,223 performers
were auditioned and their rards filed
by the,ad agency. Every show has
been opened by a little wooden cam
eraman who rides on stage, move*
about, then turns to face the audi
ence It probably has been seen by
more people than any other TV
symbol.
“MISS BROOKS'" BOY
Fast Utkin*, husky Steve Allen
once bet singer Frankie i.aine
$1,000.00 that he < Allen) could write
350 songs within a week. Frankie
paid off. And Allen really isn’t a
song writer. He is a West Coast
radio favorite —
Steve Allen
. . $1 jl)00 won
diak jockey to
give-away man
— who has hit
the “big time."
He has taken
over for the
summer (Sun
day evenings,
CBS) as replace
ment for the
"Our Miss
Brooks" radio
program. Allen
has been a oiano
player, gag writer, radio announcer.
Of a theatrical family (mother: a.
comedienne: father, a singer and
straight man I, he first came to
Hollywood to write for the comedy
shows. He soon moved into radio
on his own, shot up to popularity
with a mixture of records, gags,
piano playing and gab. You’ll have
to take a listen.
NOTES ON SINGER
Bill Harrington: five-in-one fea
ture of Edward Everett Horton’s
gay television show (Thursday
nights, ABC-TV, “Holiday Hotel."
As well as a singer, Bill is a compos
er. pianist, accordionist and trombon
lie Ml me own
of an Indianapo
lis policeman.
From a job as
vocalist with a
five-piece band
in Lima, Ohio.
Bill landed one
as station vocal
ist on Cincin
nati’s WLW. He
succeeded Phil
Brito and
worked with a
ital vocalist then
Bill Harrington
...lavdlard helped
on the station. Doris Day. After a
stint in the Navy and a period sink
ing with Alvino Key’s band. Bill
pulled into New York. He stayed
with a friend. His friend's landlord
happened to be NormCil' Broken
shire. In due course Bill hit the “Hit
Parade." and on TV has had as
many as 11 shows a week.
Census Humor
Uncle Sam’s 1950 census enu
merators encountered a whale of
a lot of diverting tidbits that will
never find their way into govern
ment statistics.
One woman objected to being
listed as ^a divorcee unless the
fact was inserted "1 was awarded
the divorce, not my brute of a
husband.”
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Another insisted upon the no
tation: “I was given the euatody
of the children”; while a third
. Wanted to be reported “Divorced
with alimony.” One self-styled
divorcee, on the other hand, con
fessed under fire that she was
really a spinster posing as a gay
■ divorcee to attract* ihen.
Honesty of a sort came from
a New Jersey house burglar, who
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calmly reported hia occupation:
“Professional crook.”
But the prise pigeon was the
Bowery bum who, caught on the
fly as it were, insisted with a
perfectly straight — but rather
dirty and bewhiskered—face that
he was a “lineman.”
Being a kind man at heart, he
finally saved the censua enumera
tor’s safety by amplifying tha
term into “bread-lineman.”
—Labor.
Winded
Puffing and blowing, the sailor
just managed to jump into a car
as the train left the station.
The middle-aged man in the
corner eyed him with scorn.
“When I was your age, my
lad,” he said, “I could run a
half mile, catch a train by the
skin of my teeth, and yet be as
fresh as a daisy.”
“Yes.” gasped the young feel
low, “but I missed this one a:
I the last station.”
Buy Union and flght the ag
gressors who would destroy
American labor standards.
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