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NEARLY JANUARY, 1939 VOL 11 NO. 3

ERNEST V. HEYN FRED R. SAMMIS Executive Editor Editor BELLE LANDESMAN, ASSISTANT EDITOR

The Candle In the Forest Temple Bailey 4 Radio Mirror's Christmas present to its readers Avoiding Winter Colds 7 Easy to follow rules you'll be grateful to learn Why We Didn't Dare Divorce 8 The strange story about a famous radio couple The Morgan—The Merrier Kirtley Baskette 10 Meet the hysterical star laugh maker of Good News

Big Sister . Hope Hale 12 Begin this exciting novel of modern love, now The Broadcast That Scared America 15 Read About the Year's Most Discussed Program

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By TEMPLE BAILE

Illustration by Ray Sisley

As tender a blend of gaiety and pathos as Christmas it- self is this modern legen of a family whose riches out- shone the Gifts of the Magi

One of NBC's most memorable Christmas pro- The Small Girl's mother had a big white bowl in her grams last year was its broadcast of this touching lap and she was cutting up vegetables. The onions story by a famous writer, which was first published were the hardest, because one cried a little over them. in a national magazine, and which may be heard "But our tears will be pearls," said the Small Girl's again this holiday season. Radio Mirror is happy mother, and they laughed at that and dried their eyes, to reprint it, in the hope that it will bring the true and found the carrots much easier, and the potatoes the spirit of Christmas into the heart of every reader. easiest of all. Then the Next-Door-Neighbor came in and said, Small Girl's mother was saying, "The onions "What are you doing?" THEwill be silver, and the carrots will be gold— "We are making a beefsteak pie for our Christmas "And the potatoes will be ivory," said the Small dinner," said the Small Girl's mother. Girl, and they laughed together. "And the onions are silver, and the carrots gold, and

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the potatoes ivory," said the Small Girl. "It's our tree, my and rosy cheeks, clapping her hands again. "I am sure I don't know what you are darling," he heard "Run along, darling," said the Small talking about," said the Next-Door-Neigh- the mother saying. Girl's mother, "and find poor Pussy Purr- bor. "We are going to have turkey for up. He's out in the cold. And you can Christmas, and oysters and cranberries and celery." put on your red sweater and red cap." The Small Girl laughed and clapped her hands. "But So the Small Girl hopped away like a happy robin, we are going to have a Christmas pie—and the onions and the Next-Door-Neighbor said, "She is old enough are silver and the carrots gold— to know that onions aren't silver." "You said that once," said the Next-Door-Neighbor, "But they are," said the Small Girl's mother, "and "and I should think you'd know they weren't anything the carrots are gold, and the potatoes are— of the kind." The Next-Door-Neighbor's face was flaming. "If "But they are," said the Small Girl, all shining eyes you say that again, I'll scream. It sounds silly to me."

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By TEMPLE BAILEY

Illustration by Ray SUUy

As tender a blend of gaiety

and pathos as Christmas it-

self is this modern legend

of a family whose riches out-

shone the Gifts of the Magi

One of NBC's most memorable Christmas pro- The Small Girl's mother had a big white bowl in her the potatoes ivory," said the Small Girl. "It's our tree, and rosy cheeks, grams last year its my clapping her hands again, was broadcast of this touching lap and she was cutting up vegetables. The onions "1 am sure I don't know what you are darling," he heard "Run along, darling," said the Small story by a famous writer, which was first published were the hardest, them. because one cried a little over talking about," said the in a national magazine, and Next-Door-Neigh- the mother saying. Girl's mother, "and find poor Pussy Purr- which may be heard "But our tears will be pearls," said the Small Girl's bor. "We are going to have turkey for up. He's out in the cold. And you can again this holiday season. Radio Mirror is happy mother, and they laughed eyes, at that and dried their Christmas, and oysters red sweater red to reprint it, the and cranberries and celery." put on your and cap." in hope that it will bring the true and found the carrots much potatoes the easier, and the The Small Girl laughed the Small Girl hopped away like a spirit of Christmas into the heart euery and clapped her hands. "But So happy robin, of reader. easiest ol all. we are going to have a Christmas pie—and the onions and the Next-Door-Neighbor said, "She is old enough Then the Next-Door-Neighbor came in and said, are silver — Small Girl's mother was and the carrots gold to know that onions aren't silver." saying, "The onions "What are you doing?" "You THEwill be silver, " said that once," said the Next-Door-Neighbor, But they are," said the Small Girl's mother, "and and the carrots will be gold "We are making Christmas a beefsteak pie for our and I should think anything the carrots are gold, and the potatoes arc "And the potatoes will be ivory," said the you'd know they weren't Small dinner," said the Small Girl's mother. of the kind." Girl, and they laughed together. The Next-Door-Neighbor's face was flaming. "If "And the onions are silver, and the carrots gold, and "But they are," said the Small Girl, all shining eyes you say that again, I'll scream. It sounds silly to me."

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"But it isn't in the least silly," said the Small Girl's she said, "Now, what do you want, Mother—more than mother, and her eyes were as blue as sapphires and as anything else in the whole wide world?" clear as the sea; "it is sensible. When people are poor, "Well," said her mother, "I want a chocolate mouse." they have to make the most of little things. And we'll "Oh," said the Small Girl scornfully, "I shouldn't have only a pound of steak in our pie, but the onions think you'd want that." will be silver— "Why not?" The lips of the Next-Door-Neighbor were folded in "Because a chocolate mouse—why, a chocolate mouse a thin line. "If you had acted like a sensible creature, isn't anything." I shouldn't have asked you for the rent." "Oh, yes, it is," said the Small Girl's mother. "A The Small Girl's mother was silent for a moment, chocolate mouse is Dickory-Dock, and Pussy-Cat- then she said, "I am sorry—it ought to be sensible to Pussy -Cat -Where -Have -You -Been—and it's Three- make the best of things." Blind-Mice—and it's A-Frog-He-Would-a-Wooing-Go "Well," said the Next-Door-Neighbor, sit and it's—" ting down in a chair with a very stiff The Small Girl's eyes— were dancing. Oh, back, "a beefsteak pie is a beefsteak tell me about it pie. And I wouldn't teach a child to And her mother said: "Well, the call it anything else." mouse in Dickory-Dock ran up "I haven't taught her to call the clock, and the mouse in it anything else. I was only Pussy-Cat-Pussy-Cat was trying to make her feel that frightened under a chair, and it was something fine and A Merry Christmas the mice in Three-Blind- splendid for Christmas day, Mice ran after the farmer's so I said that— the onions wife, and the mouse in A- were silver Radio Mirror's Frog-He-Would-a-Woo- "Don't say that again," ing-Go went down the snapped the Next-Door- throat of the crow— Neighbor, "and I want the sh to all And the Small Girl said, rent as soon as possible." "Could a chocolate mouse With that, she flung up do all that?" her head and marched readers with this "Well," said the Small out of the front door, and Girl's mother, "we could it slammed behind her put him on the clock, and made wild echoes in delightful story and under a chair, and the little house. cut his tail ojff with a And the small Girl's carving knife, and at the mother stood there alone very last we could eat him in the middle of the floor, up like a crow." and her eyes were like the The Small Girl shivered de- sea in a storm. liriously. "And he wouldn't But presently the door be a real mouse?" opened, and the Small Girl, No, just a chocolate one, looking like a red-breast robin, with cream inside." hopped in, and after her came a "Do you think I'll get one for great black cat with his tail in the Christmas?" air, and he said, "Purr-up," which I'm not sure." gave him his name. And the Small Girl "Would he be nicer than a doll?" said out of the things she had been think- Decoration by Norman Levine The Small Girl's mother hesitated, then ing, "Mother, why don't we have turkey?" told the truth. "My darling—Mother saved The clear look came back into the eyes of the Small up the money for a doll, but the Next-Door-Neighbor Girl's mother, and she said, "Because we are content." wants the rent." And the Small Girl said, "What is 'content'?" "Hasn't Daddy any more money?" And her mother said: "It is making the best of what "Poor Daddy has been sick so long." God gives us. And our best for Christmas day, my "But he's well now." darling, is a beefsteak pie." "I know. But he has to pay money for doctors, and So she kissed the Small Girl, and they finished peel- money for medicine, and money for milk for Pussy ing the vegetables, and then they put them with the Purr-up, and money for our beefsteak pie." pound of steak to simmer on the back of the stove. "The Boy-Next-Door says we're poor, Mother." After that, the Small Girl had her supper of bread "We are rich, my darling. We have love, and each and milk, and Pussy Purr-up had milk in a saucer other, and Pussy Purr-up." on the hearth, and the Small Girl climbed up in her "His mother won't let him have a cat," said the Small mother's lap and said: "Tell me a story." Girl, with her mind still on the Boy-Next-Door, "but But the Small Girl's mother said, "Won't it be nicer he's going to have a radio." to talk about Christmas presents?" "Would you rather have a radio than Pussy-Purr- And the Small Girl sat up and said, "Let's." up?" And the mother said, "Let's tell each other what The Small Girl gave a crow of derision. "I'd rather we'd rather have in the whole wide world— have Pussy-Purr-up than anything else in the whole "Oh, let's," said the Small Girl. "And I'll tell you wide world." first that I want a doll—and I want it to have a pink At that, the great cat, who had been sitting on the dress—and I want it to have eyes that open and shut hearth with his paws tucked under him and his eyes and I want it to have—shoes and stockings—and I want like moons, stretched out his satin-shining length, and it to have curly hair jumped up on the arm of the chair beside the Small She had to stop, because she didn't have any breath Girl and her mother, and began to sing a song that was left in her body, and when she got her breath back, like a mill-wheel away off. (Continued on page 72) 6 will hold no terrors for those who follow these simple rules

For nine years the New York Academy of Medicine has been presenting on CBS the valuable program High- ways to Health, on which eminent physicians, as guest speakers, tell you in simple language how to care for your health and avoid sick- ness. The following article has been compiled from several of these radio talks. Highways to Health is now heard on CBS every Tues- day afternoon at 4:30, E.S.T.

probably think of a cold YOUas a discomfort, and nothing more—as one of life's small H. Armstrong Roberts irritations. As far as the cold itself is concerned, perhaps you're justified. But an avoid contact, as far as possible, with people who al- ordinary cold can, and all too often does, lead to so ready have colds. Some people are more susceptible many more serious illnesses that the wise man avoids than others to contagious colds, but everyone should the risk of catching cold as carefully as he avoids the avoid putting his fingers into his mouth or nose, and risk of catching one of the serious contagious diseases. should observe strictly one of the most elemental rules The winter winds are already blowing, and the of hygiene, which is often disregarded—simply to wash holiday season is on the way. It's a season that offers the hands thoroughly before eating. so much fun to the healthy person that it's a shame The non-contagious cold is another matter. It can be not to observe these few simple preventive measures, contracted in a great many ways. Remember, in the and thus at least go a long way toward insuring your case of a non-contagious cold, that the germs are al- ability to enjoy winter's pleasures to the full. ready present in your body, ready to attack as soon Did you know that there are two kinds of cold, the as the conditions are favorable for them. And the con- non-contagious and the contagious? Non-contagious ditions can be made favorable in a number of ways. colds are the ones you develop when some of the Anything which irritates the mucous membranes of numerous bacteria which are always present in the the nose and throat is apt to predispose the system healthy mouth and throat are enabled, under certain toward the development of a cold. Excessive smoking conditions, to break beyond bounds and to attack the can do it. And if you find that smoking is irritating mucous membrane. A contagious cold is contracted your throat unduly, you should cut down sharply on when a virus or germ, or, most likely, both, enters the the number of cigarettes smoked every day—although system from an outside source. But the cold which in some cases simply changing the brand relieves the you have contracted in a non-contagious way can prove irritation. contagious to another person. Dust in the atmosphere can irritate the membrane The way to avoid the contagious type of cold is to so much that a person is an (Continued on page 65) "Linda,"' he exclaimed, his lace white, "I've tried to understand, all these rope." hb weeks. But I'm at the end of ;ihy

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SUPPOSE it was inevitable that dangers. Every day was the same: Up at eight in the Bark should have come into my morning. A script conference until noon, with Bob life when he did. The minute writing and me making suggestions. Rehearsal at five. you begin taking your marriage for granted—losing Broadcast at seven. Dinner. Rebroadcast for the interest in it, accepting it as casually as you accept western stations at ten. Home. Bed. For seven years the sunlight and the fresh air—then you're suddenly our lives fell into that pattern, its only break coming apt not to have a marriage at all. That was the way in summer when we went to our country home, broad- it was between Bob and me for a long time before casting from a special studio on the grounds. I met Bark. If we'd only had the wisdom to write ourselves out He was there in the studio, one Monday afternoon of the script for a month or two every year, and go when we came in for our rehearsal. A tall, dark man away together, so we could re-discover each other with glistening, carefully groomed hair, dressed in among new surroundings and new interests—then, I perfectly tailored tweeds. He rose from one of the think, we could have fallen in love again before it folding chairs and came toward us with his hand out- was too late. stretched. And then, suddenly, it was too late—and Bark Har- He was smiling, and when he spoke his voice rison was our new announcer. matched his smile. "I'm Bark Harrison," he said, Always, before Bark came, everybody on the Nex- "your new announcer. I can't tell you how happy I door program had been on a common footing of am to be working with you." equality, but now Bark made it plain that he con- My pulse didn't accelerate a bit, as it's supposed to sidered me just a little more important than the others. in cases of love at first sight, but there was a warm, He went out of his way to place chairs for me, to tingly feeling inside me, as I stood there talking to listen attentively when I made a suggestion, to do so him while Bob passed out scripts to the rest of the many little acts of deference. I tried not to let it cast. It did very nicely instead. flatter me—but I'd have been less than human if I'd The studio certainly wasn't the ideal story-book set- succeeded. ting for meeting the perfect man, nor was I the fiction You couldn't help liking Bark. Bob—serious, ideal of a heroine. I'd been married seven years to thoughtful Bob—liked him too. I could tell that by a man I'd adored when we became man and wife. the way they would kid each other before broadcasts, And I still liked Bob, in the haphazard way a wife both as solemn as owls, each trying to outdo the other sometimes gets to liking the man she's married to. in saying insulting things. Bob never jokes with peo- But I didn't love him. ple he doesn't like; instead, he is stiffly polite. I can see now that it was the deadly routine of our The three of us fell into the habit of having dinner existence which was to blame for letting us drift apart. together in the interval between the first and second Ever since a few months before our marriage, Bob broadcasts. Until Bark joined us, our dinners had and I had been on the air, five days a week, year in, been silent affairs, broken only by a few words about year out. As Mr. and Mrs. Nexdoor, we portrayed the program. I had always dreaded that between- the laughs and tears of the average American couple. broadcasts pause, for during it Bob had a tendency It isn't bragging on my part to say that we were a to be nervous and abstracted. But Bark changed all national institution—the fan mail called us that often that. He refused to let us think about the program enough. we'd just done, and kept us both laughing with his We both loved the program. We had built it up, gossip and his stories. together, from a small beginning to a big success. But Mark and I would cheerfully have stayed on at our very enthusiasm for our work blinded us to its the table until ten minutes (Continued on page 59) I arrived at the Good News rehearsal, Mr. back—and he fell in too! Outside of a slight touch of WHENFrank Morgan wasn't there. There was some drowning, however, both felt better after the experi- speculation as to just when and if he would ence. show up. If he's having a good time somewhere else, To return to the rehearsal (this chronicle is as in- was the idea, he might just forget the rehearsal en- volved as one of Frank's stories). . . . tirely; it's happened before. Personally, Frank doesn't Frank, though seagoing, was definitely dry when he take much stock in rehearsals. But he wouldn't miss a showed up at the studio. Still, his entrance was like a show for all the bonds in Wall Street. shot of adrenalin, a press radio bulletin, a kick in the The NBC rehearsal stage, minus Morgan, was quite pants. Things were different around that rehearsal tame. Frankly, it was even dull. A few people wan- stage from then on. dered about nosing into their scripts and whispering "Have you heard this one?" he chortled, taking in to each other. There was no bounce, no umph! the whole stage, with his bobbing eyebrows and his Then, out beyond the stage door, sounded a fluttery, moustache-crowned grin. "Two old dodderers sit- silly sort of masculine giggle. It never stopped; it grew ting in a London Club . . . one taps the other . . . louder every second. 'Terribly sorry, old thing, to hear about your wife'

"There he is," said Hanley Stafford, 'Father Snooks.' . . . 'What's that?' says the other . . . 'Your wife

"Morgan and his story. He has a new laugh for us —sorry to hear about your burying your wife' . . . every week—never fails. Wait and see." 'Oh, yes,' says the other, 'yes, yes. I had to bury Frank arrived, wearing white pants, yachting cap, her, she died, you know!' " And he went into and a blue coat, lousy with gold braid. Frank is sup- the famous Morgan chortle. posed to live in Beverly Hills, but if you want to get Yes, Frank had a new one. Everybody down to cases—and Frank does occasionally—he really laughed and he laughed louder than every- dwells on his yacht, The Dolphin, somewhere, on a body. He loves a story, and has Holly- rather weaving course, between the mainland and wood's finest collection of them—learned Catalina Island. around the old Friars and Lambs Clubs "Everyone," Frank once said, "should have a yacht. during the days and the nights, mostly They're so much fun to get rid of!" He's sold a couple nights, when he was a Broadway actor just to enjoy that pleasant sensation, but he always and seldom went to bed until morning. comes back for more. The reason is that the biggest He still never does, when he can help thing in his life, next to making people laugh, is the it—which has made him the best day- Emerald Bay Yacht Club. Bob Benchley, Bill Gargan, time sleeper in Hollywood. Ralph Bellamy, Reggie Owen, John Ford and Frank Frank can, and has, ducked right are the mainstays of the E.B.Y.C. Like the Mexican out of an emotional scene on the set, army, it has no privates. Everyone is a top-rank of- plopped into his canvas set, and ficer. Frank is Judge Advocate. amidst the shouts and cries and The Emerald Bayers, with or without their wives, making movies, slept like a kitten. gather regularly at John Ford's house down in Emerald But always, it seems, with one Bay and after appropriate flag raising ceremonies, set ear open. His pal, Woody Van sail for Catalina—hoping, of course, they'll never get Dyke, the director and another there. On the way, anything is likely to happen, for night owl, has the same trick few of the members, including Frank, can swim. One of catching up between shots, who can't is Benchley. and a strange sight indeed Not long ago, from The Dolphin, anchored in Avalon is to see Van and Frank Bay, Benchley wobbled toward shore in a dinghy, rose carrying on a conversa- to wave happily to his shipmates and promptly tumbled tion with their eyes closed and into the water. Horrified, Morgan and company ex- their chins on their chests! pected him to sink out of sight, but to their surprise But even if it means staying up all night, Benchley simply spread out his arms and bobbed Frank can't stop having a good time; he never around like an overgrown cork. Morgan went to his could. rescue in another dinghy and pulled him up on a If Frank has ever worried, it hasn't been notice- float. Then Frank stood up to wave triumphantly able to his most intimate (Continued on page 56)

He'll folk of his wife Alma as a "terror," but actually, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Morgan have been an ideally happy couple for more than twenty years.

Frank's having the time of his life since joining radio. He might miss a rehearsal but he wouldn't miss a show for all the bonds in Wall Street.

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OHN'S message had seemed innocent he helped her into the car. The back of his head enough, authentic enough. A woman's was ugly, bullet-shaped. And why should John be J voice clipped and impersonal: "Miss Ruth meeting her out in the country?—unless he wanted to Evans? I'm calling for Dr. John Wayne. He wonders talk to her at some quiet country inn. Perhaps—and if you could be ready to meet him in a few minutes?" she thrilled with sudden hope—the surprise was that "Why—yes, of course." Norma Wayne had dropped her fantastic demands for "He asked me to say that it's very important—he has money, had agreed to a quiet, dignified divorce. a surprise for you. And he's sending his new car The car swerved sharply, turned into a winding lane, around to pick you up." a narrow track between encroaching nettles and choke- That was all. The woman hadn't said so, but Ruth cherry bushes. "Driver!" she called, "where are we had supposed, of course, she was one of the nurses at going?" the hospital, and that John, too busy in the clinic to "Dr. Wayne's orders, miss," he said respectfully, go to the telephone himself, had asked her to call. It without turning his head. "He is visiting a patient out was perfectly ordinary, perfectly matter-of-fact. And here, and wanted me to pick him up in the car."

yet. . . . "Oh." Ruth leaned back again, relieved. Of course And yet, her slim body resting against the soft a perfectly obvious explanation. But the nagging cushions of the new car, while it purred softly over doubt persisted, there in the back of her mind. She the pavement of a road leading out of town, Ruth felt tried to laugh it off. Nothing but a hangover from the herself grow uneasy. long face Jerry Miller had pulled when he found out That chauffeur, now—he didn't look like a real where she was going. But Jerry was a reporter, snif- chauffeur, quiet and respectful as he had been when fing disaster where there wasn't any, as part of his

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12 "If Norma lives, your life is ruined, my career is smashed." day's work. It was a habit with him. "You know Norma," he'd expostu- lated. "You know she's as screwy as they come. But I happen to know more. I know she's playing around with some mighty bad company right now. She's pie for a gang like that. She'll try anything they put into her head—which you know darned well is not what you'd call well balanced. Particularly now she's so jealous of you." In all essentials, Ruth had to ad- mit, he was right. Norma was neu- rotic, hysterical—and she was in- tensely jealous of Ruth, even though she based her jealousy on nothing but instinct. John had wanted a divorce months before he had met Ruth. And never once, even when they were alone, had John or Ruth OF THE SAME NAME

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JOHN'S message had seemed innocent he helped her into the car. The back of his head day's work. It was a habit with him. enough, authentic enough. woman's A was ugly, bullet-shaped. And why should John be "You know Norma," he'd expostu- J'- voice clipped and impersonal: "Miss Ruth meeting her out in the country?—unless he wanted to lated. "You know she's as screwy Evans? I'm calling for Dr. John Wayne. He wonders talk to her at some quiet country inn. Perhaps—and as if you could be they come. But I happen to know ready to meet him in a few minutes'" she thrilled with sudden hope the surprise was that more. I know she's playing around "Why—yes, of course." — Norma Wayne had dropped her fantastic demands for with some mighty bad company "He asked me to say that it's very important—he has money, had agreed a surprise for to a quiet, dignified divorce. right now. She's pie for a gang like you. And he's sending his new car The car swerved sharply, lane, that. around to pick you up." turned into a winding She'll try anything they put a narrow track between encroaching and choke- into her head That was all. The woman hadn't nettles —which you know said so, but Ruth cherry bushes. we had supposed, of "Driver!" she called, "where are darned well is not what you'd call course, she was one of the nurses at going?" well balanced. Particularly the hospital and that John, too busy now in the clinic to "Dr. Wayne's go to the telephone himself, had orders, miss," he said respectfully, she's so jealous of you." asked her to call It without was perfectly turning his head. "He is visiting a patient out In all essentials, Ruth had to ad- ordinary, perfectly matter-of-fact. And he'8 a"d wanted mit, ' me to pick him up in the car." he was right. Norma was neu- A d y6t "Oh." Ruth leaned back again, Of course— rotic, hysterical and she was in- Slim b0dy restin a ain relieved. — v" ; .'I" S 6 st the soft a perfectly cushions of the new car, obvious explanation. But the nagging tensely jealous of Ruth, even though while it purred softly over the pavement doubt persisted, there in mind. She she based her jealousy nothing of a road leading out of the back of her on town, Rum felt tried herself grow uneasy. to laugh it off. Nothing but a hangover from the but instinct. John had wanted a long face Jerry out divorce That chauffeur, now-he didn't Miller had pulled when he found months before he had met look like a real chauffeur, where she was snif- Ruth. quiet and respectful as he going. But Jerry was a reporter, And never once, even when had been when fing disaster where there wasn't any, as part of his they were alone, had John or Ruth A F.OTION.ZAT.ON BY „0P E „ ALE 0F TH£ popuLAR ^^ „,„„ OF THE SAME NAME A — " " "

given a sign that they loved each other. But Norma With a sudden movement, he sent her spinning into somehow, Norma knew. All of Ruth's friendship to- the close, musty darkness of the cabin. ward her, even all of her effort to bring about a recon- Then came the most unbelievable part of this unreal ciliation between the Waynes, had been of no avail scene. "Now," the man said, "do me a favor and take against that knowledge. off your coat and dress." Already he was roughly pull- But surely even Norma couldn't lend herself to the ing her coat from her shoulders. sort of sordid intrigue that Jerry had seemed to foresee. Ruth really screamed then. "Take your hands off She forced her mind away from the Waynes, back to me! You can't— Jerry Miller, to her sister Sue and her brother Ned. "Oh yes, I can. And I'm going to. But not what Strange that now, for the first time in years, she was you think, sister. You got nothing to fear—not from finding her thoughts full of her own problems, when me, anyhow. My orders is to remove coat and dress for so long there had been nothing there but plans, and leave. So hand them over and I'll beat it." hopes, schemes for those two beloved youngsters whom, Breathing again, so relieved that even this indignity single handed, she had fed and clothed from their in- did not seem impossible to her, Ruth slipped out of fancy. Sue—wild, tempestuous, impulsive, vivid Sue, the garments and gave them to him. Anything to be still half child and half woman. And Ned, who bore free of his frightening presence. his pain so quietly, who looked at you with such a But as the key turned in the lock—outside—Ruth grave regard in his blue eyes. almost called him back. This darkness, this horrible strange darkness—she could not bear it alone. HER heart swelled with gratitude to Dr. John Wayne, Then she knew she was not alone. and she knew that it would have taken more than She heard a slight scraping noise in the corner, faint a red-headed reporter's scare-head premonitions to at first like the movement of a tiny animal. Then there prevent her from responding to any call of his, no mat- was a hoarse, muffled voice, groaning. That was ter how unexpected, no matter how dubious. It was human. John whose friendship and surgical skill had lifted Ned She stood rigid with fear. But the sounds con- from the bleakness of his wheel-chair into the hope tinued—and now there seemed an odd ring of famili- of a normal boyhood and a sturdy, independent man- arity in them. hood. For that alone, Ruth could never do enough "John!" for John. Yes, surely the sounds responded. As for Sue—well, Sue was not to be worried about She groped her way to the dark corner. Now she any longer, either. Leave her, Ruth thought with could see a little. She made out the form of a man amusement, to young Jerry's wooing—that wooing lying in the shadows. She reached a fearful hand out which resembled nothing so much as a continuous to him. Her fingers learned that he was gagged. She squabble between two high-tempered puppies or kit- stripped off the adhesive tape. With difficulty, he tens. Jerry called Sue an infant, and she called him spoke. a dope, and Ruth knew well enough that this exchange "Ruth. Oh, my dear! Why did I let you in for this?" of insults was the most important thing in either of "John!" she sobbed, trembling fingers already busy their lives. with the ropes that bound his hands and feet. Then Ruth looked up with a start. Twilight hung darkly she gasped in astonishment. The ropes cut into naked against the windows of the car, which had just lurched flesh—like herself, John had been robbed of some of itself to a halt. The chauffeur got out of his seat and his clothes. came around to open the door. He got to his feet with difficulty, and together they "Come along quiet now," he said grimly. searched the one impenetrably dark room of the cabin. Ruth shrank away from him. "What—where are Not a stick of furniture, not a weapon, nothing to use we?" she stammered. "I don't understand." to break the stout door lock or the boarded-up win- "You ain't supposed to. I said—come along." dow—nothing rewarded their efforts. His voice was full of menace. Trembling, Ruth "Well," John said grimly. "Here we are. We might obeyed. He took her by as well make ourselves the arm and walked her at home. At first I thought forward, over a faint this was just a bit of pri- path that he picked out vate blackmail, between with a flashlight in his Norma and me. Someone other hand. Its glow called me and asked for showed, very soon, a a consultation on an rough, unpainted door, a emergency case out here. rusty keyhole. Holding The reception committee the flashlight under his was a determined pair of arm, he thrust a key in gentlemen who left me and turned it, pushed unconscious. Not without, Ruth toward the dark- I may add, a manly but ness within. quite futile show of re- "I won't!" she pro- sistance on my part." He tested. "I won't go in rubbed his jaw reflective- there!" ly. "Tomorrow," he said, "Yes you will. Listen, "you'll be treated to a sister, my job is to de- fine display of assorted liver you here—but I bruises in all the choicest don't get any extra bonus sunset colors— for keeping you in good "Don't try to cheer me condition. That's strictly up," Ruth said. "I'll be up to you. And if you all right. But we've got don't want to get hurt, to do something— you better move!" The headlights shone on an overturned car. (Continued on page 62) 14 J THE BROADCAST THATU0&* SCAR8>

the night of Sunday, October 30, an unpre- ONcedented wave of panic swept the United States, caused by a program which was broad- cast by Orson Welles (pictured here) and his Mercury Theater troupe on the Columbia network. It was a dramatization of H. G. Wells' old thriller, "The War of the Worlds"—a fantasy describing the supposed in- vasion of the Earth by an army of huge, horrible Martians. Thousands of listeners, tuning in the program after it started, heard the spot news "bulletins"—the method by which the story was largely told—and became con- vinced that this planet was actually being invaded by fearsome creatures who were destroying people by the hundreds with their "death rays." Not until after the broadcast did Welles, his troupe, and the network realize the panic that had been loosed in the nation. From every part of the country came news that men and women were rushing into the streets, driving madly into the country to escape the "end of the world." The following day the head of the Federal Com- munications Commission, Frank McNinch, publicly de- clared the broadcast "regrettable," and promised an investigation. CBS officials and Welles expressed their apologies for the unexpected outcome and promised that the news "bulletin" technique would not be used again in circumstances that could cause listeners alarm. Already there has risen the beginning of a hue and cry for censorship of radio, the bugaboo that haunted broadcasters a year ago, following a Mae West appear- ance on the air. Already a promise has been made of a bill to be introduced in Congress to require all scripts to be sent to a government agency before broadcasting. The eventual outcome of this program and its effect on broadcasting as we know it today probably cannot be decided for months to come.

COMING! In the February issue of RADIO MIRROR, read untold facts about the program and its young star, who was able to plunge a whole nation into terror Macfadden Studios

Which shall it be—life-long love between man and wife, or

John J. Anthony is director of the Good Will There's only one difficulty with this ideal—human na- Hour on the Mutual network, every Sunday eve- ture being what it is, it's hard to make monogamy ning at 10:00, E.S.T., and also the director of his work. own Marital Relations Institute. In both of these In fiction and in plays infidelity is rated the number capacities he has for several years been able to one cause of marital discord. And legally it is the talk to unhappy married couples and aid them in grounds most often used to secure divorce. Actually, solving their problems. Radio Mirror is happy to however, from the human, psychological standpoint it present this illuminating article by Mr. Anthony. is only one cause of divorce, and a vastly over-rated cause at that. Only a small percentage of married un- THE fact is—though often we fail to realize it—that happiness arises out of unfaithfulness. Monogamy has marriage is an institution. The happiest people are at least four other enemies working against it, all more those who are married, and then stay married. Di- powerful than infidelity—-four other forces working vorce, as it is practiced by a small section of the pop- to break up marriages and land them in the divorce ulation, isn't a solution of the search for happiness. courts. There is something very pitiful, almost heart-breaking, My work has convinced me of this. In my position in the spectacle of those people who go through life as director of the Marital Relations Institute, and in choosing partners, discarding them in the courts, the past two years as director of radio's Original Good choosing new ones, only to discard them in turn. Will Hour, I have been permitted to see a cross-section I think you'll agree that monogamy—the practice of of humanity. People from all walks of life come to me having one mate, and only one—is the ideal in mar- and speak from their hearts, telling me frankly why riage, creating the most lasting satisfaction and peace. they think their marriages are headed for disaster.

16 They are not in a court of law when they talk course, lies in the fact that sexual attraction forms the to me: they can tell me things that may be prej- basis for most of our marriages. udicial to their own case, as well as things that The things that can throw the fine sexual balance will help it. And the result has frequently been between a man and a woman out of kilter are almost a frank discussion that led to happiness instead innumerable. Run-down physical condition is a com- of a trial leading to divorce. mon cause. Nervous strain, over-indulgence, too much

- The causes of marital failure are almost infi- alcohol are others. The most frequent, however, is nite in their variety. Each problem presents its just plain overwork and fatigue. own individual features that practically make it unique. Still it is possible to look beyond the ONE day Helen M— came to me for advice. "My separate variations and form some sort of classi- husband and I have lost interest in each other," fication of the most frequent factors producing she said. "What can we do about it?" discord and dissension in married life. "What do you mean by 'lost interest in each other'?" Broadly speaking, and listing them in the I asked. order of their importance and frequency, I She was bashful about explaining at first, but I should say that the commonest sources of mari- finally got her to tell me that Tom was failing to carry tal disturbance are: sexual maladjustment, nag- out his normal husbandly duties. ging, unequal mental development, financial in- "I can't understand it," she said. "Do you think it's ability to provide support, and infidelity. because he doesn't love me any more?" I place sexual maladjustment first because, I questioned her some more. How old was Tom? for the psychologist, it is the greatest single Twenty-seven, she told me. "What kind of work does cause of divorce. The explanation for this, of he do?" I demanded. "He's a waiter in a chain restaurant." I asked her to tell me more about his work. What was it like? How hard was it? What were his exact duties? When did he go to work? When did he come home? She described Tom's work in detail and when she had finished I saw the picture of a man who, though young, was using up a terrific amount of physical energy. Moreover, in addition to his job, he drilled one night a week with a National Guard regiment and was a member of a bowling league sponsored by his com- pany. Tom was just a tired old man at twenty-seven. I explained to Helen why they had been "losing interest in each other." The next day I had Tom come in to see me. I told him what his wife had confided and just why their marriage was heading for a crack-up. "Look here," I said. "Cut out all your outside activities that are eating up your strength and confine yourself to your two real jobs in life—your work and your wife." I am happy to say that Tom saw my

. . . the tragedy of the divorce court?

By JOHN J. ANTHONY

What are the real causes of di- vorce? The startling truth from radio's authority on marriage will safeguard your happiness point and that my advice has proved sound. evil was recognized, the nagging disappeared. Nagging, which is second on my list, is not really a Unequal mental development occurs when one-half cause itself, but the effect of a cause. Actually, hus- of the firm either moves too far ahead or lags too far bands and wives nag each other not because they want behind the parade. One or the other develops interests to, but because they have to. Remember that. And that carry him clean out of the other's world. To they pester each other because there is some tempera- effect a reunion demands tremendous tact and under- mental conflict that must be cured if they expect the standing from the more aggressive one, and an equal nagging to stop. amount of hard work, ambition and humility from the other. DWARD M- is a case in point. He came to my Elizabeth H 's problem, which looked at first like E office one afternoon, dropped into a chair and an- another case of sexual maladjustment, turned out to nounced: "You'll have to do something about my wife! be simply unequal mental development. She's impossible to live with. She's making my life "I guess I'm what is known as a 'frigid wife'," she miserable. She hounds me day and night—nags me confessed to me. "I have been married five years. My to death. Why do I want the window closed? Why do husband is kind and tender and devoted to me. But I want it open? Why must I smoke cigars in the never once have I felt anything but repugnance toward house? Why do I have to listen to Eddie Cantor when his embraces. she wants to listen to a lecture on Early Byzantine "This uncontrollable aversion on my part started on art?" And then followed more details about how ter- our wedding night. I can sincerely say it was as great rible a woman she was, and how amiable and patient a shock to me as to my husband. All during our he was. I heard him out and promised I'd see Mrs. engagement, which lasted nearly two years, I had M within a day or two. looked forward to marriage as the glorious culmination When she came in a few days later I could see at of our love. Neither of us wanted to enter into a once that she was a charming, intelligent, cultured sordid, underhanded relationship, so we had delib- woman. I told her her husband had talked to me and erately confined our expressions of affection to a few I told her what he had said. She smiled. harmless kisses. We were rather proud of our self- "Yes," she said. "That's just what I expected him control, and confident that our marriage would be to say." that much happier because of it. Then she told me her side of the story. She admitted "But what happened was so horrible, so disappoint- the truth of much of what her husband had said, but ing, so unexpected that I can't even think of it with- she added an important fact which he had omitted. out wanting to cry. My husband was deeply hurt, She was not well, was subject to frequent acute head- angry and bewildered. aches, and though Mr. M knew this, he seemed "In other respects our married life is ideal," she unwilling to make allowances for it. On the contrary, continued. "We have a lovely home and are fond of he wanted everything his own way and any attempt each other. Though Ted hasn't the education or the on her part to have her wishes fulfilled was greeted upbringing I have, he has such a generous and good- only by arguments, angry outbursts, and scorn. natured disposition that I can overlook his occasional It was clear to me that the shoe, as it usually is in crudities of manners and speech." these cases, was on the other foot. I telephoned Mr. I questioned her some more, and at last said: "In M and asked him to come back to see me. the first place, you'll have to stop feeling superior to I questioned him closely regarding the specific inci- your husband." dents mentioned by his wife and found that what she This statement brought her upright in her chair. had told me was substantially true. "Wait a minute," I warned her. "If you didn't feel "Mr. M ," I asked him, "do you want to bring superior to him, would you say, 'Ted hasn't the up- your marriage to an end?" bringing and the education I had'? Or refer to his He looked at me in surprise. "Of course not. That's crudities of speech and manners? Since you subcon- why I came to see you." sciously consider him an inferior individual, you bit- "Well," I said, "you might as well, unless you are terly resent his domination—as a man. Your frigidity willing to accept the fact that sometimes your wife is is a protest against his masculine domination. unwell and must then be treated with extra kindness "Secondly, stop comparing the inglorious present and consideration. You with the roseate dreams know, marriage is a of the past. You un- partnership, and unless doubtedly built your you can develop a sen- hopes too high. During sible, tolerant, human your long engagement, spirit of give and take you compensated for you may as well call the restraint of natural quits right now. And instincts by picturing a frankly, I have a hunch future which reality that if you will do this, never could equal. you'll find your wife's "Once you have illnesses becoming less cleared your mind of frequent." these cobwebs, consult I think I made him your family physician. see the light, because If there is a physical when last heard from reason, as well as a Mr. and Mrs. M mental one for the con- were living "happily dition you describe, ex- ever after." In that pert advice will enable case, you see, the nag- you to find the solution." ging was a symptom of But she returned, a another and quite dif- The author, John J. Anthony, helping a troubled month or two later, and ferent evil. Once that young lady solve her problem on the Good Will Hour. (Continued on page 67) 18 .m

Ten months ago just a crooning drummer- boy—today young Mr. Skinnay Ennis leads his own band on the new Bob Hope show. Here are two of Skinnay's admirers, Joan Crawford and Cesar Romero, dancing to his music at Victor Hugo's in Hollywood.

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Wednesday's new Texaco show on CBS brings one of By 1923, Adolphe Menjou was the movies' most hissable Hollywood's real old timers to radio for the first villain. Above, it's easy to see that he bodes no time. Above— 1920, with Bebe Daniels in "Pink Gods." good for Kathlyn Williams in "The World's Applause."

Villainy behind him, by 1925 he was playing roman- Menjou has been married three times. In this picture, tic roles and putting plenty of umph into wooing taken in 1924, he is with his first wife and twelve- Florence Vidor in "The Grand Duchess and the Waiter." year-old stepson on the lawn of his Hollywood home. 20 NEWEST MASTER OF CEREMONIES

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THERE'S just nothing radio can't do—even to putting with four thousand shutter-snappers to its credit. on a program built around the most visual of all When the program announced a contest for prize- hobbies, amateur photography. Columbia's Camera winning amateur photographs recently, nearly a thou- Club, through its broadcasts over station KNX, Los sand entries came in for the judges to thumb through Angeles, and the CBS Pacific network, has become one before they finally emerged with the three prize shots of the largest organizations of its kind in the country, shown here.

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The parents of those much talked about four boys—Dixie Camera catches cameraman—RADIO MIRROR'S Lee and Bing Crosby, caught by Hyman at the Trocadero. photographer, Hyman Fink, before the mike.

24 Picture after picture was taken of Lindsay Harry but Hyman wasn't satisfied un- til he got that big, bright smile. Below, in inset, the Crosby ranch at Del Mar, near Bing's famous racetrack. JUST for the sake of argument—and Bob Hope would do anything for the sake of a good argument, so why shouldn't you?—pretend this is Tuesday evening, time to listen to that new Colossus of Comedy, the Bob Hope Variety show. The band's playing, Bob and Skinnay and Bill Goodwin and Jerry Colonna are all ready to entertain you—and here goes, via one of Radio Mirror's special Readio-Broadcasts, for thirty minutes of hilarity. Bob: How do you do, ladies and gentlemen. Here I am back again for Pepsodent, and I'm just as surprised as you are, after last week's show. Letters and telegrams are still pouring in from people all over the country. All I can say is they don't know a good program when they hear it. I might have been a little jittery last week, but I don't have to worry—the Philharmonic Orchestra heard me and they want me. They want to use my knees for castanets. They thought I was nervous last week, but you should have seen Bill Goodwin. Bill put his hand on the table to steady himself—and got three messages from the spirit world. Bill: How do you feel now, Bob? Bob: I'm all right. I was just wondering how the sponsor feels. Bill: I wouldn't worry about him. After all, how long can a man carry a grudge? Bob: Well, I got a letter from my brother. He thought the program was great. Bill: Really? How'd the warden like it? Bob: Now, don't kid about my brother. He's doing all right at Alcatraz. He has the slot machine concession. Too bad he was taken out of circulation—he used to make money hand over fist, just like a machine. In fact, he did make it like a machine. He made the ten-dollar bills in the daytime and the twenty-dollar bills at night. When he worked nights he used to pay himself overtime. Brother really shouldn't be up there, but the govern- ment got jealous of the money he was making. It looked so much like theirs. They never would have caught him, but he had a one-cent sale on the dollar bills. He gave away two bills for the price of one. ... He used to make twenty-five thousand dollars a year and it only took him an hour to do it. I asked him once why he didn't make more, and he said, "Oh no, that would put me in the higher income brackets." That's enough about my brother. I don't want to talk about my relatives too much—not that I haven't any. In fact, so many relatives call at my hotel, the revolving door keeps the whole place air-conditioned. Take Bob Burns. He's always talking about his Grandpa Snazzy. He should meet my Uncle Lucifer—he's always taking things around the house. I went to sleep last night and this morning I woke up in the pawn shop window. . . . Why, hello, Skinnay Ennis! What did you hear about last week's show? 26 —

As nutty as a Christmas plum pudding,

as full of gags as Congress, this Bob

Hope laugh-fest is— But read it and

then praise it with your own words

(Copyright, 1938 by The Pepsodent Company)

Skinnay: Well, Bob—ray mother hears all the funny programs on the air—and she thinks you're different.

Bob: Yes, that's very nice. . . . Here comes Jerry Co- lonna. Now I'll get a sensible answer. Jerry, how did your brood like the broadcast last week? Jerry: Ooooooooh, yes. My Cousin Willie enjoyed it conclusively. Bob: Did he think I was droll? Jerry: My knave, there's quite a difference between droll and drool. Bob: Well, what's the difference, as long as he liked the program? Jerry: He enjoyed the program so much that next week we're going to put tubes in the radio! Bob: Oh! I think we'd better change the subject. Let's talk about girls. They're always safe. Jerry: With you, they are. Bob: (Ignoring this.) Say, Bill, have you noticed the women look different this year? The way they're wear- ing their hair—you know, up on top of the head? Gee,

I never knew they had ears. . . . The girls wear their hair up so high they have to have the perfume sprayed on by a tree surgeon. I saw a sign in a beauty parlor today "Marcel and your ears pinned back for a dollar." Bill: (Enthusiastically.) Bob, wait until you see these girls I got for our date tonight! They're beautiful! Come on, let's go get them now. (And all at once we hear the hum of a motor and realize that Bob and Bill are in a car, on their way to meet their dates. But Bob's getting restless.) Bob: Bill, we've been driving quite a while for a blind date. Don't you know any girls in this state? Bill: Well, Bob, we ought to be there any minute

now. . . . Bob: Yeah, you told me that twenty-two miles ago. Bill, I don't want to be too inquisitive, but tell me, what does my girl look like Bill: Well, my girl has the most gorgeous figure you ever saw; she used to pose for radiator caps. 9 Bob: Yeah, but what part of the car did my girl pose for?

Bill: Well, she's a swell dancer. . . . Bob: Never mind that, just tell me what movie star she resembles. We've been driving two hours, we've had two flat tires, and it looks like I'm going to get another one. What color hair has my girl got—if any?

Bill: Well, if I remember . . . her hair is sort of a plaid. Bob: Plaid! Bill: What are you complaining about? The last girl I got you had as many teeth as my girl. Bob: That was the trouble—she was all teeth. She had such big buck teeth she could eat an apple through a picket fence. The only thing missing was a saddle.

Didn't I see her running at Delmar? . . . What's my girl's name?

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As nutty as a Christmas plum pudding,

as full of gags as Congress, this Bob

Hope laugh-fest is— But read it and hen praise it with your own words

(Copyright, ma by The Pepsodent Company) would for the sake of argument^-and Bob Hope Skirnay: Well, Bob— mother JUST of a good argument, so why my hears all the funnv do anything for the sake programs on the time air—and she thinks you're different. shouldn't you?—pretend this is Tuesday evening, bob: Yes, that's very nice. Bob Hope . . . Here comes Jerry Co- to listen to that new Colossus of Comedy, the lonna^ Now I'll get a sensible answer. playing, Bob and Skinnay and Jerry, how did Variety show. The band's your brood like entertain the broadcast last week? Bill Goodwin and Jerry Colonna are all ready to Jerry: Ooooooooh, yes. Radio Mirror's special My Cousin Willie enjoyed it you—and here goes, via one of conclusively. " Readio-Broadcasts, for thirty minutes of hilarity. Bob: Did he think I was droll? do you do, ladies and gentlemen. Here I Bob: How Jerry: My knave, there's and I'm just as surprised quite a difference between am back again for Pepsodent, axon and drool. after last week's show. Letters and telegrams as you are, Bob: Well, what's the country. All difference, as long as he liked are still pouring in from people all over the the program? good program when they I can say is they don't know a Jerry: He enjoyed the program so much that next hear it. week we re going to put tubes in the radio! have been a little jittery last week, but I don t I might Bob: Oh! I think we'd and better change the subject. Let's have to worry—the Philharmonic Orchestra heard me talk about girls. They're always safe. They want to use my knees for castanets. they want me. Jerry: With you, they week, but you should are. They thought I was nervous last Bob: (Ignoring this.) Say, Bill, have you noticed the have seen Bill Goodwin. Bill put his hand on the table women look different this year? messages from the spirit The way they're wear- to steady himself—and got three ing their hair— you know, up on top of the head' Gee world. I never knew they had ears. ... The girls wear their hair Bill: How do you feel now, Bob? up so high they have to have the perfume sprayed on by Bob: I'm all right. I was just wondering how the a tree surgeon. I saw a sign in a beauty parlor today- sponsor feels. Marcel and your ears pinned long back for a dollar." Bill: I wouldn't worry about him. After all, how Bill: (Enthusiastically.) Bob, wait until you see these can a man carry a grudge? girls I got for our date tonight! They're beautiful! Come Bob: Well, I got a letter from my brother. He thought on, let's go get them now. the program was great. (And all at once u>e hear the hum of a motor Bill: Really? How'd the warden like it? and realize that Bob and Bill are in a car, on their Bob: Now, don't kid about my brother. He's doing all way to meet their dates. But Bob's getting restless.) at Alcatraz. has the slot machine concession. right He Bob: Bill, we've been driving quite a while for a blind Too bad he was taken out of circulation—he used to make date. Don't you know any girls in this state? money hand over fist, just like a machine. In fact, he did Bill: Well, Bob, we ought to be there any minute make it like a machine. He made the ten-dollar bills in now. . . . the daytime and the twenty-dollar bills at night. When Bob: Yeah, you told me that twenty-two miles he worked nights he used to pay himself overtime. ago. Bill, I don't want to be too inquisitive, but tell me, what Brother really shouldn't be up there, but the govern- does my girl look like ment got jealous of the money he was making. It looked Bill: Well, my girl has the most gorgeous figure you so much like theirs. They never would have caught him, ever saw; she used to pose for radiator caps. but he had a one-cent sale on the dollar bills. He gave Bob: Yeah, but what part of the car did my girl pose away two bills for the price of one. ... used He to make for? twenty-five thousand dollars a year and it only took him Bill: Well, she's a swell dancer. . . . an hour to do it. I asked him once why he didn't make Bob: Never mind that, just tell me what movie star more, and he said, "Oh no, that would put me in the she resembles. We've been driving two hours, higher income brackets." we've had two flat tires, and it looks like I'm going to get another That's enough about my brother. I don't want to talk one. What color hair has my girl got— if any? about my relatives too much—not that I haven't any. In Bill: Well, if I remember . . . her hair is sort of a plaid. fact, so many relatives call at my hotel, the revolving Bob: Plaid! door keeps the whole place air-conditioned. Take Bob Bill: What are you complaining about? The last girl Burns. He's always talking about his Grandpa Snazzy. I got you had as many teeth as my girl. He should meet my Uncle Lucifer—he's always taking Bob: That was the trouble—she was all teeth. She things around the house. I went to sleep last night and had such big buck teeth she could eat an apple through this morning I woke up in the pawn shop window a picket fence. The only thing missing was a saddle. Why, hello, Skinnay Ennis! What did you hear about Didn't I see her running at Delmar? . . . What's girl's last week's show? my name?

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Bill: Esmerelda Emmerratch. Pa: Hurry, Esmerelda. Don't let this sucker off Bob: Esmerelda Emmerratch! I hope she doesn't your hook. He's wiggling.

look like that sounds! . . . Hey, what are you stopping Ezzy: I'll be down in a minute. I'm having trouble in front of this barn for? with my hair. Bill: This isn't a barn. This is the house where Pa: What's the matter? Can't you fix it? Esmerelda lives. Ezzy: Fix it? I can't find it! Bob: Well, what's that big goat doing in the Bob: I wish I could get lost. window? (We hear footsteps. Here she comes!) Bill: That's Esmerelda's father. Ezzy: Well, jitterbugs, here I am! Let's cut a rug! Bob: If that's her father—what does her mother Bob: (In a low voice.) Bill, she's got her face on look like? upside down! Bill: Bob, do you see Ezzy: Come on, boys. that cow standing over How about a game of post there in the corner? office? Bob: Yes. Bob: Do you mean I Bill: Well, it isn't a have to kiss you? cow! Ezzy: Well, I ain't Bob: (Resigning himself gonna sell you stamps! to his fate.) Well, I'm here Ya-hoooooooooo —I'll suffer. Let's go in! Bob: Come on, let's go. (The door-bell rings; Pa (We hear the car motor

Emmerratch answers it. ) roar, and then stop. In the Pa: Ahh, good evening. background there is the Step right in, boys. The sound of a dance hall.) girls will be right down. A Voice: Tickets, five Want to play some poker? cents each! Get your black- Bill: How do you do, jacks here! Can't have no Mr. Emmerratch. This is fun without a blackjack. the fellow I was telling Bob: A nice place to you about—you know, come to relax. I wonder from the Pepsodent pro- what time they carry out gram. the wounded? . . . Say, Pa: Oh, how do you do, there's Skinnay Ennis! Amos? Come in—how's Hiya, Skinnay! Madame Queen? Skxnnay: Hiya, Sucker! Bob: You can tell he Bob: Hmm. Wonder listens. ... Is Esmerelda how he knew? ready, Mr. Emmerratch? Ezzy: Come on, Bobsy- Pa: Ready? She's been Wobsy. Let's dance. ready for thirty years. By Bob: (After a pause.) the way, boys, just check Say, Ezzy, do you always your coats over there . . . dance like this? that'll be ten cents. While Ezzy: Oh, no. Some- we're waiting would you times I move my feet. like to shoot some dice? Bob: Well, when you Let's get a little action have time, will you move around here. Care for a them off mine? I don't cold drink while you're mind you stepping on my waiting? feet, but don't try to put Bob: Oh, thanks, Mr. Bob Hope's other heckler— Bill my shoes on. Emmerratch — don't mind Goodwin, the Pepsodent announcer. Ezzy: Oh, here comes if I do. my steady boy-friend! Pa: Soda pop or a bottle of beer? Bob: You mean that black mustache with legs? Bob: Oh, it doesn't make any difference. Jerry Colonna: What're you doing with my Pa: Yes, it does. Pop's a nickel. Beer's ten cents. girl? Like to play a little roulette? Bob: Your girl? Bob: I don't gamble. Jerry: Sure—I'm a talent scout for Ripley! Pa: You're taking my daughter out, ain't you? Skinnay: Ladies and gentlemen, we're now going Bill: Will you please tell the girls we're waiting, to turn out the lights so everybody can change part- Mr. Emmerratch? ners! One, two, three—out! Pa: Hey, Hedy, Goody's here! Bob: (Talking to himself through the confusion.)

Hedy: (And she sounds very nice.) Why, hello, Bill. Here's my chance! . . . Oh, Hedy. . . . Hedy. . . . Come Bill: Hello, Hedy. Meet my friend—he's that very here. Let's slip out this way—right through this door funny fellow on the radio. over here. Hedy: Oh, really? The one with five daughters? (A door opens and closes, and Bob whispers:) At last

Bob: I like her even after that line. She's snazzy. we are alone, Hedy . . . kiss me! Let's go, Hedy. (There is a long, ecstatic silence. Then Bob says:) Bill: Wait, Bob—we have to wait for your girl. Darling, what is that thing on your lip that tickles Pa: (Shouting.) Maw! It's eight- thirty. Let Es- me so? merelda out! Jerry: Ahhhhhhhhhh—so you're wondering too! (There is a clanking of chains and the squeak of a And that finishes both Bob Hope and this special heavy door. Then we hear Esmerelda yelling.) Readio-Broadcast—but you can tune in next Tuesday Ezzy: Yeeeeeeeee! A man! Wow! at 10:00 on NBC.

28 ;*Me <^

You've met him as a wanderer.

explorer, commentator and sales-

man de luxe. Now meet Lowell

Thomas as a person, a Right Guy

Astride one of his beautiful saddle horses, By BERTON BRALEY in front of the picturesque Thomas estate.

Part III Not to speak of young explorers he's found jobs exploring. IOWELL THOMAS runs by stop-watch, like a radio That is why he also has time to pinch hit for speak- program, yet he is never in a hurry. His enthu- ers "too busy" to keep their appointments; why he " siasm and inward vim are inexhaustible—as his can and does engage in little labors of love, like writ- energy seems to be. But the reason this energy doesn't ing introductions for his friends' books, managing his exhaust lies in the way he organizes it. For in this employees' finances, sparking ideas for fellow-authors Thomas has absolute genius. The system he has who have gone stale; and furnishing letters of intro- evolved for directing his energies is as flexible as a duction for travelers he thinks worth introducing (and hula dancer's spine and as elastic as a politician's a Lowell letter is likely to mean a red carpet on the conscience. dock and the Grand Vizier waiting with a guard of He can organize Red Cross Drives, get up Soft Ball honor. Thomas knows some ten thousand prominent Championships between the Nine Old Men and the people.) Prehistoric Sluggers (comprising eighteen important He augments his personality with an able personnel. names) and play in them; sandwich in a campaign to Topping his private staff of eight, as creative aides, place some friend, acquaintance, or total stranger in a are Prosper Buranelli and Louis Sherwin. Sherwin is favorable spot where his abilities can register. He has a brilliant, astute and prolific newspaper man former- put a half dozen men on the lecture platform, and ly on the New York Evening Post. Buranelli was helped countless aspiring authors and artists to find cross-word puzzle inventor for the old World, and still their public. turns 'em out. Lowell regards (Continued on page 69)

29 Amusing, educational, sensational are these new

brain-teasing questions, designed strictly for fun

DECORATIONS 1Y VANDERPOEL

aboard for the second in- 4. What radio star recently had an Suggested by ALLstallment of Radio Mirror's exhibition of surrealist paintings? TRUE OR FALSE own Ask-Me-Another game, 5. What famous artist once cut his inspired by the different quiz pro- own ear off? (NBC, Mondays at 10:00 P. M., E.S.T.) grams on the air! 6. What beautiful building was The questions on these two pages built as a tomb for a beloved Are the following statements true are all original, never asked on the wife? or false? air, but they've been modeled after 7. Which letter of the alphabet is a 1. The first college in America, the type of brain-busters heard on measure? An industrious insect? founded by the Puritans, was the Professor Quiz, Vox Pop, In- A drink? A vegetable? A bird? Princeton. formation Please, True or False, 8. Unscramble the following mix- 2. William Penn was the leader of Ask-It-Basket, and Kay Kyser ture of stars and pictures so that the religious sect known as the shows. In addition, there's a group each star is paired with the pic- Disciples of Christ. of Radio Mirror's own questions, ture in which he or she played: 3. If you were afraid of being stuck which are really tough ones, and no "Robin Hood", "Of Human by its quills, you would not pick fooling. Bondage", W. C. Fields, "Of Hu- up a hedgehog. You can take the quiz by yourself, man Hearts", Irene Dunne, Errol 4. Flemish giant, Patagonian, An- or with a party of friends. All you Flynn, Bette Davis, "Back Street", gora, and Himalayan are all need is a pencil and piece of paper "David Copperfield", James breeds of cats. on which to jot down your answers. Stewart. 5. A newcomer in the 1938-39 edi- Unless you want to make the next 9. The national anthem of what na- tion of "Who's Who in America" person who tries to take the quiz tion has music which was is Edgar Bergen. mad, don't mark up the magazine. adapted from an old drinking 6. The recent best-seller, "My Son, When you've finished, turn to song called "To Anacreon in My Son!" was written by Arthur page 64 and check your answers Heaven?" E. Hertzler. against the correct ones given there. 10. Why do barbers advertise their 7. The Premier of Czechoslovakia There are fifty questions in all, so shops with a red-and-white immediately preceding Premier score yourself this way: ten points striped pole? Syrovy was Premier Masaryk. for each complete question an- 8. A General ranks higher in the swered correctly; five points for a army than a Brigadier-General. question of two parts one of which 9. Robert Louis Stevenson is buried has been answered correctly; two on an island in the South Seas. points for each part of a five-part 10. The Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer, question. If you get a score of 500, Warner Brothers, and Universal which is perfect, you're a genius. If moving picture studios are all in you get 375 you're very good in- Hollywood. deed. A score of 275 is fair, but anything below 200 is poor and you ought to study up. Suggested by KAY KYSER'S MUSICAL CLASS Suggested by (NBC, Wednesdays at 10:00 P.M., VOX POP E.S.T.) (NBC, Saturdays at 9t00 P.M., E.S.T.) 1. Name five popular songs with the 1. One of these men recently in- word "Rose" or "Roses" in their herited about $100,000,000 on his titles. (One might be "Roses of birthday. Which was it? Rich- Picardy.") ard Whitney, Alfred E. Smith, 2. Name five orchestra leaders who Marshall Field m, Conde Nast, direct their bands without using Warren Pershing, Jules Bache. batons. 2. Where and what is Madagascar? 3. If you wanted to celebrate St. 3. A T-square is the working utensil Patrick's Day musically, what of which of the following profes- five songs might you select to sional men? Plumber, printer, play? architect, lawyer, art critic, Why do barbers advertise with 4. Name five well known theme piano-tuner. red-and-white striped poles? songs of radio, and identify them) fammi wt. with the people or programs who 2. Complete emUmthe following well- instance, there's "The pot calling use them. (You could mention known couplets by adding the the kettle black" or "He's on the Kate Smith's "When the Moon missing second line. shelf.") Comes Over the Mountain," for (a) And departing, leave behind 9. Name five books or plays which instance.) us have a fruit or a vegetable in 5. What two songs are the following (b) And that was the time when their titles. (For instance, "Cab- sets of lyrics taken from? our Little Boy Blue* bages and Kings," by O. Henry.) (a) Holy, fair and wise is she, (c) For of all sad words of 10. Suggest five words or phrases The heavens such grace did tongue or pen ordinarily used when a number lend her, (d) Oh wad some power the gifts of friends raise their glasses of That she might admired be. gie us beer. (Such as "Here's how," (e) To be, or not to be: that "Mud in your eye," etc. Now get (b) Once in the dear dead days be- the question. five more.) yond recall 3. Name five plays or movies in When on the world the mists which a dog was an important Suggested by began to fall. character. THE ASK-IT-BASKET (Recite these out loud and you'll 4. What were the last names of begin to sing the tune.) these five famous characters of (CBS, Wednesdays at 7:30 P.M., E.S.T.) fiction? the Suggested by Romeo ; Nicholas 1 Name advertising slogan that

Becky ; Penrod includes the word time. The one PROFESSOR QUIZ ; Tiny Tim with the word eventually. The (CBS, Saturdays at 8:30 P.M., E.S.T.) 5. A lesson in slang: Why are cof- one with ask. The one with beats. fee-and cake, hay, and peanuts The one with scratched. 1. When is a Countess' husband not the same thing? 2. When a Frenchman says "Hello" a Count? (Note to wise guys: 6. Another lesson in slang: Define to another Frenchman, what the answer is not "When he's no- (a) "pantywaist," (b) "slap-hap- phrase does he use? account.") py," (c) "hams," (d) "corny," 3. Name the kind of boats used by 2. Jones and Smith live 470 miles (e) "finger man." the following people: American apart, and they wish to meet at 7. What were the American pictures Indians, Eskimos, South Sea Is- a town on the road between their in which the following stars first landers, Ancient Romans, Vene- two homes on a certain day at became prominent? Tyrone tians. three o'clock in the afternoon. Power, Sonja Henie, Hedy La- 4. Name two countries, besides the The meeting place is 350 miles marr, Charles Boyer, Margaret United States, which have red, from Jones' home, and 120 miles Sullavan. white and blue flags. from Smith's. Jones always drives 8. Give five common expressions, 5. On what nights of the week do his car at an average speed of 50 sayings or phrases which mention the following five radio stars miles an hour, while Smith al- a familiar household object. (For broadcast? Fred Allen, W. J. ways drives at 30 miles an hour. Cameron, Bob Burns, Bob Hope, Neither stops on the road at all. Frances Langford. What time will each of them have to leave in order to be at the RADIO MIRROR'S QUESTIONS meeting place exactly at three? 3. If a cannon-ball traveling with 1. Name the ten members of the irresistible force hits an immov- United States Cabinet or the posts able post, what will happen? which they occupy. 4. Why are the following five dates 2. Name the thirteen countries of memorable? South America. 1066—1215—1492—1781—1861. 3. What is the hardest substance in 5. If your brother married your the world, and where is it mostly father-in-law's sister, what rela- found? tion to you would their children 4. What American-born woman was be? the first woman member of the English Parliament? Suggested by 5. What are the names of the fol- lowing grand operas? INFORMATION, PLEASE The one that is an adaptation of (NBC, Tuesdays at 8:30 P.M., E.S.T.) the play "Camille." The one whose heroine is a Gypsy 1. Complete these famous pairs of cigarette girl. lovers by naming the missing mem- The one which caused a scandal ber: when it was first played in New Hero .and York. Heloise and The one whose hero is a clown. Dante and The one that is about a ghost- Pelleas and A Gypsy cigarette girl is the ship. Tristan and heroine of what grand opera? {For answers see page 64) The story thus far:

the night of Philip Allen's death an oddly- ONassorted group of people attended the sin- ister Cafe Domdaniel. Philo Vance, the famous detective was there out of curiosity. Gracie Allen, an employee of the In-O-Scent Perfume Company, had come with one suitor, Mr. Puttie, partly to make another suitor, George Burns, jealous, and partly to persuade her brother Philip, a dish-washer in the cafe, not to quit his job. George Burns was keeping an eye on Gracie. One of Sergeant Heath's detectives was across the street, watching to see that Benny the Buzzard, an escaped criminal, did not return to his old haunt. And Owl Owen, master criminal, was there for reasons of his own. Vance already knew Gracie, having met her that afternoon in the country when a cigarette tossed from a pass- ing car had burned a hole in her dress. Shortly after Vance left the Domdaniel, word reached him that Grade's brother, had been found mys- teriously dead in the office of Mirche, the Dom- daniel's proprietor. Sergeant Heath was soon convinced that George Burns was guilty of Philip's death, but Vance was unsatisfied, and persuaded Heath to let George go free pending further investigation. Gracie, trying to help Vance solve the case, unwittingly revealed the existence of a secret door to Mirche's office, thus explaining how Philip had been found there when no one saw him enter. The autopsy re- vealed that his death had been caused by an obscure but very powerful poison. And Mr. Doolson, the In-O-Scent's proprietor, entered the mystery with a strange call upon Markham.

An inner lethargy marked him—he gave me the feeling of a living dead man.

Ilustrationi by JOSEPH TESAR —

PART IV News of An Owl AT eleven o'clock Vance went to the Dom- t daniel. After a delay of only five minutes, Mirche came into the reception-hall where we were waiting, and greeted Vance effusively, and led us along the terrace into his office. "I merely wanted a chat with you anent the poor fellow who was found dead here Saturday night." Vance spoke with a casual pleasantness. "There are one or two points about the situation that rather interest me." "I'm greatly surprised that you should be inter- ested, Mr. Vance." Mirche was cool and suave. "After all, the man was only a dishwasher here. I had dismissed him just before the dinner hour. A question of pay—he didn't think he was getting enough. I don't see why he should come back, unless he thought better of the matter and wished to be reinstated. Most unfortunate he should die in my office. But he didn't seem to be a particu- larly robust fellow, and I suppose one can never

tell when the heart will give out. . . . By the way, Mr. Vance, have they found out just what did cause his death?" "No, I don't believe so," answered Vance non- committally. "However, that isn't the point that interests me at the moment. The fact is, Mr. Mirche, there was an officer in the street outside Saturday night, and he insists he didn't see this dishwasher of yours enter the office here, after he was last seen coming out of it about six o'clock." "Probably didn't notice him," said Mirche in- differently. "No—oh, no. The officer—who, by the way, knew young Allen—is quite positive the man did not enter your office from the balcony all eve- ning. Is it possible the fellow could have come in here some other way?" Vance paused mo- mentarily and looked about him. "He might, don't y'know, have come through that little door in the wall at the rear." Mirche did not speak for a moment. If I have ever seen a living picture of a man thinking rapidly, Mirche was that picture. Suddenly the man let out a short laugh. "And I thought I had guarded my little secret

so well! . . . That door is a device of mine purely for my own convenience, you understand." He rose and went to the rear of the office. "I'll show you how it works." He pressed a small medallion on the wainscoting, and a panel barely two feet wide swung silently into the room. The sinister shadow of Owl Owen, Beyond was the narrow passageway in which Gracie Allen had lost her way. Vance looked at the concealed catch on the secret master criminal and dying mad- door and then turned away, as if the revelation were nothing new to him. "Quite neat," he drawled. "But how should your dishwasher have known of this arrangement?" man, falls across the path of "I'm sure I don't know. Although it's wholly pos- sible, of course, that some of the help around here have spied on me—or perhaps run into the secret acciden- Philo Vance—and a new chapter tally." "Miss Del Marr's aware of it, of course?" "Oh, yes," Mirche admitted. "She helps me here a bit at times." is written in this thrilling In the midst of Vance's next question the front door opened, and Miss Del Marr herself appeared in. the doorway. Mirche introduced us. story of murder by poisoning "I have just been telling these gentlemen," he said

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The story thus far: oddly the night of Philip Allen's death an sin- PART IV ONassorted group of people attended the the famous News of An Owl ister Cafe Domdoniel. Philo Vance, out of curiosity. Gracie detective was there AT eleven o'clock In-O-Scent Perfume Vance went to the Dom- Allen, an employee of the r-} darnel. Puttie, After a delay of only five minutes, Company, had come with one suitor, Mr. Mirche came George Burns, into the reception-hall where we partly to make another suitor, were waning, brother and greeted Vance effusively, and jealous, partly to persuade her led and us along the terrace into not to quit his his office. Philip, a dish-washer in the cafe, "I merely eye on wanted a chat with you anent the job. George Burns was keeping an poor fellow who was found dead here Saturday Sergeant Heath's detectives was Gracie. One of rught.' Vance spoke with that Benny the a casual pleasantness. across the street, watching to see There are one or two points about the situation criminal, did not return to Buzzard, an escaped that rather interest criminal, me." his old haunt. And Owl Owen, master "I'm greatly surprised that you should be inter- reasons of his own. Vance already was there for ested, Mr. Vance." Mirche was met her that afternoon in cool and suave. knew Gracie, having 'After all, the man was only a dishwasher here. I the country when a cigarette tossed from a pass- had dismissed him just before the dinner in her dress. Shortly hour ing car had burned a hole A question of reached pay—he didn't think he was getting after Vance left the Domdaniel, word enough. I don't see why he should come back, that Gracie's brother, had been found mys- him unless he thought better of the the Dom- matter and wished teriously dead in the office of Mirche, to be reinstated. Most unfortunate he should die proprietor. Sergeant Heath was soon danieVs in my office. But he didn't guilty of seem to be a particu- convinced that George Burns was larly robust fellow, and I suppose one can never Philip's death, but Vance was unsatisfied, and /-^ tell when the heart will give out. ... By the persuaded Heath to let George go free pending way, Mr. Vance, have they found out just Gracie, trying to help what further investigation. did cause his death?" Vance solve the case, unwittingly revealed the "No, I don't believe so," answered Vance non- a secret door to Mirche's office, thus existence of committally. "However, that found there isn't the point that explaining how Philip had been interests me at the moment. The fact is, Mr. when no one saw him enter. The autopsy re- Mirche, there was an officer in the street outside vealed that his death had been caused by an Saturday night, and he insists he didn't see this very powerful poison. And Mr. obscure but dishwasher of yours enter the entered office here, after Doolson, the In-O-Scent'ijmgjjjtaft he was last seen coming rkham out of it about six the myst»rv «n*h » *« >• : M o'clock."

"Probably didn't notice him," said Mirche in- differently. "No—oh, no. The officer—who, by the way, knew young Allen—is quite positive the man did not enter your office from the balcony all eve- ning. Is it possible the fellow could have come in here some other way?" Vance paused mo- mentarily and looked about him. "He might, don't y'know, have come through that little door in the wall at the rear." Mirche did not speak for a moment. If I have ever seen a living picture of a man thinking rapidly, Mirche was that picture. Suddenly the man let out a short laugh. "And I thought I had guarded my little secret

so well! . . . That door is a device of mine purely for my own convenience, you understand." He rose and went to the rear of the office. "I'll show you how it works." He pressed a small medallion on the wainscoting, and a panel barely two feet wide swung silently into the room. An inner lethargy The sinister shadow of Owl Owen, Beyond was the narrow passageway in which Gracie marked him—he gave Allen had lost her way. me the feeling of Vance looked at the concealed catch on the secret dead man. door and then turned away, as if the revelation ; a living master criminal were and dying mad- nothing new to him. "Quite neat," he drawled. "But how should your dishwasher have known of this arrangement?" 6 man, falls across the path of "I'm sure I don't know. Although it's wholly pos- >*» sible, of course, that some of the help around here have pi" spied on me—or perhaps run into the secret acciden- Philo Vance—and a new chapter tally." #t "Miss Del Marr's aware of it, of course?" "Oh, yes," Mirche admitted. "She helps me here a bit at times." s-s s written in this thrilling In the midst of Vance's next question the front door opened, and Miss Del Marr herself appeared in the 0* Illustration! by doorway. Mirche introduced us. JOSEPH TES*« story of murder by poisoning "I have just been telling these gentlemen," he said L 33 the immediate quickly, "about the private entrance to this room." He "And at what figure does he estimate forced a laugh. and carefree services of Mr. Burns?" Vance smiled at Miss Del Marr. "You must find that "Five thousand dollars!" door a great convenience." "Quite insane," Vance laughed. it myself if I "Oh, yes—especially when the weather is bad. In "I agree with you. I wouldn't believe the written and signed instructions and fact, it has proved most convenient." She spoke in a didn't have safe at this mo- casual tone, but there was a hardness, almost a bitter- the certified check right here in my expiration clause of forty- ness, in her expression. ment—incidentally, with an Vance was scrutinizing her closely. I expected him eight hours." this fantastic information, to question her regarding Allen's death, for I knew After Vance had absorbed of morning. He told this had been his intention. But, instead, he chatted he related his own activities the on the carelessly regarding trivial, commonplace matters. of the secret door to Mirche' s office, and dwelt Sergeant's stubborn suspicion that the Domdaniel was SHORTLY before he made his adieus, he said dis- the centre of some far-reaching criminal ring. armingly to Miss Del Marr: "Forgive me if I seem To this last, Markham nodded slowly and thought- personal, but I cannot help admiring the scent you' are fully. "that the Sergeant's wearing. I'd hazard a guess it is a blend of jonquille "I'm not sure," he remarked, and rose." suspicions are unfounded. That place has always "Yes," she replied indifferently. "It has a ridiculous troubled me a bit, but nothing definite has ever been brought to light." name—quite unworthy of it, I think. Mr. Mirche uses mentioned as a possible guid- the perfume, too—I am sure it was my influence." She "The Sergeant Owen gave the man a conventional smile; and again I de- ing genius," Vance said. "And the idea rather appeals tected the hardness and bitterness in her manner. to me. I'm half inclined, don't y'know, to search for As we walked toward the avenue, Vance was un- the 'Owl' and see if I can ruffle his feathers. . . .By usually serious. the by, Markham, in case my impulse should over- "Deuced clever, our Mr. Mirche," he muttered. come my discretion, what might be his given name?" "Can't understand why he wasn't more concerned "As I remember, it's Dominic." ." about the secret door. He's worried, though. Oh, quite. "Dominic—Dominic . . Suddenly Vance stood up, his eyes fixed before him. "Dominic Owen! And Very queer. . . . No need whatever to question the Lorelei. Changed my Daniel Mirche!" He held mind about that the his cigarette suspended. moment she spoke so "Now the whole thing dulcetly and looked at Coming next month . . . one of radio's has become fantasy. Mirche. There was Dominic—Daniel. To hatred, Van— passion- wit, DOMDANIEL!" Markham raised his ate, cruel hatred. . . . most famous plays, "Cat Wife," by And they both use Kiss eyebrows skeptically. Me Quick. Oh, where "Sheer coincidence, does that aromatic item Arch Oboler ... a Lights Out drama Vance. Though a neat of I'll belong? . . . Most puz- bit fantasy, zlinT' admit." At the District At- It was not Heath who in spine-tingling short story form! torney's office Markham was waiting for us when told us about Doolson's we returned to Vance's visit that morning. apartment a little before "The man is desperately concerned, Vance,—and for three. It was the ubiquitous Gracie Allen; and, as the most incredible reason. It seems he has an exalted usual, she greeted Vance with gay exuberance. opinion of this young Burns' ability. Imagines his "You told me to come back this afternoon. Or didn't perfumery business cannot function without the fel- you? Anyhow, you did say something about later this low. And more of that sort of amazing twaddle." afternoon, and I didn't know what time that was; so "Not twaddle at all, Markham," Vance put in. "It I thought I'd come early. I've got lots of clues col- was Burns who concocted the formula for In-O-Scent lected—that is, I've got three or four. But I don't and saved Doolson from bankruptcy." think they're any good. Have you got any clues, "Well, it seems, further, that the annual peak of Mr. Vance?" the business is approaching. Doolson has invested "Not yet," he said, smiling. "That is, I haven't any heavily in an intensive campaign of some kind, and definite clues. But I have several ideas." is in immediate need of various new popular odors. His contention is that only Burns can turn the trick." kH,1 tell me all about your ideas, Mr. Vance," she

"But why his visit here to your sanctum?" O urged. "Maybe they will help." . ." "It appears Burns has chucked his job until cleared "Well, let me see. . . And Vance, somewhat in of all suspicion in the Allen affair. He's nervous and, the spirit of facetiousness, yet with a manifest be- I imagine, not a little frightened. Can't work, can't nignity, told her of his surmise regarding the meaning think, can't sniff—completely disorganized. And Dool- of the word "Domdaniel". son is frantic. Burns told him the affair was being Heath had come in and stood listening as enthralled kept quiet temporarily, and gave no names; but ex- as was the girl. plained that he was in some way concerned with it "That's simply wonderful, Mr. Vance," Gracie said. and therefore upset. Having complete faith in Burns, "I wish I could help you find the man named Dominic. Doolson hastened here in despair." We have a big fat shipping clerk down at the factory "Well?" named Dominic. But he can't be the one you mean." "He insists on offering a reward for the solution to "No, I'm sure he's not. This one is a small man, the case, in the desperate hope of spurring me and the with very dark, piercing eyes, and a white face, and staff to get the matter settled at once, so his precious hair that's almost black." Burns can get back to work." "Oh! Maybe it was the man (Continued on page 54) 34 HOLLYWOOD RADIO WHISPSRS

By GEORGE FISHER

Listen to his program on Saturday nights at 6:30, over the Mutual network.

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Since her Good News broadcast with

Gable and Taylor, Myrna Loy is seri- ously thinking of her own radio show.

THE rice is barely out of Martha Raye's hair and already I am hearing stories that the two are

tiffing . . . and for that age-old reason—her mother's interference. If Martha is wise, she will set up her own housekeeping and will stay as far away from her relatives as possible. Otherwise, I am afraid this marriage might wind up on the front pages, too. * # * Studio officials have decided Deanna Durbin still isn't old enough for romance, and so she will have no boy friend in her next picture, "Three Smart Girls Grown Up." * # * The Joe E. Brown show, fairly new to the networks, isn't being too favorably received. It takes a long time for a film comedian to become accustomed to radio. Stars are trained to "Mugg" for a camera, and when they go on the air they forget you are only heard, not seen! Joe's big mouth, his biggest screen asset, is a total loss to an air audience. I predict that unless his radio technique is vastly improved, Brown will only last on the air for the usual 13 weeks. * # * Don Ameche, who lost the girl in "Alexander's Rag- time Band" and in "In Old Chicago" will race the Ritz Brothers for the affections of Pauline Moore, in "Three Musketeers" and will win her in the last reel of the picture. In the picture, Ameche will be wearing the 17th Century costume ... so you may have trouble telling which is Miss Moore when they kiss—because Don will be wearing a picture hat. * * * They are spending nearly $20,000 a week on the Texaco show ... so it should be good. However, my

objection is that it offers nothing new to radio . . . and for $20,000, somebody should get an idea. It's almost laughable—that Reinhardt Radio Workshop. So far as I can learn, all Reinhardt does for the program is "Take heed!" says Fisher to Martha to say a few lines after Bill Bacher has directed and Raye and her. new husband, Dave Rose. produced the play. David (Continued on page 70)

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Seth Parker, right, recommends Nosey Shuffle-Board as played above, for an evening of fun.

together" of you and your friends. I Seth Parker and his Jonesport neighbors WHEN of began their new radio season last fall, they Best of all, they're games that every member had something more than just a broadcast to the family, young or old, will enjoy. They're guar- offer their listeners. They had an idea, as well—and anteed to break down the stiffest case of dignity and a good one. thaw out the most frostily frozen face. Why not have these Sunday night "get-togethers" For instance, there's all oyer the country? Why, Seth asked on the air, shouldn't the old folks and the young folks set aside Ma Parker's Bean Chopsticks Game Sunday evening as a time when all the members of a family, their friends and their sweethearts, could You all gather around a big table in the living roOm. spend a little time together, get to know each other In front of each person there's a little saucer with better, and incidentally have some fun? ten Navy beans in it, and two small round toothpicks. contestant has to Seth Parker listeners thought it was ' a good idea Without wetting the toothpicks, each too, and began writing in to Phillips Lord, who plays lift the tricky little beans out of the saucer, one at a Seth, asking him for suggestions on what to do at time and place them, without dropping them, on the these get-togethers. So many such letters came in table in front of him. The host or hostess gives the that Lord and the other members of the cast dug back signal for starting. When any player has lifted five into their memories of childhood evenings spent in beans and placed them on the table, he shouts "Beans," Maine for old-time, forgotten games that would be and all the contestants stop. Each player is credited just as much fun to play now as they ever were. with the number of beans he has placed on the table, The games, together with party suggestions and and the game is played over again. After ten trials plenty of Ma Parker recipes for good things to serve the total score of each player is announced, and the for refreshments, have been collected into a book winner gets a little prize of some kind. which will soon be offered to Seth Parker's radio When there are a number of young people in the listeners; but in the meantime, Radio Mirror is happy party, here's a game that is sure to cause plenty of to present this special "preview." laughter. It's called the These games, culled from Seth's forthcoming book, aren't new ones. Many of you must have played them Blind Banana Stuff when you were children. But it's dollars to doughnuts that you've forgotten them, and—more important Blindfold a boy and a girl and give them each a forgotten how hilarious they used to be. The excite- peeled banana—soft, ripe ones make the game more ment and hilarity are still there, ready for you to use interesting. Tell the couples to hold left hands and in entertaining a Sunday night or any night "get- at a signal to start trying to feed the bananas to each

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wits' end, Seth Parker

has some games guar-

anteed to put new life

into any kind of party A Blind Banana Stuff will supply plenty of laughter for the spec- tators as well as the players.

other. It's a good idea, in this game, to give every- it. A good idea is to provide everybody with a supply body special bibs made by cutting holes in the middle of some sort of token—pennies, beans, kitchen matches, of pieces of newspaper and dropping the paper over or similar small objects—which can be used for for- the head of each contestant. The couple who succeed feits in this game. At the end of the evening whoever in eating both bananas first, of course, win. has the largest number of the tokens is declared the Captain Bangs thought up one of the funniest party winner. games, and called it At some time during the evening, some of the girls are going to have to go into the kitchen and start the Nosey Shuffle-Board refreshments, so here's a game to keep the boys busy while they're gone. It's called the Put a sheet of plain wrapping paper eight feet long down on the floor. Draw a line down the middle, Stitch-in-Time dividing the paper lengthwise into two separate lanes. Game Two players are lined up at the end of the paper, one At one end of the room put two tables, on each of in each lane. Put a small marble in front of each. which is a spool of thread and as many needles as At the word "go" the players must push their marbles there are players. Let the boys choose sides into two with their noses, as fast as they can toward the goal teams, and line the opposing teams up at the end of line eight feet away. If one pushes his marble into the room opposite the tables. At a signal from the his opponent's lane, he is disqualified and the other starter the first member in each team must run to fellow wins. After each person at the party has run the table, pick up a needle and the spool, break off the one race, the winners of each heat are matched to- thread, thread the needle, it the table, run gether and eliminated, tournament-fashion, for the put back on championship. back to his team and tap the next man in line, who runs up and does the same thing. The team that gets all A game that can be played all through the evening, its needles first without interfering with whatever other games you threaded wins. are playing, is

Yes or No These are just a few of the many games in Seth Parker's book. As you see, they're old games, which The object of this game is to trick the other people will very likely be brand new to many a member present into answering a question with "yes" or "no." of the younger generation—but new or old, they're Whenever this happens, the person who said "yes" or a lot of fun. Just try them, with Seth Parker's and "no" loses a point to the person who tricked him into Radio Mirror's best wishes, and see! 37 Fink photos ^M^Aaffi

TELEVISION is actually on its way for your television programs, since The Silver Theater plays on Sunday at last! plans aren't quite so far advanced afternoons will continue until early If you live in New York or very elsewhere. Experimental studios are spring this year, instead of signing off, near it, and have at least $150 to either on the air now or planned for as they did last season, right after spend, the chances are that you'll be the near future in Los Angeles, Pitts- Christmas—for which the sponsors be watching television pictures in your burgh, Philadelphia, Boston, Albany thanked. There are so few good orig- own home by late April. That's the and Chicago, and if sets were avail- inal dramatic shows on the air that substance of an announcement from able would probably go on the air we can't afford to let one of them go. the board of directors of the Radio regularly as soon as possible. And, incidentally, when is the Star Manufacturers' Association. Anyhow—television is actually on Theater on Wednesday nights going Several of the member manufac- its way at last. to resume its much-ballyhooed policy turers revealed that they are already of presenting nothing but original at work making television receiving plays for its dramatic spots? There's sets of several different types, which The most pitiful person in New been too much of a tendency to will probably sell for prices ranging York the night Tommy Riggs' pro- resurrect old Broadway plays on this from $150 to $1,000. A set which gram had its first broadcast was Mr. otherwise sprightly program. would bring in pictures measuring Riggs himself. The broadcast over, seven by nine inches, plus accom- sponsors and reporters gathered at a panying sound, will cost about $250, buffet supper to congratulate Tommy. NEW YORK CITY—The newest they said. The party went on until late in the voice to hit the air waves is that of New York will have two mammoth evening. Which would have been very Jimmy Powers, youngest sports editor transmitters operating on regular pleasant, except that it was Tommy's in New York. He talks for fifteen schedules by spring, according to fifth wedding anniversary, and both minutes at 6:30 every night on station plans now—NBC's transmitter atop he and Mrs. Riggs were straining WMCA, which estimates proudly that the Empire State Building, and CBS' hard at the leash to get away and he already has gathered a faithful in the Chrysler Building tower. find a little peace and quiet. Appar- flock of 50,000 listeners. If you live outside of New York, ently it didn't occur to them to leave Jimmy came to New York from you may have to wait a while longer Betty Lou to entertain the folks. Enid, Oklahoma, but before getting

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They discovered a supply of paint, so jEdgar freshened up Charlie's mouth.

By DAN SENSENEY

here he worked in Oklahoma oil fields ing-coupons came into his newspaper photograph of the group. and Western farm fields, travelled sports department. The station had expected about five with the Giants and Yankees to all He's married, and has a baby hundred pieces of mail—but by the sections of the country, and attended daughter named Patricia. next night 11,421 requests for pictures Marquette and Ohio State Univer- had been received! Which certainly sities. At Marquette he was an all- proved that folks in the Carolinas, around athlete and letterman, playing COLUMBIA, South Carolina—Were Georgia, Virginia and Tennessee like football, basketball, golf and tennis, J. E. Mainer's Mountaineers embar- their Mountaineers. but specializing in track. He's still an rassed! The Mountaineers troupe is com- all-around sportsman as far as re- Mainer's Mountaineers, hillbilly posed of Byron H. Parker, "the Ol' porting goes, covering them all, but singers who are one of the most Hired Hand," who is the salesman admitting that he prefers baseball. popular local features on Columbia's and announcer; George Morris He's also pretty good at spelling, WIS, decided to find out how many ("Sambo"), who plays a guitar; which he proved by winning one of people really listened to them. So Leonard Stokes ("Handsome"), who Paul Wing's NBC Spelling Bees one day the Ol' Hired Hand, who does also plays a guitar; DeWitt Jenkins recently. the talking for the Mountaineers, an- ("Snuffy"), who pink-a-panks the The famed Golden Gloves boxing nounced on both of their regular day- banjo; and J. E. Mainer ("J. E."), who tournaments are promoted by Jimmy time broadcasts that he and the boys fiddles around and still tends to as part of his newspaper work. He would give a special jamboree pro- business. stages four big boxing meets a year gram that night—at which time All the boys are from North Caro- in Madison Square Garden, and each they'd make a special offer to their lina except Parker, who comes from show is a sell-out. He has also taken listeners. Nebraska. They dress "in character" Golden Gloves teams abroad, and On the night broadcast, the Hired winter and summer, off the street and while in England spoke over the Hand announced that he wanted the on. Their picturesque ten-gallon hats, British Broadcasting System. Mountaineers' fans to write in the high-heeled boots, loud plaid shirts, Jimmy's fall football guessing con- next day, telling them that they'd and fringed buckskin vests are com- test is the largest in the country listened to this particular broadcast. mon sights in Columbia and on the last year well over a million guess- As an inducement, he offered a free (Continued on page 70)

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Silver Theater plays on Sunday here he worked in Oklahoma oil fields television programs, since The ing-coupons came into his its way for your newspaper photograph of the is actually on advanced afternoons will continue until early and Western farm fields, travelled sports group. TELEVISION plans aren't quite so far department. The station 1 had at last are spring this year, instead of signing off, with the Giants and Yankees to all He's expected about five elsewhere. Experimental studios married, and has baby hundred you live in New York or very they did last season, right after sections of the country, and attended pieces of mail—but by the It on the air now or planned for as daughter named Patricia. next have at least $150 to either for which the sponsors be Marquette and Ohio State night 11,421 requests for pictures near it, and future in Los Angeles, Pitts- Christmas— Univer- that you 11 be the near had been received! Which spend, the chances are Boston, Albany thanked. There are so few good orig- sities. At Marquette he was an all- certainly pictures in your burgh, Philadelphia, proved that folks in the watching television were avail- inal dramatic shows on the air that around athlete and letterman, playing COLUMBIA, South Carolinas, That's the and Chicago, and if sets Carolina—Were Georgia, Virginia and own home by late April. can't afford to let one of them go. football, basketball, golf and tennis, J. E. Tennessee like from able would probably go on the air we Mainer's Mountaineers embar- their Mountaineers. substance of an announcement incidentally, when is the Star but specializing in track. He's still an regularly as soon as possible. And, rassed! The Mountaineers the board of directors of the Radio on Wednesday nights going all-around sportsman as far as re- troupe is com- Anyhow television is actually on Theater Mainer's Mountaineers, hillbilly posed Manufacturers' Association. — policy porting goes, covering of Byron H. Parker, "the 01' to resume its much-ballyhooed them all, but singers who are one of the the member manufac- its way at last. most Hired Hand," who is the salesman Several of of presenting nothing but original admitting that he prefers baseball. popular local features on Columbia's revealed that they are already He's arid announcer; George Morris turers plays for its dramatic spots? There's also pretty good at spelling, WIS, decided to find out television receiving how many ("Sambo"), who plays a guitar; at work making been too much of a tendency to which he proved by winning one of people really listened types, which The most pitiful person in New to them. So Leonard Stokes sets of several different plays on this Paul Wing's Spelling ("Handsome"), who night Tommy Riggs' pro- resurrect old Broadway NBC Bees one day the 01' Hired Hand, who does also probably sell for prices ranging York the plays a guitar; DeWitt Jenkins will broadcast was Mr. otherwise sprightly program. recently. the talking for the Mountaineers, which gram had its first an- ( Snuffy"), who from $150 to $1,000. A set The famed Golden Gloves boxing pink-a-panks the Riggs himself. The broadcast over, nounced on both of their regular day- banjo; and J. would bring in pictures measuring tournaments are promoted E. Mainer ("X E."), who sponsors and reporters gathered at a by Jimmy time broadcasts that he and the boys fiddles by nine inches, plus accom- as around and still tends to seven congratulate Tommy. NEW YORK CITY—The newest part of his newspaper work. He would give a special jamboree sound, will cost about $250, buffet supper to pro- business. panying to hit the air waves is that of stages four big boxing meets a year gram The party went on until late in the voice that night—at which time All the boys are from North Caro- they said. ., sports editor in Madison Square Garden, mammoth evening. Which would have been very Jimmy Powers, youngest and each they'd make a special offer to their lina except Parker, who comes New York will have two fifteen show is a sell-out. from it was Tommy's in New York. He talks for He has also taken listeners. transmitters operating on regular pleasant, except that Nebraska. They dress "in character" 6: every night on station Golden Gloves teams abroad, and according to fifth wedding anniversary, and both minutes at 30 On the night broadcast, the Hired winter and summer, off the schedules by spring, that while in England street and atop he and Mrs. Riggs were straining WMCA, which estimates proudly spoke over the Hand announced that he wanted the on. Their picturesque plans now—NBC's transmitter British ten-gallon hats, to away and he already has gathered a faithful Broadcasting System. Mountaineers' fans to write in Empire State Building, and CBS hard at the leash get the high-heeled boots, loud plaid shirts, the listeners. Jimmy's fall football guessing con- next Chrysler Building tower. find a little peace and quiet. Appar- flock of 50,000 day, telling them that they'd and fringed buckskin vests are com- in the York from test is the largest in ently it didn't occur to them to leave Jimmy came to New the country listened to this particular broadcast. mon sights in Columbia If you live outside of New York, last and on the folks. Enid, Oklahoma, but before getting year well over a million guess- As an inducement, he offered a free you may have to wait a while longer Betty Lou to entertain the (Continued on page 70) FACING THE USIC By KEN ALDEN

Watch Will Osborne now! "Old Man Mose" helped Pa- His music's been patented. tricia Norman rise to fame!

KAY KYSER may lose his soloist- OLD MAN MOSE of being called the leader of the most siren, Ginny Sims, to either the You know what "Mammy" did for under-rated band in America. movies or the musical comedy Al Jolson, "Ida" for Eddie Leonard, 2,059,898 is the number granted to stage. Kay is encouraging Ginny to "Bill" for Helen Morgan and "Star- Will Osborne by the United States make a reputation away from the dust" for Bing Crosby. Well, another Patent Office for his slide, glide bandstand . . . Dick Rogers, Will Os- star has been born and she has to music—the only musical effect ever borne's sensational scat singer, is thank a two-year-old tune for her patented. wearing a pair of nifty cuff-links flight to glory. The song is "Old Man Will spent a small fortune and given to him by the Duke of Windsor Mose." The singer is lovely Patricia three years of worrying and waiting

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Eastern Standard Time 8:00 NBC-Blue: Peerless Trio 8:00 NBC-Red: Organ Recital Motto By

8:30 NBC-Blue: Tone Pictures 8:30 NBC-Red: Four Showmen of the Sunday's Don NBC-Red: Animal News Day HIGHLIGHTS Ameche 9:00 CBS: From the Organ Loft 9:00 NBC-Blue: White Rabbit Line 9:00 NBC-Red: Turn Back the Clock You can buy acquaintances with your money, but friends only with your heart. 8:15 9:15 NBC-Red: Tom Terriss 8:25 9:25 CBS: Press Radio News

8:30 9:30 CBS: Wings Over Jordan 8:30 9:30 NBC-Red: Melody Moments Highlights For Sunday, Nov. 27

9:00 10:00 CBS: Church of the Air /^.UEST stars to please every the Show of the Week program 9:00 10:00 NBC-Blue: Russian Melodies ^"^ 9:00 10:00 NBC-Red: Radio Pulpit taste are offered today by has a guest-star orchestra"

radio On the CBS New Bunny Berigan's swing crew. . . . 9:30 10:30 NBC-Blue: Chamber Music York Philharmonic Orchestra Elizabeth Rethberg, famed op- 9:30 10:30 NBC-Red: Music and Youth broadcast at 3:00 this afternoon, eratic soprano, sings on the Ford Zoltan Kurthy, violinist, plays Sunday Evening Hour, CBS at 8:00 10:00 11:00 CBS: Charles Paul a number with the orchestra. 9:00. . . . Tonight's your last 8:00 10:00 11:00 NBC: Press Radio News Your Almanac never heard of chance to listen to John Nesbitt NBC-Blue: Alice Remsen, contralto Mr. Kurthy, but the Philharmonic and his Passing Parade, on CBS isn't in the habit of hiring ama- at 7:30-—that is, unless there's a NBC-Blue: Neighbor Nell teurs, so he ought to be well sudden shift in the sponsor's

worth listening to. . . . Blonde plans. However, the sponsor isn't 8:30 10:30 11:30 CBS: MAJOR BOWES FAMILY and capable Miss Ginger Rogers dropping radio — whatever hap- 8:30 10:30 11:30 NBC-Blue: Southernaires 8:30 10:30 11:30 NBC-Red: Madrigal Singers is the star of today's Silver Thea- pens. Good Gulf will have a ter play, on CBS at 6:00, E.S.T. new program on the air next Ginger Rogers stars 9:00 11:00 12:00 NBC-Blue: RADIO CITY MUSIC Ginger appears in one of those Sunday at the same time. . . . HALL swell Silver Theater dramas, William Shakespeare's tragedy, in a Silver Theater 9:00 11:00 12:00 NBC-Red: Shakespeare's England written especially for radio. . . . "Othello," is scheduled for pres- play, from 6:00 to the 9:30 11:30 12:30 CBS: Salt Lake City Tabernacle On Mutual network, at 6:30, entation on NBC-Blue at 1:00. 6:30 today on CBS. 9:30 11:30 12:30 NBC-Red: University of Chicago Round Table 10:00 12:00 1:00 CBS: Church of the Air 10:00 12:00 1:00 NBC-Blue: GREAT PLAYS Highlights For Sunday, Dec. 4 10:00 12:00 1:00 NBC-Red: Walter Logan TAfHILE Clark Gable is she did agree to a couple of 10:30 12:30 1:30 CBS: Europe Calling emoting as the guest star guest appearances, and this is 1:30 12:30 1:30 Lutheran Hour MBS: on tonight's Si'/ver Theater play, Carole works too hard in 10:30 12:30 1:30 NBC-Red: Benno Rabinoff one. his best girl-friend, Carole Lom- movies and values her scanty 1:45 NBC-Red: Bob Becker bard, will be brushing up on her spare time too much to want to

lines in preparation for doing a give any of it to radio. . . . 11:00 1:00 2:00 CBS: Americans All stint on the Chase and Sanborn Ezio Pinza, bass soloist, is guest 11:00 1:00 2:00 NBC-Blue: THE MAGIC KEY OF RCA show. . . . The Silver Theater, on tonight's Ford Hour, CBS, at 2:00 NBC-Red: Sunday Dinner at Aunt of course, is at 6:00 on CBS; 9:00. . . . And Orlando Barera, Fanny's the Chase and Sanborn program violinist, is on the Philharmonic two hours later on NBC-Red. Symphony concert, CBS, at 11:30 1:30 2:30 CBS: Texas Rangers . . . Carole's guest shot is 3:00. NBC-Blue • the 11:30 1:30 2:30 NBC-Red: Kidoodlers the ... On result of a hurried trip to Holly- Great Plays drama festival con- 2:00 3:00 CBS: N. Y. PHILHARMONIC wood made by a New York ad- tinues with "The Cid," by 2:00 3:00 NBC-Blue: Smoke Dreams vertising agency official for the Corneille—at 1:00 in the after- 2:00 3:00 NBC-Red: Sunday Drivers Whirlwind Carole Lom- express purpose of persuading noon, New York time. . . . The bard wise- bandies her to sign on the dotted line new Good Gulf program bows 12:30 2:30 3:30 NBC-Blue: Second Guessers 12:30 2:30 3:30 NBC-Red: Himber Orchestra cracks with Charlie for a regular weekly program. in on CBS tonight at 7:30, so McCarthy at 8 P.M. She couldn't be persuaded, but don't forget to listen. 1:00 3:00 4:00 NBC-Blue: National Vespers 1:00 3:00 4:00 NBC-Red: Ranger's Serenade

1:30 3:30 4:30 NBC-Blue: Boredom by Budd Highlights For Sunday, Dec. 11 1:30 3:30 4:30 NBC-Red: The World is Yours DETTE DAVIS is on the Music, and comes from Town

2:00 4:00 5:00 NBC-Blue: Met. Opera AuriiMons Silver Theater today. . . . Hall in New York. . . . The New 4:00 5:00 NBC-Red: Uncle Ezra 2:00 CBS at 6:00 . . . starring in the York Philharmonic Orchestra first instalment of a two-part play. turns from violinists to pianists 4:30 5:30 MBS: The Shadow Since it was Bette who gave the for its star present- 4:30 5:30 CBS: BEN BERNIE guest today, 4:30 5:30 NBC-Red: The Spelling Bee season's most electrifying per- ing Eugene List at 3:00 on CBS.

formance on the air in the open- . . . Helen Jepson, beautiful NBC-Blue: The Master Builder ing Texaco show last October blonde soprano, sings on the Ford

—remember her in "Alter Ego"? program, CBS at 9:00. . . . 3:00 5:00 6:00 SILVER CBS: THEATER she's a listener's must item to- Marion Anderson, colored con- 3:00 5:00 6:00 NBC-Blue: New Friends of Music — 3:00 5:00 6:00 NBC-Red- Catholic Hour day. ... If you like string quar- tralto who has been praised by tets, you'll be tuning in your every critic who ever heard her, 3:30 5:30 6:30 CBS: Billy House nearest NBC-Blue station this is the highlight of the Magic Key 3:30 5:30 6:30 MBS: Show of The Week afternoon between 6:00 5:30 6:30 NBC-Red: A Tale of Today and 7:00, of RCA show on NBC-Blue at

E.S.T. , to listen to the final con- 2:00. . . . On the same network, Beautiful Helen Jep- 4:00 6:00 7:00 CBS: People's Platform cert in a series of Beethoven an hour earlier, the Great Plays 4:00 6:00 7:00 NBC-Blue: The Other Americas recitals given by the Kolisch series presents "Life Is a Dream," son sings on the 8:30 6:00 7:00 NBC-Red: JACK BENNY Quartet. . . . The recital is spon- by Calderon, seldom heard by Ford Symphony Hour sored by the New Friends of radio audiences. 6:30 7:30 CBS: Gulf Oil Program tonight on CBS at 9. 6:30 7:30 NBC-Blue: Seth Parker 6:30 7:30 NBC-Red: Fitch Bandwagon Highlights For Sunday, Dec 18, 25 5:00 7:00 8:00 CBS: Orson Welles Theater 5:00 7:00 8:00 NBC-Blue: Out of the West 5:00 7:00 8:00 NBC-Red: DON AMECHE, EDGAR T^ECEMBER 18: Don't forget presents a program of the com-

BERGEN, NELSON EDDY that Bette Davis stars in the positions by Bach and Haydn. . . . second instalment of her two- The Americans All—Immigrants 6:00 8:00 9:00 CBS: FORD SYMPHONY part play on the Silver Theater All program on CBS at 2:00 6:30 8:00 9:00 NBC-Blue: HOLLYWOOD PLAY- HOUSE tonight at 6:00 on CBS. . . . deals today with Scandinavians in NBC-Red- Manhattan Merry-go- Piano music addicts are in for a America. Round full day of listening Hortense December 25: You shouldn't 8:00 8:30 9:30 NBC-Blue: WALTER WINCHELL 6:30 8:30 9:30 NBC-Red: American Album of Fa- Monath, pianist, is with the Phil- have to be told that this is Christ- miliar Music harmonic Orchestra at 3:00 on mas Day, and there will be a CBS, and Myra Hess, the great- wealth of Yuletide features on NBC-Blue: Irene Rich est living woman pianist, is guest the air. . . . One of the most im- star on the Ford Hour same pressive will be a concert by the 7:00 9:00 10:00 CBS: ROBERT BENCHLEY — 7:00 9:00 10:00 NBC-Red: HORACE HEIDT network at 9:00. ... In the Great Sistine Chapel Choir, coming to Plays department NBC-Blue at you by short wave from the 7:30 9:30 10:30 CBS: Headlines and Bylines 1:00—is Moliere's "The Amateur Vatican in Rome. NBC will 7:30 9:30 10:30 NBC-Blue: Cheerio Bette Davis stars in Gentleman," which has kept peo- broadcast the concert, which will 7:30 9:30 10:30 NBC-Red: Col. Frederic Palmer the second instalment ple laughing for about two hun- consist of compositions by two of a two-part play 8:00 10:00 11:00 CBS Dance orchestra dred years now. . . . The Budapest famous religious composers, Pe- 8:00 10:0g 11:00 NBC: Dance orchestra on CBS at 6 o'clock. Quartet, at 6:00 on NBC-Blue, rosi and Palestrina. 44 — —

Eastern Standard Time a 00 NBC-Red: Milt Herth Trio ->ee 15 NBC-Blue: Norsemen Quartet Motto By Egi 15 NBC-Red: Gene and Glenn 30 NBC-Blue: Swing Serenade of the Monday's 30 NBC-Red: Musical Tete-a-tete Eddie 45 NBC-Red: Radio Rubes Day HIGHLIGHTS 8:00 00 CBS: Richard Maxwell Cantor 8:00 00 NBC: Press Radio News 8:05 05 NBC-Blue: BREAKFAST CLUB 8:05 05 NBC-Red: Band Goes to Town Aim at nothing—and that's exactly what you'll hit. 15 NBC-Red: The Family Man 8:30 30 CBS: Girl Interne 8:30 30 NBC-Red: Happy Jack Highlights For Monday, 8:45 45 CBS: Bachelor's Children Nov. 28 8:45 45 NBC-Red: Allen Prescott ~QARBARA WEEKS gets the that in the midst of all this Her 9:00 00 CBS: Pretty Kitty Kelly 9:00 00 MBS: School of the Air honor of playing radio's first Honor still finds time for some 9:00 00 NBC-Blue: Household Hannah woman judge in a dramatic serial personal problems, too. . . . Bar- 9:00 00 NBC-Red: Mrs. Wiggs —at least, your Almanac can't bara Weeks is from Binghamton, 9:15 15 CBS: Myrt and Marge remember any previous one. Bar- New York, and has been on dif- 9:15 15 NBC-Blue: Jane Arden bara is "Her Honor, 9:15 15 NBC-Red: John's Other Wife Nancy ferent CBS programs for the last James" in the daily serial of the three years—which still leaves her 9:30 30 CBS: Hilltop House same name, on at 9:30 NBC-Blue: Madame Courageous CBS 12:15 a long way from breaking the 9:30 30 NBC-Red: Just Plain Bill every day except Saturdays and record set by one of her ancestors,

Sundays. . . . Incidentally, 9:45 45 CBS: Stepmother this Mrs. Robert R. Jillson, who was 9:45 45 NBC-Blue: Ma Perkins serial is especially interesting be- an actress until she was eighty 9:45 45 NBC-Red: Woman in White cause it's a good example of years old! . . . NBC-Blue today 10:00 00 NBC-Blue: Mary Marlin something that seems to be a presents one of those broadcasts NBC-Red: David 10:00 00 Harum trend these days in radio dramas which your Almanac personally 10:15 15 NBC-Blue: Vic and Sade —an interest in poor and under- can't get much excited over—but 10:15 15 NBC-Red: Lorenzo Jones Barbara Weeks is the privileged people. Nancy James maybe you will. It's a de- 10:30 30 CBS: Big Sister devotes her life to helping those scription of the opening day of star of Her Honor, 11: NBC-Blue: 10:30 30 Pepper Young's Family who live in the slum sections of the International Livestock Show, Nancy James, CBS 10:30 30 NBC-Red: Young Widder Brown a large city—but it's a safe bet in Chicago—at 4 P.M., E.S.T. serial today at 12:15. 11: 45 CBS: Aunt Jenny's Stories 45 NBC-Blue: Getting the Most Out of Life 45 NBC-Red: Road of Life Highlights For Monday, Dec. 5 11:00 00 CBS: Mary Margaret McBride 11:00 00 NBC-Red: Dan Harding's Wife T AST week your Almanac told Academy of Dramatic Art, not 15 CBS: Her Honor, Nancy 11:15 James you about Barbara Weeks, much could be done to stop her 11:15 15 NBC-Red: The O'Neills who plays the title role in Her career. . . . Joan's first radio job 11:30 30 CBS: Romance of Helen Trent Honor, . . 11:30 30 NBC-Blue: Farm and Home Hour Nancy James, on CBS at was with Walter O'Keele. .

11:30 30 NBC-Red: Time for Thought 12:15. . . . Today you ought to Later she was with Colonel 11:45 45 CBS: Our Gal Sunday learn a little about Joan Banks, Stoopnagle, and appeared on the 12:00 00 CBS: The Goldbergs who plays Nancy's secretary, summer-theater stage with

Ellen. . . . is one of those 12:15 15 CBS: Life Can be Beautiful Joan Lanny Ross and Walter Hamp-

12:15 15 NBC-Blue: Goodyear Farm News rare creatures, a native New ton. . . . This is her first regular 12:15 15 NBC-Red: Let's Talk it Over Yorker. . . . She celebrated her role in a radio serial. . . . Notice 12:30 30 CBS: Road of Life nineteenth birthday last October that the Life Can Be Beautiful 12:30 30 NBC-Blue: Peables Takes Charge 12:30 30 NBC-Red: Words and Music 30. . . . Her mother had done serial has moved from NBC to some stage work in stock com- CBS at 1:15, while Vic and Sade 45 CBS: This Day is Ours panies before her marriage, but have gone back to NBC-Red at 00 CBS: Irene Beasley 1:00 she objected 00 NBC-Blue: Adventures in Reading to a stage career for 4:30. . . . CBS also has a brand 1:00 Nancy James' secre- 1:00 00 NBC-Red: Betty and Bob her daughter . . . but when the new serial, This Day Is Ours, at tary is nineteen- 15 NBC-Red: Arnold Grimm's Daughter little fair-haired girl showed 1:45. . . . Peables Takes a Chance 1:30 30 CBS: School of the Air year-old Joan Banks. enough talent in school to win a is a new one on NBC-Blue at 1:30 30 NBC-Red: Valiant Lady Listen in at 12:15. scholarship to the American 1:30. 1:45 45 MBS: Ed Fitzgerald 1:45 45 NBC-Red: Hymns of all Churches 2:00 00 CBS: Curtis Institute of Music 2:00 00 NBC-Blue: U. S. Navy Band Highlights For Monday, Dec. 12 2:00 00 NBC-Red: Mary Marlin

LUCAS, whose orches- now and then. . . . There's a 2:15 15 NBC-Red: Ma Perkins CLYDE tra plays a swingy sort of whole hour of music in the mod- 2:30 30 NBC-Red: Pepper Young's Family rhumba, goes into the Mark Hop- ern style available these Monday 2:45 45 NBC-Blue: Ted Malone kins Hotel in San Francisco to- nights, early in the evening 2:45 45 NBC-Red: The Guiding Light night for an indefinite stay, and Eddy Duchin on NBC-Red at 3:00 00 NBC-Blue: Club Matinee 3:00 00 NBC-Red: Backstage Wife you'll want to listen to his sus- 9:30, and Guy Lombardo on CBS taining dance program over NBC. at 10:00 and by the time Lom- 1:15 3:15 15 NBC-Red: Stella Dallas — . . . Clyde isn't one of the biggest bardo is done the sustaining dance 1:30 3:30 30 NBC-Red: Vic and Sade of big-name bands, but his music programs will be tuning up for 1:45 3:45 45 NBC-Red: Girl Alone is a favorite of the society crowd. your ears. . . . Among the reg- 2:00 4:00 00 CBS: Let's Pretend . . . Another of NBC's features ulars you won't want to miss are 2:00 4:00 00 NBC-Blue: Affairs of Anthony 00 NBC-Red: Dick Tracy for the day is the opening of the Lum and Abner on CBS at 7:15.

American Bureau Federa- . . . Eddie Cantor on the same 15 NBC-Blue: Terry and the Pirates Farm 15 NBC-Red: Your Family and Mine tion convention in New Orleans network at 7:30. . . . Al Pearce

5:00 30 NBC-Blue: Don Winslow of special interest to all the on NBC-Red at 8:00 . . . and Clyde takes 5:30 30 NBC-Red: Jack Armstrong listeners who don't live in cities. on NBC-Red at 9:00, Phil Spital- Lucas 45 CBS: The Mighty Show The convention lasts until De- ny's swell all-girl orchestra, with his band into the 45 NBC-Blue: Tom Mix cember 19, and NBC will have Dorothy Thompson adding her Mark Hopkins Hotel 45 NBC-Red: Little Orphan Annie other broadcasts from it every comments on world affairs. in San Francisco. 5:00 00 CBS: Press-Radio News 5:00 00 NBC-Red: Science in the News 5:15 15 CBS: Howie Wing 5:30 30 CBS: Bob Trout Highlights For Monday. Dec. 19, 26

5:45 45 CBS: Sophie Tucker T~)ECEMBER 19: A pleasant In radio, she landed a contract 45 NBC-Blue: Lowell Thomas 5:45 45 NBC-Red: Father and Son sort of program that you're following her first audition. .

8:00 00 NBC-Blue: Alias Jimmy Valentine bound to enjoy is Words and She's pretty and vivacious . 9:00 00 NBC-Red: Amos 'n' Andy Music, on NBC-Red today and likes spinach better than candy

6:15 15 CBS: Lum and Abner Thursday at 1:30. ... It stars . . . has brown hair and eyes. 6:15 15 NBC-Red: Edwin C. Hill Ruth Lyon, soprano, Edward Birthday greetings are in order 9:30 30 CBS: EDDIE CANTOR Davies, baritone, Larry Larsen, today for bandleader Ray Noble 7:30 30 MBS: The Lone Ranger organist, Hays, of the Allen show. . . 6:30 30 NBC-Red: Emily Post and Harvey nar- Burns and

rator. . . . Ruth Lyon was born December 26: Christmas Day 7:00 00 CBS: Monday Night Show 7:00 00 NBC-Blue: Carson Robison in Pontiac, Illinois, and intended is over, but by a great stroke of

7:00 00 NBC-Red :|AL PEARCEfl to be a teacher when she grad- luck today's a holiday, too .

7:30 30 CBS: Pick and Pat uated from college . . . she'd so you can simply take it easy, 7:30 30 NBC-Blue: Those We Love taught only a little while when listen to the radio, and rest up 7:30 30 NBC-Red: Voice of Firestone Wayne King offered her a sing- from yesterday's excitement. . . 8:00 00 CBS: LUX THEATER ing job, and teaching was for- You can spend a little time won 8:00 00 NBC-Red: Hour of Charm Ruth Lyon sings to- gotten. ... In 1932 she made her dering what you're going to do 30 NBC-Red: Eddy Duchin day on the Words and operatic debut, singing the title New Year's Eve, too—that's al- 9:00 00 CBS: Guy Lombardo Music program 9:00 00 NBC-Blue: True or False —NBC- role of "Lakme" in English with ways a major problem this time

9:00 00 NBC-Red: The Contented Hour Red at 1:30, E.S.T. the Chicago Opera Company. . . . of year.

45 Eastern Standard Time u 8:00 NBC-Red: Milt Herth Trio 1 8:15 NBC-Red: Gene and Glenn Motto By p a z z r 8: NBC-Red: Musical Tete-a-Tete e u«l- < NBC- Blue: Jack and Loretta of the Benay Q NBC-Red: Radio Rubes z < 8:00 CBS: Richard Maxwell h 8:00 NBC: Press-Radio News Day HIGHLIGHTS Venuta in o 8:05 NBC-Blue: Breakfast Club 8:05 NBC-Red: Band Goes to Town Z A lazy person never knows the luxury of leisure. 8:30 CBS: Girl Interne < 8:30 NBC-Red: Happy Jack & 8:45 CBS: Bachelor's Children 8:45 NBC-Red: Mystery Che/ Highlights For Tuesday, Nov. 29 1:00 9:00 CBS: Pretty Kitty Kelly 9:00 MBS: School of the Air A SINGER you may not have him with the Paul Ash, Vincent 9:00 NBC-Blue: Houseboat Hannah ^^ 9:00 NBC-Red: Mrs. Wiggs heard before is Barry Wood, Lopez, and Abe Lyman orches- 1:15 9:15 CBS: Myrt and Marge who has his own program on CBS tras. . . . Barry's six feet one inch 9:15 NBC-Blue: Jane Arden this evening at 6:45. . . . Listen tall, has brown hair and gray eyes, 9:15 NBC-Red: John's Other Wife in, and the chances are you'll like and prefers country life to city 1:30 9:30 Hilltop CBS: House him . . . Barry's real name is life because he likes to swim, fish, 2:30 4:30 NBC-Blue: Smilin' Ed McConnell golf 9:30 NBC-Red: Just Plain Bill Louis Rapp, and his brother is and cook outdoors. ... In 9:45 CBS: Stepmother Barney Rapp, the bandleader. . . . college he was a star member of 9:45 NBC-Blue: Ma Perkins He went to Yale University for the Yale swimming and water 9:45 NBC-Red: Woman in White pre-medical studies, but when he polo teams—served as captain of 10:45 10:00 CBS: Mary Lee Taylor graduated in 1930 unforeseen the water polo quartet and was 10:00 NBC-Blue: Mary Marlin look chosen All-American 10:00 NBC-Red: David Harum contingencies forced him to in this sport for work instead of continuing his for three years. . . . Your Alma- 10:15 NBC-Blue: Vic and Sade 10:15 NBC-Red: Lorenzo Jones medical studies. . . . He joined nac's personal recommendation orchestra as vocal- for a swell 10:30 CBS: Big Sister Buddy Rogers' comedy program: Bob 11:00 Barry Wood, baritone, 10:30 NBC-Blue: Pepper Young's Family ist and instrumentalist—ever Hope and company, on NBC-Red 10:30 NBC-Red: Young Widder Brown and since his childhood he'd had a at 10:00. . . . Except that Skinny water polo champ, 11:15 10:45 CBS: Aunt Jenny's Stories natural singing and playing talent Ennis' band-leading is better than has his own program NBC-Blue: Getting the Most Out of Life —and the next four years found his singing. over CBS at 6:45. 10:45 NBC-Red: Road of Life CBS: Kate Smith Speaks 9:00 11:00 NBC-Red: Dan Harding's Wife Highlights For Tuesday, Dec. 6 9:15 11:15 CBS: Her Honor, Nancy James 9:15 11:15 NBC-Red: The O'Neills Y" OUR Almanac's hand-picked which begins in this issue of

recommendations for . . . 9:30 11:30 CBS: Romance of Helen Trent Tuesday Radio Mirror. Kate Smith

9:30 11:30 NBC-Blue: Farm and Home Hour listening: The Radio Rubes at Speaks, on CBS at noon. . . . 9:30 11:30 NBC-Red: Time for Thought 8:45 on NBC-Red . . . they're Kate not only speaks, but she 9:45 11:45 CBS: Our Gal Sunday hill-billies, but hill-billies with a writes too, and you ought to read 9:45 11:45 NBC-Red: Dr. Joseph Maddy Band difference, and you'll like them. her autobiography, "Living in a 10:00 12:00 CBS: The Goldbergs . . . Pretty Kitty Kelly, on CBS Great Big Way" . . . she still ex- 12:15 Life Be Beautiful 10:15 CBS: Can at 10:00 . . . it's one of the long- cels in the singing department, 12:15 NBC-Blue: Goodyear Farm News run serial programs, and if you too . . . Backstage Wife, on 12:30 CBS: Road of Life haven't discovered it yet, you NBC-Red at 4:00 ... a serial that 10:30 12:30 NBC-Blue: Peables Takes Charge 10:30 12:30 NBC-Red: Fed. Women's Clubs should. . . . Smilin' Ed McCon- always keeps you coming back for

nell, . . . 12:45 CBS: This Day Is Ours on NBC-Blue at 10:30 more. . . . The role of Marcia one of radio's standbys is back Mannering, the villainess, is 11:00 1:00 CBS: Irene Beasley 11:00 1:00 NBC- Blue: Junior Science Program with a heart-warming program of played by de-luscious Eloise 1:00 NBC Red: Betty and Bob 11:00 words and music. . . . Big Sister, Kummer, whose picture is at the Eloise Kummer plays 11:15 1:15 Red: Arnold Grimm's Daughter on CBS at 11:30 . . . one of left—and who wouldn't enjoy villainess Marcio 11:30 1:30 CBS: School of the Air radio's most gripping serials . . . having a villainess like that 1:30 NBC Red: Valiant Lady 11:30 Mannering on the and if you want to catch up on around the house? . . . Benny

11:45 1:45 Red: Hymns of all Churches Backstage Wife show. the story, start the fictionization Goodman on CBS at 9:30. . . . 12:00 2:00 CBS: Story of the Song 12:00 2:00 NBC-Red: Mary Marlin 12:15 2:15 NBC-Blue: U. S. Army Band 12:15 2:15 NBC-Red: Ma Perkins Highlights For Tuesday, Dec. 13 12:30 2:30 CBS: Concert Hall TJRGENT note to the Landt the role of Kay Houston in Sun- 12:30 2:30 NBC-Red: Pepper Young's Family Trio: What's become of you? day's serial show, A Tale of To. 12:45 2:45 NBC-Blue: Ted Malone You used to be on NBC-Red at day. Janet is Stella Moore in 12:45 2:45 NBC-Red: The Guiding Light 8:45 in the morning, and very Girl Alone, on NBC-Red at 4:45; 1:00 3:00 CBS: Highways to Health 1:00 3:00 NBC-Blue: Club Matinee pleasant to listen to. . . . But now and in Kitty Keene, Inc., which 1:00 3:00 NBC-Red: Backstage Wife all of a sudden you're absent is heard on a mid-western net-

1:15 3:15 NBC-Red: Stella Dallas from the air waves, and your work, she's Jill Williams. . . . 1:30 3:30 NBC-Red: Vic and Sade Almanac wants you back. How Janet's unmarried, lives with her

about the other listeners? . . . parents and brother in a six-room 1:45 3:45 CBS: Of Men and Books 1:45 3:45 NBC- Red: Girl Alone Gene Krupa ends his season at bungalow in Beverly Hills, ex- 2:00 4:00 CBS: Music for Fun the Palomar Ballroom in Los An- clusive suburb of Chicago's South 2:00 4:00 NBC- Blue: Affairs of Anthony geles tonight, and you can tune Side. ... If you live in New NBC- Red: Dick Tracy in his final broadcast from there York or Chicago, listen to Quite NBC- Blue: Terry and the Pirates 4:15 NBC- Red: Your Family and Mine on Mutual. . . . Your Almanac By Accident, on WEAF and never ceases marveling at the WMAQ at 7:30, E.S.T. Each 5:00 NBC- Blue: Don Winslow Busy Janet Logan ap- 5:30 NBC- Red: Jack Armstrong activity of some of these radio show is a dramatized short short CBS: The Mighty Show actors and actresses. Take Janet story, and you'll find it exciting, pears on two network 4:45 NBC- Blue: Tom Mix Logan, for instance, who is on informative, and lots of fun to serial shows today, NBC- Red: Little Orphan Annie the air twice today and also plays hear. and one on Sundays. 3:00 5:00 CBS: Press-Radio News 5:15 5:15 CBS: Howie Wing 3:30 5:30 CBS: Bob Trout 3:30 5:30 NBC- Red: Angler and Hunter Highlights For Tuesday, Dec. 20. 3:45 5:45 CBS: Barry Wood XH( Blue: Lowell Thomas IWTEET Mary Parker, who plays at 2:30, both of them on every 3:45 5:45 NBC- Red: Father and Son the part of Donna Caven- day of the week except Saturdays 4:00 6:00 NBC- Blue: Easy Aces 7:00 9:00 NBC- Red: Amos 'n' Andy dish in the Howie Wing serial, and Sundays. . . . Don't miss tonight 7:30 6:15 CBS: Jimmie Fidler CBS at 6:15. . . . Mary has been Mary and Bob on X !!< Blue: Mr. 4:15 6:15 Keen in radio only since last year, but NBC-Blue at 9:00. . . . Mary and 8:15 6:15 NBC- Red: Vocal Varieties you've heard her in such pro- Bob are sponsored by True Story 4:30 6:30 CBS: HELEN MENKEN they 6:30 NBC- Red: Quite by Accident grams as Easy Aces, in which she Magazine, and the stories tell right out of the 8:30 7:00 CBS: EDWARD G. ROBINSON played the comic role of Mrs. are taken 8:30 7:00 NBC- Red: Johnny Presents Marsh, and in the March of pages of the magazine. . . . Did

9:00 7:30 CBS: Al (oison Time. . . . Incidentally, your you know that Macfadden Pub- 5:30 7:30 NBC- Blue: INFORMATION PLEASE Almanac just remembered to tell lications, which brings you not 7:30 NBC- Red: For Men Only you that your youngsters can be- only Radio Mirror, but True 6:00 8:00 CBS: We. The People G:00 8:00 \ IX Blue: Mary and Bob long to the Howie Wing Junior Story, Physical Culture, and eight Battle of 8:00 NBC- Red: the Sexes Air Corps if they're sufficiently other magazines, is celebrating its 6:30 8:30 CBS: Benny Goodman air-minded. . . . There is plenty fortieth anniversary this year? A 6:30 8:30 NBC Blur: NBC Jamboree Howie Wing's girl serv- 6:30 8:30 NBC- Red: McGEE AND COMPANY of education on the radio this big publishing house now, friend, Donna Caven- 7:00 9:00 CBS: Dr. Christian winter — the Mutual System's ing sixteen million readers, it be- 7:00 9:00 NBC Red: BOB HOPE dish, is played by new- School of the Air at 10:00, and gan quietly forty years ago with

7:45 9:45 NBC- -Red : Uncle Ezra comer Mary Parker. CBS' American School of the Air Physical Culture. 46 s —

i Standard Time a -Red: Milt Herth Trio . By NBC-Bluer Four Showmen Motto NBC-Red: Gene and Glenn NBC-Blue: Swing Serenade Wednesday's NBC-Red: Musical Tete-a-Tete of the Joan NBC-Red: Radio Rubes HIGHLIGHTS 8:00 CBS: Richard Maxwell Day Edwards 8:00 NBC: Press-Radio News

8:05 NBC-Blue: Breakfast Club 8:05 NBC-Red: Band Goes to Town Sincerity is a coin that always rings true. NBC-Red: The Family Man

8:30 CBS: Girl Interne 8:30 NBC- Red: Happy Jack Highlights For Wednesday, Nov. 30 8:45 9:45 CBS: Bachelor's Chilfiren 8:45 9:45 NBC-Red: Allen Prescott 'pHE Let's Talk It Over pro- sents famous people who are ex-

gram in cellent musicians. . . . 9:00 10:00 CBS: Pretty Kitty Kelly — your Almanac' amateur 9:00 10:00 MBS: School of the Air opinion one of the best shows for Bob Trout, Lowell Thomas, and Houseboat 9:00 10:00 NBC-Blue: Hannah women on the air has changed Edwin C. Hill are all on the air 9:00 10:00 NBC-Red: Mrs. Wiggs — its time to 1:15 this afternoon, tonight, commenting in their in- 9:15 10:15 CBS: Myrt and Marge on the . . . 9:15 10:15 NBC-Blue: Jane Arden NBC-Red network. formal and entertaining fashion 9:15 10:15 NBC-Red: John's Other Wife Today's mistress of ceremonies is on the day's news. Trout's on 9:30 10:30 CBS: Hilltop House June Hynd, and as usual she'll CBS at 6:30—Thomas on NBC- 9:30 NBC-Blue: Madame Courageous have a fascinating guest star to Blue at 6:45—Hill on NBC-Red 9:30 10:30 NBC-Red: Just Plain Bill interview. ... At 4:15 on CBS at 7:15. . . . Between the three 9:45 10:45 CBS: Stepmother there's some good music in Co- of them they can give you a 9:45 10:45 NBC-Blue: Ma Perkins 9:45 10:45 NBC-Red: Woman in White lumbia's Concert Hall. complete and painless course in 10:00 11:00 NBC-Blue Mary Marlin Listen to Your Health on NBC- current history. . . . Another 10:00 11:00 NBC-Red: David Harum Blue at 2:00, and get some point- hobby show comes along at 8:30 10:15 11:15 NBC-Blue: Vic and Sade ers on how to take care of your- on NBC-Blue — Dave Elman's June directs 10:15 11:15 NBC-Red: Lorenzo Jones self and your family. ... Is music Hobby Lobby, which was hardly Hynd 10:30 11:30 CBS: Big Sister your hobby? It's the hobby of off the air after a summer of Let's Talk It Over 11:30 NBC-Blue: Pepper Young's Family 10:30 today's guest star on NBC-Red pinch-hitting for Jack Benny be- for women listeners 10:30 11:30 NBC-Red: Young Widder Brown at 6:30 in the show which pre- fore another sponsor grabbed it. today at 1:15 on NBC. 11:45 CBS: Aunt Jenny's Stories 11:45 NBC-Blue: Getting the Most Out of Life NBC-Red: Road of Life Highlights For Wednesday, Dec. 7 9:00 11:00 12:00 CBS: Mary Margaret McBride 9:00 11:00 12:00 NBC-Red: Dan Harding's Wife \AT HEN you listen to the stopped laughing. . . . At the end 9:15 12:15 Her Honor, Nancy James 11:15 CBS: Howie Wing serial, on CBS of the run, Will gave a 9:15 11:15 12:15 NBC-Red: The O'Neills Janney late this afternoon at 6:15, you're copy of the play, autographed 9:30 11:30 12:30 CBS: Romance of Helen Trent 9:30 11:30 12:30 NBC-Blue: Farm and Home Hour hearing a young man who in his "To William Janney, the finest 9:30 11:30 12:30 NBC-Red: Time for Thought short career has become a show- son a man could have, off-stage

9:45 11:45 12:45 CBS: Our Gal Sunday business veteran. His name is or on." . . . Janney's ambition 10:00 12:00 1:00 CBS: The Goldbergs William Janney, and he plays for years has been to take flying the title role. Barely thirty, he lessons, but he never got around 10:15 12:15 1:15 CBS: Life Can Be Beautiful 12:15 1:15 NBC-Blue: Goodyear Farm News has appeared in a total of seventy- to doing so until a month ago 10:15 12:15 1:15 NBC-Red: Let's Talk It Over five movies and has been starred when he was playing the leading 12:30 1:30, CBS: Road of Life on the stage, but this is his first role in this serial which is all 12:30 1:30 NBC-Blue: Peables Takes Charge venture into radio. . . . His hard- about aviation. . . . He's unmar- 1:45 This Day Is Ours 12:45 CBS: est stage role was playing with ried, is the son of Russell Janney, 12:45 1:45 NBC-Blue: Judy and Lanny Will Rogers in the Pacific Coast veteran stage producer. ... A 11:00 1:00 2:00 CBS: Irene Beasley production of "Ah, Wilderness!" symphony orchestra that seldom 11:00 1:00 2:00 NBC-Blue: Your Health William Janney plays 11:00 1:00 2:00 NBC-Red: Betty and Bob Will used to love to improvise hits the air-waves can be heard the title role in 11:15 1:15 2:15 NBC-Red: Arnold Grimm's Daughter speeches, and Janney had to learn this afternoon at 3:00 on CBS. Howie Wing, on CBS to his line until 11:30 1:30 2:30 CBS: School of the Air never speak next It's the Indianapolis Symphony, 11:30 1:30 2:30 NBC-Red: Valiant Lady at 6:15 this afternoon. he was sure the audience had directed by Fabian Levitzky. 11:45 1:45 2:45 MBS: Ed Fitzgerald 11:45 1:45 2:45 NBC -Red: Betty Crocker 12:00 2:00 3:00 CBS: Indianapolis Symphony 12:00 2:00 3:00 NBC-Red: Mary Marlin Highlights For Wednesday, Dec. 14 12:15 2:15 3:15 NBC-Red: Ma Perkins T^rONDER if Max Reinhardt quiz is on NBC-Red at 10:00 12:30 2:30 3:30 NBC-Red: Pepper Young's Family is still directing the drama- Little Ginny Simms, Kay's girl 12:45 2:45 3:45 NBC-Blue: Ted Malone 12:45 2:45 3:45 NBC-Red: The Guiding Light tic section of the Texaco Star vocalist, may not be with him 1:00 3:00 4:00 NBC-Blue: Club Matinee Theater on CBS tonight at 9:30? much longer. She's had offers to 1:00 3:00 4:00 NBC-Red: Backstage Wife According to plans when your go into the movies, and while 1:15 3:15 4:15 CBS: Concert Hall Almanac went to press, he was Kay hates to lose her he's deter- 1:15 3:15 4:15 NBC-Red: Stella Dallas supposed to go to New York to mined not to stand in her way. 1:30 3:30 4:30 NBC-Red: Vic and Sade direct a stage play—all of which ... If you aren't an expert on 1:45 3:45 4:45 NBC-Red: Girl Alone makes one wonder just how much popular music, a quiz program 2:00 4:00 5:00 CBS: March of Games 2:00 4:00 5:00 NBC-Blue: Affairs of Anthony he ever had to do with directing more to your taste might be the 5:00 NBC-Red: Dick Tracy the air shows in the first place. Ask-it-Basket, conducted by Jim the Pirates 5:15 NBC-Blue: Terry and . . . But whoever directs them McWilliams on CBS at 7:30. NBC-Red: Your Family and Mine 4:15 5:15 manages to get some very fancy Jim asks questions of general 5:00 5:30 NBC-Blue: Don Winslow and effective sound effects, it knowledge, and also concentrates 5:30 5:30 NBC-Red: Jack Armstrong Mighty Show must be admitted. . . . There's on questions about a single sub- 5:45 CBS: The Wonder if Max Rein- 5:45 NBC-Blue: Tom Mix another Indianapolis Symphony ject each week. . . . Incidentally, Little rdt is i- 5:45 NBC-Red: Orphan Annie Orchestra concert on CBS this try your skill on Radio Mirror's ha still d 3:00 5:00 6:00 CBS: Press-Radio News the afternoon from 3:00 to 4:00. . . . own quiz, which appears on page recting plays on 3:00 5:00 6:00 NBC-Red: Our American Schools Kay Kyser's entertaining musical 30 of this issue. the Sta r Theater? 5:15 5:15 6:15 CBS: Howie Wing 3:30 5:30 6:30 CBS: Bob Trout 5:30 6:30 NBC-Blue: Gulden Serenaders 3:30 5:30 6:30 NBC-Red: Music Is My Hobby Highlights For Wednesday, Dec. 21 10:00 5:45 6:45 CBS: Sophie Tucker NBC-Blue: Lowell Thomas 6:45 four shopping days ... In Hollywood there's a legend 3:45 5:45 6:45 NBC-Red: Father and Son {~"\NLY more ^ until Christmas! But of that back in 1926, at a moment 4:00 6:00 7:00 NBC-Blue: Easy Aces 7:00 9:00 7:00 NBC-Red: Amos 'n' Andy course if you're really smart when Sparks believed himself to 8:15 6:15 7:15 CBS: Lum and Abner you've already done all your be alone, somebody saw a smile 4:15 6:15 7:15 NBC-Blue: Mr. Keen shopping and mailing, and only on his face. . . . Sparks claims it 8:15 6:15 7:15 NBC-Red: Edwin C. Hill have to sit back and tie up parcels isn't true, though. . . . He was a 7:30 6:30 7:30 CBS: Ask-it-Basket 7:30 7:30 7:30 MBS: The Lone Ranger nicely in tissue paper and bright divinity student in Toronto when 4:30 6:30 7:30 NBC-Red: Revelers ribbons, while you listen to the the Alaskan gold rush began and 9:00 7:00 8:00 CBS: GANG BUSTERS radio. . . . Today is Andre Kos- turned his mind away from the 5:00 7:00 8:00 NBC-Blue: Roy Shield Revue to Dawson, 7:00 8:00 NBC-Red: ONE MAN'S FAMILY telanetz's birthday. . . . He was ministry. He went 8:30 7:30 8:30 CBS: CHESTERFIELD PROGRAM born in St. Petersburg, Russia, in where he made a living and a Hobby Lobby first 5:30 7:30 8:30 NBC-Blue: 1901. . . . More and more it reputation as the "dress-suit" 8:30 NBC-Red: Tommy Dorsey 8:30 7:30 strikes your Almanac that Ned singer in that wild and woolly 6:00 8:00 9:00 CBS: Everybody's Music Sparks is one of the brightest spots town. . . . The gold rush petered 9:00 8:00 9:00 NBC-Red: TOWN HALL TONIGHT TEXACO STAR THEATER in the Texaco Star Theater, on out and Sparks travelled up and 6:30 8:30 9:30 CBS: Ned—a bright spark at 9:30. . . . His voice com- down the Pacific coast earning a 6:30 8:30 9:30 NBC-Blue: Wings for the Martins CBS in the Star Theater ing over the air is like a very poor living as a singer. Then 7:00 9:00 10:00 NBC-Red: KAY KYSER'S CLASS bad program, dyspepsia, and he got a part in a play and made 9:30 10:30 CBS: Edgar A. Guest broadcast case of maybe 7:30 9:30 10:30 NBC-Blue: NBC Minstrel Show on CBS this evening. that's the reason it's so funny. an overnight hit. 47 —

Eastern Standard Time 8:00iNBC- Red: Milt Herth Trio Motto 8:15 NBC Blue Kampus Kids By 8:15 NBC- Red: Gene and Glenn zz»-•S- Ul< NBC-Red: Musical Tete-a-tete of the Oh Sammy in 8:45 NBC- Blue Jack and Loretta 8:45 NBC- Red: Radio Rubes Day HIGHLIGHTS 8:00 9:00 CBS: Richard Maxwell Kaye 8:00 9:00 NBC Press-Radio News

8:05 9:05 NBC Blue: Breakfast Club The best teacher is the one is learning. 8:05 9:05 NBC Red: Band Goes to Town who always NBC-Red: The Family Man

8:30 9:30 CBS: Girl Interne 8:30 9:30 NBC- Red: Happy Jack Highlights For Thursday, Dec. 1 8:45 9:45 CBS: Bachelor's Children 8:45 9:45 NBC-Red: Mystery Chef TF you didn't get around to it sounds as if it ought to be. Give

last week, be sure to tune in a listen and find out. . . . Kate 1:00 9:0.0 Kitty Kelly 10:00 CBS: Pretty the Kraft Music Hall tonight at Smith's 9:00 10:00 MBS: School of the Air commentating program 9:00 10:00 NBC-Blue: Houseboat Hannah 10:00 on NBC-Red and welcome this noon on CBS has a special 9:00 10:00 NBC-Red: Mrs. Wiggs Bob Burns back home. Last week guest star and comes to you di- 9:15 10:15 CBS: Myrt and Marge was his first broadcast after a rect from the stage where Kate is 9:15 10:15 NBC-Blue: Jane Arden month's vacation during which he busy rehearsing for tonight's va- 9:15 10:15 NBC-Red: John's Other Wife and the missis went to Havana. riety show. Probably no other 1:30 9:30 10:30 CBS: Hilltop House He deserved the vacation, too, star has such a crowded Thurs- 2:30 4:30 McConnell 10:30 NBC-Blue: Smilin' Ed after the swell job of running day as the Songbird of the South. 9:30 10:30 NBC-Red: Just Plain Bill the show he did while Bing . . . The Columbia Workshop, on 9:45 10:45 CBS: Stepmother Crosby was away. ... A new CBS at 10:00, is doing some 9:45 10:45 NBC-Blue: Ma Perkins 9:45 10:45 NBC-Red: Woman in White show is on NBC-Blue at 2:00— mighty swell plays these Thurs-

called Ideas That Come True; it day evenings . . . and the Amer- 10:00 11:00 CBS: Mary Lee Taylor deals with the 10:00 important subject ica's Town Meeting of the Air 11:00 NBC-Blue: Mary Marlin Bob Burns is back 10:00 11:00 NBC-Red: David Harum of social science. It hadn't gone forums, NBC-Blue from 9:30 to on the air when your Almanac 10:30, maintain their high stan- on the Kraft Music 10:15 Vic and Sade . 11:15 NBC-Blue: with Cros- 10:15 11:15 NBC-Red: Lorenzo Jones went to press, so it can't be told dard of interest and even excite- Hall Bing whether it's good or not—but it ment. by tonight at 10. CBS: Big Sister NBC-Blue: Pepper Young's Family NBC-Red: Young Widder Brown CBS: Aunt Jenny's Stories Highlights For Thursday, Dec. 8 NBC-Blue: Getting the Most Out of Life TDERKY Gay Seabrook plays and convenience over the Mutual NBC-Red: Road of Life Joe Penner's sweetheart- network. . . . Also for your CBS: Kate Smith Speaks stooge, Susabella, when young pleasure and convenience Major NBC-Blue: Laura Suarez NBC-Red: Dan Harding's Wife America's beloved comedian goes Bowes has gathered together an- on air of amateurs to put CBS: Her Honor, Nancy James the tonight, CBS at 7:30. other crop NBC-Red: The O'Neills . . . Gay is one of the West on the CBS air at 9:00. . . . The Coast's favorite stage actresses, Easy Aces and Amos 'n' Andy CBS: Romance of Helen Trent NBC-Blue: Farm and Home Hour and was a member of the old are engaging in another pair of NBC-Red: Time for Thought Henry Duffy players, who made entertaining discussions at 7:00 Our Gal Sunday theatrical history out around the —the Aces on NBC-Blue and the The Goldbergs Golden Gate back in the 1920's. gentlemen of color on NBC-Red.

. . . The clever casting of her Swingsters won't want to miss the CBS: Life Can Be Beautiful NBC-Blue: Goodyear Farm News piping voice opposite the throaty Rhythm School on NBC-Blue at NBC-Red: Three Romeos croak of Joe Penner deserves a 6:30. ... At 8:00 on NBC-Blue

medal of some sort. . . . Paul Jerry Belcher interviews a batch CBS: Road of Life Gay Seabrook plays NBC-Blue: Peables Takes Charge Kain and his orchestra start an of Interesting Neighbors—and it's and Music NBC-Red: Words Joe Penner's sweet- engagement at Wordmain Park really remarkable how frequently CBS: This Day Is Ours heart-stooge, Susa- in Washington, D. C, tonight, Jerry's neighbors live up to the CBS: Irene Beasley bella, CBS at 7:30. broadcasting for your pleasure description of "interesting". NBC Blue: Ideas That Come True NBC Red: Betty and Bob NBC-Red: Arnold Grimm's Daughter CBS: SCHOOL OF THE AIR Highlights For Thursday, Dec. 15 NBC- Red: Valiant Lady J_T ORACE HEIDT and his were eliminated. . . . The Road of NBC--Red: Hymns of All Churches Brigadiers, who have been Life, on NBC-Red at 11:45, NBC- Red: Mary Marlin traveling over the country, leav- comes to you from Chicago now, NBC- Red: Ma Perkins ing a trail of broken records- which explains a difference you CBS: Howard Barlow attendance and box-office, not may have noticed in the voices of Pepper Young's Family NBC- Red: phonograph—in their wake, open the characters. The cast which NBC--Blue: Ted Malone tonight at the Biltmore Hotel, in played the serial while it was NBC- Red: The Guiding Light New York City. It'll be one of broadcast from New York was -Blue: Club Matinee NBC- New York's fanciest dance-band almost entirely changed to Chi- NBC- Red: Backstage Wife openings, so be sure to listen in cago actors when it moved. . . . NBC -Red: Stella Dallas as part of the proceedings are Good poems, well read aloud, are NBC Red: Vic and Sade broadcast over NBC. . . . Inci- what you'll hear when you tune NBC- Red: Girl Alone dentally, the Heidt sponsored in Ted Malone at 3:45 this after- CBS: Let's Pretend half-hours on Sunday nights are noon on NBC-Blue. One of NBC- Blue: Affairs of Anthony even better than they used to be, radio's deep-dyed mysteries is NBC- Red: Dick Tracy Horace Heidt's band musically although your Al- lacks for a of — why Ted, who never NBC- Blue: The Four Us moves into the Bilt- NBC- Red: Your Family and Mine manac thinks everybody would large and very loyal audience, is Hotel tonight, NBC- Blue: Don Winslow be just as happy if those guest not more often working for a more NBC- Red: Jack Armstrong stars who never do anything sponsor. to stay all winter. CBS: The Mighty Show NBC- Blue: Tom Mix NBC- Red: Little Orphan Annie CBS: Press Radio News Highlights For Thursday, Dec. 22 CBS: Howie Wing f""\NE of radio's best-loved an- eighty. . . . Right after Ler's Pre- CBS: Bob Trout nual events will be on the tend, leave the radio tuned to the NBC- Blue: Rhythm School air this afternoon at 5:00, when same station and listen to Doris NBC- Blue: Lowell Thomas the Let's Pretend program on Rhodes, entertaining young CBS NBC- Red: Nola Day CBS presents "The House of the singer. . . . Doris is a Spokane, NBC- Blue: Easy Aces for sixth time. . . . Washington, girl, but moved to NBC- Red: Amos 'n' Andy World" the It's a Christmas play by Nila Florida when she was fifteen. The NBC- Blue: Mr. Keen NBC- Red: Vocal Varieties Mack, who directs the children in family was living there when the hit, and the CBS: Joe Penner the Let's Pretend program, and 1926 hurricane Rhodes home was blown off its CBS: KATE SMITH HOUR was put on the air for the first NBC-Blue: Interesting Neighbors time in 1932. Except in 1933, foundations, but no one was hurt. NBC-Red: RUDY VALLEE it has been played every Christ- Later, in Michigan, the house CBS: MAJOR BOWES mas time since, and is something where she lived was burned to the NBC-Red: GOOD NEWS OF 1939 where to look forward to. . . . Maybe ground. ... In Kansas, NBC-Blue: AMERICA'S TOWN you don't listen to children's pro- the family moved next, Doris saw MEETING Doris Rhodes, young grams as a rule, but take it from her first cyclone. And in 1934 CBS: Columbia Workshop CBS singer, has her NBC-Red: KRAFT MUSIC HALL your Almanac, "The House of the she and her family were in the own program this af- World" is something you'll en- exact center of the severe earth- CBS: Americans at Work eight quake disturbance of that year. :0t0: NBC-Bine People I Have Known ternoon at 5:30. joy whether you're or

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BEE ,-v? - perfumed soap! ONYOURSPELLING /&M ?< r J V ARE you a champion speller? —or do Zjk you just wish you were ? In either * * case, here's a list of words that will give you some uneasy moments before you get the correct spelling. They're supplied by Paul Wing, Master of the NBC Spelling Bee, broadcast every Sunday afternoon at 5:30 E.S.T., and sponsored by the makers of BILL SAYS I Energine. Only one of the three suggested spellings is the right one. Mark the words you think are correct, then turn ALWAYS to page 60 for the answers. 1. Midrift — midriff — midrif (noun). The diaphragm (of the body). 2. Villainy—villiany—villany (noun). The quality or state of being evil; ex- SMELL SO /VICE! treme depravity or wickedness. 3. Phaiton—phaeton—faeton (noun). THAT'S BECAUSE I An open automobile body with two cross seats. 4. Try-square—trisquare—try square BATHE WITH (noun). A drafting instrument used for laying off right angles and testing whether the work is square. CASHMERE BOUQUET SOAP! 5. Excommunicate — excomunicate — excomunnicate (verb). To cut off, or shut out, from communion with the church, by an ecclesiastical sentence. 6. Omnibusses — omnibuses — omne- MEN QQ FIND YOU MORE busses (noun). Heavy public vehicles, YOU BATHE designed to carry a comparatively large ALLURING WHEN WITH number of passengers. CASHMERE BOUQUET! ITS RICH, DEEP-CLEANSING LATHER REMOVES 7. Facinated—fassinated—fascinated OF (adj.) Captivated; charmed. EVERY TRACE BODY ODOR. AND LONG AFTER YOUR BATH 8. Chastisement — chastizement — THEN, chastisment (noun). Disciplinary pun- ITS LINGERING PERFUME CLINGS ishment. . . . KEEPS YOU DAINTY AS 9. Flacsid — flacksid — flaccid (adj.) A FLOWER! Yielding to pressure for want of firm- WHAT A LUCKY GUY I AM ness and stiffness; flabby. ENGAGED TO THE LOVELIEST, 10. Panarama — pannorama — pano- GIRL IN THE WORLD! rama (noun). An unobstructed or com- DAINTIEST plete view of a region in every direction. 11. Comaraderie—comaradery—cama- Comradeship; raderie (noun) loyalty to, AND WHAT LUCK or partiality for, one's comrades. FOR ME THAT I 12. Sassafras — sasafrass — sasafras LEARNED ABOUT (noun). small aromatic tree of the A CASHMERE BOUQU ET laurel family. .THE NICER WAY 13. Knicknacks — nicnacs knick- — TO GUARD AGAINST knacks (noun). Small trivial articles, BODY ODOR! as of furniture, etc., intended rather for ornament than for use.

14. Farcical—farsical—farsicle (adj.) TH ' S '^ oAp'ro* Ludicrous; unnatural; unreal. /s 15. Chillblanes — chilblains — chill- blains (noun). Sores produced by ex- posure of the feet or hands to cold. 16. Ingrane — ingraine — ingrain (noun). A type of carpeting. 17. Parricide — paracide — parracide (noun). One who murders a person to whom he stands in a sacred relation, as a father or mother; or the act or crime of paracide. 18. Beleagerment — beleaguerment beleguerment (noun). A blockade; a siege. 19. Cantankerous—cantankerus—kan- tankerous (adj.) Exhibiting ill-nature; contentious. IO<-3for25< 20. Coloquialisms — colloquialisms — at drug, department coloquilisms (noun). Phrases or pro- and ten-cent stores nunciations of words acceptable in ordi- nary conversational context, but not in formal written discourse. THE LOVELIER SOAP WITH THE COSTLIER PERFUME 49 —

i Standard Time -Red: Milt Herth Trio Motto < 8:15 NBC- Blue Radio City Four 8:15 NBC- Red: Gene and Glenn 8:30 NBC- Red Musical Tete-a-tete of the Sophie 8:45 NBC- Red Radio Rules 8:00 9:00 CBS: Richard Maxwell Day HIGHLIGHTS Tucker 8:00 9:00 NBC Press-Radio News

8:05 9:05 NBC Blue: Breakfast Club 8:05 9:05 NBC Red: Band Goes to Town Don't be late for any date—it might be a date with Opportunity. NBC-Red: Family Man

8:30 9:30 CBS: Girl Interne 8:30 9:30 NBC Blue: Smile Parade 8:30 9:30 NBC Red: Happy Jack Highlights For Friday. Nov. 25 8:45 CBS: Bachelor's Children np HAT popular Hal Kemp starts lieve her. . . . Attention, fight 8:45 NBC-Red: Allen Prescott a series of six nightly broad- fans! The weekly prizefight in 9:00 CBS: Pretty Kitty Kelly casts over the Mutual System to- Madison Square Garden will be 19:00 MBS: School of the Air 9:00 NBC-Blue: Smilin' Ed McConnell night, playing in the Aragon and on your NBC station tonight. . . . 9:00 NBC-Red: Mrs. Wiggs Trianon ballrooms in Chicago. Happy birthday to Kate McComb

9:15 CBS: Myrt and Marge Tonight's comes from the Aragon, of The O'Neills cast. . . . Kate 9:15 NBC-Blue: Jane Arden tomorrow night's from the Tri- was born in Sacramento, Cali- 9:15 NBC-Red: John's Other Wife anon, and so on, alternating. . . . fornia, fifty-seven years ago to- 9:30 CBS: Hilltop House Your day. . . . 9:30 NBC-Blue: Madame Courageous Almanac can't predict Your Almanac recom- 9:30 NBC-Red: Just Plain Bill whether Judy Starr or Maxine mends a couple of young singers 9:45 CBS: Stepmother Gray will be his girl soloist. Judy for you to listen to and enjoy NBC-Blue: Perkins 9:45 Ma is in the hospital, recovering from today. . . . Alice Cornett, who 9:45 NBC-Red: Woman in White an operation, as this is written, used to be on the late Song Shop Mary Marlin 10:00 NBC-Blue: but maybe she'll be well enough program, has her own sustaining 10:00 NBC-Red: David Harum to go back to work by the time program at 1:45 on NBC-Blue 10:15 NBC-Blue: Vic and Sade Hal Kemp and his 10:15 NBC-Red: Lorenzo Jones Hal and the band open at the , . . and Felix Knight is on the band move into the Aragon. . . . Maxine too is ill, same network at 10:30 tonight, 10:30 CBS: Big Sister 10:30 NBC-Blue: Pepper Young's Family and will give up her singing job also starring in his own sustain- Aragon Ballroom for Widder Brown 10:30 NBC-Red: Young as soon as Judy is ready to re- ing program. six nightly programs. CBS: Aunt Jenny's Stories NBC-Blue: Getting the Most Out of Life NBC-Red: Road of Life Highlights For Friday, Dec. 2 9:00 CBS: Mary Margaret McBride 9:00 NBC- Blue: Southernaires TPONIGHT is your last chance women in the engineering pro- 9:00 NBC Red: Dan Harding's Wife to listen to the March of Time, fession, but Max Reinhardt, visit- Honor, James 9:15 CBS: Her Nancy on NBC-Blue at 9:30, unless a ing Reno, happened to see her 9:15 NBC- Red: The O'Neills new sponsor comes along and playing the leading role in one 9:30 CBS: Romance of Helen Trent 9:30 NBC- Blue: Farm and Home Hour saves it—as has happened quite of the college dramatic shows. He -Red: for Thought 9:30 NBC Time frequently in the past. . . . But if offered her a job in the touring 9:45 CBS: Our Gal Sunday the program does go off the air company of "Midsummer Night's Instrumental 9:45 NBC-Red: Ensemble after tonight, there's one of its Dream," and Helen forgot about

10:00 CBS: The Goldbergs regular actresses who won't be engineering then and there. . . .

10:15 CBS: Life Can Be Beautiful out of a job. . . . She's Helen After the "Dream" tour ended she NBC-Blue: Goodyear Farm News Lewis, radio newcomer who is returned to Reno and worked 10:15 NBC-Red: Let's Talk It Over also kept busy playing Sally the for a while with the Reno Little CBS: Road of Life to 10:30 NBC-Blue: Peables Takes Charge trapeze artist in The Mighty Theater, before coming New Show, at 5:45 on CBS, and in York and breaking into radio. . . . CBS: This Day Is Ours NBC-Blue: Alice Cornett Aunt Jenny's Stories, at 11:45 She often appears in the Mercury Once a Reinhardt dis- 11:00 CBS: Irene Beasley A.M. on the same network. . . . Theater broadcasts. . . . Let your 11:00 NBC-Blue: MUSIC APPRECIATION covery, Helen Lewis Helen studied at the University of Almanac once more put in a good 11:00 NBC-Red: Betty and Bob is now one of radio's Nevada with the notion that she word for Milt Herth's trio at NBC-Red: Arnold Grimm's Daughter dramatic starlets. was going to be one of the few 8:00 A. M. on NBC-Red. 11:30 CBS: School of the Air 11:30 NBC- Red: Valiant Lady 11:45 MBS Ed Fitzgerald 11:45 NBC- Red: Betty Crocker Highlights For Friday, Dec. 9 12:00 Blue: Swingtime Trio NBC TUT listening 12:00 NBC Red: Mary Marlin AVE you been to stage. She took them seriously Sophie Tucker, singing on and they turned out to be right! 12:15 NBC Red: Ma Perkins her own program every Monday, . . . Her first real job was coon- 12:30 CBS: Chamber Orchestra 12:30 NBC- Red: Pepper Young's Family Wednesday and Friday over CBS shouting at Tony Pastor's—play- 12:45 NBC Blue: Ted Malone at 6:45? If you haven't, you ing in blackface because some 12:45 NBC Red: The Guiding Light should, because the grand old manager told her she ought to 1:00 NBC- Blue: Club Matinee lady of red-hot singing knew all cover up her homely mug. . . . An 1:00 NBC Red: Backstage Wife about swing when the people who accident released her from the 1:15 NBC Red: Stella Dallas make so much noise over it to- burnt-cork on a vaudeville tour 1:30 NBC Red: Vic and Sade — day were in their swaddling she lost her luggage and had to 1:45 NBC- Red: Girl Alone clothes. . . . Sophie was born at go on the stage without makeup. 2:00 CBS: March of Games 2:00 NBC- Blue: Affairs of Anthony sea when her parents fled from The audience seemed to like her NBC Red: Dick Tracy a pogrom in Odessa. They came just as well, so she never put ;:15 CBS: Men Behind the Stars to America and started a restau- it on again. . . . Today she's as 2:15 NBC- Blue: Adrian Rollini Orch. rant in Hartford, NBC- Red: Your Family and Mine Connecticut. . . . well loved in England as she is Sophie Sophie Tucker, last NBC- Blue: Don Winslow was waiting on table there in America—she never appears in NBC- Red: Jack Armstrong when Willie and Eugene Howard London to anything but sold-out of the Red Hot Mam-

CBS: The Mighty Show came to town, and, just for a joke, houses. . . . She never gets out of mas, sings on CBS Blue: Mix NBC- Tom told her she ought to go on the NBC Red: Little Orphan Annie her bed before noon. tonight at 6:45. 5:15 CBS: Howie Wing 3:30 CBS: Bob Trout NBC Red: George R. Holmes Highlights For Friday, Dec. 16, 23 10:00 CBS: Sophie Tucker Blue: Lowell NBC Thomas 16: There's a fight rumors that a cast-shuffling 3:45 NBC Red: Father and Son F)ECEMBER on the air tonight for the process was imminent on this 7:00 Red: Amos 'n' Andy sports fans the . . . Here's hoping it hasn't 8:15 CBS: Lum and Abner — heavyweight show. 7:45 NBC- Red: Jimmie Fidler battle between Tommy Farr and happened. 9:30 CBS: Jack Haley Lou Nova, being broadcast from December 23: Still on the 7:30 MBS The Lone Ranger Madison Square Garden on NBC's subject of Hollywood Hotel, 4:30 NBC- Red: The Revelers Blue network. . . . But that you'll be interested in Duane 9:00 CBS: FIRST NIGHTER MBS What's My Name shouldn't deafen you to such Thompson, the "telephone oper- 5:00 NBC- Blue: Warden Lawes sterling Friday-night standbys as ator" whose voice has launched NBC Red: Cities Service Concert the First Nighter on CBS at 8:00 every Hotel program since the 8:30 CBS: BURNS AND ALLEN 5:30 N HC Blue: Cal Tinney or Warden Lawes' dramatization show began four years ago. . . . 6:00 CBS: HOLLYWOOD HOTEL of a crime story on the NBC-Blue Duane was born in Red Oak, 6:00 NBC Blue: Paul Martin Orch. network at the same time ... or Iowa, but was raised in San Fran- NBC Red: Waltz Time Burns and Allen on CBS at 8:30, cisco. Although she studied to Blue: March of Time (off Dec. 2) 6:30 NBC with 9:00 NBC Red: Death Valley Days some of their inspired non- be a dancer, she broke into Duane Thompson is 7:00 CHS: Grand Central Station sense ... or Hollywood Hotel pictures in an entirely different the "telephone girl" 7:00 NBC- Red: Lady Esther Serenade on CBS at 9:00. . . . Speaking role, that of a comedienne. Now 7:30 NBC- Blue: Felix Knight whose voice launches of Hollywood Hotel, as your she devotes most of her time to

7:45 NBC- Red : Uncle Ezra H oily wood H otel. Almanac went to press there were radio.

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(Continued from page 3) tions are splendid. I've flopped week after week trying to get ten bucks but I don't hold that against them. Bud and Arlene have the spright- liest, gayest line of any team on the air. My only criticism of the program is Johnny—he really gets in my hair. Maxine Baxter, Norwood, Ohio FOURTH PRIZE WE'LL DO OUR VERY BEST! I buy the Radio Mirror because I like to read the genuinely good articles in it. Especially do I like in this issue "What's New From Coast to Coast." It's like having a grand old neighborhood gossip about people you like, with one who likes them. Sort of keeps me pepped up and in- terested in what's going on in Radio. Mrs. Charles L. Caldwell, Madera, California FIFTH PRIZE THE MAGNIFICENT JON HALLS All praise to the Jon Halls for their magnificent moral courage in taking the unusual step of repeating the marriage ceremony for the sake of a great cause. The cause of clean living. How many young people who have acquired national fame would have shown a similar strength of character in daring to face possible ridicule and unkind criticism? Spec- tacular? Well, perhaps! But in no other way could public attention have been so well directed to this good law. Would that more radio and movie stars might come forward to encourage other proposed reform laws, which are even now in the offing, but which will die for want of moral support. Bessie B. Mason, Vineland, N. J. SIXTH PRIZE ORCHIDS TO MR. WELLES

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8:15 9:15 CBS: Montana Slim 8:15 9:15 NBC-Red: Instrumental Ensemble Highlights For Saturday, Nov. 26

8:25 9:25 CBS: Press-Radio News 'TpHE football season is waning, WMAS, WDRC. . . . Musical fans and this is about the last Sat- will be very much interested in 8:45 9:45 NBC-Red: Ward and Muzzy urday you'll be able to listen to the news that the Metropolitan the pigskin games until the Rose Opera matinee broadcasts should 9:00 10:00 NBC-Blue: Smilin' Ed McConnell Bowl game on Year's Day. begin today on 9:00 10:00 NBC-Red: Saturday Morning Club New NBC-Red, unless . . . There's a big one for your the Army-Navy game shuts the NBC-Blue: Viennese Ensemble attention today, though — the opening matinee off the air, in Army vs. Navy game in Phila- which case they'll begin next Sat- 9:30 10:30 CBS: Four Corners Theater delphia, which CBS, NBC, and urday. This is the eighth season 9:30 10:30 NBC-Blue: The Child Grows Up MBS are all planning to broad- for the Metropolitan on the air, 9:30 10:30 NBC-Red: Amanda Snow cast. . . . Somewhere or other, all the time on NBC's network. NBC-Red: Florence Hale MBS is also going to squeeze in . . . Football being a closed book a description of the Duke-Pitt after today, tonight's Eddie 10:00 11:00 CBS: Cincinnati Conservatory game at Durham, North Carolina. Dooley's last broadcast on NBC- 10:00 11:00 NBC-Blue: Leath Vaughn de . . . The game between Florida Red at 6:30. . . . And one of 10:00 11:00 NBC-Red: No School Today Morton Downey joins and Auburn at Jacksonville can your favorite singers goes into the Eddy Duchin's band NBC-Blue: Radio City Four be heard on WRUF, WJAX, Persian Room of the Plaza Hotel

WIOD. . . . Holy Cross-Boston to join Eddy Duchin's orchestra tonight — broadcast- 10:30 11:30 NBC-Blue: Our Barn College is on WEEI, WORC, as guest singer Morton Downey. ing on NBC and MBS. 10:30 11:30 NBC-Red: Eastman School of Music

12:00 CBS: KATE SMITH SPEAKS 9:00 11:00 12:00 NBC-Blue: Vocal Vogues Highlights For Saturday, Dec. 3 9:00 11:00 12:00 NBC-Red: Bailey Axton r A HE Mutual Network jumps every bit as good a listening night NBC-Red: Al and Lee Reiser J right into the Christmas sea- as any other in the week. . . . 9:30 11:30 12:30 NBC-Blue: Farm Bureau son, this early in the month, with Here are some good reasons for 9:30 11:30 12:30 NBC-Red: Call to Youth a special broadcast this morning spending the evening at home.

from Oberlin College. It's a pre- . . . Joe E. Brown at 7:30 on CBS. NBC-Red: America Presents Christmas program, on the air . . . Tommy Riggs and Betty Lou 10:30 12:30 1:30 CBS: Buffalo Presents from 11:00 to 11:30. ... At with a guest star, Larry Clinton's 10:30 12:30 1:30 NBC-Blue: Kinney Orch. 5:45 this afternoon CBS starts a orchestra, and Bea Wain, singer, 10:30 12:30 1:30 NBC-Red: Campus Kids new sustaining program with the at 8:00 on NBC-Red. . . . Fred co-operation of the Department Waring on the same network at CBS: Romany Trail of Commerce. . . . It's called The 8:30. . . . Your Hit Parade with 11:00 1:00 2:00 NBC-Blue: Bill Krenz Orch. Government Interviews Business, W. C. Fields at 10:00 on CBS 11:00 1:00 2:00 NBC-Red: Matinee in Rhythm and Richard Patterson, assistant . . . and Arturo Toscanini direct- secretary of commerce, is in ing the NBC Symphony at the NBC-Red: Golden Melodies charge. ... It ought to be very same time on NBC-Blue. . . . Bea Wain sings on 12:00 2:00 3:00 CBS: Merry Makers interesting if you're not afraid Bea Wain, soloist on the Tommy the Tommy Riggs pro- 12:00 2:00 3:00 NBC-Blue: Rakov's Orch. to think while you listen. ... At Riggs show, is the wife of an- 12:00 2:00 3:00 NBC-Red: and Rhythm Rhyme gram heard on NBC- last, thanks to the networks' ef- nouncer Andre Baruch, and one Red at 8 tonight. forts, Saturday night of top swingsingers. 12:30 2:30 3:30 NBC-Blue: Ricardo Orch. has become today's

1:00 3:00 4:00 NBC-Blue: Club Matinee Highlights For Saturday, Dec. 10 1:15 3:15 4:15 NBC-Red: Men of the West ''THEY'RE talking about moving these Saturday-night sessions are 1:30 3:30 4:30 NBC-Red: Top Hatters the whole Your Hit Parade pure delight. . . . Did you ever 2:00 4:00 5:00 CBS: Concert Orchestra program out to Hollywood, now know that the great W. C. is 2:00 4:00 5:00 NBC-Blue: Al Roth Orch. that W. C. Fields has established sensitive to color?—he covers the 2:00 4:00 5:00 NBC-Red: Judy and Lanny himself as such a strong attraction black and yellow license plate on on it which was no surprise NBC-Red: Stamp Collectors — to his car with a sheet of green anybody, of course. ... In the isinglass, remarking indignantly, 2:30 4:30 5:30 NBC-Blue: Gray Gordon's Orch. meantime, studio audiences at "Can you imagine them having a 2:30 4:30 5:30 NBC-Red: Swingology both ends of the continent sit in lousy color like that for license on the ten-o'clock CBS program. plates?" . . . Everybody in Holly- 3:00 5:00 6:00 CBS: Press-Radio News 3:00 5:00 6:00 NBC-Red: Kaltenmeyer Kinder- Those in New York watch the wood is looking forward to the garten orchestra and listen to Fields on day when Fields' new movie, a loudspeaker—those in Holly- "You Can't Cheat an Honest 3:05 5:05 6:05 CBS: Console Echoes wood watch Fields listen 3:05 5:05 6:05 NBC-Blue: El Chico Revue and to Man," is completed. In it he co- the orchestra on a loudspeaker stars with his old enemy, Charlie Something not to be CBS: Bob Trout . . . and both have a lot of fun. McCarthy, and the result cer- is Fields . . . Fields hasn't lost any of his tainly ought to be something to see. missed W. C. 3:45 5:45 6:45 CBS: Songs for You microphone appeal in the year . . . Birthday greetings to Jean and his comedy on 3:45 5:45 6:45 NBC-Red: Religion in the News he's been absent from radio, and Dickenson and Dorothy Lamour. Your Hit Parade, CBS. 4:00 6:00 7:00 CBS: Saturday Swing Session 4:00 6:00 7:00 NBC-Blue: Message of Israel 9:30 6:00 7:00 NBC-Red: Avalon Time Highlights For Saturday, Dec. 17, 24 6:30 7:30 CBS: Joe E. Brown 6:30 7:30 NBC-Blue: Uncle Jim's Question Bee J~)ECEMBER 17: Ernest Schel- politan Opera will broadcast its ling conducts the second traditional matinee performance NBC-Red: Lives of Great Men children's concert by the New of Humperdinck's Christmas fairy- 8:30 7:00 8:00 CBS: Johnny Presents York Philharmonic Orchestra this tale opera, "Haensel and Gretel." 5:00 7:00 8:00 NBC-Red: TOMMY RIGGS morning from 11:00 until 12:00, And if you listen to it, and one

or a little later. . . . Listening strain of music seems very very 9:00 7:30 8:30 CBS: Professor Quiz to these familiar to don't be sur- 5:30 7:30 8:30 NBC-Blue: Original Plays broadcasts, it's hard to you— 9:00 7:30 8:30 NBC-Red: FRED WARING figure out which is the more fun prised. It's the Ford Sunday Eve-

the music or the informal, witty ning Hour's theme song. . . . To- 6:00 CBS: Men Against Death comments Schelling makes to his night Toscanini and the NBC or-

youthful audience. . . . You can chestra serve up a special Christ- 8:00 8:00 9:00 NBC-Blue: National Barn Dance 8:00 9:00 NBC-Red: Vox Pop hear the program on CBS. mas pudding of the Maestro's December 24: It's Christmas most sure-fire hit tunes. . . . 6:30 8:30 9:30 CBS: Saturday Night Serenade Eve, but if you can spare time to Tommy Riggs will help Betty 6:30 8:30 9:30 NBC-Red: America Dances listen to radio, there will be Lou celebrate Christmas Eve on Ernest Sc helling di- some very swell things to in- NBC-Red at 8:00. . . . And to 7:00 9:00 00 CBS: YOUR HIT PARADE rects the 7:00 9:00 10:00 NBC-Blue: ARTURO TOSCANINI New York crease your enjoyment of the end up with, your Almanac wishes in orchestra a chil- holiday season. . . . This after- you a very Merry Christmas and NBC-Red: Dance Music dren's concert today. noon, for instance, the Metro- a Happy New Year! 52 RADIO MIRROR AVORED Sun- ers; wife, Naomi, day night spot on latter half of inter- FCBS national, WE CANADIAN LISTENERS nationally known 9:00 p. m., E.S.T.; two-piano team, thirty minutes of By HORACE BROWN Coles and Ya- music you like to nova . . . hum or whistle; comes out of Toronto. Virginia Woods . . . another twenty- familiar year-old; "cute" is the I want; Aces with older folk who like word I FORGET WHO TOLD ME BUT . . . stuff. It's the Music For You show. curly, red-gold hair; blue eyes, mis- Plenty staff changes in good old chievous smile; Virginia has been on CBC . . . Peter Aylen, station manager CLOSEUPS national network four months; began CBL, Toronto, to same duties at CBR, studying at Woodstock, Ontario, when Geoffrey Waddington . . . conductor; Vancouver, starting last October 15 ten; at seventeen captured Canadian pioneer at 34; had first radio engage- . . . Jack Radford, chief exec, at CBR, National Exhibition gold medal for ment in 1922; born Leicester, England, coming to Toronto . . . Aurele Seguin, sopranos; Fate appeared in shape of but came to Lethbridge, Alberta, at French assistant to Programme Super- age of four; studied at Toronto Con- Peter Aylen's ears; CBL's manager visor, transferred to head Quebec unit heard her singing on University of servatory; in '26 became musical di- with headquarters at Montreal . . . her rector of old CKNC, Toronto; led ork. Western Ontario program; sent Rupert Lucas heads new Central invitation to audition; following week in Lethbridge theater at age of 12, Script Bureau . . . John Macdonell, she bowed in on Music For You . . . when conductor taken ill and Geoff new ace drama director, doing series

William (Bill) Morton . . . young only one competent to wield baton; of O. Henry stories for CBS air . . . was champ sprinter as kid; has Lochinvar from out of West; veteran Charles Jennings father of baby boy, of at sings realized boyhood ambition to live in Canadian airwaves 23; a Peter (the first) . . . daddy, formerly country; operates farm outside Toron- mean tenor; he's got everything he Canada's best known radio announcer, to; of medium height, quiet, reserved, ever wanted by going after it; first says son is now broadcasting on all real air spot at Regina, Sas- with level, penetrating gray eyes; has came wavelengths . . . Percy Faith, Ferde katchewan; CBC scouts had him lot of friends and no enemies . . . Grofe of Canada, having tough time spotted; gave him years to train Dorothy Alt . . . pulchritudinous two during Summer . . . worked two days vocalizer of heart-songs; born twenty and study, then shipped him to Toron- week on "Bands Across the Sea" pro- years ago at Plum Coulee; debuted at to; Bill's delivered ever since; Bill gram, then spent rest of time at cottage started solo over na- four with "I'm Forever Blowing programs CBC outside Toronto . . . says it was really tional last September; lend your Bubbles"; had year at University of him hard to take . . . CBC doing some Manitoba; start in radio came with ears . . . snazzy advertising to lure sponsors winning of amateur contest sponsored John Adaskin . . . producer; also . . . booklets really works of art . . . by Emerson Gill, famed dance maes- handles all auditions for CBL; square Ernest A. Byworth, president of Asso- tro, over WXYZ; June, 1937, saw her of beam, kindly of eye; comes by mu- ciated Broadcasting Company, Toron- in Toronto, taking audition for CRCT; sical production of Music For You, to, recently returned from Hollywood same night she debuted on Summer Toronto Prom. Concerts, and others, and Pacific Coast . . . handed posies Cocktails; has been going strong ever honestly; for years one of Toronto's to CBR's Vancouver studios as most since; biggest hit was Percy Faith's ace 'cellists; wowed radio and stage up-to-date of all he'd seen . . . Herb. smash Streamline series, due back on audiences last year with comical May had profitable vacation in home air this fall by popular demand; has rendition on four-note toy trumpet town, Ottawa . . . had two tickets on escaped marriage thus far, but one so backed by 30-piece ork.; plays saxo- lucrative Daily Double . . . Herb, says decorative is never safe from M. phone as well; on shady side of thirty; it wasn't luck, but admits being blind-

Cupid . . . more fun on party than Ritz Broth- folded and using pin.

tides and stop the stagnant saliva odors that cause much bad breath. Besides, Colgate's soft, safe polish- ing agent cleans enamel—makes teeth sparkle. Always use Colgate's — regularly and frequently. No other dentifrice is exactly like it."

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I saw in Miss Del Marr's room." a soft, imperious voice, "That's all to- That is the ultimate curse." "What!" The Sergeant's exclama- night." The two men went out of He moved a little, as if a slight in- tion startled the girl. the room and closed the door. voluntary spasm had shaken him. "Goodness! Did I say something "Forgive me," he said with a wist- "Here in this dreamed-out world," wrong again, Mr. Heath?" ful, apologetic smile. "Man is a sus- he said hazily, "one course is no bet- Vance reproachfully waved the picious animal." He moved his hand ter than another; one person or thing Sergeant back. in a vague gesture: it was his invita- is no more important than any other "You mean, Miss Allen, that you tion for us to sit down. "Yes, suspi- person or thing. All opposites are saw someone besides Miss Del Marr cious. But why should one care?" interchangeable—creation or slaugh- when you fell into that room last Sat- Owen's voice was ominously low, but ter, serenity or torture. Yet vanity urday?" it had a plaintive carrying quality, seeps through the scabby crust of my "Yes. A man exactly like you de- like a birdcall at dusk. "I know why congealed metaphysics. Bah!" He scribed." you came. And I am glad to see you." hunched himself over and stared at "But why," asked Vance, "did you With a closer view of the man, I Vance. not tell me about him this morn- got the impression that grave illness "Tomorrow night I sail for South ing?" hung over him. An inner lethargy America Warmth — the ocean . . . "Why, you didn't ask me!" marked him; his eyes were liquid; nepenthe, perhaps. I'll be engaged "And you're sure," Vance went on, his face was almost cyanosed; his all tomorrow. Things to be done "that he looked like the man I just voice a monotone. He gave me the accounts, a house-cleaning, temporal described to you?" feeling of a living dead man. orderliness. No ripples to follow me

"Uh-huh, I'm sure." "For several years," he went on, for all time. Cleanliness—beyond. . . . "I don't suppose you had ever seen "there has been the vagrant hope that You understand?" him before." some day . . . Need for consciousness "Yes." Vance did not lower his ." of kind, likemindedness. . . His gaze. "I understand."

I NEVER saw him before in all my voice drifted off. ' life. And I'd have remembered, too, "The loneliness of psychic isola- THE man's slow eyes opened. He if I'd ever seen him. I always remem- tion," murmured Vance. "Quite. Per- straightened and lighted another ber faces, but I can't hardly ever re- haps I was not the one." cigarette. His strange mood was dissi- member names. But I did see him "Nobody is the one, of course. pated, and another look came into his afterwards." Forgive my conceit." Owen smiled eyes. Throughout this discussion he "Afterwards? Where was that?" wanly and lighted a cigarette. He had not once raised his voice. Yet I "Why, he was sitting in the dining- gave Vance a glance of interrogation. felt as if I had been listening to a room, right in the corner." "What thought have you?" bitter and passionate tirade. Vance inhaled deeply on his cig- "I was wondering why you were Owen began speaking now of old arette. in New York. I saw you at the Dom- books, of his days at Cambridge, of "Tell me, Miss Allen: what was daniel Saturday." his cultural ambitions as a youth, of this man doing when you saw him in "I saw you too, though I was not his early study of music. He was Miss Del Marr's room?" certain. I thought then you might get steeped in the lore of ancient civiliza- "Well, let me see. I guess he was in touch with me. Your presence tions and, to my astonishment, he a very personal friend of Miss Del that night was not a coincidence. dwelt with fanatical passion on the Marr's because he was putting a big There are no coincidences. There is Tibetan Book of the Dead. But, note-book away in one of the drawers. only one pattern in the entire uni- strangely enough, he spoke of himself And he must have been a very per- verse of time." always with a sense of dualism, as if sonal friend of Miss Del Marr's, or "But your visit to the city. Do I in- telling of someone else. There was he wouldn't know where the book trude on a secret?" a sensitive courtesy in the man, but belonged, would he? And then Miss Owen snarled, and I could feel a somehow he instilled in me a repug- Del Marr came over to me and put chill go down my spine. Then his nance akin to fear. There was always her hand on my arm, and led me out expression changed to one of sadness. an invisible aura about him, like that very quick. I guess she was in a "I came to see a specialist—Enrick of a primitive, smouldering beast. I ." hurry. But she was awfully nice. . . Hofmann." was unwholesomely fascinated by the Shortly after this astounding re- "Yes. One of the world's greatest man; and I experienced an unmistak- cital, Miss Allen cheerfully took leave cardiologists. You saw him?" able sensation of relief when Vance of us, saying, with a comical air of "Two days ago." Owen laughed stood up to go. mystery, that she had a lot of very bitterly. "Mene, mene, tekel, uphar- As we parted from him at the door, important things to attend to. sin!" he said to Vance with seeming ir- When she had gone Vance looked relevancy: across at the Sergeant. "It's imperative VANCE merely raised his eyebrows "Counted, weighed, divided. . . . that I see Owen," he said. "Can you and drew deeply on his cigarette. You have promised me." help?" "Thank you," said Owen, "for spar- Vance met his gaze directly for a Heath nodded. ing me the meaningless platitudes." brief moment. "Sure. He's living at the St. Carl- Lethargy again seemed to pervade "Thank you," breathed Owen, with ton." him; his expression became a mask; a deep bow. "Thank you, I'll of the Sergeant. phone his hands lay limp on the arms An Appalling Accusation you in the morning." chair. He might have been a corpse. The Sergeant departed, and Vance There was a long silence; then Owen "Yes, Markham, quite mad," Vance immediately called Markham. spoke. summarized, as we were finishing "You're breakfasting with me to- "Nothing has the slightest impor- breakfast in his apartment the next morrow," he told the District Attor- tance—not even life itself. We our- morning. "Quite. A poisonous mad- ney. "I've many things to tell you." selves can create or smear out human man, like some foul, crawling crea- approaching, A Dying Madman beings— it is all one, whichever we ture. His end is rapidly do." He grinned hopelessly. "The and a hideous fear has wrecked his At eight o'clock that evening Vance rotten futility of all things—the futil- brain. The sudden anticipation of went to the St. Carlton hotel. He did ity of doing anything, even of think- death has severed his cord of sanity. not telephone from the reception ing. Damn the agonizing succession ... A vile creature that should be desk, but wrote the word "Unprofes- of days we call Life! My tempera- stamped out as one would destroy a sionally" across one of his personal ment has ever drawn me in many di- deadly germ. A mental, moral and cards and sent it to Owen. A few rections at once—always the thumb- spiritual leper. Unclean. Polluted. minutes later the bell-boy returned screw and the rack. Perhaps, after And I I— am to save him from the and led us upstairs. all, to smear souls out is better." horrors infinity holds for him!" Two men were standing by a win- He seemed to shrink as from a Sergeant Heath, having arrived in dow when we entered, and Owen ghost; and Vance put in: answer to an earlier telephone sum- himself was seated limply in a low "I know the unrest that comes from mons from Vance, had listened at- chair against the wall, slowly turning too much needless activity, with all tentively to the conversation. But he Vance's card between his slender its multiplying desires." seemed to withdraw into himself tapering fingers. He looked at Vance, "The aimless struggle! Yes, yes. when, a few moments later, Gracie and tossed the card on the inlaid tab- The struggle to fit oneself into a mold Allen came tripping gayly in. ouret beside him. Then he said in that differs from one's ancient mold. She carried a small wooden box, 54 RADIO MIRROR held tightly to her. Behind her was it to a mirror, but all it says is '4 dz sealed the cigarette again in one of George Burns, diffident and hesitant. Sw So,' just like I wrote it out again his own envelopes, and placed it on "I just had to come, Mr. Vance, to here. All that means is, 'four dozen the mantel. ." show you my clues. And George had boxes of sandalwood soap.' . . "Where did you find that cigarette. just come to see me; so I brought him She brought out two or three other Miss Allen?" he asked. along, too. I think he should know useless odds and ends which she ex- The girl giggled again musically. how we're getting along. Don't you, plained in amusing detail. "Why, that's the one that burned a Mr. Vance? And mother, she's com- Vance did not interrupt her during hole in my dress last Saturday out ing over too in a little while. She this diverting, but pathetic, display. in Riverdale. You remember. . . . And said she wants to see you, though I But Burns, who was growing nervous then when you told me all about how can't even imagine why." and exasperated at the girl's unneces- important cigarettes are, I thought I'd The girl paused long enough for sary wasting of time, finally seemed go out there right away. I wanted Vance to present Markham. to lose his patience and burst out: to see if I could find the cigarette and "Why don't you show the gentle- maybe tell if it was a man or a wo- AND now, Mr. Vance," the girl con- men the almonds you have there, and man that had thrown it at me. You tinued, going to the desk and tak- get this silly business over with?" see, I didn't really believe it was you ing the tight cover from the little "I haven't any almonds, George. that did it. ... I had a terrible time box she had brought, "I've simply There's only one thing left in the box, finding the cigarette, because I had got to show you my clues." and that hasn't anything to do with stepped on it and it was half covered She began to display her treasures. it. I was just sort of practicing when up. Anyhow, I couldn't tell anything " "Now here, Mr. Vance, is the exact I got that clue from it, and I was awfully mad all size of a footprint." She took out a "But something smells like bitter over again. I started to throw it slip of paper with some figures writ- almond to me." away. But I thought I'd just better ten on it. "It measures just eleven Vance suddenly became interested. keep it, because it was the first clue inches long, and the man at the shoe "What else have you got in the box, I had gotten—although it really didn't store said that was the length of a Miss Allen?" he asked. have anything to do with the case." number nine-and-a-half shoe—-unless She giggled as she took out the it was an English shoe, and then it last item—a slightly bulging and MY dear child," said Vance slowly, might be only a number nine. But neatly sealed envelope. "it may not have anything to do I don't think he was English—I mean "It's only an old cigarette," she with our case, but it may have some- the man with the foot. I think he said. "And that's a good joke on thing to do with some other case." was a Greek, because he was one of George. He's always smelling the Markham had come forward. • the waiters up at the Domdaniel. You funniest odors." "What did you mean by that last see, I went up there because that's She tore away the corner of the remark, Vance?" where you said the dead man was envelope and let a flattened and partly "Cyanide may have been on this found. And I waited a long time for broken cigarette slip into her hand. cigarette." He looked at Markham someone to come out of the kitchen At first glimpse, I would have said significantly. "For the possible action to make a footprint; and then, when that it had not been lighted, but then of this drug, as well as the possible no one was looking, I measured I noticed its charred end, as if a few means of its administration, I have ." it. . . inhalations had been taken on it. only to refer you to Doremus' re- She put the paper to one side. Vance took the cigarette and held it marks Sunday night." "And now, here's a piece of blotter gingerly near his nose. 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Las Vegas was a When he first went on the Good SucceMfuUy 7)ahlu*ti tough frontier town then—Frank is News show last year, he had his bags around fifty today—and after the gun- all packed for a trip to Europe. At totin' boys got through with him, first he refused to go on the air, but GRAY HAIR Frank could shoot straight, ride hard, the Good News producer, knowing his "PjO not let the handicap of gray hold his liquor like a man. Wuppermans, argued that being in a '-' and hair worry you longer. You cattle palled, couldn't can now make and apply at home When punching he radio show was fun. Frank a time-tested gray hair prepara- made a living shooting pool in a string resist that lure. 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(Continued from page 9) before air time, but Bob always be- No, as long as Mr. and Mrs. Nex- came increasingly fidgety as the hands door were on the air we were tied of the clock passed nine, and before together with bonds of steel. There long it became the custom for him to was only one way out—to take the leave thirty minutes or so before it program off the air. Neither of us was really necessary, while Bark and could continue it alone. I would follow him later. And that meant I could never ask One night, after Bob had left, I Bob for a divorce. To break up our asked Bark: "Why don't we all go home—that I could have done, be- dancing next Saturday? You could cause it was not a home, it was al- bring another girl." ready broken up. But to rob Bob of He was silent a moment. Then he his career—that I could never do. I raised his eyes and looked at me knew how engrossed in the program steadily. "Do you really think," he he was; and I knew, too, how difficult said quietly, "that would be any fun and almost impossible it would be for me?" for him to give it up and start some- And after a pause, when I did not thing new. Radio doesn't welcome its answer: "Or for you, either?" old favorites in new roles, and Bob I suddenly felt as if I were suffocat- had never had any stage or screen ing. He hadn't touched me, I had experience at all. never felt his arms around me or his steady, lips on mine, yet under that I THOUGHT, that morning, that I intense gaze my whole body burned. I could never divorce Bob if by doing He rushed on, before I could speak: so I must also ruin his career, but "Don't tell me you didn't know al- as the next weary weeks dragged past ready. Why else do you think I've I discovered in myself depths of ruth- made you and Bob let me come along lessness I had never suspected. The to dinner every night? Don't you daily sight of Bark in the studio and know it's because I have to see you?" the few stolen meetings we had when And I realized he was right—I had he urged me to forget everything and known all that, without permitting free myself so I could marry him, com- myself to admit it. Now it was out, bined to remind me constantly of my out in the open. It must be faced. problem. Bark no longer had dinner "Yes." I said. "I knew, Bark." with us, and once more Bob and I sat He made a quick movement, as if silently together night after night. to take my hand, but I drew it away. I almost hated Bob in those days, "No," I said "Please, let's go back and I did whole-heartedly hate the to the studio." program. I came to script confer- Somehow, I got through the rest of ences and rehearsals without interest; that evening. I read my script as if sometimes I let Bob write the whole nothing had happened; I rode home script without even a suggestion from in a taxi with Bob; I said good night me. I hoped, almost, that I could to him and went into my own room make him angry. Many a time I was and undressed and went to bed, all on the verge of blurting out the truth as usual. But my brain was reeling. and asking him to release me. Then fate, in the form of a radio BARK loved me—and I loved him. sponsor, broke our deadlock. Bark The sweetness of that knowledge called me one morning and said, with was all I had room for in my mind suppressed excitement in his voice, just then. That, and the thought that that he must see me before rehearsal. luckily there was no real barrier to I promised to meet him for lunch. *Get a Trial Bottle FREE! our marriage. When I entered the dark, quiet little I hated the thought of divorce, as restaurant we had chosen, he was al- For over 2 generations, Italian Balm has held every sensitive woman must hate it. ready there, sitting at a table for two the "first choice" vote, among all anti-chap- But, with Bob and me, it would be with a highball in front of him. He ping preparations, in Cold- weather Canada. different. Our marriage had already jumped up and immediately plunged And, in the United States, its rapid rise to drifted into the shallows, into stag- into explanations: wide- spread popularity has been one of the nant dullness and indifference, long "I'm going to Hollywood, Linda! sensations of toilet goods history. before I met Bark. They want me to be master of cere- So if your hands are dry, or rough and As I fell asleep, I was happy—really monies on a new variety show!" happy for the first time in months. I sat down, feeling as if someone chapped, from housework or weather — test That happiness was still with me had pushed me. Well, I thought, per- this famous Skin Softener at Campana's the next morning. It was still with haps it's better this way. Never to see expense. Try it before you buy it! me—but now there was a difference. him again. . . . Italian Balm contains the costliest ingredi- Somewhere, in the back of my mind, But he was rushing on. "And you're ents of any of the largest selling brands of

a shadow. . . . with You've to, was coming me. got Linda! lotion — yet its cost to use is negligible. And then I knew. You can't say no!" It's wide -spreading— that's why! Not thin — I could not ask Bob for a divorce! "I can't, Bark. What chance would watery — or wasteful. One drop (not a hand- It was fantastic, it was ridiculous we have of being happy if every time ful!) is the right amount for both hands but it was true. In any other profes- seven o'clock rolled around I'd re- sion, we could have ended our mar- member that I had taken Bob's work per application. Get your FREE Vanity riage, and still gone on with our work, away from him? Suppose he couldn't Bottle now. You be the judge. either together, as friends, or sepa- find anything else to do? And you rately. But the strange world of radio know he probably couldn't." would never permit that. No sooner "I don't know anything of the sort," would the news of our divorce become he flashed back at me. "I must say, public than every Nexdoor fan would if I were Bob, and knew you were Italian Balm inevitably lose the illusion we had making all this fuss, I certainly Secret Formula — Exclusive Process worked so hard to build up. They wouldn't be very flattered at your couldn't possibly accept us as Mr. and opinion of me! You sound as if you CAMPANA SALES COMPANY Mrs. Nexdoor when they knew we thought Bob was utterly incapable 592 Lincolnway, Batavia, Illinois Gentlemen : I have never tried Italian were a divorced couple. of taking care of himself." Balm. Please send me VANITY Bottle Nor could I leave the program and "It isn't that at all," I retorted. "It's ^ FREE and postpaid. let Bob carry on with a substitute in just that the show means too much my role. My voice was too closely to him, and that I've seen enough identified with the character of Mrs. people try to change their acts in Nexdoor. radio to know it can't be done." In Canada, Cam pana, Ltd., MACS9£ Caledonia Koad, Toronto

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"Linda," he exclaimed, his face see, it isn't as if the Nexdoors were white, "I've tried to understand, all still going strong, and it might be a THOUSANDS ENJOY these weeks—tried to be sympathetic good idea to get out while we can— and kind. But I'm at the end of my For one brief beautiful instant, I rope. To me, you just seem to be believed him. I thought he really did THRILL OF PLAYING a woman pulling the noble self-sac- want to end the program, and was Who Didn't Know a Note of Music rifice act, and loving it!" trying to break it to me without hurt- "Bark!" I cried. "That's not so!" ing me. Then I looked at him more Over 700.000 people have studied music at home this easy way. See "If it isn't, you're giving a mighty closely, and my heart sank. Bob has how quickly you can learn at home good imitation. You—•" He was go- never been able to lie to me. without a private teacher, with- — waiter I out needless study and practice. ing on, but the arrival of the "Bob!" said. "What's happened? This wonderful method starts you at that moment saved us from plung- You don't really want to quit." real tunes by note learning to play ing into the quarrel we had been on "Oh, of course I don't want to," he in first few lessons. Mail coupon at once for illustrated booklet and the brink of having. He gave the began, "but with the way things are Demonstration Lesson— FREE. In- order, and then said sullenly: going, I just thought we'd— struments supplied when needed, cash or credit. V. S. School of "I'm sorry. I didn't mean that, of "You've been talking to Bark," I Music. 3061 Brunswick Bldg., course. But— Oh, don't you see that said quickly. "What happened? Did Y. C. (41st year—Est. 1898.) FREE DEMONSTRATION LESSON you couldn't possibly hurt Bob more he speak to you this afternoon?" first U. S. School of Music, 3061 Brunswick Bldg., N. Y. C. than you're hurting him now, by Then, for the time that eve- Please send me Free Booklet and Demonstration clinging to him without loving him?" ning, he looked at me. Only for a Lesson I would like to play instrument checked I see that under ordi- I below. (Do you have instrument ) "Of course — moment, but saw the misery and Piano Accordion Clarinet Banjo nary circumstances. If we were just heartbreak in his eyes, and it stag- Violin Trumpet Ukulele Saxophone couple, it would different." Guitar Mandolin Trombone Other Instrument any be gered me. "Well, you don't think it "I know, I know," he nodded, wear- was much of a surprise to me, do Name ily. "You're Mr. and Mrs. Nexdoor, you?" he asked. ?" Street and you're going to go on being Mr. "Surprise . . . and Mrs. Nexdoor, in real life and on "I mean, did you think I didn't City.. the air—forever." know what was going on? I could tell, these last few weeks. You'd changed,

More Beautifu l Than Ever! I DON'T know what we had for lunch, Linda. Maybe you didn't realize it, ' ! and the meal ended without our hav- but you did. And—well, of course I J I h M : 1 1 ^ I EXCLUSIVE ADD- SEND ing come to any real decision. But I couldn't blame you. You couldn't I 1 ED FEATURES! NO MONEVMONEY Send any snapshot just before we left, Bark leaned across help it if you didn't love me any more. or photo and we'll reproduce it in this the table and said gravely: "You've So for quite a while I've been mulling beautiful onyx like got to be honest with yourself, Linda. things over in mind, figuring out ,i,,,.,- . (Photos re- ,_48c, my B .he Vp,i, rine:. M,%J,ed turned.) indestruc- (Expertl.paaited I £S"""""'£„,•," tible! Waterproof! 10c extra) If you really love me, you've got to what to do. And the show really is Pat. Pending Enclose'strip of paper for ring: size. Pay post- postage. If you send 48c tell Bob you want a divorce. If you slipping—that's the truth. So may- (Canadian man plus a few cents O&tr, Mu,l we will pay postage. PHOTO MOVETTE RING — Street, Cincinnati, O. don't really love me—well be, if you want to, we'd better call Send Caih) CO., Dept. M-26, 626 Vine All that afternoon, I could think of it quits, after the contract runs out." only one thing: Bark's accusation that He was talking like a man who is I was dramatizing myself. Perhaps it trying to hypnotize himself with his

PSORIASISsuffer from this obstinate, repul- was true that I attached too much own words. It tore my heart to hear _, _ Why mf N N sive, scaly skin disease, Psoriasis, F_— ^* _ % ^ which you may believe to be ECZEMA? importance to my presence in the him, but there was so much behind Use PSORA-DERMA, the remarkable TRIALa% I I ^^ new treatment. Regardless of how dis- N.xdoor program. Perhaps was be- what he was saying that couldn't TrOOTment couraged you may be after trying: other preparations without success, its results ing foolish and emotional. collect myself enough to interrupt will astonish you. PSORA-DERMA is a scientific develop- ment, perfected by a pharmacist after many years of inten- I took a long walk in the park, and him. He'd known, all this time! And sive study. It is sold with the understanding: that it will give you relief in two weeks or money refunded. You risk was so absorbed in my thoughts that before that, he'd known our marriage nothing. Send for FREE liberal trial treatment of PSORA- DERMA at once. Try it and you'll bless the day you read I was late, for the first time in my was a failure. But that one look he this advertisement. UNION LABORATORIES, Dept. M-19, Box 115 life, to rehearsal. But by that time had given me of his face showed me Linwood Station. DETROIT MICHIGAN my mind was made up. that if he had done nothing, it wasn't Bark was right. I was helping no because he didn't care. He cared so one, and hurting us all, by keeping much that it frightened me—and silent. I would ask Bob to free me. shamed me, too. I had been thinking After the first broadcast Bob and he didn't love me—and instead, he I went, as usual, to the cafe across the loved me so much he was willing to street for dinner. give up everything so I could be ABOUT I was just opening my mouth to happy. GIVEN SIZE OF DIME speak, when Bob forestalled me. NOTHING TO BUY! GIRLS! LADIES! Send Name and "Linda," he said, "I've been think- in the midst of my humilia- Address. Charming Watch or Big Cash Commission. Send THEN, No Money. Given for SIMPLY GIVING AWAY FREE ing. Maybe you didn't know, but the tion, I felt an overwhelming surge Big Colored Pictures with our well known White Cloverine program's slipping. And our sponsor of anger at Bark. How dared he go Salve, used for burns, chaps, sores, etc., easily sold to friends at 25c a box (with picture FREE) and remitting —I've heard, indirectly—is sort of to Bob behind my back, taking it upon catalog. SPECIAL: Choice of 20 gifts for returning per wondering if he'll keep the show on himself to do what—if it was to be only $3. Be first. 43rd year. Write today for order of Salve and Pictures, postage paid. WILSON CHEM. CO., during the summer." done at all—was my duty! And, quite INC., Dept. 65-19, Tyrone. Pa. I listened, aghast, because for all suddenly, I found myself thinking our seven years on the air we had coldly of Bark, without desire, almost worked for the same sponsor, and without interest. there had never been any question of "Bob, don't!" I sobbed. "It's all my BAGKACH c~ taking the program off. fault. I've been a silly, emotional wo- "So it seemed to me," Bob was going man. Let's start in all over again on, his eyes on the water glass which and let's go to work on the show so Leg Pains May he was twisting between his fingers, hard that we make a bigger success "that maybe the Nexdoors have gone out of it than ever. But when that's Be DangerSign stale on us—or we on them. And I over, let's go away somewhere, just wondered what you'd think if—we the two of us, and try to be—to be a Of Tired Kidneys —How To Get called it a program—and I started man and his wife again." something else." after a moment, shook his Happy Relief But Bob, "Something else?" I asked. "But head. "I'm not blaming you, Linda. If 'backache and leg pains are making you mis- It can't erable, don't just complain and do nothing about what?" But it isn't as easy as that. them. Nature may be warning you that your "Oh, I don't know. I have a couple be. I've known, even before Bark kidneys need attention. of radio ideas knocking around in my came along, that something was The kidneys are Nature's chief way of taking head that I'd I excess acids and poisonous waste out of the blood. like to do something wrong with our marriage, but was Most people pass about 3 pints a day or about with. The only thing is—there isn't afraid to do anything about it be- 3 pounds of waste. any place in them for you, and I was cause—well, because you didn't seem If the 15 miles of kidney tubes and niters wondering if you'd really to. I was afraid of you. don't work well, poisonous waste matter stays mind— You to want me in the blood. 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And if you'd said, a long time ago, on the scripts, writing, re-writing, and what you've just said—then it might polishing them as never before. I have done some good. Now I just discovered how little real help I had well, I guess I just don't believe you." been in this work for the past year BOTHERED BY He could never have said anything or so, because now I was able to make that would have showed me myself suggestions that made Bob look up, more clearly. Deeply ashamed, I said grin, and nod approvingly. And a humbly, "Isn't there anything I can warm glow of happiness and pride CONSTIPATION? do to prove you can believe me?" was born in my heart. Get relief this simple, "I hope so," he said slowly. "There's Then came the day when I looked pleasant way! nothing that would make me happier at Bob and suddenly realized that than to have you back, Linda—to be there was a new spring in his step, really together again, the way we a new assurance in the poise of his were when we were first married. head. I knew, that day, that I was And, you know, we've both been at succeeding. 1. TAKE ONE fault. We've let the show sop up all The Nexdoors' domestic troubles or two tablets of our affection and enthusiasm, so that had been the subject of our scripts for Ex-Lax before re- we didn't have any left for each three weeks when the first popularity tiring. It tastes just other." rating report reached us. It was bet- like delicious choc- "When does the contract run out?" ter, but only slightly so, and my heart olate. No spoons — no bottles! No I asked. sank. Then, three weeks later, an- fuss, no bother! "The end of June." other report came through, and it Ex-Lax is easy to "That's two months. We couldn't do showed an astounding, unbelievable use and pleasant anything until then, anyway, could increase in popularity. to take. we?" "We've done it!" Bob said, smiling "No." at me in that trusting, intimate way "Then let me try. Let me help you I hadn't seen for so long; and a few 1, YOU SLEEP to build up the show again. I can do days later the news came that the through the night that, anyway." I was speaking eager- sponsor wanted to renew not only for . . . undisturbed! ly, almost happily, as I began to see the summer, but another year. No stomach upsets. a way of regaining what I had so "Well, how about it?" Bob asked me No nausea or nearly destroyed. that night. "Shall we keep the old cramps. No occa- sion to get up! "All right." He nodded, so firmly Nexdoors on the air?" But his eyes Ex-Lax is mild and that in spite of the tense lines I'd fight, of suf- told me that already won my gentle. It acts over- fering in his face he was almost the and he knew my answer. night — without old Bob again. "But you've got to He kept his part of the bargain, over-action. forgive me if I don't put all my eggs too. This summer the Nexdoors went in one basket again. I'm going to on a vacation, while a professional write the scripts so Mr. and Mrs. script writer kept the show on the Nexdoor are headed for a separation. air with the adventures of some of Then, if it's just no go, and you and the Nexdoors' friends. Bob and I I find, by June, that we've got to call went away, high up in the mountains, O. THE NEXT morning Ex-Lax it quits, we can bring the show to where the air is sweet with pine and acts . . . thoroughly an end. Really finish it." there are neither electric lights nor and effectively. It Bark left the program receiving sets. after that radio works so gently night's broadcast, I I and when did not And every day, as wandered that, except for the call him, he must have realized that through the forests with the old Bob, pleasant relief you everything was finished between us. and knew that he and I were both, enjoy, you scarcely The next six weeks were hard, but once more, the two people who had realize you have they were happy, in a queer, gruelling fallen in love and married, I gave taken a laxative. sort of way. Bob immediately put thanks for the accident that had made the new story-sequence into opera- it impossible for me to do what other tion, involving the Nexdoors in the women, bored with their marriages, the quarrel which was to lead to their do so swiftly and easily—and thought- Ex-Lax is good for every member of well as the grown- separation—unless we decided other- lessly. I gave thanks that we hadn't family—the youngsters as in lOtf and 25* sizes. wise—and every morning we worked dared to divorce! ups. At all drug stores Try Ex-Lax next time you need a laxative.

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Big Sister

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"I'm inclined to disagree." not normal. She's completely mad." Ruth could see his face dimly now, "Not completely," he corrected her as her eyes grew used to the dark- wearily. "Not the legal kind. Just the ness, and suddenly she knew that he kind that lets a woman get away with had not been trying to cheer her up, things like this." after all. His gayety was the near- Down the lane, a few minutes later, hysteria of a person in the deepest they found John's car, and in it, neatly blackness of despair. He had given folded, their clothes. He smiled at up. His fine level dark brows were her wryly. "Considerate, aren't they?" divided by a deep crease, the sculp- They dressed, then drove silently One of the many buildings tured lips were pulled taut and thin, along the rutted, bumpy road. marking his lean cheeks with two "John!" Ruth screamed suddenly. deep-cleft lines. Her heart swelled "Stop!" with tenderness. "What the—" They braced them- "Dear," she whispered, coming selves for the shuddering shock as the close. "Your life is worth fighting— car came to a sudden halt. for. You have too much to lose The headlights shone on an over- "It's already lost. You know what turned car, its four wheels in the air mw me ^Jtreatment all this means." like the paws of a helpless animal. "I suppose so. The scene is set for Its front right corner was crushed us to be discovered in a compromising and the scarred bole of a tree nearby situation." told the rest of the story. "That's just the beginning," he said through tense lips. "Norma's been "IT looks like—" John flashed his trying to break me. This is ruin, MACFADDEN has been in- I light on the license plate. "It is— BERNARR professional, for me. terested in the treatment of tubercu- financial and Norma's car." He jumped out, rushed ugly scandal to mess losis for more than fifty years. He was And for you—an to the wreckage, with Ruth at his threatened with this disease as a boy. He up your life." shoulder. Bloodstains smeared the himself through physical culture It's your cured "Don't worry about me. glass of the shattered windshield. But methods, but throughout all these years career that counts. This wouldn't af- of a crushed and fight tendency towards this the dreaded sight he has had to a fect your place on the hospital staff?" terrible complaint. He has acquired in- crumpled body was missing. "Affect it! The head of the board valuable knowledge in handling his own "They must be in that house," Ruth for good excuse case in various emergencies, not counting has been watching a said, pointing to dim lights ahead. the thousands of victims of this complaint to give my place to somebody more an endless wait, a woman mouth After with whom he has come in contact through inclined to keep both eyes and with a lamp opened the door of the his writings and through personal advice shut. Why, Ruth, I'd be lucky if I unpainted frame shack. "You the doc- to sufferers. got had a patient left when he tor?" she asked. Literally thousands of testimonials, many through with me." "Yes." John brushed by her. "Where of which have been published in the Phy- if your other patients feel like "Not is she?" sical Culture Magazine refer to marvelous Ned does about you," Ruth said. "Right in here," the woman led him, cures of this complaint, and now an oppor- The tense lines about his mouth re- has appeared combining these nat- muttering, "I don't see how he could tunity laxed. "Ruth," he said, expressing the ural curative measures through physical have got hold of you so quick. It's it prayer. Then her culture methods with the latest discoveries word as if were a half a mile to where he went to phone lovingly into in medical science. hand slipped softly and for an ambulance— his, and at that moment he felt a The Loomis Sanitarium for the treatment "The doctor is her husband," Ruth warm surge of reassurance. Nothing of tuberculosis is one of the largest insti- explained while John bent over the as long as Ruth stood by tutions in this country. It has given exclu- mattered still form on the bed. "We—we just sive attention to this complaint for more to comfort and console. happened to come along and see her than forty years. The physicians in charge car—" She drew the woman out of institution are now prepared not of this IT was when the door creaked that the squalid bedroom. "Where's the only to treat cases in any stage of the dis- ' they came back to knowledge of the He'll need hot water right ease, but with the combination of Bernarr kitchen? Macfadden's methods they are able not world that threatened them. Their away, all the clean cloths you can find." only to get them out of bed and put them hands dropped heavily to their sides, She went back, to watch John, to on their feet, but develop the strength they stood apart and faced the door. wait while he made his examination. and vitality which is essential to resist Norma Wayne's voice slashed the At last he straightened up. this disease throughout the balance of their silence. "Isn't this a pretty scene!" "What is it, John? Is she—dead?" lives. she said in shrill sarcasm. "Love in "No, she's alive. But not much Anyone attacked with tuberculosis a cottage!" more. She is badly cut and has an knows that recovery is never certain. The The stocky man behind her winked, arterial hemorrhage. She'll never victims must be forever watchful, and here his red, heavy-jowled face coy. "I survive the trip to the hospital." at this institution they can now acquire wouldn't know about the pretty you'll have to do something not only the information essential to "Then I'd it remedy the disease, but to build the vigor- angle," he said, "but say was —quickly?" It all ous physical health which should be main- plenty adequate. tells you you "Yes . . . but I'm not sure I should. — ." tained throughout life. need I'm afraid. . . don't The Loomis Sanitarium, commanding an "But you understand," Ruth "John! What do you mean?" said desperately. "We didn't come "Listen, Ruth. If I try to do any- elevation of two thousand feet, is a million — dollar plant located on a beautiful 750 acre here of our own free will thing — without sterile dressings, tract near Liberty, New York. It is a "Oh no! Then it must have been proper instruments, even sutures or non-profit institution. your mad, uncontrollable infatuation, haemostat clamps, she might die in- Write for further information, Bernarr the strength of your longing that stantly." Macfadden Foundation, Inc., Room 718, drove you!" "I see." Bartholomew Bldg., 205 East 42nd Street, "Norma!" John took a step forward. "I wonder how much you see. There New York. "You can't talk to Ruth like that!" are doctors, even under the best of "Can't I! The cheap, common circumstances, free of suspicion, in a little—" good operating room, who don't want There was more, much more, a to touch their own families. And violent, sordid tempest of vitupera- imagine what it would look like if tion. Ruth listened, her flaming face Norma—who has just violently quar- turned away, while Norma seized the reled with me—should die under my situation as an excuse to pour out all hands." the accumulated vitriol of her hatred "Oh!" Ruth breathed. And then: and jealousy. Then, at last, it was "But you can't let that stop you, John. over. The woman and her companion Your bag—isn't it in the car? You'll v/ere gone, leaving the door open. make out with that. Don't wait a Ruth's face felt stiff and tired. Cold moment longer, John." chill chance, in . one '.#.»,* ...... fingers of touched spine. have ».~. , -. . imKZr^ her "She would a Air view of spacious Loomis grounds "John," she whispered, "she's—she's modern hospital, with adequate equip- 62 " — . — — RADIO MIRROR ment, expert assistance, under good at them, looking from one face to the ." hands. But we can't move her, we . . other with a queer light in her eyes. "Go ahead, there are no hands bet- "One sheet is all I had clean," she ter than John Wayne's."— said flatly. Ruth's arm moved at last "John Wayne " he spoke slowly to take it. "might be a very poor surgeon for "Are you going to operate on her?" Mrs. Wayne." He lifted his head, the woman asked. looked straight at her. "Let's face To Ruth the whole world was facts, Ruth. I don't trust myself. ringed around the cottage—a world After all, a doctor is a human being. of suspicious, menacing faces, wait- If Norma lives, your life is ruined, my ing for the answer. career is smashed. How do I know that I would not be influenced un- Will John have the courage to op- consciously?" erate on his wife? Or will he take "John, don't say that! We— the easy way of waiting until the "Here's a clean sheet, Doc." They ambulance arrives? You'll find the whirled to see the woman standing answer in the second instalment of there. How long had she been in the this dramatic serial. Meanwhile, fol- room? Ruth's heart contracted with low the adventures of Big Sister, a vague, premonitory fear. She should created by Lillian Lauserty, on CBS not have heard what John said. And every morning except Saturday and she had heard. For she was staring Sunday.

Facing the Music

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"For a while," confided manager Only one tune remained intact in Harry Romm, "I thought maybe I was the Lopez log. A tune called "Nola." at fault. I asked Will to tear up our contract. I thought he needed a new OFF THE RECORD manager. But Will shook his head Some Like It Sweet: and said, 'Harry, if you quit me I'll My Heart Is Unemployed; How Long " hang up my baton for good.' Can Love Keep Laughing (Brunswick After one of these huddles, Will 8129) Eddy Duchin—Sophisticated spoke firmly. "Why we haven't sweetness from the new Broadway clicked as we should cannot be an- revue, "Sing Out the News." swered by me. But I know this. I'm Ya Got Me; No Place Like Your Arms going to stick with this 'slide music' (Brunswick 8220) Kay Kyser—Saucy and gamble on swing music. The Sully Mason gets an "A" on his Musi- break must come soon." cal Quizz report card for able vocal- I was present when Will made this izing. statement. It had the ring of sin- Garden of the Moon; Whirling Derv- cerity to it. If I played hunches and ish (Victor 26047A) Skinnay Ennis. Hal the numbers game, I'd pick 2,059,898. Kemp's erstwhile drummer boy reveals his new orchestra with a clever pair of Claude Thornhill arrangements. ~7Ay"7Al6 &Uy U/ay to Listeners to Vincent Lopez's dance F.D.R. Jones; Heart Is Unemployed sessions from Billy Rose's Casa (Victor—26038B) Hal Kemp. An ex- Pleasant, Quick Relief Manana via MBS and CBS, know why citing tune embellished with a rip-roar- • An Alka-Sellzer Tablet in a glass of water the piano playing conductor has ing arrangement in staccato style. It's makes a sparkling alkalizing solution, con- stayed pretty close to the top of the the record of the month. taining an analgesic (.sodium acetyl salicy- heap. Lopez isn't afraid to change late). When you drink it, it gives relief in Some Like It Swing: TWO ways —quick relief from the pain and • horses in midstream. Vince was talk- discomfort and relief from _^.-_^^.Ul^- • Lambeth Walk; Prelude To a Kiss ing about it between shows. the excess acid condition so 1 associated "I often asked this question: (Brunswick 8204m) Duke Ellington often with com- am mon ailments. swing bands are supposed to Of all things here's the Harlem Duke 'You AT ALL DRUG STORES play dance music. Yet many jitter- playing a British tune. The combina- bugs often skip the hopping and tion is a happy one. 30c-60c ' Pkgs. . bouncing about to watch the mu- Blues in Your Flat; Blues in My Flat sicians give out.' The answer is sim- (Victor—26044A) Benny Goodman. In- ple. Swing music has reached its peak. digo swing marred only by its similarity It now has the status of a full fledged to several superior Ellington renditions art, powerful enough to command of another day. 'spectator' as well as 'participant' in- Since My Best Gal Turned Me Down; terest. Of course my reference to Sorry (Vocalion 3149) Bix Beiderbecke. reissue of unhappy VALUE swing as an art will be scoffed at. I A two recordings by EVER OFFERED doubt whether any of the scoffers the immortal Bix, the Lincoln of jazz. - would back up their judgment to the Recommended to curiosity-seekers. i BRAND NEW^-7/3 Zig Zag; Summer Souvenirs (Victor extent of $50,000. I went that far in f— backing mine." 26042B) Larry Clinton. Clinton comes eatheruiejqht Last year Lopez went on the road, back with a snappy pair after several conducted an informal survey among dismal attempts. 1938 Model dancers. He discovered the dancers wanted hot music and plenty of it. When Lopez got back to New York Ken Alden, he gave most of his men their no- Facing the Music, $fbso tice. Only three men of the original RADIO MIRROR, m #CASH men were retained—drummer Johnny 122 East 42nd Street, violinist Pisani or On Easy Terms Morris, Nick and New York City. whistler Fred Lowery. 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Answers to Radio Mirror's Mammoth Quiz

VOX POP PROFESSOR QUIZ 6. (a) An unsophisticated young girl; (b) describes one who has been punched or knocked around so much 1. Marshall Field III. 1. When he is an Earl. Earls' wives, that (d) 2. An island off the east coast of as well as Counts' wives, are called he's in a daze; (c) amateurs; Africa. Countesses. simple, appealing to the most ele- mental emotions and not at all to the 3. Architect. 2. The journey would take Jones 4. Gracie Allen. seven hours and Smith four hours. intellect; full of hokum; (e) the man does the actual killing for a gang 5. Vincent Van Gogh. Therefore Jones would have to leave who or mob. 6. The Taj Mahal. home at 8:00 A. M., and Smith at 7. "Lloyds of London"; "One in a 7. The letters are L (or M), B, T, 11:00 A. M. Million"; "Algiers"; 'Private Worlds"; P, J. 3. Either the cannon-ball would "Only Yesterday." 8. "Robin Hood"—Errol Flynn. "Of prove not to be going with irresistible Human Bondage" — Bette Davis. force or the post would prove not to 8. There are lots of such expres- sions: here are few. the fry- "David Copperfield"—W. C. Fields. be immovable. An irresistible force a From "Back Street"—Irene Dunne. "Of and an immovable object can't exist ing pan into the fire. A new broom sweeps clean. As like as two peas in Human Hearts"—James Stewart. together, because if a force is irre- a pod. Bright as a button. Sharp as a 9. Of the United States: "The Star sistible, nothing could stand up knife. Fork it over. Neat as paint. Spangled Banner." against it, hence there could be noth- The used key is always bright. 10. The pole is a remnant of the old ing immovable. Likewise, if an object 9. "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage days when barbers were also sur- was absolutely immovable, it couldn't Patch"; geons: the red stands for blood and be moved by any force, hence there "The Late Christopher Bean"; "His I the white for bandages. could be no irresistible force. So one Majesty, Bunker Bean"; "If or the other would have to give way. Have Four Apples"; "Alien Corn"; "The Cherry Orchard"; "Fashion Is TRUE OR FALSE 4. 1066—the Battle of Hastings and the Norman Conquest of England. Spinach"; "Five Little Peppers and How They Grew"; "Riders of the 1. False: it was Harvard. 1215—signing of the Magna Charta. Purple Sage." You think of 2. False: he led the Quakers. 1492—Columbus' discovery of Amer- may others as well. 3. True. ica. 1781—Cornwallis surrenders at 10. "Prosit"; 4. False: all are rabbits. Yorktown. 1861 the outbreak of the "Good health"; "Down — the hatch"; 5. True. war between the States. "Here's looking at you"; "Skoal." 6. False: Howard Spring wrote 5. The children would just be your "My Son, My Son!" Hertzler wrote nephews and nieces—the same as if "The Horse and Buggy Doctor." your brother had married anyone else. THE ASK-IT-BASKET 7. False: it was Premier Hodza. 8. True: the succession of rank is INFORMATION, PLEASE 1. "It's time to retire." "Eventually Colonel, Brigadier General, Major why not now?" "Ask the man who General, Lieutenant General, General. 1. Leander; Abelard; Beatrice; — owns one." "It beats as it sweeps as it 9. True. Melisande; Isolde. cleans." "Hasn't scratched yet." 10. False: M-G-M is in Culver City, 2. (a) Footprints on the sands of 2. "Bon jour." Warner Brothers in Burbank, and time. 3. Canoe; kayak; outrigger canoe; Universal in Universal City, but none (b) Kissed them and put them galley; gondola. of them are in Hollywood. there. 4. of the following: (c) The saddest are these: "It Any two Eng- KAY KYSER'S MUSICAL CLASS might have been!" land, France, Holland, Cuba, Finland, (d) To see ourselves others Czechoslovakia, Norway, Chile, as Panama. 1. "Moonlight and Roses"; "Rose of see us! 5. Fred Allen, Wednesday; W. J. Washington Square"; "Rose Marie"; (e) Whether 'tis nobler in the Cameron, Sunday; Bob Burns, Thurs- "Only a Rose"; "Beautiful Garden of mind to suffer. day; Bob Hope, Tuesday; Frances Roses"; "My Wild Irish Rose"; "Rose 3. "The Thin Man"; "The Barretts Langford, Friday. of Tralee"; "The Heart of a Rose"; of Wimpole Street"; "To the Victor"; "Rose of No Man's Land." "Storm in a Teacup"; "The Awful 2. Tommy Dorsey—with a trom- Truth"; "The Call of the Wild"; "A RADIO MIRROR'S QUESTIONS bone; Eddy Duchin—from the piano; Dog of Flanders"; "Uncle Tom's Guy Lombardo—with a violin; Gene Cabin"—these are some. You'll prob- 1. Secretary of State Cordell Hull; Krupa—from the drums; Art Shaw ably think of others. Secretary of the Treasury Henry and Benny Goodman—with a clar- 4. Montague; Nickleby; Sharp or Morgenthau; Secretary of War Harry inet; Bunny Berigan—with a trumpet. Thatcher; Schofield; Cratchit. H. Woodring; Attorney General 3. You could pick any of these: 5. All are slang expressions for Homer S. Cummings; Postmaster "Kathleen Mavourneen"; "Ireland small change or small wages. General James A. Farley; Secretary Must Be Heaven"; of the Navy Claude "Where the River A. Swanson; Sec- Shannon Flows"; retary of the Interi- "Mother Machree"; or Harold L. Ickes; "The Wearing of the BERNARR MACFADDEN FOUNDATION Secretary of Agri- Green"; "My Wild culture Henry A. Irish Rose"; "Rose of The Bernarr Macfadden Foundation conducts various non-profit enter- Wallace; Secretary Tralee." prises: The Macfadden-Deauville Hotel at Miami Beach, Florida, one of of Commerce Daniel 4. "Where the the most beautiful resorts on the Florida Beach, recreation of all kinds C. Roper; Secretary Blue of the Night provided, although a rigid system of Bernarr Macfadden methods of of Labor Frances Meets the Gold of health building can be secured. Perkins. the Day" — Bing The Physical Culture Hotel, Dansville, New York, will also be open 2. Colombia, Vene- Crosby. "My Time Is during the winter, with accommodations at greatly reduced prices, for zuela, British Guiana, Your Time" — Rudy health building and recreation. Dutch Guiana, French Vallee. "Gettin' Sen- The Loomis Sanitarium at Liberty, New York, for the treatment of Guiana, Ecuador, timental Over You" Tuberculosis has been taken over by the Foundation and Bernarr Mac- Peru, Brazil, Chile, —Tommy Dorsey. fadden's treatments, together with the latest, most scientific medical Bolivia, Paraguay, "Smile, Darn You, procedures can be secured here for the treatment, in all stages, of this Argentina, Uruguay. Smile" — Town Hall dreaded disease. 3. The diamond, Tonight. "Rhapsody Castle Heights Military Academy at Lebanon, Tennessee, a man- found mostly at Kim- in Blue" — Paul building, fully accredited school preparatory for college, placed on the berley, South Africa. Whiteman. "Happy honor roll by designation of the War Department's governmental authori- 4. Lady Nancy Days Are Here ties, where character building is the most important part of education. Astor—born in Vir- Again" — Your Hit The Bernarr Macfadden Foundation School for boys and girls from ginia. Parade. And others. three to eleven, at Briarcliff Manor, New York. Complete information 5. "La Traviata"; 5. (a) "Who Is Syl- furnished upon request. "Carmen"; "Salome"; via?" (b) "Love's Old "Pagliacci"; "The Sweet Song." Flying Dutchman." 64 RADIO MIRROR Avoiding Winter Colds

(Continued jrom page 7) easy prey to colds. Some people, tation or stuffiness in your home upon returning to the city in the fall devise a way to moisten the air and from a summer spent in the country, provide better ventilation. A pan of invariably have colds. However, the water on the radiator will help to danger here is not great unless you moisten the air, and a ventilator of are in the habit of breathing through some sort placed in one of the win- your mouth—a practice which, inci- dows will usually provide ventilation. dentally, is always apt to lead to a What sort of clothes should you MOTHER OF THREE greater susceptibility to colds. The wear to help you avoid colds? Ob- nose is equipped to filter, warm, and viously, just enough to keep you EARNS $32-$35 A WEEK If moisten the air; the mouth is not, and comfortable at all times. your work • "Thanks to Chicago School of Nobb- air drawn in through it is apt to irri- exposes you to the cold a great deal, ing, I have been able to support my three chil- dren and keep my home together," writes Mrs. tate the mucous membranes and carry wear heavy underwear, plenty of A. E., Waterbury, Conn. And Mrs. E. is only a larger percentage of into the wraps, warm stockings and stout one of thousands of men and women who have germs found that C.S.N, training opens the way to a respiratory tract. Another argument shoes. On the other hand, if you are well-paid dignified profession! C.S.N. -trained practical nurses all over the against mouth breathing is that the indoors most of the time, your under- country are earning as much as $25 to $35 a oxygen in the air is more easily wear should be light, so that you week in private practice, in hospitals and sanitariums. Others, like Miss C. H., own nurs- assimilated by the blood when it is won't become overheated, while you ing-homes. This easy-to-understand course, suc- warm. should have wraps of different cessful for 40 years and endorsed by physicians —enables men and women 18 to 60 to prepare weights for use outdoors. Watch the themselves at home and in their spare time, for any type of practical nursing. Best of all, it is weather and your clothes to it. GREAT predisposing factor toward adapt possible to earn while learning—Mrs. F. McE. took her first case before completing the 7 th A colds is fatigue. In fact, a good The digestive system has its effect lesson and earned $400 in three months I rule is to avoid fatigue as you would upon your susceptibility to colds. If High school not necessary. Complete nurse's you are particularly apt to catch equipment included. Easy tuition payments. infection itself. Plenty of sleep, a Decide now to send for "Splendid Oppoe- proper amount of recreation, and reg- them, avoid overeating. tdnities in Nuksing," which shows you how you can win success as a nurse 1 ular hours will go a long way toward Frequent sufferers from colds should insuring you a healthy winter. consult their physician or a nose and CHICAGO SCHOOL OF NURSING Every physician knows that the throat specialist, who will examine Dept. 181, 100 East Ohio Street, Chicago, III. 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66 — — — RADIO MIRROR Making Monogamy Work COUGHS... (Continued from page 18) told me that a visit to a physician had clothes, her new coiffure, her cooking. Here's Why not been necessary. Thanks to her You'll be surprised how quickly she You Cough „ . • ability to face the facts squarely, they will respond!" WHEN YOU CATCH COLD are now a happily married couple. And then, at last, we come to that j Congestion results and the of divorce in- tiny glands in your throat Financial inability has naturally "commonest" cause — and windpipe cease to work been very much to the fore during fidelity. Of course, most people don't properly. for mari- know what infidelity actually is. o The secretions of these the past ten years as a cause glands often turn to heavy, tal strife and divorce. On the sur- Casual flirtations or even "affairs" do clinging phlegm. This sticky phlegm irritates course, it appears to be a fault not, in themselves, constitute in- 3 face, of your throat and you cough. that should generally be charged to fidelity. In most cases these momen- the man. But if you look more deeply tary lapses occur as the result of How PERTUSSIN Relieves Coughs— you'll often find other angles to it, passing impulse. | Pertussin stimulates the glands in your throat and startlingly different angles, I might Mrs. Judith W walked into my windpipe to pour out their natural moisture. 2 Then that sticky, irritating phlegm is loosened, and add. For example office one morning and began to cry. easily "raised" and expelled. "My wife is running around with a I immediately guessed what the mat- 3 Your throat is soothed and your cough relieved quickly wild crowd," Frank G stated ter was—most of these cases begin and safely by the Pertussin "Moist-Throat" Method. QUICK AND EFFECTIVE, AS PROVED coldly. He explained that his wife with grand emotional outbursts and BY MILLIONS OF BOTTLES USED didn't come home until two or three usually end in tearful reconciliations. o'clock in the morning. He didn't When she had regained control of know whether she had actually been herself she told me that the night be- PERTUSSIN unfaithful to him or not—but he won- fore she had found her husband mak- dered. ing love to one of her friends at a PRESCRIBED BY MANY DOCTORS FOR 30 YEARS country club dance. THIS crowd, he happened to know, I began to ask questions. Had she treated "affairs" casually, as some- caught her husband having other af- VOICE thing of little importance. Such an fairs in the past? No. Did she know 100% Improvement Guaranteed attitude could not fail to make an whether he was actually in love with We build, strengthen the vocal organs — impression on a young and pretty any other woman? Again no. 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"Would you be willing to break up AT HOME IN YOUB SPABE TIME I've had a tough time, these last few your home, deprive these children of under personal supervision of the famous cartoonist NORMAN MABSH creator of years, and it's taken all the energy their father, because of what you "DAN DUNN" appearing every day in and ingenuity I possessed just to keep found out last night?" big papers. Success.— Fame — Real Money may he Yours when you learn Marsh's easy going. "No, of course not!" simple methods and secrets. Send name and address for all this. At least "And that, Mrs. ," I said, "is free details of MARSH'S Personal course. ACT TODAYl "My wife knows W MARSH CARTOON SCHOOL it. She was always loyal your answer, based on your sound she did know Chicago Daily News Bldg., Dent. A-700 Chicago, III. and sympathetic and never com- womanly instincts, not on your false plained about being left alone eve- reasoning. The fact of the matter nings, because she understood. 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DO YOU WANT MORE WHY FEAR CHILDBIRTH? CHARM AND BEAUTY? After all, childbirth is as natural as breathing. Nature never intended it to In Physical Culture Magazine for January Bernarr be the bugaboo it has become. Much Macfadden, Founder of Physical Culture, reveals can be done in advance to make it one of the few really fundamental laws governing feminine beauty. No woman desiring to develop harmless. What those things are, are beauty the utmost should fail to her charm and to explained in illuminating detail in read this illuminating feature, "Feminine Beauty Depends Upon Glandular Activity." The January Physical Culture for January. If you issue of Physical Culture is now on sale. Get your expect to become a mother be sure to copy today. read "Painless Childbirth for Every Mother," follow the author's advice— and quit worrying. WILL YOUR BABIES LOOK HOW WHAT DO YOU KNOW IN TWENTY YEARS? ABOUT THE FOOD YOU EAT?

If you want your babies to develop into fine, up You will do yourself and family a great standing, well poised men and women now is the favor if you read Dr. Rasmus Alsaker's time to begin the training which will assure thatilia result. In Physical Culture for January Dr article, "Food Combinations to a Safe Mary Halton, famous baby specialist, tells you Diet," appearing in Physical Culture how. Get your copy of Physical Culture to- Li for January. The subject is interesting day, read, "Good Posture Begins in Baby- hood" and let your babies profit by the and vastly important to prolonged excellent advice Dr. Halton gives. health. The rules laid down by this great authority are fundamental and easily followed—truly a wealth of in- ARE YOUR CHILDREN AFRAID OF THE DARK? formation about a vital subject. Do

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Adventurer in Top Hat "Everyone gives me (Continued from page 29) different advice about my him, in genuine awe, as a man whose to stay at Pawling and be a hill-billy. erudition he says is "incredible." What Thomas earns only his staff baby—I'm all mixed up!" The actual writing of the daily and the income tax department know. broadcasts is done alternately by Lowell claims he doesn't "because, as mothers Sherwin and Buranelli. But Thomas long as I have enough to go on with Here's a suggestion for young averages two to three hours daily in the next plan I forget what I made who are overwhelmed with all kinds of ad- digesting the news and arranging the out of the last." We-el, anyhow, vice from well-meaning friends and relatives, pattern for the broadcasts. that's his story. but advice that is not always tried and His voicing of the Movie-tone, how- But as radio salaries go, if Lowell proved. You can have the expert advice of ever, is almost entirely his own job. is getting less than $3,000 a week, he five leading American infant specialists, The thirty Thomas books, with the is underpaid. And he isn't in the who have prepared the official U. S. Chil- exception of "Lawrence of Arabia" habit of being underpaid. dren's Bureau book "Infant Care." The and "The Sea Devil," which he ham- Movie salaries are not exactly hay, book is yours for only 10 cents, the price mered out unassisted on his portable, and $1,000 a week for those two news charged by the Government Printing Office have been somewhat on a production reels is no underestimate. at Washington. This magazine makes no basis. That is, collections like "Tall His books—though he's written Stories" and "Fan Mail" are assem- fewer the last four or five years profit on the book. bled jobs, the material taken from the bring in more than the average in- 138 pages, well illustrated, "Infant Care" radio mail, put together by his staff come of a successful author who does tells how to feed, clothe, train, bathe, and lines laid out Lowell, and nothing but write. His magazine along by care for the baby from cradle to first tooth. with his own introduction. prices are not high, but he doesn't A complete index makes it easy to find the As to the opuses signed by Thomas give his articles away. answer to almost any problem. Send as author, not merely as editor, he cheerfully concedes that, with the TO estimate his earnings from these exceptions noted above, they have various sources, together with his been collaborations. Which is to say commercial films and other flotsam 10> that he has supplied the ideas and and jetsam, at $1,500 a week is to be or the material and—on the average very conservative. STAMPS COIN two thirds of the wordage. A guess at a $250,000 a year gross There seems to be that much basis, requires a minimum of imagination. (wrap coins securely) to and no more, for the legend among Out of this—or what is left of it less prolific writers, that Lowell never after New York and Washington take RADIO MIRROR, Box 135. sees his books until he signs them. their cut—he pays a staff of six peo- Like most debunking, it's the bunk. ple in New York, and twenty or more 205 East 42nd Street, New York, N. Y. He is five feet ten, weighs 150 in Pawling. He maintains his office ^ nitCIC That dreadful skin disease pounds, and has the slim springy in Radio City, and an apartment that P£O \J l\ I fA Jl J many suffer with for years figure he had at twenty-five. He costs him at least seven thousand a thinking their trouble to be C /* 7 C A and treating without results. C \+ » fc l»lM PA doesn't diet and his particular food year. The Pawling Estate pays its Send for this VALUABLE INFORMATION at once. Free. DR. D. R. PARSONS passion, sweet potatoes, doesn't affect own running expenses, but it still 1220 Union Trust Bldg. Huntington. W. Va. his outline. takes fifteen or twenty thousand in Though his Five Day Week is large- overhead and write-offs. OLD LEG TROUBLE his color is kind has five cars, the house at ly indoors, the you He Paw- Easy to use Viscose Method heals many old get in the great open spaces. Unlike ling has thirty rooms, and the estate leg sores caused by leg congestion,varicose veins, his body, however, his face doesn't has two swimming pools, a baseball swollen legs and injuries or no cost for TRIAL. Describe your trouble and get FREE BOOK. deny a year of his forty-six. It has field, and a tennis court. His dozen R. G. VISCOSE METHOD CO. tired lines about cool gray eyes, suits are tailor-made, but not at more liar 140 N. Dearborn Street, Chicago, Illinois though the eyes aren't tired. There's than $100. He likes gray-blue her- a freshly-massaged look to his com- ringbones, which are conservative of plexion, and that is very odd because pattern, but rather collegiate in cut. Be a Radio Expert he has never had a massage. He has On skis and ski-costumes he goes Learn at Home—Make Good Money no valet. He thinks it revolting for haywire. He has six sets of skis Many men I trained now make $30. $50, $75 a week in Radio. Many started making $5, $10, $15 a week extra in a man to have two or three people which cost him $50.00 a set. He loves spare time soon after enrolling. Illustrated 64-page book "pawing him over" in a barber's chair, polychrome sweaters, mackinaws and points out Radio's many opportunities, also how I train you at home to be a Radio Expert through my practical 50- so he shaves and manicures himself, parkas at $40 and up. His skiing 50 method. Television training is included. Money Back and goes to the barber shop only to shoes are made to order in Austria agreement given. Mail coupon today. Get book FREE. get a trim for his hair. and mean money. J. E. SMITH, President, Dept. 9AT He spends handsomely for what he National Radio Institute, Washington, D. C. is one of the world's greatest lis- wants, but doesn't swank. He has no Send me, without obligation, your 64-page book "Rich HE Rewards in Radio" FREE. (Please write plainly.) teners, and though talking has al- interest in Society with the Capital S. ways been his business, what he sells In relation to his enormous income AGE. through speech he got by listening. his scale of living is provident, but He is immensely interested in all his history shows that he'll borrow kinds of people and what they have rather than economize. ADDRESS to say, he even enjoys bores through As a natural concomitant of finan- CITY STATE. analyzing what makes them bores. cial success, his associations are He is expansively sociable, and his largely with Successes. But he still largest extravagance is tossing huge cherishes the friends he made on the YOU'LL ALWAYS parties. His idea of a nice informal way up, and, what is more, they still supper is one with fifty to two hun- feel the same way. dred guests. Yet his closest associates The pretty nearly unanimous testi- BE CONSTIPATED say he is rather a lonely soul. A life mony of the witnesses who knew him of Drive, though stimulating, leaves when and know him now is that little leisure for that peculiar inti- Lowell Thomas is, in Jurgen's phrase, UNLESS- macy lazier men get out of idle, com- a Very Remarkable Fellow. You correct faulty living habits—unless liver radely hours. As a Salesman—terrific, as a Per- bile flows freely every day into your intestines to He has the same wife he—and this son, a Right Guy. help digest fatty foods. SO USE COMMON chronicle—started with, and they There is only one thing about SENSE ! Drink more water, eat more fruit and have a fifteen-year-old son who is Lowell Thomas that is very, very vegetables. And if assistance is needed, take five feet nine and outweighs his hard to take. Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets. They not only father. The boy is the youngest He makes each and all of us mod- assure gentle yet thorough bowel movements but Colonel the Knickerbocker Greys erately industrious—so WE think ALSO stimulate liver bile to help digest fatty (Junior Seventh Regiment) ever had, workers feel like the Ai, or giant foods and tone up intestinal muscular action. and is a good student, but not as sloth. Olive Tablets, being purely vegetable, are excited as his father was over school. We figure we have lots of time and harmless. Used successfully for years by Dr. Lowell would like to send him to all resent Lowell's realization that it F. M. Edwards in treating patients for consti- the universities of the world in suc- isn't so long until tomorrow. pation and sluggish liver bile. Test their good- cession, but says that the boy plans The End. ness TONIGHT! 15*. 30rf and 60*.

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(Continued from page 39) highways and byways of lower Dixie. tion WFIL. Gomez, Sammy Cohen, on tour with The Mountaineers get up early Out of all the people interviewed his band, and Cliff Edwards ("Uku- every day for their regular 7:45 A. M. by WFIL's announcers Don Martin lele Ike") up to his microphone. broadcast. After it, they take a brief and Roy LaPlante, ninety-two per- But KOH's strangest function is as recess and then rehearse for the next cent said they liked present-day radio an unofficial, confidential information day—after which they go on the air and didn't see what could be done bureau for the Nevada divorce mart. again at 12:45. And somehow or to make it any better. The only So many letters have come to the other they frequently find time to serious criticism they had was that station from other states, asking about load themselves into their big car and commercials are frequently too long how to get divorces, that at last KOH drive anywhere from one to three and too wordy. prepared a form letter to be sent out, hundred miles to keep a personal- giving all the necessary information appearance date at night. After the on how to become a member of the evening's performance, they drive all Here's good news for everybody "separatist colony." the way back to Columbia for next who has ever tried to put up a radio KOH doesn't interview divorcees on morning's broadcast. Not many net- aerial. There's a new one on the mar- the air, but it does have a marriage- work stars can claim that they're half ket that goes up without any poles, license program. After all, Reno as busy. supports, or guy wires. It's a bronze boasts eight marriages to every di- mast, not a long length of wire, and vorce granted in its famous court it mounts vertically on any suitable house, and KOH often asks the young BOSTON—New England hockey surface—a cornice, window frame, couples to tell the world about their fans, every Sunday and Tuesday eve- garage, or what have you that's romances. Another program you'd ning, tune in to the broadcasts of handy. It's supposed to give better hear only on a western station took their favorite game, announced by reception than the old "clothes-line place not long ago, when a mountain Frank Ryan and heard over WAAB type of aerial, too. deer from the high Sierras was and the Yankee network. brought in for a special stunt broad- Ryan, an ex-newspaper man, is now cast. the secretary of the Boston Bruins, RENO, Nevada—Radio really goes Dispensing mining news is one of one of the noted hockey teams in the western in Reno. Cowboy hats and KOH's most important jobs, since United States, and the American team underslung heels, mountain door and Nevada is predominantly a mining that perhaps more than any other is coyotes! That's the studio of KOH, state, and many are the new "dis- responsible for popularizing this win- in Reno, Nevada. coveries" which have first been made ter sport. There's no formality at KOH, no public over KOH's wavelength. Re- deep -pile carpets, no uniformed flun- ports of storms and road conditions kies, no cards of admission required. in this mountainous region are also PHILADELPHIA— Theater owners, Just walk in, and you're welcome. of prime importance—before radio- congressmen, and self-appointed re- KOH isn't a large station, but it equipped cars were common, many formers can go right on taking pot- does have an imposing guestbook. A deaths occurred during blizzards, for shots at radio, but apparently the good many celebrities, visiting Reno, once started along a narrow mountain average listener is pretty well satis- have welcomed the chance to drop in road, a motorist had to keep going fied with his ear fare. At least, that's at KOH and chat informally with the until he found the way blocked. The the result of a "man-in-the-street" listeners. Manager Wallie Warren has KOH road reports help to avoid these survey made by Philadelphia's sta- led such people as Vernon "Lefty" tragedies now.

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Broekman's music is good, and loud. sibly be a thing of the past by the Martin and his beautiful wife, Alice

* * * time the picture is released. Faye. Of course, this story is nothing * * * new, but it was revived when Tony You can take it from me, Myrna went on his personal appearance tour to do radio program. Shirley Ross used to get $750 for Loy is going a and Alice was seen at a few night- She has already notified her studio a radio appearance, until she married radio agent, Ken Dolan. Now, the clubs with one escort or another that she is looking for the right radio one of John Conte, the asking price is $1,500. whom was script. network announcer. * * * * * * * * * Eddie Cantor enjoys saying: "This Announcer Don Wilson refers to is my daughter, Mrs. McHugh." Jack Benny as "Half Buck Benny!" Dorothy Lamour is wearing her * * * * * * wedding ring on her right hand. I wonder if that means something???? When Jack Benny was congratu- Elliott Roosevelt's Texas State Net- * * * lated on "Seven Keys to Baldpate," work is rapidly becoming an im-

he said . . . "It's just the ham in me. portant part of the Mutual network. Connie Boswell's thought about fan Once a year I have to ham up a good Elliott, Wilett Brown and Lew Weiss, pictures is worth talking about. If play and get it out of my system." Mutual Don Lee execs, getting to- you want one of her, you must send And who wouldn't—for $10,000! gether in Hollywood, clearing the way her one of you. That's been Connie's * * * for Elliott to do a Coast-to-Coast rule for years, and consequently she Sunday night confidential talk. has a collection of autographed pic- Hollywood is sympathizing with * tures that is priceless. Kenny Baker over that auto smash- * * up which landed his pretty wife in New radio contracts contain a "war * * * the hospital for so long a time. When clause," which means that in case of Shirley Temple was supposed to it happened, Mrs. Baker was driving war, all big radio programs could be start her own air program this month, to her new home, for which Kenny cancelled over-night. but 20th Century-Fox declares Shirley had paid $100,000. Believe it or not, * * * is too busy for both pictures and a deer ran in front of her car—over- ON THE HOLLYWOOD ROMANTIC radio. turning it. She'll be in a hospital for * * * a couple of months, but doctors pre- AND DOMESTIC FRONT! Stu Erwin is being approached to dict that she'll be o. k. Jon Hall gave Frances Langford head a domestic series for the net- * * * another wedding ring! She now wears works. The picture which was to deal with two rings: one for her Hollywood * * * ceremony, the other for her the life of Benny Goodman has been New Edward G. Robinson has a strange York ceremony. cancelled by Paramount Studios. I habit. Before he starts work in a new am informed that Paramount execu- * * * picture or airshow, he sleeps with the tives believe that the Jitterbug craze The rumor in Hollywood still per- script under his pillow. Says it helps is on the way out—and might pos- sists that all is not well between Tony him to learn his lines. 70 Jane Froman says, "I'll brush "I'll keep a weekly check on my my hair ten minutes each day." weight," says Joan Tompkins.

Betty Winkler will always try Bea Wain is determined to to achieve a flawless makeup. stop experimenting with lipsticks By JOYCE ANDERSON

Follow in the footsteps

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and you'll have a beauti-

"I'll concentrate on sleep and Nan Wynn will endeavor to Ititi Benay Venuta. prove her posture and diction. exercise," says ful and Happy New Year

WHEN the New Year comes and she said firmly, "It's my resolu- addition, I am going to give myself around, we greet it with new tion never to leave my apartment a facial every week, using gobs of hopes, new ideals, new en- until I am sure that my makeup is cream and resting for an hour while thusiasms. We "turn over a new flawless. How? I mean to buy a the cream remains on my face and leaf" and make all sorts of resolutions. magnifying mirror as large as life, neck. I also resolve to give my hair One of the best New Year resolu- put it under the most powerful elec- fifty strokes with the brush at least tions any woman can make is to re- tric lights I can find. Furthermore, I twice daily." double her beauty efforts ... to promise that I'll never again be guilty Joan Tompkins' first step toward determine to correct her defects and of putting fresh make-up over old but beauty for the New Year is to install emphasize her good points ... to will always cleanse my face thor- bathroom scales for a weekly check establish new beauty habits and good oughly first." That's a fine resolution on her weight, believing that it is ones. Romance, success and happi- for any girl any time of the year. easier to lose that first surplus pound ness are in store for the girl who has Posture and diction are two prob- than to wait until she discovers an a fresh complexion, shining hair, well- lems that concern Nan Wynn. "I do excess of five pounds. She has a kept hands, and a good figure. firmly resolve that I shall attempt to slim figure and is determined to With this in mind, we interviewed improve my posture and stand with keep it. six glamour girls of radio and asked head high and shoulders back. When Another radio singer who is going them what beauty resolutions they walking I shall try to remember to to devote more time to the care of were making for the New Year. This place my feet firmly on the ground her hair is pretty Jane Froman. She is what they said: with a free and easy stride—and not makes these resolutions for pulling First to declare herself was blonde, shuffle my shoes. I shall place par- up the slack in her daily beauty rou- vivacious Benay Venuta who regards ticular emphasis on diction in sing- tine: To set aside ten minutes a day sleep as her most important new ing, since listeners are as greatly for hair brushing; to spend ten min- beauty habit. "I resolve to try to get interested in lyrics as they are in utes each night applying wave lotion at least eight hours sleep every night melody." How is your diction, girls? and pinning up curls and ringlets: because sleep is the best cure-all in "I am determined to stop experi- and finally, to pluck her eyebrows the world and is largely responsible menting with freak shades of lipstick every day, because only then do they for the amount of verve and pep I and powder," says lovely Bea Wain, look ribbon clean. can put into a song. I also promise "and stick to the soft conservative So, why not take a tip from "the that I will stop taking cabs to and shades which really suit me best. In glamour girls of radio and make a few from my appointments—but will walk beauty resolutions yourself? Set your every distance under ten blocks. goal for a clear, smooth complexion, Fresh air and exercise do wonders RADIO MIRROR bright eyes, shining hair, and a slim for the complexion." trim figure— start now and a beautiful Betty Winkler was next on the list OOHl-OfUIV and Happy New Year to you! 71 " " "

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The Candle in the Forest

(Continued from page 6)

He purred so long and so loud that at blue and green bells—and under the around her, and ran on as fast as she last the Small Girl grew drowsy. tree and on it were toys for boys and could to her little house. "Tell me some more about the toys for girls, and one of the toys was There were all the shadows to meet chocolate mouse," she said, and a doll in a pink dress! her, but she did not sit among them. nodded, and slept. At that the heart of the Small Girl's She made coffee and a dish of milk The Small Girl's mother carried her mother tightened, and she was glad toast, and set the toast in the oven into another room, put her to bed, she wasn't a thief or she would have to keep hot, and then she stood at and came back to the kitchen—and snatched at the pink doll when the the window watching. At last she it was full of shadows. boy wasn't looking and hidden it un- saw through the darkness what But she did not let herself sit among der her cape and run away with it! looked like a star low down, and she them. She wrapped herself in a great The Boy-Next-Door was saying: knew that the star was a lantern, cape and went out into the cold dusk, "It's the finest tree anybody has and she ran and opened the door with a sweep of wind; heavy clouds around here. But Dad and Mother wide. overhead; and a band of dull orange don't know that I've seen it." And the young husband set the showing back of the trees, where the "Oh, don't they?" said the Small lantern down on the threshold, and sun had burned down. Girl's mother. took her in his arms, and said, "The "No," said the Boy-Next-Door, with sight of you is more than food and SHE went straight from her little a wide grin, "and it's fun to fool 'em." drink." house to the big house of the Next- "Is it?" said the Small Girl's mother. When he said that, she knew he Door-Neighbor and rang the bell at "Now, do you know, I should think had had a hard day, but her heart the back entrance. A maid let her the very nicest thing in the whole leaped, because she knew what he into the kitchen, and there was the wide world would be not to have seen said of her was true. Next-Door-Neighbor, and the two the tree." women who worked for her, and a The Boy-Next-Door stared and said, THEN they went into the house to- Daughter-in-law who had come to "Why?" gether, and she set the food before spend Christmas. The great range was "Because," said the Small Girl's him. And that he might forget his glowing, and things were simmering, mother, "the nicest thing in the world hard day, she told him of her own. and things were stewing, and things would be to have somebody tie a And when she came to the part about were steaming, and things were bak- handkerchief around your eyes, as the Next-Door-Neighbor and the rent, ing, and things were boiling, and tight as tight, and then to have some- she said, "I am telling you this be- things were broiling, and there was body take your hand and lead you cause it has a happy ending." a fragrance of a thousand delicious in and out and in and out and in and And he put his hands over hers and dishes in the air. out, until you didn't know where you said, "Everything with you has a And the Next-Door-Neighbor said: were, and then to have them untie happy ending." "We are trying to get as much done the handkerchief—and there would "Well, this is a happy ending," said as possible tonight. We are having be —the tree—all shining and splen- the Small Girl's mother, with all the twelve people for Christmas dinner did sapphire in her eyes emphasizing it. tomorrow." She stopped, but her singing voice "Because when I went over to pay And the Daughter-in-law, who was seemed to echo and re-echo in the the rent I was feeling how poor we all dressed up and had an apron tied great room. were, and wishing that I had a pink about her, said in a sharp voice, "I The boy's staring eyes had a new doll for baby, and books for you, and can't see why you don't let your look in them. "Did anybody ever tie —and—and a magic carpet to carry maids work for you." a handkerchief over your eyes?" us away from work and worry. And And the Next-Door-Neighbor said: "Oh, yes—" then I went into the kitchen of the "I have always worked. There is no "And lead you in and out, and in big house, and there was everything excuse for laziness." and out?" delicious and delectable, and then I And the Daughter-in-law said: "Yes." went into the parlor and saw the tree "I'm not lazy, if that's what you mean. "Well, nobody does things like that —with everything hanging on it that And we'll never have any dinner if in our house. They think it's silly." was glittering and gorgeous—and then I have to cook it," and away she went I came home." Her breath was quick out of the kitchen with tears of rage THE Small Girl's mother laughed and and her lips were smiling. "I came in her eyes. her laugh tinkled like a bell. "Do home—and I was glad I lived in my And the Next-Door-Neighbor said, you think it's silly?" little house!" "If she hadn't gone when she did, I He was eager. "No, I don't." "What made you glad, dearest?" should have told her to go," and there She held out her hand to him. "Will "Oh, love is here; and hate is there, was rage in her eyes but no tears. you come and see our tree?" and a boy's deceit, and a man's in- She took her hands out of the pan "Tonight?" justice. They were saying sharp things of breadcrumbs and sage, which she "No, tomorrow morning—early." to each other—and—and—their din- was mixing for the stuffing, and said "Before breakfast?" ner will be a—stalled ox. And in my to the Small Girl's mother: "Did you She nodded. little house is the faith of a child in come to pay the rent?" "Gee, I'd like it." the goodness of God and the bravery The Small Girl's mother handed So that was a bargain, with a quick of —a man who fought for his coun- her the money, and the Next-Door- squeeze of their hands on it. And try Neighbor went upstairs to write a the Small Girl's mother went back to She was in his arms now. receipt. Nobody asked the Small the kitchen, and the Next-Door- "And the blessing of a woman who Girl's mother to sit down, so she stood Neighbor came down with the receipt, has never known defeat." His voice in the middle of the floor, and sniffed and the Small Girl's mother went out broke on the words. the entrancing fragrances, and looked of the back door and found that or- In that moment it seemed as if the at the mountain of food which would ange band which had burned on the wind stopped blowing and as if the have served her small family for a horizon was gone, and that there was trees stopped sighing and as if there month. just the wind and the sighing of the was the sound of a heavenly host While she waited, the Boy-Next- trees. singing— Door came in and he said, "Are you Two men passed her on the brick The Small Girl's mother and the the Small Girl's mother?" walk which led to the house, and one Small Girl's father sat up very late "Yes." of the men was saying: "If you'd only that night. They popped a great "Are you going to have a tree?" be fair to me, father." bowlful of crisp snowy corn and made "Yes." And the other man said, "All you it into balls. They boiled sugar and "Do you want to see mine?" want of me is money." molasses and cracked nuts and made "It would be wonderful." "You taught me—that, father." candy of them. They cut funny little So. he led her down a long passage "Blame it on me Christmas fairies out of paper and to a great room, and there was a tree "You are to blame. You and mother painted their jackets bright red, with which touched the ceiling, and on the —did you ever show me the finer round silver buttons of the tinfoil very top branches and on all the other things?" that came on a cream cheese. And branches were myriads of little lights Their angry voices seemed to beat then they put the balls and the candy which shone like stars, and there were against the noise of the wind and the and the painted fairies and a long gold balls and silver ones, and gold sighing trees, so that the Small Girl's red candle in a big basket and set it bells and silver ones, and red and mother shivered and drew her cape (Continued on page 74) 72 NEW WAYS TO A

MAN'S HEART

By MRS. Tempting is the word for these MARGARET Spicy Scalloped Tomatoes, says SIMPSON Irene Be as ley.

we get down to the real Rice Molds with Cheese and til eggs are set (15 to 20 minutes). WHENtruth, the reason why women Olive Sauce cook is to please their men. 1 cup rice Cheese Souffle You know this is so, and no doubt you 2 qts. boiling water 3 tbls. quick cooking tapioca take pride in the fact that in serving 1 tbl. salt % cup grated cheese frequently the steak and French fried 4 tbls. butter Vz tsp. dry mustard potatoes and apple pie which tradition 4 tbls. flour % cup evaporated milk tells us is every man's favorite menu, 1 cup evaporated milk Vz cup water you are satisfying completely the men 1 cup water 3 eggs in your family. But isn't it a good % cup grated American cheese 1 tsp. salt plan to start this new year right by Vz cup sliced stuffed olives Combine evaporated milk and checking up on what other men like Salt water and scald in top of double to eat and trying out these new Paprika boiler. Add tapioca and cook for ten recipes to tempt the appetites of the Wash rice and cook in boiling salted minutes. Add cheese and salt and stir masculine members of your house- water until tender. Drain, press into until blended. Separate eggs and stir hold? buttered individual molds, place in the yolks, together with the mustard, Men aren't tongue-tied when it pan of hot water and cook for ten into the cooked mixture. Fold in egg comes to expressing their preferences minutes. Melt butter and add flour, whites, which have been stiffly in food, neither are they helpless blending well. Combine evaporated beaten, and pour into buttered muf- about preparing it, or originating new milk and water and add gradually, fin tins. Bake in moderate oven (325 recipes. In fact some of the best and then cook until thickened. Add cheese, degrees F.) for twenty minutes. most enthusiastic cooks in the country stirring until cheese is melted. Add are men, as was proved by two events olives, and salt and paprika to taste. Apple and Roquefort Cheese Salad which occurred recently in New York. Unmold rice on large platter and pour 1 cup sugar The first was a favorite recipes cheese and olive sauce over molds. 2 cups water contest for men only, inaugurated by Vegetable coloring Irene Beasley on her Columbia net- Baked Eggs in Ramekins 6 apples work program, R. F. D. No. 1 heard Vz package egg noodles, fine or wide Roquefort cream cheese daily at 2 p.m. "This contest," Miss 1 tbl. flour Mayonnaise Beasley told me, "grew out of our de- 4 tbls. butter Cook together the water and the sire to find out how many men lie+ ~n- Yz cup evaporated milk sugar to make a syrup, adding suf- ers we had, for you know our pro- Vz cup water ficient vegetable coloring to tint the gram aims to report New VorK to uie Pinch pepper syrup a bright deep pink. Pare and farm wife and at the same time to 1 cup grated American cheese core the apples and cook them in the supply her with workable household 6 eggs syrup until they are tender. Remove ideas, especially on cooking. We got Paprika from fire and allow the apples to chill ten times the number of replies we Cook noodles as directed and drain in the syrup. When thoroughly expected, in fact the response com- well. Line buttered ramekins with chilled, fill apple cavities with roque- pared amazingly well with that to noodles. Melt half the butter and fort cream cheese. Serve on crisp let- contests in which women had par- blend with it the salt, pepper and tuce leaves. Garnish with mayonnaise. ticipated." flour. Combine evaporated milk and The second event was the organiza- water, add it gradually to flour and Spicy Scalloped Tomatoes tion of the Society of Amateur Chefs, cook until thickened, stirring con- 1 medium size can tomatoes whose roster boasts such names as stantly. Stir in half the grated cheese. 1 cup coarse cracker crumbs Rudy Vallee, Jack Dempsey, writers Pour the sauce over the noodles in 1 onion, sliced fine Rex Stout and Morton Gill Clark, and the ramekins, then break an egg into 1 bay leaf actors Alexander Kirkland and Walter each one. Dot eggs with remaining 1 tsp. chili powder Slezak—good trencherman all and ex- butter, sprinkle with remaining cheese Vi tsp. salt cellent cooks. Since the society is still and a dash of paprika. Place rame- Pepper to taste in its infancy no list of dishes pre- kins in pan of hot water and bake in 1 cup grated American cheese ferred by its membership is as yet moderate oven (325 degrees F.) un- Combine tomatoes, onion, crackei' available, but Miss Beasley's contest crumbs and seasoning's and turn into indicated that the American male will buttered casserole. Cover with grated eat anything as long as it is made of RADIO MIRROR cheese and bake in moderate ove cheese, as the following entries, taken (325 degrees F.) for forty-five min- from her contest files, prove. HOMMIilY utes. 73 " — " — —

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(Continued from, page 72) away. And the Small Girl's mother The Boy-Next-Door held his breath Next-Door-Neighbor. brought out the chocolate mouse. for fear he would wake up from this But she ate no breakfast, and she "We will put this on the clock," she entrancing dream and find himself in went out to the kitchen and worked said, "where her eyes will rest on it his own big house, alone in his puffy with her maids to get the dinner the first thing in the morning." bed, or eating breakfast with his ready, and there were covers laid for So they put it there and it seemed stodgy parents who never had played nine instead of twelve. as natural as life, so that Pussy Purr- with him in his life. He found him- And the Next-Door-Neighbor kept up positively licked his chops. self laughing too, and flushed and saying, "Good riddance—good rid- And the Small Girl's mother said, happy, and trying to sing in his funny dance," and not once did she say, "A "She was lovely about giving up the boy's voice, "Heigh-o, says Anthony Merry Christmas." doll, and she will love the tree." Rowley!" "We'll have to get up very early," The Small Girl absolutely refused DUT the Boy-Next-Door held some- 'J said the Small Girl's father. to eat the mouse. "He's my darling thing in his heart that was warm "And you'll have to run ahead and Christmas mouse, Mother." and glowing like the candle in the light the candle." So her mother said, "Well, I'll put forest, and so he came to his mother Well, they got up before the dawn him on the clock again, where Pussy and said, "May I have the pink doll?" the next morning, and so did the Boy- Purr-up can't get him while we are She spoke frowningly, "What does Next-Door. He was there on the step, out." a boy want with a doll?" waiting, blowing his hands and beat- "Oh, are we going out?" said the "I'd like to give it to the little girl ing them quite like the poor little Small Girl, round-eyed. next door." boys in a Christmas story who haven't "Yes." "Do. you think I buy dolls to give any mittens. "Where are we going?" away in charity?" 'To find Christmas." "Well, they gave me a Christmas BUT he wasn't a poor little boy, and That was all the Small Girl's present." he had so many pairs of fur- mother would tell. So they had "What did they give you?" trimmed gloves that he didn't know breakfast, and everything tasted per- He opened his hand and showed a what to do with them, but he had left fectly delicious to the Boy-Next-Door. little flute tied with a gay red rib- the house in such a hurry that he had For breakfast they each had a great bon. He lifted it to his lips and blew forgotten to put them on. baked apple, and great slices of sweet on it, a thin piping tune So there he stood on the front step bread and butter, and great glasses of "Oh, that," said the mother scorn- of the little house, blowing on his milk, and as soon as they had finished, fully. "Why, that's nothing but a hands and beating them. And it was away they went, out of the door and reed from the pond!" dark, with a sort of pale shine in the down into the wood back of the But the boy knew that it was more heavens, which didn't seem to come house, and when they were deep in than that. It was a magic pipe that from the stars or to herald the dawn; the wood, the Small Girl's father took made you dance, and made your heart it was just a mystical silver glow that out of his pocket a little flute and be- warm and happy. set the boy's heart to beating. gan to play, and he played thin piping So he said again, "I'd like to give He had never been out alone like tunes that went flittering around her the doll," and he reached out his this. He had always stayed in his among the trees, and the Small Girl little hand and touched his mother's warm bed until somebody called him, hummed the tunes, and her mother —and his eyes were wistful. and then he had waited until they hummed the tunes until it sounded His mother's own eyes softened called again, and then he had dressed like singing bees, and their feet fairly she had lost one son that day—and and gone down to breakfast, where danced, and the boy found himself she said, "Oh, well, do as you please," his father scolded because he was humming and dancing with them. and went back to the kitchen. late, and his mother scolded because The Boy-Next-Door ran into the he ate too fast. THEN suddenly the piping ceased, great room and took the doll from the Then suddenly some one came and a hush fell over the wood. It tree, and wrapped her in paper, and around the corner—some one tall and was so still that they could almost flew out of the door and down the thin, with a cap on his head and an hear each other breathe—so still that brick walk to the little house. empty basket in his hands. when a light flamed suddenly in that When the door was opened, he saw "Hello," he said, "A Merry Christ- open space it burned without a that his friends were just sitting mas." flicker. down to dinner—and there was the It was the Small Girl's father, and The light came from a red candle beefsteak pie all brown and piping he put the key in the lock, and went that was set in the top of a small liv- hot, with a wreath of holly, and the in, and turned on a light, and there ing tree. It was the only light on the Small Girl was saying, "And the was the table set for four. tree, but it showed snowy balls, and onions were silver— And the Small Girl's father said: the small red fairies whose coats had The Boy-Next-Door went up to the "You see we have set a place for silver buttons. Small Girl and said, "I've brought you. We must eat something before "It's our tree, my darling," he heard you a present." we go out." the Small Girl's mother saying. With his eyes all lighted up, he took And the Boy said: "Are we going Suddenly it seemed to the boy that off the paper in which it was out? I came to see the tree." his heart would burst in his breast. wrapped, and there was the doll, in "We are going out to see the tree." He wanted some one to speak to him rosy frills, with eyes that opened and Before the Boy-Next-Door could like that. The Small Girl sat high on shut, and shoes and stockings and ask any questions, the Small Girl's her father's shoulder, and her father beautiful curly hair. mother appeared with her finger on held her mother's hand. It was like a And the Small Girl, in a whirlwind her lips and said: "Sh-sh," and then chain of gold, their holding hands like of happiness, said, "Is it really my she began to recite in a hushed voice, that and loving each other doll?" "Hickory-Dickory-Dock— The boy reached out and touched And the Boy-Next-Door felt very Then there was a little cry and the the woman's hand. She looked down shy and happy, and he said, "Yes." sound of dancing feet and the Small at him and drew him close. He felt And the Small Girl's mother said, Girl in a red dressing-gown came fly- warmed and comforted. The red "It was a beautiful thing to do." ing in. candle burning there in the darkness Again that bursting feeling came "Oh, mother, the mouse is on the was like some sacred fire of friend- into the boy's heart, and he lifted his clock. The mouse is on the clock." ship. He wished that it would never face to hers and said, "May I come Well, it seemed to the Boy-Next- go out, that he might stand there sometimes and be your boy?" Door that he had never seen anything watching it, with his small cold hand And she said, "Yes." so exciting as the things that fol- in the clasp of the Small Girl's And when at last he went ,away, lowed. The chocolate mouse went up mother. she stood in the door and watched the clock and under the chair—and It was late when the Boy-Next- him, such a little lad, who knew so would have had its tail cut off except Door got back to his own house. But little of loving. And because she that the Small Girl begged to save it. he had not been missed. Everybody knew so much of love, her eyes filled "I want to keep it as it is, mother." was up, and everybody was angry. to overflowing. And playing this game as if it were The .Daughter-in-law had declared But presently she wiped the tears the most important thing in the whole the night before that she would not away and went back to the table. wide world were the Small Girl's stay another day beneath that roof, And she smiled at the Small Girl and mother and the Small Girl's father, all and off she had gone with her young at the Small Girl's father. laughing and flushed, and chanting husband, and her little girl, who was "And the potatoes were ivory," she quaint old words to the quaint old to have had the pink doll on the tree. said. "Oh, who would ask for turkey, music. "And good riddance," said the when they can have a pie like this?" 74 !

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