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c^s4ugust, 1930 CONTENTS SPECIAL ARTICLES

PAUL OLIVER — He started out to be the world's biggest automobile mechanic, injured his hammer hand, and sang himself to fame. Julius Haber CHIC SALE—And His Trusty Saw. He only intended fixing the screen door to his filling station —but he cut a leg off! Chic Sale

PRIZE WINNERS— Amos and Andy script writers will find the winners here. Also a sym- posium of opinions by colored listeners. 10 WILL ROGERS BEGINS A CAREER— Bill Sunday and other Claremore townsmen recall early days when Will ran away to join f>UTH PICKARD the circus. Victor F. Barnett 14 * * MRS. JESSE is growing up. Ruth is the pride and CRAWFORD ALBUM—The Fair of the Air (our new Roto o Pickard is the inspiration and section). 17 j y of Dad console-ation her and the whole Pickard of VACATION FOLLIES — Where and how a famous husband, Jesse family, for that mat- score or more of our leading Radio celebrities Crawfo rd. Together ter, who sing and play find surcease from a world of woe these summer they play the twin con- ¥ 22 the songs of the old days. Evans E. Plummer soles in organ recitals Southland over the presented from the PICTURE PAGES—Real television where you NBC net. Remember Paramount Theatre, may actually see many of the Radio entertainers them on the last Em- New York, over the as they appear in the studios. 24 pircBuilders program? Columbia System. RADIOGRAPHS—Rosemary Drachman, whom Floyd Gibbons calls "Wild Bill" Drachman, presents some closeup pen sketches of the New 38 York stars. Rosemary Drachman EVERY WOMAN'S RIGHT—Beauty expert 40 suggests helps to accentuate beauty. Eve Conradt-Eberlin

DAWN OF BROADCASTING — What is thing called Radio? The author takes you this 42 back to scenes of the first programs of the air. Doty Hobart BEATING THE RACKETEERS—Famous Radio artist accepts challenge terrorists who of 46 shook down many professional entertainers. Ann Steward JUDITH WALLER — Manager, station WMAQ, Chicago, and former boss of Amos and Andy, tells of pioneering days in the broad- 57 cast game. Qarnett L. Eskew WESTINGHOUSE SALUTES TO AMERICAN CITIES—These popular pro- grams scheduled for weekly broadcast continue to find favor. 62

FICTION TERROR — Graphic episode from early New history when a bonded w'xite girl was put York 28 on the block with black chattels. Rupert Hughes INCOMPATIBLE— Minute analysis of two human hearts riven asunder by petty misunder 49 standings—and the final revelation. Dana Qatlin THIRTEEN AND ONE—All mysteries of the the amazing disappearances Nonius Oped and 34 are cleared up in this final episode. Jackson Qregory WHO KILLED DUBRONSKY?—Girl wins B. 85 TDERNICE TAY- JDENAYVENUTA mystery story prize. David Hampton D LOR is the star J-J is gifted with a soloist the Chicago kittenish purr in her of studios the National voice that has the soft- Editorial Office: Radio Digest, 510 N. Dearborn St., Chicago. Phone Superior 7323. of Digest will not be held responsible for unsolicited manuscripts received through the mail. AU Broadcasting company. ness of a whisper and Radio manuscripts submitted should be accompanied by return postage. That thrilling the penetration of a softly soprano voice you have sun-ray. It's the cli- Member Audit Bureau of Circulations heard with the Armour mate, no doubt, for Radio Digest. Volume XXV, No. 4, published Chicago. 111., August. 1930. Published monthly by Radio and the O'Ccdar pro- you hear her over North Dearborn Street, Chicago, Illinois. Subscription rates Digest Publishing Co. (Incorporated), 510 grams belongs to this KPO in San Fran- yearly. Four Dollars; Foreign Postage, One Dollar additional; single copies, Thirty-five cents. Entered as Act of March 1879. litle sometimes second-class matter Sept, 25, 1929, at the post office at Chicago. Illinois, under the 3, young lady with the cisco, and S. Patent Office and Canada. Copyright, 1930, by Radio Digest Publishing Co. All rights reserved. Reg. U. big ring. over the nctzvays.

J. Continuing Interest in the Meritum Diamond Award

See Rules and Conditions on page 53

STILL they come! Strange—how these contests take doctors who broadcasts from that station . . . "and since then I

ANDhold of the reading public ! Or, perhaps, it is not so strange enjoy listening so much more. Knowing a broadcaster adds to your after all, when you come to think about it—the American enjoyment of his program."

people being what they are : a nation always ready and (Too bad we can't all of us know all the artists we like! ED.) anxious to match wits, one against another, to see who can win a Graham McNamee, veteran announcer in the NBC service, has a prize ! The nominations cast in the Meritum Diamond Award con- loyal supporter in Elmer W. Hess, 4455 Meldrum Ave., Detroit, test to decide upon the favorite Mich., who says in explanation announcer, program or artist, of his vote, "I could never pick have this month increased from a particular artist or program 256 to 301, and daily the mails because there is always some coming into the office of Radio part of every program which Digest are building up this total I like and some part which I do to monumental proportions. not like. There are times when If you could see them you I am pleased with my favorite would be astounded; if you artist and times when I am far could read the letters accom- from pleased. Perhaps it is the panying the ballots, you would song or rendition which does not be struck forcibly with the very strike me. Although I must ad- evident decided likes and dislikes mit that McNamee, by his clever, behind the sending in of these original and almost artistic an- votes. Talk about partisanry in nouncing can put any artist over presidential elections ! Friends, the footlights. And there, I that is nothing at all to compare think, is the acid test : Mc- with the intense rivalry, the Namee is an artist as an an- heated favoritism, shown by the nouncer ! So I wish you would letters accompanying the ballots register my vote for him. I and nominations in this contest. hope it decides the contest." When you read them through The clean fun of Gene and you begin to understand that Glenn of WTAM, Cleveland, there are solid reasons, some- provokes commendatory com- times, for these likes and dis- ment from many ; not a few

likes ; sometimes you suspect a send notes along with their bal- blind and unreasoning loyalty. lots saying how much they like But in any case, it's loyalty to Captain Jimmy Norton in "Har- one program, one announcer, one bor Lights." And were there artist. space and time one could con- "About the Dutch Masters tinue on indefinitely through Minstrels," writes Mrs. E. H. piles of letters and gain a cross Fuliher Route 2, Box 133, Wil- section view of what the public liamsburg, Va., "I want you to thinks of their favorites Design for Diamond Meritum Award know that they are as good as (whether artist announcer or any minstrels could possibly be, program) and why. and I'm astounded that they have not yet been nominated. I listen Many people who like to listen to Radio probably have never to them regularly over WJZ. All the men have good voices and stopped to think whether they have a favorite or not. They are their numbers leave nothing to be desired. Please enter my nomina- so intrigued with Radio in the abstract—with whatever comes tion for the Dutch Masters Minstrels without further parley!" over the air to them—that they are content to listen without And for our old friends, Amos and Andy, a thoroughly anony- caring to discover what program it is, or who the artist is, or mous friend writes from down in Texas to say that she has her from what station the program comes, not even giving heed to Radio dial trained so that at 10 :30 every night it swings round of the announcer when he broadcasts that information. their own will and volition and pauses just at the proper point to To such we suggest that you begin to discriminate between bring in the two dusky partners at the taxicab office . . . "the only artist and artist, and station and station, so that you can con- objection is that 10:30 is a. mighty late hour to have to stay up to verse with a certain amount of information on the subject of wait for the boys. However, you just make another vote for those Radio personnel. From where we sit it looks as though Radio two boys for this family, 'way down south." is more and more going to be the topic of conversation. Nor is the medical profession losing out any. Mrs. Harriett But after all, the votes and nominations tell the storv. Which Springer, Box 33, Auburn, Ind., visited Chicago recently and went reminds us to ask: HAVE YOU VOTED YET? See the rules around to Station WMAQ, met Miss Judith Waller and some of the and conditions on page 53, and if you have not complied, do so rest of the station force, among them Dr. Russell Pratt, one of the and send in your nominations.

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Advance Tips

THESE are the days traditionally dedicated to the dog. So far as Radio was concerned in the old days, they could consistently be so dedi- LAST month Mr. Aylesworth told you of the Youth of Radio. In this cated. Things are different today, issue you will be refreshed and amused to read of the primitive en- however. Radio is with you, keep- deavors of those early pioneers of only ing up your contact with the world — TEN YEARS AGO—who were whether you are lolling in the roll- grudgingly awarded less than $100 to fit up a broadcasting studio in a ing surf, fishing in pine-scented factory rest room. At that time it was the finest Radio broadcasting studio forests or scaling the frosted moun- in the world. It could only be used at night, as it must still be maintained tain tops. And where Radio is, there for its original purpose when the employes at work. should your Radio Digest be also. were Today, workmen So here's a greeting wherever you are tearing down three square blocks in the heart of New York to erect a are—and happy days for humans as Radio broadcasting center to cost $250,000,000. It is to be no close fisted well friend! as man's best hard boiled cold project is * * * blooded commercial either. Cultural art the keynote and the spirit of the entire enterprise. This Radio Capitol will Take this tip straight—read the Rupert Hughes story about the lit- house twenty-seven studios, three stories in height, with accommodations tle bonded slave girl who leaped for visitors to comfortably observe the staging of the programs. There will from obscurity into flaming page a be theatres and operas in systematic groupings, so that the artists of all the of early New York history. It's entertaining world step footlights acoustically per- vivid character analysis, and thrill- may from the to the ing narrative. When you have fin- fected studios for broadcastings. ished the stoy, you will have been * * vastly entertained and your knowl- edge will be enriched by an historic Beautiful and glamourous in design will be this mammoth Radio center. episode almost lost in the mist of It is being financed by the Rockefeller interests an architectural monu- years. — * * * ment to the name of the great oil genius. The official statement which comes That famous Boston survey has across the Radio Digest desk to you reads proved again that Amos and Andy "Fronting Fifth avenue and forming the central structure on that side of are still first in the hearts of their the development will be an oval building of moderate height and great countrymen. We reach around and pat ourselves on the back that Radio beauty of design . . . with an outdoor promenade running around the Digest was the first magazine to entire building. This oval structure will extend to a magnificent garden recognize their importance to the plaza that will be cut through the area from Forty-eighth to Fifty-first reading public. Now they are going streets. No effort will be spared to make this plaza the most impressive into the talkies — start production this month. Al Williamson of the boulevard of its kind in the world, with fountains, statuary and beauti- National Broadcasting company ful gardens. who is with the boys almost every "Over the entire development will tower a great sixty-story office build- day, has promised us a story for ing, extending through from the west side of the plaza to Sixth avenue. September to be called Amos and Andy in Hollywood. Remember From this central office building a grand corridor, about three stories in when he gave you Amos and Andy height, will run from the other office buildings from Fifth to Sixth avenue." in Harlem?

Guess who holds the record for talking to the greatest number of Special stress has been placed on the approach of perfected television. people as a sum total over a period And, although the statement does not even hint as much, it is rumored that of six months. You are probably practical television has already been developed and is being held in check right. There are no accurate sta- by those who own it until the strategic moment arrives for its release. tistics to prove any one individual as the champion, but somewhere Large facilities are also provided for recording programs. Mr. Aylesworth close to the top belongs the name says in part : "With the great theatrical and musical enterprises to be of Al Smith who used the Radio so created in this development, the broadcasting center of the country will be advantageously during the late cam- joined in a vast artery of communication with the dramatic stage, with paign. You will find Al Smith and His Friend Mike an article athrob opera, with variety, with talking motion pictures, with the symphony hall. with human interest in the Septem- The artist will be at the door of the broadcasting studio . . . Radio broad- ber Radio Digest. casting has become the recognized means for the syndication of entertain- * # * ment, education and information upon a nation-wide scale ... It will have Victor F. Barnett who writes so entertainingly about Will Rogers in vastly greater opportunities when television emerges from the laboratory this issue of Radio Digest, knows to give Radio the new dimension of sight." his man. is managing editor He of The entire project is expected to be completed in 1933. What a stride of the Tulsa Tribune, and Tulsa is vision in decade ! right next 'door to Claremore, where a Will first saw the light of day, and where he so often drops down from It is interesting to note from Mr. Hobarts' article of Dawn of Broad- a sky tour to see the folks back that of those first inrrepid explorers of the ether are still going home. You won't find many people casting most with such contrasts and colorful strong. Jones and Hare came almost being twins, only they didn't happen to careers as Will Rogers. That's why have the same parents. They were born on the ides of March. Now, as the we are going to have another inti- "Interwoven Pair," they are more popular than ever. mate story about him in our next Radio Digest. * * * Newsstands Don't Always Publisher Radio Digest, 'tAH, BUT you will adore Felice! Have One Left I 510 N. Dearborn St., V^ She is described as "like I Chicago, Illinois. some exquisite pink and white WHEN YOU WANT O., for Four Dollars flower slowly opening her petals," Please find enclosed check, M. by E. Phillips Oppenheim in his new story, The Road to Liberty, Hon to Radio Digest, complete in the Digest next issue of Radio Radio I Digest. You will gasp for her as I Name she seeks her road to liberty from a YOU WANT IT! revolting betrothal. It's in a beau- Address tiful setting in a little valley vine- Be Sure of Your Monthly yard below the "white church on Copy by Subscribing Now State I City. the hill" somewhere in France. "

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OME, help us blow out the candles,— and have a taste of our birthday cake. . . . Ah! One, two three out they go! Four . . five . . . six

. . seven . . EIG ITT! Eight years old—and a little more, for the e first Radio Digest came out in April, 1922. And what a table! Readers in every civilized country! From Alaska to Cape Town—-come, let us all celebrate!

May your humble servant step out of this nebulous editorial "we"? Thank you. I want to feel that we are a little better acquainted—each with the other and you with me through the pages of Radio Digest. There are today approximately 145,000 of us around this table.

Frankly, I think it should have been Mr. Rdyner s honor to face you on this page—but he is rather a shy person. He would rather sit back under the shadowed doorway and look on with, I imagine, something of the feeling of fatherly pride in this child of his.

What a story he could tell you of the days of struggle, heartbreak, threatened disaster; always holding his precious offspring high above the engulfing waves, until tonight he is satisfied to see it as an assured, per- manent institution. Many other Radio magazines have come and gone during the past eight years. Here the will of a man who would not give up has achieved i'.s goal.

Radio Digest was created for the Radio listener. It has adhered strictly to that purpose. When the listener was most interested in the mechanics of Radio it provided the very best of subject matter along mechanical lines. Later, when commercial manufacturers took over the tools of the amateur and the listener became more interested in what he heard and where it came from, Radio Digest became a new kind of a magazine—a complete book of stories and pictures pertaining to the entertainment end of Radio.

Then it took one more step to round out this latest growth.

"We need good fiction," said the man who sits back there, out of the dazzling glare. "We want authors of best sellers to supply three or four stories in Radio Digest for members of the family who prefer fiction to articles—Rupert Hughes, Oppenheim, Octavus Roy Cohen, Floyd Gib- bons—

"But imagine the cost!" I gasped.

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We have had all of these authors and many more in our pages.

"Give us a boost boys, we're trying to help you," was the word passed out to the broadcasting stations. Practically every station of importance, and both of the leading national chains have voluntarily recommended Radio Digest to you and their many other listeners.

Eight years old! Come, let's have the cake, everybody.

Harold P. Brown PAUL OLIVER started out with, the ambition to become the world's biggest automobile mechanic. The war came along and left him zvith a crippled hand. Dudley Buck heard him sing- ing in a Y. M. C. A. cantonment and encouraged him to cultivate his voice. The details are presented on the opposite page. c^£isfortune Brings Good ^uck JL^aul Oliver; Disabled in War for Career as Auto Mechanic, Discovers in Hospital His Voice Can Earn Him Fame and Fortune

By Julius Haber

OLIVER started out to be an automobile me- In fact, he is known to many as the John McCormack of the PAULchanic. Only the purest chance, an accident in fact, lost air. Any reference to this seems to make him a little impatient. him to mechanics and gained him for broadcasting. It "I consider John McCormack the greatest living interpreter of was during wartime, when Oliver was assigned to one the ballad," he once said. "I often listen to him with the of the country's great ship building plants, that he met with a keenest pleasure. I think there is much about his singing that serious injury to his hand which ended his career as an expert is interesting and valuable to study, but I don't think he should mechanic. the But charm of the tenor voice which millions be imitated. Every singer is endowed with his individual phys- now know so well on the air, had already become known. ical equipment which differs in each case from that of other Oliver's rich, but untrained voice, had been heard above the singers. I think it is a mistake to imitate another singer. rest at the patriotic exercises which Every singer can only interpret his were held at the Y. M. C. A. every songs to the extent that he is fitted noon. He had often been asked to spiritually and mentally to do so." sing for the men. It has often been remarked that And as he lay YOU want a thrill.' See the Palm- on a hospital cot DO Paul Oliver sings as though he wondering what he might do when _ olive broadcast on your next trip to means what he sings. Anyone who he got out, Dudley Buck, discoverer New York. It is one the most interest- knows him or has watched him sing of of many famous vocalists, called on knows /ow true this is. "I put a ing programs in the Radio capital him. Buck had listened to Oliver's of good deal of careful preparation into voice; he now offered to train the America. You must be one of the Four my singing," he said. "After read- future Palmolive star for the concert Hundred—that is, one of those lucky ing the score carefully I try to get stage, provided he would agree to as much of the composer's intention enough to obtain one the hundred go in seriously for a musical future. of four into the song as possible, and then Up to then he had no thought of a chairs that are installed for guests in the to impart my own understanding professional career, he just sang for studio zvherc this famous program orig- and emotion to it." his own pleasure. Oliver accepted, inates. You will see Paul Oliver, robust and with characteristic ardor, ap- PAUL sings for the sheer joy of plied himself to study. and practice. but dynamic, as he steps up to the micro- singing, that is his one guiding After two years of intensive train- principle. puts everything he phone and pours info its cold maw the He ing he gained magnificent control of has into his songs and when he is his lyric voice and launched on a notes that swing azvay in golden cadence through often shows visible indica- concert career. Shortly after, he to cars attuned on the far side of the tions of the emotion which swayed met Gustave Haenschen, now direc- he It is this sincerity Atlantic and to others listening in distant him as sang. tor of the Palmolive Orchestra, who which the invisible audience of the was at that time engaged in phono- Alaska. To see with your own eyes and air so accurately senses and that graph recording work. Haenschen mentally visualise the magnitude of what goes far to swell his fan mail. He immediately recognized in Oliver's touches people intimately with the transpires should give you the thrill of voice ideal timber for that branch of sentiment he portrays. They write the musical art, and paved the way your life. to him in the same way. That's why for him. So successful were his he places so much importance on his recordings that Oliver soon had a fan mail. countrywide following, and when "I save every letter I get and I Radio broadcasting came into its own, his entry in that Held try to answer as many of them personally as I can," he told us. was a logical step. "This is often a hopeless task, but I get real pleasure out of It is a curious coincidence that the first time he broadcast knowing that so many seriously minded people are interested was on a commercial hour over the old WJZ station, then enough in my work to write me in the kindly, intimate way located at 42nd Street with Olive Palmer, with whom he was that they do. I don't think the non-performer can fully appre- destined to scale the heights to his present eminence. It was ciate how much these letters mean to us. It helps to make the not long before his work on the air attracted widespread in- artist feel that his work is really important and is getting across terest. It was then that the Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Company in the way he meant it to. It heartens him and gives him retained him as an exclusive .tenor star for the Palmolive Hour. additional incentive to carry on." From that time on his popularity increased by leaps and bounds When Paul was asked if he had any special preferences to the point where millions of people now look forward to among the songs he sings, he replied, "It is hard for anyone hearing his earnest voice every Wednesday night. who loves to sing as much as I do to name any particular song as the one he likes best. There are so many songs that I derive THE first thing that impresses you about Paul Oliver is his real pleasure from singing. Perhaps it would be more accurate complete and unassuming naturalness. Temperament of to say that we like the songs that suit our various moods. the brand popularly imagined is entirely foreign to him. His Among those I do like particularly and which the Radio audi- manner is almost bashful for awhile until he warms up to his ence seem to favor are, Kreisler's 'The Old Refrain,' 'Ich Liebe subject. The thousands of letters which he has received, the Dich,' 'None But the Lonely Heart,' by Tschaikowsky, and esteem in which he is held by everyone, his measure of fame, 'My Message.' I have recently recorded two interesting songs none of these has changed him from the modest young man from John McCormack's motion picture success, 'Song o' My his close friends have always known. Heart,' 'Rose of Tralee' and 'A Pair of Irish Eyes.'" Paul was born and educated in New York. He is 34 years The most important single habit for Paul Oliver is the Palm- old and unmarried. Before the accident which changed his olive Hour Wednesday nights. "These weekly broadcasts are plans, he never took his voice too seriously, which makes his the focal points of all my interest and activity. I spend as much accomplishment the more remarkable. time as possible in rehearsal and preparation for them. All my As far back as he can remember, Paul loved to sing, either outside engagements in the city and out of town must be to himself for his own pleasure or for the pleasure he was able planned to fit around the Palmolive broadcasts, and so that I to give his hearers. Curiously enough, although he comes from will have plenty of time for rehearsals. The pleasure I get a "singing family" (both of his older brothers have fine voices from my Radio work is doubled by my pleasant association and his mother was noted for her singing voice), Paul is the with such good friends as Gus Haenschen, Frank Black, Olive first professional singer in the family. He was very young Palmer and Elizabeth Lennox." when his mother passed away, but the reputation of her singing Visitors to the studio during the broadcasting have never still lives. Paul remembers vividly, however, the pleasure he failed to notice the splendid spirit of camaraderie among got from listening to his brothers sing. the Palmolive artists. When Paul Oliver finishes singing be- It is inevitable that Radio reviewers and his friends of the fore the microphone he never fails to look up to Olive Palmer air should compare his voice with that of John McCormack. (Continued on page 95) " " " "

Wheel Wilkins Operates With 90s ^rusty ^aw 0NL Y Intends to Fix Fly Screen JVhen He Is Called to Rescue Old Man Dancey to Perform an Amputation —Alas, the Ingratitude of Man! n

(Speaking as Wheel Wilkins and including editorial interpolations. From Pennzoil program heard over the Columbia Broadcasting System.)

sir, folks, I'll Rod is leaning over a WELLbet some of you are glass show case con- goin' to be surprised taining some bottles to hear I've opened of polish, sparkplugs, up The Liberty Bell Service and an assortment of and Filling Station. . . . I've small accessories. He been follerin' my own line of is holding out a five- work for more than thirty- dollar bill to Mrs. two year. Made a name for Wilkins who is scrap- myself specializin' in my line ing up the change but here I am takin' up a new from the tills in a business and danged if I ain't cash register. learnin' the trick mighty fast.

. . . Now you take location. "'T'AKE eighty cents out J- That's mighty important. . . . of this five dollar bill, I've built her on the old Cor- Mrs. Wilkins. Gee, they're bin place at the corner of Main keeping me hustling out street and Highway No. 4. front." Handy to town folks and right "Rodney, we're out of in the path of tourists. change. There's one, there's

She's a mighty fine lookin' two . . . they'll just have to structure of solid construction take the rest in silver," and and painted a good practical she dumped a broad palm full color with nice trimmin's. of coins on top of the show When business is a little slack case as she continued count- I can always find time to do ing, "there it is, four dollars a little visitin' and gabbin' and twenty cents." about what's goin' on. No sooner did Rodney get Lon Biggs, who runs the the money in his hand than he Weekly Broadcast, didn't was summoned by the impa- need no invitation. He hangs tient honk of another horn around here so much pickin' outside the door. Mrs. Wil- up items fer his two-by-four kins peered out the window paper that I told him it and glanced to a peg where seemed like he didn't have Rosie usually hung her apron. anything else to broadcast un- There was no apron so Rosie less he tuned in on my station would not be far away. first. Made him mad as a "Rosie! Ros-eeee?" hornet. Lon's a nice feller. . . "Yes ma," Rosie, with pink Charles "Chic" Sale, author and famous character actor. Thinks he knows it all jest cheeks and flying hair, cause he runs a newspaper. bounced into the room through He's jealous of my prominence in the community. the door which Rodney had just passed. Maw, that's my wife, her name is Emma, spends a lot of "You'll have to go get me some-—change, and listen! Then go time around the place and she's been talkin' some of spreadin' home and see if you can find pa out a kind of lunch and soft drink stand alongside of my place "Forty cents out of this dollar, Mrs. Wilkins." Rodney jest so she an' Rosie could be near me. Rosie is our adopted mopped a beady brow with one hand and held out a bill with daughter. You see Maw an' me got lonesome after our chil- the other. "I just saw Mr. Wilkins come out of the Weekly dren growed up and got married so we took Rosie to raise. Broadcast office. He's coming now."

She's grown up now and a mighty, mighty fine girl. Ever once "Well, it's about time . . . two hours to go home for a saw!"

in a while I catch her makin' sheep's eyes at that helper of Mrs. Wilkins moaned. "Right at our busy time too . . . been mine, Rodney Gordon. But Oh Pshaw, young folks will be over there giving some— of his news items to that Lon Biggs. young folks. Anyway, Rod is a good hard workin' boy and . . . Just wait till he he ain't so hard to look at even in his work clothes. And at that very moment Wheel sidled into the door twisting He ain't sich a sporty dresser as Filbert Twitch but he's got his neck for a sidewise glance at Mrs. Wilkins. He dropped a heap more sense. his tool kit on the floor and vocally seized the bull, so to speak, Once a week we sort of get together and set around and by the horns. visit. Filbert Twitch is always droppin' in to pull off some of "Hi. Emmy! Did you miss me?" ' his smart wise cracks and nearly always some of the towns- "Wheel_ Wilkins!" folks, and even the tourists, join an' have their say. "You ain't mad are you, Emmy?"

"Wheel Wilkins . . . two hours . . . where have you NOTE: While Mr. Sale steps back stage to put on been?" his overalls and Wheel Wilkins' mustache, we'll have a "Well Emmy, now that—you've asked me, I'll tell you. I was look at the Liberty Bell filling station. Approaching passin' Lcn Biggs' place — from the rear Wheel seems to be the only one in sight "Tust what I thought—Lon Biggs' place

for the moment. He is worried over something that WHEEL: Hold your horses, now Emmy . . . I was passin'

seems to make the screen door stick. He keeps open- Lon's office . . . and all at once I heerd somebody callin' ing and shutting it. Now he is taking that funny stance fer help. he gets into when he is surprised or worried. He has an MAW: Callin' for help? idea. He's plopping off down the drive. Two hours WHEEL: Yes sir. why I could hear women screamin', men have passed; he has not returned, so let's look inside. yellin,' and dogs barkin'. It was the dangest commotion you *»

'Fifty dollars! That's robbery !"

ever heerd. Then all at once Burt Geer come a dashin' out of WHEEL: No, it was old man Dancey. the Weekly Broadcast office yellin' at me to come arunnin'. MAW: Old man Dancey? MAW: Pa, what on earth. WHEEL: It seems that here about a week ago Lon Biggs WHEEL: Well sir, I pushed through the mob, and when I got Mrs. Dancey to write out the instructions on how she gets inside, looks around. I could see exactly what was hap- makes sponge cake. And Pll tell you, Emmy, there's nobody pening. Folks, I sez, get back, give him air. Do you want to in the town can make better sponge cake than she can. Now

suffocate this poor feller? At that they got back, then I could you take sponge cake. . . . see exactly what had happened. So I gets me a box, and I sits MAW: Wheel Wilkins, will you tell me what happened? down to think the situation over. WHEEL: Well, when Lon gets that recipe he prints it in MAW: Pa! What had happened? the Weekly Broadcast and danged if right next to it he didn't WHEEL: Pm gettin' to that, don't rush me. Well sir, he go and print an advertisement in the same type for pills to was groanin' and takin' on something terrible. Why Emmy, cure stomachache.

I could see that even his face was swellin'. MAW: But Pa. . . . MAW: Wheel Wilkins, will you tell me what you're driving WHEEL: Well, it made old man Dancey so mad that he at? Who was hurt? Was it Lon Biggs? (Continued on page 92)

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Q.t Amos and AndyWere Negroes Q JVhat Numerous Negroes in Various IValks of Life Think of the Boys

By A. Wellington Clarke

The first undertaker (M. A. Johnson, 19 Pavilion St., Hart- ford, Conn.) replied to the questions in their order: "I do not Amos 'n' Andy or the Hour of Smiles think I would be hostile toward them. They would simply be making a living in their line. Yet I do not think that 1 should - WHERE the whirring wheels of commerce sing a hold them as being representative of our race. No real negro song of strife and stress, wants to burlesque his people the way they are doing in this Or the drowsy drone of insects tell of tropic listlessness, enlightened age. With the white men it is different. People From the stretches of the to old England's pampas are falling for Amos and Andy because they know it is not sunny isle natural for them to be funny; this very thing gives them pres- an hour in each dozen the whole world Comes two when tige. Let two negroes do those same things (that is, speak stops to smile. and act like Amos and Andy), and they would not be long at it, for not only their own race would not listen to them but Maybe 'twixt the dawn and sunset, maybe 'twixt sunset would wage constant war against them. and dawn. "Another point is this. No race likes to have its women Maybe under mellow moonlight when the dew is on exposed, and this is what Amos and Andy have done. Here the lawn, is what I mean: Madam Queen has a traveling salesman as Maybe in the noisy city or in peaceful country place, . . . her sweetheart. When he is in town Andy must stay on the The whole world stops and listens with a smile upon outer rim of things; when he is gone she calls up Andy and its face. gives him his date. Of course, this is true to life among all races, but knowing some white people's attitude toward the Hotel lobbies, homes and dance halls, even ships far unfortunate side of negro life, I should rather deplore this. out at sea Perhaps I am too serious-minded on the race question. Your this intermission in the world's activity, Recognize question number two needs no great stretch of imagination. Just as in those days of mourning when the nations I would be inclined to think that the men were doing the most for prayer, paused natural thing of their lives." So the whole world pauses daily this brief "Hour of L. B. Barnes, 2148 Main St., Hartford, was the second under- Smiles" to share. taker. He replied: "I would think more of them if they were negroes, for they would be reflecting credit upon the race. This 'Tis the time when honest Amos with his kindly, is a sad thing, however; if they were negroes they would not prudent care, be given the advantage to make the big money these white men And old shiftless, boastful Andy come to you upon the are making. Furthermore, white people will pay a black-face air; comedian more to mimic the negro than they would pay the 'Tis the hour for world-wide kinship, human hearts negro to give them first-class material. Simply because of from near and far racial antipathy. Walk in any colored barber shop and you Pause, and then draw close together when Bill Hay says will frequently hear some line of conversation to surpass Amos "Here they are." and Andy. But the negro gets nothing for it, because it is so —7?. H. Richardson, 5908 Park Ave., Kansas City, Mo. common with him that he thinks nothing of it, and as far as commercializing it, he never dreamed of that. Amos and Andy have taken that same every-day accent and are making one hundred thousand a year. To do this they have, of course, been GET sufficient data for this article, the author sought willing to work hard and long, in many instances for nothing, first-hand information from negroes who have listened in order to achieve success. This the ordinary negro whom TO I find to these most famous entertainers, Amos and Andy. they are mimicking is not willing to do. one quality of Among those quizzed were dentists, undertakers, law- my race which is common to some people of other races; it is yers, ministers of the Gospel, barbers, artisans. While the this: they are not willing to work hard and make the sacrifice findings should not be applied to negroes in general, they give necessary for the fame and achievement they want. a fair idea of a cross section of the negro's opinion of himself "If I were white and they were negroes I certainly should great comedians." as he is being portrayed by Gosden and Correll for fifteen think they were minutes each night excepting Sunday. One negro attorney said: "If Amos and Andy were negroes These are the questions, given orally: I should have nothing derogatory to say against their per- formances, for such types of negroes as they represent exist (1) If Amos and Andy were negroes what do among us. Yet I do not know that I should sympathize with you suppose your attitude would be toward them? the funny side of the race as it is being burlesqued, for we are (2) If you were white and they were negroes, beyond that stage. Only the most illiterate type of negro will what do you suppose this attitude would be? speak the way Amos and Andy do, and they are fast leaving us. If I were white and they were negroes they might not And here are the answers: have impressed me, for I should think that their talks and Of two dentists questioned the first (F. A. Hinkson, 1335 actions were only natural. The thrill comes from Amos and Main St., Hartford, Conn.) replied: "Regarding your question Andy because they have the ability to imitate the negro, and one, I should appreciate them as artists, for it is the height of what they portray is true to life." art for any man to give the public such clean entertainment A second lawyer, H. P. Dew, 138 Bedford St., Hartford, nightly, although the thoughts of one night do not always con- Conn., said: "I might think they were great entertainers capital- another. With certain types of colored izing their powers. If Gosden and Correll being white can nect with those of ( people even in our day the Amos and Andy stuff is natural, make such tremendous impressions upon the public and are though as a whole we are growing away from it. The younger copyists at that, I believe the negro, if given a chance and hay- generation naturally considers itself above that and cannot ing applied himself, would excel them. But it is a question in merit be appreciate it. Yet Amos and Andy are harming no one. As to my mind whether any two negroes of equal would question two, my attitude would be the same, for our white given the popular reception into the hearts of the public these friends seem amused when the negro acts comical." men are receiving. If I were white I should not be opposed Another dentist (W. B. Jones, 58 King St., Hartford, Conn.") to their cutting the fool. I should think it was just natural said: "I would not think much of them, for the negro is getting with the two." away from that old-time way of talking. Yet, what they say "When I first heard Amos and Andy," said Rev. R. A. Moody, ministers is true to life. If I were white I might think well of them or Baptist. 556 Martin St., Hartford, the first of three while I might think that they were two silly things showing up the to give his opinion, "I thought they were negroes, and inferior side of the race, even though T do smile at what they their composition did not appeal to the esthetic, its humor being often say." true, was great. Then I thought, here are two colored men 11 given a showing equally with other artists to demonstrate their for you know I am telling the truth." To this another brother genius. They are not elevating nor degrading the race, but replied, "Some people are too thin-skinned, that is why they since what they do has a national appeal and has captured the take exceptions to Amos and Andy." public fancy, hurrah for them! I was surprised when I learned "If they were negroes," said another, "I should not care to they were white. attitude My toward them has not changed. listen to them. If I were white I would not give two cents to It seems to me they are as good artists at their work as you hear them, for that would be making them too popular." will find anywhere, especially Amos. If they were negroes and "There is something charming about Amos and Andy that I were white I should have nothing against them any more holds any person's attention," spoke another in a kindly voice. than I had against Bert Williams." "If they were attacking the colored people, their entertainment The second negro clergyman, Rev. Jas. A. Wright, Congre- would have died long ago, but what they are saying is so gationalism 25 Brook St., Hartford, Conn., replying, said: "I humorous and free from the taint of prejudice. I do not see should think they were a great success even though I cared how any person, white or colored, can take it in a personal nothing about the jocular side of their profession. My children way. I personally like to listen to Amos and Andy. The rea- anticipate the seven o'clock hour and are never satisfied unless son why I believe no modern colored comedian could surpass they hear Amos and Andy. If I were white and they were them is this: The modern negro is too self-conscious. negroes I should think that they were elevating their people in He is extremely sensitive about himself. To give you an the estimation of the public." example of what I mean. I have a friend who owns a radio. He never misses Amos and Andy when at home among his Minister number three was Rev. W. O. Carrington, Method- family, but in the presence of white people he just cannot stand ist, 2084 Main Street, Hartford. He was positive: to listen to them. I will listen to Amos and Andy in any not appeal If "Amos and Andy do to me. they were negroes place among any crowd. If they were colored or I were white it would be the same. If I were white it would make no I think I should have this very attitude." difference." "Amos and Andy have this race down pat, I am telling you. A colored professor of English, F. L. Peterson, 134 Camden What they have to say would mean nothing if they had no St., Boston, speaks: humor. Amos represents the plain matter-of-fact negro. He hard, little, "If they were negroes I should think that they were making works saves a and is plumb full of common sense. fools of the race. If I were white my attitude would be the What he earns is his. He wants no one else's property. No shall he same, for while their performances are true to life the language one get what has by scheming. This was seen in the they use does not measure up with the type of negroes they efforts of the Kingfish to get Amos to put his $125 in the are representing. Many of Paul Lawrence Dunbar's poems, 'Home Bank.' which later failed. while true to life during- slavery days, cannot be held as models "There is the other side of the race. Andy is playing up the before the negro youth today. Such a poem as 'Ode to Ethi- bluffy type. He is shamming his way through life, always opia,' whose closing lines are: pretending to know more than the other fellow, when he ought to be learning. He has a wonderful ambition, but his bluff has Go on and up! Our souls and eyes the best of him and therefore he is destined to failure." Shall follow thy continuous rise; Our ears shall list that story From bards who from thy root shall spring, And proudly tune their lyres to sing Of Ethiopia's glory. a ?? shall live; for, apart from its prophetic utterances, it is an Regarding the Taxicab Boys inspiration for the accomplishment of better things. Then, too, it is free from the plantation dialect of slavery days. We STEPIN FETCHIT, foremost colored screen actor, speaking have had enough broken sentences, inarticulate utterances, and "in character" of one of the parts made famous by him: legacies bequeathed us; it is forget all jargons as time we these "If you's goin' ter imitate niggers on de screen, you's gotter be and enrich ourselves with the purest language of the present." ez good ez dey is, er a hole lot better. And right dar is de colored physician spoke his mind: A reason so many er deze blackface comedians falls down on de "To the first question it is hard for to reply, but I should me job. And dat's de reason Amos 'n' Andy is so successful. I takes think that they are wonderful entertainers. The colored way off my hat to dem boys! De main reason I likes dem boys is people are anxious to tune in for them each night shows that dat dey keeps dey acts so clean. Smut ain' nevah gwine ter and fascinate them. Whether they the Amos Andy would do pay on de stage in long run; an' I reckon Amos 'n' Andy feels same if they were negroes is a question. If I were white I dat way too. Give de boys my bes'." should think that they were O. K." * * * Following the suggestion of the undertaker mentioned above, Daniel L. Haynes, who plays Adam in "The Green Pas- I walked into a colored barber shop. There were two barbers' tures," Negro fable of- Roark Bradford and Marc Connelly, chairs, one for the proprietor, the other for his assistant. at the Mansfield Theatre, has heard a great deal about Amos Many men were in the shop, some were waiting to get their 'n' Andy but, strangely enough, has never heard them broad- hair cut, others were having their shoes shined, and a few cast. were engaged in their "barber shop philosophy." I introduced "When these two are on the air I'm on my "way down-town myself to all; immediately there was a hush. I then got to the theatre. My duties as an actor prevent my being one proprietor permission of the to put my questions to the house. of radio's ardent followers—particularly an Amos 'n' Andy fan. For a while one could almost hear the thunder of his own "However, from what I hear, these two are very funny. My heart, so tense was the silence. Across the faces of some was friends are always quoting them to me. Humor, if it is at all the faint flicker of a smile. Others seemed grave. When no good, must be universal in its appeal. It doesn't matter that one replied I broke the silence. these two are in black-face, simulating two colored people in "Gentlemen," I said, "these questions are not meant to be the taxi-business. The fact is that their comedy is human, serious, they are for simple information." The proprietor homely, ingratiating. If the two were Irish comedians or spoke up: Dutch comedians and their patter had the same quality their "If you want my personal opinion, here it is: Amos and humor now has, they would still be tremendous drawing cards. Andy are commercializing certain types of negro characters, "I'm sorry I haven't heard Amos 'n' Andy. But then again, as they could not find anything among the whites to amuse I bet they haven't heard me." the general public. I have nothing against them for it. If the * * * public wants to be entertained and these men have the goods Ernest Whitman, who plays the part of Sunny Jackson, one and can deliver them it is their business to do it. There is no of the condemned men in the 1930 hit play, "The Last Mile": doubt about their ability as comedians. If they were negroes "I haven't had much chance to catch Amos 'n' Andy since I certainly would think they are first rate; were I white I should The Last Mile opened but I used to be a regular fan during think the same." the early part of the winter. They're good. Man alive, it's Just then an avalanche of answers broke in. It was difficult enough to play one part and make it convincing, but impossible for me to "check or double check" exactly; here how those boys play so many parts, as I understand they do, are a few: "There are no two black people in the world who is a mystery to me. I got so I used to try to catch them mak- can beat Amos and Andy doing their stuff. ... It requires great ing a mistake with one character reading the lines belonging skill, intelligence and effort on their part to be funny all the to another—but I never did. However, I did catch Amos the time. . . . They are simply burlesquing the dialect of the race time he laughed, both in his own character and that of the for entertainment, nothing more than the Irish or Scotch Kingfish, at the rehearsal for the New Year's pageant. I've would do for their own people, or what "Bert" did in his days. always been curious tq know what broke him up. I guess In fact, the only people who were mad with Bert Williams they'll be popular for a long time—just as long as they can were the preachers, for he taunted them to death. Bert could dig up material that is interesting. That's the trouble with pack any theater in the United States all by himself. If Amos radio—your audience is so large the minute your stuff gets and Andy were negroes I should be very proud of them; if I stale you're done." were white I should think the same." "Their stuff does not appeal to me," said another. "They are Patrolman 12119, 32nd Precinct: "My post is in the heart clowning not only the negroes of slavery days but of our own of Harlem and it gives me a good chance to watch my people time, for there are lots of our people right now who speak just and know what they like and dislike. With very few excep- like Amos and Andy. (Laughter.) You men needn't laugh, tions everyone I come in contact with is a rooter for Amos 'n' rTTTl

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If there is any one in the audience who does not know who these two colored boys are, will that person please raise the

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Andy. I like the programs myself, and when I am on duty Andys right here in Harlem, but I don't let the Andys stay from four in the afternoon until midnight I will say positively long in my rooming house. The Amoses are alright because that every radio on my heat is tuned in on those two boys at they pay their rent. I wish Amos would marry Ruby Taylor, seven o'clock. That pair certainly know their stuff and it is but I suppose if he did Amos would be just big-hearted marvelous to me to think that they play all those different enough to take Andy in as a boarder, which would be too bad." * * * parts, but I think the best acting was done by Amos when Ruby Taylor went to Chicago. I sure felt sorry for him. I Young woman (name refused) in charge of beauty shop at couldn't help believing that his heart was breaking." 2251 Seventh Avenue: "The Amos 'n' Andy program does not * * * interest me, because there is no music with it except the theme Landlady of rooming house on 134th Street (she requested song or whatever it is they play at the start and the finish. that her name and address not be used): "Like everyone else And that is too slow. Besides it is very monotonous. As far in Harlem 1 listen to Amos 'n' Andy every night. Those white as the character go they are alright but everywhere I go all boys know how to play negro parts better than any other black- I hear is "Sho—sho" and "Check and double check." Madam face comedians I have ever heard. For one thing, they do Queen must be an awful dumbbell to have anything to do with not belittle the negro and I think their programs have done a fourflusher like Andy. He wouldn't last long with the girls more to help the white people understand us than all the books I know in Harlem. Of course he may have "IT", I don't that have ever been written. I know lots of Amoses and (Continued on page 90) : !

18 Sidelights on Amos and Andy Contest SOME INTERESTING FACTS Gathered By the Judges of the Hundreds of Manuscripts Submitted in the Contest

announcing the winners of the Amos and Andy dialogue say, judging by the cross section of opinion contained in the INcon.test, we believe it may be interesting to the readers of mass of manuscripts which we have just been through, would Radio Digest to know something about the extent of the really like to see a reversal of the parts of the two black face response which we received in this contest, and to under- buddies—with Andy playing the under-dog for a while! stand what can be gathered of the reaction of people in all The dialect aspect of the matter has furnished a good deal of parts of the United States and Canada to Amos and Andy's entertainment. We feel certain that a more varied selection of nightly amenities. "negro" dialects never flooded in upon an editor before. Some Judging the huge pile of manuscripts was no holiday job. of the examples were excellent—particularly those from the There was once a colored boy down South named Henry Simp- South, for the very obvious reason that southern people under- son who enlisted in the army and was put to work moving cross stand negro talk better than other people and are more familiar ties on a little railroad siding in Virginia. He moved a dozen with the negro's peculiar characteristics that give rise to his or two, sweating profusely in the process. Then the captain dialect. From a part of Pennsylvania where many of the Dutch pointed to a stack of railroad rails and said: descendants live (who are really German and not Dutch) came "Now, then, Sam (for all negroes were Sam to this particular manuscripts in which Amos and Andy said mit for zvith and white man), move those rails to the other side of the track." der for the. Others from Gotham bore an unmistakable like- For an hour Henry labored, but ness to the talk of the Bowery made little or no headway. Walk- folk. From Canada (and there

ing up to the captain, he saluted : were many Canadian contestants) "Capn, has you got yo' roster came Amoses and Andies who dar wid you?" spoke with an English if not a "Why, yes, I have," replied the The Winners French Canuck accent. While the Captain. quality of the dialect was not the "Is you got de name er Henry deciding factor, of course, in Simpson down dar?" First Prize, $100 choosing the winning manuscripts The captain scanned his roster E. D. Dorrance, Mitchell, South Dakota it was one of the factors never- book. theless. The idea back of this is "Yes, here is the name of Henry Second Prize, $50 that if Amos and Andy are to attain the very their Simpson." J. B. Sizer, Schuyler, Va.' ultimate of "Well, dat's all right, Capn. best work, they must do it in a Dat's my name. I jes want ter Third Prize, $25 dialect which most nearly ap- you proaches that of the real negro. make sartin. Thought maybe Miss Beatrice Biggs, 805 Walnut St., Clinton, Ind. had it down Sampson stead of And because so much evident Simpson." Fourth Prize, $15 serious interest was expended in The writer confesses he felt the preparation of many of these W. Evans, 304 East Second St., Rome, Ga. rather like Henry Simpson when J. manuscripts we can't help ex editor of Radio Digest turned pressing our regret that it was the Fifth Prize, over to him a mountain of manu- $10 impossible to offer a dozen or a scripts from north, south, east and Miss Susie Kuhn, 1302 Marshall St., Shreveport, La. score of prizes instead of the five west, showing an astounding in- announced. Many fine efforts Biographical matter concerning each of the winners reached the editorial terest in the progress not only must, of necessity, have been re- offices of Radio Digest too late for inclusion in the August issue. of the diversions of the famous This information will appear in the September issue. jected. But the judges have, we "negro" pair themselves, but in the believe, chosen the best of the lot contest particularly. For it did Radio Digest's Congratulations to Each of the when all the factors are taken seem, in looking through the manu- Successful Contestants into consideration. scripts, that everybody held some And because the editors and sort of very definite opinion as to judges can see with half an eye what should be done about the what careful and painstaking ef- matter. The vast preponderance fort lies back of many of the of opinion seemed to lean towards the belief that Amos aint manuscripts submitted, they cannot close the contest without a word gittin a squar' deal from Andy. One and all set about to remedy of praise and encouragement to those who are not among the win- matters. No less than twenty contestants, in the "plot" of their ners. Very real talent is undoubtedly possessed by many unsuccessful dialogue, set forth the fact that Amos had changed places with contestants. Andy, had asserted himself and refused to accept the slings and Out of the years' experience which each of the judges has had in arrows of his outrageous partner any more. the writing profession, comes one word of suggestion : "Andy," says Amos in one submitted dialogue, "de worm done Don't, whatever you do, take this failure to win a prise turned. I ain' gwine ter stan' no mo' fum you! Git out dar an' too seriously! drive dat taxicab yo'se'f !" This sitiation, it seems, the boys have Remember that for every prize won there were dozens of manu- already seized upon and Amos and Andy have swapped places scripts found unsuitable. We say this because Radio Digest will be in fact. having other contests in the future—all sorts and conditions of That same idea—the sense of fair play inherent in all Anglo contests. And we want you all to be among those present when the Saxons which, even in so small a matter as a short dramatic time comes to submit manuscripts Radio piece, would demand that "jestice be did"—showed itself Therefore, if you have entered a manuscript in the Amos and again and again as we read through the papers. In one case a Andy contest and do not find yourself represented in the winners' list, girl wrote to Andy saying that though she did not know him just remember that you have many companions in misfortune. The she admired him greatly as the president of the Taxicab Com- counts on which the prize winners were chosen may be summed up pany and wanted to meet him. She said she liked his looks, as roughly as follows she had seen him driving around in the taxicab. (A) Humor : the originality and "snappiness" of the Now that is all very well; Andy has just been preening him- situation. self, as he read this letter aloud to Amos, on the fact that (B) Readability: the ease with which the dialogue strange ladies should be writing in to a big business man like important factor, this angle has been considered in him saying they wanted to meet him. But when he came to (C) Dialect: Since in a blackface act dialect is an that part about "seeing you frequently driving the taxicab," and important factor this angle has been considered in Amos realized it was himself the fair stranger was raving about, choosing the winners. and not Andy, he sets up his derisive "Awa, awa, awa!" A great number of manuscripts contained some good material, but In other papers, Amos lies late abed on Sunday morning while "fell down" in other respects. Possibly if the material had been Andy is made to get up and cook breakfast. Again, it is Amos handled a little more deftly certain of these may have come out who wins over the white gentleman who has come to enter winners. Some contestants apparently thought there was no need suit against President Andrew Brown. Amos gets the best of to whip their material into a concise readable form. On the other everything—in the contestants' papers. The public, one would hand a great number of them did. CLAREMOREn Cowboy Humorist as Only Son Knew Poverty—Attended All not for long— Liked

SUNDAY is an Indian. This Bill Sunday, how- BILLever, is BILL Sunday—not the Billy Sunday you prob- ably are thinking- of. Bill Sunday is one of the old timers of Claremore, Oklahoma; lived there all his life, knew Will Rogers, his pa and his ma and his two sisters when the Rogers' young ones were all just kids. Go to Claremore and talk to Bill and he'll tell you a lot of things about that boy who grew up to become the "unofficial ambassador" of the White House, the pet of the Follies, and America's greatest living humorist—anyway of his type. Bill and other Claremorians get a big laugh out of the stories about the poor boy from the country who went to the big city and made good when it applies to Will Rogers, who never was a poor boy in his whole life. They snicker sideways at you when you hint about the deficiency of Will's early scholastic training. "Say, Will Rogers attended more schools and colleges than Lincoln, Mark Twain and Edison put together," Bill or any of the other old timers will tell you. "Why, he attended all the schools in the district, an' some that wasn't in the district. He was just too smart for any of 'em. You know how he joshes Henry Ford, the President and foreign dictators—well, he was just like that when he was a little chap—only the teacher didn't seem to get the humor of it. He had his mind on catchin' them up on something or other and getting the Clem Rogers, Will's Dad. laugh on 'em from the rest of the school. And guess you'll have to reckon that kind of learnin' did him as much good for what he turned out to be as anything would have done. Any- way it gave him a chance to see what a lot of different schools had to offer. One good crack meant the rest of the day off to follow his own devices." WILL ROGERS came from good parentage. His father, Clem Rogers, was a power in the community. He was easy with Will as a little shaver but he got more stern as the boy grew up into long pants. Their ranch gave the county its name. Clem and Mrs. Rogers, Will's ma, both had good bringing up. Mrs. Rogers used to be Mary Schrimcher before she married Clem. The old timers will tell you she was a right sweet looking girl with black eyes that twinkled when she talked. And she had a ready tongue with an answer for anybody—just like Will does today. She died when Will was only 12 years old. Her sayings are still quoted in Claremore by folks who knew her way back when. They tell a good one about the time when Will was just a tiny baby. Poor little fellow never could have been considered cute by anybody. A neighborly but somewhat bashful cowboy dropped in at the Rogers ranch to see the new

Will was a real cowboy. Two early snapshots taken during his youth in Clare- more.

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arrival. He stood awkwardly, hat in hand, looking down on the squirming bit of humanity. He just stood there speechless, too honest to say anything but what he thought and too respectful of the mother's feelings to open his mouth. Finally Mrs. Rogers looked up with a bright smile and said: "Well, Tom, I guess you are thinking this is the homeliest baby you ever see?" Tom was covered with confusion. He had tried so hard to keep his mind to himself and here she knew just what he was thinking. He couldn't deny it. He blushed and apologized in his best cowboy style as he backed out of the room, mortified to death. Will had two sisters. One of them died a year or so ago. The other is Mrs. Tom McSpadden who has her home there in Rogers county today. Before the boy became famous Mrs. McSpadden was considered the literary light of the family. She took to writing early and probably had a lot more to her credit than Will did up to ten years ago. When the oil boom hit Oklahoma she just seemed to be waiting for it. Everybody was crazy about oil. Her husband got into the oil business and she picked up everything she could learn about it and wrote for the papers about oil. For several years she was assistant oil editor of one of the Tulsa newspapers.

WHEN it became necessary Will went to the common schools during the winter months. But with the first warm days of spring the Indian blood of his father's people fumed in his veins and he yearned for the throb of a pony This photo of between his knees and the smell of growing things on the Will Rogers and vagrant breeze. Shortly thereafter the school would be enter- his family was tained by one of those chronic "arguments" — the term that taken some years Will would use in his ruckus with a teacher. ago. Eventually Will's father began to share some of the impa- tience expressed by the teachers. Will became a typical boy problem. He was sent to the Herold Institute at Muskogee, Okla., and from there he went to Willie Halsell college at Vinita, in the same state. But Will never lost his love for Claremore and it was not long on either occasion before he was back home in general circulation. Teachers simply couldn't keep him_ in line. Clem tried talking to the boy and Will, with that disarming good natured smile, "argued" his way out of one difficulty after another. Then dad decided to send him to Kemper Military school at Boonville, Mo. "Discipline is what he needs and I think he'll get it there," he confided to some of his friends. "There will be no arguing with the teachers at Kemper. It will be the making of him." You really couldn't call Will bad. He never showed the

Above you see young Will Rogers when everybody in Claremore called him Willie. Will is at the left in the buggy before the corner store in Claremore.

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least bit of orneriness. Some people call it "originality". He just never could stay in traces—had his own way of doing things and balked at rules and regulations. So off he went to the military school. Whatever made Clem imagine they could hold that boy down to military restrictions is a mystery to his old friends in Claremore yet. Of course Will started in with all good intentions. He very quickly discovered that the commanding officers^ of a military school were quite too determined to have their own way about things without compromise. Now Will never would concede to anybody—military or not —that there couldn't be room for an argu- ment when there was a difference in opinion. Thereupon he decided that he would have no military training and forthwith parted com- pany with the Kemper school.

'T1 HE NEXT Clem heard of him Will sent \ a wire that he had gone to Texas to assist in drilling an oil well. The telegram was an event in Claremore. Almost everybody in town saw it and was interested because it was a matter of no little local concern as to whatever would become of "that boy." He was only a kid after all. He even signed the message, "Willie." "Ran away from school, I knew it, I knew it," said Bill Sunday when he saw the telegram. "Goin' to drill an oil well is he?" sighed another old timer as they met and pondered over the matter on a bench in front of the corner store with the imitation brick front. "Clem says he's goin' to let the boy work out his own grief, an' I hope he does. That boy needs to take a little responsibility on his own shoulders. He's always had every- thing give to him." In some respects drilling an oil well and drilling on a parade ground are not so very different, and Will's letters home worked on his dad's feelings so that about the third one brought him money to come back to Clare- more. Responsibility was what the boy needed, was it? Clem gave that idea a lot of hard thought. Maybe it would be a good thing to let him take hold of the ranch and run it for a while. And in order to put the boy strictly on his own in the matter he pulled out and took a vacation for himself. So there was Will with about the most im- portant ranch in Rogers county on his hands to do with as he pleased. Will immediately discovered more agree- able uses for a big Oklahoma ranch than just raising stock and a lot of growing truck. Besides, social life on a ranch can get to be an awful bore without a little snappy enter- tainment now and then. Will conceived the idea of putting some of the boys to work- building a stage for a dance floor. And while Will Rogers as he is today with riches, fame and a Radio career. the carpenter work was under way he planned a series of festivals, dances, and roping contests. Looking at the results from a cold business of him eventually." point of view the enterprise was a complete flop and Clem One day Clem strode into the bank all smiles and pride had to hurry home to bring a stop to a fast dwindling bank beaming in his eyes. He had another letter. account. "Well, I've just heard from Willie," he told the banker, "and he sent me $100." Money talks. To Clem that was positive YOU couldn't blame Clem for feeling mighty put out after and unmistakable evidence that his boy, Will, was a success. he had tried to do the right thing by Will. But this really It meant more than just the intrinsic worth of $100. To the was the last straw. The camel just rared up on hind legs and father it meant his son had begun to appreciate the value of Will got a talking-to he probably never will forget to his dying money and the importance of saving. Will never asked his day. The result was Will went out to the barn very much father for money again from that time on, according to the sobered and probably a whole lot chastened, threw a saddle recollection of Mrs. Godbey. over his beloved pony, Comanche, and with his ninety foot lasso cantered off to rope the world and tickle its ribs. SPEAKING of an appreciation of the value of money it was Circus life naturally appealed to the young cowboy. He had just about this time—a little later, possibly—that Will become an expert with his rope; Comanche was the envy and came home for a visit and was asked to' join a tramload of joy of every lover of horseflesh. At last Will Rogers had boosters from Tulsa on a tour of the middle-tier of large found his element. His letters to his father became geography cities. It was before he had been discovered as a writer or to Claremore. G. F. Godbey, secretary of the Claremore speaker. He was merely to do his stuff with Comanche and chamber of commerce, will tell you of the stamps and post- the rope. marks on the letters that signified Will's whereabouts when After they had reached New York and thousands had been he wrote to his father thirty years ago. entertained by his nimble dexterity with the rope a stranger "I was cashier of the town's First National Bank at the walked up and offered him $800 spot cash for his pony. Will time," he says, "and everybody took a heap of interest in those grinned as he shook his head slowly but decisively. letters. There were some from South Africa, South America, "You give me $800 for Comanche? No. I wouldn't want the London, and then there were some from Australia. We felt bother of spending that much money." that Will Rogers was making good—just as the most of us (More about Will and his travels will be told in another article in had expected he would in spite of the carefree existence he Radio Digest. Rut before we leave Clem Rogers let's get a little had led before he left home. Big hearted, fine character and better acquainted with him. Editor.) bright as a dollar. These qualities would sure make something (Continued on page 89)

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DAINTY DORR BOTHWELL—in person and a moving picture at the same time. Recently she told Radio listeners over KPO, San Francisco, that she had been initiated into a Samoan tribe by having her body converted into a moving picture through the tattoo process. She is a distinguished artist of Samoan life.

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PEGGY PRICE comes from—one guess? Yep, Cali- fornia, of course. She's a blues singer at KFVD, Culver City. And take Prof. Powers word for it she knoxvs how to sing. She is blessed with a sunny disposi- tion on all occasions except when she broadcasts those melancholy things they call the blues. 19

A LICE WHITE, lovely blonde of Screenland, is one Jx of the many new recruits to the Radio studios who came through talking picture experience with the micro- phone. You will remember her as the Show Girl in Hollywood over the NBC Continental hook-up. She is gifted with Radio personality as well as physical beauty. 20

~DABY ROSE MARIE J-) is starting young, but you must admit she has the gesture—the main idea. That she has the real ultra- marine voice you doubtless will also concede if you hap- pened to hear her from WEAF through the NBC network. And Rudy Vallee himself was the artist who featured her in his program —what luck!

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A LEXANDRIA STEP- jx ANOFF is an artist who can demonstrate most convincingly that every lit- tle movement has a meaning of its own. In fact, she is ' one of the, if not the world's I greatest therminists. One tiny jerk of her little finger can summon notes of ma- jesty from the NBC Ther- min ether wave music box before her. Wonder if Floyd Gibbons is talking 245 words a m inute to Virginia Gardner as they zip up the East River in Floyd's speed boat on a sunny afternoon? Vacation Jollies ^AQotables of Radioland Make the Best of Summer Holidays as King Mike Gives Leave

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a AH, HAH!" was the greeting 1 received when I spending in a motor tour through the Adirondacks. Canada asked Freeman ("Amos") Gosden how he was may also be on the itinerary. Motoring is a novelty to the going to spend his vacation this summer. He could McNamees. Both he and his wife generally take fast trains H afford, financially, to give me several more hah- or planes to and from his broadcasting engagements. hahs, but the same question, when put in other quarters, pro- "Rudy" (Hubert) Vallee. who keeps the Fleishmann NBC voked severe scowls and other varieties of dirty looks. program moving, will probably be on a New England and It seems that Radio stars are in a class by themselves on Midwest barnstorming tour by the time this is being read. the vacation deal. Opera stars get to loaf or study as they The tour is to reach West as far as Cleveland and Cincinnati. choose. Motion picture luminaries finish a production, rest Between leaving Broadway and catching the train, never- until the next, and often have thrown in a free journey half- theless, the plans called for a week's respite which Rudy way round the world to the locale of their coming film. Actors was to spend renewing old home town friendships in West- and actresses generally may count upon two or three months brook, Maine, swimming, golfing and playing tennis. The of leisure in the summer. beloved crooner, as perhaps you may know, is quite a swim- But the favorites of the tin ear known as Mike? Most of mer and once held several minor records for underwater 'em have to keep right on working. A few manage to escape swimming. contracts and go abroad, but they are in the minority. Spon- sored programs have a habit these days of continuing right on WHAT will the ladies be doing? Well, by this time Jessica through the warm months since Radio engineers and the net- Dragonette has probably spent her short two weeks pick- works put the skids under the once well-known "poor season." ing wildflowers in Maine. Vaughn de Leath went to, Europe So it is with Amos 'n' Andy. No rest is in sight for this on a concert tour and should return soon to remove weeds NBC pair. In August they are booked to spend long hours from her Connecticut farm, "The Hitching I*ost." Rosaline before the cameras and recording microphones in Hollywood, Greene, NBC's Eveready thespian, likewise is in Europe where Calif., and at the same time do their Radio skit twice each she expects to do some broadcasting in London studios. Irma day six days a week. de Baun, CBS soprano, is also Europe bound where she will In between broadcasts and personal appearances, howeyer, appear in concert and opera. Charles "Andy" Correll is finding time to play around in Lake Leslie Frick, NBC contralto, has already made her annual Michigan with his Chris-Craft speed boat which he bought pilgrimage to Europe and sent back gaudy postcards wishing this past spring from Joe Schenk, Van's partner in the popular her friends were there. While there private recitals in Paris singing duo. and the microphone of the Radio-Paris station occupied her Graham McNamee, smart oldtimer that he is, has a stipula- spare time. Margaret Olsen, Scandinavian soprano of Davey tion in all of his contracts for a two week's vacation. This he is hour fame, planned to tour Norway and Sweden this summer

lilt in search of more oldtime songs, but engagements here will tor cruiser this summer, thereby doing his bit to make the probably force her to modify this plan to a simple two week's Radio fleet considerable of an unlimited navy. rest in the quiet Vermont hills. In addition she plans indulg- Speaking of boats and such reminds me of Martha Attwood, ing in plenty of golf, swimming and motoring during the time the Cape Cod gal who made good in Metropolitan Grand she must stay in New York. "opery" and then signed up with NBC. Martha, still retaining Countess Olga Medalago Albani, the charming, dark-skinned her opera habits, has cancelled all broadcasting engagements Spanish prima donna of Kodak week-end hour, hopes to and is spending the summer on the Cape. Here she is getting arrange her affairs so that she can visit Cuba where her parents acquainted again with "Dad" Attwood, an old salt who thought and friends are living. The Countess is also a rabid tennis fan Martha was bound for perdition when his little girl first and is spending many hours on the courts in Central Park, showed signs of singing for money on the stage. New York. Boats, fishing—so runs the train of thought. Fishing is Paula Hemminghaus, NBC contralto, has taken up golf Phillips Carlin's dish. Mulberry Point on the Connecticut seriously, and has at least three sessions a week on the fairways. coast is his idea of the proper place to spend two weeks in an Between golf and programs she is also busy perfecting her intensive hook and sinker campaign this summer. Alois Australian crawl. Helen Oelheim, contralto soloist of network Havrilla, announcer of the Kodak hours, is another Izaak fame, is another tennis fiend and has devoted all_of her spare Walton leaguer. Havrilla aims to commute from a resort near time, with the exception of two weeks at a quiet resort, to New York and spend his leisure moments with rod and reel, mastering new and difficult services. Delia Baker, Kodak midiron and mashie, and swimming suit. The same recreations soprano, has planned a long automobile tour through the will claim Alwyn Bach, 1930 American Academy medalist White Mountains with her husband. Welcome Lewis simply announcer, whose rush of additional engagements makes it spent two weeks sleeping at her Westchester home. impossible for him to get farther away from the city than Gitla Erstinn, Chase and Sanborn soprano, will spend her Long Island, his home. time on the New York beaches between games of tennis and golf, while Elizabeth Davenport, contralto heard on the same ANGLING for bass also claims the spare time this summer program, now a confirmed Westchester commuter, will do the of Ned Tollinger and John Wolf, the singing duo once same except for the substitution of home gardening for the known countrywide as the Mona Twins, and who now are tennis. attached to the West Coast division of NBC. Marcella Shields, one of the NBC "Troupers," will warm the Wolf has been taking his vacation in what he terms "jumps." bleachers for both the Yankees and the Giants the while she One of the best jumps came when he and Tex Maxwell, NBC suppresses her desire to announce a ball game over the Radio. West Coast production manager, spent a week-end fishing in Another NBC "radactress," Virginia Gardiner, who appears San Francisco Bay of the Marin County Coast. They brought in Empire Builders, Mystery House and Cuckoo, will keep on home the limit—approximately 60 pounds of bass. writing and trying to sell short stories. Other days she will The biggest of the finny prizes tipped the scales (no pun accept invitations to fide in the speed boat Floyd Gibbons intended) at well over 20 pounds. And while we're telling fish owns and employs to churn waves on the East River. stories: H. J. Maxwell, auditor of the Pacific Division, isn't num- FLOYD, the science and prohibition poll fast talker, inci- bered among the artists, but as a fisherman he's a real one, just dentally, will be kept pretty busy with his nightly broadcasts the same. and cannot stray far from Mike. His speed boat, airplane "H. J." came home, after a short vacation, with 16 elegant flights and other convenient but thrilling pastimes will afford mountain trout. He made his catch in Huntington Lake in him momentary relief from his daily routine. the High Sierras. At an elevation of 7,000 feet, H. J. was Speed boats are popular this year in Radiodom. Having caught in a neat little summer snow-storm that held up the already marked up Charlie Correll and Gibbons as addicts, fishing program one day. you may now add Harry Reser, Cliquot Eskimos leader, and (Continued on page 88) James Melton, good-looking-but married top tenor of t h e Revelers, to the total. Jack Parker, much fea- tured NBC tenor, another motor boat enthusiast, sneaks away for a day or two aboard his 40-foot craft which is a duplicate of that owned by Gene Austin, and some- time during the summer plans to stage a race with Gene. G u s t a v Haenschen, well- known NBC con- ductor, is a mem- ber of the same fraternity of gas- oline sailors and "gets away from it all" by hopping aboard his motor- boat cruiser. Frequently G u s works out a tough bit of orchestra- tion aboard h i s craft and far from the swelter- i n g , maddening crowd. B. A. Rolfe, the Lucky stick waver, has purchased a mo-

John Wolf (left) and Tex Maxwell took 60 pounds of bin from Frisco Bay. Godfrey Ludlow has appeared m many roles with his magic violin in NBC pro- grams under various auspices. More re- cently you have heard him as the star of the Elgin programs late on Friday nights.

Helen Hughes and Her Boys, whom you have often heard from the St. Louis axis, are now thrilling the big North- west from KSTP, St. Paul. Remember that meteoric person tvho came to fame in The Desert Song? Here he is all dressed up like Mrs. Astor's horse. It's John Boles whom you also hear NBC (N. Y.) over the national system.

Some folks think children don't go so good on the air, but here are four that never fail. They are in The Toddy Party over the National net. 26

Tony Cabooch, the "One-Man Radio-Show" (C. J. Gruber)

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"Whoo-eee! Firewagons'll git you, ef y'u don't watch out!" So stay on the curb and watch your step, says Uncle Bob Wilson,

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Vim, pep and dash are the notable char- acteristics of the Lucky Strike dance or- chestra, heard three times a zveek over the continental net. And here is Mr. B. A. Rolfc, the director, as you zvould meet him on the street.

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Young Man of the Evening

doing his stuff . Otherwise Ray Perkins, as Old Topper.

Presentation of the Prairie President at WLS. Cast from left: Dolly Day, Wil- liam Vickland (Lincoln), Mrs. Ellen Vog- ler (guest), Louis Ramsdell, Raymond Warren (author) and Douglas Hope. TERROR28 By Rupert Hughes

JiHE Loved a Boy & Who Left Her a Bonded White Slave Illustrated by Joseph L. Sabo AmongBlacks in Little Old— Very Old—New York. AndShe Burned Her Way to Freedom.

MOST dreadful, The parents of Tom Wil- THEthe most devastating, son, however,' had beaten him the most fatal woman and taught him drink and that New York ever thievery and used the proceeds knew, was a frightened little of his thievery for more fifteen-year-old bonded ser- liquor. Homes were as cruel vant-girl. as the other prisons in those As she stood clutching her times. apron and nibbling at its "My old man never risked edges in mouse-like timidity, nothin' himself. He let me do she looked anything but the it all," Tom told Mary. "He menace she was. seen many a boy younger Yet before Mary Burton's than me swing off the gallows panic was over, the whole at Tyburn for swipin' a wipe population of New York was out of somebody's pocket. stampeded into equal mad- But he used to send me into ness and its panic-smitten the crowd to pick pockets be- judges had crowded into cause the crowd was big on loathsome cells in the City hangin' days. One day I seen Hall a hundred and seventy-four innocent wretches. Seventy 'em string up two little boys and a girl, nine, ten, eleven years

of these were lucky enough to be taken from prison and merely old. And I says to m'self : 'My neck is my own and I'm goin' shipped off to slavery in exile; twenty of them were taken from to take it out of the rope's reach! So I run off to sea! It's the prison to the gallows; and thirteen of them were burned no redam and the cap'n is mighty free with the rope's end; at the stake. but it ain't my neck that feels it." Wise people are most afraid of those who are afraid, and it was this child's terror that made her terrible. For what is THEY watched New York approach with dreary eyes. It more dangerous than fear? The mad dog is afraid. The rattle- was a miserable little clutter of huts to those citizens of snake is afraid. The tyrant. The mob. What is anger indeed London from under the shadow of St. Paul's. Hardly ten but a more desperate fear and the scowl of wrath but a thousand people made up New York, and two thousand of grimace of alarm? Why should anybody persecute or slay these were slaves. anyone except for being afraid of him? On the last night as the brig lay at anchor in the bay the During the height of her frightful power, Mary Burton children wept in each other's arms and vowed fidelity. Tom belonged to the town as its municipal servant-girl, and for swore that he would follow the sea till it made him rich and contributing its blackest page to its history the town paid her then he would find Mary and buy her freedom. She was rising one hundred pounds in good money. Which was about one fourteen and he just gone sixteen and that was old enough for hundred pounds more than she had ever earned before or could marrying, provided they had the funds to set them up in some have earned in any other way. business. She sold her soul for the sake of her love. The next morning the captain kept Tom on the jump so fast She had never wanted to come to New York in the first that he could not pass a word with Mary, who stood with all place. She had not asked to be brought into the world, and her goods in a bundle and waited as one of the dumb .herd of she owed no gratitude to the parents that sold her overseas bonded servants to be dumped ashore and sold. when she was hardly more than thirteen years old. When Mary was stood up on the auction block to be ap- They called the sale a bond of indenture, but it meant plain praised by the purchasers Tom arrived at the back of the crowd slavery until her youth should be gone and her beauty worn just in time to see her knocked down to a tallow-chandler, a out in wageless toil. Her father sold her to a ship captain gruff fellow who thrust Tom away when he tried to speak to and he drove her across his gangplank with other cattle to Mary. be tossed and sickened for stormy weeks in a miserable hold, "She's mine! I bought her. I want no young wastrels tam- and driven across the gangplank at the New York docks to pering with my goods. Be off!" the market-place of the public vendue. Tom watched her as she followed her new master and saw him curse her when she tried to put the countless things she ONE BRIGHT thing in the nausea of that voyage was her had to say in one fleet glance of her sad eyes across a shoulder meeting with the captain's cabin boy, Tom Wilson. He far too slender for the burdens she must bear. was kind to her and when the brig was becalmed they did not care. He had leisure then, and the two of them could sit on THE SIGHT filled Tom with a frenzy for sudden riches. a hatch and hold hands and tell each other why they hated Such sea-faring as he had begun held out only the promise everybody else in the world, and the world; and why they did of hard and uncertain years. So he took his sorrow to a public not hate each other. house to drown it. There he met a covey of young sailors Tom's lot was not much better than hers, his age only a from the Flatnborough man-of-war and they told him they year greater, and his parents even crueller. Her's had mended were cruising after Spanish merchantmen laden with gold. their poverty and escaped the threat of starvation for all of Since war was on, the galleons were fair prey and every cap- their children by the fees they collected for the sale of one of ture meant prize-money for every member of the crew. them into a land where she could not be worse off than she was This and the news that the ship was so short-handed that in London. recruits were being shanghaied, seemed to Tom a message from

111! 29 heaven. He enlisted at once and sailed in the away royal SO SMOTHERING was her life in that noisome, negro- uniform. smelling pit that Mary welcomed it as a festival when Only half a year had gone when the Flamborough saluted Hughson told her that they must go out into the Commons the royal governor of New York again and disgorged a throng and gather firewood. of prisoners, black sailors taken from the Spanish ships. At No one had ever known so fierce and long a winter as the the orders of the Admiralty these men were sold into slavery. winter of 1740. The snow was six feet deep in the streets, the They made loud protest that they were prisoners of war and cattle starved, and the wild deer came down so close that they free subjects of the King of Spain; but nobody understood could be captured like cattle where they floundered to their them or would have cared if he had. And these blacks were antlers in the drifts. distributed among the two thousand other malcontents. Because of the cold and in spite of it, the tavern fire must Tom had money now and was ready to desert his ship, drank be kept on the roar or none of the miserable waifs from the and gambled his funds away and went back disconsolate to tropics would have left their kitchens and shops for Hughson's sea because he could find Mary nowhere nor any trace of her. brandy. Her owner, the tallow-chandler, had sent her far out to Green- For the sake of the freedom and the purity of the open air, wich Village to work on a farm there. Mary would put on the old breeches of a former serving-man and his boots a world too big, and climb into Hughson^s sleigh. WAS no less harsh a taskmaster through the day than She rejoiced as she plunged among the white depths of the HEhe was a lovemaker at dusk. Before the year was out the blizzaroy Battery and the windswept Commons, looking for hapless child had borne him a child. The sardonic fates that chance bits of timber and branches from frozen trees. Her guided Mary's life took the infant away almost at once. Which cheeks grew briefly rosy as she waded waist-deep laden with was fortunate in a sense; yet it did not sweeten her life to fagots, and her laughter smoked in the frosty air. watch her nameless baby die. Who could ever have dreamed—what maddest nightmare Her grief, her weakness, and her despair of seeing Tom made could have foretold—that when the summer came she would her nearly worthless as a packhorse, so the tallow-chandler have set the jailer's men to gathering wood in these same places offered her for sale again at public vendue. Technically, he to pile about the poor victims of her terror? And that flames sold only the bond of her indenture, but since she went along would crackle about their shrivelling backs more sharply than with it, she was no better than a black. And she worked any whip? henceforth among the blacks. For she was purchased by John Hughson, who kept a hideous AFTER the gathering of wood Mary must return reluctantly tavern in the Jews' Alley where few but thieves, dock rats and to the stews and the unclean parody of life that went on slaves consorted. there. There were women enough about the place: Hughson's It was one of Mary's tasks to mop the tables, mend the wife and their daughter, and a young widow, Margaret Seru- fires, make the woful beds and set out the mugs of liquor before biero, or Salinburg, who was called Peggy Kerry, "the Irish the customers, whether they were sea-blistered sailors, slinking beauty from Newfoundland." They did not share Mary's footpads, or the shuffling Africans who sneaked into the bar- horror of' the blacks and there was a ghastly mixture at the room under cover of, the dark whose children they were. tables and in the noisy dances—and elsewhere. Sometimes It was against the law to sell drams to slaves without con- Mary had to fight her way out of the arms of one of- these sent of their masters, but liquor laws are made to break, and horrible creatures who pleaded for a dance but she had no John Hughson had to live as best he could. His best was of sympathy from the the worst other women, who All day and late into the night Mary moved and had her mocked her as an being among jail-vermin, wharf-scum and the beaten lees who upstart aristocrat. sought a deeper oblivion in drunkenness and drained from The blacks were dirty vessels a brew a little less bitter than the acrid cup of insolent here where slaves their lives. they had white to wait upon them and the privilege of giving orders instead of taking them—par- ticularly the servants of the best families. But most insolent of all were the Spanish negroes brought by the Flamborough and other men of war. Most insolent of the insolents was the big

. . . And the two of them could sit on a hatch, hold hands, and tell each other why they hated ererybody else

the world . . . and why they did not hate each other. so

fellow called Caesar. He belonged to Vaarck, the baker, but it in the clamor. he always found money somehow. It was he that paid for She fell back a step to consider what to do, and while she I'eggy's board and keep. cudgelled her wits she listened to what he drivelled: The loathing of her servitude grew upon Mary till it was "Wull, 1 went into Hogg's to buy me some chequered linen all but mania. Her only hope was in Tom Wilson and she —goin' to sew myself up a few shirts—y'un'erstan'? had not seen him now for close on two years. She had poor Y'un'erstan'? An' old Hogg's old wife waits on me. And choice of explanations: he had forgotten her or been drowned I give her a Spanish nine-penny silver piece. And she goes in the forgetfulness of the deep sea or killed perhaps in some for the scales to weigh it—y'un'stan'—and she opens a drawer street fight or in some dive like this where her own hopes and —and wh' d'you s'pose? It was spillin' over with Spanish beauties festered. pieces of eight—fair spillin' over y'un'erstan'?" Caesar's eyes rolled and he guffawed: ONE night when the uproar of the tavern threatened to call "Wha' right dat ol' ooman got to all dat goo' money?" the constables down upon them, the lights and the music The distracted Mary noted that John Hughson drew near brought in a crowd of sailors from the Flamborough. Mary and listened keenly to the boy's chatter: had heard that the warship was in port; but its name meant nothing to her, and she had suffered too much from the violent flattery of drunken sailors to welcome these. Some of them knocked down the slaves and danced off with their girls; others sprawled at the tables and bawled for rum. Seeing one mass of curly „, hair bobbing over a pewter tankard, Mary regretted the youth of the sinner who was exchanging toasts with the

When Mary stood up on the auction block to be ap- praised by the pur- chasers Tom ar- rived at the back of the crowd just in time to see her knocked down to a tallow-chandler. burly negro, Caesar. As Mary whisked a wet cloth over the sloppy table where he lolled she was startled by a well-remembered accent mut- tering in an unfamiliar thickness of tongue: "I sheen a pile of shilver money today big enough to buy all you damn shlaves at once. It was at Hogg's—you know old Hogg?—keeps the shop on the corner." Her heart almost leapt from her breast into his tankard as he lifted it to lips swollen with liqubr. Her hands went out to clutch him and a faint cry escaped her; but no one heeded SI

'And ain't all I shaw. 'At old woman had a pile of gold at old Mrs. Hogg's I could buy you free tonight. It wouldn't and silver medals in there—and snuff boxes. Gawd! She had be hard for me to climb in there. My father taught me how. enough to sneeze a warship to pieces—and—why, she must be I've gone straight a long while now, but it don't seem straight " toaded like a Spanish ship!" to leave you here when I could Hughson tapped Caesar on the shoulder and they went into Mary had all but swooned in his arms at the thought of another room, leaving Tom drooling over his ale. Mary sank crime in him. When she had made him promise to abstain down in Caesar's place and when Tom turned to go on with his clever hands from theft he suddenly resolved to go back his story his eyes fell on her. They were all clouded, but they and threaten Hughson with death if he mistreated Mary. He cleared slowly and he cried: wanted to slaughter all the blacks who surrounded her with "Mary!" horror. But her frantic pleas persuaded him to go his way, and he staggered off into the gloom of the alley, weeping. Her THEN he fell over into her bosom and they embraced and tears had frozen on her lashes before she could bear to turn kissed and wept. And no one paid them any heed, thinking back into the hot stench. them simply maudlin with drink. In that last vain stare to find him in the fleecy night, and in They were so embowered in the Paradise of each other's his promise to come back and perfect their love, all the evils arms that they forgot where they were. Tom sobbed out his that followed had their beginning. futile search for her and Mary mourned his absence and told For the moment, though, there was a spring promise of hope him her petty chronicles, omitting, of course, allusion to the in her tears. baby that was not his. And then they opened their eyes to the world. He saw her neighbors and the mop-rag in her hand ANEW Mary went back to her taproom prison and played and the barmaid's cap on her head. And he groaned: the menial to the menials with a soul that was almost "You're here! You're one of 'em! It's all my fault: but blithe. " I'm too late. T come back to find my sweetheart a Late that night when the last sailor had lurched through the She clapped her hand over his mouth to stop the awful word snow and dived into the maelstrom of storm, and the last black and shrieked into his ringing ears that she was not what he had gone shuddering back to his master, Caesar was still thought, that only force kept her here and she would kill stretched along one of the tables, wallowing in liquor and herself if he did not believe her. slumber, till Hughson nudged him and growled: And he believed her and "You forget your promise, don't you?" wrestled with his besotted "No sah, T don't!" brain to wring out clear He shook off sleep as a wet dog shakes off water and dashed thoughts. He wept again for the prize-money he had gam- bled away for lack of hope of seeing her again. And they agreed that he must go back to sea and come home with gold enough to buy her inden- ture from Hughson; or if he could not raise so much they would run off together into New England or Virginia and begin a white life in the wilderness. It meant a ghastly wait, but people were used to prolonged anguishes in those slow days.

WITH this promise Tom kissed her goodbye and reeled out of the tavern. She went into the cold dark for another farewell, and the blown snowflakes were like kisses of regret on their young cheeks. So wrong it seemed of life to part them again that a fierce temptation assailed Tom's soul. He mumbled: "If I had the money I saw

from the inn. Seeing Mary agape, Hughson snapped: "Up tp bed, for you!" This was the com- mand Mary least re- sented as a rule, but tonight suspicion and hope both kept her awake. About 1 o'clock she heard a noise out- side and stealing bare- foot to her tiny window saw below three negroes toting bundles into the tavern. The moon was clear enough for her to recognize Caesar and the man Prince whom Mr. Auboyneau owned, and Cuffee, who be- longed to Mr. Philipse. The next m o r n i n g early when Mary went down to clear up the mess of the night's de- bauch, she found Caesar displaying a vastamount of goods, linens, medals, Tom watched her as she silver, snuff - boxes, followed her new master coined silver pieces. The and saw him curse street doors were not

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drawn, but the Hugh- sons and Peggy were in high spirits. Caesar was always free with his riches and as Peggy was gloating over a bolt of chequered linen he said to her: "Peg, snip off enough of dat to make a spern for little Ma'y." Peggy tore away a strip and passed it over cheerfully enough, but Mary threw it on the floor, saying: "I want it, Lord knows, but not from those that don't own it." Peggy's thwarted gen- erosity turned at once to rage and she was for slapping Mary's face, but Caesar laughed and held her arm, picked up one of the heaped and gleaming silver pieces, held it up before Mary wheedlingly and pleaded "Never you mind, Peggy — she kind of peevish like. You know why. You look after her when de good time comes, and I gib you dis." The proffer was muni- ficient, but Mary sus- p e c t e d everybody on earth and resented even a kindness. She shook her head, muttering: "All I want is vic- tuals, drink and clothes. I might take care of white peoples' babies, but not of a half-black brat." EVEN Caesar's long white smile died be- fore this, and he gave her a look that went through her like a razor, as he growled: "Some folks uses they mouths a little too free round heah. They bet- ter keep 'em shut mighty tight outside." This threw Mary into such a spasm of anxiety that she recanted her in- solence. She promised to keep the secret and to She fell back a step to consider what to do . . . and listened to what he drivelled. take care of Peggy, and accepted the silver money. She felt that she must at all cost keep the peace until tence; but then she might have shared their life too, with as her lover came in from the seas. Above all she must keep her little prejudice as Peggy showed. There was no pity either in tongue from getting her murdered. Mary's heart. Her own lot was so devoid of pity that the Almost destroyed with fear she watched the cunning hiding blacks seemed to have the better of life, since they were born of the stolen wealth. But she could not share the revelry that to be slaves and divinely conditioned to servitude, while she shook the tavern at night as the slaves gathered to the smell belonged by right among the quality. of loot and the liquor that flowed in consequence. This tavern of Hughson's was really a city of refuge to the The eternal allure of alcohol for the dejected, the defeated, poor blacks and the merciless laws he broke were broken for the defective, must be its magic power of lifting them for a their mercy. while to the mountain tops of pride and triumph and power. And so this squalid inn became to its besotted denizens a throne ACCORDING to the ordinances of New York, if three room peopled with sovereigns. For a few pense, stolen or negroes but walked together at one time they were liable begged, the slaves themselves became princes or at least con- to forty lashes on the bare back. No more than twelve of spirators for empire. them could go to the funerals of their own dead, who were It made their lot somehow endurable to play drunken bur- shoved into the ground like dogs. In any quarrel they were lesques of royalty. The men whom pirates of human flesh ilways wrong where the other party was white. Even the had stolen and sold became pirates for awhile. Jews, who had recently been disfranchised in New York, had rights against a negro. THEY meant nothing much by it. They had no real inten- The whites dreaded them as if they were rattlesnakes. Tor- tion of trying to carry out their dreams. They were crippled ture was added to their punishments, and as usual the cruelty mentally and shackeled in spirit, but they were not insane. was the fruit of fear, since a generation ago a few slaves were They but play-acted, as mummers strut and rant and cry havoc driven mad by persecution and threatened to destroy their and distribute principalities and diadems, knowing all the masters—or so the story was told. Whether or not the slaves while that when the curtain falls they must restore their ermines had really been desperate enough to attempt a rising and to and their swords to the wardrobe and become once more Will hold a meeting in the orchard at Maiden Lane, it was certain and Kit and Ben as they go back to their sorry lodgings. that twenty-one of them had been shot, hanged or burned at If Mary Burton had been Peg she could have laughed the stake. The truth could never be known for the wrongs of at the big talk of the slaves and taken part in their pitiful pre- (Continued on page 87) S3

Dad Crockett and his mountaineer boys are not being led astray by the bright lights of New York, they're the Radio hit of the season.

street cars, slick subways that produce unexpected nausea and headaches, asphalt pavements, and the traffic speed of New Crockett York.

YET they seldom betray their unfamiliarity with city man- ners, at the same time they are always on the alert against ountaineers a breach of etiquette by others. In short, they are living exam- SM ples of the type known as nature's gentlemen, and illustrate the By Bernard Sobel extraordinary latent force in every human being for self-devel- opment and cultural expansion. "Do you care for some pie a la mode?" asked a new acquaint- mountains have come to the ance, intending to spoof these moun- THEcity and nature has reversed it- tain boys by inviting them to eat self. This surprising statement something they had never heard of be- is due to the fact that the fore. Daddy Crockett looked at his Crockett family, consisting of a father five sons and they looked at him, but and five sons, are. now regularly in- "aside from the quick movement of stalled on the Columbia Broadcasting their eyes, none of them indicated sur- System every evening, with the excep- prise. They were confronted with a tion of Sunday, at 7 P. M. social situation, which they met with How this naive group ever came to reserve. The sons remained silent de- the gr at city to make this arrange- ferring to their father, and he, bulwark ment will always be a mystery. They of strength that he is, responded: are so quiet, so timid, so unworldly "I think it would be very nice." that their venturing into New York They are tolerant towards the city's seems an anachronism. Just consider. night life, but they dislike the hustle Real live recruits they are from the and bustle that engulfs them here. mountains around Sharpsburg, Ken- "It is not that the hours -here are too tucky. Real descendants of Davey late," said Daddy Crockett. "We used Crockett. Reared in such a backwoods to play square dances until two or community, they have cooked their three o'clock in the morning, and some- own meals, helped to make their own times all night. The folks would bring lumberjack shirts and even made their their kids and leave them in one room. own fiddles. Sometimes we would have to sing and "Dad" Crockett, the father, was a play our loudest to drown out their singer and taught singing at the little crying. I enjoyed playing at the mountain gatherings. All of them are church most of all because it was quiet." long, thin, and angular; all of them speak in a timid, insecure way; all of m "P J E SUPPERS are great fun." them have brown rugged skins but give -t said Johnny, Jr., composer of the the impression of fragility; all of them group. "Everybody from all around resemble somehow young deer out on goes to them. Each girl and woman a lark in strange quarters, who realize brings a pie of one kind or another that any moment danger may overtake wrapped in a box with her name in- them. In this case, danger to them side. One man auctions off each box means automatic telephones, whirring (Continued on page 86) — " " "" u

Nonius Opal is Stolen and Restored Again cj & Paul Savoy Humbles the Boisterous Gateway as His Theories Work Out Solution to Many Strange Disappearances in House of Mystery

By Jackson Gregory Illustrations by Dudley Gloyne Summers

EARLY night was already brood- an aspen leaf. THEing over the wilderness when Savoy "And now the Opal's gone," mused Savoy. entered the living room and found "Damn the Opal!" swore the other fer- Gateway standing at the fireplace, vently. "I lied to Will Little; I made him— staring down into the blaze. think I had discarded it. There's a curse "I'd not want it said, you know, that I'd While Savoy dressed, others were wakened actually suppressed any evidence," he re- and informed of what had occurred. marked to Gateway. "There is, however, a Little's nerves were completely beyond his certain thing which I believe I alone have control. They commandeered Andregg's had the opportunity of examining. The Guest hypodermic needle, gave it a prompt rough- Book which Mainwaring Parks kept on a and-ready sterilization and shot home the table near the front door. It appears that one thing which it appeared might quiet him. all guests humored him by signing it, each And Will Little, bundled in hot blankets, with some brief fancy of his own." later was fed hot milk and whisky. " What's the book got to do with all our problems?" he asked. t

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85 "I begin to think," he observed softly, "that we have noth- And here at length came a new sound. Temple stiffened; ing to do but await a word from Mr. Savoy. I think he knows on the instant, guarding against noise himself, he laid his everything. I am, of course, greatly concerned about my jewel. blankets aside. The sound came again, a mere vague thin Have you any hope, Mr. Savoy, of it being recovered ?" whisper of a noise and he stood up on his stockinged feet. "Why, of course," said Savoy, as if speaking of trifles now. He could make out only that there appeared to be some sort "It and the banknotes and the Opal, of course they'll all of movement across the room from where he stood, some- turn up." where near the window. Sash being raised stealthily? That was possible; if THE day wore so, a AS man was meaning to on, Temple, with creep in from the Tom Blount as an outside. Temple held able makeshift nurse, himself rigid, wait- reported at frequent ing, listening. intervals, that Parks A long silence, a still lived; that he silence so long that was terribly wasted he began to ask him- and weak, yet he be- self if what he had gan to evince signs thought to have of returning con- heard was but a sciousness; he was fancy projected by able to take the slight his own nervous ten- liquid nourishment sion. If there was which Temple and another man than Blount decided on. himself in the room, As to his wound, that other man was they had removed the possessed of a pa- bandage, disclosing tience that seemed the ugly gash in the more than human. chest. It showed signs of having been in the end, carefully AND cleansed after an inter- and cared fo^; already minable weary wait- it was healing, but of ing, a floor board course they could creaked. Still he form no opinion of waited. Waited in si- the extent or condi- lence again. But it tion of any internal was an altered silence injury. Their patient for him in that it had his restless had mo- lost its most oppres- ments, but always he sive quality of un- grew quiet again. By certainty. He knew evening they thought at last that someone that they could re- was with him in the port positively that room. Knew. Parks was at least Again he heard a holding his own. sound. And this time Detective Dicks from somewhere con- added little to the siderably closer at sum total of their hand; in silence had knowledge. He told that other man trav- them how he and ersed several feet of Parks had gone to the room; the sound their rooms, and how now was of a chair Parks had spoken brushed against again of his fear that softly by the one there was some dan- who moved. ger hanging over the And now no longer house. did Temple wait. He "I want a bath and struck as accurately a drink and a cigar," as he could have done Parks had said, "and in bright light, his And they found under a pile of rags the great Opal of Nonius . also a thick I'll tell you what I'm flying body flinging pad of bank notes in yellow rnanilla paper. beginning to sus- that other body back- pect." ward while Temple's Dicks had sat down in a chair; Parks went into the bath- sinewy arms closed with the tenacity of steel grappling hooks room. The door between them stood open and Dicks sat fac- about his captive. ing it. Parks presently appeared in his pajamas and slippers. Holding this nitial advantage, he quickly sensed that he had He was lighting his cigar and Dicks was watching him idly taken on himself a task vastly beyond his powers. A strength a sudden blow struck- from behind, and that was absolutely ten times the strength of his threatened to whip his clinging all that Dicks knew about it. arms loose, to hurl him apart, as of feather weight and like "And when Parks talks," snapped Savoy irritably, "he'll insignificance. swear to having seen Andregg hit Dicks over the head with a Holding on with grim determination he shouted lustily for poker? He'll admit that for a moment of shock he stood help. Tom Blount, wide awake soon enough, heard the still, staring? That Andregg leaped on him and then struck?" threshing up and down and plunged into the hidden maelstrom. Savoy glared a moment, then left the room abruptly. Others heard and it was Gateway, bearing a lamp, who lent At the end of a day of waiting Parks had not spoken. When the final necessary pound of power. In his simple and direct he opened his lips it was to whisper, "Water." He lay very way, he ended the fracas; as the captive, about to free himself, still with closed eyes, breathing heavily. half Tose to his knees, Gateway struck him a crushing blow on the jaw. There remained but to manacle a very groggy AND before Mainwaring Parks spoke—for in the end he did individual before his brain could clear again. speak—it was Captain Temple who made a great stride toward the conclusion of the whole nerve-wracking affair. All <

"It is Thraff Willcyzinski?" Parks asked thinly. "Yes!" Paul Savoy answered, sure of his answer and emphatic. "Thank God," murmured Parks, and relaxed with a long sigh. It was a full week later. The in- mates of the old House of the Opal were at last prepared for an almost immediate departure. Mcintosh, tak- ing advantage of a lull in the storm, had made his way out to Truckee on snovvshoes, and had brought back a party of men and a dog team. Meanwhile Mainwaring Parks, his wound, at least superficially, healed over, and though he complained at times of a stabbing pain through his

body, appeared to have passed all danger. Detective Dicks curely bound, raved in the room into which they had locked swore himself as good as new now. Andregg, a silent man him against conveying him to the insane asylum. whose eyes grew wicked with malice when they rested on The incredible Thraff Willcyzinski was the puzzle which Gateway and were like a dog's for strange friendly humility stuck like a burr in all minds. Never could they entirely ex- when they looked at Savoy, was free to go as he listed. plain him. To have remained hidden all these years, alone like a wild beast—what mania in his burning brain? They had *

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"It was he you had in mind," prompted Savoy when Parks "I alone am the loser," he said quietly. "To Mr. Parks has paused. "I mean, when you said at table that you feared there been restored the Great Opal; I understand that in purchasing was in the house a dangerous man who would balk at nothing." this ill-starred place he acquired possession of all things it. Parks nodded gloomily. in His bank notes, too, have found their way back to their rightful "I am afraid that I should have said more, or less," he con- owner. But the Flower of Heaven! Ah, gentlemen— fessed. "'For, you see, I had no certain knowledge; it was but a fear, a wild and almost unreasonable fear I felt it to be, too." FLICKS had spoken little. Now he said sternly: He reached out for the Guest Book which lay *-J open on the "In the presence of us all, Mr. Nemo, you said that you table at hand and opened it at the beginning. had not brought it with ydu. No one has seen it, mind you." "Mr. Savoy knows," he resumed and a slight smile touched Savoy's lips. '"The handwriting of the insane— ("So Mr. Savoy clings to theorizing still?" grunted Gatewav.) •'Here is Thraff Willcyzinski's name. With it the few words. 'Here shall be my kingdom.' I was quite familiar with that.

Paul Savoy spoke up quickly: "I wonder if any would be at all interested in understanding how I was led to follow my theories?" Gateway laughed and nudged his confrere. "You've missed a lot, Dicks. There's a man here who can tell you lots of things about the little workshop of the 'You're dead ! You've been mind, the dark room where the brain dead for forty hangs its pictures— screamed out a hundred "Mr. Savoy isn't a fool, if that's what times, drawn back' against you mean. Gateway," said Dicks so- the head of his bed, his eyes berly. "And if he was led astray, it's glassy with fear. "You're no more than you were. I, for one, the Man of the Opal." would like to follow him." "Thanks," said Savoy and needed no further encouragement "In the begin- ning, knowing nothing of any Thraff having seen it a hundred times. And, now, if you will look Willcyziuski, I was forced to consider that one of ourselves closely at this page you will see what startled me. When we had been tempted to murder. Which one? And what had he came in that first night, Andregg asked you to set down your done with the bodies? Having, as I say, no knowledge of any names here, you may recall that the wind ruffled the pages. I Thraff Willcyzinski—Lord, what a name," he groaned. "What had a glimpse of this first page." do you say if from now on whenever it becomes necessary to refer to the murderer—for we are all agreed that in the PLACED the book open on the table. There was beginning he was a murderer at heart—I call him Mr. X and HEThraff Willcyzinski's signature, a queerly inscribed, be done with it?" scrawly affair, drowned in futile flourishes. With it, in faded "Go ahead," said Dicks. ink, the words, "Here shall be my kingdom." And, completing the line, in the same queer script but in a newer, fresher ink, itTHHERE were," droned on Savoy, "at the very outset cer- "Vengeance is mine!" -l tain most intriguing facts. Some article snatched up by "And that," said Parks frowning, "is what staggered me. I Andregg; an Opal appearing out of the nowhere. I mention knew it had been set down here since last I had looked the but two of those many intriguing facts, striving for simplicity. book over, say six months ago. And it was obviously in the Before I have done at least I'll hope to .indicate how easily a same handwriting! It struck me that the thing hinted at was man may err. simply incredible. Yet there it was. A hoax? I wanted time "Now the explosion downstairs was prearranged so nicely to think; I did not want to initiate what I hoped was going to by Mr. X. A pinch of sand, of course, explained everything; be a pleasant outing, by hurling any such bomb among my that and some few chips of shattered glass. A clock has often guests. A.nd time was not to be had." been instrumental in detonating a charge of explosive; why "So that's why the Guest Book interested you?" Gateway not the principle of the hour glass, leaving no springs and demanded sharply of Savoy. "Why couldn't you say so?" wheels lying about?" "If you want the truth," Savoy told him, curt and sharp, "I "By Jove!" said Dicks, and Gateway grunted. did not notice this thing at all when I was studying the book." "So much for my pinch of sand," sighed Savoy. "To ad- Mr. Nemo, brooding apart like a dark star, spoke in that vance; one always knows that in every day's activities there gentle musical voice of his. (Continued on page 94) 38 RADIOGRAPHS Intimate Personality Notes Gleaned from the Radio Family of New York's Great Key Stations By ROSEMARY DRACHMAN

Muriel Pollock stairs and a small boy eat- ing an ice cream cone. once said SOMEONE When she has time to that the way to do spare she either rides a anything is to do it horse or goes to Coney and do it steadily Island. She reads detec- and often. Proof of the tive stories before she goes worth of this advice is the to sleep every night. pianistic ability of Muriel She isn't married, but Pollock, who is spotted in likes men. Friends say she many of the big produc- gets an average of ten pro- tions of NBC. When she posals a week from Radio was 14 years old she got a listeners who have never job playing a piano in a seen her, but have fallen in motion picture theater. She love with the personality played on an average of expressed in her nine piano hours a day for the rhythms. next eight years. After this period of practice she Raymond Knight studied for years in the In- stitute of Musical Art in "TT'XPLAIN Station New York City. -EL* KU-KU," I asked You should see Muriel Raymond Knight of the Pollock as she sits at her NBC's production staff. piano in an NBC studio. "It's an expression of my She has an elfin face, curly personality," said Knight hair, and a whimsical grin. with a grin. Perhaps A moment before she is to Knight was right, for only play she leans forward over a person able to see fun and the keys, poises her hands laughter in everything and and watches the announcer with a keen appreciation of intently. His last word is the niceties of burlesque hardly out of his mouth be- could create a program fore she is into her selection. such as Station KU-KU. Her whole body is in Knight is the funny man motion when she plays. of the networks. He does Her fingers move with in- have his serious moments, credible speed and her but doesn't take them very body sways and her head seriously. His career in nods as she moves through Radio ... a career started an intricate composition. less than three years ago Then, the selection ended, ... is marked by unusual she slumps into a moment and usually laughable of relaxation. Radio productions that he Her background is un- has written and produced. usual, even for Radio with "The Gold Spot Pals," a its many stars of extraor- "kid gang" production, was dinary careers. ond of his first shows. It She was born in Kings- was so, successful that the bridge, New York. When leather company that spon- she was 6 years old she sored it had to end the series started her study of the because orders for the prod- piano. Then came the long uct exceeded production. period of experience in the Then there was Embar- motion picture theater. Her rassing Moments in His- big chance came in the tory, The Triadrams, Hello Miss Muriel Pollock, pianist at NBC Zeigfeld production of "Rio Mars, Station KU-KU, The Rita" when she and Con- Hysterical Sportcasts of stance Mering introduced a two piano score. "Rio Rita" was History, now heard in the Hickok program, and others. He followed by an engagement in "Upsa Daisy" and then she was directs and produces Empire Builders and Real Folks and featured in her own musical show "Pleasure Bound." made Radio history more than a year ago when he produced a If she wanted to be, Miss Pollock could rank among the best program called "The Nightingale and the Rose." classical pianists in the country. In fact, her ambitions were in Knight looks like a comedian. He is tall and, according to that direction. She scorned, even hated, jazz. Then she decided his friends, reminds one of a penguin. He has huge eyes, one to find out what made jazz and she studied it. The result was grey and one blue, made, bigger by glasses, an amazed stare that she became convinced that it offered as great a future and that he uses effectively, and a small red mustache. t as great opportunities as the classics to the ambitious musician. His greatest problem in life is the annual football clash be- Miss Pollock is better known to the Radio audience as a tween Harvard and Yale. He can't decide which eleven to pianist. Yet in the amusement world she is regarded as one cheer because he went to both universities. He solved the of its cleverest composers. Her specialty is compositions for problem last year by praying for Yale during the first half and two pianos and many of her own compositions are heard in waving a crimson banner during the last half. the programs of the Lady Bugs—Miss Pollock and her partner, Knight was born in Salem, Mass. He took a law degree at Vee Lawnhurst. Many of the two piano orchestrations used the University of Boston and then went to Harvard to study in other NBC programs are written by her. drama under Professor George Pierce Baker in the famous Her hobby is her work. She has little time for anything "47 Workshop." When Professor Baker went to Yale, Knight else. She enjoys getting trick effects with a piano. Two of followed him. In 1927 Knight won the Drama League's prize her favorites are musical pictures of a fat man falling down for the best one-act play of the year. — —

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with the rest of the mass of humans who had come to watch Show Boat being broadcast. Harry Brown, the six-feet-two director, held up signs above his head and instructed the unpaid crowd when to hiss, boo, laugh, and clap. Nine o'clock came. We were on the air. As the old-time mellerdrammer unfolded before me with the tiny Miss Thayer in its midst, I wondered about all the work and activities she has packed into her small life. Under her red-gold hair repose the theories and instructions of the late Jean de Reszke, with whom she studied for four years in Paris. This slip of a woman has sung in London and received the sponsorship of Oscar Hammerstein for whom she sang for three years. She has applied the make-up and put on costumes for such operatic roles as Romeo and Juliet (she must be charming). Lucia, La Traviata, La Boheme, and countless others. She has had ample time to amass a repertoire of operatic and dramatic roles, for she made her stage bow when two years old. Such a little mite! And to have been to so many places and seen so many things! What a storehouse of memories she would have! I watched her through the exciting episodes of the hair-raising incidents of the Show Boat play and anticipated what a morsel she would be for a good Radiograph. The thrilling drammer was over. Forcing my way against the flow of the crowd, I tried to reach Miss Thayer quickly for that promised interview about "what I eat for breakfast," "I never read modern novels," and all that sort of thing. At last, breathless, I was beside her.

"O, my dear, I'm sorry ... I forgot, but I've got to catch a train. , Urgent, for- give me." And out she went, leaving me to the wind and thunder machines, the gradually break- ing up crowd that sifted through the reception room, trickled down the elevator shafts and so out into the street

Phil Cook

UCEEING is believing," but Knight Static Raymond of O will you believe your eyes KU-KU." or your ears? Because when I look at Phil Cook, sitting before After leaving college he decided the microphone in Studio G at to experiment with what he had NBC broadcasting on the Quaker learned and for a while directed Crackles program. I see one—only an experimental theater in Boston. one—handsome blond man. Yet I hearing different persons. Like all persons with dramatic am four I the nasal high- aspirations, he couldn't stay away am hearing from New York. On Broadway pitched, squeaking of "Crackles,'' Doll, I hearing the he learned more about the show the Quaker am distinct negro drawls of Flap business, both as an actor and as a two and Magnolia, the owners of The director. He wrote a book for a Little White Hen Restaurant, and musical revue and had it produced. to mention it last, but not least, I In 1928, hunger, so he says, drove hearing the somewhat husky him into Radio, where he has am but entirely likeable voice of Phil never missed a meal. himself. those four dif- His hobbies are week-ends, he Cook And ferent voices are not all I might be says, but seldom does he find time hearing, for Phil can be, he for them. He buys gay neckties when likes vocally, that is a Jew, a and wears them if it looks like — — German, an Italian, a Frenchman rain. He collects walking sticks or an Irishman, and can switch and has been seen with three dif- back and forth from one dialect to ferent ones in a day. another without the customary in- Actors like to work for him be- cause he never takes them or him- terruption of another voice. self too seriously. Though some As I sit there in the studio of his rehearsals are hilarious af- watching him I think what a lucky (Continued fairs, he produces some of the on page 94) most popular air presentations and Edith Thayer "too busy to talk.' is very much on the job at the right time. His favorite role is that of Ambrose J. Weems, who first startled an unsuspecting public in Hello Mars and was brought back to his public in Station KU-KU. He does parody lyrics to popular tunes and makes bad puns. His claim is that he is too busy to be ambitious. Edith Thayer CONFUSION! Columbia Broadcasting reception room seethed with chattering humans. Property boys edged the thunder machine (a great piece of sheet iron ) through the milling mob. The intention of every person in that great room seemed to be to get into one corner at the same moment. Even I pressed near only to hear— "My dear! I'm so glad you're back." "Are you quite recovered?" "Well, if it isn't Toots!" "We've missed you." There was evidence of hurried embraces as I saw upflung arms amid the pressing crowd. I couldn't see who was in its center, but by that very fact knew it must be she. Who? Why, Edith Thayer, the four-feet-eleven-inch soubrette, Jane McGrew, of Show Boat, who has been absent for seven weeks because of an automobile accident. I finally shoved through the embracing mob to see a tiny little creature in a beige-pink hat and dress. She met me, four or five other persons, too, all at the same moment and continued to receive embraces and greetings—and all this without being flustered. We disengaged ourselves from arms and by treading on a few feet found a davenport. I sighed with relief. Now for a real talk.

REAL talk! Funny old joke. What we had were a few staccato questions and equally staccato answers. Yes, born in Massachusetts. Yes, went to a dramatic school, studied abroad. "But, O my dear, I forgot. I have to rehearse my song, and it's just ten minutes before we go on the air. I'll see you after the show." I dangled my hopes, a withered mass, behind me as I sought a seat in the large studio Phil Cook who talks quartet. 40 IT'S EVERY WOMAN'S Fact That Dame Nature Is Not A GAIN zve follow Miss Conradt-Eberlin the of No Cause Despair; J\ Columbia Broadcasting System in her search for Beauty for the secret of the truly artistic home. This month Up and Faithfully she finds that the home-maker herself is the essential factor in a charming home and discovers some ways in which she can attain much coveted beauty.—B. M. By Eve M.

most women don't want that. They want form- ulas for removing blemishes, adding or losing weight, becoming beautiful over night. Well, that just can't be done. If there are any magic formulas I don't know them—and I never heard of anyone who did. Patience, perseverance and faith in what you are doing are the primary factors in any beauty treatment, or in anything in life, for that matter."

SINCE hearing that, I've done a great deal of thinking and I've consulted my mirror, too. I was horrified to discover the beginning of drooping lines from the corner of my mouth. For the last few hours I've gone about with happy thoughts that keep my mouth curled up in a smile. From now on, I'm going to con- sider moods and tempers luxuries I can't afford to indulge in. It is going to take a great many words to give you the directions for carrying out the daily "mechanics" of beauty but the work itself is really very simple. It can be fascinating, too, if you keep the various creams, lotions, powder, etc., in pretty containers on a dainty toilette table in a room decorated to conform to your own conception of a beautiful setting for yourself. Of course, I don't mean to conform to your idea of what you would have if you were a millionaire. That sort of thing is such a waste of time and so very depressing. But talc-

Adelaide Candee, a Radio Home- Maker, reveal* value of beauty treatment.

just returned from a three-hour visit with Helen Lewis I'VEand Carolyn Cornell, beauty and fashion experts of the Radio Home-Makers Club, and I'm chockfull of advice and enthusiasm. I've heard so many things that I hardly know where to begin. But there is one thing that must be said before we go on with the story, and it's this—all the beauty -secrets and treatments in the world won't do us a bit of good unless we're persistent! Of course we all want to be as lovely as we can. We enthusi- astically take up some new facial treatment, are faithful to it for a week or two—and forget it. And then we wonder why we aren't Norma Shearers or Gloria Swansons! ... So now that Beauty little sermon is over and we've all set our minds to persist at bou d oir any cost, let's proceed to some of the exciting discoveries I o f Radio made. Home- In the first place, Carolyn Cornell, who is just as suave and Makers smart as you'd expect a fashion expert to be, said something Club from that I think bears repeating: "What is the use," said she, "of which all wearing yourself haggard to make a beautiful home if you are talks on going to spoil the whole effect of your hard work by neglecting beauty your own appearance? No home is more beautiful than its are broad- mistress, who is the spirit that gives life and meaning to her cast and surroundings. If that spirit is hidden under a dull, shabby demon- exterior, the home is a dreary place, indeed." strations "And," added Miss Lewis, "to obtain any results from beauty given. treatments, it is absolutely necessary to keep in good humor, relaxed, and free from depressing, ugly thoughts. There is seldom any good reason for sulking, flying into tempers, scowling and all the other unlovely and harmful facial grimaces. Teaching beauty, you know, is really teaching philosophy. But u RIGHT TO BE LOVELY Equally Kind to All Her Children Found By Keeping Sunny Side

Observing Formulas should receive special attention, the massage starting at the nose and being carried under the eyes, up over the corners and back to the nose again. Wipe off all the cream and then pat your entire neck and face with a turkish face cloth filled with Conradt-Eberlin crushed ice, dipping the little ice bag in witch hazel as you go along. That sounds like a lot, but if you have everything handy ing into consideration your pocket-book, each of you can dress the whole performance takes about ten minutes. When you're up your private room so that it really expresses your own finished, if you have time, massage your hands with a little personality. of the cream, also, rubbing always from the finger-tips up to Going to an office every day or keeping house, doesn't give the wrist. If the nails are broken or uneven, smooth them with us much time to sit day-dreaming before a mirror in the morn- an emery board: remove any hangnails or dry cuticle, brush ing. Therefore, the real beauty treatment should be taken in your nails in warm soapy water, clean carefully and add polish the evening, before going to bed—but every evening, rain or if necessary. Once a week you will need a thorough manicure shine, tired or peppy, late or early. First get into pyjamas or and I'll be glad to send you directions just as I received them nightgown and then sit down for five minutes to relax. Think of something pleasant —or nothing at all, just drift- ing into space. WHEN your nerves are quiet, begin by cleans- ing your face and neck thor- oughly, with pure soap and lukewarm water, cold cream, or almond oil heated in a tin cup and applied with absorb- ent cotton. This latter is ex- ceptionally good. Remove every trace of dirt and grease with a soft cloth or cleansing tissue, and then repeat the entire performance. Next, says Miss Lewis, massage the skin with a good tissue cream or skin food. To mas- sage, gently press the mus- cles around the mouth, under the chin and around the eyes, using an upward and rotating motion with the finger-tips. The eyes

Demonstration of a broadcast. Helen Lewis does die drying while Ida Bailey Allen looks on.

from Miss Lewis if you will write to me. In the morning when you get up take a special small, dry brush, with round bristles (to protect the surface of the skin) and brush the face, working from the neck up to stimulate circulation and remove dry, dead skin. Then dash cold water into your face and finish off with a mild lotion, patting it onto the skin with bits of absorbent cotton. Time, 5 minutes, and you are ready for make-up, if you use it.

it TVTEVER," says Miss Lewis, "use make-up unless 1 1 you are willing to take the time to apply it carefully. Badly applied make-up makes us look worse than if we went out with shiny, red faces. To obtain the right shade of powder test it on the back of your hand and select a color a shade darker than the flesh. If necessary, have several shades mixed (Continued on page 87) THE DAWN Radio Author Answers Flood of First Distress Signal, First Bedtime Story Hour, and

v By Doty

the past few months several readers of DURINGRADIO DIGEST who have been following my articles have shot some questions at me, the answers to which are of such general interest that I am going to pass them on to you this month. Believe me, when this little game of "ask me another non-technical question about Radio" started it had me stumped. I didn't know the answers to half the queries. In fact I don't really know when or how it started. It just happened, I guess. But it intrigued me and I wanted to know the answers myself so I started out to do a bit of sleuthing on my own hook. One of the first questions was, "Just how does an SOS function in taking a Radio broadcast off the air?" Now this particular question naturally came from a Radio listener located on the seaboard or within two or three hundred miles of the ocean. An SOS does not effect the inland stations. The supreme authority of all wireless communication in this country is vested in the Navy Department. The sea- board is divided into districts, each district in charge of an officer known as the district communication supervisor. An operator is always on duty in every district listening in on the six hundred meter band, the wave length on which all ship communication is handled. Should he pick up an SOS he immediately sends out a wireless command for all communication to cease. This command for quiet- ness on the air includes the broadcasting stations in the district or any broadcasting station which may happen to hear the command.

NOW let us look in at the transmission stations of the broadcasting stations. These usually are located at the base of the masts which frequently are to be found several miles from the studio proper. As in the case of the navy department's district office a wireless operator

William McNeary, "Man in the Moon" first bedtime story teller, who created an instantaneous hit with the little WJZ listeners in 1922.

Just one month after the first Radio Digest this scene was photographed at Medford Hillside station of American Radio and Research corporation. Left to right: Mr. Kingsley, Edith Gates, mezzo soprano; Frank J. Kidder, bass; Anna Eichorn, violin; Dorothy Parker, piano. ks TING "Ask Me Another" Questions—the Orchestra Program, First First Studio of the Air

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is on duty here. This man is on the job during the hours of broadcasting. He, too, is on the alert to catch an SOS. The instant he hears the command of the navy depart- ment for quietness on the air he throws a switch which cuts off the studio program. Then he cuts in a micro- phone nearby and announces, "Owing to , an SOS this station is forced to discontinue broadcasting." If the pro- gram is local he telephones the studio that it has been taken off the air and the microphone performers stand by. If the program is going out over a chain network the work at the microphone continues, as only those stations "along the are taken off the air. seaboard s It sometimes happens that the operator on duty in the transmission room of the broadcasting station picks up an SOS. It is his duty to cut out his station and telephone the office of the district communication supervisor of the SOS. In other words, this cry for help on the high seas, no matter who hears it, must be reported at once in order that the air may be cleared. I am indebted to O. B. Hanson, technical engineer for NBC, for helping me answer the above question. IN DELVING 1 around to get the answer to this SOS q u e'r y I discovered some other rather in- teresting facts, among them being this: The first report of an ac- cident at sea by wire- less took place on March 3rd, 1899, when the "R. F. Mathews" collided with the East Goodwin Lightship. In those days there was no code signal as a call for help. Not until August 4th, 1903, when the first Inter- national Conference

Thomas J. Cowan (top), WJZ; Oct., 1920, Shan- non Tower. Miss Mar- garet Schick, Westing- house stenographer, at piano. Center: First Radio broadcast in which artists in person took part, WJZ, Newark, N. J., Nov. 3, 1921. Charles Hart, Lewis James, Elliot Shaw, Wil- fred Glenn. Xmas Red Cross party (left) 1921, including Marion Davies, May Peterson, Mrs. E. B. Speicher, Caroline Beebe. on Wireless Telegraphy was held in Berlin was the first tion was able to function. I am also of the opinion that the internation code established. The call for help in use at that history of the American Radio and Research Corporation will time was CQD. In 1912 the international code was revised hand you a, genuine surprise when you learn the name of the and because the CQD was similar to and often mistaken for gentleman responsible for financial backing necessary to carry another signal the call for assistance was changed to SOS, on this great pioneer work. a simple and unmistakable series of dots and dashes. On January 23rd, 1909, Jack Binns, wireless operator on We hear so much about the SOS that we frequently think the ill-fated "Republic," rammed by the "Florida" off Nan- of the transmission equipment at sea as being used for the tucket, demonstrated to the whole world the value of wire- sole purpose of sending out that one signal. However the less when he stood by his instruments in the dark on a sinking wireless and Radio apparatus aboard ships is as busy as any ship to summon aid, which arrived in time to save all hands. land station as it carries on its day's business. Sometimes, Among those thrilled with the newspaper reports of the too, it is responsible for saving a life without resorting to the heroic deed was Harold Powers, then a grammar school boy SOS. Only the other day such a case came to my notice. in a small New England town. Not only was he thrilled—he Donald MacCloud, third engineer on the "City of Flint" was interested in learning more about this strange method of was stricken with a sudden severe fever seven days out on communication, wireless. He read every technical book and the Atlantic from Dundee, Scotland, with Philadelphia as the magazine devoted to the subject which he could get his hands vessel's destination. There was no doctor aboard. on. Then he made his own receiving-set. And, believe it or The master wirelessed the Czecho-Slovakian steamer, not, Harold became so enthused that he asked for and received '"Legle," a few miles away and MacCloud's symptoms were permission to leave school somewhat earlier than the other sent over the air to Dr. Roubeld on the Legle. He diagnosed pupils so that he could run home and get the navy yard time the case and for eight days the doctor visited the patient signals at noon! via Radio, telling the master of the City of Flint just what By the time he finished school young Power, as a result to do for MacCloud. When the ship docked at Philadelphia of his application to wireless operation was able to pass the the engineer was hurried off to a hospital. He is reported rigid examination and get a berth as operator on a New York- to be recovering from a fever which might have taken his life Boston passenger steamer. His next move was to the "Cor- but for Radio. sair," the famous private yacht of James Pierpont Morgan. So, when you feel like smashing your neighbor's receiving While wireless operator on the "Corsair," Mr. Power, even set, when it keeps you awake nights, just remember that yet hardly more than a lad, interested the financier in the the same ether which brings in the jazz bands also brought possibilities, little recognized at the time, of Radio. The the doctor's prescription to Donald MacCloud. result of this interest on the part of his employer was the establishment of Station WGI and the forming of the Amer- JUST THE other day someone popped a question at me ican Radio and Research Corporation, financed by Mr. Mor- that made me sit up and take notice. It was a simple gan and managed by Mr. Power. question. Just the sort of query I imagine has been asked by thousands of Radio fans. Here's what it was, "How old is DURING the war amateur broadcasting stations (the only Radio?" stations existing at that time other than governmental Can you answer it? I couldn't at the time it was thrown and privately owned wireless stations) were forced to discon- at me. And it took a lot of digging to unearth the data which tinue operations. On October 1st, 1919, the amateur trans- finally gave me the answer, or I should say, answers, for mitting stations were permitted to take the air again and there are three. Station WGI took it with a vengeance. As distance was the As you probably all know, Radio is the child of wireless rainbow being chased by both broadcaster and receiver in those telegraphy, not a step-child either, but the legitimate off- days the powers that be at Medford Hills decided to broad- > spring of a very hale and hearty parent*. So, if you would cast from somewhere in the general direction of the moon. know the age of the family tree, the exact date of the plant- Two hundred and ninety feet of the proposed three hundred ing of the seed, we will have to confess our inability to make and fifty foot tower mast had been erected when along a positive statement. However, this much I can say, that in came a windstorm and blew the none too sturdy sky-tickler 1867 "James Clerk Maxwell, of Edinburgh, read a paper before down. Right across the Boston & Maine Railroad tracks with the Royal Society, in which he laid down the theory of elec- the Montreal Express less than a quarter of a mile away tro-magnetism and predicted the existence of the electric stepping along at a mile-a-minute clip. waves that are now used in wireless telegraphy." This is Fortunately the engineer on the Express saw the mast come quoted from the Year-Book of Wireless. As the beginnings down and fifteen seconds later the well-shaken passengers, of this discovery are traceable at least forty years back of who left their seats when the engineer applied his brakes, this date (1867) one answer to "How old is Radio?" can be looked out to see the cowcatcher nuzzling gently against a "At least a hundred years old!" horizontal and thoroughly prostrated broadcasting mast. If your question refers strictly to broadcasting the answer In its trip to earth the tower had carried with it seventeen can be made quite specific. "Radio broadcasting is between telegraph, telephone and electric light wires which happened twenty-three to twenty-four years old." The answer to this to be in its path. Needless to say. the permanent mast which is based on the date of the first experiments of Dr. Lee de was then erected never broke itself or any altitude records. Forest to broadcast phonograph music and music furnished It was two hundred and fifty feet high. And I suspect by an electric organ. every engineer on the Boston & Maine Railroad used to take For the third answer I am assuming that you mean. "When great delight in thumbing his nose at it every time he passed! were receiving sets 'manufactured for the general public and placed on the market." Here you have it—September, 1920! IT WAS about this time that Eddie Dunham, now a program Less than ten years ago. Yet it was not until a few weeks director with NBC, became affiliated with Station WGI. before Christmas, 1921, that purchasers in any appreciable Eddie was assistant service manager, part time announcer numbers were really attracted to this new-fangled plaything. (broadcasting was not on a regularly scheduled basis), enter- Perhaps some of my readers will remember the thrill they got tainer, story-teller, pianist and organist! All glory and honor out of those first crystal sets. And the headphones. The to Eddie. His name goes down in history as being the first hours we spent with those things on were as a string of broadcaster to put on a commercial program. Once a week DX pearls! he read a story from The Youth's Companion, gave the maga- zine a bountifully worded boost and suggested that his girl WE HAD no idea as to what sort of a looking place a and boy listeners induce their papas, their mammas or their broadcasting studio was in those happy days. All we guardians to subscribe to this periodical. For this half hour's knew was, "There's music on the air and we're hearing it." work Eddie received a weekly check for five dollars from the And the announcements! "This is WJZ, WJZ, WJZ, WJZ, publishers, which same he cashed and pocketed. I wonder WJZ, WJZ, WJZ. We will now play a phonograph record if Mr. J. P. Morgan ever heard this story of the way in to give the listeners a chance to get their set properly tuned which his broadcasting station was used to promote the graft after which we will Repeat the call letters of the station." of one of his employees? What a racket! And repeat them the announcer did. Seven times at a crack When WGI went on the air with scheduled programs (two after every phonograph record ground out its tune! And we hours daily), May 20th, 1921. Eddie Dunham began scouring heard all seven—providing, of course, that the cat's whisker the countryside for local talent. I have a copy of one of was behaving properly. the early weekly broadcasting schedules of that station. Many Let's go back to those early days and get acquainted with of the features listed have stood the test of time and today some of the Radio pioneers. Those boys had some thrilling are found on the schedules of the majority of the stations on and amusing experiences. the air throughout the country. Here are some of the pro- Fver hear of Station WGI? grams given at WGI eight and nine years ago: Daily news That station was owned by the American Radio and flashes, police reports for city of Boston, a Sunday Radio Research Corporation. This organization began broadcasting Church Service, weekly business review, weekly market from its laboratories in Medford Hillside. Massachusetts, report, an address on personal hygiene, a talk on women's June 5, 1915. It has the distinction of being the first organiza- fashions. Sounds quite up-to-date, doesn't it? tion to devote its energies to Radio broadcasting and Radio Friday night was amateur night at WGI. Eddie Dunham reception exclusively. tells this one about a Friday night experience. "There How could it make Radio pay at that time, do I hear you was no such thing as a gain control in those days." (This ask? It didn't. And if you follow the little yarn I'm about instrument, a vital part of every transmitter today, enables to tell you will understand how this non-commercial organiza- the control operator to prevent an overloading of his delicate mur ! V

General view of Westinghouse Radiophone Broadcasting station, WJZ, Newark, N. J., Oct., 1921 (first mike, first studio), Thomas H. Cowan, announcer and staff. equipment. D.H.) "Tubes were always going bad. It was took it home with her as a valued trophy." up to me to watch all the microphone performers closely and outguess their every move. If I suspected that a singer was MEDFORD HILLSIDE is the town in which Tufts Col- about to open up and try to make the audience in Boston hear lege is located. About eight years ago Harry Lauder him or her without the use of our broadcasting transmitter gave (which he was paid for!) a concert in Goddard Chapel, I'd grab the party and push or pull said party away from one of the college buildings. When Sir Harry arrived Mr. the mike before the explosion. Dunham conceived the idea of broadcasting the concert and approached the Scotchman with this suggestion. "TDISTINCTLY remember one amateur night when we As Radio meant little or nothing to professional artists in A took the air without any spare tubes. I had been warned those days Sir Harry gave Eddie permission to put his voice that the only one the station possessed was in the works. on the air. This permission was obtained exactly twenty-one We went along alright until I put a somewhat mountainous minutes before the concert was to start. Goddard Chapel was soprano on the ether. Sometimes these heavyweights are nearly a half mile from the WGI studio but the necessary light on their feet. But not this lady. Once she took her wire was stretched across the intervening landscape and the position in front of the mike the soles of her shoes might microphone set up on the rostrum in that same twenty-one just as well have been nailed to the floor as far as I was minutes. concerned. When I said "stretched across the landscape" I meant just "She wouldn't be led, pushed or pulled in any direction. that. The ground was covered with snow and on this snow I'd had that kind to nurse through a program before and the wire reposed for the entire distance. For one solid hour as the microphone was a stationary thing in those days there Sir Harry entertained the Radio listeners tuned in on WGI was just one of two things to do. Either go off the air or with songs and stories. Among other things he taught the let the singer continue while your announcer went into a college students present in Goddard Chapel to sing "Some- huddle with himself and said a prayer. body's Waiting For Me." For this appearance on the air "The operator shrugged his shoulders when I suggested he received nothing. Less than eight years later he received throwing the switch that would permit the lady to warble $15,000 for a microphone appearance lasting about ten to a dead mike. So remained on the air for minutes we and some ,. unknown reason the tube refused to let the lady get the WGI is no more. But the memory of its glorious work best of it during the singing of her first number. as one of the pioneer broadcasting stations is a monument "She was booked for a short second selection but I had to the men whose faith in a young industry helped make Radio made up my mind to call this off and introduce the next what it is today. artist. I did introduce the next artist but that didn't do one bit of good. Friend soprano had been booked for two num- THE STATE of New Jersey seemed to be a sort of Mecca bers and if I was determined that she shouldn't sing again for the Radio pioneers. Edison was busy in Menlo Park, she was slightly more determined that she would. de Forrest in Newark and the Westjnghouse engineers in "It was her first appearance in a broadcasting studio and Newark were experimenting with Radio in 1921. the thrill was just too much for her. She simply would not WJZ was the Westinghouse station. The first studio was leave the mike until she had sung her sing as per previous located in a small pent-house atoo one of the factory build- arrangement. And the tube was forced to carry on. When ings. The first announcer with old WJZ was Harry E. she reached the final note of the second selection the lady Hiller, now associated with the Roxy interests. He was suc- inhaled deeply and cut loose with a forte. And what a forte! ceeded within a few weeks by Thomas H. Cowan, today I can hear it yet whenever I have a nightmare. chief announcer for WNYC, New York City's municipal "As I was making the introductory announcement for the broadcasting station. next amateur artist I heard the voice of the operator behind Cowan came to the Westinghouse plant from the Edison me. 'Pardon me, madam.' he was saying in his best Melford laboratories at Menlo Park. One of the first complaints he Hillside manner, 'but would you mind telling me what that received from a broadcast listener came from his old boss, last note you hit was?' The several ton of soprano on the Thomas A. Edison. hoof, much flattered, and expecting a compliment replied, Mr. Edison asked Cowan to eliminate the programs of 'High C The operator gave her a winning smile. records as he objected to the surface noise which went out " 'Thank you, madam,' he said and with a profound bow on the air. The scratch of the needle on the record annoyed which would have done credit to Lord Chesterfield he proffered the old inventor. He thought it was bad business to play the lady a gift. 'Perhaps you would like to take this tube records until such time as the scratching sound had been home as a souvenir of the evening. You finally succeeded eliminated in some way. Mr. Edison, while not declaring in blowing it!' And she actually accepted the souvenir and (Continued on page 70) 46 Racketeers^EATING the Desperadoes Who Have Terrorized Stage, Screen and Radio Artists in Chicago Meet Waterloo When Carleton Coon Faces Theni Gun to Gun

By Ann Steward

Carleton Coon of Coon down from an airplane the observer sees LOOKING a Sanders Nighthawks. spiderweb of roads fanning out from the northwest boundaries of Chicago. The long strands reach into the lake resort sections. Along the way there are frequent "You'll have to walk for a while, but you'll find your car resting places for city tourists bound for the open country. down the road here—take you about ten minutes. You got a Traveling at night one may hear seductive strains from the lot of friends who listen to you over the Radio. Tell 'em what finest of orchestras, and discover festooned lawns aglimmer happened to you tonight. We'll be listening. And—er—you with shaded lights. might—well, you'll find the car c*jwn the road a-ways." One of the most glamourous, most alluring of these festive Coon felt a sudden wild passion for furious action. He began ports for wayfaring motorists is known as the Dells. With a to protest volubly and was answered by derisive laughter. To full purse and a congenial companion nothing could be finer for have attempted a struggle would have been fatal. There was a summer evening than to dine and dance at the Dells. It is nothing he could do but stand there and watch them drive away a place well patronized by the Gold Coast elite. And then, with his own and the car in which they had come. too, it is not improbable that denizens of another world may But he lost no time in trailing after them. It was very sometimes drift in from the darkness to see and envy. The dark. When he had about given up hope of finding his car music invariably is of the best, which accounts for the fact he suddenly came upon it standing where it had been hastily that one year ago this month of August the Coon-Sanders abandoned. Original Nighthawks, the delight of millions of Radio fans, were there playing an engagement for the season. THE SPOT where he found the abandoned machine was It was one hot night at this time that Carleton Coon first scarcely more than a stone's throw from the scene of a met the hoodlum bandits who threatened on more than one murder that had been committed four or five years previous. occasion to silence forever one of our very best Radio enter- A man had been shot to death at the steering wheel of his tainers. Chicago had been cursed for years by a racketeering automobile. His woman companion had barely escaped to gang who levied tribute on operatic and theatrical stars. Some Evanston with her life. The murderers never have been found. of the more timid entertainers not only paid the price demanded Mr. Coon may have considered himself lucky to have lived but left the city. It was believed the gang who trailed Carleton to regain his car, even if he did not recover the rest of his Coon may have been identified with this coterie. valuables. The last of the dancers had gone. Business matters had Robberies of this nature were reported so frequently to the kept Mr. Coon later than usual. At last he piled into his big police that little was thought of the orchestra man's misfor- luxurious car and rolled out on the lonely road that leads tune. The perpetrators hid themselves among the millions of from Niles Center to Evanston—one of those long spiderweb other humans in the area, and even Mr. Coon himself had strands the aviator sees from the sky. almost forgotten the incident later in September when the orchestra had moved to the Blackhawk cafe in Chicago and SWERVING into one of the smaller cross roads that led to settled down for the winter season. He was haunted by the the shore town, he suddenly discovered his way blocked by thought that the marauders might not have been all that they a somber looking machine that leaped out from the darkness seemed—that they may have been playing a joke on him and at right angles. For a moment he was uncertain as to whether would eventually turn back his money and his ring. the car had blocked him by accident or design. Then he And always, it seemed, his ears were tuned to the sound of heard a curt command from within the car—it was a sedan. a gruff voice that gave commands on a lonely road in the dark Five dim figures appeared in the aura of his headlights. There of night. He felt certain he would hear that voice again. The was a gleam of steel and a cold prod in the ribs. His hands approaching holidays brought a rush of pleasure seekers. Life went up and snaky fingers began to prowl through his pockets. spun around on gliding toes and the Coon-Sanders orchestra His ear detected one voice that kept giving orders. He knew was the vibrant center of a merry throng. Came, then an he would remember that voice if ever he heard it again. evening when Joe Sanders had just finished his chats with "Get out of your car!" He never would forget his sensations the Radio audience and the orchestra was preparing to leave as he heard that command. Gruff, husky and yet not so fierce the stand for a short rest. One of the musicians suddenly as to sound ruthless. By absolute surrender he would probably leaned toward Coon with a significant glance. escape violence. But he had a valuable ring. It had been "There are those same five men, Cooney." appraised at $4,500. And he had approximately $500 in cash. "I saw them. They're sitting at the same table and they've Retter lose that than take a chance with his life—and it seemed been watching the band. Wonder what is so interesting about for the moment that all motor traffic in the world had suddenly us?" Cooney chuckled good humoredly. He was used to being ceased just to permit this holdup without interference. stared at by people who were ardent fans of the Coon-Sanders Then came the most amazing proposal. When his valuables orchestra. But these five diners did not seem to be a part of had been removed the leader with the unforgettable voice turned the rest of the crowd. Some sinister purpose radiated from to him and said: their faces. " V

'You'd kill me for $20,1)00?" The broad shoulders squared and Coon looked every inch the All American Fullback he had at one time been.

"1 don't particularly like them," contributed another member "Come in." Coon turned in his chair. A waiter addressed of the band. "Always at the same table. Always the same him. ones. Always watching and whispering amongst themselves." "Mr. Coon, some men want to speak to you. They are "Probably going to blow up the place and want to warn sitting at that table in —front of the orchestra stand. They us so that we can get out. Let's go rest a minute." Cooney say you know them, but turned to go. The others followed, their suspicions at rest for "Our friends, of course. Go see what they want, Cooney. - the time being. The mystery is about to be solved. ' Joe Sanders laughed, not Settled in the little office, Cooney and Joe turned to read guessing that the whole mystery was about to begin. their fan mail, talk to a favored few and snatch a moment of relaxation in their busy evening. Coon lighted a cigarette and COONEY groaned and slipped out of the room. So many sat down in silence. Joe Sanders was busy with a letter. Both people wanted to talk to him so often. There were so were thinking and their thoughts were not far from the five many requests to come to some table or other. He didn't men out in the restaurant. There came a gentle knock at always comply with the request if it came from an unknown, the door. but this was a different matter. It opened the door to a trouble- —

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some something that seemed to have its effect on each one of manner. He was cool and aloof, ready for them and whatever the men in his band. He saw his five apparent fans watching they had planned to do. It must be guessed here that the him as he made his way to their table. gangsters were a little surprised at their intended victim's "Good evening, gentlemen. I understand you wanted to manner, but they continued with their plans, one of them speak with me." acting as spokesman for the others. "Yeah. Sit down. Coon." The voice was low toned and not too gentle. **.\X7'E'RE through clowning with you, Coon, and you'd bet- "I'm sorry, I can't stay long. We go on the air in a moment." 1 1 ter get that twenty grand now, or your life and that of "Oh, we won't keep you long." The speaker, another of the your family won't be worth a dime." The speaker grunted five, smiled mockingly and toyed with the chewed end of a his words between half closed lips. large cigar looking at Cooney with intense interest at the same "Yes?" queried Coon innocently. time. Suddenly another of his companions leaned forward "You heard me." — and spoke as if he were offering a particularly choice tip on "I don't exactly remember " Coon smiled vaguely. the stock market. "Cut it, Buddy. You're playing with fire. Do you want to "How many people do you think listen in on you in the kick off now? Don't you think your friends and your family evening?" would rather have you alive than dead?" "Why, I have no way of knowing. Many thousands prob- "You'd kill me for twenty grand?" The broad shoulders ably." Coon did not try to enumerate, there seemed no menace squared and Coon looked every inch the AH American Full- in the question itself, only in the way it was asked. The next back he had at one time been. His air of insouciance was lost words were not too pleasant to hear even when listened to in and he talked business crisply and firmly. 'a crowded room where one was well known. The very idea "You said it, and your family, too. We can lay hands on seemed preposterous, and yet Coon knew that men were capa- them in a minute." ble of attempting any desperate criminal plan. The sound of Coon's hand closed firmly over the butt of his gun. "If I'm the voice now clicked distinctly in his memory. going one or two of you will come with me. You understand "If you were to announce over the microphone that you were that?" He backed toward the door, opened it and ran to the to be kidnaped and held for a twenty thousand dollar ransom, elevator, keeping the five men covered in the meantime. Xone do you think your listeners would kick in with dollar bills?" of them made a move to detain him. It was score one for The five men came to attention and looked attentively at Coon. Carleton Coon. A few minutes later he was on the street. He did not answer. "Well? What's your answer?" But the rest of the day was busy for him. His children were at the time in Kansas City, where the Coons have a beautiful COOX rose from the table without a word and went to the home. He immediately had a police guard placed there to orchestra stand where his band was assembling. He didn't protect his family. Then he went to police headquarters in tell them what had passed at that time, but he began to think Chicago and studied the files in search of more information of very seriously. Outwardly, he was the same Carleton Coon, the five men who were furnishing him with so much amuse- debonair, happy and entertaining while he sat behind his drums. ment. His task was not a hard one. One sullen face after Inwardly he felt a new thrill. Here was adventure that one another popped out at him from the records. He soon found could sink one's teeth into. This was a new angle to life, to enough things about each one of the gang to give them all a the life of a popular celebrity. He would match his own wits long term in prison. His next step was to make his own against their cunning and angle them into a position where charge a heavy one as well, and he was determined to put they could be prosecuted and put behind prison bars. each one of them behind bars before he would rest. At last Coon had heard of kidnaping being done many times before. he had them cornered. Furthermore, Coon was in no mood He knew many of the ways of extortionists and their plots. to let any one threaten to "get" his family. Only prison for He realized there had been a lot of just this sort of thing going the offenders would satisfy him, and he was certain to enjoy on amongst the people of the Chicago theatrical world. It the round-up of the chase. would have been easy to give the five men their money and be rid of them for a few months. The Coon-Sanders fans would NOT LONG after his first precautionary steps were taken, have contributed the money demanded had they received even Coon received word that the police guarding his Kansas an intimation of what was afoot. But Coon had other plans. City home had exchanged shots with some men in a sedan He was not going to pay ransom, nor was he going to evade bearing an Illinois license. The gangsters apparently were the five hoodlums. Instead of being intimidated he began to as much in earnest as Coon was himself, but Coon had the relish the experience, but he made a mental note to look up law with him, and he was entirely unafraid, two rather valuable his revolver when he got home that night. This was going weapons in that particular private war. As to his personal to be sport plentifully tinctured with real danger. security, no further attempt was made to deal with the popular After the proper precautions were taken, there seemed to young orchestra leader. All was most serene again. Coon, be little action in the affair. Again the world settled down to apparently was letting the matter ride. its familiar roundelay, and no word was received by Coon from Behind his bland exterior, however, his mind was working the racketeers with whom he had had the short interview. The intently. Due to his own efforts combined with those of the young orchestra leader had almost begun to despair of any police, the gang had been completely dissolved. They were lasting excitement in the world, after all. And soon he turned scattered and hiding, becoming a little hard to find, and Coon his thoughts to other more pressing matters. However, his was not only intent on finding each one, but on putting them weather eye was still out for the desperadoes. He wasn't too behind the bars for no short space of time. For that purpose willing to give up his adventure so soon. His ear was still and to guard himself against any attacks that might be made alert for that husky voice of the Niles road. upon him, Coon had the permission of the police to carry a revolver in his car. Preparedness was his watchword. IT WAS early in January when the curtain rose on the third In a short space of time, two of the gang were cornered and act of Coon's little drama. He was in his apartment reading put away. Then something happened that caused a good deal over some mail and thinking about business when the telephone of comment. Little was known by the outside world of the rang. He glanced toward the instrument and debated whether extortionist plans that were afloat. Rumors and distorted tales to answer or not. It was probably a fan requesting a personal were repeated, but Coon maintained a stony silence and no interview, an autographed picture or a request number on that one in the orchestra had much to say about the matter. The evening's program. It was a ten to one chance that it would blow fell, when early in February, Carleton Coon vanished not be business, and it was hardly possible that the phone completely from the orchestra. He just wasn't there and would be prompted to ring by a friend so early in the morn- there had been no warning of his departure. ing. Suddenly the receiver was at his ear. He remembered Here the music world indulged in a bit of conjecture. Was the five toughs and the call to adventure, perhaps the return Coon kidnaped by the remaining members of the gang? For of his property. a few days no mention of the young man's absence was made. "Hello?" Then suddenly, volumes of verbal explanation was dissemi- A curt voice the voice—rumbled to his ear ordering him to come nated to the eagerly waiting ears of the Coon-Sanders fans. to an address in the loop banking district immediately. He "He has had an operation. His appendix was removed and he was informed that the matter was most urgent, and under no is doing nicely. He will be back again soon. It was a very circumstances could it be delayed. Coon agreed to the time sudden attack." and place, donned his" coat and pocketed his army automatic Friends of Cooney's took up the hue and cry. J^adio per- without which he now seldom if ever went out. He was not formers on every local station talked over the air about Cooney at all uncertain as to whom he would find at the address. He and his good work. It looked almost as if the talk was a blind. was ready for them and glad that at last he would come face People began to wonder. They took pains to look behind the to face with their terms. This time he would see that things scenes, but the outcome was no more of a revelation than were brought to a head. He smiled to himself. Life was what was already known by the world. Cooney was, in truth, again worth living—and he would give his tormentors "the in the hospital. He was by no means kidnaped, and he had works." had a very serious operation. The extortionist gang was still Arrived at the given address. Coon ascended to the right waiting to be tracked down and caught. What had happened floor and nonchalantly entered the office at which his arrival specifically has never been explained. Coon will not discuss it was eagerly awaited. Immediately the five men with whom in any particular. he had talked at the Blackhawk Cafe surrounded him. He Winter slipped by unobtrusively and spring became the sea- smiled to himself, but there was no outward change in his (Continued on page Sfi> — — Incompatible49 An Injured Hand and a Dictated Letter Add to Misunderstanding—Amelie Goes Abroad

By Dana Gatlin

Illustrations by O. J. Gatten

the Sid Fletchers settled down to married life in of the deep WHEN ONE and eternal pitfalls of love is the way people their new home in a Long Island suburb everybody in love are —and inevitably—too much taken up with their declared that this was the one ideal match, if ever such own sensations to be clear-eyed in taking in and understanding a thing could have been imagined. Sid was a successful business the other person. There was no whit of pride in Sid's cheerful man and Amelie seemed to possess all those charming qualities front just then. He was only trying to behave the way that desirable for the wife of a successful business man. But there would best insure Amelie a good time. eventually developed little differences of opinion. Sid wanted The dinner in town was a great success and, had she followed to go to parties when Amelie would much rather have stayed her heart, she would have given up going anywhere but home at home. Then he accused her of making uncomplimentary with Sid. But . . . allusions to the character of his friends. And then came the There were many "buts"; and the biggest one was the feeling invitation to Bess Wandell's party .... that absence, a little absence, would make this present harmony more abiding. She would have time really to search out her AMELIE had resolved to go to that bridge session at own shortcomings, and to work out a future different from Bess Wandell's if it was the last thing she ever did. their recent' past. But she didn't go. By the next evening she had a She went to sleep on that Boston train, feeling Sid's last smashing headache. It was very real but Sid chose kiss like a pledge of love that was to be celebrated when she mentally to regard it as a subterfuge. The room where she got home. When she got home!—in less than a week. was lying when he came home was too dark to show her But she stayed two, and came home thinner than she left; pallor. Rather wanly but carefully impersonal she suggested thin and bright-eyed and with a complexion that might have that he go on without her. And Sid, accepting the suggestion waked suspicions in the astute that Amelie had changed her as a gauntlet, went. habits about make-up—also that she had an unfamiliar need The next morning he saw with compunction how pale of rouge. Amelie was; she was not ironical or superior, either, but Absence as a cure for love troubles is no safe and sure touchingly kind and simple—if she had been like that when remedy. Sid had proved so poor a correspondent that Amelie they came home from the club dance what a different chapter was driven through a thousand torturous moods about a seem- of marriage they would now be in. But it was his, all his fault, ing indifference that was new to her experience. doubting her word last night like a brute—and she now looking Sid was never an expansive letter-writer—no man of his pulled down as if she'd been ill. breed ever is —but he had always in his letters spoken to her "My girl," he said across the table, "you show you need a fondly, as it were, in his own natural way, which was a tender change. How about a little visit with your Aunt Hattie? way. And however their love might have been clouded at That'd be a rest from Fair Haven. Those high-brows around moments when they were together, it had never been clouded her would be just the change you need. Take a couple of in letters. And she had thought of this when coming away. hundred along and give the family some worldly treats, too And, now, he sent her brief notes dictated, dictated, to an and that'll be the kind of change they need!" office stenographer. And he was smiling genially and fondly upon her, and Amelie She had had a wild scared moment at first with the thought felt a compunction beneath the surface that stopped her from he was ill; was having M. J. ("per M. J." they were all scrupu- any ironies about his wanting to get rid of her. After all ironies lously marked) having M. J. come to him at a hospital, and were too cheap between her and Sid. She didn't want to go was concealing his condition. But no, the brief allusions to away, but perhaps it was a good idea. She should have such a his activities proved him active enough. He excused his chance to gather herself together, to master these unwise and first dictation on the ground that he was busy, rushed. Busy! unhappy and probably quite causeless impulses which were What was it that had made this difference in him? She felt cropping up too often these days. mocked by that last kiss. But she wrote brief, pleasant little notes, and told him that NOW this breakfast had been pleasant, though not like the she was sure she was as busy as he was—never saw Boston good days when breakfast was so apt to be a wedding- and the "best people" so gay in her life. Then, presently, she feast, but she had had all kinds of contradictory impulses dropped it casually that she'd be staying on a week longer. before she came down; and she might have taken another turn was gay, but she had to be if she going to have of mood, and spoiled it. And it was for her sake that Sid, the SHE was a generous boy, wished her to go! Not because he wanted a moment's respite from wondering, wondering, and making freerer foot for gayeties that she put a damper on. And when up answers to her own questions about Sid. Why had his she came back she would turn a leaf, would quit dampening face fallen like that when she said she would be leaving at his gayeties. once? It must have been from some entirely different reason So she said she'd like to make the visit. from the one she had held to her heart so fondly. It was his in genuine relation to "I don't think I'll stay long— I'll make it less than a week. cheerfulness that had been her departure, though her leaving that day had upset his plans, But if I'm going I might as well go by tonight's train—don't somehow, you think?" since he felt he must, of couse, give her a farewell dinner in Amelie s town. "O— I didn't think of your going so soon." And self-torturing in heart grew soft and warm in her breast with the pleasure of The ingenuities of a woman love are endless the of since first seeing his face fall. "But," he went on, "if you can manage, and have been marvel men they began to record their impressions of what some of their philosophers that'll be all right. Come into the city and have dinner with termed "the opposing sex." me there—can you?" have And smilingly, the husband and wife arranged the details of Amelie never knew, never guessed, the poor secret of those dictated communications. Sid had his their little "date." typed and jammed naturally, being Amelie would not, now, have given up the pleasure of seeing hand in the brake of the car and Sid, had that he shouldn't let out the accident lest it spoil Sid's face fall again; maybe it would, if she said she'd stay reasoned dictating his letters he must needs be fairly perfunc- two weeks! It was the sweetest thing that had come to her her visit; tory. And thought he was doing the right thing. He thought in a long time. And she took no offense from that determina- last dinner, that last kiss, had made all right; and that tion of his to act as if he did not mind. About this point she that anything about letters, was not thinking much, in fact—enough to take in that stupid Amelie wouldn't mind so long as she all right. were letters, but dear unselfishness of his. To her it was as if there were thought was What anyhow? They That did not count much to him; love on paper was too papery for a little pride in Sid's trying to show he did not mind. her mind any satisfaction beyond knowing his Amelie was all right. was the way it would have been with her. But what his Amelie came home to him suave and remote, with was really on was the sweet truth that he did mind. Then 50

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Sid had come to the steamer to see her off . . . and he had been overheard asking her to write to him, and the eavesdroppers were almost sure she said she would.

something strange about her he had never felt before, and Sid might not mind this last, she tried to tell herself; yet she Sid could have howled his pain and bewilderment; yes, and had comprehension enough of the man she had lived with resentment too—deep resentment this time. True he did not seven years to interrupt herself with an instinct of fair play; make a sound about it; not even to ask a question about her she knew Sid would mind, would always have a sentiment demeanor. For the first time he turned coolly polite, albeit about their past—whatever it was that had made that strange smooth and pleasant enough, when a breach seemed widening breach while she was away. between them. She had got, now, where she shut down on her curiosity about that—made herself shut down. Amelie had too little THIS time it did widen. Sid had made a point of getting of that kind of sense of property in her man which makes the bandages off his hand before he went to Amelie's train, women hold on to their men in the teeth of anything that and she never chanced on any news of that little, apparently comes against them. unimportant accident. The pledge of that kiss went unfulfilled. She was too decent, in a way; and she was also too proud, The Fletchers' marriage passed into a new stage, an outrage- with a pride that was far from being as big and1 fine as she ously unnatural and outrageously baseless stage. thought it was. But it was surely Amelie's own, that pride, This could not last long with them. Such a stage can rarely and something the other kind of women could hardly believe last long. Some turn, some remedy, must be come by. And possible. Nowhere so much as in human reactions to love is the remedy Amelie found was worse than the evil—she knew demonstrated that it takes all kinds to make a world. that; but she had to get out of this! The irritabilities they So the dark night came when sitting in the big, beautiful were both making recur by only half-concealing were too dis- living room after their pleasantly conversing dinner—such a illusioning, degrading. good dinner, but Amelie only making believe at eating it—she Through these last two years she had at several times felt made a revolutionary proposition: that breaches and makings-up were degrading; unworthy the "Sid, I want to go away." high poetry they had made for each other in the past. Now It was a rainy autumn night with a chill wind blowing up this was even worse than degrading—because it would kill the from the sea; and with open windows and the elemental sound memory of the past faster. of the rain coming in from the vast spaces of the night, a little " ——

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wood fire was blazing and crackling — on the hearth as if that pier. So that's why I " she took a long, gasping breath were the happiest hearth in Christendom. Amelie never for- "why I've come to a decision." got just how it crackled on the silence, and the sound of the "What decision?" and he felt a sudden premonitory drop, rain, before Sid answered her. Then he tried to make it easy like a weight, inside him. and casual, when he said: "That it would be better for us to—separate—now—while we "Go where?" Just as if he had not understood. — But he had still have some beautiful memories—than to " Her catching understood. It was not the words, it was something in voice finally failed her. Amelie's voice, in the air; and his own voice was queer because He seemed to draw his own voice up from bottomless depths. his throat wouldn't work right when he spoke. "Separate?" "Yes." AMELIE had a tight rein on herself; this scene she had been rehearsing. She said: THEIR discussion progressed not much further that night "Why continue this kind of mockery? I want to go away, with any real progress; but the next morning, polite and Sid, — and—and self-controlled, Sid, before he left for the city, told her that he She wanted to say "and keep the memories I cherish," but wanted to hear all the details of her plans when he came home. didn't quite dare. Was afraid to let that note creep in, lest "I'll bring some business papers out with me that we'll need she break down and disgrace herself. So she finished: in talking about your money affairs," he said; and then he " live —And my own life, seeing I can't live yours." took her hand and kissed it and was gone. A curious thing for She meant one thing by that and he understood another, Sid to do—kissing her hand! It was his apology, she dully took it as a reflection—the old stabbing reflection on his supposed, for his readiness to let her go. Oh, there was no inferiority. more possible bluff at not understanding; for people who had "Oh, Amelie." That was all he said, but it sounded a very loved as they had, and were living as they were now, separation deep, new note in his voice. The fire crackled on before she was only too easily understood. resumed: That night both were steeled to talk as if they were talking "I've been thinking it all out. And I can't bear this substi- of an investment, of a journey. But Sid said, almost to begin tute for real living, Sid—simply can't bear it. And, as time with: goes on, it'll become a poorer substitute. Poorer and poorer. "Do you want a divorce, Amelie?" It's bound to. And we'll go on getting unhappier and unhap- (Continued on page 90) ^ACK ^HANNON Singing Postman Becomes Ziegfeld Feature—Introduces New Radio Character By Anne Lazar

O'HARA could gossip over her cup of "tay"—but MRS.no walls could restrict the outpourings of her Irish heart in which crucible the scandals of the neighbor- hood were daily stewed and concocted. So what did she do but place her kitchen, cat and cup of "tay" in the studios of the National Broadcasting company and send forth such a rapid fire line of genuine Irish rollicking chatter, that she found her neighbors all over the United States listening in through the door cracks and loud speakers. And now we find that she made arrangements to take kitchen and all to the picture theatres and chat for a wee bit from the screen. "Sure now, will ye promise me not to tell a word When one speaks of Jack Shannon (and Jack Shannon is of it?" "Aye, indade I will, I mean I will not." Jack none other than the Mrs. O'Hara of the "Gossipers") one Shannon as the Two Gossipers. speaks of Ireland itself, and we believe that the hills of Kil- larney, the beautiful lakes, leprechauns, fairies and elves are all lonely—half sobbing for the return of this lively spirit of choir, and then devoted her precious hours and money to their land. teaching him the more delicate nuances possible for his kind Genius a-begging is the same old song. It is found in the of a tenor voice. drollest of occupations, and Jack Shannon used the sparks of With this recognition came the opportunity to hand over to a that flame, which was seeking release, for energy in the successor the friendly, bulging mail bag—for to the Govern- various jobs he had before he became the idol of the populace. ment Intelligence Service must they promote him. The teacher's rod had no terror for Jack Shannon for the At the end of seven years Jack Shannon, flapping against his very good reason that he never went to school—which accounts chrysalis, broke through and embarked upon the new career for the excellent condition of that noble institution which which had been so wonderfully wrought for him. education erected in his home town to distract youths from the profitable exercise of reconciling dogs' tails to tin cans. SAYS he: "A helpless feeling came over me that morning in 1918. A friend had taken me to the Liberty Theatre in New WE FIND him at the tender age of nine in the woolen mills York to sing for John Cort who wanted a tenor for his show, —an active little figure subdued by the demands of industry 'Listen Lester.' And what a thrill it was when Mr. Cort said to —but not altogether crushed. And as he emerged from under me, 'You go to Pittsburgh tonight and open Saturday.' I was the weight which labor imposed upon him, he found a job that too moved to even ask for a contract. gave him freer range—among the modern couriers of whose "The event that led to the greatest influence of my life predecessors Herodotus said "Neither rain nor snow nor heat meeting with Will Rogers—is one that will always be cherished. nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift com- I had been accepted by Gene Buck as a member of the Ziegfeld pletion of their appointed rounds." Frolic, and as I sat among the world-famous beauties, entranced Jack Shannon, in the livery of Uncle Sam's postal service, by the lovely songs, a bashful, boyish figure in overcoat and took a fiendish delight in delivering bills and statements with cap slid into a chair, back in a corner, almost out of sight. It an unparalleled and unwarranted promptness to Skowhegan's was Will Rogers, the star of the show and the man who has faithful citizens. Skowhegan? Why, Portland, Maine, is a kept up the nation's side-splitting laughter more consistently suburb of Skowhegan should anyone inquire. And when Jack than any comedian in history. This was back in 1921. Shannon made his daily tour of that "metropolis" with letters "During this period we burlesqued the Peace Conference bearing postmarks of such important cities as Puxatawney, convened in Washington. And the scene was the funniest in Bosking Ridge, Medicine Hat, Chestnut Hill and Woppnigers the history of the Follies. The late President Harding took Falls, official pride would swell so high that official buttons umbrage at this parody and severed "diplomatic relations" would scatter in all directions. Skowhegan was gifted not only with Rogers. Uproariously funny as this scene was, I don't with a Post Office. It had its very own Mayor, Fire Depart- think it could compare with the actual conference, and, I might ment and a Town Hall. And it was this vast auditorium, seating say, subsequent conferences held from time to time in Wash- the three hundred Skoheganians of a Saturday night, which was ington. The displeasure of Mr. Harding proved to be great filled with the melodies pouring from Jack Shannon's happy publicity for the show, as the public swarmed in to see it and throat. Among these listeners was the well-known opera singer, offered as high as twenty-five dollars for tickets. Carrie Kidwell Steward, who lost no time placing him in a (Continued on page 89) L- 62

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Spokane, Wash. Beverly Hills, Calif. Dallas, Tex. Washington, KFPY KMPC... WABZ New Orleans, La. WFAA WJSV D. C. KFQA Kirk wood, Mo. KMTR Hollywood, Calif. WACO Waco, Texas WFAN Philadelphia, Pa. WJW Mansfield, Ohio. KFQD Anchorage, Alaska KNX Los Angeles, Calif. WADC Akron, Ohio WFBC Knoxville, Tenn. WJZ New York City Calif. WKAQ.San KFQU Holy City, KOA Denver, Colo. WAFB Detroit, Mich. WFBE Cincinnati, O. Juan, Porto Rico KFQW Seattle, Wash. KOAC Corvallis, Ore. WAGM.... Royal Oak, Mich. WFBJ.... Collegeville, Minn. WKAR....E. Lansing, Mich. KFQZ....Los Angeles, Calif. KOB... .State College, N. M. WAIU Columbus, Ohio. WFBL Syracuse, N. Y. WKAV Laconia, N. H. KFRC.San Francisco, Calif. KOCW Chickasha, Okla. Zanesville, Ohio WFBM Indianapolis-, Ind. WKBB Joliet, 111. WALR Birmingham, KFRU Columbia, Mo. KOH Reno, Nev. WAPI Birmingham, Ala. WFBR Baltimore, Md. WKBC... Ala. KFSD San Diego, Calif. KOIL Council Bluffs, la. WASH.. Grand Rapids, Mich. WFDF Flint, Mich. WKBE Webster. Mass. 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WWVA... Wheeling, W. Va. 329.7m, 910kc, SOOw. 357.7m, 840kc, w. Philadelphia, WMCA New York City WRAX Pa. CJGX, Yorkton, Sask., 476.2m, CNRO, Ottawa, Ont., 500m, WMES Boston, Mass. WRBC Valparaiso, Ind. 629.9kc, 500w. 599.6kc, 500w. Fairmont. W. Va. WRBI Tifton, Ga. WMMN... CJHS, Saskatoon, Sask., CNRV, Vancouver, B. C, WMPC Lapeer, Mich. WRBJ Hattiesburg, Miss. Canada 329.7m, 910kc, 250w. 291.3m, 1030kc, 500w. WMRJ Tamaica, N. Y. WRBL Columbus, Ga. CJOC, Lethbridge, Alta., WMSG New York City WRBQ Greenville, Miss. 267.9m, 1120kc, 50w. CFAC-CNRC, Calgary, Alta., WMT Waterloo, la. WRBT.... Wilmington, N. C. CJOR, Sea Island, B. C, 434.8m, 690kc, 500w. WNAC Boston, Mass. WRBU Gastonia, N. C. 291.3m, 1030kc, 50w. CFBO, St John, N. B., WNAD Norman. Okla. WRC Washington, D. C. 337.1m, CIRM, Moose Jaw, Sask., Cuba 889.9kc, 50w. WNAT Philadelphia, Pa. WREC Memphis, Tenn. 500m, 599. 6kc, SOOw. CFCA-CKOW-CNRT, To- WNAX Yankton, S. D. WREN Lawrence, Kans. CTRW, Fleming, Sask., 500m, CMBA, Havana, 255m, 1176kc, ronto, Ont., 357.1m, 840kc, WNBF...Binghamton, N. Y. WRHM. . .Minneapolis, Minn. 500w. 50w. 500w. 599.6kc, WNBH..New Bedford, Mass. WRJN Racine, Wis. CTRX, Winnipeg, Man., 25.6m, CMBC, Havana, 338m, 887kc, CFCF, Montreal, P. WNBT Knoxville, Tenn. WRK Hamilton, Ohio Q., 1171.6kc, 2000w. lOOw. 291.3m. 1030kc. 16S0w. WNBO Washington, Pa. WRNY New York City CKAC-CNRM. Montreal, P. CMBD, Havana, 482m, CFCH, Iroquois Falls, Ont., WNBR Memphis, Tenn. WRR Dallas, Tex. Q., 411m. "29.9kc, 5000w. 622.4kc, 50w. Carbondale, Pa. 500m, 599. 6kc. 250w. WNBW WRUF Gainesville, Fla. CKCD-CHLS, Vancouver, B. CMBQ, Havana, 315m, 952kc, CFCN-CNRC. Calgary, Alta., WNBX Springfield, Vt. WRVA Richmond, Va. C, 411m, 729.9kc, 50w. 50w. Saranac, N. Y. 434.8m. 690kc. 500w. WNBZ WSAI Cincinnati, Ohio CKCI, Quebec, P. Q., 340.9m, CMBS, 441m, CFCO, Chatham, Ont., 247.9m, Havana, WNJ Newark, N. J. WSAJ Grove City, Pa. 880kc, 50w. 680.2kc, 50w. Knoxville, Tenn. 1210kc, 50w. WNOX WSAN Allentown, Pa. Toronto, Ont., 517.2m, CMBW, Marianao, 292m, Greensboro, C. CFCT. Victoria, B.C., 476.2m, WNRC... N. WSAR Fall River, Mass. 580.4kc. 500w. 1027kc, 50w. New York City 629.9kc. 500w. WNYC WSAZ... Huntington, W. Va. CKCO. Ottawa, Ont., 337.1m, CMBY, 490m, San Antonio, Tex. CFCY, Charlottetown, P. E. Havana, WOAI WSB Atlanta, Ga. 889.9kc, lOOw. 611.9kc, 200w. WOAN.Lawrenceburg, Tenn. I., 312.5m, 960kc, 250w. WSBC Chicago, 111. CKCR, Waterloo, Ont., 297m, CMBZ, Havana, 292m, 1027kc, Trenton, N. CFJC, Kamloops, B. C, WOAX J. WSBT South Bend, Ind. lOlOkc. 50w. lOOw. WOBT.... Union City. Tenn. 267.9m, 1120kc, 15w. WSDA Brooklyn, N. Y. CKCV-CNRQ. Quebec, P. Q., CMC, Havana, 357m, 840kc, Charleston, W. Va. CFLC, Prescott, Ont.. 297m, WOBU... WSEA Portsmouth, Va. 340.9m. 880kc, 50w. 500w. WOC Davenport, la. lOlOkc. 50w. WSFA Montgomery, Ala. CKFC, Vancouver, B. C, CMCA, Havana, 264m, 1136kc, WODA Paterson, N. J. CFNB. Frederick-ton, N. B., WSGH Brooklyn, N. Y. 411m, 729.9kc, 50w. lOOw. WOI Ames, la. 247.9m, 1210kc, 50w. WSIS Sarasota, Fla. CKIC. Wol,fville, N. S., CMCB, Havana, 315m, 952kc, WOKO Beacon, N. Y. CFQC - CNRS, Saskatoon, WSIX Springfield, Tenn. 322.6m, 930kc. 50w. 150w. WOL Washington, D. C. Sask., 329.7m, 910kc. 500w. WSM Nashville, Tenn. Ont., Manitowoc, Wis. CFRB-CTBC, King. York Co., CKGW, Bowmanville, CMCE, Havana, 273m, WOMT WSMB New Orleans, La. WOOD.. Grand Rapids, Mich. Ont., 312.5m. 960kc, 4000w. 434.8m, 690kc, 5000w. 1098.7kc, lOOw. WSMD Salisbrry, Md. - WOPI Bristol, Va. CFRC. Kingston, Ont., 267.9m, CKLC CHCT, Red Deer, CMCF, Havana, 466m, WSMK Dayton, Ohio WOQ Kansas City, Mo. 1120kc. 500w. Alta., 357.1m, 840kc, lOOOw. 643.7kc, 250w. WSPA.... Spartanburg, S. C. CKMC. Cobalt, Ont., 247.9m, CMGA, Colon, 360m, 832.8kc, WOR Newark, N. J. CHCK. Charlottetown, P. E. WORC Worcester, Mass. WSPD Toledo, Ohio L. 312.5m. 960kc, 30w. 1210kc, 15w. 300w. WSSH Boston, Mass. Vancouver, WORD Chicago, 111. CHGS, Summerside, P. E. L, CKMO, B. C, CMHA, Cienfuegos, 260m, WOS Tefferson City, Mo. WSUI Iowa City, Iowa 267.9m, 1120kc, 25w. 411m, 729.9kc, 50w. 1153kc, 200w. WOV New York -City WSUN..St. Petersburg, Fla. CHMA, Edmonton, Alta., CKNC-CTBC, Toronto, Ont., CMHC, Tuinucu, 379m, 791kc, WOW Omaha, Neb. WSVS Buffalo, N. Y. 517.2m, 580.4kc, 250w. 517.2m. 580.4kc. 500w. 500w. WOWO Ft. Wayne, Ind. WSYR Syracuse, N. Y. CHML, Hamilton, Ont.. CROC, Hamilton, Ont., CMHD, Caibarien, 325m, WPAP Palisade, N. T. WTAD Quincy, 111. 340.9m. 880kc, 50w. 340.9m, 880kc, 50w. 923kc, 250w. WPAW Pawtucket, R. I. WTAG.... Worcester, Mass. CHNS, Halifax, N. S., 322.6m, CKPC, Preston, Ont., 247.9m, CMI, Havana, 368m, 815.2kc, WPCC Chicago, 111. WTAM Cleveland, Ohio 930kc, 500w. 1210kc, 50w. SOOw. WPCH Hoboken, N. J. WTAQ Eau Claire, Wis. CHRC. Quebec, P. Q., 340.9m, CKPR, Midland, Ont., 267.9m, CMK, Havana, 410m, 731.3kc, WPEN Philadelphia, Pa. WTAR Norfolk, Va. 880kc. lOOw. 1120kc. 50w. 2000w. WPG Atlantic City, N. J. WTAW. College Station, Tex. CHWC-CFRC, Pilot Butte, CKSH, Montreal, P. Q., 297m, CMW, Havana, 500m, 599.6kc, WPOE Patchogue, N. Y. WTAX Streator, 111. Sask.. 312.5m, 960kc, 500w. lOlOkc, 50w. lOOOw. WPOR Norfolk, Va. WTBO Cumberland, Md. CHWK, Chilliwick, B. C, CKUA, Edmonton, Alta., CMX, Havana, 327m, 914.3kc, WPSC State College, Pa. WTFI Toccoa, Ga. 247.9m, 1210kc, 5w. 517.2m, 580.4kc, SOOw. 250w. RADIO DIGEST DIAMOND MERITUM AWARD Rules and Conditions Governing Contest for Choosing America's Most Popular Radio Program, Organization or Artist

1. The contest started with the issue 1-year paid in ad- New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, of RADIO DIGEST for March, 1930, vance mail sub- Delaware, Maryland, and District of and ends at midnight, September 20, scription direct... 150 votes Columbia. District number two, known as the "SOUTH," will comprise the states 1930. All mail enclosing ballots must 2-year; two 1-year bear the postmark on or before mid- of Virginia, West Virginia, North and paid in advance Louis- night, September 20, 1930. South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, mail subscriptions Mississippi, Tennessee, 2. Balloting by means of coupons ap- iana, Alabama, direct 8.00 325 votes District pearing in each monthly issue of RADIO Arkansas, and Kentucky. num- DIGEST and by special ballots issued 3-year; three 1 - ber three, known as the "MIDDLE- include states of only when requested at the time of year; one 1 and WEST," will the Ohio, receipt of paid in advance mail subscrip- one 2-year paid in Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Missouri. District tions to RADIO DIGEST when received advance mail sub- Minnesota, Iowa, and direct and not through subscription scriptions direct.. 12.00 500 votes number four, known as- the "WEST," agencies according to the schedule given will comprise the states of North and 4-year; four 1-year; Okla- in paragraph four. South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, two 2- year; one 3- homa, Texas, Montana, Wyoming, Colo- 3. When sent singly each coupon year and one 1- rado and New Mexico. District number clipped from the regular monthly issue ad- year; paid in as the WEST," will of RADIO DIGEST counts for one vote. five, known "FAR vance mail sub- consist of the states of Idaho, Arizona, BONUS votes given in accordance with scriptions direct . . 16.00 750 votes the following schedule: Utah, Nevada, California, Washington, For each two consecutively numbered 5-year; five 1-year; and Oregon. 6. or organization or coupons sent in at one time a bonus of one 2-year, and The program 2- receiving the highest number of five votes will be allowed. one 3-year; two artist year and one 1- votes of all six districts will be declared For each three consecutively numbered RADIO coupons, a bonus of fifteen votes will be year; one 4-year AMERICA'S MOST POPULAR allowed. and one 1 - year; PROGRAM, ORGANIZATION OR For each four consecutively numbered paid in advance ARTIST and the program sponsor or organization or artist will be presented coupons, a bonus of twenty-five votes mail subscriptions the Radio Digest Diamond Meritum will be allowed. direct 20.00 1,000 votes with After the grand prize winner is For each five consecutively numbered Award. 10- year; ten 1-year; eliminated, the program or organization coupons, a bonus of thirty-five votes five 2-year; three or artist holding the highest vote in the will be allowed. 1- 3-year and one district in they are located will For each six consecutively numbered which year; two 4-year declared the popular program or coupons, a bonus of fifty votes will be be most and one 2 or two organization or artist of their district allowed. 5- 1 - year; two and each 'given a Radio Digest Gold For each seven consecutively num- year paid in ad- bered coupons, a bonus of seventy-five Meritum Award. No program or or- vance mail sub- ganization or artist is receive votes will be allowed. to more scriptions direct.. 40.00 2,500 votes than one prize. 4. Special ballots will be issued only when requested at the time of receipt of 5. For the purposes of the contest the 7. In the event of a tie for any of the prizes paid in advance mail subscriptions, old United States has been divided into five offered, prizes of identical value or new, to the RADIO DIGEST when districts. District number one. known as will be given to each tying contestant. received direct and not through sub- the "EAST" will include the states of 8. Any question that may arise during scription agencies according to the fol- Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Mas- the contest will be decided by the Con- lowing voting schedule: sachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, test Editor, and his decision will be final. H ^ARCELLA

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

Worcester, Mass. After graduating from JUST think of it, girls, if John Shaw Little Gloria Goldsmith, daughter of Young's mother had not dissuaded Lee Goldsmith, general manager of sta- high school he worked for a time in a him from accepting an appointment to tion WCKY, Covington, Ky., is an Amos law office but left to become a com- the United 'n' Andy fan. Never a night passed, be- positor and proofreader in a local print States Mili- fore little Gloria went away to boarding shop. Following his return from France, tary Acad- school, when she failed to listen to their where he served with the Forty-fourth emy for Avia- broadcast at 7 o'clock, EST. Coast Artillery, he re-entered the print- tion at San Came Eastern Daylight Saving Time, ing business. Later he became an- Antonio, you and the NBC shifted the feature to 10:30 nouncer for WBZ at Springfield, on would prob- which station he had made several ap- ably never pearances as a baritone vocalist. have heard him announc- Harry Snodgrass has deserted his village ing over the chili stand and is returning to Radio. At

< the time writing it is not known where ^L W& ^2 N P. of ^d ; BJJm work! It was Mr. Snodgrass will broadcast. However, L % <*A in 1937 that he says that it will not be a metropolitan I WL ^BI lIl^HI that impor- microphone ; that he hates Chicago, and dis- tant decision likes New York; and that it will be some was made and that same year he came comparatively small town that he'll choose. to Radio through WBZ in Springfield. (Thank you, Helen, for this information.) After staying with the Springfield sta- tion for six months John was transferred Just heard that Don Wilding has trav- to WBZA in Boston and remained there eled from WLW to WTAM and thence until September, 1928, when he went to to WJR, Detroit, where he now appears New York to join the NBC ranks. before the mike several evenings each Young, together with Milton Cross, week. More of him another day. was among the first Radio announcers to * * * be selected by a major recording com- Through what station does your "Radio pany to make phonograph records. tenor" broadcast, Mrs. Gibbons? I haven't And did you ever hear that he was a heard of any tenor zvho has to be carried in classmate of Rudy Vallee? And of course and out of the studio. Please tell more you doubtless do know that he has pre- about him. sented Rudy to the microphone oftener than any other announcer. Louis Perlman doesn't need any intro- Young has an impressive record of duction in and around Chicago. This education. He attended the grammar youthful and high schools of his home town and violinist and for a time was a student at Cascadilla composer has Preparatory School at Ithaca, N. Y. played from Later he attended Yale and Cornell and every large took special courses at Syracuse and o'clock over the Covington station. At Radio station Columbia Universities. Most of this col- about the same time Gloria was sent to in the city. lege training was devoted to studies of boarding school. She insisted on hear- Back in 1923, law and playwriting. ing Amos 'n' Andy as was her custom, when he was In his very youthful days John was but the school authorities said "What! something of keenly interested in athletics and has A child staying up till 10:30? Unheard an infant, high school letters in swimming, track, of!" he began football, baseball and basketball. Swim- Gloria delivered her ultimatum—either playing ming was always his favorite sport and home, by the Radio set, or Amos 'n' overWEBH, it still remains one of his major hobbies. Andy at 10:30. Negotiations were in or- where he He is twenty-eight years old, and here der. The National Broadcasting Com- played regu- is (I'm sure) comforting news for the pany received an appeal, and after many larly for about three years with Dean hordes of femmes who have been writ- long distance calls and telegraph in- Remick as accompanist. He is a mem- ing about him—he is unmarried. quiries Gloria's wish was granted, but in ber of the Skalski Orchestra and was * * * this way — the NBC agreed to permit director of the "Petite Symphony" re- MARSHA WHEELER has left Radio WCKY to carry the feature at 6 o'clock cently heard over WBBM. broadcasting to devote all her time to and another station in the vicinity also But the whole point of the story is just writing stories and magazine articles. to carry it at 10:30. about to be reached. This young man is She lives in Cincinnati in a charming So everybody was happy, and Gloria the composer of that popular ballad house where she does her writing. Miss was able to continue her schooling. "In Old Capri" which we've been hear- * * * Wheeler is missed by her thousands of ing for some months and which is, inci- listeners, but the one consolation is that A little nczvs of our old friend Ford Rush. dentally, the theme accompaniment for we can look forward to her articles. But He broadcast over WLS a few times this all Radio Showmen programs heard over don't forget that her "real" name is spring and is now idling azuay the summer WIBO. His also is the more recent Mrs. Marjorie Moellering, dozvn in St. Loiiis. As to your other ques- song hit, "Shattered Dreams." * * * tion, Millie, the Gene and Jack you heard Running true to the type 'of the real Thomas Pattison Coates, baritone and an- over WLS, is a cornet and banjo team musician Mr. Perlman, who is a Chi- nouncer, well known to New York and Chi- zvhich plays only occasionally before the cagoan, gave evidence of his artistic in- cago Radio audiences through his four years' Prairie Farmer mike. clination at an early age, four years, to affiliation with WEAF and WGN, is now be exact; at seven he appeared in his production manager and chief announcer of Many of us who have been following first public recital with a symphony or- WEBC, Buluth. the career of Alwyn E. W. Bach since chestra; at eleven he won the scholar- * * * the early days at WBZ in 1922 were ship to the Francis W. Parker school; The latest news from the front (and gratified to learn of the recent honor and at fourteen was concert master of it's true, just now as we write it!) is conferred upon him when he was Senn High orchestra. that the Ashley sisters are at WGN. Of awarded the 1930 gold medal for excel- It's not enough to say that Lou Perl- course they may not be there by the lence in diction on the Radio by the man has talent; he has talent combined time you read these lines. Those girls American Academy of Arts and Letters. with personality — which makes it all certainly keep us guessing. Mr. Bach was born and educated in very interesting. .

55

In telling you about Pat Flanagan the We have some more up-to-date infor- Al Melgard, staff organist at WBBM, easiest thing to do is to talk in terms of mation on George Sutherland, C. E. B. and one of Chicago's pioneer organists, "stories," for He is now at WHK, Cleveland, where is at heart an artist. Art

some way or he is concentrating on production and was his first love. He has , other Pat is continuity work and doing some inci- been drawing and paint- like that. dental announcing. He conducts the ing since he was a young- Take, f'r in- morning exercise period at 7 every day ster and as he grew older ii%\ stance, the in the week except Sunday. George music was merely an in- story of how has, however, handled the microphone cidental accomplishment rtM;-jS* Pat came to for about every imaginable type of with him. He drifted be an an- broadcast, from state political conven- from his study of the n o u n c e r tions to horse races and all sports. piano into organ work, Only a little Picked up an interesting bit about him, and as an organist he drifted into broad- over two too. George has put so much actual casting. And as we all know, it is music years ago Pat friendliness into his voice that a day that is responsible for his enviable repu- was out in never passes when he doesn't receive a tation. Davenport number of letters laying before him per- But through the years he has been selling time sonal problems relating to affairs of the faithful to art. The basement of his home on the air for WOC. One morning as home, heart and happiness. is his studio. Here he does some work Pat was about to start out on his sales * * * in oils and here he paints furniture. duties there was a slight panic due to If it's true that a fickle public soon Sometimes the studio is turned into a the failure of one of the regular announc- forgets its favorites, WBBM has an ex- theatre. Mr. Melgard owns a fine mo- ers to arrive on schedule. Flanagan ception. Bobby Brown, who used to tion picture camera and buys from time blithely offered to fill the gap, and he appear frequently before the mike and to time films of some educational value. did. Meanwhile the station manager of who was one of the most popular enter- Then he calls in his youngsters, tells WOC was listening in at his home. tainers in the country, has been so busy them to invite their friends, and a big After a half an hour or so he called the with other things in connection with time is had by all. studio and said "Who's the new man at Radio that he has had few opportunities sfc ^ :jc

the mike? . . . Put him on the pay role to go on the air. Sorry, R. P., that we can't find out as announcer!" However, WBBM recently put on a anything about Blue Steele since he left Soon after he went to WBBM, and his special children's program which needed KMOX some weeks ago. Can anybody entrance into sports' announcing shows a cheerful, genial voice. Bobby was help? just how Pat works. He was asked by asked to supply the voice, and the day H= t- * first broadcast brought a flood his boss if he could announce baseball after the Here they are, the "Singing Red- letters. His public welcomed him games. "Why, absolutely," replied Pat. of heads." You wouldn't guess to look at enthusiasm that Bobby "I used to play the game and I know it back with such their picture that this harmony team at like nerve to stay away and has a book." He was told to get ready hasn't the KMOX had hated each other heartily face the mike every day because within a couple of weeks he consented to not so long ago. would have to announce the big league during the children's party at 5:30. * * * About two years ago Dorothy Aggas games. Pat was actually floored, but he and Melvin Wilkerson were being fea- not it. It may not be news now, but it is as we're would admit Rushing out he got tured as soprano and tenor soloists in a going to press, Ralph Waldo Emerson Jr. a baseball rule book and studied it until Tulsa Radio station. Dorothy, just June 5th. It is quite a he knew every rule in it. arrived in town on turned seventeen, had come back from Then just the other day a distinguished sure thing that Ralph Jr. will be a musi- _ New York where she had been studying it that has al- visitor came to the WBBM studios. Pat cian, and rumor has WLS with Louis Graveure. Radio was a new giving his him up. was one of famous play by ready signed field to her, and proved so fascinating *. * * play descriptions, getting his informa- that she decided to give up her cherished DeTurk, Marie, tion through the special baseball ticker Your favorite, Ted ambition, an operatic career, for Radio in the age of four the studio. Judge Landis, baseball's started his career at work. Melvin, known to musical circles czar, came in, asked to see Pat and sat as a winged cupid at a of Tulsa from the time that he was near him, But since watching and listening in- show wedding. twelve years old, had grown a little tently. Taking his leave, the judge con- that time his travels have weary of vaudeville trouping. He too gratulated Pat his a great on work and said: taken him over was attracted to Radio singing. "Pat, I came down because my curiosity amount of territory. By But Dorothy couldn't see much in the best of admission he got me. Couldn't see how his own Melvin, and Melvin felt the same way larger bank anyone could be giving so realistic a de- possessed a about her. They went about snubbing scription of the of 9 a game without being right account at age each other until they were persuaded on the field. Never heard anything like than he does at present. n into trying harmony singing. Their it. has a family that If ever anyone wants to know about But, of course, he now voices blended so well that they were for bank account. one of the best sports announcers on the he wouldn't trade any put on programs as harmony singers. little fellow he air, send them to me." Pat says he feels When he was just a That was the beginning. "nickelodeon" shows on Judge Landis' praise the greatest honor played the old There was room on the staff at KMOX in and around Marion, he has ever had paid him. Saturday nights for a harmony team and Dorothy and was born and raised. These O., where he Melvin went to St. Louis, tried out, and netted him as much as KUKU is not a real station at all, Donald. shows sometimes were successful. for the evening. He was billed as It was merely a part of an NBC program $25 People always want to know if they LeRoy DeTurk, the boy enter- heard until recently on Wednesday nights "Master really have red hair and if they are re- at 9:30 EST. tainer." * * * So it was that he entered the show business at an early age. Vaudeville, Thought you would like to see this musical comedy and barnstorming, all lady's picture because she is an authority added to his experience. This after his on love and marriage. She sojourn at Ohio State and Northwestern is not authority, only an universities. but she is willing to pass His Radio career began in 1922 when along her knowledge to he joined the staff of WWJ, Detroit. He hundreds of others with later went to WJR in the same city, then her intimate talks before returned to the show business. Then the mike. She is Lucy some time later made a Radio return at Stout, whose voice is WLW. A business venture took him to heard through WPAP, Florida, but he couldn't withstand the Palisade, N. J. lure of the microphone and the South * * * heard him through WJAX, Jacksonville, Miss Stout says that women will some and WSB, Atlanta. Then the West day be the real power of the world, that called him and he journeyed as far as is, if the woman will use her under- KOA, Denver. But finally he wandered for a time, standing and femininity in the right di- back to Ohio, was at WLW lated. Well, they have red hair and as rection. then she goes on to tell where he is heard And then went to WHK, for being related—they aren't yet. But what the right direction is; she also has regularly now. rumor has it they've been going around a few things to say about men; but here Ted has accumulated a library of sev- looking at apartments. . . . it is probably more discreet to change eral thousand songs of a wide variety, ^ & #

the subject. . . . all carefully indexed and filed, ready for Marcella hears all, tells all. Write Miss Stout has been ranked among the use at a moment's notice. her a letter, ask her any of the burning "philosophers of the air" and it's not at * * * questions that are bothering your mind. all strange that her broadcasts are popu- Help! Help! Where are Lynn Gearhart Information is her middle name. lar. and Bill Barnes, formerly at WIBO? 56 AN ATTRACTIVE SALAD Food Expert Says Salad Should Be Artistic as Well as Palatable and Outlines Wide Variety of Uses

By Evelyn Gardiner Director KDKA Home Forum

Here's the proper set-up for a correctly served buffet luncheon in the William Penn Hotel, Pittsburgh. Miss Evelyn Gardiner is serving a salad to Miss Josephine Gibson, Home Economics Director of the H. J. Heinz Company. Mrs. Florence Harding, assistant to Miss Gardiner, is serving chicken a la king.

WHAT infinite possibilities there water and let stand for a few minutes picture. The kind of plate used is as are to delight the palate and the in a bowl of water containing pieces important as the picture frame. The eye in an artistic looking salad. of cracked ice. Another way to make foods served with a salad are as im- No salad achieves the true heights of greens crisp is to shake the water from portant to give your salad the right success unless it appeals both to the them and wrap in a damp towel or setting as the furniture in your living- palate and to the eye. No salad should waxed paper, or place them in a cov- room to show off a picture to the best merely satisfy the taste. No one wishes ered glass jar and set in the refrigerator. advantage. to eat an unattractively prepared salad When ready to use, shake the water no matter how good it may taste. from them and pat the leaves gently WHAT is more delicious or easier to Each person has, no doubt, her own in a soft cloth to absorb the remaining serve than a salad prepared at the mental picture of a tempting salad. Does moisture. table? Have a bowl of crisp lettuce your mental picture include perhaps a Another thing to consider in the ar- leaves before you. To your right place glass bowl or a plate of crisp, fresh ranging of a salad is the plate on vinegar and oil cruets, salt and pepper lettuce? And on the lettuce there should which a salad is to be served. It shakers, paprika and any other season- be a dainty, attractive, colorful mixture should first be cold. In fact, to make ings desired. If you have a large salad such as sliced tomatoes, green peppers a perfect salad everything used in its spoon, mix one tablespoonful of oil and and cucumbers which are so delicious at preparation should be cold. An at- one teaspoonful of vinegar together in this season of the year. This is but tractive plate adds much to the effect. the spoon. Add a dash of pepper, salt one picture of a salad. It may be pre- This may be china or glass, but in the and paprika. Mix these together with pared at the table by the hostess who summer there is nothing more suitable a fork and add slowly to the leaves. mixes the French dressing with the than a glass salad plate. Colored glass Toss them lightly until each leaf is salad green and serves her family and combines well with the colors used in moistened with dressing. Mix another guests. Each mouthful is a delight the salad. spoonful and add until the lettuce is and the salad is more quickly prepared A salad is an appetizer. To be a true sufficiently dressed. You may add than when arranged in the kitchen. appetizer it must be prepared to tempt sliced fresh vegetables if you wish. This What makes a salad? First, the salad the appetite. A salad is easily over- method is what the French call "fa- green must be carefully selected at the done. We may make it too elaborate tiguing" a salad. market. This should be fresh and free and fussy. The simpler salads are gen- There are many other ingredients from bruises. Lettuce is still the most erally the most beautiful. To make it used in preparing a salad. Almost any popular salad plant, but other leaves look its best, great care must be taken cooked or uncooked food may be may be used to add variety in flavor as to the arrangement. The kind of used in a salad. There is a salad for and appearance. Watercress, endive, plate used, the bed or green, ingredients, every occasion. The meat, fish, cheese dandelion, cabbage and romaine are dressing, accompaniments and other and egg salads are the most substan- very excellent greens. foods served at the meal must be con- tial and may be served as the main Salad greens should be served crisp, sidered. In this respect a salad is like course of a luncheon or supper. In dry and cold. Break the leaves apart a picture. It takes more than one color summer we prefer cold foods. The carefully. Water running over the to make a picture. The harmonious meat or fish may be mixed with celery, head will open up the inner leaves. blend and the right use of several col- pickles, or olives to give a good blend Wash each leaf thoroughly in cold ors in the hands of the artist make the (Continued on page 69) —

57 former Boss of Amos and Andy JUDITH WALLER of WMAQ, Chicago, Pioneer in Broadcasting, Began in 1922

By GARNETT L. ESKEW

~W 7E ARE none of us so high up in In Chicago there was one lone station We want you to come over and take \\ the world but that we have a boss. KYW. In New York there were one charge of it." Amos and Andy are no exception or two. But on a certain fine Spring "But I don't know anything about to the general rule, you may be sure. morning in that same year of grace 1922, Radio, Mr. Strong," she protested. Until their recent He may have hook-up with the replied to his: "I NBC network these wouldn't know one tworenowned black- if it bit me on the face comedians ac- foot. But come over knowledged as their anyway." boss the boss of And so, with no station WMAQ, little trepidation, Chicago. And the and considerable uncertainty, Miss boss of WMAQ is one of the pioneers Waller came over of Radio broadcast- and took charge of ing. Not that that station WMAQ word "pioneer" im- (only there wasn't really any station plies, in this case, there then and it any great age. It was called station doesn't; Radio is WGU. A terrific such a youngster (a task faced her—that mere babe in swad- clothes) of organizing a pro- dling gram, the outlining among our indus- of a policy, the se- tries, that one need curing of the serv- than not be more a ices of artists (for himself youngster which there was at to have pioneered that time no appro- in it. priation to pay), If you mount up the announcing and by elevator to the introducing of the studio of WMAQ artists as they went atop the fine new on the air, the han- home of the Chi- dling of all corres- cago Daily News, pondence. expecting to find "In short," said the boss of the sta- Miss Waller, in a tion a quick, snap- recent conversation py, up-to-the-min- with me, "it was a ute business man, one-man station you will be disap- and that one man pointed. For the was me. I had a boss of WMAQ, great many disad- the former boss of vantages to labor Amos and Andy, is under, but also there a lady. Emphati- were many advan- cally a lady. You tages. For example, are aware of that I had no precedents the moment you to follow; there clap eyes upon her. weren't any. I had Her voice is low no one to take or- and vibrant as a ders from and could fiddle string. There put upon the air are just the proper whatever program I pro- number of laughter thought best, lines about her vided I could get it. disadvantage mouth to denote an The , that there be- overgrown sense of was — ing no precedents humor and still make you fully to follow— I had to create them. And, aware that she is in a new seriously interested working field, creating pre- in the business in cedents is pretty hand. The kindly a ticklish job. twinkle in her oth- first thing erwise serious eyes "The to do obviously was enhances this first to sup- impression you get to get artists ply the entertain- ° f er Judith Waller, station manager, WMAQ, the former boss of Amos and Andy i 1 Miss ment. That meant Back£ m £Uthe Adark going to all the mu- ages—that is, back public speakers and stage in 1922 (and how very long ago that Mr. A. W. Strong, owner of the Chicago sicians and and getting them to seems to so many of us who are engaged Daily News, called up Judith Waller, people in Chicago the chance for pub- in Radio work) the vast potentialities of then in the advertising business, and come in solely on it. But they took to Radio were just beginning to be grasped; said: licity there was in broadcasting as a regular and perma- "We've taken over a Radio station it like ducks to water. Our first artist on 90) nent activity had not yet come about. and are going to broadcast programs. (Continued page —! ! — — !

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verses which we liked the moment we OUT of the clapped our eyes on 'em. We'd like to send the lady in question a check for the rhymes—not a large check, it is true, but a check nevertheless—and if she, on reading this page, will send us her cor- Hits—Quip rect name and address the check will reach her in due course. By 1NDI-GEST The Zero Hour. . . . DX Impossible.

You tune in a local station A Worthy Object KWKH, Shreveport, about 3 a.m. They For your favorite hook-up. You've got were evidently broadcasting from the this is what we call a worthy An announcer whose flair NOW town studio. They played the usual object! Lee Spiker, Route 1, Casey, Is to clutter the air sign-off recording and then the an- Iowa, sends in the two following inci- With time signals, ads and what-not. nouncer said: 'We'll dents, which actually occurred, with the pull the switch and go home.' But no one at the trasmitter announcement that he hopes to win You wait, and you wait, pulled the switch. and you wait! enough from them to subscribe for a year (The while missing a program that's " 'All right out at the transmitter?' Not to Radio Digest! Perhaps he'll be suc- good.) a sound. Then followed phonograph cessful at that. You never can tell: At last he comes to "After having the battery of my Radio That New York is your due! charged recently, I was trying to bring Could you kill him? . . . Boy! I'll say in the Henry Field Seed Company Sta- you could! tion—KFNF—but could not get them. Cash My four-year-old youngster piped up for Humor! Perhaps that is enough to show you with the following logical explanation: that 'Maybe Henry's busy now, Daddy, and /T WILL pay you to keep your can't answer. I heard him say that this ears open and your funny bone I AM A FAN was a very busy year!' oiled for action. Radio Digest "A few nights after that Buddy was I am a fan, a Radio fan. ... will pay $5.00 for the first selected playing with his ball and it rolled under A crabbed, rabid, Radio fan! the library table. He stooped down to humorous incident heard on a pick it up and gave his little head a broadcast program, $3.00 for the I like what I like, terrific against the table. at What I don't. ... I despise! bump Just second preferred amusing inci- the same moment Henry Field spoke up I rave, and I rant, dent out of the loud speaker: 'Hit him again!' and $1.00 for each amusing And I oft eulogize! Buddy straightened up at once and said incident accepted and printed. I write, and I rhyme, fiercely: 'He better not hit me again!'" I praise, and applaud; It may be something planned * + * Spoiling no one, as part of the Radio entertain- She Wanted AH that was Coming Sparing no rod! ment that tickles it I you, or may be For am a fan, a Radio fan. . . . It was little Amy's first visit to one of those little accidents that A rabid, crabbed, Radio fan! Church. After the collection had been pop up in the taken she stood up in her seat, repeating, best regulated sta- I am a fan, a Radio fan. . . . "I I tions. want to see it! , want to see it!" A monastic, enthusiastic, Radio fan! "Hush, dear," whispered her mother The only stipulation is that you a trifle fiercely, "what is it you wish to I give up society, must actually have heard the in- see?" I stick to my set: "The monkey," responded Amy. "I've cident as part of some program. "Can't miss this program, heard the organ and they've taken up the Keep your ears open for chuck- Bound to please, you can bet!" pennies. Now I want to see the monkey!" — I answer no bells . — I. les send your contribution to Maude Jones, Locke, N. Y. When a pet program's on; * * * the Indi-Gest, Radio Digest, Chi- It's my loudspeaker Why the String was Wanted cago, Illinois. It must be received My attention's upon!

For I a fan, a fan. . not later than Sept. 1, 1930. am Radio . . Mr. May of KMA, Shenandoah, Pa., A monastic, enthusiastic, Radio fan! was announcing the other night and said: "I have a letter from a customer in I am a fan, a Radio fan. . . . Broken Bow, Neb., ordering 100 pounds A diurnal, nocturnal, Radio fan! Binding Twine . . . Must be going to records and after each one the announcer mend that broken bow!" Mrs. P. H. would try to get it across to the trans- I hear all the best Miller, Pershing, Iowa. mitter that it was time to stop. Finally And some worst on the air; # # # in desperation the announcer said: 'Well, Turning a dial Hot Stuff all O. K. at the transmitter, it's time to For my ears' bill-of-fare; quit and go to bed!' I grin, and I groan, "While listening to WPEN Wednes- "Then came the reply accompanied by day evening," writes Edna Katzmar, of I laugh, and I sigh, a yawn: 'I'll say it is, I'm getting sleepy.' 217 E. Ave., Andalusia, Pa., I live a great life Edgewood I think he had a pretty good nap to start Jus',, because I— "I heard a very hot one. The announcer with. of that station said: T take great pleas- "One thing which amuses me is the I am a fan, a Radio fan. . . . ure in announcing Mr. Burns, chief of way some of the announcers " at WTAM, A diurnal, nocturnal, Radio fan! the fire department.' Cleveland, say: 'We will take you to our New York studios'; while other stations —"Niagara Nell." Slip-ups that Ruth Heard say: 'We will join the N.B.C. chain,' or 'your next program comes to you from AM sure everyone enjoys your Fill-up-my-can, the Great "I the New York studio of the National portion of the Radio Digest," writes Broadcasting company.' When WTAM Pure Food Expert Ruth Adams, 487 Rosslyn Ave., Akron, owns a New York studio will be plenty While hearing WOR, I heard the an- Ohio. "We all hear amusing things and of time to talk about it! nouncer reading the program resume. I think it is a worthwhile idea to swap "Russel B. Wise in announcing for the yarns each month. All went well until he came 'to the part Sunday afternoon concerts of the WTAM "Smiling Ed. which caused me to write this letter: McConnell was singing, Concert Orchestra always says: 'The 'I Want to "And at ten," he proceeded in that fa- Go Back to Michigan,' at next number on the Sunday Afternoon evening. " miliar, deeptoned voice, "we will have WTAM one T want to go back Pop Concert.' I want to go back, I the pleasure of listening to that fore- — want to go back Thus the individual indiosyncrasies of on the farm—Far away from harm most of pure food experts, Philip Mc- announcers as well as artists—are heard with pail Cann." Which, in itself, does not a milk on my arm'—He paused and heeded. sound here and said: 'Doggone it, I don't * # * exactly humorous, but when the an- know whether I want to or not. I was nouncer desired to give the word "pure" from Nell raised on a farm and I'll be blamed if T Nuggets Niagara a French accent or something so it want to go back and be a valet to a LADY in Niagara Falls, N. Y., who sounded like "poor," maybe you can give durned cow.' A uses "Niagara Nell" as her pen vent to laughter. Algird Truska, 196 "One evening I was listening to name, sends us the following rollicking New York avenue, Nezvark, N. J. — — : ! — ——— ! r: — — : ! : !

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To a Daily Feature of KLZ at Denver Hard on Baby! Found the following in my Radio scrap- Arriving home, the days work done, book. I don't recall the station from Music of restful tone I crave. whence it came, but it has to do with the 1 tune in stations one by one, proper care of the baby: Searching the air for pleasing wave. "When the baby gets done drinking, it should be unscrewed and placed under cold Harsh dance hall music irritates water. If the baby does not thrive on this, Instead of soothing nerves to rest: it shoidd be boiled."—Florence Haist, Box And on a tired mind it grates, 157, Lindenwold, N. J. * * * Already worried and oppressed. . . . A few days ago I heard a direct adver- I hear a deep-toned organ play tiser and seller giving his listeners the "low- Slow, quiet music; rambling on down" on his merchandise. Said he From air to air with rhythmic sway "Friends, don't buy shirts manufactured

That bids my worries all begone. in the East ; they make them so skimpy when you bend over the tail flies out and A violin, with vesper hymn, there YOU are! Ours are made near home, Gives sweet vibrating melody; and are 36 inches long. If you buy one of The organ, as a background dim, our shirts and the tail flies out, when you Plays on a gentle rhapsody. bend over, just take it off, fire it back to us, and it won't cost you a cent. We will Then a contralto, clear and low, send you one of these shirts and a pair of With violin and organ blends, overalls for only $1.95. Ethel Sopher, New Together merging in a flow Providence, Iowa. Of mellow sound that peace attends. P. S. The incident above came over the —"Box Car George." air from station KMA, Shenandoah, Iowa. * * * "Now, Dad, You Old Fool!" I zvas listening in to a ball game at Turning the Dials WMBH, Joplin, Mo., and the announcer had his baby near the mike. While waiting Hello world, how are you? for the next report he said to someone in Hogs ! ! up two points ! the studio: The next song will be a dance— "Wko is the biggest fool in the world?" Bump dc bump te da da Just at that time the baby said: "Daddy." Or what ever it is Helen Kane sings —Mrs. R. E. Sanders, Cartcrville, Mo. Come dance through the tulips with * * # me More Slip-Ups If vou need an ambulance call Bla Bla 6100 Paul Whiteman is a huge success following two stories are real, just The Jessie Enough will now sing a buuti- Say advertisements in the press; they were received from the loud speaker, as ful soprano solo And that is true, I guess,—oh boy! and the date of reception: Miss Goo Goo will tell you how to If measured just by avoirdupois! N. B. C. chain broadcast from KVOO, keep house (Signed) In-di-gest Sept. 24, 1928, Senator Borah's speech. Just The Goofy quartette will warble Senator the an- before introducing the A cottage for sale voice from the loud speaker nouncer's came I won't go home until morning What Kind of Film? in a loud whisper prohibition? !" Are you for or against We thought the following, heard over "Whew, that mike weighs a ton Yes!! CFRB last Tuesday by the Melody Boys, Time, January, 1930. Jimmy Wilson and Bed Time Story was very good his Catfish String Band broadcasting from Lon Rhea Sheldon, 1809 E. Seventy-Third : Say, Art, did you know that Amos the banks of old Polecat Creek, by remote St., Kansas City, Mo. 'n' Andy are going to make a film ? control through KVOO. Art : They can't do that Jimmy had been telling us what a fine Lon: Why Not? night it was to fish from the banks of Art : Because Pepsodent removes the Old Pole Cat Creek, while we were wrapped A Quite Impossible She film.—Mrs. J. Feather, R. R. No. 4, Gait, in an army blanket sitting by the stove Out., Canada. I loved Miss Anastacia Brown trying to keep from freezing ^e :jc % more than I could tell her. As his parting words told us we would A whole let in all the town, "now be transferred to the studio at I surely thought, What! Affectionate Pies? She loved me more than any feller. Tulsa," the operator didn't respond imme- EARL MAY of KMA, Shenandoah, la see her every night diately and Jimmy's voice came hurtling I went to told of a pie made mainly of goo ana the porch, screened in from out of the loud speaker, And on crust. I believe he called them Goo-Goo "Hell, why don't some of you guys stir sight, pies. One of his pupils in country school I told her many a tender thing up the fire. I'm half froze to death!" said: "No, Mr. May, they's not Goo-Goo hinted at a diamond ring. A. C. Arnold, R. 4, North Topeka, Kan. And pies, they's Affectionate pies." % sfc ifc "Affectionate pies," asks Mr. May. "What her candy, pound on pound, All for the Lack of a Little Punctuation I took do you mean?" I sent around And every week "Well, the top crust hugs the bottom While listening to KYFR, Bismarck, N. the florist shop Some flowers from crust."—Miss Frances E. Cherry, 605 Lo- D., I heard the following: But now, by gosh, that's goin* to stop! advertising the pos- gan street, Wayne, Neb. The announcer was I hired a car and took her out sibilities Radio, pause. "Send of without Through all the country round about, for your free copy of our booklet" Rich And every restaurant thrived upon A Long Time to Wait Rewards in Radio "sent free to you without My pocketbook. But now that's done. While listening to one of the now-defunct any obligation to us or you, "Some Day You O-Cedar programs on a Sunday evening Will Be Sorry" a Victor recording.—E. G. She said she loved the radio over the Columbia Broadcasting System, Surguy, 112 Cathedral avenue E, St. Johns, To cheer her lonely hours and so the announcer, Gates Porter, said Winnipeg, Canada. I plunked down all my ready cash "As our next number, our tenor, Mr. I " To buy her one . . . and WAS rash? Jackson, will sing 'A Year from Today.' Seattle, has a morning program KOMO, I'll say I was, I wish I had —Alan E. Smith, 1639 Girard Ave., Phila- begins with part of "The Rustle of which My money back again, bedad! delphia, Pa. Spring," played by Miss Mary Spear, staff If once again I get some means * * * recently, Stan accompanist. One morning I'll keep 'em right here in my jeans! Mary and Her Lamb and Other Things Spiegle, genial announcer, must have been

Alary had a little lamb . . . feeling too gay to stay within the prescribed She always was so sweet to me! You've heard this tale before. bounds. At the close of the preceding pro- We never dealt in foolish fusses. But did you know she passed her plate gram he said, "Alright, Mary, you rustle Oh awful femininity, And had a little more? and I'll spring." A dead silence for one All women are ungrateful cusses! And that she ate some pumpkin pie, startled second, then the piano started, and They're all alike—oh hear my moans! Onions and apple sauce? . . . Stan turned to the microphone with a Cantankerous and wild and funny. . . . Mary fears she's going to die chuckle and took the listening world into That dern girl's married Ezry Jones, Now killed that And wonders what's the cause his confidence ; "I nearly got for A stingy chap that saved his money. one!" Miss Mary E. Hosken, Alderwood —Quarrier Bickers, 615 Jefferson Ave. /. E. Steever, South Shorre Arms Hotel, Manor, Washington. % Pitman, Niagara Falls, N. Y. Chicago. ——

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Now We'll Tell One! n' Andy" there must be some humor in it. As upon several new elements. Why not have a contest for the most unpop- for their darky dialect I think, since Amos was In the past, music, from an entertainment ular station in the country? For every one sub- born in Richmond, Va., he would have some standpoint, has been considered as the only ele- scriber lost you would gain nine more. slight idea of darky talk, much more than one ment which, divorced from sight, could be suc- "The Radio Broadcast" conducted one three living in the rarified air of "cultured" Chicago. cessfully used. years ago. Go to itl And you will have the Perhaps if their talk were punctuated with a Since the advent of Radio, with its rapid strides hottest contest you have ever had. And it will few automatics or machine guns, Lucy would feel toward universal use, an attempt is being made be fair, too, because no station will be broadcast- more at home and could even smile a few. to introduce a variety of "talkie" programs, and ing for votes; neither will they collect coupons. Here's to "Amos n' Andy," the dearest and here we arrive at the point where constructive —-"Humpty Dumpty." most entertaining couple on the air! —Mis. C. A. criticism begins. * * * Carenbauer, Elm Grove, W. Va. Because of the fact that nearly all Radio recep- We've Got "It" * * * tion is at the home and in an average small Just finished reading my first "Radio Digest," Ballyhoo Broadcasting room, it becomes essential that the person speak- and talk about a good magazine, it has got "It." Through the loud speaker we hear a great deal ing before the microphone shall have a clear con- I've read lots of Radio magazines but "Radio these days regarding the chain store menace. ception of the environment which surrounds his Digest" has 'em all beat. listeners. The writer personally is opposed to the meth- The pictures and the writeups of the Radio If he were present doubt if he would indulge ods of the chain stores and realizes that if they we stars are just what I've been trying to find in continue to expand, ultimately the independent in loud and boisterous language. He would modu- article late his voice. If realize a magazine. I've read every and enjoyed dealer will either have to do likewise or close out he would that it is by it. the sense of alone that his everything in and possibly some day will be working for the hearing listeners are I hope in the future you will publish some of chain. being entertained, he would seldom, if ever, re- talks; rather listen sort to mimicry, is so largely Floyd Gibbons' I'd to him There will always be opportunities for the inde- which dependent than anyone on the air. "Believe It or Not." I pendent merchant to go into the chain store busi- upon synchronizing sight and hearing for its bet he would be great broadcasting a football success. ness, or if he prefers he can at any time buy If he could fully realize impossible it game or a boxing match. stock in practically any of the large chain store how I think "The Voice of the Listener" column is seems to be for the average operator of the re- companies, if he thinks it a good investment. great. I'd like to become a member. I can't ceiving set to regulate the volume of tone, There is no doubt but what the chain stores he would very particular his wait for the next issue of Radio Digest. Wishing have put many independent merchants out of be that enunciation and articulation clear, your magazine lots of luck. —Joe Dzilsky, Bay- business through their unscrupulous methods, but was his speech natural as in town, Texas. given exclusive ordinary conversation, thereby making it easy * as yet they have not been an * * and pleasant for the listener to hear and under- franchise to do business where they see fit to Billie stand all that is said. Write to WIL, locate. reader of your Radio In all dialogue the parties I'm a regular magazine There seem to be some broadcasting stations in before the micro- phone and like it the best of all magazines and I just this country that have been granted that exclu- must remember that each is a principal can't wait until I get the next one as it is that all continuity is destroyed when the up siveness. In this Middle West we are all very words to the minute with news. I am a Radio fan of one of them cannot be understood. It is espe- familiar with WNAX at Yankton, S. D. ; KMA would love to get of Radio stars' cially important that all words of foreign origin and some WIL at Shenandoah, la.; KFNF at Shenandoah, la.; pictures, one like that popular singer Bobby or in dialect shall be uttered very slowly WAAW at Omaha, Neb.,, and KMMJ at Clay and I very Stubbs, Jack Coleman or Billy Lang. would Center, Neb. clearly; otherwise the listener is confused be more than glad to read or to get their pic- and often loses the very essence of the subject Strange to say, the first three stations named tures and more friends would too. I would matter. many were in the seed and nursery business before appreciate very if it would be possible.— Too of the much they established their broadcasting stations. Now many "actors" before the micro- Miss Billie Lutz, St. Louis, Mo. those are just seasonable items. phone seem to be chosen because of their past * * * experience on the stage where They sell automobile tires, tubes, wearing ap- costume, move- One More Vote ment and setting play a Floyd Draws parel, dried fruits, canned goods, coffee, paint more important part overlooked article in "Advance Somehow I an and many other items. than the spoken word, but on the Radio all ex- Tips" about Floyd Gibbons in your April issue. traneous assistance is eliminated. Does the listener ever investigate with his The audience I thought I had read every item in the maga- is entertained (or home merchant before wiring his order? The otherwise) through its ability zine, but I missed it. Yes, indeed, do try and to hear and understand. people that wire their orders are those who like The continuity must persuade Mr. Gibbons to write for the Radio never break, and the "actor" to hear their name mentioned over the air when must forever forget Digest, as he surely is a "superman." But don't stage stuff, applying all his efforts at entertain- the order is acknowledged. off till tomorrow what can be done today or ment to plain put Our population being so much greater than good spoken words. someone else will get ahead of you. Simply to during P. T. Barnum's time, his theory of a fool It is seldom admissible, and far from entertain- advertise the fact that he is going to write every ing, for the being born every minute would be too slow for announcer to indulge in extempo- month will increase the sales of the R. D. many today. raneous remarks during the performance. Such times. That's the reason why I took the maga- Being forced to listen to their programs while an act would not be allowed in the theater or zine just to get acquainted with that wonderful concert in restaurants and hotels, I have wished they hall. speciman of manhood. What a voice! It com- would start selling meals over the air. The sponsor's advertising, to be effective, should mands the attention of old and young—it is WHO at Des Moines, which the large majority be concise, informative and spoken in gracious thrilling. Mostly all other voices seem flat—no considered the best station in this Middle West words. —Chas. E. Carter, 318 Cal-Wayne Bldg., magnetism. His voice is like a tonic. When you and one we could always listen to without inter- Fort Wayne, Ind. feel weary and listen in, it braces you up. I * * * ference, was forced by the federal Radio commis- am afraid, though, you will be too late, judging sion to divide time with WOC at Davenport. Announcers Should Be Careful from his talks, he is longing to fly off into They were put on a wave band making it im- Last evening, about 9 p. m., I had a station God's pure outdoor life, into the hills and the possible for us to receive their program after with call letters KU-KU at about 310 meters. dales, the lakes and the rivers are calling him night, and WNAX at Yankton, S. D., "the direct They announced several times very plainly, but and he will respond before long. He must be selling station," enjoys their former wave length. did not state where located, and I have not been tired, but no one knows it from his merry chatter. When Station KGDY at Oldham, S. D., which able to locate these call letters in any late list of Do the best you can. If we can look forward is being moved to Huron, S. D., asked for an call letters. I would like to know if there is such to an article in the fall issue, that will keep our increase of from IS to 109 watts, the federal a station and where located.—Joseph A. Miller, courage up. He is my favorite on the Radio, and Radio commission granted it, but advised that Box 15, Cedar Falls, Iowa. hundreds in town here share my opinion. Jessie * * * — South Dakota was using its allotment, as though R. Horton. * * * the 1,000- watt WNAX at Yankton is of any All Right, Send Us Some Good Pictures benefit to the people within the state. One More Vote for Rudy Your magazine is very interesting and I enjoy The retail merchants' associations and the job- it, I saw an article in the Radio Digest in regard but I have a grouch which I would like to air. bers of Iowa, Nebraska and South Dakota have to Rudy Vallee and Will Osborne. Why can we not have pictures and dope on shown a weakness by not protesting this exclu- I never fail to listen to Rudy Vallee when he announcers and staff of the Eastern stations? If over the air. broadcasts and have also heard Will Osborne. sive privilege of direct selling you will notice you will see that there is scarcely This also applies to such associations and job- anything Although there is some similarity in the two, about our Boston stations or even bers anywhere in the United States of America the stations. It the Rudy is the best; his voice is much nicer and New York seems to me where this condition exists. I like his orchestra the best. pictures are all of Western and Middle Western * * # Anyone who has heard the two broadcast very stations. I would like to see and know things much would never mistake Will Osborne for Observations of Radio Listener about the staff at WEEI, WNAC, WBZ, WGY, Rudy Vallee. There is only one Rudy and there It appears that the sponsors of nearly all Radio WEAF, WJZ, WABC and WHAP. never will be one to equal him. programs delegate to a master of ceremonies the Another grievance: I am interested in Amos He has the most restful voice and the sweetest arrangement of the features composing the items and Andy, but I certainly do not see why we tone I have ever heard over Radio. His pro- for broadcast, and they frequently invite the lis- have to see the same pictures and the same grams are the very best on the air. tener to write signifying whether he is pleased material on them over and over. Every month is I have seen his two talking pictures, "The with their efforts to entertain. I think, "Surely this the last article they can Vagabond Lover" and "Campus Sweethearts," It no doubt often happens that the appropria- possibly use" and every month I am disap- and I think he is marvelous. —Mrs. Verna Geidi- tion made by the sponsor is a serious handicap pointed. I can't see why you do it unless the man, 1109 X. 7th St., Niles, Mich. to the success of the endeavor. During the first Pedsodent people make it very agreeable to you. * * # years of Radio broadcasting, music—both instru- A. and A. are so famous by now that we cannot Shades of highbrow aristocracy! What was mental and vocal—was the principal factor. To- pick up a magazine or paper without seeing Lucy Barrett doing in such an audience of old day we appear to be entering upon a new epoch, some reference to them. Honestly, I do think fogies and people who had not sense enough to and the spoken word is fast becoming an impor- you are overdoing the thing and making us all with our favorite Radio magazine. appreciate real humor 1 tant part of the programs, and it seems that tl.-j lose patience Seems to me that as there are millions of both real success or failure of the art of Radio enter- Frances R. Upton, Flying Loon Lake, Chesham, old and young fogies who deeply enjoy "Amos tainment by method of speech will depend largely N. H.

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A Few Constructive Suggestions I have checked up other Radio owners in my Mr. "Bill" Hay, "the man behind the guns," at Having been a Radio fan for several years, and neighborhood and they all tell me the same thing. WMAQ.—H. L. Mohler, Gary, Indiana. one who is a reader of your most valuable and Even "a chain hook-up" by the NBC or the CBS * * * entertaining Radio magazine, I want to say I will not come in at this time. Anything that can Chicago Stations and Artists Overlooked greatly appreciate efforts in trying your to give be done would certainly be appreciated by the Having read so many eulogies to the various fan what he in field of the Radio wants the Radio Radio owners in this section.—E. A. Shore, Bluffs, stations and announcers I am rather surprised through the of the Digest. If news medium sug- Illinois. that so little is said for the Chicago announcers * * * gestions are not out of order, may I suggest the by Chicago people. for the and following good benefit of the Digest Is Lucy a Negress? For a year and a half WGN served our family and its readers, for a still better Digest, etc.: The writer was amused at the letter from Lucy fully 95 per cent of the time. We rarely used any us of independent stations, and Give more news Barrett, Chicago, published in your April num- other station. For sports and the like all the less of chains. I believe the independent station ber, concerning Amos 'n' Andy. I lived for a kings of NBC and CBS rolled into one can't hold has a greater majority of boosters and enthusi- considerable time in Georgia and have traveled a candle to our own Quin Ryan. He has more chains. asts than the nearly all the Southern states quite extensively pep in three words than these others have in a of activities of Publish news the the Radio and do not believe the criticism of the dialect whole mouthful. Pat Barnes is certainly there commission, when important changes are to and Amos 'n' Andy use is justified. I am curious to with his specialties also. For readings, speak- at stations. be made the know whether Lucy Barrett is a negress and ing generally and vocal selections there is no one Stop so much fiction, and give more space to therefore has a right to claim a better knowledge on the air that can beat John Stamford, and so, Radio. should publish Radio exclusively. You of their dialect than the many thousands of since John has gone to WCHI, why the time is of the stations which broad- Give us more news people throughout the United States who are much reversed. When WCHI is on the air this cast "sacred programs." "old fogies" enough to enjoy Amos 'n' Andy. family is with it 100 per cent. The balance of Why net have a contest on chain and independ- H. E. Simcoe, Syracuse, N. Y. the time is divided between all the other stations ent stations', to see which is the most popular * * * instead of given to WGN alone.—F. M. Baron. and more beneficial? * * * Best and Cleanest Humor To the NBC and CBS Broadcasting Companies: I wish to compliment your magazine. The Six Pages Too Much May I say in behalf of thousands of listeners, articles you printed about Amos 'n' Andy were . . . You have given six pages to Amos 'n' yes, millions, and for the good of our great coun- very good. I hope you continue printing these Andy (you may be paid for advertising them) try, why not stop commercializing the Sabbath articles in the coming issues. and about twenty pages to fiction, cut them Day with your commercial programs, at least Lucy Barrett says only people who haven't the short and give us good articles about some of part of them? This is 1 called a "Christian coun- sense to appreciate real humor listen to Amos the real worth while folk, such as Phillipps H. try." May I also say to Elsie Robinson, who 'n' Andy. Surely she hasn't much sense to ap- Lord, Cheerio and even Ernie Hare and Billy wrote the article, "Where Do We Go Now?" in preciate real humor if she does not like Amos Jones. the March Radio Digest, this would dumbfound 'n' Andy. I and the majority of the people Poor Amos 'n' Andy will have to retire after any broad-minded person. She needs to read the think it is the best and the cleanest humor ever the awful scald Lucy Barrett, of Chicago, gave "Book of Books" (the Bible) and abide by its heard over the Radio. So keep printing these them but you must know that everyone does teaching. Franklin Day, Sergent, Ky. — articles. not like their kind of entertainment. We sure * * * —(Miss) Leota Mitchler, St. Louis, Mo. * * * are fed up on it after Jan., Feb., Mch. and April A Coon-Sanders Ctub Recruit and now more in May.—E. F. Cooley, Man- Thought They Were Negroes , There was a letter in the March issue of Radio chester, Iowa. In reading the April number of the Radio * Digest asking for information about a Coon-Sand- * * Digest, today, I noticed the comment on Amos ers' club. There is one, or rather a program in Lucy Is "All Wet" 'n' Andy by Lucy Barrett, Chicago, which I which they are featured. The program comes on I hope you will tell Lucy Barrett what I think think is an unjust criticism. I am living in N. C, night at 12 o'clock sharp and lasts of her as a critic. She labels Amos 'n' Andy as every Saturday right in the heart of negroes of all types and until 2:15, or sometimes later. I agree with not even "rank" entertainers. If this is correct, maybe it was only since I read the Radio Digest for that letter-writer about Coon-Sanders' orchestra. I wonder just what and who she would consider March that I was enlightened as to their color. Commerce, Texas. good entertainment. —Claudene Arnold, I had listened in week after week and thought * * * I take it that this person is either an enter- they were negroes, so I think I am a right fair tainer herself and therefore jealous, or an "old All Fed-Up on Vallee judge of negro dialect, and to be truthful, I was maid" who just can't see the funny side of any- Many thanks for not having pictures of Rudy disappointed when I found out they are white, thing. If she proves not to be an "old maid," Vallee in last issue, it was a relief to get a although all the time I had a feeling they were but a young girl instead, she certainly must be magazine and not see his face all over it. I be- too clever for negroes, of course, meaning Amos a "wet blanket." lieve we are all getting fed up on Rudy's playing 'n' Andy. It is wonderful the way Amos can Now Amos 'n' Andy mean absolutely nothing and that everlasting sweet sugar coated singing. change his voice, and many an evening I have a but entertainment to me. But I surely enjoy He has no voice and he can't play saxophone any hearty laugh, as I can picture the situation by them immensely and so do most other people better than lots of others. He is just a conceited placing some of these negroes I see around me of this community. boob. He is most disgusting, ugliest snob in day by day in the situation of Amos 'n' Andy. Also, I'm no kid and not know what I like New York. Let's have more about the two best —Marion Bodey, Charlotte, N. C. * * * and don't like.—Russel Brown, Lake Como, N. J. orchestras on the air, Coon-Sanders' Night Hawks * * * and Vincent Lopez. They are really artists, and Not Sporting of WLS An Unusual Request. how they can play. I enjoyed both interviews WENR is absolutely the best station in the This is an unusual request that I am making this last month with both of these artists. Bet world, and I believe they have got enough friends and I hope that it is not too unusual. lots of fans agree with in regard to Rudy or to make them win the contest. I wish the Federal me I should like to exchange radio logs with any they would if they ever saw him. Don't let his Radio Commission would give WLS a new channel owner of a R. C. A. Radiola 33—1930 model—the ugly face get in your wonderful book only when and let WENR have full time on the air. I don't numbers on the dial running from to 100. I you have to. Best luck all of you. Mrs. think WLS is acting very sportsmanlike in com- to — John- have several unusual stations and, of course, plaining about a "reduced schedule" all the time, son, Jacksonville, Fla. many common ones. * * • they still have the most time on the air.—Mildred I am hoping that someone up North will wish Pulliam, Sheridan, Ind. Please give picture to us a write-up and of Ed- * * * do this.—Virginia Roberts, 2218 Leon St., ward Thorgson, as millions love his big cheery Austin, Texas. You'll Have to Blame the Mails » » * voice with a punch to it. Also John S. Young received March Digest yesterday with an he is fine. Also Thomas Green, Jr. We get so I my What My Radio Set Means to Me clear across the beautiful cover, as much thrill out of Eastern announcer's voices ugly crack My Radio set keeps me ever conscious of the before. can't you mail flat? over the NBC. If the General Electric gave us I wrote Why them Almighty God in the universe. Its inspiring and fold them for mailing, fold the back some old time music and songs they would be If you must instructive programs separate all evil from my inside, then I think there would be curve much better liked out West. Radio Digest is the cover thoughts of man and make me see him as a per- enough to the front cover so it wouldn't crack. finest Radio book on the market.—Jennie Whit- fect being who comes to share his greatest tal- pages of caricatures by Cugat field, Fontana, Calif. I think those two ents, his holiest treasures. Digest. is all the * * * are a disgrace to Radio That It keeps my mental home a happy place, con- fault I can find with it. I do enjoy it so much. tent with learning, intense WLAC Interferes at Bluffs, Illinois with interest, har- The Paris girl on the March cover can't compare monious with I would like to call your attention to station song. with our beautiful American girls on the other WLAC, Nashville, Tenn. Almost every evening, It sends no message into the world that will covers.—Grace M. Smith, Linden, N. Y. not help, or cheer, or bless. from six o'clock to six-thirty, p. m., C. S. T., * * * some minister from the Central Church of Christ It has no aim but to make earth a fairer and Broadcasts Blizzard place in Nashville, with a voice on him like "Andy," WLS better to live. Denver, Colo., may bring in the rain, as Radio set makes rise puts on what he calls, "A Twilight Service." KOA, My me each day into a I noticed in a Chicago paper, but WLS brought higher sense of life. Iva Cannon, 161 And I checked him up from March 3 to March 8, — Ransom and whistle of the blizzard they had inclusive, and he put this service on without an in the howl Ave., Lexington, Ky. Chicago Dec. 19 or 20, 1929, in perfect order, » * * announcement or, in other words, telling his sta- in it was proved that it was nothing from the tion or giving the call letters. As I understand and Another Vote for Amos and Andy station.—Mrs. C. L. Walton, Winston-Salem, N. C. this, it is hook-up with and I can't understand your giving special center a WSM, on the * * * 8th of March, when he "signed off," he forgot space to anyone that doesn't like Amos 'n' Earlier to tell us who he was or to give his call letters. Wants Them on Andy. I wouldn't miss them for anything. One enclosing nomination blank for Amos night out And I doubt it very much if he is staying within I am a tube burned on our set five minutes enjoy this program and his 1490 kilocycles, for, when he comes on the 'n' Andy. The children before time for them. I ran four blocks to a late for them to stay up while air at six oclock, p. m., he certainly puts every 10:30 is rather friend's house to hear them. other station out of commission on my set from going to school. Another reason is that warmer That's what I think of them. Anyone that driving in the 10 to 45 on my dial. I am not bothered at any weather is coming, and going out doesn't like them is an old fogy without any other time—only from six o'clock until 6:30 p. m. evening it is rather early to get back home. I sense of real humor. As for them imitating nig- The following stations are put out of commission have talked to a number of people about this and gers, I am from the South. If I didn't know at this time: KTBS, WCBS, WCKY, WFMB, they would also like to have this program broad- but what they were white I would not know any WHK, WIBW, WJJD, WJKS, WKBS, WKBW, cast at 6 o'clock. If you think it would have any difference. If they weren't good, how come the WMBD, WOWO, WREN, WRVA, WTAD, influence with the Pepsodent Company, I could niggers like them so well? WTAM, WTNT, KFKB and WPG. Now this get a letter signed by a number of people, ask- Lucy Barrett from Chicago, you've got lots to does not seem exactly fair to me, as there are ing them if it would be possible to arrange this learn! Please put this in "Voice of Listeners." nineteen stations that it is impossible to get as broadcast. I am sending a copy of this letter to The Radio Digest is a wonderful magazine. I long as this bird is on the air from 6 to 6:30 p. m. Mr. Homer Hogan, manager-director KYW, and wouldn't miss it for anything!—Dixie Lee. 62

EAST Here Comes

the Parade of the stations

tion as a whole is unaware of certain to prestige and advantages peculiar to the SALUTES to the Cities! .... several American cities, Westinghouse What a wealth of historical, indus- inaugurated the salute idea to make trial, civic and artistic beauty is con- America conscious of the component tained in those words which, in the Radio parts of this vast commercial empire. world, have become very familiar these Music was chosen as the medium for a last few weeks! The idea of having a very obvious and sound reason: music series of special programs to eulogize will do more to heighten the dramatic quality of than mere the various cities of the country—each each broadcast any program containing the music, the color, dull recital of statistical facts could do. almost the atmosphere ot the particular city being saluted on that day, could be possible only in a Radio age. And the idea is so huge—so country- wide and international in its scope that Westinghouse only an organization of the size of

Westinghouse could put it over with the . proper finesse. The group of men Salutes mainly responsible for putting on the Salutes to the Cities is shown herewith. Tentative Schedule The first of the city salutes was that to Chicago, which was broadcast on June 10 Chicago 10 over NBC; and since then, every June Tuesday at 8 p. m., there has been a June 17 Atlanta similar salute to some one of America's June 24 Brick and Clay leading cities. Musical scores and inter- esting vocal descriptions are used to in- July 1 St. Louis Miss Hall Kane Clements, shown terpret to the American Radio public July 8 Philadelphia here, is an aviatrix of parts the spirit, the "tone" of each city's flour- who July 15 Cotton conducts the ishing industry, commerce and culture. Women's Aviation Hour every Atlanta was the second city to come in July 22 Pittsburgh Saturday at 5 p. m., EST, over Station WABC, New for a salute from the American public. July 29 Boston A schedule of several succeeding weekly York City, and CBS. Aug. 5. .Grain Milling Industry salutes is printed with this article. The Salutes to the Cities is the second August 12 Cincinnati series of salutes which Westinghouse August 19 Baltimore has broadcast, the first being the "Salutes to the Industries" completed August 26 Radio Dealers recently. Sept. 2.. Minneapolis & St. Paul By Mrs. Clayton Abbott Lane They are a unique and distinctive crea- September 9 New York tion in the way of public entertainment, WHAT a lot of indignation Lucy Bar- these salutes. Realizing that the na- .rett has stirred up! Tsk, tsk, tsk!!! And how indignant do the Amos and This is the staff of Andy fans wax!! And all because one Radio and musical person expresses her individuality in print. technicians who Queer world, eh what? and "it takes have arranged the all kinds!" nationwide salute Just where would Radio be this very day if all liked to the cities the we the same type of pro- special programs gram? What a rut it would be in! Those who fan one particular program can't showing forth the seem to understand another's antipathy contribution of the for that same program. cities to America's Personally, I join the Lucy Barrett industrial empire tanks for not liking Amos and Andy . . . in vivid musical but my reason is far different, from hers. and descriptive The tone quality of the one who speaks in programs. Left to the high voice is very distasteful to me . . . right: Front row, so much so that I can't enjoy the pro- Victor, Saudek, T. gram because of it. Therefore, I never J. Vastine, Zeel tune them in, even though their conti- Parenteau, orches- nuity is ever so good. tra directors. And, really, it's ever so amusing. Standing: Mark When in conversations, the Amos and Chisholm, W. J. Andy topic arises, and one admits no Williams, Freder- liking for the program, one is imme- ick G. Rodgers, diately gazed upon as the greatest curi- Louis L. Kauffman, osity and oddity of the human race! What program directors a kick I get out of those expressions and announcers. (while the donors of such would like to in RADIO DIGEST 63 PIONEERS... AND STILL LEADING

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Gl, RADIO DIGEST give me a real kick, most likely.) Lady—Oh, I thought you would have all My own favorite light program is the the music here. Nit-Wits. They are, in my opinion, the Announcer—And I thought that roll un- cleverest feature on the air today. And der your arm was your music. Lady No, that's an x-ray of my stom- right there . . . what a difference there — is between clever and funny! Clever- ach. I can scarcely eat anything except ness isn't always funny! Announcer— I wonder if you couldn't come tomorrow and bring your music. I know several who simply cannot stand the Nit-Wits. They are just a Lady— I think I can. Announcer pain in the neck to those listeners. And — Yes, do, and bring Mr. Woods with you, too. yet ... I can't condemn their sense of Lady That would be lovely. And I might humor just because it doesn't coincide — with my own. go to Los Angeles in about a month. I wonder if you would give me a letter to the But to get back to Amos and Andy. stations down there? Why don't Dennis Jones and Winifred Announcer You bet I will. I'll have my Binder and the rest of the black-face — stenographer make up a nice little packet of fans take into consideration the wide di- letters for you, one for each station. versity of humanity and its variety of Lady Thank you so much. It's been aw- personality? Instead of condemning — fully nice to have met you. Good-bye until those opposed to their particular point tomorrow. of view, let the opposition voice its opin- Announcer Good-bye. ion, without personal retaliation on their — (Faints.) part. It's still more or less of a free country, . . . freedom of speech having been one of the foundations of our na- tional constitution, Lucy is entitled to voice her disapproval of Amos and Andy Fred Fitzgerald, 413 50th street, the with the same vehemence which Brooklyn, N. Y., is a special singer and A. & A. fans voice their approval. manager of Fitzgerald's Entertainment Bureau. Incidentally he does a good deal of broadcasting over independent Gladys Beck Station Everybody Broadcasts of WCAO, stations — WWRL, Woodside, Long Baltimore, despite blindness, her Island; WLTH, Brooklyn, and others. is a pianist of more than ordinary By Alvin C. Wise ability. She is shown here with Announcer Jack Hix. FOR YEARS Willard S. Wilson dreamed that some day he would be the owner of a broadcasting station. Watch the This was prior to 1920, the year his By Monroe R. Upton dream came true. That year he opened* Contests the first studio of Station WDEL, in ANNOUNCER—Good morning. Did you Are following Wilmington, Delaware, in his home. It you the Radio come for the auditions ? not an auspicious opening, but Digest contests? was Lady—No, sir. I came for the tryouts. at a time when Radio was making There are always two or three came Announcer—May I have your name? great forward strides. Lady—Mrs. Woods. going at the same time. If you will look through the pages For ten years Mr. Wilson has gath- Announcer—First name? of the maga- pick of the city's tal- zine each month you will find ered together the Lady—I was married to a Mr. Stone, but valuable information ent and placed it on the air. As each he neglected me terribly and which will rewarded; enable you— if you have any lean- year has passed, he has been Announcer—No, I mean your given name. ings that way to win prize though, frequently, it was in a small Lady—You want my given name? — a or to boost your favorite artist, program way. Only one month ago, he was able Announcer—If you don't mind. I'm col- of the station's or annourtcer. The Diamond Meri- to announce the opening lecting them and when I get two thousand tum Award contest is a case in new studios, where each day broadcast I win a solid nickel dessert bowl and a point. Read about it on page 3. programs of eight to eleven hours are round trip ticket to Weed, California. sent out on the ether waves. Lady—Ha, ha, ha, ha ! I know who you Every employe of WDEL is not only are ! I can't think of your name just now, an employe in the ordinary sense of the but my cousin Charles, he's kind of queer, word, but also is capable of taking his you know, he thinks you're just awful funny or her turn before the "mike." The on the Radio. I don't have much time my- Western Pennsylvania Coverage same can be said for Mr. Wilson. If an self, but he listens to you all the time. entertainer is not at the studio to go on I always say appointed time, Mr. Wil- the air at the Announcer—Could I have your name now son, even though he might be busy an- and we'll have a little chat later. telephone call, can politely swering a Lady—Alice is my first name. will the excuse himself. Soon you hear Announcer I see. And what do you do, KQV — announcer saying, "This is a program Alice? Pittsburgh of popular and classical numbers played Lady—I'm not doing anything just now. the piano by Willard S. 1380 K.C., 217.3 M. for you on Things is awful slow. I had a little work Wilson, president and manager of last week but Associated with WDEL." Announcer—No, I mean in a musical way. The personnel of the station includes: Lady—Oh, I sing. Radio Quality Group Miss Alyce Nichols, program director, Announcer—What will you sing? who is also an accomplished musician Lady—Soprano. Equipment:—Western Electric and serves as accompanist lor many of Announcer—No, I mean what number? Transmitter. Crystal Control Full the station's artists; Sanford Guyer, Lady—Nobody gave me any number. Modulation. chief announcer, who is the two-time Announcer—What selection ? Programs: —Most popular artists, winner of the Atwater Kent Audition Lady—There are two things that I do with most prominent local and en- for Delaware and possesses a rich bari- rather well. "Rock of Ages" I do awfully tertaining orchestras. Outstanding tone voice; Miss Elizabeth Wooley, sec- I sing well. Then, for something modern musicians and musical ' organiza- retary, who is a soprano soloist. She "My Blue Heaven." tions. Special program during the and Miss Nichols do a "turn" for the Announcer— I see. Then you sing "My daytime for "Spot" announce- Radio fans. Blue Heaven." ments. Harry Hickman, one of the remote chorus. that Lady— I only know the Is Transcriptions:—Equipped to handle control announcers, although only 22 all right? is there somebody here to And either 33 J^ or 78 RPM Electrical old. is the author of several years short play for me? Transcriptions. plays. He with other employes present Announcer—Yes, we have an accompanist. dramatic sketches either listed on the Lady— I wonder if she would know if I Rates regular program or to "just fill in." And sing it in three-or four flats. I've forgotten. Send for Our besides, there is a regular staff of enter- Oh, I'm so nervous. tainers. Announcer—Our accompanist is very com- KQV The entire force works unselfishly to petent. Don't worry. Let me have your Investment Building, Pittsburgh, Pa. build up the prestige of WDEL. music. —

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By Charley Stookey, Farm Program Director

"TTELLO, is this WLS? Hold the wire, please, J.-L Peoria calling. Go ahead!" "Hello, WLS? This is Wilfred Shaw of the Illinois Milk Producers Association at Peoria. Say, we're snowed in down here and there's only about half enough milk on hand to go around in Peoria tomorrow morning. This blizzard has blocked all roads around here. Will you broadcast to farmers in this vicinity the necessity to get out and open the roads and do their best to get their milk in?" — "Sure we will," came the reply from WLS "let us know if we can help further." Within an hour the message had been broadcast twice. Then WLS settled down to its regular program. Next day another call came from Peoria saying the broadcast had turned the trick and saved Peoria babies from facing a milk famine. This incident is only one of scores which could be cited to illustrate that WLS, the Prairie Farmer station at Chi- cago, is truly the "Voice of Agriculture," and a Radio station of service—the word service being interpreted as meaning "the performance of labor for the benefit of others." Not all of the day's schedule of broadcasting is devoted strictly to service features. Not by a long shot. There's entertainment galore put on by a wide variety of enter- tainers; but throughout the business day farm commodity markets, weather reports and news flashes fill important places, andthere's no program of the day or night which cannot be interrupted in case of emergency, like that of the milk shortage at Peoria. Somewhere out in the country a man with forty head

NUSUAL as these sectional towers u of the new transmitter, which has reached New Zealand and other remote points many times, is WHK's service to sponsor and listener efficient, effective, thorough, far-reaching

You're invited to join it, either

as sponsor or listener, by the Radio Air Service Corp, STANDARD BANK BUILDING CLEVELAND The commercial program director of Station WOW, Omaha, Neb., is Miss Marie Kieny. Appearances are deceptive. One would not suppose that such a young lady would hold so responsible a position. 66 RADIO DIGEST

hay, probably saving several hundred dollars on the crop. The summer of 1939 saw the fruit growers of Southern Illinois facing the problem of marketing the largest peach Blanketing crop in the history of the state—some 4,000 carloads. The Illinois Fruit Grow- ers' Exchange had built a number of roadside markets throughout the state, Indiana about half of them in the Chicago met- ropolitan area, through which they Central Southern hoped to sell a large quantity direct to and consumers. "We'll help you," said WLS to Harry Day, secretary of the exchange. And Illinois the second week in August was desig- nated as "Peach Week" at WLS. On Western each program mention was made of the peach crop and the location of the road- side stands. At the conclusion of the season the Kentucky Illinois Fruit Growers' Exchange re- ported the most successful marketing season of their history, with better prices By the Use of for the crop than ever before in a heavy crop year. "WLS contributed a large part to the success of our marketing venture," said Secretary Day. Here is Richard Bennett, stage star Other farm organizations have come Radio Stations of international repute, who has to WLS with their problems and WLS taken an important part inaugurat- has helped solve them. In January, 1929, ing a series of "important person- a dispute between Chicago milk dis- ages" programs over the 500 WATTS 1400 KC WCHI, tributors and producers in the Chicago Illinois Athletic. Club sta- Women's milk shed precipitated a strike which tion, Chicago. This program is threatened to cut off Chicago's milk scheduled each Thurs- for 11:30 supply. Through WLS, the Pure Milk day evening. WKBF association, the producer's organiza- INDIANAPOLIS tion, information was broadcast hourly Indianapolis Broadcasting, Inc. of hog's ready for market is anxiously concerning the progress being made in difficulties. W. C. BUSSING - - - . DIRECTOR awaiting the first flash of the Chicago adjusting the Less than a hog market as broadcast direct from the week after WLS had offered its services I Union Stock Yards by Jim Foole, vet- the strike had been settled, the milk 500 WATTS 630 KC eran livestock reporter. producers had won, and not a child in Chicago failed to get its daily quota "Hog receipts are light today, and the of pure milk. market is opening steady to a dime higher than yesterday," says Jim, "and On the evening of October 21, 1929, more than 11,000 persons reported hav- WGBF it looks like the market would hold EVANSVILLE good the balance of the week." ing heard the program of the Pure Milk Association's Radio Party over WLS. A stock raiser downstate orders a car EvansvIUe-on-the-AIr, Inc. Advance arrangements had been made F. .... DIRECTOR and loads his hogs that day. They are J. BURTON local units of the P. M. A. to be in on the market next morning, and by for banquet that evening with radio sets I I noon he has received a report of the tuned to WLS, from which a special 100 1310 day's market and can estimate pretty WATTS KC program was to come. closely just what his return will be. The program was broadcast between Along in July comes harvest and hay eight and nine o'clock and before ten, making. "Shall we cut that twenty telephone calls and telegrams from four acres of alfalfa today?" says another WBOW states were received reporting 11,700 farm listener to his hired men. They TERRE HAUTE listeners in various points in three states. tune to WLS for the weather report. Banks ot the Wabash, Inc. Last winter when the Valley "Increasing cloudiness with showers," Wabash N. C. RUDDELL - - - DIRECTOR Southern Indiana and Illinois was says the announcer, and John Smith in flooded and disease, suffering, and death waits another day before cutting his I stalked thousands of persons who in- 100 WATTS 1200 KC habit that region, WLS staged a cam- paign to raise funds for the Red Cross to use in relieving the suffering. A goal of $10,000 was set, and within a week it WJBL had been over-subscribed $5,000. Checks DECATUR, ILL. totaling $15,000 were mailed to the Red Cross, and still the contributions came Commodore Broadcasting, Inc. in. In May, when people in the flooded C. H. KRATZ DIRECTOR f region were starting their spring field work, Prairie Farmer representatives vis- ited territory distributed among >3| '%\ the and W* the flood victims more than 30,000 baby Most Modern and Efficient chicks with which to start anew their Transmitting Equipment. . poultry flocks. On February 9 came a letter from the Rates Available for Individ' American Red Cross in which James B. ual or Group Service, . . Forgan, Jr., chairman of the Chicago chapter, said: "I wish to assure you of the great service you have rendered to Write or Wire suffering humanity, and I am sure it will be gratifying to you to know that your Station Directors or station has raised more than one-third

i of the total fund to date for this relief operation." Curtis Mushlitz During the fall and winter season a series of thirty episodes of the Life of General Manager Lincoln, written by Raymond Warren, mid-western author and artist,_were pre- Evansville, Indiana sented each week. The series closed June 1 with "Lincoln's Election to the Edgar L. Bill, Station Director, WLS. Presidency." At the conclusion of the RADIO DICxEST 67

last episode it was announced that Mr. Warren was preparing to publish the series in book form which would be available for distribution by fall. Within 48 hours after the announcement, more than 100 orders for the book had been received, - although the announcement had not been intended as an adver- tisement. Throughout the series an attentive lis- tener was Carl Sandberg, noted poet and author, who was warm in his praise of the story. The series will be continued Cover in the fall, starting with Lincoln's life in the White House and continuing through the trying days of the Civil War to the time of his assassination. It would be possible to continue for many columns more telling the story of the happenings at WLS. Some are amusing, some pathetic. There's the story of the young couple at Auburn, New York, who decided to marry after hearing the wedding of Hiram (of "Hiram and Henry") broadcast one Saturday night. rich There's the letter from a Chicago lis- tener to Bill Vickland, who conducts the Bookshop, stating that a poem Bill read last December saved the writer's life, since he had decided to commit suicide. Bill's poem caused him to change his Ohio mind. Then there's the woman in a Chicago hospital who feared the outcome of a major operation and requested that the lay pastor of the Little Brown Church Versatile Vera Stein of Radio conduct her funeral services. Station WCSO is director of pro- Valley Perhaps there are others which never grams and a regular pianist from come to the attention of the staff of the the college station at Springfield, Prairie Farmer station. At any rate, Ohio. Her joyous personality has those which are known at WLS give made many friends for the station. every member of the staff renewed en- She directs, performs and lures. couragement to make their station of with service to all. long do they stay? How are they en- The audience of looks forward WLS tertained? And last, but not least, how to a continuation of Mr. Warren's Lin- in the world does the little country town coln series this coming Fall as well as of Shenandoah, Iowa, accommodate the possible series of steamboat articles them? based on Garnett Laidlaw Eskew's book, The heart of the explanation, of course, WKRC "The Pageant of the Packets." lies in Henry Field himself. He has (550 Kilocycles) always just chatted with his listeners. As he puts it, he talks "across the fence" with them. Speaks a language they all understand and gives them to under- MILLION listeners within stand that the latch is always out at KFNF. ten miles . . . eager, respon- By R. E. Dearmont A sive, prosperous listeners . . . "Come and see us," he says. "Bring an audience of big cityites without the family along and make us a real FIELD has set a number of the handicap of congested air con- HENRY visit. Stay as long as you like and go records for radio response, among ditions ... an audience of pro- everywhere you please. won't prom- them the record of records when KFNF We gressive alert farmers without the ise to make a big fuss over you, but we received 226,000 telegrams during a handicap of distance ... an au- will give you the keys to and let casual birthday party. But probably the KFNF dience of suburbanites located in you enjoy yourself." And perhaps you most unique record of all is the enter- a veritable web of small towns, have there the secret as to the crowds tainment of half a million visitors last all within an hour's commuting that visit KFNF studio from early year. Somehow KFNF proves a greater distance. That's your market spring until late fall. attraction than the state fairs and some- here in the rich Ohio Valley. They come because they are invited how it draws more visitors than many and because they've always wanted to of the extensively advertised national WKRC is the Columbia System shake hands with Henry (it is reported parks. station for this rich fertile sales he shakes more hands than the Presi- territory. carries all the Estimates for this year predict that WKRC dent of the United States). They have popular Columbia features and the million mark will be reached. Why wanted to see "Pate" do they come? Where from? How always and many famed local programs. 1 000 "Frank" and "Luetta" and others of watts power; full time; modern the seed house family who have been equipment; perfect modulation; broadcasting to them for the past six an enviable frequency assignment. PUT YOUR MESSAGE OVER years, and who they look upon as sort A station that has "listener ac- of "second cousins." ceptance"; a made-to-order sales Back of this affection—for in truth it audience for you. Particulars and is affection more than anything else—is rates on request. wc$c the spirit of KFNF. There has been no SPRINGFIELD, OHIO aloofness from "The Friendly Farmer 500 WATTS 1450 KILOCYCLES Station." Instead of the opera and the carefully edited continuity KFNF lis- Radio Station Location: 800,000 population within teners have heard the folklore music of the hills and dales; they have heard radius of thirty miles. "folksy" talks such as they themselves WKRC Program: Well selected, varied. hear on their own front porches. Blue CINCINNATI Equipment: Modern, efficient. denim takes the place of serge and Results: Assured. Write for our rates. satin. Conversation takes the place of elucidation. OWNED AND OPERATED BY You see, Henry is himself a farmer (though he was once a school teacher). WITTENBERG COLLEGE Thirty years ago he had a big truck SPRINGFIELD; OHIO farm and his first seed customers were a

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Radio stations. During the week of Jan- uary 5 there were visitors from seven- teen states totaling over 400. And when Henry Field announces one of his famous Jubilee Parties no record can possibly be kept of the crowd that comes. However, a carload of watermelons on the sidetrack at 9:30 in the morning becomes three truck- loads of rinds at 4:30 in the afternoon. Meanwhile, a crew of six or seven men with rapidly wielded knives have been infinitely busy at a long picnic table di- viding the melons for the multitude. The week of all weeks came with four tons of weiners served. Some listener last fall suggested that since the water- melon season was over Henry ought to put on a "hot dog" feed. He did—and how! In four days of that week 124,000 buns embraced four tons of weiners, and 2,500 gallons of coffee disappeared. The treats were on KFNF. Every night an old- fashioned square dance progressed en- thusiastically on the hastily laid plat- form in a large barn-like garage. And for the younger generation a quarter of Every Friday at 8:45 p. m. Mary a block of paving was roped off, "corn- Steele, whom you see here, adds mealed" into the semblance of smooth- her lovely contralto voice to the ness and made to accommodate a jam masculine harmonies of the How- that dispersed with reluctance only ard Trio. Although recently re- when the midnight hour arrived. turned from a year's study in Paris, But parties are an exception and the Miss Steele confesses that her fa- usual run of affairs provides only a vorite song is "Good Old Summer friendly welcome and several acres of Time." gorgeous flower gardens. There is an The Preferred easy informality about it all. A minia- local people who had bought fresh vege- ture steam locomotive and a Ferris tables from his wagon as he drove from wheel contribute sometimes. In their Station of door to door. While his seed company absence the visitors spend the day look- has long progressed beyond the million- ing up members of the seed house family pictures in the dollar volume mark, he himself is still a who they recognize from Town and farmer. Studio Book or from "the way they Henry Field is an acknowledged au- talk" over KFNF. thority on vegetable varieties, their Most of them make a full day of it Country planting and care. He can still raise and hundreds of them "stay overnight." more onions per acre than any of his To help the town provide for them listeners and his records for potato har- KFNF has erected cabin accommoda- Listeners vest are unsurpassed. In short, he tions for seventy-five parties, which are knows farming from the inside and has generally booked far in advance. Other the happy faculty of giving his expe- enterprising people have cabin camps that FIELD surveys show rience in a helpful and inspiring manner. and nearly every house in town is open the rural and small town Do you wonder, then, that KFNF has for "roomers." A tourist park for tents helps. But even so, the problem is only radio audience turns to WLS proven a helpful station to the Midwest, where farming is the backbone of life? partly solved and gets more out of hand regularly as first choice (com- Many thousands feel indebted to Henry with every season. plete details on request) . It Field for the helpful advice he has given Summing it all up to an admittedly reporter, Field is conservatively figured— them. He is never too busy to answer flabbergasted Henry "Yes, enjoy our crowds as million farm and small town the letter wanting to know when to said: we something and just to go much as they enjoy us. We are neigh- invited ac- plant how families, have and after all, since Radio has brought about it. bors, cepted, WLS as a daily mem- The hundreds of letters coming to us so close together. Besides the fun ber of their family circles. Henry Field make him well known to we all have entertaining them and let- postal clerks everywhere, as a recently ting them feel at home! They are a received letter will testify. Pictures of big help to us in planning our programs. to guess about what they To Step On the Sales Gas two hens, a field and some corn were We don't have pasted upon the envelope to form a pic- like or don't like. They are a frank, ture addressed to Henry Field, Shenan- outspoken lot of folks and having so ... Use WLS doah, Tall Corn State. In Minnesota many of them come to see us keeps us the letter was mailed and its delivery mighty current in their likes and dis- ADVERTISERS who want promptly followed. likes. I don't know how many listeners if half million visit us we IX. to put pep in their sell- But to get back to the visitors, let us we have, but a for of certainly ought to be able to plan pro- ing, will find a real salesman look at the register the week June 24 last year. Visitors registered grams to suit many times that number in history of results WLS. The from twenty-six states during that week with KFNF. is like the story of Aladdin. and from Canada, France and England "No, they are not a nuisance. We Write for a copy of "The as well. While the great majority came plant a good many acres of flowers for the states of Iowa, Nebraska, them every year and goodness knows we Dinnerbell Book" — it tells from home Kansas and Missouri, there were seven want our listeners to corne and see about programs, advertisers' from Florida, twelve from California, them. I think we get along with them experiences—shows surveys three from New Jersey, five from Ari- because we don't try to keep them on minute. They can sit —tells what WLS can do for zona, two from Massachusetts, ten from the go every around and visit, wander around among broadcast advertisers. Wyoming, and so on. All within that one week. And in all 11,403 registered. the flowers or spend the whole day in their Registering is voluntary and, of course, the studio. We want them to have was congested so that only a part of own idea of a good time and so we let It Clear 5000 the total is ever recorded on the little each of them do just as they please. Channel Watts cards provided for that purpose. all works out fine for all of us." WLS Week after week the influx continues And there you have the way KFNF The Prairie Farmer Station and even in the dead of winter when the feels about its visitors and perhaps you low ebb of tourists is reached in the understand why a million of them will 1230 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago Midwest, KFNF is host to what would face the hazardous Iowa roads to get to be a phenomenal run of visitors to most KFNF this year. RADIO DIGEST 69

(Continued from page 56) of flavors. Be sure to add plenty of De Arniand and Cassin. Tell of Each Other dressing to make the salad moist. There are very attractive salads which may By Betty McGee be made from these protein foods and molded with gelatine. They are elab- CLOSING a thirteen weeks' program popular and it has been due to the tire- orate enough to use for a party occa- over WOC at Davenport, Iowa, The less work of Miss Cassin both in the sion. Bear Oil Man (Louis G. DeArmand) building of the continuities and in an- The lighter salads are more popular and Miss Bear-et (Marigold Cassin) nouncing each program. in summer. We do not wish to eat posed for the photograph on page 71 that "Pat Flanagan, the popular announcer heartily when it is warm. The fresh their thousands of fans might see them at WBBM, began his radio work with fruit and vegetable salads are excellent. in action. The programs on which they Miss Cassin and it was her coaching When foods are at the height of the appeared included sketches of popular that proved the incentive to Pat to go season they are inexpensive and at their Radio announcers and through a hook- on in the work. Marigold Cassin knows best. Let us eat many fruits and veg- up with the Davenport Sunday Democrat, her microphone; she has a pleasing etables in season and enjoy a great these sketches, together with pictures of voice; she can play a bit and croon, variety of appetizing salads. We may the announcers were used each week. and she also writes very good verse." serve one fruit or many. They may The popularity of the plan proved unu- The above was the compliment paid be molded in gelatine, frozen in a me- sually great and so at the request of to Miss Cassin and then Miss Bear-et chanical refrigerator or prepared in many of their audience they told about appeared and presented her impressions countless other ways. each other on the closing night. What of the Bear Oil Man, which were: A salad offers one of the chief dec- they said is given here. The Bear Oil "Just for that I'm going to let a orative touches to a meal. It is gay, Man speaks: few kittens out of the sack. For in- colorful, crisp and attractive. It may "Miss Marigold Cassin is known to stance, when you asked me not long ago blend with the color scheme of a lunch- all WOC fans and to thousands far to write you a very short article on eon or bridge party. It may be beau- away from here as 'Goldie.' She is 'Who is the best announcer on the air, tifully garnished. It may be of low chief continuity writer for this station, and why do you prefer The Bear Oil calorie value if made of fresh fruits and and a young lady of great charm. When Man?' I took advantage of your face- vegetables. It may be made heavier Miss Cassin was first approached some tiousness. This, ladies and gentlemen, cr richer by adding whipped cream, weeks ago to assist in this program she gives you some idea of what I have to mayonnaise or other salad dressing. A looked wisely at me and said: put up with. " salad ma3' be served with the meat 'But I never chew gum.' "But in spite of the fact we don't seem course at a dinner or as the first course "Nonplused for the first time in 1930, to get along very well we really do, so at a luncheon or supper. Frozen fruit I replied: I'll tell you a few of the nice things salads as well as jellied or other fruit " 'My public will welcome you with about him. salads are often served as a dessert open arms and ears. Come, act as Miss "His career is an unusual one. He course. Because of its adaptability to Bear-et.' was born, went to school, grew up and every occasion a salad is an indispen- "And so this program was improved got married. If you can beat that for sable part of any meal. immeasurably by her presence. being different you'll have to go some.

"Miss Cassin weighs . . . oh, I would for the is Read Miss Gardiner's salad sug- As appearance, Bear Oil Man say about seven stone, and stands about a little taller than I am, which should gestions in our issue next month. 4 feet 10 in high heels. Among the give you a very good idea of his height, many programs she has arranged and and he's a living example of what Arrow Sherwitz Broadcasts announced the Willys-Overland is most collars and Dobbs hats can do for the familiar to you all in this community. American man. (Cries from The Bear Sport Lights at KTSA These programs have proved startlingly Oil Man of Bunk.) PROBABLY no sports writer in the Southwest is better liked and enjoys SIODOE aoDor a larger host of friends and followers than does Harold Sherwitz, sport editor of the San Antonio Light. Several weeks i ago KTSA in San Antonio prevailed upon Sherwitz to carry the highlights of BUSINESS is the week's sports to their microphone and this feature is now heard over KTSA on Monday evenings at 8:30 and is known as "Sport Lights by Sherwitz". GOOD IN THE In addition to his happenings every week he has from time to time attracted lead- ing sports personalities to KTSA's microphones. Among those who have Valley Area made these appearances are: Wayne cham- "Big" Munn, former heavyweight The district served by the Central Frank pion wrestler and football hero: Broadcasting Company—the great Mid- "Buck" O'Neil, sports writer, New York dle West — is prosperous. Eminent Journal; Thomas E. Conner, Jr., presi- business forecasters such as Babson, dent of the San Antonio baseball group LaSalle Extension University, United and Dr. Leonard Knolls, staff physician Business Service and others, declare of the New York Giants. that conditions here are better than o other parts of the country. "The Fifth Estate" is D a practical booklet Abundant crops have given the farmers Roscoe Girovet, KSL, describing the market o Busy industrial com- reached by the Sta- money to spend. Is a Swell Dresser tions of the Central munities are working full time. Trades Broadcasting Com- people find plenty of customers with FANS picture Roscoe Grover pany. A free copy MOST cash for necessities and luxuries. of KSL, Salt Lake, as "big, rugged, will be sent to busi- request- middle aged, with maybe a beard." ness houses This is your cue. Go after this great, ing a copy on their But he isn't. Not a bit of it. He is prosperous, moneyed market. Tell your letterhead. young, dapper, blond and sports a spiffy sales story where your audience has D waxed mustache. Yes, sir, right in the o the ability to spend. Concentrate on Rocky Mountain country, too. WOC the Valley area, using Stations WOC Besides being program manager and DAVENPORT, IOWA and WHO to place your message in running an "Uncle Roscoe" feature he every ,home. goes in for the fine arts. WHO Broadcasting time may be secured DES MOINES, IOWA by communicating with us at once. DO YOU? She: How is it you know so much o about Radio artists, programs and D CENTRAL BROADCASTING CO. D stations? How do you learn to be o so well posted? DAVENPORT, IOWA He: Easy! I read Radio Digest every month. [ IOC 30E301 30E30C IOE 301 J .

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"His favorite indoor sport seems to White's ringside description of the grams from "The Man in the Moon" be thinking up wild pipe dreams which Dempsey-Carpentier fight made listen- that Bill McNeary found he unwittingly look well on paper, and sound great ers Radio conscious and the experiment- had talked himself into being a perma- when he's telling you about them, but ers were waking up to the fact that to nent fixture. On October 5th, 1921 it takes a Philadelphia lawyer to figure hold their unseen audience they must "The Man in the Moon" was put on them out. But at that, they usually give them something interesting-—some- as a regular daily schedule. work out, and well. I'm not sure about thing with entertainment value. So When the telephone company refused his favorite food. Seriously, though, Tommy arranged with a lady to give a to permit the use of their lines, as car- the Bear Oil Man is the first man in talk to children, read them some jingles riers of programs from remote points Radio to utilize his own means of pub- and tell them a story or two. to the transmitters for broadcasting, the licity. By that I mean, he sells Radio World Series games were relayed in advertising by using Radio advertising NOW the only means of approach to the same way the Dempsey-Carpentier to do it. And that's a hint to other ad- the factory roof was by ladder and fight was put across. vertising men, and Radio stations." the lady who had to carry on for the Again Major J. Andrew White was liddies didn't like ladders. However, at the descriptive end of the job. From after much coaxing and plenty of phys- the ballpark he gave his colorful details Dawn of Radio ical persuasion, the lady made the climb of the games to Tommy Cowan who (Continued from page 45) to the roof. And then? She immediately listened, at the other end of the wire, began to worry about the trip down! wearing headphones. Tommy repeated open warfare, said broadcasting was giv- She became hysterical and refused to be everything the Major said, just as it ing records a bad name and explained pacified. came to him over the land wire, into the that this was his reason for not being William McNeary, associate editor of studio microphone in the penthouse on interested in Radio. As I remember it, the Newark Sunday Call, was the third the factory roof. my personal reaction at the time was member of the party. He and Tommy that records were giving broadcasting a succeeded in lowering the lady to the THE experience of the lady-afraid-of- bad name! However, the needle scratch floor below. Her mental balance was ladders had proved to Tommy has been so nearly eliminated that the restored but she refused to make the Cowan that if WJZ expected to invite average listener does not know whether journey over again in spite of the fact talent to broadcast they should not be he is hearing a transcription or an orig- that the two trial trips had been succees- asked to undergo the mental and physi- inal microphone performance. Nor does fully accomplished accomplished. cal torture of ladder-climbing. Tommy he care. Tommy appealed to McNeary to help requested that the broadcasting take History was made in that little roof- him out. The listeners had been prom- place in a more accessible part of the top penthouse. A feature of broadcast- ised a children's hour by Tommy when building. He shouted long and loudly ing which swept across the country and, he signed off the day before. Wouldn't and finally his emphatic demands incidentally, came in for more kidding Bill go on the air and do something for reached official ears. Tommy was called from the public than any other form the kids? on the carpet. Just what did he pro- of Radio entertainment, originated from Bill finally agreed to pinch-hit for the pose to do? He proposed to fix up a old WJZ. The bedtime story. Only it lady-afraid-of-ladders BUT—there was room attractively. "Something like a wasn't called a bedtime story hour in a proviso. "Don't mention my name!" studio," provided he had a room to those days. It was known as "The It was about three in the afternoon but fix up. Man in the Moon" hour. And that title it seems that bedtime story tellers were So the officials of the Westinghouse was an accident. Here's how: Tommy a sensitive lot as far back as 1921! Company told him he could use the Cowan thought it would be a grand and Tommy agreed to keep his identity a ladies' retiring room in the factory! glorious achievement to put on a pro- secret and Bill was introduced at the No kidding. Programs were broadcast gram for the children. Of course, a microphone as "The Man in the Moon." mostly at night and the officials didn't program in the summer of 1921 was only And he made an instantaneous hit! So see why that particular room shouldn't an experimental broadcast. But Major great was the request for more pro- do double duty. Tommy was game. But he wanted money with which to aiiiiiiiiaiiiiiiiHiiiaiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiniiiiitaiiiiinnninimiiHiiiinuiiiimiiiaiiiniHiniauiiimmiaiiiiini furnish the place and purchase drapes to deaden the rebound of vibrations from the bare walls. How much money? Tommy wanted plenty. The officials agreed to let him have seventy dollars! Try to buy some monk's cloth and see how few yards seventy dollars will buy. Tommy bought Canton flannel and draped the walls. He got the girls in the factory interested in his "some- thing like a studio" and they donated KMBC lampshades, piano and table throws, ===== Owned and Operated by etc. In this way the first broadcasting room with an air "something like a studio" came into being. Midland Broadcasting Co. On November 3rd the first Radio broadcast at WJZ in which artists in person took part was put on the air. The gentlemen of Broadway who made the trip to Newark for this event were The Shannon Four — Charles Hart, Lewis James, Elliot Shaw and Wil- fred Glenn. The names of these singers oQo are well known to Radio fans today. When Major White became associ- ated with WJZ that winter he and Tommy Cowan worked side by side as successful Radio impresarios. Many were the artists from Broadway who T IS a significant fact that a took that trip to Newark and gave their services to promote the new industry. majority of National "Spot'* Advertisers have chosen AND MANY were the' battles that 3 took place. Word battles only, but KMBC as the most effective nevertheless battles. You see the White-Cowan combina- station to cover the great pro- (Continued on page 86) ductive area of which Kansas

City is the heart KFLV, Variety Station IN THE short space of approximately nine months Station KFLV at Rock- ford, 111., has grown to be one of the most popular Radio stations on the air niiiiiinDiiiiiiiiiiiiDiiiiiiiiiiiiDmiiiiimiDiiiiiiiiiiiiaiiiiiiiiiiiiDiiiiiiimiiDiiiiiiiiiiiiDiMiiiriiiriDiiiiirr today. It is enjoying an excellent busi- RADIO DIGEST 71 KOIL BLANKETS Farming Area

rvwn^,VrWl located in the Heart of the Corn Be i t) dominates the rich and produc- tive farming area of the Middle West which contains a popula- tion of 1,200,000 or 279,100 families, owning 125,100 sets with 625,000 listeners. Recent house to house surveys show that KOIL is by far the most popular station in the Omaha trade area. Programs Always Enjoyable Two famous fun and music makers. The very tall man is Louis G. de Armand, the Bear Cat; the very tiny young lady is the well-known and well-loved Mari- It is the purpose of KOIL al- gold Cassin, both of station WOC, Davenport, Iowa. It appears that the little ways to provide its listeners "bear-et" is oiling the wheels in the head of the Bear Cat. And if we 'were with the best of entertaining in the Bear-Cat's place we wouldn't mind having our head oiled by so petite features. Thru the Columbia a damsel. Despite her smallness, however, Marigold Cassin—as you doubt- is en- less know if you have read Radio Digest for any length of time is a skillful Broadcasting System it writer besides being a singer and the official hostess of WOC. WOC, to- abled to present sporting, his- gether with WHO, are among the pioneer stations of the Mississippi Valley. torical, and musieal features of national interest that in many ness from the standpoint of advertising, studios in the Hotel Faust at Rockford cases could not be heard except not only featuring- local advertisers but during your next visit there. Drop in thru KOIL. also many national organizations, pre- and meet your favorite announcer and senting their programs both with talent entertainer and see them in their daily and through the medium of electrical haunts. They are always happy to meet transcriptions. their Radio friends and also to hear A unique feature of the KFLV activity from them. Fan mail is always a daily is their varied program. Wesley W. welcome occurrence at KFLV. Wilcox, the announcer and musical director for KFLV is featuring a special series of stories in music, for which he writes unusual and delightful continui- ties, illustrating them with the musical : compositions taken from the classics WRHM, the Voice of the Gopher and modern melodies and played by the State, Minneapolis, announces a KFLV string trio, and also a group of new policy of expansion. talented soloists. Mr. Wilcox takes This station has in the last several itIP'''- topics of current general interest, as well weeks placed in its employ a sixteen- as industrial and artistic subjects, and piece concert orchestra under the di- weaves the story into a musical inter- rection of Frank Zdarsky. Mr. Zdarsky STATION HOME pretation. These feature programs arc is a graduate of the Prague Conserva- meeting with more than usual interest tory of Music, of Austria, studying there with the Radio audiences of KFLV, an for a period of four years. All the I^/^XTT 's Station Home was the a vast territory of audience which covers musicians are union men, expert on IVV/ ii-^ nrst exclusive radio studio satisfied fans. Aside from his duties as their instruments. Included in the or- building erected in the United States. announcer and musical director, Mr. chestra is a string octet, a saxophone It was built by the MonaMotor Oil Wilcox finds time now and then for his and a brass section. Each mu- quartet Company in luly, 1925. Here visitors hobby of contributing his writings to sician is a soloist in his own right, and artists are offered a welcome and publications. news and magazine doubling on two and sometimes three the comforts of home. Artists found on the roster of the instruments. KFLV studio include Art and Andy, In three months WRHM has in- popular accordion artists; the Musical creased its payroll in the amount of 400 Musketeers, instrumentalists; Wy nod's per cent. The staff has grown from a RADIO STATION Orchestra, under direction of Marie small group of twelve employees to a Brydon, presenting the latest popular large organization of over one hundred melodies; the Harmonyland Entertain- persons. K-O-I-L ers; Grimes Barn Dance Trio; the WRHM is owned and operated by mountain bal- Sunny Southlanders, old the Minnesota Broadcasting Corpora- ' Owned and Operated by lads; John Maxedon, mountain ballad tion under the presidency of Dr. Troy guitarist; George Weight- Miller is secretary singer and S. Miller. James J. MonaMotor QU Company man, ban joist; the KFLV Little Sym- and the vice-president and general man- phony; the Sheraton Ensemble, vocar- ager is Lohren Miller. Allan Harvey : Bluffs ists presenting cycles of melodies old Bresler is the program director; Ted Comm. Dept. Council and new; Carl Alexis and Celeste Bengt- Hediger, production manager; Anders son, organists of high merit, and others. C. Orfield, Jr., publicity. The announ- STUDIOS Orfield, Through the columns of Radio Digest cers are Ted Hediger, Anders Council Bluffs -:- Omaha KFLV extends a hearty invitation for Vincent Pelleteir, Don Clayton and you to visit their beautifully appointed James Kelly. rrririi

72 Station WHK Holds Public Confidence ONE of the most original and popular stations in the Cleveland area is WHK, owned and operated by the Howlett brothers. It has been called the station of new ideas. Its programs are distinctive. There is a fraternal camraderie among the artists—each is a booster for WHK—all for one, one for all. This, according to Arnold Howlett, president and general manager, has been reflected in the pro- grams. The first broadcasts were under handicaps that would have caused nine out of ten men to have given up in despair. But WHK proved its sincerity and won public confidence. It never failed to keep faith with its listeners. This reputation caused outside comment and brought many new listeners to the WHK circle. Artistic endeavor and business enterprise com- bined to establish the station on a strong founda- tion. It has consistently maintained and enhanced this position.

Some of the very competent personnel of Station WHK, Pittsburgh. Of the two young ladies at the left, Miss Irma Haschart is seated; Agnes Anderson is standing. Together they form a popular crooning team. And the lady with the lovely profile, is Patsy Griffin, a crooner also. Arnold Howlett, president and general manager of WHK, completes the picture.

About the Amnios "Personally," says Plummer, "I won- It is said, by the way, that Gosden and Now der how the Amos 'n' Andy film will go. Correll are to get a million dollars for and Andy Film I'm sure it will draw a big gate, but what their picture. will be the reaction of the public to it? SHOULD Radio favorites go into pic- I have an old-fashioned notion that if I tures or on the stage? Many will were a Radio favorite I would not meet doubtless say yes, why not? and yet so or see any listener, to say nothing of astute a Radio authority as Evans E. making a public appearance or a motion Radio Fan News Plummer, of the Chicago Herald-Exam- picture film. —LOTS OF IT! iner says not for the world! The occa- "My thought is that every fan has his sion for his pronouncement was the re- own illusions about his Radio favorites, But that's not all—RADIO statement in the public prints that in cent and that, once these stars are exposed every month has Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby, song writ- the flesh, or celluloid, to him, his illusions DIGEST ers responsible for many hits, have been are apt to go boom, regardless of how fiction stories by America's engaged to write the book lyrics and satisfactory their acts or how personable leading authors. Do you music for the forthcoming Amos and their features. My observation is that Andv production "Check and Double the thicker the mystery, the better the read 'em? If not, why not? Check." listeners like it." RADIO DIGEST 73

naturally brought him in the studio • ••-•--•••--••••-••-•••-•..«..*..*..•-*.. ••*» where he saw how it was done. Then one night in January of 1926, Mayor Behrman of New Orleans was in a dying condition and the station punc- tuated its programs that night with bul- letins every half hour on his condition. WNAX 526 METERS, 570 Ted was given the assignment before KILOCYCLES the microphone because the regular an- nouncer couldn't be located that night. YANKTON, SO. DAK. His success was immediate. His voice was clear; his style emphatic. Moreover, it was pleasant and charged with good fellowship.

Then before he knew it he was the newspaper's regular news, sports and markets announcer. When he told his superiors he couldn't write features, Radio news and do reporting, and at the same time keep his voice on the air, it was decided to relieve him of all his duties except to handle the Radio news. The voice of "T. R. L." the Air Reporter, had become too great a station asset to kill off. Mr. Liuzza, although only 26 years of age, is one of the veteran announcers of Radio. Next to Clyde R. Randall, MESSAGE sent out over director of WSMB, he has been on the Radio Station air longer than any other New Orleans WNAX announcer. Twice daily he broadcasts Ak- reaches its destination. They call Lamdin Kay (above) markets, sports and news before the It is received clearly and dis- the Little Colonel. He is station WSMB microphone and is noted for his tinctly by over ten million peo- director at WSB, Atlanta, Georgia. enunciation and pronunciation 'as well ple whose combined annual in- But that's not all. It is his dis- as his wit. tinctly individual and southern Before WSMB became a link of the come is Two Billion Dollars. manner of announcing that has National Broadcasting company, all the More than half of these listen- outstanding national, southern and local won for him his title. ers to WNAX live on eight sporting events were announced over this station by Ted R. Liuzza. These in- hundred and three thousand, Reporter On the Air cluded the Dempsey-Tunney fights, four hundred ninety-six farms. Dempsey-Sharkey fight; play by play WNAX lays claim to the By Thelma Reboul descriptions of the Dixie Baseball series most complete coverage in the QUITE by accident did "T. R. L., the in which New Orleans teams partici- the world series, and other im- Northwest. Go where you will Air Reporter," get into this business pated; portant events. in North or South Dakota, the of Radio broadcasting. Ted R. Liuzza, whose voice is recognizable to thou- western half of Iowa and Min-

sands throughout the South, particularly nesota ; anywhere in Nebraska, Louisiana and Mississippi, is a news- or the eastern part of Wyo- paperman. A distinguished career of s ming and Montana, and writing and reporting on- The Nczv you Orleans Item and The Morning Tribune a \ ND so Old Mom picked up the will find more radios tuned in was behind him when he received his A little girl from in front of the on WNAX than on any other elephants, placed her safely Radio assignment in 1926. The Item, approaching station. which has the news broadcasting rights on the sidewalk, and took her place in The programs are made to to WSMB, New Orleans, assigned Ted the parade again just as if nothing had to "cover" the station to write up Radio happened. appeal to the people of the news and programs for the paper. This The speaker is Leo Blondin, famous Northwest. There are old time circus clown, menagerie man and man- orchestras, ballad singers, pop- ager who is appearing on a series of "performances" over WKY. The pro- ular and concert orchestras,

grams are designed largely for the enter- and singing ; weather reports, tainment of children, but Blondin's defi- news and the markets, as well nition of children takes in the whole hu- as speakers on pertinent sub- man family from 6 to 60. Every one, he says, is interested in circus stories. jects of interest to farmers and The series includes stories about ele- folks who are in business that horses, phants, lions, and tigers; bears, depend on farm prosperity to dogs and other circus animals, as well as interesting information about the old succeed. wagon show days. The wave length and fre- old To make the program realistic, an quency of WNAX is such as time circus calliope has been uncovered to insure a clear channel. We by the manager at WKY, and set up in the studio. have the latest Western Elec- Blondin has nearly 40 years of circus tric equipment with full modu- to his yarns experience from which draw lation. If you have amessage for for the children. He has been a gym- the people of the Northwest, nast, wire walker, clown, animal trainer, menagerie superintendent and circus send it over WNAX, either by manager. The latter experience was way of the station itself or with the old Sells-Floto circus. It was through the Columbia network, during this period that Courtney Ryley Cooper, famous writer of circus stories, of which WNAX is a member. was press representative for Sells-Floto and "Old Mom" was leader of the circus THE herd of elephants. Blondin's stories about the prowess of Old Mom stimu- POPULAR { lated Cooper to write the first of his MOST manuscripts. IN THE | Working with Blondin in the series is a group of Oklahoma City children who WEST Fritz Hursch, commercial manager, furnish atmosphere, and do a lot of talk- WSB, Atlanta, Ga. ing for the broadcasts. ii^m n RADIO DIGEST

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THE old saying: "Know your prod- cepted a position at the Oklahoma Agri- uct before you tell others about it," cultural and Mechanical College in Still- is the keynote to the KDKA Home water, Oklahoma, as instructor in the Forum, daily presentation except Sun- School of Home Economics, remaining day at 9:15 a. m. (E. S. T.). there for two and a half years when she Before Miss Evelyn Gardiner, Direc- enrolled as a student at the Columbia tor of the KDKA Home Forum, offers University, from where she came to to her listeners a new recipe it is thor- KDKA to take charge of the Radio oughly tested in her kitchen, careful activities of the Pioneer Broadcasting attention being given to the exact Station of the world in the field of measuring of ingredients, mixing, cor- household economics. rect temperature, and length of time of Miss Josephine Fresh, secretary and cooking. assistant to Miss Gardiner, had her The scope of the work done by Miss training in Home Economics at the Car- Gardiner and her assistant on the negie Institute of Technology, Pitts- KDKA Home Forum is not confined burgh. After graduating she spent some entirely to the formulating, testing and time traveling in Europe studying the broadcasting of new recipes, but rather, foreign methods of cooking and serving covers a wide area of women's interests food. such as "how to plan their house work," planning a convenient kitchen with mod- ern labor saving devices, and offering ISt Oil suggestions for the planning of parties St including decorations, preparations and T. serving. Hints on ways and means of By Carl Nunan overcoming child feeding problems and KATHRYN JULYE, KPO's pretty Morgan Sexton, Announcer, Station numerous other problems that confront staff harpist, did not purposely woe the housewife are given attention. start out to become a player of the received A. B. De- Miss Gardiner an instrument which is naturally associated should grow up in a musical atmos- gree from San Diego State College, San with angels, angelic music or the Irish. phere and, being of an artistic nature, Diego, California, A. and an M. Degree It just happened that she was to be- lean toward some one of the arts. It in Household Arts from Columbia Uni- come one of the best western players followed she developed a passion for versity, New York City. In addition to of this ancient instrument whose sweet music. this training, she had one year's study silvery tones irresistably "get under the Kathryn wanted to become a singer. jn Home Economics at the University skin" of poets, painters and writers, and Her parents dreamed and planned that of Chicago, and two summers' work at charm their genius into creating master- she become one of the world's greatest the University of California in the same pieces. harpists. Conflict of mind, however, field. Miss Julye was born in Fresno, the failed to interfere and Kathryn was She taught both Household Art and raisin section of California, in 1905. The given a general musical education, with pianist, late Household Science in a high school in daughter of a famous the the result that Miss Julye is today a San Diego for three years, then ac- M. M. I. Myers, it was natural that she true artist par-excellence on the harp. Back in 1922, when Radio broadcast- -sssa ing was an unknown quantity, Miss Julye made her debut to Radio fans of KPO as a soprano in a joint recital with her father. Two years later abil- ity won two scholarships for her with C^in expression of appreciation the Jouillard Foundation of New York —one for voice and one for composi- to the great radio audience tion. It gave her the opportunity to study with such masters as Francis of the Southwest from Rogers, baritone, and Rubin Goldmark, one of the country's best teachers of composition. "I was so thrilled," says Miss Julye, The Advertising Clientele and "that I plunged into my musical en- Management deavors with a vengeance, and in the following year, 1925, was rewarded by winning another scholarship—this time for the study of the harp. Fortunately for me, I became a pupil of the re- nowned woman harpist, Annie Louise David, whom critics acclaim America's supreme woman harpist." And so came the realization of her parents' dreams: KFH Kathryn became a harpist. Wichita Eagle -:- Hotel Lassen Her first professional engagement as a harpist was when she appeared as soloist in the production, "Smilin' Thru," at the Alcazar Theatre, in San Francisco, headlining with such stars of the stage as Gladys George and Dud- ley Ayres. Miss Julye also gained fame at the French in are more than grateful the Theatre the pit and on "We for the stage. ' generous response you are giving Unlike most Radio artists, Miss Julye us" states, "I have never considered Radio in the light of a remunerative occupa- tion, although it pays well; but I con- sider it as a means of education. I 1000 Watt Crystal Control — Member Station make so many friends—must study such Western Electric Throughout Columbia Broadcasting System a variety of compositions. And the mu- sical directors teach me so much with their helpful suggestions and ideas." But Radio does not alone claim her entirely. Kathryn Julye is one of the J. Leslie Fox, Director busiest of Western concert artists. Her greatest difficulty is finding time to fill her engagements. — 1 —

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just who the manager really was, unless If you didn't remark upon the singular he was pointed out by someone. situation after listening to the three KVI is the northwest outlet of the sisters, it would certainly strike you as Columbia Broadcasting System in Ta- unusual to learn that there was a fourth coma, Washington. The secret of its to make a quartette until she married popularity may be found on the office "and then there were three," as the door ,"KVI, 1,000 Watts of Pep and famous subtraction song goes. Personality, Edward J. Jansen, Mana- Four younger sisters are still in school. ger. Office hours sunrise until mid- Two of them are twins, 17, and are night." developing a real duo. Even the little girls still in grade school are musically inclined and all eight sisters frequently sic in sing together as a double quartet. Dorothy, Elsie, and Nadine "just rson started singing" when they were young- By Gertrude Thornhill sters for their own amusement. The eldest is now 24, the youngest 20. Re- IT JUST sort of "runs in the family," semblance between the three is marked, you might say after listening to the but each has a distinctive individuality. Carson Sisters Trio sing. Dorothy, Nadine is a "blues" singer and accom- Elsie and Nadine are station artists with panies the trio on the piano. Dorothy is KSAT, doing modern harmony num- secretary to the station manager at bers, and they are "mighty clever" KSAT and consequently spends most according to the verdict of the listeners of her time around the studio. The spe- of the station. cialty of the trio is modernistic harmony.

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Jansen u Sunrise to Midnight" By Mabel Howard IT HAS often been said that a rolling stone gathers no moss, but as Eddie puts it, "Who wants to be a mossback?" KFKB Hence it is that we find Eddie Jansen, THE GOLD CUP WINNER OF 1930 POPULAR the person this story is written about. STATION CONTEST WITH 256,000 VOTES Being a writer of newspaper articles, it is my lot to call on and interview per- sonages throughout the country. One delightful Northwestern afternoon I dropped in on Radio Station KVI and asked for the manager. The office girl left me for the moment, and returning, led me to the man I was in search of. Eefore entering the office I paused and read the following on the office door, "KVI, 1,000 Watts of Pep and Personal- Gjhe outstanding station of ity, Edward J. Jansen, Manager. Office hours sunrise until midnight." In this Kansas, with programs that sign I read the history of the success of Eddie Jansen and KVl. are so diversified they appeal Eddie was born April 1, 190<>, in St. Paul, Minnesota, but he hopes that you to the middle west farmer as will not hold this birth date against him. Moving to Washington, his parents set- well as to the city dweller. tled in Tacoma, where Eddie attended the St. Leo's grade and high school. Eddie, after leaving high school, sold newspapers, worked in shipyards and restaurants, chauffered and what not. He then studied to be a teacher, after which he played three seasons with a stock company, when something hap- pened to change his life. Infantile 5000 Watts, 1050 Kilocycles, Crystal Control, paralysis confined him to his bed for six months. One Hundred Per Cent Modulation. Rate The doctors agreed that he would Card Mailed on Request. Member National never take another step, but this idea did not at all appeal to Eddie, so one Association of Broadcasters. More Power Than day he had a friend take him down to *$ KVI, just at the time the station was Any Other Kansas Station. *$? « being reorganized. They tried him out and as a result he was hired as a relief announcer. Once in the line of battle, things began to happen. From relief announcer he passed in turn to the posi- tion of operator, continuity writer, chief announcer, assistant manager and last of all to that of manager of the Puget KFKB Sound Broadcasting Company. Now we find Eddie ready and able to step Inc* into any department. His new position Broadcasting Association, keeps him busy in conferences on con- tracts, announcing, writing continuity MILFORD, KANSAS and still taking his turn at the controls. I have never yet talked to a man so en- thusiastic over his work. He is always thinking up new ideas, and anyone com- 1 i 1 ( 1 i 1 i 1 1 1 1 i I 71 1 i 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 i 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ( 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 E I C 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 M 1 IT? ing into the studio would never know n —

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music played by Oliver Nicklas of the State Theatre is broadcast' by remote control. This theatre is packed with By J. M. Gilliam children for special shows on Saturday General Manager, WACO and other Stations mornings, and these youngsters have formed a kiddies singing club, and vo- years ago M. Gilliam started chorus of Christmas carols, with plenty FIVE J. calize as the organist plays. in the radio business five years of of action thrown in for good measure. — Following the organ music each morn- the hardest work and the most inter- "There is one activity of all our stations ing is the Homemaker's Hour directed esting; five years of alternating dis- which I should like to emphasize. It by Miss Vera Stein, consisting of home couragement and success. But now, at is our ironclad policy to sponsor with- hints, style talks, recipes, contests, music the end of that five years he says he out charge all religious, civic, agricul- and entertainment. This hour has a his place for that tural and educational movements, wouldn't change of not wide acceptance with the housewives any man in any other business. Radio only in the cities in which the moves and a large correspondence is main- originate but in the surrounding has "got" him! country tained between WCSO and those who "The first station I ever operated was as well. According to actual records favor this hour. KFOB," says Mr. Gilliam, "here in Fort KGKO at Wichita Falls last year Night football is to be inaugurated at 100 located 103 stolen motor cars in Worth, Texas. It is now KTAT—a addition Wittenberg College this coming season Electric In to finding a whole raft of lost dogs, cats per cent Western station. and WCSO looks forward to carrying and other pets; not to addition we operate KTSA, a member mention one lost Wittenberg's football conquests to more of the CBS, in San Antonio. For the lady whom we located in Detroit and listeners than ever before. John D. last two years we have been operating put her in touch with her mother." Kuhns, who for three years handled the also KGKO at Wichita Falls, which is Harvard games over WBZ, and Lester on the air from ten to thirteen hours S. Crowl, who enters on his eighth year every day. of putting Wittenberg football on the "Station WACO, which we also oper- air, will again work together, as they ate, is the only station in the United also do when handling basketball from States whose call letters spell the name the Wittenberg Gymnasium. of the City in which the station is WCSO has maintained a regular eve- located; KTAT, as you probably know, ning series of broadcast programs since stands for Keep Talking About Texas. its inception in 1921, serving the city "The Gilliam idea back of the present of Springfield and a wide suburban and policy of expansion in the four stations rural community in central Ohio. named—KTAT, KGKO, KTSA and WACO, is that while there are plenty of orchestras, and a superfluity of musicians the number of real entertainers is com- paratively few. It is the policy there- From Harlem fore- to develop real entertainers: and not merely musicians. For example at the KGKO studio and the KTAT studio they have built a stock company around to Hollywood the orchestras (there is an orchestra for Amos and Andy are out in Hol- each of the four studios). Trained both during as singers and actors, these stock com- lywood the hot summer panies are able to produce anything in months getting their first experi- the way of a program from a duet to a ence in the sound picture studios. An authentic article on the sub- ject will appear in the Associate SEPTEMBER Columbia Broadcasting System RADIO DIGEST Most Powerful Broad- The Start the new Radio year right casting Station in 300 Miles by subscribing to this great KSCJ Radio Fan magazine now. 2500 Watts, Crystal Control D. B. Gurney, president of the 100% Modulation Gurney Seed and Nursery Co., Yankton, N. D., speaking in behalf Sioux City Journal, Sioux City, Iowa of Better Butter. -l- >-

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is one of the few stations for- WCSO Whe sh to cover Grearer Kansas City, THE WHOLE STORY tunate enough to have call letters ind fifty miles rich surrounding territory, WLBF significant in meaning. The initial let- offers Sioux City is the centet of one of the richest ters of operator" agricultural belts in the world. the "owner and Wit- Low Rates—Full Time On Sioux City is second in size in Iowa—Ninety- tenberg College, Springfield, Ohio, were Air—High Grade Musical eighth in size in America. granted to the statiojj many years ago Sioux City is the last big city north till you Programs — Choice Time, reach Winnipeg, Canada. after a brief existence as WNAP. Sioux City has an active trading territory of WCSO was established in 1921, and Complete Advertising Serv' seventy-five miles. for two years the station was used ice — Proven Popularity. Sioux City has over a million people in her largely for experimental purposes, but in immediate trade territory. Sioux City is the largest live stock trucking the fall of 1923 a line was run to the Hoyland Milling Co., writes: center in the -world. Wittenberg Stadium and the Home "We use fifteen stations and get Sioux City has more rural radio owners than Football Games were put on the air. best results from WLBF. get four any other section of the country. We Sioux City has one broadcasting station. KSCJ. This practice was soon enlarged to in- hundred to seven hundred letters per KSCJ is one of the finest and most completely clude all athletic contests. Last fall all day, each representing a sale from our equipped broadcasting stations in the middle football games were broadcast, those activities on your station." west. The Sioux City Journal has been a daily in thi". away from Springfield being relayed by territory over fifty-five years. remote control. Alumni of the college \17T TiT7 —Pays more for talent— puts out Sioux City maikets are broadcast direct throughout the territory covered are en- ** *-**-**• more original entertainment—gets from stock yards, only through KSCJ. more fan mail than any other station in Greater thusiastic listeners to all broadcasts. KSCJ is owned and operated by The Sioux Kansas Ciry. FREE—Write for Station Survey, City Journal. Later an addition to one of the col- Rate Cards, Testimonial Sheets, Continuity KSCJ maintains a schedule second to none lege buildings was completed to accom- Service, Etc, the quality of progtams the best. KSCJ has a staff of entertainers that can put modate modern and well furnished stu- on any kind of program desired. dios. Regular programs of lectures, KSCJ gets results. music and wholesome entertainment WLBF Building, Kansas City, Kansas C. W. CORKH1LL, Manager. took their places on the air. Huron Each morning a program of organ * ' —

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OMINANCE does not mean distance ! The stations represented in this group possess sufficient power to reach out into their terri- tories and the four of them serve the State of Texas, Southern Oklahoma and Eastern New Mexico. Each Station carefully studies the conditions in its own territory and its programs are planned to please the people. Each Station is the dominant, popular station in the community in which it is located.

KGKO covers Northwest Texas and Southern Okla* KGKO homa, doing an average business of over $100,000 500 'watts day time 250 -watts night time per annum and is the only Station in Wichita Falls. Wichita Falls, Texas KTAT is of the Southwest and for the Southwest KTAT —the greatest "new" country on the face of the 1000 -watts earth. What this Station has to broadcast will be Fort Worth, Texas received by the fastest growing and soon the wealthiest territory in North America—a territory the resources of which have scarcely been touched.

WACO is located in one of the most thriving cities WACO in Central Texas, with the most prosperous agri' 1000 -watts cultural background of any city in the Southwest, Waco, Texas and is the only Station in Waco and Central Texas.

KTSA is located in historic old San Antonio, the KTSA home of the Alamo—within three or four hours 2000 watts day time its 1000 -watts night time drive of the lower Rio Grande Valley, with un' San Antonio, Texas told wealth in production of oranges, grapefruit, lemons and other tropical fruits. It serves more local and territorial accounts than any other Station in South Texas.

During our five years in Commercial Radio Broadcasting, we have special- ized in giving free service to all worthy institutions and movements in the cities and territories in which we are located—agricultural, religious, edu- cational and similar institutions. This policy, together with the programs we present—that the people like—has endeared these stations to the public. Time can be bought on these stations individually or at an attractive com- bination rate as a group. For detailed information and rates, address

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THE HOME studios of WREC arc located in the beautiful Hotel Peabody and many- novel local pro- grams come from these 2kd studios each day. The $20,- 000 Mohler studio organ is heard several times daily with "Francis" at the con- sole. The Doctor and Pro- fessor, "General Nuisance Lord Applesauce," "The To the and Roustabouts," ''Ada and Eva," "Who's Who" and many other special local at- RADIO DIGEST tractions keep the staff of twenty On Its 8th Anniversary busy. WREC is the CBS repre- from sentative in Memphis and presents most of their lead- ing programs. It is the only Memphis station that has WHAS permanent day - and - night chain service; presenting all of the Columbia sustaining which has also celebrated its features that are heard all through the day. Beginning eighth anniversary of service at 7 o'clock a. m". with to a huge radio audience "Something for Everyone" and finishing the day at mid- night with dance music from the beautiful roof garden of Hotel Peabody, played by Dave Harmon and his band. "We are an intensely busy station here," says Hoyt B. Wooten, director of WREC "Right in line with the new awakening spirit if the Old South, the Voice of Mem- phis, sounds its note of hope and encouragement to its thousands of listeners in in this section of the coun- try."

It Was a Real Strad (greetings to our friends in Medicine Hat, Tu-

Station WHAS radiocast its first pro- cumcari, Andalusia, OLIVER RIEHL, music director of gramme on July 18, 1922. Since that Oshkosh, Kalamazoo J • the Chicago studios of the NBC. is time it has always strived for and not often mistaken in musical matters— if and Schenectady, as maintained the highest of radio ethics he were he wouldn't hold the position he well as every other and now serves a large and friendly now occupies. But he made a mistake place, from— audience every morning, afternoon recently which was at once painful and instructive, for although it cost him the and evening. price of a new hat, it brought to his attention the existence in Chicago of one WHAS occupies a most strategic loca- of the finest violins in the world. tion. It is virtually at the center of It all came about when C. M. Thomp- population of the United States and son, wealthy collector of violins, entered Riehl's office with the announcement over 47% of the population east of WSM that he had in his possession a violin the Rockies live within a 500-mile "We Shield Millions" from which could be produced with radius. Within a radius of 1,000 absolute perfection every note of the o miles are 92% of the population east scale, even through the microphone. of the Rockies. "I'll bet a hat you haven't!" was Riehl's The National Life and answer, and an argument ensued which resulted in a bet into which the NBC Accident Insurance Co. official entered not wisely but too INCORPORATED enthusiastically. In order to settle the point, a council Nashville * Tennessee WHAS of several of the most eminent violinists in Chicago was called, who listened 10,000 Watts Full Time critically to the tones of the violin, first 365.6 M.—820 K. C. in the studio and later through the loud- Operating on a frequency speaker, as the music came to them via of 650 Kilocycles the microphone. The violin successfully passed every conceivable musical test, and Riehl lost the bet. For Rates Owned, and Operated By After it was all over, it was discovered Inquire that the instrument is a genuine Stradi- Please by Mail The Courier-Journal varius, one of the few in existence and valued by its owner to the extent of a sum of five figures. As a result of the The Louisville Times the incident, Mr. Riehl is bemoaning George D. Hay, "The Solemn Ol' Judge, high cost of hats in Chicago, but he Director Louisville, Ky. negotiations to broadcast has also' began Harry Stone, Associate Director the marvelous tones of the violin over the NBC networks. We believe they will be well worth hearing RADIO DIGEST 79

A fine, clean, professional and upstanding bunch compose the concert orchestra of KTSA, San Antonio, Texas, one of the Gilliam chain of stations. Everett Hauser, the director of the orchestra, is shown standing, with the baton, in the center.

Clever Entertainers at Austin, Texas, who sent him to the cartoonist—many of his drawings have u Saint Edward's School there. His early been used by local newspapers. V life was one round of schools. From One day while on the tennis court St. Edwards he was sent to Saint "raising a racket" Johnnie met Helen CLEVER entertainers—Helen Troy Joseph's Academy, New Jersey, and Troy and she became his "girl friend and Johnnie Patrick of KPO! Orig- then to Holy Cross College at New Or- of Radio." inal and humorous with their intriguing leans. From there he went back to "She inspired me with her little laugh episodes of "Cecil and Sally in The Fun- Texas, and soon afterwards to San and her ability to be funny," states niest Things," which are released every Francisco. Johnnie, "and Helen gave me the idea evening with the exception of Sunday, Here he finished his schooling at a pri- of our broadcasts which have proved 9 to 9:10 o'clock. vate school and then took up drawing so popular with Radio dialers." Johnnie Patrick, who purposely at the California Institute of Fine Arts "Don't you believe him," chips in flunked his West Point and University and established quite a reputation as a Helen, "it is his own keen sense of of California examinations because he was so sold on the idea of Radio as a rx v^^<^^'~^<^r*^0r*^~* career, is the originator and author of ^&*<&<'O^<^v^'x<^<-&*&'*-^'-^*^ &^& the humanly interesting episodes which 1 have to do with the experiences of a bashful boy and his girl friend, typical of the everyday experience of modern romantic young couples—so cleverly interwoven with skill and understanding that they remind one of the experiences with his or her own children. Helen Troy, "the girl friend," is equally accomplished, having been on KFJF the stage since she was four years old. Strange it is that both of these artists, 5000 Watts, 1480 Kilocycles who have organized the team of "Cecil and Sally," have had more or less the 3 same experiences throughout their lives. Both were raised by aunts and uncles, their parents having passed away while they were still very young. Helen was born in San Francisco. At 1. KFJF is located in the center of the U. S. equidistant four years she toured the country with from Los Angeles and New York City. her uncle, G. Lote Silver, on the Or- pheum Circuit—it was he who origi- 2. KFJF is in the geographical and population center of popular nated the illustrated songs so the State of Oklahoma, the only state in the Union few years back. A year or so later a business maps of her uncle retired from the stage and pur- that has been in the "white" on chased a chain of theatres of his own, the country for twenty-one consecutive months. and Helen was then sent to school at a Schedule for Travers City, Michigan, attending the 3. KFJF has been operating on Daily Sacred Heart Academy. seven years (on July 4th). At seventeen she was sent to Chicago per cent to study piano and pipe organ, where 4. KFJF has new 5000 watt 100 modulated she received the teaching of a number of crystal controlled equipment. celebrated teachers, including Jess Crawford. Her first professional en- 5. KFJF operates on a full time schedule starting at 7 a. m. gagement as an organist was in Detroit with continuous programs 16 to 18 hours every day. where she appeared at the Cinderella Theatre for one year. She then came west and for a time played at the Im- perial Theatre here, then entered the Broadcasting Station KFJF Radio field at a local station as accom- | panist and soprano soloist. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Johnnie was born in Louisville, Ken- | tucky. At the age of two years he found & Member Columbia Broadcasting System and the National Association himself at Houston, Texas, where sev- ? of Broadcasters. eral years later, when his parents died, he was sent to be cared for by his uncle 80

humor and his exceedingly funny quips that make the episodes so successful. You know Johnny never does give him- self credit for his ability—but you can just rest assured that I'll speak for him. He's simply great!" Basketball, tennis and swimming seem to be the chief athletic hobbies of both, and they devote much of their spare time to these healthful sports.

"Chickie" Moss Is a petite blues singer The Growth of KQV featured twice FORD Spark Coil, two nails as a weekly over KQV, A spark gap, a dry cell and a sending Pittsburgh. Small, key. That was the beginning in 1912 of dark, with flash- the present KQV Pittsburgh, of three ing blue eyes, magnificent studios and offices atop a "Chickie" (no one modern office building. KQV has gone to her seems know through a number of reincarnations first name) is five since then, but the staff are proud of the feet of concen- fact that their license is the first one ever personality. trated granted a commercial station and that Just 18, hails from KQV is the second oldest station in the sunny California, world. and has ambitions Since that humble beginning over to return there. eighteen years ago KQV has grown Much as they marvelously. Under the management would like to see now of Paul J. Miller, who has been in her realize her am- the game since he was a "pup," the staff bition, the KQV of KQV, numbering twenty persons in crowd would all, plans to extend their scope of activ- rather have her ities to include every type of entertain- stay with them. ment known. Football games, hockey, basketball, operas, symphonic presenta- tions and choral renditions all have a place in the plans for the coming fall.

Joe Wright and His stra By C. Thomas Nunan AN UNUSUAL orchestra director is Joe Wright, violinist leader of The Cinderella Orchestra of the Silver Slip- per Cafe, heard nightly, 11:00 to 12:00, £MEir3S=i«»«Mfc3^«S3*^^ except Mondays, on KPO, San Fran- cisco. For Joe spends all his spare time reading the "case books of law," and books published on the laws of har- mony. He does not study law with the aim of becoming a lawyer. He reads it for recreation. Although a past mas- ter and arranger of harmony, he reads the laws of harmony also to relax his mind. In that, he is like a sailor who WFAA goes rowing on his days of "liberty." But Joe is one of those unusual men Only Station in entire in everything he does. He has an un- South or west Mis- usually good orchestra, is an expert at of golf, was a real baseball player, but sissippi with a power of butterfingers being not especially good for violinists, he has forsaken the dia- mond. He is an all round good chap and a clean cut gentleman. He was born in Oklahoma City, 1899. His father, a retired oil man of that 50 city, was a guitar player of repute; his KILOWATT mother, a concert pianist. It followed

1 ' mi ;.|'invi' :| I'llllll llllllllllllllll I Hill II Iiilllllll Ill Ill'll;.' IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINIII that Joe should also become a musician. When he was 4 years old he was taken to Spokane with his parents where he grew to manhood and received his edu- cation. Joe came to San Francisco eight years offers complete Radio advertis- WFAA ago and was one of the first to be heard ing service, with a large and competent over KPO, when it came on the air in 1922. Since that time he has become staff of producers and entertainers. well known to San Franciscans and has directed orchestras in a number of the city's leading cafes. His eleven-piece orchestra is fast gain- ing a reputation for its individual style. They play their own arrangements of the late hits. The orchestra boasts three men who specialize in this and their ar- rangements are made to fit the orchestra. THE DALLAS JOURNAL The boys are also arrangers for one of the country's leading music pub- lishers and the photograph of the or- chestra will soon be published on a *Jz5£3»«i«3^=5P3pi«>^«J^^ number of the latest song hits. " —

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By Roger Baudier of Smokey Joe and Tee-Tain with their accompanying characters, except in the old French Quarter of New Orleans A MOST important function of the Vieux Carre? -/I Radio is to bring to the people Famous writers, singers, poets and of one section of our country informa- artists have immortalized the Vieux tion as to customs and traditions of Carre, as well as its inseparable, odd other parts. Thus the dwellers in New and unique folks, with their strange cus- their chatter KSTP England may know more about the toms of another day and people of Florida and the Carolines; in inimitable "Creole nigger-talk." How- the office workers in Chicago's loop ever, it was left to Ralph J. Nogues and may have a better understanding of the Rene Durel to place on the air for the people of Southern Louisiana; and that first time, vividly and true to life, some these people in the far South may in of these quaint characters. Among St. Paul and Minneapolis and turn better appreciate their northern those who know New Orleans, who are the adjacent Northwest vote brothers. The same is good for all there who will not recognize Smokey for KSTP first in preference parts of the country. Joe, the unfailing, shrewd and pompous to any other local programs. of Which is just by way of introducing darkey with a smattering education; And quite naturally, the NBC simple, street-corner this illuminating story of too New Or- Tee-Tain, the entertainment and service fea- Cle- leans comedians who are zvisely imper- "nigger" of old "French Town"; tures have the majority of shrill-voiced-virago- sonating over Radio the humorous side mence, the latter's followers of net work produc- of-a-wife; Lawyer Calebasse, the rusty tions. KSTP admittedly is of a little known race of Americans— frayed legal light of the old regime, first lis- the French-speaking "niggers" of the and —nearly 70% of the utter half sentence without Delta region.—Editor. unable to a teners as against 17% for the interspersing it with French: Wun station named second choice. Lung, the incarnation of the still popu- The KSTP orchestra organiza- iiT OOK out fo' mah operation!" lar New Orleans Chinese laundryman tion of thirty-five artists in- i-J "Who wrote dat song?" (incidentally, the old Chinese character selected groups, which "Most assiduously— cludes in continuity on the air) ; and Senor present everything from sym- These typical expressions of Smokey Alvarez, descendant of Spanish gran- phonic classics to the latest Joe and Tee-Tain, and a score of others dees?" popular selections, and is the with the tang of the peculiar_ Creole Then there are also those other odd, only full-time Radio station accent, have become bywords in New staff orchestra in the North- Orleans, uproariously familiar to the west. In addition to this most thousands of Radio fans who tune in important asset, KSTP gives Tuesday night for certain popular every most to the advertiser and headliners of station WWL. But where listeners because it has the one expect to find the real types would largest musical library — the largest technical staff — the most complete research, mer- chandising, sales, program, publicity, continuity, music and dramatic departments. The KSTP advertising de- partment will be pleased to submit a detailed Radio adver- KFUL tising plan without obligation. owned and operated by the honest-to-goodness Orleanians, hold- overs of another day: Nainaine Cora, Madame Alexis—the fortune-teller; "Achille," Uncle Nenesse, and, the Texas crowning glory of all, Tee-Tain's two little sons. Equator and Gagaloot! With all the world to choose from, Broadcasting no two persons could better qualify to impersonate such characters than Company Nogues and Durel, for both were born and reared in the old French Quarter, among the very characters they portray. Little wonder that they bring out their oQo characters so faithfully, particularly in accent, dialect and expression; that they make use of their habit of jumping from the sublime to the ridiculous and to finding humor even in moments the Executive Offices Studio; most dramatic. Even their fantastic trips to Mars and Iceland and other far- St Hotel away places that have brought such na- Buccaneer tionwide popularity to Smokey Joe and Galveston, Texas Tee-Tain and aroused such widespread interest, are characteristic of "French Town" colored folks' simplicity and cre- dulity. t r , . oQo Then, in the musical overture of their broadcast, Smokey Joe and Tee-Tain NORTHWEST'S bring in rare New Orleans local color. The wailing dirge of the ever-present ^ LEADING

"Most assiduously, hits de nigger ban' goin' with the dead one and comin' back wif de live ones." Smokey Joe is the re-incarnation of a real character: A famous negro coal stoker on the Pontchartrain R. R. of New Orleans, the second oldest railroad in this country, whose three coaches and ancient locomotive still ramble to the lake shore, while the engine belches great clouds of black smoke. Hence, its nickname among Orleanians of "Smokey Mary" and the cognomen of "Smokey" for its fireman. Tee-Tain is the phonetic abbreviation for "Petit Celestin," that is, "Little Celestin," following the common prac- tice among the unlettered Creoles of adding the word "little" to the son's name when it is the same as the father's. "Petit Celestin" is shortened to "Tit- Tin," pronounced "Tee-Tain." Celestin was a habitue of one of the grocery stores in the neighborhood of Durel's childhood home in the French Quarter. Both Durel and Nogues made their debut on the stage when very young, and that is more years than they care to remember. They later played in medicine shows. Both were in the thea- tre in^ New Orleans and on the road. Nogues started in dramatic roles and later turned to comic characters, espe- cially those of the old regime of New Orleans. Durel remembers with a The orchestra of WCFL, Chicago, has Henry Francis Parks as its studio director, chuckle his first black-face act at a a musician of long symphonic orchestral experience. Director Parks is shown church festival. in the center of the photograph, standing. With the decline of the legitimate, they drifted into commercial art, and you have the prescription that is the in this line are well in the city. known Old Doc Applesauce foundation of the program directed by Hence, it appeared for a time that busi- , Old Doctor Applesauce. This mysteri- ness would rob the stage of two born \gaim ous old character who styles himself thespians, but fortunately Radio has By George R. Wood "the old quack himself who cures your brought them back, and New Orleans ills without any pills," is heard through "Vieux Carre" characters have been TAKE a great amount of sunshine, and WIL. made known to the nation in a vivid and cheery smiles, add good music and Each Monday afternoon at six o'clock lifelike manner. humor administered by RKO stars and a WIL announcer greets the Radio audience: "It's RKO and here we go with the program from the St. Louis Theatre studios. Your genial host and master of ceremonies, Old Doctor Apple- sauce, is ready to conduct the regular In ig22^\^ weekly program featuring the Mystery Number Contest with Walter Seim at the theatre pipe organ. Answers to this First In Dixie weekly contest run into thousands as the listeners try to guess the correct title of an old number played. \^In 1930 An outstanding feature of the_ Old Doctor's broadcast is the original humorous style of announcing that he has inaugurated for the program. His announcements are made from the "Applesauce Book of Poetry," "The Applesauce Book of Proverbs," "The Applesauce Book of Philosophy," etc. The mysterious old doctor's identity was kept closely guarded until the St. Louis Radio show, when the listeners demanded that he appear, and so the secret was revealed—"Old Doctor Apple- Radiophone Broadcasting Station of sauce," Arthur A. Frudenfeld—assistant district manager for RKO. THE ATLANTA TNCIDENTALLY, dear lady - - GEORGIA ATLANTA A reader, you pos-it-ively must "The Journal Covers Dixie Like the Dew" read What Women Are Wearing This Fall by that best of authority, Eve M. Conradt-Eberlin. Of course, in the September Radio 5,000 WATTS CLEAR CHANNEL Digest. And another article by Western Electric Evelyn KDKA Gardiner, Is Your ^ FULL TIME ^ Kitchen Convenient? Throughout * * * Here's a tip to our friends with typewriter leanings: Radio Digest is planning soon to inaugurate a series of Radio Skitbits written by our readers. If they do as well as they did with the Amos and Andy Maintaining a complete continuous daily service of I7V2 hours :. skits we are going to enjoy some highly entertaining bits. !luiB!iBWHlMIHIII»HttlHttlllHIIH

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listener is led to expect from his Radio voice—a spry, energetic little man, with quick-moving hands and expressive shoulders. Not a youngster any more, though capable of all the enthusiasms of a boy in school. His face is thin and narrow, with mild, blue eyes and a sensitive mouth above a long chin. When he is talking his lips move very little —long stage experience has taught him the trick of "throwing" his voice from the back of his throat. But when acting before the microphone he is apt to take on droll contortions and mouth- In a unique setting the Silver Slipper Orchestra of Station KPO, San Francisco, ings, hunch his shoulders and wave his performs for audiences who delight to trip the "light bombastic" toe. The white arms about, all to fit the character he object on the curtain behind the musicians is a Cindarella slipper, we believe. is portraying. "Broadcasting is different from char- acter acting on the stage," Allen says, "because there you have action, costume and lighting effects to get your story <2)oc Johnson across the footlights and you can repre- of KPO sent a dozen different characters in pretty much the same voice. But in Radio you must have a voice for every Says, "JVhen I Settle Down and Marry I am Going " character to Raise a Little Haywire Orchestra All My Own" \ T LAST the public knows who "Doc Johnson," who directs the KPO during the "Toreador" broadcasts i\- "Brother Bob" is on the afternoon "Home Towners" over KPO, in private every Monday evening, 9:00 to 10:00 "Brother Bob frolic" at KTAB, Oak- land, Calif. is Raymond, aged life is Harry E. Jackson. Harry is a o'clock; Tuesday afternoon, 3:00 to 4:00 He Ray Radio salesman, and runs a Radio repair o'clock: "The Midweek Variety Hour," 36 years. shop, and, as he himself says, "by fix- Wednesdays, 9:10 to 10:00 o'clock, and Originally hailing from Shreveport, ing the sets I can be assured that they the "Back Home" programs Fridays, La., he later attended the University of cir- "are in good working order to receive my 8:30 to 9:00 o'clock p. m. Kansas, played in musical comedy programs." cles and then migrated into the adver- "Doc" was born at Covelo, California, tising racket. close to the Round Valley Indian Reser- Nearly 6 feet high, and weighing 170 vation, Mendocino County, in 1888. pounds, he has blue eyes and blond hair, fights, Like all back country people, he has a ARTHUR B. ALLEN, the squeaky admits a fondness for prize sup- friendly twinkle in his blue eyes. He voiced Gus of the Schradertown per dances and the talkies. stands 5 feet 0^2 inches, and, but for a broadcasts at 8:30 Friday nights over Which does he like better—acting or few sparse hairs that nestle on the top KSD, is just the sort of personality the Radio work? Three guesses. and sides of his head, he is bald. "I have always been too busy to allow my hair to grow," says this KPO artist with a giggle. "From the time I was knee high to a grasshopper, I have had to git- up-and-git to satisfy a craving for food. Congratulations to My first employment was with the vil- lage blacksmith where I pounded out many an inspiring tune on the anvil." "The tunes that I play on Radio KPO are the result of early environment," RADIO states Doc. "Ma and Pa were the hay- wirest musicians you ever heard, and so on thehtneir were my three brothers. We used to hold nightly concerts in the old home, utilizing every imaginable type of trans- portable instrument, with the exception of a piano, and the front parlor was the hangout for the neighbors. _ We all played by ear—whistles, banjos, accor- dians, violins. We went so far as to coax musical tunes out of almost any- from thing from which a sound could be ex- tracted. "Then, too, we organized a little 'Tin Horn Orchestra,' the kind which is com- monly called by Radio dialers of today 'Haywire,' and we were in great demand. We played for three years at various summer resorts throughout the State be- WREC fore we disbanded." "Doc" was schooled at Healdsburg, is attending the grammar and high schools of that city. In high school he excelled at pole vaulting and hurdling, and one year during the Water Carnival on the Russian river he won a silver medal as second place winner in the Single Oar race. There were only two in the race. "Someday when I settle down and marry," states Doc, "I am going back to them thar hills and raise a hay wire or- IBRVINQi iWEST TENNESSEE! chestra of my own, so that the family name will be perpetuated for Radio." =H I east Arkansas! Today Radio is richer in that the melo- = 1 NORTH MISSISSIPPI f dies that once cheered the pioneers on the trails are available and are sung by "Doc" and his "Home Towners" from — —

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^H-»-*-*-« •••••-••••-•••--•••••-•••- The KFRC Blue Monday Jamboree By Monroe R. Upton KFRC's Jamboree was born—a—good on a high stool for days at a time; wcoc program is born, not made 'way Frank Watanabe, who specializes in back (let's see!) sometime between the playing with nitroglycerin; professor owned and carving of the ten commandments and Hamburg, who does strange things with Lindbergh's flight to Paris. "Mac," oc- a sword; Lem and Lafe, the blackface operated by casionally known as Harry McClintock, pair, and Monroe Upton, a comedian of started it all as a campfire hour. Come parts and special writer for KFRC. Mississippi to think of it, though, it might have Besides there is Norman Nelson, a started with the Cuckoo Club, a KFRC tenor who specializes in old tunes, and Broadcasting Co. weekly "funfest" that flourished during who does dramatic parts, serious and INCORPORATED the station's 50-watt days, long before non-serious; Juanita Tennyson, Edna Don Lee purchased it, added 950 watts O'Keefe, Jean Wakefield, Lucille Ather- Meridian, Miss. and moved it to 1000 Van Ness avenue. ton, Margaret O'dea, who is possessed The Jamboree is just about the only of an exceptionally rich and sweet con- West Coast program that has managed, tralto voice; Edna Hazel Warner and by hook, crook or kilocycle, to become others. an institution. It has taken it's place 1000 Watts to local along with marriage, "Skippy," the one- Nature Faking way street, the Pacific ocean, aloofness sunset "I have gone into the stock breeding to the 18th Amendment and the story business," said Brown. 500 Watts thereafter. about the traveling man who went "You have?" replied Smith, "And downstairs to devour the remainder of what are you going to raise on your the biscuits—a part and parcel of Ameri- farm? Horses, cows and pigs?" can life on the Pacific coast. "No, No!" Brown rejoined. I'm go- The personnel of the Jamboree force ing in for something new. I'm going to 100% Modulation. includes the comedians—Pedro, the cross carrier pigeons with parrots so we dumb janitor of Seal Rocks, who sleeps can send messages verbatim."

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f *2k *m*3 Alamo Broadcasting Co. 401 MAJESTIC THEATER BLDG. Without hesitation we announce that Bonnie Daynes, shown herewith, is our type of girl. She is one of the talented artists of KDYL, Salt Lake San Antonio - - Texas City, Utah. Appearing with Norman Mork in the spot broadcast bearing the title of Diane and Phil. RADIO DIGEST 85 Girl W'ins $100 for ©UBRONSKY YARN By David B. Hampton KTRH T\THO killed Leon Dubronsky of KHOL? yy You will be surprised—especially if you were one of the many contestants who submitted 500-word Theories in answer to the question, which was published as the title of a mystery story in the April Radio Digest. Not one person named the actual killer. The Almost everyone mentioned in the story was accused, but the individual who is1 revealed here by the author, Mr. David B. Hampton, as the real murderer. All the manuscripts were read and reread by the judges. One after another zvas eliminated. Rice Hotel Margaret J. Ayotte, 2430 Ninth ave., Watervliet, New York, was adjudged the zvinner of the one and only prise of $100. Her theory zvas declared the most ingenious nearly correct. She cleared all the other characters on whom suspicion had and most Station at fallen and named the murderer as "Mr. X." She attributed the motive to revenge, and accounted for the missing finger to the desire of assassin for the ring. Follozving is the explanation as originally written by the author. Mr. Hampton. Houston, Texas

AFTER several weeks of fruitless in- AFTER DUBRONSKY DIED HE vestigation endeavoring to solve PHONED THE RADIO STATION. -the mysterious murder of Leon Common sense will tell you the impos- broadcasts nightly Dubronsky and how he could telephone sibility of such an action." a Radio station two hours after he had So far the discourse was of little as- on an assigned died, Smiling Pat Donovan succeeded in sistance to Donovan, but he knew he gaining permission from Captain Rawls- must content himself by listening to the frequency ton to place the case in the hands of the professor, and eventually he would learn noted criminologist, Professor Robert C. the truth. However, he said: of Marsby. "Then according to that I should ar- Seated in the cozy apartment on rest the assistant Radio announcer at Cherokee Street, Donovan related in de- KHOL because he took the second tail the incidents surrounding the mys- phone call." 1120 KILOCYCLES terious murder, and presented all the evi- "Exactly," the professor quickly re- torted. "Now, Donovan, you are using dence he had been able to uncover, and or in his most eloquent manner appealed to your head and not your legs. That man this expert for assistance. Marsby, as is guilty of this crime. Who else could was always his habit, sat listening with- do it? Why, my boy, I'd feel ashamed 267.7 METERS out ever interrupting. Then; before say- of myself if I were in your shoes. Ex- ing a word he strolled to the window cept for the motive I will reconstruct the and blindly gazed out over the rooftops little episode if you care to listen." of surrounding bungalows, and, slowly Donovan was very anxious to listen Featuring CBS Programs tugging at his chin, weighed the evidence and after they had lighted cigars and as well as the highest placed before him. At length he turned settled back in comfortable chairs type local entertainment to Donovan, his face serious and his cold Marsby proceeded to unravel the mys- of blue eyes piercing into the eyes of his tery. And his smoothness of speech guest. made it impossible to doubt his words. "Pat," he said in a toneless sort of "Dubronsky and the girl returned from way, "how many times must I warn you dinner and, reaching their floor, he tried of the folly in chasing clues? They are to persuade her to enter his room. She the most dangerous and misleading steps refused. Both went to their respective in solving a crime of this nature. Here apartments. Mrs. Conway entered Du- you have certain facts in this case, and bronsky's room to reprove him for his you totally ignore them to go chasing actions towards Mrs. Truewald. After rainbows. Stand at a window and look she departed the murderer, having gained off into space. Forget everything. For- access by a passkey prior to Dubronsky's get all you've heard or seen and give homecoming, and hidden in the clothes those little brain cells a chance to func- closet, leaped out and killed Dubronsky. tion. Shut everything else from your I think that explains the actions of Mrs. Broadcasting time available Conway and the girls." mind. to enterprising businesses "Automatically the puzzle will twist "Well, not exactly," Smiling Pat in- around into a nucleus and grow into a terjected. desirous of reaching a ma- logical solution. Now this case does not jority of South and South- warrant my devoting time to it. I'll start '

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The name Leon Dubronsky was an they are true, but he is still silent about with the company's car loaded down alias, his real name being Horace A. the whole affair. There must be a rea- with entertainers, was enroute from Widdemer. He had been a violinist in son, but that would probably be another New York to Newark. a motion picture theatre in Dallas, story to solve. Ah, verily, truth is The storm had drifted the snow and Texas, until the advent of talkies, when stranger than fiction, but truth never the trip consisted of one delay after this means of livelihood was relegated to finds an adequate ending place. Would another. At every corner where a tele- the graveyard. He tried being a street it be possible to say of Carleton Coon phone was available the Major called up musician, then turned to burglary, and, and his family, at this point, "and they Tommy—"We're on our way. Keep while robbing the Palmer house, he lived happily ever after"? No. There Jones and Hare singing until we get stumbled over a chair in the bedroom must still be more to tell, but until there." Back to the car he would and awoke the sleepers. In the fracas Cooney wishes to tell it, we must all go to battle the elements. When the that followed Mrs. Palmer was shot and wait. At least we can be reassured that half-frozen entertainers arrived at the killed, and Widdemer escaped by jump- he is in no danger, and that should diffi- studio Jones and Hare were singing ing through the window. culties arise, he is fully capable of meet- their forty-second number! Palmer had recognized the ring on the ing them. Cowan went to the microphone to deceased's finger as belonging to his wife. make an announcement and Billy Jones It was impossible to remove without flopped into a chair—all in. The Major lopping off the linger first, and he was Dawn of Radio leaned over to speak to him. Jones determined to retrieve the jewelry for looked up and murmured, "Thank God (Continued from page 70) sentimental reasons. Lawrence Palmer you're here!" Then the Major told him was not erratic in his speech, as he felt tion had the future of Radio at heart the sad news. "You'll have to sing one confident the Dallas police would verify and it was their desire to give the listen- or two more songs, Billy. The crowd his confession and he would be liberated ers entertainment. Lined up against this is frozen. They'll be alright as soon as without a prison term. little army of two were several of the they get thawed out," he whispered, officials of the Westinghouse Company "but you and Ernie will have to help Among those who submitted theories who also had the future of Radio at me out just a little longer." especially clever and worthy of honor- heart. These men were of the opinion Billy Jones never said a word but able mention were the following: that all persons connected with the the Major says he will never forget the the singer Miss lone Lester, 2418 Ninth ave., theatre were in league with the Devil. look which gave him as he Watervliet, N. Y. To permit these lost souls to broadcast slowly pulled himself out of the chair might give Radio a name! Rip- and motioned to Ernie Hare to join Charles Albright, R. F. D. No 4, bad As him at the mike. They sang another York, Pa. ley would say, "Believe it or not." White and Cowan carried on and the song, this pair who were to become fam- Helen Browne, Box 18, Cardiff-by-the- officials who opposed the appearance ous as the "Happiness Boys," now Sea, San Diego, Calif. of Broadway talent at the WJZ micro- known as "The Interwoven Pair." Oliver W. Cory, Waldeck, Sask. phone were forced to abandon a losing Forty-three numbers is, I think, a rec- Mrs. J. H. Reser, Conway, Mo. fight. The fan mail which poured in ord for one continuous duet recital. Belle Nugent Gross, 256 Grove st, proved that the public was getting what They were a hardy lot those Radio Oshkosh, Wis. it wanted. White and Cowan had won pioneers. Let's give those boys and Mabel Derrickson, 2225 Stewart St., the fight. girls a big hand. Puyallup, Wash. One evening after a strenuous broad- Oscar Bryer, 2006 Howe St., Chicago, cast Major White was on his way home. 111. He met a friend who owned a restau- Crockett Mountineers W. S. Mills, 215 Peterson ave., Cres- rant and as they chatted this man said, (Continued from page 33) ton, Iowa "I've got a band playing in my place Naomi R. Buchanan, 1522 Fifth ave., you ought to put on the air." Major and the fellow who buys one must eat Terre Haute, Ind. White asked whose band it was. The it with the woman who cooked it." Edith Keenan, 1004 Sixteenth ave., man replied, "There's a fellow running "And that's where the fun begins," Columbus, Ohio. it by the name of Vincent Lopez." chimed in Allen, the youngest. "Some- Mervin L. Gardner, R. F. D. 4, Wells, The Major had never heard of Lopez times a real old man buys a young girl's Minn. and his friend insisted that they go to pie, or a young fellow like me gets one Miss Katherine Macllreavie, Sleepy the restaurant right then and there. from a woman old enough to be my Eye, Minn. "The boys are playing now and it will grandmother. That happened to me V. A. Custer, 12 N. Goodwin ave., give you a chance to hear them." twice, and my whole evening was Kingston, Pa. White was tired but his friend was so spoiled." James V. Wiskin, 61 Livingston ave., insistent that he permitted the man to The Crocketts agree, however, that Kingston, Ont. persuade him into going with him. The the pies are good, no matter who bakes B. S. Grewal, 3839 Richton st., Detroit, band was playing. them. Their women-folk know how to Mich. Major White says now that it sounded cook. Melvin Tischler, Library, Pa. just the same to him then as any other "The only thing I don't like about the O. H. Smith, 147 Park Drive, Allegan, good band might have sounded. He girls up here is that they don't know Mich. saw no reason to get excited over the how to cook," said Johnny. Lillian Borvan, 2806 S. Harding ave., work of the musicians. However, he "Just before we left for New York," Chicago, 111. decided to ask the leader to broadcast recalled Albert, the third son, "I was at Van D. Valentine, Murray, Ky. some night. a party where they bid a pie up to $4.75 He was introduced to Lopez and gave before it was finally sold. That was the the invitation explaining that while highest price I ever remember being Beating the Racketeers there would be no financial return in it paid. It surely had me guessing until I (Continued from page 48) for the musicians he would see to it that found out the reason. It seems that one transportation facilities for the men and of the girls told two fellows who liked son of fashion in Chicago. Cooney was their instruments would be furnished. her a lot the kind and color of the box back on the stand and the Coon-Sanders Lopez smiled. "Oh, never mind that. her pie v/ould be in. Neither of them Orchestra was holding forth merrily. We can all go over in the Hudson thought the other knew anything about Newspapers could get no facts on the Tube. When do you want us there?" it and, as they both wanted to have_ it procedure of Cooney's amateur sleuth- The Major named the date and the with her, they kept raising the price ing. Then, at last, he admitted that all time of the broadcast. Sure enough, until one of them ran out of money. but one in the gang had been taken. The Vincent Lopez and all his musicians ap- The other got the pie and the girl, but fifth was not long to remain free. The peared at the Westinghouse factory on it was against the rules." show was just about over, and then time for the scheduled broadcast. Bass No, the Crocketts are not really at Coon-Sanders and their band went off viol, drums and all the trip had been home in New York. They miss their the air entirely. Fans again were in a made under the Hudson by tube. Per- hominy and home baked ham. They turmoil, but needlessly. Coon and San- haps you've heard of this man who, in miss certain beverages unmentionable ders were merely taking a well earned 1921 inconvenienced himself and all his here, and they miss above all yellow rest after seven years of hard work. They bandsmen in order to promote Radio corn meal and sorgham molasses. But came back to their public when they during the pioneering days—this Vin- when they get into the Columbia studios opened their summer engagement at the cent Lopez? and establish an intimacy with the Dells. So far_ there have been no more One stormy night that same winter microphone and their fiddles, they are interruptions in their careers. Cooney the Major and Tommy Cowan had themselves again. Real mountaineers, has been unmolested and his family are scheduled a program of great variety. happy in the ease and simplicity of their in good shape. It is a known fact that Two singers by the name of Billy Jones own music, unmindful of urbane conven- four of the Rang are behind bars and it and Ernie Hare were to open the eve- tions, light-hearted, sincere. Their gongs, is suspected that the fifth has joined his ning's broadcast with some duets. They so different from modern jazz, stir the companions. opened the show alright. And they kept heart and stimulate smiles. Undoubtedly Cooney will not say anything of his it open for an hour. Then they kept they are bringing back the family to the adventures. He does not deny that it open for another hour! Major White, hearthstone.

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Terror "We make Caesar general of de army When we stand correctly it should be and Peggy'll (.Continued from page 32) be Mrs. General." possible to draw a straight line from This was the most popular proposal of the side center of the head right down the slaves never were considered. Slaves all, for Caesar was the host, Caesar pro- to the instep. All general exercises assist neither had wrongs nor rights. vided the liquor that inspired all this greatly after we once have our eyes best The people in town bought and phantom glory. opened to our errors. With 1930 styles sold them, whipped them or sent them Next there were plans of war. They the head must be held high and the chin to the jail to be whipped; but nobody cheerily agreed, as amiable children slay in, though avoid drawing it in unnat- cared for them, so why should they care their Indians in droves, to a wholesale urally, which gives a pouter pigeon for anybody? murder of the tyrants of their house- effect. Greater erectness from the hips Tonight the uncorking of the bottles holds. is necessary this year and you'll find it uncorked their own fiery spirits and Quack, who belonged to Roosevelt the gives a wonderful feeling of relief to the they exchanged stories of the wrongs painter, announced that he would burn abdominal region. The back should be they suffered. They bandied the reputa- down his house and c"ut his master's flat, but not curved inward; knees tions about of the highest families and throat, but he would keep his young straight and the weight of the trunk told what they knew of the scandals that mistress for himself. swung forward a little so that the arches found no other publication. Debrosse's Primus whooped _ _ that he of the feet have a chance to sustain the If they grew boisterous and reckless, didn't want his mistress: "She too mean pressure of the bones. they not waited white had on orgies? If and lean." Please try this posture and keep it in they drank too much, had they not car- mind so that you don't slump back into ried to bed many a master—and mistress look T?OLLOW the fortunes of the a of utter defeat. There is nothing —too stupefied to do anything but strike more freeing for the entire spirit than J/ little white slave girl, Mary, and curse the faithful slave that tried to correct posture for it gives every muscle save the family name? And what pay and her sweetheart, Tom, in this of the body, and every organ, a chance to did they get? thrilling historical story of old function properly and it relieves your "They's white folks in 'is town 'at has mind of "body consciousness." Neiv York in the September num- too much and brack folks as has too lit- tle," groaned Mrs. Lynch's ber of Radio Digest. wench HAIR counts! If it is woman's crown- "Cuba," and Carpenter's "Ticklepitcher" ing glory when perfect; it is also whined: her crowning disgrace when neglected, "My old missy so mean to me dis Women Deserve Beauty allowed to straggle and follow its own mawn' I just couldn't seem to please her (Continued from page 41) very ill bred ways. "Man was born to nohow. I come might' near cuttin' her conquer nature, not to follow it," and old fat th'oat for her." together. Select a rouge that blends well woman was born to conquer the wild with the powder and lipstick a shade impulses of her hair. "Brushing went CURACAO DICK broke in: darker for daytime use. In the evening out of fashion with long hair," I've actu- "My massa make so much trouble use lipstick the same color as your rouge. ally heard women say. Helen Lewis about me not keepin' de house warm And, of course, keep all puffs clean and told me that brushing went out of dat 1 'bout raidy to burn it down and sanitary." fashion when the modern rush and bustle th'ow him into it." When making-up, first apply a light came along to make us neglect a lot of The Spanish Indian "Wan" or "Juan" base of powder to neck and face. With important though tiresome things. snarled: the rouge puff draw a "V" from a point There is no short cut to hair beauty. "1 like-a burn de whole damn town just under the cheek-bone, widening to- You must take time, every day at what- down." wards the ears. Blend it naturally into ever hour suits you best to brush and Another Spanish negro, Pable, spoke the cheeks, dab a speck on the chin, dust brush and brush. In one of the drawers with a flare of willingness: over with powder and your complexion of your toilette table which is always "Cut all de white hearts out and I'll is set for the rest of the day. Lose the kept clean and free from dust, keep a drink dey blood to dey health." bad habit of dabbing powder on your good, stiff-bristled hair brush. Wash it Mr. Ellison's Jamaica restored the nose every few minutes. In the first frequently. When you have ten minutes note to its proper frivolity by waving his place it is poor taste to do this in public to spare, slip into a kimono, sit down old violin in air and shouting: and secondly it is unnecessary. before your mirror and begin brushing "And me I plays de fiddle whilst you Some faces need special treatments. through your hair; up and down and all cook de whites !"- If you wish to make your face look over, but gently to avoid breaking hairs. This met with a whoop of approval. thinner, start rouging close to the nose Sing_ while you're doing it so the time Mrs. Van Borsum's Scipio and Benson's and then smile as you draw the puff in will pass quickly. Mars and Kelley's London all rose at a triangle up toward the temple. A dab Hair should be washed whenever it is once and shouted: of rouge on a double chin will cast a dirty. Every fortnight is a good rule "Come on evvabody, we go out and set shadow that minimizes, and a speck on for the woman who lives away from the de town on fiah!" pale ears will give a more youthful look smoke and grime of big cities. Once a There was a deafening clatter of mugs to the face. For thin faces start rouging week for the rest of us. If you find it on tables at this. But Pemberton's out on the cheek, under the cheekbone dries your hair, apply olive oil with a Quamino howled: and blend towards the ears. medicine dropper the night before your "Hit's pretty damn cold for dat. When rouging the lips always follow shampoo, and massage your head thor- Where at we all go when de houses all the contour of the mouth. To make a oughly. Use a pure shampoo with an oil burn? We better wait till summer come." large mouth look smaller, first apply base. Be sure to get the last drop of soap This brought a big laugh, and they de- liquid rouge with a piece of cotton from your hair. Rub it briskly with a cided to postpone the destruction for wrapped around an orange stick, follow- towel until dry—unless you are fortunate more comfortable weather. Meanwhile, ing the contour of the lips but not enough to have a sunny back porch or they called the roll and all the guests touching the corners. Then lightly garden where you can let the sun do its agreed to do their shares in the judg- blend in the lipstick over this. miraculous work. ment day. Each promised to send his Of course, care of the hands and com- If your hair refuses to fall nicely into master's house up in smoke, except Tom plexion is not enough to create personal place, have it thinned out by an expert Peal's Bastian. who shook his head. beauty. Eyes mean a great deal, posture barber. If you are not sure of the style "I got too nice a house. I keep it for means just as much, clothes count, hair that best becomes the contour of your to live in maself when we all is free." you see, there is plenty to keep us busy. face, consult a clever hairdresser. Straight bobbed hair should be clipped every fortnight if you want to look well- BUT unchecked freedom was still be- FOR brightening dull eyes Miss Lewis yond their vision. Somebody must suggests the application of absorbent groomed. A lightly perfumed tonic, not always be master, and it pleased Cow- cotton pads that have been dipped in too oily, should be applied every other ley's Cato to say: witch hazel. Use a boracic acid solution night, massaging for about five minutes. "How we gwine divide de govament with an eye cup every day. when we git it?" French women, who are famous for AFTER getting all these things down In deference to the tavern keeper who their snapping, bright eyes, use an excel- to routine—and there is no woman stood laughing by, filling the glasses as lent eye tonic made from camomile alive today who cannot find the neces- they were drained, Kip's Harry said: flowers. Fill tiny cheesecloth bags, sary 4ime for these simple treatments "I elect Mr. Hughson for king." which can be made in spare moments it is time to think of clothes. Latham's Fortune went one better: and kept on hand, with a teaspoonful of According to Miss Cornell, the most "And Miz Hughson for queen!" the dried flowers. Steep in boiling hot important thing about dressing is know- Vanderspiegel's Brash shouted: water a few moments and then when ing your own style. "And Miss Hughson for second helpin' cool apply the bags to the eyes for five Be fashionable, yes, but retain your as queen." minutes. individuality. Styles are adaptable to all Tiebout's Venture piped up: To carry your clothes well, add poise figures, all ages, all sizes. "And who is Peggy goin' to be?" and symmetry to your appearance and The first thing every woman must set- tle clothes is color. are Bayard's Phaeton was ready with a give proper space to all the organs, of about What _ solution: the body, correct posture is essential. "your" colors? When you have decided —

88 this, stick to it through thick and thin, Vacation Follies Another sportsman is Henry Burbig, regardless of that "gorgeous red" dress the Ceco CBS star. Burbig delights in you saw in a shop window the other day (Continued from page 23) hunting, fishing and building birdhouses. but which was never your shade. From He has a summer place in Connecticut simple housedresses to our most elab- Clarence Hayes, the Aunt Jemima with a bathing beach to which he loves his orate evening clothes we should follow Boy in the West, has another fish story. to invite his friends, and on dock he has installed a loud speaker so that they our own color charts. Colors that en- To be correct, it's a fish story told on hance the value of your hair and eyes Clarence. Hayes attempted to cast, and can't get away from Radio even while naturally add to your beauty. Colors that by some trick the reel failed to unwind swimming. detract—well, we won't even consider properly. The fish-hook caught Clarence Henry_ M. Neeley, Philco's "Old them. in the lobe of the right ear. Medical Stager," is a flower farmer. Once in by- To the well-dressed woman good taste attention wasn't available, so Clarence gone years he lived in a houseboat on is more important than money; the com- came home with the hook in his ear. the unspellable river flowing past De- bination of little money and much taste The obvious comment was forthcom- lanco, N. J. This summer the pastime gives far better effects than much money ing—"the biggest fish caught this sea- is still floriculture, I think, but the dash- and little taste. To be well dressed, Miss son." ing Old Stager is apt to change fads Cornell told instanter. me, a woman must simply Clarence is a Southern lad who did Brokenshire, of produce an impression of harmony; ab- his first broadcasting in 1930* when he Norman CBS master solute harmony with one's individuality played with a Kansas City dance band. umptymonies, will spend any possible 70-degree and surroundings. He has been billed through the NBC vacation by attending every To get the full value from your clothes, as "The Voice of the South." cool talkie theater in New York City. especially today, your figure must be Johnny Toffoli, featured San Fran- Norm also goes in for gadgets and in- venting, having been draftsman not so supple and graceful, giving an impression cisco NBC accordionist, had an early a fact, he about of youthful flexibility. Such grace and vacation too. Back on the job, Johnny many years ago. In was fluidity one cannot counterfeit; one can wore a wide grin. Inquiry revealed that to buy, as this went to press, a little only create them by toning up muscles the youthful musician was a benedict. machine shop on East 52nd Street, New and removing superfluous fat. Corseting, The bride formerly was Aurelia Brovin York, in which to work out several in- in corner of alone, will not do the trick. Nineteen- and the ceremony was celebrated at El ventions he had started a thirty his clothes are so soft and clinging Cerrito, Cal., with the mayor of Rich- apartment. that Evangeline 65-year-old they do not hide bulging hips and mond, Cal., among the guests. Adams, CBS spreading waistlines. Ted Maxwell and Bernice Berwin, astrologer, is spending her leisure mo- known through the Pacific network as ments collecting battered up chairs and HERE, again, enters the question of "Jack and Ethyl," always experience primitive spinning wheels in the remote villages districts posture and also exercise and diet- difficulty winning a vacation. One of of the mountainous ing. I have told you how to test your them must be "written out" of the about New York, John Barclay, CBS posture and you can get the necessary weekly "Let's Get Associated" program and Philco soloist, will continue to exercises over the Radio every morning. which they headline. spend the summer with his social regis- But, again, it is a matter of perseverance Each week, Jack and Ethyl appear terite friends at cocktail parties, golf faith in yourself. to diet, I can country clubs, dances society and As together. It's no small problem to pre- and mu- only Cornell said sicales. repeat what Miss to sent one without the other. It's allowed me: "Ask your doctor." We all know, twice during the year—once for Jack A simpler sort of life is the plan of that to reduce we must avoid fats, sugar and once for Ethyl. The problem falls Henry Schope and Judson House, NBC to gain weight inveigled Pres- and starches; we must to Carlton Morse, author of the Jack tenors, who have Walter concentrate on these things. But let your and Ethyl episodes. That puts Ted in ton, bass, to join them in periodic golf doctor tell in proportion they tennis object: to reduce you what a class with Wolf. He must take his and matches— in corpulent figures. are to be included your meals. vacation in jumps. three somewhat The "It is amazing, but true, that we often Bernice plans to join her husband, a three heavyweights are also fond of see tall, thin women with their hair piled San Francisco attorney, in an extended swimming. top of their heads to accentuate their Simpler still is the leisure life of the on motor trip. height," Miss Cornell complained. "And Charles Marshall, leader of the Hill Crockett Family, CBS hill billy singers. then why do dumpy women wear satin Billy gang, spent his vacation at Em- Elemental in their pleasures, they admit clothes rich in highlights that emphasize erald Lake, a quiet rendezvous near San that when no one is looking, they some- every rotundity? Florid women have a Francisco. He chose a resort nearby in times rent a hay wagon, and, far from way of preferring bright rouge and event he was needed suddenly at the the roaring racket of city motors, ride other brighter gowns that must make studios. He was. The vacation lasted tranquilly through the woods, eat their people think they're color blind. three days. corn pone out of a basket lunch, and "Wearing the proper colors to enhance Jennings Pierce, chief announcer, fiddle happily to the stars. NBC's Pick- your type of beauty is such a simple characterized his vacation as: "Well ard Family, too, can stand the city matter it seems odd that many women um_ WONDERFUL!" The reason- strain just so long. Then they take an wear the wrong ones. Blonde hair and Allan Thompson Pierce, a second son excursion back home to the Tennessee pale clear skins look best in soft colors other born to add gladness in the Pierce mountains, where corn has uses and pastel shades. Dark or brunette hair becoming roastin' ears and folks household. Jennings Jr., is just more than olive or dark skins usually wear rebuild and than a year old. are folks. There they visit and sharply defined colors and vivid shades Georgia Simmons, known as "Mag- their morale. best." nolia" to the Pacific network audience, On the CBS announcing staff, the Beauty is than a lovely elegant much more managed to slip down to Los Angeles very sophisticated and Ted Hus- skin of copper-colored hair. example, or a mass for a week-end. But when she^ de- ing, national sartorial has been, exactly Unless every item dovetails into manded reservations for her return jour- as you would suspect, spending his days the scheme, dark eyes may go for noth- ney, the trouble began. Georgia had to off this summer hunting for peculiar soft, clear skin be a complete cra- ing and be in the studios at 10 o'clock the fol- and striking vestments, matching loss. No architect would attempt to lowing morning. "No reservations" said vats with waistcoats, and searching for build a house with a Gothic pinnacle and the ticket clerk. the proper spats for his gloves. If he'd Grecian columns; if he did, the result Georgia talked about the possibilities had more time, Ted probably would would be ridiculous. So in constructing of reaching San Francisco by plane. At have steamed over to Bond Street, Lon- of if try to combine a a type beauty you last a gleam of recognition appeared in don, to shop and shock the Prince of Grecian torso with a wild tangle of curls, the agent's eye. "Ah, you're on the Wales' tailors and haberdashers. David the result is bad. Evolve your type first, Radio," he grinned. So Georgia reached Ross, the other famous CBS introducer, and then harmonize every element San Francisco early the following has put much of this summer into bang- with it. morning. ing tennis balls around when not en- And don't forget to keep smiling or, Max Dolin, NBC musical director gaged in writing or reading poetry, or as Miss Cornell expressed it with music: since the inauguration of the Pacific Di- hunting for second-hand book bargains. your sunny side up." "Keep vision, is taking a long, long vacation. "Springtime — early summer — wander- FLYING—often as a passenger of Problems beatify and home-making are of lust," Max smiled. "I've got to be Clarence Chamberlain—has been fill- discussed on the Magazine the of Air broad- going." And just to insure a real vaca- ing in the spare time between Davey casts over the Columbia Broadcasting Sys- for tion, Max resigned, effective June 1. hours and rehearsals Chandler Gold- morning. tem every weekday If you need "New York—and a lot of places," he thwaite, musical director and organist. assistance in any of your personal beauty answered to the query, "Where are you In fact, he even sold the idea of aviation problems, Miss Helen Lewis zvill be glad to going?" to Margaret Olsen and James Stanley, anszver your letters if you write to her, care of the same hour, and planned a cross- of the National Radio Home-Makers Club, country flight for the foursome to Stan- 1819 Broadway, Nczv York City. *Doty Hobart, who ivritcs about the old- ley's summer home in the Adirondacks. 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Andy Sanella, musical director of the a thing about how the Chicago NBC and from dog shows for his Boston terriers, Empire Builders, steel guitar and sax CBS stars are spending their two weeks, the "darlingest things" when they are at soloist, is another aviator. Andy flies his if any. All right, I'll make it snappy. a distance from one's sheer hosiery. own plane and thus has been spending Here it is: his minutes off. Bob MacGimsey, three- Joe Koestner bought a brand new golf part whistler of the same program, went suit, set of matched clubs, a dozen balls Will Rogers Begins Career back to Lake Providence, La., this sum- and a book of rules, but hasn't had time (Continued from page 16) mer to help supervise the picking of the to use them. Harry Kogen, a brother cotton crop on a large plantation of NBC musical director, took a long drive Before he died, Clem Rogers felt that which he is part owner. But Empire around the country. John Wolfe, Farm- his son had more than repaid all the Builder Harvey Hayes, the "Old Pio- Home hour star, joined forces with Gor- trouble he had caused in his early youth. neer," is spending the warm months in dan Vandover (the Harry of the Tom, In fact he said that he had seen every little Dick a Broadway production, and has and Harry vocal trio) in a fishing ambition of his life realized save one; he chance for recreation or rest. expedition to a point north of Baraboo, had always hoped sometime to be Will Rogers, another aviation booster Wis. After looking over the minnows chosen chief of the Cherokees. He had who always uses this means of trans- Wolfe and Vandover shipped back, Sen served as a member of the Cherokee portation, has been kept pretty busy this Kaney. prominent Chicago NBC an- Indian legislature during several terms nouncer, summer but has managed to work in held a conference with himself in territorial days. Later he was a mem- some polo games. When not busy or and decided to postpone his vacation till ber of the white man's convention that playing polo on his Beverly Hills, Calif., next winter, when he plans to set out for wrote the constitution of the present estate, Will scowls, frowns and counts Sarasota, Fla., to do tarpon fishing. state of Oklahoma. His county was on his fingers what it costs to keep a Torri^ Breen, Jr., young but handsome named for him. He stood high in the string of polo ponies. NBC announcer, took his spare mo- councils of that tribe of intellectual red Frank Luther, Chase and Sanborn ments to the airports where he added a men which had already given several number quartet second tenor, has been spending of hours to his solo total. And famous mixed bloods to the nation, in- I forgot his summer horseback too, but not in almost —Al Cameron, of the cluding former U. S. Senator Robert L. polo games. Luther has been seen Al and Pete (Bontsema) duo known Owen. He was well informed, a shrewd mostly on the bridle paths of West- also over CBS as Shave and Smile, trader, and a good manager; energetic, chester County. Horses are good friends won't be playing any more sand lot progressive, a ranchman with hundreds baseball of Luther who, ordained a Disciples this summer. Al got playful in of acres in fee and a substantial stock- minister, was brought up on the West- May and, seeing the boys playing scrub holder in the First National Bank. But in the park, joined in ern plains around the camp fires of the long enough to he died regretting only that he was in- cowboys. He insists that is all the vaca- slip going around third and wrench a eligible to the office of the Cherokee tion he will take as he has no use for leg. Pete has since induced Al 'to go tribal chief for the simple reason that mosquitoes or city children in the back to checkers. he was not a full blood. country. Yes sir, all of the announcers, produc- A jest has always been appreciated in tion directors, accompanists, hostesses, Claremore—there is serious belief there continuity writers, engineers and PAUL TREMAINE, young CBS or- oper- that the spirit of the town gave Will chestra leader, has already spent his ators have had or will get the usual two Rogers his start. The name of the town weeks' vacation, and all vacation period in Colorado collecting were unanimous is rather a grim jest. It is after Chief in their declaration that they cowboy songs and getting acquainted would Claremore of the Osages, though it is in with horses once more. Previous to his search for spots where Radio sets have Cherokee territory. Chief Claremore rest he hadn't been on a horse for five never been seen nor heard. died there when the Cherokees under years, so the Columbia System gave him But those who have returned didn't Too-An-Tuh gained a smashing victory a new soft seat cushion when he re- find those spots, nor will those still wait- in the spring of 1818—and later the turned. ing to go. You can't get to Tibet in two whites named the town after the loser. Of all the horsemen, NBC or CBS, weeks, anyhow. Or maybe it would have been funnier to Guy Lombardo, however, seems to be have named it after the winner! the most practical minded. Guy admits, without shame, that every possible spare Jack Shannon Goes Talkie HOMER DENNY, the assistant treas- moment he has is spent riding a night- (Continued from page 51) urer of Rogers county and the mare. Pulling a card from his card- largest man in the county, says that case he said, "I'll show you how I spend "I'll never forget the night when Will Rogers tells the story of "the first my vacations, such as I have." And Rogers left the show to go into pictures. calaboose ever built and the first there, printed on the card, is a quotation During the finale, actors, stage hands prisoner put in it." from "Don Quixote" reading, "God and all rushed on to the stage, and to- "This man's name was Bud Weyburn bless the man who invented sleep!" gether with the audience, which also and he was incarcerated for killing Two more network batoneers who caught the spirit, joined in a demonstra- Widow Kreighton's gander goose," have similar tastes are Fred Rich and tion which has never been equalled in Homer says, and adds, Hugo Mariani. Both are strong for any theatre. "Bud pleaded self-defense and was prize fights. Rich also likes to meet and liberated on his own evidence." talk with the cauliflowers. Golf is his "W"ILL ROGERS has left indelible It isn't history, or at least it isn't favorite exercise while tennis holds the VV impressions with me. His acts, worth remembering unless it is enriched favor of Mariani. Harold Sanford, a great and small, reveal the true-blooded with a bit of laughter, Claremore agrees. third conductor, of whom there is no man that he is. I well remember the time Then, all the clouds have silver linings "whomer" when it comes to Victor Her- he refused to attend the opening of the "and some lined in and out the same bert's works, goes in for walks in Cen- Mellon Bank in Pittsburgh. He was asked way." tral Park. New York, and climbing to name his own price, and he received Back in 1905 Will barnstormed the mountains when he can get that far a telegram from the then President of the middle-west with a special train of Tulsa away from the big city. United States urging him to be there, boosters and L. M. Nichols, now an The stick wavers still have the floor. but with all of this pressure, he said he Oklahoma newspaper editor, recalls that Frank Black, who got into the business had to refuse. His reason—he had a polo trip vividly. because years ago at a hotel where he game scheduled with his three kids at his "Bill Rogers (it was always Bill then, was vacationing there was a vacancy in place on Long Island for the next after- never Will) was the feature of the trip," the orchestra, is spending his off time at noon." Nichols says, and he points with pride to the wheel of a large, new custom-built Jack Shannon can spend hours talking a paragraph in the old Tulsa Democrat car, reliably reported by eye-witnesses to about this renowned comedian. His in which he said that on March 15, 1905: be a block long. Like Black, Mayhew study is decorated with souvenirs of Will "The feature of the trip is Bill Rogers' Lake, whose military band is more or Rogers—and the wallpaper has the Will fancy rope juggling. Mr. Rogers is an less new on CBS, has a custom-built job Rogers motif. adept, and his exhibition shows he is twenty feet long with a wheel base of "I must here say a word about my skilled beyond his reputation. He is the 146 inches. Besides tinkering and mo- genial manager, Henry Walker," said center of attraction and when dressed in toring, hunting and fishing allure him to Jack Shannon, concluding the interview, his cowboy outfit creates a sensation. the open spaces. "whose cheery laugh is like a sunbeam in He gives an exhibition at every stop." a garden. His memory is infallible inas- Rbgers was even then in the man- NAT AND Jack Shilkret, and Joseph much as he has never yet overlooked the agerial class, for Nichols recalled that Pasternack have been pounding the little detail of extracting his commission at one point he left the train to hasten golf balls furiously this summer. In before mailing me a check." to New York City where he was pre- addition, the latter has been doing a bit And back again to Will Rogers, "Our senting a rodeo in Madison Square of Giant rooting while the former has paths may be racing criss-cross over Garden. been observed to take several five and Radio waves, but I have a feeling that Rejoining the train at Indianapolis on six mile swims along the shores of Long they will meet some day." March 20 Rogers put on another exhibi- Island. And when Jack Shannon is not busy tion, and Nichols in describing it added What's that you said, Mr. Editor? I producing acts over the Radio, he spends this significant sentence: have to finish up? Why, I haven't told his time carrying home blue ribbons "Rogers is reputed to be one of the 90 wealthiest men in Indian Territory." was she who inaugurated the Daily Edu- were oddly blank, so to speak, those This was long- before the comedian cational Broadcasts which have since be- tones of his, throughout the rest of the vaulted into the big money class of per- come a part of the Middle West's school talk; they betrayed nothing. Now he formers. It is evident that since the turn programs. went on: of the century the Rogers fortune must Miss Waller is a Chicagoan. She fin- "I've been—thinking how to arrange have assumed proportions. ished off her education after high school your income " And she must follow With the circus, the traveling rodeos by a trip abroad. that lead. and the Tulsa special train Rogers had "But my real education," she will ex- It was characteristic of Sid that he covered most of the world before the plain to you, "began when I became a held no rancor now. . There had been war. Thousands will be scratching Radio person—a pioneer in the broad- resentments in the past, many little re- their heads now to recall one of these casting game." sentments. But now, strangely, in this visits to their city, so they can say they climactic hour of his failure, his feel- ." "saw Will Rogers when . . ing of failure somehow was robbed of N. Y. Negroes' Opinions resentment, leaving only such an abys- Read another chapter in the (Continued from page 12) mal sense of hollow unreality in life that interesting career of this ex- for the time it was like a dreadful ano- traordinary man, who has now know. We can only judge by his voice. dyne that was going to wear off and become a Radio favorite. See It must be a good program. Everybody leave him, after awhile, the prey to his the September Radio Digest. I know seems to like it, but it just don't pain. He told himself she had always interest me, that's all." in all ways been above him; it was by * * * a lucky fluke he had won her. Judith Waller of WMAQ John Jones, taxi driver, 49 East 128th Street: "Amos 'n' Andy are to be con- (Continued from page 57) for them both, was hard to gratulated on being able to put on such SLEEP, come by that night. In her room a fine program every night. I do not was Sophie Braslau, the operatic singer. Amelie lay hour after hour with eyes think it is as good now as it was, but I "All our first programs were musical, wide open to the dark. She knew that think I can explain that. They hit a but before very long I got into the prac- Sid wasn't sleeping, either; from the ad- high spot with the introduction of Susie tice of having theatrical people go on joining room came a repeated sound of and the threatened breach of promise for us. We had one hour a day in which striking matches—he was awake and suit. Anything which followed that to broadcast, at first seven to eight in smoking cigarettes. And cigarettes were would naturally be anti-climactic. But the evening. In October of 1922 I added bad for him. She was sorry he was as a graduate of the DeWitt Clinton another hour, changing the broadcasting wakeful and smoking sorry he was School, I marvel at their ability to find — session from 7 to 8 in the evening and thus evidently upset. But she was a interesting material. My favorite pro- again for 9:30 to 10:30. I laugh when I million times more sorry that he hadn't grams are the talks on current events recall those naive days! How hard I been more upset! artists by Mr. Kaltenborn over WABC and worked! In these days when Ah, if Sid had given way to selfish- any serious discussions of political or are tumbling over themselves for a ness and fought her plan and clung to economic nature. I do not think any of chance to get on the air it is a very dif- his claims on her, that night, everything us feel that Amos 'n' Andy are carica- ferent matter from having to go out and would have come out and all might have tures of our race. Sometimes a fare will find them and beg them, sometimes, to been cleared up forever. But Sid was • ask me if I am driving a "fresh air taxi." come in, with dire threats of what would not only self-depreciating; he was a gen- It never makes me sore. if late. I had to happen they were go * * * tleman—and sometimes this is a great out and knock at private office doors, disadvantage with What a Negro Educator Thinks of a woman. ring door bells. And then I had to put Amos and Andy Amelie could not get away fast enough my proposition up to them which, in after that night. This was the impos- PRINCIPAL Laurence C. Jones of brief, was this: sible, now. She hurried to a hotel in Pineywoods School, near Jackson, " 'Will you come and give us a little town the very next day. Miss., is a colored educator who has private performance for nothing? Of the Fletchers separated it won warm commendation from South- When was course, you'll get some publicity out hard for their friends to grasp the situa- " erners and Northerners alike. He has of it.' tion. Divorce these gay and strenuous this to say about the of the Fresh Well, the craving for the publicity of "boys" Air Taxicab Company: moderns could easily understand, but the average theatrical and operatic per- separation without divorce this "In going about the country gathering — was be- son is well known and in the case of the yond them. And there seemed no good aid for our school I find that Amos and early days of Radio it was no different. reason for separation; true the Fletchers Andy are liked and looked forward to Miss Waller got 'em! How she got 'em! differed in many of their tastes yet they both by white and colored folks. Down Soloists, singers, choral clubs, pianists, had always seemed to get on perfectly here in the South, all you have to do is violinists, actors. Glance at a hit-and- well. You never could tell! go in most any poolroom or little place miss listing of a few of the early broad- And the queerest thing about it of business and you will see Amos and was casters from Judith Waller's one-man that Sid and Amelie still seemed so Andy in the flesh—mostly Amos." station: friendly! The departure from Fair Principal Laurence—as he is known to Ed Wynn, Carl Sandburg, Roger Bab- Haven was not known for what it the white folks of Mississippi—conducts was son, Julian Street, Ernest Truex, Louise till afterwards; but some Fair a country school in the sweet-smelling Haven Groody, Ben Hecht, Fritz Leiber, George people had happened to see them at the pineywoods of that state. A pupil and Arliss, Ralph Morgan, Mary Garden, steamer when Amelie sailing admirer of the late Booker T. Washing- was for Rimini, Raisa, John Charles Thomas. that after the ton, he has set to work and built up a Europe, and was news had were all grist for Miss Waller's They school founded on the sound common- been well spread about and aired. Sid microphone. to the off! sense principles which the late Dr. had come steamer to see her first quarters of the The WGU Washington advocated, whereby the Why, it seemed almost indecorous! And to in May, 1923) were (changed WMAQ pupils at his school learn to be good he had been overhead asking her to store. were moved in in the Fair They farmers, carpenters, cotton pickers, me- write him, and the eavesdroppers were Salle Hotel. Here they 1923 to the La chanics, as well as imbibing some book almost sure she said she would! remained until the recent completion of learning. that towering Daily News building on SID had ' not intended going to that the banks of the placid-flowing Chicago steamer. Everything had been ad- River, to which the Radio studio was Incompatible justed between them, all the arrange- moved. (Continued from page 51) ments for her maintenance, all the plans Radio was getting under way as a and decisions vital to the living of their national activity. The popularity of And, at that, Amelie's feelings almost two lives separately. It had been hard, WMAQ was on the increase. The work reached the surface. this period of talking over and adjust- attendant upon running a station (which "Do you want a divorce?"—her voice ing; but it was carried out With faultless included everything there was to be she had to keep taut and hard to keep it manners on both sides. done) was too much for one small lady. under any control at all. The pride of being each as decorously And so she commenced to expand her Sid shook his head. And the move- remote as the other was all that kept staff. An announcer first, than an as- ment was curiously, passionately em- them from breaking down the walls be- sistant; a secretary. An orchestra—the phatic, though so brief. tween. And, even so, some happy acci- Whitney Trio, organized by Robert A change came into Amelie's eyes, but dent, some common moment of the Whitney, eight years ago—is still in the she only stuck to her guns and said, weakness which would have made their service of the station. calmly that she wanted no divorce. strength—this might have saved them. Two things Miss Waller has stressed "There'll never be another man. That But it did not come. from the first in the programs she has isn't it." The nearest to giving way to his real prepared: Good music, as opposed to "And there'll never be another woman feelings that Sid had come had been on jazz, which was taking up most of the for me—you know that, too." the day she left their home. He had time of Chicago's other station in 1922, And by this time he could speak in come home early, not knowing she was and the educational aspect of Radio. It level, firm tones as well as she. They determined to leave that day but mis- J " — " " ——

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trusting that she might. He had found "But he's trying to do the impossible. heart, she wondered that she was so her trunks downstairs, but Amelie was He'll succeed only in killing himself if unappeased. Why? For she had been going about taking a mute farewell of he doesn't watch out. Gone down about unhappy zvith Sid. It was because she her home; and from a distance he had twenty pounds these last six months." couldn't be happy with him—because watched her before she knew he was "Oh," turning white— and faltering, "I neither of them could be happy together there. never had an inkling — —that she had chosen to go away while She had moved about, gazing at this "Perhaps I shouldn't have (so she had told herself) she could still fix object and that, as if striving to them "No, thank you for telling me, take some rainbow fragments of her first indelibly upon her memory. She went Charlie." dream with her; before everything was from room to room; she lingered in the Going back to her hotel, her thoughts sodden in an ignoble prose—so ignoble room which once, long and long ago, and emotions were in a turmoil. Sid that the difference between tolerance of had been intended for a nursery. Then was having "hard sledding"—had been each other and downright intolerance she went to the garage, and called the having "hard sledding" for months—and seemed fairly unimportant. dogs, and stroked and caressed them. all this time he had never let on to her. She made herself stop thinking of Sid; Then she walked slowly about the She thought of the more than gener- put him out of her thoughts. You can grounds, looking at the groupings of ous allowance he had insisted on her put a person out of your thoughts; but shrubs and flowers she herself had de- taking. Sid had always been generous, not out of your heart. Not even, some- vised. When she came back to the ter- but there had been no need of her taking times, when you have watched Love die, race she stood staring out over the vista so much—especially after she'd left him! and have deliberately buried it. of Sound, • and green woods beyond, She had been ignoble to accept it in And with the meeting with Charlie which she particularly loved. She moved the first place! And now, when he was Hamblin her hunger to see her husband broodingly back to the house, but when up against hard times—and toiling "like became deeper and more compelling she saw him regarding her from a win- six men" to avert disaster— still saying than any of the perfectly good and dow she smiled—as if the world were nothing to her, shielding her from un- logical reasons for seeing him. not cracking beneath them, their world! pleasantness, trying to seal her in a niche She wanted to see Sid—just because The chauffeur was swinging the car of pleasantness. Oh, he was generous she wanted to see him! into the driveway. Sid came out. The splendidly if foolishly generous. But she downed the impulse to go chauffeur piled in the bags. The chance She had never appreciated the mag- straight to his office and, instead, called for that needed overflow of real feelings nanimous heights of his generosity. Even him later from her hotel. And then, in- in this midst of all this play-acting, was Charlie Hamblin appreciated him more stead of hearing Sid's voice—a gratifica- gone. than she did—even Charlie Hamblin tion she didn't know how much she'd whom she'd always despised as a wastrel been counting on until it was denied her WHEN she had been abroad about a and a profligate. Even Charlie Hamblin —she heard a stranger's voice say Mr. month he received a letter. She had appreciated him, proclaimed him the Fletcher "wasn't in." promised to write. But it told him little "squarest and gamest and finest" fellow "When will he be in?" impatient of beyond sundry enumerated items of her he ever knew. the delay. activities. Of her thoughts, her feelings, And the thing that moved her most, "Not for several days. He's home her satisfaction or dissatisfaction with just then, was that Sid in his genuine sick." her new life, it told nothing. He replied humility, would repudiate these virtues. "Oh—is he very ill?" immediately, not forbearing to question Sid who was slaving "like six men"—who "I don't think so—he's got a cold, her about these things. But this letter had lost twenty pounds. And who had I think." she did not answer, nor the second letter never let her know. he wrote. After that, excepting through AMELIE hung up the receiver. All the legal intermediary who handled the SHE wanted to see him. To tell him the rest of the day she couldn't set- business end of their affairs, he heard that she knew. She would return tle herself to anything. Finally, that nothing from her—nor she from him some of those bonds he'd insisted on night, she called up the house in Fair for nearly two years. her taking — she'd make him take them Haven and inquired after him. She Nearly two years had gone by when back. She resisted an impulse to go didn't give her name but learned that, Amelie, recently returned to America, straight to his office; she wanted to see though in no serious condition, he was chanced to run across Charlie Hamblin, him, oh dreadfully—to see him—to see a very sick man; a trained nurse was of the old Fair Haven "crowd," on the if he looked as terribly thin and worn, coming in the morning. street in New York. And after greet- with those twenty pounds gone, as he Next morning Amelie caught the 8:17 ings, without any show of constraint she must look. to Fair Haven. asked after Sid. But she wanted to see him most just When the station taxi jolted into the "How's Sid?" she asked. Just like because she hungered to. A hunger that graveled driveway, the dear familiar that—quite naturally: "How's Sid?" had been there since first she left him, scene brought tears to stand in her eyes. Hamblin looked at her curiously—he, denied at first, then admited as a childish An alien housekeeper received her and, like others, had never grasped the true inconsistent whim, and then gnawing regarding her rather dubiously, asked if "ins" of that Fletcher smash-up. her to madness. A gnawing hunger un- she were the nurse. "Haven't you heard from Sid lately?" appeased for two years. "Yes," said Amelie. Then: "I'm Mrs. he questioned back. For she had succeeded in finding no Fletcher. I've come to take care of my "No, not directly, not for a long time." rest during those two years. Although husband." "Well, the fact of the matter is," said she had hoped that, after the agonizing The housekeeper still looked dubious, Hamblin, "that Sid's working too hard." wrench of parting, she might somehow but Amelie brushed past her and "Sid always did work too hard," com- fabricate herself a kind of calm—if not mounted the stairs—the stairs of home. mented Amelie. "Sid's that kind—he actual happiness—a kind of calm and un- At Sid's door she paused with beating works hard and he plays hard." ruffled contentment, at least. heart, then knocked. His voice bade her "He's not doing much playing now," Love had failed her—had brought enter, and she entered. Oh, he was thin said Hamblin, rather grimly. "He's only strife and torment. So she had —even as he lay in bed she could see he doing the work of about six men—trying resolutely buried Love. And sought to looked thin. And he did look sick! But to pull through. I admire conscientious- find a surer and more lasting happiness the smile, the amazed, unbelieving, irra- ness as much as anybody, but Sid's too seeking it in bright, beautiful places and diating smile which came over his face darn conscientious!" in new congenial companionship. She was worth going far to see. "Trying to pull through?" she re- had looked up a beloved girlhood friend "Amelie!" he cried. Then: "How did peated, for that phrase struck her ear, out of her school days and it was in this you get here?" sudden and unexpected and ominous. most stimulating companionship she had "In a taxi," she answered tenderly, Then Hamblin tried to catch himself gone to Europe. So had never had lone- frivolously. She had to be frivolous just up: "See here, if—Sid hasn't told you, liness for an excuse. Together they had then, lest she break down in a way one it's not for me to visited Paris, Spain, Florence—thanks to must not in a sick room. "No, tell me," she insisted. "Tell me, Sid's liberality she never had to stint She came and drew a chair beside him. Charlie — what is he trying to pull herself in her travels. They clasped hands—he held hers through?" They had reveled in beauty and the tightly. poetry of old, forgotten far-off things "When did you get back?" "VI7ELL," he told her reluctantly, at least Amelie had seen them around » » "you see business has sort of gone her, and knew they were fit to be reveled H \ FEW days ago," she answered. on the rocks. And Sid's company's had in. Wasn't it enough that she should -iV- "I called up your office—that's pretty hard sledding, I guess. And you spend her days enmeshed in all this how I heard you were ill. Why I came know Sid, hell-bent—excuse me, but gleaming loveliness? Wasn't such beauty, —here." She had almost said "why I that's the only word for it—hell-bent to and the absence of all strain and fret came home." do the square thing by everybody. He'd strife—wasn't this enough? "I'm glad you called me up. Are you do it, too, if it's possible—he's the squar- back for good?" the finest fellow I often, lying awake, and "Yes, I've had enough of Europe—am est, the gamest, and AT NIGHT, ever knew." listening to mute, sad voices which ready to try my own country again." "Yes, I know," said Amelie. seemed to be singing, lonesomely, in her "Are you? I was afraid you'd forgot- " — " — VI

92 ten it and everything in it." Then: "He shall have it," she promised fer- not to show how much I cared. For I "You—might have written me. You vently. thought the best you could do was to promised to write." keep on trying to love me. Because you "1 know." IT WAS hard for her to give place to looked down on me." "Why didn't you?" the nurse—but she realized that the "Look down on you!" Her arms were Her slight gesture seemed to say un- other's expertness outweighed her own around him, her head bowed against his translatable things. eager devotion. And there were many cheek. Then, presently: "Oh, why did "It would have made me happier," he little ministrations, unostentatious serv- we have to be so blind why were we so pursued. ices yet with their own value, which she blind?" "No, I thought it would make us hap- could perform. Then it was Sid who made, who pier, give us a better chance for the new She could keep the exterior domestic voiced, the solemn discovery. life —both of us—the less contact we had machinery running smoothly, so that no "It was a lack of trust," he said soberly. with each other." confusion ever penetrated to disturb the "We had love, but because we didn't "Well, are you happy?" he asked, quiet sickroom — could act as a buffer trust each other's love, that only made after a pause. between all exterior problems, worries things go worse with us. Different tastes "I want you to get well," said Amelie, and that room's peace; it surprised her — they don't matter; but they helped with soft irrelevance. Then she went how busy she could thus keep herself, ball us up when I got to doubting your on quickly. and it made her feel, thankfully, that love and you. Oh, Amelie, how could "There was one thing I specially her presence was of some real use. you help knowing I couldn't help loving wanted to see you about, Sid — you've And she could personally prepare ex- you!" been wonderful! My bonds." tra dainties, such as were allowed for She clung to him; and comprehension, "Your bonds?" bewildered and sud- Sid's tray—lovingly she arranged those true communion, came to them at last. denly worried. trays, making them attractive, never for- And out of that deep and throbbing joy "Yes, all those bonds you gave me. getting the single flower in its slender they began to plan the new life which You were too generous, Sid — I don't crystal holder and it touched her, Sid's would begin for them when Sid got well. need nearly so much. And, now, that touched pleasure, every time, at this But Sid did not get well. The insidi- times are so bad and you're having hard being the work of her hands. ous and tricky microbe which, with hur- sledding— Then there were prized intervals when ried stealth, did for so many thousands "Who told you I'm having hard sled- the white-uniformed despot let her take of human lives that autumn, did for Sid ding?" he demanded. brief charge of the sickroom, and she Fletcher on the fifth day after Amelie's "I ran into Charlie Hamblin, and he would administer his medicine, eyes return. At the end he was clear-headed, let it out." punctiliously following the clock, would and looked at Amelie, whose hand he "I wish Charlie Hamblin'd mind his shake up his pillows, sponge his face and was tightly holding, with clear bright own business," he mumbled irritably. hands, finding a strange sweetness and eyes. comfort in making him comfortable. "Thank you for coming back. That your UT'M GLAD he told me. For you And, sometimes, she would just sit be- coming back, and understanding at side him, letting hold last will make I A never would have. Now, Sid, I him her cool hand — whatever place go to want you to take part of those bonds in his hot ones. seem like heaven." back." One such time, when they were alone, "Oh Sid," trying to control her sobs, "1 won't take them back. But you're after a long silence, Sid said: "you can't go. You must stay with me are you're going to get well." the dearest, the most generous girl in the* "Amelie, you going to leave me world!" again—after I get well?" "I am well. I've been well since that "Do you want me, Sid, even if fear day you said you'd stay." "No, I'm not; not at all—I'm just be- we — things will go wrong Amelie started to speak again, to pro- ginning to realize how ungenerous I am. between us again? don't understand each other test and beseech, but the nurse gave a It's you who are the most generous per- We very well warning sign. Sid's head fell back son in the world! And because you're somehow, sometimes, dear." on the pillow, his eyes closed, but he still generous I ask you to do this one thing clung to her hand. to please me — to take some of those "TVTO MATTER," and Sid's voice Presently, he murmured faintly: "You bonds back." 1 l choked on it. "If we two, to- — and I always you and I "Well, we'll talk about it when I feel gether, have got to misunderstand, then — The whisper died away. Then the better," he parried. "I'm a pretty sick we've got to. But if we're together, my nurse came and gently disengaged man, you know." girl, it can't be so bad. If you'll stay Amelie's hand. "You're a humbug," and her little with me now, I'll never misunderstand Amelie stayed in Fair Fair crooning laugh was very, very kind. as badly as I must have when you came Haven. thought that it Presently the doctor came, and he back from Aunt Hattie's." Haven was strange; had concluded that dislike of the place allowed Amelie to install herself as She bowed her face against his. She had counted in her break with Sid. nurse. But he insisted that the trained somehow understood him too well, now, But Amelie wanted to stay in her nurse be retained, as well. Later, alone even to think of asking about the mys- home: and Fair hadn't Sid with Amelie, he confided that her hus- tery of those letters. That was nothing, Haven— loved Fair Haven? She wanted to live close to band was seriously ill. It was only a anyway — suddenly and curiously re- her memories the bitter ones made up cold, to be sure, but the germ then mi- vealed itself as nothing—when you found — for by the sweet: grating around was an unusually perni- the deep heart of Life as he was doing, and dreams—dreams out of youth and out of that one brief, cious one. A tricky, treacherous bug! now. deeper oneness at the last—seemed still Did insidious things to the huskiest, to "You and I, Sid—you and I — I can't to float invisibly in the air. the most rock-bound constitutions. understand why, but somehow you and Dreams she — — had dreamed here with Sid and which, And though Mr. Fletcher had been I " She was weeping. though never fulfilled, seemed, in her blessed with an unusually good constitu- "You and I," he murmured. "There thought of them, here where they had tion, of late he had been abusing it seems a lot we can't hope to understand, been dreamed with Sid, to bring frightfully. Not that his motives weren't but we can understand that much—-you him somehow close. admirable, to be sure, but it was criminal, and I. For better or for worse—even if in a way, for a man to overwork himself, it's mostly worse—you and I. But it THE END to run himself down like that. won't be 'worse' again." "Nothing short of criminal!" reiterated They talked on a little, with silences in the brusque doctor. "Yet you've got to between that were fuller of meaning than Chic Sale admire them—these plucky, dogged men any talk could be; but finally came out (Continued from page 9) who keep on plugging, trying to save a the roots, the little weak roots, of their sinking ship because there are others on great trouble. come right down and got to stomping it, when they themselves are too sick to "I was so miserably jealous," said around the Weekly Broadcast office. hold their heads up. Mr. Fletcher should Amelie. "Not of anybody, but of your have been in bed days ago. And I've interest in everybody. And we'd got MAW: What's old rnan Dancey's had a few other men like him—no give- where we — where you didn't make up stomping got to do with it? up in 'em. I tell you, Mrs. Fletcher, the with me as you used to do; even when WHEEL: That's it—he broke his heroes in this country, these times, are we did make up." leg. not only the ones who get their names "I thought you'd got bored—were sick MA: Oh, Pa! You don't mean it! engraved on bronze tablets!" of me," from Sid: and at the same time WHEEL: Yes, sir . . . stomped on Amelie listened, thrillingly proud and she was saying: a board with a knothole in it and went curiously ashamed, and, at the same time, "And finally I couldn't bear it any kersmack right through the floor! with a sudden tug of fear at her heart. longer— I had to go." MA: Poor old man Dancey. . . . Was "Do you mean Mr. Fletcher's condi- it broke bad? tion —is dangerous?" she faltered. HE TRIED to grasp the tangle: "The WHEEL: Was it broke bad? Just "I wouldn't go so far as to say that," main reason, I think, I hung on to completely splintered. And to make said the doctor, "but he's certainly a sick things 1 thought you despised was that matters worse, there he was stuck in man—you ought to know it. He needs I thought you despised me a little, too. there tighter'n a fence post . . . wedged the best of care in every way." I wanted to sort of 'show' you. Wanterl in tight as a drum. —

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for as if it'd been you. I sez to him, "Of MAW: Heavens, Pa. . . . His broken MAW: Serves Lon right the way leg caught in the floor! he runs his newspaper. course, I never did any Zeppelin trav- WHEEL: That was the situation ROD: Mrs. Wilkins. elin' and I expect there's things fer it that faced me. I knew that the main MAW: Yes, Rodney. and things again it same as there is in thing was to be cool and calm. So I ROD: Rosie ain't back yet. Maybe any other travelin'. Fer as I can see, a walks slow like all around him, takin' the I'd better go find her. Zeppelin isn't anything more than a big situation in from every angle. Finally WHEEL: I'll go, Emmy. balloon with a steerin' gear. With a I sez, "Mr. Dancey, does she hurt you?" MA: Wheel Wilkins, you stay right balloon you'd get in. . . . There'd be no By that time he was sputterin' and here in the Liberty Bell Filling Station. use askin' when you'd be back. Maybe carryin' on so he couldn't even answer. You'll get up there and meet Lon Biggs you'd hear from him agin and maybe you wouldn't. I sez, does she Then I looks at the floor. She was a and . . . "How go up and land?" He sez, "She takes off new one . . . hard pine . . . gummy and LON: Talking about me, Mrs. Wil- tough. Mighty, mighty hard on a saw. kins? and lands just like a bird." I sez, "Well, Next I takes out my watch and feels his MAW: Lon Biggs. I wouldn't go so far as to say that." You see, by that time we was pretty . let tell you, Emmy, pulse. . . And me like a Ford pullin' friendly and I sez, "Lights like a bird?" she was pumpin' away WHEEL: Hi, Lon. . . . Come in! a hill. Gittin' right spry in your old age, And he sez, "Yes." "Well," I sez, "did you ever try lightenin' her on a bob- MA: Wheel Wilkins. . . . ain't you? Outrun a one-legged man. wired fence?" WHEEL: "Just keep calm, Mr. Dan- You ought to be ashamed of yourself. Course he could see I was jokin' and just laughed. But he did tell cey," I sez. "You're in trouble, you're LON: That's what I wanted to see me about his trip. sez get catched. The main thing to do is git you about, Wheel. He you on same's boardin' a bus, and when they're you out. He didn't answer, so I picks WHEEL: Well, Lon, cut your dog all in, they blow a whistle and as big as up my saw and felt the teeth. It had loose. What's on your mind? she is they ease 'er out of that shed like jest been sharpened. Then I started in LON: Wheel, I think I can patch it a hot dog slidin' out of a bun. And up sawin' a little jerky at first until I got up with old man Dancey if you'll help she goes as easy as smoke out of a her goin' good. Well, sir, I was sawin' me. chimney. And he sez it won't be long along great when all at once I struck WHEEL: I don't think anybody can before we're all travelin' like that. "Well," somethin' that sent the cold shivers up help you out. He'll sue you quicker than I sez, "t's all right, but it's goin' to be my back that I'll remember till my next a hound dog snaps at a biscuit. mighty hard on the farmers. Take right dying day. LON: Well, he's up talking to a law- now, our crops are two weeks late on MA: Did you hit a nail in the floor? yer now. I sold him his accident insur- account of our hired hands watchin' air- WHEEL: Nail in the floor? What ance policy that gives him $300 for a planes. . . . And when a Zeppelin goes I hit was in his leg. Yes, sir, Emmy, _ I broken leg. I guess he'll collect that. over they're liable to quit altogether." was cuttin' his leg off and didn't know it. What're you driving at, WHEEL: LON: That's right, Wheel; it'd be MAW: Pa! This is terrible! Lon? better for the country if they stuck to sir his leg WHEEL: Yes, was wedged LON: I'll pay his doctor bill. If I do autos. in there, and there wasn't nothing else can't sue that the insurance company WHEEL: Better and safer. You to do. But when I realized what I was all I me, because I can show I done take a auto. If you git a puncture, all doin', I almost give up. ... I looked at could for the patient. right. Git out and put on one of the the raw. . . . Three teeth broken. . . . My WHEEL: Well, where do I come in? spare tires. But say your Zeppelin gits handsaw. I sez, "Mr. Dancey, new ... LON: That's just what I want to ask punctured. Where are you? You ain't . . just groaned. this is terrible." . He you. What are your charges? got a spare Zeppelin, have you? A Zep- . . . There wasn't anything else to do but WHEEL: Well, let me see . . . fifty pelin with two spares tied on the end finish, I started in again and kept so dollars. would look like flyin' link sausage. right on sawin'. LON: Fifty dollars? That's robbery.

WHEEL: You charged me that ROSIE: Pa . . . Pa . . . (She's out of you didn't . . . cut off his leg! MA; much for advertising in your paper, breath and panting.) WHEEL: Oh, yes I did. Only, didn't you? All right. . . . My bill's fifty WHEEL: What's the matter, Rosie? doggone him, he didn't say anything dollars. ROSIE: I run all the way . . . I . . .

I about the iron rod runnin' right up LON: I don't see how you figger it? I'm out of breath. through the wood like a artificial bone. WHEEL: I'll itemize her fer you. . . . ROD: If anybody robbed you of that MAW: Why didn't you say it was To sawing off one wooden leg $5.00. money, Rosie . . . I'll . . . I'll gimmie my his artificial leg? To ruinin' one good handsaw $5.00. monkey wrench, somebody. I thought everybody WHEEL: Oh, To hushing up crowd and quieting pa- ROSIE: Mr. Dancey's on his way knowed that. . . . But that ain't the worst. tient $10.00.— Let's see now, that makes down here with a lawyer . . . he's going In cuttin' through that iron rod I dang $20.00.—To being on hand and knowing to sue you for cutting off his leg. near ruint my best handsaw. Then, jest how $30.00.—Total $50.00. There you WHEEL: Sue who? . . . Me? the minnit old man Dancey was sawed are, Lon. LON: You mean me, Rosie? free, he made a grab for Lon Biggs. LON: Well, Wheel, I guess we're ROSIE: No, he's going to sue you, MA: He did? even. I'll jest give you back the same Pa. . . . It's all over town . . . everybody's Yes, sir, but Lon ducked WHEEL: $50 you paid me last week. talking. out the door, old man Dancey after him. spirit, . WHEEL: Now, that's the Lon. WHEEL: Why, dog my hide...... And down the street the two of 'em And to show you my heart's in the right Yonder he comes walking down the went, lickety split. . . . Old man Dancey place I'll tell you what I'll do. . . . I'll curb and a crowd following him! Look, a-gainin' every jump. fix your floor for nothing. Lon. . . . Got his sawed-off leg on the MA: You know you are making that LON: Great curb and his long leg in the gutter. . . . up, Wheel Wilkins. Old man Dancey WHEEL: And when I git through The danged old curb runner. . . . I cut couldn't run with his leg sawed off. with her you won't need to worry about off the leg and this is the thanks I git. WHEEL: Oh, yes he could, Emmy. any more accidents like that. Because LON: Rosie's got it wrong . . . he's You know that high curbing that goes I'll use all clean timber ... no knotholes. suing me, Wheel . . . not you. along there past the Broadcast office. . . . LON: She's settled, Wheel. We're Half the town was now crowding into the Well, he hobbled out there, got his friends again. I'll buy the drinks. filling station. sawed-off leg on the curb and his long WHEEL: What color you want VOICE: There he is . . . that's Wheel leg in the gutter. He was off. . . . Big red, brown or white? Wilkins ... he cut off my leg. step with the long leg and short step LON: Sarsaparilla. VOICE: Are you Mr. Wheel Wil- with the sawed-off leg. Sparks a-flyin' WHEEL: Let's see . . . sarsaparilla kins? as that iron rod would hit the curb. . . . Here you are, right I reckon I am. . . . That's . . brown. Click-a-de-click, click-a-de-click. Kind . that's WHEEL: . . . State your next to the ice. . . . I'm takin' red . . . what they call me. of jerky, but he was gainin' on Lon that's strawberry. She's cold, too. You business. every click until he reached the end of know, Lon, this new soft drink depart- VOICE: Gibble's my name. . . . I'm the block. Well, sir, the curbing give pays quite a profit. representing Mr. Dancey here. . . . You out there so old man Dancey had to ment Pop! Zisss! ivcnt the bottles. The two cut off his leg, I believe? stop. Lon got away. old-timers gurgled the contents without aid WHEEL: Guess I did. ... I sawed MAW: I wish he had caught him . . . her off. . . . Ruint my saw. that old Lon Biggs. of straws. Mr. Dancey's accident pol- WHEEL: Now, Emmy, don't be too VOICE: if his leg is enough. What's the news? icy says he is to get $300 hard on Lon. . . . He's in trouble LON: Wheel accidentally. . . . You, Mr. Old man Dancey crossed over and come WHEEL: A fellow was here to- broken that Wilkins, came along and sawed it off on walkin' up the other side of the street. day from Germany, made a trip in purpose. ... By doing so you have kept Had to do that so his short leg would Graf Zeppelin. I'll from collecting on his accident pol- match up with the curbing. When he LON: What'd he say, Wheel? him so he is suing you for the $300. got back the crowd met him. He was put it in the paper. icy ... He was sittin' right there Here are the papers. redder than a beet, . . . puffin' like a WHEEL: Well, I'll be danged! . . . . .Drinkin' steam engine, and yellin', "I'll sue him, in that chair you're sittin' in. . WHEEL: ." lemon sody. Talkin' as natural same Dancey, you old curb runner! I'll sue him.MMi. . — " " " n

"Wheel" Just Growed Did I mention that Phil plays the uku- was no physician, yet we all thought lele, the guitar and violin? that he was! How much design, how- By E. W. Weiss Yes, there's a lot of talk about every- much chance all along the line? And one being equal, but you'll have to admit when Andregg swore that Parks was <4T)UILDING a new character for a talk in dif- dead, Dicks dying, supposed he -D Radio program must be a natural that any man who can seven we that ferent dialects, write his knew whereof he spoke. But, I must process," said "Chic" Sale in an inter- own show, play confess, that thinking things I view shortly after he had given his pre- in the above roles, and on the above in- over was struck miere Radio program for the Pennzoil struments, drxw magazine covers, et by that first remark of his; that Parks' already Company on Sunday night, May 18. cetera, et cetera, has more than his share body was cold! Odd, "You know," said "Chic," "when the of gifts. Then had good looks and a wasn't it? There'd scarcely been time idea of adding a new character to my likeable personality—it's just too much. for that, you know! I judged later on that there, long list of rural friends was presented Yet for all Phil Cook's talents you and Andregg was either mistaken to me, I just said to myself that he had I supply him with something he couldn't or was lying! Which was it? to come the same way the others did. get along without. WE are the admir- "If lying, then was he our Mr. X him- Naturally, I had to start with the mental ing audience. And when you come right self. If mistaken—then he was terribly picture of someone I had known in my down to it the admiring audience confused, or did not know his business. early days in the country. Of course, COULD get along without the stars, but How clear this point became when Mr. we didn't have filling stations in those the stars couldn't get along without the Gateway advised us that Andregg was days, but certainly there was a prototype admiring audience. Am I not right? If not a physician at all. Mistaken; that proprie- of "Wheel" Wilkins, the genial it weren't for you and me and all the rest was it. tor of the Liberty Bell Filling Station, of us admiring, where would the stars "So I was lured along my little path- memories. somewhere in my store of be? (And I claim there is some real way. For aught I knew Parks might quaint, "So I made my start on a philosophy in this.) be dead, might be alive. What chance kindly inhabitant of my home town, bor- had we to investigate? Then there was Oh, I forgot—he's married, and hap- rowed a little from other characters I that black band about his body— pily so, he says. Though he did tell me had created, blended them together in he tried out all his jokes first on the "Deflected the blow!" cried out Dicks. my mind, and produced "Wheel" Wil- wife. "It had to be considered," returned kins. Not that it was as easy as all that. Savoy, and went on: "I asked Laufer- I had to invent a dozen new manner- Hirth about it; he had seen it once when isms, and I had to express them all in a Thirteen and One he and Mr. Parks journeyed together. voice; I had to give "Wheel" his own —Well, well; what next? Why, the unique way of saying things, a set of (Continued from page 37) knife itself left on the floor. Mr. X had homely phrases all his own. Of course, commingle the details of design, the dropped it there-—for what earthly rea- this was a task that I had been special- little occurrences of chance, making the son? For us to see, of course. But izin' in for many years, and it was more perfect intricate pattern. So here. The why? or less of a natural thing. Opal. Years ago it had disappeared. It "As he stands right now," concluded had been hidden. Murders, also long <<"V/"OU'LL see that in my little work- "Chic," " 'Wheel' is a right likeable sort ago, had been committed. For the Opal? J- shop I had no end of little bits of a chap. I like him. He's shrewd, yet not? And had one of the victims flying about, wanting to be filed in their he's kind. He likes his little joke, but Why hidden it? Had it, by chance as far as proper places. They abhor confusion, I've got a feeling that beneath it all he we are concerned, been hidden in the you know. And I got them into such a can be downright serious, too." — "Wheel" Wilkins appears every Sun- • very room where the safe stood? Had pretty pattern before I was through day night in the Liberty Bell programs the explosion, which tore the room so There came a rap at the door; a heavy in behalf of the Pennzoil Company. thoroughly to pieces, dislodged the Opal voice saying something to one of the from its place under some beam, behind Filipino boys. The boy came in, say- some panel? I thought so. With your ing, "They are ready to go, sirs." Radiographs kind permission I still think so." "Tell them to wait," cried Savoy (Continued from page 39) "At least I've got it now," said Parks. sharply, a note as of anger in his voice. He drew curious eyes upon himself. he is, for I know the somewhat person "^V^ES, you've got it now. Well, hav- salary he receives. "Fifteen "I'm going on with this, and you're astounding J- ing planned this all so prettily, Mr. I myself, going to listen!" he rasped out. "You're minutes a day of work," say to X, knowing we'd rush off downstairs, play going to be interested. Mr. Nemo is go- "then all the rest of the time to had his moment to remove the two ing to be interested, for I'm going to tell and a nice big check. And just because bodies. had intended he He murder; him my theory of his vanished Flower you happen to have a Lon Chaney voice." had secured his end; he discovered that of I find Heaven.— Just a moment, however, But when the broadcast is over no murder had been committed! At first before that. The Guest Book again. I that it isn't all luck, not by any manner he had thought to mystify, further in found much in it to ponder on, those of means, nor is it all leisure. For Phil case of detection later on to have a first thoughts many men had jotted Cook not only takes all the parts in his pretty sizeable legal barricade to fortify down. Andregg had .written: 'Here is sketches, but he writes every line of his himself behind. No corpus delicti, ab- not a haven, but heaven.' What did it skits himself, composes all the music to solutely conviction. of us no Could any signify? In a word, the thought of his songs and writes the words. And have sworn in a court of law that either haven came to one who had been a fugi- when you write enough nonsense to fill Dicks Parks dead? could or was We tive, knowing times of great stress; to fifteen minute program six days a not! All of which Mr. knew when a X Andregg heaven was a place where he for four weeks a month, for twelve murder. week, he planned his was sure of his drug." months a year, it gets to be, in Phil's "But later how much better he was — He sprang to his feet. own words "a man-sized job." placed when he found that both of his "As the first step to the end," he said No, I don't think he has so much leis- victims lived! He treated them, saw in a queer voice, "I want you to hear ure, in fact, I can't see where he has any. them coming along, restored them to us something which Laufer-Hirth can tell As for that big check, I guess he earns it. knowing that we would carry on the you. Tell them, Amos; what's on your Phil was born some thirty-five years There again, good work. was chance mind?" ago in Coldwater, Mich., but he has lived this time helping him. He was clear of Laufer-Hirth shuffled uneasily. His most of his life in New York. Before murder, and had reaped the reward by eyes roamed here and there, and came he became interested in Radio he was having the loot. back pleadingly to Savoy's stern face. the art director of an advertising agency "There remains the article snatched up and still tosses off a few posters and from the floor by Andregg. It was, of UWHAT we just read in the Guest magazine covers, and gets paid for them, course, his drug. We had all noted his VY Book—those words under Thraff too. He wrote the musical comedies peculiarly nervous condition before; we Willcyzinski's scrawl—were written by "Molly, Darling." "When You Smile," also marked how after the explosion we Andregg yesterday! Will Little and I and "Plain Jane." They all had Broad- missed him downstairs; more than one saw him write them; Paul dictated— way runs. of us must have marked how, when he It was a long breathless moment in If Phil went to a mike twice as the came in, he was a man altered. We said which minds confused groped in a maze. same character in a month the instru- to ourselves, 'Here's a funny thing.' An- ment would totter from surprise. Just dregg seemed on edge before the mur- Piled near by were the several travel- look at a list of his recent activities at der; immediately after he appeared calm ing bags. Savoy amazed them further NBC—Radio Chef, Line's Shine Boy, and self-contained, even relieved of some by demanding sharply: The Seely Air Weavers, Champion strain. So, of course, when one thought "Parks, will you open up your bag for Sparkers, The Physical Culture Shoe of it at all, one realized what was the us?" Prince, The Cabin Door, Real Folks, matter with him and that he had had Never did a stranger look dawn, in a Flit Soldiers, Interwoven Entertainers, a shot. man's eyes than in the eyes of Main- Fleischman Hour, Eveready Master of waring Parks now. His face went swiftly Ceremonies, Buck and Wing—well, that's " TVTOW, here was another most ih- as white as death. enough. 1* triguing consideration. Andregg "Open it!" rang out Savoy's voice. mmi —

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"Open it, Mr. X! And let Mr. Nemo see and he switched to him. It was so ob- Paul Oliver's Good Luck where his Flower of Heaven is!" vious that he would do that! And how (Continued from page 7) "You're crazy, man!" gasped Gateway. nicely he fell into a trap which, I swear, "You're mad! Mad!" burst out Parks. a child should have avoided! No doubt for her smile of approbation. And when Paul Savoy, sudden loathing in his he had some tale to tell, explaining how Olive sings, Paul always smiles his en- face, stepped back and threw out his he had guessed that Thraff Willcyzinski couragement. arm, pointing at Mainwaring Parks. was alive; but it was a difficult thing. Aside from music, football is the most "There's your cowardly Mr. X! He could not say that he actually knew, interesting subject to Paul. Often dur- Through the tangled threads of chance that he had seen the man, for then he ing a lull in a rehearsal you will find him and design he has at last come to the must have been bound to tell us. Just a discussing the relative merits of football tether's end. He knew nothing of Thraff hint was what he was trying to build teams with Phillips Caiiin, another foot- Willcyzinski being alive, but planned all up. So when I showed him the Guest ball enthusiast. Paul's favorite team is the time to saddle Andregg, poor goat, Book and he saw that what appeared to New York University, and conversely with his crime. For that he kept An- be Thraff Willcyzinski's writing ap- the N. Y. U. team's favorite Radio star dregg waiting all evening for the drug peared there in fresh ink, he leaped—and is Paul Oliver. "Chick" Meehan, the he had promised to bring; for that he fell! Shall we go now?" famous N. Y. U. football mentor, is one dropped that same drug where Andregg Mr. Nemo was on his knees and with of his closest friends. Paul can talk would seize upon it, then hide it like a a sharp knife slit the leather of Parks' quite authoritatively about the capabil- guilty secret." bag. The loveliest imaginable product ities of every member of the football of the art of a craftsman in precious squads for some seasons back. He is a UPOR that is the black band about stones was revealed. frequent dinner guest at Mr. and Mrs. -T his chest, a band that would hold "The Flower of Heaven!" cried Mr. Meehan's. a knife handle in place, making it appear Nemo softly. He often sings for the boys and at- that the blade was buried in his breast! Paul Savoy sighed. tends every football game on the sched- To find a man with a knife in his heart, is "Or of Hell?" he asked of no one in ule that does not take him too far away to be assured that he is dead! Yet, re- particular. to come back in time for the Wednesday member, Andregg cried out that already "Just the same," burst grumblingly red letter hour. He was a guest at the the body was cold! A crowning touch, so from Gateway, "there is one thing you recent N. Y. U. dinner when the boys simply arranged by a man in a bathroom can't fool me with, Savoy! It's easy got their letters for football. Football, on a freezing winter's night. Remember enough now to pretend that you knew N. Y. U. football particularly, is so ab- how one arm lay across his chest, the all along that it was Parks. Somehow, sorbing to him that whenever possible sleeve torn, as if offering itself to one who the last day or two, you've managed to he travels with the team to their summer would question more closely if death had stumble on the truth." training camp. He plans to be with them come already? That arm, we may be There were twin devils dancing in this summer at Farmingdale. sure, had been held in ice water for some Savoy's eyes. When not busy rehearsing new songs minutes. There may even have been, "Didn't I tell you, that first night you Paul likes to go about exploring New for aught we know, a thin coating of came?" he chuckled. York City and its environs, seeking out some sort of wax over the pulse itself. "You did not!" cried Gateway angrily. strange things which interest him. How easy to have the other duplicate Savoy turned to Temple. Naturally, Oliver has a decided mechan- hunting knife; how natural to leave it "Remember my memorandum, Cap- ical bent and as a result spends some behind on the floor; how simple to give tain? The one you and Gateway pulled time in manufacturing plants in and near himself a long shallow scratch of a cut down from the ceiling?" New York, observing the various proc- esses through which all sorts of products and how crafty to keep himself hidden As if Captain Temple could ever for- until that wound should heal! For who get! Now, looking abashed, also he go. Most of these excursions are soli- shall peer into his internal organs, and looked mystified. tary. Regularly, after a strenuous re- hearsal and after each Wednesday say where the blade went or did not go! "You crumpled and threw it away," evening's broadcast, he hurries to the How easy to hide the hinges and screws ran on Savoy. "Gateway retrieved it, then Y. M. C. A. for a plunge in the pool. in Andregg's bag in case anything were dropped it as of no consequence. I Early the next morning he arises and discovered!" picked it up the next morning, having a tunes up his car, which is his companion "Hinges?" cried Gateway. "What do fatherly fondness for my own little crea- during the fall and winter months, just you mean, you fool?" tion, and here it is. Will you two be so as a high speed power-boat is his favorite "Laufer-Hirth knows; I showed him good as to read it again?" in summer. the trick this morning. You stand in Temple and Gateway read together: Motoring from his Mount Vernon the bathroom where Parks stood when "Temple, his enormous curiosity home, he drives about the countryside. Dicks was struck down; you get your rampant, investigates my inspired On other days he will park the car at victim under a certain heavy beam that notes! ludicrous incident, surely! A some subway entrance and travel under- crosses the ceiling; you engage him in Plainly, a rather knotty situation has ground all over New York. An excava- talk; you give a sudden strong pull to a embittered individuals, stimulating tion for a skyscraper fascinates him. So bit of molding, and down crashes the Look inward. Vastly animosity. does the Bronx Zoo. And because he heavy beam on your victim's head. Oh, educational." carefully hides his identity none of the it's an old game in a new dress, that's "Piffle!" exploded Gateway. people he questions suspects that the un- all. And now cut open his bag, for by now Paul Savoy "Exactly," and assuming gentleman with a curious turn you'll find it locked; and take out the fairly chortling. "Piffle of the purest was of mind is the tenor star whose melodi- Flower of Heaven he was so sure of ray serene, my dear Gateway. But sup- ous voice is so well known to millions. making his own. And now, Gateway, pose you look through the silly lines you'll have that part of my little theory charm, you know. again; third time's a THE summer, Paul Oliver's idea of which has to do with the million dollars. the memorandum so naively com- IN Do as a seventh heaven is a boat on a quiet It was never placed in the safe at all; inward.' Which means mands: 'Look lake where he can fish and sing softly all the while it remained snug and safe itself, whereupon I assure into the note to himself. "I know of nothing so rest- in Mainwaring Parks' pocket! He did find it 'vastly educational,' you you will ful and soothing to the nerves as a fish- put a folded manilla paper in the safe; being, informative. This in the sense of ing trip. In hot weather the strain of it was blown to bits, of course. He kept time, however, look only at the first let- daily rehearsing and of weekly perform- the million." And see what you can ter of each word! ances before the microphone is pretty "You mad fool!" shouted Parks. spell out for yourself!" severe and Radio artists particularly But both Dicks and Gateway were from Gateway snatched the paper must keep well and fit", he explained. upon him. mumbling Temple's hands, and began Paul Oliver is an ardent swimmer and out the letters, taking as commanded the UT'M THE fool," growled Dicks. "I has always spent a great deal of time in first of every word. As he advanced in the months. -- was on his trail and he knew it, so the water during warm His his task his brows lifted higher and is slip off what did he do? I was sure of nothing; chief joy, however, to by him- higher. And when he had finished he he knew that. So he tells me a wild tale self, and when he is tired of fishing he looked at Paul Savoy as at some crea- of practice he cruises and I, thinking he does not know that puts in hours as until ture never so much as glimpsed the water. The story is told I know what I do, come here at his in- about on now. He grew so red of face that it vitation. He comes near murdering me, that a number of admirers learned the seemed as if all the blood in his body liked to frequent and and I am the loudest to swear that he places he used to rushed into his cheeks. And then, had nothing to do with attempted mur- had steal Aip on him to listen to his songs in with mortification and defeat all but change his haunts der, but am led to think him a victim, the open. He had to him, there still shone in his too!" mastering a little when he discovered his hidden eyes a wondering admiration. audience. "I find that such outdoor "You have it all, gentlemen, I think," Savoy," he said ponderously, "is said Savoy, and stood dusting his hands "Mr. practice," he explained, a splendid "I'm a dub. And you I together. "Mr. X. had an agile brain. shaking his head, thing for my voice. like to test it out Dicks, lead me back to Frisco open. Often I find a spot where it He planned Andregg first as his scape- —you— in the canned. I'm through." sing and hear the echo goat. Heaven appeared to send him a and get me is fascinating to the notes come back to me." better in a poor, defenseless mad man. (The End) as — HI

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