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More Favorites Appreciation For Five Years My favorite programs are as fol I'd like to express my appreciation I was one of your first subscribers lows: National Barn Dance, Merry for the "Cabin and Bunkhouse" pro and save everyone of the copies. It Go-Round, Smile-A-While and many grams and especially for the program is great fun to go back and read over other informal WLS programs too of September 12. I don't know that even the first down to the last and numerous to mention; Lum and Ab I've ever listened to anything lovelier note the improvements that have ner, Vic and Sade, Tom, Dick and than the special arrangement of been made. I do not want my sub Harry; pappy Chesshire's Barnyard Rosalie and I must a vail myself of scription to run out, so am sending Follies, Breakfast Business, Supper this opportunity to commend and my renewal for five years. time Frolic, Jack Benny and Mary thank John Lair and the other ar Thanking you for a fine radio news Livingstone, Town Tall Tonight, with tists.-Ruth A. Larson, Chicago. magazine, and wishing you the best. Stoopnagle and Budd or with Fred - Mrs. Charles Peterson, Kenosha, Allen; any good dance orchestra Wis. (Wayne King, Guy Lombardo, etc.) . I don't care at all for "high falutin' .. "Top" Programs stuff (opera, drama and the like) but I think listeners' opinions of radio Second Attempt I really go for "hokum" in a big way. highlights. should prove interesting. -Fan, Muncie, Ind. Rating the "tops" in my estimation This is my second attempt to get a (That's a good list. Anybody else are: Drama - Girl Alone and One hearing in Listeners' Mike. I just want to say how much I enjoy the have some candidates? I Man's Family. Music-First any time, the brand of songs and smiles dished program of Hal and the Range Rid out by the WLS boys and girls. Think ers. My guess is that the Range Rid the whole gang is just great, but my ers are the Four Hired Hands. Won Quiet, Please special bouquets go to Patsy Montana der if I'm right .... Mrs. Louis Vetter, I agree with the Kentucky and the Ramblers. Then, for a bit of Sawyer, Wis. Woodburner because some Saturday variation, a dash of popular music as (When Mrs. vetter wrote her let nights there is so much noise going played by Vincent York's orchestra. ter, her guess was right. Now Hal is on that it makes it difficult to hear Devotional-Equally fine, I think, are riding the range every morning with Arkie with his song and laughter. I a Sunday morning service from the the Rangers, recognized by many as do not agree with the idea of putting First Baptist Church of Pontiac. the Hilltoppers.) a grasshopper down Arkie's back, be Michigan, and a Sunday afternoon cause those things do not tickle when message by Rev. Maier, Lutheran they get down the back. A little wa pastor in St. Louis. Novelty - Vox ter or ice isn't half as bad. I think Pop. l\laster of Ceremonies-Don Mc Arkie Blushed! he'd rather have that than the old Neil. Comedian-Pat Buttram. News grasshopper!-Steady Listener, Lime -Julian Bentley. Announcer-It's a I'm a charter member of Stand By Springs, Iowa. draw between Howard Chamberlain f:nd our whole family is a WLS fan. and Jack Holden. We certainly enjoyed Arkie and his I could add a number of serials to gang at Algona, Iowa, this month and the programs I enjoy, but this is a gave them a hearty welcome. It's the Vote for Lulu Belle noble effort to keep it whittled down first time we ever saw Arkie blush. I . In the National Radio Guide to the least common denominator.' . hope some day we may also see Lulu contest to determine the most popu "Pinto," Imlay City, Mich. Belle and Scotty. We love to hear lar feminine radio star, Lulu Belle is those two voices. .. Ruby Stenzel, in third place. Can't we put her to Titonka, Iowa. the top. The contest closes October 15, so hurry! You can vote each Land of the Sky ST AND BY week till then if you wish. If each Just returned from our vacation to Stand By reader would vote once, I'm Scotty's Land of the Sky. We can BURRIDGE D. BUTLER, Publisher sure she would go to the top. easily understand now why he sings Copyright. 1936. Prairie Farmer Publishing Co. Jos:)~h : n~ Lcss~r, Fond Du Lac, Wis. 1230 Washington Blvd .. Chicago so many beautiful songs about Caro Indianapolis: 241 N. Pennsylvania lina and Old Smoky Mountains. Also New York City: 250 Park Avenue visited Ramblin' Red's Renfro Valley. Subscription Price, $1.00 a Year A New One Don't blame them for wanting to go Single Copy, 5 cents back there to live. I'd love to live Issued Every Saturday Knock, Knock! there myself. We weren't very far Entered as second-class matter Februar) Who's there? north from Pat Buttram's home town. 15. 1935. at the post office at Chicago, Illi Howard, Joe and Jack. Maybe next summer we can visit nois. under the Act of March 3. 1879. there, too. I was sure glad to see Howard, Joe and Jack who? JULIAN T. BENTLEY, Editor my Stand By in the mail box when I Virginia Seeds, Managing Editor Howard you like to Joe with me got home. as I surely enjoy every r.nd spcnd some Jack? thing in it .... Mr. and Mrs. Howard October 3, 1936 - Bill Bennett, Detroit. Mich. Huber, Evansville, Ind. VOLUME 2 NUMBER 34 ife Begins at Egbert Van Alstyne and his mother, Mrs. Lanning, show Ralph "Aunt Em" Broadcasts Her Emerson and Henry Burr, two long-time radio friends, her po Philosophy and Poetry etry scrapbook. was a grand reunion in the WLS fornia." Most of the cooking was By VIRGINIA SEEDS studios when Mrs. Lanning, her son, done over an open campfire and since Henry Burr who has popularized so she had no recipes along, she cooked ·I WANT to help women who are many of Mr. Van Alstyne's songs, and "by guess and by golly." • sitting around, perhaps grieving Ralph Emerson all got together. Be It was while she was on this trip because they are alone or have cause "Memories" is Mrs. Lanning's that she began writing poetry, jotting nothing to do. I want to show them favorite of all the songs her son has down notes as the inspiration came how much there is to be done, what written, Henry Burr sang it for her to her during the long trip across the a grand time they can have making during her interview on the Dinner continent. their dreams come true!" bell program. - Not Because she wanted to be able to And to spread this philosophy, content to bask in reflected read her poems with expression, Mrs. glory from her famous son. Mrs. Lan "Aunt Em," who recently celebrated Lanning came to Chicago and en ning likes to get out and do things her 80th birthday, faces the WROK rolled in the dramatic department of microphone once a week with bits of for herself. One of her favorite ex Chicago Musical College-the same pressions is that for a woman, "Life original poetry, stories from her trav college from which her son had grad els, and her own homely reflections begins at 65!" uated many years before. At the age on life. As she says, "In my work When she was 65, MIS. Lanning of 69, she received her diploma and before Old Mike, I try to have every took her flrst trip across the conti began looking for new fields to con broadcast different. There's nothing nent. Some of her relatives were quer. like keeping folks guessing." making the trip, spending their days "Aunt Em" is short for Mrs. Emma on the road and their nights out in Her 72nd year was an eventful one Van Alstyne Lanning, the mother of the open. Mrs. Lanning wanted to for Mrs. Lanning. Her son gave her the composer of many old-time popu pay her own way so, in her own a typewriter and she learned to type lar songs, Egbert Van Alstyne. There words, she "cooked her way to Cali- (Continued on page 151 " gether. Don. former teacher of Chem istry at Arkansas. helps Georgie with his experiments. Then Georgie goes into the studio. sings a few songs for you and off to school. Well. boys and girls. here's some thing for you. There's going to be a great nation-wide birthday party next Monday. Your old pal Mickey Mouse will be eight years old on that day. Isn·t he growing uP. though? Hope he lives a great many years because if I go to a movie and there's no By JACK HOLDEN Mickey Mouse it just seems as though the movie is incomplete. September 23, 1936. my pal ·Dizzy· ... The aUdience took Ralph is having a great time over their cue and cheered. there at his desk. Every once in a ST Saturday night was National Much to my surprise. both Lon and while he chuckles to himself. He's League night at the Barn Dance. "Dizzy" took me up on the joke and going through some very old music t We didn·t know it was going to made their way to the stage.