The Majestic Theater of the Air

The series was produced and emcee'd by Wendell Hall and sponsored by Chicago's Grigsby-Grunow Company, manufacturers of Majestic Radios.

[1] It began on the CBS network in October, 1928, with a coast-to-coast hookup of 29 stations.

[2] When Grigsby-Grunow expanded their broadcast to reach the full CBS network on January 6, 1929, the stars of the program were Eddie Cantor and Ruth Etting.

[3] In April, 1929, singer Harriet Lee was introduced by Hall on the show as the "Chicago Nightingale", becoming a hit on the CBS network.

The tenor Redferne Hollinshead contributed five selections with an additional two songs by Edna Sedley.

One of 12 Eddie Cantor caricatures by Frederick J. Garner for a 1933 Brown & Bigelow advertising card set. This is the image the public had of Eddie Cantor through photos and drawings when he appeared on *The Majestic Theater of the Air* .