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The feature of the program is a tribute to the unknown thousands of heroes in overalls—men who carry the job through. Each week, William Vickland, reader, dramatizes a true story of a man in over- alls who has stepped from his role among the workers who carry on while dreamers dream and plan, to the pinnacle of honor in some heroic act toward his fellowmen.

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Printed in U. S. A. Including RADIO REVUE and RADIO BROADCAST Raymond Bill, Editor

April9 1932 CONTENTS

COVER PORTRAIT, Gladys Brittain, youthful Sheldon pri?na donna, joins CBS. Charles

LEO REISMAN makes startling revelation that Carl M. Baumhart Jazz and the Classics are brothers under the skin.

MISTUH BONES doffs his kinky wig, takes the charcoal off his face and presto! We meet Paul B. Lazar 10 Dumont—NBC announcer ex officio. Anne ROMANTIC RISE OF A NEW STAR—Gladys rHEY call her lit- Mark Quest 14 T>ARBARA MAU- tle Organ Annie Brittain tells the inside story of her life to *-* REL shuns sen- —she' s only jour feet THE PERFECT SONG has endured through sational publicity and eleven and is one of 4,000 presentations during Amos '»' Andy pro- of course is always the best organists on James H. Cook 18 gram and has not yet groivn old. sure to get it—made the ah— member of of whole cloth to be the House of CBS. GEORGE OLSEN turns the Montmartre Night sure. One of Colum- Ann Leaf, of course. Club into a veritable hearthside. Drops his bia' s contraltos—alive her yet on 20 Heard baton and comes for a chat with you. larshal Taylor with personality but Wednesdays at 3:15? apt to be retiring. Also FRANK PARKER, the P Gypsy Tenor, once A & televises via W2XAB played opposite Hope Hampton. Ted Degl'tn 23

ART JARRETT, comparative network newcomer, 24 has already created palpitation of feminine hearts.

AUTHOR TELLS origin of "the hand-out." How a starving war correspondent succeeded in get- ting an unexpected ration of food. lrvln Cobb 26

STOOPNAGLE and BUDD. Colonel and his pal make life worth living for listener on edge of suicide. Letters to this pair reveal beneficial and. 28 effect of their humor. Colonel Budd LAWS THAT SAFEGUARD MARRIAGE interpreted in intelligible terms by Dean of /"i t Archera t ,LL.D.t t t\ Suffolk Law School. GleasonL. 30

WINNERS of Radio Digest's Beauty Contest. 34

RADIO GUILD has developed into one the of Neagle 38 finest airstage features in existence. John

GABALOGUE—Voice of Radio Digest object of envy as she entertains is (or entertained) by Nellie Revell 43 five NBC orchestra leaders.

TUNEFUL TOPICS—The ten melody hits of the month. Rudy Vallee 48

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JNews, Views and Liomment By Robert L. Kent

CONTESTS! The air is full of perfect service you owe it to yourself young announcer at KMOX, -St. Louis,

them. It seems that every other to purchase one of the modern sets now. . . . Charles Carlile, Columbia tenor, evening broadcast blasts the ear Prices have never been lower and the used to pound a typewriter and win with a "something for nothing" chances are that the future never will medals for doing it faster than any-

offer. The idea has been carried to an see them as low as they are right now. body else. . . Vaughn de Leath, original extreme that is proving detrimental to * * * radio singer, sang on the radio without in the best interests of the sponsors. Con- ' ' compensation the pioneer days of I HE effort on the part of certain in-

repetition has killed any original- broadcasting. . . Claney, stant •*• terests to force by legislation the Howard NBC

ity that might have existed . . . although announcer, an actor. turning over of fifteen per cent of was 5 there is nothing about contest. H H* ^ new a broadcasting time to educational inter-

Even straight advertising ballyhoo . . . ests continues strong. The question that Is that so? no matter how insistent ... is better persists in obtruding is : What will the WHITE, NBC's Lonesome than a long winded description of the JOHN educators do with the time if they get Cowboy, first saw the light of day rules of a contest. What is sadly needed it? Do you want to listen to academic in Washington, D. C. He wears spats are some new ideas in connection with discussions on various dry-as-dust sub- instead of spurs. He played around on radio programs designed to sell the pub- jects that should be confined to class- an Arizona Dude ranch for a while. . . lic in a manner more agreeable. In the rooms ? ? Do you If you do not, keep George Martin, Old Reporter on the end the sponsor who spends his money your eyes on some of those misguided Musical Showmen program, started his for alienates an expensive hook-up the lambs in Washington who are being career driving a mule team in a mine good will of listeners. used as tools by unscrupulous individu- ran a general store in Colorado; gradu- % ^ =k als are not who so much concerned with ated to side show barker; sang in a FEW months ago television came the development of broadcasting as they medicine show quartet; gravitated to in for more than its share of at- are in filling some nice A easy-work-big- hotel work as a night clerk, bus boy and tention. At this writing the publicizing pay job and cornering political power. waiter. Then he became a newspaper

of the new art has died down somewhat. * * t- man . . . worked at it for a quarter However, in broadcasting stations WHY is it that the Sunday pro- century before he reformed. . . The equipped for television, in laboratories grams on the chains are so uni- actions of some artists while broadcast- spotted here and there, and in homes formly excellent while during the week, ing are often amusing but usually there earnest men are at work experiment- especially in the evening hours, one is a reason behind the apparently inex-

ing . . . and making progress. About jazz band follows another with monoto- plicable. For example, Bing Crosby al- the latter part of May radio manufac- nous regularity? Well, perhaps there is ways wears a hat when he broadcasts turers from all parts of the country some encouragement in the obvious so does John Kelvin. They claim this stage their annual showing of new mod- trend toward more and better dramatic produces an increased resonance that els in Chicago. Dealers journey to this skits and the use of outstanding artists. enables them to hear their own tones Radio Mecca to view the sets that will Broadcasters have been paying too much as they go into the microphone. . . grace their stores shortly thereafter. attention to so-called "names." The re- The Sisters of the Skillet and their There is a growing conviction among sult has been a plethora of third-rate announcer constitute the heaviest trio those "in the know" that television will comedy and jokes that had long white on the air at any one time. Their com- come in for unusual attention this year. whiskers when grandfather was a boy. bined weight is just 700 pounds. . . We hope so. It is about time some These high priced stage comedians evi- Edwin Whitney, NBC artist, can imi- progressive and far-seeing manufactur- dently save their best gags for the stage tate thirty voices on a single fifteen ers actually start producing combina- or else they have been much overrated. minute program. "Believe It or Not" tion television-allwave receivers. Until * * * Bob Ripley didn't so Whitney demon- production and distribution are under strated and in addition imitated ten / knew him when— way progress in television will be re- barn-yard animals for good measure. . . tarded. And while we are on the sub- PHIL DEWEY, of the Revelers, on Victor Arden, who with Phil Oman,

ject of radio . . . sets how old is the * NBC, sold bibles for a living. Frank team on the piano and get more money receiver in your home ? Are you get- Ventree, leader of the Bath Club Or- than any other duo in their line, once ting the full benefit from some of the chestra, was supervisor of music for was in the three dollar a week class remarkably fine programs now on the Paramount stage productions. . . Art playing in a roller skating rink in his air? If your set is too old to give you Gentry, of the Four Eton Boys, was a home town of Wenona, 111.

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V\ THAT a pity that the Match of Time was discontinued TT SEEMS as though half "" the members of Congress are sitting just at a time when it might have produced an epochal •*• up nights to think up new bills to be introduced to regu- program—a dramatization of the kidnaping of and search for late radio. Thirty bills are now pending in Senate and House. the Lindbergh baby! Those of us who have felt that this The Senators seem to be getting the most ideas as they have program represented the top notch of radio achievement were introduced 19 of the 30 bills. hoping almost against hope that the Dupont program, Today and Yesterday, would pick up the hour-glass and carry on. is this thing that makes so many of us chronic But this was a program that required the genius of the "nose WHAT fault finders? It is almost like a disease. A very re- for news" and the capacity to dramatize news. The new gentleman of my acquaintance recently took occasion sponsors are not constituted that way. They have become spectable to vent all his pent up rage about things he didn't like about great along other lines. When I asked a representative of the radio on me. It seemed he abominated practically everything organization after that first program why they had not pre- on the air with a possible exception of one of the morning sented the dramatization of this supreme news event I was programs. I tried to remind him of some of the great artists told, "We were afraid that by the time we went on the air really very fine things that we hear every day. But he was the worst might have happened, and what we would do or and obdurate. Everything I mentioned was "simply terrible". It say then might be considered bad taste." was hopeless. There is no use arguing with, this kind of * * * individual. Such persons seem rathet to enjoy being miserable. "KTOBODY could blame the new sponsors for feeling that disapproval of some great N In expressing their contempt and f- resttaint. However, one of the most touching, most enterprise that has taken a vast amount of brain power and expressive dramatizations ever presented on the March of intelligent construction they doubtless set up in their own Time program to my notion was the story of the fatal trip of minds some sort of compensation for something they lack. the motor coach that stalled in the snow in Colorado last year. By affecting an air of carping criticism they try to convince will remember the children's voices, You and farewell of the first themselves, and then others, that they possess some heroic driver as he left his little charges in a practically hope- superior perception quite beyond the understanding of the less effort to get help. No listener ever criticized this broad- common herd. And in the end they defeat their own purpose cast unfavorably. It touched every heart. It awakened a new by making themselves appear not only obtuse but ridiculous. faith in all humanity, that such courage and heroism should * * * manifest itself even in a tural school bus full of freezing children. In the Lindbergh case the Columbia System had 'C\\ 7 HAT do you suppose is back of the refusal of the established its short wave station right at the scene of the » Federal Radio Commission to allow the I. T. & T. kidnaping and could have connected directly with instant de- a measely little five watt station for television experiments?" tails of this great mystery drama of the hour. The story of asked a caller the other day. how a nation responded to the distress of this outraged family "Something new in a television set-up?" he was asked. could have been broadcast as a radio epic. "A Frenchman by the name of Clavier has been doing some * * * startling things in television working on a wave about one foot long. He is employed by the International Telephone and ^VT'OU will notice in this issue of Radio Digest that we are Telegraph Company, only rival here for international com- *- trying out a new way of presenting information about the munications of the R.C.A. They brought M. Clavier over programs. Chain station listings, which require a great deal here and asked for this tiny bit of airway, and the Commission of repetition, have been left out because it is assumed that turned them down. There are a few shares of I. T. & T. stock practically every listener knows the most convenient station owned in Spain and England. But 6,000,000 of the 6,642,508 over which he may hear either of the continental chain pro- \ shares are owned in the United States. The commission has grams. By simple mention of the network and time the asked the Court of Appeals to rule on whether the now j listener will know from experience where to set his dial. I. T. & T. is entitled to have any wave channels at all, because Paragraph comment may prove more interesting. some of its stock is owned abroad and four of the 23 directors * * * live in foreign countries." |*T IS hazardous for us to attempt to present news because "What an alarming situation that presents! Is our war with * we must close our forms a month before you see the maga- Spain over yet?" zine on the stands. But one of the interesting rumors of the "No, but do you suppose the R. C. A. is back of it?" moment as this is written is that Flotenz Ziegfeld, the Great "Heavens no! Why if the I. T. & T. had to give up its Follies fellow, is going to produce a series of programs for the waves the poor old R.C.A. would have to carry on all the Chtysler Motor Car company to be called the Chrysler Follies. international work itself. And just consider what all that It is to be on the Columbia System and will cost Mr. Chrysler would mean with all this trans-oceanic broadcasting going on $5,000 per broadcast for talent alone. Alas, and now we find now. That, added to the worries of the new television plans, there are some more corners for television! It is possible some putting in extra wire lines to carry it, the new sets and all of the beauties may be seen in the New York area over that. How can they ever take care of it all without help W2XAB of the CBS. The regular program waits a favorable from their good friends the Postal Telegraph people!" evening spot, perhaps by the time you read this. —H. P. B. — Radio Digest

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what he is and that's that, like him or not as suits your fancy.

Mr. Reisman is better known for the more respectable com- positions but he understands the blood relationship of the opposed styles of music and that may be the reason why his interpretations receive sympa- thetic appreciation from all types of music lovers.

Leo Reisman — — —

"(glassies' and "Jazz'' are brothers Says EISMAN

NBC ^Maestro is ^Amused at "Pretenders" Who Scorn c in Ignorance of What (Constitutes True RJiythmic <±Jlrt

MANY people throw up their to which that art object is great. To SOhands and deprecate with horror Sy Leo Reisman me, that is the measure of its greatness. the very mention of jazz, as it is Sometimes public reaction has been as told to called ! It makes me smile. They great to many things that are generally are narrow in their understanding for not conceded to be works of art. At the truth of the matter is, the so-called Carl M. Baumhart the same time I feel that the reaction jazz tunes and the finest classical com- has been somewhat justified artistically, positions are so closely akin, musically, because in the works to which they that they may be likened to brothers of rhythmic dance form that they have per- usually respond there is some particular the same family. suaded themselves to dislike, then I quality that has an artistic significance, Jazz is the vigorous, active small wonder if they realize that our really, and is probably so moving in itself that brother, mischievous, irrepressible. He so-called good music is based on rhyth- it obliterates—in the eyes of the layman is running over with impish tricks mic dance forms, and in main instances —any crudities that may be associated some people call it devilishness—and where the dance form has been strictly with this particular quality. Things that upsets the dignity and calm of the fam- adhered to, the music has been the bet- are of us, closest to us, move us the ily reserve. Jazz is the devil-may-care ter for it. most, because they are of nature and young hot-blood, sometimes furious but I have heard some very good jazz we are of nature, and as we approach always fairly bursting with vigor, vim music and some very poor classical this common denominator, so are sym- and vitality. music. I have heard people coming out pathetic understanding, reactions and Classical music, on the other hand, is of symphony concerts rave about poorly pleasure increased. And the degree to the thoughtful older brother ; alive to written symphonic compositions that which any art object affects us is the beauty, contemplative and often philo- really had nothing to offer simply be- degree of its greatness. sophical during his best moods. Per- cause these people thought it was the So, when you turn on your radio or, haps he is possessed of a more inspiring thing to do to like classical music. They your phonograph or listen to a concert quality because he touches the heights took it for granted that since the medi- or the orchestra in the pit of a movie of emotion and really expresses the um through which this music was pre- house—or even myself over the air longing of the soul for better things. sented was a symphony orchestra, it please relax and like music for itself Both brothers occupy important places must be good music. I have heard these alone, and not because your music in their musical family. The younger same people say, "Oh, no, I never listen teacher or your musically trained friend brother, Jazz, is not the family "black to jazz. It's a waste of time." tells you that you should not like this sheep" that some would consider him. or that. Accept music only for what it Neither is the elder brother an angel is worth to you and its definite power supposedly not invited to the same w>ELL, I think that if to entertain you. If a simple, lovely places as his brother. these people had no intellectual preten- tune of which there are many in our I never can sympathize with the jazz sions and were as broad as they should light music field as there are in our enthusiast who looks on classical music be musically, they could assume the symphonic compositions, affects you. i\o as something quite outside his ken and point of view that some of our fore- not be ashamed to enjoy it and to have neither do I agree with the classicist most composers have expressed to me an opinion of your own. And if you that jazz is a low, common and vulgar that they do not object to jazz because really like the tune, say so. because after type of music. Either opinion is the it is a rhythmic form and called jazz. all, the melodic gilt is the greatesl gift off-shoot of a closed mind. If either They object to it only when it is poorly And in many instances melodic material knew more about what they were say- written. that is in no way superior to some of ing, they would know that both are What, after all, decides whether a our popular tunes, has been built up. music and that one derives a great deal piece of music is really good or had? through the ingenuity oi a great com- from the other. In other words, they According to the opinion of some of my poser, into a great symphony. truly had the same father and mother. friends, the general public does not ap- Intellectuality and technical under- Often I have heard people say that preciate art. My argument in return standing are needed only in creatine;. they do not like classical music. I say has been thai they always are moved by Only normal emotional capacities are "classical" advisedly. I've often heard artistic things. And the proof of any needed for reaction and entertainment, people who do, or pretend to, like this art object is in its ability to move, and since the creation of any art object is so-called classical music, say "I don't the intensity and extent to which it for the purpose of arousing reaction like jazz." If it is this repetitious moves the general public is the extent nt i niicd on page 78) — — a Mistuh

Taul Dumont, One of Radio's Topnotch Announcers Girl Reporter Says "He Sho'

Sy Anne

This, dear readers, is the way your The youngest of a round dozen chil- interviewer was deceived. The negro dren (six girls and six boys) he was dialect of Paul Bones "wuz so plenty brought up by a fond pair of parents

puhfect, that it jes' 'bout bowled me who were both musically inclined and over" when I discovered that beneath it was from them that he learned the the smooth dark mask and kink wig rudiments of singing. was Paul Dumont, one of NBC's top- At a very tender age he made his notch announcers. The wig—oh, yes debut before a group of the Ladies Aid I'm making a careful study of each curl Society. And when he appeared on the so that I can write an article for those platform—the wee little lad, dressed in Yas suh, who am dat dere white-faced poor souls whose hair remains unruffled kilts and wearing a bright feather in his gen'Ieman ober dere. Seems to me like as per- the ah knows him. Waal, if 'tain't Paul even after the painful process of cap—exclamations of "Isn't he dear Dumont. Lawdy, how I does know him! manent waving. little lamb" and "what a sweet thing" Paul Dumont, unlike most announc- reached his ears and gave him added ers, is not tall, dark and handsome. His courage. The only disturbing feature eyelashes are not long enough to get in about the performance was his outfit ' OWDY folks—now dat we the soup, and his smile doesn't sweep and especially the garish feather which is all assemblified heah, le's you off your feet and lift you up into ornamented his headgear. And as he de minstrel show. "H staht the beautiful azure. He is married, has sang the sentimental strains of "Take Come on, now, we is gwine two grown-up children—both over back the Heart Thou Gavest Me," he what's to recommence de minstrel—hey, twenty and his favorite pastime is auto- was burning up with resentment at the de rear, dem dere eruptions back ob mobile driving—with Mrs. Dumont. red feather. The little outfit was most folks—oh, oh. Yas'm, yas'm. What carefully preserved in camphor balls kin ah do foh you all—dis cheerful, and exhibited for many years after that !" mohnin, Missy GO THAT when Paul Du- occasion to special guests at the Dumont Why, why, I'm a reporter, Mr. Bones. mont receives the admiration and fan household. Yes for Radio Digest—the magazine mail applause from the radio listeners It is almost impossible to believe that and I'd like to have an interview with — it's not because he sweeps the fem- a gifted young musician like Paul should you for our readers. Now, the first inine persuasion off its trim dactyls, but have pursued fist-fighting as an avoca- question I'd like to ask is, "How do you because he conveys his genuine ability tion during those early days. But there curl your hair. Oh, do let me run my and personality as an announcer and was nothing that he quite enjoyed so fingers through it. Such adorable ring- performer. heartily as a good fight with the kids lets ! Tell me, how do you get such de- Broadcasting studios are flooded each in the neighborhood, and the gleam and lightful curls? day with letters asking the radio-old enthusiasm in Mr. Dumont's eyes as he "Waal, da's easy. And ah is plenty question, "How can I become an an- spoke of this accomplishment, removed ?" surprised—yes plenty. Why, d'ye know nouncer all doubt of his sincerity. There is still Missy, de first interrogation what folkses The way may be narrow but never a certain swiftness and agility in his axes me is "Why does a chicken cross straight. It leads into all kinds of by- makeup now that speaks of many con- de street ? Dey should know by dis time ways as the lives of announcers will quests which he must have had over it's so's de street car conductor kin hab attest, and it would take a modern Brooklyn's boy population. chicken fricasee." Plutarch to do justice to the biographies Well, now that I know how you curl of these servants of the air. your hair, may I have the honor of But this is the way Paul Dumont be- I|T MIGHT have been a knowing your first name—yes, you came an announcer. We'll have to go desire to give the cat instructions in know, your maiden name. back through many yesterdays—in fact music at close range— it might have "Oh, sho, mam, sho. Paul—Paul over forty years of yesterdays, and we been that the piano needed a little tun- Bones. Mistuh Paul Bones." halt in the Borough of Brooklyn, where ing—or it even might have been just "Say, Paul—Paul -1-1. Nellie Revell Paul was born and reared. It was in the another boyish prank—but when the wants you on the telephone. She asks days when steam cars chugged along choirmaster opened up the piano-— when in the world you expect to see her elevated roads and bleary-eyed steeds feline sprang up at him. We're not of about next Wednesday's program," calls pulled street cars along cobblestone course saying that Paul Dumont was a voice from outside the studio. pavements with rumble and noise. guilty of any such mischief—in case the — —

11 Bones

Caught Playing His One-Act Minstrel Show,

is What Yo' Call Swell"

B. Lazar

choirmaster should read this and ask which got a good start in the broadcast- any questions, but where were we ing studios. Oh, yes, at the age of fifteen, Paul When WABC, now the key station was graduated from Commercial High of the Columbia Broadcasting System School where he had delved into the arrived, Paul Dumont arranged music mysteries of stenographic hieroglyphics. and wrote shows for its audience in addi- As master of this realm—this was tion to keeping the audience entertained twenty-eight years ago—now there are every minute of the day. In those days many pretenders to the throne—he ob- studios did not have very large artist tained a job with a firm dealing in staffs. As a matter of fact the staff con- stained glass windows—and for his sisted of one versatile person who could pains in decoding the letters which the repair any nervous breakdown of the boss gave him, he got One Dollar a day. radio equipment, answer the numerous Don't mind him, gentle readers. He's only His salary jumped to Twelve Dollars telephone calls that would come in from Mr. Bones, just an old dark who thinks he's funny. Me, Mr. Bones? Well, so that a week when he became identified with fans, and do everything but polish up cat's out of the bag, is it? the DeForest Company. Mr. Dumont's the handle of the studio door. recollections of the father of radio is married for over twenty-four years, his that of a serious-minded man, preoccu- wedded life is just as happy as the day pied with his work day and night. UT there had to be va- B, he led his young bride—just before she riety in the entertainment. Paul Du- was graduated from Girls' High School mont early realized that even a head- —to the altar. And Mrs. Dumont is phone listener could not be asked lis- jL

Inside Stuff — Ferdc Grofe and Ferde/ J r.

FERDE GROFE, famous arranger of modern blue symphonies and his little disarranger, Ferde, Jr., getting the low down on a baby baby grand. Papa Grofe is known as the Ghost for Paul White- man and for twelve years sat in obscurity as the skilled manipulator of various harmonies into the jazz tempo. He began life in New York City but spent the most of his career in California. He comes from a musical family. His grandfather played cello in Victor Herbert's orchestra before the latter began composing. Young Ferde grew up with a real piano for a toy just as little Ferde Junior, here, has the baby baby grand. It's well to start 'em young. Who can tell what genius the next Grofe will reveal ? N 13

Doris Robbins

"HPHEY call me 'Angel of the Air,' " says Doris Robbins, her big brown eyes L laughing right at you. "A group of prisoners in an Illinois jail once wrote nie a fan letter starting off with this salutation, and it has stuck ever since. Where do I sing? Oh, 1 thought you knew. Right now I'm with llcrhie Kay's orchestra, at the Cafe Blackhawk, Chicago, and we're heard every night over WGN, and occasionally over NBC. That's all right. You're welcome." —

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"For a short time I went to McKinley High School in St. Louis," she said, "but I did not get into really important things *Z-S* ^ with zAmbitions until we moved to Kansas City. I had become very much interested Becomes Star T)reams of in an actress who lived neighbor Today and Testerday to us. I learned about New York and how shows move from city to city. I made up my mind that eventually I would go to New York and become a singer. My father and mother encouraged me to study. WHEN one is seven the world is very new and wonderful. There are 1.HEY started me so many thrilling ex- in with the piano. Then I took periences just ahead, so very my first singing lessons from Al- many tremendous things to be len Hinckley. Mr. Hinckley gave done. But there is no use just sit- me a place in his Methodist ting back, chin in hand, and think- church choir where I earned my first regular at a ing about it. No sir, especially money $12 when you were just born to be a month, singing with a quartet. great singer. The thing to do is Then the minister of a Christian to get out and get started right church offered me $35 to sing in away. their choir. A little later I was offered more money to sing in a And that is the way it was with Science church I mention the Gladys Brittain, the young wom- — money only as an indication of an, who graces our cover this the progress I was making. month. Just because she was little and cute and could sing like a "From the Science church I grown-up she was the adored baby went to the Second Presbyterian of the family. She had to sing at a very considerable increase in for everybody that came to the compensation. The Second Pres- Gladys Brittain house. It was rather a bore and many byterian was just about the ultimate a time she would turn two pages of her one could hope for in the way of choir music at once so as to singing. It was all get through with it Romantic Rise of wonderful. I enjoyed and out to play. But it for I liked to sing one day a very smart and I liked the church lady who knew all and people of the about such things church were very won- caught her at the trick

15 sixteen and seventeen Harry Dunbar At last she was to realize the ambi- month previous she had been with her brought his light opera troupe to Kan- tions of her childhood dreams, the mother during a crisis. sas City. He let it be known that he dreams she had woven between the "It is impossible for me to go home would be glad to consider young new lines of a book she read when she had now," she said as she sat in obvious de- talent for the chorus. A girl who shared lived in St. Louis. The book told her jection beneath a beam of winter sun much of my confidences dared me to of the lives of famous women. And it that filtered down through the studio take the audition. We giggled and seemed to her then that anyone who skylight. "I feel that mother would have mimicked the grand opera notables and ever hoped to become famous would al- me do just what I am doing. The fact then in a burst of bravado I found my most necessarily have to begin in New that my brother and sister are with my way to the back stage where many adult York. dad is a comfort. My memory of her young women were waiting their chance will be as I saw her in life. She has Her trip to the Eastern Metropolis to be heard. always meant so much to me." was a revival of those dreams, the ro- Miss Brittain says that one of her am- "It was a bleak looking place, dusty mance of ambition and success. Per- bitions of the future is to have a home and untidy. Mr. Dunbar came out to haps to become a star that she can furnish with Eighteenth the piano and looked us all over and Then came the day of trial, a period Century furniture to be selected piece then turned to me. of tense waiting and the glad informa- by piece to suit the requirements. She " 'Guess I'll call on this little girl tion that she had won the award loves to make cheese dishes and desserts. first,' he said. The others smiled indul- a fellowship which included voice, pi- Also she has had a short course in por- gently. But I felt quite confident when ano, languages and harmony. Not sat- trait sketching, which she enjoys as a he asked me to sing the Jewel Song isfied with purely an academic life she hobby. from Faust. has reached out for significant achieve- ments. HEN summer days -YcOU didn't come to try "I saw the musical world coming into w> Brittain en- out for the chorus, did you?' he asked the new day of radio," she said, "and I come again Miss hopes to joy some of her brief recreation oppor- later after I had gone with him to the wanted to get into it. Some of my tunities with a rod and reel. She yearns office as he had requested. friends considered my opportunity to for the flashing ripple of a trout stream, " 'No,' I replied, 'to be frank with sing as a guest star over the great net- the whirr of a spinning reel, the fleck you, I came here on a dare. A friend works, a most happy goal. But I was of a finny body against the purple rock of mine said I would not have the nerve. not satisfied. I determined to get on a the jerk and haul until the fish gets So I just wanted to show her that I did. sponsored program by my own efforts. — right up close enough to unhook and And here I am.' "Learning that auditions were being — then, well she has never yet caught one " 'Well, you are a surprise to me,' he held for the Evening in Paris program big enough to go into a creel. Some day said. 'And I'll be just as frank to tell over Columbia by an advertising agency she hopes her many trout fishing expe- you that I think you have about the I asked for an audition and finally ob- ditions will have their reward. Just sweetest lyric voice I have heard for a tained one. They gave me repeated op- now she is staking her hopes on the pos- long, long time.' portunities on this program. And then sibilities that exist in the water en- I considered "That thrill. was for the new Today and was a He offered me virons of New York. Her work won't the roles Maid Marion in Robin Yesterday programs for the Dupont Hood permit her to wander too far away from and also Arline in Bohemian Girl. Later company over a CBS network." CBS studios in Manhattan. he offered me a contract to go on tour She was selected after four juries of She spoofs at the suggestion of su- with them but I had to turn this down. experts had given her auditions along perstitions but is rarely seen without her he got to Chicago he wrote and with many other candidates for the stel- When bracelet of little pink and blue lucky asked to join their there. lar soprano role. With this program me company elephants. The girls who know her best Partly against mother's wishes I Gladys Brittain becomes a radio star of my in the Tau Chapter of the Alpha Iota went. But after everything was settled the first order. She says that radio is Sorority say there is some deep secret I just couldn't bring myself to taking one of the greatest fields in the world about the little elephants which even the step so I returned to City for artistic ambition. She is happy that Kansas they have not been able to fathom. and resumed my classes with Sacer- she has won her niche without any let- dote." ters of recommendation or intercession

influential friends. is Seventeen is quite young for one to by Now she eager A HE Today and Yester- start out on a career but Miss Brittain to further establish a name for herself day program of news events have in it d'd tour for two seasons as soloist with in radio as an interesting interpreter dramatization of news events of years the Kansas City Symphony orchestra. of songs. ago in parallel with those of today and It came about quite suddenly, just as appropriate music. It extends over a many of her opportunities have devel- CBS network from 8:30 to 9 o'clock oped. At 9 o'clock one morning she was .N to obtain the I. ORDER EST. The musical setting is supplied asked to take the place of the regular right kind of instruction for radio voice by Don Voorhees and his 24 piece or- soloist who had been taken ill. She was Miss Brittain sought a teacher who had chestra. The du Pont quartet is com- asked if she could sing One Fine Day been successful in teaching other radio prised of Randolph Weyant. first tenor: from Madam Butterfly. She replied singers. Her choice fell on Miss Elea- Willard Amison. second tenor: Leonard that she could. Then she was instructed nor McLellan whose pupils of radio dis- Stokes, baritone: and Robert Moody. to be prepared to sing it at 1 o'clock tinction include Miss Miss Gladys Rice, bass, with Kenneth Christie as pianist that afternoon. As a matter of fact she Evelyn Herbert and others prominent and arranger. The Pacific Coast pro- had never tried the song. But she bor- in the musical world. gram will originate in Hon Lee studios rowed the music, memorized the words, The last day of Miss Britain's ap- of the Columbia network. and was on the dot for the audition. pearance in the portrait artist's studio " Another exquisite pastel by Charles She was engaged immediately. was one of intense sadness. She had Sheldon will adorn cover of yciur May Sometime later she decided to apply just received word of her mother's death Radio Digest. This time you will see for the Julliard Scholarship and sent in Kansas City. It was on the eve o\ June Pursell. California singing sun- for an application. She was asked ta her debut in her new triumph and firsl beam, now become a national radio come to New York. experience as a new radio star. Only a idol." 16

Jack CM Parker

Darryl Woodyard

THIS is how the Three Bakers, and their arranger, make their dough. But the Staff of Life for them is found on a sheet of music, and the keyboard of a piano is their bread and butter board. Jack Parker is the benign looking gentleman looking down at Darryl Woodyard, above. Jack sings first tenor and tells funny stories. He invites the others to ride on his speed boat, 17

Will rw Donaldson

Frank Luther

Anjean II. But when it comes to swimming he depends on a rope to keep from sinking. Darryl comes from Pond Creek, Oklahoma and prefers a horse. Luther goes in tor odd musical con- traptions. Besides his remarkable musical arrangements Will Donaldson does well at arranging a bridge hand. These gentlemen are on various programs other than The Three Rakers and are well known as The Men About Town. You hear them over NBC on Sunday nights. —

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Joseph Gallicchio (left) and the orchestra which plays The Perfect Song for Amos 'n' Andy three times daily except Sunday. The Perfect Song

'By James H. Cook

Joseph Carl Briel "That was right up my alley," Joe mentation from time to time and varied WHEN I arrangement. wrote "The Perfect Song," remarked, "for had played the show the key and changed the little did he dream that it —you remember—The Birth of a Na- We do know the song though." would become the best tion, that the song comes from. In fact Many changes have been made in The known melody in the United States, and we had played it in a program that very Perfect Song in the successive steps to that it would have more than 4,000 pres- day so you might say we swung into its present perfection. First Gallicchio, entations within the space of two and the number all rehearsed. From then with his violin, led a string trio. Later one half years. on The Perfect Song went out in front they added two violins and a tenor sax- It's the theme song of those two and it wasn't long before they decided ophone. The last change made was to southern dialecticians, Amos 'n' Andy, to adopt it." replace the saxophone with a string who regulate the bedtime of the nation, A peculiar thing about reviving the bass. It is now actually a string quin- and it's played by a group of number was that for a year tet with piano. musicians under the able di- the NBC studio was swamped With each of these changes of instru- rection of Joseph Gallicchio, with telephone calls each mentation, changes were made in the and they never grow tired of night after the program, ask- song itself. When the trio began its it. ing the name of the number work with the number they played it in For two and one half years used on the broadcast. the key of C, exactly as the composer they have been playing it, Music stores were deluged wrote it. "perfecting" this perfect song, with requests for the song and despite this length of and the publisher was forced time, the song has not be- to bring out a revised edition. w,HEN it became a come monotonous, and they ^^k While the song did not attain sextet the key was changed to G Major, still seek to find the perfect the popularity of a best seller with some changes in the arrangement, instrumentation for it. it remains a constantly popu- and this was used the longest of any Bill Hay Gallicchio tells an interest- lar number which will sell of the arrangements. ing story of the selection of The Per- forever, music lovers say. With the latest change of instrumen- fect Song as the Amos V Andy theme Joe has not missed a broadcast in the tation the key was changed to G Flat, number. In casting about for an ap- two and a half years it has been on the which, with the addition of the bass, propriate tune Joe auditioned such air. "There is always plenty of cause gives the composition a darker color. numbers as Deep River, Old Man Riv- to vary its interpretation," he says. "To- But to Amos 'n' Andy fans, here is er, Mighty Like a Rose, and a number night the boys may run a little short a tip. Still other changes are contem- of negro spirituals. Old Man River and we make a rubber tune of it plated for the signature number. Keep seemed to be leading the field as a fa- stretch it out. Tomorrow night it may your ears open for arrangements with vorite, when one of the Pepsodent of- be full and we will have to dash through the harp, or the flute, or as a violin solo ficials suggested that they try The Per- the closing signature." with orchestral background. fect Sonq- from the ^rent movie classic. "Then we have changed the instru- Perhaps some radio fan with a keen — —

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^Musicians Never Weary of Amos V'Andy's Theme Song

Hint New Variation Soon Will Be Introduced to Program memory will remember one other varia- table to the measured tones of "The atop the great new publishing plant of tion. On just one broadcast an attempt Perfect Song," and Bill Hay's sonorous the Chicago Daily Xews which houses was made to offer the number as a tenor "Amos 'n' Andy, in person." WMAQ, one of the solo. However when the song came The theme song also is "In Person" first newspaper from the loud speaker it did not have —directed by Joseph Gallicchio. That broadcasting sta- exactly the appeal that was intended in answer to the oft repeated query. tions in America and the tenor was given up. Amos 'n' Andy have never been intro- or the world.

Of course the theme song is inti- duced by a transcription. Charles J. Correll, mately linked with the network history But for some of the fans who have who takes the part of Amos V Andy. When the two black- sets that reach out and bring in the of Andy, and Free- face boys went on the air for Pepsodent distant stations, they may some day man F. Gosden, Joe played his number twice each night, pick up some station in Australia and otherwise known as at the opening and close of the broad- hear The Perfect Song. That WILL Amos, had already- cast at 11 o'clock, eastern standard time be a recording by Gallicchio—used to distinguished them- Amos In a short time there came a murmur introduce the program Pepsodent is selves as Sam 'n' of protest from the East that 11 o'clock sponsoring in the Antipodes—but nev- Henry at another Chicago station. They was too late to wait up for the boys. So er on Amos 'n' Andy. found they could do much better work a change was made in their impersonations if that the boys might be they were absolutely free heard in New York at 7 from visual observation. o'clock. Then came a roar of protest from the middle- OO ONE small west and an avalanche of studio was created open- letters and telegrams. ing off from the control The flood could not be room. Adjoining this, denied and for the first with a door to the outer time in the history of corridor, was the studio broadcasting a program for the musicians and the began a "two-a-day" announcer. As the mo- schedule. ment approaches for one Later Amos 'n' Andy of the broadcasts Correll did three a day, the third and Gosden disappear show for the benefit of into their room and sit the Pacific coast, and before a small flat top Gallicchio continued to desk, Amos before the wield the baton that put broad side of the desk and the musicians through Andy at one end. The their paces for the sig- partition to the next stu- nature. dio is at Amos' back. The Gallicchio is well musicians are grouped known in the world of around a piano near the his asso- Amos 'n' Andy when they are not Amos 'n' music for reasons other than partition and Rill I lay is at a desk on Andy but just plain Freeman F. Gosden ciation with Amos 'n' Andy. the opposite side of the room. All watch (left) and Charles J. Correll. the second hands of He was, in turn, a violinist with the their various time Minneapolis Symphony orchestra and pieces as the instant arrives for the broadcast. Then comes the signal Chicago Civic Op- Believe it or not during all the 4,000 from the control era orchestra, and times the Gallichio orchestra has in- room and The Perfect Son^ drifts out to the before coming into troduced and closed the act of A.mos 'n' nation. Thus with broadcasting was Andy the two performers have never curtains closed tight Amos 'n' Andy re- main unseen and unseeing director of the or- seen them do it. The music and the while tin- musicians perform chestra at the announcements take place in a studio on the other side oi a wall, sending out Edgewater Beach separate from the room in which Amos The Perfect Song which has become so intimately a part hotel ill Chicago. 'n' Andy sit lie fore a microphone and of their amazingly successful act. With Bill Hay summon up the Kinglish, Mr. Craw- he forms the cham- ford, Lightnin' and the score of other I'm- anyone else to use The Perfect characters that have been identified on a radio pion p i n g p o n g Song program would seem to doubles team of the with their act. the listener almost like an invasion of Andy studios and w h e n To be sure there is a window between private property. This recognition oi Bill and Joe clash in singles—well — if the two studios hut there are curtains the association of a theme song to any you known ping pong you know that a on the window and only Bill Hay is single program seems to have developed lot of volleys cross the net when two permitted to go near them. Not even i point oi ethics not hitherto recognized champions meet. he peeks into the room unless it is ab- It is more than a sense of proprietorship But they always manage to close up solutely necessary near the finish or at —no sponsor cares to have attention di- the start of a program. the game in time to go on the air—and verted from his own product by the SI then the tempo of the two men changes This arrangement was all carefully gestion oi another through an estab- —from the staccato of the ping pong planned when the studios were built lished theme song. 20 zjtfichigan Town "Produces That "Typical ^ew Torker" George Olsen

Featured in Ziegfeld Follies —

Host of Broadway Night Clubs By Marshal Taylor

WAS just like Old Home Week tling down to routine of life in Port- feld show, Kid Boots. Now you have ITwhen George Olsen and his musical land, so distant from the bright lights the picture—it wasn't so very long ago. aggregation came riding their syn- of Broadway. But he used his talents Then they went into Ziegfeld's show, copating Locomotive over the old there and his wits to organize a local "Sunny" with pretty Marilyn Miller. ether trail last Thanksgiving. You may band. They played at a Portland hotel. And this was the show in which Olsen remember that they opened at the Club Traveling men talked about "that brought out that Jerome Kern hit, Richman. And didn't it remind you of George Olsen band." The fame of it "Who." To this day that song is identi- the old days of Olsen and Brokenshire spread east and west. One day Olsen fied with the name of George Olsen. with the genial greeting, "Hello every- called his boys together and announced There were many hits linked up with !" body, how DO YOU DEW that they were going to Chicago. There Olsen during the run of this show. But the Club Richman with all its Fran Fry, one of his gang, won a name glamourous associations was in a bad for himself singing "Sam, the Old Ac- way and flickered out some months ago. cordion Man" and "She's Just a Corn- Even Olsen and his merry gang couldn't fed Indiana Gal." From "Sunny" these

save it. So they moved away and you Portland boys joined up with "Good hear them from the Montmartre on News." Surely you remember Zelma Broadway now. They come late but O'Neill and that raging "Varsity Rag" ? they are worth waiting for if you find After that they were in a new "Follies" them on your local CBS station any- and became associated with Ruth Etting where from 11 :30 on, EST. And speak- who previously had been discovered as ing of Norman Brokenshire you doubt- a radio singer on old WLS in Chicago. less are aware that he has returned to And to bring the story right up to the Columbia fold. date we will mention now that George Like so many "typical New Yorkers" grew weary of the theatre, decided to George Olsen originated in the Mid- settle down, and be a staid old night west. Portland, Michigan, is his old clubber, sort of quiet-like. He broke in home town. But he was born collegiate, through a season at the Pennsylvania and as soon as the public school system Hotel, in New York. Then he opened had cleared the way he moved to Ann "The Chantee" which had a most curi- Arbor, and the campus of the University ous origin so far as a name was con- of Michigan. He took up the baton cerned. The young bloods who quickly movement and hot rhythm with the re- made the place a habit called it "The

sult that he developed the most cele- Shanty," but that didn't deprive it of brated college orchestra in the country. class in the least. As a matter of fact, His pep also carried him to the grid the story goes that the place was named where he distinguished himself as a for a lucky race horse in France. Other first string half-back on the university night clubs followed, "Club Olsen," eleven. "Club Richman" and now the "Mont- martre."

George Olsen whose music takes you to the

r gayest spot on Broadway thrice weekly. G,EORGE has a clear eye and a healthy complexion but he might o.'F course under these be considered a trifle too plump to rush were eight of them who took oath to various auspices George and his boys, the pigskin through a mass of hard stick with him through thick and thin, and sometimes girls, were heard over bone and sinew in a conference game and off they dashed around the curve the networks at frequent intervals. They today. He just doesn't quite look that of Lake Michigan end, and into Old built up a strong radio audience which part as you sit at your gay little table Dad Dearborn's domain. has gladly welcomed them back after a and watch him sauntering around the Eddie Cantor was there. Eddie heard period of absence. The "Montmartre" festive room chatting with the guests. this Portland band and thought so well is perhaps more ornate and pretentious He strikes you as a genial good club- of it he passed his eulogies along to Flo than any of his previous settings. It is fellow with plenty of money and an Ziegfeld, the glorifier. And Ziegfeld finished in good taste, rich in color but easy spender. listened. The next thing to happen not gaudy. There are royal blues and It is hard to sketch in this college George Olsen and his band were incor- gilded grills. A golden canopied ceiling man's return to his home town and set- porated as part and parcel of the Zieg- (Continued on ,page 80) 21

IN THE very center of the giddy whirl and flutter of a Ziegfeld Follies production George Olsen found Ethel Shutta, and Ethel Shutta found Ethel Shutta George Olsen. Their names flickered in the bright lights together over the theatre entrance. But in their hearts flamed a mutual respect and affec- . tion that grew into love and marriage. Now they are heard three nights weekly over a CBS network from the Montmartre night club, New York. 22 23

J^ady J^uck Smiles as She Reckons Frank Parker

*By Ted Deglin

BACKSTAGE of the George M stands a tall dark lad. His head is lifted soft string obligate Two girls, part of Cohan Theatre, where the Green- and he is singing romantic words to a the Gypsies' studio audience, whisper to wich Village Fol- each other so loudly that lies were playing, HarryHorlick turns from chorus girls and boys, his conductor's stand. with one hour to show "Isn't Frank Parker hand- time, were straggling some ?" one sighs, and through the stage door the other sighs back, !" and stage hands were "He's wonderful moving "props" about. Frank's voice, consid- Suddenly the producer, ered the highest tenor on hair disheveled, rushed the air, is heard twice down from his office, call- weekly with the A&P ing for the stage manager. Gypsies, and also with "Look," he cried ex- the Cavaliers' quartette citedly, thrusting a tele- as the Vermont Lumber- gram before the man- jacks, Cities Service ager's eyes, "Bobby's quartette, and part of the broken a leg and the show Chevrolet "Big Six." He goes on in an hour ! No has been in radio three understudy—what are we years, having starred in going to do for a ju- musical comedy and oper- venile ?" ettas for some years The stage manager previous. grabbed the telegram, Just as an accident was then dashed to the tele- instrumental in making phone booth by the stage Frank Parker a stage door. The producer paced headline!*, so another ac- back and forth through cident (to somebody else, the dressing room cor- of course) brought him ridor muttering to him- to Radio's ranks. self and running his fin- Frank was playing op- gers through his bushy posite Hope Hampton in hair. Suddenly he stop- the operetta "My Prin- ped, poised like a pointer. cess." One night, about The stage manager three years ago, some offi- stumbled down the cor- cials of NBC attended a ridor, uttering impreca- performance of that mu- tions, "It's no use, Jake," sical. One of them found he said to the producer, it necessary to return to "no agent can—ouch— the studio before the leggo my arm !" show was over. There he "Listen, you fool," the found a certain sponsor producer whispered, "Lis- in an uproar because the ten, then get that boy out tenor scheduled to sing here." The stage manager on his program had failed rubbed the arm the pro- to make his appearance, ducer had clutched and and the broadcast was listened—to a sweet, three-quarters of an hour clear, bell-like tenor voice off. No one else would coming from the chorus do— no one else was good boys' dressing room. enough. The station offi- And that was Frank cials were at their wits' Parker's first big oppor- end. when the executive tunity. who had attended "My Princess" had a brilliant THE A&P Gypsies idea. are on the air. Be- "Have you seen Hope fore the microphone Frank Parker, "Gypsy" tenor. (Continued i"i page 24

HEROES come and go in this radio world. The idol of today may be forgotten for a new idol tomorrow. Sitting on the fickle pedestal at the moment is Mr. Arthur (Not-a- Crooner) Jarrett of Brooklyn, Man- hattan, Reading, Chicago and points West to California. The baritone boys who have been riding the crest for a brief season are going into a slough. The tenors are coming back on a bull market for popularity, and Mr. Jarrett is of that group. His name is com- paratively new and that intrigues the feminine devotees who find thrills in discoveries. His voice is described by his biographers as "lyric tenor." But no matter how familiar you are with musical terms and classifications "lyric tenor" is inadequate. Lonely maidens and restless housewives have other words for it. But the totally unbiased radio listener will surely tell you there is an electrical something in Arthur Jarrett's voice that is exclusively his own. If you have any musical strings in the sinews of your being it sets them going; you feel and thrill a response to a basic some- thing that is fundamentally human. Arthur Jarrett had to go West to win his laurels before he was ac- cepted in Radio Village-on-the-Hudson. Never was truer word spoken than that of the prophet who was not without honor save in his own bailiwick. zArt Jarrett Idol

J ARRETT was born in the Ridgewood section of Brooklyn renowned as May Powers. . . Grand- Toured vaudeville circuits through- some 24 years ago . . . now a clean-cut, father played "heavies" with Sothern, out the country with mother and father, square shouldered young man, tipping and his great grandfather was a theatre playing regular roles. . . When 11 years the scales at the mike-side at 185 owner. . . Uncle Dan Jarrett was a well old, he visited Camp Dix and other mil-

. . . pounds the good-looking answer in known playwright . . . and as a side- itary encampments to entertain soldiers. person to the maiden's prayer, and the line diversion Dad played big-league . . . The applause of the soldiers kept latest bud on the CBS vine trellis. . . baseball during the spring and summer. him singing all evening. . . Couldn't He won his spurs in Chicago where Art made his stage debut at five . . . possibly memorize lyrics of all songs heroes heroes are and they have street acted little Indian boy in the "Squaw they requested. . . He began to fake the parades for Paul Ash and Ben Bernie Man." His mother still has the regalia. words, ad libbing his own sound obbli- just love because they 'em so. At six Arthur had learned to play the gatos. . . This marked the beginning of

He was born with a public . . . his ukulele with the assistance of Jimmy "counter melody" which is a feature of father and mother were both successful Duffy. His first vocal lessons were his singing today. stage personalities. . . Dad played leads under the direction of the late Joe Between vaudeville engagements he with Florence Reed, Chauncy Olcott Schenck, his godfather. Today he plays attended public school 9 in Brooklyn. and William Faversham. . . Mother six was musical instruments. . . . Clara Bow, Helen Twelvetrees and cago before the signing on the dotted

line. . . Became first identified with radio in the Windy City as Ted Weems'

talent find. . . Altogether, he remained with the orchestra three-and-a-half years.

Anxious to become a radio soloist, he gave up his $200-a-\veek job to sing

over WBBM at $50 per. . One week later he received his first commercial

date. . . Soon his sponsored broadcasts grew to six weekly. He began to attract a large following

in Chicago. . . Was allotted three after- noon programs weekly over the Colum-

bia chain. . . Also appeared nightly with Earl Burtnett's band at the Blackhawk

restaurant. . . Received offer from Gus Van to take the place of latter's partner, Jarrett, "Oh, Mr. Joe Schenck. . . Returned to New you are simply York. . . A new "Pennant Winning marvelous, just Battery wonderful!'' of Songland" was formed. . . Ethelyn Holt (left) After a while, he tired of vaudeville and Mildred Ann and hurried back to Chicago and radio. Greene say the girls are all just like that. And they know be- XE afternoon several cause they are in o the same CBS stu- Columbia officials in New York hap- dios with Art pened to catch his program. . . Wires Jarrett. were immediately dispatched to arrange

for him to come East. . . Commercial obligations confined him to Chicago

until the latter part of November. . . Then he came to New York with the Notre Dame team for their Army

game. . . But. despite his rooting, it was an old Army game. His singing with Freddie Rich's band is now gaining him increasing audi-

i Radio Matinee ences. . . Favorite tune i- "Little White House at the End oi Honeymoon

Lane.". . . Possesses a voice with a six- teen note range, and sitiurs two octaves Dolores Costello were in his classes. . . orchestra at the Coliseum Theatre.

from middle to high C. . . Is bach- Earned his football letter at Erasmus Possessed with a longing to become — a

elor. . . Has penchant for dogs and soft High. . . At Brooklyn Prep he starred a radio announcer, he applied for a job felt hats—also Italian cooking. . . Actu- . hired, in three major sports. . . He picked up at a New York station. . Was seems to other "pin-money" by entertaining at various hut when the musical director learned ally admire outstanding soloists on the radio— social functions. he could play six instruments, the lat- "They're tremen- dous." he s.i\ >. ter advised him to become a profes both of sional musician. . . He did. While the great chain systems A.MBITIOUS to be a Joined Ted Weems' Orchestra at scorn the lowly record the chief execu- lawyer, he matriculated at Fordham, Reading, Pa., in 1927. . . Played the tives seem to watch them for new dis

it N. Y. One evening a friend of the or- banjo and vocalized. . . Became popular coveries. And happens that one oi chestra leader at a neighborhood theatre for his "counter-melodies," and became the Columbia chiefs happened to hear heard him strumming and singing in identified with the tune "1 Can't Believe Jarrett's voice on a record and there- his dormitory. . . The orchestra pilot You Are in Love with Me.". . . While upon sent for him. Bing Crosby was dissuaded him from continuing his in California several movie otters came discovered in the same way by Presi- studies, and gave him a berth in the pit his way, hut the hand migrated to Chi- dent William Palev. —

26 The Original HAND-OUT

Author Tells of Time He Faked as Cripple for a

Bite of Food

(Text of Armour & Co. broadcast over an NBC network.)

just made a thrilling discovery. I'VEI've discovered that I have a public. You know, some writers and a good many actors like to speak lovingly of "their public." But it never occurred to me that I might have one of these devoted followings, too. It seems I was wrong. Because I've had a telegram not a collect telegram either—from mine, which made me very proud. Yes sir, a regular following with a hat and a mail address and everything. The other day, Will Rogers in an interview claimed that he also had a public. So

there you are ! The thing's growing. As an after-dinner speaker, getting ready to tell a story, might put it: "It seems there- were two publics named Pat and Mike. And Pat said to

Mike : 'Faith an' begorra, I'm that fel-

low Cobb's public ! Whose public are you?' And quick as a flash, Mike said right back at him: 'Be jabbers and wurra, wurra, I'm Will Rogers' pub- lic' " And so on. Well anyhow, Pat—that's my public sent this long wire in care of the Na- tional Broadcasting Company, and Ar- mour & Company and the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to parties who try to be humorous over the radio, saying that he had enjoyed listening in on this program here a few weeks ago when I was telling how I, as a member of a group of war-correspondents away back in 1914, blundered into the full staff of the Fifth German Army and incidentally into the fourth son of the German Kaiser, finding him on the whole a very pleasant young person to be thrown amongst. And this devoted admirer of mine asked me in his mes- sage to give the next chapter of that experience on some convenient Friday.

Yes, this is Mr. Cobb at leisure in the library of his home. No, we do not know—perhaps it is a clerical robe, or some specially designed dressing gown. Otherwise you might be safe in calling it a smock, if you don't mind those dressy cuffs. Makes him look slender, what? — I

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very violent earthquake was raging— went out on the platform of our halted By Irvin S. Cobb car for a breath of air. And there, haloed about by the red rays of the upcoming sun, I saw ap- proaching me, an angel from Heaven I previous oc- Well, along As remember, on that towards daylight, they —an angel temporarily disguised as a little party, casion I described how, our got us all packed aboard, like so many fat German sergeant in his shirtsleeve^, traveling largely nerve and without lemons in so on many tight crates, and off who carried under his arm, like a bun- speak of that is, started, any credentials to — we we but not hurriedly. Every ble of golf-sticks, a magnificent bundle of unless minutes, it naturally didn't speak them few seemed, the engineer of the largest and the longest and the pressed, but tried to turn the talk into would remember where left his he'd strongest horsemeat—and—garlic sau- pleasanter and less embarrassing path- umbrella or something and go back to sages I ever beheld. Just for a moment ways got snarled up with the main look for it. Measured miles, it wasn't — by I figured hunger had made me delirious. little Belgian a long German column at a town journey but measured by hours, but while my eyes might be deceived, just over the French border north of it turned out to be one of the most ex- my nose wasn't— it could smell garlic the day tended trips in Maubauge on the evening of the records of military and there's never any mistake about the the battle began, annals during the when of Maubauge great World War. smell of garlic. I've been in parts of and how the Germans, with that effi- It lasted two days and three nights. And the world since then where it seemed ciency which marked their conduct in while almost every important officer to me everybody I met either had been with the fields, stowed us away on straw piles whom we came in contact while on eating too much garlic or not enough. in an improvised calaboose in a cowbarn our travels repeatedly assured us that for the time-being, after warning us we were not prisoners but guests" of the not to smoke. It was, I might add, a German army, we finally reached the w,ELL, when my mouth totally unnecessary warning, because unanimous conclusion that from where had ceased from watering sufficiently all four sides of that cozy retreat were we sat in an overlooked and neglected for me to be able to control my riparian lined with piles of shells and bombs huddle, the only difference we could rights, I hauled a silver five-mark piece and other touchy forms of ammunition. see between being prisoners of the Ger- out of my pocket—a great glittering I can't recall a time in my whole life man army and guests of the German cartwheel of a coin—and I offered it to when I felt less appetite for a cigar. army was that from time to time they the sergeant for just one of his delec- I'm convinced that you could cure any did feed the prisoners. table collection. I could see that he en- man of the tobacco habit by locking For, during the entire time days —two vied me my possesion of such vast him up with thirty or forty tons of and three nights our party of eight — wealth but he told me regretfully yet T.N.T. bombs and dynamite and things, for by our now company of gathered-up firmly, that the sausages were for the all just aching for somebody to throw civilian suspects had grown lived — wounded and that I could have none. a live spark amid their midst. rather frugally not to say sketchily, on And then I marked how he walked alonq; one bottle of stale, mineral wa- warm the side of the train passing up his offer- ter, one loaf of green and mouldy ings to such of the injured men as were soldiers' bread and a one pound pot of able to come to the car B.>E THAT as it may, windows to get soured and rancid honey which must they kept us snugly housed there with them. have been emanated in the first place the high explosives for company until And I had a glorious, a beautiful, a from a lot of very morbid and low- they had enough wounded men and golden inspiration. They say starvation minded bees. prisoners collected to make a full load, quickens the mind anyhow. Xow, the and they put 'em aboard a train and night before, a Belgian gentleman ac- started them off for German soil, and at tuated by patriotic motives, had shot the last moment somebody in command o."N THE morning of the the window out of our compartment in had a happy inspiration and added us third day, just at dawn, I awakened an effort to kill him some Germans, and to the cargo which took some scrough- from fitful slumber during which I'd of course the jagged hole his bullets ing, because every car was already over- been dreaming a homesick dream of a had made was still there. flowing. land called America, where eating was So I hurried back to our compart- or less I shall never forget the wet rainy still being carried on as a more ment and hastily I drew down the tat- night when we started. They lined up regular habit. I think perhaps my rest tered shade and I rolled up a very dir- broken by reason of the prisoners—mostly Englishmen and was furthermore ty shirt-sleeve from a very dirty fore- fact that to overcrowding ami Frenchmen in a double file and then the owing arm, and through the shattered opening the car the lieutenant in charge told us to fall whatnot, I slept in the aisle of below the shade I let that arm dangle, time, persons in on the flanks and help watch the cap- where from time to who with my hand open and the fingers all strangers to came and tives. Well, that was very gratifying were perfect me limp—and the angel, bless his dear o'A outlying portions of me. to have the Germans reposing so much walked on rugged heart, put a sausage in it. confidence and so much trust in us but At any rate, I arose and made nn On that sausage we fared sumptuous we lost some of our enthusiasm when toilette, as was OUT custom in these ly until we reached Aid la-Chappcllc. one of our crowd who understood the days, by shaking myself, thereby shift where when we had been liberated and language heard the young officer say in ing the centre of population, so to bathed and fumigated and depopulated German to the soldiers of the escort speak. You see, we'd just come out of —we got in touch with our Consul there that if any of us tried to slip out of what I may call the Cootie Bell of the and with Ambassador Gerard at Berlin line, just to shoot him dead or insert a Western Front, and far he it from me and succeeded in convincing the Ger- bayonet into him and ask questions aft- to brag, but without much fear of SUC man authorities that we were not spies. erwards. After that, I'd have just loved cessful contradiction, 1 Mate that at neither were we just plain wandering to see the particular guard who marched that moment 1 was the most densely idiots —although I believe doubt on that with me try to get an inch away from populated individual in all of Central point exists even yet in certain quar- me. I'd have been tagging him so close Europe. So, having given the wild life ters. At any rate, they let us go and that they'd have mistaken us for the a thrill by this shaking-up process we saw much more of the war under Siamese Twins. the little fellows probably thought a very different conditions and auspices. :

28 Letters To The Artist

£ytoopnagle and />udd

Columbia's Star Comedians Do Moral Good

Without Trying— and Are Happy About It

DEAR Mr. Editor: those given plays and motion pictures. Another letter from Brooklyn con- First of all we want to Thus, fan mail is the principal, and al- tained a clipping from the January issue thank you for honoring us by most the sole means by which a radio of a business publication called "Service permitting us to tell in the performer may gauge the degree of Echoes." The clipping read: columns of your magazine something of public appreciation of his efforts. "Score One For the Radio" the mail the radio listeners have so Naturally, our mail response is of graciously sent us. tremendous interest to us. The letters "Good for entertainment, excellent May we say just a few words about we receive are not to us merely so for hearing and enjoying all sporting our program ? Ours isn't the kind of a much applause or comment. They are events, the good old home radio now program that sets out to blossoms forth as an ar- make listeners better peo- biter or peacemaker in ple for having listened family differences. A cer- to it. It's just a matter tain couple (the lesser of our having a good half spends his days in the time being silly and try- proof-room on the Tenth ing to make others have Floor of The Service a good time with us. We Building) were not even hold the world up to a on speaking terms for a few days when along mirror so it can see it- came the good old 'Gloom self and laugh at itself, Chasers.' One of their and at the same time we jokes caused spontaneous unconsciously, s o m e- laughter ; while mirth times, put over a truth prevailed the gallant which may or may not male offered his superior have an effect on what a drink of the liquid of people do and think. forgiveness ; and now Subtleties creep in once two hearts are back beat- in awhile, of course, but ing in three-quarter time, we try to have such a pot or whatever time it takes pourri in each program that at least Colonel Stoopnagle (left) has just dis- to make true harmony." minutes, covered a wild man-eating fly whetting his once during the fifteen John or In the envelope was a short note from teeth on the gas jet in preparation for a Henry or Mary will find something that the sender. bloody attack. If you hear a loud report He was the man in question, causes him or her to smile or to actually after reading this you will know that either and he asked permission to attend one laugh aloud. feel that if accom- We we the fly or the Colonel and Budd have fallen of our broadcasts so that he and his plish this we have done a good job. in the fray. wife might thank us personally "for There is really only one way by reuniting them." which we can tell whether or not we a real, genuine cross-section of life. Every radio performer will tell you are accomplishing our purpose. Stage Perhaps the most touching commu- that it gives him or her an unforgetta- stars may gauge public appreciation of nication we ever received was a letter ble feeling of gratification and satis- their efforts through applause, notices mailed to us and received at the WABC faction to read a letter such as the fol- in newspapers and magazines and studios, in New York City, from Brook- lowing, which we received recently: through box office receipts. The last- lyn, N. Y. It had been torn to pieces "My Dear Radio Entertainers: mentioned item is the most important. and then pasted together again with I am not much on the writing but Motion picture actors actresses and wax paper. It was dated five minutes I'm sure good on listening, especially popularity measure their by newspaper after one of our programs went on the to your program, and believe me, you and magazine notices, box office re- air. The letter read as follows surely go over big with all of the ex- ceipts and fan mail. Once again, box "Thank God for your program. It soldiers lying in bed in various hospi- office receipts play the major role. saved me from doing the cowardly thing tals and the others living at home. For radio performers there are no tonight. I wonder what the future will "I was a patient at the U. S. Naval box office figures. While there are the be? Hospital in Brooklyn for about two comments of radio editors and column- Yours thankfullv, weeks and if Budd and the Colonel ists, there are no lengthy reviews like Carol." were not tuned in so the boys with : : — —: —

29 headsets could listen, there sure was a Bopp" to carry on. Here is an amus- Both his feet upon the pedals. Pulled out stops to make it louder, big kick raised. I noticed the boys es- ing letter from two New York girls, Pushed in stops to make it softer, pecially in the lung wards got a won- Ruth Sternberg and Joan Sternberg, Pushed and pulled to make it sweeter derful bunch of laughs from your pro- who organized the first "Bopp Club" Gamba, Bourdon, Diapasm, gram, and when I went home, I de- "Dear Colonel Stoopnagle and Budd: Oboe, Flute d'Amour, Viola, Tremolo, to make it tremble, cided you should know, and if you can We are two devoted 'Boppists'. We Warbolo, to make it warble, give the boys in E7 Ward a special have taken the liberty to organize 'The Rumbolo, to make it rumble, it be Club' kick from your program would Bopp (without the permission of And, to twang the people's heartstrings, more than the doctors can do for them. the copyright owners) and would like Pulled and pushed the Vox Humana. With his right-hand played the treble, "Thomas J. Gray, your co-operation in securing other But the Bass he played left-handed, Oakmont Ave., 'Bopps' interested in our great work. (No less well for that however), Buffalo, N. Y." have made great progress since "We And he used his nose, staccato, A great portion of our mail is in- we gave up our daily lives and 'Bopp- And his elbows, (ma non trappo), valuable to us. Radio listeners who have tized' ourselves anew. So far, we have And his feet, appassionata. he played them some Staininsky, heard our interviews with such great killed three people with loaded cigar- So And that priceless Spanish classic, as Mr. Unh, the man ettes. Three broken spines, two frac- men-of-industry Tayovichi Iyenaga. who makes the windows of trains hard tured skulls and one death resulted from Just then Bud who blew the bellows, first to open; Mr. Haa, the fellow who an oiled banana peel. Oh ! We have Of a sudden let it perish Let the wind from out the bellows Eustice ! blew on glasses to clean them ; gay times at our club All the bellows Wauwautosa, Shush, the chap who makes the SI- "But alas, we have to break oft* here, And the music, so sonorous picture thea- because thither lies the pros- LENCE signs for motion iceman Died away and came to nothing tres, and the lady who makes the lace trate on the floor, as the bomb we in- With a squeak, demure and plaintive, petticoats for lamb-chop bones, write tended to throw in the goldfish bowl Like a koodoo with the asthma, Or a tree-toad with Lumbago, in and suggest many persons for us to (oh, a beautiful picture) accidently Or an emu with the tetter, interview. Others, who have heard of landed on him. (We will have our lit- -Or an old man with the chilblains, some or our inventions, like the cello- tle jokes !)." Querulous and sympathetic. phane umbrella so you can tell whether All of which may sound horribly Then the prince of organ grinders, Lemuel Stoopnagle or not its raining, contribute numerous gruesome, Mr. Editor, but it really is Q. Got quite mad and was offended, suggestions for inventions. While we meant in the spirit of fun. Poured the vials of his anger, inter- sometimes fill the requests for We expect that any day we may walk Out on Bud who blew the bellows views with these fictitious characters, along the street and hear someone call Called him Onderdonk the Bonehead, we never use scripts submitted, of "Here, Stoopnagle," "Here, Budd," be- HERMAN Onderdonk the booby. Onderdonk Pasha Xobisco, which there are quite a few. cause our mail has disclosed that six Little Twirp, the chronic Nit Wit. letters contain invaluable con- cats a rooster have been Other dogs, three and At this interesting moment, structive criticism, which we certainly named "Colonel Stoopnagle"; four dogs On the scene came Uncle Dean, do not hesitate to follow. Radio listen- and four cats have been inflicted with To talk of Ivory soap that floats, ers know much better than we how our the name "Budd" and a Scotch terrier Ivory, that pure and non sinkable soap. Dedicated to programs sound. must struggle through the rest of his Colonel Lemuel Q. Stoopnagle and Bud. days, laboring to overcome the handicap "The Best Radio Team on the Air." of forever being called "Bopp." James D. Armstrong. OOME of the letters we 26 Brooke Ave.. receive are hilariously funny. We oft- Toronto 12, Ontario, Canada. en wonder if the radio audience derives w,HEN we first made Numerous well-executed drawings one-fifth of the pleasure from our pro- our debut over the WABC-Columbia and paintings of the listeners' concep- grams that we do from the humorous network and for some time thereafter tion of us and our •'mighty gas-pipe letters. Not long ago we received a post we used the phrase, "Schultz Is Dead," or- gan" are included in the mail. have card from Atlanta, Ga., on the back of on most of our programs. For months, We kept every one of them. which was a picture of the Federal until we stopped using the phrase, We're awfully afraid we've taken Prison, at Atlanta. The card was ad- which was a month or so before we up a lot of time and space talking alxnit dressed to "Colonel Stoopnagle and started broadcasting for Procter & ourselves. impose upon Budd, Columbia Broadcasting System, Gamble on the Ivory Soap Program, May we you for a few lines more to thank sincerely New York City." On the front was the we received hundreds of mourning everyone who has written to us. message, "We are having a good time. cards, and other forms of condolence The letters, telling us that have Wish you were here." It was signed over the departure of the fictional serious we cheered someone or given someone a "The Gang." Schultz. laugh or a smile, are among our most Are you familiar with our "Mr. Letters in poetry are often well prized possessions, for they make us Bopp" ? He is the chap who is a com- done as in the following example feel that we are accomplishing some- bination of all the annoying character- Near the heights of old Manhattan, thing. The funny letters more than istics. He started out by running en- On the summit of a building, please us, for gines around railroad yards and bump Stands the studios of Columbia. we feel on receiving them, that some of the radio ing them into standing Pullman cars Here it is that every Wednesday audience

The air is shattered, also Monday ; have caught the spirit to disturb the sleeping passengers. Then of our program From which emanates the squeaking and are "with us." he enlarged on his activities. would He Of the famous Gas-Pipe organ. We hope that whoever likes our silly wait for a nice, rainy day and then Sitting at the mighty console. will would drive his automobile close to the Is that King of organ grinders, programs please write and let us curb and splash the pedestrians. At Lemuel Q. Stoopnagle. know about it. Ami we particularly It was just eight-forty-five, Christmas time he had a dandy time want to hear from those who do not like When Bud who blew the bellows. into them, because quite often we agree with bumping people and knocking the Filled them full of gases. them, and it's good to be among friends. packages from their arms. All the bellows full of gases. Thank you, Mr. Editor, for your pa- We really believe that there is just And the prince of organ grinders. Lemuel Q. Stoopnagle tience and kindness. Simply yours. a little of "Mr. Bopp" in all of us. Sat him down before the das-Pipe There certainly have been a lot of sug- Colonel Lemuel Q. Stoopnagle Put his fingers on the key-board. gestions ior new activities for "Mr. Put his feet upon the pedals. and Uudd. :

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LAWS that SSAFEGUARD S OCIETY

MARRIAGE and the H OME By Gleason L. Archer, LL.D. Dean, Suffolk Law School, Boston

Breach 'Promise of regular caller upon the girl amounts to notice all March 5, 1932 implied to other young men to keep their distance. For a young man Good Evening Everybody to monopolize a maiden's social activi- HAVE previously pointed out that ties for any extended period of time be- marriage itself is a contract entered comes a serious matter. If an engage- into according to forms and cere- I ment occurs, and the man later refuses monies sanctioned by the law of to redeem his promise by lawful mar- the jurisdiction. But the usual prelim- riage, there is clearly an injury to the inary to marriage is the engagement or lady that not even monetary damages betrothal of the parties who are later may repair. to be married. In some countries, as interesting question arises as to we know, betrothals of marriage are An the duty of an engaged man when he entered into with much formality, es- discovers that his supposed love for the pecially where dowries are arranged or lady, under the influence of which he property is settled upon one of the par- had proposed marriage, was after all a ties. A betrothal is, of course, a formal mere infatuation. His ardor has cooled. contract to perform in the future a sec- The thrill of romance has departed. ond contract—marriage itself. Should he, or should he not, marry the Engagements of marriage, especially girl ? It might be argued that to marry of the American variety, are usually en- her under the circumstances would be tered into when the parties thereto are an injustice to her and result in misery secluded from other eyes, with no wit- for both. The law makes no allowances nesses to prove their mutual promises. however for such fickle swains. An Engagements are therefore sometimes engagement once entered into is legally difficult to establish in court. The lady binding upon the man unless the lady may declare that she received and ac- releases him from the engagement. This cepted a promise of marriage and the does not mean that he must go through man in the case may deny that he ever with the marriage but that he can be made an offer of heart and hand. Her made to pay damages for breach. word is usually given more weight than For example: Samuel paid the man's, but the circumstances of the N. Neat court case are always important considera- to a young lady named Hannah in Coolidge. In May 1875 he proposed tions determining the facts. The pre- Dean Gleason L. Archer marriage and his proposal accepted. vious relations of the parties, whether was For some reason that does not appear the man was eagerly attentive prior to from the record of the case the wed- the alleged engagement, whether he It is undoubtedly true that the right ding postponed, continued to pay the lady attentions and to sue for breach of promise of mar- was a new date set and then a further postponement occurred especially whether the couple gave the riage is greatly abused by the type of appearance to others of being engaged woman ordinarily termed an adven- until the engagement lengthened to three years. lovers, are each elements of proof with turess, or by modern slang "a gold dig- By this time the young a court or jury. ger." The purpose of the law, however, man discovered that his affection for the girl was abating and that marriage, The important fact is that whether is not to enable designing young women at first so joyously anticipated, was now the understanding is evidenced by let- to collect damages for alleged promises, growing less and less alluring. ters or otherwise an engagement once nor damages for promises actually made entered into is a binding obligation under the stress of a spell woven by a. upon each. From the nature of things designing enchantress. It rather seeks Hannah Coolidge and Her Luke- it is the man who is sued for breach of to protect innocent and trusting women warm Lover promise of marriage, but there is no in- whose lives have been ruined, or whose herent reason why the prospects in life have been jeopardized woman who GIRL was apparently very breaks her promise of marriage by a faithless lover, THE should kindly and affectionate but, as not be liable for damages. Let us con- months passed, her love became more sider the matter, however, from the ALL know that when two or less of an old story to the man. So woman's angle. The WE man breaks the young people begin to "keep one day Neat had a plain talk with his engagement. Under the law this breach company," as it is called, even before fiancee on the subject, informing her renders him liable in an action for an engagement is arrived at, the accept- that he had misgivings about the wis- damages. ance of the young man's attentions as a dom of going on with their marriage

. 31 plans. He suggested that they call the Lovers' Quarrels and Their Effect engagement off. Alarmed by this sug- TpOR two years Dean Archer has been gestion the girl sought by all her pow- FREQUENTLY happens that two * broadcasting weekly over a constantly IT ers of persuasion to talk the man out people engage to marry each other, expanding network of stations his series of of what she felt was a temporary mood. have misunderstandings and clashes of the home and She even urged an immediate marriage lectures on laws that protect temperament that in themselves signify the family. Talks on the Legal Aspects of to which he made half hearted assent. very little as to future happiness or un- Marriage have aroused tremendous interest Miss Coolidge began the preparation of happiness of a prospective marriage. and stimulated a vast amount of corre- her trousseau. Her plans were halted, Since marriage itself is a sort of part- spondence on the part those who find however, when the reluctant swain came of nership in which each member must in Dean Archer's comments the answers to sacrifice to her and declared that it would be contribute somewhat in self many problems. The talks appearing in wrong for them to marry when all they and must surrender some liberties for- broadcast during the month could look forward to was a divorce. this issue were merly enjoyed if the marriage is to be This occurred in the early part of Sep- of March. a success, it is inevitable that the en- tember, 1878. gagement period should be at times be- set by storms and tempests. Two people From that time forward his calls from different homes quite naturally ceased. The unhappy young woman jury sustained by such breach of prom- have differing backgrounds of life, dif- soon learned the true cause of the ise. The court also declared that the ferent training, and a resulting dis- breach. Neat had met another girl who law would not compel a man to marry similarity of outlook upon problems of had captured his wayward fancy. He under the circumstances recited in this life. It is too much to expect that the became engaged to her in the latter case. It was perhaps wise that a man mere fact of falling in love will ac- part of September and they were mar- break the engagement rather than enter complish a harmonious adjustment of ried in February, 1879. Miss Coolidge into a loveless marriage that must result all of these natural differences. They consulted a lawyer and presently in unhappiness and perhaps divorce. must inevitably, in the process of court- brought suit for breach of promise of The court declared that in all cases ship, discover some of those differing marriage. Neat admitted the facts of where an engagement of marriage is points of view. Still others will be dis- the engagement ; that the plaintiff had broken off not because of fault or mis- covered after the engagement has been always treated him kindly and affection- conduct of the other party, the right to entered into. If they truly love each ately, that their relations had been collect damages accrues to the other other, however, they will give serious proper in all respects, and that he had party. On the question of damages the attention to the problem of reaching a no fault to find with her conduct. He court instructed the jury that they might common ground upon which the struc- testified that long before he left her he consider the length of the engagement, ture of a home may be founded. had made up his mind that he could not girl's affections were whether the But as I have already pointed out the her, he had be happy with because the deeply involved, her wounded spirit, young couple who wish to make a suc- ceased to regard her with that affection disgrace, the insult to her feelings and cess of married life must earnestly seek which a lover should feel for the woman the probable solitude that might result to adjust their differing viewpoints. If who was to be his wife. He declared by reason of the desertion after so ex- lovers' quarrels occur they should treat also that he had tried to reason with her tended a period of courtship. The man's the cause a? one of the points upon on the subject but that she had refused is loss financial standing likewise of the which matrimony itself may he wrecked, to release him from the engagement. sustained because of the breach of unless they earnestly seek and find har- He also asserted that he left her only promise. The jury returned a verdict monious readjustment during the en- when convinced that it would be for for the female plaintiff in the sum of gagement period. the happiness of both that he do so. $3,000. The case was thereupon ap- The girl, however, testified that Neat pealed to the Supreme Court, where the had never made it clear to her that he decision was affirmed, as in accordance Lair Allows For Human Nature had ceased to love her. She declared with law. The case was Coolidge v. that he had always treated her with an Neat, 129 Mass. 146. THE LAW, as I have so frequently appearance of affection and had con- pointed out, is builded around the tinued to do so up to the very last visit facts of life. It recognizes human that he ever made, parting with her on Lessons Taught By This Case nature and human problems, not only in that occasion in the affectionate manner business and industrial affairs hut also appropriate lovers. MIGHT indulge in a bit of to WE in the home. It recognizes that lover- this since it moralizing on case, quarrel, part from each other and some- of the so clearly sets forth the attitude times become again reconciled. For that law toward those distressing and un- The Judge Instructs the Jury reason it does not apply the ordinary incidental to the happy occurrences rules of contracts as will he seen in the lawyer requested the judge breaking of an engagement of marriage NEAT'S following case : to instruct the jury, among other where the affections or the prospects in For Example: Sterrett became en- instructions, that an engagement to life of the other party are seriously im- gaged to the female plaintiff and the marry is always upon the implied un- paired. Young men should realize that couple were for a time as happy and derstanding and condition that if, at an engagement of marriage is a serious congenial as lovers usually are in the any time before marriage, either party matter and while a girl may not care early days of their engagement. A finds notoriety of a court trial, yet that consummation of the promise to face the quarrel eventually occurred and the will tend to the unhappiness of both, she has a legal right to collect damages couple mutually agreed to consider the then such party has the power to abro- if she chooses to (\o so. The woman engagement terminated, or at least in- gate the agreement, or promise. The scorned, if she possess spirit and hardi- definitely suspended. After a year oi judge gave this instruction to the jury hood, is a dangerous adversary. Young separation Sterrett wrote a letter to the but he added this important amendment women should realize from contempla- plaintiff and asked permission to call that a person might break or cancel tion of this case that tOO extended an upon her. That permission granted and such engagement only upon condition engagement has its dangers, lest they the man was received with all the love that the other person might collect become an old story and the man in the and tenderness of the former relation, monetary damages for any loss or in- case turn elsewhere lor fresh romance. lie did not again propose marriage. In- :

32 fortunately for the girl, Starrett later broke Several interesting questions were in- to the effect that Rosa began preparation off attendance upon her and refused to volved in this case. Whether the promise for her marriage in the usual happy man- marry her. When suit was brought he de- to marry when the buggies were completed ner of betrothed maidens, piecing quilts fended on the ground that there was no was a sufficiently definite promise to justify and doing that type of fancy work that proposal of marriage after the cancellation the suit, was answered in the affirmative. generally appeals to prospective brides. of the engagement. The court held that The court said that the law would infer Her lover, however, was not of the de- his act in resuming the relations of a lover that the buggies were to be completed pendable and steady type. He believed in revived the original engagement. Starrett within a reasonable time. Even if they seeking good times wherever he might be was liable for damages for breach of prom- were not actually completed the original and his idea of a good time apparently in- ise of marriage. The case was Judv v. promise could not be defeated by the de- cluded feminine companionship as its chief Sterrett, 52 111. App. 265. fendant's own delay in performing that ingredient. which he had asserted his intention of per- He soon found himself in the dilemma forming. The girl had a right to expect of being in love with two girls. The one marriage after the lapse of time sufficient of whom he had already made conquest ^Damage Element in for the task to be completed. quite naturally suffered in comparison with the romantic and unattained maiden. The Damage to Feelings unworthy lover apparently forgot his Breach of Promise plighted word and gave himself up to the THE QUESTION of damage to the ardor of the chase. Quite unexpectedly in April 1891 he captured the girl but only March 12, 1932 plaintiff's feelings was argued at some length, The girl had been permitted to tes- at the cost of a wedding ring and imme- tify concerning the shock to her feelings diate marriage. The second girl evidently OBVIOUSLY, there are various ele- in discovering the falsity of the defendant. realized the nature of the man with whom ments that enter into the question of father likewise took the witness stand she was dealing. She took no chances. The damages for breach of promise of Her and described the days of anguish and suf- defendant perhaps had some regrets at his marriage. The first in order, if we are to fering that had been occasioned to his hasty action, or possibly he feared the con- follow the logical sequence, would be the daughter by the defendant's heartless de- sequences and hoped to smooth matters mental shock to the aggrieved party from sertion and subsequent conduct. over. At any rate, before the wronged the breaking of the engagement. Then the seduction as Rosa Robertson had heard of her lover's comes the grief and loneliness of disap- In commenting on an court declared that marriage to another woman he came knock- pointed affection. The length of time of element of damage the "Respectable society inflicts upon the un- ing at her door. Imagine if you can the the engagement is important. The loss of fortunate female a severe punishment for shock that Rosa must have sustained when the marriage itself is a very material ele- her too confiding indiscretion, and which the miserable weakling confessed that his ment of damages. Then, too, there are sad marriage would largely, if not wholly, have passion for the other girl had separated cases where the girl, as it is sometimes him from Rosa for life. delicately expressed, has "loved not wisely relieved her from. The fact of seduction should therefore a great ways in fixing She turned him out of her home with but too well" and serious consequences fol- go the damages, since in no other could proper indignation and bitter reproaches. low in the wake of the desertion by her way for the injury In fact she afterward declared that she faithless lover. Let us therefore consider amends be made she sus- tained." had never cared for him anyway, and that these elements in the order named. she had been interested only in his money. Every worth-while woman has a sense The last question discussed by the case, refusal to the de- She later brought suit for breach of prom- of personal dignity and a natural pride in viz., whether the marry fendant after suit was brought, would af- ise of marriage. Testimony was offered her own womanly qualities. For a man to plaintiff's right to recover, brought tending to show that the shock of the news pay court to her, to win her affections and fect the out some very interesting comments by the of the defendant's marriage produced a then, when it suits his purpose, to cast her court, as will be seen from the following marked effect upon Miss Robertson. Wit- off like a worn out garment, is an insult of wealth, nesses testified to the fact that she refused that strikes to the very soul. The law "A supposedly virtuous man gains the af- to discuss the matter and seemed very takes cognizance of this fact in awarding refinement and respectability, downhearted. One of the contentions of damages for breach of promise. The higher fections of a young lady, and under a accomplishes her the defendant was based upon the girl's the type of woman that a plaintiff may promise of marriage, enters upon remark that she had never cared for him. be, the greater will be the damages awarded ruin, then abandons her, and a life of open and notorious profligacy and The Supreme Court reversed the verdict to her by any court or jury. This is in ac- he offers to of the lower court because of erroneous cordance with simple principles of justice. debauchery, and when sued agreement offers himself in instructions given to the jury, but on the Man is a spirit and not a mere beast of carry out his — with even a question of the remark it declared that the field. The greatest injuries that any of marriage, when any woman angry retorts made by the girl after the us can receive are injuries that shock or spark of virtue and sensibility would marriage of the defendant had no bearing numb the spirit within. shrink from his polluted touch. To hold that the offer of such a skeleton and re- upon the question of what her feelings fusal to accept could be considered, even mav have been prior to that event. . in mitigation of damages, would shock the The case was Robertson v. Craver, 88 The Faithless Carriage Maker sense of justice and be simply a legal out- Iowa 254 ; 55 N. W. 492. rage. Such an offer could not in any way atone for the past, or have any tendency M. BENNETT, who maintained Health as an Element JOHN to show that the defendant had not acted a carriage shop, paid court to Mary E. in a most heartless and outrageous man- Beam, a virtuous and estimable young lady. ner." The case was Bennett v. Beam, 42 MENTAL state of a person," as She had perhaps had no previous love af- THE we all know, profoundly influences the Mich. 346 ; 4 N. 8. fair. Bennett's ardent wooing took W. her bodily functions. Intense grief may result heart by storm. When he proposed mar- in illness, particularly if it is the sort of riage she gladly accepted the offer. After Animosity After Breach grief that a sensitive woman might feel in a period of idyllic happiness the question losing the love of one in whom she had of a marriage date arose. Bennett ex- BEFORE indicated, the law makes confided her affections and to whom she plained that his ready funds, as well as his AS due allowance for human nature, es- had expected to be married. To die of a time available for a honeymoon, would be pecially in cases where wounded pride and broken heart is not a common experience, greatly benefited by a delay until a certain outraged dignity are concerned. It is the but to suffer greatly from such a calamity order for carriages could be filled. most natural reaction in the world for a is quite possible. In cases of breach of this To the girl consented ; but her lover, rejected maiden to voice bitter thoughts promise, when the woman is utterly de- in willful violation of the power that by concerning the man who has thus wronged voted to the man, with no thoughts for this time he had acquired over her, so con- her. An intensity of love, upon sufficient anyone else, the results may be serious. ducted himself as seriously to compromise provocation, may turn into an intensity of This fact may be taken into consideration the girl's reputation. Having accomplished hate, for the simple reason that the indi- in assessing damages. his evil desires, like other men of his sort, vidual concerned has an intensity of na- Santos Oritz on May 20, 1893 proposed he deserted the girl. He then consorted ture.^ Evidence of hatred or remarks tend- marriage to Carolina Navarro and was ac- with evil female companions and thus ing "to save one's face," as it is sometimes cepted. The marriage was to occur around aroused disgust and loathing in the heart called, have no special bearing upon the November 15, 1893. When the time came of the wronged lady. liability of the defendant. for the wedding Oritz found some excuses She brought suit for damages for breach For Example: In January, 1891 Rosa for delay. In fact it soon became apparent of promise, whereupon he offered, through Robertson became engaged to marry the that he did not intend to marry the girl. his lawyer, to settle the case by marrying defendant, the wedding to take place on During the early months of their engage- the girl. This she scorned to accept. December 25, 1891. There was evidence ment Oritz had written to Rosa eight very : : :

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ardent love letters. Letters and protesta- have a perfect solution of the problem. quently of late. He then informed the the girl tions of affection ceased. In May 1894 The appalling and increasing divorce father that he desired to marry Oritz married another woman. Carolina rate in modern society is in itself an indi- and that she was willing. The parental Navarro was so overcome by grief that cation that the fickleness of lovers before blessing was forthcoming. Joy reigned in she cried for several days and became very marriage is likely to become more rather that home—for a time. The defendant later that business would call ill, remaining in this condition for a long than less common in the future. For a announced time. She brought suit for breach of lover to break off an engagement before him to Michigan for several months but promise of marriage. The court held that marriage occurs is comparable to a divorce that he would return to California for the the illness of the plaintiff might properly after marriage. All thinking people will summer. be considered as an element of damages. admit, I believe, that modern psychology, The wedding was to occur at about The defendant adopted one curious line of now doing so much to break down the Christmas time. The young couple corre- defense in claiming that to recover it would moral safeguards that have been reared sponded after the manner of lovers until be necessary for the plaintiff to prove, if through the ages, must inevitably increase the defendant's letters suddenly changed in no particular day for the wedding was these unhappy spectacles of disillusioned tone. He apparently sought to quarrel with fixed upon, that she had requested him to and disenchanted lovers who part before the girl in order to have an excuse for set the day of the wedding. In disposing marrying at all. breaking the engagement. The next thing of this contention the court said The maiden who loves not wisely but she knew was that her lover had married "In an action for breach of promise to too well, is her own worst enemy. A man another woman. truth to with brutal these distressing circumstances marry, it is sufficient if the plaintiff shows once disclosed this me Under that the defendant has violated his prom- frankness when I was upbraiding him for father and daughter journeyed to Michigan he settled the of ise by refusing to marry her. * * * It can not marrying a certain girl with whom and down to task making the hardly be expected that a lady should say had been keeping company for years, a faithless lover pay for the injury, injustice girl who was utterly devoted to him. I and indignity visited by him upon the girl. to a gentleman : 'Sir, I am ready to marry you. Pray fix the day and marry me.' It knew the pair so well that the girl had When the case came to trial the plaintiff that her was awarded damages. of the grounds is not in the nature of a woman to talk confided to me her unhappiness One that wav, however anxious and willing she lover was forever postponing the marriage of appeal was that the girl, while on the may be." to a more convenient season. witness stand, had been asked by her lawyer his words, not be- whether she had any independent means of The case was Oritz v. Navarro, 30 S. W. I shall never forget original support, to which question she 581. cause there was anything about answered, them, but because of the tragedy that later "No." The Supreme Court in deciding for befell the girl. He said: "Hang it all, the girl declared Damages Presumed Archer, I never chase a street car after I "When the suit is for the loss of a mar- have caught it." Within a year from that riage and of an expected home, the fact I shocked to learn of the man's that the plaintiff is without the to the amount of damages in a time was means WHILE beautiful and attractive girl in provide an independent home for herself case of breach of promise of mar- death. The the case has never married. She had no is not entirely unimportant. It may be sup- riage always depends upon the special cir- claim upon her lover's property. For more posed to be one of the facts which both cumstances of the case, yet in all cases than twenty years since his death she has parties had in mind in making their ar- where a breach is proven some damages

been supporting herself as a clerk and rangements ; and it is not improper that will be presumed by law. However a stenographer. The man did not break his the jury should know of it also woman may have cheapened herself by and take engagement voluntarily. Death did it for it into account in making up their verdict." misconduct, yet if a man, knowing the him, but the girl lost in the game of life. The judgment in the girl's favor was af- facts, asks her to marry him and she If she had been wiser she might have firmed. promises to do so she would have a right married the man of her choice years be- The case was Vanderpool v. Richardson, to collect some damages, however small, fore his death—or perhaps he might not 52 Mich. 336; 17 N. W. 936. if the man should later refuse to marry have died when he did. Married men, you her. The breach of contract in itself en- know, live longer than gay bachelors—

March 19, 1932 * So the evening came when the bashful and affection oi a marriage which would have given her a permanent home and an THE VEXED problem of how to Swain betook himself to the living room of match intangible injuries to the affec- the parental residence to interview the ad\ antageous establishment." court further declared that if the tions and the soul of a trusting woman lather on this all important matter. Ac The to the cold standard of dollars and cents cording to the evidence, he began by re- jury were satisfied that the eirl's affections must ever continue to trouble mankind. marking that the father, no doubt, had had truly been set upon the man and that From the nature of things we can never noticed that he had been calling quite fre- 34

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Finals This Month to Determine Winner — Preliminary Winners Are Harriet Lee, Zone One; Donna Damerel, Zone Two; Hazel Johnson, Zone Three

will win the In zone three, which ; ex- WHOhonor of being tends from the Mississippi declared the River to the west coast; Hazel of Beauty Queen Johnson, who is on the air at American Radio? Radio Di- KFYR, Bismark, N. D., won gest's campaign to discover first place with a total vote of the most beautiful girl in ra- 1,654. dio has reached the finals. Remember, this is the "final Readers from all parts of the month of the contest. Be sure country have cast their bal- to vote for one of the three lots, with the result that this girls in the finals ; also . be month we announce the win- sure to use the coupon" pro- ner in each of tlie three zones. vided for that purpose. Final This ends preliminaries the votes must be in" the office of and in order to make the final Radio Digest not later than selection as fair as possible, May 3rd. There are abso- the final vote will be made lutely no restrictions on vot- during the present month and ing with the exception that the one of the three beauties the special coupon provided receiving the greatest number for the purpose on page 33 of votes will be declared must be used. No matter Beauty of Queen American where you live, you may cast Radio. Her picture will be your vote for any one of^the painted by an outstanding three girls entered in the portrait painter and she will finals—but be sure to use the be ' the Radio Digest cover coupon. It is the only vote girl in a future issue. Also that counts. she will be presented with the original painting. LINTEREST in In zone one, which com- the contest has been keen and prises the eastern seaboard votes have come into the Ra- as far west as western Penn- dio Digest offices from all sylvania, Harriet Lee, for- over the United States arid merly with WABC, New Canada. This is the first time York, was who declared radio that the radio listeners have queen at the Radio World's had an opportunity of select- Fair in New York last Sep- ing the artist to represent the tember, received the greatest queen of beauty in broadcast- number of votes and enters ing. Heretofore, the selection the finals from that zone. has been entirely in the hand's Miss Lee chalked up a total of two or three portrait paint- of 827 votes in the prelimi- ers and theatrical people. The naries. contest was started because Radio felt N Digest that the I ZONE two, public should be permitted to which extends from a point act as its own judge of approximately at the western beauty. end of Pennsylvania to the Runners up for the finals Mississippi River, Donna include Madeline Sivyer of Damerel, broadcasting from Station KQW and KTAB, WBBM, Chicago, is the win- San Jose, California, (zone ner in the preliminaries and three) with a total vote of will represent her zone in the 470. Virginia Clarke in zone Harriet Lee, winner of first place in Zone finals. Miss Damerel scored One, was declared Radio Queen at the Radio World's Fair in New York in two (station WJJD, Chi- with 1,715 votes. September. cago), won second place in —

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Donna Damerel, "Marge," of the team "Myrt and Marge," Hazel Johnson hails from North Dakota—at least that's where

broadcasting out of Chicago, heads the list of contestants in the she broadcasts . . . and her attractive features won first place for preliminaries in Zone Two. her in Zone Three.

that zone, with a vote of 435. Jane When you cast your ballot for the the finals, the pictures of all tying con-

Froman also in zone two, WMAQ, final vote this month, be sure to mail it testants will be used on the cover of Chicago, was right behind Miss Clarke so that it is received in the office of Radio Digest and the originals will be with 433 votes. Catherine Fields, Radio Digest not later than May 3rd. presented to the artists. Remember, thi-

WEAF, New York was second choice Tn the event that there is a tie for first is your last chance to vote. Use the bal- in zone one with 282 votes. place between any of the contestants in lot below and -end it in early.

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Little Bird Knows All— Tells All—Ask Her about the Stars You Admire

TODDLES, Presiding Pig- four hours of inspiration to radio eon of Graybar Court, listeners. Most of the music is bundled up some of our from his own pen. Mr. Patton set fan letters, equipped her- out on the "troubled waters" of self with a monacle, set her Em- music when he was but eight, as press Eugenie hat over her left a singer in the choir of Trinity ear and eye, and in this impress- Church, in Portland, Oregon, his ive dignity alighted on her bi- birthplace, where he was to be- cycle. Pecking me on my right come organist ten years later. In cheek, she bade farewell and said the meantime he had traveled to that to Riverside Drive was she every important city in Europe bent to read over some of our fan where he studied the organ. Like missives—that ere nightfall she most musicians he has seen "lean .would return and help me with years" but these passed over very this colum. When the first shades quickly for him. Mr. Patton of evening curtained off the speed- brings to the radio a background Landt Trio and White ing day, and no Toddles turned up, I of rich experiences and study—experi- hopped into my roller skates, and fol- ences gained through his world travels has lived there ever since. His two lowed the tracks of my pardner's bi- and during his service with the United brothers and sister never cease wonder- cycle. When I reached that part of the States Navy during the World War ing at his trunks and trunks of clothes Drive where Toddles always holds her and the thorough training received in —his one failing. rendez-vous with the setting sun, I some of the best institutions in Europe found her bundled up in a heap and * * including the Royal Academy in London. weeping copiously. She held out to me a ROM seventeen to seventy—that is letter written by Betty Jamieson who F* the range of ages when listeners are scolded both Toddles and myself for our most interested in Landt Trio and T,.HREE cheers for Thelma Shahan, delay in answering her requests and White. Pick out Dan, Karl and Jack who sends us "several bits" about Man- said she had more confidence in Walter ' Landt from this picture. Yes, that's nie Lowy, first violinist of the original Winchell than in us. Toddles broke out right—the three boys on the right. The Connecticut Yan- into a fresh series of sobs until I was one at the left is Howard White. They kees. We also owe able to quiet her with a hundred other hail from the good old city of Scranton, this picture to her. letters indicative of the high esteem in Pa.—home of coal strikes, where Dan Toddles suggests which they held Toddles Empress Eu- — was a house painter, Karl taught chem- we quote her letter genie chapeau and wilted plume not istry, Jack was a high school student verbatim—so here withstanding. And now let's get down and Howard White turned out rolls and goes: "Mannie to business, Toddles else Radio Digest loaves of bread in a bakery shop. How- Lowy has been at will go to the printer and leave us out. ard is blissfully ignorant of music and Pine Crest Manor, Well, now about Husk O'Hare, as we probably thinks that "do" in the scales Southern Pines, were saying. You know he recently mean weighing bread. He met the North Carolina closed a fifty-nine Landt brothers at the local Scranton since May, 1930. week engagement stations WGBI and WQAN where they Has been very very Mannie Lowy at the Hotel La- soon became a very popular group. The ill, but is now stead- Salle where he day they arrived in New York was a ily convalescing. Was in bed 13 months. played in the Blue lucky one all around. They received an Hopes to be back with the other boys Fountain Room. At audition—a sponsor happened to be in the spring. Has been playing the this writing he's on present and fate brought sponsor and violin for 15 years. Started orchestra tour. Husk is not quartet together over a substantial Con- work as first violinist in the Morris his official Chris- tract. Howard White makes his home High School Orchestra in New York- tian name, but he with the three brothers, their parents under the very capable leadership of has answered to it and sister in Jackson Mr. E. Tracy, then the leader of the for so long that his Heights, Brooklyn and a well-known Keith's Boys Band. Previ- Husk O'Hare own family cannot cheerful little group they ous to the formation of the Connecticut recall the appella- make. Yankees, he played in the following or- tion which they bestowed unon him at * * * chestras : Moss Hallet Orchestra, Bert birth. Only the records at Mavsville, Town's Orchestra, Bill Wilsen's Or- Ky. where he wns born can yield that LfOWELL PATTON's chestra. New York is his birthplace. information. Wlirn lie was fourteen, Sour/ for Today over One of his outstanding characteristics his family moved to Chicago, and he WJZ furnishes twenty- Lowell Paiton is loyalty—with a capital "L." Happily " —

37 married—and his wife is charming. first went on with his cigar program. same Singin' Sam, Favorite sport prior to his illness was Witli Jesse Crawford for two seasons the Lawn Mower tennis and football. Considerably in- on Royal Typewriter hour. Listeners Man w h o m you terested in New York University's team. heard him also on the following pro- heard on WLW, Gets an immense kick out of listening grams: Luden's, Life Saver, Davega, and the same Sing- to his four year old daughter, Lorraine, and Woman's Radio Review. Has been in' Sam, the Coffee try to imitate Rudy singing Vagabond with Vincent Lopez for the past year. Man who broadcast

Lover. His tribute to Vallee : "That Paul made his debut in the theatre at over WTAM. Two Rudy is one of the finest and squarest the tender age of six with his mother weeks after assum- men in the music game, especially in as accompanist. ing the role of the generous way he has treated us * * Singin' Sam the boys. All he asks in return is fair play P*AUL CARSON, NBC organist on Barbasol Man over Singirf Sam and in this way we boys try to show the Pacific Coast, has appreciative audi- CBS, he received our appreciation by always giving him ences everywhere. Paul was born in something like 25,000 letters. We hope, our best efforts and loyalty." Of the Bridgeport, 111., and at for the benefit of his sponsor, that some boys he says : "They are the most regu- the early age of five and of these were from bearded ladies. lar bunch of fellows I've ever known or a half his mother taught Harry was born in Danville, Ky., Janu- worked with. There isn't one in the him to play the organ. ary 27th, A. D. His father was a cloth- band who can be called 'high hat.' His repertoire consisted ier and discouraged his young son's ten- Suppose we make it a hundred cheers of two hymns, Nearer dencies toward the stage. But these for Thelma—how about My God to Thee and theatrical inclinations proved irresist- it, Toddles, old deah ? Jesus Lover of My Soul. ible and Harry soon became affiliated

Paul Carson This repertoire, limited with J. Coburn's Minstrel Show. Then as it was, saved the day came an engagement at the Bijou The- D,'AVE BERNIE, one for his father one Sunday when the atre which billed artists now well-known Ben Bernie's many regular organist had not arrived in time on the radio including Frank Crumit. Lofbrothers is catering to an for the service. Paul (only six at the After two years at this theatre, Harry audience at the Coral time) obeyed the beckoning motion of became a member of a quartet that Dave Bernie Grill which opened its his father to take his place at the organ. stayed together for nine years—and doors on Broadway the The father announced to the congrega- during that time of steady traveling all middle of February. There's a family tion, that they sing Nearer My God To over the United States—there was never resemblance, isn't there? Broadcasts Thee. When they were ready to sing a cross word or an argument among over WHAP, New York, Wednesdays the second hymn, the clergyman turned them. But although they were a very and Fridays at 11 p. m. over the pages of the hymnal as if in popular group and got a big hand * * * search of another selection. He then there was very little in it. So Harry paused and announced, "We shall now thithered back to Richmond where he G,TENERAL Items: Julia Jacques sing Jesus Lover of My Soul. This opened a camera store in partnership will find feature story of Col. Stoop- young Paul executed with the same with a schoolboy who knew the photog- nagle and Budd in the Summer Issue skill as the first. But his suspense can raphy business. But the popular germ, of Radio Digest. A paragraph or two just about be imagined when the time wanderlust, attacked him and again he about Eddie and Jimmie in October is- approached for the third hymn—and joined a minstrel show. He stayed with sue, Mrs. Adams. Those interested in still the regular organist had not put in it for three years—and just as it was Anthony Wons will find something in an appearance. The youngster had ex- about to close down— it was during the this column soon. We had his picture hausted his complete repertoire of two time when all road shows were on the and a short sketch about him over a songs—and there was another to come. decline, he was asked by Joe Dunlevy year ago. No, not one of the Landt The father, never at a loss to meet any to join him in vaudeville. They toured Trio and White group is married. Dan emergency opened the hymnal and de- the RKO circuit as Frankel and Dun- is 30, Karl 22, Jack 19 and Howard clared that the last hymn was so beau- levy, the Two Blackbirds. But after a twenty-nine. We'll have something tiful that it was worthy to be repeated. time it was discovered that vaudeville about Gene Hamilton, Janet for the Before the World War Paul attended also was slipping, so Harry decided to benefit of your fan club. Northwestern University. His part in try radio. And that's when he became driving Singin' the * * * the War was an ambulance and Sam Lawn Mower Man for carrying stretchers. After the Armis- the Great States Lawn Mower Com- 7 tice, the overseas pany. had three-year contract I transferred to a Vv - HAD a paragraph about Paul he was He Small in the January issue—but so entertainment committee and put on with this concern, but the officials oi a many requests came in for his picture shows for the Americans who were still coffee concern in some way came to that I sent out Toddles to stationed in France and Germany. terms with the G. S. L. M. Co. and Paul's home to get a pho- Paul's father and grandfather were Frankel became Singin' Sam. the O tograph and a short in- both clergymen. His grandfather was Man. The Barbasol Company is now

terview. Here are both. associated with the Wesleys in Ireland. the lucky concern for it holds the con- Started radio in 1924 His is an intensely artistic nature—lin- tract with Frankel, and he in turn holds over WON in Chicago. ing beauty wherever he finds it. He the attention to the program. Harry is Joined Little Jack Little possesses one of the largest libraries in six feet one. weighs a hundred ninety- in 1925. Toured country San Francisco and one of the finest eight and iv unmarried. He has pro- Paul Small in radio programs under collection of Persian rugs and rare vided a very beautiful home for his name of "Little and works of art. parents whom he calls up regularly over Small." Joined Paul Ash at McVicker's * * long distance at least once a week. Theatre, Chicago. Remained three years P*ROBAH1.Y the duly education in in one place with him. Came to Para- music Harry Frankel, (Singin' Sam) mount, with him and did first N. Y. ever got was in a piano factory where M.LORE Miscellaneous Items: Lew broadcast on Paramount-Publix pro- he learned the trade of action finisher Conrad can be heard. Mrs. Gunther, gram over WABC. Did vocal choruses —and he never worked at it after he Thursday evenings at 11:15 over with Guy Lombardo's band when he sot his PhD. And by the way. he's the (Cont';: :

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For four years the Radio Guild of the National Broadcasting Company has been developing the best possible tech-

nique in the presentation of radio drama. In that time it has presented over 200 of the classics. Here is a typical cast from one of the Guild plays: From left—Charles Warburton, Sheila Hayes, Jeanne Owen, Florence Malone, Charles Webster, Leo Stark, Harry Neville and Vernon Radrliffe, director.

"Brush Up on Tour "jQit" by Tuning in the R ADIO G UILD RADIO drama has won a com- may eventually have such an effect on plete divorce from the stage. By John A. Neagle the popular mind that a more whole- It stands on its own legs, erect, some character of play will be demanded unique and an artistic achieve- of the visible stage. Such an eventual- ment in its own right. ity, however, would be only incidental let this spoil your pleasure Tin's is the declaration of Vernon J~\ON'T to the general plan of the broadcasters. but you have been hearing great Radcliffe, director and producer of the J_^S a The work of the Guild is offered as an Radio Guild, at the peak of the 1931- deal about the problems of presenting extra-curricular course in appreciation 32 season over the NBC network. And education by radio. If you 11 let profes- of the drama. Mr. Elwood is quoted as out of the months of study, trial and sional radio showmen do the job you'll saying endeavor the radio drama has evolved certainly like it. And that's why we say "It aims to do for the drama what a certain dramatic technique more akin follow the dramas of the Radio Guild the Music Appreciation Series of Wal- to music than any dramatic form the and you'll get a fine show by the best ter Damrosch has done for music. The world has ever known. talent in the world, and you'll be re- series represents the best that we have In making this analogy Mr. Rad- freshed by hearing something you ought in the drama and presents actors and cliffe compares the effect on the basis to know for the cultural improvement of actresses well known in the roles. of subtlety, emotional range and in- your mind. timacy. Greater scope in all three, he JL HE plays have been claims, is possible by radio because the selected from the required or suggested listener is freed from the limitations of cation and power that this makes pos- reading lists of the standard schools the physical stage and is carried through sible is regarded by many as one of the and universities. Although there will the full range of his own imagination most interesting factors of radio broad- be no direct educational approach—the to interpret every suggestion according casting. plays simply being offered for their to his own natural conception. John W. Elwood, vice president of obvious and intrinsic worth—Radio Just as the director of the symphony the NBC in charge of the educational Guild provides a worthy tie-in with the stands in view before the members of programs, considers the work of the extra-curricular activity of literary his orchestra, leading them through the Radio Guild more than just another en- classes." emotional phases of their music so does tertainment feature. The character of Thereafter at the same period, 4:15 the director of the radio drama find it the selected dramas and the method of to 5:15 p. m., E. S. T., the NBC guild possible to step from a mere rehearsal their presentation contribute immeasur- cast has presented fine drama chosen to the actual conducting of the perform- ably to the cultural welfare of the na- from the reading lists of American col- ance—that single vivid, spontaneous en- tion. leges and secondary schools. The plays actment before the million. The un'.fi- The refined radio drama's influence range from Greek to modern dramatic :

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literature, including the works of The final nine plays scheduled for . a basin of water and the ear immedi- Shakespeare, Moliere, Goldsmith, Ibsen, each Friday afternoon on the guild pro- ately caught the realism of men stalk- Sheridan and Barrie. gram follows ing through 'the spongy land. Such stars of the legitimate stage as MARCH - - M r - Radcliffe is a tall, angular person Margaret Anglin, Tom Powers, Eva Le Mar. 4, Rostand, "Cyrano de Ber- —impatient with imperfections, and Gallienne, Dudley Digges, Constance gerac;" Mar. 11, "The that is why listeners Collier, Margaret Kennedy and Basil Dover Road," Milne; get such excellent per- Rathbone, to mention only a few, have Mar. 18, "The Great formances at the mere been identified with the guild series. Divide," Moody ; Mar. cost of a dial twist. Constance Collier, dramatic star of 25, (Good Friday) Even the most in- the English and American theater, "The Terrible Meek," veterate theatre-goer headed the cast of the Radio Guild Kennedy. can listen to dramatic 1931-32 premiere, "Agamemnon," which APRIL presentations over the was broadcast on October 9. She por- April 1, "The air without missing trayed the role of Clytaemnestra, Truth," Fitch; April the costumes and set- treacherous wife of Agamemnon, in the 8, "The Doll's House," tings which his own Greek tragedy by Aeschylus. Ibsen; April 15, "The imagination can con- The second vehicle presented by the Melting Pot," Zang- jure up to complete Guild was "Faustus," the interesting will; April 22, "The the picture. And that work of Christopher Marlowe. Jest," Benelli (espe- is why the Radio Guild enjoys such a cially translated) ; April 29, "Beggar on tremendous following Horseback," Kaufman not only in rural sec- .N THE following five L & Connolly. tions where people de- weeks, four works of Shakespeare were pend upon radio to a offered. They were "A Midsummer great extent for their Night's Dream," "Julius Caesar," than entertainment, but al- "Hamlet," presented in parts, .M.ORE two and in urban sections other factor per- so of Venice." any "Merchant where just a few haps in vividly pre- There then followed many pieces fa- senting dramas over squares lead to Broad- miliar to most every listener and stu- of the the radio has been the Vernon Radcliffe, Director of way, the home dent in the country such as Goldsmith's development of sound Radio Guild. theatre. "She Stoops to Conquer," "School for While the Thespi- effects—and in this Scandal" by Sheridan, Ibsen's "Peer important work of adding to the elusive ans, in sackcloth and ashes, mourn over Gynt" and Barrie's "Dear Brutus." word something of the reality of events, the gradual decline of the theatre, we The cast which usually presents the Vernon Radcliffe has taken a very hear sounds of rejoicing here, there Radio Guild dramas comprise William live the Radio major part. The slam of a door, the and everywhere, "Long S. Rainey, production manager of infant patter of the rain on a roof, and as Guild." It's just a four year old NBC; Florence Malone, William Shel- exhibited its much color to a radio play as the voices but it has in that time ley, Charles Warburton, Jeanne Owen, of the actors and actresses. And these strength, character and prodigality. Leo Stark, Peggy Allenby, Harry Ne- sounds have to be interpreted in a The most obvious disadvantage that ville and Wright Kramer. tongue of studio mechanism—unpoetic drama suffers by radio is that it is in- "A word of appreciation is due the it may be to hear the rustle of leaves visible. A radio audience is to all pur- American audience," according to Ver- over the radio and to know that these poses a blind audience. Gone is all the non Radcliffe, director of the series, the soft murmurs issue from an ugly con- showy scenery, the elaborate lighting real creator of radio drama. "It re- traption made of wood and steel —but effects, and the pantomime of the ac- quires a high degree of concentration, the tenseness of the play and the inter- tors. In its place radio must rely on a intelligence, and imagination on the est with which it greater appeal to the imagination. The part of the listener to grips you should out- listener has an opportunity to paint his . receive the illusion weigh any of these own scenery in his mind's eye—an op- projected from the considerations. portunity indulged in by the audiences studio," he says. of Shakespeare's day, but a forgotten "Thousands upon During one of the art to the moderns. thousands of letters rehearsals which Mr. The very nature of radio drama, ap- from all states and all Radcliffe was direct- pealing as it does to the ear alone, liter- walks of life have con- ing, there was a scene ally impels the listener to use his own vinced me in a breath- of fugitives making imagination. However he taking way that radio their way through a much may radio can it hut marks the dawning of deep swamp. The plrt, crave realism, supply partially. complementary elements a new spirit, the crav- did not come through The realism visualization scene ing of an imaginative, with the realism of of —a of and within the lis- idealistic people for the suction of marshy action —must come from tener. listens through the finest in drama as ground. "Here," cried Any person who has necessarily in everything else." Mr. Radcliffe as he a radio play participated in the production, lie The series will run strode from the con- must have imag- ined what he has not been able to sec. through to April 29, trol room when- he coincident with the closely listened to lie has become an active part in the balance of the school every shack- and in- cycle of dramatic creation. year. The booking flection of sound, This element of radio drama, which dates have been made "I'll sacrifice a hand- may seem from some points of view to rigid for the benefit kerchief — let's see be a handicap, may also be interpreted of classes desiring to how this works." He as a positive virtue. By forcing the lis- follow the series. Eva LeGallienne dipped it slowly into tener to become active in the play. 40 Broadcasting from The Editor's Chair

writer heard from the Cheerio fans very shortly and has not Just a Baby Boy, been quite the same since. If ever a man of the air deserved to have his anonymity the Radio and the Press respected it is Cheerio. His mission is one of love toward humanity. He seeks no profit in any way other than the good that comes to his soul from spreading good cheer. He is well IT TOOK one little two year old child to set the nation on to do, the owner of a successful business. Money does not fire. It took one little curly haired boy snatched away interest him when he dons the golden cloak of Cheerio. from his mother in the dead of night to make men and women It is his personal creed to maintain the personality of forget their sordid quarrels and turn anxious eyes to the latest Cheerio as a friendly Voice almost mythical in character. He editions of the newspapers, to keep their radio receivers alive prefers to leave to the listener's imagination the picture created and tuned to the latest reports from the stricken home near by the character. Newspaper radio columnists have searched Hopewell, New Jersey. in vain for a photograph of the man who speaks with the. What a leveler this dreadful incident turned out to be! voice of Cheerio. He has been very careful about avoiding a Only few hours before there had existed a world of petty photographs. It is said that he happened to be in a gathering strife, keen edged rivalry for supremacy, and plots for con- of alumni recently when it was proposed that a group picture certed offensives. Then came a young mother's call for her be taken of the old grads. When the lineup was complete and vanished babe, a father's urgent appeal for help and all of the photographer was ready to snap the picture the face of the rancor and bitterness disappeared as if by magic. man who stands before the mike as Cheerio had disappeared.

Arm in arm the "foes," as it seemed, rushed forward to cooperate in the most intensive man hunt the world has ever INSPIRATION, hope, good fellowship radiate on this pro- known. Radio and the press worked side by side, helped each gram. Children who have been careless listening to Cheerio other, told of the other's exploits. Day and night the receivers are reminded to write to their mothers or fathers. Parents were kept alive tuned to the frequent bulletins from the front. feel a kindlier philosophy toward life. The story of how it Emergency short wave stations were established at the line all started is told somewhat in this manner: of action. Reports were flashed to the broadcasting stations Years ago Mr. X was a classmate of President Hoover at and then relayed to millions of eagerly hopeful listeners. The Leland Stanford University. More recently, about the time radio flashes were followed by suggestions that "full details the NBC was catching its first breath, these two men were could be found in the local newspapers in every community." driving together along a California highway. Mr. X, who Who said the newspapers were out to fight radio? Where has since become Cheerio, said to the President who was then were those boisterous shouts of yesterday? What had hap- Secretary of Commerce, that he would like very much to do pened to those maps of strategy? Why, a sleepy little fellow something to spread sunshine into the hearts of all who felt who had been tucked away in his crib for the night had been troubled and downcast. He particularly wanted to bring caught up by alien hands and carried away into the dark un- cheer ro those who had passed over the summit of life and fathomable night. He had to be found. It had become neces- were going down the far slope. sary to spread the alarm throughout the land, and then an And so he did. He began broadcasting in California under aroused nation waited almost breathlessly for every scrap of the name of Cheerio. He wanted his listeners to think of news hoping at any moment to hear that this helpless little him only as Cheerio—and not as of any other kind of indi- boy had been restored once more to his mother's arms just — vidual whatever. His eagerness and sincerity radiated through a sunny haired little fellow who couldn't possibly know that his voice. His idea of spreading sunshine worked. Withered he had become the most talked about baby in the world. hearts expanded and bloomed under his warm and friendly glow. Three Cheers People who had lost faith in human kindness watched in vain for some catch. They waited for "The Pay-Off." But the "Pay-off" was only more sunshine and good cheer. His for Cheerio! broadcasts were discussed in all parts of the country. He was invited to spread his sunshine over the NBC network, thus 17 reaching an audience of transferred . of countless thousands. He jN the most extraordinary characters in radio is the gentle voiced speaker over the WEAF network known his activities to New York. to listeners from coast-to-coast only as Cheerio. His name has For five years he has been carrying on this mission, doubt- been published —but not by Radio Digest. We have his full less the most purely altruistic program yet conceived. Cheerio name before us at the moment but it has been his wish that fans during the past few weeks have been hanging the letter his radio audience should know him only as Cheerio. There C in their windows or over the fireplace to celebrare the oc- is no valid reason to violate that request. We know the author casion. of an article published in a national story magazine wherein Here's to Cheerio, good Mr. Cheerio! Would to God there Cheerio's private name was revealed for the first time. That were more of you! 41 K.A'DIOGRAPHS Intimate Personality Notes Gleaned from the Radio Family of New York's Great Key Stations

Phil Fisher 1900, he had later been concertmaster for the Meridian High School Glee club. By James David Brice Leaving school for thirteen months in the army, he returned to form his own story of Phil Fisher, who band, just as Phil had, and not long THEbroadcast from the Ten Eyck after. Hotel via CBS, unlike that of For three years Marty Britt's orches- some who have presented their tra enjoyed the same success throughout orchestras over the air, is in no way Texas and the southwest that Watson's similar to a fairy tale. There was no Bellhops were securing further east. genii at hand to work miracles for him. Then Marty broke up his band and gave It was hard labor. his time to recording for the Victor But an interesting story, none the Company, where his reputation was less. soon made as a singer of Southern Born in the little village of Elizabeth- "Blues." town, Pa., on April 27, 1906, Phil grew Until finally he, too, joined Tommy up amid the farm lands of the Pennsyl- Christian's band, just prior to Christian vania Dutch. leaving the field of music. Another case of the "Dutch" doing it. "Both of us had already been over Showing an early aptitude for music, the air," declares Phil, "and from the the first real step toward his present experience we had secured in our other success was made during his high connections we felt assured that a Phil school days when he acted as conductor Fisher orchestra could be made a suc- and concertmaster for the high school cess. orchestra. "At any rate, upon Tommy's retire- At that time Paul Specht, born but a ment, we selected an orchestra, the same few miles from the Fisher home, was at one now playing, composed of members the peak of his fame and the one am- from Christian's, Watson's and Marty's bition in young Fisher's life was some own hands." day to emulate his neighbor's success. Truly representative of the country To the present day, Phil maintains it which now hears them were the selec- was this boyhood worship for a noted tions. orchestra leader which decided his course in life. "Imtnediately upon finishing my high J/ ROM Pennsylvania school course," declares Phil, "I organ- comes Phil Fisher and his brother, Ted, ized my own band and for two years Phil Fisher also diet Shaeffer, the latter from the played throughout the state." city of York. Ohio contributes two In this venture he met with more ence he desired, but also the nucleus for members: Herbert Lessner from Youngs- than usual success attained by a young- his present orchestra. town, and Fred Tupper from Cleveland. ster of less than twenty, but was not "It was during the last few weeks Xew York State presents Andrian Tei. satisfied. with Tommy Christian that 1 again had a native of Binghamton. The south is the idea of forming my own hand," present with three members: Ezelle V^/NE character of his Phil says. "Previously we had been Watson from Dothan, Alabama: Web- Dutch ancestors, that of patience and joined by two or three members of one ster Gillen from Orlando, Florida, and study, was deeply embedded in the of the most famous orchestras in the Marty Britt. The two remaining play - young musician. He believed that south at that time-—the Watson Bell ers are "Buck" Kelly from Benton, Illi- greater experience might come from hops, including Ezelle Watson, their nois and Bill Robertson, who hails from being a part of a more nationally leader. Minneapolis, Minn. known orchestra and, when offered a "What final i \ decided me can be at The new hand a reality, Phil secured place in Tommy Christian's band, he tributed to two things. One, the de- several short engagements in Xew York promptly turned his back on leadership cision of Christian to retire from the city, shortly after taking the step which and joined. game; the other, my meeting with was destined to bring him national For five years he played with Chris- Marty Britt." prominence. tian, traveling all over the country and The present conductor and featured Ye. a in it was the "Dutch" which sent appearing on the air from WLYY in singer with Phil's hand, previous to him to the Ten Kyek hotel in Albany. Cincinnati and KMOX in St. Louis, as that meeting, had embarked upon a Y. Y., where he succeeded Huston Ray, well as from the Paramount Grill in career in many ways similar to that oi instead oi continuing in Xew York New York. Fisher. city where some many well established And be not only secured the experi- Born in Meridian. Miss., on May 17, orchestras ottered competition. 42

The transfer occurred but a short that time on she has been time after Station WOKO, under the a Louisville girl. direction of Harold E. Smith had When asked the ques- moved up the Hudson from Rip Van- tion, "What is responsible Winkle land into the capitol city of for your sketch?" Miss the state. Baldridge just shook her But in the same way that Fate had head and a bewildered ex- brought Phil and Marty Britt together pression shone on her face. down in Texas, it now brought Phil "Why, why," she stam- Fisher and his orchestra to WOKO. mered, "I don't know, it's Both new in their fields and both des- just a part of me, I spec." tined to help the other. After thinking over the From his first local broadcast Phil's question for a minute or orchestra clicked with the radio audi- so she told me that it was ence, despite the fact that Albany had the days back in New Mary and Bob of True Story Hour two other leading bands at the time, Martin and days even be- {A Radiograph about this pair is scheduled for May issue) both "Sleepy" Hall and "Doc" Peyton yond that together with being on hand. childhood visits to plantations in fessional career and when her contract But click it did, and Harold Smith Athens and Mooresville, Alabama, that expired she came to Chicago where she realized that WOKO, still an infant so furnished her material. Miss Baldridge became a student of Elias Day, teacher far as national radio prominence was has taken her characters from child- of dramatic art for the Lyceum Arts concerned, had a real asset. hood's happy memories and has brought Conservatory. That is the story of Phil Fisher, a them up-to-date. Aunt Ellen and Aunt At the end of the summer course Mr. Pennsylvania Dutch boy, who will tell Patsy, her own mammies are made to Day persuaded her to remain for the you with a smile that he put in some live again in Mammy Magnolia and winter one. Her stay lengthened into pretty good efforts to make the big time even though brought out of the past and five seasons with the Affiliated Lyceum in radio. made to face present-day problems their and Chautauqua Bureaus, managing her All those efforts can be summed up philosophy remains unchanged and is own company. As the "Dixie Girl" she in little four words, however. just as applicable today as it was in gave to the platform the first group "The 'Dutch' did it." those days of mountain and negro camp meeting (Phil Fisher, at the time Radio Di- songs ever given. During the World gest is going to press, is the touring War she was an official Y. M. C. A. en- states, and by the time our magazine tertainer, her duties taking her six NCLE ESSEC, a body- to reaches the u. readers he will be broad- of the largest training camps in the guard during the Civil War and who casting from some hotel in the west. country. Later she taught public speak- died at the Richardson homestead in —Editor.) ing in Louisville being in charge of Athens, Alabama, just three years ago, that department at Kentucky Military is responsible for many of Mammy Mag- Fanny May Baldridge Institute. She also attained note as the nolia's biblical quotations while Janie coach of Hardin, national oratori- By Marie K. Neff Jones, a farm negro who followed the Anne cal finalist. Baldridge family from New Martin to Miss Baldridge bases her perfect im- FANNY MAY BALDRIDGE, the Louisville, is the originator of a great personations on a real understanding of author, producer and actresses of number of Josie's crazy word concoc- the people to whom music and laughter "Miracles of Magnolia," that sketch cf tions. are life. She has delved into their super- wholesome philosophy—in other words Just as many other mothers are hid- stitions and signs. Superstitions are the whole show—hails from down New den in the background of their daugh- their heritage having come down from Martin, Tennessee way, but while still ters' careers, so is Mrs. Sally Ryan

the dark ages ; and their signs to quote a child her parents made a stop-over in Baldridge at the wheel of her daughter's — ambitions. an old negro, "De's just the Lawd talkin' Louisville, Kentucky, and liked it. From To her, Miss Baldridge to us." as the white folks are di- gladly admits, belongs fifty per cent of Just rected by what they read so the negroes the credit for if it were not for her mother's memory Mammy Magnolia are directed by their signs. Even if their signs fail materialize they con- would sometimes be wanting for inter- to pretations as well as many quaint ex- clude that the Lord knows what's good for them and doesn't want them to have pressions. Mrs. Baldridge is her daugh- whatever their sign promised which is ter's severest critic. "She is a daughter equivalent to the unanswered of the old south and to her friends and very much prayers of the white folk. those servants of her day who are still living she is the 'one and only Miss " Sally.' Miss Baldridge started her negro im- Mi.ISS FANNY MAY'S personations when only eleven years of continuities never contain a word that age. At this time she studied with Miss might reflect on the negro and this is Betty Lewis, considered the finest negro borne out by the fact that an old negro clay impersonator in the south, who called man greeted her one as she wag : her the "perfect little nigger." During leaving station WHAS, Louisville, after, this time she made frequent stage ap- having had completed her day's broad-? pearances in Louisville and towns about. cast of "Janie Jones," and said, "Miss Immediately following her graduation Fanny May, I jus' waited case I wunts from the Louisville Girls High School to tell you you sho proved you know us the author of this skit went to southern colored folks from the hide in and we Tennessee where she taught dramatics, wunts you to know we was listening to expression and voice for two years. you and the nice part of it is you never Fanny May Baldridge While teaching she decided on a pro- (Continued on page 78) o u: —!

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the names of the different instruments are written on separate slips of paper, placed in sealed envelopes, and put in a hat. The baton weilders are to each pick one out and then play, or attempt to play the instrument designated."

Daly. . . "Sort of win, lose or draw."

Nellie. . . "Yes, they draw and the audience either wins or loses. It's all in the spirit of fun, and is in no way to be regarded as a sample of their musical art. * * * Maybe they'll be like the story my beloved Irvin Cobb tells about the newly rich man who built a fine home with all the latest whoosits and gadgets in it. He was taking great delight in showing a friend through the house, and "It's a sax!" and Don Voorhees handed Andy Sannella the instrument specified in the asked the friend what he thought about slip drawn from the hat which Nellie held. From left: Andy, Hugo Mariani, Harry Reser, it. His friend said: 'Well, there's only Don, Nellie Revell and Cesare Sodero. one thing it lacks. There should be a chandelier in the music room.' 'All

right,' said the owner, 'I'll order one tonight by telegraph, but I don't think there's a soul in the house who can play * * * Qabal g e one. ' I don't know whether these baton brandishers can play a chan- delier or not, but if they draw a chan- Sy iVellie i< evell delier, they'll play it. George, please pass the hat. The first victim is to be Harry The Voice of Radio Digest Reser."

Hicks. . . "You mean the first victim is the audience."

1 r TJ/ AIT till the sun shines, Nellie; That's what a chorus some very high priced voices sang spontaneously when Nellie Revell commenced putting on her Arctics as evidence that it was time N ELLIE. . . "Harry to go home. Since it was about three o'clock in the morning she could not be blamed Reser, leader of the Cliquot Club Es- even if the party had been in her honor, and the guests were mostly friends who had kimo orchestra. come from the National Broadcasting Company studios to help celebrate her first year Air. Reser has con- on the air as THE VOICE OF Radio Digest. ducted that popular polar club band for the Hugo Mariani was the host. With four other famous orchestra directors he had past six years. Harry is one of the taken part in Miss Revell'd program over a WEAF network. The merriment had world's greatest, if not the greatest, begun in the studios. Listeners in all parts of the country were invited to enjoy the banjo player. Time was when the banjo fun as Nellie put slips paper in a hat and had the maestros draw them out one by of was played only by the levee negro, one. On each slip was the name of some musical instrument. The holder was zvarned but the fine artistry of Harry he would have to play a solo on the instrument and then all five would have to join Reser in the use of them for a concert. landed it in the salons of the socially elite. Transported, it Andy Sannella, as shown in the picture above, drevu the saxophone. Harry Reser as were, from the * * drew the xylophone, but after a few bars Nellie advised him to change over to his levee to the Lido. * All right. Harry, famous banjo (not that Harry couldn't make the xylophone perform to the queen's let's go. Hang on to your arm chairs, taste); Hugo Mariani drezv the violin; Don Voorhees drew the piano and Cesare everybody. Harry is going to play . . . Sodero, operatic conductor and composer, drew the 'cello. what did you draw. Harry?" They were introduced individually to _ the other guests in the radio audience and Hicks. . . "He drew a xylophone!" finally were directed by Nellie herself in a jazz number. Mr. Sodero claimed it was (Everybody laughs). his first experience at playing jazz. After the program, that had sounded so merry

over the air, adjourned to Mariani's apartment. The climax ivas a huge birthday cake Harry. . . "This is a frameup. I'm a

vuith one candle . Following is part of the program as broadcast Revell — Editor. by Miss banjoist . . . and here they hand me a xylophone." Nellie, "Can you play a xylo- friends. In the year think of getting a fine concert with it HOWDY, phone?" I've been on the radio, I've I have assembled here the five or-

Harry. "I don't know : I never had barrels of requests for in- chestra leaders about whom I have re- tried." formation about orchestra ceived the most inquiries during the last

Nellie. . . "Well, try it." leaders. They are the unsung heroes of year. Knowing, as we do, what fine (Harry plays the xylophone ). the air. They spend years acquiring the musicians they must be to conduct the Nellie. . . "Aw. Harry, let someone technique of their profession and vast orchestras they have under their super- play the xylophone who knows how. sums of money in training under great vision, the thought occurred to me You go hack to the banjo." (Hands music masters. With their skill and can they also play the various instru- Harry his banjo). knowledge, they come to the studios and ments as well as instruct others to. (Harry plays the banjo). build up programs which otherwise And they, too, are wondering if they * * * would be drab and dull, and they decoy can. Nellie. . . "Thanks. Harry Ke

44 Hits—Quips— Slips

Sy INDI-GEST

Catch That Slip!

'l HERE'S many a slip twixt the lip and the mike. * Ne.v/ time you hear a good one jot it down and

send it to lndi-Gest, care of Radio Digest. We pay contributors from $1 to $5 for material accepted for this department. Indi Hies short verses on the same terms. Suggestions welcomed.

WELL sir, did you ever see lines like that is one of the easiest such a rush for new radio things we do and we're always glad to

publications ! Here we are help a less fortunate neighbor. Besides ten years old and from these we got rather tired of that line and put Hew upstarts you'd think radio was just it away on the shelf for a rest several discovered as a field for journalism. But months ago. ^ =£ ^ 1 eaven bless 'em ! We love company, and we hope they all prosper. We don't Thanks to Helen Lissner, 1327 Union care if they even pick up some of our St., Brunswick, Ga., we find how Lowell eld established features such as this de- Thomas explains the system by which partment. We note that one of them is Fung Chow takes his ether. Says she even offering the same huge rewards we "According to Mr. Thomas Fung Chow, for the slips if do —and maybe you miss was suffering from a broken hip, 'two Suburban Holmes and Silk Hat Sammy fire with Indi you can palm it off on the nurses and a doctor held him so that at WAAT in "Shadow the Shadow." other fellow. The very latest has paid the ether could be administrated under us the compliment of taking the line we pressure.' " Tim, see that Helen gets Defective Detwectives originated, "Slips That Pass in the one buck for spearing that one out of HOLMES : "Aha ! My Mike." Of course really that's hardly the air at the expense of Mr. Thomas' SUBURBAN very Shadow ! None other than P. sporting, but what to heck, thinking up pride and our pocketbook. Q. Clews, my assistant who turns out to be Silk Hat Sammy, alias Sammy the Swatter. But I must not let him know that I suspect. 'Twas he who spilt the

claret in Somnia's soup ! What do I see? The fur de chapeau rubbed the wrong way, the very fur found caught in Som- nia's finger nails. 'Tis plain to see ex-

actly where it was torn out from the crown by the roots. That glass—the fry glass—the instrument by which he used the sun to burn his fatal sign of the Sure Shot Swatter on the Fly leaf in Som-

nia's Diary ! By my Grandfather's Cala- bash pipe I swear I'll have him shackled to a mike at WAAT, Jersey City, ere dawn, or I'll know waat."

AIN'T IT AWFUL! There was a young lady announcer, Who, slipping, said 'Ain't' so they bounced her "Why I ain't never heard Such a illiterate word," Said the boss as he seized her and trounced her. —Violet Hayes Peterson, 634 Inslcy Ave., Portland, Ore.

Lum 'n' Abner "T-T AIN'T no patience whats'ever," J- -«- says Lum to Abner, "with this effort on th' part of the gov'munt to turn the navy into a skeeter fleet to an- noy the rum runners. If I was in

Abner and Lum who discuss cracker barrel politics daily over1 WJZ net from Chicago. Washington I'd spy around to see who's ! !

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who an' what's what behind all the gab Cantor Still Running the battleships without battles. to scrap INDAJEST: Whoop-la! Like as not you'll find some forrin DEAR Steady, there Chimmie, whoa power is back of it all, jest pallaverin' Well here we are in Hollywood, Chim- to undermine our strength so's if some- mie and me. Chimmie, you know, is not thin' should happen we'd need our the fickle announcer who is now mak- fightin' ships to keep 'em from shellin' ing a mikey out of George Jessel. Chim- our seaports like the Japs have been mie is my faithful steed (see the post- doin' at Shanghai we wouldn't have card enclosed) and he brought me here nothin' to back up our side the argy- all the way from Chicago without stop- ment." ping. Ah but it is lovely here in Cali- "Mebbe so, Lum," says Abner who fornia ! How I wish all my dear radio had been whittlin' his initials in the top listeners were here with me now—all cracker barrel, "but you know o' the six of them—tomatoes are cheaper here. Tildy Perkins says we ain't goin' to But that would be silly, what do they have 'cause the last war no more wars care about Cantor now that they have was to end wars and she says it did." — Jessel. Even Chimmie Wallington, my "What's Tildy Perkins know 'bout pal, he has gone Jessel too. sech things, Abner?" asks Lum. "She But wait, look, look ! The dark horse ! probably don't know China had the As we canter through town after town same idee until Japan took a notion she the great masses are chanting at every wouldn't stand for China boycottin' her middlesex, village and farm: goods. Jest imagine that for an excuse "We want Cantor, we want Cantor !" to start blowin' Seattle, Boston or New Oh when I'm the pres-i-dent, when York out of existence because we git I'm the pres-i-dent—what ? Oh, is that together an' say ain't goin' to buy we so ? Who said I was out of the race ? no more Japanee tea, rice an' stuff Too much coffee, huh ! Who said I rushin' string Imagine the Japs over a was a dead candidate. Say, let me tell of battleships, pointin' her guns on you something, you never saw a liver Frisco or Los Angeles an' sayin' "You one. Remember this: git out an' buy some of our Yankees It wasn't the coffee that carried him an' fans or we'll you into kimonos bomb off, pony your wal- kingdom come. So up It was the coffin they carried him while count ten.' lets, an' dig down we off in. That's what they did to the Shanghai Whoa, Chimmie ! What's biting your folks when they didn't have no fightin' wooden leg ? A sap-sucking fly, is it ships to ai'gy the matter out to sea." That absent minded horse carpenter never blessed you with a tail did he. But never mind, Chimmie, I'll get him. What? Why, look Chimmie! It's not

a fly— it's a wood pecker ! When, when —giddy-ap, Chimmie—when I'm the pres-i-dent we'll end the war in China Clara, Lu and Em. famous gossipers who and have chop suey for breakfast every discuss world affairs. day. Eddie Cantor. * * * that is being given for the unemployed.

Is it right that people who have just Idea Lu's barely enough to exist should have to money or DEAR MR. GEST : Em says as how use part of their borrowed something should be done about money that has been contributed for

all the cities and towns and counties those who have no jobs to give in taxes being so hard up they can't pay the on shoes to the government ? school teachers or the police and what's Just think of the Elisha Bixwells going to become of us. So I says to over on the other side of the tracks Clara why don't you write to Indi-Gest Elisha ain't had a job since he helped and suggest for all the people to write- shuck corn for fanners last tall, an' in and say what they think should be they got five young ones in school ami done. Then out of the millions of let- three more not old enough to go. An' ters that would come probably there the treasurer of the Unemployment Re- would be hundreds of letters that would lief Committee has just been keepin" 'em have just the right answer. body and soul together since long be- But Clara says, why Lu. that's a fore Christmas. tax splendid idea and I wouldn't think of Suppose they have to pay a out that to buy socks for doing it when the credit all belongs to oi the pennies go you. Well, anyway somebody should them Bixwells? Is that right? But what can be done? Why the school do it. Now you see they arc talking about putting a tax on everything ex- teachers in Chicago haven't had hut a year. cept just things that you eat so 1 one month's pay since almost thought that ought to stir up a lot of And if that's the ease in the big rich thinking especially on the part of peo- cities what must it be in towns where rich peo- ple who are living on borrowed money they may not have any very Eddie Cantor, on his cantering "Chimmie," are getting from money ple? Still ami all money must be raised. as they arrive in Hollywood. or on help they I;

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You have been reading, ladies and gentlemen, an episode in the kiss clinic of the Three Doctors as a presentation of the National Broadcasting Company from Chicago. * * *

Dear Indi : Our local announcer (KGBX, St. Joseph, Mo.), telling in glowing terms of the Fiftieth wedding anniversary of a prominent couple said "Fifty years of martial life ahd happi- ness." Maybe he wasn't so far wrong at that. E. C. Baird, Box 223, St. Jos- eph, Mo. * * *

Sir (or is it Madam) : Some years ago before advertising held broadcast- No blondes here. Miss Ruth Westgate, chief hostess at San Francisco NBC studios ing in its grip Peter McArthur was an- likes her official receivers tall and brunette. nouncing a classic program at WOC, Davenport, la. He had lost the slip of Isn't it just terrible ! I see Henry paper with announcement but remem- Ford is going right ahead an' making a bered the title and said, "The next se- lot of cars just as though there ain't lection will be The Flower Song hard times at all. An' then those idiot from er er Washburn, Crosby Reds who hate work riot because others — — — — mean ." Anyway would get get jobs. Maybe Ford has the right — WOC dough for that announcement today. idea. If everybody would just shut one Gilson Willets, 890 Geary St., San eye and go right ahead as though there Francisco, Cal. Okay, Tim, give him wasn't any depression why everybody —

one simoleon ; but let me tell you, Mr. would miss seein' it and forget all about Willets, you made a slip about that "Sir it and there would be plenty of every- or Madam" because one of them is thing for everybody. Goodness knows wrong. Indi. I hope somebody will have the right idea. And that's what Clara and Em say too. Yours truly, Lu. Village Talk

regrets two things very much Oh, Doctor INDI this month, one is that we lost the KISSTAKES will happen in the best letter written by a lady in Cleveland of families, as the maiden with who wrote in blue vitrol her protest downcast eyes remarked when she that London, Ontario, is not a village found herself entirely surrounded by and the other is that we ever let it ap- the Three Doctors of WMAQ on a pear in our errorless pages that London dark and stormy night. It was a tick- was described as a village like we did lish situation under any circumstance, in the Lombardo story. That letter was to say nothing of the threatening pos- a gem for caustic comment. sibilities of the mysterious sachem suspended over her head by one of the tall and indomitable medicine men who barred her only re- treat.

Lips to the right of her, lips to left of her puckered and twisted.

To kiss or not to kiss, that was the question.

What could a poor girl do?

What would you do, dear reader, supposing you were a girl chin to chin with such a problem? Closer and closer came those twitching e-lip-tickle devourers. Her heart was in a flutter. Quickly she Believe it or not this professional light- turned from one to the weight pugilist has won a singing contest other with questioning and sang over a coast-to-coast network with glances. Suddenly !! *** Paul Whiteman's orchestra. His name is — Billy Wallace and he lives in Cleveland. (to be cont'nucd). The Two Professors, Don McNeil (left) and Van Fleming. 47

So if London, Ontario, feels that an apology is needed it is herewith ten- dered, and all we can say is that it was just one of those slips that went into type instead of the mike. We shall take Hilda Cole who wrote the story, out in the woodshed and give her a good talking to.

Tea Tattle

SPEAKING of tea leaves, my dear, there is absolutely nothing you can

do about it. Your fate is settled just as the grounds are settled in the bottom of the cup. The question arises, should one drink tea and thus put one's fate in the fragile shell of china that holds the grounds which fix your fate. Ah, there is a problem of life which everyone must settle for himself. For so many of us the wilted mess in the bottom of the cup appears totally impotent, whereas beneath the eye of an expert like Eugenie Leontovich it becomes charged with dynamite. Jill at left in the picture shown here, looks calmly at her life in the hands of this famous actress. She seems little con- cerned that the slightest mishap might cause the dainty cup to fall and smash "Aha, so you think I am joking! But jus' you wait, my dear young Miss Jeel. her future to disaster. The tea leaves do not lie," said Eugenie Leontovich to her radio interviewers, But Eugenie knows, her face is seri- Jill and Judy. ous. She may see in the cryptic ar- rangement of the leaves in the bottom are so many things to be discovered in tion you simply won't do. Now don't of the cup a message to the effect that a slither of tea leaves after you have stand there and gape. Go on away. Jill may or may not slip on a banana sipped off the brew. How do we know? Only try and get peel as she leaves the door, be taken to The occasion for the picture was by Miss Ruth Westgate, chief hostess, a hospital with a broken elbow and when Jill and Judy interviewed Miss and her measuring stick if you think while convalescing make the acquaint- Leontovich for listeners on the Blue you would like to try hostessing in the ance of a rich but semi-crippled racke- Network. San Francisco studios of the NBC. teer with six motherless children. Later ife a)e s(i Please now, you little Miss Honeyen- again. Sup- the leaves may decree she will marry SHOO ! gal, get away from my door. violets, don't bring that up the racketeer and inherit his fortune as Short fuzzy blondes take warning. pose they do, who said anything about he is disposed of by a rival gang. There As a hostess in a ritzy broadcasting sta- what gentlemen prefer. Besides, "them ain't gentlemen, them's tenors." Miss Westgate says tall dark brunettes al- ways do the best hostessing. They have to be tall, so no peewee blondes can put anything over by dyeing their hair. What's the matter with the blondes ?

Isn't it funny, people arc always asking questions like that. Probably it's bru- nette wives.

THERE have been numerous hollers from various VOLlers for a pic- ture of The Two Professors who oo-llecture over the NBC Pacific Coast Network. As each one is just a little bit more shy and reticent than the Other

it was difficult to drive them into a cor- ner SO they could not escape the pho- tographer. At last, however, with aid of a trench mortar and a sub-machine gun they were cowed into a niche and a flashlight tired. The one with the rubber clarinet is Prof. Van Fleming, the other greybeard with the detachable double-action 'Lips to right of her, lips to the left of her puckered and twisted.' automatic swing-back Three Doctors of WMAQ, and the maid. eruitar is Don McNeil. 48

/ u n e f u 1 7» pics By R UD Y VA L LEE

By the Fireside When a Pal Bids a Pal Goodbye publishers of pop- MOST consider ular songs STEPT, writer of themselves fortunate SAMMY "I'll Always Be In Love With indeed if their number You," "That's My Weakness one song reaches the 200,000 Now," "I Offer You Congratula- mark; GOODNIGHT SWEET- tions," and "Please Don't Talk has already passed the HEART About Me When I'm Gone," and 700,000 figure, and is well on its who has written most of his past way to the 800,000 mark, which hit songs with Buddy Green has indicates that it was just "one of elected to break up the team and those things." However, few of become the chief writer, as well the publishers dare to hope for as investor, in the firm of what tunes like GOODNIGHT was once Freed & Powers, but SWEETHEART; I feel that which now becomes Stept & Pow- they should ; in fact, my theory ers. has always been that one should

Sammy ; has been fortunate hitch one's wagon to a star, and enough to ibe able to spend some not be contented with small sales glorious weeks in Miami, where, when outstanding sales, even in lying on the beach in the sun- popular songs, may be had, and it shine, the muse evidently has was with a note of optimism that come to him in good measure, be- I introduced on the Thursday's came back with a flock Fleischmann Hour another song cause he of ideas, and this is one of the by the writers of GOODNIGHT first. SWEETHEART, called BY THE FIRESIDE. It's almost straw hat time again and Rudy While it is quite reminiscent in looks at Maurice Chevalier's famous chapeau. the first and third parts of the chorus Most writers would have followed of "Some Day I'll Find You," and the their first hit with a song of a similar middle part hauntingly reminiscent of nature, either similar in title or similar several other songs, it is a fine waltz, in melody, enough so to feel that the Change You For the World," has writ- and the thought is a good one. are second song could repeat some of the ten with Charles Neuman a novelty We that the public's fan- introducing it this Thursday on the advantages of the first. But Jimmy song has captured Fleischmann Hour, and I Campbell, Reg Connolly, and Ray No- cy. Novelty songs have always been sincerely hope it steps out for the new firm. ble have elected to select as their theme difficult of prediction, and the person qualities a fireside, and the song is indeed worthy who could foretell the hit of a of the first place on any dance or pop- song of this type would be a clever per- There's Something in Your Eyes ular music program. son indeed ; they either catch on, or they die a quick death. This is one of the While I am doubtful as to whether few that has survived. using England as a the song will reach the great heights of GERMANY, round-about route, offers to Amer- GOODNIGHT SWEETHEART, yet Not since the "Broadway Melody" ica THERE'S SOMETHING IN I feel that it will do exceedingly well and its "Wedding of the Painted Doll" YOUR EYES. Jack Robbins, on his for Jack Robbins, its publisher. We has there been a song of this type quite tour through the continent and Eng- play it, taking almost a minute and ten so much requested and played. The land became convinced the song had seconds for the chorus, which gives it, chorus is half the usual length, and merit. Campbell-Connelly had it in in the words of its composers, who gave played in a brisk, snappy fashion it pro- London, as they have had so many past it to me the night after they arrived vides extremely good dance music. hits, and the from London, "the right treatment." American version fell to There is also a lilt about the opening the good fortune of my esteemed col- measure of each phrase which, if prop- league Carmen Lombardo, and he has erly played, cannot help Wooden Soldier and the but exhilarate done a very fine job. the listener. If I do say so, I believe China Doll The melody is quite continental in our Durium record of it is one of our flavor, and has the different twist that best Welch coal-miner to the front recordings. THE popular songs must have in order to again. Isham Jones, the composer of Rocco Vocco, of Leo Feist, may take attract attention. The German flavor is so many big hits of the past, "I'll See the bow for this song, which takes certainly there, and it is a most delight- You In My Dreams," "It to Had Be about 40 seconds in the playing of the ful song to play and sing, though just You," "Spain," and lately, "I Wouldn't chorus as we do it. what its sales will be is another matter.- 49

You will have heard it many times, ere more than fifty songs for this new re- the efficiency of a picture as a dissemi- this reaches your eyes, played by the vue, but by process of elimination, de- nator of good melody and lyrics. I be- best bands all over the country, as the cided to use 12 in the production, and lieve the song was published more or Robbins organization will see to that. published the five outstanding hits. The less as an obligation; Robbins Music We take about one minute in the play- production was in rehearsal six weeks, Corp. have now good cause to be ex- ing of a chorus. and probably half the lines originally tremely glad that it is in their catalogue. written for the show were rewritten, We take about a minute in the playing chorus. Paradise and if you were one who attended the of the rehearsals the first few weeks, then NEGRI, to my way of think- waited for the opening, we assure you, POLA Keep a Little Song Handy ing, one of the loveliest women who you would not have recognized the ever graced the screen, made an appear- show, for it was rewritten several times I DICTATE this I am just ance in New York at the Mayfair Thea- during the rehearsal periods, with the AS feeling the reaction of making a tre with the debut of her picture, "A result that each time the best stuff was Paramount short, which shorts are Woman Commands." Although I was picked and again by process of elimina- made in Astoria, L. I., where the Para- unable to attend the premiere or even tion, the final week's rehearsal found mount Studios in the East are located. to see the picture, word of mouth ad- it shaping into a stellar production. Although the studios close shortly, in vertising brought my attention to the March, they are rushing with all speed song which is featured in the picture, BOLAND and J. Harold possible to complete their schedule of called PARADISE. MARY Murray share the starring hon- shorts before the closing down. I was When informed it was written by ors—book is by Moss Hart—music by scheduled to do three shorts before Nacio Herb Brown, writer of 'You Irving Berlin production staged by "Scandals" went on tour, but owing to Were Meant For Me," "Broadway Mel- — Hassard Short—the dances arranged the fact that I felt I must have a vaca- ody," "Doll Dance," "Pagan Love and created by Albertina Rash, and tion before I embarked, I have been Song," and "Wedding of the Painted book directed by George S. Kaufman, forced to forego making the three Doll," I knew that musically the song and judging by the write-ups received, shorts. would have something. Gordon Clif- it is one of the most unusual and finest one which I completed yesterday I," did The ford, who wrote "Who Am a musical comedies ever produced. was called "The Musical Doctor," and fine lyrical job. The song has very Berlin's last production was the was written, as was "Musical Justice," created no end of gossip and talk among "Music Box Revue," written about five and "Know More College/' by two of the boys of Tin Pan Alley and the or- and years ago, the scores which he con- the cleverest writers in the business, chestra leaders. Feist again may take tributed to the various revues will nev- Sammy Lerner and Sammy Timberg. the for PARADISE. bow er forgotten. I will just mention a be Not only do the boys write the songs in few: It Music," "Say With "Lady of the shorts, but every bit of the short is "Face the Music" Tunes the Evening," "Crinoline Days," "Pack written by them. True, Dave Fleischer, Up Your Sings," "Everybody Step," long heralded event of events who is responsible for so many of the THE "Orange Grove in California," "Tell wonderful Fleischer Animated Car- has contributed an important chap- Her In the Springtime," etc. toons, and Lou Diamond, who has ter in musical comedy history, for its charge of the Short Production, both of opening in Philadelphia was an unpre- How Long Will It Last these gentlemen are responsible for cedented hit; I refer to Irving Berlin's pictures newest musical comedy FACE THE many of the cute touches in the MUSIC, which name was decided upon JACK ROBBINS and M-G-M again themselves, but Lerner and Timberg may take the bow for the original idea. four or five days prior to the opening. on the job, almost an unbeatable and for some of the unusually good The name originally decided on was pair. With a wonderful picture such as songs I have had to sing in the pictures, LOUDER AND FUNNIER, and after "Possessed," featuring Joan Crawford, such songs as "The Rhyming Song." the producers had gone to great ex- and Clark Gable, and the song featured and "When I Look in the Book of My pense for printing of advance material in the picture, it is not hard to under- and Memory," in "Know More College." under the title of LOUDER AND stand that in spite of its unusual and "Don't Take My Boop Boop A FUNNIER, and the publishers had "tricky" composition the song is rapid- Doop Away," in "Musical Justice." printed their copies also showing the ly becoming extremely popular. picture In this last short they provided same title, Mr. Berlin finally decided Although I have not seen the me on FACE THE MUSIC—and—FACE myself, I have been told it is an excel- with a most unusually cheery type of Miss Crawford song, a song which I sing for a group THE MUSIC it is, and like the saying lent one, and I believe "A rose by any other name smells just sings part of the song in the picture in cf internes at the end of a short lec- finally singing it en- ture to them: the idea of the entire as sweet," it really made no difference several languages, It is in an extreme- short is that pills and drugs have out- what name it would have had, because tirely in English. on lived their use and songs alone the show had natural hit qualities. ly haunting minor vein, and begins can cure Your writer had the honor to be the the second beat of the measure, which ailments. I believe it is the best oi the for an or- three shorts we have made, and I think first one to introduce Irving Berlin's in- makes it extremely difficult comparable new score over the interna- chestra in starting unless well-directed. you will agree with me after seeing it. if are introducing the song tional network, sponsored by the There is something fascinating aboul you do. We Fleischmann people, Thursday night, the tune, although its thought is ex on our Fleischmann Hour this Thurs- February 11th, and judging by the del- tremely disillusioning and unhappy. day, and will probably reiterate it many times the uge of complimentary remarks about We receive many requests, both at throughout course of Spring; Pennsylvania, and more comment on it will be quite this music, it is a foregone conclusion the stand at the un- its I'n that the songs I introduced are going through the mail, for inclusion. necessary. do It puts in mind Days to be outstanding hits. The titles are questionably the picture has much to me of "Happy SOFT LIGHTS AND SWEET MU- with bringing the song to the attention \iv Here Again," inasmuch as it lilts SIC. LET'S HAVE ANOTHER of the public at large. Just as the "Pa along in an extremely optimistic and CUP OF COFFEE and ON A ROOF gan Love Song" was extremely popular happy vein, which is something we all IN MANHATTAN. in the picture "The Pagan," likewise are looking for these days. If published. Irving Berlin told me that he wrote does M-G-M continue to demonstrate mtinued on page ? 50

'Billy Ernie JONES & HARE

These ftinsmiths are almost twins except by re- lation. Same birthday, same height, same weight. Both are equally happy manufacturing gags. %

two comedians ad- pany. In succession he became a car- WHEN E. T. Ingle penter with the New York Central Rail- dressed each other with "Hello Billy!" and "Hello road, fired boilers at the Croton Dam Ernie !" in a New York and finally became a blacksmith's helper. phonograph recording studio some fif- All the while Billy was singing. He teen years ago, there was born that in- kept at it even when he was doing rough imitable team of Jones & Hare, now labor and later when he discovered he heard over National Broadcasting Com- had more than a passable voice. His pany networks in a new coast-to-coast friends urged him to try professional offering from New York. singing. Billy wondered. Finally, he Fate or destiny seemed to bring them decided he would make a try in the together because, both were born on the small towns. They would be less crit- same day—March 15, both are the same ical, he said, these small town audiences. height and the same weight and their They wouldn't care if he wasn't exactly mothers have the same maiden names. a Caruso. Ernie began life in Norfolk, Virginia. But his voice really impressed his He was educated at the Xavierian listeners. The purity of tone and the Brothers School and after graduating clarity of his Welsh tenor, brought en- began selling baking powder. Ernie sang thusiastic applause. in a church choir. Then, the romantic role of traveling salesman called, but the youth finally gave it up for a vocal T«.HEN, something im- career. Ernie tells that when he was on portant happened. Lew Fields heard the the road and found himself stranded in young tenor and it was only a matter some small town on Sunday, he hurried of a few weeks until he had signed a to the nearest church to offer his services contract to sing in Midnight Sun which as a soloist. ran for thirty-nine weeks in New York. Billy also toured the country in the show. This afforded him the experience X.HE youthful singer even he needed. considered an operatic career and for a At this juncture some one told Billy time sang as a member of the Peabody that he ought to try a serious musical Oratorio Society of Baltimore. But soon career. He did and made several tours Away with care. We're the happiness pair. Ernie discovered that the theater was his as a concert tenor. Thereby he met Bert forte. In 1905 he sang in small theaters Grant, then famous song-writer, who in- in the East and made Broadway in four also started life as a choir boy, but duced him to go into vaudeville with years. His record there includes four- quickly abandoned the thought of a him. Then, came his historic meeting teen musical shows, among them "Sin- musical career and went to work in the with Ernie Hare, the basso of early re- bad" in which he understudied Al Jolson. U. S. Custom House. Then he went cording days. He also appeared in Havana with John into banking, which in turn he gave up The two singers "clicked" in every T. Powers and Up and Down Broadway for manual labor. venture into which they threw them- with Emma Carus. Four Passing Shows Billy came of Welsh parentage. This selves and when radio came along they also remember the quips and songs of led him to make a trip to Wales to see were ready for popularity. Ernie Hare. what the little country really looked like. They have been radio partners for Then something happened, something He visited his uncle in North Wales eleven years and were successful from important. He met Billy Jones. It was and there he was put to work as a sheep- the start. a case of friendship at first sight. The herder. Then he also tried mining, but They attribute their success to "a phonograph company was looking for a gave up the idea of staying permanently good break" and "darned hard work." tenor to sing duets with Hare. Some abroad and sailed for home a few Radio associates corroborate the latter one suggested Victor Roberts, the name months later. He soon landed a job in assertion. The Jones-Hare day begins at Jones had adopted as a professional cog- an iron mine in upper New York state. 9:00 or 9:30 in the morning, and con- nomen. In the years the two have been Then Billy decided to quit for a tele- tinues usually until 2 :00 o'clock or later singing for the stage and radio they phone job. He became a "pole hiker" the next morning. Ernie, who is mar- have made more than 4,500 records. and then again shifted to making cable ried, gets dinner at home two nights a Jones is a native New Yorker. He for the Western Union Telegraph Com- (Continued on page 71) 51

Mary Wood

DENVER has given the world many brilliant radio notables, not the least of whom

is Miss Mary Wood,

who now is a member of the Pacific Coast network of the NBC.

She is a graduate of the University of Cali- fornia and winner of the annual state com- petition of the Na- tional Federation of

Music Clubs. She is

1 known best to listeners as soloist in Footlight i Fantasies from San Francisco. — —

52 TELL WHY WHEN YOU BUY MAY I join the great American group of VOL as I have been reading Radio Digest for two years and as yet have not had my say in this department. Instead of arguing I am going to talk about some- the thing really important. Lately the news- Voice of papers have been complaining of lack of advertising because the radio is stealing all their business. Is that true? I am asking to get the info for I really want to know about and readers what are we going to do herewith present one. I am honored to be COL. AND BUD NEXT it? Here is what I suggest. One thing is allowed to know what other fans think of T ENJOYED your "Letters to the Artist" to buy the commodities advertised on the the artists I enjoy and am waiting to see •*- feature in the January issue very much, air and the other is to buy the ones adver- an account of the fan mail received by the and please continue this feature. It is great. tised in the newspapers. I think that in good old Gloomchasers.—Valentine Sadow- We all think it is one of the most interest- as much as the radio advertiser favors us ski, 188 Miller Ave., Buffalo, N. Y. ing of your interesting features and onj with entertainment we should in return that should provoke loads of favorable favor his products. Let me see what other THEY'RE BACK ON NBC comment. Please give us one of these VOLers think about this. It is really a ENJOY your news of entertainers stories on Ben Bernie. Lucille Hershey problem and should be solved by the radio WE — so much. Would like to have a story DeVacey, 1192 Stout 350 Harmon, Warren, Ohio. fans.—Miss Katherine on James Melton, telling where he received Denver, Colo. Street, his early training and all about him. I WE'D LOVE TO, BUT— would also like to see a page or two of are a few requests and sugges- JUST ANOTHER BOOB questions and answers in each issue. Here HERE tions that I should like to present for is my first question, see what you can do GOSH I'm a boob. Just like that other your approval. Give us a story on Bernie with it. "What has become of Jones and boob who wrote the article in your Cummins and that incomparable orchestra all Hare?"—M. B. Winnie, R. F. D. 4, Mil- book called "Georgie Barnyard S," and of his. I have never seen them discussed ford, Mich. his open air babble about the rest of us in Radio Digest and the Lord knows they talk all wet before it got boobs. That was are deserving of it. Give us more news of I should not SHE SLEEPS ON THEM across the big pond. Maybe good old Will Osborne, and for the last if it does say this about Georgie, but even THIS year will mark the third year that request please try to print two issues each level I feel that someone put me on his own I have been reading Radio Digest. month as the magazine is too good to have calling the should make a kick about his I think it has improved so much since the to wait for one whole month before getting so George I am American public "boobs," first issue I bought way back in 1930. I another issue.—T. A. M., 1324 Margurita sore about it and what are you going to do have just finished reading your February Ave., Dallas, Texas. to make amends. Better act fast.—Claude issue and the VOL amused me very much. Oliver, 2 Terrace Street, Carbondale, Pa. I was always taught that a letter written HOORAY FOR MORE STARS! in anger should be slept on over night be- JUST because I am a Vallee fan does not THANKS, JACK fore mailing it and then you will never be mean that I am going to start to knock sorry after it has been posted. Some of AM a regular reader of your magazine all other artists. On the other hand I want your writers should practice that old custom I and wish the months would come more to say a few good words for Russ Colum- and I think they would be more proud then often so that we could get more of the bo and Morton Downey. I feel that there to see their letter in print. Sarah Roberts, Radio Digest. No particular reason for this — is always room for one more at the top of Box 587, Wilmington, Del. letter other than to say that I like you the pile too. So here is a cheer for Morton, and keep up the good work.—Jack Hilton, and Russ and also for dear old Bing Milford, Iowa. LET'S HEAR FROM HIM Crosby, too. Let's go radio fans, make T READ your magazine and enjoy it some more stars for yourselves.—M. Hol- STRONG FOR R. D. AND D. R. * and while I do not like to criticize I do stein, 548 High Street, Lexington, Ky. wish you would give us a story on Jack most popular magazine at our THE Turner. Give him and his many fans a THINKS DONNA A PEACH! house is R. D. The back issues are break. We all would enjoy a picture and a never thrown away but we save each and T'M a new reader of Radio Digest, hav- story or article or something about him every one of them in a drawer and they are -*• ing purchased my first copy today and from time to time. Be assured that he mighty handy in checking up on back pro- already I am waiting for the next issue stands ace high with his fan army.—R. G. grams that we argue about. VOL is such to come out. Enjoyed your story on Myrt Rollins, 2515 Brookside Parkway, Indian- a fine feature but it could be better if more and Marge so much that it has provoked apolis, Ind. of the fans would be a bit more conservative this letter, my first of this nature to any in their comment and not get so rabid in AGREE, HE'S GREAT! magazine or newspaper. Also want to say their written raves to you about their WE that I was overjoyed to see the picture of favorites on the air. Let us have more on T HAVE been an ardent reader of Radio Donna Damerel who plays Marge ^n the that master of the violin, David Rubinoff. * Digest for many years and to date have air. She is a peach. Good luck to Radio Grace Stanton, 420 Jefferson Ave., Des seen very little on one of the best tenors Digest.—Olga Lutz, Waterville, Minn. Moines, la. on the air, in fact the best to my way of thinking, and that man is Mister Frank WE'RE "PICKING UP," VOLlers GUILD Parker. He is so different from the crooner COMES SOON got that new copy of the magazine and has a voice that can't be beat. I am JUST T'VE been a reader of Radio Digest for and want to tell you that the story on the sure you have heard some of his programs •* over a year and want to say this for you Vallee orchestra was, as Walter Winchell and you must agree with me when I say that you certainly have got the following would say, swelegant. Rudy paid a sincere that he is a marvel. I am dying for news of and you do produce the goods. I am a big and loyal tribute to his boys and that made this troubadour of song so get busy and follower of the Radio Guild and think that me all the more a fan of his to know that give us the goods as you always have in dramatic sketches are the best thing on the he was grateful to them for the way they the past with requests from the readers. air. I know that you had one story on the have stuck to him and helped him through Frank Berge, 3936 Marshall Street, Phila- Guild but I think that you could assign when things were not so bright. Like your delphia, Pa. them more space than you do and tell us new feature called "Letters to the Artist," something about them each month. Would OKAY CHICAGO! and the VOL seems to be picking up again. like to see a story on Pat Barnes.—C. K. Therese Meyer, Union City, N. J. is some — H., Rochester, N. Y. HERE praise for Ben Bernie, Rudy Vallee and Walter Winchell. Why doesn't NBC give us Ray Perkins ONE GOOD PROGRAM TAKE YOUR BOW, R. B. a few mornings each week. I miss the cheery T HAVE recently moved to the West after HT ETTERS to the Artist" is worth voice Thursday and Friday mornings. -*- many years in the East and would like •L' more than the price of your dandy Would also like a write-up about Cab Cal- you to know the condition I find in radio magazine. Strange as it seems I would loway. Please arrange it some way so there circles here. Back East I used to kick gladly pay a dollar to read the fan mail is less advertising on the Lucky Strike about the poor local programs we heard, but of the artists you have given in this swell program and give us more of Walter Win- gosh, out here all we get are phonograph feature and for the intimate view it pre- chell the only one who has given the radio records and no real music at all. I heard sents. Whoever is responsible for this new listeners something new in the past year. the best program of my life here, however, feature certainly deserves an orchid and I G. C. S., Chicago, 111. and that was through station KHJ and it — )

53 ALL STAR RADIO FEATURES

WAS greatly interested in the list of I best attractions picked by various radio editors and printed in Radio Digest last month. However, there is a vast difference by the st e n e r I find between the best as selected Li experts and the best selected by the so called common herd. There are a lot of programs and individual artists whom I know are big favorites with the fans and yet there is a possibility that their offerings was called 'the "Isle of Golden Dreams." last few years. His enviable reputation are not exactly what the critics will flock Here is a honey and something that should has been rightly earned for his voice pos- to. I think that a selection of real stars be spread out. —R. A. Johnson, 400 Olive sesses a rich vibrant quality that his fans should be left to the fans.—Bert Jacobs, Street, Alhambra, Calif. have been quick to appreciate. I am refer- 330 Huron Street, London, Ontario. ring of course to WGN's Italian Trouba- HE'LL BE BACK SOON dour, Lawrence Salerno. If any of the Di- POSTSCRIPT TO THE FOSTER gest readers are Salerno fans let them come T QUITE agree with your correspondent to the front and say so.—Salerno Serenad- POLL * who states in her' letter that there is er, 7321 South Shore Drive, Chicago, 111. only one Rudy Vallee. Here are my best A/fR. JACOBS submits to VOL the wishes for Rudy and all his loyal men, and * V-i. following nominees for first place in I hope that Manny Lowy will soon be well WE'RE FIGHTING DELAY, their respective fields from the listener's again as we all miss him so much.— Mrs. NANCY choice as compared to the choice registered Brown, 2205 Floriam Street, Montreal, Can. by newspaper radio editors. Nominations JUST finished reading the January issue's are still open. SOMETHING'S MISSING VOL but I didn't like it so well. No Announcer, General Milton J. Cross matter how outstanding an artist may be Announcer, News Lowell Thomas AGREE with Mildred Curnow in the you get tired of hearing about him. Why is Announcer, Sports Ted Husing I January issue about Russ Columbo and it that Radio Digest always gets to the Announcer, Ice Hockev for that matter even about Bing Crosby. I news stands so late? Up until last summer Herb. Rutherford (CJGC) can't see what there is to rave about in it came out at the right time but of late it Orchestra, Light. .CBS (Deutsch or Sorey) either of their programs. I have nothing has been dropping back and now we have to Orchestra, Light, Symphony (Radio)... against the men personally, in fact two wait quite a while for it. Hope you plan Roxy's ( Original months ago I had never heard of either to speed it up a little, but don't sacrifice String Ensemble XBC Slumber Hour one of them. I simply can't find that cer- any of your good features in so doing. Band U. S. Marines tain something in their work and that is all. Nancy Sapton, 317 North Sargent St., Dance Orchestra Guy Lombardo —Marie Fuloux, Washington, D. C. Joplin, Mo. Conductor, Symphony (Radio) ADMIRES SMITH BALLEW Walter Damrosch Conductor, Band Frankel Goldman I TOO LONG TO WAIT THIS is my first letter to you and Conductor, Light Orchestra want to thank you for the recent RECENTLY I saw in the papers that Emory Deutsch not print article on Smith Ballew. Why the call letters on radio stations would Conductor, String Ensemble him. Where more pictures and news about be announced every thirty minutes instead Ludwig Laurier sweeter than is there a voice clearer and of every fifteen minutes as has been the Violinist Rubinoff too is grand and Smith's? His orchestra custom in the past. Being a shut-in and a Operatic Star Lily Pons the best I have ever heard on the air. one of cripple suffering from muscular paralysis „ ,. - l lessica Dragonette for a Rad.o Soprano , I have been a reader of Radio Digest -, ojs Ronnett I find it hard in trying to DX on Saturday something of year and never fail to find nights because of some of the local sta- Contralto Mary Hopple interest in it. Keep it up, R. D.—Mar- Melton tions. With the thirty minute announce- Tenor James garet Ames, 114 South 45th Street, Phila- Elliott Shaw ments I find that I will get less DX sta- Baritone delphia, Jettick Pa. tions and that is not so good. I wish they Mixed Quartette Enna The Revelers LIKES AUTOGRAPH PHOTO would go back to the old svstem. — Irving Male Quartette Gross, 189 East 2nd Street, New York Crooner, Male Rudy Vallee received my first issue of Radio HAVE City. Crooner, Female Alice Joy I Digest on my new subscription and also Comedy Team Sanderson-Crumit the lovely autographed picture of Rudy Dialogue Sketch The Goldbergs Vallee, for which I thank you. I really did CALL FOR COLUMBO Variety Hour Colliers not expect so good a picture as most things COHORTS Quarter Hour Paris Night Life of that kind are pretty cheap, but I was Religious Program Seth Parker noticed the lovely way you ac- surprised, pleasantly, you may be sure, to T HAVE Radio Personality "Roxy" * the mail from your readers and am see that Radio Digest keeps up its usual cept Radio Station. Staff Talent high standard and sends a really nice and in hopes that my letter will be received in WI.W. Cincinnati its the way. I have a favor to ask. Will also I imagine an expensive photo for same Organist Dr. Harvey Robb (CPRY) publish as soon as possible the subscription.—Mae Ward, 2650 16th St., you please Other nominations will be considered. Philadelphia, Pa. fact that I am trying to organize a club [or AGAIN Russ Columbo and those who are interested FLOYD'S HEADLINING can get in touch with me for further de- FROM "A SPORTING MOTHER" Mr. con- JUST finished reading my copy of the tails. I have secured Columbo's Street, SHOULD like to comment on the ar- January issue and as usual it is very in- sent. —Colette Magiota, 142o Gipsen I ticle in the January issue by Mrs. John teresting. I enjoyed the article written Far Rockaway, N. Y. S. Reilly, called "Sporting Mothers." 1 about Sousa and also the one on Stokowski that 1 am such a mother had to say about have been told and of course what Rudy S. S. FEATURED IN DECEMBER and my experience has been that it had his band and about the latest songs. Oh just purchased the January issue plenty of disadvantages. What Mrs. Reilly yes, and before I forget it, please give us HAVE I Digest and searched en- says about the attitude towards tree climb- more news about Floyd Gibbons. I see that of Radio have is tirely it for news of the Street ing is excellent and something that over- a lot of folks think Mr. Vallee is a radio through about can 1 needed with our reckless children. But hog because Radio Digest and VOL print Singer and narrv a word him I'm Won't you give us when a mother puts her own opinions, so much about him. That is because they find. disappointed. picture him and a story taking wishes and so forth into the hack ground, are too stupid to see that the public demands a large of his musical hack ground witli all the then to say that she is a good sport is the such news and that is why you print it. in is I so same as saving she a boob or an easy Some people are certainly dumb when it trimmings. enjoy his program much to he looks and mark. A sporting mother is a good excu-c comes to judging the why and where for and would like see how life for any laxness of conduct on the part of of certain things.—Henry McNulcy, Pitts- read something of his early especially our sons and daughters in their teens. So burgh, Pa. his professional career. 1 think you have a wonderful magazine for radio fans and after twenty years experience as a sporting is tor them SALERNADERS I wish you loads of luck. Hut that is my mother my advice to mothers little less and hold the reins request and 1 am sticking to my gnus. \\ e to he a sporting OUT here in the Windy City there is a little tighter. Your children will resnect young singer whose baritone voice has want the Street Singer! Mary Jackson, a for it.— Sporting M been pleasing thousands of listeners for the Birmingham. Ala. you the more A 54

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at a New York theatre. He remained Music, and in his travels studied with WOKO-Albany with this group six months during some of the country's leading vocal which time he "learned the ropes of the teachers. He returned to Boston and Daily Police Broadcast business" and appeared in theatres and the Yankee Network about three years clubs, made recordings and made his ago. THE true spirit of cooperation, debut in radio on the national chains, INHarold E. Smith, General Manager which were then in process of organ- of WOKO in Albany has evolved ization. a plan for conducting radio broad- WIP-WFAN— Later the quartet appeared in the mu- casts as an adjunct to the police teletype sical comedy "Kittie's Kisses" and Philadelphia system. The police officers who have assisted in working out this plan on a Features Culbertson practical basis are Major John A. War- ner, Superintendent of State Police and ELY CULBERTSON, recent victor Captain Albert B. Moore, superintend- over Sidney Lenz in the bridge bat- ent of the teletype system. tle of the century, made his first radio Equipment and time on the air are address since the contest when he ex- supplied by WOKO and announcers plained his "Approach-Forcing" System have been drafted from the ranks of the over WIP-WFAN in Philadelphia re- state troopers. cently. Culbertson explained in detail General police alarms, culled from some of the possible methods of han- teletype messages from all parts of the dling the difficult card game. The pro- state, comprise the bulk of each broad- gram had an unusual mail response due cast. Special features include instruc- to the fact that Culbertson was heralded tions to citizens on how to report acci- far and wide in Philadelphia. dents and crimes and how to get in A special program dedicated to the quick communication with troopers. Philadelphia Naval Hospital and fea- Changes in laws of general interest turing requests from the inmates of are also discussed. that institution was recently presented This is probably the first time a com- over this station under the able hand mercial broadcasting station has turned of Henriette K. Harrison, assistant its facilities over to police for a stated program director. The program was daily broadcast. State police and peace well received by the disabled men in officers in the Capital District have used Not often do Eastern listeners get a chance part ex-navy to hear a real Indian love flute tell its sweet the hospital for the most the facilities of WOKO for general story over the air waves. But that is what men and another of the programs is alarms and in search for missing per- happened when Max Big Man, Crow Indian being planned. sons, but never have had a complete chief, played this one, which he made him- broadcast period assigned to them. self, over WGY in Schenectady. WCAU-Philadelphia WNAC-Boston— Bowe was chosen to understudy John Fan Fetters Bowe, Popular Tenor Boles, playing the lead. His next rung in the ladder of music was his choice LETTERS from three different as leading tenor on the Publix unit Manaia and Pal- MORTON BOWE, exclusive Yan- cities, Dunedin, which took him all Zealand, kee Network tenor, stepped from to parts of the coun- merston North, all in New try. next Universal the keyboard of a linotype machine on He toured the RKO circuit were received last week by the playing the character of Student the letters a Boston newspaper to the front rank "The Broadcast Company, all of Prince" after which he signed with the station among New England radio artists. reporting reception of WCAU National Broadcasting Company. His 1st. Launching his musical career as a during the morning of January next contract was with the Shuberts in choir boy, Mr. Bowe began his studies Two of the letters gave detailed ac- "White Lilacs." as a tenor about 18 years ago. After counts of the broadcast and commented two years of voice study, dramatics, He went through the ground school upon the excellent reception. The other stage deportment as well as harmony of aviation but abandoned that field to letter expressed the best wishes of the and piano, during which time he worked return to the linotype. Tiring of the writer and his family to the station and in a newspaper composing room on the printing trade he resumed the study of wished them all a very happy and pros- night shift, he joined a quartet singing music .at the Chicago Conservatory of perous New Year. — ——

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one. Jack Ostfeld, KQV popular tenor, fifth anniversary with thirty hours of once played the part of Huckleberry continuous broadcasting, twenty-five Finn on the stage, but after several hours of which was from their own stu- months of embarrassment and discom- dios. The programs offered ran the en- fort for himself, and hilarity for his tire gamut of radio entertainment and fellow actors he withdrew. Jack says provided listeners in with some excep- his mates preceding him on the stage tional entertainment. The station is dropped beans on the floor, which were owned and operated by Jack and Louis anything but pleasant to walk upon, es- Draughon. Congratulations, boys, and pecially in one's bare feet, as he had to more power to you. do while playing the character of "Huck" Finn. WTJS-Jackson, Tenn. Washington, D. C. Prog)-ressive Station Television THE eyes of West Tennessee and the ears, too, have turned to Radio BILL NOONAN is young. Every- Station WTJS, owned and operated by body knows that, but nobody knows The Jackson Sun. WTJS has just se- just how young. He won't tell. cured the services of Mr. Parker Smith However, what he lacks in years, he as manager, who came to the station makes up in ability. after serving Radio Station WSM for For he is an announcer at W3XK in the past two years. Silver Springs, Maryland Immediately upon Mr. Smith's ar- He owns and directs the Capitol Col- rival the station took on new life and legians, a fine dance orchestra, in quickly lost its name as the community Here is WTAM'S lovely leading lady in its Washington, D. C. victrola. In the short space of approx- highly efficient and extremely popular dra- is at it the matic presentations. Her name? Rae Wright He a television operator imately one month, has become —a case of genuine syllabic alliteration! W2XAP in Washington civic, religious, educational and enter- He is an expert make-up artist, and tainment center of Jackson and West did all the make-up work on Kate Smith Tennessee. One of the new features in- KQV-Pittsburgh during her recent local appearances in augurated is a Saturday night hay loft a Washington theatre. frolic, comparable to any barn dance Personalities If we learn any more facts about his programs presented by some of the unusual accomplishments before the largest stations. FLOYD DONBAR, KQV transmit- May issue goes to press, we'll tell you WTJS, operating on a schedule of ter operator, who incidentally is about them. twelve hours per day, devotes less than champion fat man of Pittsburgh radio, two hours daily to the playing of phono- with a net weight of 230, reminds us of graph records, and if you don't believe WSIX-Sp i -itig Id, Ten n. the mailman who takes a walk on his fie that WTJS is popular, jiist ask any ra- day off—when Floyd finishes up at dio fan in West Tennessee. Has a Birthday KQV he goes home—and operates his They operate on a frequency of 1310 own amateur stations. He has three, RADIO station WSIX in Spring- kilocycles, and quite frequently present W8BTA, W8PA, and W8WU. His sta- field, Term., home of the world's mid-night dance programs for the ap- tion W8PA is recognized as one of the finest dark fired tobacco, celebrated its proval of DX listeners. finest 20 meter amateurs in the country. * * * Ted Kaye, KQV announcer, has a novel manner of protecting himself from the jokes of the KQV staff—ev- crytime someone makes him the butt of a joke, he threatens to bring his saxo- phone to the studio. Ted says he plays

it for his own "amazement." * * *

The height of something or other is achieved by David S. Patterson, who mingles philosophy and humor in a fif- teen minute broadcast under the title of "The Park Bench Philosopher" on KQV every Saturday evening at 7:45. Just before he opens up with his own patter, Patterson describes what each of the other Pittsburgh stations is broadcasting at that time—advising them to tune him out if they prefer the others. Then he says "now I have my own audience." * * * Many and varied have been the rea- Every radio station needs At lo.ist. so thinks Vi'ISN. .it Mil« .uikee. sons advanced by followers of the stage improvement. the News, They ran a contest offering a free trip to New York for the host suggestions OB "How to for their withdrawal from trouping and Improve WISN." Here's Alice Ryndcrs with .1 portion of the mail response every letter their entry into radio, but this is a new containing valuable hints. 56 Station Parade

formances won for him the title of forecast for people of this sign. She "America's Foremost Cornet Soloist," has been a newspaper woman, a kinder- and he was for years identified as the garten teacher, and a writer of chil- premier attraction and assistant conduc- dren's books.

tor of John Philip Sousa's great organ- In 1923 she made her first radio "ap- ization. pearance" as the Story Lady. Children But this nomadic life, even with all wrote her letters from all over the coun- its glamour and satisfaction, finally lost try and for each birthday child she its appeal. The ambition to create an wrote a short verse. Sometimes the organization of his own was strong. So stories were very short because of the when called to organize a band, Simon number of letters and verses. Ethel's gladly responded. It is now ten years eyes grow moist and faraway when she since the first little group of band mu- recalls those early beginnings in her sicians gathered for a rehearsal. It was radio career, "I loved those days with an inauspicious occasion in an artistic the children," she says. way. But the Armco Concert Band un- From children's bed time tales she der the musicianly guidance and enthu- went to general announcing, such as the siasm of its conductor, and with the men do today, weather, time, anything

support of the American Rolling Mill : and everything. Today she runs an hour

Company, its sponsor, successfully ' and a quarter program of her own. A few years ago she had many letters from housewives asking her if she could please tell them where to buy certain things. Feeling that for every person "Psychology is a valuable help in handling the there programs," says Edythe Fern Southard, who took time to write were Program Director at WJAY in Cleveland. dozens who also wanted the information The results she's getting prove there's truth but who didn't write, she took these let- in her statements. ters and began her work. Arranging with the station for fifteen minutes ev- ery morning Ethel started her own ra- dio program. Armed with the letters TVL TV-Cincinnati, she had received she visited merchants handling the products requested r.nd "Ironmasters" sold them a small announcement on her program. The program was a unique success from the beginning. Using the of the most outstanding pro- ONE name of the announcer who first worked grams broadcast over WLW, sta- with her, she called the program "Ethel tion of the Crosley Radio Corporation, and Harry." And "Ethel and Harry" Cincinnati, is the half -hour Armco it has remained though it has long since Ironmaster program featuring a Con- cert Band with Frank Simon conduct- ing. Simon was born in Cincinnati in 1889, and received practically all of his musical education in that city. At the Ethel Hawes, the Girl is Everybody's age of eleven he first blew into a cor- Who Friend at WHK, makes a very special com- net and his indulgent parents sent him panion of her pet baby lion, whose name to the noted instrumentalist, William is "Trader Horn." Kopp, for instruction. He made rapid strides under his first professional passed through the exacting and often teacher, and then the genius, Herman discouraging preliminary stages, to take Bellstedt, was given a glimpse of the its place as the '"world's greatest indus- boy's talents and lie immediately took trial band." Musicians came from all young Simon under his wing. Phenom- parts of the United States, Canada and enal progress followed under the tutor- Europe to become associated with the ship of Bellstedt, and at the age of nine- noted conductor in creating this great teen, Simon was offered the solo cornet wind ensemble. chair in Kopp's Cincinnati Band. After several highly successful tours with Kopp's Band, the youth joined TVHK- Cle veland, Weber's Prize Band of America, where he played solo cornet in company with a?id Ethel Hawes the finest type of musicians, becoming known from coast to coast for the ease ADVISE R—counsellor—every- and grace with which he performed his body's friend—that is what they difficult solos. call petite Ethel Hawes at her radio It was apparent that such musical home, WHK in Cleveland. talent would attract the attention of the Miss Hawes has had an interesting greatest bandmaster of all time. With and varied career. She is a firm believ- This is the owner of that charming soprano voice that is delighting listeners these Sousa's Band he was heard in virtually er in the science of Astrology. She WBT days. Her name is Grace Kohn Johnston, every city and town in the United was born under the versatile sign Gem- and Those Who Know predict for her a States and Canada. His brilliant per- ini and has many of the good things radiant spot in the radio sun. — —! Station Parade 57

outgrown its first fifteen minutes. More ist, got the bright idea that the piano and more housewives—and others and organ would make a swell combina- realized they could find what they want- tion played together. ed by writing Ethel, and as they poured It was too early for the pianists of in their requests for different merchan- the station to be on the job, so Eddie dise, advice and help Ethel responded. piloted the piano close to the console She sold each individual client herself, of the organ and played them both at wrote all the continuity for her pro- the same time. gram, even the announcements, (for Leaning backward and downward often times "Harry" had to read some from his perch at the organ console, he of the sales talks to please clients), and played the piano with his right hand, did the majority of her own broadcasts, and with his left hand and feet, manip- even to the selection of music and en- ulated the organ. tertainment to liven up the hour. The stunt was a hit from the start She makes many personal appear- and now Eddie has to do 'em both to- ances and gives speeches at banquets, gether, whether he feels like it or not luncheons and various meetings. Her programs are recognized all over the YR -Bisma rck, country and many national advertisers KF place announcements with her. Often a Tells Character History client insists on her writing continuity for, his programs on another station ONE of the most popular morning where her broadcasts do not reach. She programs over KFYR, in Bis- also writes a short daily thought that marck, North Dakota, is that of Gene finds a prominent place on her pro- and Glenn, the inimitable radio funsters. grams and is a popular item with many It is Gene who plays the triple role listeners. of Jake, Lena and himself, while Glenn

Here is one of them ; "Always look takes the "straight man" part, plays the Roger Bromley is the chap who takes the for genuine facts in thinking, stress piano and sings. part of the Bailiff in WCFL's "The Night those which bear on your problem, learn Here's the inside story on the Court." And sometimes he doubles as the how to take life easy, appreciate the little defendant in some of the humorous cases characters of Jake and Lena were cre- things. Far up in the sunshine there is tried. ated. It so happened that one day a the highest glory. Look up to it and be- radio program called for a feminine lieve in it. You may not find this glory communities where communication fa- voice to speak a few lines. Gene was first but just the same it is there for cilities were limited. invited to fill the role and he did so with you." a high falsetto which amused the listen- ing public. KOIL -Omaha j KSTP-St. Paul Later he was called on for another "Daily Dozett" impersonation, this time that of a male Uses Pigeons character, and he affected an indefinable VERSATILITY has always been catching dialect. So the studio people CARRIER pigeons were used by praised as a most admirable pos- began calling Gene, Jake, because the KSTP— St. Paul and Minneapolis session, but here's one that has even name seemed to identify the dialect. —as an aid in checking reception in versatility's wildest exponents buffa- "Say Jake, how's your girl ?" some- various parts of the Northwest. loed. one demanded one day. Engineers of KSTP in making a new During one of the early morning "Who? Oh, you mean my girl Lena ?" check of reception following the open- presentations of the "Sunshine" pro- Thus the voice got its name and Jake ing of the new 50,000 watt transmitter, gram, a daily feature at KOIL in Oma- and Lena were accepted as real char- toured the entire state of Minnesota and ha, Nebraska, Eddie Butler, the organ- acters. Almost without any preliminary various parts of the plan a radio plot de- Northwest. Carrier veloped around Jake pigeons made up part and Lena. of the equipment Gene and Glenn used to check vol- signed an exclusive ume and other tech- contract with the nical branches of NBC Artists Service reception. in December, 1930, Reports were made and three days after at various places Christmas inaugur- along the tour and ated their current these were carried network series. back to the main The radio come- studios of KSTP by dians do not prepare these trusty-winged their own continui- messengers. ties, but polish up a The birds made the sketch prepared by respective trips to an associate and add the Twin Cities with- lines spontaneously out a mishap and at during the acts. the rate of a mile a Gene is thin and Here are the Three Dairy Maids of WOC. Davenport, all dressed up in their patty • , minute, carrying w,st,ul ,n a ear" clothes. Left to right: Eleanor McKinney, who plays the piano: An n.. Baudmo, who PP messages from rural croons the melodies and Gladys Benner. who strums the ukc." ance. lie i< five feet, ! !

58 Station Parade seven inches parts his light brown hair Seattle was her birth-place, and her Paul Rader and his Couriers do ; on the side, has dreamy looking blue first stage engagement was in Salt Lake a KTM program at 4:30 p. m. each eyes, wears spats and is nearly thirty- City. Then the big chance—the part of week day and on Sunday nights a four. Glenn weighs more than two the little cripple girl in Channing Pol- two hour broadcast with his musical hundred pounds. lock's play, "The Fool" ! Even now, organization from 10 p. m. to mid- Their chief diversions are golf and her eyes widen and grow black when night. she remembers that automobiling. Each summer the boys triumph Rader was one of the first to broad- take a vacation at Glenn Lake, Mich., Then came their big break—Mr. Op- cast in Chicago more than ten years ago, where they fish, swim, loaf and grow portunity knocked at their door in no when Westinghouse engineers broadcast mustaches. uncertain manner when they made their from a ten by twelve penthouse room As incongruous as wherein all the stu- their act would seem dio and technical ap- in terms of the thea- paratus was housed ter, Gene and Glenn in the one space. have been a great Rader's mission- success in vaudeville. aries, 100 strong, are likewise radio mind- ed. One group op- erates a radio station KFTFB- on the Russian-Po- land border for daily oilywood H programs to the "Kids- Soviet Union. Another group, at Successful Quito, Ecuador, has established a radio TWO engaging station under a 25- youngsters — and year agreement with two dyed-in-the-wool the government. professionals! Yes, In Chicago, where they're one and the Rader preached for same thing—Emer- 17 years, including son Tracy and Gay seven years as pas- Seabrook, who have tor of the famous made "Growin' Up" Moody Church, the one of the most de- pastor appeared reg- lightful and heart- ularly with his tugging skits on the "breakfast brigade' air. Heard over from WLW for twe KFWB in Holly- years. Then he was wood every evening heard over WHT except Sunday, at and via WBBM and six-forty-five, the Columbia System. "Growin' Up" weaves The new KTM story the of two series, it is an- small town kids who nounced, will con- take life as they find tinue for an indefi- it, and who find it nite period. The Sun- very full of excite- day night time, ment ! known as the "Back But the two kids Home Hour" is ex- Pa Ma' themselves? Well, and Smithers are one of the leading features at KFBI, in sketches which portray pected to make a an old couple living on the outskirts of Tinkerville. Pa (Dan Hosmer) writes the that's another story particular appeal to skits, while Ma (Christine Crans) helps with suggestions. Blonde, blue-eyed the home folks. Emerson Tracy, who Grace Tabernacle, crinkles his nose when he laughs, first debut over KFWB in "Growin' Up." where Rader preaches, will furnish the light saw of day in Philadelphia, The heart aches and happiness and sor- choir, ensemble, soloists and distin- and in fact went so far as to attend St. rows and pleasures of two youngsters guished visiting clergymen from time Joseph's College there. Then the stage going through the process of becoming to time for the radio periods on lured him away from the academic path, adults make their story one so human the air. and he played as juvenile in the same that every listener can think—"Why, !" show with Ann Harding and Eva Le that's just the way I felt Gallienne, and then toured the New KOIN-Portland, England states with a stock company. John Golden, eminent producer, saw KTM-Los Angeles Fans Helpful him, and took him to New York to play Welcomes Rader the lead in that hilarious comedy, JOHNNIE WALKER, "Host" on the "Pigs." PAUL RADER, internationally fa- "Isle of Golden Dreams," released It was in "Pigs" that he first began mous evangelist, has returned to Los from KOIN studios in Portland, Ore- working with Gay Seabrook, the little Angeles after a six year absence during gon, Wednesday nights 9:30 to 10 dark eyed girl who has such an appeal- which time he preached around the o'clock, is in a quandary as to his choice ing voice and such an infectious laugh. world twice. of procedure in playing all the requests >

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This famous colored actor has com- KFOX-Long Beach, pleted nine talking pictures within the last year. Among these are such feature California Signs Johnson productions as "Dirigible," "X Mark.; the Spot," "Huckleberry Finn," "Se- WHO recalls the famous "Thou- cret Service," and many others. sand Pounds of Harmony" male In addition to his many laurels in the quartette, one of the first vocal organ- theatrical profession, Muse recently izations to broadcast over radio on the won nation-wide recognition for his Pacific Coast, later gaining fame on song, "When It's Sleepy Time Down network programs ? Almost everyone South," now the rage over the radio. remembers their superb singing and This plaintive melody of the old south the leader, who led about everything in is heard nightly being played by orches- the musical line in Southern California tras in the smartest clubs all over the radio, J. Howard Johnson. country. Muse himself sings it often Fans missed Johnson for several in his appearances over KNX. years and now it has just come to light that he forsook the entertaining for the A college man, cultured and well- commercial line and was one of the pi- read, Muse nevertheless plays an illi- oneers of that branch of our industry. terate Negro porter with finesse. His For several years he was associated understanding of human nature runs with KHJ. Recently Johnson was deep and full. He wanders waist-deep named Los Angeles manager of the of- in the stream of life. He is distinctly fices of KFOX, which organization has of the people—an integral part of them. If listeners could see Marilyn Hansen's spread its tentacles to pull in some large One of his chief distinctions is his bright red curls and laughing eyes, they'd fall gift as a composer of spirituals. His twice as much in love with her as they do song, "When It's Sleepy Time Down now. She's four years old, and KMO'a South," has already been mentioned. He baby "blues" singer. recently introduced another lovely bal- lad, entitled "Alley Way of My Dreams." received from ardent Pacific Coast ra- dio fans. This progressive station has recently inaugurated a novel program of the Although unsolicited, over one thou- junior type—a real Club for Boys. It sand requests have been forwarded to is a regular Saturday morning feature, Walker. At the rate of one program and under the capable direction of Bill each week with an average of six selec- Sharpies as Master of Ceremonies, em- tions on each program, Walker figures phasizes all those elements which inter- a continuous run of four years to cov- est American youngsters and help to er all the requests. build their lives and characters along Walker's "Golden Sign-Off" occasions the most constructive lines. Each broad- increasing comment from the listeners. cast has its quota of visitors—lads from The radio invocation formulated was the Boy Scouts and various other or- originally intended as a station sign-off ganizations—and some who belong to but its inspiring message is especially no other club. Hikes, horse-hack riding apropos to the atmosphere on the Isle parties, and trips of an educational na- of Golden Dreams, consequently each ture, including visits to factories, and broadcast brings the choice bit of Gold- The "Weaver of Dreams" is the Seventeenth airports are all a part of the club ac- en Philosophy. Century name applied to this song romancer tivities that add zest and enthusiasm. at station KTHS in Hot Springs. Ark. His name is George Erion and he is that station's KELJF-Burbank, latest song sensation. Erion is formerly of the Broadway stage. Gives Gang Details

contracts. J. Howard was found to be hooey over at KELW? WHO'S the man to set the bait, so he opened Boh Kaufman, studio manager, the KFOX offices at 1031 S. Broadway. uses an old-fashioned type of razor; He retains his connections witli KHJ Dave Ward, chief announcer, trains po- under the arrangement with KFOX lice dogs as a hobby; Bill Brown, grave- and is planning and building programs yard shift announcer, a fur coat; has as well as selling them. Iris Parker, office manager, delights in

tales of the far north ; Billy Evans, "big man from the South," wears two vests KNX-Hollywood, in cold weather; Stuart Wainwright, Features Actor- Compose chief technician, uses radio both as a

hobby and as a career ; Dot Meyberg, WITH a rich background on both film editor, never says "It's an old the legitimate stage and in pic- ;" Spanish custom Frank Gago, Blues tures, Clarence Muse, picturesque col- Chaser, has a favorite recipe for mince ored actor, appears every morning in pie; Billy Haynes, ballad singer, plays the role of "Jackson" with Bill Sharpies' "Mr. .nui Mrs." — but thev're known on the the piano and typewriter ; Bob Millar, Breakfast Gang, a popular program .lir .is " riic SoDg Smiths." They .ire one pianist, never stopped at an auto camp. over KNX in Hollvwood. of KMBC's most popular tenures. : ! a!

WLW— Cincinnati . . . BOB NEWHALL, The Mail Pouch Sportsman

ORDER to appreciate Bob New- Sjv Don Becker Teacher ran across Bob Newhall's con- INhall, The Mail Pouch Sportsman, tribution. you must know him intimately. Be- trail in fifteen minute ether-chats over The teacher ogled. fore writing this article, I asked WLW, Cincinnati, each evening at 6 :30 Now what? Bob to put down, in black and white, P. M., E. S. T. Instead of choosing the usual, little the things I didn't know about him. His He brings to his audience a real Bob Newhall reached out and grabbed return letter filled the bill so thoroughly, "Close-Up" of Sport Life. This is at- a handful of the unusual. His precocity so completely, I decided to let you read tributed to the fact that he is personally had jibed him into making the locale of

it yourself. It gives you an "inside" pic- acquainted with almost every major and his snow storm, a tropical, Cannibal ture on an "outside" man, so to speak. minor sportsman in the game. He Isle ! Assuming all the license of a true to hear artist, "Dear Don : Tickled to death tinges his yarns with authenticity— Bobby completely ignored cli- from you, as was the good wife, who is precious trait in radio matic conditions and pictured for his still one of your admirers. Now for the And he, himself, is a Sportsman reader, a veritable Garden of Eden. No dope you desire. Full name: Roberts What more could you ask? cold, bleak Frozen North scenes for De Saussure Newhall. Married three The story of his first punch at the Bobby. Instead, the palm trees were

years. Age : Forty-six. Height swaying in the gentle breeze, Five feet eleven inches. Weight and the climate was up around One hundred seventy-six pounds. 160 in the shade. Suddenly a Blue eyes, brown hair (what great black cloud came upon the there is left). Taste in clothes: scene. North winds started blow- Tweeds strongly favored, and ing a warning, and then—AND would wear nothing in the way THEN CAME THE SNOW! of trousers save plus-fours if it By this time Bob's aesthetic en- were only permissible. Crazy thusiasm became an ungovern- about pets, and am moving out able frenzy of scribbling, and of present neighborhood with his stubby pencil soon had the one strong reason being neigh- naked natives yelling and whoop- bors poisoned family cat whose ing and running for shelter,

name was "Imogene." Present while the world, for the first prideful possession, one Boston time, was given a graphic pic- Bull of high degree. Given me ture of the only South Sea Isle by manager Dan Howley of the ever to be buried in ten feet of

Reds, and hence his name 'Dap- snow ! per Dan.' Had a well-loved Could you blame the teacher young squirrel up to a month for osfl ins:? ago, but had to give her to the Zoo after she gnawed most of the Gold-Frame off autographed LATER she told photo of General Pershing, Bob's family, "At first I wanted showing she had no idea of rank to give him a big zero, but then or discipline. I just couldn't ignore the amaz- ing scope of his mind in that composition, so I closed my eyes I LOVE the army and marked the paper 100." and hate prune-whip, and go ab- Speaking of school, Bob New- solutely mad when they say I try hall, was once quoted as saying, to imitate Floyd Gibbons on the "I used to tip my hat to every Newhall in action Radio, as I have never heard him. Fa- school in which I had once been en- vorite dish grape-fruit salad, with four — writing racket has been told over and rolled. But this didn't work out. I was times usual allowance of French dress- !" over again, but a schoolboy's tale is the bareheaded most of the time ing, buckwheat cakes (the set-over- In fact, school wonder of the hour, so it must be told the only from which night sort) and green apple dumplings he actually graduated, was the dear old again ! with hard sauce. Hoping are the you When Bob was in the third grade of Twenty-second District. The scene of same, I am, yours in haste !" —BOB the twenty-second district school in Cin- the Tropical Snow Storm fracas. Now you know all of Bob Newhall's cinnati, the local pedagogue suddenly Before Bob hopped over to England, innermost secrets, and I suppose I shall became enshrouded with a swell idea. however, he used up a calendar in Los be hung on a gibbet to dry, when he It was just before Christmas, so all the Angeles, writing up golf, which was reads tin's, but the radio audience must clear little tots were instructed to write then taking hold in the land of sunshine be served ! a composition about "A Christmas Snow and juicy grapefruit. Leaving England, His professional career reads like a Storm." he hopped over to Japan and then on book and is not unlike the colorful story Scratch, scratch, scratch, the pencils to the Philippines, which at that time, of Lowell Thomas. went a-flying. Soon Miss Teacher was were experiencing a few difficulties in Under the title of the Mail Pouch flooded with an avalanche of papers. governmental operation. Bob saw a lit- Sportsman, sponsored by the Mail Jack Frost, Snowballs, Evergreens and tle soldiering there, and did a little Pouch Tobacco Company of Wheeling, Snowmen, received their usual amount soldiering , but the wanderlust bug had W. Va., Bob Newhall has blazed a new of uncalled-for publicity—that is, until bitten him, so he "offed" again. This — !

Station Parade 61 time landing in Mexico. Here he stayed ing, and before many moons, Bob New- It is not at all unusual to see a boy for quite a while, doing- much writing. hall was making a new, but bigger and or girl struggling with a piano-accor- (Probably under the influence of ta- may we say better name for himself dion or a trombone twice his or her males and mescal.) in front of the microphones of WLW own size. The children range in age Returning to Cincinnati, The Post in Cincinnati. from one year and nine months to fif- placed him on its staff along with Ray His delivery of speech is rapid. He teen, the majority being from three to Long, Jess Conway, Roy Howard, and sees "red" when someone accuses him six. Wood permits the children to say O. O. Mclntyre, but the urge to be a of copying the "Gibbons'" style. (See "Hello" to their friends and relatives creative artist and not a copyist was Letter.) He has always spoken rapidly, after they finish singing. A month or strong within him, and eventually he insofar as he is constantly "on edge." so ago, a young man of Polish ancestry left the Cincinnati Post, for the uncer- His Sports Talks have a mythical mag- started spieling off a list of names that tain position of "free lance" writer for netism, attracting your attention imme- would reach from here to there. magazines. At this he did quite well, diately. Once you've been drawn to "Wait a minute," interrupted Wood, them, your ear let leave. eventually landing a story in Colliers. won't you "who are all those people?" "My broth- When he calls Bobby Jones, "Bobby," Around that time, The Commercial ers and sisters," said the little boy, who he means just that, for he knows them Tribune was looking for an up-and- belonged to a family of eighteen. An

all . . . large or small. coming sports editor. He got the job. effort is now being made to bring the Every day his mail box is chock full whole family up for a fifteen-minute His early sports training at high of letters asking the whereabouts of spot. They have a ten piece family school and college, both in baseball and this or that sportsman, long forgotten orchestra, and lack only one boy in football, was a great aid in this new en- in the headlines of the newspaper having enough for a football team. deavor. But his experience was not sporting pages. Seldom, if ever, does limited to the diamond and gridiron. His little international friends like Bob fail to give the correct reply. All No sir! Not Bob Newhall. Clyde very much, and hardly a day his old sports cronies write him often. passes but what he receives several They give him the news of the sporting highly sweetened cakes or a couple of world in their own language, and that's gaudy neckties. Not infrequently, he is H*LE WON the lightweight the secret of Newhall's success on the presented with a bottle of ripe grape- pugilistic championship of the Cincin- air. juice the parent of a youthful per- nati by Gym, and then the welterweight His sports news is told to you in the former. championship of Ohio, Indiana and language of the sportsman—The Mail Kentucky. No definite date was affixed One of the things Wood enjoys most Pouch Sportsman ! to this feat, however we have faint sus- is his transpositions of songs ; he finds picion it was done after working hours. it necessary to play most of the popular In the fall of 1929, he and Mrs. New- WGAR-Cleveland, songs in almost all possible keys. He's called upon to play from twenty to hall (he took time off to marry, inci- Children's Hour dentally) started on a seven months' thirty songs on one program, for which there is no music. This accounts his trip around the world. His knowledge SATURDAY morning in the WGAR for of the newspaper business, his military Studios, would be an ideal spot for statement that he "files most of his associations, and his flair for close ob- the League of Nations to get an music in his head." servation, were invaluable in bringing idea how to establish perfect peace .Again we say the League of Nations him in touch with sights seldom beheld among all countries, for they would be should watch WGAR's Children's Hour by the average traveler. afforded the opportunity of seeing Clyde on Saturday morning. The members In England on the Eve of Armistice Wood conduct his "Children's Hour," should see a little Japanese girl sing a Day, he saw the Prince of Wales' fa- the members of which are descendants song, to be followed by the Laundry- mous Victoria Cross Dinner, in the from virtually all nationalities. Chinese, man's favorite and celestial son, carincr House of Lords. Big game hunting was and of course, Japanese, Scandinavians, little about war—thinking little about the program in the Soudan. In Sumatra, Poles, Negroes, Caucasians ... all races disarmament, but thoroughly bothered he steeled himself against the sight of gathered together by one common cause about that important business of put- young girls having their teeth filed ... to do a little bit on the air, and to ting their song across in good style down to the gums, and being driven say "Hello" to mamma and daddy, who temporarily mad by the pain. are on the other end, ears glued to the IVJR-Dctroit, He witnessed the beginning of the radio. Ghandi campaign in India. On a tiger There are instrumental groups, vocal Oklahoma Cowboys hunt with British Officers in India, he trios, quartets, violinists ... in fact all (according to Bob) put two shots into types of performers, who together with THE appearance of Otto Gray and a striped cat. Six were needed to down a few parents, often pack up to three his Oklahoma Cowboys in the the big kitty. hundred people into the large studio, Fisher Building studios of WJR, cre- "Well, I killed him thirty-three and a and leave many disappointed embryonic ates a somewhat incongruous picture third per cent, didn't I?" We agreed Kate Smiths and Russ Columbos out- that never fails to draw delightful com-

. . . and smiled. side. ments from studio visitors. The sight Ceylon, China, Japan and the Philip- Notwithstanding the senility implied of the gaunt cow-punchers in the set pines ended a glorious tour for the by such titles as "The Old Optimist.'' ting of a modernly decorated skyscraper Newhalls, netting them skins of lions, "Grandpa Wood," and "Dr. Tinkle- studio is a Strange one indeed. And the tigers, crocodiles, deer and Heaven Tinker," Clyde is not an man. group always Wood old performs in the true I knows what. He has that priceless knack of handling tumes of the west — ten gallon hats, high- In December 1930, the Commercial children, and very few of his little play- heeled hoots, furry chap-, and all. Otto Tribune "folded up," as they say on mates suffer from "mike-fright." Gray and his hoys are all honest-to- Main Street. Wood accompanies most of the chil- goodness cowboys, recruited from Mr. There was Newhall. dren at the piano, although there are Gray's own ranch near Stillwater. Okla- Experience in Sports. Experience in few who bring accompanists. Fre homa. travel. He knew how to write, but fluently, a group of ten to fifty children "Whenever we entertain." says Otto what next to do? hunch themselves in a bus and visit the in his pleasing drawl, "we jest try to The tentacles of radio are far reach- studios en masse. act nacheral. givin' the folks the same 62 kind of fun we enjoy among ourselves the broadcast is an original march writ- "Stamps Is Stamps" on the ranch." That the true spirit of ten by Erwin Glucksman, BBC arrang- their entertainment efforts is carried to er, who directs the 18 piece orchestra radio listeners is evident from the great during the broadcast. Listeners were TTNCLE SAM'S Eagle Eye must asked to suggest a name for the march response they have received from mem- *^ have fallen asleep in the De- bers of the WJR audience. and hundreds of letters were received. troit Post last week. re- The personnel includes Otto himself; "The Buffalo Centennial March" was Office WJR Mrs. Otto "Mommie" Gray; "Zeb" chosen by a Chamber of Commerce ceived a fan letter from one of its Gray, the Uke Buster; "Zeke" Allen, committee as the most fitting title. youthful listeners with a home who plays the fiddle ; "Hy" Allen, who Another interesting feature of this made stamp on it! The child ap- plays the banjo; and Chief Sanders, Wednesday evening WGR production half-breed Cherokee Indian, 'cellist. is the invitation which is extended to parently took a piece of paper the "Rex," a well-trained police dog also leading Buffalo industrialists to visit size of a stamp, colored it with a red plays a prominent part in the radio the studios. Three minutes are re- crayon, and then precociously dreiv programs with his barking. served at the conclusion of each broad- The Oklahoma Cowboys are expected cast for one of Buffalo's important in- a vague picture of the Father of Our to spend a month or more in and around dustries. The speaker of the evening is Country on it. The letter ivas de- Detroit, making usually president or vice-president of appearances in theatres livered—the improvised stamp can- in this vicinity. In the intervals be- the company represented, and invaria- celled and postmarked. "After all, tween their theatre engagements, they bly the broadcast brings forth comment will be heard on the air onlv through from his business associates. Uncle Sam—two cents is two cents!" WJR, The Goodwill Station.

WXYZ-Detroit, Sunshine Express PACIFIC COAST ECHOES FREDDIE (Whoops) Miller engi- neers a daily thirty minute trip of the Sunshine Express over this station. By W. L. Gleeson Nothing is sacred to him once he's been given the air—not even his sponsors' commercial announcements. Miller is The MJB Demi-Tasse revue, plug- Tom Gerun left the Bal Tabarin, San backed up with a first class studio en- ging MJB coffee over the coast NBC Francisco, March 24 for New Orleans semble who aid and abet him in the network twice weekly, features John P. will later go to Chicago where he will half-hour steeplechase.- Reports show Medbury, Hearst humorist and out- follow Ben Bernie at the College Inn. his type of advertising talk is not only standing wisecracker on the western Gerun then transfers to the William entertaining to the listeners, but is air. Medbury and Ray Perkins are the Penn in Pittsburgh. Gerun is featur- doing a good job for the people paying favorite radio humorists with western ing Jean Wakefield, blues singer, who his salary. Incidentally the time is 5 :00 listeners, with Winchell trailing. has been on NBC and Columbia net- P. M., E. S. T. every day until further Al Pearce and his KFRC Happy-Go- works on the coast. notice. Lucky crew played to $8,000 in two Cecil and Sally make one of the most shows in Los Angeles and the KFRC successful coast serials and are heard WGR-Buffalo, Jamboree cast of 22 jammed the Oak- on transcriptions in other parts of the land Fox Paramount, playing to a $5,- country. The parts are taken by John Making History 000 midnight show. The Jamboree is Patrick Grogan and Helen Troy. playing one city in Northern California Donald Grey has replaced George UFFALO MAKES HISTORY" each week. Taylor as conductor of the KYA Sun- B . . . The Chamber of Commerce E. Doyle, radio editor of The Oak- shine program. The program is broad- J. broadcast, which has become one of the land Post-Enquirer and leading critic cast every morning and features studio most popular local features, is on the on the coast, inaugurated a new NBC talent. Grey is one of the popular coast air. Early settlers, dead long since, live series with a talk on "Newspapers and ballad singers. again for the evening and their deeds Newspaper Men," sent over the Pacific Henry Starr, "The Hot Spot of in the winning of the Queen City of network. The series will bring San Radio" is pleasing KYA listeners with the lakes from the wilderness re-live Francisco and Oakland newsmen before his unusual style of playing the piano with them. the mikes. and singing of popular tunes. Starr has Co-operating with the Chamber of Phil Harris of the Lofner-Harris a voice that doesn't need a megaphone Commerce the Buffalo Broadcasting dance band, playing in the St. Francis to get over the second row. Corporation has presented the Buffalo hotel, San Francisco, is headlining at Helen Parmelee, KLX staff artist, Makes History broadcasts over WGR the Oakland Orpheum after doing two has been given a nightly spot for her each Wednesday evening for the past weeks at the San Francisco Warfield. classical piano playing. several months. Nearly 3,000 people have signed a pe- The veteran Frank Wright has in- Interest in the program has been tition asking that Tom Coakley and his augurated a new feature over KTAB evinced by business and professional Athens Athletic club band (Oakland) called the billboard. The program is men by letter and telephone after each ride on the magic carpet with Winchell put on the air twice a week and consists broadcast. The script, which is written in the Lucky Strike hour. The band is of reviews of the theatre, with no fa- by Herbert Rice, BBC dramatic head, is composed of California, Stanford and vorites shown. the result of many hours of research St. Mary's graduates. Partners on the stage for 30 years, work in the archives of the local library NBC Artists Bureau is seeking a Clarence Kolb and Max Dill have and the incidents are historically cor- band to take the place of Mahlon Mer- teamed as the Dinglebenders, a serial, rect. rick and his Vagabonds at the Palace for the Gilmore Oil Company, broad- \ One of the outstanding features of Hotel. (Continued on page 70)

I 63 Chain and Local Features Watch May issue for expansion of this Department

(Unless otherwise indicated the time listed is Eastern Standard)

WLS—WILBUR AND EZRA. ago she was the first person to sing writing a burlesque on bridge ! But the Mr. did think of it the associa- Throughout Week The "Prairie Farmer" voice has al- into a microphone, gives three early Ace — ways evening recitals weekly. Accompanied tion of names and ideas was too much catered to the rural ears, but Aces'" this time they've aired a quarter-hour, by the pianos of Shapiro and Shefter lor him—and therefore, "Easy 7:45 a.m.—WJZ—(Dally ex. Sat. & Sun.) smart, allowed him t'> across-the-board skit worth anyone's she sings popular numbers of all eras His wife, being JOLLY BILL AND JANE. her in as the dumb missus. And while. Wilbur and Ezra are two be- in a style that for more than a decade write the result? well dumb Jane Ace One of NBC's most popular children's loved, old bachelors, living in a one- has endeared her to radio enthusiasts — walks off with the show! It's the programs. Has been on the air for room walk up. The sketch is built the country over. of four people around a bridge three years. Jolly Bill is played by around the adopting of a baby by these story table at least, that's the general at- William Steinke. Jane is Muriel Har- two yokels, and while the dialect is — 6:45 p.m.—WJZ— (Daily ex. Sat. & what hapnens. isn't bater. Steinke, former newspaper car- of the rural type, the situation and mosphere. But Sun.) LITERARY DIGEST TOPICS Hoyle nor Milton toonist, created the program and chose lines are too humanly interesting and always according to — IN BRIEF. either. Triangles are devel- Muriel Harbater, child radio actress, genuinely entertaining to limit its Work of the day are solved; to co-star. The broadcasts are based scope to country listeners. Lowell Thomas, author and adven- oped; problems turer, significant are discussed, and so on. far largely on imaginary trips to legendary The boys sprinkle their quarter-hour interprets the most fashions current events, spiced with night. Until three in the lands—and real ones. with lots of laughs about babies, with humorous into the incidents of the has been morning, to he exact! After the or- here and there a dash of tear-jerking day. Thomas broadcasting the daily news for more chestral interlude. Mr. Ace explodes 8:15 a.m.—WJZ— (Daily ex. Sat. & Sun.) melodrama guaranteed to move the than year. the shopworn theory that it's the PHIL COOK, THE QUAKER MAN. most jaded, WLS listeners are sent a pays, by settling up the ing baby clothes to the boys, making woman who Phil Cook, NBC's one-man army of score and Jane's losses. Meantime. a nice tie in for the Assistant City 7:45 p.m.— (Daily ex. Sun.) voices, long has delighted the radio WABC— Jane has gotten in a little "action" Prosecuting Attorney of Chi, who now audience with songs and characteriza- THE CAMEL QUARTER-HOUR. and "contact" bridge discussion, be- has an abandoned babe on his hands. tions. He plays Ins own ukelele ac- The Camel quarter-hour, featuring tween hands. A few authentic bridge It was left on the doorstep. The act companiment and portrays as many as Morton Downey, silver- voiced high points are brought out for the more lias been a sends all the clothes they receive thirteen characters. Cook tenor and Jacques Renard's orchestra serious minded but all I can say is through the mails to the boys and — magazine illustrator and Broadway in special arrangements of concurrently If Lavoris leaves as good a taste everybody seems happy about the this: playwright. popular tunes. More of Tony Wons' your mouth as does "Easy Aces," whole thing. Their idea of spotting in homey philosophy is heard in this six- then it's product. the same skit twice a day, once in the SOME 9:00 a.m.—WABC— (Daily ex. Sun.) time-a-week series. LITTLE JACK LITTLE. morning and once in the afternoon, is a good one, and the act itself should 9:30 p.m.—WOR— (Tues. .Wed. & Thurs.) Is at the Columbia microphone to prove real meat for some commercial 7:45 p.m.—WEAF— (Daily ex. Sun.) TEA TIMERS. welcome the new day with his sophis- sponsor trying please to the home THE GOLDBERGS. With Macy and Smalle in a harmony ticated piano antics and piano chatter. folks. Gertrude Berg, author of this comedy skit. They never rehearse during the Once a week Jack presents an original of Hebrew home life, continues to act hour that is set aside for them, and composition of his own, and Saturdays 5:15 p.m. — WENR-NBC — (Dally ex. the role of Mollie Goldberg. James as an explanation give the fact that he offers a recapitulation of the out- Sun.) SKIPPY. Waters plays the role of Jake Gold- they have been together so long that standing tunes of the previous five Nobody is entitled to write "Skippy" berg, and Roslyn Silber and Alfred what the other is going to mornings. each knows except the guy who draws him. Out- Corn, the children's roles. It is a say next. That's harmony, eh. what? side of that, everything is oke. Good tale of the rise of a Hebrew tailor (Daily ex. Sat. 9:15 a.m.—WGN-NBC— direction, and some very fine children. and his family from a squalid tene- 9:15 p.m.— (Wed. & Fri.) & Sun.) CLARA, LU N EM. Little "Sooky" walks off with the ment section to the munificence of WBBM— Much weeping and wailing on one side radio show just as he did with the Park Avenue. ADVENTURES IN HEALTH. —much throwing of hats in the air and movies. And his radio voice is an ex- This is one of those programs with lusty cheering on the other. That was act duplication of his talking picture a moral—now wait a minute! Let go 7:45 p.m.— (Daily ex. Sat. & Sun.) the way the dear public greeted the voice, only betterl The entire trouble WJZ— of that radio dial, and listen to an astounding announcement that these is with the script itself. Outside of BILLY JONES AND ERNIE HARE. old veteran? I've suffered through lots Super-Suds ladies were leaving their being quite scripty and not very much Billy Jones and Ernie Hare, one of of programs with morals. I've had the evening spot for morning sessions in- like you expect Skippy to conduct the oldest song and patter teams of sins of hair dyeing jammed down my stead. It's really too bad that a big himself, the show is redeemed by radio, returned to the air after an throat—and then counteracted by a concern like their sponsors, can't be direction and acting. absence of some months. They pre- soft voiced lady who warns me of the diplomatic enough to please everybody. sent programs of novelty tunes and dire results of allowing myself to But on the other hand, that's been 6:15 p.m.—WGN— (Daily ex. Sun.) characteristic chatter. grow old. And I've had—but enough tried too—and it's quite a strain. HAROLD TEEN. of that. We're talking about Dr. Bun- and on the purse. It desen. He's one of those nice "daddy" On the nerves Somebody thought up a best-seller 7:45 p.m.— (Thurs. & Sat.) THE the certain big WOR— doctors that mothers between the ages was very amusing way here but it doesn't. Doesn't sell. I — JARR FAMILY. swear by. radio shots passed up these girls when mean. Which proves my point that a of seventeen and seventy If you are a member of the middle sentences with they were willing to sell their act for good program has to be shoved right (And I love ending class then you will completely enjoy this instance, a song. Now that it's worth a whole under the noses of advertisers before prepositions!) But in it but the radio version of this comic strip like you symphony, everybody wants — they discover it's there. For instance. you take Doc's preaching and which for years has brightened the pills with some sugar coat- Super-Suds proved its points "Amos 'n' Andy" and a few others take his — pages of the New York American. re- "cleans up." Extra swell stuff. who worked for the love of art for ing and a smile. This program From the pen of Roy McCardell. one con- so long! In Harold Teen I've found cently underwent a change of of the country's best known wits. 9:30 a.m.—WABC— (Dally ex. Sun.) the only authentic teen-age skit on struction; and was thereby vastly im- Instead of preaching to you. TONY'S SCRAP BOOK. the air. Mind you. I don't say it IS proved. the doctor gives the impression of Tony Wons, the only one— if there is another. I 6:15 p.m.—WABC— (Mon.. Wed. & Fri.) With unfailing regularity, answering some questions, aided by radio's philosopher, has his homey wish somebody'd call my attention to SINGIN' SAM, THE BARBASOL occasional "Oh. is that so" and "Yes. chats on topics from his scrap book. it. Tribune readers are well acquainted MAN. his gang. act doctors" from either a perplexed He keeps the scissors and paste work- with Harold and They Your old friend Singin' Sam. the Bar- were mother with a youngster who needs ing overtime to gather hits to discuss just like YOU did when you basol Man. The old-time minstrel seventeen. And on the air they are a good old-fashioned "shingle cure" during his six programs a week. sings five special request numbers on gen- even more so. Poor old Harold, who or the wife ot some pig-headed each program. Informality reigns su- tleman with gout. Rut the fact re- takes himself so seriously ; Beezie. 10:15 a.m.—WINS— (Wed. & Fri.) preme when Sam is in the studio, an with more heft than pep. and more mains that Dr. Rundesen gives out YOUR HANDWRITING—JANE RED- atmosphere which is largely created by understand, and even than all the columnists put to- advice you can INGTON. puns his genial, ad-lib announcing. gether; Lillums and Giggles, circulat- follow! (And there's one for YOU. Did you know that your individuality ing girl friends; and Lilacs, who longs Mr. Ripley I) Tins discourse on health 8:15 p.m.—WCFL— (Nightly) NIGHT is expressed through your handwriting. to be a big strong "he-man" and win is preceded by a five minute drama Each little curve, eacli angle is indica- the ladies, but who does better at in- COURT. which lends up to the point of the good at le.isr tive of some trait which you have de- haling ice cream sodas, than at pole- Still working on the theory that radio talk —and is usually for veloped in the past. Jane Reditigton. vaulting. And here's a tip-—watch listeners have six-year-old minds, this one laugh. El we Ml "SI" have morals f handwriting expert. in erprets your that gal Gale. There's stellar ma- conglomeration of wheezes, bad jokes. —lets have 'em like this. penmanship. character through your terial for you—and she didn't pay me middle class music, and general bodge I podge oi nothing on earth will send to say that either. In fact. don't 10:00 p.m.—WABC— (Mon.. 12:00 p.m. the child! But give her you to bed tearing your hair and 10:30 a.m.—WINS— (Dally ex. Sun.) even know a Wed.. 7:30 & 12:00 p.m. Sat.) GUY THE WIFESAVER. listen. A nice, deep, yet young voice. gnashing your teeth There isn't LOMBARDOS ORCHESTRA. that makes you think she's grinning any reason for it. except that maybe acting as a the A series of sketches at you with her eyes. "Seventeen" the talent (?) gets paid, and beniK i Broadcasting's ace orchestral bend panacea to the housewives in their toilet products sponsored this skit for labor Station. WCFL may be taking ol Guy Lombardo and his many broth kitchens. Real housekeeping hints a time— but evidently the makers are care of the depression. There mu>t ers. has four spots on the Columbia given in a painless manner—not so too old to remember how they acted be SOME reason! air schedule. M : UL painless, for you have to hold your when they were seventeen, for the con- Guy and In*, boys come to the CBS sides keep the stitches from falling. where put on the to tract wasn't renewed. But maybe the 8:30 p.m.—WABC— (Mon., Tues.. Wed. Studios they is Allen Prescott. with The continuity by typical adventures and escapades of & Thurs.) LA PALINA PRESENTS ert Rums Panatela period B Allen. On eventnj this bunch remind them too forcibly of KATE SMITH. and Saturday 2:30 p.m.—WABC— (Dally ex. Sat. & trouncings they'd rather forget. in the) asaisl little Miss singer is supported Sun.) AMERICAN SCHOOL OF THE The portly ably Babo. The Lombard n is by Nat Brusiloff and his orchestra. also heard at midnight on luuradays AIR. 6:30 p.m.—WINS— (Dally ex. Sot.) Kate was t lie originator of the "mem- and Saturdays, Every school day Columbia pre- GREGOIRE FRANZELL. ory" period, which brings to the radio sents the "American School of the One of the finest ensembles this side audience popular t.n Ol IteS of days Air." These programs are designed to of the Mississippi, And Gregoire is an gone by. 10:IS p.m.—WOR— (Dally ex. Sun.) be heard in class rooms all over the act in himself as he rumbles over the THE HAPPY VAGABOND. country and supplement teachers' in- piano keys-those fingers of his are 8:45 p.m.— (Mon. A Wed.) Oi Tacit Arthur His real, real name struction. Historical and fictional WABC— as nimble as squirrels tucking away AND BUDD. Is Arthm Campbell and in Ins lot topics are presented in dramatized COL. STOOPNACLE nuts in their safe deposit vault. baritone e WOR au form, along with lectures by well- Listeners are subjected to the clowning dience pi known authorities on various phases of Colonel Lemuel Quits Stoopnagle I (Tues., Thurs. St ballad-, thai are opccially arranged of art and science. 6:30 p.m.—WABC— and his partner Budd Fifteen minutes 'or him. Sot.) BING CROSBY. Of hilarious comedy, satire and general between 3:00 p.m. Tues., 3:15 p.m. Wed., 2:15 UN renditions of the latest song- tomfoolery are squeeaed In rendered the p.m. Thurs. & Fri., 4:00 p.m. Sat.) hits in a new style of baritone sin* the theme signatures bj 10:30 p.m.—C. ST. —KYW— (Daily e\. on the "tmght> ^.is- — WABC — ANN LEAF at THE itiK. have brought him nation wide genial Colonel Sun.) PADDED FISTS. acclaim. Bing is the father .«t tin- pipe console." ORGAN. We've had radio sketched with aoaaaa super- modulated technique which at Ann Leaf, diminutive organist of radio. laid everywhere from the parlor to present has meat VOgUe among pOpU 9:00 p.m.— (Mon.. Wed. A Fri.) is on the air every afternoon. She WGN— the bottom ol the ocean Rut wait lar singers. ACES. presents a wide range of musical EASY till you hear Dick RlacCaulej selections and from time to time is The wise guy who asked "What's in knock-out. 'Padded Pista,"* t'.uar Mon.. 6:30 p.m. Fri., 8:45 assisted by a guest soloist. On Wed- 6:45 p.m. a name" didn't know ins onions \tm anteed to pack a real wallop It p.m. Sat.)—WABC. lor radi nesdays she is co-featured with lyric likelj . if Mi and Mrs Ace hadn't funny 1 tenor. Ben Alley, and their program Vaughn de Leath, known as the "oriK- really been NAMED that probably l eathei Pual e ier's is known as the Charis Musical Revue. inal radio K>rl" because twelve years nobody would ever have thought of (That's tree ad Mr Editor » It's —:

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the yam of a well-bred college youth broadcast he confines his narrative to who suddenly finds himself being one foreign country. trained for the ring, with a woman 5:30 p.m.—WEAF—GENERAL ELEC- manager and a "mug" trainer! And TRIC CIRCLE. now go on from there! If you YOU Metropolitan Opera think our hero isn't managed, and Each week a Com- star presented, as general trained, you're just down for the pany is a rule. This rule is violated only when Blue count, that's all there is to that! And Ribbon visiting singer or by the way, listeners to the Tall Corn some other noted of voices is available. The State stations will recognize our ad- ensemble present operatic selec- Key Station, Red jective and fist-slinging coming stars usually WEAF— NBC Network, New York. — identified with their rise to champ as Dick Wells, their old stand- tions Key Station, Blue Network, fame. WJZ— NBC New York. by. This is his first real attempt at going Barrymore, and the kid's not 5:30 p.m.—WABC—BLUE COAL RA- WABC—Key Station, Columbia Network, New York. bad. {Note: That squares me for the DIO REVUE. I some months razzing gave him The Blue Coal Radio Revue is the back!) only full sponsored hour on the Co- Throughout the Week 12:00 p.m.—WABC— (Mon. & Thurs. lumbia network. The first half hour is 9:00 p.m. Tues.) BEN BERNIE AND devoted to the music of George 6:15 a.m.—WJZ—Phil Cook the Quaker Man (Quaker ORCHESTRA. Earle's Orchestra, with tunes of to- HIS Oats Co.) (Daily ex. Ben Bernie, once the "young maestro" day and yesteryear, interpreted in Sun.) but now according to his own admis- novelty arrangements and by guest 6:45 p.m.—WJZ—Lowell Thomas. (Daily ex. Sat., Suri.) sion the "old maestro," gives out his artists. The second half hour is de- special brand of humor over the mel- voted to a mystery drama. 7:00 p.m.—WJZ—Amos V Andy. (Daily ex. Sun.) odies of his orchestra from Chicago 7:00 p.m.—WGN—CBS—PENNZOIL. 7:15 p.m.—WABC The Sylvanians (Sun. and Tues. at three times weekly. On Tuesdays at — Harry Sosnick deserves much of the 9:00 p. m. he tells of the advantages 6:30 p.m.) credit for the success of this Sunday of Blue Ribbon Malt and listeners all evening musical treat. an ag- 7:30 over the country stay up until mid- With p.m.—WEAF—The Prince Albert Quarter Hour gregation of some two dozen expert night on Mondays and Fridays to hear ex. musicians, and the able assistance of (Daily Sun.) his offerings. the original "King's Jesters" from 7:45 p.m.—WEAF—The Goldbergs (Pepsodent Company) the ranks of Paul Whiteman, this is a Sunday grand dessert to top off a day of (Daily ex. Sun.) meat and potato programs—mostly 8:30 p.m.—WABC—Kate Smith La Palina Program. 12:30 p.m.—WABC—INTERNATIONAL quartettes and church services. Mr. BROADCAST. Sosnick plays gobs of swell piano (Mon., Wed. & Thurs.) and ends up by "Hello America" is the cheery greet- swings a mean baton— quite composer. didn't 8:45 p.m.—WABC—Colonel Stoopnagle and Budd (Proc- ing in some foreign accent signifying being a Penn that another broadcast from Europe miss when they hand-picked the talent ter and Gamble) (Mon. & Wed.) Usually the for this program. is about to take place. 9:00 p.m.—WABC—Mills Brothers (E. Fougera Co., programs originate at London, with 8:15 p.m.—WJZ—COLLIER'S RADIO & Cesar Saerchinger presenting an out- HOUR. Inc.) (Mon. and Thurs.) authority on a liter- standing British John B. Kennedy, master of cere- or scientific 10:00 p.m.—WEAF—Lucky Strike Program with Walter ary, artistic, political monies, introduces a variety of en- the broad- topic. On special occasions tertainment, including Uncle Henry Winchell (American Tobacco Co.) (Tues., Thurs., Sat.) from different points casts are made and the Editor, Inventions of Lucifer continent, such as Geneva, Berlin, 10:15 p.m. Clara, Lu and (Colgate-Palm- on G. Butts, Ernest LaPrade's orchestra, —WJZ— Em Paris and Rome. and dramatizations. Kennedy also olive-Peet Co.) (Daily ex. Sun. and Mon.) 12:00 (noon) — WOR— L I Z A B E T H gives a rapidfire review of current ANN'S SUNDAY SCHOOL. events, known for their terseness and 10:30 p.m.—WABC—Music That Satisfies (Liggett & It started Louisville, Ky. virility of expression. over WHAS, Myers) (Daily ex. Sun. ; Wed. and Sat. at 10 :00 p.m.) At that time its main purpose was to 9:00 p.m.—WABC—EVEREADY PRO- provide Sunday School services for GRAM. 11:00 p.m.—WJZ—Slumber Music, Ludwig Laurier (Daily shut in children. When Lizabeth Ann ex. Sun.) moved the school over to WOR, the Belle Baker, musical comedy star, is Eveready original plan expanded to its present the star soloist of the 12:00 p.m.—WABC—Ben Bernie and His Orchestra growth. It now brings to the micro- Safety program in which she is sup- phone children of every race and re- ported by Jack Denny and his Mount (Mon. and Fri.) ligious denomination around which a Royal Orchestra from Montreal. Den- ny was brought down from the Cana- program is built and is thus develop- Sunday ing a love and appreciation among dian city specially for this series. and popular numbers are inter- them. It is practical because it has New 12:30 p.m.—WABC—International Transatlantic Broad- series of Lizabeth Ann Clubs preted in special arrangements. started a cast in many states which collect and mend 9:15 p.m.—WOR—A R T H U R MUR- garments for the children of unem- RAY'S DANCING CLASS. 1:00 p.m.—WJZ—Walter Damrosch Symphonic Hour. ployed. The most complicated and fancy ball- 3:00 p.m.—WABC—New York Philharmonic Symphony 1 :00 p.m.—WJZ—W ALTER DAM- room dances are based on a series of ROSCH SYMPHONIC HOUR. simple steps with variations. This Orchestra Walter Damrosch, dean of American simple groundwork Arthur Murray 4:30 p.m. DaveyHour (Davey Tree Experts Co.) symphonic conductors, presents the well-known ball room dancer feels —WEAF— world's greatest music and includes a that he can teach by means of radio. 4:30 p.m.—WJZ—Sheaffer Lifetime Revue (W. A. Sheaf- series of Opera in English. He directs Now careful, first this way—toes out the orchestra and chorus. The one- is that right, Mr. Murray—and don't fer Pen Co.) hour program limits the series to forget to overlook your partner's toes. 5:30 p.m.—WEAF—General Electric Circle (General presentations of only parts of operas, 9:30 p.m. — WABC — ROMANCES OF but the chosen portions rank among THE SEA. Electric Co.) the favorite excerpts of classical op- 6:30 p.m.— "K-7"; Secret Service Spy Stories eras. Many well-known radio voices At present the series is concerned WJZ— the personal narrative of the are featured in the program, and the with 8:00 p.m.—WABC—Ziegfeld Follies of the Air (Chrysler) orchestra is practically man-for-man Felix Count L u c k n e r, familiarly the old New York Symphony Orches- known as "The Sea Devil" for his 8:00 p.m.—WEAF—Chase & Sanborn Hour (Standard escapades during the World tra of Carnegie Hall fame. daring Inc.) War. The Roundtowners quartet fur- Brands, 3:00 p.m.—WABC—NEW YORK PHIL- nishes sea ballads at the opening and 8:15 p.m.—WJZ—Collier's Radio Hour HARMONIC SYMPHONY ORCHES- conclusion of the broadcasts. TRA. 9:00 p.m.—WABC—Ever Ready Razor Program (Amer- 9:45 p.m.—WJZ—BUICK REVELERS. From 3:00 to 5:00 p. m. the New ican Safety Razor Co.) York Philharmonic- Symphony Orches- One of the foremost male quartets of tra broadcasts a full length concert. radio. The Revelers, are featured in 9:45 p.m.—WJZ—Buick Revelers (Buick Motor Co.) Various guest conductors are on the popular and semi-classical programs. rostrum and occasionally instrumental Countess Olga Albani, soprano, shares 12:30 a.m.—WABC—California Melodies from Los An- soloists are heard with the orchestra. honors with them and Frank Black's geles During the intermission, Olin Downes, orchestra. The Revelers Quartet music critic of the New York Times, James Melton and Lewis James, ten- makes commentaries on the selections. ors; Phil Dewey, baritone, and Wil- Monday fred Glenn, bass. 4:30 p.m.—WBBM—CBC—THE LOST Camel Quarter Hour LEGION. 7:45 p.m.—WABC— When two other critics agree that this 8:30 p.m.—WEAF—Voice of Firestone is swell show, it means that I'm Monday a 8:30 p.m. WJZ—Death Valley Days (Pacific Coast not prejudiced just because I happen — 7:00 p.m.—WGES—JOEL LAY. to like it. It's quite an innovation in Borax Co.) radio programs, dealing with tales of First time I ever heard Joel Lay, France's Foreign Legion. Scene, Al- some months back, he was singing 9:00 p.m.—WEAF—A & P Gypsies hymns. And at all sanc- geria. Characters: various nationali- he wasn't 9:30 p.m.— Parade of the States ties who'vt joined up for an enlist- timonious. He was lusty! And there WEAF— ment. Type: Adventure with a spice IS a difference. He was singing with 10:00 p.m.—WJZ—Canada's Mounted (Canada Dry) of love and romance, with mild tri- another chap—but nobody knew it Robert Burns Panatela Program angular aspects. Each broadcast is a Joel, being the more determined of 10:00 p.m.—WABC— complete story, although they are the two, got himself heard. Well, he more or less joined together from sang hymns for quite some little time week to week by character imperson- —then something happened. I guess the other fellow got tired of being ation. A musical introduction to each preparatory to presenting a net- acts as master of ceremonies and drowned in waves of baritone melody, paces character, who in turn says a few work program. Mildred Hunt, blues brings various female guest stars to words, stamps each player in the lis- or something. Anyway, they split up. also is in singer, is the vocalist. the microphone. He heard tener's mind. Willis Cooper who And now, lo and behold, Joel is OF FIRE- two tenor selections. An orchestra writes the sketches, does "Mendoza" WGESing with equal vim and vigor. 8:30 p.m.—WEAF—VOICE under the direction of Max Smolen the Spanish comedy relief—and how And with equal charm and vocal qual- STONE. renders popular numbers in symphonic ity. It doesn't matter he's he does him I Triangle involves Mari- whether Lawrence Tibbett, baritone of the arrangements. gold Cassin as Amelie. the Colonel's accompanied by a piano or a brass Metropolitan Opera Company, is the daughter, and Don Ameche who is band—you can still hear him. And to featured soloist. He offers a wide 9:30 p.m.—WEAF—PARADE OF THE very dashing as Lieut. Vibrat. with listen to that lad go from a soft tone range of songs, for which he is known STATES. the other angle held up by Vinton to one of his super-elegant big ones, operatic circles. William Merri- in Each week a tribute to a state of the Ha worth as Smith, the American Le- is a treat 1 Incidentally, he has one gan Daly's orchestra also. gionnaire. (No pun intended.) Sunda of those beaming "I-just-had-my-face- Union, written by Bruce Barton, is presented with appropriate music. Love displays her French as Marie washed" complexions that is the envy 8:30 p.m.—WJZ—DEATH VALLEY who serves the ever-thirsty. The of the girls, and the abomination of DAYS. Barton's tributes are of historical in- conducts or- the baritones I terest. Erno Rapee the cast is too long to enumerate in detail Authentic dramatizations of man's — listen in, and save me a lot of trou- chestra. 9:15 p.m. — WABC — F R O S T I L L A perennial fight to conquer Death Val- ble. You won't be sorry. BROADCAST REHEARSALS. ley, Cal. They are written by a stu- 10:00 p.m.—WJZ—WITH CANADA'S of the arid region. MOUNTED. 4:00 p.m.—WJZ—T RAVELOGUE, Each Monday evening Columbia's ra- dent of the history stories dramatize man's MALCOLM LA PRADE. dio audience is taken back of the Most of the The stories forming the backbone of elements, but others Malcolm LaPrade, world traveler and scenes of the typical American broad- conflict with the the Royal— Canadian Mounted Police student of culture, interprets signifi- casting station when the Frostilla are colorful human incidents. legend "they always get their man" cant points of interest in exotic lands, Broadcast Rehearsal is presented. An 9:30 p.m. —W A B C — BOURJOIS — AN —are dramatized by a star cast of tells of customs of foreign peoples and orchestra under the direction of Har- EVENING IN PARIS. radio actors. The facts are taken changes in their social order. In each ry Salter is heard going through its Pierre, Brugnon. genial Francophile from the official records of the organ- W '

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American leaders. Tliey compliment a quartet and Gladys Brittain, soprano, Emil Ludwig's saying: "The anec- contrasts the different periods musi- dote best defines the personality." cally, while a ten minute dramatization Hosario Bourdon's orchestra furnishes portrays a news event of the past a spirited musical program. called to mind by a current happening. 9:00 p.m.—WOR—HOFFMAN HOUR. Selections A program of scintillating stars in Wednesday popudar selections: Hoffman Constel- 3:00 p.m.—WEAF—WITH A SENA- lation made up of Nelson Eddy, bari- Tuesday TORS WIFE IN WASHINGTON. tone; Lois Bennett, soprano, and Miss Veronica Wiggins, contralto — with Intimate chats of social and political Josef Pasternack directing this Great life in the national capital by wives 7:30 p.m.—WABC—Richman Brothers' Program with Dipper. of the I'nited States senators. Leon Sylvia Froos Brusiloff's orchestra provides a lively 9:00 p.m.—WJZ—FRIENDSHIP TOWN. musical program. 8:00 p.m.—WEAF—Blacks tone Plantation Program Rural sketches. One of the foremost 8:30 5:15 p.m.—WABC—BILL SCHUDT'S characterizations of small- town cit- p.m.—WEAF—True Story Hour GOING TO PRESS. izenry on the air today. It features a 8:45 p.m.—WJZ—Sisters of the Skillet cast of radio stars, including Virginia Columbia's director of television pro- Gardiner, Edith Spencer. Don Carney. 8:45 p.m.—WABC—Gerardine Program (La Gerarcline, grams presents weekly a well-known Ed Whitney. "Pic" Malone and "Pat" newspaper man who discusses Inc.) a par- Padget. Harry Salter's orchestra ticular phase of the journalistic pro- emulates a small-town band, and 9:00 p.m.—WABC—Ben Bernie (Blue Ribbon Malt) fession. Frank Luther, tenor, is the town's 9:00 p.m.— vocalist. 9: 00 p.m.—WEAF—McKesson Musical Magazine WABC—G OLD MEDAL FAST FREIGHT. 9:30 p.m.—WJZ—MAXWELL HOUSE 9:30 p.m.—WJZ—Great Personalities The puffing of the locomotive and the ENSEMBLE. clanging of the engine's bell announce A musical program featuring Don Wednesday the arrival of the Gold Medal Fast Voorhees" orchestra. Lanny Ross, Freight from Minneapolis. Eddie tenor soloist, and a male quartet. The Dunsteter, internationally known or- Songsmiths. Each broadcast features 7:15 p.m.— ABC- -Maxwell House Program (General ganist, is assisted by the Wheat ies several popular numbers of the day. Foods Co.) quartet in a half hour of popular The male quartet: Scrappy Lambert songs. and Randolph Weyant. tenors; Leon- 8:00 p.m.—WEAF—"Big Time" (Stanco, Inc.) 10:00 p.m.—WEAF—COCA COLA. ard Stokes, baritone, and Bob Moody, bass. 8:30 p.m.—WEAF—Goodyear Program Grant land Rice, noted sports writer, 9:00 p.m.—WABC—Gold Medal Fast Freight (General interviews celebrities in many fields of athletics and adventure, and Gus- Saturday Mills, Inc.) tave Haenschen's all -string orchestra furnishes the music. 5:30 p.m.—WEAF—THE BLUE MOON- 9:00 p.m.—WJZ—Adventures of Sherlock Holmes CUCKOOS. 9:30 p.m.—WEAF—Mobiloil Concert (Vacuum Oil Co.) Raymond Knight, radio humorist, in- Thursday troduces one of 10:00 the most unique pro- p.m.—WEAF—Coca Cola Program (Coca Cola Co.) grams of the air. as author and sta- 4:00 p.m.—WJZ—H O M E DECORA- tion master of the 11:15 p.m.—WABC—Howard Barlow— Symphony Or- TIONS. mythical statiun Kt'Kl'. He satirizes broadcasting it- chestra. Grace Viall Gray, economic expert, self—proving there is a sense of gives a brief and instructive talk and humor in the studios. A star cast each week introduces some other au- of radio actors helps him. Thursday thority in the field. A musical pro- 7:00 p.m.— gram is furnished by J. Oliver WABC—THE POLITICAL 9:00 p.m.—WEAF—Big Six of the Air (Chevrolet Motors) Riehl's orchestra. SITUATION IN WASHINGTON TO- NIGHT. 9:00 p.m.—WJZ—Blackstone Plantation Program. 8:30 p.m.—WOR—W I N G S OF RO- MANCE. Commentaries on public affairs are 9:30 p.m.—WEAF—Rudyard Kipling Stories; dramatic heard every Saturday night from dif- Everyone from the washerwoman up sketches. ferent parts of the country. Frederic to the Vice President has dreams. William Wile, political analyst of the Phil Thorne knows 9:30 p.m.—WJZ—Maxwell House Program. human nature and Columbia Broadcasting System, dis is therefore qualified to capture these cusses "The Political Situation at 11:00 p.m.—WABC—Toscha Seidel, violinist, with Con- dreams in radio scripts. The most Washington Tonight." One hour and important role in the play. "Fate." is cert Orchestra. a half later. Frederick Landis. the interpreted by John A. Willarde, vet- "II. osier Editor'" and former I'nited 11:45 p.m.—WABC—Bing Crosby. eran of the legitimate stage, and it States Representative from Indiana, is because he sees the reality of men's comments in an informal way upon visions and imaginations that he car- current happenings. Friday ries off his part with laurels. 9:00 p.m.—WEAF—BIG SIX OF THE 8:00 p.m.—WJZ—DANGER FIGHTERS. 7:30 p.m.—WABC—Easy Aces; dramatic skit (Lavoris AIR. An eminent example of the adapt- Corp.) Six big attractions, combining a piano ability of radio lor presenting authen- tic scientific discoveries in a drama- 7:45 p.m.—WABC Camel Quarter Hour. duo, two vocal soloists, a male quar- — tet and Frank Black's orchestra. The tized form. The weekly programs are adapted from Paul de Kruif's best 8:00 p.m. WEAF Cities Service Concert Orchestra personnel follows: Phil Oilman an 1 — — seller. "Microbe Hunters." An ex- Victor Arden. piano duo ; Lewis 8:30 p.m.—WABC—DuPont Program (E. I. Dupont de James, tenor, and Welcome Lewis, cellent cast of radio actors participate.

contralto ; Henry Shope and Frank Nemours). 8:30 p.m. — KYW - NBC — FIRST Parker, tenors, John Seagle. baritone, NIGHTER. 9:00 p.m.—WEAF—Clicquot Club Program (Clicquot and Elliott Shaw. bass, the quartet. Club Company). James Wallington, the announcer, dine upon a time somebody got the item six. idea that putting a regular theater 9:30 p.m.—WJZ—Armour Program (Armour Company). performance on the air would be the 9:30 p.m. — WABC — LOVE STORY height >! something or other. Hence 10:00 p.m.—WJZ—Whiteman's Pontiac Chieftains. HOUR. the "First N'ighter." Each meml 10:30 p.m.—WEAF—R.K.O. Theatre of the Air. Each week a romance from the Love the listening audience is given an im- Story magazine is reenacted by a aginary ticket to the show, and be- corps of actors under the direction ol comes one of the elite tirst nighters Saturday Bill Sweets and Dana Noyes. George who come. see. and meat Earle's orchestra supplies t he musical The atmosphere is set perfectly Even interludes. the curtain comes up with ei, 5:30 p.m.— WEAF—Blue Moon Cuckoos. realism to make you actually see the 8:00 p.m.— WJZ—Danger Fighters (Health Products 10:20 p.m.—WOR—BEGGAR'S BOWL. Scene. Orchestra plays the overture The netting. India —Theme. Experi- oi course, and the play r Corp.) ences of a British Secret Service man vided into three acts. Between 8:15 p.m.- WABC—Abe Lyman and his Orchestra (Phil- disguised as a beggar. Oriental music Lady Campana represents the sp as a background. Script by Ruysdael. with a little well diluted advertising is nicely pleas lips Denta Magnesia). selections by George Shack ley. Is it Her voice decisive ana 9:00 p.m.- Goodyear Program. any wonder that this sketch, which ing to listen to. Most ol the h WEAF— was crowded out last year by commer- in acting belong to the hea\ y and i> the man. re^t carry 9:30 p.m.- WEAF—Club Valspar Program (Valspar cials, was recalled to the air by the leading The their protests of WOR fans? pat v however. There i^ Corp.) Only one hitch in the entire perform 10:00 p.m.- —WABC Columbia Institute of Public Affairs. UBCe. and that s either the fault ol — the writer or - Pitt alter 10:45 p.m.- -WABC—Arthur Jarrett. Friday Setting all this atmosphere "stagey" along come the horses' hoofs 11:30 p.m.- Buddy Rogers. 11:00 a.m.—WEAF-WJZ—NBC MUSIC -WEAF— APPRECIATION HOUR. galloping ovei miles of w ide 12:00 p.m.- —WABC—Guy Lombardo and his Royal Ca- spaces .iii>l blot ej goes thi Millions of school children and parents the theat re. and j ou*re left in nadians. alike appreciate this program Walter air. ball way between a talking Damroschi dean of American con tine and .i Stage But )

duetors i through the medium of the this little oversight, bei program! baa come to be Known iin the really *<^^\ entertainment after all. foremost advocate in America ol teach B*afl p.m.—WEAF—NATIONAL AD- log classical music in schools ,md ization and adapted for radio presen- 8:30 p.m.— T VISORY COUNCIL ON RADIO IN WEAF— RUE STORY homes. He personalis announces the EDUCATION. tation by the historian of the famous HOUR. programs and explains the significance police system. A series of dramatic presentations -i master works. *-..< - the tie designed to show that truth is one representing 8:00 p.m.— CITIES SERVICE the other stranger than fiction. Miss Mora WEAF— inomics and ORCHESTRA. each week as si*eakrrs Sterling plays the role ol M.n>. and CONCERT appeal Tuesday kgi is recogni red Cecil Secresl that of Bob. Jessica Dragonette. soprano, long am as i .uU anted ken in eon 8:45 p.m.— A B G recognised a-- one ol the foremost C— ERARDIN ' W E— radio i 9:30 p.m.—WEAF—T HE FULLER soloists on the air, shares honors BROADWAY'S 1 GREATEST and I MAN. THRILLS. with the unowned Cavaliers quartet 10:00 p.m.— Popular sonjys of today and yester- Ed Sullivan. New York columnist, Frank Banta and Milton Ret tenberg, WABC—COLUMBIA IN- years by Mabel Jackson, new radio presents "Broadway's Greatest piano duo. and Rosario Bourdon's or- STITUTE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS. soprano; Earle Spicer, baritone, and Thrills." There is a dramatisation in chestral add to the talent rhe quartet Don Voorhees* orchestra. A snappy the life of some outstanding figure in personnel: Henry Shope and Frank program, the metropolitan theatrical world, as Parker, tenors: John Seaglei baritone; Honal Questions voice theii well as guesi vocalists accompanied Elliott Shaw. baAS* ough the radio forum ere 4:15 p.m.—WJZ—MORMON TABER- by an orchestra under the omnia Inst it t NACLE CHOIR AND ORGAN. direction 8:30 p.m.—WABC—TODAY AND YES- of Jack Berger. TERDAY. There »s no The famous Mormon choir of 300 grams, which d 9:^0 p.m.—WJZ—GREAT PERSONAL- voices and the giant organ, offer a l he program is designed to show the i but program of classics and religious ITIES. difference betw een current happenings speaker is heard tr! hymns th« one from the great Tabernacle in Frazier Hunt, newspaper reporter an ! and the music ol caslons more than authority Salt Lake City. Anthony C. Lund famous World War correspondent. days gone ,,v ^ n n lei the an import directs the choir. presents a graphic word picture of direction ol Don Voorhees. assisted bj before 'he publh 66

Nancy Flake

EVER hear Nancy sing "On Revival Day" from those good old Southern stations, WSJS at Winston- Salem, North Carolina, or WRVA at Rich- mond? Then you are going to enjoy seeing her picture here. Jac- queline Dorminy writes us that Nancy will probably be in Radio Village next June making singies and broadcasting. — —

67 Education by J\adi

Noted Instructor Sums up Results of His Own Experience as Radio Speaker and Gives Advice

By GLEASON L. ARCHER, LL.D.

Dean, Suffolk Law School, Boston

CONSIDERING the qualities period all that a speaker should be per- that constitute the necessary equip- mitted to do at one time IN T'pOR two years Dean Archer has ment of an educational hroadcaster, Preparation of Script. The prepara- JL* made his weekly appearance before the voice quite naturally comes first. tion of a broadcast is an art in itself a National Broadcasting Co. microphone The voice is the vehicle not only of an art that can be mastered only by in New York and discoursed on Law— thought but of the speaker's personality. experience. Some radio speakers are "Laws That Safeguard Society." His Radio broadcasting is at present on a mere actors who render into words what "classes" have expanded until they now one dimensional plane, making appeal another has written for them. These circle the globe. This article is the se- solely to the ears of the audience. People professional writers of "script," or pro- quel to a former article in which he simply will not listen to a harsh voice, duction men as they are called, need no shows how educational subjects may be nor to an indistinct voice, nor to ma- suggestions from me. What I here de- made interesting. Teachers ivill find his chine gun utterance unless the subject clare is merely for the educator like my- suggestions on technique valuable. matter is very interesting. self who writes his own "script" and

There is nothing more amazing about renders it at the microphone. the radio than the manner in which it By the custom of the great broadcast- samples of defects upon which we la- plays favorites with human voices. It ing companies copies of proposed talks bored for months, with some degree of glorifies some ordinary voices and dis- are required in advance of delivery. success. torts others beyond recognition. I have They are read by a special department A natural conversational tone is of heard men whose platform tones are —censored as it were—before they are course the ideal medium for radio broad- melodious and compelling speak over given over the air. My own custom has casting. But since it is necessary that the radio in such altered tones that I been to write my broadcasts a month to every word spoken over the air be read could not recognize the voice at all six weeks in advance of delivery and from "script" it is difficult to avoid the their tones leaden and dead, a heavy file copies with NBC accordingly. "reading voice." Theatrical affectation voice devoid of personality. I have heard Even though radio broadcasts arc in would likely defeat its own purpose, for others whose tones rang as true as a consecutive series each talk should be the radio relentlessly exposes artificial- though they were present in the room. complete enough in itself to give the ities of this sort. Perhaps after all a person has a ra- listener who tunes in for the first time speaker may at times be obliged by dio voice or he has not. It is a part of A a fairly accurate idea of what it is all state of his personality. The only way of dis- sheer will power to create a about. tension that will stand behind covering this fact is by an audition or nervous It must entertain as well as instruct. send it out vibrant by actual broadcasting. his utterance and This does not mean that the radio lec- with life. A dead tone is fatal to host should turn clown, his But there is much that a person may turer disguise results. If the speaker throws himself to any of do for his voice, as I know from ex- voice or resort sort buffoonery heart and soul into his subject the voice perience. He probably cannot change on the air. cannot fail to transmit that fact to the the essential quality of the voice itself Men and women are keenly interested radio audience. but he can and should train himself in in the truly vital things o\ everyday ex- distinctness of enunciation. He should Length of Period. Having tested the perience. In my own work I rely almost

if possible employ some voice teachei half-hour period, the twenty minute wholly upon human interest Stories to whose ears as keen to detect imperfec period and the quarter-hour broadcast drive home the truths that I seek to im- tions of speech, listen in on his radio I am emphatically of opinion that the parl to the radio audience. To be sure

broadcasts and check the sounds that latter period is best of all, especially for 1 state a principle of law and sketch the customarily fail of clarity. educational programs. To be sine, historical background, hut this i- merely During the early months of my broad- many radio fans write complaining that to lead up to the gripping and dramatic brief, it is or stories that illustrate the appli- casting I employed an expert of this the period is too but better story sort who cured me of a tendency to to leave them eager for more than sur- cation of the principle. "fade out" on the last word or two of a feited with too much. In selecting illustrations from the sentence. Control of the vocal cords Then there is the speaker himself. great mass of law cases th.it exist in the brought an evenness of tone that I Having been accustomed to a lecture reported decisions, I favor western lacked at the beginning. Then, too, I period of an hour and a half in Suffolk cases simply because in them we find had a tendency to hiss on the "S" Law School I at first felt that fifteen great human dramas reported with a

sounds, for the radio exaggerates any minutes was altogether too brief. Bui 1 wealth of detail. With this as a ha-is I such defect. Words ending in "D" fol- am convinced from experience that the endeavor to visualize for the listener lowed by an "M" sound bothered me nervous tension of the radio broadcast, the tragedy or corned] as it occurred. also. They did not come over the air when one is putting bis whole soul into When my series "Laws that Safe- as distinctly as they should. These are the effort, renders the quarter-hour guard Society" was in it- early stages, — :

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my talks were prepared somewhat as I words that he speaks and the manner in while messages for the radio lecturer would prepare a lecture for a law class. which he speaks them goes out let us who is uncertain of the effect of his There was of course an avoidance of say to a million homes. Whether they words. technical terms. Simplicity of language listen in or tune him out, in favor of In my own experience the average of was my aim throughout. There were a jazz or nonsense program, is a serious fan mail is small because there is noth- more illustrations than if designed for matter not only to the speaker himself ing to call it forth. But when in March the classroom but I soon found that I but also to the broadcasting stations 1931 I mentioned the possibility of re- was covering too much ground for best that carry his program. To throw his printing my lectures in book form for results over the air. entire personality into the broadcast those who wished them at the mere cost It was then that I adopted my present means the expenditure of a great deal of publication, I was at once the target policy of taking a small segment of my of nervous energy for an avalanche of mail. For three topic and devoting the entire period to Fan Letters. Fan letters are of weeks I could do little else but read let- its elucidation. This affords sufficient course highly prized by radio lecturers ters. From judges, lawyers, doctors, scope for the use of the best illustra- —that is, if the letters are laudatory. I probation officers, welfare workers, po- tions I can find in the state reports am told that letter writing by radio lis- licemen and men and women from all thus bringing to my audience a series teners has now become much less com- walks of life, the letters came. Little of stories from life that entertain as mon than when broadcasting was new. children even were contributors to this well as instruct. For every person who writes a letter grist of fan mail. And letters came Timing the Address. A great deal of nowadays there are probably hundreds from far countries—all in answer to difficulty confronts the beginner at radio and even thousands of listeners who my question. broadcasting in the matter of timing never write at all. It never occurs to Then it settled back to normal again. his speech in advance. If he is to cover them to write. But the revelation that came to me in a given topic it would be very awkward, There is a genuine thrill therefore to those three weeks, the glimpses into to say the least, if he did not reach his receive a letter from some listener thou- homes and hearts to whom, on the magic conclusion before the close pf his al- sands of miles away telling of the cir- wings of the radio, my voice is borne lotted time, or if he finished too soon. cumstances under which one's message each week will remain with me always. But in a chain broadcast when so many came to him. The invalid hopelessly It was a baptism of friendship, an stations are dependent upon absolute bedridden who finds in the program a outpouring from the great heart of the and exact timing the problem is very new interest in life—something to look people that brought to me a new sense serious forward to from week to week; the of responsibility to the public and a new

Another factor enters in. To deliver blind man to whose eager soul the radio conception of the tremendous possibil- an address either to a visible audience, brings light and cheer, these are worth- ities of education by radio. or over the microphone, requires more

time than merely to read it to oneself. How much more time depends upon cir- The Significance of Two Bulletins cumstances and the state of one's nerves at the moment of delivery. Educators and Broadcasters The mental strain of working under this cloud may prove a genuine handi- Advise Their Members cap to the speaker. But there is a sim- ple way out, as I found after some JUST by way of comparison let us formation on this Questionnaire. He months of experimenting. look at both sides of the question advises in his wire, SEND RUSH the inside the leaders of the I procured a stop watch and now use from as BULLETIN TO ALL EDUCA- National Association of Broadcasters TIONAL STATIONS TO INTER- it both in preparing the original MSS Association of —reading and timing the text before and the leaders of the PRET AS EDUCATIONAL BROAD- College and University Broadcasting CASTING EVERYTHING THEY giving it to the stenographers—and also Stations advised their respective using it on the day of the broadcast mem- DO EXCEPT ANY TIME SOLD berships concerning the Questionnaire AT while rehearsing for the same. It is pos- COMMERCIALLY STOP sible to check each minute in the text inspired by the Couzens Resolution. LEAST THE PERCENTAGE itself and then in a second reading, at From the official bulletin of the N. SHOULD BE CLOSE TO ONE the usual broadcast tempo, so near as A. B. to all of its members HUNDRED. "This rush bulletin is being released one can judge, to see how it compares "The American system of broadcast- as to time. and may I especially urge that you give ing is on trial. . . Your Association has particular attention to the Question- With such annotations in the text it pledged its cooperation in making this naire you have received from the Com- is possible to observe the studio clock investigation thorough and honest. mission and make an interpretation on occasionally, to note whether more or Your Association believes that a fair your report as suggested in this wire. less speed is needed to finish on time. and impartial investigation will con- IT IS QUITE IMPORTANT THAT By this vince the Senate method the nervous tension is and the American Peo- THIS BE DONE. minimized. ple that our system of competitive "Please advise this office if the ques- Nervous Tension While Broadcast- broadcasting, conducted by private en- tionnaire you are filing for your station ing. Nervous tension seems to terprise, is the best the world can pro- me an has been sent to the Commission on the inescapable accompaniment of duce. Give the Questionnaire your per- success- basis as outlined above." ful radio broadcasting. person sonal attention. Spare no time or effort A so un- Higher education must be expanding emotional and phlegmatic as to take the to report the questions completely and its radio curriculum. You now get a matter calmly can scarcely hope to stir accurately." good practical course in Junior High the interest of listeners hundreds or From the "Rush Bulletin" signed by Jinks by air. Or you may prefer some thousands of miles away. T. M. Beaird, Executive The radio Secretary, "To of the ultra technicalities of the more lecturer on a chain broadcast is in Members of the Association real- of College liberal interpretation of the Freshman ity an actor on a mighty stage and University Broadcasting . . set by Stations. Frolics. Instructions state that every- modern science. For the time being he "I am in receipt at 1 :00 P. M. today thing from a college broadcasting occupies the centre of the stage. The of a day letter from one of our program station, "which is not commercial" must whole show depends upon him. The directors who evidently has inside in- be interpreted as "educational." —

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eauty

at

v^ompound Interest

Systematic Investment of Minutes in care of the skin will yield huge profits in pulchritude

By Frances Ingram

Consultant on Care of the Skin heard on NBC every Tuesday morning. Dorothy Knapp, noted stage star, and former NBC artist, appears to be drawing interest at high rate in the beauty mart.

boarding school daughter of wnere interest is compounded from the change banks of Betty and Marion. Her THEfriend of mine successfully re- deposit. special are tagged, a day of compartments too, sisted all attempts to inculcate My friend's daughter and my secre- but into them goes time for necessary the habit of systematic saving tary have both acquired the habit of sys- beauty rituals. Instead of money, she into her scheme of living until an in- tematic saving. They have a very real saves time—time for giving her hair genious aunt made her a present of a pride in their ability to accumulate one hundred strokes every night, time bank. The top of this bank had six slots money with interest. Marion is ex- for cleansing her skin, time for a mani- and each slot was marked for a specific tremely enthusiastic about the plan. cure, time to relax—time broken down purpose. For instance, one of them was "If I didn't save every day, I'd never into small change for which she re- tagged Birthday Presents, another Va- have any money for Christmas presents, ceives compound interest from the day cation, another Christmas, and so on. or birthday presents, or vacations, or of deposit. The novelty of the arrangement ap- anything," she says. "I'd just spend the pealed to Betty and for the first time in money and I wouldn't have any idea u her life she began to make regular bank what I had dene with it. But putting A,tBOL'T ten years ago. deposits. Once a month the contents of some pennies and some nickels in the when I wasn't nearly as busy as 1 am this miniature bank went into a regular bank every day—why, at the end of a today," she told me. "1 inadvertent!' savings account. When the first month's year I can hardly believe I have saved into a frame of mind where I thought 1 savings were counted, Betty was amazed that much. All that interest and every- couldn't take lime for any oi those at the total of her daily penny and thing— it's marvelous." things. When I was going to a i nickel deposits. Interest on her money or for some reason had to look as well in the regular savings bank surprised as I could, it was a terrible scramble to her still more. Interest on interest was ILNTKREST compounded make myself presentable. One da} 1 something her father and mother had on nickels and pennies, dimes and dol- arrived at a luncheon in a pretty pitiable tried to impress upon her, but it took lars, is something most of us take for state. After that 1 decided upon the her own experience to prove the point granted. "Interest from the day of de- Beauty Bank and ever since 1 have Marion, my secretary, has a similar posit" oil our money we expect, but "in- managed to put aside a few minute- to bank. Her six accounts are tagged as terest Oil beauty" that's another angle, keep looking well groomed and ready follows: Clothes, Birthday Presents, and a side to the saving question that for any occasion that crops up. The Doctor, Dentist, Vacation, and Miscel- many women have never even con- peace oi mind 1 have nowadays is all laneous. In her Miscellaneous compart- sidered. the interest 1 deserve on my small in- ment she saves for commutation, Christ- A woman novelist who is as well vestment. But, of course, the interes mas presents, and general savings. known for her beauty as for her books compounded anil 1 know that my sys Twice a month she takes the accumu tells me that she has a Beauty Bank, tematic saving for beauty has done more kited small change to the savings bank very similar in its workings to the for me than any elaborate, but S] 70

modic, treatments would ever have done. high baritone are each soloists of high KRKD will make its bow to the radio Some of my friends pretend to have a rank and their program repetoir runs listeners of Southern Cal. shortly. It is humorous slant on my Beauty Bank, but the gamut of jazz to the classics. an outgrowth from the old station I notice quite a few of them have In eulogizing each member of the KMCS. This new station is the Los adopted the idea for themselves. My trio, Dobbsie disclosed hidden virtues Angeles link of a little chain of three husband has paraphrased that quotation— of the boys and brought out the star- stations the other stations linked up —you know the one I mean 'Who tling fact that Foster Rucker, aside with KRKD is KMTR Hollywood and steals my purse, steals trash; 'tis some- from being an accomplished vocalist, is KMPC Beverly Hills. thing, nothing; Twas mine, 'tis his, and also a poet and read from Rucker's re- has been slave to thousands ; But he that cently published volume of love poems, ANEW station that promises to en- filches from me my Beauty Bank—But 'Sing To Me.' tertain Southern Cal. listeners you know," she added more seriously, with more of the fine Mexican music ''there's more truth than poetry in that. January 1927 found KGDM going on has just appeared on the air at the fa- If some one stole my money, I could the air with a little five watt station, mous resort Tijuana Mexico under the

earn more ; but, if I ever got out of the a station which at that time was started call letters of XEFD. It comes in on habit of regular systematic saving for as a new means of advertising for the 845 kc. beauty, I'd lose a great deal more than Peffer Music Company. This station money." KMPC has stolen a jump on its west- immediately grew into prominence and And she would, of course. She'd lose ern rivals by importing from Alabama the demand immediately made it neces- that well-groomed, soignee, Park Ave- the group of crooners that are making sary to increase the power to fifty nue look of hers and the confidence such a hit in the south with those ever watts, then to one hundred and the which it gives her—the peace of mind lingering Negro melodies. KMPC can fifth anniversary found it a two hun- that allows her to work undisturbed by be counted on to find the programs that dred and fifty watt station commanding worry about her appearance. She saves touch the right spot. the entire San Joaquin and Sacramento for beauty in small change amounts, but Valleys. There is a persistent rumor that the her savings are systematic and her in- well liked Ne'er-DO-Well is to be pro- terest is compounded. moted to the network thru the assistance A woman who will take a few min- BOTH chains plan to broadcast the of a sponsor, Ne'er-DO-Well has a very utes to cleanse her skin at night instead Olympic Games from Los Angeles large following throughout the west. of popping into bed with an accumula- and the Intercollegiate track meet from tion of the day's dust and dirt upon her the new University of California track The famous Mexican orchestra Los face, will plant, to be completed in Berkeley for who brush her hair, and push Caballerous will fill three spots weekly back her cuticle, will draw interest on the July games. on KYA San Francisco. Their soloist beauty from the very day of deposit. will be Berna Frachette, well known to The NBC Spotlight, with 15 people, You have a small change bank per- western radio listeners. Here is a com- gave two shows daily at the Seattle haps—but what about a Beauty Bank ? bination of talent that will please Automobile show. The Spotlight origi- KYA There's "interest from the day of de- followers and build new audiences for nates in San Francisco and has been a posit" you know, and no saving is too the ever popular San Francisco inde- regular Saturday night NBC attraction. small to start. pendent. Norman Field, veteran actor, has KYA has just become the outlet for been signed for appearances over a Pa- the San Francisco Examiner. This as- cific Coast chain. Pacific Coast Echoes sociation of two fine mediums of public information promises much for the fu- (Continued from page 62) Irate western listeners have swamped ture. Mr. Edward McCullum, Manager radio editors with letters complaining of KYA plans much in the way of new casting thrice weekly over coast NBC. that the program standard drops too programs for his station. markedly after the New York lines have cut. productions ADDING new laurels to their been The coast are far The University of the air, a very inferior eastern air jL\. crown of achievements, is becom- to and midwest popular program on the NBC north- ing a regular occurrence with The shows. west triangle is to be extended to the Three Vagabonds, male trio of KFOX. west over a network of stations. This The famous Negro quartette that re- For some time this station has boasted, program is sponsored by the Parker gales on KHJ Los Angeles made a won- and not without cause, of having one Dental organization. derful hit at the Los Angeles RKO the- of the best male trios heard on radio. atre recently. The most novel musical The Rola mixed quartette on KLX As further proof of the outstanding stunt this writer has witnessed in many Oakland has a tough spot to work on, quality and varied talents of the three years was the way these boys imitated bucking Amos 'n' Andy but the team is singers, they were invited by Hugh Hawaiian guitars, even to the sounding gaining in popularity. Barret Dobbs, (Capt. Dobbsie) of the of and fading out of the steel guitar. famed Shell Happytime Program re- Fred and Morris on KLX are original Mr. Lewis Weiss can be proud of this cently, to appear in one of the morning and have fine possibilities. Just re- troupe. They are a fine representive programs broadcast from KHJ over the hearse those skits a little more, boys, organization and a great add for KHJ. Don Lee System during their stay in and work hard, you'll get there all right. I os Angeles while appearing at one of The Houghson sisters well known to the local theatres. Holly Sugar, a California product, western radio fans for their unusual daily over musical offers a novel organ program The program on this particu- close harmony, are to be on a regu- now Stockton. lar furnished KWG at day was entirely by The lar spot Tuesdays on KRE the Berkeley Three Vagabonds and Capt. Dobbsie station. They are blondes. Curtis Benton, scenario writer and was high in his praise of the ability of sports announcer of KNX at Los An- this trio and of the character of the The Little German Band, which is geles, is a Friday night attraction for programs heard from KFOX through the only one of its kind on the coast every fight fan in the state. Benton whose courtesy the trio appeared. Fos- and heard regularly on the Pioneer sta- gives Floyd Gibbons a run for his ter Rucker, baritone, Harry Morton, tion of the world KQW, is to be fea- money in fast talking and presents a tenor and Mart Daugherty, pianist and tured on a sponsored network program. colorful blow-by-blow account of the 71 pugilistic combats from the Hollywood for their first four years in radio and American Legion show each Friday at until last summer they have been on 9:45. National Broadcasting Company net- works continuously since the company Celeste Rader Bates, KGDM of was formed. They appeared earlier over Stockton, has become one of the feature Stations WEAF and WJZ when these artists of the station during the past were independent stations. few months. Miss Bates was one of Billy and Ernie might be termed Da- the Pacific Coasts' leading candidates mon and Pythias, so inseparable are for the honors of beauty queen in a con- the comedians. When an acquaintance test staged by Radio Digest. meets Jones he instinctively says "Hello, Velva Darling, KNX columnist, is in Billy, where's Ernie?" And the chances the unique position of having bids for are Ernie has only paused to light a her name. Young film aspirants ap- cigarette or make a telephone call and proach her almost daily and offer sums will be along in a minute. of money, if she will relinquish her In the days when Jones & Hare were name, but as yet she has refused to sell trouping it, they roomed together. her birthright for a pot of gold. Velva Neither was married then and they were Darling is her real name. And the way partners in every sense of the word. If she can chat about movie colonists can't they were apart for three consecutive be beat. Her time on KNX has been hours, each began to worry about the changed from 1 1 :00 a. m. to 3 :00 p. m. safety of the other. NewYbrk's Supreme Hare has since married and Mrs. Gertrude Ridenour brings to KNX a Hare now demands some of her hus- Value... rich background of dramatic experience. Hotel band's time. But she is often heard to As member of the Kansas City Junior exclaim that the team of Jones & Hare find that's no idle League she walked off with a prize for is around a great deal more than the SINGLE boast. Just "ask the dramatic best work of the year. She team of Hare & Mrs. Hare. from is now making transcriptions which will SO the guests who The first Jones & Hare broadcast ac- be released in the east. stop here." curred in October, 1921. The scene was The First Community Synagogue of the original WJZ studio atop the West- • inghouse Electric and Manufacturing the Air (KNX) enjoys a membership Not only the new- Company's plant in Newark. extending from Alaska to San Diego, The boys went on the air at a moment's notice est hotel in New Cal. It opens the Jewish Sabbath with with the same type of program they are but the most its popular program Friday evenings at York playing today. It was a song and chat- DOUBLE 5:15 .p. m. Typical of the many letters centrally located. ter act, the chatter being written by the which he receives every week is one boys themselves and the songs especially from a woman who writes, "Your ser- arranged for them. ran mon on 'Friendship' made me look my- The program for an hour and a half and would prob- 1000 ROOMS self over to see why I have so few ably have lasted longer if the comedians, friends . . . and I thank you for your . . . Each with for once in their lives, ran out of advice. You are a help and a benefit a RADIO, a material. and you give hope to man." That was what program directors PRIVATE BATH thought of Jones & Hare in 1921. Next SUITES and SHOWER, day the station received so many letters Circulating Ice Jones and Hare that the team was asked to repeat the Water and Large (Continued from page 50) performance. Soon they were broad- Closets. Many casting on a regular schedule. Other Features. week, "when business is dull," while As radio went through its growing lunch is usually eaten at their desks in pains to the point where artists no New York while they concoct new longer went on the air and stayed there 1000 HOMES UNDER ONE ROOF "gags" for their next show. until they ran out of material or swooned IN THE HEART OF TIMES SQUARE Jones & Hare require eighteen new from exhaustion, the boys kept pace. "gags" each week. It is their boast that Today their offices are equipped like any tX*New they have never repeated a "gag" in modern business establishment and the their long association. Possibly this is comedians keep hours and go through a HOTEL a clue to their never-ending popularity. daily routine of fun manufacturing. To dig up eighteen fresh-looking jokes They have stop watches, a piano and a week causes, in their own words, "a lot Other paraphernalia. They also have a DISON of digging." secretary, a manager, a musical arranger € 47

The boys were heard together on one to he a fun-maker, try it ! Bui we both NBC program for five years without a say it's lots of fun making people break. Also they never had a vacation laugh." 72

coming her virtue. This event was imme- Laws That Safeguard diately followed by illness on the part of the girl. The defendant, Durnham, then (Continued from page 33) heartlessly forsook her. Somewhat later he married another woman. heartbreak at losing him was an element in the case, then the wound and injury to Girl Shoots Faithless Lover her affections "were to be considered as another and additional element in the com- putation of her damages." Mortification, WHEN the news of this event reached pain and distress of mind might also be Emma Schmidt, a great flame of considered. anger was kindled in her heart. She re- It should be obvious that the length of solved to kill the man who had thus ruined time during which the plaintiff and the her life. The first objective was to secure defendant were engaged to each other is a revolver and ammunition. This she soon a material consideration in determining accomplished. She then acquainted herself the amount of damages. If a man monopo- with the manner of using the weapon. lizes a girl's time for months, and perhaps With her deadly purpose still in mind, she years, it is very different from a mere watched for an opportunity to meet her seashore flirtation where love runs its former lover. It was nearly two weeks course in a few weeks. In the former case, after his marriage before she came upon the long period of association has accus- the unsuspecting bridegroom. When the tomed the girl to rely upon her lover in blazing eyed Emma confronted him Durn- almost the same .way that a wife looks to ham was too confused to flee until he saw her husband to decide social engagements, the glint of the weapon, as she stealthily DeWard Franklin Jones at WOV, New church or theatre plans, or other mutual in- drew it from her handbag. It was then York, Radio Gossiper terests of a couple who are publicly re- too late. The girl fired at him point blank. garded as belonging exclusively to each The god of vengeance was evidently with other. To break an engagement of this her for the bullet found its mark. Durnham nature may have very serious consequences. recovered from his wound, and Emma The Client Room The defendant must, therefore, pay dam- Schmidt scored again, for she haled him ages commensurate with the injury. into court for damages for breach of prom- on The Alabama-Georgia Syrup WLW, Caroline Grant became engaged to marry ise of marriage. Durnham endeavored to six times a week, Monday, Wednesday and Joseph Willey, but no immediate plans for set up the facts of the shooting as mitiga- Friday at ten thirty P. M. and Tuesday, a wedding were made. The engagement tion of damages. The court declared that and Saturday at eleven A. M. Thursday continued over several years. The man's his liability was in no way diminished by Eastern Standard Time. Fifty-two week affection cooled. He eventually broke the Emma's exploit. The case was Schmidt contract. consists of harmony and Show engagement, claiming that differences on v. Durnham, 46 Minn. 227; 49 N. W. 126. patter duo, Jim and Walt. worldly and religious matters made it un- reports A. & P. doing big job WLW wise for the two to marry. At the trial, over their transmitter with pro- ^Damages That twenty-two the length of the engagement was stressed grams a week. by the plaintiff's lawyer. The defendant's food account for Monarch A new WLS. lawyer requested the court to instruct the Are Excessive Foods, (Reid-Murdoch). Act is dramatic jury that in a suit for breach of promise March 26, 1932 skit featuring Virginia Lee, former RKO, to marry, the length of time the engage- and Columbia artist. Tentative title is one aspect of breach of NBC ment or promise to marry existed is not THERE for Lion Family" possibly to tie promise great act "The an element of damages for a breach of cases that has excited a up with sponsors trade mark of a Lion. deal of comment in recent years the such promise. The judge refused to give — is doing a job for Alka-Seltzer. matter of excessive The fact WLS the ruling. After a verdict for the plain- damages. This is a headache tab a tough product that a law intended to safeguard innocent — tiff, the case was taken to the Supreme for a tie-m. Act consists of "Songs and trusting is sometimes taken un- good Court on exceptions. The latter court de- women of Sweet Home" featuring girls due advantage of designing and un- Home clared that the length of time "was clearly by trio and a male quartet with string trio worthy females and can not very well be a circumstance proper to be taken into con- accompaniment. Bill Vickland does the avoided. The fault is not with the law but sideration. It might be very material in narrating. with those who abuse the law for their its effect on the plaintiff's condition and WGAR, Cleveland turns Saturday Morn- prospects, and might under some circum- own selfish purposes. is no ing's Children's Corner over to the Bailey stances be an aggravation of her injury." We have a saying that the law Company, Cleveland department store. respecter of persons, which means, of The case was Grant v. Willey, 101 Program is store's universal in their to be produced 'from Mass. 356. course, that laws must be auditorium. Act consists of Uncle Clyde application. We cannot, in a democracy, as master of ceremonies and juvenile guest have one law for the rich and another law artists. Personal Vengeance No Bar for the poor because that amounts to the WGN, Chicago has booked a fifty two old world evil of caste and privilege. We week commercial for the Rich Products, THE primitive desire to avenge a great cannot have one lav/ for the virtuous and Inc., featuring Tom Corwin. Corwin does wrong has many times led to tragic another law for the unworthy, because imitations of animals and act consists of consequences. Crimes of violent revenge these distinctions would of necessity de- Circus patter and imaginary animals. Sat- are generally committed by men. Women pend upon the opinion of individuals and urday at 6 :00 P. M. C. S. T. is the sched- do not ordinarily indulge in this sort of might lead to monstrous injustice. uled spot. reprisal. Instances are on record, however, The safer method is to formulate laws Fred L. Jeske, the Reid Murdoch Mel- where outraged women have committed for the protection of the innocent and to ody Man and the Reid Murdoch orchestra, deeds of daring in order to even the score adhere to those laws despite individual in- open a thirteen week schedule on March with one who has incurred their everlast- stances where unworthy individuals may 14. The feature will be presented by WGN ing hate. In no field of human relations abuse the same. three times a week being scheduled for may greater passions be engendered than It may help us to understand the pres- Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 9 in matters of the heart. Some women love ent topic if we consider for a moment p. m. Jeske is well known in Chicago radio passionately and hate venomously as well. the rights of a wife in her husband's estate. circles as a singer. He has a particularly A man who trifles with such a woman The mere fact of marriage to a wealthy well suited voice for radio and a wonder- places himself in well deserved peril. But man may give a woman a legal right to ful enunciation of his words. now suppose a woman wreaks personal more property perhaps that her immediate WJAG, Norfolk, Nebraska, announces vengeance on one who has betrayed her, ancestors have earned in their entire lives. the appointment of Arthur C. Thomas as will this prevent a recovery in an action No one could seriously contend that by Manager and Frank Weidenbach as Chief for breach of contract? Let us consider acting as housewife or companion of a Engineer. Mr. Thomas was formerly pub- a typical case. man for a month or so any woman could licity director of the Omaha Chamber of Morris Durnham paid court to Emma earn millions of dollars, yet under the Commerce and vice president of the com- Schmidt and in due course of time became sanction of marriage that becomes possib'e munity advertising section of the Associ- engaged to her. The girl grew very much under a law intended to protect wives in ated Advertising Clubs of the World. Mr. attached to him. By degrees he won her general. Weidenbach was formerly connected with trust and confidence. He eventually ac- If we were to change the law whenever KGDA, Mitchell, S. D. complished his evident purpose of over- (Continued on page 74) a —

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mag- * * * find no reversible error in the it worked out badly in individual cases we client's case, may possess enough We would soon enter into chaos. The sharing netism or persuasive ability to swaya jury record and the judgment must be affirmed." of a wife in her husband's wealth is from a proper decision. Since a jury is The case was Hanson v. Johnson, 141 pitched upon a higher plane than that of composed of laymen who are necessarily Wis. 550; 124 N. W. 506. mere earnings of a housekeeper, or of a unfamiliar with the legal aspects of the Whether or not a verdict is exces- the woman who barters her favors for gold. case it is a feature of our judicial system sive is, of course, a question for Su- preme to decide consider- Unless there is a marriage settlement or a that the judge, after the lawyers for the Court when pre-nuptial agreement as to her future opposing parties have made their argu- ing an appeal of the defendant. Since original trial is rights in her husband's estate, when a ments, charge the jury or, in other words, the presiding judge at the woman marries, the law immediately en- to explain the law and call the jury's at- the only person who has a right to cut dows her with vested rights, without re- tention to the important evidence in the down the verdict of the jury to a reason- gard to the wealth or poverty of the hus- case. able figure the appellate court, if con- band. vinced that the verdict is excessive, will grant a new trial. It should therefore be apparent that Excessive Verdict when a woman promises to marry a man, Clara Carey had divorced her first hus- which call an engagement about twenty-six years the contract, we suppose, after a verdict is ren- band. She was pro- BUT the of marriage, at once entitles her to a dered, that the presiding judge, from old when she became acquainted with wealth of that man. bachelor spective interest in the his long experience in such matters, feels defendant, Huggins who was a should No one could justly claim that she that an excessive verdict has been ren- of fifty-six or seven. The defendant was before acquire the same interest therein dered. The judge would then have the a wealthy rancher and he occasionally came herself in lawful mar- relaxation of she has surrendered right, usually upon the motion of the ag- to the City of El Paso for been hers had the the more or riage that would have grieved party, to set the verdict aside or one kind or another. He met promise to her his of man kept his make to give the plaintiff a choice of accepting less charming Clara in the Autumn wife. The question of damages, however, to her story he proposed a smaller verdict or a new trial. 1906. According is -profoundly influenced by a consideration marriage on Christmas day of that year For Example : Eliza Hanson worked as of what she might have acquired had the she accepted him, no time being fixed a chamber maid in a boarding house in and kept faith. Thus it is that under the defendant denied man which lived a saloon keeper named John- for the marriage. The mantle of a law intended to safeguard ever having proposed marriage but a series son. She first became acquainted with the innocence and virtue, the adventuress, or might term mushy love letters man by meeting him in the halls and corri- of what we "gold digger," may find cover for depreda- at the trial. In none of dors of the boarding house in April, 1895. were introduced tions upon the property of wealthy but them was there any definite affirmation of He was apparently not at all bashful when susceptible gentlemen. I would say wealthy but there were abundant this attractive young woman appeared in an engagement simpletons, but for the fact that many men declarations of his love and his desire to his vicinity. He soon formed the habit of are more or less simple-minded when that with her. speaking to the girl, of exchanging smiles be most deadly of all hunters, the beautiful and pleasantries whenever they met. He enchantress, marks them for her prey. apparently so contrived that those meet- Gifts of Jewelry and Money ings should be as frequent as possible. But since the girl had work to do and would The First Gold Digger THE woman alleged that the defendant have been dismissed had she lingered in was very assiduous in his attentions, the corridors conversing with guests, how- showering her with gifts of jewelry and Caesar, will re- ever attractive, these momentary greetings THE MIGHTY you money. Such appeared to have been the member, could did not satisfy the saloon keeper. in- who conquer armies of His fact. The defendant, however, explained men went down to ignominious and dis- terest had been aroused. So he laid siege that the gifts were payments for value graceful defeat when the wily young to Eliza. He followed her around. He received, and that she was contented with Queen of Egypt climbed out of what we usually managed to be in his own room the arrangement. He declared that she had might perhaps term a parcel's post package when she came to make the bed and set never raised the question of a marriage and called him "wonderful." things to rights. Acquaintance soon ripened Here was promise until after January 1, 1911, when this bald old eagle, before whom the whole into love, at least on the girl's part. About he had notified her of his refusal to con- civilized world then trembled in its shoes, three months after their first meeting they tinue what was now an expensive affair. confronted by a mere girl became engaged to married. of twenty-one. be Johnson It had now cost him in the neighborhood She did to not care about Caesar. All she began take Eliza to entertainments and of $7,000. Clara Carey brought suit for looking was for was the throne of Egypt to dances. He soon persuaded her to grant $65,000 damages for breach of promise of from which she had been driven by the privileges that had she been wise she would marriage. She claimed that a child had armies of her guardian. Morals meant have postponed until after the wedding. been born to her as the result of their re- nothing to her those and so poor old Caesar be- But privileges once granted, Johnson lations, claiming that she went to Los came her willing slave and paramour for postponed the wedding. The unfortunate Angeles, California, where the birth oc- the few remaining years of his life. girl, thus caught in the web of circum- curred. She gave the name of the nurse Then, after Mark Antony had made stance, placated now and then with pres- and doctor who had attended her. No himself the virtual ents, including a ring master of the Roman and a watch, was child was produced at the trial and it did Empire, Cleopatra suddenly manifested a unable to extricate herself. not appear that Huggins had ever seen the great fondness for him. Antony was then So the illegal relation continued for alleged offspring. forty-two years of age. He knew Cleo- months and years. In fact it was not until The woman expressly charged that her patra's character. He had seen what a fourteen years had passed in this manner indiscretions with the defendant had begun simpleton she had made of the great that Johnson brutally cast Eliza off. She only after the engagement of marriage Caesar. Yet he could not resist her blan- brought suit for breach of promise of mar- and upon the express assurances from him dishments. All the world knows how the riage and a sympathetic jury awarded her that he would shortly marry her. The great soldier and orator threw away an $10,000 damages. The presiding judge felt jury brought in a verdict of $45,000 but Empire and sacrificed his own life under that this was somewhat too large a share the judge cut down the figure to $35,000. the spell of this evil and shameless young of Johnson's worldly goods and reduced took the case to the court queen. The defendant the award, with the plaintiff's consent, to of civil appeals of Texas, alleging newly With such classic illustrations of the in- $8,000. discovered evidence. The evidence offered ability of might}' conquerors to cope with Johnson appealed from this verdict but was to the effect that there was no birth the elemental huntress, the designing he received scant sympathy from the Su- recorded, in the Los Angeles records, of woman of youth and charm, can we won- preme Court of Wisconsin. "The affair any child born at the address given. There der that rich men are occasionally "shaken between the plaintiff and defendant," said was no physician of the name alleged in clown," as modern slang expresses it, for the court, "covered a period of about four- that city nor had there been such at the large sums of money? teen years, including all that part of her date named. A search for the alleged In determining the amount of an award life when her chances for an advantageous nurse was likewise unavailing. of damages for breach of promise of mar- marriage were best. The matter in aggra- The court of civil appeals denied a new riage a court or jury must take into con- vation was very serious, and the defendant trial, however, declaring that the newly sideration all the facts and circumstances appears to be of ability to respond in con- discovered evidence did not affect the main of the case. While it is the duty of a jury siderable damages. facts of the case. (This case was reported to decide the facts, yet it is always need- Damages in such a case are difficult to in 149 S. W. 390.) Huggins was not con- ful for the presiding judge to exercise estimate, and ordinarily the proper trib- tent with this decision. After much diffi- vigilance, lest injustice be done through unal for that purpose is the jury. Besides culty he secured on a writ of error, a hear- appeals to the passions of the men in the it is the rule of this court to encourage ing before the Supreme Court of Texas. jury box. the circuit judges to exercise their judg- The decision was thereupon reversed, but A clever lawyer, intent upon winning his ment in cutting down excessive verdicts. it had been five years since the decision in 75 question had been rendered. As the jury —Mr. Mariani. The audience waits." tertains his friends by getting New Zea- had originally decided, the damages were (Mr. Mariani plays). land or China for them. You see, with * * * set at $35,000 for actual damages and Nellie. . . "Not bad, not half bad. Andy it's always a case of being either $10,000 for special damages, which was All right, Don Voorhees, let's see what you in or on the air. Andy was born in understood to mean the alleged birth of draw." Brooklyn. He is married and lives in the child. Hicks. . . piano!" "A Scarsdale, N. Y.—and how ! He has been * Voorhees. . . "Oh, Nellie, I haven't broadcasting since 1922. * * Well, folks,

touched a key in ages." choose your exit ; walk, don't run ! Andy Supreme Court Speaks Nellie. . . "Well, then, it's time you Sannella is going to wrestle with a saxo- touched one. This piano may have keys phone. Toot, Andy, toot." declared you love to touch. and touch- THE SUPREME COURT Go make a (Sannella plays). that the trial court erred in permitting down on it now. Anyhow, pianos don't Nellie. . . "Andy, I didn't know a saxo- the jury to assess damages twice on ac- care who plays them. * * * Don Voorhees phone could sound so sweet. I think I'll count of the seduction and injured feel- is an Allentown, Pa., boy, went to public Ket one. And now, play just one bar on ings. It declared also that the court of school there. When he was 12, he began your steel guitar for us. Won't you? civil appeals had erred in not granting a playing in a theatre orchestra. He studied plays the guitar). new trial because of the newly discovered music with Dr. Wally of the Bethlehem (Sannella * * * Bach Choir. . evidence. While this might at first glance Don's advent in to New York Nellie. . "Pretty good. And last appear to be evidence, merely impeaching was as musical conductor to that most but by no means least is Cesare Sodero, one phase of the witness' testimony, yet it imitated of all colored comedians, the late master of the National Grand and Light also affected one of the main features of Bert Williams. Then Don directed orches- Opera Oratorios, symphonies and Concerts the case—whether or not any child had in tras at the Winter Garden and the Earl heard on NBC. He is also conductor for fact been born to the woman. Carroll Theatre. He came on the air in the Philadelphia Grand Opera Company. The case was Huggins v. Carey, 108 1924. Don is still under 30. He is 5 feet Mr. Sodero's first name is spelled Tex. 358; 194 S. W. 133. 9, weighs 170, and has brown hair and C-e-s-a-r-e, and he pronounces it Cesare.

gray-brown, kind of funny eyes, smooth I call it Chauve-Souris. * * * Mr. Sodero face, wears tortoise shell rim glasses, and was general musical director of Edison's Gabalogue if he can't play this piano which he has recording laboratories and made 11,000 just drawn, all I have to say is that he's records. He conducted the first perform- (Continued from page 43) changed a good deal from the days we used ance of Puccini's opera, "The Girl of the to open and close shows together. That is, Golden West." He was later Associate I opened brown eyes. He is married and has two them and Don closed them. Mr. Conductor of the Chicago Civic Opera ." children. His home is in Freeport, L. I. Don Voorhees. . Company, and president of the Italian * * * And here's Hugo Mariani. They say (Don Voorhees- plays). Musical League of America. He was con- Hugo is a good picker. Let's see what he ductor of the Metropolitan Orchestra in Nellie. . . "Why, Don, that's great. picks to play." its concerts at the Brooklyn Academy of That's as good as I could have done it Music. His own opera, "Russian Shadows" Hicks. . . "Hugo's drawn a violin." myself. * * * And now Andy, open your was given its world air premiere in 1020 Voorhees. . . "He would get a break like mouth and close your eyes, and see what by the National Broadcasting Company that." you'll draw in the way of a surprise. Andy simultaneous its opening night in Nellie. . . "Fine! That's a break for the with has had his steel guitar fixed since I sat on audience as well as the violin. I must tell Ttaly. I had the exquisite pleasure that it last summer, and if he doesn't draw a something about our Mariani. night of seeing a telegram which Paul you Hugo drum or flute, he'll play it for you." Mr. Mariani, whom you hear on about Cravath, the present Managing Director of Hicks. . . "A saxophone!" every other program on the NBC network the Metropolitan Opera House, sent to is a South American of Italian parentage. (Everybody screams). Mr. Aylesworth, President of NBC, con-

When only 16, he was the first violinist of Nellie. . . "I've always said I'd never al- gratulating him on Sodero's opera. Maybe the National Symphony Orchestra in Mon- low a saxophone on my program, but a that means we are going to hear it here in * * * tevideo, and before he was 20, he was con- bargain's a bargain." New York. Wouldn't that be great !

. is is ductor. He came to the United States in Andy. . "I'm beginning to think I was Mr. Sodero about 45 years of age. 5 1921. framed, too." feet tall, weighs 150 pounds, has black hair and eyes. * * * the hat, Mr. Hicks." "After his arrival in New York he be- Nellie. . . "You know, Andy plays a Pass

Hicks. . . 'cello." came concert master and solo violinist at steel guitar ; he plays the violin and the "A the Rialto Theatre. Since his first associa- piano. No matter what the instrument is, Nellie. . . "Will three or four of you fel- tion with NBC, Mr. Mariani has con- Andy can play it so long as it makes music. lows bring that 'cello over to the maestro, ducted every type and style of an orchestra. In fact, he plays anything better than he and give him a chair to stand on while he He is still a young man, slight of build, does pinochle. He is a real aerial artist. plays it? Remember, Maestro, all of your has olive skin and the quick, nervous ges- Not content with appearing on various ra- men arc tuned in tonight, so you had better tures of the Latin American. He is the dio programs, Mr. Sannella spends part of be good I" Beau Brummel of the New York studios. his spare time flying his own airplane, and (Sodero plays).

He likes colorful haberdashery. He is a the rest of it in his own radio station Nellie. . . "Thank you. And thanks all very fine violinist. We submit the evidence which he has in his home where he en- of you. (iood night and come again."

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78 Radiographs many depressing and melancholy fea- Allyn Joslyn and Wm. Sims. Judge tures. But dialect does not consist of Gordon is Judson Strong. Lucille phonetic Showalter writes, (Continued from page 42) perverted pronunciations and "What do you think, orthography. True dialect is a picture Louis L. Kaufman hasn't been announc- say anything 'bout us which was not a in cold type of the manifold pecularities ing since last July and you know that

compliment and we sure appreciates it." of the mind and temperament." I'm heartbroken ! He stopped announc- Miss Baldridge considers this her nicest Like the author she also tries to pre- ing to give all his time to his law work compliment. serve in her sketches a "true idea of the and I think it's terrible !" So do others And letters from her listeners also negro's shrewd observations, curious re- but won't it be nice to take all of your prove she knows the colored race be- torts, quaint comments, humorous phi- legal problems to Louis when he cause hardly a day goes by that a letter losophy, and his unique point of view emerges from college with wig and comparable to this one is not received, on everything that comes to his atten- gown. Thanks for the anecdotes, Lu- " "Dear Dixie Girl : Mammy could very tion," for 'Ethiopia is stretching out cille. Hope the Lopez article in March well have been my Beulah in Atlanta, or her hands' after art, science, literature, issue hit the right spot with you. Met Mary Jane in Palmetto, or my Jose- and wealth, and when the sable sons of Ford Bond after a Nellie Revell pro- phine in Jacksonville, and Josie could laughter and song grasp these treasures, gram at the NBC studios and right easily have been cute little Ollie May all that remains of the southern village there in the corridor he sang his new down in Georgia. You make me home- negro will be a few faint sketches in song to me Drifting 'Neath the Moon. sick for them each morning." Fiction's beautiful temple of dreams." Words and music are by Mr. Bond. It

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79 HERE THEY ARE Following is the list of orchestra leaders identified according to number as WHAT YOU NEED shown on page 22. 1. Irving Aaronson 23. Sleepy Hall 45. Bob Nolan TO SUCCEED IN 2. Gus Arnheim 24. Henry Halstead 46. Hogan Hancock 3. Hughie Barrett 25. Johnny Hamp 47. Husk O'Hare

4. Ben Bernie 26. Everett Hoagland 48. Jack Pettis 49. 5. Don Bestor 27. Jimmy Green Gene Quaw 50. Leo Reisman 6. Sunny Brooks 28. Arthur Jarrett 51. Arthur Randall 7. Earl RADIO Burtnett 29. Johnny Johnson 52. Dan Russo 8. Carlton Coon 30. Wayne King 53. Maurie Sherman 9. Joe Sanders 31. Art Kahn 54. Jesse Stafford 10. Henry Busse 32. Art Kassel 55. Milt Taggart 11. Zez Confrey 33. Al Katz 56. Fred Waring 12. Jack Crawford 34. Herbie Kay 57. Ted Weems 13. Bernie Cummins 35. Abe Lyman 58. Frank Westphal 14. Jack Denny 36. Phil Levant 59. Maurie Lipsey 15. Ted Fiorito 37. Guy Lombardo 60. Norman Steppe 16. Jan Garber 38. Bert Lown 61. Harry Sosnik 17. Paolo Grosso 39. Charles Dornberger 62. Earl Hoffman 18. Tom Gerun 40. Johnny Maitland 63. Phil Baxter 19. Emerson Gill 41. Bobby Meeker 64. Otto Muncke 20. Herb Gordon 42. Benny Meroff 65. Ralph Bennett 21. Jimmy Green 43. Vic Meyers 66. Eddie Neibaur 22. Lloyd Huntley 44. Jack Miles 67. Chauncey Parsons Radio is a highly specialized business. As

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pared to answer for your indiscretions. its demands. But radio is the modern field You are simply all up in the air because Postscript to VOL of opportunity for those who keep step you dislike Rudy Vallee and while I do not with its progress and pioneer in its think that Mr. Vallee gives two hoots opportunities! AN AYLESWORTH ANSWERS whether you like him or not, I do, and as his in this defender case I am going to There is a great demand for trained men VOL has come to be a tug-of- bawl you out good and proper. Rudy is SINCE in the radio industry. There is no place war between the Vallee's and the Anti- the best of everything. Majority wins and for untrained men. Experience must be Vallee's may I not have my say? You peo- his fans form a greater array than those accompanied technical knowledge. ple who knock Rudy, do you ever stop of any other artist and so what you had by to realize that a magazine must comply better do is just forget all about him and A pioneer in radio instruction, the Inter- with the wishes of its readers if it hopes turn the dial when he is on. Ruth Ramsay, — national Correspondence Schools have kept to succeed and when Radio Digest finds Petersburg, 111. that 'two thirds of their readers relish news pace with the times and offer courses pre- of Rudy Vallee, they are going to supply pared by authorities, which give practical that demand and give them as much as pos- instruction in fundamentals and latest de- sible. is this publishing busi- That the way velopments alike. The courses were pre- ness is worked out you know. You have pared and are constantly revised by the got to give them what they want. And Who's Who of Radio! just as Rudy Vallee has given his fans they has reached the top in what want and Tuneful Topics Composed of 2 I basic divisions, the Com-

so doing ; so too has Radio Digest given plete Radio Course is designed to give the fans what they want in a radio fan (Continued from page 49) thorough instruction in the whole field of magazine and in so doing they too have radio. I. reached the top. Get wise to yourself, you The C. S. Radio Servicing Course knockers and find a magazine that doesn't Larry Spier, of Famous Music, will see was prepared specially for men who wish trou- like Vallee and go to them with your that a good job is done in making the to become service experts. Study of it bles. They will appreciate them and you popular version. It must be played ex- makes possible leadership over competi- are only making a fool of yourself by writ- tremely briskly as belits its thought. tion. The I. C. S. Radio Operating Course ing to Radio Digest.—Virginia Aylesworth, is vital to mastery operating Huntington, West Virginia. of and transmitting.

ONE MORE FRIEND Stop the Sun, Stop the Moon We will he pleased to send you detail- of any or all of these subjects, Ju-t in. irk to let you know that I and my en- JUST and mail the coupon the unusual and —the information will tire family read Radio Digest every FEW songs have had he forwarded without delay. Why not it month and are convinced that it is the outstanding characteristics of the do cream of the crop of fan magazines. You today now! song I am about to discuss. Although 1 are still miles ahead of the nearest compe- received a black and white copy of it titor and though it seems that every one is sometime ago it was impossible for me and I 1 lt> starting to publish new radio papers XT \ IIO-, VI CoHlll M-,'MM N, I' S, BOOU Bos S2TS-T. magazines. We like you very much. And to have it played for me, SO I was in Scrantm, rV Whho in ooal or obligation, irll Vallee is one big rea- pkaat bm nil .iU.mii your news of Rudy the dark as to its real possibilities until son.—Josephine Leary, 139-06 34th Rd., ill.- NE1 RADIO OOI USE Ethel Merman raved about it one night Flushing, L. I. iYamr as we stood waiting our turn to sing Slrot RUTH GOES TO BAT "My Song" in the "Scandals." She Cl/v Stnlr said it was one of the best pieces of ytm rc\itlr in <° I. A. MARTIN, a true Vallee fan If Mm n»

80 standpoint of her particular type of de- into the expression of the song as I Frank Parker livery the song was well suited to her. sang it on the Fleischmann Hour a (Continued ago. from page. 23) After giving it a thorough try with week that the song had It was not difficult for me to sing this the band I discovered Hampton in "My Princess ?" he askec composition is song with sincerity, as it expressed my unusual possibilities. Its the sponsor. but that alone does not ex- feeling of lonesomeness at the time. The in minor, "Yes, but man alive, this is no tinw tonality, and the odd song, however, is a fine example of a plain its unique to ask me questions !" the worried spon- all those who perfectly wedded melody and lyric, it impression it makes on sor returned. lyric the first time. In fact, the off-times happens that an unhappy hear it for "Wait—did you hear the singing of Yankees had quite a tussle is wedded to a happy melody, and vice Connecticut the tenor in that show—Frank Parker ?" gradually sensed the versa. There is something about the with it until they The sponsor paused a second, then of the rhythm and the rise and fall of this particular song composer's idea snapped his fingers in recognition. "Just which deserves commendation. melody. the man," he cried, "Can you get him Particularly lovely is the thought in The thought is most unusual. I no- for me?" the middle, which says that all the love- tice the name of Mercer Cook as one of Page boys went scurrying, telephones ly things they used to do were meant the three composers. Mercer is a young were humming, and messengers went not for one but for two. boy teaching French at Howard Uni- searching until Frank was found in a Just how much the song will be versity in Washington, D. C, with small Italian restaurant around the cor- played by various bands I do not know, whom I worked some four years ago in ner from the theatre. He was prac- as it is not the type of song that most the writing of I LOVE YOU, I LOVE tically carried bodily to the NBC studios, bands like to "go to town on," and like YOU. I LOVE YOU, SWEET- and there "cold," without an audition or myself, most bands steer clear, wherever HEART OF ALL MY DREAMS. I rehearsal, he went on the air, to find possible, from these extremely unhappy have not seen him in some time, though himself, overnight, as had happened on songs. It is a fine work, however, and I know that he has been carrying on the stage, a headliner. those who like this type of song will his academic work in Washington Frank was born in New York, of find it a welcome addition to those al- though his heart is really in music, be- Italian parentage, and music was his ready reposing on the piano. ing the son of Will Marion Cook, who plaything even when he was a child. It is called WHAT A LIFE, and was has written so many popular tunes, and The other boys were in the streets play- written by Charlotte Kent and Lou Al- directed so many college shows. ing and fighting, Frank was following ter, who has written "Manhattan Sere- One must really hear the song to ap- a hurdy-gurdy around, or standing out- nade," "Overnight," "I'm One of God's preciate it, as no amount of favorable side of picture houses to hear the music Children," "Blue Shadows," and a lot description can bring home its unusual and even as he says, "going to church to of piano solos. poignancy and its lovely thought. It is near the organ play." We take a minute and ten seconds for published by DeSylva, Brown and Hen- the playing of it, and it is published by derson, and we take about 55 seconds Harms, Inc. in the playing of a chorus. A.T De Witt Clinton High he went in for amateur theatricals, but What a Life! George Olsen never sang! He learned tap-dancing, and when he finished his high school (Continued from page 20) course he was offered a small "bit," HAD wanted to talk about three over from dancing in a show. He accepted with I novelty songs brought gives the room an atmosphere of inti- alacrity, because of the glamour held England by Jimmy Campbell, and Reg mate coziness. Sweet- out by the theatre. After the run of Connelly, writers of "Goodnight Once you are an addict to the Olsen Fireside," "When the that show, he went into the Green- heart," "By the music you instantly recognize it whether Follies boy. Twilight," "If I Had wich Village as a chorus Organ Played at you see the orchestra or hear it on the And because he felt happy for one day, You," "Show Me the Way to Go air. And so you feel in a friendly pres- incidentally, England's so happy that he had to sing, Frank Home," and, ence when you sit down where you have I will Parker has reached such a secure place biggest publishers. However, decided to while away an idle hour if on the ladder of fame, he admits that save them for the next issue of Radio the Olsen band strikes up with one of just about be pub- even if he should not be able to sing Digest, as they will its characteristic ditties. You know too another note, he is financially secure lished by the time the next article comes that George will soon forget about his placed for life. out. The songs have all been band and very probably will plop down if in number, and with leading publishers, and one, not in a chair at your table, or near you, for His hobbies are two as- all three, will cause many an otherwise a cheery word or two. he has only one ambition. Frank that pires to operatic heights, and even now dull radio program to sparkle with But he'll stop talking when a certain is rehearsing an operatic score, for something different which comes from little Dresden blonde glides out of the he might be an English novelty song, as only they shadows into the spotlight and begins he feels that his opportunity His hobbies write them. to sing. She will be announced as Ethel "just around the corner." riding and flying. He in- In this last and final resting place in Shutta. Now to George that just means are horse-back tends taking his pilot's examination my article I feel that I should mention "the Missus" and his eyes never fail to time, and to "sort of keep perhaps one of the most genuine of all sparkle with pride when she has the at- within a short the ground," as he puts songs that portray the feeling of one tention of the guests. A very devoted in touch with it, he goes riding three times a week on who has lost, either temporarily or per- couple they are ; and they find much of on Long Island. manently, the one they love. It stuck their happiness centered in two very a friend's estate in my mind, days after Helen Morgan little folks snuggled away in their cribs And, a point of information for the introduced it on the Fleischmann Hour during these late hours of entertaining. young ladies—Frank is twenty-six and with the composer of the melody, Lou Just to remind you where to find unmarried. He has a fan club that boasts Alter, accompanying her at the piano. these 01 sens and their, flock tune in of members from all over the world, the I was rather surprised to receive on your nearest Columbia station on a South African division of the club hav- very fine stationery, in extremely fine Tuesday, Thursday or Friday night ing as its most choice possession, a com- handwriting, a note from a young lady, from 11 :30 to 12 o'clock, EST. It will plete set of his records and a recording thanking me for the sincerity that I put be well worth your while. of his voice with the A&P Gypsies. — — ! Thrilling Branches of radio you can easily learn!

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