Zora Layman Helen Merchant Eileen Ellsworth
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ZORA LAYMAN HELEN MERCHANT Born on a Kansas cattle Helen Merchant attended the ranch, Zora Layman was a violin University of California. An out- prodigy. At seventeen she acted as standing concert pianist and teacher, \ concert master of the National Orchestra she made her radio début with the KGO N in Chautauqua, and later forsook a Holly- staff trio, also serving as accompanist. wood career to study singing. In New York she became associated with Zora has been heard in the Fleischmann hour, WABC, and managed the Barbizon -Plaza prac- "Hill- Billy" Heart Throbs, Standard Oil, Heart tice studios. As staff pianist and "The Musical Clock Throbs of the Hills, Maxwell House, Friendship Girl" at WINS, this charming songstress from Marsh- Town, Hands Across the Border and the Campbell field, Oregon, has complete charge of this program, series. She has been soloist with B. A. Rolfe, guest on selecting the music, which ranges from popular to Dr. Scholl's program, and featured singer for the profound, and announcing weather reports and at Crazy Water Hotel Company on NBC. five -minute intervals the correct time. ELIZABETH LENNOX NALDA NARDI Elizabeth Lennox of Ionia, Michigan, was educated At the age of eight, Nalda Nardi of Torrington, Con- at several universities and the Cosmopolitan School necticut, appeared in piano concerts. At sixteen she of Music. After appearing as soloist in New York and began vocal study in New York and two years later Chicago church recitals, she scored a success at Car- entered the Verdi Conservatory of Music in Milan. negie and Town Hall and through the South and Mid- She made her début in Turin. As the youngest oper- dle West. One of the first six Columbia soloists, Miss atic soprano, she was heard in leading roles in Con- Lennox has been featured in many commercial pro- stantinople, Cairo, Milan and Rome. Returning to grams, including Everett Marshall's Broadway Va- America, she sang popular ballads as a contralto over rieties for Bi- So-Dol over CBS. WABC, WEAF and WJZ. In 1929 she was appointed program director of WMCA and WPCH, and has been ANN YARDLEY featured as ''The Dream Lady" for the past four years. Ann Yardley of the Pittsburgh social set used her Miss Nardi conducts a radio preparatory school. talent only to take part in the Junior League show and the presentations of the Stage and Play Society and EILEEN ELLSWORTH the Drama League. A graduate of the College of Wooster, Eileen Ells- She sang in recitals and in the International Opera worth of Cleveland, Ohio, took postgraduate work at Company's production of "Carmen." After a year on Columbia University. KDKA, WWSW and WCAE, she came to New York After singing in Chautauqua and on cruise ships, and was featured as a lyric soprano with Vincent Eileen became a favorite at the Ambassador Hotel in Sorey's orchestra at WINS. Atlantic City, the Ritz -Carlton in Philadelphia and the Governor Clinton in New York, where she broadcast CLAIRE MAJETTE from WOR. Claire Majette was born in Lyons, France, and ap- While appearing in Buenos Aires and Rio on her peared at the Opéra Comique. In the United States South American tour, she was heard over NBC. she has been seen in the Ziegfeld Follies, "Three As a protégée of ", Merle Alcock, she trained for the Musketeers and Warner shorts, on tour with the Roxy operatic and concert stage with Paul Savage. Gang, and with her own twelve -piece orchestra. She Her first air program was over WTAM, Cleveland; has played dramatic roles for MacFadden and True and she was one of the Maxwell Show Boat ensemble Stories, and has sung in the Chrysler, Standard Oil, on NBC. Recently the attractive Eileen has sung over Fleischmann. Victor, Roxy and Evening in Paris hours. the Mutual Broadcasting System. HELEN MERCHANT NALDA NARD! ANN YARDLEY EILEEN ELLSWORTH www.americanradiohistory.com mrr .