From the pages of Weekly Variety. Names that everyone has forgotten...
Dr. J. J. Gagnier, musical director of the Babillage Caprice, back from Cincinnati.
Uncle Frank Coomes, who conducts a children matinee over KJR, Seattle, each week, big fav in British Columbia.
Home Gas concert orchestra directed by Calvin Winter and announced by Frank Anders is broadcast from the Broadway theatre, Vancouver. Isabella McEwan, Emerton Court and Ernest J. Colton are soloists. Now heard from stations CRCV, CKWX, and VE9CS.
British Columbia Electric Symphony orchestra being directed by Allard de Ridder, and heard from CRCV, Vancouver.
CJAT is now giving a full service to the Kootenay listeners, operating from 8 a.m., till 10:30 p.m., making 14 1/2 hours as the schedule.
Charlie Smith, who has been heard from CKMO, Vancouver, for the past five years, is now giving information to the listeners of CJAT, Trail.
Hill-billy music at CKMO, Vancouver, has Jack Shannon, banjoist, as leader of a trio.
Bill Easterbrook, tenor of CKCD, now with the Uncle Billy show.
Lily Ide, Japanese songstress who made her initial radio appearance on CJOR, Vancouver, some months ago, has returned to the air after an absence.
Catherine McEwan, soprano on ‘Sparklets,’ on vacation trip to Calgary. During her absence Eugene Mahrer, cellist, will take the spot.
Phyllis Bentham and Gordon Manley, a piano duo on the British Columbia network for the past year, now on Western chain.
Doug Hommersham, announcer at CKMO, returned to CFJC.
Mrs. Fowler, the Cigarette Lady of the skits beard on CKCD, recently became a mother.
Margaret Burris, formerly taking feminine leads with the Radio Theatre Club, released from CFJC, Kamloops, to the British Columbia network, did some programs in Eastern Canada recently.
Bill Ladner is back on the air and heard from CKMO, Vancouver.
Sunshine Sally has deserted CKMO. She gave morning talks on fashions, etc., and was also secretary and continuity writer of the station. Elsie Johnson has taken her place.
Ernest Caldwell, veteran broadcaster who has been associated with CRCV, Vancouver, for a long time, has recovered from illness which kept him for months.
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