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Including RADIO REVUE and RADIO BROADCAST

January, ipjl CONTENTS

WALTER WINCHELL—Radio's Little Boy Peep

shuns publicity himself . . . but he gets it here. David Ewen 6 GUY LOMBARDO BATTLES A GUNMAN —An orchestra leader's thrilb surely beat fiction. Leonard Stewart Smith 8 GENTLEMAN JIM BROADCASTS—Ex-

champion Corbett delivers a knock-out interview to. . Doty Hobart 12

RAY PERKINS—The Old Topper, batty but clever as usual, shoots a paradox with pineapples. Betty Lloyd Walton 15

SHE BURNS GREEN—"She" being borax and IE AN GIF FORD this the drama of "her" discovery in Death Valley. 16 JEANETTE MAC- J DANTE says "Ah TOWN CRIER TALES—The noted raconteur J DONALD has an din' learn to be no dilates on Empress Josephine's Necklace. Alexander Woolcott 19 angelic smile and a 'twuncer, it jus' growed MY BIGGEST MOMENTS—The world-re- golden halo and she's

on me" . . . like Topsy, nowned Singer was once a Timid Novice. Maria Jeritza 20 altogether seraphic. Just whose dark/own dialect picture her next time "HAPPY NEW YEAR"—Vocalizes chorus of she gets so pat on the Stars, who also make plenty of Resolutions. Evans E. Plummer 22 she deserts Hollywood WCAU Children's for the purpose of amus- DIAMONDS—Their History, since the days when every Sunday. you Radio Hour they were as cheap as glass. HendrikWillemVanLoon 25 ing fans. IS ROMANCE DEAD ?—Fannie Hurst Answers, but we refuse to tell how. Read it yourself. Lillian G. Genn 28

THE GOLDEN BATON—Being a Radio Drama, David Ross and full Pathos and Romance. of Don Clark 31 TUNEFUL TOPICS—AH the Latest Song Hits!

How to sing them, as told by that expert . . . Rudy Vallee 34 STATION VOX—A Playlet in one Spasm, about broadcast worries of Julius Caesar and Cleopatra. Monroe Upton 36 KISSES HOT AND KISSES COLD—History of Osculation—and what an unfolding! Dr. Frank H. Vizetelly 49 VENUS MAKES RUDY THAT WAY—Ro- mantic, Tender, Spiritual, say the Planets. Peggy Hull 50 THE WORLD OF OUR GRANDCHILDREN —Poverty and Ugliness will vanish in 1980. H. G. Wells 52

THE UNIVERSE OF EINSTEIN—He Builded a Greater one than did Napoleon. George Bernard Shaw 54

THE RISE OF RADIO—From a Toy to the Na- Orrin E. Dunlap, Jr. 55 tion's Joy . . . looking backwards and forwards. JUNIOR BRINGS HOME THE BACON— Ten Years Old and Earns $10,000 Per Year! Alma Sioux Scarberry 57

Coming and Going (p. 4) Station Popularity Contest (5 and 94) Album (37) Editorials (60) Radiographs (62) Marcella (64) Station News (begins 66) Classical Music Simplified (74) Women's Features (begin 75) Hits, Quips and Slips (81) Voice of The Listener (84) Scientific Progress of The Radio Arts (86) Stations Alphabetically Listed (88)

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Observations on Events and Incidents in the Broadcasts of the Month

T TAPPY New Year! Yip-eee! whoop the Light Hearted /^\NE of the most remarkable characters of American J- -L ^— . . . Watch Your Step, warn the Clipped Wingers ^ success romance that we know about is the life

and . . . God be with You, wish Veterans of Time . . . be- story of B. A. Rolfe, leader of the Lucky Strike dance fore you know it we'll all be wafting farewell to "Old orchestra. He has made millions and 1931." lost millions. Did you know that he has twice been one of the greatest of motion picture producers? He knows what it is to be a millionaire THE meantime let's take a peek into the pages of IN with landed estates one day and the calendar just ahead—Aha! Bright lights . . . practically broke the next. But he tables with snowy napery . . . gleaming highlights is never down hearted. It's all in a

. . . musicians . . . fair faces . . . swirling figures . . . and life-time. It is a thrilling story and we hear the muffled glide of nimble toes on polished floor reads like fiction as it has been as the music swings from fast to slow to fast. One bright especially written for Radio Digest by Alma Sioux scene melts into another. A voice that we all know is Scarberry, author of the first Radio novel, and you'll be speaking. Rudy Vallee, regular contributor to Radio seeing it soon. Digest, will be our guide in an article he has written for the February number. He calls it Night Clubs of New York. It is the most intimate thing Mr. Vallee has ever What's Doty Hobart going to have? somebody asks. written, in our opinion, and you meet the various night That's funny. We started him off to get a story about club hosts and hostesses as his guest. what we called the Radio Police Patrol, sent wires around to correspondents to rush material in from various cities where the police are cruising around in Radio equipped automobiles waiting word from head- quarters to dash in and run crime ragged. But Doty /^\UR Miss Lillian G. Genn is a most agreeable young reported back that he had run across a better story. He ^-^ person. She slips into the office quietly, talks wants to call it Watchdogs of the Air, and it's all about scarcely above a whisper and listens a great deal. Be- what Uncle Sam is doing to keep all of his big family of fore you know it you have told her Radio stations in their proper places, so they won't be everything she wants to know and treading on each other's toes, yelping and spoiling then she goes. The next thing you things for everybody. Now we're as keen as you are to know she has a story. Last month see what he's going to bring in. But in the meantime she brought you the exclusive story we're getting that other story into shape to use anyway. of Billie Burke in her own home. Now she has a story from the lips of Mrs. Fred Stone, wife of the famous DO YOU know that one of the greatest of modern comedian. What kind of a person is conductors could not see a score unless it was a great stage comedian in his own placed against his nose. But what a memory! Arturo home? Well, sometimes he is funny Toscanini, maestro of the New York when he doesn't mean to be. Take, Philharmonic Symphony orchestra for instance, the time when Mr. Stone dug 5,000 holes for knows intimately every note by 5,000 trees on his z,3oo acre ranch. It was to be a great heart in ninety operas! His near- forest. And when the trees came—Oh boy, you must sightedness has been remarkably read what Mrs. Stone says about that. It's all very compensated by the gods. He has special for Radio Digest readers next month. been known to remember for a year one tiny mistake by a player which at the time seemed to pass unnoticed. Musical errors have been known to send him into paroxysms of rage. And while we are on the subject of rib tickling it will Read the close-up word sketch of interest you to know that we have a special article for Toscanini by David Ewen in the February Radio Digest. one of our issues of the near future dealing with some of the comic idiosyncrasies of well known stage and mike stars who sometimes behave like they had lost their "Ask the broadcasters to take off the programs minds when they find themselves in a broadcasting offering recipes. Who cares about recipes? People who studio. The title of the article is I Thought I'd Die! Don't don't have cooks go to restaurants anyway." So know right now whether we will be able to cram this writes a woman in Florida. She makes a plea that in- into our overflowing February number or not. But the stead of recipes an educational subject should be sub- old diaphragm is going to get a twist when you do stituted—English, for example. Watch Radio Digest read it. for a series of articles on educational programs. .

Enthusiastic Station Supporters Rally Round

Many New Nominations Arrive By Every Mail In Thrilling State Championship Contest

is the time to do honor to the four stations in wonderful start ot cheerful announcers. WMAQ also has a NOWyour state that you think are most deserving of honor. number of features we enjoy, mainly Dan and Sylvia, also the Practically all the leading stations have been nomi- chain programs. The rest follow as a change. Here's lots of nated. Some of them have been nominated over a luck to you.'' score of times. We have space for just one more letter and will choose this The contest editor is receiving many earnest letters from the Eastern one from Miss Margaret Krell, 1372 Ogden Ave., Bronx. listeners who are rooting for their favorites. Along with the New York. Miss Krell's ticket reads in this order: WABC. nomination slips they tell why they have WJZ, WEAF and WMCA, all of Xew made their selections as indicated. Each York City. She says in her letter: station has its own individuality repre- "My first preference. WABC. has given sented by a name or a voice. Just how me the greatest of pleasure. It gives me important those identifications are is ap- the greatest of variety of entertainment. parent from the following letter from Mrs. I am truly grateful each week as I listen L. M. Rice of Dallas, Tex., who makes with pleasure to Ozzie Xelson. Wallace the following order of nominations. Silversmith, the Show Boat. Guy Lom- WFAA, Dallas; KRLD, Dallas; WBAP, bardo's marvelous orchestra. Tone Pic- Ft. Worth and KTA, Ft. Worth. She tures, Henry and George. Mr. and Mrs.. writes: Sandy and Lil. Van Heusen, Mystery "In my opinion the announcers have Drama, True Story and the inimitable lots to do with the popularity of a station. Radio Follies. In all Radioland no pro- Their personality comes to us like their gram has ever equaled the Radio Follies, own voices. All of the announcers at my directed by Xorman Brokenshire—'Whata

'' favorite station, WFAA. have pleasant \ \ Man'!" Miss Krell also writes enthusi- voices that carry conviction. WBAP was astically of WJZ and WEAF entertainers. long my second favorite until they let Of WMCA she says, "this station has "C. C." go. He seemed part of the sta- risen to a high standard almost over night tion and was a favorite generally. On the with its new apparatus." other hand there is a certain market an- It's just too bad we haven't the space to nouncer that would make a nervous print all the letters for many, many other woman have hysterics and a man pull stations that have been nominated in this out his hair. Above all give us educated announcers." says she. new kind of a contest. Be sure to clip the coupons below. Send Typical of one of our Midwest correspondents is the letter in your four favorites from the state where you live, on the

from Mildred Drabek. 204 S. Lincoln Ave.. Aurora, 111., who nomination blank, hold the voting coupon for the bonus allow- lines up the Illinois stations thus: WEXR. WMAQ, WBBM and ance by sending all consecutive ballots together. WLS. All are located in Chicago. Miss Drabek writes: Xow turn to the rules on page 94 and see what you get in the ''My reason for choosing WEXR as the favorite is because of way of bonus votes, and details as to the conditions of the contest. its wonderful studio staff. It gives plenty of variety—symphony, Remember you are to vote for the four most popular stations in popular orchestra, comedies, dramas, Hawaiians, solos, organ and your state. The four winners will be awarded each a medallion.

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Father of the word "Whoopee" who now runs an Air Column over CBS. —

Radio's JHttle Boy Peep

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"Broadwag" Heckler Finds Gossip Pays Dividends

— You Hate Him or You Love Him but You

Can V Leave Him Alone if You Read Him at All

THAT prehistoric day before the Sy D AV I D E W E N One day, a celebrated vaudevillian INadvent of the tabloid and the Radio Mr. Gus Edwards of the Keith Vaude- into our everyday life, parents were ville circuit—stepped into the movie- accustomed to frightening bad little to the world something more intimate house and listened to the three young girls by warning them: about everyone else. men entertain. He decided immediately Walter Winchell was born in New York that at least one of the three had talent "The goblin will get you, City, and raised in the theatre. For, for the stage. And so—passing up // you don't watch out!" long before he ever thought of glorifying George Jessel and Eddie Cantor, both of gossip, Winchell was a man of the thea- whom he was to select at another time Today, there is only one way of fright- tre. At the age of 12 he may have been he walked straight up to Walter Winchell ening bad little girls. And that is by ex- no nearer the stage than the aisle; he and asked him if he would like an im- plaining to them that the goblin is none served as an usher in a movie-house in portant position in a featured revue. other than Mr. Walter Winchell—"Vul- Harlem. But the aisle leads straight to The proposition, and the salary, stupe- ture Winchell,"— as one journalist so sweet- the stage, and before very long Walter fied young Walter; he was too dumb- ly called him "Radio's Little Boy Peep." graduated from out of the class of ushers founded to answer. Heaven's gate had to apply Mr. St. John Ervine's celebrated and into the class of performers. He con- opened for him. And with a dazed ex- phrase. ceived the idea that song-slides should be pression on his face, he nodded his assent Walter Winchell has the distinction of accompanied by someone singing on the eagerly. being one of the most provocative people stage, in order to encourage the audience He remained with Gus Edwards' Re- in this country today. For several years into singing (the idea was his own, and vue until he outgrew his juvenile parts now, his gossip about Broadway and therefore it was Winchell who started the and received full stage experience. Then,

Broadwayites has trickled through the fad for singing-slides) ; he brought his meeting a pleasing young girl with a nice columns of the tabloids throughout the idea, together with his pleasant soprano voice, he decided to team up with her in country—earning for him a whole army voice, to the manager of the movie-house a song-and-dance act. The girl did the of worshippers and a still greater army who liked both, and decided to engage singing; he did the dancing, interspersing of enemies. Now that the Wise Shoe ambitious Walter for the job. The idea his steps with wise remarks about this-

Company brings Walter Winchell and his took the audiences by storm; it soon be- and-that —but all in all it gossip into your very parlor once every came a regular feature of that movie- wasn't a "wow" of an act in week, his army of worshippers and of house—and one of its best. Before the first place. It played in enemies has swelled prodigiously. He long. Walter decided to take two other all of the smaller circuits, has become more and more something of ushers into partnership, both of whom had never hitting the bigger thea- a national issue. You are either a great agreeable voices, too, and who, Walter tres, and— if the truth must admirer of Walter Winchell, or else he felt, were meant to be on the stage. And be known—never was it very has gone ahead and spread some gossip it was not long before all of Harlem knew much of a hit with the audi- about you. There is no mid-channel. about these "three little men with the ences. They merely toler- For a person who thrives on gossip, big voices." and of their attraction. This ated it. Winchell. conse- Walter Winchell has succeeded, with re- feature, incidentally, ran for many quently, became dissatisfied markable and strange elusiveness. in keep- months at this movie-house and with con- before long with the whole ing information about himself in the stantly increasing success. business and swore that at dark. The name, of course, is known to the fust excuse he could find everyone in the country, but how many — in the form of a decent really know who the man is, or what sort o,H yes! you may have livelihood —he would escape of a personality is his? What follows is, heard something about these two other from the vaudeville racket. therefore, something more intimate about ushers. Their names were Georgie Jes- In the meanwhile the song a man whose life-work consists in giving sel and Eddie Cantor. {Continued on page ( .(ombardo

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" Thrills' ' Interview By Leonard Stewart Smith

like WERE seated at dinner the band started on its rise to world fame. unless I learned to play the trumpet in the grillroom of the Hotel We were talking of the days four B.C. Leibert, she would leave me. WE and "Have you found the perfect sweet- Roosevelt in New York; (Before Chicago), when the "beauty Guy and Carmen Lombardo, brains of the family" and I were among heart from among the ladies of your fan Billy Goodheart, head of the New York the handful of regular patrons of the mail?" I retaliated. office of the Music Corporation of Amer- Claremont Inn who were predicting a< ica, who manages the Royal Canadians, roseate future for Guy Lombardo and his the and myself. Seated at other tables near- Royal Canadians before national adver- o"NLY once during by were Leibert and Victor Lombardo, tisers ever dreamed that such an organiza- dinner did the talk get serious. And that Freddie Kreitzer, Larry Owens, and the tion would be very instrumental in the was when Billy Goodheart interposed that other members of the "sweetest band this merchandising of their products over no other band in the country had achieved side of heaven". Columbia Broadcasting System hookups. the record of keeping the same men to- The talk at our table was light talk. "Have you learned to play the trumpet gether, without a single change, through Guy and Carmen were taking me back yet?" Guy asked me. He was kidding the seven years of their existence. One seven years to Cleveland—to the Clare- me about the "threat" made by the addition has been made to the original ten. mont Inn and the Music Box—whence "beauty and brains of the family" that That came only a few months ago, when The last brought a fright that nearly scared me to death and actually made my hair stand on end. That was the time two men were shot during the Nutty Club session at the Granada. I will tell you a 1 1 1 e s about them in the order of their oc- currence.

"The mortgage came first. That was

back in 192 7. Quadbach was operating his Granada Cafe which still holds forth at 68th street and Cottage Grove avenue in the Windy City. Chicago was full of bands, good bands too, but Quadbach wanted something other than the organ- "It was the night before izations playing around Chicago at that New Year's Eve at the time. So he went on a trip in search of man Granada. Suddenly, a band. His wanderings brought him to amid the laughter and Cleveland. For a week, without our hilarity I heard two knowing who he was, he sat through our shots fired in rapid suc- programs at the Claremont. Then at the cession" end of the week, he approached me, in- Lives troduced himself and thrust a contract at me for forty weeks at the Granada at more than double what we had been re- The Tale ceiving in Cleveland. "I thanked him for his flattery; thought him a bit out of his mind, but declined the contract. Actually, after I had talked with the boys, we were afraid to venture into the big city of Chicago. Afraid to take the chance in unknown fields.

_DUT I was soon to learn that Quadbach was all seri- ousness about his offer and was not going to take 'no' for an an- swer. Every day for the next week he continued to offer the contract. Finally, still spurning the forty-week offer, we decided to take a chance and go to Chi- cago for a six-week period only as a trial. I arranged with the Clare- mont that if we failed in Chicago, we could return in six weeks. "For the first four weeks of our Chicago en- gagement I felt very sorry for Quadbach, and on no less than twenty occasions offered to re- lease him from our six- week agreement, and every time I brought up the matter, he would push forward the forty-week contract as his answer.

"Our opening night on September 1. Victor Lombardo, upon reaching his nine- "What would you consider your great- 1927, was a nice gesture from the music teenth birthday, was given a new saxo- est thrills?" publishers and Quadbach's many personal phone, a ticket from London, Ontario, to "That," said Guy. "is a very hard friends. We received many telegrams, New York, and a seat on the bandstand order. Off hand, I would say that three mostly from our Cleveland friends, and with his famous brothers. The other ten incidents in our career brought unforget- some Chicagoans sent flowers. Maybe men have been together since the begin- table responses. One gave a tug at my there was some irony in that, however. ning. Goodheart, veteran orchestra man- heart strings that has been so lasting that Then for the next four weeks we played ager, who has had under his wing many I still have to fight back tears every time to empty tables, with from twenty to other "name bands" said unqualifiedly I recall it. That was the time we played thirty couples on Saturday evening, when that in this respect the Lombardo group My Buddy at the request of a dying there should have been from two hun- was in a class by itself. war veteran and his pal. Another was dred to three hundred couples. "I guess it is because we like to work the time AI Quadbach, the man really re- "At the end of the fourth week I didn't together," Guy explained. "There are no sponsible for the success of this band. want to take Quadbach's check. We were petty jealousies in our bunch." raised a mortgage on his Granada Cafe costing him a lot of money. I told him Then, for the seventh time, I asked the in Chicago to pay for broadcasting time, I was going to take the band out of the important question of this interview: bringing the thrill of our first real success. Granada and was going hack to Cleveland. 10

half hours of continuous playing, we were permitted to stop. "The results were imme- diate. The next evening, following the first broadcast, the Granada was jammed to capacity and from that time on space was at a premium every night in the week. Within ten days Quadbach let a contract for enlarging the place. His faith in the band's possi- bilities was well repaid, and with that faith came our success. Of course it was only natural that more Ra- dio contracts should follow. First came a local broadcast for a clothing store. It was on this hour that we were heard for the first time by

William Wrigley, Jr., who signed us for our first na- tion-wide broadcast, and the rest of the road to success was easy. Any wonder when I say that Al Quadbach is the man responsible for the success of this band?"

VjUY lighted a fresh cigarette, and con-

tinued : "The shooting affair comes next. That incident, or se- quence of incidents, packed a lot of action into two very brief periods of time. "At the time we were di- viding our nights between the Granada and the Come- dy Club, a favorite ren- dezvous for theatrical folks

'He reached out his hand to take the microphone away I gave him a shove back" playing Chicago. The story must be divided into two sections. The first at the He pleaded with me with utmost sincerity. for 15 minutes a night for one week over Comedy Club and the second, and the " 'Please stay until you get a bad check, WBBM. Early in October we started climax, two weeks later at the Granada. Guy,' he urged. broadcasting. "At the Comedy Club during dance in- "He was so earnest in his appeal, that "Never will I forget that night of our termissions, it was my duty to tell the I submitted. first broadcast! Our fifteen minutes of listeners something about the personages " 'Get us a Radio connection,' I sug- the first night were almost up. The band present. While the band took a little rest gested, 'Maybe that will help.' played as even I had never heard it be- I would introduce the stage stars and "That was no easy task, getting us a fore. I got a thrill standing out in front others present. Radio connection. The stations in Chi- directing. I had always felt certain that "The spirit of the place was one of cago were overloaded with good bands I had a real band, but their playing that good-fellowship. Not all the patrons and didn't want to take chances with un- night convinced me even more thoroughly. were abiding by the management's warn- knowns. Quadbach was near the end of And apparently it convinced others. ing about the prohibition laws, and quite his financial resources. Business had not a few hip flasks were present. I was in been good before our arrival and since the midst of my introductions, standing our arrival it had been worse, if anything. "WeE WERE playing in the center of the dance floor with the He went among his many friends to bor- our last number when the announcer said microphone in my hand. row the money to pay for broadcasting the studio downtown was asking if we "I noticed a rather hard looking group time. His friends also thought he was could stay on the air another thirty min- at a ringside table. Two of the men 'off his nut going the limit for a bunch utes at the station's expense. We stayed were attempting to restrain one of their of school-boy musicians from the sticks'. on the air. That thirty minutes up, they number from getting up. He appeared "But Quadbach was convinced that our still wanted more. There had been many very tipsy. He wrested himself free and slow tempo music, so radically different requests, they told me, to repeat numbers started for the center of the floor where from the fashion of that day, would catch we had played. I believe we played I'll I was broadcasting and reached out his on and be a sensation. Get By, at least twenty times. hand to take the microphone away from "Finally he raised enough money to pay "Well, at 1.30 a.m., after four and a me. I gave him a shove, hurtling him

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"Right in front of the band stand an- back toward his table, and kept right angles on their heads. Everybody was en- party. other woman collapsed. Carmen and on talking as if nothing had happened. joying the nights at the Granada Bern Davies, our tuba player, carried her 1 tried not to pay any attention, but I "On Nutty Club to a table and came back to join Freddie couldn't help noticing that there was a I took the microphone to the center of the intermissions. I could hardly and me. lot of excitement at my molester's table. floor during " '/ can't save a dollar, ain't worth a "Shortly after we had resumed play- hear myself talk, there was so much noisy cent,' I continued. ing three men approached the band fun in the room. arrived and were fight- stand with the head waiter, who said the "Amid the laughter and hilarity there 'The police had the dense crowd •gentlemen' wanted to speak with me came with inexplainable suddenness two ing their way through which near the door to the dining immediately. I turned the leadership shots fired in rapid succession. There was was pistol and massed in the back of the room. over to Carmen for the time and sat at no mistaking the sound. They were room hilarity stopped Dillon took up his trombone and a table with the three men. shots and nothing else. The Jim shots were fired. In Frank Henry grabbed his banjo and " 'We fixed it for you this time, but as suddenly as the stillness several more picked up the chorus. don't let that ever happen again,' their a brief moment of " 'But she doesn't holler, she'd live in spokesman said. shots pierced the silence of the room. " 'Let what happen?' I asked. Then panic and pandemonium reigned. a tent.' " "Why, don't ever get tangled with "The police were having a lot of diffi- culty with hysterical persons. They were that baby again, if you enjoy life,' he real- ordering people to back. 'Don't said, 'Don't you know who he is?' I WAS nonplused. I stand their staccato " 'No, and I don't care,' I replied. ized I had stopped talking into the micro- touch!' they commanded, sense commands breaking the silence. The back •Just tell him not to try to grab the phone. I knew the listeners would are microphone from me or he'll get worse something of what had occurred. I tried of the room cleared and two forms than shoved the next time.' to continue talking into the microphone. lying on the floor. The police officers are " 'Boy,' the spokesman was speaking All about me was panic and excitement. leaning over them, making an examina- a tion. softly and slowly, to make sure that none I looked toward a table where I knew to " 'I've got a woman, crazy me, she's of his words should go astray. 'You don't celebrity was sitting whom I wanted for know how close you were to your grave talk about. Instead of a happy party of funny that way.' The song is over. I try- sign off hurriedly. I return the listeners when you shoved that baby. He is a brief moment ago, I saw a fat man Georgie Maloney, the gang leader, and ing to get under the table—a table under to the WBBM studio. I want to know he doesn't care whom he shoots!' which two others had fled for security. I what has happened. Al Quadbach is ap- table that had had a proaching me. •'I will admit I was a bit nervous for looked at another " the remainder of the evening. particularly happy party. Three of the 'Thanks, Guy, for carrying on that try- "The second episode, as I said before, women had fainted, and the men were way,' he starts. I want him to tell me crowd came two weeks later. We were con- ing to get them to the door. A what has happened! gathered in the " 'You remember Georgie Maloney. back of the room. The guy you had the tangle with at the A hysterical wo- Comedy a couple of weeks ago. Well, man kept crying that's what's left of him, the body lying As Guy Lombardo played out, 'How horri- farthest from the door. He came in look- My Buddy, the stricken ble!' I couldn't see ing for trouble and he got it. He opened veteran died . . . in his buddy's arms what had hap- fire on one of his rival gang leaders who pened. I was try- he thought was trying to 'muscle in on his ing to continue territory'. He killed him all right. But talking. There was apparently Georgie forgot to put on his nothing I could bullet-proof vest, because he got himself think to talk about. killed for all his trouble.' So I tried to sing. "That whole incident took less than "That was the three minutes, but it seemed like three first and last hours to me! One thing is certain. I time I have ever never want another thrill of that kind tried to sing in again!" public. Carmen does a much bet- ter job of it than G."UY paused for breath. I do, so I confine He was so excited he seemed to be living my singing to bath- that hair-raising adventure all over again. tubs and the like. He smiled. But I did sing. I "That was thrilling, wasn't it?" he guess. At least asked. Then without waiting for an folks told me I answer, he resumed: sang. And the "The My Buddy incident also emanated number was I've from our 'Nutty Club' broadcasts. Dur- Got a Woman ing such programs, late at night, we gen- Crazy For Me, erally got from two hundred to three Site's Funny That hundred telephonic and telegraphic re-

Way. I'll never quests for numbers, and I think Radio

ducting what had come to be known as forget it. That was a sickening thrill. fans will admit we did our best to fill

one of Chicago's most hilarious nights "I started singing without accompani- all requests. In fact it has always been —the Nutty Club of the Granada Cafe. ment. Then Freddie Kriet/.er. our pianist, our policy to fill every request we get, W<

"It was the night before New Year's took his place at the piano and followed believe it our bounden duty to entertain, Eve. The place was crowded to capacity. me in the song. 'She's not much to look and we feel that the carrying OUl oi that

Throughout the cafe were happy laughing at, not much to sec' 1 sang. I have no duty demands that we play requests as parties, the women in beautiful evening idea how I knew the words, but they just soon after they are made as possible. gowns, with comic paper hats at rakish seemed to come to me. (Continued on page 12 entleman

A Blow By Blow ne Time

• A November Noon, 1930 Description of an Interview The Place Grillroom of The Friars' Club, with James Corbett New York City. J. The Characters

James J. Corbett, ex-heavyweight cham- pion of the world. Harry Hershfield, creator of the fa- mous comic-strip, "Abie the Agent." Will Mahoney, featured comedian with "The Sketch-book." Buddy Doyle, stage and microphone per- former. Captain O'Hay, well-known soldier of fortune. Louis Mann, the celebrated actor. The Interviewer. Members of the club, waiters, bus- boys, bellboys, etc.

viewer) Oh, Hello, Doty. I'll be with you in a minute. The Interviewer: No hurry, Jim. Corbett: I guess you know most of these gentlemen. {There is an exchange of greetings between those at the table and the Interviewer.) I was just telling them of an incident that happened after my fight with Sullivan, when I won the cham- pionship. My friends were celebrating and champagne was flowing like water. There were plenty of reporters present and I knew that whatever I said or did would be used as copy. Believe me, I watched my step, and tired and thirsty as I was, I refused the champagne. Captain O'Hay: I didn't know you

ever took a drink, Jim. ! Corbett: Darned seldom I ever have Cap, but I certainly would have liked one then. There was a young chap pres- ent who came from a fine family and who seemed to be the host of the party. He raised his glass and said, "I haven't taken a drink for two years, Jim, but this is Courtesy New York Evening World one occasion when I am going to break A picture taken in 1910, at Jim Jeffries' camp, when John L. Sullivan signed the peace over." I reached over and took the glass pact with Corbett. away from him and said, "Oh, no you're not. I'm not going to have anyone say Friars' Club grillroom is a sees Corbett, standing by a table, speak- that Jim Corbett was the cause of his THEbusy place at lunchtime. The ing earnestly to those seated. off falling the wagon." Then I turned social life of the club starts at to a waiter and said, "I'll have a glass

this time. . Here actors, directors, Corbett: . . and soon as I had of milk—and bring the same for my newspapermen, singers and lay members dressed I was rushed over to a hotel young friend." The next day the news- gather in numerous groups to fraternize. where an impromptu party was being papers all over the country stated that As the Interviewer enters the scene he held in my honor. (He sees the Inter- the new champion was a fine example of 13

Broadcasts

"By Doty Hobart

manhood that the American youth would and said, "Listen, fel- do well to follow. lows, Jim isn't expected Captain O'Hay: That was great pub- to last until morning. licity, Jim, but what's the point to the I don't know that any story? of us stand in any too Corbett: I hate milk! I didn't want well with the Lord, but coffee or tea. I wanted something cold it won't do any harm and the only thing I could think of on to sit quiet for a little the spur of the moment was milk. So while and offer up a

I drank it. I don't suppose I have ever silent prayer for Jim." drained a full glass of milk since. Come Of course I never on, Doty, let's have lunch by ourselves. found this out until (He leads the way to a vacant table. later but it is a matter They sit down) Now, what's on your of record that I passed mind? I got your message to meet you the crisis and started here this noon. on the road to recovery The Interviewer: An interview. at the very time that Corbett: About what? prayer was being made. The Interviewer: Your Radio work, Buddy Doyle: (Ap- yourself and the heavyweight situation proaches) Hello, Jim. as it looks to you today. Heard your broadcast Corbett: Seems to me you're trying last night. Nice work. to cover a lot of territory. But I'm ready Corbett: Thanks, to answer questions as best I can if you're Buddy. willing to listen. Before you start firing Buddy Doyle: Say, let's order the food. (He tells the waiter was that story you told to bring him orange juice, two fried eggs, about your reception in calf's liver and coffee and the Inter- Dublin true? viewer duplicates the order.) All right. Corbett: Absolutely. Now ask me some questions. Funny situation, wasn't The Interviewer: What was the big- it? By the way, do gest thrill the Radio ever handed you? you know this gentle- Corbett: That's an easy one. I was man who is giving me listening to the broadcast of the fights the third degree? from the Polo Grounds on the memorable Buddy Doyle: Know May night in 1927, when Joe Humphries him! I should say I announced from the ring that there would do. He gave me my be one minute of silent prayer for the first break at the micro- Time hasn't been able to call the count on the ex-champion. His mike talks all his old ringside vigor. boy who, at that time was waging a lone- phone on a national are knock-outs, with some fight against the elements over the hook-up. Atlantic Ocean—Lindbergh. I think that The Interviewer: was the biggest punch ever delivered in And you did a splendid job. Buddy. You Jack McVey, one of my sparring part- a ring. were understudying for Eddie Cantor at ners, accompanied me and when the train The Interviewer: Yes, I heard it, the time, weren't you? Too bad you pulled into the station at Dublin Jack too, and it handed me a kick. But why lost that job, now that Cantor is in started to leave the coach ahead of me. do you claim it was such a big thrill? pictures. The platform was jammed and when they Corbett: Because it struck home to Buddy Doyle: Best thing that ever saw big, bulky Jack they mistook him me. Several years ago, before Radio happened to me. Say, I never missed for the champ. In a jiffy he was sur- came into its own, I was at one time a showing up at the theatre for three rounded by a cheering, over-enthused very sick man. In fact, the doctors at years—and neither did Cantor! He's mob. Before he could explain that they the hospital where I was being treated one actor who is too healthy to give an were in error he found himself lifted on had given up all hope for my recovery. understudy a break. Don't let me inter- the shoulders of a bunch of huskies and Right here, in this very room where we fere with the interview. See you later. carried down the street to a hall where are sitting, a number of Friars were (He walks away.*) a reception was to be held. I waited gathered. George Cohan was one of The Interviewer: Sorry I didn't catch until the crowd thinned out and took a them. Every little while George would your broadcast last night. Jim. What carriage to a hotel. It was fully an hour call up the hospital to inquire about me. was the story Buddy referred to? before that crowd, after discovering the After receiving a decidedly unfavorable Corbett: It was about the trip I mistake, located me. Poor Jack. He report George turned from the telephone made to Ireland when I was champion. was full of apologies — but. do you know. — —

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I think he got a thrill out. of it at that. effectiveness of many of the blows they the listeners enjoyed your broadcast of The Interviewer: Did you ever tell about. Why, there isn't a fighter in the that fight? broadcast a fight, Jim? world who has stamina enough to deliver Corbett : It was too technical. I spoke Corbett: Yes, once. really telling blows to the number which an only of the effective blows and devoted The Interviewer: Where was it? enthused announcer describes. Not that the the rest of my description to a detailed Corbett: Grand Rapids, over Station blows themselves aren't seen by him. They account of the ring generalship displayed WASH. are. But they are of value only as points. by the fighters. I honestly believe the The Interviewer: How did you make On the other hand no fighter could stand up best part of my broadcast, as far as the out? Enjoy it? against the number of blows credited as enjoyment of the listener was concerned, Corbett: Yes. I enjoyed it but I being effective by the announcers. But all was the analytical talk I gave between don't think the listeners did. this talk about fight broadcasting is from a rounds and after the fight. I guess my The Interviewer: What do you mean? purely personal angle. I'm not wanting method of describing the actual fight was Corbett: You see, I didn't broadcast the announcers to change their style of too cold-blooded. I know I didn't have a blow-by-blow description, as other fight reporting a fight just for my benefit. enough flying leather in it to meet with reporters do. Now, far be it from me They are doing the job for the benefit of the approval of most of those who were to criticize fight broadcasters. They paint the fight fan and the blow-by-blow de- listening in. a mighty fine word picture of the fights scription is the best method of giving the The Interviewer: Anyone ever say as they see them and for the average fan a true picture of the contest. anything to you about the broadcast fight fan this description is just as true The Interviewer: Why did you say any listener, I mean? as the actual contest would look to the a little while ago that you didn't think Corbett: Several people told me they fight fan were he present. But enjoyed hearing my voice over remember, I have been in the the air and said it was too bad ring and I know what really is the fight I broadcast wasn't a taking place there. better one—with more action. There is plenty of action in The joke of the thing is that a good fight, but only a small it was a pretty good fight with percentage of that action is plenty of action. No one ever given over to blows that are asked me to broadcast another worth recording. If four or fight so I guess I wasn"t so five good blows are landed dur- good as a reporter on the air. ing one round, then that round The Interviewer: Tell me has been a huge success. The about the broadcasting you are other blows are insignificant to doing now—it's a weekly the • trained fighter. Glancing sponsored program, isn't it? blows, grazing blows, off-bal- Corbett : It was. ance blows, choppy blows, The Interviewer: What do straight-arm blows—all those you mean—it was? mean little or nothing as far Corbett: I finished that as the actual blows are con- series last night. cerned. They are necessary. The Interviewer: Are you And they are all a part of the going to renew your contract? game, but of much more im- Corbett: There never was portance to the trained fighter any contract. It just went is the foot-work, balance, shift, along from week to week. You blocking ability, aggressiveness see, I was given seven min- and mental poise of the con- utes for a little talk on each testants during the time these program so, rather than con- ineffectual blows are being fine myself to the subject of thrown. See what I mean? ring battles, I told the listeners The Interviewer: I think of amusing and interesting peo- so. You attach as much im- ple who had come into my portance to ring generalship as life while I was champion and you do to the flying leather. afterwards; of my friendships Corbett: More. That's with such men as Grover Cleve- what made Gene Tunney a land, Mark Twain, James Whit- much greater champion than comb Riley, Bernard Shaw and the public gave him credit for others. being. When you spoke of The Interviewer: What flying leather you expressed was the reaction to these the very thing which the aver- broadcasts? By that I mean age fight fan wants to see was there much fan mail? plenty of gloved action. Corbett: I should say so. The Interviewer: Then It amazed me. Look here. you don't like to listen to fight (He pulls a package of letters broadcasts, I take it? from his pocket) These came Corbett: Oh, don't I! Say, in this morning—and every one if I am not at the ringside I'm is a request for my autograph. sitting at home in front of the The Interviewer: How did loud speaker taking it all in you happen to quit the broad- like a real fight fan. And. be- cast? lieve me, I enjoy a fight broad- Corbett: That's a funny cast. The announcers certain- one, too. The sponsor was giving ly know their jobs. But I Broicn Brothers Photo dead set on my my own have learned to discount the Jim Corbett in his heyday as a boxer. (Continued on page 99) 15 Ray Perkins the Old Topper

He Takes a Coupla Pineapples and Shoots a Paradox—Faithful Old Piano Fol- lows Him Through a Putterish Career

By Betty Lloyd Walton

"ELL," welled Ray Perkins, interview about my early (Raymond Lamont Perkins life. to you!) as he tilted the "They tell me that Old old topper a little more Sol (that's what the Sun over the left eye. ''So you want to know is called by his most in- all about my early life, eh?" Then he timate friends. I am one uttered a few more "wells" for good of his very most intimate measure, tilted the topper even a little friends and I sometimes more to the left, and began: call him 'Good Old Sol') "I guess I might as well begin by ask- outdid himself this year out ing 'how is everybody?' You know I on the Hawaiian Islands, always like to begin a broadcast by say- turning out bigger and bet- ing 'how is everybody,' not that it means ter pineapples. They are anything, but it does break the ice and not only numerous but sort of open up the conversation. And there are plenty of them. you know when a Radio performer asks Some of the pineapples are those intimate questions like 'How is bigger than Paul White- everybody?', the theory is that it brings man. You know Paul. He's him oh, ever so much closer to his audi- the man who made a cool million playing hot music. ence, and the audience is supposed to "How Is Everybody?" asks Old say to itself: Say, that's a paradox, boys Topper as He Settles Down to " 'Isn't he the nice fellow to take that and girls—from hot music Entertain the Radio Audience. interest?' a cool million. "Of course, that's the theory. I know "Now you probably think with me when I hear anyone ask that that a paradox is a couple of physicians. paradox and threw a seven, five times question over my loudspeaker I always But you are wrong again. A paradox is running, so that he was able to buy a ask, 'What's it to you?' something apparently self-contradictory, very fine pair of shoes for his offspring.

"Anyhow, it is a silly question, because like, 'I'll meet you tomorrow night at "But every time Milton threw, why, as I say, a Radio audience cannot talk sunrise,' or 'here's a check for a million that paradox lost. back. One thing about broadcasting is dollars'. If it isn't self-contradictory, "But speaking of stores, in the old the fact that your audience can't get you lose the paradox. days you could go to a drug store and be sassy and heckle you. And I don't think reasonably sure of being able to buy there is anything so fatiguing as being "V seidlitz powders or rock candy. But heckled. My grandfather was the best JLOU'YE all heard of Mil- now. I wonder why do they call it a drug heckler in Kennebunk County. Grand- ton's paradox lost. Well. Milton (I don't store. On the other hand, you never see ma used to bake a great big heckleberry recall his last name) kept a sporting a meatless butcher shop. pie for dinner, and after the dishes were goods store on the corner of Fourteenth "You know song-writers are a creat washed and polished and all the chores Street . . . where Fourteenth Street lot. I am somewhat of a song-writer my- done for the day, they'd sit down for a meets Harry Richman. Well, it wasn't self. One of the biggest, unforgettable nice quiet evening of heckling. exactly on the corner, it was back a lit- events in my life was the first time I "But nowadays, it's different. Take tle from the corner, because they used heard a phonograph record of one of my political candidates for instance. They the corner itself for a sidewalk and a compositions. That was Bye Low, which use the Radio, and the fine art of heck- telegraph pole. Otherwise the cop on the I wrote shortly after my graduation from ling is getting as out of date as a mous- corner would have had nothing to lean Columbia University back in 1917. Bye

tache cup. Shall I tell you what's wrong upon. The cop was a Pole himself, so Low was my second song. The nr-t 1 with this country today? No? Well, the two got along very well together. ever had published, Table for Two, made well. The thing that's wrong with this "Well, it seems some customer asked me richer by $7.37, but Bye Low was a

country today is the fact that there are Milton for a paradox, and Milton asked: hit. and I sure was thrilled. too many political candidates telling us 'what size.' and the customer said, Hut there 1 go drifting to the real what is wrong with this country today. 'Thirty-eight stout.' So Milton brought purpose of this interview, and that will

And there are not enough hecklers to out a pair of green dox with white spots. never do. I was talking about song-

counteract them. Well, anyhow, what And would you believe it. good people, writers as a lot. Of course, sons-writers the heckle. This is supposed to be an the customer snapped his fingers at that (Continued on page /i 1 -/') " " " —

16 She Followed Him

into the Depths of

Death Valley — for Love. But She

Wanted a Real

Bureau instead of

a Starch Box with

a Cracked Mirror.

. . . shimmering, HEATbreathless heat blaz- ing down from a red naked sun and stag- gering back from white hot sand. A winding trail going down. Bleaching bones, lime- white, fleshless, disintegrated and powdering into the hard dry grit. A line of covered wagons, stumbling and rum-

bling . . . reeling oxen with hanging tongues and parched

hides . . . down, down into "Let's hear a song and forget all our hard luck," said Joe. the blazing maw of Death Valley. This scene flashed back to the mental vision of the Old Ranger as he dropped into a kitchen chair of the tidy little home where he was now a guest—the first guest of the She Burns bridal pair. He raised a griz- zled eyebrow and squinted — — quizzically at the busy little hostess. I know about borax " She paused. "Well, let's see- 't wa'n't so far back "You what?" he asked hitching back in "Of course, Rose, my dear, I reckon as Noah but—but—why her name was the new kitchen chair of the immaculate you're just smart up on it—probably a Rose, too—just like your'n. Rose Winters kitchen. heap more than I am. But what struck— was her name—Rosie an' Aaron Winters "I said I was glad that I happened to me was your sayin' you discovered it who first struck borax out in Death Valley. discover borax, it just happened you "Well, you know what I mean.— I sup- She was a Spanish-American gal—purty know," gushed the bride. "Nobody told pose mother knew about it as a picture . . . but frail and dreamy- me about it. I just happened—to run onto "Bless you child, she shore did. But I like. Her little feet was never meant to it and it does so many things was just a-thinkin'—you, with all your go a-trampin' over the sharp rocks an' "So you discovered borax, my girl?" book larnin' did you ever know who was burnin' sands of the desert round Death

the Old Ranger still struggled with the really the first woman to discover borax?" Valley . . . with that grizzled old pros- scene that flared across the retina of his "Heavens no! Was it Noah's wife or pector husband of hers. But she stuck to

mental eye while he tried to reason with who? Why? Do tell me!" Aaron Winters, Rosie did . . . for better all the dainty cleanliness of his present " 'Tain't an awful pretty story but or for worse. I reckon she thought it was

surroundings. maybe you'd like to hear it." mostly for worse . . . that night back in

"Oh, yes, yes . . . um, I see." He poked "Oh, I'm dying to hear it. Do tell me 1880, as she was gettin' supper for the two

a bony finger into the ashes of his old cob all about it while I get the potatoes ready. of 'em in their little one-room shack on pipe, extracted a small cloud of smoke Please!" Ash Meadows near Death Valley." And and then twinkled reminiscently at the Old Ranger reloaded his pipe and as the old man talks, the scene smiling girl. hitched his chair back against the wall "Now you are laughing at me," she said, while Rose continued her preparations for "I don't care, I can tell you a lot of things dinner. AARON: What's for supper, Rosie? 17

LjRIEF and Sacrifice

Attended the Discovery of the Rich Deposits of Death Valley as Told in

this Vivid Radio Drama

Broadcast over the Na-

tional Network.

it was all a mirage. Oh. Aaron, leave this country and take me with you! AARON: But. Rosie. where could we

go? You know why I stay here . . . one of the reasons. ROSIE: You mean because of that man you killed. AARON: Rosie! For heaven's sake. ROSIE: Who is there to hear? It is 200 miles from this house to the nearest settlement.

AARON: Even so . . . ROSIE: Even so. that shooting took place over twenty years ago. Who would remember by now? AARON: Sheriffs have got mighty long memories. Don't forget that. No.

Rosie. if ever I leave Death Valley, its got to be with such a big strike that we can pick up an' go far away from here.

ROSIE: This desert . . . she is your

mistress ! You love her better than you love me. Green AARON: Now. now. Rosie . . . you know that beside you there ain't nothin' in this world worth havin'. It's for you ROSIE: Beans. supper. And they're hard to get. I been tappin' around here all these years. AARON: Is that all? AARON: That long ride ought to hopin' to make a rich strike. It's all for you. I don't care about it for myself. ROSIE: Chahwallas . . . if you can have give you an appetite, Rosie.

ROSIE : Then take me away from eat them. Me, I cannot, Little crawling ROSIE: No . . . not in all that deso- here. Take me out into green lands again snakes . . . bah! lation. Bare, like our lives here. and let me know what it is to have a real AARON: Oh, chahwallas ain't snakes, AARON: Now, Rosie . . . ain't you home before I am too old a woman to Rosie. . . . They're lizards. An' just got so's you feel better about this by as good eatin' as frogs' legs ... in Del- now? care. it AARON: But Rosie. I couldn't give monico's in New York. Most as good, ROSIE: No. Aaron . . . always this, lessen we anyway, if you're hungry. grows worse. Aaron, for a score of years you no better home than ROSIE: I am not hungry. now you have been searching for wealth make a strike before we leave here. AARON: Bacon all gone? here in Death Valley, in all this desert ROSIE: I don't want more than a

like this . . . ROSIE: Weeks ago. And what has it ever given you for all one-room shack but I want

AARON: How about the flour? your pains? Nothing. it under a green tree . . . where I won't ROSIE: Would I be serving mesquite AARON: I've come across traces of have to think how much water I may use to keep everything clean. I want to hear beans if we had any flour? silver in these mountains . . . and once AARON: Well, I saw the flour barrel even gold. Rosie. soft breezes blowing outside and know over yonder 'gainst the wall. ROSIE: Silver, gold? A glint. A they're bringing gentle spring rain to do flowers good, instead of a sandstorm. . . . to ROSIE: It is empty . . . like my heart. gleam, nothing more. Just enough my

. . . starch The rice bag, too. That is why I ride raise your hopes ... to make you double I want a real bureau not a box with a cracked old mirror res; ins on twenty-five . . . thirty miles ... to the your efforts, to spend what little money that it. And Oh for something to clean with! mesquite trees to gather beans for our you had saved. . . . Onlv to find out !

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AARON: You couldn't look more ROSIE: But listen, Aaron, I can hear headin' south from Nevada. . . . Lost my beautiful if you had a fine full length pier the jingle of the bridle . . . and some- way a few hours back an' jest goin' to glass, Rosie ... for to admire yourself body is whistling too. Hark. pitch camp for the night when I spotted in. (Voice outside sings): your light. Can you grub stake me?

ROSIE: Admire myself? Me, with "Oh then, Susannah AARON : We ain't got much, stranger, for but you're to share it. my hair all dry and faded? . . . and my Don't you cry me welcome skin rough and cracked from hard work I'm goin' out to Oregon VOICE: Thanks. and hard water? With my banjo on my knee." AARON: Hand me that lantern,

AARON: It still feels right soft and AARON: By gash, you're right ! We're Rosie. Now, come along with me, nice to me, Rosie. But mebby if you goin' crazy together, Rosie! That's what stranger and I'll show you where you can

. . at last! picket used some more of them beauty prepara- it is. . The desert's got us your hoss for the night. And

ROSIE : No, Aaron, it's real. I know Rosie ... see if you can't rustle a little tions . . . ROSIE: What beauty preparations? it is. Whoever it is, is stopping outside. extra food together for supper. AARON: Why them bottles you got VOICE: (Calling from outside) Hello, ROSIE: (To herself) Extra food!

there Holy Saints ! The talks as if had up there on the shelf. . . . Hogan's Mag- man we AARON: He's flesh and blood all a pantry stocked full. Very well, . . my nolia Balm . and Felton's Gossamer for the Complexion ... an' Floridy right. Aaron, I'll do my best. There's still a

ROSIE: Aaron . . . you don't think little coffee and some sugar in the boxes water. . . . . ROSIE: Aaron, they have all been ". . that sheriff with the warrant? under the bed . . . saved against a rainy

years. AARON: Good Lord, no! day. Now . . . have we a third cup and empty . . . those bottles, for two

VOICE: (Outside) Hallo, there! plate? No . . . perhaps I could use the AARON: Well, Rosie . . . next time we take a trip to town, I'll buy you some AARON: Here, Rosie ... let me go. old tin can I was growing the cactus plant more. I'll see who it is. (Calls) Hello. Who's in. The men will not notice. (Men ROSIE: And some strings for my there? heard approaching.) guitar, too, Aaron? I live in fear that VOICE: (Outside) A traveler . . . AARON: (Coming in) Drop your

. saddle right there by the door, my last strings will break . . and then, alas! I will not even stranger. Rosie, this is Joe Gib- have my music left in this bons, from up Nevada way. wilderness. Meet Mrs. Winters, Joe.

AARON: Unwrap your gui- ROSIE : We are very happy to tar, Rosie, and sing me some of make you welcome here in -our

. . little the old Spanish songs . the poor place. way you used to sing them in JOE: Well, I can tell you, it

Monterey. It'll make you feel looks mighty good to me . . . better maybe. after ridin' alone down this God- ROSIE: Very well, if you forsaken desert for days. wish it, Aaron. AARON: Where are you AARON: You keep that in- headin' for? strument covered up like it was JOE: Down South. Mebbe a child. over Texas way. Thought I'd ROSIE: The only child I try my hand at cattle raisin'. have. If I did not tend this old . . . Taken a crack at about guitar and keep it wrapped and everything else in my day . . . oiled, it would have dried out gold-huntin' . . . orange grow- and cracked apart in this furnace in' .. . teamin' . . . lumberin' long ago. But listen to it ...... farmin' . . . minin' . . . it's still sweet. (Rosie twangs AARON: Had luck at any of a string and hums a phrase.) 'em.

(She sings old Spanish-Ameri- JOE : Oh, I done well enough

can song with guitar accompani- here and there . . . but no rich ment.) strikes anywheres. Somehow I AARON: It's true enough, always jest manage to miss out. Rosie. You shouldn't be buried I hear tell that in the next town

out in this wilderness, two hun- . . . beyond the next mountain,

dred miles from the nearest rail- over the next river . . . there's road . . . with none to appre- a big chance to make money. So

ciate your talents but a dried up I move on . . . but I always old bag o' bones like me. I'm jest too late. ROSIE: My talents are for AARON: Yes ... I know

your pleasure, Aaron . . . here how that is. or anywhere. JOE: Take what happened AARON: Come over here here a while back. I heard talk

and sit by me, Rosie . . . and one night by a camp fire in Ore- don't think too hard of me for gon about some wonderful new keepin' you out here. (Faint discoveries of a thing called sound of horse's hoofs outside.) borax in Nevada ... at Colum-

ROSIE: Aaron, what's that bus and Teels Marsh . . . and

noise? It sounds like horses. how it was goin' to make the

AARON : Nonsense, Rosie . . . fortunes of a few lucky men. why nobody's come along Ash I'd heard about this here borax

Meadows Valley past this shack before . . . over to Clear Lake

since I can remember. (Hoof in California . . . and I knew beats come nearer. Sound of "Did you ever know who really discovered borax?" there was money in it. ... So I man whistling "Oh Susannah".) asked the Old Prospector. (Continued on page 91) —

ly Town Crier Tales

"By Ever Hear the One ALEXANDER About Empress WOOLLCOTT Josephine's Long Lost Necklace f

in- scene is a studio total strangers who aren't THEof the Columbia terested in them anyway, she Broadcasting System. explained to the clerk that this The time, any Monday was an old necklace that had or Friday evening at a quarter been in her family for years, after seven, EST., period of that she treasured it for sen- the Gruen Guild Watch. It's *>N timental reasons, and would a small studio. A grand piano be greatly obliged if he would fills half of it. Alexander do a little tinkering with the Woollcott, famous raconteur, clasp—that is, if it wouldn't fills the other half. cost too much. She scarcely cared to spend much money on a mere matter of senti- XHE announcer ment. starts his introduction. Wooll- The clerk yawned, gathered cott, seated before a table up the two ends of the string, microphone, glances at the and sauntered off to the back studio clock. And says: of the shop. Two minutes Alexander Woollcott from a sketch made later returned, his eyes snapping with "Tonight you must think of the old in France in 1919 and Called Soldier With he Town Crier as having come in out of Book excitement. Accompanying him was the the storm and sought a moment's peace big bewhiskered jewel expert clothed in and warmth beside your fireplace. He wayfarer who never came back to redeem Olympian calm, his excitement, if any. puts his bell and lantern in the corner it. It was therefore on sale and he pro- masked by his personal shrubbery. He and spreads his thin old hands to the blaze posed to ask a cool $2.50 for it. Well, wanted to know if Madame would be in- of your friendly logs. As his spectacles $2.50 about represented her working cap- terested in selling the necklace. Madame grow misty and his smelly old tuppet be- ital at the moment. "Easy come, easy go," felt as if an elevator had suddenly started gins to steam, he grows expansive and be- she said to herself, and went off with the to fall with her, but with one frantic gins, in his garrulous fashion, to spin a darned thing in her pocket. Afterwards, clutch, she recaptured her self control, few old wives' tales. If you, there in the she cleaned it up a bit, and used to wear and four generations of horse trading corner will stop making such a noise with it with great pride. As it happened, the Yankee ancestors took possession of their that cocktail shaker and if Junior will clasp was so old that it was worn through, offspring's spirit. The necklace, she said, stop scuffling his feet and take his algebra and one day, a few weeks later, as she was was not for sale. The jewel merchant be- homework into the next room, the Town prancing up Fifth Avenue, it broke. gan to hem and haw. Crier will tell a story or two. Some years "With one clutch she caught the string "She did a bit of hemming and haw- ago, when I was lolling one afternoon in before it began to disintegrate into the ing herself. Finally she expressed a purely the studio of Miss Neysa McMein—in oblivious traffic. Cursing softly but sin- academic interest in what Black Starr & those days her studio was about as hushed cerely to herself, she stood holding her Frost would be willing to offer. The reply and sheltered a spot as the Grand Con- collapsing necklace together and looking was immediate. $20,000.00. course of the Grand Central Terminal distractedly around for assistance. It was "That darned elevator began to fall there came breezing in a young painter then she noticed for the first time that again. Again the good old Puritan an- named Baskerville. He was in a state this mishap had befallen her directly in cestry sustained her swooning spirit. I of considerable excitement because of an front of the elegant and snooty jewel shop could go on with the story this way in- extraordinary chance that had just be- of Black Starr & Frost. Now normally definitely, but I will rush on to the con- fallen a friend of his. She had been am- she would no sooner have taken a bit of clusion. The necklace was of diamonds. bling along Sixth Avenue when her eye Sixth Avenue finery to that shop for re- The final stone on each end was carved was caught by a dusty old string of beads pair than she would have asked Revillion with an initial. On one end the initial was in a pawn shop window. What particu- Freres to sew up a rip in her little boy's 'N\ On the other end the initial was J'. larly interested her was the lovely old mittens. But there was help right at hand It was the long lost necklace of the Em- clasp of curious and intricate design, with and in she went. press Josephine.

which the string was fastened. Being a "She was very apologetic about it. •'That was the story as young Master

born shopper, she went in and priced it. With that curious and purposeless nun Baskerville told it to me. I confess it

The pawn-broker said that this bit of dacity in which we all indulge at such fascinated me, and being a member of junk had been pledged there some two or times, and by which we seek to conceal the staff of The Evening Sun at the time, three years before by a wild and shabby the humble facts of our existence from (Continued on page 10?} 20

me. On the night of the per- formance I quaked and trembled Great Austrian and shivered. I did not see how I could sing before so many people. Star Trembled in Only once later in my life, at the Metropolitan Opera House, was I Fear as She Made again overcome with such acute fright. However, the director of the Olmuetz Theatre tried his best Her Debut—then a to soothe me. He kept assuring me that everything would go off Miracle Happened. well once I was on the stage. I was pretty skeptical about that and thought to myself that my debut would mark my last public appear- ance. However, on the night of the performance, when I finally heard

life of every prima donna is my cue, I went on the stage and it was THEfilled with big moments. It is simply a miracle the way all my fears dis- one profession which, despite its appeared. I completely forgot everything many hours of hard and exact- but my role. I loved the part of Elsa ing work, the self-denial and the eternal and for the time being was Elsa. I was colored with care which it demands, is yet Maria Jeritza, famous prima donna of the so absorbed in my role that I did not see so many rich moments, that one feels Metropolitan Opera, New York. the audience. Yet there was an electric amply rewarded for all one does. feeling in the audience that goaded me Sometimes these moments may not be on and you can imagine how thrilled I big ones in the eyes of the public, yet the fact that I was so timid and shy, I was when they enthusiastically applauded they are dear to the prima donna. They could not be persuaded to sing for any- me at the end of the performance. I was may be little things which happen on the one. The mere suggestion was enough to very grateful for it too, as the success stage during the course of the opera terrify me. that I had, inspired me with the confi- which turn a threatening disaster into a Professor Auspitzer was in despair. dence which I needed so much. dazzling success; they may be when one He pleaded; he begged and he argued. Just as every American singer has her sings before royalty, before the disabled How was anyone to know that I pos- eyes on the Metropolitan Opera House, war veterans or the crippled children in sessed a singing voice if I would not sing? so in Austria, the greatest achievement hospitals. They may be the moments How was I going to make a career for is an engagement at the Hofoper. It is when the response of the audience is myself? But nothing he said was of any one of the most magnificent opera houses such that it grips you by the throat and avail. Then one day, when I was tak- in Europe and before the war there was the tears come. Or it may be a moment ing my lesson, he asked me to sing my no more wonderful sight than to see the when you have so lost yourself in the soul arias. One after another he took them men with their colorful uniforms and of a character that the composer himself until I finally protested. But he merely glittering decorations, and the women is overwhelmed by your interpretation. smiled and went to the door of the room. with their costly gowns and jewels. Then, of course, there are those mo- "Come in," he called. "I'm sure you There was such an air of splendor about

ments that mark a definite progress in have heard Maria sing enough to know the place that it made one tingle with your career. The ones that have helped what she can do." And in walked the excitement just to be there. to bring you nearer to the goal. Nat- director of the Olmuetz Theatre! Pro- Since the Hofoper only accepted ma- urally these are the most vital ones in fessor Auspitzer had hidden him in the ture artists who had had several years of my life and the first will therefore al- next room and there he had listened with experience and who were known to the ways stand out pre-eminently in my ease while I unknowingly had gone public, I naturally could not try there

. mind. through my repertoire. I was so aston- right away. So I first went to the Volks- When I was a very little girl in 01- ished I could not speak. But imagine my oper, a municipal opera house which was muetz, where I was born, my voice greater amazement when he said to me: also in Vienna and which had a very fine, showed exceptional promise. My father "You are engaged for my theatre. You reputation. encouraged me to study and he took me will make your debut as 'Elsa' in 'Lo- I worked very hard at the Volksopera " to Professor Auspitzer of Bruenn. He hengrin.' and I sang all kinds of parts. This was was an excellent singing teacher and I I need not describe the terrors I went valuable experience to me as it helped made splendid progress with him. How- through at the rehearsals. I am afraid me to build up a solid foundation and a ever, I was considerably handicapped by the company did not think very much of fine technique. I missed no opportunity 21 Moments by

had. But Gatti-Casazza would not listen JERITZA to my refusals and he kept coming back to me until I finally signed the contract. It was a rainy, dismal day when I ar- rived in this country. I knew very little English at the time and I had to rely on to study and to learn and to work over might be. My fond hopes expanded. others to make myself understood. In the smallest detail of my part. Gradu- Thus the very dream of my life came addition I had to prepare to make my ally I began to be known and I was often true when I was asked to create the title American debut in one of the most diffi- asked to appear in other cities as guest role of this opera at its world premiere. cult of operas. "The Dead City.'' All artist. Then, one season, the directors Another moment that will always re- these things combined to bring back my of the great Hofoper decided to give main a significant one for me was when former fear of singing to an audience. "Aphrodite." As this was its first pres- Gatti-Casazza offered me a contract to Every day I wished myself home in entation, they were anxious to insure its sing at the Metropolitan Opera House. I Vienna. I felt I could not go through success in every way. They found, was not acquainted with Americans and the ordeal. I constantly reproached my- though, that they could not engage any the thought of singing to such a totally self for having signed the contract. of their own singers for the leading role different audience, made me hesitate. I As curtain time drew nearer. I was because none was young or slender felt safe and secure in Vienna. Why ven- seized with such trembling that I could enough to interpret it. It would not do ture so far away to a land about which not move. Everyone attempted to com- to have a fat and middle-aged Aphrodite, I had heard so many strange stories? It fort me and to cheer me up. But I no matter how glorious her voice was better to be satisfied with what one (Continued on page 104)

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"jiere s to a ^appy

Say your ^adil o ravorite

Mike Resolutions Made Bring You Bigger and

Than Ever — They Sol- Brand New Gags, Songs

greater Garbos and a couple of new but wearable neckties. And God bless Mama Audience and Papa Public, and make

Phil Spitalny Ray a good boy to listen to." Phillips H. Lord was next. The creator of Uncle Abe and David and Seth Parker answered my New Year's query in the genuine vernacular of his beloved hymn-

RADIO delivers and fulfills but IFhalf the hopes, during 1931, of your favorite entertainers, you will un- conditionally agree that the new leaves that are being turned over this New Year's Eve, have not been turned in vain. What a mass of good' intentions! And they'll be made good, too, or I don't know the mike stars I've been writ- ing about these many months and years. Muriel Pollock Rapidly nipping the pages of a note- book filled in the course of a score or more of interviews with the air's great, its greater appreciation by the public the I humbly beg to report that you fellow cause for its production. dialsters are in for more variety, novel- But who (see if you can guess) —who ties, laughs, sunshine, cheer, beauty, would dare to wish for "louder crooners" artistry and intelligent efforts. Better and "softer trombones"? You're right orchestrations, sound effects, rehearsals, Ray Perkins, the famous Old Topper preparation, manuscripts and continuities and Prince of Pineapple. Waxing face- are in the bag for 1931, and as for drama, tious just to keep in character, Perkins watch for more plays based on historical said: fact, and better dramas produced better. "After painful introspection and deliber- One of your best ation (resulting in a headache), I am liked stars hopes to. see still able to announce the following reso- a Radio rejuvenation lutions which I shall break in 1931: of the old, backwoods "(1) I will not climb the studio por- square dance; another tieres. (2) I will stop crying when I hear looks forward to giv- sob-ballads. (3) I will have my over- ing you more of the tones examined for flats. (4) I will not soothing, native Amer- compete with Vallee, McNamee or Gib- ican folk music, a third bons. They have their public, and I have trusts that the new mine. (5) I will not attempt to imitate year will bring a re- Four Pineapples. naissance of grand op- "I hope that 1931 brings louder croon- era on the Radio, with ers, softer trombones, bigger midgets, Steele Jamison 23 TVew }€ar"

e^tars Evans E. Plummer

£y Studio Folks Will Better Entertainment

emnly Swear to Present And Radio Thrillers

singing character: "Wal, now, I don't know about this resolvin' business, but I do have two Lee Sims programs that I'd like mighty well to send to listeners in 1931. An' if resolvin'll help to put 'em across, I'll make the

is the ole time, down resolution. One of millions of minds and hearts by the square dance with fid- East, backwoods beauty of a song? And where shall this lead us? The microphone is my gate- way to the hearts of men. The magic carpet, the seven league boots and Mer- cury's sandals were limited powers in comparison with Radio. My fervent wish for 1931 is that my art be part of your everyday life, for if it is not that, it is not art. May we create beauty together!'' And lovely Olive Palmer, Palmolive prima donna, sends you her greetings with Ruth Lyon the message: "If my microphone were only Alad- dies scrapin', harmonickies wheezin', feet din's magical lamp, it wouldn't be neces- resolu- shufllin' and the head man singin' the sary for me to make a New Year's every calls in the background. That's one thing tion. I'd simply ask it to convey to desire to I'd like to do on the air in 1931. one of my listeners the keen into every note "The other is to bring back in a Ra- give pleasure, which goes dio program the Big Band Wagon that of my songs. But without benefit of hop- used to tour the countryside in the ole magic, I've decided to work harder, of artistic days, goin' from town to town and pro- ing that I may run the gamut bringing a mot in' the neighborly spirit. What we preferences in my audience, atmosphere and need next year is tolerance, tolerance and little more intelligence, aria I may sing. more tolerance, and don't you forget it, artistry to every song or young fellow." I'm interested in seeing better balanced. of the concert Whether Jessica will make more than more finished programs '"Olive", or vice versa during 1931, is type in 1931." something for you to worry about, but Lowell Thomas, what the Misses Dragonctte and "Pal- reporting soldier of mer'' (Virginia Rae) hope to accomplish fortune and Ra- during the ensuing year is best told dio representative by the famous sopranos themselves. Pe- of the Literary Di- tite Jessica, of Cities Service conceits, gest, has a good said: idea to kill the "Who can estimate the force and blues early this Muriel Wilson power engendered by the concentration year. "They tell 24

Here's one resolution we predict will make a good paving stone for warm regions—Nat BrusilofiF and his Nestle Chocolateers promise to be more serious in 1931 than they have been in the past.

me," said he, "that I talk to more than Rolfe's orchestra program, wants to see sponsor of the none-meddlesome variety, 30,000,000 people every night. This fact in 1931, is more work provided for mu- one who'll allow me to have my boys seems to me fantastic and incredible, and sicians by their unions. Charlie deplores play the music the public likes best, and prompts my first determination for the the present situation. As far as personal play it in the fashion we have become a new year. resolutions go, he neither drinks nor little famous for originating. Then I'll "In 1931 I'm going to spin more yarns smokes and hopes next year not to see enjoy taking the entire responsibility for and reel off more news flashes which are his record broken. He also plans to work the success or failure of the program on dominated by the spirit of optimism and even harder than last year and better his my own shoulders." good cheer. I think I have the 'swellest' best total of 31 appearances a week, be- job in the world, and a unique chance sides recording and picture engagements. among Radio performers, because I can Magnante, by way of holding stock in his T*..HE same sentiment is exercise a power of selection—an edi- future, adds that he hopes the demand echoed by Russell Pratt, "My Bookhouse torial choice of my material. Without for "squeeze box" squeezers will increase Story Man" as well as one of the "Three sugar-coating the facts of life, or garbling and finally make this instrument surpass Doctors", of CBS and WMAQ fame. the news, I can pick out and emphasize the saxophone in popularity. "Most sponsored programs are too seri- the cheerful angle of the day's happen- "Yeah?" said Rudy Weidoeft, world's ous," he said. "I resolve to be serious ings. That is my resolve." premier saxophonist and teacher of the only for the children; never for the leading players of that instrument, in- grownups. The best salesmanship is not cluding Rudy Vallee. "Here's what I the 'deadly' type but the sort that 'kids' A,.NOTHER Radio act, of hope to accomplish in '31. I want to the prospective buyer into lowering his which you perhaps have heard, is known make my programs replete with more guard, then slips the sales talk gently as Amos V Andy (film version Check variety and novelties, better music and across. Trouble is," the "doctor" con- and Doable Check, Adv.), and who tone colorings to distinguish those pro- tinued, "most sponsors interfere too much doesn't know this pair? Both Amos and grams from a dozen others. Better mu- with the talent. Sherman, Rudolph and Andy, or rather Freeman Gosden and sical transcriptions will go a long way I know our audience, and we insist that Charlie Correll, their creators, tell me toward making this come true, and one we be allowed to play to that audience, that 1931 will find their six-a-week skit other factor—the return of so many if we are expected to bring in results." packed full of good wholesome laughter disillusioned songwriters from Hollywood. More light opera and current shows on and optimism. "We know business is Personally I hope to improve my ability the air are the '31 hope of Ruth Lyon, good and getting better," the famous as player, writer and arranger. CBS soprano who was honored to be se- blackface pair maintained, "and maybe lected as soloist with the Minneapolis we can poke enough fun at the thrifty Symphony Orchestra in its broadcasts last public so that they will start spending A,_RT KASSEL, whose Kas- year. Though all her training has been some of the money they've been hoard- sels in the Air orchestra is a prime fa- for the classics, Miss Lyon prefers the ing, and causing tough times by so vorite with the folk of Chicago and the Victor Herbert type of music. She sees doing." Midwest, held one simple hope for 1931 this year bringing light operas to the stage What Charlie Magnante, world's fore- which may have been fulfilled by the as outstanding hits and hopes the Ra- most accordionist, the Pierre of the Ver- time you are reading this. "Give me," dio world will follow suit. mont Lumberjacks program as well as in said Kassel, "one kind-hearted and wise (Continued on page 93) ! —

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T> I A M O N D S

Famous Historian Tells

Scintillating Story of How

The Dutch Cornered the

Gem Market of the World

"By Hendrik Willem Van Loon

AM sorry but I must not speak too minutes. We did not suddenly say loudly to you—for it is three o'clock yesterday evening, ''That was a I in the morning, and this is a small remarkably good dinner and now country. wouldn't it be fun to talk to home Wouldn't do to wake up the good peo- for a couple of minutes!" ple. They consider the night to have been On the contrary. The jeweler Hendrik Willem Van Loon, noted author and his- made for sleep, and turn off their rail- in whose interest I am speaking to- torian, who broadcast this history of diamonds roads and steamers, and even the cows are night has been at work since over the Columbia Broadcasting System on the first requested to graze very quietly. early March to get this connec- Holland to United States hook-up. Of course, that is not exactly our system. tion through, and the reason why We like to make the day as dark as he has taken this vast amount of night by a little coal-soot and turn the trouble—the endless official correspon- reason why it has existed so much longer night into day by burning up a fortune dence with foreign telephone and broad- and bids fair to exist until we all pack up in electric light. casting companies — petitions to the our little toys and move for further safe- Maybe that is the way to do it. weather bureau for good weather so that keeping to the next planet. Amsterdam's

And maybe it is not. the ocean would not interfere with an beginning was so prosaic that it is funny. On the average people here live a otherwise honest Dutch accent (Dutch For the town of Amsterdam stands upon couple of years longer (sounds funny accents on the air and quite ordinary the bones of an humble fish called the her- but ask the man of the statistics) —they mild storms have been known to provoke ring. I do not mean that the houses have do live a few years longer by going to cyclones) —all this was done for one pur- been actually constructed on the skeletons bed, if not with the chickens at least with pose and for one purpose only—to give of these long defunct fishes. They are the roosters, and if there is anything in his prospective customer a chance to feel firmly built on Norwegian pine—a couple history—and there is a lot in history if and notice—to realize in an almost tan- of hundred trees to each house—but the you will only take the trouble to read gible manner—that Amsterdam, this an- prosperity of this village was dragged out it thoroughly—there surely is something cient stronghold of the diamond trade, of the sea and it took four centuries be- to be said for the system of separating actually exists. That it is not a mere fore those good people were able to trans- the night from the day and not inter- fable like those famous mines of Gol- form a kippered herring into a well-cut fering too seriously with the arrangements conda which sound so well in poetry and diamond. And thereby goes a story which of this planet as they were originally in- which never produced a diamond—being I shall tell you some time when I have a tended. merely the name of a strong fortress in- couple of years oft', for it is the entire For I am not speaking to you from this habited by a Turkish adventurer who, story of the world from the twelfth to distant city because the sunsets are having conquered the greater part of the sixteenth centuries. But a fascinating brighter, or begin a few minutes earlier northern India, invested his surplus rev- story because it is in many ways the than in New Amsterdam, or because the enue in the largest diamonds that were story of our own beginnings. tide runs four times a day instead of available until his treasure-chest on top three as in most other countries. Neither of Golconda's rocks—an immeasurably have all those intricate arrangements of strong castle—came to be associated with T,.HIS town had nothing to wire and air and more wire and right-of- the idea of diamonds itself. begin with—nothing but tlat mud-banks way across that wire and through that But this town of Amsterdam which was a few thatch-roofed houses—a handful of particular air and night -porters getting built seven hundred years ago had very people shivering and poor. If they had me out of bed at half-past two in the different beginnings from the old capital ever thought that their great-great-grand- morning—been the work of the last five of Kuth Shahi, which was probably the children should own so much as a single — — —

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did not know what to do with them us not be too hard on what we so lightly pasted them into covers of books—pretty call the ignorance of our mediaeval an- little pieces of stone—no great value—let cestors. In many ways they were wiser the kids play with them. that we often are willing to recognize And this ignorance continued for a for all during the Middle Ages the popu- long, long time, for when Charles the lace firmly believed that in far off Kathay Bold was killed by Swiss mercenaries in there was found a stone which could pre- the year 1477—those honest Swiss peas- vent quarrels between husband and wife ants took the diamond buttons which the —yea, they even had a name for it—they Duke of Burgundy wore—he was the called it the "stone of reconciliation" and richest man of his time—his fortune was who shall say that they were very far estimated at almost three million dollars wrong? But all that happened long, long and he was so incredibly rich that his ago and I doubt whether the most forgiv- daughter actually owned one pair of silk ing of wives today would feel strongly stockings—well, those Swiss peasants cut compelled to indulge in a great deal of off those pretty round stones and played "reconciliationing" if she had been given marbles with them and sold them eventu- one of those crudely shaped glassy looking A diamond star from the Russian crown ally to a nimble-fingered gentleman from baubles with which the better situated jewels, recently sold by the Soviet Govern- Mayence and held their tummies laughing among the Roman emperors thought that ment. Contains 1,500 carats of diamonds. when he gave them as much as a dollar they could please the first lady of the land. a piece for those silly bits of glass. The art of diamond cutting was still in diamond let alone be the central market — such utter infancy that it almost sprawled. for that trade—they would have wept And even after the discovery by da tears from joy. They did not—in all the XHAT ignorance continued Gama of a short-cut to the home of the land there was not a single diamond to be and was to continue until a certain Vasco adamant stone (for Brazil and South had—in all of Europe there were not da Gama did what nobody had done for Africa were not known to produce dia- half a more than dozen. The Romans the last two thousand years, he rounded monds until three and four hundred years the who in matter of luxury were past the cape which rises at the southernmost later), the diamond industry would never masters where are merely beginners we point of Africa and reached a country have got very far if the mathematician had not bothered about them. The reason called India and came home with stories had not come to its aid—the mathema- was that nobody knew how to cut them of incredible wealth of golden temples tician and the mineralogist, for in those the Indian diamond merchants polished and heathen golden images whose eyes days science was not yet divided into in- them up a bit cut away the rough places — were of a strange stone—this stone was numerable little divisions and subdivisions —polished the corners—the effect wasn't the mysterious Adamas—the invincible and those two were one. brilliant. There are a dia- very few such stone of which Pliny speaks as the most The art of diamond cutting was first monds which Charlemagne, the greatest valuable of gems known only to kings—of developed at the court of those same collector of his time, seems to have gath- which he had heard people speak but Dukes of Burgundy who played such an ered and given to the church—the church which he had never seen. important role in European history and And then and then only, when Europe who by a clever policy of what today had discovered the straight road to India we call "consolidation" had accumulated —when Portuguese traders began to every bit of valuable real estate in west- dicker for idols' eyes and bits of queerly ern Europe. But it was not their wealth shaped minerals that were washed up by and their desire for splendor, but also the rivers and found in the sandy banks their intense interests in the arts and of Indus and the Ganges—then did the sciences, which made their court a com- Adamas, now corrupted into adamant and bination of university, school of manners, for convenience sake into damant—which symphony hall and business office—a com- is hard to pronounce and quite naturally bination which in our time is as unknown becomes diamond—then only did this as the unfortunate dodo who became ex- stone cease to be the center of an entire tinct because he was so funny looking mythology which had been woven around that all sailors must take a couple of

it. them home to amuse the kids. No longer were diamonds supposed to cure people from fits—to prevent insanity —to be an antidote for snakebite—to de- T.HENH finally in Bruges a liver people from the evil eye. But let mathematical genius discovered the true nature of the diamond, and for that same Charles the Bold who so miserably per- ished at the hands of the Swiss merce- naries he cut a number of raw diamonds

and did it in the so-called "brilliant" fash- ion which had given us a name which has survived until this very day. But then the stern and mysterious laws of economics began to take a hand in the matter, for nothing in this world from diamonds to a knowledge of the minor Malay dialects or the peace of mind that surpasses understanding is ever acquired

The famous Cullinan diamond as it ap- peared when mined, and several of the beautiful pear-shaped and square diamond] cut from it

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27 without giving something in return. And Why this should have the more one wishes to obtain—no mat- been so it is not hard to say. ter in what field—the more one had to The trade is what one might give as seems absolutely just. I except call a traditional trade—it those who belong to the amiable school is one of the few things in of getting something for nothing and who this modern world of ma- unfortunately never graduate, as that, chinery which cannot be left school does not seem to be able to get its to machinery. It is not so pupils to the final grade before they have much a matter of an ability been removed to an institution which the to polish in a certain way. ancient Spaniards, according to their as an almost inborn knack strange habit, called a prison. to know exactly what one As nothing is ever given for nothing, can do with the indifferent one has to have something to give in re- piece of quartz that has turn for the something one wishes to been fished out of the soil of Africa that has obtain—so then it appeared that the very South or careful, and ofttimes slightly close-fisted been brought down from fishermen of that noble herring pond the mountains of some un- known as the North Sea and its small known Indian frontier tribe. dependency the Zuyder Zee, had accumu- And such skill—like the lated the wealth with which one could buy skill of the weaver or the those self-same ornaments that looked so pottery-maker or the violin badly on their own wives (still slightly maker, cannot be learned tinged with herring bones), but so well from books but has to be on the wives of Their Lordships to the absorbed with the paternal South and the East of them, who fished pap—has to have been part not, neither did they plow, but who by of the household conversa- other means could sweat enough taxes out tion for generation after of their long-suffering peasants and serfs generation. And such de- to obtain whatever they wished to possess. velopments can only grow And now we come to one particular and flourish in certain cen- item of the law of supply and demand ters where life is placid and not an ideal law, but one that has the ad- the conditions of living are vantage of working with less general dis- such as to induce a certain comfort than any other law we have peace of mind and great devised so far. That particular item tells economic safety, born not us that art follows the full dinner-pail only out of political condi- and since the full dinner-pail had moved tions but also out of a well- to the banks of the Zuyder Zee, art fol- understood policy of eco- lowed too to the banks of the Zuyder Zee. nomic live and let live, And since the jeweler and the stone-cutter based upon self-interest mit- were in those days an undistinguishable igated by tolerance and the part of the art world—as by rights they desire to give the other fel- should be today—they too moved north- low a chance. ward and the full dinner-pail made them welcome and learned their trade and then went and dickered with His Majesty the Tb.HOSE con- King of Spain, who owned the whole world ditions until very recently but whose credit was almost as bad as were to be found here and mine. That is all right for an historian that undoubtedly is the rea- but very uncomfortable for the most son why I was asked to speak powerful monarch of his day. to you from the spot where the diamond ceased to be the eye of an idol and became XHEY showed His Majesty the idol of a great many bags full of honest Amsterdam ducats and eyes—the town where books His Majesty signed on the dotted line were first printed so that dotted in gold paint for the occasion, no they should be within the doubt, but terribly dotted just the same reach of everybody (per- and His Majesty, for a sum down in that haps the greatest spiritual rare but agreeable commodity called "spot revolution of the last six cash", guaranteed to sell all his diamonds hundred years) —where first This portrait of Queen Mary of England, now hung in wherever found to the diamond cutters of of all wool and linen were the Ottawa National Art Galleries shows her wearing His Majesty's former city of Amsterdam. woven so that nobody many of the costly crown jewels and decorations of His Majesty got the cash and the Amster- needed go cold—undoubt- England. dam jewelers got the diamonds, and judg- edly a selfish arrangement ing by results, His Majesty also got the on the part of the weavers but like so snake-bite to squinting— to what it is worst of the deal, but being a Majesty many intelligent manifestations of self-in- today. But what it is today, alas. 1 can- and having signed on the dotted line, he terest of more direct benefit to the com- not tell you. for my time is up—the man had to stick to his bargain and from that munity than altruism based upon a vague with the ominous watch and the threat- moment on, about the beginning of the hope—and finally the town where jewelry ening one linger tells me that 1 have only eighteenth century, the diamond trade in general and diamonds in particular were sixty more seconds ami therefore all 1 came to the banks of the Zuyder Zee and changed from an object of warfare and have left is time to say—good-night. has stayed there until today. plunder and a cure-all for everything from ' ( Ttxtfurnisktdhycourteiy ) 28 Is n^mance ©ead? Fannie Hurst Answers...

A T has romance. It is a large W'Hhappened to room with a dim cathe- romance? dral-like interior lighted There are by huge floor candela- many of the beaux of bras. The color motif yesterday who believe is red—a bright roman- that when the frail and tic red that somehow mysterious femininity makes one think of the gave way to the flaming days of the Renaissance. flapper with her hard- The luxurious rugs, the working lipstick and her tapestries, the many own pay check, it cushioned sofa were all marked the demise of of this shade. So too romance. That with the was the smock which changing status of wom- the author wore over a an, her insistence upon gown of black silk. man's code, and her free- Miss Hurst, because dom to adventure, love she is a warm, human would never more be personality, and very the alpha and omega of much herself, is at once her life and that she the most vivid thing in would not make sacri- this vivid room. She has fices for it. As proof dark beauty that stands they point to the in- out effectively against creasing numbers of the striking background. women who noncha- Her hair, which she lantly turn their backs on wears drawn straight marriage or who divide back from a wide brow, Fannie Hurst is the most vivid thing in a vivid room it with a career. is a glossy black, and Not that the fair sex her eyes are luminously dark. Her skin is flaw- is entirely to blame. An Interview These advocates of yes- less and her features terday likewise admit By Lillian G. Genn perfect. She speaks in that the materialism and a voice that is well- speed of the age, and the modulated and sweet. revelations that science has made, have mantic. Human nature remains unchanged. There is something about the large also played their part in hastening the And yet, as those who have read her cathedral-like room, with its hushed passing of romance. For how. they claim, short stories and her novels well know, solemnity, and its religious images, that can romance flourish in a whirling mael- she does not view life as a romanticist. makes one imagine one is living in another covered strom? How can there be any glamour She sees its dark and seamy side; its age. Not even the grand piano, about love when science has stripped it struggles and its heartbreak, all of which with music, and the current magazines of its aura of mystery and illusion? she portrays with the keen and sympa- and books which filled the tables and of And so they wistfully sigh for the days thetic understanding that is her genius. benches, and which brought a note when woman was an ethereal and elusive But in her stories, there runs, too, the modernity into the place, seem to dispel creature on a pedestal who knew nothing scarlet thread of romance: she points out that feeling. of the world. When life was lived more the loveliness and the throbbing beauty of leisurely and there was time for chivalry the world and depicts the yearning and and the sentimentalities of love. the longing of the human soul for love. H«LOWEVER, despite this But Fannie Hurst, for one. does not This is particularly true of her new novel, old-world background, Miss Hurst is very join their sighs. This brilliant writer, Back Street, in which she weaves a rich much of a modernist. She sees no glam-' with whom the subject was discussed. tapestry of life, centered around the story our in the past and does not worship at has no patience with those backward look- of a great passion. its shrine. She further believes that while ing souls who rhapsodise about the past. Miss Hurst's studio apartment, where the externals of life have changed, ro- She finds that there is much about life the interviewer went to see her, provided mance is as glowingly alive as it ever was today which is alluring and thrillingly ro- an appropriate setting for a discussion of and that love is still the supreme flower 29

4 10DAY it is love which is the

mainspring of marriage... woman

has the great thrill of going out

to seek Romance herself"

of life. It is the ideal motive force. picturesque today. That the just-around- "None of the changes that have taken the-corner aspect of the city is any less place," she said, "have been able to up- romantic. root human nature. Human beings are "The old days of open fireplaces and fundamentally the same. They still crave cold backs, of candles and smoky oil "Her hair is a glossy black and her eyes romance and are struggling to inject as lamps, of traveling inconveniences and luminously dark." much of it as is possible into their lives. few diversions have no allure for me. It It is a deep and beautiful thing that will is perfectly true that we live too rapidly forever be loved. today, but aside from the romantic gen- personal merits. If he doesn't measure "It seems to me, too, that even though tlemen who had time to celebrate life in up, she doesn't accept him for the sake there have been many outer, material verse and song, the romantic ages we of a meal ticket. She can earn her own. changes, the glamour of life is all about talk about must have been most uncom- "Today it is love which is the main- us. Certainly there is romance in flying fortable, and, considering the lack of spring of marriage. It is only the feel- on top of the world; romance in listening medical knowledge, quite painful as well." ing and the love of two people for each to music that travels the air for thou- "But what about the fact," Miss Hurst other which unites and keeps them to- sands of miles. was questioned, "that women now work gether. A woman is no longer compelled side by side with men in the business to endure unbearable conditions in order marts? Hasn't that somewhat destroyed to present a false front of wedded bliss T.HEH whole trouble is that the romantic relation which once existed to the world. Society has become more we are apt to canonize the past. If the between them?" broad-minded; it does not condemn her troubadours of yesterday could see a "There's not so much artificial restraint if she seeks a divorce. Nor is any door silver airplane against the sun or listen between the sexes," she answered. "Young of opportunity closed to her. She can to the wonders of the air, they would call men and women no longer ascribe ficti- continue to get just as much pleasure this the romantic age. And viewed from tious and over-idealized qualities to each from life. certain angles we are very much more other. Less illusion exists. Men and "The fact that a husband and wife romantic than the languid days when women are now human beings to each have greater freedom, has also made their people lived under conditions that were other and not gods and goddesses. In relationship more interesting. Marriage anything but beautiful. If we examine view of this, the antiquated relationship doesn't get a chance to pall through con- them carefully, we will find a good many has become somewhat ridiculous. stant and enforced association of hus- dark and somber things. Cities were "How can we any longer have any band and wife. And because it is the rather filthy places in which to drag regard for the old relationship which accepted thing for each to associate with satin and brocaded gowns. relegated woman to the four walls and members of the opposite sex, they must "I am often asked, though, how I can allowed her to look at life through the be more on tip toe in their efforts to hold call our crowded cities with their gloomy window blinds? Which accorded man an each other. subways, ugly oil stations and elevated unequal share of power and of pleasures? "With the relationship based on honesty railways, romantic? But in any age you Certainly there was something else in life and truth and mutual respect, it gives will find that corresponding conditions for woman besides staying at home and marriage more dignity and beauty and existed. The old Italian cities we rave having her hands kissed." sanctity. The fact that there are more about and we believe to be so romantic, divorces is only because men and women if we had to live in them today, would will not tolerate hypocrisy and pretense in repel us. Indeed, they were so dark and -[Nevertheless," the their marriages. While divorce is de- unhygienic, that we would regard them author was further probed, "hasn't the plorable, yet it is certainly far better as slums. There was nothing attractive freedom between men and women and than the continuance of a marriage which about the slaves who had to do all the their greater frankness, all tended to rob was miserable and in which the spiritual toiling. love of its piquancy and its romantic values were dead. "Life then had just as many ugly as- glamour?" "Woman has naturally gained more by pects as it has today, but we are prone "Not at all," she smiled. "Human rela- the improved marriage institution. A man to cast our eyes on the bright spots and tionships are just as exciting. In fact they now doesn't expect his wife to devote gloss over the rest. have now become accelerated because twenty-four hours of the day to taking "There is romance in our surroundings woman has become more selective. An care of the house and serving him. He if we but look for it. When I walk affair has also become a battle of wits. respects her individuality and concedes through Central Park and see the well- A woman doesn't look at a man through her right to life, liberty and the pursuit groomed people, the lines of shining, eyes dazzled by the matrimonial halo. of happiness. She is not only allowed to swiftly moving motor cars, and the sky- There are so many things the modern use her own mind, but is encouraged to scrapers and minarets looming up against woman can do in life, that marriage do so. an azure sky, I can't say that life is less doesn't attract her unless the man has "All this, to my mind, has made the 30

Fannie Hurst, author of Lummox and Back Street, romps with her police dog

modern woman a much more interesting just as important a place in man's life live with her today, they would rebel. and glamorous creature than the fragile, and means as much to him. If he has They may find it somewhat trying to have fainting prude of previous days." not exalted it above all other things, it woman, who once regarded them as su- "Do you believe," Miss Hurst was is only because he has never been called perior beings, now challenging their priv- asked, "that the modern woman has be- upon to make any sacrifices for it. It ileges and their supremacy. But I'm cer- come so self-centered and so intent on her has always been woman's role to dedicate tain they would not exchange the new own interests that she would not make herself to making sacrifices. intellectual companion and comrade that sacrifices for love, as has been frequently "This is still very much of a man's they have, for the dependent clinging vine charged? That she is incapable of the world and it will take a long time before of yesterday. deep and enduring affection of her pred- established customs will change. Men ecessors?" have never been required to subordinate "A "I know scores of women," she replied, their lives to love. But they are begin- ilS FAR as woman is con- "who are practically throwing their lives ning to do it now. You find that there cerned, she would not care to give up the away for love. The heroine in Back are men who have given up position and opportunities she has won for the chivalry Street is by no means an exceptional case. wealth and opportunities for the love of and the courtesy which men once ac-

She is, on the contrary, a symbol of the some woman. There have been a few corded her. or for the duels which were deathlessness of woman's capacity to love. rare and exceptional examples in history fought in her name. If life was romantic and in time to come it will not be an in the days of knighthood, it was only so unusual occurrence. Women will have for the men. JT ERSONALLY I believe no monopoly on making sacrifices for "Women were kept cloistered in their it is a mistake for a woman to give up love. Men are as romantic a sex as towers, and the chief pleasure they had, everything for love. If she concentrates women and if they will be called upon outside of embroidering, was the vicarious her life on a man. and allows her indi- to make the grand sacrifice, they will one of listening to the men's tales. The viduality to be absorbed by his. she is do it." knights were the ones that had the ad- bound to find, when love fades, that her The novelist thought that while we ventures. Not their wives. companionship has little to offer. She may call this a materialistic age, yet life "What does the outward gesture, the loses her hold on his love. And in the today is gayer and brighter than in the hand kissing and the pretty phrases end, even if she has children, she finds so-called romantic age. We should be amount to when compared with the herself alone. She has nothing she can athrill with the vast number of oppor- greater thrill that woman has of going out give anyone. There is nothing she can tunities that are open to us to lead hap- to seek romance for herself? do for herself." pier and more interesting lives. "We perhaps haven't so much of the "But love does mean more to woman, "This is just as true for the men," she sentimentalities of romance and the out- doesn't it?" said. "If those who pine for the old- ward display, but real romance, the deep, "No," Miss Hurst returned. "It has fashioned type of wife actually had to sincere and durable kind, still flourishes." " I ! ——I

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j^rom The \Jld furiosity szjhop Comes The Tale of The Golden xJaton

IS dark in the Old Curiosity Shop,

"A golden baton ! Tell me about Nay, fool not yourselves see you—and tell you how happy I am it." about your success. Once was this baton burnished and bright So the Shopkeeper begins. "One Johann: Helen—all of this—the Wielded night I was in my shop alone. It was by one who was master of musical applause of the people of Leipzig art. a miserable, rainy night, and the wind the success that I have had— is noth- (Adapted) was howling through cracks in the ing. door, and down the chimney. The Helen: Nothing! Johann . . . rain was beating against the windows Johann: Nothing— if I do not like a drum. I was just about to close have your love. Ah I know— I have up for the night when I saw a man never spoken of it before. But now coming across the street toward my I must, or my heart will break from door. remember that night when all Leipzig ac- what it would have me say. Helen— ' . "He spoke in a broken, cracked voice, claimed me . . love you—with all my heart I do! with a strong German accent, As the and asked Shopkeeper goes on with his Helen: I know—Johann. if I was the keeper of the shop. When I story we see a great concert hall in the Johann: The symphonies that I play assented, he hesitated and inquired, 'You city of Leipzig: they are only your lovely voice speaking buy—second hand things? I have come to to me. I hear you in every note, my dear sell baton ! my My precious gold baton Burgomeister: Herr Kindler—as Bur- The tempo is the beating of my heart for

. . . You will buy it?' gomeister of the city of Leipzig, it is un- you—and once in a while I even think 1 "I looked at the inscription, which was happy privilege to show you. in part at hear you say—I love you—so softly. engraved in German. With my slight knowl- least, the honor that is rightfully your due. Helen: I thought I could sense that. edge of the language, I could make out In so doing, I speak for all the people of Johann. in your music. the words, 'affection and esteem—Herr our city, from whose hearts comes this Johann: Then—you do love me. Johann Kindler Leipzig Symphony.' — expression of esteem . . . You have just Helen? You do care for me? " " ! — —

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Helen: Yes, dear. I love you, too. to play for you—the Symphony Pathe- Helen that he mutters about. I only wish that I might be worthy of a tique! Listen—I will play—where is my Second Nltrse: That's all the more thing so fine and great as your love. baton—Helen. reason why we should open it. Probably Johann: But you are, dearest. You First Nurse: Poor chap—he's been she's his sweetheart, and doesn't know are more than worthy. out of his head ever since they brought where he is.

Helen : You are so fine, Johann. You him in from the field hospital. First Nurse: That's so. Well—open are to be one of the world's greatest Second Nurse: Yes. And always he it. musicians—one of the masters of all mumbles something about Helen and his First Nurse: (She tears open the en- time. And I . . . gold baton—and some symphony. He velope) Oh! Johann: And you are the woman I must be a musician. First Nurse: What is it? What's it love, Helen. Oh—I am so happy! I shall First Nurse: Yes—I expect he is. I say? do such great things—because of you! don't know why he seems any more Second Nurse : Oh ! It's a good thing Now I shall live—really live—because I pathetic than the other cases, but he does. we did open this. We could never have love! Think of it, Helen—our life to- Second Nurse: Perhaps it's because no shown it to him. It is from the Helen that gether one ever he's —our love—our music. I—I want comes to see him. Nearly every- been talking about. Listen. . . . to kiss you, Helen. one else in this world has a guest now and "Dear Johann: I am sorry to have to Helen: Yes. (They kiss tenderly.) then, but no one has ever come to ask write you such a letter as this will be, but Johann: You—dear heart—you are about Kindler. I feel that it is the only fair thing to do. my symphony. You are the expression First Nurse: Kindler? That it should come at a time when you of all that is beautiful in life—all that is Second Nurse: Yes—that's his name. are away at the front gives me even beautiful and good. We found out from some of the papers greater concern, but to delay in telling you Helen: Is it not strange, Johann, that in his uniform yesterday. Nobody knew would be to make matters worse. Johann love can stand against the world? That who he was before. —our love has been a very tender and a love lives for itself and by itself? From First Nurse: Then—somebody has very beautiful thing. I shall always re- now on, I shall live but for you thought of him, at least. member it as one of the loveliest things in Johann: Helen! Second Nurse: What do you mean? my life. But it is just that beauty—that First Nurse: This letter. It came fragility—that tells me it would never But their happiness is short-lived. War, several days ago—forwarded from the stand the shocks and trials of life. Johann the great interrupter, comes to spoil their front. I couldn't find out who Johann —I have found love—the kind of love that dream of a life together. And at their Kindler was, so I tossed it in the drawer is sturdy enough to last through, and I am parting Johann speaks of his faith. of this desk. to be married next week. Please try to "I believe in our love, Helen. It will be Second Nurse: Yes—that's for him al- understand, my dear, and know that the like a light guiding me through the black- right. But—I don't believe he'll be able memory of our love shall always be the ness of war. Always I shall see your face, to read it—for a long, long time. most beautiful part of my life . . . looking at me, and urging me on. We'll First Nurse: Even when he comes Helen." show them that our love can stand the into his right mind again, we must be very First Nurse: Oh! How can we tell fire and— terror of war. And when it careful about it. The doctor told me this him. How can we ever let him know? is over morning that any shock—even the slight- Second Nurse: We can't. He would Helen continues the thread, "I shall be est little thing—might keep him from ever never stand it. No—we must wait until here—as I always have been—waiting for getting his sanity back again. he is fit again—and let him go to Leipzig you to come to me: Waiting for you to Second Nurse: I know . . . This seems and find this thing out for himself. take me in your arms and mend my broken to be a woman's handwriting. Do you First Nurse: Yes . . . Oh—how heart, my dear." suppose many souls has this war torn apart? They kiss farewell and Helen sobs, First Nurse: What? (Some time later—still in the hospital.)

! "Goodbye—Johann Second Nurse: I was thinking—it Johann: Nurse! might be well to open the letter and read First Nurse: Yes. Mr. Kindler.

(A lapse of time. Johann lies in a war it. Perhaps it should be answered imme- Johann : Did you hear what the Doc- hospital, forsaken, delirious.) diately. tor just told me? Did you? Johann: (In a sick, broken voice) My First Nurse: But—I'd feel peculiar Second Nurse: Yes—because he told too. it to know baton—my gold—baton ! Ah—Helen about opening someone's mail. It's prob- me, Does make you happy my Helen—come closer, Helen. I want ably very personal—perhaps it's from this that you are discharged—that you can

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Barker: "Now come over to this side of the platform, ladies and gents, and see the world's fattest boy!' — ! — — — — — —

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Johann: "Stop the music! Ohhhh! I can't stand it any longer! My head is going around! Stop!"

leave the hospital for good in a few days? proud. I have my—my music, you see. Ohhhh! Stop it I say! I can't stand it

Johann : Oh—I am so happy—I can I shall put all my life into my music. any longer! My head is going around! hardly believe that it is true! Now I can Ohhh! Stop! go back to my own Leipzig—to my sweet- First Nurse: Mary—go and get a {The orchestra becomes panic-stricken heart—to all my friends. I—ohhh glass of water—will you? He's ill. and confused, playing out of rhythm and First Nurse: What's the matter? Are Johann: No — nothing — that lung with false notes) you ill? again! {coughs) No matter . . . Johann: Stop! Ohhhhh! {He faints Johann: It's nothing—nothing, really. and drops to the floor.)

Just my lung—sometimes it pains a little, {It is circus day in town. Milling Barker : Here — here — what's the you see. Now I'm going to dress . . . crowds are clustered around the "Big matter? tell me, Nurse—have there been any letters Top." On a platform, plastered with Voice: The Professor—he's passed —any mail for me at all since I've been posters and pictures of the Living Skele- out. here? ton, the Fat Woman, the Snake Charmer Barker: Pick him up off the floor

First Nurse : Ah—n-no—no mail, Mr. and the rest of that galaxy of human there! Pick him up and carry him out- Kindler. freaks, stands the barker.) side! Johann: No matter. I'll see them all Barker: Now come over to this side Voice: Better get a doctor—he's sick. soon, anyway. Did I have any papers of the platform, ladies and gents. Here Barker: He'll be all right. That's when I came in? There must have been we have Mario, the human skeleton his last turn for us. anyway. Steve. some in my uniform. the thinnest man in existence! Inside get up there on the stand and lead the First Nurse: Yes—there were some the tent he'll show you how he can wrap band—this show's gotta go on, professor papers. They're over there in the corner, his arm three times around his head! or no professor. Hurry up there! in that desk. I'll get them for you. And while we're waiting for the show Voice : Okay. Johann: Don't bother—I'll get them. to begin, ladies and gents—we're glad to Barker: Never mind, folks—the pro- {He goes to desk) This desk? Here in announce a new attraction to the big fessor has a little attack of indigestion. the corner? show. We've just secured the services But now the show goes on as usual. First Nurse: Yes—but of Professor Johann Kindler, the former Right this way and hear the Excelsior Second Nurse: {Coming up) June! leader of the Leipzig Symphony Orches- Band! That's the desk his letter is in! Don't let tra, to conduct the Excelsior Circus and him look in that drawer! Wild West Band. Professor Kindler {Back in the old Curiosity Shop.) First Nurse: I can't help it now play for the folks! Johann: (/;; a>t old and broken voice.) I it's too late! Johann: But —Mowry— —I can't go So that is why I must sell my baton Second Nurse: Oh! I'm afraid of on tonight. I am ill —I cannot conduct my dear golden baton. It is the only what this is going to do to him. The tonight! thing—that —that I have saved—from

Doctor said he didn't discharge him be- Barker: Oh yes you can, old boy. my past ! The only thing that —tells me cause he's cured, you know. It's just a Don't try to renege on me like that. Get that I was once young—and had dreams matter of time, I guess. up there on that stand and give 'em a and ambitions Johann: {Calling) Nurse! Nurse! concert, or you don't get paid this week. Shopkeeper: I know. I understand {coming tip) Why—why didn't you tell Hurry up. all that this golden baton has meant to I me—this—this letter from Helen—oh! Johann: I can't — you. But fear not — it shall not be or- Helen—dear John: {He reads a few Barker: Don't want vour pay, eh? phaned. I shall keep it for you. lines) Johann: Ohhhhh! All right—all Johann: No. Something tells me

First Nurse: I'm sorry, Mr. Kindler. right! . . . Ready, men! Attention . . . that I will never

I wasn't going to show it to you. one. two. Shopkeeper: It will be here until

Johann: I know. Helen—that's all (.4 fantastic circus march is heard. It you call for it —that I promise. there was in life for me—and now she's blares forth with a loud fanfare.) Johann: You are a kind and under- left me—gone—but—but—I can be Johann: Stop! Stop the music! (Continued on page : 34

Luneful 7copics

"Know Your Songs"

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You're Driving Me Crazy gether at a grill at which I was the guest that of the composer who is never there of honor, and he confided to me that ordinarily to receive it. In other words, WALTER DONALDSON seems to You're Driving Me Crazy, especially the "The play's the thing." Too often credit his be in writing streak again. For middle part, was changed and changed is given to the delivery artist when the a period of over twenty years he has and changed and changed again, until he creative artist deserves so much praise. given us list hit is a of songs that stag- found the twist which it now carries. It On two occasions I have had the pleas- gering, but during the past two years, is partly this middle twist, with the sen- ure, of having Walter in my audience following At Sundown and My Blue sational title, which is perhaps as sensa- when I rendered You're Driving Me Crazy, Heaven, his contributions have not been and I know that he was very happy when outstanding. Mr. Isaac Goldberg, who the song brought down the house. The has just published his book, "Tin Pan Victor Company feels that my record of Alley," in which he discusses thoroughly it is the best thing we have ever made yjGAIN, this month, Rudy the evolution of popular songs and the for them. My throat was tightened up "* -* subsequent formation of the publishing Vallee, the famous Radio Star, on the day I made the record, and it was houses along Broadway, which constitute with great effort that finally made a picks ten songs and tells you all we Tin Pan Alley, stated that it seemed nec- "master" record that passed inspection. essary for Irving Berlin and Walter Don- about them. With his wide Broad- I feel I could have done better, but as aldson to feel the pressure of starvation way acquaintanceship and his many long as the severe critics at Camden are before they could write a hit song. While satisfied, then I should be. friendships in " Tin Pan Alley" he I do not agree entirely with him in this, The song has a beautiful and unusual I am wondering whether or not Walter is in a position to reveal interesting middle twist, though the first and last Donaldson has been devoting too much thirds of it are skillfully constructed, both sidelights about these popular hits time to golf, the beaches of Florida, and in melody and lyrics, and with the out- the race track, rather than to the writing . . . their authorship, public debut, standing title the song should be very of songs for which he is so eminently history, unusual characteristics and popular indeed. It must be played slowly. fitted. We do it at about thirty measures per his personal experiences with Contrary to popular belief, the writing own minute. I am sure you'll like it. of a hit song is not, in most cases, a few them. hours' work, nor is it easy. Rather, if Cheerful Little Earful you talk with the writers of most hit The Editors are happy to announce songs, you will find that it took much HERE is a song from a revue, and a wrinkling of the grey matter, much chang- that this will be a regular monthly very daring revue at that, Sweet and ing, revamping and remodeling, before Low, but it is a song that in any place feature in Radio Digest. the song took the shape of the melody would be tremendously popular, not only and lyrics which brought it into great because of the optimistic and happy trend popularity. In fact, I think Walter of the song itself, but because it is lilting, Donaldson will admit that the lure of bright, and tuneful. Three song-writers California and the writing of theme songs tional as Little White Lies, which will contributed to its excellence—Harry War- with a big pay-check every week whether bring this song into the big money class. ren, whose Crying for the Carolines and he wrote them or not, was not inclined to It is already second from the bottom on many other songs have brought him into stimulate him to work hard on his songs, the list of popular best sellers of most the ranks of the great song writers, (in and although he did turn out Romance sheet music jobbers, and it will not be fact, he is one of the highest priced writers and some other very fine songs, none of many weeks before it will head the list, in the ally) ; Ira Gershwin, brother of them came up to the popular appeal that although the bottom seems to be out of George Gershwin, and Billy Rose, the Little White Lies seemed to have, and the music industry, especially that of vaudeville artist and song writer who has that was written on his return from the songs, at the present moment. turned producer and has cast his own Coast when he seems to have buckled You're Driving Me Crazy is one of the wife, Fannie Brice, in his revue, Sweet down to business. best songs I have ever sung, and from and Low. There in the Park Central, where he the very start it has been sensational These three have achieved a song which has an elaborate suite, he works, some- wherever I have had the opportunity to I firmly believe is going to be very, very

times for days on end, until he completes present it. I have always felt that half popular with everyone. There is an un- the song on which he is working. Last the applause, or even more, that I receive usual resemblance in the end of the main Sunday night we spent a few hours to- after singing a good song, is rightfully phrase of the song to the end of the main — —

35 Sv Audy bailee

Ten New Leading Song Hits Are Picked For You This Month By

The Master of Rhythm

phrase of Sing Something Simple. In so on. The remarkable part of it all is Sing Something Simple the last line is that although this type of waltz is known ''The classic, I love you;" whereas in the definitely to be a money maker through end of the main phrase of Cheerful Little its strong appeal to the masses who buy Earful it is "the well-known I love you." music, yet publishers are always looking last person in the for the beautiful type of waltz that is also However, I am the The Author Rudy Vallee. world to accuse anyone of plagiarism, and popular, such as Ah! Sweet Myster'y of I firmly believe it is possible for the same Life. Not that there is any disgrace in effectively by theatre organists in all sorts identical thought to spring up in two publishing simple waltzes, nor is the pub- of ideas and combinations. The public minds simultaneously, just as did the lisher trying to educate the public mind, certainly seems to like the song immensely. Darwinian Theory. However, I am sure but there is pardonable pride on the part there will be no blood shed- over the mat- of those who select songs in seeking to Three Little Words ter, and both songs can be very popular see their judgment of a hit indicated in a is a fox trot that everyone pre- in their own way. number that is beautiful and different HERE dicted would be a big hit, and it Cheerful Little Earful is introduced and yet catchy. really did In fact, it is one very wonderfully in the show by Hannah With the music business in the dumps, become one. of the quickest big hits I have ever seen. Williams, and is reprised throughout the most of the publishers are publishing such song itself is really clever well entire performance, so that eventually one waltzes of one type or another in the The and written, but being reprised throughout the goes out humming it. We do the song at hopes that they will have another Caro- first picture Check and Double Check— a bright tempo, yet not too fast, or at lina Moon. Radio's foremost figures, about forty measures a minute. Carolina Moon was peddled around made by Amos from publisher to publisher, and finally 'n' Andy, it could hardly help becoming Stolen Moments accepted by a very small organization. well-known and well-liked. Duke Elling- This organization "went to work" on the ton and his band, a very wonderful negro beautiful song in the unhappy AVERY song, that is, began trying to get the tune combination, play it very effectively vein, and yet not pessimistic. Writ- played here, there and everywhere. Week throughout the course of the picture, and ten by three newcomers to Broadway after week passed as "plug after plug was the vocal renditions of it enhance it at least the names are new along Tin Pan landed," and finally the song began, in greatly. Alley. The melody seems haunting and the jargon of Tin Pan Alley, to "show I was advised to record it. but was yet is quite unlike any song that has pre- up," then it gained momentum like a unable to do so due to complications, but ceded it. We play it quite slowly, at about snowball rolling down a hill and became I regret it now because it is a feather twenty-eight measures per minute. It one of the greatest hits of the industry. in my cap to record hit songs. We play makes a great number for two violins. In fact it made a fortune for the small Three Little Words at strict fox trot tem- (One of these newcomers, Mr. A. R. two-room publisher who bought it. It po, bright and snappy; i.e. about fifty Pryor, bears watching in the future.) seemed to be just one of those things, measures per minute, and the lyrics at and yet every publisher secretly hopes, that speed may be easily sung. When the Organ Played when he takes a simple waltz, that he has /';;/ Yours At Twilight another Carolina Moon. When the Organ Played at Twilight is JOHNNY GREEN, the Westchester is a waltz to the music THIS known reminiscent of a song I used to sing up society boy of whom I spoke with publishers as a ''simple" waltz. The in Maine, about fifteen years ago, yet it regard to Body and Soul in my first origin of the word "simple" is not difficult came from England, written by two of "Tuneful Topics", has another hit on his to explain; the term is used contemp- my friends over there, who, as the Amer- hands. Lester Allen, diminutive comedian tuously, meaning that the song is very ican publisher says, "seem to have written with the large feet, making a Paramount - elementary, almost trite. fact, it In is it merely as a riller-in to be recorded on Publix picture in Astoria. L. I., needed a always applied to a waltz that makes you the back of a record, one side of which song for the picture. Green wrote a beau- think of the waltzes that our fathers and was already a big hit." tiful melody, but a chap named Harburg mothers danced to ten or fifteen or even I would have picked it for a mediocre wrote the lyrics for it. years back. is twenty The song usually hit, but it is even better than that, being Personally, 1 found it necessary to so simple that as one phrase is being perhaps the best seller in the country make two changes in the lyrics. In one played the listener naturally knows the right now; not that "best seller" means place I leave out three words in order to next. Such simple waltzes have been much now. but before it finishes it will secure enough breath to go up to a pas- Carolina Moon, Let Me Call You Sweet- have earned the American publishers a sage that stays high for some time: and heart, Forever I'm Blowing Bubbles, and tidy sum. Of course, it is done very (Continued on page 83) — —

36 (Station fox

Julius Caesar Runs A Broadcasting Station

—Gets Into Difficulties With His Wife Over

Cleopatra, The New "Hot" Blues Singer

tainly will, I'll have him take off that (Cleopatra enters—sound of deep sigh.) blues singer immediately. That's right, Cleopatra: Oh Mark, there you are,

dear. No dear, I don't need you . . . I've been looking all over for you. I've

Yes, you may come if you like . . . Good- a brand new song I just know you'll love.

bye. May I sing it for you? (Mark Anthony knocks) Good morning, Mark Anthony: Of course, Cleopatra, Mark! Have a seat. but first meet Julius Caesar, manager of Mark Anthony: Good morning, the station. He was just speaking of you. A Playlet In One Spasm Julius. Cleopatra: Nothing bad, I hope. How Caesar: Say, Mark who is that blues do you do, Julius. I've heard so many singer you're using every night? Seems wonderful things about you. By like every time I tune in I hear her. It's Caesar: Yes, Yes, Hello—How do you got to stop. What we need on this sta- do. Eh— MONROE UPTON tion is more GOOD music. Cleopatra: Would you like to hear Mark Anthony: Her name is Cleo- my new song too. It'll slay 'em. Listen! patra. She's been working over on the (Cleopatra sings a low down blues num- big Carthage stations and ber with plenty of feel- scene takes place in Caesar's I figured I was lucky to ing. A number that can THEprivate office. curtain rises is The get hold of her. She also be sung by a so- upon Caesar, sitting at his desk. going over big. We get prano.) {phone rings) stacks of mail every day Caesar: Great! Great! Caesar: Hello! Yes, this is station on her. Last week she I like that. VOX, Rome. Julius Caesar speaking. got over a thousand re- Cleopatra: Oh, I'm so Oh, Yes Mr. Scipio. How is the bath quests for Those Lone- glad you do, Julius—you business? ... He did! Well, we'll put a some Tiber Bines alone. sweet old thing! stop to that. You say the announcer gave Caesar: Miss Publius, Mark Anthony: Tell the temperature of the baths at 69, when bring me on all the mail you have re- her what you were going to, Julius. it's really 96? . . . Well, he probably had ceived so far on that new blues singer, Cleopatra: Yes, do. I'm dying to hear. the papyrus upside down. And it's 11 Cleopatra. Caesar: Yes, of course. I was just say- a.m. to 4 p.m., not 11 p.m. to 4 a.m?\ . . Feminine Voice: Yes sir. ing to Mark that he should give you more

I'll tell you what happened there, the an- Caesar: People are getting sick of all work. I hardly ever hear you. Mark, nouncer's candle went out just as he this popular stuff. They're fed up on give this little lady some good spots on started to read. We'll fix that up. OK, jazz and moaning females. Now I want the air. That's the sort of thing the Good-bye! you to use the concert orchestra two hours people want. Good popular stuff, and Oh, Miss Publius, will you ask Mark every night. And throw this girl Cleo jazz. They get too much classical now. Anthony to come here a Cleo—what's her name? Cleopatra: You darling! minute. Mark Anthony: Cleo- (Mrs. Caesar—Calpurnia—enters.) Feminine Voice: Yes patra. Calpurnia: Well, well, well! Am I

sir. Caesar: Cleopatra off. interrupting a private rehearsal? You * (Phone rings) i/ Get it? don't mean to say, Julius Caesar, that \f Caesar: Station VOX, ^Ti"A \m Mark Anthony: Yes, you intend to put that sort of singing on Rome, Julius Caesar fir s^r, but I don't like to fire the air. It's perfectly disgraceful. All speaking. (With false her. I just hired her. civilized Romans would turn it off. Not sweetness) Oh, hello dar- Caesar: Send her in to even the Goths would listen to that.

ling. Yes, I did, dear, I me, I'll fire her. Caesar (meekly) : Mrs. Caesar, this is didn't forget ... I mean Feminine Voice: Here Cleopatra—Cleopatra meet sir. I won't forget . . . Yes, is Cleopatra's mail, Calpurnia (brusquely): How do you the string is still on my Caesar: What! All of do! I'll finger . . . Did you want new heels, too, it? Just that card? Well be Cleopatra (sweetly): How do you do!

or just half soles? ... I see . . . Yes, Feminine Voice: Yes sir. (Continued on page 103) I'm going to speak to Mark Anthony Caesar: That looks like the post-card all about that this morning . . . Yes, it's dis- I—let's see that post-card . . . That's Copyright, 1931, Radio Digest Pub. Corp. Special graceful, I'll tell him we need more Miss Publius. permission to broadcast this continuity may be obtained by writing to Editor, Radio Digest, 420 Lexington Ave., GOOD music on this station ... I cer- Feminine Voice: Yes sir. New York, N. Y. Heretofore the male voice has monopolized the whis- pering warblers but now we have Miss Hilda Harrison, the "Whis- pering Soprano" at WPCH,

New York, and her very suc-

cessful technique would seem to have solved the soprano broad- casting limitations for everybody concerned.

Hilda Harrison w

Dorothy Beckloff HERE is a face to delight the character readers. Miss Beckloff, billed as a "crooning contralto" at WTAM, Cleveland,

looks the part of a prima donna of the opera. She has been with Roxy and Shubert's—but loves her friend Mike Rofone best. 38 Jessica Dragonette I HEY call her "The Mary Piclcford of the Air," and why shouldn't they call Mary Pickford the "Jessica Dragonette of the

Screen"? At any rate this delightful young soprano consistently remains the star of stars of the National Broadcasting Company. Sylvia Winters

WHAT to do for a new delicacy for dad? Simply tune in Miss Sylvia, the house- hold economist expert at WGY, Schenectady.

N. Y. She can give you the latest from brooms to biscuits. There's another Sylvia now. When Miss Winters recently awarded a prize to one of her listeners for a cake recipe the prize arrived at the same time as the

stork with a baby girl. The baby has been

named Sylvia, after Sylvia Winters. Dorothy Aggas I HEY have real names, as you see, but KMOXers. and all up and down the Mississippi valley know them best as the Singing Redheads. They sing with the glow Melvin Wilkerson and sparkle of real youth, and St. Louis claims them

as a sort of city institution. Cute looking, aren- OOME of us are satisfied to hit all Lillian Bucknam eight on the head for one octave, others can make two octaves but Miss Bucknam

can ripple musically over three octaves from D below middle C to D above high C.

She is dramatic soprano at WABC and over the CBS. 42 PROBABLY nobody else in the whole world has a name just like that—Gogo Cogo Delys Delys—but then there's nobody can sing the blues just like Gogo. Recently she kissed Vancouver farewell and moved down to KHJ, Los Angeles, where she promptly

became an instantaneous hit. Fifi Dorsey

"OOOOOOOO—an' now just you listen! Didja ever hear about the great big Skippen-

whoofen? It runs along the side of a mountain

with two little bitsa short legs at the top and great long legs stretching down the side?" You

are listening to Fifi, the movie queen, as she sits here on the piano story-telling to the WCAU children in Philadelphia on a Sunday morning.

Hill Billy Blues

Hill billy zeke of KM PC has no high ambitions as Glen Rice discovered when he tried to coax him

into an airplane. Hill Billy

Zeke is one of the Beverly

Hill Billies where the Cinema- tians dwell, and once were reigned over by their fa- mous mayoria! dictator, Will Rogers.

'OODBYE, come again," and these are the "Musical Cru- saders" who sing to you every Sunday afternoon from WJZ and other NBC stations in the course of their "cruise around the world." Alfred Heather, as

Professor Cadenza, stands in the shadow smiling with dignity.

11 Adams & Ross

EVANGELINE ADAMS and her an-

nouncer, David Ross, have a sort of informal

partnership in the horoscoping program over WABC and the Columbia System

that is said to produce more mail than any

other program in the country. Miss Adams

is proclaimed one of the world's most suc-

cessful astrologers.

Veona Socolofsky

Grandchild of Jennie Rupert, famous French

prima donna of the 70's, Miss

Socolofsky comes naturally by the vibrant soprano voice

that has brought her hosts

of friends in the audience of

KOMO, Seattle, Wash. She made her Radio debut in

Boston where she studied

music.

Longshoremen

Countless requests

have come for "more Pacific

coast" pictures. Marcella de- mands that The Musical Long-

shoremen of Long Beach, Calif.,

simply must appear in this

January roto section. So here

they are, Dick Voils, Cleo Hibbs

and Bob Whittaker. They are

heard over KGER and are iden-

tified with all the KGER de luxe programs.

45 Salt and Peanuts

This duo (right) dropped big time vaudeville to do their harmonizing over

WLW, the Nation's Station, at Cincinnati. Frank Salt is well known to the variety stage. His partner. Peanuts, had also acquired fame in a dancing act of her own, under another name.

Audrey Marsh

Charming and sweet is this young woman whom you hear in the course of the A. S. Beck Brevities over the Columbia System from New York. That youth- ful timbre is genuine—she is not yet twenty. You are go- ing to hear a lot more about her at the rate she is going.

AlRIAS" come easy

for petite Marie who solos

from the flying field as

readily as she does from the WTAM studios at Cleveland.

During the Cleveland air

races she flew for fifteen

hours. She has been in other

aviation events. But she is

best known for her voice and has been heard from various

stations for the past six years.

Little has been heard of Miss

De Ville recently. She is re-

covering from a serious ill-

ness. She finished at the American School of Music,

Paris.

Marie DeVille 49

zJiistory

WAITING of Osculation ROOM Down Through The Ages

By Dr. Frank H. Vizetelly

Latest medical the- ory—kissing provides us with microbes use- ful for digestion. Dose before and after meals 'will be cheer- Kisses ^^&i^S- fully taken by all.

varieties "for better, for worse, for richer, Hot and KISSRS Cold for poorer" as the marriage service says. Ever since then we have known kisses as messengers of love. But do you know that every time you indulge in kissing you has been the slave of the by a recently returned traveler, among shorten your life by several minutes? If MANkiss almost since the dawn of whom kissing is unknown. you want to reach a ripe old age. you've the world; for, with a kiss, To the young woman a kiss given and got to cut out the kiss.

woman has tamed the wildest received is often the token of love offered What is a kiss? It is a seal that ex- of men, and by a kiss the strong man's and accepted, for the soul of a young presses sincere affection; a pledge of fu- will has been broken. The kisses with woman is as a ripe rose; as soon as one ture union; a gift, which, as given, takes

which we are concerned are of the sort leaf is plucked, all its mates easily fall from us the impression of our heart : a that the poet has told us "extinguish the after; and a kiss may sometimes break crimson balsam for a heart-broken soul: fire of life, yet awaken the longings of out the first leaf. in fact, kisses are the grains of gold and i the heart, and kindle the flames of love." We derived the custom of kissing the silver—precious gifts from the mine of It was Paul Verlaine who described kisses hand from the worthy citizens of Cos. for the heart —that enrich the store of hap- as "fiery music on the clavier of the teeth they came upon the beautiful Psyche, one piness when hearts are surcharged with which accompanied the sweet songs of day, as she slept in her bower of roses, love's electricity.

love, beating in passionate hearts." But and making obeisance before her. kissed A touch of the lips, that is all: yet it we have: her hand. conveys a marvelous thrill of emotion and The kiss is as old as Creation. Eve devotion. It is the passion in a kiss that

"Kisses hot and kisses cold, learned how to kiss in Paradise and no imparts to it its sweetness: it is the af-

Kisses fresh and kisses bold, more fitting place could have been chosen. fection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

Kisses sweet and kisses sour. There, it is said, Adam taught her all its The kiss has many significations. It is Spiteful kisses and kisses dour, regarded as the seal of faith, loyalty, Kisses short and kisses long. truth, reverence, and love. According

Kisses weak and kisses strong, its purpose, it is given in the most open Kisses that can dry a shower, publicity or in the strictest of privacy DROOF that wisdom is no deterrent to Kisses lasting half an hour." Public kisses are required by law, court. humor! Dr. Frank H. Vizetelly, Editor of Funk and Wagnails New Standard Dic- and religion; in private practise kisses are In every grade of society but one kisses tionary and author of this article, knows restricted to salutation, love, and passion. the 60,000,000 words in that monumental go by favor—in that one it can not do The kiss of the first-born doubtless work. Although he doesn't use them all in so since there is no kissing. Away down originated with Mother Eve. and so the his weekly broadcasts over the Columbia in is tribe, page ^4) South America a discovered System, he is highly entertaining.—Editor. {Continued on 50 uenus Tfc/akes -/\udy "That Way ??

"She must be Fragile as an Orchid''' Whisper Stellar Arbiters of The

Famous Cr ooner s Astral Mate

Horoscope of Rudy Vallee reveals him as Sy Peggy Hull a True Knight of Romance

since Rudy Vallee's first song was in flower and romance held sway. we find that he is none the less skillful in EVERof love swept through the air and And there's the secret! Over the air combat. awakened romantic yearnings in comes Rudy's voice singing a sweet mel- And this is Rudy Vallee, a nobleman in the hearts of the female sex, per- ody and immediately the room is filled his innermost heart of hearts, a true ro- sonality specialists, psychologists, analysts with gallant knights of long ago. Their mantic, a modern reincarnation of those and other experts have been telling the hats sport great plumes and long capes gallant lads whom Tennyson wrote about. world the kind of girl Rudy Vallee could swing gracefully from their stalwart When he sings this hidden well is opened love; the sort of man he is at heart and shoulders. Ah, sighs the lonely woman and he transmits to his music just as the reason for his phenomenal success. in her chair before the Radio, it meant deftly as an artist touches his canvas, But at last we have the real inside dope something to be loved in those days. a true reflection of his own soul. on the fair-haired crooner of WEAF and Every woman was a queen and reigned When his critics cry out that Vallee NBC. Here is an authentic, strictly in a palace and love did not end with the is egotistical, or conceited, what they scientific analysis of how Rudy got that marriage ceremony. Her knight re- really resent is his inner knowledge of way; what has made him so successful; mained always, the romantic, eager, pur- his superiority, his consciousness of his how he feels about life and people and suing, devoted lover. And Rudy Vallee's high ideals and unswerving integrity. the sort of girl, in his secret heart of crooning notes builds dreams on dreams There is no doubt that Rudy is one of hearts, he knows he could love. This in- for the girl whose daily life is a drab and the most misunderstood artists now before formation comes straight from the four monotonous existence. the public. His horoscope shows the lack corners of heaven and is vouched for by of the beneficent protection which was so the stars. prominent in the chart of Will Rogers. If you are one of those girls who likes B,'UT why can Rudy Vallee, Instead, Rudy must face bitter criticism, to have the boy friend come in, grab you of all the Radio singers, recreate such a false accusations and uncalled for enmity. up, toss you in the air, catch you with a scene for his invisible audience? His Mercury is opposed to Saturn, big bear hug and then administer a smart We open an ephemeris for the year of squared to Mars. This is the influence clip behind the ear as a gentle token of his birth and look at the position of the which has brought him litigation and his undying love, read no further. You planets for July 28th. The Sun is in the trouble through false reports, contracts, the editor letters in general. won't be interested. Send to lordly sign of Leo . . . Venus occupies and writings Digest for a of the of the Radio copy the same sign . . . our finger moves November issue of the Radio Digest and across the page and before we have com- read about Floyd Gibbons. He's your pleted the journey ... out of the jumble X HE Moon is coming to meat. But Rudy Vallee, never! of symbols rides a white charger and on an opposition with Neptune which causes

it a knight in a plumed hat! scandal and slander and as most of his Courage, independence and pride are masculine planets have bad aspects, he male L.|ET us stop here and con- written on his brow and in his eyes. receives much opposition from the sider what has made Rudy such a hit. Gentleness and charity in his mouth. He sex. He hates vulgarity, coarseness in Being a mere mortal we can only come sings, but it is not the song of a trouba- manner or speech, rough and uncouth forward with the explanation that it is dour for he is no vagabond. He is a conduct. "something" which he puts into his songs. proud prince of the blood and to every- Rudy is extremely sensitive and has A "something" which breathes the very thing he does he brings the majestic had some sad experiences through mis- essence of romance to lonely and love- dignity of royalty. There is a sword at placed confidence. His Venus, which was starved girls everywhere. A gentleness his side but he is not a swashbuckling in Leo at birth but passed into Virgo two It and sweetness which is every girl's first cavalier ready for a lusty brawl or a days later, caused these experiences. mental image of love. A curious note battle on the slightest provocation. He was while this transit was taking place which suggests poetry, moonlight on castle draws the blade only in defense of honor that he learned not to be too trusting, walls, roses and the days when knighthood or for the sake of some sweet lady, yet and too impulsive. It was this position 51

which taught him that he must exercise She must be exquisite rather than beauti- damsels seek him out. questions in their great caution in selecting his friends and ful, delicate rather than vital, innocent eyes, he will turn his back and remain associates. But Venus is now entering rather than sophisticated. constant and adoring to the end. He will, the sign of Libra where he will learn to But above all, she must be able to in other words, bring to his marriage a balance his affections and to be less gen- create and maintain an illusion of ro- spirit of eternal romance. erous and profuse. mance. She must never forget, even in According to Astrology- the best mates

His Sun is Leo which has made him those trying moments every couple face for the Leo born are usually found with ambitious, persistent, affectionate and a at some time in their married life, to be their Suns in Aries. March 22nd to April natural leader. It also made him sus- gentle and understanding. If once she 21st, or Sagittarius. November 23rd to ceptible to admiration and through this gave way to a fit of temper, or hysterics; December 23rd. but birth dates from susceptibility he suffered some painful if once she became ungracious, brittle, or other signs could be compatible also, if disillusionments. But as his Sun has unjustly critical, Rudy's lovely image of the positions of the planets showed har- just entered the practical, analytical and her would be destroyed and the fine flavor mony but not otherwise. discriminating sign of Virgo this tendency of their romance would be ended. One of the reasons Rudy was able to will gradually disapper and he will have come forward in this age of jazz, gin and no more trouble from that direction. savage drums and substitute dreamy, sen- The planets in Leo predestined him for I.T IS no sinecure to be an timental songs for wisecracks is the posi- a career before the public. This sign rules angel, yet every girl longs to be enshrined tion his Sun occupies in regard to Uranus. theatres and places of amusement, while in her lover's heart in just such a form, The trine makes for originality and as both Venus and the Sun occupying this but maintaining the picture is something Uranus rules the ether, it is not surpris- sign clearly indicated that Rudy Vallee else, and few in the history of great lovers ing that Vallee's success came from his would succeed in some work connected have been able to do it. work on the air. with music, for Venus in this sign shows The girl who wins Rudy Vallee's heart Jupiter in Capricorn enhances the fine talent for music and acting. will have something to cherish which few qualities he has received from Leo. It A good aspect between Venus and the women in this mad age can claim. But adds fuel to the fire of his ambition. It Moon, both feminine planets, explains when he gives his heart he will also give ennobles his nature and fortifies those why women have always rushed to his fidelity and no matter how many alluring sterling characteristics, sincerity, honesty defense when columnists and industry, which he also and critics have unsheathed inherited from Leo. acid opinions. Women will It would be impossible always fight for him and he for Rudy to commit a mean will never lose his popular- or debasing act. He would ity with the opposite sex. never stoop to trickery for This aspect also explains any purpose whatsoever. his deep attachment for his Success must come, only mother and will keep him through honest endeavor. in favor with the public in And it is because he has at- spite of the attacks of his tributed these same upright enemies. characteristics to others that Mercury, the ruler of he had learned to his sor- his mind, is in the dis- row, all people are not creet, sensitive, impression- expressing the highest vi- able and emotional sign brations. Cancer, which has rulership over the public. The posi- tions of the major planets A..S LONG as indicate what an extremely he lives he will have to refined nature Rudy pos- guard against being de- sesses. In his expression of frauded, against law suits. affection, although demon- and against dishonest strative, he would never be people. He will have to be aggressive, but subtle, ten- careful of the letters he der and spiritual. writes, the papers he signs and every word he speaks.

The ensuing period has its I.T WOULD ups and downs and he must take a girl whose horoscope guard his health as well as showed the same high vi- his business interests. But brations and refining influ- he will always remain on the ences to understand and top of the heap, although it appreciate the delicacy, the will not be the bed of roses fineness, the depth of an which those who envy him affection which stood mute believe it to be. and humble in the presence Whatever his trials in life, of its own greatness. and whatever periods oi dis- She would have to be as illusionment and regret he fragile as an orchid, as may experience, his idealism wistful as a violet, as dainty will carry him through safely as mignonette, as pure as a and unscathed to a satis- lily, but with a character factory conclusion of this in-

as strong and invincible in carnation and that is all that the presence of disaster or anyone, no matter what the

temptation as the hardy Rudy Vallee has retained enduring friendship for his first saxophone position of the star- phlox is to the elements. teacher—Rudy Wiedoft birth, could a>k lor. 52

The Wcorld of our

randchildren

"Collective Buying will Solve Present Day

Economic Problems''' Predicts British Author

In International Broadcast

%y H. G. Wells

it, I see no good in talking What is the cause of this extraordinary

about it. situation in the world today? We have H. G. Wells . . . Author and Visionary So, in spending these fif- mass production. We can produce the teen minutes with you, I same quantity of stuff with fewer and Our grandchildren will live in a veri- am going to assume that the world of the fewer hands. We produce more and table Utopia, was the prophecy of H. G. future is going to be without war, without more, and we use fewer and fewer hands Wells, prolific writer of novels and econ- disaster. We are going to assume that to do it. omist. Poverty and ugliness will vanish in by the time of our grandchildren, the I should like to give you a hint as to a world which will care for its fellow men. world will not only have solved the war the kind of world that lies ahead of us. Mr. Wells' forecast was broadcast from problem, but also will have settled the We have brought mass production to the London over station WABC and the Co- second great riddle. You may ask me highest level. We can produce goods for lumbia Broadcasting System as one of a what is the second great riddle. The sec- everybody. However, not one of us has series of international broadcasts. ond great riddle is the economic riddle. given consideration to mass consumption. —Editor. We are living in a world of bad times. Let us begin to think about that. What This is true of America almost as it is do I mean by mass consumption? I sug- of the Old World. Great multitudes of gest to you that mass consumption will HAVE been asked to talk to you people are out of work. Many people balance mass production. about the "World of our Grand- are distressed by loss of capital and by I children," which means talking about the prevalent insecurity. Great stocks of the sort of world we are going to goods remain unsold. Just what has JLiET us consider first that have for our grandchildren. What sort brought about this situation, and how is familiar phrase mass production. There of world are we making for our grand- it going to turn out? are employed in the great industrial or- children? That is a question that has a There is too much goods that cannot ganizations thousands and thousands of number of possible answers. If we make be sold, too much cotton, too much iron people to do similar work every working so-and-so today the world of our grand- and steel, and so on. We have all this hour of the day. Let us try and turn children will be so-and-so; if we do not merchandise. Now, on the other hand, that same proposition around into terms make so-and-so, the world of our grand- there are swarms of people who cannot of consumption. What is the equivalent? children will be quite different. It may use up these things because they have The equivalent is not buying piece-meal vary from a world full of disaster to a not the money to buy them. We have but community buying. You ask me, world full of happiness. My answer de- the merchandise, but the people cannot how can the community buy houses or pends on a lot of "ifs." buy it. There is not the ability to bring automobiles and all the other articles of I have been especially asked not to those two together. That is the fan- mass production that people' are so anx- speak about peace propaganda tonight. tastic paradox of world business today. ious to sell? That is a social and eco-

I am told you are tired of hearing it and nomic problem. I don't propose to state tired of thinking about it. Still, war is how. I am putting the idea before you, important of for I that the most those "ifs" on Nc| OW, the solution. I and am merely going to assume which my answer depends. If you do would like to suggest that this is the these difficulties will be solved by the not want to hear about it or think about paradox and that a solution will be found. time our grandchildren are ready to buy 53 them. We have big production, but we that ought to make you feel uncomfort- For these constructive things, we have to still have to attain community buying. able. Engineers and architects will tell wait many generations. The textile peo- We are living in a world where produc- you that people ought to live in houses ple will tell you of the most delightful tion has been modernized, while buying that are up-to-date. They have the plans gowns they could supply if only the peo- is still in a state of medieval chaos. That to suit most any city perfectly. They ple would buy and wear them. So. generation is is the way I will put it. Even now we even have the plans for the roads. They my going to die be- have community buyers for certain things. have the materials and the thousand de- fore our present day possibilities of peace For instance, you buy battleships on a vices to make these things possible. They are used. Our grandchildren will find out community basis, and I buy battleships have the ways and the means to make a how to buy homes as we buy battleships, in the same way. If we can buy battle- town up-to-date. and there will be little houses and cities ships and submarines and airships as a We have .not been educated in the even more adapted to the ways of the community, I refuse to believe that we method of community buying. We have world than we are living in today. They cannot buy hotels, perfectly equipped plenty of battleships, but we do not have will have all the abundant delightful houses and boots and shoes for all the plenty of the proper houses and schools. food that could be grown today that we children in the world in the cannot use because we do not same way. Collectively we could know how to distribute it. buy everything we could col- The common people of to- lectively produce. That is a day are certainly far better great idea I am putting forward clothed than ever before. They to you now. have fresher material and finer For instance, while I am talk- and better garments. The change ing to you, there are scores of in this respect, even in my life- thousands of people living in time, has been immense. But, nasty old tumbledown houses it is lacking to the change without proper windows, houses that must be. Bad distribution ten times older than the oldest and our buying habits is what is automobile. There are also holding us up. That is the second-hand houses that have cause of our difficulties. So. been put up piece-meal, floor by these lovely, wonderful cities, floor and room by room. Most and this beautiful clothing I of the people who live in them dream of and shall not see. will are badly in need of food, and come into existence in the gen- they buy their clothes bit by bit. eration of our grandchildren. Why shouldn't we as a com- There will be finer clothing cov- munity take these people, ering healthy bodies and healthy whether they like it or not, and bodies mean healthy and happy buy for them better houses, bet- minds. ter clothing, better food. We can afford it. They should live produce in the best, and we can t;HE clock tells the best. I do not propose to me my time is coming to an end. pauperize them, I only propose This proposition I have been for to give them better value putting before you has been in their poor little bits of money, my mind for a long time. Mass and make the district better and consumption, the idea that we better. themselves might buy for all instead of each individual buying scraps for himself, is the idea I have I DO not believe in mind. That phrase, mass that the world which has pro- consumption, has excited my the Ford factories will duced mind. Perhaps it will excite parallel meth- not produce mass yours. Anyhow, this is the gist consuming side. I ods on the of what I have to say to you of am sure that by the time our now: What do you think of grandchildren this problem also these two phrases, mass produc- will be solved. tion and community buying? sort of effects will the What What do you think of them as world of our grandchildren be doors towards relieving business If you look at the sharing? of its present pessimism and average contemporary town, you slackishness? will see it is still in a frightful, stale, dingy, old-fashioned con- * * * dition. There is always some

little piece-meal change going

on. There is a house here or a 'TTIHE inmost ego. possess- house there being rebuilt or a J_ mg what I call the in- road torn up. Why shouldn't escapable attribute, can never we have a new town as well as be a part of the physical world new houses? You cannot go one unless 'we alter the meaning oi hundred yards from where you the 'cord physical to spiritual." are without seeing houses that says Professor Sir Arthur F.d- should be cleared away. You dingtOH in transatlantic speech cannot walk any distance with- which you will read in the out seeing people wearing clothes Mr. Wells relaxes in his orchard February Radio Digest. 54 Th, Uinverse instein

Cj eorge jd ernard oh aw

HERE in London we are still a Galileo, Newton and Einstein, and I still which lasted 1,400 years. Newton made a great centre but I don't suppose have two fingers left vacant. universe which lasted for 300 years. Ein- we shall be a great centre long. Even among those eight men I must stein has made a universe, which I sup- All that will be transferred make a distinction. I have called them pose you want me to say will never stop, presently to the United States, but for makers of the universe, but some were but I don't know how long it will last. the moment I am speaking in a capital only repairers. Only three of them made These great men, have been the leaders where the reception of great men is a their universes. Ptolemy made a universe of one side of a great movement of hu- very common event. We have manity, which has two sides. We a string of great statesmen, great call the one side religion, and we financiers, great diplomats and call the other science. Religion great generals, even occasionally is always right. Religion solves an author. We make speeches every problem, and thereby abol- and we toast them but still the ishes problems from the universe, event is not a very striking event. because when you have solved a In truth, in London, great men problem, the problem no longer are six a penny and they are a exists. Religion gives us cer- very mixed lot. tainty, stability, peace. It gives When we drink their health and us absoluteness, which we so long make speeches we have to be for. It protects us against that guilty of scandalous suppression progress which we all dread more of disgraceful hypocrisy. There than anything else. Science is is always a great deal to conceal. the very opposite of that. Science Suppose that I had to rise to- is always wrong and science never night to propose the toast to solves a problem without raising Napoleon. Well, undoubtedly, I ten more problems. would say many flattering things about him but the one thing which I would not possibly be Wh AT have able to say about him would be these great men been doing? perhaps the most important thing, Each in turn claimed the other and that would be that perhaps was wrong, and now you are ex- it would have been better for hu- pecting me to say that Einstein manity if he had never been born. proved that Newton was wrong. But you forget that when science reached Newton, science came up B,'UT tonight, per- against that extraordinary Eng- haps, it will be the only time in lishman. That had never hap- our lives we have no suppression pened to it before. Newton lent a to make. I have said that great power so extraordinary that if I men are a mixed lot, but there was speaking fifteen years ago, as are orders of great men. There I am old enough to have done, I are great men who are great would have said that he had the men among small men and there greatest mind that ever man was are great men who are great endowed with. Combine the light among great men. That is the of that wonderful mind with cre- sort of great man you have dulity, with superstition. He knew among you tonight. his people, he knew his language, Napoleon and other great men he knew his own folk, he knew a were makers of empires, but these lot of things; he knew that an eight men whom I am about to honest bargain was a square deal mention were makers of uni- and an honest man was one who verses and their hands were not George Bernard Shaw gave a square deal. He knew his. stained with the blood of their universe; he knew that it con- fellow men. I go back 2,500 sisted of heavenly bodies that zj[ great dramatist met a great scientist years and how many can I count were in motion, and he also knew recently , and paid tribute in words which in that period? I can count them the one thing you cannot do to on my fingers. Pythagoras. Ptol- were heard around the world. Mr. Shaw's anything whatsoever is to make emy, Kepler, Copernicus, Aristotle, broadcast speech is reproduced here. {Continued on page 103) 55

In the beginning

Radio was a "toy" for the youth of the land. That was

back in 1921.

Orrin E.

Dunlap, Jr., Reviews

The Rise of Radio — or

J^rom A Toy to The Nation's Joy

(HE "Horatio Alger" rise of Radio to and from the sea. But when this new move a slider across a coil of wire wound in the last ten years is taken for medium began to bring music and voices on a cereal box and hear a piano or a T!granted by a sophisticated nation into the home they wanted to know more phonograph playing on the other side of of listeners. But Radio set own- about it. It seemed so complicated. the Hudson, over in New Jersey. ers were not always blase. It was back Books and booklets were written hurriedly It required an expert to operate the in 1921 and 1922 that they paused to give to take care of an urgent demand. Thou- first vacuum tube sets. The panels were thought to the wonders of broadcasting. sands of copies were sold. Hundreds and decorated with multiple switches, dials Radio was called a "craze" in those days, hundreds of enthusiasts sought wiring and knobs. Listening in was a complex but its magic attracted and inspired thou- ;rams and instructions on how to science. Tuning was an art. So it was sands throughout build a crystal set. no wonder that commuters boasted of the world to learn There were no fac- what they had picked up in the air the more about it. tory-built sets. night before. To pluck music from WOC. Where did it come The young Mar- Davenport, Iowa, off a wire hanging from from? How did it conis. the youth of the chimney to the apple tree in a New work? How could the land that had York suburb was something to be proud

it reach so many been experiment- of. Long distance tuning became a real cities and homes ing with amateur sport. In order to surpass the neighbor's simultaneously? wireless, rallied to record it was necessary to '"read up" on How could music their attic and cel- Radio. Sets were built and rebuilt to im- and words fly lar work benches prove their sensitivity, to make them tune through the walls in an effort to meet sharper and cut through interference, be- of houses and even the neighborhood cause in those days the "bloopers" or penetrate moun- demand for a ma- regenerative whistles caused by the type tains? It was a chine that would of circuit then in use. tilled the air with wondering world pick up music sound hazards. that greeted the from a nearby first broadcasts. studio. What a Radio was new scientific triumph B,*l'T the situation changed.

to the public. They it was for a New The glory of the headset led to the loud- had heard of wire- Yorker to hx the speaker. Factory-made receivers com- less and had mar- cat-whisker-wire peted with the home-made instruments. veled at the dots on a piece of ga- The professional engineer sought to sim- fool- and dashes that It's the entertainers that count in Radio lena, silicon or car- plify Radio reception and make it carried messages these days. The program is paramount! borundum, then proof. Radio was made all-electric. It 56 became necessary only to snap a switch sands of Radio set owners in the Pitts- rays and the emptiness of space, steal and to turn a single knob instead of four burgh area turned their dials to the wave the great portion of Radio's power so or five dials. Radio in the home became of KDKA. But as the time approached that most of it goes to waste, never find- as simple to use as the telephone or the for the solemn ceremony to begin the ing the antenna wires that reach up to electric light. Children could tune in and station's strength began to grow weak. pluck the words and music from the air. travel from city to city on the air waves. Reports reached the engineers at the But the listeners of 1930 with their screen- It was no longer necessary, after 1926, transmitter that something must be grid tubes and powerful amplifiers never to be an expert technician in order to wrong. worry that there isn't scale after scale of qualify as the owner of a Radio set. So musical notes running up and down their the public ceased to learn about what was lead-in wire begging for entrance. They inside the cabinet or of the wondrous EVER had this pioneer know that all they need do is NbI snap a waves that brought the melodies across acted like that. Quickly they inspected switch, the tubes glow and in comes the horizon. They dropped their interest the equipment but everything was in good the flood of entertainment. A jazzy in electrons, harmonics, kilocycles, regen- shape. The meters told a tale of effi- melody may impress the hearers and so eration, frequencies, induction and oscil- ciency. As soon as the funeral was over may a political speech, or a news bul- lations. The Radio chassis now ranks with KDKA's strength came back. The strange letin, but the wonder of Radio's magic, other machinery, with the mechanism of effect was attributed to the fact that so the basis of the achievement, goes un- the automobile. When something hap- many had tuned in on the wave that the heeded. pens to the motor car the owner usually energy was absorbed to a greater extent And it is that very lack of thought- calls upon the garage. When something than ever before. It is doubtful if this fulness that caused Dr. Albert Einstein happens to the Radio the service man is could happen today because the trans- to shake his finger at the Radio audience called into consultation. No longer does mitters are much more powerful, pump- of the world. He declares that listeners the motorist himself get out and get un- ing thousands of kilowatts into space, ought to be ashamed to make use of the der; no longer does the Radio listener whereas in the pioneer days only a few wonders of science embodied in a Radio open the cabinet and shake the wires in watts were used. receiving set while they appreciate them hopes that the difficulty will disappear. The earth and its objects, the sun's "as little as a cow appreciates the botanic The Radio set owner of 1930 is marvels in the plants she munches." interested first and foremost in So spoke the distinguished Profes- what he hears. The program is sor at the opening of the recent paramount. If the performance is Radio exhibition in Berlin, where entertaining and of clear tone then he took occasion to express his the listener has no complaint. He regrets at public apathy toward does not care what the electrons scientists and science. are doing under the cover of the Professor Einstein has the right cabinet or out in the sky. If he picture of the 1930 Radio set happens to tune around and acci- owner. The modern auditor merely dentally hear Cuba, Mexico or tunes in, and on many occasions Japan, he merely passes it by as continues to read, talk or play an ordinary thing in the king- cards while the faithful loudspeak- dom of Radio. But, had he picked er, never to be insulted, plays or up a distant city ten years ago he talks on in a vain effort to attract would have called all the family attention. Alas, 'tis true that as and the neighbors to rush to the the cow munches the hay, the clo- headphones to hear one of the won- ver and the grass, so the listener ders of the age. listens with little appreciation of "the God-given curiosity of the toiling experimenter and the con- R,-ADIO listeners have structive fantasy of the inventor," long imagined that they are tap- as Professor Einstein remarked. ping an unfathomed reservoir from which entertainment drains —a reservoir that never runs wHAT have the dry of music or voices. One of American broadcast listeners the wonders of broadcasting, which "munched" since the dawn of listeners probably never think 1930? No medium has dealt with about, is that no matter how many such a wide variety of events, and millions are in tune with a certain there can be little doubt that the wave, there always seems to be suf- invisible audience has appreciated ficient energy to actuate every de- what the Radio waves have brought tector, to make every loudspeaker to their homes. sing. It is a good thing that na- 'Tis true that the mail bags of ture has so provided else it might applause are not as full as in the be necessary for broadcast listen- days of yore. When broadcasting ers to rush to tune in Amos 'n' was a novelty thousands wrote to Andy or some other favorite pro- express their appreciation or to gram lest there be no power left report on the distance the program for the late comers. traveled before being plucked from Only once, in the early days of space. Times have changed. So broadcasting, did the ethereal res- has the psychology of the Radio ervoir seem to be running into an audience. Few listeners write un- arid condition. That was when the less they bite on the bait that funeral service of Woodrow Wil- offers something free—a sample of son was broadcast. It tooth paste, a horoscope or a book- was in the Olga Petrova in WJZ's first studio in Newark, N. J., in the middle of the afternoon when thou- days when getting a station was a scientific triumph. (Continued on page 92) — . — —

57

Ten Years Old and Earns $10,000 a Year! Fathers, Mothers and Doting

Aunts—Read How He Got His Start . .

u n i o

Brings Home the aeon

e^carberry

Author oj High Hat and other popular novels

POPULAR young Radio satellite whose salary is $10,000 a year a:breezed into his place of business 'to be interviewed one afternoon some time ago looking very much the Jimmy McCallion Sam of the Venrod skits. worse for wear. His face was scratched, his eye black- ened and there was a piece nicked out of that he made when he played "Sam" in Callion would make as a secretary at one of his front teeth. the Penrod skits for so long. But he's this point we asked Jimmy how much he He caught his breath and shook his a good boy. earned. He studied thoughtfully: head with great solemnity: Fresh from the little boy scooter in- "Well—now. oh. I don't know. Maybe "Gosh, you'll have to 'scuse me for cident, Jimmy suddenly changed into a two hundred, maybe five hundred dollars being a little late. I was in a terrible solemn little man with the weight of an a year. I know I earned a hundred dol- smash-up!" interview on his shoulders. He was lars doing a picture one day.'' We sympathized, as a woman should: wearing a sailor suit with long pants and The lad has absolutely no idea of his "Why, you poor boy! One of those he crossed his legs and looked up tremendous earning capacity. Fortu- terrible taxi drivers, I suppose. You can't gravely: nately, the father and mother have been trust them! They'll kill you every "Shall I go ahead and talk or do you wise enough to keep him a little boy, time—" want to ask me questions? I think I free from all conceit as regards his com- The young man shook his head again know what you'll want to know." mercial value and talent. It was refresh- and examined the nicked tooth. So, Jimmy set forth on his narrative. ing. Jimmy went on: "No! Nobody was to blame but me. "Well, I'm the youngest of nine kids. I was going down hill on my scooter I guess that's something. If you've never and I slam-banged right into a big bank. had the experience of course you wouldn't Ye.ES. we have seven rooms Ouch, golly!" know. I'm the only one in the show on the Drive now. I want to tell you Curtain! business except my sister Rosalie, eight- it's different from the noise over on 56th The gentleman of the great crash was een. She's in Sons o' Guns. Street. It's a lot nicer for mamma and none other than our little friend Jimmy "My father is Joseph McCallion. the girls. They can look at the river McCallion. ten years old and worth his Mother is named Nellie. Dad is a sec- and it's high-hatter. Girls like that, don't weight—professionally and otherwise—in retary in a local carpenters' union. By they? But. gosh, I wouldn't care about platinum. the way, we moved Friday from 34S West that. In other words, Jimmy is a honey. 56th Street to 136 Riverside Drive." "Gene Buck discovered me when I was You probably have the impression of him Realizing the modest salary Mr. Mc- a little tike. Guess I was about four or 58 five and going to dancing school. He got the McCallion offspring long to put him in could put him in pictures. Since that time me into vaudeville awhile. It was good his place. They razz him. There are his income has averaged not less than $85 training—but hard work. I go to Pro- only two girls. You can imagine that a a week and is often much more with his fessional School, you know. Otherwise family of seven boys could do just that! stage shows, movies and Radio work. I'd be out of luck, playing in shows." Jimmy poses frequently for artists and These Radio children—all of them, are At the time of the interview Jimmy advertising. But not at home! as different from the average stage child was playing in Lysistrata. But it was de- You'll remember the Wragge young- as an opera star is different from a singer cided he was working too hard with so sters, Eddie and Betty best, no doubt, as in a honky-tonk. They are natural. many Radio programs a week—and his Gold Spot and Shrimp, their first im- There is no show. The Wragge children, parents took him out of the show. Some portant roles on the air. Betty, 12, was despite their years as professionals, fit of his other outstanding productions were Gold Spot. Eddie, 10, Shrimp. into their Dutch household as naturally Yours Truly, with Leon Errol; This Year These two delightful, talented mike in- and wholesomely as though they had of Grace, Nice Women, and White fants are of Holland Dutch parentage. never been farther than Sunday School. Flame. The father and mother still speak with a Pride shines from the eyes of Christian "I've had a lot of movie experience," Dutch accent. Especially the mother, and Susanne as they sit in the big car- Jimmy volunteered when petless studio-like living he was telling about his room and listen to Betty activities away from the and Eddie, with their mike. "I've been in beautifully modulated twenty-five pictures. Last voices and in their per- Christmas I did a talkie fect English, talk with short—starred in it. I visitors. think it was called There One can see that the Is a Santa Claus. I was Wragges live for their a poor little boy in it. children. Everywhere there are pictures of them in all sorts of cos- .Leon er- tumes. Trinkets from rol is my best friend baby days—toys and me- and pal. We play golf mentoes. Eddie's bicycle together very often. and boxing gloves near He's a great inspiration the big fireplace. Betty's to me. Some day I want piano piled with her mu- to be like him. I want sic and the things she to be a comedian when I loves. They live in three grow up. Of course, I'll rooms. stick to the show busi- ness. A lot of the fel- lows say they'll save LITTLE old- their money and go into fashioned Betty laughed business. Not me. My when asked what they heart is in the show busi- did with their combined ness—especially Radio. Radio income of $12,000 "I like golf, baseball a year: and swimming. My "Well, you can just hobby is collecting bet none of it has gone autographs. You'd be into Wall Street! We surprised if you could are going to stay here see some of the names I and live reasonably but have in it. Mother wants well. We tie our sav- you to come for lunch ings up in insurance and some time and I'll show sure bonds and put it it to you. That day you in the bank. I think it were to come and couldn't Penrod himself in person—Howard Merrill. is foolish to be extrav- get there we had a swell agant and try to show lunch fixed for you. I've off. We never have got such names in my book as Coolidge, who speaks English very poorly. Betty cared for it." She was business-like. Errol, Tommy Meighan, Harry Lauder, and Eddie were both born in New York. The family lives in three rooms. They Sir Thomas Lipton. It's great!" Christian and Susanne Wragge are a are spick and span but plain. Dutch You could listen to Jimmy reel off his bit awed that their two children were thrift is in evidence everywhere. Mother experiences and tell of his future plans discovered and made famous at such an Wragge loves her home. for hours without getting bored. These early age. There isn't another actor on Eddie Wragge, a handsome blond child Radio youngsters could give cards and the Wragge family tree. with the typical Dutch blue eyes (Betty spades to the older stars when it comes Christian, the janitor of the ramshackle is the same type) is an all 'round enter- to giving out intelligent interviews. Per- stone apartment building, where they live tainer. He is also well known to the air haps it is because they are free from on the west side of New York, is the fans in Penrod, Empire Builders, and self-consciousness. janitor of the building. This means they The Lady Next Door—singing and talk- The elder McCallions are two hard- get the top floor, four flights up, rent ing- working, home-loving Irish-Americans free. His first stage appearance, at the age who handle their little child prodigy with When Eddie was four years old the of four, was in The Glass Slipper, with rare intelligence. If Jimmy happens to cute little tow-head was riding on the June Walker. Then he was in Mismates, get a bit up-stage at home and demand street on his tricycle when a man came The Enemy, The Silver Box, Topaze, with his rights as the chief bread earner of along, looked him over, then went up- Frank Morgan, and in Mima, with Lenore the family, it doesn't take the rest of stairs to inquire of his parents if he Ulric. He left Topaze to go with A Month 59

been an American citizen. The Wragges are so natural and un- affected — not the usual "cute" types —that their inter- views are grown-up, straight - from - the- shoulder affairs. There is little com- edy or childishness in them. Their smiles are gay and happy and they radi- ate health. Eddie interrupted once to remark: "We don't use any kind of a diet. We eat everything that

is good for us. And don't forget to tell them that I've never been late for school once in my life. Betty hasn't either." One of the pio- neer Radio lads is growing up. He'll soon be out of the child class — that naughty Penrod of the ether waves, Howard Merrill. For Howard will be fif- teen his next birth- oh, Eddie Wragge is a veteran performer day. And, how And so is his sister, Betty Wragge. he is shooting up and growing out of in the Country, with Nazimova. Later he knee breeches . . . And then. Long Pants! Howard gave this account of his start, played in Kolia, with the Theatre Guild, However, Howard says he's rather glad. after a heavy chicken dinner. (Picture us speaking both German and English. He hasn't Radio plans when he grows up. all leaning on the table after one of Uncle Betty, who is growing fast into a most He wants to be a newspaperman! In fact, John's banquets, while Howard spun his personable young blond lady, started her his mind has taken quite a literary turn. life story.) show career as the comedian with Char- Howard's bedroom is lined on one side "One evening when I was three years lotte Walker. Then she played with Belle with a book case—hundreds of books. old I was sitting in a restaurant with Baker and in My Maryland, Trigger, with With them he has kept an index file. mother when a woman came up and asked Claiborne Foster, The Silver Box, Peter Every card contains a few typewritten if I'd pose for an ad. That's the first time Ibbetson, with Rollo Peters, Liliom, and lines of crisp criticism of the author. mother ever got the idea that I might the Cameo Revue. Betty did Her Unborn Howard's parents are Russian. They have theatrical possibilities. I began in Child, with Effie Shannon on Broadway live next door to Carnegie Hall on 57th pictures when I was a little over four. and later was in the picture. Street. Howard likes to tell you that Since then I've played in fifty-eight of She is an accomplished singer and Mark Connelly, the famous playwright them. However, nobody knew much about dancer. Both of the little Wragges ap- who wrote Green Pastures, lives upstairs. me until I went in Radio three years ago. peared in pictures in Yolanda, Peter Stuy- Of all the Radio child homes visited It made me. vesant, Citizens of Tomorrow, and His Howard's home is the most artistic. There Children's Children. Eddie had an excel- are only three rooms—but the living room lent part in The Love of Sunya. is huge and tastefully furnished with a I.'YE played with Lillian grand piano and paintings. The father, Gish, Dick Barthelmess. Johnny Hints. mother and an uncle live in the apart- Richard Dix—Clara Bow. Just about B,'ETTY is in her glory ment. all of them. And I've posed for Christy. when she is hired to pose in a fashion Mother Merrill—who is a decidedly Xoles. Hare—Renwick. 1 go to private show. What young lady wouldn't be? young looking, attractive dark woman, school. They don't like to have pro- When they are playing on the road doesn't like to cook. So, Uncle John does fessional children give the name. I don't there is an arrangement made with the the cooking and she takes care of the know why— I guess they don't want the Professional School whereby they may house. What a cook! Fried chicken ami publicity. do their lessons by correspondence. Betty all the trimmings. "I was with Walter Hampden for two is in the eighth grade this year, and little Mr. Merrill is a tailor with a modest years in An Enemy of the People, on Eddie in the fifth. income. The Merrills eat in (he kitchen Broadway. 1 like the stage and pictures. Christian Wragge came to America —such jolly, gay meals. Howard is a But Radio is even more interesting. It nineteen years ago. The mother came modest, well-bred boy with the typical is harder in a way because you don

fifteen years ago. The father is proud Russian dark hair and brown eyes. He the reaction of your audience. But it of the fact that for twelve years he has has been an actor since he was three. t Continued on page I 60 Broadcastin from

sponsored the presentation of prizes. At first it was an The Quality annual gold cup to the most popular announcer; then it came to a contest for the most popular station, and the most popular orchestra. When the Federal Radio Commission of Making Friends divided the country into sections Radio Digest awarded the prizes to the leaders in each section and a top prize for the contestant that held the greatest number of votes. WAS a real pleasure for the Editors of Radio Digest There has only been one other top prize awarded by ITto participate in the ceremonies at which the famous Radio Digest to Eastern stations during the past eight Mystery Announcer was presented with the Diamond years—and that one was to Graham McNamee. He still Meritum Award. For those of us whom extensive travel has treasures that gold cup in his home. enabled to behold the master works of all time—with all The high art of winning friends knows no social or money their great cultural and intellectual inspiration, one must barriers. Second and third generations of the most illus- confess that there is nothing greater in all the world than trious families more often than not grow soft and spoiled. the man who springs from an inconspicuous existence to a The example of the Mystery Announcer should be a power- position where he commands the love and esteem of his ful inspiration to those young men and women who are am- fellow men. To win a niche in human hearts seems to be bitious for success but who shrink before the apparent ob- the supreme achievement of mankind. Fame and Fortune stacles. Here we have the Mystery Announcer already fa- may follow and in large degree, but as measuring sticks of mous and successful and yet without the benefit of any hu- success they can never compare with the humble but human man name—with his face still hidden behind a mask—with ability to make friends and to keep them. his real identity still unknown. The public has become Some may believe that Radio Digest has conferred on the acquainted with his talents and personality only through Mystery Announcer this honor known as the Diamond the medium of the ear. How marvelous! How mysterious!

Meritum Award. Such, however, is not the case. To be And yet how easy to understand when we stop to realize sure, we presented the diamond set medal, which is sym- that the career of every man must begin and end in the mak- bolic of the public popularity won by the Mystery An- ing and keeping of friends. nouncer, but the people—the Radio public itself determined who should be the proud recipient. In conducting a con- test to determine the most popular individual program, we Nineteen put the decision squarely up to the Radio audience. We did this not only to be entirely fair, but also because we felt that public approval of this or that program—at least the Thirty- One true depth of public approval—could best be established by what the Radio public would do to prove its friendship for a particular Radio star or group of stars. Voting in this con- THE year which has just elapsed and, in fact, a good test, therefore, required specific individual action on the part of the one which went before did not leave most part of Radio fans. of us rolling in capital wealth and burdened with Also, we had in mind that through such contests the problems of how to spend enormous incomes. Indeed, we owners and managers of broadcasting stations, as well as suspect that many of our millionaire friends are entering the the creators of sponsored and sustaining programs, could new year shorn of much in the way of worldly goods. gauge more accurately what the Radio public likes best. But what of it? Is money really quite all it is cracked up Obviously, all broadcasters want to please the public, but to be? And were the so-called boom times really taking us the extent to which they can be guided in doing so neces- where we wanted to go, or just taking us up and up and up sarily depends to some extent on proper expression from where the higher we went the greater was bound to be the the public itself. Contests such as this one, which was won fall. Life at best is a queer thing to analyze, but of one thing by the Mystery Announcer of Philadelphia, we believe serve we may rest very much assured. The human wisdom of a constructive purpose in this matter of focusing attention the world has not suddenly grown out of a greatly inspired on the type of programs which is most pleasing to the new generation. Wisdom is still the ongrowth of the col- Radio audience. lective intellects of millions upon millions of people and When an individual entertainer has won a friend in his centuries upon centuries of experience. Panaceas and mirac-

Radio audience that friend is often anxious for an oppor- ulous solutions of human problems are matters of myth. tunity to express his friendship. He sometimes writes a The old adages may have grown stale in popularity and letter, which helps some but does not always express ade- in the race for limelight may have been outgeneraled by an quately what the friend would like to express. impetuous rush of Youth which laughs in overhasty dis- Years ago Radio Digest recognized this position of the dain at the knowledge and understanding which comes only true Radio listener and, largely as a matter of service, with having lived for three score years or more. —

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Radio Digest is not robed as a preacher or prophet. But institutions and the host of other channels into which in the mad rush for enlightenment as to where business and millions are being poured stand as the great voluntary the people dependent on it are going, Radio Digest can at answer to the odious and confiscatory application of in- least counsel its readers to pay heed to the wisdom of ages heritance taxes. the type of wisdom which in the long run has proved most Only recently a great new field for philanthropy has unerring. opened up. Radio broadcasting presents opportunities for Whatever goes up must come down. In other words, public service which few, if any, of the other channels can fictitious values and fictitious incomes must come down. equal. The ownership of broadcasting stations is not a

But such a return to normal cannot long spell depression; prerequisite, in fact is for many reasons undesirable. The it must soon rewrite prosperity and sound prosperity at that. entire income from Radio broadcasting endowments can be used

There is nothing black about the horizon if we will but for the program phase alone—to buy time on the air from look at facts instead of fancies and if we will accept the one or more stations— to prepare programs of outstanding doctrine that success is in the last analysis the result of merit—and to engage talent that can do the most justice to hard work. the particular objective the donor may have in mind. Right now sponsored programs represent considerable of a burden to many broadcasting stations and yet there must The New be definite limits to the percentage of programs on any (and every) station that are sponsored by advertisers. In Philanthropy between the sustaining and sponsored programs there is considerable room for endowed -programs. In connection with this new and marvelous possibility THE really great people of the world have stood out which is looming on the horizon the Editors of Radio Di- not so much for what they took out of life as for gest earnestly suggest to that group of worthy citizens who

what they gave to the world. In fact, the principle will come to be crowned as The Benefactors of Radio that the that unselfish service to one's fellow men constitutes the following definite principles be always made to govern: final goal of human beings is constantly gaining momen- First, all endowed programs should be properly paid for tum. as regards time on the air, administration services, and tal- At twenty-seven years of age, Andrew Carnegie, who ent. The fulfilment of the purposes of charity should never started virtually in poverty, decided to retire at thirty-five be made dependent on supplementary charity. so he would have enough of his life left in which to dispose Second, give the administrators plenty of latitude. Times of whatever wealth he might have accumulated by then. will be ever changing and Radio programs must be popular John D. Rockefeller will be famous through centuries, not in character to attract wide spread interest and attention. as a successful oil magnate, but as a great benefactor of man- Third, pick administrators on the same basis that vou kind in many vital directions. George Eastman, the Hark- would for such as Scientific Foundations, Academies of Art, ness family, George F. Baker—their names are growing ever Hospitals and Universities. greater for their thoughtfulness about human souls and hu- Fourth, avoid any and all types of propaganda. man hearts. Indeed Dr. Dorrance, the man who made Fifth, make only the income available to the end that canned soups so famous, and Hetty Green, the hoarder, your endowment can be as near perpetual as possible in the stand out in their wills as sad contrasts to the noble gen- service it renders to your fellow men. erosity of most of our modern day money barons. However, It will be fascinating indeed to observe who the first and, their descendants are very likely to bring eternal glory to therefore, most outstanding benefactor of Radio will be. It their family names through some outstanding acts of public will be thrilling to see whether the programs provided for service. by the first great Benefactor will be for the promotion of

This movement toward more and larger benefactions is a health, of marital bliss, of individual morals, of music, or world wide trend. Undoubtedly it is part of the spiritual some other impressive phase of culture, education or even progress of man and as such undoubtedly it will accelerate. entertainment—which, after all, is a great contribution to And why not? Have second and third generations ever the happiness and welfare of mankind. It will be interest- proved that silver spoons make them finer people. There are ing to see who are the administrators selected by the first exceptions, of course, but for every son or daughter who Benefactor of Radio. has been made superb by dint of great material inheritance In any event, here's hoping and predicting that Radio will there are at least ten who have been spoiled. Indeed, all soon establish itself as a new and great medium of public parents who are more than ordinarily fortunate in the ac- philanthropy and as a medium with the power to bring to quisition of wealth can serve even their own children best millions of people benefits which cannot be brought to by setting an example of unselfish human service. them in any other manner either so immediate or so hu-

The living endowment or the endowment by will of li- manly intimate. braries, hospitals, schools, research in medicine, cultural Ray Bill 62

Intimate Personality Notes Gleanedfrom the Radio

Family of New York's Great Key Stations

THANK GOODNESS I wore my turned off, a direct challenge to Jack Frost. diately successful with her impersona- fur coat when I went to see Mary This North Pole idea Miss Charles tions and dialect songs. Now she is Charles at her apartment on East probably brought back from England featured on La Palina hour, and is 50th Street. Shiver my timbers, where she is better known professionally "spotted," as they say, in many other but the girl doesn't believe in steam heat. than in America. Isn't there some joke Columbia programs.

about the English people taking ice cold She lives, as I said, in a charming, if tubs every morning because the water is somewhat chilly, apartment on East 50th

so much warmer than their houses? Street. . And if you go to see her, a tall However, let's stop talking about tem- colored maid will open the door and say, perature. "Come in, honey, and rest yo' hat." Mary Charles was born in German- town, Philadelphia. She says she was Ozzie Nelson singing and dancing ever since she can remember. She made her stage debut THERE are times when this P. W. G. at five in a charity entertainment. She —Poor Working Girl—feels she was perfectly calm and collected, but should take her salary check and mail it her mother fainted from the excitement. right back to the Editor of Radio Digest. To her mother Mary Charles gives all (Just a minute, Ed., I'm really not going

the credit for her success, because her to do it.) And one of those times is mother was marvelous at dialects. And she was almost always getting up amateur performances at home in which Mary took part. "I think," said Miss Charles, "that Mother would have liked to have had a theatrical career herself; and now she has double satisfaction through what I am doing." Since Miss Charles has come into Radio, her mother sits by the speaker almost day and night, listening not only to her daughter but to all the other singers, so that she may give Mary the benefit of her observations. Mary Charles had the typical educa- tion of the daughter of a socially promi- nent family. She attended fashionable schools, she made trips to Europe. In Berlin she studied voice with several Mary Charles. teachers. Back in America she began to attract attention through her entertain- Thinks it makes one soft. Guess she's ing at amateur and private affairs. right. For there she sat perfectly com- In 1928 Miss Charles was in England fortable, clad only in some fetching blue and through a theatrical producer's seeing pajamas (it was eleven in the morning), her at a private entertainment in London, while my knees knocked together under- she was engaged for a leading role in a neath my coat. play called Virginia. Then she came back Miss Charles' hair is red, her eyes are to the U. S. A. and played in Interference. blue, her skin has that pink and white deli- Then back to England again to play for cate quality that so often goes with red eighteen months in Chariot's Review. hair. She looks frail, flowerlike. But the Then here again for Ziegfeld's Show Girl. next time you hear her lilting soprano She has played in several Paramount voice coming over the air on the Palina short movies and last winter was with Hour, Wednesday nights, CBS, just re- Jack Buchannan at the Casanova Club. member she's the girl who stands New Her first Radio work was with the York's zero weather with the radiators Paramount Publix hour. She was imme- Ozzie Nelson. 63

when she is sent "Is there any- up to the Barbizon- thing you can't Plaza Hotel to in- do?" I asked. terview the orches- 'Lots of things. tra leader, Ozzie I have no me- Nelson, and said chanical skill. I Ozzie Nelson says, couldn't fix a brok- "But, of course, en electric light you're going to plug. Changing a stay for dinner." tire is about my And while she limit. thanks her lucky Rosaline stars she wore her Greene best red coat and newest black dress, ( S A L I X E Ozzie goes back to R GREENE. his orchestra and Tall. dark, and ter- the head waiter ribly upset. She leads her to a table was ten minutes at the edge of the late for her ap- dance floor. pointment with me. Ozzie Nelson. Just imagine it. His mother called ten minutes! (If him "Oswald" be- she only knew how cause she thought long some people it was one name have kept me wait- that couldn't be ing. P. S. Freddie Rosaline Greene. nicknamed. But Rich, please take what's in a name? Look at his picture. note.) But Miss Greene puckered her He's the lad whose orchestra, whose sweet tions and start practising law. But could brow and shook her dark head. "I don't crooning voice, you hear Thursday, Fri- he let his very lucrative hobby go just like it," she declared. It might be all day and Saturday nights over CBS. yet? Looming ahead of him were the right for a stage star to be late, she Do you think he looks like the sort starvation years which seem inevitable in explained, but Radio doesn't function of person who'd play quarterback three the law profession. He decided to play that way. Time and the microphone wait years at Rutgers, who'd be a champion a little longer. for no man—or woman. swimmer and boxer, who'd win oratorical It was his conceit, he said, that got And Rosaline Green is signed and sealed contests, who'd be art editor of the Rut- him into Radio. "I suppose you'd call it to Radio. It was in Radio that she got gers' magazine of humor, who'd be a conceit," he went on, "but I have a her start, and in Radio she will remain. captain of the debating team, who'd be funny quirk in my character. I always She has tried the stage and found it a member of the Literary Society, Ivy think I can do anything anyone else can. wanting. But more about that later. Club Fraternity, Cap and Skull, who'd And when I'd hear these orchestras play- She really had a perfectly good excuse be just about the most popular and active ing over the air I felt that the boys and for being late the afternoon I saw her. man on the campus? Because if you I"—he gestured— toward the eight men on She had just returned from a trip to think he looks like that then you've hit the dais "could do just as well if not Europe. If you missed her for a while the nail exactly on the head. better. So didn't we go to WMCA and from the dramatic sketches broadcast For Ozzie Nelson won about every tell them so. That led to an engage- from the NBC studios, that was the rea- honor Rutgers had to offer. And be- ment at Glen Island Casino last sum- son. She was traveling in Europe, visit- sides he put himself through college with mer and then to Columbia. And here ing the countries of all the heroines she his music. we are." portrayed in Famous Loves. And she

Leading an orchestra has been a hobby Even so, this orchestra leading is just had a thrilling time doing it. But she with Ozzie Nelson since he was a small an interlude. There is criminal law ahead. was more thrilled about getting back to boy. His father organized glee clubs and Not that he looks down on his present her work. Much more thrilled, she amateur choruses from among his son's profession. Gone are the days when or- laughed, than she would have been if that friends, and this was Ozzie's first and chestra leaders were long-haired tempera- work had been school teaching instead of only musical training. When he was mental people, just a step above the broadcasting. fourteen Ozzie organized a boys' orches- head waiter. "But," says Ozzie, "this You see, Rosaline Greene intended to tra and played throughout New Jersey game is something to do while you're be a school teacher. The girl who played at fraternity and high school dances. It young. I can't see myself leading an Joan of Arc and Cleopatra over coast-to- was only natural that when he entered orchestra at fifty or sixty. But law, coast networks began life as just another Rutgers University in 1923 he should there's a career where age is an advan- freshman up at New York State College organize an orchestra there. tage." in Albany. But when she left State Col-

When he graduated from Rutgers, Far-sighted, that. I was not surprised lege in 1926 it was with the strangest Ozzie expected to give up his music and to hear him say that he thinks musical honors ever obtained at that institution. devote his entire time to law. But at success depends more on good business for she took with her not only her A.B. just this time his father died and young than on talent. I'll bet his law firm will degree—granted cum laude—but also the Nelson did not then wish to take money be a success. recognition of possessing America's most from his mother. He went back to his As I said before, he sings as well as perfect Radio voice. orchestra work, playing in country clubs directs. He plays the violin, saxophone, It all began in her sophomore year, in Westchester and New Jersey. Also he and banjo. He wrote the words to And when Edward H. Smith, the director of coached football at Lincoln High School Then Your Lips Met Mine. He wrote the WGY studio at Schenectady, and the in Jersey City. As a result he had both both music and words to I'm Satisfied creator of Radio drama, offered auditions

a law degree and a reputation in the With You, and / Dare Yon. . . . And he's to the members of the senior class oi musical field. an artist, too. He's just signed up to do State College. Rosaline was taken along He was ready to take the bar examina- a series of cartoons for Life. {Continued on page 105) —

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Little Bird Knows All— Tells All—Ask

Her about the Stars You Admire

BLINKETY - blink - blink - blink - being short, blond and gifted with the that city. Everett is one of the youngest ?XT?-!!-Z! All of which means same personality. Rudy lives with the professional organists in Massachusetts 1 well, Agnes Doherty, Memponset, gang whom Don defined as a miscellaneous and is very popular around Boston for Mass., wants to know if Rudy collection of college friends in a suite of his piano and organ recitals over WHDH.. Vallee ever swears. By putting the right rooms known as the barracks; that Rudy's words in the place of those "blinketies" new pet, Andy, better known as "Scotty," you'll know exactly what Rudy Vallee says has been recently added to the occupants D'OLORES,( one of the increasing num- when he gets mad. Of course, Peggy of this crowded apartment and sometimes ber of Radio astrologers, is interpreting Hull doesn't say a thing about Rudy's has to be "wedged in" under the bed or someone's destiny, at this moment. See facility for swearing in his horror-scope, behind the radiator; that Rudy joined the how serious she is—anyone would be with printed on another page in this book, but three hundred horoscopes to read every stars don't know as much as Marcella, day. Dolores receives that many letters anyway. As a matter of fact the stars daily as a result of her broadcasts over ordained that Marcella would be married WOV, so if you want to know about that in 1861 —well—now, there goes my age trip to Europe or the tip on Wall Street, but her Prince Charming never came. Dolores is the modern oracle to go to. However, she is still hoping, and occasion- ally she and Toddles (she's the Presiding Pigeon of Graybar Court) gaze far out M.AHLON MERRICK. NBC orches- in the distance over the stretch of Broad- tral conductor, launched out on his mu- way to see if the snow white charger, car- sical career at the age of five, and at rying her Prince, is approaching. seven he played in a theatre orchestra way But going back out in Farmington, to Rudy Vallee, Iowa. And now he Don LeGeorge — is conductor at the he's the manager National Broadcast- of the Villa Vallee ing Everett Sittard Company. And Club — tells me maybe you think he that when Rudy can't swing the ten- gets real mad, he Navy during the World War while still nis racket and the blinkety - blinks. under age, having trained at the U. S. driver as deftly as But that shouldn't Naval Training Station at Newport, Rhode he can the magic disturb you, Agnes. Island, in the Spring of 1917. Now that little baton. Well, Now, hold on Don, we have the inside on Rudy, we'll give a just challenge him! don't run away, vote of thanks to Don—m-m-but that's Agnes wants to going to be some dinner next week. know lots more. What is his brother M/.AID of all Work like? With whom Dolores M,.RS. DELIA of Willimansett writes, Bera Meade Grimes at Station WFAA is does he live? What "Why don't you publish something about the official title of degree did he get in college? What did Everett Sittard? Young talented musi- Vin Lindhe and she writes, "Dear Mar- his year book say of him? Is it true that cians should be encouraged by Radio cella: (or are you a Miss?)" Vin, dear, he joined the Navy during the World War Digest." Of course they should, and I am neither Miss nor Mrs.—I am just a when under age? thanks to Mary Bresnahan, we have been little bird who shares Yes, I guess that's all. able to get Mr. Sittard's picture from her crumbs with the Yes, uh-huh, um-m, WHDH, Boston, from which station he curious—just a little Yale, did you say? broadcasts. He certainly looks as if he bird and nothing and a Ph.B. uh-huh. has dominion over those rows of keys and more. Coming down Well, that's fine. I can even hear beautiful strains of music to business, Wild Yes, I'll meet you tip on silver toes. Rose of Goldthwaite, for dinner next week. As worlds release their treasures this is about Bera Good-bye! Next From imprisoned bars Meade Grimes. Bera WEEK! Well, now And sighing measures was born at Pecan Don's gone. He Fling their music to the stars. Gap, Texas, in the says, Agnes, that Well, Mr. Sittard broadcast way back year Nineteen Hun- Rudy's brother is in 1922 over WBZ, and while in high dred. She has brown very cute and in school he played the organ at the Strand eyes and curly hair, some respects better Theatre in Holyoke. He was also guest loves to go fishing Mahlon Merrick looking than Rudy, organist in the Presbyterian Church in and golfing and her Sam Magill — — —— —

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favorite color is ver- and joined several stock companies. When milion. She is mar- he's not behind the mike at KDKA, Pitts- 1_W E R Y N E ried but that doesn't burgh, you will probably find him play- knows that Sir Ar- stop the influx of ing baseball, football or tennis. This is thur Sullivan, of the proposals from those also for Sally of McKeesport. team Gilbert and who hear her broad- Sullivan, originators cast. For six years of those famous op- she has been with A,.GNES MOOREHEAD appears in such erettas, wrote some WFAA, Dallas, us- NBC features as the Silver Flute, East very beautiful ing the piano as the of Cairo, and Mystery House. Her father, hymns. And now vehicle of her tal- a minister, showed no opposition to her Gene Arnold, direc- ent. Vin Lindhe inclinations for a theatrical career but tor of the Weener says that Vera's insisted that she finish her education at Minstrels at WENR. name is a source of the University of Wisconsin, where she Chicago, once stage eternal worry to got her master of arts degree. She took director and teacher Glenn Riggs Arnold her because no one parts in college shows and won her way, of dancing and pub- Gene

ever spells it right. five years ago, to roles in several Broad- lic speech, is also She receives letters addressed to ''Bury way shows Candlelight and Soldiers and composing hymns. Gene was connected Me Grimes", "Marry Me Grimes", Women. with Henry W. Savage. Montgomery and "Bear With Me Stone, Victor Her- Grimes" and "Ver- bert and other well ily Rhymes". known musical VjUESS who yodels Emmett's Lullaby producers. It was every Friday night on the Nestle Program through his experi- over WJZ. You're wrong. It's Chick ence on the stage Farmer and when Chick yodels—well he A,.WFULLY sor- that he became in- yodels and there is no mistaking it either. ry Peggy, but Sam terested in broad- Chick is a graduate of Ogelthorpe Uni- Magill's heart be- casting. That spir- versity at Atlanta, Ga. He has only one longs to another itual something in aversion he can't stand song-pluggers one Barbara Pren- — us "will out." and so those who are engaged in the activity tiss, but I'm sure in Gene Arnold it of song-plugging take this as a warning, that he likes being has found a chan- and never rush into the studio when Chick called "a perfect nel for the compos- peach" anyway. ing of hvmns. He's only twenty- five but he has seen Agnes Moorehead Virginia Lee much in these few years. When he was 16 he ran away from home and school and got a job sell- I FOUND Virginia Lee's picture on my ing manicure sets to department store desk, and she had such a wistful expres- buyers. Evidently he was not very suc- sion, that I said. "All right. I'll put you cessful so he trudged home. He attended in." Virginia is the "blues" singer, and New York University a little later, be- she and Andy Mansfield do a Radio came cheer-leader and director of the vaudeville act over WLW—that's the NYU Glee Club Quartet, which gave an station that had a little romance not long audition at WOR. Here he wrote con- ago—Natalie Giddings and Ralph Habur- tinuities and became familiar with the ton—and now thev're married! Radio routine. In 1929 he was graduated from N. Y. U. with a degree and a com- mission in the Air Corps Reserve. Now T\WO hundred and fifty pounds! That Eddie East and Ralph Dumke he's broadcasting from the 50,000-watt is exactly what Ed East weighs. Mr. station in Connecticut—WTIC. Connecti- East, as you know. Alice of Milwaukee. cut is his native state. is of the team. East and Dumke. star Farmer is broadcasting and ask him to Radio comedians of WGX. Chicago. plug a song. Ralph that's Ralph Dumke—weighs o<'CIE of Tunneltown, W. Va., writes just a trifling 240 pounds. East was ex- that Glenn Riggs' happy laugh over posed to the higher education at Indiana KDKA is enough to drive any frown D,'EAR Gladys, Clark G. Myers of University, but having been inoculated

away. Glenn, as WENR says that he was born in the State against it. the con- you know, is the of Ohio, where most of the presidents tagion didn't affect announcer over that come from, and that he is now waiting him —so off he went station. Even his for his turn. He has brown eyes and au- to vaudeville. He is eyes sparkle with burn hair—five feet, six inches in height married and has one the wealth of joy (not quite as tall as Lincoln) and weighs daughter. Joan, aged behind them. Jun- one hundred forty-five pounds. I think 13. Ralph was born iata College at he'd make a scrumptious president —don't .ii South Bend. Ind.. Huntington. Pa., is you? He hasn't told me yet how old he is but he didn't weigh his alma mater and —and he hasn't confessed to being a bach- very much then. He when stepped he elor. Farmer Rusk. Uncle Luke and Aunt .it tended Notre out on the thresh- Mirandy are separate individuals —occa- Dame University. old of the world, sionally, however. Clark has used the Dame took leading parts in he became inter- of Farmer Husk. Uncle Luke and Aunt Gilbert & Sullivan ested in dramatic Mirandy, off-stage are really married operettas, and was Chick Farmer sketches and I heir plays names are Marian and Jim Jordan. (Cottt, Oti page 100) Ct.irk G. Myers 66 with and Hear

When is a quartet a quintet? When the four NBC Revelers get together with their director. Left to right: James Melton, Lewis James, Frank Black (director) Elliott Shaw and Wilfred Glenn.

PUGILISTS, columnists, astrologers, aviators, showmen

and their wives . . . sooner or later the little black box, mike, gets them all. For example, Billie Burke, who Radioed recently, "When a woman ceases to be jealous everything is all over." That from the woman who married the man (Flo Ziegfeld) who glorifies the American girl! Other revelations she made about her" showman husband: he is the only man she knows who can tell at a glance what a woman is wearing; "he is ah expert shot, a regular Dead-eye Dick who can aim by using a mirror;" he owns fifty-six pairs of moccasins and uses them for house slippers; and he loves to go to little out-of-the-way theatres and cafes looking for new talent.

Billie Burke, who CHILDREN cost a lot. That's why Paul Wing works for his recently Radioed salary as Uncle Toddy. He has two of his own, Lorraine inner secrets of married life and David, and the older they grew, the more expensive they with Flo Ziegfeld, who became, until he decided they would have to do something to likes camping, com- help support themselves. So he told them stories to keep them fort and a midnight from crying for food which he lacked money to buy. If they snack before bed. liked the stories, Paul Wing wrote them down and sent them to his publisher. Now he lives in Darien, Connecticut, himself and his five sons, fixed it up and today he could sell it, writes there, but commutes to the NBC if he wished. Although it's too valuable to be used in ordinary New York studios every Thursday. playing, Allan, his youngest son, sometimes uses it for solo numbers.

VIOLIN worth $3,500 today was MISCHA ELZON, famous Polish violin virtuoso, once almost nothing A bought for a few played Saint-Saen's Concerto in B Minor in the presence years ago by Pa Crockett of Colum- of the composer himself, so his interpretation during a recent bia's mountaineers. How come? Out- Minneapolis Honeywell hour on CBS must have been authentic; its back, several side of a hole in Paris and other European capitals have heard Mr. Elzon, and in scratches and a shattered thousand 1929 he toured this country with Schumann Heink. neck, it was almost perfect when he

found it in a second-hand store. But it bore the imprint of Jacob Steiner, Paul Wing, "Uncle Tod- so the elder Crockett, who is official "QINCE listening to your hour, Bill Schndt's Going to Press," dy" to boys and girls. repairman for the instruments used by i3 wrote one fan to Bill recently, "I have realized that the 61 7heC?h the News

Rehearsing for "The Rise of the Goldbergs". Gertrude Berg (author of the sketch) as Molly, James R. Waters as Jake, and Alfred Corn as "Sammy" in their Bronx flat.

Heinl, who made her Radio debut with Jack Frost Melody Moments, was born in Indiana, lives in Washington, and makes frequent visits to New York, Mecca of musicians.

TWO of the world's most confirmed yachtsmen are Gus Haenschen and Jack Parker, of the Men About Town trio. But fond as he is of water. Parker can't swim. So he ties a stout rope to his middle, gets a friend to hold the end. and then drops overboard for his "swim." But Frank Luther, third mem- ber of the trio, prefers land and sticks to his saddle. He first learned he had a voice back in his Kansas ranch days when he They grow hearty sang ditties to keep cattle from stampeding. in the logging

camps . . . John Whitcomb, master of ceremonies of the told Gertrude Berg it couldn't be done . . . that Vermont Lumber- THEY a Jewish dialect program would never go over. But the jacks, 'who deserted lady was little Miss Persistence herself and finally got an NBC the tall timber for Radioland audition. From then on, her rise was even more rapid than The Rise of the Goldbergs, the sketch which she writes

movies are wrong . . . newspaper men are really intelligent and in which she plays the principal

. . . they are not all drunkards and lowbrows." Such encour- part of Molly. Another proof of the agement is spurring the former Radio editor of the New York fact that talent will out! Telegram on to greater efforts! This program, Radio's oldest and most comprehensive newspaper feature, recently celebrated its second anniversary on the Columbia Broadcasting network. Its list of speakers reads like a "Who's Who in Newspaperdom" AND Talent will be Up too! As —Karl A. Bickel, president of United Press, Barry Faris, vice- -witness Tom Truesdale and his president of the International News Service, Arthur S. Draper of Musical Aviators—all eleven of them

the New York Herald Tribune . . . and many others, all an- are licensed air pilots. Musicians first. nounced by the able voice of Bill Schudt. they got a contract on an RKO circuit and. disliking Pullmans, learned to fly. If the plane needed adjustment, the sax player would put the carburetor THE great MacDowell himself recommended Helen Corbin right. Now they are at the Park Cen- Heinl when the National Cathedral School in Washington tral Aviation Grill, and broadcast over Tom Truetdale, leader asked the famous composer to send (hem a music teacher. Mrs. the Columbia network. of the Musical Aviators 68

made such a hit at WOR that National Broadcasting Company Jack Brinckley Makes officials obtained him for the announcing staff of WJZ, where he announced several important programs and where he wrote, pro- duced and played the leading part in a series of sketches entitled "Southern Cameos." Hit at WTIC On November 1, 1929, he transferred the now well-known drawl to Station WTIC, and there he is today. A few months after joining the WTIC staff he took unto himself a wife, Miss Maxine Merchant, daughter of Grace W. (Merchant) Towne, supervisor CONTRAST—that's the element that makes certain person- of the artists' service bureau of the National Broadcasting Com- alities stand out in bold relief above others. And it is pany. Mrs. Brinckley is herself a talented Radio actress and almost certain that it's the secret of the popularity of Jack D. often plays in her husband's dramatic skits-. Brinckley, announcer of Station WTIC of Hartford.

For it is something of an anomaly to hear such a dyed-in-the- wool southern voice as Brinkley's coming from a New England HUGH WALTON, former Columbia System announcer, has Radio station. The contrast between his slow, mellow drawl and joined the staff of Station WTIC of Hartford. Walton is a the crisp, staccato voices of his fellow announcers was bound to Missourian and a graduate of the University of Oregon, where he attract attention in his direction. majored in journalism. His success in undergraduate theatricals Jack was born in North Carolina. In the few years that have prompted him to abandon his journalistic ambitions in favor of elapsed since he first saw the light of day he has packed a variety the stage, and then he turned to Radio. of activities. After a try at "higher learning" at the University of Richmond, he joined the staff of the Richmond Times-Dis- patch. From there he hopped to New IT'S beginning to look as though York, where he annexed himself to New England may have a network the staff of The New York American, all its own. Station WTIC of Hart- eventually becoming Radio editor. It ford is transmitting programs to five happened that Lucille LaVerne was New England stations each Monday then playing on Broadway in a play evening. "Hawaiian Echoes", which based on southern life entitled "Sun- features Mike Hanapi and his five Up". Jack stepped into Miss La Hawaiians, is relayed to the audience Verne's dressing room and told her if of WTAG of Worcester, and "Seth anybody was equipped to play in that Parker's Old-Fashioned Singing

show it was he. After hearing him School" is dispatched by wire to read a few lines from the script, she WNAC of Boston, WEAN of Provi- agreed, and so Jack stepped into the dence, WORC of Worcester and cast. WLBZ of Bangor. Meanwhile his activities as Radio editor had brought him in contact with the metropolitan broadcasting INCENTIVE for engineers to in- Officials of Newark studios. of WOR vent a device to transmit smells liked his voice and his ready wit, so —a "telesmell"—as well as sounds, is they invited him to join the staff. He seen by officials of Station WTIC, who have established a unique "cook- ing school of the air". There is a

Jack D. Brinckley (top) hasn't the crisp, New England tones you'd expect way down east from Hartford. No, the good-looking WTIC

announcer is a Southerner by birth and accent.

Betty McKee and Dot Harding (above), assisted by the two pianos in the background, contribute KDKA's program, "Twenty Fingers of Sweetness" from the Pittsburgh station's studios.

Caught holding hands! But Jimmie Barr, baritone and Anita Mitchell, soprano of the Silver Slipper Cafe program at KPO, San Francisco, aren't a bit ashamed. Cotton Bond is at the piano. 69

modei kitchen adjacent to the studios, where every recipe and wind-machine of back stage lent its services over the Radio. suggestion is tested before described over the air. A device Frank Oliver, one of the pioneers of WGY and now director which would transmit the savory odors from the kitchen would at that station, brought his many years of stock and road ex- lend atmosphere to the programs, say WTIC broadcasters. perience into the new field, the experience gained since boyhood Florie Bishop Bowering, who is supervising the cooking broadcasts, days in the hard grind of provincial theatricals in Great Britain recently attained a record for "fan mail". The response to one and Ireland. Coming to America in 1906, he saw what an earth- broadcast from WTIC totaled 1,032 letters requesting recipes! quake could do to San Francisco and decided the best thing to do was to see the great American continent via the actor's route, which included nearly all the states in the union and Provinces in STATISTICS from the South—The Gondoliers of WJSV, Canada. Then he tried the movies, when they were young, trav- Mount Vernon Hills, Va., have received from admirers eled a little more and then came to anchor in Schenectady where 4,500 letters, 763 picture postals, and on their part have he just naturally drifted into Radio. mailed over 4,000 autographed pictures, signed their names 700 times for autograph collectors and played over 2,600 different selections on the Radio. No—they don't come from Venice . . . THE Buffalo Broadcasting Company and the destinies of their real names are Manon and Clyde Stoneberger, born and Stations WGR, WKBW. and WMAK are now being directed raised in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains at Luray, Va., by Carlton P. Cooke, president and treasurer. Irvine J. Kittin- and this month they celebrate their second anniversary with the ger, former president, is now vice-president and director. Mount Vernon station. * * * TONY CABOOCH, star and only member of the cast of the ALPH ELVIN, of Indianapolis, who announces sports and Anheuser Busch One Man Radio Show, lives in St. Louis R'special features for "the voice of the capitol"'. as WKBF is and makes KMOX his headquarters known throughout Indiana, has been Tuesday evenings, when he broad- to Hollywood. He met the leading casts over the Columbia Broadcasting luminaries of the talking screen, and

System. He is plumpish, wears polka upon returning to Indianapolis he dot neckties, is getting bald at the told Indiana movie fans about their

temples, and finds it no trouble at all favorites and described his interest- to portray sixteen characters in one ing experiences in the same breezy, evening. clever style that has made him a headliner in sport broadcasting. Elvin also announces the weekly DO YOU know that the first play American Legion boxing show broad- broadcast was from the studios casts, a specialty that several years of WGY the General Electric Com- ago won him the "cauliflower orator'' pany's studio at Schenectady, in Aug. title which is his Radio nom-de-air. 1922. A little cast of veterans from Broadcasting circus performances and the legitimate stage successfully pro- parades is another forte of this ver- duced a Radio version of Eugene satile WKBF performer, who in pri- Walter's success The Wolf. This was vate life is a successful Indianapolis followed by another tabloid adapted business man. from The Garden of Allah in which the sandstorm was realistically pro- duced, probably the first time the old

Margaret Jane Kendrick (top) was favored by the gods, for she is possessor of a beautiful soprano voice, an accomplished pianist and an artist besides! She's on the staff of KQV, Pittsburgh.

The Gondoliers (above), who "pluck strings at WJSV in Virginia, answer to the names of Manon and Clyde Stoneberger. Once they

conducted an orchestra . . . now they rely on their talents alone.

What does "L" stand for? We don't know—it's the name of the Frohne Sister on the right. The other members of this popular singing team of WTMJ, Milwaukee, are, starting left, Fritzie, Billie and Bunny. 70 N ews an dVilews

YOUTH will have its say, KFWB Beth Chase, popular blues singer, was nouncers vie for the honor of announcing thinks. And why? Page KFWB's arrested for speeding four days in suc- her numbers. new master of music, Mr. Charles Brad- cession on her way to the KROW Rich- shaw. He is slender, tall, with restless mond studios. She claims this as a rec- hands, staccato speech, and the most ord, and challenges all comers, for she friendly smile in existence. In addition didn't get a ticket. Clever girl Beth. JUNE PARKER, who left KHJ in Sep- to that, he has a tremendous earnestness tember to free lance for awhile, was and is only twenty-three! bumped in an automobile accident that His career can be summed up briefly: Betty The Shopper, of KROW, is five kept her away from broadcast for nearly learned the banjo at twelve years old, feet five, blonde and has grey eyes. She three months. But she is practically re- brass in high school (no pun intended), claims an origin of Scotch and Irish an- covered and will be heard again in croon- went to the University of California, cestry. Five years of theatrical and ing lullabies over Los Angeles stations played trumpet and French horn in the newspaper experience have aptly fitted during 1931. Berkeley Symphony orchestra and con- her for broadcasting the women's hour ducted at rehearsals—a distinct honor for at KROW. Outside of shopping and a student; was a member of the Musical running down the best bargains in town, Honor Society, and studied medicine. Betty's hobbies are Persian cats and rock HENRY STARR, known in the West But the sweet dulcet tones of the gardens. She says that before she went as "the hot spot of Radio" has French horn sounded more intriguing, so to work broadcasting she used to live in moved about again. Once heard via KFI, he collected a variety of experiences in Berkeley, but now she only sleeps there. KMTR and other Los Angeles stations, the orchestras of California theatres and She is alive and alert and has a large he has been on NBC coast stations for the Victor Talking Machine Company. following among women. awhile. Now he is with KYA on its reg- ular staff for a nightly program. And then—ah, then! Europe! Spe- % ^¥ ^ cifically, Monte Carlo, and more specifi- Critics generally have been loud in their Don Allen, KTM's chief announcer and cally, the Cafe Paris in Monte Carlo, as praise of his work, and many of them recently a proud father, doubles up on a member of the orchestra. Shades of term him the best "single" act in the characters and becomes Arizona Pete on Monte Carlo! When he came back to West's Radio today. Strange to say, this the ranch hour . . . sings, plays the America, he was on the Publix circuit, colored entertainer does not have the piano and strums away on any stray and then he went back to the Victor "typical" negro voice. Negro spirituals guitar that is handy. are not his special forte. Neither are the * * * hot type of popular tunes. His best work is in the pathos of tone which he lends Al Schuss has three jobs . . . KJR to various ballads and popular numbers announcer; football coach at the O'Dea of more serious type. Besides vocal in- high school in Seattle, and freshman terest, Starr does all his own accompany- basketball coach at the University of

ing . . . composes a bit . . . plays eleven Washington. He does 'em all well. His instruments, including all the brass and football team won the city title in Octo- wood wind instruments in the band. ber. * * *

XAVIER CUGAT, long a favorite vio- linist and tango orchestra leader around Los Angeles Radio stations, and whose caricature work has been fre- quently exhibited in the columns of Radio Digest, is now down in Ensenada, Old Mexico.

The spot is some ninety miles south of San Diego. He is directing the new Hotel Ensenada orchestra ... in the new resort center financed and managed by a. group of American capitalists including Jack Dempsey. ^ % ^

TAB's programs are being inter- K spersed these days with "kid" songs, and fans have been wondering whether they are being sung by a youngster or some older person with a youngish voice. Three early risers—Sam, Ed and Mandy of The answer is neither. It is Gerda Lund- the KPO morning frolic berg, 18 year old Berkeley miss, who is a good looker and a good dresser. With Talking Machine Company, this time as piercing blue eyes and fair complexion. an assistant conductor. And then he her soft features are surprisingly set off made his. debut as a Radio personality by a stylish bob . . . just five feet tall and at KFWB in the movie city. Hollywood. 155 pounds of loveliness. The staff an- KHJ's handsome baritone—Bob Bradford 71 From The West 72 THERE are so many interesting things —and people—behind the scenes of a Radio station. Take Bobby Brown at WBBM for instance. Bobby is a very busy man. He has been called the most versatile man in Radio, and you'll believe

it when you listen to this. Generally, Bobby works under the title of WBBM production manager. He is also singer, banjo player, general entertainer, feature announcer, continuity writer and program director. And when we said production manager therein was implied the fact that

he is "the power behind" which is respon- sible for all programs of that station. Likewise the source of all activity at KYW is Maurie Wetzel. He has been with the station since its voice was first heard eight years ago. Naturally as sta- tion director he has a finger in every pie but he also has some specialties. One of

them is program building. He writes the continuity, the music, if necessary, selects the talent and announces the program himself. Such a program is "State Street Tomorrow" which is heard evenings at 10:10. Another of Maurie's specialties is the color, black. He wears it exclu-

"Harold Teen's Gang" at WGN—Left to right: Harold (Bill Farnum), Lilacs (Wally The Melody Maids (left) Colbath), Beezie (Jack Spencer); seated, who lift their voices in Giggles (Irene Wicker), and Lillums gentle harmony every (Eunice Yanke). so often at Springfield (Tenn., not Mass.) on Chatter From Chicago the precincts of WSIX. By Betty McGee Charles Mercein (be- low), actor-narrator- SCHOOL days," says Pop Jenks, composer - advertising "school days—ah, them are the best man, whose dramatic days of your life." readings feature a pro- To which Harold Teen's reply is: "Ya gram broadcast over Milwaukee, each can't tell, Pop. Ya can't tell. I mean WTMJ, Tuesday night. when you're in school, things happen so fast, why Holy Cats, ya never have time to stop and figure out if school days are the best days of your life or not." Lillums And that's the keynote of Harold Teen Eunice Yanke plays the part of she does on program at WGN, The Chicago Tribune as sweetly in her own life as station. Things—baseball, robberies, foot- the air. She's just out of college—still sorority house, ball, dances, wise cracks, club meetings, lives at the Delta Zeta nothing better than to have a unemployment—all are subjects for their and likes discussions and the engineers always keep crowd of college kids down at the per- Harold's an extra microphone ready in case one formance. Her alma mater, like gets all filled up. is Northwestern. Spencer's chief worry in life is Harold is a perfect flaming youth—as Jack poundage much so in real life as in the cartoon strip that he's putting on so much in or before the microphone. Bill Farnum that he's looking as much like Beezie talks like him before the is the off-air name of Harold Teen, and real life as he used to play Bill is one smooth youth. He pursued mike. Jack, by the way, school-center, the the elusive Three R's first at Lake Forest football at Bowen High College, where he was captain of the ten- same position as Beezie—and he thinks nis team and leading light of the dramatic garters almost as quaint as mustache cups. class. Then he went to Northwestern, Blair Walliser, who writes the continu- where the fraternity boys whaled him into ities, won the coveted Phi Beta Kappa an outstanding Delta Tau Delta. On the key in his senior year at Northwestern legitimate stage, Bill has, at various times, and was associate editor of the Purple played Willie Baxter in Seventeen, Merton Parrot, Scrawl and a member of the in Merton of the Movies, and Tommy in editorial board of the Daily Northwestern. Tommy. As they say in the Harold Teen He keeps up on high school doings by theme song composed by Joe Sanders, of slipping in on a dance now and then and Coon and Sanders. Radio entertainers, listening to the boys and girls talk it he is "romance personified". over at corner drug stores. 73

. . sively . . . hats . . . ties . . coats . . everything. And another specialty—his favorite pair of moccasins. He is posi- tively wedded to them and wears them on any and all occasions.

PROBABLY not all the old friends of the Prairie Daisies who used to delight WLS listeners know that they are now two-thirds of the Sally, Irene and Mary trio of WGN. The trio is a family affair, consisting of Erma, Thelma and Lorraine Ashley. Erma, who has brown hair and twinkling brown eyes is the oldest, with Thelma coming next and Lorraine, the baby. They are all quite tall and Thelma and Lorraine are decided blonds with en- gaging blue eyes. Erma, the pianist of the trio, started dueting with Thelma many years ago and it wasn't until they became associated with WGN that Lorraine joined in making it the Sally, Irene and Mary trio. Lorraine attended art school and knows all about costume designing and "sculptoring." Although the youngest of the three, she

Marion Farrand and Jimmy Celebrities of the new New York station, Keith (right) look too sedate WBEN. Standing, left to right, William to be called "Radio Rascals," Cook, Merwin C. Morrison, Bob White; but that's their title at KSTP, Seated, Edward Obrist, and Louis Kaiser. St. Paul, where they present a teamed talk-sing act. They've YORK'S "baby station" greeted up ever since they met by NEW the world in September, 1930. and chance at a picnic. two months later joined the Red network of the NBC chain. WBEN. Buffalo, Burton Schlie (below) —they already has taken its place as one of the tell us he's very young, but most important stations serving Western don't reveal his age. No one York State and nearby Pennsyl- would think this stripling was New the possessor of that deep bass- vania and Ontario. baritone heard so often at It is owned by the Buffalo Evening WOWO, Fort Wayne. News, of which Edward H. Butler is editor and publisher, and the work of organizing the new project was under- taken and carried to completion by A. H.

is the "Business Manager" and Erma and Kirchhofer, managing editor of the News. Thelma look to her every week for the The station manager is Merwin C. Mor- old pay envelope. Lorraine is also in- rison, formerly of the News. clined to be literary and has had several In addition to Bob White, the an- stories published. nouncers are Louis Kaiser, who also is And Erma! Erma has had her hand program director, and Edward Obrist. in the movie business! Literally. Her both formerly of WSYR. Syracuse, and exquisite ringers were shown in a prom- William Cook, Buffalo. Merwin C. Mor- inent picture as substitutes for those of rison, manager of the station, serves as the star of the production. And who special announcer, while Mrs. Margaret knows but the Ashley's may eventually Adsit Barrell. who sings frequently over is nationally known be more completely in the movies—for NBC networks and you know when a woman gets her finger as a concert singer, is musical director. in anything one might as well let her Arthur C. Snelgrove is director of the have what she goes after. studio orchestra of this young, but lusty "baby station". Of the twenty staff members, one of the most popular is "Bob White", who ISN'T it a joy to find an artist who outside the studio is Gordon Higham really looks the part? Such a one is (formerly of WHK. Cleveland V He Harold Van Home whose piano work is sends an hour of cheer each morning to one of the best solo features presented his listeners. Incidental music is fur- through WMAQ. Harold with his mop of nished by Jack and Loretta Clemens, a curly brown hair and dreamy eyes is in brother-and-sister, banjo-and-piano com- appearance extremely temperamental. He bination already highly popular with

is an artist to his finger tips and looks it. WBEN" audiences bv this time. 74

I Classical Music [

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Dr. William Braid White

Dr. White will answer readers' inquiries ideas that children have in matters of all that sort of thing. Last year about on musical questions in his columns. Ad- music appreciation, than any other man 90,000 children and young people attended dress him in care oj the Editor, 420 Lexing- years ton Avenue. in the world does or can know. For his concerts. Doubtless ten times as he has given each season to thousands of many will hear them this season via the question is put to me: children and young people, the best in OFTEN Radio. The hook-up is over the Columbia "Do you think that young chil- music. And he has worked out a system broadcasting network from New York. dren can appreciate classical of giving his concerts whereby he is able The concerts take place on Saturdays at music?" Or again: "Ought we to maintain the interest of his youthful Carnegie Hall, New York, at 11 a.m., to try to get our children interested in audiences every second of the time. He eastern standard time. classical music when they are so young?" gives them stories about the music, illus- May I suggest to fathers and mothers I could give many answers, all to the trated with lantern slides and pictures. who do me the honor of reading these effect of saying "Yes" emphatically to He gets them to write their thoughts about words, that they should make genuine both questions. I prefer however to quote what they hear. He has taught enormous efforts to get their children to listen to something said the other day by a very numbers of them to think seriously and good music this way? Mr. Schelling is great authority, by in fact the one man in with deep happiness and satisfaction, entirely right when he says that most of the whole country who knows more about about music. He is building up a new and us have the natural love for rhythm, this very thing than any one else. I refer musical generation in this country. He melody and harmony. The trouble is to my friend, Ernest Schelling, one of the has well said, "There is no use having a that most of us hear far too little music greatest of contemporary musicians, who series of great symphonic concerts all over of any kind, and that, since no one stands conducts the children's and young people's the country if we have to be forever by to tell us what to listen to, most of symphony concerts, in New York, Boston, fighting for audiences . . . The time to us listen only to what we are sure we un- Philadelphia and Cincinnati. This re- begin is with children, and their interest derstand. Hence we get only the second- markable man knows more about the must be aroused not by merely dragging rate music, most of the time. Then we them to concerts, but by more active and say that we don't understand "classical'' more direct means. The great danger is music. that a child should be bored. Let us give the children a chance. Start

"The desire for song," he continues, them at it young and you will never be "for melody, harmony and rhythm exists sorry. in most of us. It is only a matter of awakening good taste at as early an age as possible. You may be sure that chil- More Information About Musical Words

dren who are having their interest aroused Here are just a few more bits of infor- by concerts specially prepared for them mation about the language . of music. I will develop such a genuine love for sym- gave you some last month. Here is a little phonic they will always music that be more of the same painless treatment: patrons of symphony concerts." Movement: A symphony, sonata or other work of the same general type (see Concerts for Children my words on "Symphony" last month) is Mr. Schelling has worked out his own always divided up into blocks called way of giving concerts for children. He "movements". Music can always be con- never lets his young hearers grow bored. sidered primarily as the orderly movement At his concerts there is no intermission of tones, and so the word "movement" is and hardly any pauses. He talks to his very appropriate. There are usually four hearers, makes friends of them, shows of these, and their general outlines are them pictures, gets them to sing the melo- always much the same. dies which the orchestra has been playing, First Movement: In this the composer Ernest Schelling, who conducts the Satur- teaches them to recognize the different sets forth the main musical themes day morning Young People's Concerts. instruments by their tone qualities; and {Continued on page 95) 75

Evangeline Adams'* Fingers Undergo Character Analysis

Hands ,/.

Zsistrologer

By GRACE STONE HALL

Special analysis for Radio Digest

STARRING three evenings a week probably wings her in the New York studios of the finger tips with Columbia Broadcasting System, their idealism while Evangeline Adams conveys in her definite forces talks much of her individuality. background her Charm of her personality is carried thumb. over to her Radio audience in a picture It's a very prac- televisioned by the sound of her voice. tical thumb, ag- Impression is felt of her modesty, her gressive, square- distinction of ancestry, her wealth of jawed and of pio- knowledge, her clear thinking, her fairness neer type jutting and her firmness. out from her hand,

Were it possible for her great audience firmly socketed to see Miss Adams as she broadcasts it and but slightly would be noted by her listeners how indented between gracefully she uses her hands. Her deci- the joints. siveness would also be noted as she ad- Inspirational Shape and fulness of her hands are infallible proof of Miss Adams' justs her copy to time, and how qualities of her great capabilities and power as an astrologer. definitely her hands quite as much as her finger tips with voice record a picture of her very self. their indulgent Touch of her handclasp is warm, tolerance are given balance and depend- of the square type of hand, exactitude friendly, sure, like the handshake of a ability by her thumb. and scientific turn of mind, might easily great surgeon. Thumbs of this type command by sheer have given her prominence as the judge It is comforting, this handclasp of hers, force of executive ability. What smooth- of a court of domestic relations, a re- even though she must behead you, astro- ness and other trimmings must follow up search lawyer, builder of a subdivision of nomically speaking, and show you that on a job they leave to other characteris- carefully planned homes, a congress- one by one your pet deficiencies must go tics of their hands. Her thumb is quite woman, or writer on subjects of political on the block for good of your horoscope. similar to that of Mme. Schumann-Heink. science and history. In shape her hand is square with slight It contrasts with that of the great philan- And as the director of children's in- conic trend of outline. This makes it thropist, Jane Addams, in that hers is stitutions she would have combined sen- similar to the hand of Mme. Ernestine somewhat less decisive, less straight to timent and sense in fashion to have added Schumann-Heink and somewhat similar the grindstone. to her crown of success two. or three, or to that of Jane Addams. one comet, at least. Full padding of tips of Miss Adams' "But what about feminine frills and hand, high mounting of the side of her tt.AD the stars not given things," asks the feminine chorus of Ra- hand, fulness of the saddle of her thumb, Miss Adams precedence as the greatest dio listeners. "Would her hands thrill to combined with fine-grained, pink texture astrologer of the day with outstanding possession of a new jewel, and what does of skin shows that she is by temperament ability to interpret the humanism of astral the ham] of her husband look like?" markedly sensitive to vibration, harmony, forces, she might easily, according to rec- Answering these breathless inquiries

momentum. Squareness of her hand in- ord of her hand, have added stars to her without even waiting for time signals, it dicates that this sensitiveness is balanced crown in a number of other professions. may be said that the rounded molding of by systematic exactness, orderliness, and Warm fulness of her hand indicates Miss Adams' hands tells her admirers that mathematical thoroughness. mothering qualities. Home and its ideals she does love beautiful things and that "Divine heredity," the something of will always have the protection of her whenever her staunch upstanding, con- intuition that cannot be exactly defined hands. This combined with thoroughness (Continued on page I — " —

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c/fbigail By Anne Belinda B. I in Lazar an

Interview

Discovers

the

Simplitude ob D/N4H art DORA

; 'TAW'AWDY, Lawdy, am yoh still here?" did see sech unperoxide coal blondes as to this new softness and "unrepliability". I looked up and there was Ah recountenanced—neber—an' so fair "Now, Dinah," continued Abby, "has Abigail Belinda, broom in hand complexionated! got a little moh waistline an' backbone " ready to sweep up the place. 'Ah'se Abigail Belinda,' Ah repro- —if yoh knows whut Ah'se referrin' to "Yes, I'm here and I'm in a dilemma," duces muhself, 'an' gals, dis am de mos' both wid actuality an' wid immortality. I sighed. spasmodic moment in yoh ambuscaded She am de kin' whut yoh kin lean agin' "Whut yoh mean yoh am in a dilemma careers. Ah'se gwine make yoh famous,' an' feel dat yoh ain't gwine to fall wid dis time ob night?" I sez to 'em, 'so famous dat notoriety gravitation. She has whut one might "Well you see, it's this way, Abby," I an' renunciation will be qualified wid entitle de spirituality ob sustensibility, confided, "I have a perfectly good invi- amplitude an' consecration.' yoh know what Ah mean." tation to the opera tonight. But I also "M-m, well that's interesting. What "Yes, it's very clear to me, Abby, clear have an assignment to see Dinah and then happened?" I asked. as crystal," I replied, trying to extricate Dora and they're on the air tonight "Well, Ah sets mahself down much to myself from the bombardment of extrav- that's my dilemma." home an' stahts makin' some interlocu- agant verbiage. • "Yoh doan mean dem Gold Dust Twins tory interrogations. But Lawdy dem two "Waal, den dey goes in foh a li'l dia- —Dinah an' Dora?" gals am de mos' unresumin', disostensi- logatude," continued Abby, "an' I wuz "Yes'm—those are the gals," I mur- bilized damsels what eber dis universe jes' roarin', so I busted in at a periodical mured. yet hab perused. Dey wouldn't disenclose moment consolidated dem wid hilarity on "Can't Ah do somethin' dat will com- nuthin' by no remarks dat would an- de harmonious success ob de dramatical plicate dat dilemma foh yoh, Missy?" tagonize de feline ob de species. Wid act. kindly offered Abby. great specularity I was invitationed to see "Now Ah knew, Missy, dat you done It was then that the idea occurred to de manager followin' de rehearsal ob de wanted to be apprehended on de apparel me to let Abigail Belinda, our beaming, episode which dey wus goin' to broad- dese two damsels retired in. Dora wore genial cleaning woman, go out on my cast," ran on Abby. one ob dem stylish gingham dresses, it assignment. wuz soht ob a sky blue checker board So while Marguerite was sailing away affectation wid a baby pink thread run- on those coloratura notes in the Jewel JTUST Ah wants to pre- nin' shyly through an' embracin' de moh Song, I was wondering how Abigail Be- scribe Dinah an' Dora so dat yoh kin conspicuous blue at intervals. Lawdy, linda was faring with Dinah and Dora. keep dem in yoh mental opticals. Dora she looked as magnified as a refractory The next morning Abby rushed into the am one ob dem slenderized individualities skyscraper. Now on top ob de dress was office quite breathlessly. wid a twilight cast ob countenance. Yoh a green apron—it's wid residual difficulty "Well, how did the interview turn out?" kin look in dem great big eyes decorated Ah kin prescribe de shade—de green dey I asked. wid elongated lashes and see in dem de make de window shades from—an' Lawdy "Ah neber was receptionized wid sech germinology ob deep signification. She dat was some symphonic contrast ob har- hostility befoh in all mah life. Ah took am one ob dem dreamy etherized creeturs mony. Now Dinah dressed wid a triviaL mahself ober to WOR an' Ah walks right —which if it wusn't fer Dinah's reliabili- ity ob conspicuousness wid nevertheless ober to de elevator boy. 'Boy.' sez Ah, tude, would facilitate wid evaporation. de exactitude ob de rules manufactured 'take me to dem Harlem dames. Ah'se Yoh knows de type—soft but unreplia- by de fashionalities ob de punctilious." jes' about bustin' wid a glorified puhpose able." "I should say you have made some so take me quick.' "Yes, I know the type exactly," I re- very extraordinary observations, Abby," "So up Ah goes, an' Ah'se reproduced plied, trying to formulate some kind of I interrupted. to Dinah an' Dora. Lawdv. Ah neber a picture in my mind that would conform {Continued on page 98) 77 jDeauty and the Job

The Handmaid of Success in a Woman s

Career Is Attractiveness—and Beauty Treat-

ments Provide Important Steps to Loveliness

i other day a girl of about with her. I met her for lunch and she THEtwenty-two came into my office I$y Frances Ingram told me the whole story.

with a letter of recommendation Consultant on Care of the Skin "And he was right." she said, speak- from a friend in Pittsburgh. Heard on NBC every Tuesday monilnj ing of her ex-employer. "And so this "Please help Dorothy to get a position afternoon I want you to help me buy in New York," I read. "She was gradu- a dress which is appropriate for an ated from college with high honors last an employment agent. I get positions office and I want you to tell me every- June and I am sure that with your help for them, although, to tell you the truth. thing you can think of that will improve she will have no difficulty in making a I don't know why the people hire them. my appearance." I was rather dubious place for herself in the business world." Some of these girls have been out of jobs about the dress because knowing Eliza- Now, I had always considered this so long that they have forgotten all they beth's salary. I was sure she could not friend of mine rather a pessimist, but knew about the importance of appearance. have saved much toward the type of after reading her letter, I was thoroughly So I'm never very much surprised when dress which I thought she should have. convinced that she had become one of the they're back in a week or ten days—tired I was right on this. too. Her capital world's most outstanding optimists. again. You haven't told me what this consisted of six dollars—five dollars for Certainly no one but an optimist could girl looks like, but before you send her (Continued on page 98) think getting a job a simple matter in over here, don't forget to these days of depression and unemploy- tell her about Elizabeth." ment, and the fact that anyone would con- Elizabeth's is a success sider Dorothy an outstanding prospect story. Six years ago she nonplused me. came to New York with the Our mutual friend had claimed in her remains of a debutante's letter that this girl was intelligent. But first season's wardrobe, a there was nothing intelligent about the degree from Vassar. and way in which she was going after a posi- nothing else. Her first job tion. In the first place, she was inappro- paid her twenty dollars a priately dressed. She wore a raccoon coat week. She didn't do much over what appeared to be a pretty elab- in this position and after orate dinner dress; her beige gloves were three months she was dis- soiled; her heels were badly run over; she charged. Her employer told needed a manicure; and I was hypnotized her that a more attractive by the absolute griminess of her com- girl was going to take her plexion. She told me that she had been place. He was very fair looking for a position for three weeks with Elizabeth and he ex- and she seemed honestly surprised that no plained to her that an at- one yet had attempted to employ her in tractive appearance had a any way. After three weeks of job hunt- real business value. He ing, she was a little bit discouraged, but told her that he preferred I think I was the more discouraged of to hire good looking girls the two of us. because they made his of- However, I was anxious to do what I fice look successful. He could for the girl. While she waited, I said he thought Elizabeth telephoned to Miss Wilson, a friend of would profit by this experi- mine who runs an employment agency. I ence and he advised her. as told her that I would like to send this girl a business investment, to over to see her. learn to be as attractive "All right," she said, "but for heaven's as possible before she even sake tell her the story of Elizabeth Adams began to look for another before she comes, will you? It's hard position. enough these days to place an experienced Naturally Elizabeth was girl, and if this girl is just out of college, somewhat crushed. But

it's going to be harder still to get her any not for long. I'll never kind of a job. And by the way, I could forget the rainy Saturday use you over here. Most of the girls morning she telephoned me A n ate r active appearance is i great .isset in i need a beauty expert more than they need and asked me to have lunch responsible position. a ; ;

78

Ida B ailey Allen Tells about the /?Q]m a n c e °f

other day I wan- "Later in the same century The Modern Ice Cube is the Offspring of THEdered into the headquar- however, a Dutch janitor made ters of the National Sixteenth Century Cooling Methods — a magnifying lens, and an- Radio Home-Makers nounced to the horror of his Club to learn the news on mod- friends, that when he looked Spring Houses and ''''Buckets in a Well" ern home keeping. I found the through it he could see thousands entire staff grouped around a of tiny things crawling over new piece of equipment in the everything. People thought he Kitchen Laboratory. Their eager was crazy; they thought he pos- curiosity puzzled me and I edged myself sighted physicians of that day realized sessed some evil power that produced up to a point of vantage. There before that food on the verge of spoilage, was a those so-called animals. us stood a gigantic ice cube—no, really a menace to health. "But this discovery was responsible for new electric refrigerator. But it looked "The scientists told their French com- the science of bacteriology, and the as frosty as Jack himself, and as efficient. patriots to keep their foods as cold as knowledge that cold was essential to keep I looked that new refrigerator over, in- possible, but the government taxed ice so food in a health-promoting state. side and out, and I became fascinated heavily they were forced to discontinue "The first record that we have of the with this latest development in food re- this custom. delivery of ice to an American home, was frigeration. But the more I thought about "The high cost of ice—fancy thinking in 1802—here in New York City. Before it, the more curious I became about the of the high cost of anything in the 16th long the manufacture of ice-boxes became beginnings of food preservation. I went century—set scientists to looking around an important industry, and for years city to the public library and succeeded in un- for a substitute. homes were visited each morning in warm earthing one interesting fact—I'm sure "But the only suggestion they could weather by ice men—dragging in ice cut you know the story from your early his- give was to place the containers of food during the cold weather from neighbor- tory books. It is this: in the fifteenth in vessels of water to which salt petre had ing lakes and streams and preserved in century meat was commonly preserved by been added and so to lower the tempera- sawdust -filled icehouses. But physicians spicing it. As these spices were procurable ture. If this was impractical they sug- found that this ice made people ill, for only from India, Columbus set out to dis- gested lowering the food in buckets from epidemics of typhoid and other troubles cover new and shorter water routes to the well or placing it in a spring house. were traced to the sources from which that country. The result of that voyage "All this while, the scientists had no the ice was obtained. led to the discovery of America, and in- inkling of the real reason why food "To keep food cold was not enough; cidentally to the real preservation of should be kept cold, they merely knew the source of cold must be pure—so dis- food, for the most modern methods are that when food was spoiled or spoiling, covered Pasteur, the French chemist, who

American inventions. people who ate it were made sick. found that microbes were responsible for But that bit of a story did not satisfy me. "Surely." I thought, "someone can trace the development of refrigeration more thoroughly." And I went back to see Mrs. Ida ^Recipes for frozen Dishes Bailey Allen, president of the Na- tional Radio Home-Makers Club. Chocolate Nut Fluff Filled Snowball Cakes

1 tablespoon gelatin V2 cup chopped nuts 12 cup cakes V2 teaspoon lemon juice !/4 cup cold water 3 eggs V2 cup heavy cream V2 teaspoon gelatin 54 cup boiling water Vi cup powdered sugar V2 cup applesauce or 2 teaspoons cold water 2 squares melted choco- Vs teaspoon salt raspberry jam Speed boiled icing OHE had all the facts late 1 teaspoon vanilla Colored sugar crystals at her fingertips. I shall give you Soak the gelatin in the cold water for five min- Remove the tops from the cup cakes ; and scoop utes pour over the boiling water ; and stir until out the centers. Soften the gelatin in the cold to ; her story, verbatim: "We seem dissolved. Add the melted chocolate, salt, sugar, water ; melt over steam ; and add to the applesauce or jam and lemon juice. Fold in the cream, accept as a matter of course the and vanilla ; and fold in the nuts and the eggs, beaten separately. Transfer to a mould rinsed with whipped stiff ; and fill the cup cakes. Replace the

; cover with boiled icing fact that refrigeration has been in cold water ; and chill in an electric refrigerator tops of the cakes speed crystaJs. until firm. Unmould ; and serve with whipped and sprinkle with colored sugar Chill be- common use for centuries But in cream. fore serving. reality it has not. Man has learned by a very slow process of develop- ment to use cold in preserving food. Nero, one of the early Roman Em- Frozen Tomato Salad Savory Crabmeat Mould 1 tablespoon gelatin V2 cup chopped cucum- perors, ordered his slaves to bring 1 quart can tomatoes Few grains paprika Vi cup cold water ber 1 onion 1 tablespoon vinegar snow from the mountains for this sliced % cup mayonnaise 2 tablespoons minced 1 small bay-leaf 1 tablespoon lemon 1 cup flaked crabmeat stuffed olives 2 teaspoons salt juice purpose. To keep it, they packed V2 cup minced celery V2 teaspoon salt V2 teaspoon celery seed IV2 teaspoons gelatin 2 tablespoons minced Vi teaspoon paprika the snow into deep trenches lined 2 cloves 2 tablespoons salad oil parsley 1 tablespoon lemon juice with straw and sod for insulation— Few grains cayenne Combine the tomatoes and the seasonings ; and

water ; melt over principle adopted later in making the simmer until the liquid is reduced to three cups. Soften the gelatin in the cold ; the mayonnaise. Combine with Strain ; and add the oil and gelatin which has been steam and add to first refrigerator. softened in cold water for five minutes. Cool the remaining ingredients ; and transfer to a ring with cold water. Place in an elec- "The use of snow for refrigeration, transfer to a freezing tray of an electrical refriger- mould rinsed refrigerator until firm. Unmould ;. and fill the ator ; and freeze to a mush. Mould with a large tric sprigs of water- popular so many centuries before, spoon or ice cream scoop ; and place in nests of center with lettuce hearts and lettuce. Garnish with mayonnaise and cress. cress. Garnish with cut lemon dusted with paprika. came into use once again in France in the 16th century, when the far- —

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In an Interview with eration Catherine Adams

the spoilage of food and also for disease. modern electric refrigerator to help her. her meals a little in advance, and pur- And microbes he discovered lurked in ice "The woman who purchases need no chases at one time enough food to last gathered from lakes and streams. longer feel she cannot afford it, for she for two or three days. Quantity buying "At this point another scientist. Michael can buy an electric refrigerator now that is always cheaper and eliminates the Faraday, rose to help investigate the cause meets all her needs and some of them necessity of going to market every day. of ill health, and to him we owe the prin- are very moderately priced. One beauti- Large quantities of fruit can be kept on ciple of refrigeration as it is used today ful new design of gleaming porcelain looks the floor of the refrigerator where the that of condensing gas to a liquid on the like a large white music cabinet. It has temperature is just right. Milk, butter application of pressure and changing the hinges and fittings of chromium plate. and meats, because they need to be kept liquid rapidly back to the gaseous state very cold, may be stored on the top shelf, while it absorbs heat during the process nearer the icing unit. so producing a temperature low enough to "TJL HE door opens into the "In the household model of this re- form ice. interior which is equipped with commo- frigerator, there is space for bottles ''At once this principle was applied to dious shelves and sufficient trays to freeze twelve inches high, and a second space machines for making artificial ice. Then eighty-four ice cubes at a time—plenty on the bottom for holding five bottles, these machines were used to create a low for the guests at even a large party. The eleven inches high. temperature for cold storage plants, so cold control device, with which this new "Electrical refrigerators are offering a foods could be kept over long periods of model is equipped, enables the housewife whole new vista of possibilities for mak- time. Finally, certain manufacturers put to regulate the temperatures to suit her ing unusual and delicious cold-cooked their heads together and said, "There is needs. She is thus assured that foods foods. ". no reason why ice should not be manu- kept in the refrigerator will always be . . What do I mean by cooking with factured in each home instead of at one fresh and sweet, ready to use. By a cold? Just this: cooking is the changing central location.' And so individual home swift turn of this control she may in- of foods, physically and chemically, by refrigeration was launched. crease the cold and in an hour's time the application of some external agent. "The modern home-maker realizes that make any of the delicious cold-cooked "Therefore freezing, or congealing with to keep her family healthy, she must foods, recipes for which are given in cold is cooking, just as boiling or con- give them only food that is pure and this article. gealing with heat is cooking. And since wholesome. How to keep the food in "By owning an electric refrigerator the home-made frozen foods are new. they this condition is her big problem: but busy housewife can save herself much are also smart. Serving ices, ice creams, it can be solved very easily with a time and considerable money if she plans mousses, frozen salads, soups, fruit cups, hors d'ceuvres, and ice-box cakes at your parties or dinners will at once lift them above the average. But best of all. the preparation of such

foods is actually simpler than cook- ing them with heat.

G/OME on back to the Kitchen Laboratory with me. I want to show you some of the results of our experiments with our new re- frigerator. "Making frozen party salads, des- serts, sandwiches and other fancy

foods is a simple matter when there

is an electric refrigerator in the home. These foods can be prepared in ad- vance and placed in the refrigerator, with the cold control properly set. until they are ready to use. Even sandwiches may be made up in ad- ' vance and kept fresh for hours. 1 It is impossible for me to describe to you how those cold cooked foods tasted. So that you. too. may enjoy

the>e tempting dishes. I am giving of the recipes which Mrs. Allen has prepared for me. and they all can W Frozen in one hour or even [ess than that. So why not surprise the family with some of these corking Many of the new porcelain electric refrigerators have the shapeliness of music cabinets. cold cooked dishes? — t —

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LL NEVER do this again!" ex- Pauline Chesnu The letter was from a nineteen-year-old claimed Betty Crocker as she bride who said that she and her twenty- I turned away from the microphone year-old husband had been married just in a middle western Radio station a few months. She wrote to Betty listen to the Radio, and even if a few six years ago. Crocker: did listen—how could you teach them In speaking of this first broadcasting "You probably will be surprised to cooking when they couldn't see you stir- experience, Betty Crocker said, "It's hard know that your talk yesterday and the ring your cake batter or mixing your to realize that only six short years ago I recipes you gave for a delicious one-dish bread dough? could have been so panic stricken and meal have saved me from a divorce. It is little wonder after all this that so sure I had been talking to empty air When we got married, we both thought Betty Crocker considers the reading of —-that no one had listened to me or would I'd just naturally know how to cook nice that first pile of Radio letters as the most listen! meals for him. But. oh. Miss Crocker! thrilling experience of her life. What a "I was used to teaching cooking school Everything went wrong when I tried to panorama they unrolled before her of the pupils in a classroom and to standing on cook. Something in the oven would burn lives of her listeners ! Letters from lonely a stage platform with hundreds of women while I was watching something on top watching me as I mixed an angel food of the stove, and I really didn't know cake and explained the why and where- how to do a thing right. He'd come fores of every move I made. Those girls' home and just look at what I'd fixed on and women's faces were stimulating. I the table or maybe he would take one could tell what they liked best and what What's Your taste. Then he'd say. T can't eat that they needed. But to sit alone in that stuff'—and slam out of the house and go silent, empty room talking to an expres- Problem? downtown to a restaurant to eat, while sionless owl-faced little instrument called I'd just sit at home and cry over my a microphone ! No, I couldn't go through terrible failures. Z/J.AVE you a little problem in that again." "The Radio happened to be going yes- your home? If you have, consult terday and I heard you telling about that the Woman's Page Editor, who will one-dish meal. You made it sound so B' UT you did broadcast good and so easy to make that I thought be pleased to give her expert advice again, and you've been broadcasting ever maybe I could do it. I wrote down every since," Betty Crocker was reminded. in an endeavor to solve it for you. bit of it and fixed it up just as you said "What made you change your mind?" and then I made the salad you told This Department also invites its She laughed, ''Changing one's mind is about to go with it. When he saw those a feminine prerogative, I suppose. But readers to send in their suggestions things on the table. I wish you could have

I'll sent to the seen his face, and tell you what me back for subjects which they would like then heard him when microphone—and with enthusiasm and an he tasted them. He just couldn't believe to have discussed in these pages. assurance that I was doing something I'd fixed them up all myself. After sup- really worthwhile. It was the huge pile of per he dried the dishes for me, and we letters from women who actually had lis- went to a movie. Oh, Miss Crocker! tened to me!" I can't thank you enough, and I can It must be remembered that those were women living on farms miles away from hardly wait to hear you again." the days when the Radio was very new their nearest neighbors wrote that they and still regarded as a man's plaything. regarded her as a friendly neighbor drop- Most of the programs then were in the ping in of a morning to discuss recipes. A:.S THE days went on, evening and on Sundays when the men Discouraged women in towns and cities Betty Crocker returned regularly to the were home to enjoy them. hailed her as the friend they had secretly studio to broadcast. She was no longer The idea of putting on a morning pro- longed to know whom they could turn to conscious of the silent, empty room, and gram just for women seemed so absurd for advice and encouragement. the owl-faced microphone. She was vis- that those who heard of Betty Crocker's One letter in particular stood out from iting with her new friends. new venture shook their heads and de- all the others in that first Radio mail, and "You see," she explained, "I have been clared it wouldn't, it couldn't succeed impressed on Betty Crocker the mar- anticipating televi>ion in a reverse sort that Betty Crocker had better stick to velous opportunities that the Radio of- of fashion— for instead of my listeners her classroom and community cooking fered her of being truly a friend in need seeing me, I always see them and feel schools. to women whom she never could have that I am right there in their homes In the first place, they said, women reached in years of teaching cooking in whether they are isolated farms, kitchen- were too busy mornings to sit down and a classroom and from the stage platform. {Cont'mucd on page, 108)

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Out of the AIR Cash for Humor! /T WILL pay you lo keep your ears open and your funny bone oiled for action. Radio Digest will pay $5.00 for the first selected humorous incident heard on a QUIPS—SLIPS broadcast program, $3.00 for second pre- HITS— ferred amusing incident and $1.00 for each amusing incident accepted and printed. It may be something planned as part of thr Radio entertainment, or it may be one of those little accidents that pop up in the By INDI-GEST best regulated stations. Write on one side of the paper only, put name and address on each sheet, and send your contribution to Indi-Gest, Radio Digest.

ARIEL, 1930 It is a cold and cheerless and humorless harp, a piccolo and a clavichord in the A tricksy sprite was Ariel winter day. with the wind whoo-ing and throes of a stirring rendition of Little When Shakespeare was a bard. rattling the window-panes. But in the White Lies. He hovered in the air, unseen. inner sanctum of Indi-Gest's retreat it So the Office Nurse offers a word of Or darted heavenward. is warm and cheery. Slit goes the letter advice to aspiring Indi-Gest contributors. opener and out pops a joke that's so Don't mention lies, prevarications or In sweet invisibility funny it would warm the icicles off' the falsehoods in your Indi-Gest contributions

He sang or whispered soft; very tip of the North Pole itself. And then . . . don't tell what happened before, dur- He brought with swift agility another and another, and the stack of hits ing or after Little White Lies. Mirth, music, from aloft. and slips grows higher and higher. Suddenly the laugh thermometer drops IT MUST BE SATAN Today so does my aerial a dozen degrees. "It's mother one," Announcer over National Broadcast- Catch music from the air; groans Indi-Gest. and the Office Nurse ing Chain, announcing song just played, Its varied voice ethereal rushes in with a pepper shaker, (aro- "I Want to be Bad with special permis- Floats in from everywhere. matic spirits of ammonia never seemed to sion of the Copyright Owners." Who bring Indi out of a faint) and revives the owns the copyright on being bad? The voice of Yallee crooning. stricken sense of humor with a sneeze. Ray Martin, Grandview, Mo. The caws of two black crows; ""That's the ninetyfour billion six hun- Quaint dissonance of tuning; dred forty nine thousand three hundred- GOLF ADVENTURES OF AN "Moonlight and the Rose." twentyninth one since I last oiled my ANNOUNCER funnybone," gasps the poor joke editor. One day George Hicks, NBC An- Kings in early morning, Little White Lies ... if Toscanini him- nouncer, was slicing and topping the (Words across the sea) self conducted and Werrenrath sang it little ball worse than usual. He lost Recipes for corning I would stop my ears with cotton and every ball but one. Then that landed in Beef or brewing tea. rubber. This morning it was a politi- a pond. cian who was making a campaign "I've lost enough balls for one day Statesmen's oratory, speech full of promises, which was fol- and I'm going to get this one", he de- Topics of the day; lowed by the orchestra playing. Little clared. Taking off his shoes and socks. Baby's bedtime story, White Lies. At 11.00 A.M. a real estate Hicks rolled up his trousers and waded Weekly Bible play. agent describing his new subdivision into the pond. The mud was deep, and was preceded by a tenor rendering as Hicks sank up to his waist while Always smoke a Plucky. Little White Lies. Just before lunch a fishing for the ball with a pole the other How's your motor oil? Grampus. Kanstucky correspondent three members of the foursome sat on Gee, but I feel lucky had to let me know about a big bargain the bank and sang the Song of the Volga She's my two-time goil. sale announcement which came hot on Boatmen with wisecrack interludes. the heels of two xylophonists. a jews Hicks got the ball. Toothpaste full of tonic, Try our gooey soap Orchestras symphonic, Latest market dope.

Half an hour of old songs, Schubert's serenade. Cuties singing bold songs, (Wonder what they're paid?)

Albert on the fiddle, Bringing heaven near; Horoscope and riddle Say you love me, dear.

Ariel was a tricks}' sprite, There is no dispute. But aerial serves me day and night And when I'm tired, he is mute. — Helen Alary Hayes, Lincoln. Neb.

SUPPOSE IT SAID "FORDOGS"? Heard—on the air: Mrs. "Sandy, don't you see thai you're washing your hands with my sixty cent— tooth paste?" Mr. "Yeah, I know, but it says here, "Forhans". — Valentine Sadowski, Buffalo. N V. —— ' — — — —

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Checks of $1.00 each are awaiting PAGE THE CENSOR the following Indi-Gest contributors I heard the cutest thing over the upon proper identification and re- RKO Theatre of the air. Here it is: ceipt of address: A. M. Davis, Jimmy —How many pages are there Florence May and M. Dowd. in a bedroom farce? Johnny — I thought it was unlimited. At first it worked . . . How many are there? I liked it so Jimmy —Two sheets. — Roberta E. I thought of it Rodman, 220 E. Central, Fairview, Okla. As Radi-oh! But now it feeds A BED A chronic grouch . . . TIME STORY I call the thing Heard over WOWO: My radi-0 UC H! Mr. Brown —Did you ever hear the Elias Lieberman story of the man who drowned in bed? RADIO BUSINESS Mr. Truck—No; how did that hap- pen? Crawford — I understand there's been Radi calisthenics—starting the "daze" Mr. Brown The bed spread, the pil- no slump as far as the Radio is con- — slipped work. cerned. low and he fell in the spring. —Mrs. R. E. Ulshafer, 666 Warren Crabshaw —Of course not. That Ave., Wabash, Ind. business is picking up all the time. /. They say it takes a joke sixteen years — to go around the world. But here's an J.O'Connell, New York. old family friend which in Indi-Gest's The next one hit the bull's eye on early days was told about two ladies in SLIPS THAT PASSED IN THE MIKE that shooting-for-laughs-gallery of Phil Over Radio Station Everett the theatre. Now it's graduated to Radio. WENR, Cook. "Do you get it, Phil?" pipes Mitchell announced, "Now Little Joe Crackles) — Warner 'Singing in The Bath-tub 7 with Several ladies were sitting around the English tourists in a New York sta- Sally Menthes." (Sally is the accom- parlor of a hotel listening to a radio tion asked: program. The music had started soft panist at WENR.) Joey Foley, 810 . "Where does that train go?" Bradley, Peoria, III. and low, changed suddenly to a loud "Buffalo in 10 minutes." prestissimo until with one large sweep "It's sure going some." Frances E. At KGHL, Billings, Montana, the the band gathered momentum, then Cherry, Wayne, Neb. suddenly stopped. The ensuing silence announcer said, "The next record we present as Paul plays it could almost be heard—it was so still. Whiteman And in that hush, one of the talkative 'Sitting on a Rainboiv.'" I am afraid it GOSSIP SHOP ladies shrilled out loudly, "Why, we would take a rather large rainbow. fry ours in butter." Mollie Zacharias, Alice Leslie, Oregon Basin, Wyo. Add to list of outlandish pets: Gup- 3106 Park Avenue, Kansas City, Mo. pies (or goupies or gyuppies) ... a bowl- Phil Cook had completed his morn- ful possessed by Annette Hanshaw of ing program and CKGW's announcer CBS, sent her by a Florida fan. They're

began extolling the virtues of Quaker . . JUST IN CASE the queerest fish in the world . about products. "Don't delay a moment," he as long as your finger nail, but related Heard on "Something for Everyone" said. "Buy a package of Craker to the whale because they're one of the (C B S) — Quackles from your grocer. — Harry S. few fish that bring forth full-fledged A woman was buying material with Hawkins, Muskoka Hospital, Grove- children instead of laying eggs. They're which to make her young son a pair of hurst, Out., Canada. cannibals too. trousers. "My!" my'd a friend. "Do you need

' all that material for one pair of trousers? "No," was the reply, "some is for the reserved seats." Miss Florence George Suther- Haist, Box T57, Lindenwold, N. J. land jumped sky-

high . . . alas, A STRANGE QUIRK OF FATE all too soon.

It's been a tough life for Walter Soderling, the veteran character actor who plays in Harbor Lights, NBC's sea- going serial. Once he thought it would be smooth sailing. In 191 5 he was cast in a small part in one of Charles Frohman's plays. When the first night performance was over, Frohman, as was his custom, called the cast on the stage and cen- sured or praised each one. "Where's the old man?" he asked. The "old man" in the play happened to be Soder- ling, who stepped forward, ready to be called down. "My friend," said Frohman, "you did a splendid piece of work, and I'm going to take care of you from now on. You have nothing to worry about. Cast dismissed!" Soderling nearly jumped sky-high for joy. But not long thereafter Charles Frohman, the man who had assured his future, lost his life in the torpedoed Lusitania!

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fifteen years, has written a series of hits Tuneful Topics By Rudy Vallee as long as your arm. The number is well-constructed and of a sweet, lilting nature. Ager is one of (Continued from page 35) the few men who write songs and play the piano excellently: he is a very cultured, in another place I thought that the part To the Legion scientific man on many matters other than "Then I'll be lost alone" was rather far- music. It was a pleasure listening to this is a song with a very unusual fetched, and I changed it to "I'll be left HERE song before it was published, when Ae f-r history. Every day I receive manu- alone." I even had the audacity to make insisted that I hear it. I found its com- scripts from outside organizations, and a change in the melody, a change of one poser, who had just returned from the one day this manuscript came to me from note, which seemed to me more logical Coast, and whom I met for the first the Commander of Post No. 1 of the than the way Johnny Green originally time, to be a quiet, refined and extremely American Legion in Memphis. Tenn. The conceived it. intelligent individual. song in its unfinished state was called For I played the number the way I saw fit We do it quite slowly at about thirty the Legion. It was originally intended to to change it one night for Mr. Green measures per minute. be sung by this particular post as its own when he was a guest at my club. As we marching song, stating that they were JVe^re were old friends I asked if he minded the Friends Again the marching legionnaires from the banks change, to which he replied that he did is another odd thought, written of the Mississippi, or Tennessee. HERE not, inasmuch as he thought I should play by the two boys who gave us that In the piano arrangement sent me. the it the way I "felt it." which, after all, is very unusual hit. Ill Get By, and who authors had either innocently or delib- the sensible for the writer of a song way followed it with Mean to Me; To Be In erately taken a few measures of Victor to feel when the artist, unless he is a Love Especially With You, and who have Herbert's Babes In Toyland. On hearing rank amateur, seems to feel it necessary been out on the Coast writing for the opening few measures played on the pic- to make a few changes. tures for the past year and a half, since piano, it struck me that these composers We play it at. twenty-eight measures the advent of sound pictures. They have were better than amateurs, and then the it is written in per minute, and although returned to New York and perhaps the origin of the introduction came to me. E flat, I find that I can sing it more com- first song which has told Tin Pan Alley The verse and chorus, while rough in fortably in the key of D. that they are back officially, is this song. spots, showed me that there were the We're Friends Again. possibilities of a real song there. I real- Go Home and Tell Your Mother They played it for me while it was still ized, however, that it must not be sec- in embryo, and struck by the odd thought HERE is a song published by the same tional or provincial, but should apply to and beauty of melody and harmony, I firm that at one time boasted of the the legionnaires of the entire United suggested that it be published. Roy Turk, famous Pagan Love Song. In fact, this States, or the world, for that matter. who is the lyric writer of the pair, in- song, too, is in a Metr,o-Goldwyn-Mayer Being a member of the American clines toward slang lyrics: in fact, in all picture, and although it is by two great Legion. Post No. 62, Westbrook. Maine, his songs there is a tendency to use writers, as was the Pagan Love Song, it 1 recalled that the American Legion had American slang, and in this case he dwells will never see the popularity that the no song of its own, and felt that such a on such phrases as "my honey," "I spoke former song did. Jimmie McHugh and song might be welcome, so I hastily re- out of turn." and "'why bring that up Dorothy Fields, writers of / Can't Give constructed the lyrics and melody in an now?" yet the song is typical of the daily You Anything But Love, Baby, wrote this, effort to make a song that the legion- conversation of hundreds of young clerks one of the last songs that they wrote while naires of every state in the union might and young business men who might tell still on the Coast. be able to sing as they marched along, or this story of how they quarrelled with Their original lyric is sung in the pic- wherever they might gather. I obtained their sweetheart, but made up again the lure, Love in the Rough; it was deemed permission from the Post No. 1 Com- morning after the quarrel. quite suggestive by the ofncia-ls of the mander and the composers to reconstruct Fred Ahlert. who writes the melody National Broadcasting Company and the the song as I thought fit. Although I and plays piano, is a student of melody song may be sung on the air only with finished the song before the big Legion and knows what he is about when he sits revised lyrics. The original lyrics were Convention in Boston, it was not in the down to write. The song begins with a not really suggestive, but were possibly hands of the publishers until several dropping glissando: that is. the voice- just a bit too human. For instance, the weeks later. Contracts were issued for drops from the high note to the low note line. "For she certainly did a wonderful the three members of Post No. 1. and in a sort of water-fall, with the end of job on you" and "That we're marryin' one for myself as the fourth composer. the melody of the high note broutjht like respectable people do." I think our Victor record of it is one down to the low note, with hardly a break Not knowing that the lyrics had been of the finest things we have ever made. between them, almost chromatically. This censored by the National Broadcasting and at times our Connecticut Yankees type of dropping glissando must be heard Company, on one of the Fleischmann sound like Sousa and his orchestra. Dur- to be understood. It is the use of it both programs I innocently sang the original ing Armistice Week I did it at the in upward and downward glissandos that to the consternation of the censors of the Brooklyn Paramount, where it received a has led to the use of the word •"crooner ", National Broadcasting Company—but it tremendous reception. It is a sons that a crooner being merely an individual who was their own fault for not notifying me grows on you. one that I hope will eventu- employs a great deal of glissando. that only revised lyrics could be used. ally become the favorite song of every Glissando makes a song very appealing We play it snappily, or about fifty legionnaire throughout the country. and tender, as it takes the harsh intervals measures a minute. It is a difficult num- Beins; in 6 S time it is played in a out of the composition. This null ber to sing when the throat is not open, snappy, march tempo. should do quite well with the song-loving due to the fact that it hits the high notes public. We do it quite slowly, at thirty and stays there. We have had to trans- Blame It on the Moonlight measures or possibly thirty-five per min- pose it to various keys from time to time HKRF. is a simple yet effective sons. ute. Although it will probably be pub- depending on the condition of my throat dealing with the moonlight a- the lished in the key of E flat. I find that the when I have tried to sins it. It was very cause of one's falling in love Published key of D makes it more easy to render in well received the first time I did it at by. a small Inn very energetic firm, it is

my particular I the Brooklyn Paramount, which is one of already becoming very popular. It was R,;i,i Rudy Vallee's Special the indications of how the public likes a written entirely by Milton Ager. who. Clubs <"' New York in February K>> sons. with Jack Vellen. during the past ten or Did st — Editor. — — —

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FIRST TRY—AND HE MAKES V. O. L! THIS is my first letter to your splendid mag- azine, although I have read almost every issue of it since I got my first Radio in March, 1926. Just as Radio is said to be essential in a home as a necessity, so is Radio Digest if the listener, the wants to know what is going on in Radioland. OlCe of He cannot learn all that is in Radio Digest even if he listens twenty-four hours a day to his Radio. Radio Digest gives you, as it were, the inside dope of all in Radioland. As a con- stant reader of Radio Digest for four years I reader. I would like very much to become a town then, I knew I was tasting something like it better all the time because of the great member of the V. O. L. Club. real and hearing famous artists whom I knew improvement. You have a great magazine! I am an ardent Radio fan, but there is one I would probably never see. I was very glad when you published the thing I would like to know. Why do stations May I say a word for the endless "pep" and Official Log because it comes in handy when out here cut in on chain programs to advertise enthusiasm of Phil Cook? I hear him twice a DX'ing. When I had my first Radio four years a special make of washing machine or candy or day and never seem to tire of him. And those ago it was a two-tuber and I logged 241 stations give the football scores? We do like the Eastern two lovable characters, Abe and David. Don't in two months. Now I have a nine tuber. programs but don't like to have someone chop they take you back to the days our parent* —George A. Phillips, Jr., Smith Falls, Ont. the beginning or end off them to give us the used to tell of—husking bees and spelling * * * news items or the market reports. One San matches—and can't you just smell gingerbread REQUEST FOR BACK NUMBERS Francisco station in particular has this habit. and wood fires and hickory smoked meat? And reference to copies which you can —Dorothy Graham, Morgan Hill, Cal. how I enjoy Mike and "Hoiman," and that WITH adorable couple not supply, we are venturing to make a Cecil and Sally, whom I hear from my home station suggestion. It is that a notice be placed in a WMBD. I bought first copy of and forthcoming issue of Radio Digest that the WHAT DO OTHER READERS THINK OF my Radio Digest was to read the numbers mentioned are needed in the Library's THE RADIO LOG? shocked knocks in V. O. L. In this old world of hard knocks why pass them lile and that the courtesy will be appreciated HAVE just received the November copy of on? A word of praise does so much more good. if readers, who no longer need their copies will I the Radio Digest and after looking it over —Mrs. E. R. Harris, Peoria, 111. present them to us. Publishers frequent!}- do have decided to write you one more letter sug- this for us and almost invariably with success- gesting that in all issues you make your official ful results. We shall be grateful for any as- list of lengths more complete. As I have wave PAGING OTTO HOEG, RADIO ARTIST sistance you may render us in this connection. written you previously, I have taken your 1928 June, September. any one give me some information as to Copies wanted:— — magazine ever since the very first issue, when CAN 1929 January, February, April, August, Sep- the whereabouts of Otto Hoeg former — it was a weekly, and during all of these years — director, tember, October.—F. H. Anderson, Director, I have taken it for one purpose only, and that program announcer, pianist and com- poser of California. New York Public Library, Fifth Avenue and is to get a complete and up-to-date Radio log. KGB, San Diego,

. 42nd St., New York, N. Y. The thing that I miss most from your No- I always enjoyed his playing and would like to if is vember issue is the list of stations arranged by know he still broadcasting.—Clara We will appreciate any cooperation you can states, which I have found by experience to be Bailey, 1616 Bancroft St., San Diego, Calif. give the New York Public Library. Send re- almost as useful as the list arranged by wave quested issues to the address given. Fditor. lengths. I think a list of Canadian, Cuban and * * * Mexican stations arranged by wave lengths SOME DX RECORD! YOU'LL FIND WTMJ WELL REPRE- would be a very valuable addition to your WITH my set, on October 13th, 1930, from SENTED IN THIS ISSUE magazine. 6:30 p.m. to 3 a.m. I "tuned-in" 64 sta- I. am sure that the "fan" matter contained in tions, 55 of which were DX, reaching from got the November issue of the Radio JUST your magazine is very interesting to most of coast to coast and from WPG of Atlantic City, Digest, your splendid book. It's a book your subscribers and am finding no fault with N. J. to KFI, Los Angeles, California. that's interesting to everyone with stories, it although it does not interest me.—C. L. I believe that this will amount to a possible household hints, and other short articles good Farnsworth, Omaha, Nebraska. record of stations received for this time of year, to read as well as the wonderful Radio articles, if not, for all time.—H. Meta Tafel, 509 So. but there is one thing I'd like to write about. Radio Digest is interested in readers' opin- 45th St., Philadelphia, Pa. One reads so much about Chicago Stations, ions on this subject. Please write us Editor. WENR, WMAQ, and very distant stations in great number. But, why not more of WTMJ, Milwaukee Company, Milwaukee, STATION POPULARITY CONTEST Journal FROM A GRANDMOTHER—74 YEARS WINS FAVOR Wisconsin—the best station in Wisconsin. One YOUNG! artist, particularly, I want to mention is their HURRAH! This is the contest for which I first copy of to staff soprano, Myrtle Spangenberg. Hearing BOUGHT my Radio Digest have waited. May I nominate my favorite I Harlow Wilcox's picture. You this soprano I'll say she possesses a very sweet get (WGES) station, WSYR, Syracuse, N. Y., for first place. and pleasing soprano voice, and her very wide say, "he has made good"—I'll say he has—and I could enumerate man}' reasons for my choice has the best voice and is the most selections of numbers—both popular tunes of How! He but it would take too long. However, I am sure natural reader we hear. We are worried all the to-day and classical numbers-— is fine. there are man}' in Central New York, besides time, fearing he quit for cause. Their organist, Terese Meyers, is also very may some He myself, who consider that "The Voice of Cen- is too good to be true! Sincere and devoted fine, with her melodies, and WTMJ announcers —A tral New York," although just a baby in size, are pleasing to hear too. fan.— (Mrs.) G. A. Lijean, Oak Park, 111. has the best programs, for a small 250 watt Will look forward to be reading more of station, that can be heard anywhere.— (Mrs.) WTMJ—A Radio Digest and Radio Fan, R. E. Lauber, Fulton, N. Y. Margaret R., Prospect Avenue, Milwaukee, A LITTLE ANTIDOTE FOR "THE * * * Wis. HAMMER WIELDERS" PICTURE OF BILL DALY COMING SOON WHAT does it matter if we aren't "crazy is first letter to the Voice of the about" Amos and And}' or that we can't THIS my APPRECIATION OF "JERRY BUCKLEY" Listener, though I am a regular reader of "rave" over Rudy Vallee an}' more? Did you ARTICLE your pages. ever stop to think that if we heard our best I always read your magazine from cover to JWANT to voice my appreciation to the friend, or even one of our beloved parents, cover, and then wait eager!}' for the next issue. Radio Digest arid Mr. Robert L. Kent for sing or speak along the same lines every day, don't tell us something about Bill devoting your magazine column in behalf of perhaps two or three times a day at the same Why you Daly and his orchestra? I have heard him on our dear friend "Jerry" Buckley who was so hour, we would perhaps grow a trifle bored. programs and think he deserves cruelly assassinated for lighting so bravely for And how trying the daily grind must be to the "Revelers" some mention in your pages. Louise Stockton, the "common herd," which he so loved. The the entertainers themselves! If we are a little — Cambridge, Md. "common herd" of Detroit miss his voice each weary, turn them off for a while, but don't night. Such "friends of the poor" are few. "knock" them. They are untiring in their —August Keranen, Detroit, Mich. efforts to please and I, for one, consider my- self fortunate to be able to hear this super- YOU'RE FUNNY—THANKS FOR MONEY talent free of charge. ENCLOSED you will find check to cover a WESTERN STATIONS, MEND YOUR T have Radio-ed for at least ten years. My year's subscription to your magazine. WAYS! first lasting Radio thrill was when I heard John Until I received your letter I didn't know that A FTFR reading my first copy of Radio Drew give a sketch of "The Taming of the my subscription had run out. But anyway i"\ Digest—the best on the market— T de- Shrew." And the singing of John McCormack here's your dough for another year—so let's go ided immediately to become a constant on one New Year's night. Living in a small —send along the old reliable Radio magazine — —— . —

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TCK! TCK! HE SIGNS IT "FRIEND"

I take this awaited opportunity to point out that I haven't the slighte-t interest or use for your magazine. I am sorry to see Radio Broadcast go, and it could have become no more worthless if one had tried to accomplish the ultimate in that direction. It is now istener junk, with my regards H. H. Friend, En- — gineering Dept. RCA, Photophone, 153 K. 24th St., New York, X. V.

which I have been receiving for the past six admission meant coming from those who have ALL RIGHT—SO LONG years.—Ray Van Sledgright, Grand Rapids, always growled when their wives gave up aU AS YOU'RE CRAZY ABOUT US Mich. engagements to listen in on Thursday nights. WANT to tell you we are simply crazy about Couldn't you please have one of your staff I your magazine. I have been reading it every answer my questions? I know it would also month for nearly two yean-, and think it get- please those ardent Rudy fans I'm going to tell WE AIM TO PLEASE—BRINKLEY'S better ever}- issue. We enjoy our Radio much about your magazine and who are sure to buy PICTURE IN THIS ISSUE more after we read Radio Digest. It is chuck anything that even mentions Rudy's dog. full of the most intere-ting Radio news—and KNOW that you are used to receiving many —Agnes Doherty, Neponsit, Mass. I letters from fluttering youngsters, who rave is by far the best magazine published.—Mr-. E. L. Loudder, l.ueder-. Texas. on about their favorite Radio star without Marcella is going to try to answer all your giving any reason for their criticism other than, questions, Agnes, so watch her columns. "He is simply marvelous". Rudy Vallee joins Radio Digest in thanking writer of this letter is in the above - The not the man} admirers who wrote to express i>- mentioned category. To begin with, I am a preciation of his article. So many letters were POEM—WITH APOLOGIES TO LITTLE man. That alone should put me out of the received that there wasn't room for all. We're JACK LITTLE regular herd. Secondly, I do not like to see my especially sorry we couldn't print the masterly When I'm down and out and feeling blue, in I name print. Thirdly, am a college gradu- epistles from Helen Kruse, Wood Ridge, X. J., Can you imagine what I do? ate and have served as dramatic critic and re- Verna Geideman, Xiles, Mich., Dorothy R. Why, I jump to the Radio, turn the dial, porter for several of the country's leading news- King, Brownsville, Pa., Christine H. Yass, "Yes we have no bananas," can be heard for papers. Kenosha, Wis., Harriette Whalen, Xeponsit, a mile.

Now, to get into the real purpose of this Mass., and R. X. Walker of Seymour, Tnd . . . Joe and Vi, the loving pair letter: About a year ago Hartford's radio sta- thev were good. Editor. Make me glad I am far from there. tion, WTIC, "blossomed out" in a number of Sanderson and Crummit -ing their songs, ways, the least of which was not the employ- As the train of the Fast Freight sounds its ment of a southern announcer named E. gongs. Jack MORE VOTES FOR MOST POPULAR Brinkley. Many of us in Hartford had looked The Crocket Mountaineers with songs of yore, with favor upon the work which Mr. Brinkley ORCHESTRA—GUY LOMBARDO AND Amd Heywood Broun with admirers galore. BEN BERNIE had been doing in New York City before he Up steps Burbig with talks so amusing, came to our town. And now—well, that is the THIS is my first appeal to the "Voice of the That we almost forget our friend Ted Husing, real story. Listener." California Melodies out of the west, Almost all of my friends and acquaintances, I give first place to Ben Bernie and his or- For the latest of tune-, this is the best. with whom I had discussed the matter, admit chestra (not forgetting his long-necked pianist, Radio Follies bring Eddie Cantor and Helen a decided preference for Jack's work on the air, and gum-chewing drummer), siding with Ed. Morgan, both in announcing and acting. Thereby, you Russell, of Wasco, Calif., in my opinion of Guy. Jesse Crawford, world loved poet of the organ. would greatly please many listeners, if you For those who stand up for Ben and Guy, Paramount Publix, I almost forgot, would give us a story and a really sizeable more power to their pens! Brings stars, music, and news served hot. photograph of this man.—G. S. W., Hartford, A rabid Bernie and Lombardo fan.—Robert —Richard C. McGinnis, Oil City, Pa. Conn. Macgregor Eeadie, Pasadena, Cal.

ODE TO JOHN L. FOGARTY MANLY PRAISE FOR WILL OSBORNE WE CAN'T ALL BE SWEET, LIKE As the setting sun fades THOUGHT perhaps you would like to hear THESE SOUTHERNERS! In her bed of old gold, I a man's opinion. It's Rudy's voice, not him PLEASE may I join the V. O. L.? I'd love u<: So does McCormack, who's that the}' have fallen for! American people I thoroughly enjoy the Radio Digest. It fast growing old. want plain, untrained, naturalness which we has so many pictures and articles about Radio In his place comes another, all have to admit Rudy has. But for real man's artists I've always wanted to find out about, Still more famous to be; appeal give me Will Osborne.—Gene Bailey. and now- that I've discovered the R. D. I Sure, a son of Old Erin Portland, Me. know I'm getting up-to-date news. And his name's Fogarty. It seems to me there i- rather an unpleasant — Adele McCullough, Easton, Pa. argument going back and forth in V. O. J.. A BOOST FOR COON SANDERS What I can't understand is, why be unpleasant alxiut it? There are plenty of artists for every- RUDY FANS ARE RALLYING ROUND FOR my first attempt at V. O. L. I am going one—different people require different attrac- to try to boost Coon Sanders' Original tions. So let's please sweet about our argu- TONIGHT I bought my first cop}- of RADIO be Xight- Hawks, a little, as I sincerely believe of who like say Digest and T know right now, it will cer- ments. Those us Rudy— so, but they deserve this praise, even though lbe\ condemning tainly not be my last. not at the same time some one may not need it. else.— F. C, Perm. The real reason I made this edition my first Memphis, Here is one dance orchestra that can do is because I saw on the cover that Rudy Vallee justice to any type of musical number, from was going to write in it. Rudy is my weak mo- the slowest, dreamiest waltz to the faste-t ment and I read anything he writes or that is moving Tiger Rag. In all of these, the arrange- written about him (if it's favorable) so many M. A.'S EARS SHOULD BE BURNING! ments are very clever and the rhythm perfect. times I have it memorized. Mystery Announcer and his gang of Then comes the important matter of the THE In going through your magazine I noticed WPEN are wonderful. A person couldn't vocal chorus. Here again, the} excel. how interesting and original every article was. be blue and listen to them at the same time. "Coonie" is a stead} reliable singer, with a I know that there have been countless stories There's Melody Mae w ho i< a pianist. o~ good voice and plent\ of pep. 1 1 is partner, about Rudy Vallee but I feel that since he likes ist. comedian, singer and what not, all rolled Joe Sanders, can croon with the best of them, your magazine so much that he writes in it, into one. Then there is Bill. Everybody likes but how many crooners can "open up" with his and because it deals with Radio, his first love, him for his voice, impi rsonations and qualitv and happj range?- Philip X. Clarke, Hinds- - surely you would be able to get a more original go-lucky ways. Even boj at the station is an dale, 111. interview of him, one that gives different -ides artist in some way. M. \., -hort for Mysten of him. What is his brother like? Whom does Innouncer, is grand. H< has a most wonderful he live with? What degree did he get in ( College? personality and he puts all he's got into his V. Does he swear? Ts it true that he joined the WRITE TO O. L. work to make people happ} Navy during the World War when under age? CHAIN CALENDAR FEATURES have Some of your other V. O. L. fans write in 1 guess that must be true, for he marched in been omitted this month because several tell us what you think of our M. A. and his our Boston Legionnaire Parade, and \\ hat a readers say the} don't like them. What do you gang, won't you? And. please print more about hand he got! Even the men said he wasn't so think? Give us your opinion and join the them in the oext issues. Dot Martinson,

bad, after all, and you can guess what that V. O. L. Club. Editor. I la\ erford, Pa. 86 Scientific Progress

By Howard Edgar Rhodes, Technical Editor

Radio and Aviation

DURING the years that have land. Floodlights are on," was the message. sider their Radio beacon receivers fully elapsed since the Wright broth- The noise of the plane's motor died as important as the compass. ers demonstrated that flight was down. Suddenly the ship broke through A pilot leaving Hadley field to fly to possible the airplane has been the low hanging clouds and glided down Chicago would tune his receiver to the developed to its present efficiency. In re- to an easy landing. The pilot cared for beacon at Hadley field. So long as he cent years the bonds tying together Radio his plane, then went over to the Radio hears one long dash he knows he is on and Aviation—each the fastest thing in the room and with a grin that meant more his course. If he hears a long dash then world in its own realm—have steadily than words, said to the operator, "Thanks". a short dash he knows he has drifted to grown stronger until today the mail and Radio receivers installed on both mail the right of the proper course; a short transport pilot is relying more and more and passenger planes are now used to dash followed by a long dash indicates upon Radio to bring him, through fog and bring to the pilot information regarding that he is to the left of the course. Be- storm, safely to his destination. weather conditions in the path of his fore the signals from Hadley field be- Here is an interesting tale of the value flight. Beacon systems. Radio search- come so weak as to be useless he will find of Radio in aviation. Recently a plane lights, that send out beams of Radio like himself within the range of another roared over Hadley field in New Jersey a lighthouse sends beams of light are beacon; and so he continues along that from the west, but the clouds were so low now located at various points throughout definite, unfailingly infallible beacon the country and send out signals that course until he reaches his destination. enable a pilot to keep to his course, though Some of the beacon systems give audi- ble indications which the pilot hears through a pair of telephone receivers An air mail plane with rigid Radio antenna instal- clamped over his ears. Other beacon lation to insure safety, and (left) tuning control systems use a visual indicator, mounted which is located in front of pilot. on the instrument board, the indicator consisting of two reeds which vibrate when the pilot is flying a beacon course. So long as he stays on the course both reeds vibrate equally. If he gets off the course the reeds vibrate unequally, and then he simply steers his plane back until both reeds are again vibrating with equal in- tensity. The importance the government officials attribute to Radio in aviation is indicated by the fact that the government pays an additional three cents per mile to mail planes equipped with Radio. Safe landing is another field where Ra- dio will be used. Imagine the task of trying to land a plane on a field covered by a dense fog, the ground absolutely in- visible and with no instruments to indi- cate exactly how high the plane is above the ground. But experiments have been made with very, very short wave lengths

and it has been found that if the trans-

mitter is located a few feet above the ground that the signals shoot forward short dis- that the pilot hesitated to drop below the fog be so dense that he cannot see parallel with the ground for a curve upward. them. The Radio operator at the field, more than a few feet ahead. The Radio tance and then gradually appreciating the situation, got into instant beacon system between New York and When a pilot wants to land, but cannot to get Radio communication with the pilot. Chicago is complete. Also it is now pos- see the ground, he needs simply those signals "You passed directly over the field. sible, by means of government beacons, to his plane into the path of that perfect Turn around. The wind is east", came fly a continuously defined course from then follow them down along plane over the air to the pilot. Boston to Omaha and from Boston to curved path until the wheels of the the ground. The plane roared back over the field. Savannah. National Air Transport now are but a few inches above safety is Then, by Radio, the pilot heard. "You has about 25 planes operating in the Bos- Radio's part in increasing day. have a 300 foot ceiling. Turn around and ton to Omaha territory and the pilots con- gaining prominence every 87

of the Radio Arts

Programs from Records

OF modern Houses of Magic casting. When a program is sent over nations designed for the home, are gen- OUTnow comes a new type of pro- a chain at eight o'clock eastern standard erally operated in pairs so that as one gram for the broadcasting sta- time it is heard in San Francisco at five record ends the next one can be cut in tion. On a piece of soft wax is o'clock in the afternoon. With recorded without any pause. recorded a carefully planned and flaw- programs this time difference is eliminated At the present time some 95 per cent of lessly performed program suitable for and west coast listeners can hear the the broadcasting stations throughout the broadcasting. From this soft wax record program at eight o'clock or at any other country will accept electrical transcrip- a copper plate is then made. Finally, desired time. tions for broadcasting. passing over the intermediate processes, Possibly the most important objection The organizations engaged in this elec- a "stamper" is produced from which a the listener will have to recorded pro- trical transcription work, in almost every great many ordinary phonograph records grams will be that he misses the feeling case select talent, create the programs, can be manufactured. We supervise the making of the records, book called them phonograph rec- time on the air and if necessary supply ords. But the organizations suitable reproducing apparatus to broad- that produce these programs casting stations. that whirl on discs never refer i to them by such a prosaic name. They refer to them in Hp High Power Broadcast- the high-sounding scientific EN terms of "electrical transcrip- ing Stations tions" and it is with this ap- HAS been reported lately that the pellation that the recorded IT programs are described when Federal Radio Commission is viewing they are presented over the with satisfaction the present power of broadcasting stations hesitates to air. Many Radio broadcast- and ing stations are experimenting permit stations on clear channels to use with this type of pro- higher power. The reader should under- new y\ ' V.-BB* stand w: hat is meant by "clear channels". gram material; in fact it has * The broadcast band is divided into some already been adopted by a IE&& «»» number of stations. ^i W:'** ninety-eight channels and out of these a Electrically transcribed certain number are clear channels and only one station in the entire country is programs make it possible for - any station—even the small- assigned to any one of these clear chan- est station in the smallest nels: on all other channels more than one The final testing of electrical transcriptions. town—to present entertain- station is operated. The limitation of ment featuring the greatest power on those channels used by several artists and all the well known musical (if listening to an actual performance, a broadcasting stations is necessary to pre- organizations; entertainment essentially feeling that many listeners apparently be- vent serious interference—but when there as good as that transmitted by the largest lieve is an essential part of Radio enter- is only one station in the entire country

stations. They guarantee to the audiences tainment. It is too early to say how operating on a particular channel it is of these small stations the finest of talent. -erious a factor this will be in the adop- difficult to understand why its power The sponsors of these electrical tran- tion of recorded programs, for the pro- should be limited. scriptions feel that they have a number of duction of electrical transcriptions espe- We discuss this subject because it distinct advantages. In the first place cially for broadcasting has not been under definitely affects the listener and the qual- the records can be made in a very care- intensive development for much over a ity of broadcast service which he receives.

fully designed studio and the program can year. Personally we don't care whether It is high power that makes it possible be repeated as many times as is necessary we listen to actual performances or elec- for small towns and rural listeners to to obtain perfection; mistakes made in an trical transcriptions, so long as the pro- hear good programs unmarred by static

ordinary broadcast cannot be rectified. gram is good. and other local interference. It is high

Once made they leave the station with When the recorded programs are broad- power that makes it possible for a single the speed of light, never to return. cast from a station they are not played broadcasting station to give consistently The records when pronounced perfect on a phonograph placed in front of a good service to millions of listeners, in- can be shipped to stations throughout the microphone, such as was done in the early stead of thousands. We believe that the country and can be presented over the days of broadcasting. Instead the output advance of broadcasting is predicated air at the most desirable time in each from the pick-up placed on the record is largely on the use of higher power, by locality. This eliminates the difference directly fed into the transmitter. The broadcasting stations, so that they can in time between east and west coasts that pick-ups used, much more costly than serve a continuously increasing number

forms a serious drawback in chain broad- i hove found in phonograph-radio combi- of listeners. 88 ^tations Alphabetically Listed

Do you use the logs? Then don 7forget to fill in the questionnaire on page gj which puts their continuance to a vote.—Editor

KFSG Los Angeles, Calif. KGKB Brownwood, Texas KPJM Prescott, Ariz. KWG Stockton, Calif. K 500 w.—1120 kc—267.7 m. 100 w— 1500 kc—199.9 m. 100 w.— 1500 kc— 199.9 m. 100 w.—1200 kc—249.9 m. KFUL Galveston, Texas. KGKL San Angelo, Texas KPO San Francisco, Calif. KWJJ Portland, Ore. KBTM Paragould, Ark. 500 w.—1290 kc—232.4 m. 100 w.— 1370 kc—218.8 m. 5000 w.—680 kc—440.9 m. 500 w.—1060 kc—282.8 m.

100 w.— 1200 kc. KFUM Colorado Springs. Colo. KGKO . . . Wichita Falls, Texas KPOF Denver, Colo. KWK St. Louis, Mo. KCRC Enid, Okla. 1000 w — 1270 kc—236.1 m. 500 w.—570 kc—526 m. 500 w.—880 kc—340.7 m. 1000 w.—1350 kc. —222.1 m. 250 w.—1370 kc—218.8 m. KFUO Clayton, Mo. KGKX Sandpoint, Idaho KPRC Houston, Texas KWKC Kansas City, Mo. KCRJ Jerome, Ariz. 1000 w.—550 kc—545.1 m. 100 w.—1420 kc—211.1 m. 2500 w.—920 kc—325.9 m. 100 w— 1370 kc—218.8 m. 100 w.— 1310 kc. KFUP Denver, Colo. KGKY Scottsbluff , Nebr. KPSN Pasadena, Calif. KWKH Shreveport, La. KDB Santa Barbara, Calif. 100 w.—1310 kc—228.9 m. 100 w.— 1500 kc— 199.9 m. 1000 w.—1360 kc—220.4 m. 10,000 w.—850 kc—352.7 m. 100 w — 1500 kc—199.9 m. KFVD Culver City, Calif. KGMB Honolulu, Hawaii KPWF Los Angeles, Calif. KWLC Decorah, Iowa KDFN Casper, Wyo. 250 w —1000 kc—299.8 m. 500 w— 1320 kc—227.1 m. 10,000 w— 1490 kc—201.6 m. 100 w.— 1270 kc—236.1 m.

100 w — 1210 kc—247.8 m. KFVS. . . .Cape Girardeau, Mo. KGMP Elk City, Okla. KQV Pittsburg, Pa. KWSC Pullman, Wash. KDKA Pittsburgh, Pa. 100 w —1210 kc—247.8 m. 100 w.— 1210 kc—247.8 m. 500 w.—1380 kc.—212.3 m. 2,000 w.—1220 kc—245.8 m.

50,000 w —980 kc—305.9 m. KFWB Hollywood, Calif. KGNF.. . .North Platte, Nebr. KQW San Jose, Calif. KWWG .... Brownsville, Texas KDLR Devils Lake, N. D. 1000 w —950 kc—315.6 m. 500 w— 1430 kc—211.1 m. 500 w.—1010 kc—296.9 m. 500 w.—1260 kc. —238 m. 100 w — 1210 kc—247.8 m. KFWF St. Louis, Mo. KG NO Dodge City, Kans. KRE Berkeley, Calif. KXA Seattle, Wash.

KDYL. . .Salt Lake City, Utah 100 w.— 1200 kc—249.9 m. 100 w.— 1210 kc—247.8 m. 100 w.— 1370 kc—218.8 m. 500 w.—570 kc—526 m. 1000 w— 1290 kc—232.6 m. KFWI San Francisco, Calif. KGO San Francisco, Calif. KREG Santa Ana, Calif. KXL Portland, Ore. KECA Los Angeles, Calif. 500 w—930 kc—322.4 m. 7500 w.— 790 kc—379.5 m. 100 w.—1500 kc—199.9 m. 100 w.—1420 kc—211.1 m. 1000 w —1430 kc—209.7 m. KFXF Denver.lCol. KGRS Amarillo, Texas KRGV Harlingen, Texas KXO El Centro, Calif. KELWV Burbank, Calif. 500 w—920 kc—325.9 m. 1000 w.—1410 kc—212.6 m. 500 w— 1260 kc—238 m. 100 w.—1200 kc—249.9 m. 500 w.—780 kc—384.4 m. KFXM . .San Bernardino, Calif. KGU Honolulu, Hawaii KRLD Dallas, Texas KYA San Francisco, Calif. KEX Portland, Ore. 100 w —1210 kc—247.8 m. 1000 w.—940 kc—319 m. 10,000 w—1040 kc—288.3 m. 1000 w— 1230 kc—243.8 m. 5000 w.— 1180 kc—254.1 m. KFXR. .Oklahoma City, Okla. KGW Portland, Ore. KROW Oakland, Calif. KYW Chicago, 111. KFAB Lincoln, Nebr. 250 w —1310 kc—228.9 m. 1000 w—620 kc—483.6 m. 1000 w.—930 kc—322.4 m. 10,000 w.—1020 kc—293.9 m. 5000 w —770 kc—389.4 m. KFXY Flagstaff, Ariz. KHJ Los Angeles, Calif. KSAC Manhattan, Kans. KZM Haywood, Calif. KFBB Great Falls, Mont. 100 w.—1420 kc—211.1 m. 1000 w.—900 kc—333.1 m. 1000 w.—580 kc—516.9 m. 100 w.— 1370 kc—218.8 m. 2500 w.— 1280 kc—234.2 m. KFYO Abilene, Texas KHQ Spokane, Wash. KSCJ Sioux Citv, Iowa. KFBK Sacramento, Calif. 250 w.—1420 kc—211.1 m. 1000 w.—590 kc—508.2 m. 2500 w.— 1330 kc—225".4 m. 100 w.— 1310 kc—228.9 m. KFYR Bismarck, N. D. KICK Red Oak, Iowa KSD St. Louis, Mo. w KFDM Beaumont, Texas 500 w. —550 kc. —545 m. 100 w.— 1420 kc—211.1 m. 500 w—550 kc—545.1 m. 1000 w.—560 kc—535.4 m. KGA Spokane, Wash. KID Idaho Falls, Idaho KSEI Pocatello, Idaho WAAF Chicago, 111. KFDY Brookings, S. D. 5000 w.— 1470 kc—204 m. 500 w.— 1320 kc—227.1 m. 250 w.—900 kc—333.1 m. 500 w —920 kc—325.9 m. 1000 w —550 kc—545.1 m. KGAR Tucson, Ariz. KIDO Boise, Idaho KSL Salt Lake Citv, Utah WAAM Newark, N. J. KFEL Denver, Colo. 250 w.—1370 kc—218.8 m. 1000 w.—1250 kc—239.9 m. 5000 w.—1130 kc—265.3 m. 1000 w.—1250 kc—239.9 m. 500 w.—920 kc—325.9 m. KGB San Diego, Calif. KJBS. . . rSan Francisco, Calif. KSMR. . . . Santa Maria, Calif. WAAT Jersey City, N. J. KFEQ St. Joseph, Mo. 250 w.—1330 kc—225.4 m. 100 w.— 1070 kc—280.2 m. 100 w,—1200 kc—249.9 m. 300 w.—940 kc—319 m. 2500 w.—680 kc—440.9 m. KGBU Ketchikan, Alaska KJR Seattle, Wash. KSO Clarinda, Iowa WAAW Omaha, Nebr. KFGQ Boone, Iowa. 500 w.—900 kc—333.1 m. 5000 w.—970 kc—309.1 m. 500 w.—1380 kc—217.3 m. 500 w.—660 kc—454.3 m. 100 w—1310 kc—228.9 m. KGBX St. Joseph, Mo. KLO Ogden, Utah KSOO Sioux Falls, S. D. WABC New York City KFH Wichita, Kans. 100 w.— 1310 kc—228.9 m. 500 w.— 1400 kc—214.2 m. 2000 w.— 1110 kc—270.1 m. 5000 w.—860 kc.—348.6 m. 1000 w.— 1300 kc. —230.6 m. KGBZ York, Nebr. KLPM Minot, N. D. KSTP St. Paul, Minn. WABI Bangor, Me. KFI Los Angeles, Calif. 1000 w.—930 kc—322.4 m. 100 w.— 1420 kc—211.1 m. 10,000 w— 1460 kc—205.4 m. 100 w.—1200 kc—249.9 m. 5000 w.—640 kc—468.5 m. KGCI San Antonio, Texas KLRA Little Rock, Ark. KTAB ... .San Francisco, Calif. WABO- KFIF Portland, Ore. 100 w —1370 kc—218.8 m. 1000 w — 1390 kc—21 5.7m. 1000 w—560 kc—535.4 m. WHEC Rochester, N. Y. 100 w.—1420 kc—211.1 m. KGCR Watertown, S. D. KLS Oakland, Calif. KTAP San Antonio, Texas 500 w.—1440 kc—208.2 m. KFIO Spokane, Wash. 100 w —1210 kc—247.8 m. 250 w.—1440 kc—208.2 m. 100 w.—1420 kc—211.1 m. WABZ New Orleans, La. 100 w—1120 kc—267.7 m. KGCU Mandan, N. D. KLX Oakland, Calif. KTAR Phoeniz, Ariz. 100 w.—1200 kc—249.9 m. KFIZ Fond du Lac, Wis. 100 w.— 1200 kc—249.9 m. 500 w.—880 kc—340.7 m. 1000 w.—620 kc—483.6 m. WACO Waco, Texas 100 w—1420 kc—211.1 m. KGCX Wolf Point, Mont. KLZ Denver, Colo. KTAT Fort Worth, Texas 1000 w.— 1240 kc—241.8 m. KFJB .... Marshalltown, Iowa. 250 w.— 1310 kc—228.9 m. 1000 w.—560 kc—535.4 m. 1000 w.—1240 kc—241.8 m. WADC Tallmadge, Ohio 250 w.— 1200 kc—249.9 m. KGDA Mitchell. S.D. KMA Shenandoah, Iowa KTBI Los Angeles, Calif. 1000 w.—1320 kc—227.1 m. 218.8 1000 w.—930 322.4 m. 1000 w.—1300 230.6 WAIU Columbus, . Okla. 100 — 1370 m. kc— kc— m. KFJF. . Oklahoma City, w kc— Ohio

. w. kc. 5000 w— 1480 kc—202.6 m. KGDE. . .Fergus Falls, Minn. KMBC Kansas City, Mo. KTBR Portland, Ore. 500 —640 —468.5 m. KFJI Astoria, Ore. 250 w.— 1200 kc—249.9 m. 1000 w.—950 kc—315.6 m. 500 w.—1300 kc—230.6 m. WALR Zanesville, Ohio 100 w.—1370 kc—218.8 m. KGDM Stockton, Calif. KMIC Inglewood, Calif. KTBS Shreveport, La. 100 w.— 1210 kc—247.8 m. KFJM Grand Forks, N. D. 250 w.— 1100 kc—272.6 m. 500 w.— 1120 kc—267.7 m. 1000 w.—1450 kc—206.8 m. WAPI Birmingham, Ala. 100 w— 1370 kc—218.8 m. KGEF Los Angeles, Calif. KMJ Fresno, Calif. KTHS.. .Hot Springs National 5000 w.—1140 kc—263.7 m. KFJR Portland, Ore. 1000 w — 1300 kc—230.6 m. 100 w — 1210 kc—247.8 m. Park, Ark. WASH. .. Grand Rapids, Mich.

. . 500 w.—1300 kc. —230.6 m. KGER Long Beach, Calif. KMMJ . .Clay Center. Nebr. 10,000 w.—1040 kc—288.3 m. 500 w.— 1270 kc—236.1 m. KFJY Fort Dodge, Iowa. 1000 w.— 1360 kc—220.4 m. 1000 w.—740 kc—405.2 m. KTLC Houston. Texas WBAA W. Lafayette; Ind. 100 w.— 1310 kc. —228.9 m. KGEW . .Fort Morgan. Colo. KMO Tacoma, Wash. 100 w —1310 kc—228.9 m. 500 w.— 1400 kc—214.2 m. KFJZ Fort Worth, Texas 100 w.—1200 kc—249.9 m. 500 w.—860 kc—348.6 m. KTM Los Angeles. Calif. WBAK Harrisburg, Pa. 100 w — 1370 kc—218.8 m. KGEZ Kalispell, Mont. KMOX St. Louis, Mo. 1000 w.—780 kc—384.4 m. 1000 w.—1430 kc—209.7 m. KFKA Greelev, Colo. 100 w— 1310 kc—228.9 m. 5000 w.— 1090 kc—275.1 m. KTNT Muscatine. Iowa WBAL Baltimore, Md. 1000 w.—880 kc—340.7 m. KGFF Alva. Okla. KMPC .... Beverly Hills. Calif. 5000 w.— 1170 kc—256.3 m. 1000 w.— 1060 kc—282.8 m. KFKB Milford, Kans. 100 w.—1420 kc—211.1 m. 500 w.— 710 kc—422.3 m. KTRH Houston, Texas WBAP Fort Worth, Texas w. 5000 w— 1050 kc—285.5 m. KGFG . . Oklahoma City, Okla. KMTR Los Angeles, Calif. 500 w.— 1120 kc—267.7 m. 10,000 —800 kc. —374.8 m. KFKU Lawrence, Kans. 100 w.— 1370 kc—218.8 m. 500 w.—570 kc—526 m. KTSA San Antonio, Texas WBAX Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 2000 1290 1210 . 232.6 100 1000 w.—1220 kc. —245.8 m. KGFI. . Corpus Christi, Texas KNX Hollywood. Calif. w.— kc— m. w.— kc—247.8 m. KFKX Chicago, 111. 100 w—1500 kc—199.9 m. 5000 w.— 1050 kc—285.5 m. KTSL Shreveport, La. WBBC Brooklyn, N. Y. 10,000 w.— 1020 kc—293.9 m. KGFJ Los Angeles. Calif. KOA Denver. Colo. 100 w.—1310 kc—228.9 m. 500 w.— 1400 kc—214.2 m. KFLV Rockford, 111. 100 w.—1200 kc—249.9 m. 12.500 w.—830 kc—361.2 m. KTSM El Paso, Texas WBBL Richmond, Va. 500 w —1410 kc—212.6 m. KGFW Ravenna. Nebr. KOAC Corvallis, Ore. 100 w.—1310 kc—228.9 m. 100 w— 1210 kc—247.8 m. KFLX Galveston, Texas. 100 w.— 1310 kc—228.9 m. 1000 w.—550 kc—545.1 m. KTUE...... Houston, Texas WBBM Chicago, 111. 100 w— 1370 kc—218.8 m. KGFX Pierre, S. D. KOB State College. N. M. 100 w —1420 kc—211.1 m. 25,000 w.—770 kc—389.4 m. KFMX Northfield, Minn. 200 w.—580 kc. —516.9 m. 20,000 w.— 1180 kc—254.1 m. KTW Seattle, Wash. WBBR Brooklyn, N. Y. 1000 1270 236.1 1000 1300 1000 w.— 1250 kc—239.9 m. KGGC . . . San Francisco. Calif. KOCW Chickasha, Okla. w.— kc— m. w.— kc—230.6 m. 211.1 m. 500 1400 214.2 m. Longview, Wash. WBBZ Ponca City, Okla. KFNF. . . . . Shenandoah, Iowa 100 w.— 1420 kc— w— kc— KUJ 1000 w.—890 kc—336.9 m. KGGF.South Coffeyville, Okla. KOH Reno. Nev. 100 w.—1500 kc—199.9 m. 100 w.— 1200 kc—249.9 m. KFOR Lincoln, Nebr. 500 w.— 1010 kc—296.9 m. 100 w—1370 kc—218.8 m. KUOA Favetteville, Ark. WBEN Buffalo, N Y. 1000 1390 1000 900 333.1 250 w.— 1210 kc—247.8 m. KGGM. . .Albuquerque. N. M. KOIL .... Council Bluffs. Iowa w.— kc—215.7 m. w— kc— m. KFOX Long Beach, Calif. 500 w.—1230 kc—243.8 m. 1000 w — 1260 kc—238 m. KUSD Vermillion. S. D. WBCM Bay City, Mich. 1000 w — 1250 kc—239.9 m. KGHF Pueblo, Colo. KOIN Portland. Ore. 750 w —890 kc—336.9 m. 500, w.— 1410 kc—212.6 m. KFPL Dublin, Texas 500 vv.— 1320 kc—227.1 m. 1000 w.—940 kc—319 m. KUT Austin, Texas WBIS Quincy, Mass. 100 w.— 1310 kc— 228.9 m. KGHI Little Rock, Ark. KOL Seattle. Wash. 100 w.— 1500 kc—199.9 m. 1000 w — 1230 kc—243.8 m. KFPY Spokane, Wash. 100 w—1200 kc—249.9 m. 1000 w — 1270 kc—236.1 m. KVI Tacoma, Wash. WBMS.\. . .Hackensack, N. J. 1000 w.— 1340 kc—223.7 m. Seattle, 1000 w.—760 kc—394.5 m. 250 w—1450 kc—206.8 m. KGHL Billings, Mont. KOMO Wash. ' : Seattle, Wash. New York, N. Y. KFQD Anchorage, Alaska. 500 w.—950 kc—315.6 m. 1000 w.—920 kc. —325.9 m. KVL WBNY 100 1230 kc—243.8 m. 100 w —1370 kc.—218.8 m. 250 w— 1350 kc—222.1 m. w— KGIQ Twin Falls, Idaho KONO .... San Antonio, Texas KFQU...... Holy City, Calif. KVOA Tucson, Ariz. WBOQ New York, N. Y. 250 w —1320 kc—227.1 m. 100 w.— 1370 kc—218.8 m. 100 w— 1420 kc—211.1 m. 500 w.—1260 kc—238 m. 50,000 w—860 kc—348.6 m. Butte, Mont. Marshfield, Ore. KFQW Seattle, Wash. KGIR KOOS KVOO Tulsa, Okla. WBOW Terre Haute. Ind. 100 1370 218.8 m. 100 w.— 1420 kc—211.1 m. 500 w—1360 kc—220.4 m. w— kc— 5000 w.— 1140 kc—263 m. 100 w— 1310 kc—228.9 m. Trinidad, Colo. KORE Eugene, Ore. Bellingham, Birmingham. Ala. KFRC. . . .San Francisco, Calif. KGIW KVOS Wash. WBRC 1000 w.—610 kc. —491.9 m. 100 w— 1420 kc—211.1 m. 100 w.— 1420 kc—211.1 m. 100 w.— 1200 kc—249.9 m. 1000 w—930 kc—322.4 m. Pa. KFRU Columbia, Mo. KG IX Las Vegas, Nev. KOY Phoenix, Ariz. KWCR. . . Cedar Rapids. Iowa WBRE Wilkes-Barre. 500 w.—630 kc—475.9 m. 100 w— 1420 kc—211.1 m. 500 w.— 1390 kc—215.7 m. 100 w.— 1310 kc— 228.9 m. 100 w.— 1310 kc—228.9 m. KFSD San Diego, Calif. KGJF Little Rock. Ark. KFCB Seattle. Wash. KWEA Shreveport, La. WBSO . . Wellesley Hills, Mass. 1000 w—600 kc—499.7 m. 250 w.—890 kc—336.9 m. 100 w.—650 kc—421.3 m. 100 w.—1210 kc—247.8 m. 250 w—920 kc—325.9 m. .. .

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Petersburg. Va. WOKO. . . Poughkeepsie. N. Y. WBT Charlotte, N. C. WEEI Boston, Mass. WHK Cleveland, Ohio WLBG 249.9 m. 500 v . — 1440 kc—208.2 m. 5000 — 1080 277.6 m. 1000 w.—590 kc—508.2 m. 1000 w.— 1390 kc—215 m. 250 w.— 1200 kc— w kc— WOI Washington. D. C. WBTM Danville, Va. WEHC Emory, Va. WHN New York, N. Y. WLBL Stevens Pt.. Wis. 2000 900 kc. 333.1 m. 100 1.-1310 kc—228.9 m. 100 w.— 1370 kc—218.8 m. 250 w —1200 kc—249.9 m. 250 w— 1010 kc—296.9 m. w.— — la. Oil City, Pa. WOMT Manitowoc. Wis. WBZ Springfield, Mass. WEHS Evanston, 111. WHO Des Moines, WLBW 1000 w.— 1260 238 m. 100 w.— 1210 kc—247.8 m. 15,000 w.—990 kc—302.8 m. 100 w.—1420 kc—211.1 m. 5000 w— 1000 kc—299.8 m. kc— N. Y. WOOD. . .Grand Rapids, Mich. WBZA Boston, Mass. WELK Philadelphia. Pa. WHOM Jersey City, N. J. WLBX L. I. City, 100 w.— 1500 199.9 m. 500 v. .—1270 kc—236.1 m. 500 w.—990 kc—302.8 m. 250 w.— 1370 kc—218.8 m. 250 w.— 1450 kc—206.8 m. kc— Pa. Bangor, Maine WOIT Bristol. 'J WCAC Storrs, Conn. WEMC. Berrien Springs, Mich. WHP Harrisburg, WLBZ 500 620 483.6 m. 100 w.— 1500 kc— 199.9 m. 250 w.—600 kc—500 m. 1000 w.—590 kc—508.2 m. 500 w.— 1430 kc—209.7 m. w.— kc— Iowa WLEX Lexington, Mass. WOO Kansas City. Mo. WCAD Canton, N.Y. WENR Chicago, 111. WIAS Ottumwa, 500 1410 212.6 m. 1000 v. .—1300 kc—230.6 m. 500 w.— 1220 kc—245.8 m. 50,000 w—870 kc—344.5 m. 100 w.— 1420 kc—211.1 m. w.— kc— Lexington, Mass. Xewark, X . 1 WCAE Pittsburgh, Pa. WEPS Auburn, Mass. WIBA Madison, Wis. WLEY WOR 250 1370 218.8 m. 5000 w.- 710 kc—422.3 m. 1000 w.— 1220 kc—245.8 m. 100 w.—1200 kc—249.9 m. 100 w.— 1210 kc—234.2 m. w.— kc— WCAH Columbus, Ohio WEVD New York Citv WIBM Jackson, Mich. WLIB Elgin. 111. WOR' Worcester, Ma . 25,000 720 416.4 m. 100 w. 1200 249.9 m. 500 w.— 1430 kc—209.7 m. 500 w.— 1300 kc—230.6 m. 100 w.— 1370 kc—218.8 m. w.— kc— — kc— Chicago, 11!. Lincoln, Nebr. WEW St. Louis, Mo. WIBO Chicago, 111. WLIT Philadelphia, Pa. WORD WCAJ 5000 v..— 1490 201.2 m. 500 w.—590 kc—508.2 m. 1000 w.—760 kc—394.5 m. 1500 w.—560 kc—535.7 m. 500 w. —560 kc—235.4 m. kc— Mass. WOS Jefferson City. Mo. WCAL Northfield, Minn. WFAA Dallas, Texas WIBU Poynette, Wis. WLOE Boston, 1500 500 w. 630 kc 475.9 m. 1000 w.—1250 kc—239.9 m. 50,000 w.—800 kc—374.8 m. 100 w— 1310 kc. —228.9 m. 100 w.— kc— 199.9 m. — — Topeka, Kansas WLS Chicago, 111. WOV New York City WCAM Camden. N. J. WFAN Philadelphia. Pa. WIBW m. 5000 w.—870 344.6 m. 1C00 w — 1130 kc— 265.3 m. 500 w— 1280 kc. —234.2 m. 500 w.—610 kc—491.5 m. 1000 w.—580 kc—516.9 kc— Utica, N. Y. WLSI Cranston,. R. I. WOW Omaha, Xebi ' .Baltimore, Md. WFBE Cincinnati, Ohio WIBX WCAO 1000 w.—590 508.2 m. 250 w.—600 kc—499.7 m. 250 w.— 1200 kc—249.9 m. 300 w.—1200 kc—249.9 m. 100 w.— 1210 kc—247.8 m. kc— Bridgeport, Conn. WLTH Brooklyn, N. Y. WOWO Ft. Wayne, Ind. WCAP Asbury Park, N. J. WFBG Altoona, Pa. WICC 10,000 w.— 1 160 258.5 m. 500 w — 1280 kc—234.2 m. 100 w.—1310 kc—228.9 m. 500 w.—1190 kc—252 m. 500 w.—1400 kc—214 m. kc— Mo. Lynchburg, Va. Paducah. Ky. WCAT Rapid City, S. D. WFBL Syracuse, N. Y. WIL St. Louis, WLYA WPAD 100 w — 1420 211.1 m. 100 w.—1200 kc—249.9 m. 1000 w.—1360 kc—220.4 m. 250 w.—1200 kc—249.9 m. 100 w.— 1370 kc—218.8 m. kc— WCAU Philadelphia. Pa. WFBM Indianapolis, Ind. WILL Urbana, 111. WLW Cincinnati, O. WPAP Cliffside, X. J. 250 w.— 1010 266.9 10,000 w.— 1170 kc—256.3 m. 1000 w.—1230 kc—243.8 m. 500 w.—890 kc—336.9 m. 50,000 w.—700 kc—428.3 m. kc— m. Pawtucket, I. WCAX Burlington, Vt. WFBR Baltimore. Md. WILM Wilmington, Del. WLWL New York Citv WPAW R. 5000 1100 272.6 100 w.— 1210 kc—247.8 m. 100 w.—1200 kc—249.9 m. 250 w.—1270 kc—236.1 m. 100 w —1420 kc—211.1 m. w.— kc— m. Chicago, II!. Allentown, Pa. WFDF Flint, Mich. WIOD Miami Beach, Fla. WMAC Cazenovia, N. Y. WPCC WCBA 500 w. 560 535 m. 250 w — 1440 kc—208.2 m. 100 w— 1310 kc—228.9 m. 1000 w.—1300 kc.—230.6 m. 250 w.—570 kc—526 m. — kc— Philadelphia, Pa. Dartmouth, Mass. WPCH Xew York Citv Zion, 111. WFDV Rome, Ga. WIP WMAF..S. WCBD 500 v.—810 370.2 m. 5000 w.— 1080 kc—277.6 m. 100 w.—1370 kc—218.8 m. 500 w.—610 kc—491.5 m. 500 w.— 1410 kc—212.6 m. kc— S. C. Buffalo, N. Y. Philadelphia. Pa. WCBM Baltimore, Md. WFDW Talladega, Ala. WIS Columbia, WMAK WPEX 296.9 m. 1000 1040 288.3 m. 250 v.— 1500 kc— 199.9 m. 100 w—1370 kc—218.8 m. 100 w.—1420 kc—211.1 m. 1000 w.— 1010 kc— w.— kc— Madison, Wis. . . .Washington, D. C. WPG Atlantic City. N. WCBS Springfield, 111. WFI Philadelphia, Pa. WISJ WMAL. J. 475.9 5000 w.— 1100 272.6 m. 100 w.—1210 kc—247.8 m. 500 w.—560 kc—535.4 m. 1000 w.—780 kc—384.42m. 500 w.—630 kc— m. kc— 111. Patchogue. Y. Minneapolis, Minn. WFIW Hopkinsville, WISN Milwaukee, Wis. WMAQ Chicago, WPOE N. WCCO .... Ky. 1370 7500 810 370.2 m. 1000 w —940 kc—319 m. 250 w.—1120 kc—267.7 m. 5000 w.—670 kc—447.5 m. 100 w.— kc—218.8 m. w.— kc— Va. WCDA New York Citv WFJC Akron, Ohio WJAC Johnstown, Pa. WMAY St. Louis, Mo. WPOR Norfolk, 228.4 m. 250 w.—1200 249.9 m. 500 w.— 780 kc—384.4 m. 250 w.— 1350 kc.—222.1 m. 500 w.— 1450 kc—206.8 m. 100 w—1310 kc— kc— Norfolk, Nebr. AZ Macon, Ga. WPSC State College, Pa. WCFL Chicago, 111. WFLA Clearwater, Fla. WJAG WM kc. 500 1236 243.8 m. 1500 w.—970 kc—301.9 m. 2500 w.—620 kc—483.6 m. 1000 w.— 1060 kc'.—282.8 m. 500 w—890 —336.9 m. w— kc— Providence, R. I. Newport, R. I. WPTF Raleigh. X. C. WCGU Brooklyn, N. Y. WGAL Lancaster, Pa. WJAR WMBA 1500 kc. 199.9 m. 1000 w. 680 kc—440.9 m. 500 w.— 1400 kc—214.2 m. 100 w.— 1310 kc—228.9 m. 400 w—890 kc.—336.9 m. 100 w.— — — Pa. Detroit, Mich. Miami. Fir WCKY Covington, Ky. WGBB Freeport, N. Y. WJAS Pittsburgh, WMBC WQAM 232.4 m. 250 1420 211.1 1000 w.—560 535.4 m. 5000 w.— 1490 kc—201.6 m. 100 w.—1210 kc—247.8 m. 1000 w.—1290 kc— w.— kc— m. kc— Fla. 111. Scranton, Pa. WCLB Long Beach, N. Y. WGBC Memphis, Tenn. WJAX Jacksonville, WMBD Peoria Hts., WQAX 333.1 1440 208.2 m. 250 w. 880 kc 340.7 m. 100 w.— 1500 kc—199.9 m. 500 w.—1430 kc—209.7 m. 1000 w.—900 kc. — m. 1000 w.— kc— — — Cleveland, Ohio Miami Beach, Fla. WQAO Palisade, N. WCLO Janesville, Wis. WGBF Evansville, Ind. WJAY WMBF J. 610 491.5 m. 1000 w.—1300 kc—230.6 m. 250 w.— 1010 kc—296.9 m. 100 w.—1200 kc—249.9 m. 500 w.—630 kc—475.9 m. 500 w.— kc— Mt. Prospect, 111. Richmond, Va. WUBC Vicksburg, Miss. WCLS Joliet, 111. WGBI Scranton, Pa. WJAZ WMBG 201.2 m. 100 1210 247.8 m. 300 v..— 1360 kc—220.4 m. 100 w.— 1310 kc—228.9 m. 250 w.—880 kc—340.7 m. 5000 w.—1490 kc— w.— kc— La .Salle, 111. Joplin, Mo. WQDY Tupelo, Miss. WCMA Culver, Ind. WGBS New York City WJBC WMBH 249.9 m. 250 1420 211.1 m. 100 v.-.- 1500 199.9 m. 500 w.—1400 kc—214.2 m. 500 w.—600 kc—499.7 m. 100 w.— 1200 kc— w— kc— kc— Red Bank, N. WMB.I Chicago, 111. WRAF LaPorte. Ind. WCOA Pensacola, Fla. WGCM Gulfport, Miss. WJBI J. 1210 247.8 m. 5000 1080 277.6 m. 100 w.— 1200 kc—249.9 m. 500 w.— 1340 kc—223.7 m. 100 w —1210 kc—247.8 m. 100 w— kc— w.— kc— Decatur, 111. Wilkinsburg, Pa. Philadelphia, Pa. WCOC Meridian, Miss. WGCP Newark. N. WJBL WMBJ WRAN J. m. 1020 293.9 kc. 340.7 m. 250 w — 1250 100 w.—1200 kc—249.9 100 w.—1500 kc— 199.9 m. 250 w.— kc— m. 1000 w.—880 — kc—239.9 m. T New Orleans, La. W MB0 Auburn, N. Y. WRBQ Greenville. Miss. WCOD Harrisburg, Pa. WGES Chicago, 111. WJBO 211.1 m. 100 1310 228.9 1C0 w.— 1210 kc. 247.8 m. 100 w.— 1200 kc—249.9 m. 1000 w.— 1360 kc—220.4 m. 100 w.— 1420 kc— w.— kc— m. — .Glenview, 111. Brooklyn, Y. Wilmington, C. WCOH Yonkers, N. Y. WGH Newport News, Va. WJBT-WBBM. WMBQ N. WRBT N. 770 389.4 m. 100 1500 199.9 m. 100 v.— 1370 kc—218.8 m. 100 w.—1210 kc.—2.7.8 m. 100 w.— 1310 kc—228.9 m. 25.000 w — kc— w— kc— Lewisburg, Pa. Tampa, Fla. WRBU Gastonia. N. C. WCRW Chicago, 111. WGL Fort Wayne. Ind. WJBU WMBR 1210 247.8 m. 100 1370 kc—218.8 m. 100 w.— 1210 kc—247.8 m. 100 w.— 1210 kc—247.8 m. 100 w —1370 kc—218.8 m. 100 w.— kc— w.— Jackson, Miss. Memphis, Tenn. Roanoke. Va. WCSC Charleston, S. C. WGMS St. Paul, Minn. WJDX WMC WRBN 1270 kc 236.1 m. 1000 780 384.4 m. 250 v..— 1410 kc— 212.6 m. 250 w.—1310 kc. — 228.9 m. 1000 w —1250 kc—239.9 m. 1000 w.— — w— kc— -Mooseheart, 111. W MCA...... New York City WRC Washington. D. C. WCSH Portland, Me. WGN Chicago, 111. WJJD 20,000 w. 1130 kc—265.3 m. 500 w.—570 kc—526 m. 500 w.- 950 kc—315.6 m. 1000 w.—940 kc—319 m. 25,000 w.—720 kc—416,4 m. — Gary, Ind. . .Fairmont, W. Va. Augusta, Maine WCSO Springfield, Ohio WGR Buffalo, N. Y. WJKS WMMN.. WRDO 1360 220.4 m. 500 890 336.9 m. 100 w.— 1370 218.8 m. 500 w — 1450 kc—206.8 m. 1000 w.—550 kc—545.1 1250 w — kc— w.— kc— kc— m. Detroit, Mich. Lapeer, Mich. Augusta, Ga. WDAE Tampa, Fla. WGST Atlanta, Ga. WJR WMPC WRDW 5000 750 kc—399.8 m. 100 w.— 1500 kc— 199.9 m. 100 v.:— 1500 kc— 199.9 m. 1000 w.— 1220 kc—245.8 m. 500 w.—890 kc. 356.9 m. w— — Alexandria, Va. New York, N. Y. Memphis. Tenn. WDAF Kansas City, Mo. WGY Schenectadv, N. Y. WJSV WMSG WREC w. 1460 kc. 205.4 m. 250 w.—1350 kc—222.1 m. 1000 w. hOO kc 499.7 m. 1000 w.—610 kc—491.5 m. 50,000 w—790 kc—379.5 m. 10.000 — — — — Mansfield, Ohio Waterloo, Iowa Lawrence. Kans. WDAG Amarillo, Texas WHA Madison, Wis. WJW WMT WREN 100 1210 kc. 247.8 m. 500 w.—600 kc. 499.7 m. 1000 1220 kc—245.8 m. 250 w.—1410 kc—212.6 m. 750 w.—940 kc. —319 m. w.— — — w— New York City Boston, Mass. . Minneapolis, Minn WDAH El Paso, Texas WHAD Milwaukee, Wis. WJZ WNAC WRHM 30,000 760 kc—394.5 m. 1000 w.—1230 kc—243.8 m. 1000 v.— 1250 kc—239.9 m. 100 w.— 1310 kc—228.9 m. 250 w.— 1120 kc—267.7 m. w.— San Juan, P. R. Norman, Okla. WR1X Racine, Wis. WDAY Fargo, N. D. WHAM Rochester, N. Y. WKAG WNAD 500 w. 890 kc. 336.9 m. 500 w.— 1010 kc—269.9 m. 100 w.—1370 kc—218.8 m. 1000 w.—940 kc—319 m. 5000 w.— 1150 kc—260.7 m. — — E. Lansing, Mich. WNAX Yankton, S. Dak. WRXY Xew York Cit WDB J Roanoke, Va. WHAP New York City WKAR 1000 w. 1040 kc—288.3 m. 1000 w —570 kc—526 m. 250 w.— 1010 kc—296.9 m. 500 w.—930 kc—322.4 m. 1000 w.—1300 kc—230.6 m. — Laconia, N. H. WNBF. .. . Binghamton. N. Y. WRR Dallas. Tex.^ WDBO Orlando, Fla. WHAS Louisville, Ky. WKAV 100 w.— 1310 kc—228.9 m. 100 w— 1500 kc— 199.9 m. 500 w.— 1280 kc—234.2 m. 1000 w.— 1 120 kc—267.7 m. 10,000 w.—820 kc—365.6 m. Joliet,. 111. ..Xew Bedford, Mass. WRVF Gainesville, Fla. WDEL Wilmington, Del. WHAT Philadelphia, Pa. WKBB WXBH 100 w.—1310 kc—228.9 m. 10t> w.- 1310 kc—228.9 m. 5000 w.— 830 kc—361.2 m. 350 w.— 1120 kc— 267.7 m. 100 w.—1310 kc—228.9 m. Birmingham, Ala. WNBO Silver Haven. Pa. WRVA Richmond. Va. WDGY Minneapolis, Minn. WHAZ Troy, N. Y. WKBC 100 w.—1310 kc—228.9 m. 100 w.— 1200 kc—249.9 m. 5000 w.- 1110 kc—270.1 m. 1000 w.— 1180 kc—254.1 m. 500 w.— 1300 kc—230.6 m. WKBF Indianapolis, Ind. WNBR Memphis, Tenn. WSAI Cincinnati. 01 io WDOD. . .Chattanooga, Tenn. WHB Kansas City, Mo. 500 w. 1400 kc. 214.2 m. 500 w.— 1430 kc—209.7 m. 500 w— 1330 kc—225.4 m. 2500 w. —1280 kc. —234. 2 m. 500 w.—860 kc—348.6 m. — — La Crosse, Wis. Newark. N. T. WSAI. Grove Citv. Pa. WDRC Hartford, Conn. WHBD Mt. Orab. Ohio WKBII WNI 1000 w. 1380 kc—217.3 in. 250 w.— 1450 kc—206.8 m. 100 w. 1310 kc—228.9 m. 500 w.—1330 kc—226 m. 100 w —1370 kc—218.8 — — m. WKBN Youngstown, Ohio WNOX Knoxville, Tenn. WSAN Allentown, Pa. WDSU New Orleans, La. WHBF Rock Island, 111. 500 w.—570 kc—526 m. 2000 w. —560 kc—535.4 m. 250 w.— 1440 kc— 208.2 m. 1000 w.— 1250 kc—239.9 m. 100 w.— 1210 kc— 247.8 m. WKBC Jersev Citv, N. J. WNRC Gn-ensboro. N. C. WSAR Fall River. M. WDWF Providence, R. I. WHBL Shebovgan, Wis. 250 w. 1450 kc—206.8 m. 500 W. 1440 kc -208.2 in. 250 w.- 1450 kc— 206.8 ni. 100 w — 1210 kc—247.8 m: 500 w.- -1410 kc—212.6 m. — — WKB0 New York. N. Y. WNYC New York. X. Y. WSAZ . Huntington, W. V WDZ Tuscola, 111. WHBQ Memphis, Tenn. 250 \\\— 1350 kc—222.1 ni. SIX) v.v 57(1 kc- 526 m. 250 w.- 580 kc—516.9 m. 100 w.— 1070 kc—280.2 in. 100 w.—1370 kc—218.8 m. WKBS Galesburg. 111. WOAI San Antonio, Tex. WSB Atlanta. G . WEAF New York, N. Y. WHBU Anderson, Ind. 100 w.— 1310 kc- 228.9 m. 5000 w. 1 loo kc- J52 ni. 5000 w. 740 kc -405.2 m. 50.000 w —660 kc— 454.3 m. 100 w — 1210 kc— 247.8 m. 1 WKBV Connersviile, Ind. WGAN. . .Whitehaven, Tenn. WSHC Chicag.. |. Ithaca, WEAI N. Y. WHBY Green Bav, Wis. 150 v.. —1500 kc— 199.9 m. 1000 w.- 000 kc- 499.7 nt. 100 w. 1210 kc. 247.8 m. 1000 w. 1270 kc—236.1 in. 1200 kc 1- 100 w.- -249.9 . — m. WKBW Buffalo. X. Y. WGAN Trenton, X. |. YVI-B I. South Bend. I

WEAN Providence, R. I. WHDF Calumet, Mich. 5000 w— 1480 kc—202.0 m. 500 w. 1280 kc—234.2 ni. 500 v . 1230 kc 243.8 in. x 500 w —780 kc—384.4 m. 250 w.— 1370 kc—218.8 m. WKJC Lancaster. Pa. WOBT Union Citv. Tenn. WSDA . . Brooklvn. X. WEAO Columbus, Ohio WHDH Boston. Mass. 100 "w.— 1200 Uc 249.9 in. 250 w. 1310 kc—228.9 m. 5(H) w . 1400 ki . 214.2 in. 750 w.—570 kc—526 m. 1000 w —830 kc—361.2 m. WKRC Cincinnati, Ohio WOBl'. . . .Charleston. W. Va. WSEX Columb.: 1000 w.—550 kc—545.1 in. 250 \\. 580 kc 516.9 in. 100 w.- 1210 kc— WEBC Superior, Wis. WHDI. .. .Minneapolis. Minn. WKY. ..Oklahoma Citv. Okla. wee Davenport, Iowa WSl'A M< ntgomery, Ala. 2500 w.— 1290 kc—232.4 m. 500 w— 1180 kc— 254.1 in. 1000 w. -0(H) Kc- 333.1 in. 5000 w. 1000 kc 290.8 m. 500 w. 1410 ki . 212.6 m. WEBQ Harrisburg, 111. WHEC Rochester, N. Y. YVI.AC Nashville. Tin,. WoiiA Paterson, X. I. WSGH. Brooklyn, X. V*. 100 w— 1210 kc—247. 8 m. 500 w.— 1440 kc—208.2 m. 5000 w.—1470 kc- 204 in. 1000 w. 1250 kc—239.9 m. 500 " 14(H) kc — 214.2 m. WEBR Buffalo. N. Y. WHFC Cicero. 111. WLU . ..Minneapolis, Minn. WODN Mobile. Ala. WSIX . . Springfield. Tenn. 200 w.— 1310 kc—228.9 m. 100 w.— 1420 kc—211.1 ni. 1000 \\. 1250 kc 239.9 m. 500 w. 1410 kc 214.2 m. 100 w. 1210 kc -247.8 m. DC Chicago, 111. WE WHIS Blucfield, W. Va. WLHF. . . . Kansas Citv. [Cans, Will Ames, Iowa WSJS W Sal i, N. C. 100 w.— 1210 kc—247.8 m. 100 w.— 1420 kc—211.1 m. 100 w.— 1420 kc— 211.1 m. 5000 u.—o40 kc—J65.8 m. lOO'w.— 1310 kc—228.9 n>. 90

WSM Nashville, Tenn. CJGX, Yorkton, Sask., 476.2m, CNRA, Moncton, N. B., XEB Mexico, D. F. 5000 w.—650 kc—461.3 m. Canada 629.9kc, 500w. 476.2m, 629.9kc, 500w. 1000 w.—450 m.—895 kc CJHS, Saskatoon, Sask., CNRD, Red Deer, Alta., XEC Toluca, Mexico WSMB New Orleans, La. CFAC-CNRC. Calgary, Alta., 329.7m, 910kc, 250w. 357.7m, 840kc, w. 50 225 1333 kc. 500 w.— 1320 kc.—227.1 m. 434.8m, 690kc, 500w. w— m— CJOC, Lethbridge, Alta., CNRO, Ottawa, Ont., 500m. XED Reynosa, Tamps. WSMK Dayton, Ohio CFBO, St. John. N. B., 337.1m. 267.9m, 1120kc, 50w. 599.6kc, 500w. 2000 312.3 960.6 kc 200 w — 1380 kc—217.3 m. 889.9kc. 50w. w— m— CJOR, Sea Island, B. C, CNRV, Vancouver, B. C, XEE Linares, N. L. Spartanburg, S. C. CFCA - CKOW - CNRT, To- WSPA 291.3m, 1030kc, 50w. 291.3m, 1038kc, 500w. 10 300 m.—1000 kc. ronto, Ont., 357.1m, 840kc, w— 250 w.— 1420 kc—211.1 m. CJRM, Moose Jaw, Sask., XEF Oaxaca, Oax. 500w. WSPD Toledo, Ohio 500m, 599.6kc, 500w. 105 w.—265 m.—1132 kc. 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C, CMC, Havana, 357m, 840kc, 1000. 500 780 384.4 m. King, Co. 729.9kc, 50w. w— kc— CFRB-CJBC, York 411m, 500w. XER Mexico, D. F. Ont., 312.5m, 960kc, 4000w. WTAW. . College Station, Tex. CKIC, Wolfville, N. S., CMCA, Havana, 264m, 1136kc, 101 w—280 m—1071 kc. 500 w— 1120 kc—267.7 m. CFRC. Kingston, Ont., 267.9m, 322.6m, 930kc, 50w. lOOw. XES Tampico, Tamps. WTBO Cumberland, Md. 1120kc, 500w. CKGW, Bowmanville, Ont., CMCB, Havana, 315m, 952kc, 500 w.—337 m—980 kc 100 w — 1420 kc—211.1 m. CHCK, Charlottetown, P. E. 434.8m, 690kc, 5000w. 150w. XET Monterrey. N. L. I., 312.5m, 960kc, 30w. 273m, WTFI Toccoa, Ga. CKLC - CHCT, Red Deer, CMCE, Havana, 500 w.—336.9 m.—890.4 kc. CHGS, Summerside, P. E. I., 1098.7kc, lOOw. 500 w— 1450 kc—206.8 m. Alta, 357.1m, 840kc lOOOw. XEU Veracruz, Ver. 267.9m, 1120kc, 25w. CMCF, Havana, 466m, 101 375 WTIC Hartford, Conn. CKMC, Cobalt, Ont., 247.9m, w— m—800 kc. CHMA, Edmonton, Alta.. 643. 7kc, 250w. 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packed up and come to Nevada to see if I alone, like a good girl. (Back to the old returning. He 'peared all excited." couldn't find me a marsh of this stuff. Ranger and the bride.) ROSIE: (Calls) Hoo-oo—Hoo'oo.

AARON: Did ye find any? (Faint answering call from Aaron, i very next day, the minute ROSIE: Oh, I wonder ... I wonder. JOE: I saw plenty . . . but none that "TTTELL, somebody else hadn't located first. I VV the stranger had left in the morn- AARON: (Calls) Hello there, Rosie?

saw it rising in price, too, and the market in', Aaron Winters unfolded his plan to You all right? all for it gettin' bigger an' bigger . . . but as Rosie. He'd been lyin' awake night ROSIE: Yes. You ... you got it,

usual, I'd jest missed out. . . . too excited to sleep . . . but afraid Aaron? AARON: Well, that's a queer thing. even to whisper the news of his hopes to AARON: (Coming closer) You bet. Strange stuff with a name like borax. his wife. He knew Death Valley by heart, Loaded as much as I could on the burro.

What's it good for? an' he'd seen heaps of stuff lyin' around in ROSIE: Oh . . . Aaron! JOE: It's got so many uses, I AARON: I found a heap of I don't know hardly where to be- the stuff layin* around. But I gin. They use it in makin' drugs, dunno if it*s worth anythin". I an' china, an' glassware. An' been trampin" over it for years.

they're jest beginnin' to discover ROSIE: Let me see it.

it's useful around a house too. It AARON: Look. Rosie. Did helps women folks get their clothes you ever see a cotton ball as big and dishes cleaned an' shinier. It as that before? Makes them Teels makes water soft. It helps starch Marsh cotton balls the stranger

clothes. It drives away bugs . . . showed us look like pinheads.

I dunno . . . 'pears like it keeps ROSIE: Did you stake, Aaron? every thing it touches sweet an' AARON: Not yet. We got to clean. burn it first before we know for AARON: Ain't nothin' invented sure it's borax.

has so many uses as that. Sounds ROSIE: The chemicals . . . like jest another o' them sucker's quick. yarns to me. AARON: Not yet. Rosie. It ain't JOE : No, you're wrong there. dark enough. We can't make AARON: What's it look like? the test till the sun goes down. JOE: I got a little package of it ROSIE: Oh, will it never sink? here in my saddle bag. I'll show AARON: Don't get your hopes

it to you. And this other is what up too high, honey. We been dis-

it looks like when they find it. appointed before now. you know.

Sometimes like this, in crystals ROSIE: Yes . . . perhaps it

... an' sometimes like this . . . would be better for us if the sun

cotton balls they call 'em. never sank this evening . . . but

AARON: Hm . . . why, that hung, just as it is now low over looks jest like salt crystals an' the mountains. alkali rock you see lyin' round AARON: Rosie. you talk like loose. you was in a dream. You got a JOE: Well, the feller that sees faraway look in your eyes. too. any of this stuff layin' around ROSIE: I was wondering how loose has got a fortune waitin' for a place that has been so dreadful him. I'm keepin' an eye peeled to man and is so full of terrors can

for it all the time . . . though be so beautiful, too. See ... all I reckon it ain't in the cards for those colors of gold, from the

me to find any. palest to ruddy copper . . . and AARON: Hm-mm. How can yet it is not like metal. Over

you tell when it's the real thing, there, it is like opal, like pearl . . . stranger? and there again like a creamy vel-

JOE: There's one test that vet. Living light . . . The valley never fails. See this little box? floor ... it is jade and turquoise Well, inside are some chemicals. and rose quartz. Those tremen- John White, who acts as the "lonesome cowboy" singer. You mix 'em together and pour dous mountains . . . see how the 'em over a piece of the stuff you've old sun is wrapping them now in

gathered. If it burns green it's borax. it that looked jest like the stuff that that robes of purple and crimson to hide their AARON: Hm-m-m. tramp prospector had showed him from terrors. This whole great valley is a lie.

ROSIE: Speaking of burning . . . the Nevada. In exchange for the hospitality li smiles and puts on a beautiful dress to

coffee has almost boiled away while you of the Winters the stranger left them some deceive . . . underneath is just a skele- two have been talking. of the precious chemicals. Then Aaron ton.

AARON : I dunno's I want any coffee, and Rosie went prospect in'. They pitched AARON: But tonight. Rosie, Death

anyway, Rosie. You and the stranger camp on Furnace Creek . . . this strange Valley is going to come to life for us.

here divide it. couple . . . the grizzled old prospector ROSIE: (Suddenly) Look. Aaron

ROSIE: No coffee? Why Aaron . . . and his frail pretty Spanish wife. And ... the sun's dropped behind the moun- don't you feel good. then Aaron started off with his burro to a tains. It's dark.

AARON: No, no. . . . I've got some- nearby marsh. Rosie waited for him. and AARON: Sure enough . . . black as thing on my mind. Rosic. Leave me jest shortly before sunset she seen him pitch, all of a sudden. Jest like those durn 92

mountains! They steal a march on you memorable night when Aaron and Rosie Shorter broadcasts will be encouraged in ' every time. Winters discovered Borax in Death VaU an effort to accommodate all who want

ROSIE: Aaron . . . where are the ley. to sponsor Radio. Of course, this does chemicals! Near the spot where they pitched their not mean that there will be no full-hour AARON: Right here. Now sit tight little camp, there is today a fine hotel. programs. Some of the larger orchestras

and keep quiet .... What did I do with . . . Furnace Creek Inn . . . probably and Symphonies require an hour to do that tin saucer? one of the most uniquely situated hotels justice to their musical presentations. in ROSIE : Here it is. the world. Here, in the midst of the AARON: Hold it steady, then, while desert, you now find all the comforts and

I put the cotton ball on it. luxuries of civilization . . . swimming I.N YEARS past there has ROSIE: I have it. pools, tennis courts, automobiles and sad- been much talk relative to mechanical mu- sic AARON: Now for the chemicals . . . dle horses. Yet the romantic atmosphere broadcasts, but the majority of higher

Don't let your hand tremble. Rosie. I of the early days still remains . . . power stations fought shy of the records. don't want to spill any of this solution. Travelers recapture thrills. And the However, in 1930, new electrical transcrip- ROSIE: It is your hand that trembles, magnificent and unique scenery continues tion devices were introduced improving Aaron. to cast its spell on all who venture that the quality of the presentations. This AARON: I'm afraid of losin' it, that's way. encouraged many of the smaller stations

all. Now. jest hold her tight . . . and Death Valley in October becomes a and a number of the more powerful to I'll pour the second solution over her. dreamy sunny climate, the home of In- test the possibilities of the records and Here goes. dian Summer, and until the middle of also the reaction of the public. A new ROSIE: Now light it, Aaron. May the weather remains ideal for out- field seems to be developing in this realm life. AARON : You light it. Rosie. door Furnace Creek Inn opens the of mechanical music, and, no doubt what

ROSIE: No, this is your discovery, 1st of November . . . for the winter the studio manager of a prominent New

Aaron. Set the flame to it with your own season. York-' station called "purely an experi- hand." Copyright 1930, by the Pacific Coast Borax Company. ment" will be further tested in 1931. So All rights re>eryed.

'AARON: Well . . . here she goes, far the public has registered ho complaint then: (Sound of striking match.) against electrical transcription. The new ---AARON: Wait a minute. That match "From A Toy To The year is likely to reveal much in this di- rection and if the entertainment is worth went out. Nation's - - ROSIE: Oh ... a bad omen. Joy" tuning in, progress will be made.

AARON: Nonsense . . . just a puff Announcer Ted Husing of WABC's (Continued from page 56) •of- wind. Better luck this time. Now. staff, since the first of 1930, has made {Strikes another match.) let on how to be beautiful. That is more than fifty-three excursions, trav- ' ROSIE: (Catching her breath) Ah- how the broadcast sponsor tests the size eling more than 22,000 miles to cover

h\ . . of his audience. If he gets 50,000 re- Radio events, a list of which reveal the -AARON: (In a low voice) The flame's quests he. feels satisfied that more than diversity found at the dial. The broad-

taking hold now. 100,000 were in tune because a small casts included j& football game on the ROSIE: (In a whisper) Look! percentage take the trouble to write. Pacific coast,- the Beaux Arts Ball in AARON: (With a great shout) Hey! But how many wrote to his Majesty New York, basketball games, an airplane She burns green! She burns green! King George V after his voice entered a broadcast with two-way conversation from

Rosie! By heaven, it's borax! . . . Rosie golden microphone in London, at the land to plane, the funeral of the late Pres- ... we're rich. opening of the Naval Arms Conference, ident William Howard Taft, arrival of ROSIE: We've made a strike at last, for rebroadcast in all parts of the world the S.S. Europa after a record-making Aaron. early one morning last January? That run across the Atlantic, a parade at Alex- "AARON: Borax in Death Valley!' was the first big broadcast in 1930, in andria, Va., boxing bouts, a Congressional Acres and acres of it! Death Valley's' fact, the most extensive ever attempted. spelling bee, an intercollegiate track meet going to yield its treasures at last. Oh, It was estimated that 100,000,000 were at Philadelphia, the Kentucky Derby, a

Rosie . . . thank God we stayed. within range of the monarch's plea for convention in Bermuda, the Shriners' con- (Back to the Ranger) peace on earth. The press throughout vention in Canada, return of the Byrd RANGER: And so it was, ma'am. the world heralded the broadcast as a Antarctic Expedition, intercollegiate re- that Aaron an' Rosie Winters discovered scientific achievement while millions of gattas, a marble championship contest,

borax in Death Valley . . . them same listeners boasted that a king had entered the Open Golf Tournament of the United magic crystals you got in that package their living rooms by. Radio. That was States, arrival of transatlantic fliers, there on your kitchen shelf today. on January 20, 1930. Had his Majesty championship tennis matches, interna- BRIDE: Oh, what a story! But I offered all listeners some sort of a sou- tional polo games. America's Cup Race want to hear the end. Did Rosie finally venir he would probably have a staff at between the Enterprise and the Shamrock, get the home of her dreams? work yet filing the requests. the World's Series and headliners of the RANGER: Yes ... the news about gridiron. Aaron's discovery spread like wild fire, And intermingled with all those events and he soon sold his claim for $20,000. A HERE has been a change were the world's most talented singers, BRIDE: So they left the old shack by in programs since 1930 dawned. Full music of famous bands and orchestras, Death Valley? hour and half-hour presentations were the speeches by men and women prominent RANGER: Yes, they moved up to vogue. But as the year progressed, the in public life here and abroad. Rebroad- Pahrump Oasis in Nevada, where they fifteen-minute sketch, notably Amos V casts by noted men and women actuating bought a ranch an' settled down to enjoy Andy. Uncle Abe and David, and several a microphone in London have been heard

. in from their riches. . . An' one of the riches others have won national popularity. To- regularly and clearly America an' comforts Rosie enjoyed most was day there are more sketches on the air coast-to-coast. borax itself. and fewer one-hour presentations, while The year 1930 is noted for its achieve- (Signature—the bugle call as at the be- numerous half-hour broadcasts have been ments in Radio. A survey of the pro- ginning. Repeated fainter and fainter cut to fifteen minutes. When business grams reveal the value of the investment

until it finally dies away in the distance prosperity returns it is doubtful if the made in a Radio set. It pays a hand- altogether.) former popularity of the one-hour pro- some dividend in the form of education Closing announcement: gram will return, because then there will and entertainment for the entire family, Fifty years have passed since that be a greater demand for time on the air. from early morning until late at night. a

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Steele Jamison, concert and operatic Happy New Year tenor, on the other hand, will specialize on grand opera arias and stress the dra- matic spirit of those. "I hope 1931 sees (Continued from page 24) a renaissance of grand opera on the air,' Jamison added. Harold Sanford, for years Herbert's like it as well as they've been liking it." Judge Whipple of Real Folks and closest friend and now considered the Phil Spitalny, who deserted New York Cap'n Norton of Lights— world's foremost Herbert conductor, fol- last year to crash into instant popularity Jimmy Harbor in other words, Edwin Whitney resolve- lows suit with his new year anticipations. in Chicago, hopes 1931 will bring many — to lose no more hair during 1931. a "I believe," said he, "that some great new and long-lived songs for his Edge- resolution which will surely be broken sponsor will again come to the fore with water Beach Hotel orchestra to play. "I The famous Radio character actor and a wide coast-to-coast network and pre- resolve," he said, "to continue gratefully NBC production man hopes to present sent a full hour's program weekly, featur- to give my listeners exactly what they more 'true characters" that will cause ing Radio versions of Herbert's operettas, want, so tell them to be sure to ask me fans "Isn't and perhaps including those of Lehar and for it." to say, that just like so-and- play Friml." Muriel Pollock, NBC composer-pian- so?" To characters that are uncon- sciously humorous or pathetic, according The lovable and homely NBC Pickard ist who also commits herself to toil, said, is wish for Family have pretty well defined ideas re- "My resolve is to adapt for two-piano to the situation, also Whitney's 1931. interest in program develop- garding their New Year's resolutions. interpretation several of the longer com- "My ment is to see based upon Mother resolves to make as many peo- positions which I have written for or- more dramas historical facts, as Death Valley Days. ple happy as possible; Ruth, to strive chestra. Among them are Spanish Shawl harder for success; "Bubb", to "work and Shadows on the Teche." or upon accurate local color, as Real Folks." hard and trust the Lord"; little Anne, to Muriel Wilson, soprano of the Max- * * * study hard in school and Radio, and well, Davey and light opera productions, Dad, to live better, work harder and make said she plans this year to please and en- And that's that. Many excellent reso- lutions, hopes and plans are to be carried more people enjoy life. tertain, rather than simply elevate or im- prove repertoire audience. out by our favorites for the loud speaker But the resolution Nat Brusiloff, clown- the of her White, of the mighty organ this new year. So I think I'll make a ing director of the NBC Nestle Choco- Lew NBC console, already has his pet numbers se- resolution too. It has been many a year lateers makes, he will probably have lected for this year. "I'll give audi- since I sat down and wrote letters to my broken before you reach this sentence. my ence programs of unique nature includ- friends of the air and suggested ideas to "I'm going to be more serious," Nat re- a ing such numbers as Ravel's Bolero and them, applauded their work, or offered solved. "What I'd like to see is better the melody (the friendly criticism. I'm afraid I've grown synchronization of affiliated stations on Cuban El Manisero

note, to expect all and give nothing. That s- network programs," the wag added. "Last Peasant Vendor). The modernistic expressed in new and unusual arrange- my resolve for '31 to "take my pen in week I had reports that the station in — ments, will be an interesting aspect of hand" more frequently. about you Omaha finished my concluding number How too? two measures behind New Orleans and a musical programs for the year." bar behind Cuba." Frank Luther, tenor of Lucky Strike, Chase and Sanborn, Happy Wonder Guy Lombardo Battles A Bakers—and others—claims he is going to be just twice as nice to everyone this year by way of repaying some of the Gunman kindnesses shown him by Frank Black, Gus Haenschen and Nat Shilkret, di- (Continued from page 11) rectors of programs for which he sings. Black, incidentally, hopes during 1931 "Well, to get back to the subject. As "We were packing our instruments to produce, and will produce he vows, usual, hilarity reigned in the place. It when the headwaiter came over again. better arrangements and orchestrations was nearly 2 a.m. The headwaiter came 'Captain is at the door and wants than ever before. to me and said a man insisted on talking to see you.' Lee Sims, of CBS and pioneer fame with me. I went to the phone. The voice "I asked that he be shown in. As fine at the "ivories", hopes this year to see at the other end was full of sobs. a specimen of American manhood as I the perfection of a type of program he " 'Mr. Lombardo, will you please play have ever seen came into the room. He has been working on for many months— and sing My Buddy!' he asked. 'I am at was crying like a baby. program wherein the music presents such the Soldiers' Hospital with my buddy of " 'I don't know how I can ever thank a perfect picture, or story, that the words the other side. He is dying. There is a you, Mr. Lombardo.' he began, T guess of the announcer will be superfluous. Radio in his room. We want you to play you thought the request was just a joke. (They generally are.-—Editor's Note.) it so we can sing it with you.' Well it wasn't. This boy had saved my Sims and Ilomay Bailey, his partner in "We stopped playing almost in the mid- life in France and we had been constant life and at the mike, will thus hold the dle of a number. I announced to the companions since. He was all shot up unique title of "Painters of Musical Por- folks present and to the Radio listeners and had been fighting death ever since traits". that the request for My Buddy had been just before the armistice.' Paul Whiteman, aside from resolving to made, and told them the circumstances " 'The doctor had told him he couldn't keep his present "youthful figure", looks surrounding the request. The tenor of survive the night. And he didn't. He forward to one other thing this year. the place changed from one of hilarity to tried to sing My Buddy, as you played

That is a successor to the "Rhapsody in one of profound silence. it, lying in my arms. That's how he Blue" which "is as good," to use his own "Never before or since have I heard died, just as you ended the song.'

terms. As for Ben Bernie, one of the the song played as we played it. 'Carm' "For more than a year the thouuht of world's most masterful masters of cere- outdid himself in the singing of the cho- that sad thrill was ever present in my

monies—and band leader, Ben turns over rus. The patrons of the cafe were silent mind. And it is one of the reasons why a new leaf and claims he will no longer and reverent. There was nothing we I will never refuse a request. Captain

use any old gags, "that is," he explained, could do but sign off after that song had and I still correspond." "any that they won't laugh at any more. been played. We couldn't possibly think And there are the outstanding thrills in And in 1031," Bernie added, "I hope they of 'getting hot' again that night. the career of Guv Lombardo. 94

a relative, but kept her lips for her be- Kisses Hot and Kisses Cold trothed. A country damsel, describing her first

(Continued from page 49) kiss, said that she never knew how it happened, but the last thing she remem- mother's kiss has come down to us from might overcome maternal objection by bered was a sensation of fighting for her the dawn of time, but the first kiss of the inculcating such a principle as was estab- breath in a hot-house full of lilacs and

Bible record is that of Affection and was lished in later times. violets, with the ventilation choked by given to Isaac by Esau. The others are: In Roman families, kissing before mar- blush-roses and tulips. The Kiss of Adoration. Love. Brother- riage was not customary, nor is it so in hood, Friendship, Salutation. Homage and the polite society of France today. In " 'Come, kiss me,' said Robin. I gently Obedience. Lowliness and Solicitude, Sub- Rome, only the closest relatives were per- said 'No. jection, Reconciliation. Treachery, Fare- mitted to salute their kindred of the For my mother forbade me to play with well, and Death. gentler sex on the mouth, and when a men so.' Among the ancient Hebrews, kissing the lover kissed his betrothed, she became Ashamed of my answer, he glided away, beard was a sign of great homage. In heir to half of his worldly goods if he Though my looks very plainly advised the pagan world, those who failed to throw died before the marriage ceremony, and him to stay. kisses to the statues of the gods on their in the event of her death, her heritage Silly swain, not at all recollecting, not he. feast-days, or to the sun and moon, were descended to her next of kin—a custom, That his mother ne'er said that he must considered unbelievers. The rites pre- which, if it prevailed now. would put not kiss me." scribed the kissing of some part of the effective check on actions for breaches of statues themselves. Among the Moham- promise. The dangers of kissing, as an alleged medans, when the muezzin calls the devout In feudal times the kiss was an im- means of infection, have received consid- to prayer, they kiss the ground that lies in portant feature of knighthood. When erable attention. Dr. A. E. Bridger, a the direction of Mecca, and the pilgrims the oath of investiture was administered leading physician, has expressed the opin- to the Kaaba, or Mohammedan shrine at to an apprentice, after he had kept his ion that "in the act of kissing we en- Mecca, all kiss the sacred black stone vigil, he took his sword by the blade and counter only beneficent organisms. The which they believe was brought from kissing the hilt at its guard, which in advantages of kissing outweigh its in- heaven. those days was emblematic of the Cross, finitesimal risk, for it provides us with Under Diocletian, the correct form of solemnly pronounced the words, "By my microbes useful for digestion." We must salutation, showing subjection to an em- good sword I swear it." Later, at tourna- congratulate Dr. Bridger on having a peror, was to kiss the feet of the sov- ments, balm for the wounds of the vic- remedy for dyspepsia, which has at any ereign, a practise that ultimately led to tors was found in kissing the hand of the rate the merit of acting agreeably. His the kissing of the ground over which the Queen of Love and Beauty who presided. teaching can hardly fail to make kissing august Caesars had passed. Then the In the days of the Pilgrim Fathers, kiss- even more popular than it is. It will sturdy Roman fathers, "the best of men," ing was the special privilege of husband probably be found that the "beneficeni were so bashful that, when in their own and wife, brother and sister, lover and organisms" required flourish in greatest homes, they continued their postnuptial betrothed. Etiquette was better regulated abundance on the lips of the young and wooing, they never kissed their wives in in Colonial times. Then a lady reserved comely, and in carrying out the treat- the presence of their daughters, fearing the privilege of kissing her hand for her ment sufferers will doubtless be eager to perhaps, that example might shatter pre- most intimate friends, and the young girl abjure the heresy of homeopathy b\ cept, and that the ingenious maidens gave her hand to a friend, her cheek to kissing only persons of ihe opposite sex.

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(limes) which he has invented and pro- Key: Put your finger on the key C and ended by the first symphony of poses to use. These he distributes among anywhere on the piano keyboard. C is Brahms. This was certainly a most class- the instruments of the orchestra, and then the white key that stands just before two ical program, as if to refute the com- develops in various ways so as to build black keys. Sound it, and then the next plaints of persons like myself who say up out of them a large organized pattern to your right. Then go on sounding the that they do not like classical music au of sound, comparable, as I have said be- succeeding white keys till you have Toscanini. Beethoven's first symphony fore, to the intricate yet intelligible pat- sounded eight of them. Then you have is of course a youthful work. A youn^' tern of an oriental rug. In this first played a "scale". Moreover, you have man wrote it, still inclined to lean on his movement the composer of a symphony played it in the "key" of C major. predecessors, still not quite ready to do utilizes his learning and fancy to build up Start from F on the keyboard (the his own flying, solo. It is charming and a pattern in the most scientific way pos- white key just before three black keys) it has (in the Scherzo especially) some sible. The secret of listening to such and sound succeeding white keys to the suggestions of the giant power soon to music is to get in one's mind the leading right till you have reached the next F in burst forth in the third symphony; but in tunes and then follow them throughout the same way as you did in the case of general it is definitely old-fashioned. with careful attention. The first move- the C scale. You will find that in order Brahms' first symphony was held back ment of a symphony always constitutes to make it sound right you must play the by its composer for twenty years while he a perfected and completed pattern. black key which is the third in that first improved, refined and polished it. He

Second Movement: This (see again group of three. Do this and you will have was over forty in 1870 when it was first what I said last month on this) is usually played a scale in the key of F major. produced. It is a magnificent work, in taken at a slow speed and is rather in the Start from A on the key board (white most ways the greatest piece of sym- nature of an extended song. The com- key two to the right of F). Play a scale phonic work done since Beethoven's poser writes the most beautiful tune he on the white keys. You will get the scale Ninth, which by the way was heard Wed- can think of and then subjects this to of A minor. Notice that it sounds quite nesday morning, November 12th. from variation in one way and another, so as different from the major scales. the Columbia studios in New York. I to produce the deepest effect upon his Every piece of music begins in some hope that many of you heard it. hearers' feelings. The Second movement one of the twenty-four "scales" which may But. do you know. I hope that the prac- is usually the sentimental part of a sym- be had from choosing as a starting point tice which has been started lately, of hav- phony. any one of the twelve white and black ing some competent person talk to the Third Movement: This is usually called keys in each octave of the key board, and Radio audience before and after the per- the "Scherzo", which is another of those then running the rest of the scale to sound formance of a symphonic work, will be Italian words, and means "joke". It is major or minor. Beginning in whatever carried out more and more. Olin Downes. the jolly part of the symphony, usually key is thus chosen, the music may vary the very distinguished New York critic, written in fast waltz time and often re- from it into other scales every so often, did this for the first Toscanini concert. minding one of a very elaborate and but always it ends by getting back into This is splendid. I should like to see it complicated dance. the original key. Otherwise it would done universally. Schelling does his own Finale or Fourth Movement: This is seem to have no end but to have been left talking at the children's concerts, but usually a sort of triumphal song and "up in the air". This matter of "key" is then he has the art brought to a pitch of march combined'. The working out of the base of all musical structure, being perfection not reached by any rival. We the great pattern is here brought to its that which gives to music its foundation need much, very much, more explanation appointed end. Often modern composers of form. at these affairs. introduce into their Finales tunes from / Have Heard About Wagner the other movements and thus, as it were, bind up the whole structure into one great Toscanini's conducting of the New York Speaking of Ernest Schelling once more. architectural pattern. Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra on I hope that many of you heard his No- Here is another comparison to keep in November 16th from New York (Colum- vember 15th children's concert. It was mind. Music is architecture which flows. bia Network-WABC beginning at 3 PM entirely devoted to excerpts from Wag- Architecture might be called frozen music. eastern standard time) was a big, a very ner's music dramas. The gifted conductor In each the design, the pattern, the sub- big, event. For one thing, the masterful told his audience as much as they needed ordination of part to part, are essential. Italian has an astonishing reputation. to know of the story of each opera and Music is design, just as architecture is New York goes crazy over him. He is illustrated the music in his own inim- design, but the one moves and the other talked about as if he were the only man itable manner. It may sound strange in stands still. The next time you think of who could ever direct an orchestra as it most persons' ears, but the truth is that a piece of music, think of its design, and should be directed. I candidly say that no music written is so easy to understand when you hear it, follow the design in from these excessive eulogies I dissent. as Wagner's. The moment you know the your mind. That will help very much. I find Mr. Toscanini altogether too much story which the music is illustrating, the Time: The rhythm of a piece of music of a musical drill sergeant and I dislike whole vast pattern falls into place, and is that part of its design which must first his stiff brass-band-like playing. To say the music becomes as clear as crystal. be thought out. In music we use mainly this just at the present time is to lay Wagner was one of the great pattern- two kinds of rhythm, the square and the oneself out to be denounced as an in- makers of music. His scores are all triangular. first The may easily be de- competent ass; but that is how I feel melody; which perhaps is why some care- scribed by saying that it is the same as about it all the same. less listeners have said that they cannot the rhythm or time of a military march Anyhow, it was interesting to hear Tos- hear the tunes. That is doubtless because

. . 1 . . 2 . . 3 . . 4, again and again. canini directing a program of very class- there are so many at' them. It is the old The other is equally well to be described ical music. He began with three chorales story of the wood and the trees We'll by saying that it is rhythm or time of a by Bach, orchestrated by a modern Ital- talk about Wagner some time in thi.» de- waltz . . 1 . . 2 . . 3, again and again. ian. Respighi (I do not like Respighi's partment. No more fascinating person- All rhythms used in music are based on [talian ways of doing this sort of thing"). ality, whether as man or as musician, evei these two. He went on to Beethoven's first symphony lived in this world oi ours. 96 Radio Digest WHY NOT GRASP SUCCESS? Study radio in your spare time at home

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Beauty and the frank with this girl, my 'phone rang. It ob yoh affectation dat yoh nose ain't got Job was the beauty editor of one of the no shine an' dat yoh has dat Pola Negri national magazines. swing ob graceful simplitude.' (Continued from page 77) "I wish you'd have lunch with me to- "Now when Ah hears dat, Missy, Ah day," she said. "I'm awfully upset. I wuz jes' about confabulated wid de right the dress and one dollar for beauty. Well, just had to fire my secretary and I cer- smaht reasonin' back of dat advice, anyway, started out. to we and make a tainly did hate to add to the army of an' Ah sez, sez Ah. 'Dinah, Ah ain't no long story short. Elizabeth got everything the unemployed, too." school teacher or preacher-mans, but she had planned to get and she began "Then why did you do it?" I asked her. de simplitude ob yoh remarks am de es- the following Monday morning on the "Well, I simply couldn't put up with sence ob yoh regeneratin' success. Sim- career which has made her one of the her any longer." she answered. "I've plitude reaches de haht-strings ob de sim- highest salaried and best known stylists told her time and again that she was a ple folk wid more exhilaration dan mos' in the advertising business. blot on the landscape of our magazine. ob de high-soundin' phrases which re- The improvement in Elizabeths ap- You know yourself how she looked. And sounds wid sech ferocity agin' de nat'ral pearance not only helped her to get a I finally got to the point where I couldn't way of hearin' words. Ah joins wid position, but it changed her whole mental go on looking at her any longer. Besides, yoh as a exponent on de simplitude ob attitude. She became more alert, more she was just as sloppy in her work as she argufyin' by plain talk. Simplitude. efficient, more self-confident. And these was in her personal appearance." my dear am what's needed mos' in dis qualities were reflected in her work. After That decided me. I felt that I could continent ob political controversy, trav- all, there is a decided mental reaction not allow this girl to go out again to hunt esty an' complicity.' which comes from the assurance that one a position handicapped as she was by an "Den Ah sez to Dora. 'Good-bye dearie. iooks attractive. Elizabeth was never a unattractive appearance. And so I told an' if 'n Ah wuz yoh, I'd repose a plentitude pretty girl. But. of course, looks are not her this story of Elizabeth Adams which, ob perennial repliance on de simplitude ob " a matter of regular features. They are while it is a success story, is also a story Dinah's admolitions." a matter of attractiveness—and any girl of beauty and the job. "Yes, Abby," I gasped, "it would be can be attractive. Free booklets or the Care of the Skin, well if we all showed a little more simpli- In this present period of unemployment, by Frances Ingram, mil be mailed to read- tude in our speech." appearance is more than ever important. ers of Radio Digest. Send your request to "Well, as Ah wus stahtin' foh de door. On November fourteenth the news- Miss Ingram, in care of Radio Digest. 420 Ah wuz reminded by de manager whut papers quoted Miss Gilbreth. noted con- Lexington Avenue, New York.—Editor. puts dis dramatical episode on de air an' sulting engineer and member of the Pres- he repressed dis heah infoumation: 'De ident's Emergency Committee for Employ- Gol' Dust Corpulation airs Dinah and ment, as saying: "The beauty parlor treat- The Simplitude of Dora's affairs ebery Friday mohnin' ober ments are a splendid thing, not to be de National Broadcasting Company, but smiled at, for women looking for work Dinah an' Dora so as to extenuate de circumstances ob should feel as physically, emotionally, program continuations, de series am (Continued from page 76) mentally, and sartorially adequate as broadcast ober WOR on Friday nights. possible." "Waal, de dramatical act which dey De identity ob de two belles am. Ah found. It doesn't make any difference how in- wuz playing had a multitude ob contrap- Ann Freeman an' Artie Belle McGinty, telligent a girl may be. She is not using tions what done move 'long wid rapiditude. two resperienced theatrical professionali- her intelligence if she does not realize an' Dinah done give Dora sech inspired ses. Dis heah gal, Dinah, come from that an attractive appearance will help morsels ob consultation. Sez Ah. 'Dinah, Nashville, Tennessee, an' dat gal, Dora. her get a job and will be of inestimable let me bask in de good sound rarefied at- come from Atlanta. G.i. benefit in keeping that job. mosphere ob yoh jedgment. How kin "Well, Missy, dat am all de reforma- All of these things went through my one git a husband in the scarcity ob dis tion Ah'se got. So wid great pride ob mind as I sat talking to this girl who war massacration?' expansive proportions Ah shook de Man- had come to my office with a letter of "An' she bein' so unresumin' said, 'Well ager's hand an' sez Ah. 'Ah hopes to hab recommendation from my friend in Pitts- Ah ain't claimin' to be no expert on mac- de unremittin' pleasure an' privilege ob burgh. And yet I found it difficult to rimony jes' cause I's an actress, but Ah returnin' de compliments ob dis suspicious persuade myself to say any of these buhlieves dat wid persistent pursuance occasion," finally concluded Abby, "an" things to her. A young girl starting out ob de objec' an' by runnin' jes' as fast if yoh has any moh dramatical acts. to look for her first position is usually as de fugitive, git up to him an' wid Missy, whut yoh wants me to criticize embarrassingly sure of herself. While I pretentious indignation, walk by wid wid aberration an' veracitude, why, was debating the advisability of being casuality. 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description of the fight with Sullivan died Sullivan came to New York' to see but the driver paid no attention. I honked when I won the championship. the Willard-Moran fight. He was stop- again and a voice having about the qual- The Interviewer: And you objected? ping at a little hotel in the fifties. One ity of the Leviathan's fog-horn told me Corbett: Oh. no. But he insisted that of the newspapers called me on the phone in no uncertain terms where to go. I I tell the whole story in seven minutes to ask if I would be willing to pose for a continued to honk and the voice con- and I refused to do it in so short a picture with Sullivan. I said it would be tinued to reply with language that grew time. He suggested that I give just the all right with me if Sullivan was agreeable. stronger and stronger. At an intersec- highlights but. man alive, there are In fact, I offered to go to his hotel and tion I slipped past and the string of enough highlights connected with that pose for the pictures in his room. Five oaths that were hurled at me was just light to keep me talking for an hour or minutes later I was called to the 'phone too much for me to stand. I pulled over more. However. I did tell him that I again and told that Sullivan had con- to the curb and started to climb out. My would boil it down and make it a con- sented to the arrangement and that if wife tried to stop me but I wouldn't be tinued story covering four seven-minute I would go at once to the hotel the news- stopped. periods. He couldn't see it and, as his paper would send a photographer right up. I took a stand in the middle of the heart was set on my doing the job in ... I hadn't seen Sullivan since my fight street and told my annoyer that no man one broadcast, we agreed to disagree with him but I had heard a great deal could use that kind of language in front that's all. about his hatred for the man who had of my wife without taking a licking. The The Interviewer: Well, here's hoping taken the belt from him. John L. had driver, up to his neck in the hay. pulled you get a chance to spin that yarn on a sharp tongue and many of the things up and accommodatingly slid to the pav- the air sometime. And. by the way, he had said were far from complimentary. ing. If ever there was a more ridiculous speaking of Sullivan, is it true that you As I made my way to his hotel I won- situation exposed to public view then I and he were never friendly after you dered what this meeting would be like. never saw it. The man who owned the whipped him? The Interviewer: I hope this story fog-horned voice and who came toward Corbett: For several years there was isn't going to end in another tight me bristling to right couldn't have weighed no friendship lost between us. You see, Corbett: Far from it. I went directly over a hundred pounds. He was all voice John L. had been champ so long that I to Sullivan's room and the hand which and no body. It must have looked like guess he expected to carry on until his clasped mine in greeting was that of a a meeting between David and Goliath to death. He said some pretty terrible friend. We sat down and chatted while the onlookers and the only thing I could things about me and I'll have to admit waiting for the photographer. It was do was burst out laughing. He stopped I resented those statements. two hours before the man arrived—two and glowered at me and when I finally I remember one meeting I had with of the happiest hours of my life. Sulli- got my speech back all I could say was. Sullivan very well. It was out at Jim van was abject in his apologies for the "Mister, you win!" I left him standing Jeffries' camp in Reno a few days before things he had said about me. He called there, got into the car and drove away. Jim fought Jack Johnson, in 1010. Sul- himself all kinds of a fool and it was That's the nearest I ever came to having livan came around to watch Jeffries train some time before I could get him to a street fight. and I gave orders to the gateman not to change the subject and talk about the Louis Mann: You should have laid admit John L. I was still sore about the old days. When I left he was in mar- him across your knee and spanked him. way Sullivan had talked. But that night velous humor—a changed man. It was Jim. I got to thinking things over and I de- as though a load had been lifted from The Interviewer: That gives me an cided that my action in refusing admit- his shoulders. idea. Louis. If you ever mention cigars tance to Sullivan was pretty small so I Louis Manx: (Passing the table) Hel- to me again that's what I'll do to you. sent word to him that he would be wel- lo. Jim. (He sees The Interviewer) Hello, (Louis Mann puts up both hands in pre- comed at the Jeffries' camp any time Doty. Say. I never got those cigars walks he yet. tended fear and away. I cared to come out. Corbett: Hello. Louis. If there are Corbett: This is developing into an-

I figured it out that Sullivan's pride any cigars going around let me in on it. interview of interruptions. Here come had taken a worse licking than the phys- The Interviewer: This is a private Will Mahoney and Harry Hershrield. ical one I had given him; that there really quarrel. Jim. Louis was the guest artist The Interviewer: It's all right with was nothing personal in his hatred as his on a La Palina Smoker which I directed me as long as the interrupters pull a feelings would have been the same toward a couple of years ago and at Christmas good yam out of you anyone who took his crown away. time I sent him. as usual, a card and kid- Will Mahoney: Greetings. Jim. Hel- Well, the next day when John L. ap- dingly wrote on it. "Enclosed please find lo, Hobart. What is this—a private con- peared at the gate I was there to meet box of La Palinas." ference or can anyone butt in? him. When I offered him my hand he Loris Mann: How about it, Jim? Corbett: It's supposed to be an inter- refused to take it. But, as there were Don't you think I have a right to feel view. Will, but it's open to the public. several reporters about. I induced him a little sore? If we had wanted to make it private we to his pocket pride temporarily and pose Corbett: I should say so. Probably would have held it in the waiting-room for a picture. This he agreed to do. And lead to a right sooner or later. at the Grand Central Station. so. for the benefit of the public, he Louis Mann: That would be nice pub- Will Mahoney: [Starts away) Oh, clasped my hand in what appeared to be licity for both of us! Did you ever have pardon me. a friendly greet ing. picture The was a street tight . Jim? The Interviewer: Don't go away. published and the newspapers reported Corbett: Not quite. I came very close Will. We meet all comers for one round. that we had made peace. to it not many years ago. It happened This is your turn. All you have to do It turned out to be a pretty one- during a vaudeville engagement and my is ask Jim a question. sided peace pact, for Sullivan continued wife and I were making the short jumps Harry Hershfield: (chiming in) Do to say plenty of unkind things about me. from one city to the next by auto. I we hear the answer? The Interviewer: Did you ever see was driving along merrily one day. when Corbett: Sure If I can answer it. him again? I overtook a hay-wagon which was taking The Interviewer: No hitting below Corbett: Yes. Two years before he up the entire road. I honked the horn the belt. Harry. It has to be a fair ques- -H

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soloist in some churches. He. too. is WJJD. Len Ivey of that station says married, and has two boys. Mrs. Dumke they have only two hobbies—harmony is a concert pianist. and more harmony in the team. They are Radiodyne "Groun-teiina" pulls signals both single! This or front the ground—the most remarkable may may not have invention since the vacuum tube. Elimi- anything nates common danger of outside aerial to do with their attainment of Nothing to wear out, coming in contact with electric power harmony—that's not for Marcella to judge. burn out or corrode. lines, lightning hazard, or damage by of Odessa, Mo., Guaranteed satisfactory sleet and storm. Saves its cost in a single L.MOGEXE wanted a year— can be moved with the set at will. results under normal picture of Sally Perkins. In the absence conditions. Ideal for apartments to avoid outside aerial congestion and interference. of a picture of Sally, the belle of the ** rm S 9 m l°nK distance stations with surprising I/IiJIDISTANfFrtH^L ease amj unusual clearness. Can be used with any Happy Hollow program, will you be type set—non-directional w«HY didn't you come in to see Mar- happy, Imogene. with ^Fl FrTIVITV Reduces interference to a minimum and as- a photo of Ted cella when you were in Xew York, Ruthie?

| M)| ,. ,|i H ;,,,.,] j laying off. by pulling his own right back J^ Jg HI ] 1 P the in a position to shoot. Say, this will _, .. „ . grammar and high ° . . Charlie Kretzmger , , have to be ;ill for this gab-fest. Got schools ot that city. enough dope. Doty? If you haven't give They have been in Radio for eight years, M,.ARCELLA hears all. tells all. Write me a ring on the 'phone and we'll have having broadcast from WDAF. WDAG. her a letter, ask her any of the burning another session. Good-bye. everybody. Amarillo. KFH. WFAA. and they arc now questions that are bothering your mind. Curtain. the popular harmony team over Station Information is her middle name. 101 The Pi pes ./pan

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.F IT be true that imitation hard-boiled; I he reason is that little tricks I, Alley refers to as "cuts" in songs. These is the sinceresf form of flatten', then we of showmanship are lost via the air and range from one-half cent to thrice that doff our chapeaux graciously to a certain nothing registers but "cold" results. amount lor each copy of music sold. dark and slim crooner, who is, by his A beloved veteran of the operatic stage, thereby making it good business policy mimicry, evidencing a generous Iavishness for example, was recently offered by an for the leader to give "his" song as much as far as his flattery of a fellow vocalist important commercial hour as the "super- "plugging" as possible, regardless of its is concerned. special" attraction of the evening, and fitness to his program or its pertini Let's not. kid ourselves, nor permit the result was close to pathetic. Those to his general presentation. ourselves to be kidded. We know who in the studio to whom her name was a Then again, dear lovely people, a con- inaugurated the crooning era. and those delightful tradition and a cherished mem- temporary racket among many Radio "on the inside" are well aware that, a ory must have agreed that her air debut columnists is either to write songs or clever ability to copy l he performances was something like leading a lamb to the permit the publishers to present tin of stylists made the imitator bask in the slaughter. Her voice "gone." she stood with a slice of the royalty melon. Sub- reflected glory of the imitated. bravely and resolutely before the micro- sequently, nice, juicy "puffs" arc givei By some it isn't sophisticated to "go phone, a vision to those who saw her. but. obliging leaders and singers who i for" Rudy Yallec. and those who acclaim without doubt, just "static" to those who these Mings on the air. and those who do the master crooner are sometimes con- tuned in to hear her. Television, alone, not are graciously ignored. demned as sappy and sentimental. How- might have saved her. Just a few reasons why you're getting ever, there's nothing of the barker in When will program sponsors realize that in over-dose of certain tunes, and vrhj Vallee; no strain of the carnival man talent. —not "names"— is what the public you'll keep getting it until the S.P.C.R 1 exists in his make-up. What some arc wants? Radio's favorites came from takes a hand. For Radio like all other quick to decry as ego is merely his su- nowhere. The biggest disappointments cherished institutions of his mil preme confidence in himself; his alleged from an entertainment point of view, have era. is not immune from the machina- conceit is faith in his art. You can't been the internationally famous "name" tions of the great go.' Ra< 1- censure a man because he believes in the performers, ballyhooed for weeks prior to things he does. their appearance, and then, after it's all George 1* Lottman. —

102 Hands of An calmness to keep this life true to its one idea, the stories, as you hear them on particular star—the good star that guides the air, are made into that form by each destiny. Mr. Clark. Astrologer ''You've— forgotten those other ques- The cast which portrays the scripts tions " this from the feminine Radio is a notable one indeed. For we find page (Continued from 75) audience. many of the famous actors and actresses Oh, yes. well—she does like jewels, I'm of Arabesque f^ame playing leading roles. servative, straight, unbending thumb turns sure for she wears a magnificent diamond Georgia Backus, the director of dramatics its back she is likely to indulge her fancy ring, and the hands of her husband—he's at Columbia headquarters, is the leading .'or things quite feminine. George E. Jordan, noted astrologer and lady in the plays. Asking about her husband's hands re- business consultant—are the specialist Jean Sothern, whose name recalls the minds me of their country home. Their type, angled thumb and irregular fingers, movie thrillers of yesterday in which she hands sought fastidiously everything that's and he's enough of an artist that every- starred, plays in the prologue as The in it. thing that was placed in the gem of a Shopkeeper's daughter and in the play- It's a dream of a farmhouse in West- farmhouse had to suit his hands—just so. within-a-play. chester, high up on the hillside. Its wide Frank Knight, Columbia's senior an- spreading veranda merges into the nouncer, is leading man. Reyn Evans, All the love branches of heroic trees. another announcer, also plays in the of home and pioneer traditions suggested The Golden Baton sketches. Miss Adams' hands show in this gem by Don Clark is one of Radio's pioneers. her into this (Continued from page 33) of a house converted by He began his career as a newspaperman bare old Quaker lovely place from a in Albany, New York. Later he went in standing man, my friend. I go now meeting house as her ancestors had done for Radio and became an announcer. His Shopkeeper: Until you come again, before her in England in days gone by. the— rise to fame in this field was slow and Old Currier and Ives prints hang on Johann: Goodbye! soon afterward Clark turned to writing the walls of the numerous rooms of the Radio scripts, in which he has excelled, house. Highboys and lowboys of early and his knowledge of broadcast require- American days lend their interest to the ments is reflected in his work. Once again the tick tick—tock—of furnishings. An old settle on which Rip — the old gilt clock marks the passing Van Winkle himself might have nodded moments, as Jean sighs and says, "I al- stands in a corner. Burnished pewter most felt the beating of the man's heart brightens old sheLves in the dining room Town Crier Tales as I looked at the baton. So much of his and treasures of clocks with wooden life went into it. But tell me, Dad, do (Continued from page 19) works still going hang in hallway and you know what has become of him?" "parlor" while stiffly erect stand antique I rushed into print with it. Then the The Shopkeeper does. He answers. andirons of the days of Miles Standish. bricks began to fall. By various constant "Yes. It seems that some kind people You'd love to see how mothery are and annoying readers, it was pointed out took pity on him and made him their Miss Adams' hands as she pats quaint to me that this was a story which got gardener. Of course, he knew nothing of coverlids on the beds of guest rooms giv- printed regularly once every year. It was gardening—it was just an act of gener- ing added gesture of good measure to her pointed out to me that it had been antici- osity. I was told that he would listen to gracious hospitality. pated two years before by The Saturday the wind in the trees, because it reminded And it's not for naught that the third Evening Post. him of his music—and on moonlight phalange of her fingers—the ones next "An angry old countess wrote me from nights he would sit out in his little gar- to her palm—is full molded for it's the her villa at Monte Carlo that there must den and listen to the song. It was just grandest of food that comes from her be some mistake because whereas the such a night that they found him be- farmhouse kitchen. But Miss Adams' thing had happened as I described it, it neath one of his trees, and in his hand own hand indulges lightly in food and had happened to a friend of hers the year was clutched a little piece of wood that often much of it is diverted to the moist- before in Nice. A professor at Ohio State he had whittled into the shape of a eyed, expectant little Lover, her pet of College wrote me that there must be some baton. And there, in the moonlight, a dog. and to his dainty little Pekinese mistake because, whereas, it had hap- under the trees, he heard the last strains girl friend. pened as I described it, it had happened of the symphony of his life." Leaving the coziness of her adorable four years ago to a friend of a friend of Copyright 1930 by the Grigsby-Grunow Company farmhouse, the week-end guests who his in Chicago. gather there, noted artists, writers, "I knew then what I had done. I had, scientists, musicians, and business men Dramatic sketches are becoming in- and not for the first time, (or the last and women of national importance. Miss creasingly popular with Radio listeners. time either, I might add) come upon a Adams goes back to her studio in Car- No small part of this interest was stimu- piece of American folklore. There are negie Hall. lated recently by the introduction of certain stories which, seem chronically It is fascinating to watch her hands as Majestic's Old Curiosity Shop series recurrent. They are told not by writers she works there. All personal qualities which, since last October, has been pre- only, not. indeed, by writers chiefly, but seem to recede. She is now the scientist sented Sundays at ° P. M. by the Grigs- by all manner of people—preachers, base- and astrologer dealing with lives and by-Grunow Company over the Columbia ball players, dressmakers. And they are stellar promises. As her hand, deftly international network headed by WABC, always told as true. arched, turns the great astronomical globe New York. "The strange events which take place beside her desk, she is guided by the Both the verse which precedes the play in them are always told as having hap- most exact of mathematical knowledge, and the idea of the Old Curiosity Shop pened to some cousin, or at least to some astrological lore, and long experience in were created by David Ross, Columbia dear, dear friend of the narrator. Try making deductions pertaining to the hu- announcer, who also takes the part of to trace such a story back to its first ap- man equation. The Old Shopkeeper. Afterward Mr. Ross pearance and you will find yourself in- Her hands are now intense, vibrant. turned over his general theme idea and volved in newspaper files of thirty or She studies, weighs the evidence, writes the synopsis for the scripts to Don Clark, forty years ago in cities all over the world. the record of a life. If it is burning head of Columbia's continuity division. Alexander Woollcott continues his brightly, it is well. If not her hand must It was Don's job to rewrite the stories Town Crier Tales in February issue of write the word of caution, or courage, or and dramatize them. Although Ross's Radio Digest —

103 Universe of Einstein Station Vox LATEST MARVEL OF RADIO (Continued from page 54) (Continued from page 36) Tune in That it move in a straight line. In other Calpurnia: Mark, did you have any- Smooth words, motion will not go in a straight ihing to do with this? Here is the way Mellow line. that number should be sung. Give me Tone If you take a poor man and blindfold the music (sits at piano and .strikes and lhat man and say, "I will give you a chord). Why don't you get this piano Tune thousand pounds if you, blindfolded, will tuned? It's all out of tune. (Sings same Out walk in a straight line," he will do his number in high soprano voice, with plenty That best for the sake of the thousand pounds of trills.) Complete for Any Set Noise to walk in a straight line, but he will walk (At end of song a shot is heard. Both in a circle and come back in exactly the women scream. Then brief silence.) The F & li Tone Control and Noise Eliminator will vary the tone so as to conform with the per- same place. Mark Anthony: For the Love of sonal musical tone taste of any individual, bril- Mere fact will never stop an English- Rome, which one did you shoot? liant, treble, or that deep mellow bass found only in the high priced modern tone controlled sets. invented straight line, 50<~ man. Newton a Caesar: The one who didn't faint. AS A NOISE ELIMINATOR c to 95% of the high and that was the law of gravitation, and pitched static and line noises can be elimi- Mark Athony: If you've shot Cleo nated. Finished in beautiful crystallized finish when he had invented this, he had created and comes complete with adapters and twelve I'll tell the Senate and have you kicked foot silk cord for convenient remote control. a universe which was wonderful in itself. out. Get some water quick. Connected by anyone in a minute's time. Return When applying his wonderful genius, when in three days for refund if not satisfied. Caesar: Oh, you call her CLEO, do he had completed a book of that universe, you? Here, help me lift her up. what sort of book was it? It was a book REESONATOR Mark Anthony: Cleo, Cleo, are you which told you the station of all the heav- all right? enly bodies. It showed the rate at which Cleopatra (feebly) : It's YOU Mark? they were traveling; it showed the exact Oh, Julius Darling, why did you shoot hour at which they would arrive at such her? and such a point to make an eclipse. It Caesar: Well, if she had just been a was not a magical, marvelous thing; it was soprano. I couldn't have done it. If she a matter-of-fact thing, like a Bradshaw. had been both soprano and wife, I (A time-table compilation—Editor.) a my couldn't have done it. But having a For 300 years we believed in that Brad- soprano for a wife and knowing you, shaw and in that Newtonian universe as — at the same time, there was no alternative. I suppose no system has even been be- Do you feel all right now? lieved in before. I know I was educated Cleopatra: Yes, I feel swell. in it and was brought up to believe in it For distance and sharp tun- firmly. Then a young professor came Cajesar: Mark Anthony, I request that ing. satisfied cus- along. He claimed Newton's theory of you submit your resignation. Over 40,000 the apple was wrong. Mark Anthony: I do not accept the tomers. Now only $3.95. He said, "Newton did not know what request. The Reesonator will increa-e the volume, dis- tance, power and selectivity of your radio set to happened to the apple, and I can prove Caesak: You'd better, I'll fire you the equivalent of the addition of t extra tubes. this when the next eclipse comes." anyway. I don't want you around here It will enable you to play with dance volume

! stations which were barely audible without it. an>' more. Attaches across aerial and gro "tel leads without tools by anyone in less than a minute. It i« Cleopatra: Oh, Julius, don't fire Mark, j especially recommended for all sets having, an I 'E SAID: "The next he's a perfect peach. 1 untuned antenna or floating tube such as: Radiola We 1". 18, 33, and 333; Atwater Kent models 30, Caesar: You're fired!! 16, will is questioning the 3.8, -18 49. models of thing you be doing ; 32, 35. 37, and Certain Mark Anthony: I'm not fired!! Victor, Temple, Silver-Marshall, Knight, Apex, law of gravitation." Dayfan, Crosley Bandbox and Jewelbox. Save" Caesar: are! The young professor said: "No, I mean You 25% on A and B batteries on battery sets. Return in three days for refund if not satisfied. no harm to the law of gravitation, but, Mark Anthony: I'm not! Cleopatra: can without it." Boys, boys, boys! Stop for my part, I go F. & H. AERIAL ELIMINATOR "What do you mean, go without it?" it. This quarreling sounds terrible. Every- is all heated I'll He said: "I can tell you about that af- body up and bothered. terward." tell you. Get your togas and come with to the baths and we'll all have The world is not a rectilinear world; me down a swim together. it is a curvelinear world. The heavenly bodies go in curves because that is the Caesar: That sounds good. Price «pl .Zd Complete natural way for them to go, and so the Cleopatra: Then we'll go up to my whole Newtonian universe crumpled up house for a lovely bowl of punch. Every Instrument Tested on Actual 1000 Mile Reception and was succeeded by the Einstein uni- Mark Anthony: Cleo, you're a woman The E & H Capacity Air!..! has the capacity of the average .75 foot aeri.il 50 feet high. It verse. it. of ideas. I am sorry to have to say You increases selectivity and full reception on botl must remember that our distinguished Caesar: That sounds great—let's get Jocal and long distance stations and is absolutely guaranteed. It eliminates unsightly poles, guy out of here. visitor could not have said it. It would wires, mutilation of woodwork, etc. It doe connect to the light socket and requires no cur- not. be nice for him to say it; it would Cleopatra: That's the spirit. Come— rent for operation. Enables set to be moved into not be courteous; but here in England he Sweet Mark and Darling Julius different rooms with practically no inconvenience. We predict this type of aerial will be used prac- Caesar: I'll figure out what I'll do is a wonderful man. This man is not tically entirely in the future. Installed in a min- ute's time by anyone. Ret re. in three challenging the fact of science; he is chal- with you later, Mark. da not satisfied. Mark Anthony: I'll be doing some lenging the axioms of science. Not only ALL ITEMS SHIPPED POSTPAID is he challenging the axioms of science, figuring too. but the axioms of science have surren- Cleopatra: Boys, not so loud. (Very d Send C O. D. or QEtirli find ehaek ' or M. O. for J ind fol "Mil please Mod I dered to his challenge. sweetly) I'll tell you both what to do! me the Items checked on a three-day money. hi 1. I uuaruntee basts. I (Curtain) I have talked enough. I rejoice in the n Tone Contra] D Resonator • I P V * II Capacity Aerial I

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Ray Perkins baby grand to concert grand, a one-man Junior Brings Home piano. But with it all my piano has been (Continued from page 15) very tolerant of my wife and young son. The Bacon don't make as much money as a Good old piano. fullback, but then I doubt if even Irving (Continued from page 59) Berlin could kick a field goal. makes you work really harder than the "I see they found an ancient Roman w'ELL,E > it's early yet, so footlights." galley in an Italian lake. One of those I guess I'll be up and doing. I can't waste Howard has a little twinkle in his eye^ eight-oared barges of the time of the a lot of time hanging around with Radio that brought the question: Caesars. The Naval Limitations Com- interviewers, you know. Glad to have "Are you, by any chance, a Penrod off mittee is all hot and bothered. They say met up with you all. Give my regards the air as well as on?" Mussolini had it dug up on purpose as to the family and tell them you've been He looked a little guilty. And his proof that Italy actually did scrap a ship hanging out with me, and tell them I'm mother admitted, trying to look severe: at one time. But several editors say, a fine upstanding example of young "You'd have thought so if you'd seen however, that it is only a galley proof, American manhood and all that"—you the water fight he led at one of the so it doesn't count. know—make a hit with the folks. coolers at the National Broadcasting "I have often been asked if Perkins Carefully folding the old topper, and Company a few days ago." is the real name. Well, it is Perkins, and putting a muzzle and leash on "good old Howard spoke up defensively: I didn't say Schmalz. However, you can piano," Ray "Pineapple" Perkins, faded "Well, mother, it wouldn't have done call me 'Ducky Daddies' if you want to. away into the lengthening shadows, and any harm if I hadn't sprayed Florence "One morning not long ago, the traffic I stood on the dock, waving my hand- Malone. I didn't see her." under for the jam was terrible. A traffic jam isn't the kerchief until he had gone Howard, when it comes to seeing shows, kind of jam you put up, it's the kind you third time. prefers opera and musical comedy. Even have to put up with. This particular though he is dramatic himself. We were morning of which I speak it was spread assured by the young actor: all over both sides of the street. It got Maria Jeritza "Nearly all my money goes toward my all over the coat of the cop who stands college fund. I buy my own clothes and near the National Broadcasting Company (Continued from page 21) sort of help sometimes around the house. studios. So I hollered: 'Some jam, eh, simply could not calm myself. I ac- But I want a good education. Then no kid?' tually delayed the curtain for several more acting. I don't think very many "He had seen me crossing the street minutes, while the overture was repeated, successful child performers grow up to be with a can of pineapple under each arm. before I could summon up sufficient real actors. Why not leave well enough I always bring along some pineapple be- courage to walk on the stage. Then the alone. Besides, I want to write. If I cause you never can tell who is going to warmth and the friendliness of the audi- could go right out on a story now I'd drop in. And he said: 'Oh, yeah? Well, ence at once permeated through me and jump for joy. A good fire or a hot mur- it will be a pineapple jam if you don't soon I was singing with entire ease, I der story. Maybe I'll be a Radio critic. watch where you are going.' felt that the American audience had taken That's a good idea, isn't it? "I guess everybody knows that for the me to its heart. This was a big moment Responsibility for the success of these past 13 years I have puttered about in for me because it marked the beginning children of the air may be laid at the every branch of show business. In fact, of an association with America that has doorstep of a very young and pretty I gained quite a reputation as being one brought me great pleasure and happiness. golden-haired lady who has charge of the best putterers that ever puttered. In fact, it has now come to be that of all the NBC children's programs. She You must also know that I have been an I consider America as my home. When is Madge Tucker, The Lady Next Door. advertising salesman, and was second I go to Vienna in the summer, to rest and Miss Tucker also may be given credit Lieutenant Perkins during the world war, to play at my country place, it. is of New for keeping them natural and free from and was assigned to the intelligence di- York that I speak as home. I love every- the usual professional precociousness.and vision, which may have been another par- thing about this great city and I have freshness. One little conceited move and adox. But we won't go into that at this made so many wonderful friends here they are brought down to earth, diplomat- time again. that I would not make any but brief en- ically, but firmly. She punishes them by "My Radio debut in 1926 over WJZ as gagements elsewhere. keeping them off the air a while. Judge, Jr., was quite a thrill. But at that There is one more great moment in my But there is nothing so interesting time I didn't much care for broadcasting. life that I must mention—one that is about this whole Radio baby business as So after turning advertising salesman and precious in every woman's life. And that (mercenarily speaking) all the money that then editor, I went to Hollywood and is my marriage to Baron Popper, who seems to be floating around through the wrote theme songs. Hey! who threw comes from a famous musical family. He ether these days. that brick? Under the Texas Moon and is the son of Blanche Marchesi, who sang It is quite safe to say that not one of Lady Luck were the most overplayed. here years ago in concert, and the grand- these fathers are earning more than from "Oh, by the way. You might want to son of Mathilde Marchesi, the famous $25 to $50 a week. The average should mention the fact that I was born in Bos- Paris teacher, who numbered Melba and be about $35. ton and therefore moved to New York as other great singers among her pupils. While baby, bless its li'l heart, gets that a small boy. Yes, that is true, I haven't Baron Popper himself is a pianist and much for (sometimes) just about fifteen grown very much during the ensuing violinist of talent. minutes or a half hour on the air. years. That is, except that I have grown I believe that no matter how success- So baby is taking the family, papa, older and wiser with the passing years. ful and famous a woman may be nor to mamma and brothers and sisters by the But that isn't very original with me what artistic heights she may climb, her boot straps and lifting them from poverty either. Everyone gets older with the life is incomplete and unfulfilled unless to the Drive. passing years, and stops trying to fill in- she marries. In order to make it a happy If the roof needs a few new shingles or side straights. and lasting one. she should prepare and mamma needs a fur coat rush baby to the

"And so has life been with me. I have train herself for it, just as she would for nearest broadcasting studio at the first been going along in the whisky-tenor of a career. She should regard it as a sign of a boop-boop-a-doop or a fit of my ways . . . just me and my lit- sacred obligation on her part to give of dramatic emotion. tle grand piano, which is my constant her best to it, for only in that way can Maybe that temperamental fit junior had companion. My piano, always at my she make her marriage the supreme ad- last night was suppressed desire. It may side, has been, these many years, from venture in life. sound like static but you never can tell! —

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Radiographs size, age, general appearance, and a hun- dred and one other things that have noth- (Continued from page 63) ing whatever to do with my ability lo feel and portray the character. In Radio Start the as supercargo—a lowly sophomore stood there are no such limitations. I can play no chance in the exalted company of Joan of Arc one night and Cleopatra the seniors. But when the auditions were next. On the stage the actress who played over Rosaline Greene was the only one one of those parts would probably never asked to join the WGY Players. be considered for the other." NEW YEAR It was her first contact with either the But just at that time Radio wasn't theatre or the Radio, but before the year considering many characters of any type. was over she was the leading lady of the Radio drama was not so well established Right company. The following year she con- as it is today, so Rosaline Greene filled tinued her work at WGY. and in addition in the interval with post-graduate work accepted a position with a stock company in dramatics at Columbia University and presenting a repertory of plays in Al- with her first love-—teaching. It was Make sure of re- bany and Troy. Then began a hectic while teaching in a private school on existence for Rosaline Greene. Her fam- Riverside Drive that she formed her own ceiving each issue ily, back in Hempstead. L. I., where she company of Radio players, wrote plays was born, were not theatrical people, and for them and introduced them to New of Radio Digest did not take kindly to their daughter's York audiences over local stations. at home. dramatic ambitions. Nor would the au- Then, slowly, dramatics began to find your thorities at State College have been at their place among the jazz bands and all pleased to learn that one of their male quartettes that crowded the air. students was appearing in stock. So With their establishment on the big net- A year's subscrip- Rosaline had to carry on her dramatic works came recognition for Rosaline tion costs only activities under an assumed name and Greene. She gave up her teaching, signed you can imagine her embarrassment when an exclusive contract with National an instructor at the college stopped her Broadcasting Company, and ever since .00 one day to comment on her resemblance has been starred. *3 to the leading lady at Proctor's Theatre. She loves to ride, swim, and walk, and She could not keep her identity hidden has an ambition to become a famous forever, however, and the year she grad- writer of Radio drama as well as a fa- Sometimes newsstands are uated the dark-eyed girl who intended to mous Radio actress. become a school teacher found herself sold out and often in- feted at the Radio World's Fair in Madi- New H-F-L Mastertone clement weather makes it son Square Garden as "the perfect Radio new In magnificence of tone new in power with world-wide voice." Not long after that came her reacu—new in quick tuning uncomfortable to visit the new in sensitivity and selectiv- one and only contract with the metro- ity with a station at every point on dial. A new price—America's news dealer in time to politan theatre. Lee Shubert personally finest radio at amazingly low oostt. 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and dance act had to be continued. his readers and listeners as to where one who has a secret hates him. Gang- During long train rides from one city Winchell gets his remarkable revelations sters hate him. No man ever makes the to another, Winchell used to amuse him- —some of which precede the newspaper rounds of Broadway's night-life being so self by writing intimate stories about headlines by weeks. The answer is that liberally hated as Walter Winchell. his fellow-vaudevillians. Little anec- three sources supply him with his gossip. And yet, paradoxically enough, he is dotes, little human-interest stories, a lit- The first is Winchell himself. Snooping also one of the most celebrated and best tle bit of dirt—these he pieced together around night-clubs, important hotels, liked columnists in the country. His into an altogether spicy column about large restaurants and other important stint is syndicated to thirty-two news- vaudeville-life and vaudevillians. This Broadway rendezvous-places, it is inev- papers; it is estimated that more than column, he, one day, sent in to the itable for him to pick up a considerable two million people read his column every Vaudeville News. To his surprise. Vaude- amount of first-hand gossip. Then (al- day. Something like ten million listen ville News printed the article, paid for it though this is not generally known), it is to his broadcast every Tuesday night—to —and asked for more. Two more such said he has a small battalion of spies judge by his correspondence. And any columns were written and printed and working under him, whose duty it is to man who receives a salary of $100,000 a Winchell felt that, at last, a decent excuse pick up information and scandal about year—not to mention his salary for broad- casting had presented itself for his leaving the anyone in the public limelight, and who —cannot be said to be unpopular. vaudeville game for good. He would re- get paid from Winchell himself. The It all depends on which side of the fence turn to 42nd Street in order to cover greatest amount of his information comes you are. If you are of the group whom Broadway gossip for Vaudeville News. from this source. Finally, generous Winchell exploits for his gossip then you readers swamp his desk every morning are among his enemies; but if you are And he did—with such success, in fact, they that Sime Silverman of Variety was at- with information which, by chance, merely an innocent bystander who gets a tracted by those writings and sent out a happened to pick up. Winchell confesses tremendous kick out of learning the inside flattering bait to the young columnist. that some of his best "scoops" have come stories about Broadway, then you prob- A neat contract was awaiting Winchell to him in his morning's mail from some ably worship him. But no one is indif- kind-hearted reader or Radio listener. ferent. if he would only work for Variety. Would he come? For a while Winchell played Needless to say, all gossip is fully veri- Incidentally, there has recently spread told with the idea of accepting. But then a fied before it is put into print or a lot of talk, in and out of night-clubs, over the Radio. Otherwise there would will still more flattering offer came which defi- that Walter Winchell be "bumped- nitely decided for him. The Graphic, a not be enough lawyers in all of New York off" within the next few months. Those new tabloid, was looking for interesting to defend Winchell against libel-suits. In- of his admirers who are terrified by this cidentally this is, no means, a young writers, and its editor Bernarr Mac- —and by bit of inside information will, perhaps, Winchell's accuracy fadden—sensing that in Winchell he had a small tribute to feel a little more at ease if they knew all information, columnist that would be a valuable asset despite the remarkable that the one who started this rumor cir- some of which is of the most intimate culating was none other than yes, our to any newspaper—gave Winchell a breath- — and bewildering nature, too, Winchell Mr. Walter Winchell, the man who knows taking salary to work for it. Winchell has never had a libel suit on his hands. grabbed the opportunity; he was earning everything. now five times as much as he had ever George Jean Nathan has recently com- earned before. And on a job which was plimented Winchell by saying that the is only journalist but as easy as it was fascinating. His col- latter not a superb umnar career was now fully launched. that he has also enriched the English lan- Recipes via Radio This was five years ago. Four years guage. Winchell's vocabulary is almost is well-known, page later, the New York Mirror enticed as famous as his gossip. It (Continued from 80) Winchell into accepting a position on its for example, that it was he who made of paper by doubling his already munificent "whoopee" a national by-word. It is ette apartments in large cities, or sub- pictur- salary. His column was to be syndicated well-known that he coined such stantial suburban homes. I see several throughout the entire country. And esque words as "literotic"; such graphic brave, cheerful women who in spite of shortly afterwards, the Radio got him for phrases as "having it Reno-vated," as total blindness manage to keep house and a weekly broadcast of Broadway news. "melting their wedding ring"; and such prepare meals, and a certain lame girl who Gossip had triumphed. Walter Winchell apt metaphors as his description of Broad- sits beside her Radio taking notes and was its prophet. way, "the hardened artery". He has writing down recipes for her busy neigh- brought a new vocabulary to the lingo bors who cannot listen in. These and all of the average Broadwayite; he has made the others are before me as I talk. And, WaALTER WINCHELL speech piquant and vivid. oh, how I try to give them each and all help, encouragement and actual cook- is only thirty-three—yet, despite his Winchell himself has often spoken of the youth, he is practically gray. Other char- himself, over the Radio, as "the man ing information they feel they need and acteristics which distinguish him include whom they love to hate." Broadwayites want!" the fact that he writes with his left hand, hate him because they have no secrets The next year Betty Crocker's talks he works only two hours each day on his which this bewildering journalist does were sent over the country as the first column—usually from 5 to 7 P. M.; he not learn and reveal; theatrical produ- morning chain program. Her circle of is invariably up all the night, making the cers hate him, because he has disclosed homemakers was widened to include rounds of the night-clubs, and he sleeps so much of their sham. The Shuberts, as women living in the cities, towns and all day; he does not dress well; his prin- a matter of fact, will never permit him villages, and on farms and ranches all cipal affections are night-clubs, good bev- into any of their theatres—and two years the way from the Atlantic to the Pacific erages—and gossip. But gossip above ago Walter Winchell was able to see Ani- Coast whose homes Betty Crocker now everything else. 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