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iENERAL LIBRARY Are 141)9 os, a°'by col iss toRs?` See Page 20 www.americanradiohistory.com IVY ...escape! to palm springs and the incomparable e mirador hotel ,,,,,. ,. ,µ,mAU . //,4, AoP ...,. Now Under Personal Direction of Warren B. Pinney T'S Summer Time in Palm Springs, now! Winter has been left behind. You are in the heart of the fascinating, mysterious, sun -drenched desert. Only three and one - half pleasant hours from Los Angeles by motor (little more than an hour by air - plane)-a thorough change of scene. You discover a new reason for living! . And a the El Mirador Hotel . There's a wondrous thrill on first awakening after quiet, restful night in a cheerful El Mirador guest room. Friendly sunlight greets you warmly as you step onto your private porch, starting a full day of pleasure. Golf on an inter- esting new course. SWIMMING IN A WARM PLUNGE UNDER A SUN THAT TANS. Tennis on championship courts. Open -air gymnasium. A canter in the sweet -scented evening beneath a moonlit, starry sky, followed on Saturdays by a delightful informal . You can play if dinner dance . There is everything or nothing to do. you want or rest if you need to. Cuisine and service that is now so perfect that there is no need for emphasis. Plan at once to come to Palm Springs and the in- comparable El Mirador. Rates for two, from $18.00 and up a day . American plan . Write, wire or phone for reservations. 4// /Á/¡7// /diY/aa //Niai waN mirador hotel a bit of egypt with an alpine background a t p a l m s p r i n g s c a l i f o r n i a i www.americanradiohistory.com IS EVERYTHING THAT'S NEW IN R BEFORE BUYING YOUR RADIO Check Every One of These N<.. Features ,aPEc AND Does It Have? The NEW 5ÂE oe U. S. APEX 10 TUBE 10 -TUBE SUPER -HETERODYNE SUPER-HETERODYNE AUTOMATIC VOLUME CONTROL Absolutely controls volume on both High and Low Frequencies. 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THE SET -TESTED TUBE Licensed Under RCA Patents Sylvania Pacific, Limited Western Headquarters 3440 South Hill Stre et Los Angeles Page Four RADIO DOINGS L www.americanradiohistory.com ADIO I DOINGS "THE l1OV1E liAGAZINE OF THE AIR' JANUARY 1 9 3 2 Volume XX Number I CONTENTS ON THE AIR_ 7 LAUGHING GAS! -A Hilarious Rural Traffic Court Radio Corn- edy-(By George Turner) 9 COLUMBO DISCOVERED BY AMERICA-Few Have Enjoyed Such Sudden Fame As Russ Columbo, Who Sky- Rocketed to Popu- larity Overnight -(By Hilda Cole) 10 IT'S A GREAT LIFE! -Kate Smith, Columbia "Songbird of the South," Turns Authoress and Tells Her Life Philosophy- (By Kate Smith) 12 BING AN ACTOR? -What Mack Sennett, Discoverer of Movie Stars, Thinks About Crosby's Chances in Pictures -(By Jed Buell) 14 STILL OPTIMISTIC -AND STILL GOING STRONG -The Story of The Optimistic Do -Nuts, the Oldest Radio Feature on the Air - (By Michael Kelly) 16 A NEW KIND OF GIRL -Nora Schiller -An Unusual Feminine Personality -(By Betty Sheldon) 18 HERITAGE FULFILLED -From a Family of Famous Adventurers and Authors Comes Harold Dana, of BC -(By Louise Landis)._ 19 THEY DO IT WITH MIRRORS-Are Bing Crosby, Russ Columbo, Al Jolson and Others Imitators? Another Ted White Article 20 BEHIND THE MIKE -Glimpses of the Studios and Artists -(By Harry James) 21 ADVENTURES OF CHANDU-That Might Have Happened 24 "MOUNTAIN WILLIAMS" -The NBC Hill Billies Carry on Tradi- tions of a Lost Tribe of Pioneers -(By Louise Landis) 26 MURDER WILL OUT-And Here Carleton E. Morse, Creator of NBC Mystery Thrillers, Tells How He Makes Them "Out " -(By Carleton E. Morse) 29 Wallace M. Byam Publisher Don McDowell Editor 1220 Maple Avenue, Los Angeles MLLES CLARK Phone WEstmore 1972 J. W. Hastie, 155 E. 42nd St., New York SEC Phone Vanderbilt 4661 Subscription $2.50 per year.25c per copy. SOPRANO Entered as second class matter Nov. 25, 1922, at Los Angeles, Calif., postoffice under act of March 3, 1879. Volume 20, Number 1. (Copyright 1931 by Wallace M. 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Ideas that sent old masters radio fan publication in the West. The first issue soaring into immortality are "too idealistic" for was published cooperatively by a handful of pio- radio. neer broadcasters as a service and a guide to local We wonder if they are right. Perhaps they listeners in Los Angeles. know their business, these radio "big shots" - Within a few months the demand was so great maybe, with their finger on the public pulse, they for the new magazine that "Out -of- Town" stations feel that the public doesn't want it. If that is true, and programs were included in its pages.