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Such performance comes only from txacting laboratory con· These New Brochures Tell the struction, constantly checked and tested by txtensive scientific equipment. Backing it is the SCOTT experience of more man " SCOTT SECRET " eight years in building world's-~cord-b~alc:ing radio receivers. Claims are usily made--a Guauznlu is something different! Which do you want-fhe ho~ that your rtceivtf can deliver E. H. ScoTT R.o.OIO LAIIORATO.ms, INC periO£mance, or posili" t tlfSU rtJnU thaI it will? <1450 Ravenlwood Avt., Oopr. R. S. 5, Chia.go, Ill. Then send at once for all particulars about the radio known ~nd mt (omplelt douill about the ScoTT A!.L.WA\III DELuxll R.o.0I0, npl~ining why this set G.. ,mmlUI Ihe .:u "The World's Finest Receiver." p YOUR RADIO FAVORITES REVEALED make say: ALL IN THIS ISSUE You Can't Keep Him Down Curtis Mitchell How Ed Wynn ..~ed h'-moel' horn obl/vion Have You a little Radio Star in Your Home 7 .. Harriet Menden 8 How Long Will They lost 1 ...... Wilson Brown 10 " ~ 'n' Andy tell you the ans ..er .bout ,h.. m wlv.. Th e Grand Romance of Fred Allen and Portland Hoffa . Hilda Cole 12 A cJ\lI, min, ',u. lor. atory 'Which ""ill d eJi'ht you Let's Gossip About Your Favorites. 14 The /.1• ., chi/-chat .nd funny stoti.. from th .. , edio folic Seth Porker Goes to Sea .. , Jamel A. 8 lswood. Jr. 18 Through the Yeors with Eddie Contor . . . Edward R. Sammis 20 H ow i l ./1 be,." Backstoge with Stoopno gle and Budd ...... Ogden Moyer 22 s.... th .... two deliAh"", idiot. in ""tion How Sherlock Holmes Got on the Air . Caroline Somers H ~yt 2S The IIO<'T of ...... man .uthor'. Ii,ht for , eco,,.i, ion Too Many Sweethearts , .. . Olive White 28 Th.f·. wnny R ....' frouble. BUf if'. not h;' ("ulf Radio', For9otton Men .. , ...... Robert Eichberg 29 A. tribut. fo fho .. behind th. "",.neo wh" .'.0 fer v. Hard to Handle ...... Donny Town e J3 W."ne Kin, h ... uput.t;"n for bein, t.mper.",~ntlt/ . Bur f. h.? Morilou Dix's Spring Wardrobe . . Helen Hover 36 In. erHled in cloth.? Then turn 10 ,hi. pate Your Rad io Corner...... Gordon Starrett 3' throb IS ~ prC'JKflon 01 {!H'Jll"r hJ "PI 11 ('») 10 CO Ill<' I,', ('J'Y 10 nuke you r rye) 'J)' .hm.' W"'II_ RADIO STARS ALBUM .leT/III rlungs dr,lf Ol~r "yes (.m ~.l y. Tommy McLaughlin 34 FrAme yOUT l'yes widl dJrk. ionp. -JJ'II('JTIIlP.. Harry Horlick luxurulI! b,lu"i ~I1J rI'l\ IIl'W klllJ 0/ ('11 - 35 ..-h.ll1ll11('111 wlllm'l.mll), bcCOlll ..• rOtl(~. And also: The Man on the Cover, 17 ; All Around the Dial, 26; ~Ii lli o ll ' of wo men know , hJI Ih" New Intimate Shots of YOUr Favorites, 30. ~IJ}'1x 111l1c E rdJ ~h Darkrllc( is Ihe GIll' Ihoroup.hly S.ul\/J..:roTY and s-' fc pH'p.lf,1I101l to UK'. NO( J .I re. P.-rfN'rl y hJrm!l-)$, T CH . Editors: Ernest V. Heyn and Curtis Mitchell proof. nOlHmJrl mp.. ('.Is), 10 Jrl'iy. JnJ Jew Associate Editor: K. Rowell Botten Art Editor: Abril Lamarque ally stimulating to IJ lh growth. In'''1 upo n 1l.·tlUill!.' Nl'W j\IJ)'lx'lIul(" 10 m,lk ... ) UTe of obIJIIlIll;l J nlJ'.'-JTJ I h.11 CUIll huH'S ~llllll"c ;llh ' ,IIH,IP.'·S. Bbck or Browl1. NEXT MONTH ljc at toilel gooJs COtlll!C'(S c\'{' ryw]H.'« " Stories never before told as we will tell them next month ... the true • story of why AI Jolson quit the air ... the miracle of Norman Brokenshire's come-bock . .. "John Henry's" sensational introduction to the broadcasting businen ... the inside story of Edwin C. Hill's EYElASH DARKENER "Inside Story" ... a smashing revelation of what big business doeS' / < to broadcasting called "Money, Money, Money! " ... and the stirring Tb. tale of a girl's triumph, called "The Success Story of e Bleck Sh eep." (" ./~ T>ERfECl .. It's about Elsie Hilt, the girl with the magic voice. You'll thrill to it. J..h".. ~ . .. " ...... ~. - Don't forget-all in the June issue of RAD IO STARS, cut May first. 4 RADIO STARS HAVE YOU HEARD? O ur camera man hod na trouble catching Fred Allen, Gracie- Allen a nd George Bu rns in Q cuckoo moment. Culvrr Scrvlu ARON M U N words we re passed from CH AUSEN got a one to the other. re-heated Bletter last month from and passed right back agai n. all admirer. Read it: Tn the end, rumor has it, L1. Etting unpacked her bag and Mr. Jack Pearl: wired Chevalier to fi nd another I/(moroblc: leading voom-voom. Which is just Willi decp a/lcclioll I corre too bad, a lot of chappies think, be spmldellcc ~uilh ,'Oil. Your radio causc those Ruthie-toot-toot tones and speak very, very ,idiwll'. Misslfs. curves opposite the fa mous Hapsburg alld I , 1nyself IUllfllrter 1(Iitll hands li p would make a riot of a movie. hold sides from split. Very, vcr-y ridjwlll. The hO ll orable Ch arles 0-00-00-00-00-00 was the vcry, vcry good, 100. Missus /iI.:c 5 solitary scribbling on a letter him loads whit1, making lIIe very, picked UJl the other day by a Cle\'e vcry:;cufolfs. All very /111111)'. Milch Th is, that, and the land mailman. He took it to his Post best of huk. Office and a conference was held. S illccre/y, other last-minute Next day, that letter was delivcred to Waller T. I1I'0 llY, Esq. the New York address of onc of our foremost radio cut-lipS. The writer The epistle now hangs on the Mlln news and ti d-bits \\'allted a picture o f Ed Wynn. chauSCTl wall, suitably framcd and pre serving for Jack to exhibition by his pickE!d up- in and DON CARNEY is Jlutting dogs on honorable grandchildren. the air. His program is a series around the broad- of "Dog Chats" and if you're a pooch AMES CANNON tells a whimsey owner you ought to tune in. Uncle J about Edna St. Vincent ?I'I illay's Don, under the sponsorship of Spratt's, ]a.;t- and first-broadcast. She no casting studios will tell just what ails your purl' and ticed that there were two black box how to make a hot nose cold. So und ~ microphones on the broadcasting desk. li ke a bow-wow of an idea. "00 I speak into two of these?" she inquired. "Yes," someone explained, " in case one of them breaks T HEY do say that AI Jolson and Kate Smith are feud- down." ing. One of the swe1\cst songs in Kate's new picture, "Oh," she said, "but what if I break down? 11)crc's " Hello, Everybody," is titled, "Pickanillny Heaven." only one of me." \Vhen Kate plalllled to put it on a program the other day, she discovercd that AI had al ready sung it . So Katc R UTH ETTING was all packed up to go to Hollywood burned. And now the greatest be-and-she singers in the Ihe other day to play the leading role opposite business arc sticking out tongues and pouting. 'Stoo had, Maurice Chevalier in a Paramount talkie. But she didn't '5100 bad, says F ilbert the office flea . No song is that go. Olestcrfie1d ciggies, for which the lady ch.1.nts her important. torch songs, wanted her in New York. For a whi lc, heated Why can't both thcse warblers sing it. anyway? 5 RADIO STARS RADIO STARS , YOU CAN T KEEP HIM DOW N • • • • ( ~b ove, I.ft! On hi. '"",nt brood,olii"1J tour, By C U RT IS P,thbu'9" IJOV. Ed 0 .w" "'.Ie...... (Abov.! Ed Wynn, a ci90f" .Iub, and hi. molh ...who 1. ,,>port.;. M I TCHEL L bI, for hi. fa"""'l ...... D WY:"::": J!OI til' .1o... ly off hi' cluir. Hi, .ia'" ".,.. Of <"01,,...,.,. II", no:: .... got back 10 B,,,,I(],,"),. arlll it "",. ESod. 'Tm not I:omg to ..... "'. ,lOCI""'. r ... 1101 (""II(" In then Ihal II", .1...... ,·. "i", 1001) , brj;an 10 ""Y Ihat bl a """,,,tal, ,\ ..d rill _Ql ""OI"~ to '.UII !" I", Di'] \\ l 'lI" """ Ih ...... "",. ,·It's your I",,,,nl:' ,I.., nWI ;" Oxfurd 1:"" .tatc<1 Wtt~ after ... ..,k "mil Iw() lerr,ble nlollll~. 1",(1 I_I 'Tn IH: "",,;"g you:' .I~I \\"y"n try III pull hi ••how IUf,.'flJM,r, 11", dIn" Ed \\")"1111 dO!\nl the d"or ah~r hi' ,·i,"or a.. 1 "'~"t .lrain.... 1 hi. 1.00.-1), lie I.... t w<"i~ht. """Klu't 'Il"",I'. lu"",,1 10 a "in Ed Wynn had actually reached the point where wise guys said he was through How he overcame such unpleasant circumstances IS a story worth reading • RADIO STAR S Have you a little RADIO STAR • In you r home? (left) Alfred Price, who appears on the Horn and Hordort children', hour. IAbove) These three girls appear on th e lady Next Door program over NBC. Yo u must hove h"e ord them. If your child has .any talent, HEN you hear radio children on the air, do yOll think their reward is a lollypop or a big doll? And W what would you say if 1 told you that the leading radio youngstcrs add thousands of dollars to the family coffer? Wouldn't you like your offspring. or your little sister or brolher, to be able 10 pay for her own music les sons, and perhaps even buy you a lamp for the parlor table ? For Ihese youthful performers stack lip enough gold pieces to payoff the mortgage, and perhaps buy Dad a sct of golf sticks and Mother a new bat to boot! Of course, these limes aren't what they used to be in the good old days not beyond recall when radio children were habies, and even these diminutive humans are not the weighty wage-earners they once were. But their small shoulders can still keep even the shadow of that wolf from the door. \Vinifred Toomey of the long. lovely blond curls, who is 12 years youllg. had displayed her talent in ]luhlic at the tender age of 3. O n this occasion Baby \Vinifrtd eanll.!d $5.00. And Winifred has already earned o\'er $5,0C() a ycar. One hundred dollars a week is the Illost uacon Goldylocks has evcr brought to home sweet home in the ether pay envelope. The least is $ 15.00 for the same length of time. YOll can hear my little friend ncarly each day via NBC on "The L.."Idy Next Door" program, and whenever )'011 find there is a little girl on "The COllntry Doctor" hour, or the "Lucky Strike" program, you lIlay S:l)' to your neighbor, "That child is played by Winifred Toomey." Perhaps yOll remember that when "Toddy" and "Bon Ami" were 011 the air. you also heard W;niJrctL Winifred's salary goes to pay for her attractive dresses, RADIO STARS Jane of the Jolly Bill· a nd Jane Hour. Jane', Baby Renee Brandeis who a ppears on the Horn teal no me is Mu riel-Muriel Horhoter. She and Hordod children's progra m. She puts g eh one hu ndred dolia rs every week for her over semi-classical and popula r songs in 0 style rodio wo rk. And she's saving most of it. quite her own. And very cute it is, too. radio IS one of the best fields for him-or her-to try her school, her dancing, IlHisle and dramatic lessons and Calli on, Senior, is secretary to a local union for carpen the rest goes straight to the bank to S:\\"C for the time when ters, l\'II's. McCallion is the mother of nine children so our little radio artist is a radiant dClmtantc. she oeserves as much applause as her actor son 1 Six of Home sweet home for Winnie is a house in Flatbush them are living, and J immy and the family reside on where she !i\"CS wilh her mother, her t\\"o sisters, and Riverside Drive and 135th Street , New York. father. l\l r. Toomey is a clerk in a \Vall Street broker age house and there arc times, plenty of them, l\'Irs. T HE. boy who lISed to play "Penrod" to Jimmy's "Sam," Toomey told me, when his daughter piles up more of and many other juvenile roles. and whom YOll may the so-called filthv lucre than her dear old dad 1 now hear in the " Lady Next Door: ' and as Mikey when Her pal in broadcasts and often out Mikey is in the Goldberg hour, is How sille them is Jimmy i\IcCallion, thirtel'n anT Merrill. Howard has earned money year-old radio actor: Ihe smartest. By HARRIET since he was one year old. He's never brightest, nicest kid that ever spoke to made less than $3.00 a day, He's often YOll from behind the ether curlain. You made $300 a week. He is sixteen years hear snappy Jimmy as Bobby Hill, in -MENCKEN old. Not SO bad, what? Besides his the Columbia "Junior Bugle" prog-ram, radio activities he edits a magazine and every Sunday from 9 to 10. Whcncver there's ~ boy numbers among his five hundred subscribers, he told me. schc(luled in the "Death Va1ley Days" I)roadcast, JI111m)' Alfred E, Smith, Lowell Thomas. Albert Payson Terhune portrays him al so. And he is proudly boasting that he and Robert Ripley, Howard's father is in the clothing was the page boy and the telegram boy with Eddie Cantor business and his mother is secretary to Mrs. Berg. the recently. Jimmy used to go around saying' ·'Leon Ern?1 Motly of the Goldberg hour. In fact, lHrs. ]..'lerri11 is is my best friend," but now J noticed he's changcd hIS e,·erything. I'\'e Ilt:en out on the Paramount lot and seen tune to: "Say, Eddie Cantor remembers me!" In the her turn up as an extra, I'"e been in the radio studios and IhiS! you've heard him as Sam in the "Penrod" stories, seen. I.ler ~urn up as a ~\'ri!er. There's more energy and I~sides many other either roles, Jimmy tells me he has amblt10n 111 J\'1rs. :Mernll than in ten other people com earned as much as $300 a week, and that his average bined and her son will have to mean the time-old gag salary is about $150 weekly. r-.-fost of this goes, like about owing it all to mother. \Vinifred's, for hi s education and in the b.·wk, and this One of the best known children on the air is Our own youngster whose yearly earning capacity is often in four Jane of the famous "Jolly Bill and Jane H our," whom figures, says his allowance is about $1.50, from Sunday you hear five times a week via 'BC, and have been hear to Sunday, Not much more than your Jimmy gcts. Mc- ing for the last five years. Jane's (CoJltiuul"d 011 page 48) 9 RADIO STARS HOW LO NC W ILL ? THEY LAST • • • • • O W long will they last ? How long do you think Amos 'n' On Broadway yOli can fin d guys in the know who H say that Amos 'n' Andy arc all washed up--that Andy's popularity will last? Hear they will be through within a year. But go 10 ~ I a in Street in Hoboken, Hampton Roads, or Oklahoma City and you what they themselves say about will find Amos 'n' Andy boosters who have listened to the affairs o f the Fresh Air T axicab Comp•• ny " incor it- and see if you agree poInted," the O . K. H otd. and the l\·Jystic Knights of the Sea fo r five years and still say they haven't had enough. ," ." So what ? H ow long will they last ? Of all lX'o ple, , \1ll0S 'n' A ndy ought to know. They should have their By WILSON B ROW N Here you see them snatching a • few minutes rest on the doy-bed in their Radio City dressing room. 10 RADIO STARS (Above) Andy and Amos in the make· up ..... h:ch 90es ..... ith th eir famous ad. (E ,xtreme le f t) Charles J. Correll - Andy. (Left) -Freemon F. Gos- den-Amos. fingers on til She was a hoofer when he met her. She had no idea The 9 ra nd rom a nee of how romantic a comedian could get-until she met FRED ALLEN an him. So they married and d she became his stooge PORTLAND HOFFA H .... we h..... Fro-cf AIle ....t Fr.d. a. a busin... man. ,..,itwj (t.-fl) Fr.d Alleft . .. f tM \jnit tl.e bat. Lie ",.. sI com"!ian•• la .. v...... d ep'. ..i ..... W .... _ B.. th a..b. (Abo ••) Pori· h. ;. cortriantly wwryilw) .. bou, .let wIIo'. ~anclin9 hi", Ih .., 1o...J Hoff.. . hi, "if•. 1(""" 9.ttio>q ",.... m .....;aI ... .I .... of o of this """'Y Vi.tct. lhe F.,.., .\Ilc-n alffildy ",..nl~>n<:<1 '-Such a cute J:iri ought 10 gct om befo"" it ~ets htr." By HILDA is lhe sdf s.~""" uny ,,'1>0 cam"s ~u,,,by-n;l:htl)· in l'''''' So "'11:11 did F~I do ~boul iI' II~ ma.ried her anti Ioudspeaktrs lor Linil and ,he Ibth Onb. An" the n\ado: her ~ !loot:". lIis scOO!:<'. He nw~ a hool ... illlo hoolc.- "'ho---in my "or)'-i, aboo'l til nUt. ~Ior.""... a It~nd "'''''1 ""ppenni: lIut "·ail. ~1a)b(o)O\I COL E AUt,,'s lile i, n()I>e oIher II"," ,hal d'hnb-cludh )'QI"'~ don', know ,,-h:t.t a hoo'(... is. \\,.11. ,uh. til<' lOllS and thing nanwcl Portla,,,l (In III<' ...n.e I'"'''''''' wt., C"laim • d.1Ullhl ... 01 ''''HIc,ille 0>11 all Wtntt..,. -·hoof~ ...H A"d • <"Si<.lentt in s.,II<'n<'Ct:uh· and ask. first prinM" 'I"""'i"',. a s'oot!"? In.:u·! III<' guy l'l:t.nle<1 in ,II<' ""'lienee 10 ... ilh llot g"ileIC>o<,>t;!6 of Lorelei I~. hcckl~ the conJC The story of the watermelon , " LET I S COSS IP ABOUT The troubles w ith the word "w00 IN... S··mgm ' Sa m' 5 per- sonal a ppe arance ca uses YOUR FAVORITES trouble .. . And other tit-bits - ~t?"~------ OT long ago. two d,,~ky I"'n..... at the Columbia hi ••uTTound;ng •. Dill ,,'ent to il 3ml ""id. "W""I, wool. During- a rfnnt Sherlor:k 1101",." b.....n.l. lhe script ShKli A SOUL--SHAKLNG order came out of the National Bro..1.dcasti ng Company's executive offices the other day. It said, "Anllouncers will discontinue using the words, 'Your announcer is So-and-so.''' So what? Well , all the announcers have been scurrying around for a new way of singing the old, old signi ng-off phrase, Tiny Ruffncr, sky-scraping salesman for the Show Boat program settled the whole problem by saying, "This is Edmund Ruffncr biddi ng yOll all good-night." (Above) Elsie Hih 01 June Armdrong of "The 0 0-0-0-0000, is our face red. Remcmber the yarn Magic Voice" series, got iic~ and hod to brood. we printed ahout Jack "Nelson" 0 11 the l\fyrt & l\ large cost from 0 hospital bed-in ke eping with her air shows ? Well, it turns out that there isn't a Jack role of June. (Below) Mrs. and Mr. Po ley. He is "Nelson" on that program .. and the guy we really President of the Columbia Broadcasting Sydem. meant is J ack Arnold . Can yOli beat it? Mn. StOkOWlki, Copt. Sede Clifford, Governor Of coursc. we knew it all the time, but somehow these General of the Bahamas, Mrs. Clifford, Min mistakes will happen. But here's the blow that killed Polly l each and Mr. l eopold Stokows~i . father. There f.r a Jack Nelson. He is a big shot ..... ith the Lord and Thomas ad\'ertising agency ill New ·York. He handles a whole lot of radio programs and it was he who gave Vinton Haworth, the chap who is the Jack Arnold of "IHyrt & Marge," his first break 011 the air. And now, dear customcrs, please don't wri te us any more letters. We know we done wrong. G EORGE H ICKS, NnC announ~r, came rushi ng into the studios one frosty Friday night not long" ago and handed out cigars all around. " It 's a boy," he said . "Eight pounds." THESE sound effccts men ncver know from one da) to the next what life will demand of theill. Sometimes, it is almost 1110re than they can bear. Take that Crime Club broadcast the other night. Can you guess what they had to provide to make sundry clicks and clatters for the air audience? Their props incl uded a dish, various tools, bromo selllcr, glasses, water. three steam whistles, an air tank, two re\'okers and hlanks, a Diesel cngine, puhlic address system, iron door, flexible metal hose, water cradle, sound proof cabinet, light glohe, door. amI a whimpering hab)". the place and filled lip the st reet outside that the store's E LSEWHERE. we'vc lold the story of an envelope management had to lock the doors and call out the firc dcp.artmc11I to clear the llIob ofT the sidewalk. marked "50-0-0-0-.0" making it s way 10 Ed \Vynn. Xow we get another news fla sh that a letter bearin~ the OIl(' word, "Liar," was sent straight to Jack Pearl. the air' ~ H OW'IH I Rudy Vallee is his name, radio fans, and above you see him in a number of characteristic poses. Incidentally, you wise guys who said his popu· lority wouldn't lost might be surprised to leorn that Rudy now has a lasting place in radio. 17 RAD IO ST A RS SETH PARKER C 0 E S TO SE A B y J AM E 5 A . EL L S WOOD , J R. Effie Palmer and Phillips l ord in their make-up The Country Doctor wos the second chara d er OJ Mr. arftj Mrs. Seth Parker. Don't think for a wh ich Ph illi ps lord created for the oir. Here moment thot the broodeosh will be interrupted he is mode-up to look like his idea of thot love- by Phil ', absence. able old charader. H EN the blood of seafaring forbears is ' in your Phil Lord may christen her "Seth Parker" ... or he may veins, it never lets you rest. Phillips Lord, whom name her aher his wife or one of hi s daughters. T he day W you know as Seth Parker and the Country Doctor, l bo.1.rded her an Arctic wind howled through her rigging. found that out. The deck was splotched with streaks of icc where water Phil Lord is going to sea. had struck and frozen. Her h.1. re ma~ts looked like icicles. I like the li nality of his answer to the urge that has She looked cold. And tough. uurned within him. No cautious Cooks' touring for this W hen Phil Lord goes abo..ard with his crew this mid son of deep-water sailormcn. He goes like a Viking or SU lIl mer, he will take her toward the hot countries. To rather, like one of those fishe rmen from his own "Down ward such dreamlands as Morocco, Egypt, Arabia, and East" who ha\"e dared all the tempests of Heaven and the South Seas. H ot lands wherc strange things happen; still brought home their cargo. where dark men and womcn love and hate and kill. H is ship is a four-master, a schooner that has al rea - Four pictures of Phil on the "Georgette," the schooner which he hos bought to tour the world. In one picture you'll find Irene Rich-she wonted to see the boot. The man with Seth is Capta in C. Fli nk. much sweeter must he the reward for this reason. H is story is well known. Not many years ago. he was all unktlOWI1 writer with all idea. En (left) Hi. eorly With ~i . ... ife. y . o ....0Uy Ida Tobia., a.d mod. him the hi. fi.e d"u9h ..... come .~ By EDWARD R. SAMMIS ) I!EHE ""'~ a ,,,"w hoy D"rante. 10 nanl( a few. on Uenry :-trec1 . ..,lting He<:ently. I aske<1 E.I Take a trip 10 Carnegie Hall- in New York City BACKST ACE WITH where those two madmen, Stoopnagle and Budd; Jeannie Lang; Willi am O 'Neal and Andre Koslel a STOOPNACLE & BUDD nelz' orchestra hold fort h. You' ll be thrilled J >Oil!" lIalf way 10 the I"hlr. Ihe fo,cn~,"1 "" Kosteloneh in action. Just 0$ crazy as they look Easy on that sOIl They look no crozier than they are. What, no oboe? The finole Pianiuimo Altogether, now. 51.--,,,hl Look, look. look! Colonel Stoopnagle per. Uncle Louis Dean speaks again. and Blldd. In tlLxedos with that Fifth "Ladies and gentlemen, Pontiac pre* Avcnuc cut and white ca rnations in their sents ... prescnts ... er-r-r ... Ulll- Ill-Ill lapels that reck of prosperity. Budd is ... presents ..." medilllll size, blond, shrewd and humor Budd and the Colonel are at their own OtiS of face. The Colonel is stockier, mike. " He must mean us," says the with a roly-poly countenance tanned Colonel to Budd and a dozen million still by Florida sunshine. There is their loudspeakers. " Maybe we should say organ, their mighty gas-pipe orgall that something." says Budd. has played so many Publixy endings. One moment, pleosel And they do say something. The guy leaning 0 11 it is Lollis Dean, good Have you heard of technocracy? Then 01' Louie. the Dean of aU announcers. yO Il ought to know about Stoopnocracy. And his hand is going lip ... lip and out. The crowded It is Stoopnagle's idea of the way to make life one long seats become How SHERLOCK HOLMES • got on the .' Edith Meiser is the name of the woman v.-ho does the Sherlock Holmes sketch. An amazing person HE office boy said, "That By things that go wrong, and plenty lady's here again, sir." CAROLINE of things have gone wrong. She T "That lady" had been there laughs at the vanity of the world a lot of times during the past and the mcn and women in i\. year. She had an idea, it seemed. SOMERS HOY T The advertising agency chief re ER husband, who is Thomas membered vaguely that it had H H. McKnight, is part of the something to dc-with some dcad-and-forgotlcn detective. firm of McKnight and J ordon. a company given to pro ... Sherlock Holmes. wasn't it? She had an idea that ducing a goodly 1)'1.rt of the entertainments that come to a Sherlock H olmes series on the air would interest a lot your parlors. Edith is a part of that comp"-lIly. One of people. third. actually. "\Vc're all vice-presidents," she sa~'s. " Nothing doing-now or ever:' he told the office hoy. "Like generals in the Mexican army." And the. office boy went back to the lady with the brutal The way she gut into Ihis broa I~' To ,cle.ti,\th... pi~turo •. look for the numb.,. On tho pictur. which ..., .... pond. wilh tho numb., h.r.. t •. uth N. ... m" •. w"," i. h,,,,d wilh th C .. ,h-.l.,,1 Choir. 2. M.e' Lor, II" t ••, Ih. 901 who ' ''pp/, .. tho ...... d. f", G .....9* Holl', mu.ie. 1. Mr. ond Mn, Eaoy I.e... "ttl, OCOU"" in ALL AROUND " big _yo 4. Vic ..nd Sod •. who .. horn_ IiI•• ~.kh •• <;Om, to you Ovo' tho NBC ...... o.ory w"knight. 5. M•• t Jim Hanvey, d.tecoH •• h .... ollh. Town .. nd Mu,d .... Myolory. Hi. rool name i. Th ....lo" Hon. 6. Th, SOuth .....i.... N.B.C. n09'o ~uort.l. Stood in,!. Joy Toney, b .. rilou, WWiom Edmon",n. bo... Sitt''''). low" P. t .... ond Hom,. Smith, both t.n...... 7. Tho WhilomQ./l Rhythm boy .. Loll 10 ,;",hl: Jimmy NOI'!. G""g' t.4cOonold , Ray Kill. and AI Dory. 8. Pi .. and THE D I A L Pot, gt'ffing Q 9''''P on Tiny Rufl .... -oll of c"plain He"'Y" Showboat. RADIO STARS {Above, leftllonny with An nette Hanshaw in TOO MANY their MOJ;w e ll Hou5e Showboat costum es. (Above, right) As he looks wh en singing at the microphone. 5 WEE T H·E ART 5 . , That's Lanny Ross' ·trouble. But It s not his fault, as you'll see I ANNY ROSS is a man's man. No B y L I V E tall Maxwell House tenor. H er arms L doubt ahoLlt it. At Yale, he was o encircled his neck and she kissed him a track star and a champion. violently. Imagine Lanny's feeling's, Earned hi s OWII way. Took many a W HIT E if you can. And the feelings of the stiff jolt in the teeth. but kept right girl who was L.mny's companion. It on plugging. Maybe that's why he is was just lovely for her. such a lady's man, too. • :\ nother time, Lanny Ross was traveling on a railroad You've got to be a man's man to he a real lady's man, train. T he run was lengthy and tbere were no stops. don't yOli thi llk? Not the. kind of lady's Jllan thai kisses A half-hour out of New York a prim, brown-eyed woman yom hand or blows down your ueck, but the kind that looked up from the magazine that she was reading across takes YOI1 places, (lll}' place, a11(i you wouldn't feel safer the aisle and caught hi s eye. Sudden ly leaning forward, with the U. S. IHarincs. she whispered: Ladies like L .nn),. They write to him, and Lanny, ;; I know you. You're Lanny Ross." appreciating the sincerity of their leHers, usually answers. "How do you do," said Lanny. Sometimes he mccts them face to face. And that is The little woman crossed the aisle and took the scat the more embarrassing. Maybe it is becausc hope springs beside him . H er eyes were wide with adoration. fI r eternal in the feminine hreast, or something, but those always listen to you," she said. "You don't know me. correspondence friends almost invariably eled themsel\'es hut I'm Anna Fenstjen." his sweetheart. And assume a sweetheart's privileges. "Anna?" said Lanny. \Vhich just distresses Lanny to death.. he doesn't "You've written me such wonderful letters:" said ;,,'riss like to be kissed in public. FCllstjen. "I've just livcd for yom letters." Exactly that happened one night recently when he '·Um-Ill-ll1lllm." said L1.nny. went to the theatre with a girl he had known for years. The lady swiftly recrosscd the aisle, opencd her suit In the lobby, a slim slip of a maiden flung herself al the case, and brought out a shoe (CQl/tilU/('d 011 page 50) Z8 RADI O STA RS , R A D I 0 s Forgotten M E N • • • (Left) Henry G rossman of the Colum bia Broadca sting System. He belongs to the group of men who take chances in order to secure perfect broodcosh. (Below, left) Read what happe ned wh en Mil ton Cross was introducing Stokowski. And about Wallace Butterworth's (be. lo w, right) shower both. You've no idea of the perils which announce rs a nd the technical staff go through in order to bri ng you broad casts of nationa l e vents. Actually ri sk li fe a nd limb OU-VE got to take things as they crash. and the cab was overturned. come in this radio business. I mean. By ROBERT The first thing the K Be knew of it. Yi[ you arc onc of the unSlIllg mdio William Hurke 1\li11er, who directs afmy of forgotten men. Radio has EICHBERG outside brO.1.dcasts for the network. them, bel ie"e me. recei\'ed a telephone call, and heard They're behind the scenes. You an excited voice saying, "One of your never hear their names. Ul1t they're tbcrC--(lIl III('rl'/ lIlen has just been killed in an automobile accident. We Doing their job with the single thollght in their lUiflds want yOll to cOl11e over and idell ti fy the hody." thal came 10 thelll straight from the rich tradition of the Leal"ing an agitated crew to handle the take-ofT. Miller theatre, "The show must go on!" Mllsi go 011 , get it ? hastened to the scene of the acci [L.ft! Th i. chap i, CMrIi. Carlisle. 1M ...... 101 of the linit 80th Oub. Iklo"') A 9VY ... he', aboul 10 'live """ 10 a whole /fad of untn.th_ • • 099... 0100.0. if 'fOIl pnf.... 'I'. p. it', Jad Pltarl. Die! you k"" ... he', qoin9 ;"10 Ih. ""'...... ? (Leftl It i.n't ...... "Yon. tht hOi on oppo ...... nity of [Abov,,! AI Jal..,. him oelf. Did you .no... thai a 101 getti." ri9ht •••1 10 Kal. Smilh a ••h. he. h... of p..,pl. ha"" aceu ..d AI of imilati.9 oth. r radio lunch .. Bul you ca •. Loo.' .u.piciou.ly Ii ...... a.h.d ,in96r1 .. hen actually tho .. oth ...... imilatin" polalo .. on Ihat plat.. R. dl... Kati.1 (Abo~ '1 Jol.on? [Rightl TO Kate Smith eating lunch-AI Jolson putl"ing the punch into a song Ted Husing flagpole-sitting-and other informal shots of radio folk " " RADIO STARS The boy wonder orchestra leader. Sherlock Holmes and the gal who writes his stuff. And others John B. Kennedy (above), o55ociate editor of Amos 'n' Andy a.hunting go, down on the Poto Collier', Weekly, gives those interesting five mac. Left to right, Charles Correll IAndvl, minute tolks over NBC. He used to manage Tom Ship, their host. and Freemon GOlder . the Collier's Hour. He's never missed Q broad (Below) The men who superintend the sound cast, and is everybody', friend around the effects for the Eno Crime Club. The man on studio. fBelow\ Leonard Hayton who leads the the left is clinking glaues together for speak- Chesterfield bond. He's only twenty.five. easy locol color. $0 that's howl 32 RADIO STARS HARD TO HANDLE Sure Wayne King IS hard to handle. But only because he believes in being true to himself. His stubborness isn't a silly pose By DANNY TOWNE AYNE K I NG is a (Right above) Por most obstreperous trait of the gentle W young man. You can man who has been see it in the lilt of hi s jaw coiled a "prima and the slope of his shoul donna" because of ders, I wasn't the first per his alleged tempero son to di scover that he was ment. (R ight below) hard to handle. Wayne and hi' T o begin with, I had come bride, Dorothy Janis, to Chicago to write a story former movie player. about him, and he had turned me down. Not per- sonall y, for I hadn't gotten that close to him. but through the N Be puhlicity man who sought to arrange the interview. In the cnd, I had to waylay him. It was in the recep tion room of th~ Chica~o N BC studios. The loudspeaker sonmbl the IasUovc1y notes of hi s Lady Esther hr(xld· cast and the dock ticked past the hom. Suddenly. lip a corridor, camc thc bright sound of laughter and banter. I looked and S;l.W young men, hearing odd·shaped casc~ that I knew contained Illusical instrulllents. 111 the vall was Olle who held my gaze. Bare-headed, overcoated. with a white silk scarf drawn like a bandage about hi s thro;lI. \Vayne .h:ing! 1 fell in step as he passed. llis face wa ~ h.1pPY: obviously the bro.1dcast had .t:one well. "1\ 1r. King. [ want tll ask you a few questions." '"\vhy?" ,· It·s for a story." \\le wcre alrcady racing down the hall. - "There's no story in l11e." .. Uut it witl be ~ood publicity." An elevator door danged open. "I don't want puhlicity." He dived into the e1e yator. "But people w-ant to know ahout you." di\·oo after him. O n the ground Aoor, he didn't hesitate a moment. Into the street and a zero wind. 1 stuck like a leech. " I've got to write a slory," 1 said. He stopped beside his ('.1.r, a low I.incoln with raki sh racing' lines. "If you want a (Coll/il/lled 011 /,(I!lc 4;) RADIO STARS Tommy McLaugh- lin has a strange superstition " OMMY l\'fcLAUGH LIN won't sing with Tout a ring on his little finger. Why? It's j ltst another characteristic of another star. Meet this Tommy :Mc Laughlin, an Irishman through and through. H is mother was born in Don egal, his father in Belfast, and Tommy, according to himself, is "just a crazy Irishman who liKes to sing." N olice that he is stocky, grey-eyed and has an in fectious grin. Know him intimately-that he loves classical music best aud is convinced people arc slowly becoming c~lllt:aleJ to it; that he WOII\(\ r:)lhcl' cat A dishe:ll-tcning c.' Harry Horlick was a prisoner of war ARRY HORLICK is a gypsy. Not just H an A. & P. Gypsy, though he's the leader of Ihal group-and not a chil d of the Romany camps, but a true nomad in background and ioeli· nation. J f an X werc used to mark the spot on the map where Harry Horlick was born, it WQuld be placed just outside d'f ~loscow in Russia. Tiflis was the scene of '-Tarry's education, where he studied in the Con servatory of Tillis. A full fledged g r aduate, he played the violin in Moscow symphonies. Excellent training ' schools . him and now his augmented ensemble is an NBC feature. Then came the war and Harry entered the Russian Much o f the music used by Horlick is unpublished. army where for more than two years he did not touch The scores ha\·e been prep..1.r ed frOIll notes taken by H or his violin. The Imperial standard fell and the red flag lick during his wanderings. He has taught these melodies of revolution waved. Harry was captured by the Bol to his ensemble so well Ihat manuscripts are not necessary. sheviki. Instead of Siberia, the revolutioni sts sent him South American music holds a high place in the estimation into a symphony orchestra and later he was assigned to o f the violinist. play in an orchestra for the communized opera. It was His first violin was a gift from hi s brother and he hard work and not very gratifying. began playing before he was ten years old. He traded Tiring, he escaped. Traveling by night, he reached that instrument for one of fancy make. He soon learned Constantinople. Then he moved to America to join hi s thai beautiful wood docs not make beautiful music so he parents who had left Euro\>c before the outbreak of the acquired an halian violin, valued at several thousand dol war. L.,ter he returned to ::urope, listening for melodies lars, which hc stil! plays. which he carefully noted. He spent days with bands of He wil! never be happy. he s.1.ys, until he has a program real gypsies, playing for them and 1c.1.rning their di stinc entirely di\'orced from commercialism in which he can tive folk tunes. produce the sort of music that he is sure America needs In America he played at a small club in New York in and wanls. As yet the opportunity hasn't come, but sollle a string ensemble of six:. Representatives of radio heard day it will , he is sure. And he'll be read v for it. RADIO STARS RADIO STARS MARILOU DIX I S SPRING WARDROBE IAcro.. Ihi. P09. I.om '-It 10 righll (A...-o .. thi, P"9. /,-om t.11 10 'i9M) Th. forol lwo pic"', • ••how whol con n. lo.get! piehl •• "'ow. 0 coli"",. be d"". ab",,' 0 ... il. 1" the 1"'9. ' '" good old ••I ... b!. blod and whit •. picl.,. , ,,",o.ilou hOI on 0 9'""n Th. jod., Ii ... !d ... aI . eordUI.Y chec;~"" tw.... co~ ... il. In the piq"" Ar.~'1 lhe b. n bullon. omll .. ...,011 .. pic..... , you ... the g .. ... wool i ~91 He" i. 1.4",110", ,,,"n9 cool. boo j-ock.t whid! 9.... with Ih. 0..1 ap H ERE·S a lot 01 comn"'n otI~ in"; How to combine individuality, glamor and budget that's none too big! Radioland's Marilou Dix know~; how. And tell s you In this article " " RADIO STARS Backstage with Stoopnagle and Budd (ColililillCd Irolll page 24) Lang rises from her chair ill Ihe center gli!"itcninl! high ~ilk hat ami dons it. The audience rocks in its seat.~. And of the stage amI marches 10 a mike. It The sketch is a typical StooJlnagle the $how goes 011 to a hilarious fi nish. towers over her head and she climbs Irilltll ph . It ends with the interviewer At the end, the Colonel S How Sherlock Holmes Cot On the Air (COI/Iumed /rolll /,1'9c 25) The Theatre Guild in New York and dcspondent and heartsick. An), the the-,1tre. But e"en marriage thought enough of her 10 hire her. boily \\"ould ha,·e lICCI1. .\nyhody human l:ouldn't kill old hahits. She had a habit She W,IS a star ill the famolls Garrick 1I"0uid ha';e heen hroken to hits hy an of writing Ollt silly verses for songs, Gaictic~ that h'lIl :111 i\lanhatlan by the audience that rccei\'ed in gllll1\ silence anti cute or curious ideas that popped l'ars for a tillie. the Sa me sethtle sallies that had New into her hcad. As a touring: star, she admit ~, how Yorkers rolling" in Ihe ai~l e5 . Shc was Olle such idea was a radio prescuta ever. she \\asn't so hot. Not her fault, ahont ready to tos.~ in the sponge :111<1 ti on of the Sherlock 1·loll11('s tales. :\~ as I ~h all ~how you. The hooking go h;lck to hel· knitting. Bllt ... tong as she could remember, the Eng agcnts ga,·e her an iml)()5sillle jolt, a11l1 That st""\·cnth night, a hoy of ;Ioout lish sleuth had been her favorite char. it was 1::"lith's ta,;k to put her head into ten year.$ of age So"'t in the \'ery first acter in fiction. Before you could say :Lny Ilumber uf figurative liolls' Jen~. row. At Edith's \'ery fir~t ~w iftie, llC petunia. she hat! put him down ot1p..1pcr. opened hi s mouth wide aud laughed. A Dialogue, action, sound effects, and all. E DITII had what is known as a 11I0mell\ bter, he laughcd again at a That's what she was trying to peddle '·!ioJ!hi~ticated·· act. V:ludeville \\ise-cr:lck. so upro.1Ti ously that thc when v;e I1It~ t her at the beginlling of Illllckvn!llcks wantcd 10 know what hOuse hcg:m to laugh, too. Alld a~,'";lin ! this story. \"icilli-ties would like ~lIch an cllIertain ··[n ;111 the right ]Jlace~:' Edith renlcm All writers who h:we something to !IIcnt and which would thum!J their ber ~ . That show was thc I)iggest suc sell, "Pl'dd1c" their wares. So she be noses at it. So they sent the j\leiser cess that she e\'cr had on the ro.ld. came a peddler, an unsuccessful hil t gal. Uack in New Yo rk after a whi le, in persistent OnC. And she k('pl (Acron top of page, (Left) Gene and Glenn, left to right) 1. A set of good old Cleveland, which hos 20 tubes. with th e midget set 2. The Triolion. 3. Th e which they corry with Radio Chest model them everywhere they with Vibro .Power . 4. go. Yes, just like Mary Boek view of the Triolio n. and th e little lomb. 5. A I a-tube super Midget seh can now be heterodyne. Tonolite hod for around fifteen Contro1. Read about dollars or less. And they them in t he story. work beautifully. Progress on radio sets marches on. Read about the new improvements ilEN vour 1920 model \Vhcezcr By CORDON permits the listener to determine the ex W begi ns' its nigh tly cracking. and act amount of tone shading required; yOur idols of the a~ r sound like a thirdly, an illuminated Tonalite indicator couple of wakciul fclines discussing tech STARRETT is added to the standard volullle control. nocracy, it may be that your ears are and as the volume is increased a colored holding Ollt on you- yet more probahly, it's the insides light rises in the opening above; and the fourth feature of the hox behind the dials. RADIO STAHS this month is an improved noise su ppressor control which is also hegins }lollr Ratlio Corllfr, presenting tips on what 's 11ew equipped with a Tonalite indicator reducing betweell in radio models and IIIcchanical improvements which will station noises when tnning in the receiver. Doesn't that help rOllr reception. sOllnd inviting? I~adio manufacturers have promised to keep R,\D1o STAJ.(S informed on all their l1ew trinkets and improve H E Crosley Radio Corporation, the Cincinnati finn ments. If your set i ~ sickly, here you may li nd just the T operating the powerful and popular 'vVLW, makcs a medicine it net.'{ls. miniatllre set which is one of the favoritcs of Gene and HC:\ Victor Comp.·w)'. 411 Fifth Avel1ue. K(.'w York. Glenn. Cleveland's contribution to broadcasting. Every for example. made a hig stride in ra (Coll/illllCd from I'agc 38) which she writes each week. Or how Probahly, you have heard "Evening . Seth Parker Goes to Sea (COl/l illI/cd from page 19) This past year, r thi nk most of his him. La3t month, those clubs distributed wouldn't at all surprise me to hear them friends have wondered what Phil Lord 1.500 barrels of food to hungry people. playcd on the air next year as a part would do with hi s money. He had nevcr And 2,550 articles of clothing to un of his Sunday night hymn sing. earuecl much, remembcl'. His humble employed sufferers. They gave fifty-four . Well, he will come as near to realiz start in a small COlillecticut town had entertainments for raising more funds ing his dr(';tm as any Illall ever does. givel1 him no b.1.ckground of wealth. with which to buy more food. They As master of the s'hip he owns, he will Would it spoil him? Or would he, like gave school children 12,000 free meals. direct Captain Flink, the Esthonian sea so many others. ix-COlllC its slave? To And 8.400 quarts of milk. T hese arc dog who h;IS driven " The Gcorgelte" day, I can answer that question. Not things you can put )'our hands on; con through all of the se\'cn seas, to most in so lIlany words, for words arc slip crete evidcnCI:: of the man's inspiration. of the world's forhidden paradises. pery, deceptive things; but in telling . And now, you must be wondering you what Phil Lord has done. what will h (COIllimu'd /rolll page 21) her only grandchild. Eddie Cantor. as will be seell later in this life story. Papa Tobias was taken in by this Along wilh Ihe old violin and the Eddie returned from C Your Rad io Corner (CQ lltilllll'd from II/I gc 39) .sc t for \'onr office or home study, wave-b.'nd hrought into view in the Company has heen experimenting in CI:II'ion Jr.. with five tuocs. and sland flll1 -\'ision wning scalc. true-pitch tone this field. with Ihe result that the How ing only 14t' inche:. hi!;h. is the all ~ \\'e r cuntrol and \'ibro-bJeIldt.."I.1 dual s ~a k art] Static Rejector i ~ noW" on the m.u 10 your I J r;)~· er. ers." \\'h:.t ,l1Iore. could you ask for ? ket. It may be this is just the thing The Unit(.'{l American Bosch Cor . for your loudspeaker laryngitis. por:II;OI1. Springfield. ~Ia ~~., has ~i\' en H AVE yOt, heard of such a thing as i\leet .\ Iicrophone S:II11 . the dancin' eight gold C \IJl ~ Itl eight gilt edg-e radio three-dimension tone ? It's a f... a man. A I).'th! r~· is hi s hrains. a radio [ler.'!Onaliti e~, The scen C' W;b ill \\ ' a ~ h Illre which gives 10 the ear the s.'lIIe is his cue, and ~' ou'll S t.~ a ~ how by a in/{ton. Charles Curtis. thcn vi cC-I)fesi tIT ..'C t of realism that the stereoscope dancing fool. \ "es, il's a ncw gadget (lent of OUf {j. S.. \\'a ~ lIl:istcr of offers to the cyc--depth. The lit: \\, d"'\'eloped for your Taf]io elltenainmelll, ce r e ll1 on il"~. T o )Iorton Downey and Triolian, It'ader in the line of Sparton Hi !> guardian is Ihe r\ational CO l11pan~' , Je ~~ i e ;t Dragnnctte wellt C \lJl ~ fur the r:.di05, manufaclllrt'{l by T he Sparks 1\IaldC'lI. i\ lass. All you have to do is 1I10St poputar sill /{eh. I{uhinnff took \\,ithing-Inn Company of Jackson. i\ lich .. inserl four fla ~ hli ght cells in the pl;;t . in s trumentali ~ t h on l) r ~. Ed \\'\'nn drew embodies that new de\·elopment. Spar form b., ~ e . adjust the height of Sam the l'oll1edv cu". [{ ichafll Go"rdon. the toll radios al so employ two tubes in a !' How Long Will They Last? (COlltilll/t'd frolll /,ll g ~' 11 ) \ol1g and pros perOIl ~ lillie to comc ? name ~ ami Ihell not hear thfJJ;(' Il ame .~; to a \'ery do~e friend. \Vhen Gosden and Correll lalk ahollt and Ihell to fi nd prOg"ram s which h;l\'~ A lot of lhe de[,:!\{' aoout them ha s a suhstantial prog'ram. they lIIe:1II one stood the It'st of tim.'-sllhst:tntial pru been regarding tlwir snccess as efller that isn'l a passin:.: fancy. but a Ilro g rams. tainers with NegrOt' ~ . One da\' rtt~Tlth' g r:tm wilh real charactcr in which thc GOs ( CQ UlillllCl/ from "/lge 13 ) Gi la Bend or H a ~ ! i ll ;: ~ -On - thc - HudsO Il . " "O ne of my ~ I s l c r s was called Lthan!)" , and .1 11 0Ih('r l..asl O ne," said l'Orlb nd. "Good gr'lcious." " D,II[ thoug-hl she'd be the last o ne," l\ li ~ s i-lt)/fa co nlinUL'li serenely, "hut she wasl1 't. So he cha ngt."t! lu:r name \0 Ncxl-to· l..a st." So they fell 10 talking'. l ie told hef he'd lik e to he a nOI'eli sl, hut he kept ratchill,i:: hinl ~ l f ktughing up hi ~ "kcI'c ami that Radio's Forgotten M en (CQ ulillued from paul' 29) the annual regatta 011 the Hudson just as often as they are perilous. things. Take the time the Natio11:\1 River. Despite the storm. engineers \Vhell \Val1ace Butterworth was ~ta Farm and HOllie H our was bein~ broad amI ;\!1I10uncer~ stuck to their posts. tiolled at the Aying field in Chicago cast, and one of the very best Sen;ttors Lightning struck the lines which were during the Hunter Brutllers' endurance was ddivering a talk oli th is and that carrying the program f rom the remote record flight, it seemed as thollgh the 'frOILI the Chicago studio. In another points to the transmitter, and the ter plane was going to stay IIJl forever. studio an ' announcerl gettings thinKS rifically hi/{h I'ultage went through the Butterworth stood it as long as he ready for his next program. tested his body of W. R. Brown, assistant field could, bllt on thaI red hot Fpurth of mike with the IISIl'li. "\Voof Woof! supervisor. He was knocked off his )uly the need for a cooling shower be How's this mike? \Voof woof!" All feet and dowl1 a fifteen-foot emlJank came ol·erJlOwering. He took it. and of which wellt into \hc Senator's speech ment. Yet, ten minutes later he was just at that time the Brothers dccided as he afterwards'found out. back at work. to land. Another time. about a year ago, Recently, Engineer Jacobson grabbed An engineer holding a "mike" dashed somebody bUlliped a switch while i\Til 550 volts all a short wave tr:lIlsrnitter madly into the shower room, ami with ton Cross was introducing Stokowski. at the beginning of a bom race. There the microphone in one hand and the The "Oilligawd r' that the bumper was no medical attention available, soap in the other, a blushing Butter gasped was bro.1{!cas\, too. Once again, and no time to take it if there had been, 'worth addressed his unseen (and. for an eager engineer wandered into the so '"jake" twirled his dials with three tUllately. unseeing) audience. studio while Kathleen Stewart was cooked fingers for four hours, until he playing a group of piano solos and could get a doctor to dress them for ERTAINLY \'011 hal'e heard the started out the door with her micro him. • C Philharrnonic· cOllcerts frOIll the phone. He thought she was rehearsing. Lewisolm Stadium. Two telephone when she was really broadcasting, and T ED BUS I NG barely escaped frOlll lines are kept open between the stage only a lot of frantic signalling to him de,lth during the broadcast of the there and the studio during these con saved the day. Olympic diving tryOllts at Jones Beach. certs; the former to carry the music to Engineers llIay do stupid things oc Husing was stationed atop the high the control room and transmitter; the casionally. but almost invariably they diving tower. seventy feet above the latter to enable the engineer and an arc forgiven. And why not? Many a water. Three sides of the pier were nouncer al the StadiullI to get the night they arc asked to go without raik·d in but it was opell at the back. switch-over cue from the station. Just sleep in order that broadcasting may Ted perched on a camp chair, with a before a 'broadcast last year, the studio not be interrupted, Many a date is board Iyillg across its arms. A micro to-Stadium line went dead. There were brokell an{i many a dinner spoiled be phOlw 011 the board. and a spare "mike" the remote control men. stranded at the cause the air show must go all. \VllO was lashed to the iron railing in case Stadium with no means of knowing the can forget how the networks handled of emef!{ellcy. Everything went along instant when they were to take over the the broadcast of news cOTleeming the fine until Ted tilted back in his chair airwaves. Lindber!;h kidnapping. Sixty hours In and his toe slipped. The microphone An assistant ellgineer was inspired. that first grim stretch. Afterwards. plung-ed down into the water below. He dashed to a t<:lephone booth locater\ days with twenty working hours in The camp chair shattered 011 the con way behind the scats at the far end of the1l1. There were no cOlllplailHS. It crete pier. The board just missed one the gia!!t howl. He called the control wa~ their joh. of Ihe girl divers at the foot of the room, explained his plight and awaited There is never a bro.1{lcast withoul ladder. Husing milde a wild grab at the cue word. \Vhen it callie. he w:l\'ed the1l1, remember. Not one. \Vhcn a the iron railing and hun~ thel'e by one to the announcer. who had mo\'ed into trails-Atlantic flye r lands in New York, hand. Swiftly. he pulled himself back the WiLl/.:'S of the stage, and the an when a political convention holds the 10 th(' plat form. grahhed the spare nouncer wigwagg"ed the signal to the nation's interest. when I'residem Roose '·mike." and went on bro.1{lcasting. engilleer in the hacksta!;e hooth. thcn velt speaks at the \Vhitc House turned to the microphone. The pro think then of the men who lay the A IRPLANE accidents are another gram went on without a li~tcner realiz wires and set up the 1I1ikes and get pre hazanl of the hroadca~te r' s daill' ing" that anything W:LS wrong. cious little glor~·. They arc radio's life. Oddly enough, these are hUlIl)' SonK1imes the audience does hear "forgotlen men." 44 RADIO STARS , , Amos n Andy (CoH.tiIUlC'd from page 42) Ih~sc boys had made, and for heing friends of the Negro race. They are friends of the Negro. And why not ? Amos was born ;11 Richmond, Virginia, and was cared for by a m:Ulll lI\'. Cosdell and Correll met in DurlW.;ll, North Carolina. To play the JHlrt o f Negro characters. they milS! he sincere in the (lcve!opl11cll t of those DRAW clmraClers. ThaI law suit, by the way. was (\is missed from court when the Illainlifrs lawyer failed to sho\\' up when the case was called. ME! A tI'IOS 'N' ANDY aTC 110\\" going into :\lI illl;ltcd cartoon work. giving: the ,'oiees of their characters 10 the scrC(.11 COMPETE FOR ANART as well as the air. T he night they talked to me in between bro.~dcast s. they SCHOLARSHIP! s ign~1 a COnlract to make thirteen such cartoons. The firs t will be a wrestling match between Andy and Bul\lH.ock Moosefaee. Remember the time AIl 41 r went in for wrestling with rather , _ , Copy this girl and send us your drawing disastrous results? p.,h.ps you' ll w;n A COMPLETE FEDERAL You·"e no il1ea how hard they work. The vcry fir st day they playt.~l;n Radio • COURSE FREE! Thi s contest is for amateurs City. they werc~ in the theatre exactly RULES fourteen hours. 1'''·0 brooc\caslS for FOR CONTEST ANTS (16 years of age or more},so if you li ke to draw Pel'sodelll, their SI)oC) llsors, olle sl'eeial broadcast for Radio Ci t\". writilll{ an Th is conh!11 open only do not hesitate to enter. (1)isode of 1800 worcis, g-i~·illg five stal{c to ilmilleucs, 16 yurs shows. radio and sta;:-e rehearsals, and oldormo.e. Pro/essional PRIZES the constant tine of visitors took up commerc ial arti lll and the time. Federal students .te nol Prizes for Five Best Drawings - FIVE At the end of m)' ¥isit. a booking eli,ible. agent rushed in, sU I:u~es t i n g work. COMPLETE ART COURSES FREE, in 1. Make dcawing 0 / girt '·Uo),s. they'd like to have )'011 March ·4 in \Vashington to play In 5}i or 6 inches wide, on cluding drawing outfit. (Value of each augural \Veek." paper 6.17 inches \.qua.e. Imagine an inauguration with Roose D.aw only the ,irl .nd COUrsE $185.00.) velt ! A1IIOs scratche(1 his ear amllooke(l nol the lettering. slyly to Andy. Finally. he said: '·\\'('] 1. 2. Use only pencil or FREE! Each cont~stant whose drawing I suppose another week won·t hurt us'-· pen. The stage call came. Down we W\'!1t showl sufficient merit will receive a to the footlight. The overture elJ(kd. 3. No d •• win " will be grading and also expert advice as 10 the cUTlaitis IJarted. A tower clock Itturned. strl1ck seven and there .came the strains 4. Write you. n.me, his Of her chance of success in the art field . of ·'The Perfect Song." 011\ of the hoys addrlUs, ,ge . nd occu stepped to the applause o f si" thousand poIlion on back of dc.w ]ll'Ople. ing. Th e quality of instruction in the Federal Course In the Chi cago N BC studio, it's far clifferell!' Visi tors to their ],n~lc\ca stS 5. Alld,,"win,s mu llbe deve lops your natural talent to a practical are lahoo. Not even Iheir wIl'es h;(l"e receiyed in Minne.polis seen them do their stuff on the air. by Aptil 25, 1933. earning ability in the shortest possible time. Amos 'n' Andy arc IIOt stage charac Pcius will be aw.rded It has been the start for many Federal Students, teTS. The very few stage al'pearances for dr.wings besl in p,o thev have made (and not in hlackface po.tion and ne.tness by both men and girls, who are now commercial eitl;er) have bl'ClI out of respect tn some Fedefll Schools F.culty. close friend who especially rCill1estl'(l artists and illustrators, earning $2,000, $4,000 t!u.:ir appearance. 'nley .101I 't expect to be Bro.ldway stars ht.ocause their il1ler • and $5,000 yearly--some even more. The est is not in Bro.,dway. Nor do they Federal Schools has won a reputation as the "School famous for care much what Broadway thinks 1)£ them. Instead. tht.')' want to please successful students". Enter this contest ... a splendid chance to test A llleriea. " How long will you last?" I asked your talent. Read the rules and send your drawing to pointhlank. "What do you think?" Andy chal lenged. ··One year-three-fil·e, maybe." That's their answer. They (Iou 'I know, definitely. And they aren't wastillf: their . FEDERAL SCHOOLS INC. . time wondering. T hey arc thinkill~ about the radio show they give, abolll 5483 FEDERAL SCHOOLS BLDG. MINNEAPOLIS. MINNESOTA "substantial" entertainment. 45 RADIO STARS Ed Wynn (Con/illllcd from page 7) tear him down, to bury him with the forgottcn stars of yesterday who had outsta YL-d their wekomc among the hright lights. T II AT \'ery night, Ed Wynn wcnt away from all his fricnds and all his a lain Ihc 11011011 of ~('111~ on the air. 11101l0106 I1t'. one of her tyrical "a1ll1 SENSATIONAL so. s , , , .. Ell s:lid, "No!" As he said it, Iri s I'nice hrokc. t\ c· ThaI \la5 Ihe li r ~ t of a series of Com/o1'! beyond belie/ cidentally. And a g-igJ.:'le ril'pkil throl1/:'h I·isits. The mall ret urned and SUg" the tir ~ t .nig-hl croll"l. A mi nme lat~'r, gC~lcd an :Iw litioll. Ed was UOt il1ler Ed tricd it aJ.,-ain, forcing" Iri ~ I'oicc 10 e5\(.."'J. A~ a com('llia n. he had dcp.'ntk-d hreak .. "50--0·0-0-0'0. " too long upon hi~ f\lull Y hats, bcll The audience rO'11"l.... 1. And therc w:t~ hOtlOln coat!', and imlll.'Cile make-lip to horn the idiotic councetil'C that ha~ be trust Ihe cold ll1el,,1 of a microphone, come the nation'~ catch-won!' "Th..: Laugh Parade" was playing: to Wynn worked like a hnr~e tha t lIi.l:"h t. croll"lk'(l houses e"ery ti1l1e the doors l\l entally fagg-cd , IICl.1 IinJ.:' a doctnr'~ at O[1e lll." Hard to Handle (Col/li/tllrd from pa!/.· 3.n ride:' he ~ aid 110t lIukiudly. "g-el iu ." One rum() r h:l ~ him a hard-hc;lded I Kol in. "Lislell." I ...aio! as we pUrTe,1 m;111 of b ll si l1 e~s who ul1der ~ t ()()(1 tl'e into Iraffic. "you've got an audience public's ta~te for l'lolI', drcam}' mu ~ic that wants to know more abOllt yOIl. and dClcrmined 10 usc that knowledge What you're lUi!' off the air. Whal you to linc his o\\"n pockets with g-old. An look like. What you'ye done, What other rumor has llim "11 illtdk'Ctual kind of a b.'lckgrollll(1 you brinK to lead snoh \\"ho secretd)' laughs at the people ing an orchestra. Tltat" ~ the story I who call him a great orchestra leader. wallt aud you oll"e it to your friellds to lell 1II e. abOllt your~el£." O F the fir st, I com ~ay I douht it. " Li sten to my sidc of the picturc." I-Ie is too LI lli ch of a s elll imc nt:\li ~t, hc answered. '" [ pl;ly mcmory mu ~ic. too much a dreamer. One Chri~tmas. That's why people listen 10 me, Be for example, he took his b.'lnd 10 piay causc I re\·il·e pr.:cioll~ mcmories thaI ilt Piu ~!u rgh. The thollg-ht of depril'ing they 101·e. Vlhat has the !'hape of my hi~ boys of their Christmas fun at home nose or the pl ace of Ill)' hirth got to do distrc~sed him. T o make il up to them, with that t' he ord.:rl"([ a private car speci:1I1y dec What can yOIl say to a gllY like Ihat? orated lI'ilh Chrbtttlas wreath~ ,\Ill! holly and a sturdy cedal' tree. 011 the W Earglll .'-m .... d bit: i n~_ 'J'bouaano:t. needil!d. About 12,000 Arag-on 13allrOO I11. da11cers wert' await Clalls. Certified Pllblie AC«>IIQtaQUI III ing him. I got m)' slory in snatches. in or the second rumor. T s,'ly it is a U. S. Many u rn s:l.OOO 1.11 $20.000. We t ..i ll YOll thoroucbly ot bo_ inadvcrlent adlll1s~ion,. ,'011 didl,'t lie. \\'h01 te\'er he is, \Vayne King is ill rwr _pare ti..... fot C. P. A. ""_ know it, \V"yne King. bllt it is easy to no snoh. H i~ per"ol1al philosophy and omlnall_ or uecutive a«l A Little Star In Your Home? lI,e mlln you I'lved (ConlimlNf from "age 9) WII,. " willi" lillie son. S UI)' PO$C h e asked you 10 hi" coun' .. ,. Jllace real na11l e is i\lnrid Harbatcr. She's Door" Il sL't1 \0 pay $5.00 a broadcast, u" .. h ul.eN)I",oI. S UI'I ) O ~C you wen •.... fourteen, has bohhed, brown hair, and hut [ SUPI>DSe the rcnt '·ncxt door" has AI"1Il II c ntlc)' .Iid ju ~ 1 Ih" l. Only 10 hlne eyes. Jane's salary is $100 11 week, /!,one up! ,\ccording to the Chicago r. n d, u n he r r e 'urn h u ....., 11 c url ,,,,,e $5,200 a year. With persollal appear- CBS studios, the leading charach!rs in rrom h e r 10\'0:1'--4.:1111;111; .:xc r y lhi n J; be anCl·S it amounts to about $6,000. the children·s hams there receive $15.00 .... .,.." them . }ihf'd •. . for .. r l',,~on There an!' many otlll,'r promineTlt a program, The othcr kiddies pocket HJ iron ic ,1.:0' ~ h c wallh:d 10 run M.~" IIl - ~'oung~ters earning big money in radio, $10,00 each bro.1dcast. 1"11: ,"rough tho: " ...,<: ,,, 1 The t\\'o children in the Goldbergs, for .: ,·ery " 'om,,n "Ii."c ...· iII Ihrill to AIm" instance, Rosy and Sammy. each draw B UT Ihe children can stand the cut. Hc ,,'I ,·,.·~ (r'ue slory. " S ...... "I Te,,,:I,,:r," down $10.000 a yea r, according to Mrs. for ewry lime yo u hear a child's in 'he curre n' 1\100f:It N HOMANCES. Berg's secrct:Lry. Then therc is the ,'oice brO;I\1c"st On a comUlercial IIro J)i,,(' ...." c r Ihis r"" rinll,inl!: m a gu7. ine ! gram, you may knoll' that that cl'Li ld is E,"cry monlh ;1 "fTcn! II houk·1c nlt ,h weekly children's I)rogram at CBS. di IrUfl ~ I o r,. a mi .. ~c "re '; ' o o:- e •• r Irue rected Iw Nila i\lack, ·'The Ad'·enturcs earning $25.00 or $22.50, the former if ~ I "r;c~ a li Marilou's Spring Wardrobe (Co~li"lfl'd from page 37) j:L ckct over a tai lored blouse? be o\'crlookcd. And that's jusl a slight idea of the T herc's a closeup of the navy straw clc\'er way t.larilou makes her clothes fabric call th;Lt ~Iarilou wears with this do double duty. frock on page 41 also. Don't you just IIromlcnstillg Sf IIdi .. ''/'vc found out that it isn't haw !lllIch love the tricky openwork that allows you spend, but how you spend it, that the hair to J>CCP out? FOil RENT really matters," shc cxplained to me. I know there's all old \·\X)(loo about ';Acccssories make or break a costume. stripes. So many girls think it makes Sel'llin« 400--Slage-Oalcony I always choose an ;accessory color' and thcm look stout or, ·shapeless. Well, if ConLrol n oom makc that the foundation for all my it's a vcry narrow stripe li ke the brown clothes of that season. This spring it's and white jersey that l\larilou wears Selecl .... 1 1.y Colu mhiA n r Oll d CII ~ li "t: Sys, brown-not the ordinary brown, but on page 40 and has the sa me Spurty lem for Lh e Po nLiac II r Ojl" r ll ... fe"Luring the new warm brown that has a purplish look, you n ~ edn't worry about it adding Cu lon d SloullllAg le ami Bud,l. . tinge. That doesn't mean that I Wl'ftT pounds. T he tic collar. the bone buckle, Wr ile or Call only hrown clothes. F:lr from it. But the unusual way the pockets arc set in, CAR NECIE HALL ADi'tIl NISTUATION I do choose clothes that win go with it. and al)O"e all. the novel treatment of On '- ICE F or instance, r can wear grccn. bt'ige, the stripes, arc its most distinguishing pink. yellow. rose ami white, just to details. I S. ~ Weill 5ilh SI ...... 'flI. Ne.. · Y o rk C ily 'I'~ I "ph" ,, ~, C ircle 7-1350 mention a few. This, of course, is be~ T here's always a "pet" dress ill sides llIack. I belie\'e black acccssorics C"er), girl's wardrohe. Marilou's i~ 1.o"L. G. Ki M ..,. M,,,.~~u arc always neccssary to ha\'c on hand, a white corded wool which is one of particularly for drc ss ~up occasions." thc materials that fi nds a favored 1)lace H ere's a clever ex.lllLple that illus in the spring and summer Slln. Thc trates Marilou's point. Her spring coat tie around the waist, and the cuffs on (~ce page 41) bears out the newest de the th ree-quarter length slee\'cs arc a tails. It 's a dull, soft apricot color atld novelty kn it of green, black and white. it's made of a lightweight woolen fab With it she wears a shallow green ric. Notice the slec\·es. It's a change clochc, turnt.'(1 up at the back and from those huge shoulder putTs we\'e trinuned with a grcen g rosgrain band. worn all wintcr that g;\'c a girl that For later in the season. l\larilou has too top-he,L\')' look. This one has smart a pai r of those extremely cut-out san t ll c k ing~ at the shoulder ,LIld the full dals. Thcy ILLight seem a little daring ness falls just abol~ thc elbows. It has to you, but they'rc newer than to the high, collarless neck, and this is ·morrow's ma il. Just a ft'w straps in where l\lariloli uses her illgenllity. tcrtwined. and presto ! you" 'e the smart "For general street wear I prefer it cst shoe of thc sc."tl'on. You must have si mple and collarless. But I often "ary :l. very firm. high arch to wea r this type J it by wearing a si h'~r fox scarf with of sand.ll. 11111 sallda{.I arc i'cry drfiuilc~ black hal, glovcs. hag and shoes. And ly ill. thcn I sometimes wear a brown galyak 1\0 spring wardrol)C is complcte with - 8 Set-tested ti e scarf with browtl acccssorics, which out a coat dress. Young l\liss Dix makes it look like something else again." ehooses one of a soft. dllsty pink that AERIAL ELIMINATOR rcvcals. when the rever is open, an in Gou Ri&ht In.ide Yo"r Receiver E." E:\I B ER. the smartest spritl~ sct of a striking brown and pink plaid .\n ~'. " LL. l':tl'''''!C1 .\o-rloL Foil",· R I.... " ... "1, ... 10 U'''~~ .:.·r,~>1 .,.,.L.,. coats arc collariess, with detachable Too Many Sweethearts A JOB" (CUll/illllcd from page 28) hox. She showed il to the singer. "It's ("upid's bow lips ;md an Irishman's luek. "THE boss ..as c.oJ!tng the men into hi ~ office, OIIe at a lime. This bad bua going On s"veral days "'hen _lours. all your". I want you to have L;umv came home from the bro.1deast my tum came. it. It's home-made fudge:' one l;ight, opened his apartment door, "'Jad,' be said, 'we millbt as ...., n gel down t~ I f th ere is ;mything Lanni' Ross b",... tach. lVe've gol to le\ some men go around ami there she was. he,e unl~"" Ihinl:' change. and I am asking a ll Ih' hate;;. it is fudge. But he ope;led the "1 had to come," shc sa id. "I just nl..., to Idl m... 'by tbey are belle, qualir,ed lor lh~i, hox and took a piece. The lady Sllug- jobs. 11 '. ' <>ugh - but so i. busin'-'»I' had to scc you." "I had b«n thinkin!: aOOoul enrolling 100- an In· g1cd dowlI beside him. "1 feel as if ,ornali(lDal Co... rspon dence School. Con ...., H~li"VI I've kll own you al\\"ays. Let 's talk!' AN you imagine the scene? Thc me, lh boos' ,.marh ,"'rsuao.kt/ mel And h"" I .IUI C in \0 Jet Ihe Ira;"j"l \'bat ...... Id betlcr 'Inalily me k. 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