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Stay Young." Or tune in on my radio , the eyes— Ifyou would avoid aging crow's THE NECK — To prevent a sagging chin and hour, "Through The Looking Glass feet, smooth Ingram's about the eyes, stroke * a lined neck, stroke with fingertips covered with a feather touch outward, beneath eyes with Milkweed from middle chin toward With Frances Ingram," Tuesdays, 10:15 of and over eyelids. the ears and patting firmly all along the A. M., E. S.T., over WJZ and Associated jaw contours. Stations. THE mouth — Drooping lines are easily de- -k feated by filming the fingertips with my cream THE SHOULDERS — To have shoulders that and sliding them upward over the mouth and are blemish-free and firmly smooth, cleanse then outward toward the ears, starting at with Milkweed Cream and massage with the middle of the chin. palm of hand in rotary motion. INGRAM'S uDcec^orGam

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Including RADIO REVUE and RADIO BROADCAST CONTENTSjebruary, ipjl

ARTURO TOSCANINI—Intimate glimpses of Philharmonic Maestro Reveal his Eccentricities. David Ewen 6

NIGHT CLUBS OF NEW YORK—Frivolities Rudy Vallee of The Gay White Way Divulged by . . . 8 THAT OLD GANG OF MINE—The Beloved Miketeer Reminisces—as told to Doty Hobart. S. L. Rothafel—"Roxy" 12 FALLING IN A CRASHING AIRPLANE— Lowell Thomas 16 It was the "Thrill of a Lifetime" to Intrepid . . . PREPARING FOR THAT RAINY DAY— — Evans Plummer 20 BERNARDINE Radio Stars are Socking away Savings and How! AN N AB ELLE FLYNN ...This is BELIEVE IT OR NOT—How The Queeriosity JACKSON is mu- the face that launched Robert L. Ripley—"Rip" 24 sical to her fingertips — Cartoonist Marshals His Odd Facts. a thousand locomo- . . . even makes the tea- tives. In other words, IS A COMEDIAN FUNNY TO HIS WIFE?— cups perform melodi- the charming leading Anyway, He isn't Boring, says Mrs. Fred Stone. Lillian G. Genn 26 ously when she hostesses lady of Empire Build- it in Cleveland. Oh yes, RADIO DRAMA—About the Man who'd Rather ers, whose chugchug- her pay check reads, Starve in Dramatics than Feast in Business. Harriet Menken 29 gingfrom Chicago NBC "WTAM . . .for ser- heralds thrilling drama. BETTER TIMES—Radio Rallies The Nation to- vices as concert pianist." ward Prosperity to the Tune of Millions of Dollars. 30 THE NE'ER DO WELL—Radio Digest Has Helen Spaulding 45 Privilege of Unmasking Mystery Star of KROW. STRIKES—LUCKY AND UNLUCKY—of Alma Sioux Scarberry 46 B. A. Rolfe, Ex-Millionaire Radio Celebrity. MAGIC CARPET—Dreams Come True To A Alice Curtice Dweller In The Far-away Ozarks Through Radio. Moyer-Wing 49 STAR-GAZING FOR GRAHAM—Combing The Heavens to Astrologize McNamee's Future. Peggy Hull 50 — Tables were IT ACTUALLY— HAPPENED turned Radio Listeners Became Playwrights! B. G. Clare 52 SCIENCE AND RELIGION—A Reconciliation of the two Forces, by World Famous Physicist. Sir Arthur Eddington 54 CARUSOS OF TOMORROW—Your Child may be one—Here's How to Start him Right. Frank La Forge 56 TOWN CRIER TALES—Parable of Princeton Grad, Good Samaritan and the Hi-Jacked Watch. Alexander Woollcott 57 RADIO TALKIES—"Scen-air-iozation" of popular Pictures Goes Over in a Big Way out at KH]. Dr. Ralph L. Rower 58

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LIKE a gleaming jewel in a changing light Radio TSHBEL MacDONALD, daughter of the Labor Prime * programs scintillate and glow with new colors J- Minister of England, is a chip off the old block and according to the evolution of new ideas and demands of particularly interested in the rank and file of humanity. public taste. There is a bit of the best from all forms of At the time we were in the ferment amusement—music, drama, literature, news, sports and of activity to relieve the unemploy- positive cultural training from the primary to the higher ment situation in America Miss forms of education. The light rests a moment on the move MacDonald stood up before a Co- of educators to compel broadcasters to appropriate a lumbia microphone in London and definite proportion of the time on the air to education. gave us her views as to the right way Broadcasters are not so keen about making it compulsory and wrong way of doing things to as they are about the methods to be used to present the help "the underdog." She thinks the educational program. The broadcaster insists that a world is too prone to dose its social certain amount of showmanship must go with the pro- headaches with aspirin instead of gram or there will be no one to hear it. The educators determining the cause of the trouble think that showmanship is unnecessary and supple- and curing it. She speaks a vigorous message straight mentary devices would interfere with the fundamental from the shoulder. And she wants to know if Americans practices of instruction. Important developments may aren't wasting precious time on useless social work, are be expected in 1931. we getting anywhere with constructive methods? What * * * about it? You may have heard her talk, whether you did or not you will be interested in reviewing it in the old world needs more laughs and less grouching THIS March Radio Digest. and grumbling. There is too much of morbid read- ing; too much prison pallor on the screen; too much moron catering and sex debauchery. Have you noticed the improved quality of the Amos 'n' feature? Let's turn the page and get a laugh, Andy There's a reason. Miss Peggy Hull, turn the dial for a half-hour of who is one of the most competent astrologers in America, chuckles. And for what better could has 'scoped both of the boys from the exact hour that you ask than old Brad Browne and they were born. Now that the Sun of Arc and the Stars of Kleig have out of Aspect but let his dear little Nit Wits of the moved the — Peggy Columbia system. They take the old tell you all about it—in that tight-packed March issue. world by the nose and shake the care * * * wrinkles off his jowls. Marcella in Tin Pan Alley—imagine what David Ewen can do this issue gives you a pleasant little with a subject like that! He's done it. You will get it sketch of Brad Browne. Next month in the March issue. we are going to entertain you with one of the skits which Brad says he JOHN P. MEDBURY, "Master Without Ceremony," thinks is one of the funniest they have ever produced. *J whose humorous contributions are read in almost Don't miss it. every household in the land, will be represented in our ^ * ~k- March Radio Digest. From all in- Did you subscribe to Radio Digest before the new $3 dications this number will stand rate went into effect? For those who have not already out as the greatest smile cracker yet been so advised by our circulation department please be published. Bright and sparkling but assured that your subscription as it stood on our books not frothy. You will find informa- up to January 1, 1931, will be extended to comply with tion of great interest available in no the $3 rate. other form. You will find words of * * * wisdom by some of the best minds. But in and out will he woven a Incidentally we are very happy to announce that sub- .^igBi ripple of clean fun to make you glad scriptions are coming in from all sections of the country I you have joined our merry party. in amazing volume. We are indebted to the many broadcasting stations that have commended our maga- Premier Mussolini's broadcast to America was pre- the "Radio Kill War" policy zine to their listeners. Thanks, gentlemen of the air! cisely in line with Can

suggested by a Radio Digest editorial. . . . WOC, Davenport, has requested privilege of rebroadcasting Almost everybody wants a log in Radio Digest. The the Radio Digest mystery play, Step on the Stair, which votes were overwhelming. A Chain Calendar and was the first serial thriller ever broadcast. The story

Official Wavelength list will be published here in was especially written for Radio Digest by Robert J.

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Broadcasters In Every State Win Honors

Contest Nominations From Listeners

Pour In To Acclaim Favorite Stations

THEY'RE off on the last two laps! Nominations are a break. Nominate it for the state championship. Do your pouring in. From east and west, north and south, en- bit to aid your station to win the honor of being declared thusiastic supporters are rallying to tell the world about the most popular in the state. the stations they consider the best in their states. For Many of the stations are being nominated not only because weeks interest in the contest has been gaining momentum and of their pleasing programs but because their announcers are now, with the half-way mark passed, and the end in sight, each popular with the station's listeners. "I wish to nominate station mail brings in votes. In many states at WEBC at Superior as the best Radio this stage of the game the race is neck station in Wisconsin," declares Miss Eda and neck. Melland, of Yellow Lake, Wisconsin. There is a fine spirit of loyalty and en- "This is a good, live station, with fine thusiasm for favorite stations on the part programs and a staff of very good an- of thousands of listeners as exemplified nouncers. Without good announcers a in the letters received by the contest ed- station can not hope to gain much popu- itor in every mail. Just read this one larity." from Miss Frances Cherry, of Wayne, Miss Madlyn Patton, of Philadelphia. Nebraska Pa., also pays tribute to the announcers. "WJAG at Norfolk is the home of the She nominates WPEN as the first station Printer's Devil. It is WJAG which has in Pennsylvania. "First of all," she such a. big Radio family. It is WJAG writes, "I nominate WPEN because our which has an 'Everything's All Right favorite Diamond Meritum winner hold? Club'. It is WJAG which gives a list sway the first thing in the morning. The each day of babies born into its family. Mystery announcer starts the day and WJAG does not have a Tom, Dick and then it's just good, clean fun the rest of Harry, but it does have a Karl, Ted and the day. The announcers of WPEN are Harry. WJAG has a singer, 'Tim' How- wonderful boys, everyone of them." ard Stark who won the honor of being in If you have not as yet nominated your the first five boy singers in the recent favorite stations don't delay, but get on state Atwater Kent Contest. WJAG has ^^^^^^^^^^ the band wagon now. Turn to the rule? a good girl's trio, the Harmony Trio. on page 100 and study them. There are WJAG has a wonderful mixed quartette." These are merely a ways of obtaining bonus votes that will loom large in the final few of the reasons why Miss Cherry is rooting for WJAG. She count. Whoopee! We're coming down the home stretch and concludes: "I could rave on for pages and pages about WJAG we'll cross the line at midnight. April 20th. Get those nomina- but why, when it speaks for itself." tions in and then cast the votes that may make your favorite Do you listen regularly to the broadcasts of a favorite sta- stations the honored ones in your state. Remember that there tion? Do you think its programs are the best produced for are four stations to be chosen from each state. Beautiful your entertainment in your state? If you do give your station medallions as shown above will be awarded—one for each winner.

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Fourth (call letters) City Fourth (call letters) City Signed Signed Address Address City State City State Arturo Toscanini

This portrait, posed three years

ago, is considered the best like-

ness of the famous maestro, one of whose eccentricities is his unwillingness to appear before a camera. —

Intimate Qlimpses of

Jixt u r o o s c a n 1 n 1

Philharmonic Conductor Has Memorized Thousands

of Scores—A Despot Who Flies into a Rage at Slight

Errors, but Still is Sincerely Loved by His Men

WOULD have attained great- "By DAVID EWEN fatigable energies which constantly drove HEness in any field of endeavor them to work harder and harder. He which requires the command- startled his management by the tremen- ing of men. For Toscanini An incident which I witnessed three dous increase in the number of rehearsals was born to be a commander. Had he years ago. will perhaps serve to illustrate and, consequently, in the expenses. And chosen to be the general of an army or most aptly what this magic that Tos- one and all they relented to his iron will. the ruler of a nation there can be no canini uses over his men really is. One An entire revolution had come over the doubt that he would have attained that afternoon during rehearsal, after putting La Scala Opera House with its new, young same eminence that he now possesses as the finishing touches to his rendition of conductor! the conductor of a symphony orchestra. Beethoven's 'Ninth Symphony, the or- Toscanini was born with a very grave

No one can understand what it is that chestra, inspired by the insight into the defect, especially grave for a conductor. makes his men obey him so meekly—his music he had given them, rose and He was near-sighted, so near-sighted in men, least of all. In his presence they cheered him for several minutes. While fact that he could not possibly see a score

feel a strange electricity radiating from the cheers persisted, Toscanini looked ob- unless it were leaning against his nose. him; they are humbled by the flash of his viously uncomfortable and tried But, as though in divine repentance, the \ by brilliant frantic ! eyes, and by that soft, tired gestures to curb their enthusiasm. Gods have given Toscanini a memory smile of his which is their only reward When the tumult had died down he re- that is almost phenomenal. That mem- when, after hours of rehearsing, they play buked them very gently, and tears were ory is one of the many causes for awe

I i well. glittering in the eyes that so often blaze among Toscanini-worshipcrs. Everyone Toscanini rules his men with iron des- with anger. knows that Toscanini knows by heart potism and yet, very strange to say, "You see, men," he explained softly, some ninety operas, the entire classical j — they love and worship him. I myself "it isn't me it's Beethoven!" repertoire from Bach to the most mod- | — have his \ seen orchestra slave under him ern of modern composers and about a in Bayreuth, during the recent Bayreuth thousand other little odds-and-ends. j Festival, for ten hours, and yet after this JLOSCANINI was a great Everyone knows with what rapidity he

I arduous rehearsal one of the fiddlers conductor from his earliest days. At first can memorize a new score. Two years wet with perspiration and tired to the he floundered about in the 'cello section ago he performed Ernest

I point of exhaustion—said to me: "What of the La Scala Opera House, in Italy, Schelling's Impressions of An

(I a man he is! If I could only play under but then, during the illness of the Artist's Life. The score him forever, I would be the happiest of conductor, he stepped from the 'cello reached his hands on Sunday 61 i men!" section to the conductor's podium and and the next morning he rehearsed the scheduled opera—from mem- came to Carnegie Hall and ory. He has remained on the conduc- rehearsed the whole work HATH strange tor's w magic stand ever since—startling his audi- minutely from memory. He does this leader exert over his men? It ences with performances which were remembered every single note is the magic of giving his men a mys- unparalleled even for La Scala; startling and every single instrument terious insight into the music they are the audiences by introducing into the in that long and intricate performing, insight an such as they have opera-bill such foreign names as Wagner score ! The composer, who never before had. It is the magic of a and Mozart, and to the concert-programs played his piano part from simple personality who loves his music such barbarian names as Beethoven and notes, looked at this man with such a passion that his love is con- Schubert ; startling the audiences by for- with gaping wonder. Tos- tagiously spread to all who work under bidding them to come late or to whisper canini's wit'e tells us that him. It is the magic of a man who is an during performances. He startled his or- when he gets a new score, he artist to his finger tips—and the magic chestra and singers by his scrupulous in- goes to lied, huddles within of an artist who is also a great man. sistence upon perfection, by his inde- (Continued on page 108) h t lubs

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night clubs of inasmuch as the Palais THENew York City of Royale achieved, to my the present day are mind, perfection in night almost a lost art clubs. Certainly it was compared to what they one of the most delightful were not so many years places to spend an evening back. Therefore a discus- for an individual who sion of them necessitates sought diversion, the finest a background of- former in dance music, good food, night clubs. and a beautiful atmos- My first speaking ac- phere. Previous to my quaintance with night first arrival in New York clubs, cabarets, and supper »»o at Easter vacation in 1922, clubs, began in March, I had heard a great deal of 1922. A great, rural state the famous young maestro like Maine, with only a who had come from the few big cities, which, in contrast to New West with his orchestra to take New York York, could hardly be termed wealthy, by storm and who found himself ensconced knows little or nothing about night life as a national hero in the beautiful Palais which, to many New Yorkers, seems a Royale in New York City. The loveliness natural and even tame part of city life. of its fountain and its acoustically perfect Most of the important cities of Maine room seemed almost like a dream. Easter have at best nothing but large public vacation afforded me an opportunity for dance halls and exclusive clubs and hotels my first visit to New York, and one of Texas Guinan, called "Queen of the Night at which private affairs may be given. the places I resolved to visit was the Palais Clubs" 'who once made the greeting cry o£ The rise of the night club, or supper Royale. I shall never forget the won- "Hello, Sucker!" her -watch-word. club, such as New Yorkers know it, seems derful evening I spent there; Whiteman's to have been actuated by the desire of band was at its best. Although I went certain famous individuals to own their alone I did not feel out of place, and the own room with their own orchestra, and beauty and charm of everything about it to serve either food or liquor for those affected me most profoundly. I had some guests who were willing to pay well for very fine lobster to eat; whether or not the privilege of isolation from the ordinary liquor was sold surreptitiously I do not habitues of public dance halls or hotel know, but I do recollect that it was one grills. of the most perfect evenings of my life. I know little or nothing about the places Later, when a freshman at Yale, I often of the past decade such as Rector's and frequented the Palais Royale with a very Delmonico's, the places where Sophie charming young lady, and enjoyed it more Tucker, Ted Lewis, and so many other than ever, as I was then able to dance to inspiring of the band, stars became famous or were made famous, the music Whiteman j but my starting point is a good one, The JoorQ».had been remodeled and was^ c

^z licture of 1 he (jray yV kite yVay

By Rudy Vallee Above—A detail of the wall decoration of the now defunct "Heigh-Ho Club" of Don Dickerman. This was the scene of Rudy Vallee's first triumph as a baton wielder. more enchanting than ever. Joseph Villa Venice, the Lorraine Grill, and many

Urban, I was told, had made a study of other places where J. W. McKee, Joseph it and every point of beauty in the ceiling C. Smith, Ray Miller, Eddie Davis, Larry and architecture was arranged acoustically. Siry, Art Hickman, and many others Below—Plenty of pep and enthusiasm when In the same Fall of 1922, accompanied enticed the feet of New Yorkers to dance. the Crooning Tenor entertains for New by some members of the Yale Band, I Art Hickman attained great popularity Yorkers at the Villa Vallee—an unusual pic- visited several night clubs on the eve of during his short lived run in New York: ture of the author, never before published. the Yale-Princeton game at Princeton. At I have often wondered why he did not that time the "Boardwalk" was very popu- stay and achieve the same success that larly acclaimed on account of its excellent Whiteman did, as he was even a little in revues and superior orchestra. There was advance of Whiteman as a forerunner in also the "Moulin Rouge." but the "Board- smart syncopation. In fact it was through walk" was one place which attracted all of his Victor records that Whiteman flooded us and which we enjoyed tremendously. the entire world with his new idea of The couvert of most of the clubs at that dance music. time approximated four or five dollars. If I would have been very happy indeed I recollect rightly, the "Palais Royale" had I been able to dance at these various asked four dollars, and no one seemed to places to the music of their respective object to paying it. Prohibition had been orchestras, for there was an atmosphere more or less enforced for over four years, and air about everything in those days and yet the "Palais Royale" and the that seems to have disappeared today. "Boardwalk" and similar Broadway places The change has been gradual; whether enjoyed a huge success. this alteration is due to prohibition, finan- There were the clubs on the outskirts, cial conditions, or merely to the differ- such as the Pelham Heath Inn and the ences in fads and tastes I do not claim Westchester Parkway places, but these I to know. It would not seem to me to would not call typical night clubs; they be economic depression, because I believe were, as the name implies, roadhouses, to people will always spend money to en- which one motored for dancing and dining. tertain themselves and will usually find Rather, in my mind, does "night club" the necessary amount to go out when signify a club either on Broadway or in they so desire. the heart of New York itself, with a floor show, a master of ceremonies, various types of acts with professional entertainers and a chorus of girls. Down through the years

192 5, there also came into existence the smarter type of club, often termed the supper club, such as the Club Royal. Then, too, followed the vogue of the attractive tea dances at the Plaza, the —

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your own liquor if you wish to restrict his own share of liquor to that The type of entertain- to drink. They are obliged amount which he is positive he can drink ment in the more deco- to face a proposition ex- without results that will render him a rous night club Moss — tremely difficult of solution figure of annoyance, disgust or ridicule. and Fontanne, ballroom If one enters quiet, refined club dancers of the Club —that of adequately ap- any Lido, who are now on a pealing to their guests with- such as those I have mentioned, one will month's leave in order out serving intoxicants. observe that even though everyone has to appear before the brought his own liquor, and is drinking, English King and Queen. the atmosphere is somehow kept quiet J7R0M my ob- and respectable; but go into almost any servations of middle class speakeasy where there is a piano, a group and elite society both here of Hawaiians, two or three negroes around and abroad, of society in a piano, or even a dance orchestra as general, or may I even say some of them have, and there you will human beings in general, find quite a different atmosphere. There there is little or no anima- are loud peals of laughter and many it tion and hilarious enjoyment hectically gay groups. . In the midst of

unless there is a stimulant. all one finds several parties eating, and Please notice carefully that eating delicious food at that! And that I say "hilarious enjoyment," is where the speakeasy seems to surpass i.e. that New Year's Eve fer- a respectable night club. To the speak- vour which reminds one of easy the young man takes his girl and a madhouse. Personally I begins the evening with the realization of am happiest where the ex- one thing, and that is this—that he pays citement is moderately re- only for what he gets. The couvert strained, where one enjoys seems always to have antagonized certain oneself in a reasonably people, but it is simply a means of pay- quiet way, with conversa- ing for the band and entertainment. It tion, dancing, good food, is like a ticket to the show. A club and refreshments at intermis- featuring entertainment absolutely must sion. With the proper es- have some means of paying for it; the cort and the proper crowd profits on food and beverages like ginger I believe an evening may ale are not enough. The young man who be very enjoyable this way, takes a girl to a speakeasy is steeped in but there are people who an atmosphere of smoke and bad air all seem to feel that unless evening, as most of them are too small there is over-loud laughter, to accommodate the crowds they attract; an excess of back-slapping, then the young man is astonished that hopping about, breaking of he invariably wakes up with a "hangover" various eating utensils—in the next morning! Besides, he doesn't short, genuinely riotous pan- save anything by going there. His guar- demonium, then the party is antee concerning Unquestionably the enormous increase not a success. the quality of the in the number, prominence, and daring I admit that to attain this state of liquor obtained of speakeasies in the past four or five ribald excitement at a party, liquor is a years have been mainly responsible for necessary adjunct. I have watched many the downfall of night clubs and supper parties which commenced as respectably clubs as a paying proposition. When one enjoyable become white heat orgies. The reflects that there are over fifty thousand casual factor is nearly always the con- speakeasies in New York City alone, tents of a bottle poorly concealed under (over fifty mind you!) then, and only the table, or the latent effects of potent then, can we arrive at a clear conception drinks recently imbibed. I have seen too of exactly what competition opposes the much of this not to be brought to a maintenance of an attractive but dry realization of the fact that liquor can night or supper club. Membership clubs, make people forget their worries, cares like the St. Regis Roof and Grill en- and normal selves, and to make them counter little trouble. They are estab- become, as it were, "Mr. Hydes" lished by the most exclusive of New for the moment; some of the York's society and are assured of a finan- most meek, humble and quiet Above and right cial standing before they even begin the people have become trans- Don Dickerman, "the season; in fact, they do not welcome formed after a few drinks into most strait-laced outsiders and are strictly formal, for they the loudest, coarsest and most night club proprietor in the world", attired realize that that is an effective way of unreasonable persons imagin- in pirate costume to excluding undesirables. Of course, they able; and it does seem that carry out the spirit are not averse to showing a profit, but there are many people who en- of his unique Green- advertise in joy this sort of an evening. they only the smart maga- My wich Village Rendez- zines and are solely interested in securing inevitable contact with such vous, "The Pirate's situations has led to realize the right people as patrons. me Den", where no liq- Places like the Club Richman, the that whatever one may think, uor is served. Mr. Montmartre, the Lido, El Patio, and morally, ethically or legally, Dickerman is also an many others (not to forget the place about drinking, there should at artist and the black at which it is my pleasure to appear least be one universally ac- and white decorations nightly, the Villa Vallee), are admittedly cepted rule; everyone with any for this article are dry clubs where it is necessary to bring innate sense of decency ought from . his clever pen. 11

there is no better than the assurances of a easiest way for an en- regular bootlegger, and the prices charged terprising prohibition

for it are, in most cases, so exorbitant administrator to secure that before the end of the evening he has publicity is to raid a spent as much as he would have if he famous place, whether had gone to a night club. or not liquor is actually sold there. Everyone knows that in every A_Ss I have remarked be- place where people fore, the food in most speakeasies is of gather there is some a very high order; the proprietors have drinking of liquor that sense enough to realize that with good the guests bring them- food and good liquor, such as it is, the selves. This furnishes

combination is almost unbeatable! But sufficient grounds for it is certainly not a matter of economy the raid itself, as the for the people who go there. They go proprietor of any place willing to pay any bill presented them. is supposed not only to There is a certain camaraderie in a speak- warn his guest against easy—the thrill of gaining admittance by bringing or drinking in- a password, giving your card, or whisper- toxicating liquors, but P. & A. Photo ing through a little interviewer, being to refuse to furnish ac- Acrobatic dancers are features in the gayer clubs hastily let in and hearing the door cessories. slammed behind you—everyone locked There are the clubs together, as it were, with the very slight in Harlem. Some do not welcome whites hattan is Greenwich Village, with all of fear of arrest and the Black Maria hang- but cater strictly to their own colored its odd and quaint places. Towering ing over everyone! In other words, the group. It is not wise to attempt to enter among all these odd places are the four thrill of doing wrong is enhanced by the these. Places such as the Cotton Club that Don Dickerman himself created, spirit of comradeship with a group of or Small's Paradise, especially the latter, devised, designed and built. I was very people whom you know and like, in most furnish a great deal of entertainment for pleased to assist him materially in the cases. Misery (or shall I say the thrill the out of town thrill seeker. building of the Daffydil Club. His other of scoflawing?) loves company. The Cotton Club is a respectable club clubs, the Pirate's Den. which is ten Of course, too, a great many people with a most wonderful revue, beautifully years old, the Blue Horse, and the County like to drink for the sheer joy of drink- staged with a line of very attractive Fair, are the most unique places of their ing, and a speakeasy affords them an colored girls. On Sunday nights various kind. Dickerman is a specialist in artis- opportunity to do so. It also provides celebrities of the theatrical world are tic diversion and only he could create reasonably pleasant surroundings with there and are always called upon to do the type of place that he has there. others who want to drink and eat good something. Duke Ellington's band, one Dickerman is perhaps the most strait- food at the same time. The places that of the finest in the country, perhaps the laced night club owner and proprietor in are combinations of speakeasies and finest, rhythmically speaking, holds forth the world; his clubs are all scrupulously supper clubs resemble both in some and no one could resist dancing to it. clean in food, entertainment, music, and respects. I doubt whether these are Small's is the place for the country general atmosphere. He. more than any- numerous, and those in active operation relative you would like to shock. I am one else, realizes just what the absolutely constantly court the danger of a raid not going to attempt to describe just what dry and refined night club is up against, unless they are well protected. The goes on. Suffice to say that white men as his places do a good business but are dancing with col- hardly worth the effort to keep them ored girls and vice going. The Daffydil Club, which closed versa, with singing two weeks ago, was my own Sunday night waiters and a gen- hobby. It has been my pleasure to in- eral atmosphere of vite as many celebrities as I know and ribaldry and fun meet in the various theatrical fields down makes Small's a Sunday night, when we had a sort of most unusual place. amateur theatrical night with everybody

Down on the doing a turn. Like the Cotton Club, it other end of Man- (Continued on page 97)

The beautiful Central Park Casino (below), favored by the Four Hundred, presents a strange contrast to the usual down-in-a-cellar or over-a-garage club 12 Atop Mount Vesu vius Travelers Knew The Beloved Miketeer By His Voice Alone!

tie Criedfor By Joy At His W e I c o m e ffOXY Home Party

HELLO, everybody. It's get away from his or her work had made good to be where I can the trip to the pier. Some were still in say that to you again. I'm make-up. In their anxiety to be present so happy to be home again when the ship came in they had rushed I can't find appropriate words with directly from the stage to a taxi. That's which to express myself. my idea of loyalty and, bless their hearts, If you should ask me what I they know I'm a sentimentalist. Some- missed the most since I've been away times I think they like to see me give I believe I would have to say it was way to my emotions. But I don't mind. "mike" and that old "gang" of mine. I saw drops of moisture sliding pell-mell It's a great old world in which we down many a grease-painted face. And live and I've been seeing a great I knew they weren't raindrops, either. many of its highly publicized No matter what the philosophers tell "sights" but, do you know, the great- you, I believe when all is said and done, est sight of all was the one I saw it's sentiment that makes the whole world from the deck of the steamship which akin. brought me back to the United States. My vacation? Oh, it was one of those

No, it wasn't the Statue of Liberty in things, you know, when a fellow has been the New York Harbor. It was a thrill to everlastingly at his job for so long that see the lady through the rain that night, he believes he should "get away from it but the thrill of thrills came after we all." And that's a funny thing. If you passed her, and the little terrier-like tugs have an idea that taking a vacation is were nosing the liner into position along- going to get you away from it all I'm side the pier. afraid you're going to be awfully disap-

Someone, I think it was Jacques Ben- pointed. At least, that was my experi- jamin, my assistant who accompanied me ence. on the vacation, said, "Look at that Of course, I had a wonderful time. But crowd on the pier." I ran to the deck as I look back over my journeyings I find rail as though pulled by a magnet, sens- the high spots have to do with people, ing that somewhere in the assembled rather than the sights I so often went out throng there might be a friend or two of my way to visit. who had braved the weather to speak There was that trip up to the crater a cheery word of greeting to this return- edge of Mount Vesuvius. Ben and I ing voyager. A friend or two, did I say? made the ride up in the cable-car fairly The pier end took on the appearance trembling with excitement over the of a misplaced stage-setting. That is, the prospect of seeing the cone of the great carnival-like atmosphere prevailing there- volcano. In fact, the tourists in our on seemed misplaced to me. Surely, I car all seemed to be looking forward thought, a steamship pier is no place in to witnessing an eruption, which, per- which to hold a fiesta. Tiny flags were haps luckily for us, did not take place. being waved frantically by a hundred The newest picture of Roxy (S. L. Clambering out on the rim we looked hands. Above the din of the noisy Rothafel) — taken aboard ship. over the scene and waited forty-five whistles I heard my nickname being minutes for something to happen. shouted. Then, above the heads of the But nothing did happen and Ben crowd on the pier, I saw a banner carry- which was interfering with my vision. I turned to me and said, "I don't think ing this message, "Welcome Home, was crying for sheer joy and I didn't care much of this show." Roxy." who saw me. Now, rushing about Europe trying to I don't remember much that happened The "gang" was there. Out there on see everything worthwhile is rather try- after that. Honestly, I don't. I couldn't the pier, in the rain. That old gang of ing at best and having spent three quar- see anything clearly. I tried to brush the mine! What a home-coming it was. ters of an hour waiting for a famous vol- water out of my eyes. It wasn't rain Every employee of the theatre who could cano to do its stuff seemed like a terribly 13 ne

from a restaurant in Copenhagen, Den- mark. As I understand it this restaurant three in the summer CQOXY had been abroad for months has an exceptionally fine orchestra and, *\, and fall. Most informally I dropped in to see him in his ostensibly for the sake of the music, a library-office over the Roxy Theatre. It was my intention to tell luncheon concert is put on the air. Now the genial gentleman how glad the Radio fans were to have him it seems that this restaurant is a great meeting place for out-of-towners who back at the microphone again, but somehow everything was are in Copenhagen for the day and while reversed I listening to as he told and found myself Roxy me the government, which controls Den- how happy he was to be home again. My half hour with him mark's Radio activities, prohibits the was not in the nature of an interview. It was a happy-go-lucky broadcasting of personal messages, these discussion of his vacation, highlighted with Roxy's anecdotes transient visitors have found a way to circumvent this rule. As the orchestra of seemingly trivial happenings—incidents which go to make plays, the guests in the restaurant leave life so worth the living to this lover life. of their tables and file past the microphone, stopping before the instrument to emit I wish you might all meet and know Roxy. He, in turn, either a laugh, a cough, a sneeze or some wishes that personally every he might meet and know one of other throaty signal by which wives, hus- you, too. He's that sort of a man. Perhaps I may be able to bands or relatives sitting at home before paint a word picture of the lovable, enthusiastic, sympathetic the loudspeaker may identify them. The gentleman who told me this story insists Roxy if I let him talk to you—using, as best lean remember, the that it is a very jolly affair. words and phrases he used when chatting with me. I'll try. Well, I have seen the Blue Danube. Doty Hobart Perhaps this famous river may, at times. live up to its name but when I looked from my hotel window in Budapest in long time. I guess we expected too much. once did I get within twenty feet of a search of its lauded color it was about Anyway, Ben's remark seemed quite ap- microphone while abroad. The closest I that of very good coffee. propriate and I seconded it immediately came to one was in Vienna. Ben and I A friend of mine sent word that he with, "It's a complete bust." attended a performance of Franz Lehar's had made a luncheon engagement for A strange voice beside me said, "You're operetta, Das Land des Lachehis, given Thursday, at which I was to meet a right, Roxy." in the Theatre Am Wien. From my seat Princess. The message was delivered to Turning, I the gentlemen me on Monday but I wasn't the least faced one of in one ' of the stage boxes I spotted the in the party of tourists. "How did you microphone and learned that the operetta bit interested in Princesses on Monday know me?" I asked. was being broadcast. It was a rather and as the week continued my interest "I recognized your voice," he replied. cheerful sight to see friend "mike" on the did not, I am ashamed to say. increase.

Then, as he saw the puzzled expression on job and again my thoughts flew across Poor Ben ! How he must have enjoyed my face, he laughed. "Good Heavens, the Atlantic to the "gang". that stay in Budapest. He tried to cheer man, I've been hearing that voice on my me up but I simply refused to get happy. loud speaker in my home in Battle Creek, Did you ever see a person who thought Michigan, for several years now. I knew 1h.HE performance was a he was having a perfectly splendid time I couldn't be mistaken." And with that gala affair. On learning that I was to be being miserable? If you have, then you he introduced himself and the other mem- present Franz Lehar conducted as only know how to sympathize with Ben for bers of the party. Various sections of he can conduct his own work. The tenor. I know I must have been the pest of the United States were represented by the Richard Tauber, a great favorite in Budapest those three days. little group standing on the rim of Mount Vienna, was recalled innumerable times Vesuvius. And what do you think we after his singing of Dein 1st Mein Gauzes talked about? The "gang". Each and Herz. Bows alone were not sufficient. every one had some question to ask about Three times he was forced to repeat the Gladys Rice, Willie Wee Robyn, "Mickey" song. The first repetition was sung direct- McKee, Frank Moulan and all their other ly to Franz Lehar, in the pit. Then Tauber favorites. embarrassed me by standing beneath the There you are. In trying to "get away box in which I was sitting to sing, with it all" from and keep my identity a secret appropriately changed words, Dein 1st while sight-seeing I had stumbled right Mein Gauzes Herz, to me! The third into a real homey gabfest that lasted time he told the audience in song that it until the cable-car deposited the entire was all of his heart. party at the foot of the mountain. I I'm sorry now that I didn't give more think "a good time was had by all." I attention to European broadcasting, but know I had a marvelou. time telling those as I have already told you, I went on a Radio friends from the States about the vacation to get away from it all. "gang". Oh, yes, I did hear about an amusing Gladys Rice, a favorite since But I did get away from "mike". Not program which is broadcast every noon the early days of the "gang". —

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You could never guess what brought head on the floor. And she didn't offer and it wasn't long before the gentleman me around to semblance of my normal me her hand to kiss. and I were chatting. Then came an ex- self. It was a Gypsy band. What a regular fellow she was. We change of cards. The one I received was Thursday morning as I sat propped up talked about music, dogs, golf and mo- large and as expressive of dignity as was in bed the door opened and in walked tion pictures, even as you and I. I told the gentleman himself. It seems he was eleven Gypsies, each carrying a musical her about my family and she told me of a retired Obermeister from a little town instrument. Now I don't advise any her own life and of her husband, who is not far away. I watched him as he read doctor to prescribe eleven Gypsies as not a Prince at all, but a railway execu- the cards we handed him. being the ideal dose of medicine needed tive in Hungary. Of course I told her for an ordinary case of sickness but I all about the "gang." always shall believe that the manager of And that's the way it was during my VeERY graciously the the hotel, who was responsible for the entire vacation. The people I met meant Obermeister stated that it was a great appearance of the musicians in my room, so . much more to me than the sights I honor to meet "Herr Rothafel" and decided that I needed drastic treatment. went so far to see. "Herr Benjamine." And what do you And what do you think they started When we were in Berlin I dragged suppose we talked about? Believe it or to play? Yes, you are absolutely right Ben out on a window-shopping expedi- not, the principal subject was "beer". The Blue Danube Waltz! tion. From Unter den Linden we jour- We learned that the water which goes At the sound of the first strains I re- neyed along Friedrich Strasse as happy into the making of beer is responsible belled and my shouts had the desired as two kids on a lark. Here we could for its grading, which is why, according effect of bringing that selection to a mingle with the crowds and no one would to the good Obermeister, all beer is not sudden and untimely finish. I begged be liable to recognize us. Pasted on the of the same quality. It all depends on them to play anything but that. And window of a little restaurant I spied a which part of Germany the beer is made. play they did. Wonderfully. Gloriously. bill of fare and paused to read it. The And for once I actually was able to Wild strains of their folk tunes rang one item which commanded my atten- "get away from it all." I'm sure he'd out in my room and, in spite of my de- tion was "sausages and mashed potatoes" never heard of Roxy and how I did enjoy termination to stay sick, I found myself and I must confess, after having lived my "sausages and mashed potatoes" as well again. Literally, the magic of music on the best of the land at the various I listened to his dissertation on brewing. had put me on my feet again. hotels, I actually craved sausages and He was a great old scout but I'm glad I Yes, I kept the luncheon appointment mashed potatoes. I never remember don't have to wear the Obermeister's and met the Princess. wanting anything quite as badly before whiskers. as I did a meal of sausages and mashed Speaking of whiskers reminds me of potatoes. And, furthermore, I didn't see what happened as the steamer reached o.'UEER, isn't it the idea how anyone could desire anything else Quarantine on its way into the New York we have of Royalty? My own idea, up that was on the bill of fare, so I insisted Harbor. to then, had been that a Princess was that Ben must also have sausages and Early in the evening I had gone to the one of these stand-offish persons before mashed potatoes. Radio operator's quarters and listened to whom mere human beings like you and The place was fairly well filled and, as the program being broadcast from the me must bow very low and, did Her we were unable to obtain a table by our- studio of the Roxy Theatre. It was

Highness permit it, kiss her hand. selves, we sat with a very dignified be- "gang" night and Milton J. Cross was in Perhaps some Princesses are like that whiskered gentleman who had just ordered charge. Familiar voices singing familiar but not this one. Of course, when I was his dinner. songs! In my mind's eye I could picture introduced to the lady I bowed. But not Now, it is difficult for me to eat at the studio in its nook high above the very low. She didn't look a bit as the same table with a person and not stage and the realization swept over me though she wanted to see me bump my strike up some sort of a conversation, that I was really and truly back. Then

The original gang, when Roxy first went on the air. Left to right; top, Eugene Ormandy, Melaine Dowd, Dr. Billy Axt, Mme. Elsa Stralia, Louise Schearer, Frederick Jaegel, Yascha Bunchuk, Bruce Benjamin; seated, Carl Scheutze, Nada Reisenberg, Edna Baldwin, Roxy, Betsy Ayres, Evelyn Herbert, Editha Fleischer. 15

I heard Milt say, and every member. "Welcome home, If I can't be dig- Roxy. We know nified (and who you are listening in wants to be?) I somewhere down can get sentimen- the bay. Welcome tal. And if ever home." I was home' a man had some- That was the start of a series of thrills Here's what you'll see when television conies thing over which he can be sincerely and from then on they came thick and —the Roxy Ballet. And on page 3 5 is another sentimental I am that man over that old treat for your eyes Patricia Bowman. fast. — "gang" of mine.

At Quarantine reporters boarded the . . . Yes, I know I'm watching the ship. As the ship moved toward the clock. The schedule here on my desk North River I talked with them and at himself. But Erno couldn't disguise his tells me that I am due at a "mike" re- the same time tried to pull into my very eyes. hearsal in five minutes. And mike is an soul as much of the picture of the ap- Then came the meeting of the "gang" exacting master. He demands punctual- proaching New York skyline as I possibly at the pier. It's ten years now since the ity from—his subjects. In more ways could. I wonder what I told those gen- original "gang" made its first broadcast. than one "what he says, goes." But I tlemen of the press? I have no recollec- There have been a lot of changes in have learned that he'll work hard for tion of saying anything. personnel since then and many additions. you. too. if you treat him as a friend Then, all at once one of the boys It's wonderful though how a "gang" mem- when making your contact with the great pressed forward. ber respects his or her membership. listening-in public. The reward for gain-

They may leave for other work but ing "mike's" good will is both spiritual when they are in town they never fail and practical. Of course you have to be OAY, Roxy, we've just to drop into the studio on the night of sincere and dead on the level with him. discovered a violinist who came over a broadcast. You can't just use "mike" for a good on this ship with you. He's a steerage Just the other night as Harry Breuer thing. He's too wise. He has a way of passenger and has just learned that you was playing a xylophone solo I spied going straight to the hearts of the people are aboard. He wants to meet you. "Mickey" McKee. whose birdlike whistle and if you don't succeed in touching Hey! Come on, you! Here's Roxy if was so familiar to the "gang" fans a few those hearts genuinely, the fault is yours, you want to see him." years ago, on the far side of the studio. not "mike's." He delivers your messages A poorly dressed figure shuffled for- "Mickey" is located in New Orleans now just as you give them to him. ward, a violin case under his arm. his but during a recent visit to New York she face glorified with a set of whiskers had popped in unexpectedly to see the which outdid the Obermeister's. A pair "gang." A fairly quiet reception in honor H,.E'S helped me in so of sharp eyes peered at me beneath an of her return was in progress but I many, many ways that when I begin to old slouch hat. caught her eye and motioned for her to check up on what he has meant to me Those eyes belonged to but one person leave the group and come over to the I am convinced that he probably has in the world and I knew that person. mike. Then I whispered to her. "Whistle been the most valued and indispensable The next minute I had gathered the the chorus of this number with Harry." friend in my long career. violinist into my arms in a bearlike hug The selection was The Wedding Of The Oh. yes. Before I rush away I'll let that must have driven the wind out of the Birds and without any hesitation you in on a little secret. I'm planning to man's lungs. They tell me I was shout- "Mickey" whistled an obligato accom- take the "gang" on the road for a concert ing at the top of my voice. "Take 'em paniment. After the number was over tour. And Madame Ernestine Schumann- off, Erno. I know you!" I thanked Mickey for her impromptu bit Heink has promised to accompany us It was Erno Rapee. This orchestra and told the audience what had happened. What do you know about that 5 Yes. conductor who has been with me so many But that's the way with the "gang." she's one of the most loyal members oi years had obtained permission to board They're loyal. Once a member, always the "'-rantr '. bless her heart. But I must the ship at Quarantine and in an effort a member. And I just can't help telling sign off or I'll gel in Dutch. to give me a real surprise had disguised the listeners-in how proud I am of each "Goodbve. and God bless you." — _

16 ROW s to in a r a s

Lowell Thomas

LJescription ofHis Most Thrilling Experience—when he was Almost

Broiled Alive in a Blazing Plane

ALWAYS had an idea that I would One of the great thrills of my life was do a lot of traveling, and I often the telling of my illustrated adventure I wondered when and where my big tale of Lawrence and Field Marshal thrill would come. My travels Viscount Allenby to more than a mil- haven't ended yet, so perhaps my most lion people, among them the crowned exciting experience hasn't happened yet. heads of six countries. My greatest thrill up to now did not Having addressed visible audiences happen in forbidden Afghanistan, or the in all parts of the world for many frozen North or far-off India, as one years, I felt something of a thrill the might imagine. It came quite unexpect- day executives of the Literary Digest edly in romantic Spain in the form of an summoned me to the studios of the airplane crash. Columbia Broadcasting System in New Tied for second place are adventures York City for an audition for the role senger air journey up to that time. and unusual experiences that began as far of their "Radio voice." For it meant From London to Asia Minor and back, back as I can remember. Fourteen men that for the first time in my life I was from Paris to Poland, from the Balkans were shot down before my eyes in the to address an unseen audience, that no to Manchuria and from Moscow to Spain, riots in the mining section of Cripple one would be present while I was talking. we flew through every type of weather Creek, Colo., when I was eleven. A year It was a most unusual sensation. with only one mishap—a nose-dive into a later I saw some strikers bomb a train, Each day brings me a new thrill—the lonely Spanish valley on a flight from blowing the cars to atoms and hurling thrill of preparing and presenting my Paris to North Africa. Mrs. Thomas their occupants in all directions. How nightly broadcast of "Topics in brief was my constant companion on these many were killed I don't recall. the news behind the news." There is that flights. It is a curious coincidence that Then there were thrilling adventures in same excitement, that same battle against the only trip she did not make was the Alaska—far above the Arctic Circle, and time that one encounters each day in flight on which the crash occurred. the. battles on the Allied fronts from the "beating the deadline" on a newspaper. Having just flown over Russia, to Fin- North Sea to Persia during the World But the airplane crash in the south of land and then to Berlin, my wife and I War. Still etched indelibly on my mem- Spain still holds first place. It was my sat down one day to discuss our next ory are the historic conflicts in the Ara- narrowest escape from death. destination. We had seen enough of bian Desert between Colonel T. E. Law- Germany for the time being and were in rence's wild Arab army and the hostile a mood for adventure. Civilized coun- Turks. It will be a long time before I L_N 1926 my wife and I de- tries begin to get on one's nerves after will forget a night back in 1919 when I cided to go on a flying tour of Europe for awhile, and we had knocked about in was caught in the line of machine gun the purpose of studying aviation and for the outlands long enough to like them bullets fired by a group of German revo- pleasure. We spent seven months of con- best. As usual we ended by growing lutionists in the streets of Berlin during tinual flying over virtually every mile of weary of hotel bell-boys, automats, lim- the revolution that gripped the Central Europe's new airways, covering more than ousines and movies, and experienced a Powers following the signing of the Ar- 25,000 miles in every type of plane used craving for the barren wastes of Waziri- mistice. I was wounded, but not seriously. on the Continent. It was the longest pas- stan, the kampongs of Malaya or the even 17 FALL Three Hundred Feet

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As the plane crashed to earth it burst into flames. We all dived head first over the tattered fuselage. Never in my life had I moved with such speed wild tundra plains of the Far North. "Well, where shall we go?" my wife asked, travel literature in a pile before us. upon me. Here we already had been in comparison with the big ships of the air A study of the library of air-route Europe nearly seven months and she had in which we had flown for so many thou- folders we had collected on our travels not bought a single new frock or hat. It sands of miles lately. Into the air we revealed that there was a regular and was all right to fly from Paris to Mo- winged our way and were off on the first apparently quite satisfactory and com- rocco, as we had planned, but now that leg of our journey. Over miles of beauti- fortable sky service between Paris and we were back in Paris she was not going ful country with trim fields, graceful hills, Morocco. Morocco, it is true, is no upper to hop right off again on the next plane. towns nestled in valleys, lakes and cha-

Amazon or inner New Guinea; but still, In fact, she was going to stay in Paris teaux we flew to Lyons. From there we Africa is Africa. So to Paris to take an at her own sweet leisure. continued on our way without mishap, Africa-bound plane. "You fly to Morocco," she said, "while making stops at Marseilles, Perpignan.

I flit about Paris." Barcelona and Alicante for mail.

And so it was that I started out alone o'VER the river Elbe, a on an aerial voyage, the itinerary of large forest, a fine chateau, a great plain, which was to be Faris, Lyons, Marseilles, A_T ALICANTE, in the a small river—the Ober, and a few facto- Perpignan, Barcelona, Alicante. Malaga, south of Spain, we changed planes. After ries and we were at Hanover, our first stop. Gibraltar, Tangier, Rabat, Casablanca, he had made a few adjustments, the pilot. From there to Cologne for another brief Fez, and return. That was the way the Paul Noailhat. a mechanic from Perpignan. pause, and thence to Le Bourget Field. tour was intended, but it turned out some- and I hopped into the plane and were off. I was for setting off immediately for what differently. Because of her shop- We had traveled only a short distance Morocco, but Mrs. Thomas would have ping tour of Paris my wife missed two and were about to fly over the jagged none of it. It was quite true that we forced landings, the second of which was Siena Nevada Mountains when some- were on a flying tour of Europe. There the crash. thing went wrong with the motor It was, however, one thing we had neglected; At Lc Bourget Field I climbed into a began to miss and knock anil make weird shopping. Mrs. Thomas impressed this Bleriot-Spad. It seemed like a toy in noises, but despite this the pilot kept on 1! for several minutes until he sighted a Waving adios to the chief of pilots and Shopping in Paris flat stretch of desert. We circled round his mechanic, we went roaring across the was more thrilling and round until Noailhat decided it was desert. We had come down on a fairly to Mrs. Thomas than tale of a fairly safe place to land, then came level stretch of twenty or thirty acres, but my escape. down. just beyond were big boulders, stumpy As soon as we came to a stop, the pilot olive trees and a mule We roared nearer hopped out, pulled off a mask he had been and nearer the trees wearing, his fur-lined boots and flying and it looked as suit, and struck out in search of some though we were go- habitation in order to telephone back to ing to pick up the Alicante for a relief plane. Under a broil- mule and take him ing sun, with dozens of Spanish peasants along with us on our looking with wonder at us and the plane, jaunt through the the mechanic and I waited for the pilot air. The plane gave for more than two hours. When finally he no sign of leaving returned he brought us the news that he had found a telephone and that a relief plane ought to arrive shortly. The three of us stretched out in the shade of the lower wing for another half- hour to get what relief we could from the furnace-like heat. While we were watch- ing the antics of the Spanish peasants, who frankly regarded us as freaks, we heard the hum of the engine of the relief plane. A moment later we saw it circling in the cloudless sky a glistening — mere the ground, although we were running with three hundred feet above the olive trees, speck a mile above us. the throttle wide open. It looked as but she was not climbing as she ought to. Seizing a pile of faggots he had gath- though we were headed for a smash, the Then we started to veer to the right. ered, Noailhat held them under the en- sort that Captain Rene Fonck had with There was something in the way we were gine, opened a valve and soaked them with his trans-Atlantic ship at Roosevelt Field. turning that made me feel instinctively gasoline. Then he ran into the middle of But Noailhat throttled down and switched that all was not well. In turning in the the level space where we had landed, off just in time. air a pilot always banks over, tipping the touched a match to them and sent up a Noailhat swung the plane around and plane either in one direction or the other. column of smoke as a signal to let the taxied back to the other plane where he This is one of the elemental rules of trav- other pilot know the direction of the wind held a consultation with his chief from eling in three dimensions. and where to land. Alicante. Our pilot insisted that he had But we were turning flat and losing The second plane made a perfect land- used every ounce of power in the engine. flying speed. We got around and were ing. Out of it hopped the chief of pilots The chief then turned to the Perpignan facing in the opposite direction when, in from Alicante and an expert mechanic. mechanic who was sitting in the rear cock- what seemed like a split second, she nosed Instead of trying to repair our ship, they pit with me, and asked him if he was down. immediately switched the mail and all bound for Africa on company service and The sensation of an impending crash is our baggage into their plane, the idea be- whether it would make any difference if almost indescribable. For a second you ing that we could push on without delay he got out and waited a few days. Then dangle helplessly in the air; then there is while they could repair our disabled motor he told him to get out and lighten the a rush of wind in your ears and it seems and then fly back to Alicante in our plane. load. as though the earth is leaping up at you. In fifteen minutes the five of us had But just as my fellow-sardine was As we started to plunge downward I transferred the mail, and Noailhat, the throwing his leg over the cockpit the chief glanced at the French mechanic sitting mechanic from Perpignan and I were in changed his mind, told him to crawl back, facing me. His eyes were wide with ter- the second ship ready to take off. Our and ordered Noailhat to take a longer run ror. His shrill screams penetrated the this time. He said we ought roar in my ears. Perhaps I screamed, to be able to get more speed too. with a longer run and thus Then the crash came. From blazing manage to get into the air. sunlight we suddenly had dived into a

If we could, it would be all world of blackness, caused not by uncon- right, he said. If we failed, sciousness but by a shower of earth that the mechanic could get out erupted over us and the plane like a and fly to Fez a few days volcano. later. So once more we went roaring over the bumpy A.<_S THE plane crashed to field. This time we seemed earth it burst into flames. The pilot to have better luck. Two- yelled, the mechanic yelled and, for all I thirds of the way across the know, I yelled. Apparently the same flat towards the olive trees thought flashed into the minds of all three she bounced into the air of us—that the plane was in flames and and started to climb. My that we would be cooked alive. companion from Perpignan The pilot and the mechanic, although smiled and heaved a sigh of gravely injured, dived head first over the Mrs. Thomas greeting her husband at the flying field. relief, because he was anx- tattered fuselage at the same time I did. ious to get on to Fez and Never in my life, except that night in faces by now were as red as fire f:om the had no desire to be marooned in the Sierra Berlin when the machine gun started spit- blazing sun to which we had been exposed Nevada. ting at me, had I moved with such speed. since early morning. A second or so later we were about Scrambling to my feet I staggered a nn

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few yards to get clear of the plane, ex- ground when we started and the crowd of For the first five minutes or so after the pecting the gasoline tanks to explode at Spaniards arrived at the scene of the crash I felt no effects from it whatever any minute. The pilot and mechanic crash. They had been about a quarter of except that I was covered with a layer lay inert where they had fallen, groaning a mile away. At first the country folk of dirt from head to foot. Apparently and crying. stood around, wide-eyed, apparently too none of my bones was broken and I was For the shortest time I paused to look frightened to offer any help. They acted not cut. I had been too busy vainly try- at what had been an airplane not long as though it were all part of some weird ing to do something for my less fortunate before. The engine was still making cur- show they had come to see. companions, to think of anything else. ious, unearthly noises like the death-gasps Our throats were choked with dirt and But now that the crowd had gathered of some monster. Gasoline was pouring sand that had shot up over us. I tried around and the other two airmen had gone from the tanks in cataracts. Fortunately to get the peasants to go for water, but off in search of water, things began to it did not explode. This was due, no they all stood around shouting to each swim before my eyes and I crumpled up a doubt, to the pilot's instinctive act of other but doing nothing. The chief of bit. My heart was pounding like a trip- switching off his ignition the moment the pilots from Alicante and his mechanic, hammer, and aches and pains were spring- plane began to nose ing up all over my down. He knew what body. to do; it was not his Despite these bruises first crash. and aches. I felt a curious glow of exhil- aration. I was hilar- 1h E ious and wanted to plane was a mass of laugh, to laugh in that tangled wreckage. The idiotic way I had on shock had smashed another occasion, when a the tail assembly and dose of gas knocked broken the fuselage as me out on the Italian though it were only a Front during the stick being broken World War. And over one's knee. The when I looked at the wings were crushed plane and saw how and twisted. The un- completely wrecked der carriage and wheels it was, I wanted to do had been flattened out a Highland Fling for like pancakes. The joy. It seemed too mail and baggage good to be true that compartments, shaped any of us could have like torpedoes, and been in that smash-up suspended from the H and climbed out of lower wing, had been I that crumpled-up pile smashed to bits and of wood and metal the Moroccan mails alive. were scattered all around the scene. The propeller had vanished JL ROYI- into nowhere—all ex- DENCE certainly cept a small piece had smiled benignly which I later retrieved on us. for our escape as a souvenir. Every was about as miracu- part of the mail plane lous as any escape was wrecked—except could be. Our smash the two cockpits. was of the kind that After a quick glance had snuffed out the at the wrecked plane lights for so many I ran to Noailhat first airmen ever since man

because he had been first learned to fly. sitting in the front When you go into a cockpit right behind nose-dive at 300 feet the engine, and I im- above the earth, there

agined that he might is no chance in the be in far worse shape world of straighten- The drifting smoke from a pile blazing -wind than the Perpignan of faggots gave ing out your plane, and direction to the other pilot, landing to rescue us. mechanic. Noailhat in nine cases out of

was holding his head. ten you are in for it. I pulled the mask off his face and saw a however, started off on the dead run. The Alicante mechanic, with his big tremendous bulge on his forehead. He As each minute passed, the injured bandanna handkerchief tied over his head was clutching his chest as though he mechanic, who had been sitting in the rear like an Arab sheik, arrived in a little while might be injured internally. cockpit wi,th his knees interlocked in carrying an earthen jug full of water. \\\ After hauling the pilot out of range of mine, grew weaker and weaker and his poured some of it down the throat of the the gasoline tanks in case they might ex- face began to puff up. Both eyes were wounded mechanic, who had become un- plode, I turned to the mechanic who had swollen completely shut. As the gasoline conscious. Then a motherly Spanish blood streaming down his face. I dragged had emptied out on the sand by then and peasant woman moistened her apron and him some distance from the burning plane. the danger of an explosion had been re- held it against his throbbing forehead and It was several minutes before the other moved, I stretched him out in the shade washed off the blood that covered his face. two airmen whom we had left on the of one of the smashed wings. {Continued on page 103) I ;

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Tony Cabooch (Chester Gruber) is putting the mazuma away—and how! Here he is below, be- ing handed a velvet-lined contract by Sponsor President August Busch. And Phil Dewey, right, the tenor Adonis who sets feminine hearts a-flutter, puts 5 7% of his money into stocks and bonds—good ones, recommended by an investment service.

T,reparin for

By E. FOR the life of a Radio star! Evans Plummer cent; food, IS per cent; trans- OHWhy? Well, it's this way. If portation, 3.2 per cent; recrea- figures don't lie—and the stat- tion, 1 per cent (so you see they istician isn't a prevaricator— I am to achieve a lifelong ambition of are so hard at work they don't have it doped out this way: having the president of the bank (that have time to spend anything) That Radio stars save 60 per cent of now tolerates me) snap into it every time extension of education, 2 per what they make. Play that on your mid- I enter or leave his polished brass strong- cent; church and charities, 7.4 get receiver and worry not over the de- hold and humbly shout across the marble per cent. clining days of those who amuse you via to me, "How'd'ya do Mr. Plumber." or Another- interruption, sorry. the loud speaker. I know because I asked "Come again, Mr. Plummer," as the case You and Rosie O'Grady know them. And the answers also showed that may be. that no soprano or contralto can the savings are split in this fashion: Well, the averages are very interesting. get along with only 7.7 per cent Buying homes, 16.6 per cent of income; Still, I have a catty idea that the figures of her income spent other real estate, 1.64 per cent; insur- some of the airshots gave me are ideals on clothes. You are ance, 7.5 per cent; annuities (this British rather than facts. In other words, they right. The ladies habit hasn't become popular here yet), gave me the kind of a budget they were were a little careless 0.4 per cent; other savings not itemized, TRYING to keep, rather than the one about giving me de- 8.4 per cent. they really WERE keeping. Even so, tailed information. Not being an expert trust officer or their intentions are good. Good inten- The figures are aver- budget designer, I really can't say whether tions—hmm, what is that proverb about aged from answers the above spread is just the way it should good intentions? Well, never mind about to questions put to married and single be. But as a financially irresponsible that right now. males who sparkle in the ether. The magazine writer who has to depend on his ladies, while they admitted they like nice poor wife to guard and guide his editorial figures and work hard to get and keep revenues, I find myself really unable to B,'UT back to the monetary them, plus the awesome info that they choose strong enough words to express battle. Now, after saving 60 per cent of spend a "terrible" lot on clothes, waves my amazement at such thrift and provi- their money, how do you suppose the big and facials, refused to get personal and dence. mail-pullers toss away the remaining 48.8 name definite per cents spent hither and When assigned to the nosey title of per cent of their coin? What's that? thither, here and yon, on this and that. this yarn, "What Do They Do with Their You say 60 and 48.8 per cent equals And get a living room full of this: I Money?", I began to get worried over the 108.8 per cent which is 8.8 per cent more told you I was worried about the futures advancing ages of some of the air's best than the average income? Yes, I know, of the crooners, announcers, balladeers, vvisecrackers and what was to become of but that is the way the average figured radactresses and batoneers. I was so wor- them. However, after taking such a sock out, so I suppose some of the boys have ried that I asked them what they thought on the button as this 60% savings news, incomes or something they haven't told the "popularity life" of a Radio star was, I have stopped my anguish. Radio stars Deke Aylesworth or Bill Paley about. and what the same was for an air princi- are taking care of the future. I see very Probably holding out on them—or the pal not starred. Guesses on the star life plainly that I will have to tread the prim- wife. ran from two to ten years and averaged rose (?) path toward becoming a luminary Anyway, clothes take 7.7 per cent; 4.25 years. Guesses on the principal's of the ether, that is, I'll have to if ever rent (for the non-home buyers), 12.6 per span of working years varied from "for- 21

The Three Bakers, below, are so smart they might be called the three wise men—Baker Pratt, is putting it away with a P, Baker Sher- man is Socking it in the bank with an S, and Baker Rudolph is Repeating their tactics with an R. And Mary Hopple, left, took out voice insurance and is saving dimes besides.

that amy D ay

ever as long as satisfactory" down to five plan. We try to live modestly and both "What do I spend for clothes? Very years. Two-thirds of the stars gave the of us spend a great deal of time at home, little," he added. "Maybe seven per cent, first answer, or words to that effect. The as you know. which includes a fur coat for the wife." other third's guesses in years gave a mean "We try to save as much as we can, "In several years, if necessary," kidded of 8.6 years. and fortunately for us, we believe we Baker Pratt, "I can go back to 'plumb- Now pupils, let us do a little problem. started our plan of saving properly. Our ing'. I lived before the advent of Radio If an airshot makes between $10,000 and savings are distributed over government and can do so again if the bubble ever $100,000 (a number do better than that) bonds, common stocks, insurance, annui- bursts—which I hope it doesn't." a year, or an average, say, of $50,000, ties and trust funds. All investments are And Baker Rudolph simply answered, how much will he or she have salted away endorsed by one of the largest banks in "My plans for a 'rainy day'? Holding by the time the Radio critics begin to Chicago, which bank is our advisor, and onto it while I get it." talk about how good he or she "was all are made in reliable companies who "Pratt, in his jovial dumbness," Rans once"? Let's call the star's life 6.5 years. are the leaders in their respective fields." Sherman spoke for the trio of funsters, Then 6.5 times 60% times $50,000 equals Now for the wisdom and consultation "spoke of his days of plumbing ere Radio the answer, or $195,000. Now during the of the Three Doctors—pardon me—the took him to its bosom. Joe Rudolph has b /2l years the interest, say 5%, on the always been a musician and can de- money as it is saved, will raise the They With Their pend on that, and I always have been total in that period, even without What Do Do in the insurance business, so I guess compounding, to $225,000. Money?— I can go back to that in a big way, I So with a tear in his or her eye, guess. the star resigns from the mike with a They Bank 6o percent of their Income, "Is broadcasting a safe business? scant quarter-million to keep the wolf Will it last? To the first question I away from the door, to the tune of they say, because they Think the Aver- answer: It's safer than a helluva lot over eleven thousand wolf-chasers of other businesses Pratt and I have in interest earned, not seen go up in smoke. To the second: each year age Working Life of a Radio head- touching the principle. Hmm—I must Radio is one of the soundest and start saving some of these days! promises to be one of the longest liner is only Eight and a Half Years! Just think—one million, two mil- lasting businesses ever developed. If lion, three million—and say, I almost it goes sour on us. we can always, as forgot to tell you all of the financial re- Three Bakers of CBS who have been a unit, go vaudeville for at least a year. marks I heard when I interviewed the tickling you since the first of the year, but and the dough (not speaking as a baker) bigtimers. The opening to this paragraph have kept grin wrinkles on the faces of would be excellent.

reminded me of one pair who are said to Chicagoans for half a dozen years. How "However, we all three are socking it be sweeping up all the loose change not about it, Baker Rans Sherman? away. Personally. I keep myself so tied

glued down under cigar counters. Yes, "Life is short. Get it while you can. up with mortgages, and keep buying ^ood I mean Amos 'n' Andy, or Freeman F. And put it in the sock!" quoth Baker securities on time, that my best friend

Gosden and Charlie J. Correll. Sherman meaningly, for Sherman a year couldn't borrow five bucks from me. I "We'd have to spend hours over our and a half ago happened to have his never have that much to spare!' It is my files," A & A told me, "to give you an money in the wrong bank—the one I bor- own ambition to take my wife and family itemized budget, but anyway, here is the rowed from—and it crashed, of course. (of one) to Europe and travel tor a few —

22 years before we get so aged and wobbly can tell the world that 'Tony Cabooch' reported to be the highest paid in the bus- we won't be able to enjoy Paris or climb will keep 'pooshing 'em up' as long as iness. How about it Jessica? the Alps. You'll find that of those artists they make Radios—and when a fellow "I don't own a home and am not con- in Radio today that were on the stage yes- receives over 3,000 letters in one day, templating buying one soon. My present terday, many will continue their lax, easy well, would you quit?" circumstances are more conducive to come, easy go ways, but then they never No sir, Mr. Gruber, I certainly would 'chasing rainbows'. I think I am not ex- could realize that there might be a rainy not quit, especially if I was paid $1,500 aggerating when I tell you that fifty per day in their lives." a week, no sir! cent of my salary goes into study, which Cryptically replying to my questions, If your set pulls in the 50,000-watters, I consider excellent investment toward the clever author and actor of Sunday at especially WENR, you know Mike and better work and fresh performances con- Seth Parker's and Uncle Abe and David Herman, the Irish-German giggle squad stantly. —Phillips H. Lord—showed the exact represented out of the studio as Arthur "Stocks? That's a painful subject at average of sixty per cent going into sav- Wellington and Jimmie Murray. One of the present, but I'm an optimist and am ings. Of this, buying a home takes 20 the few budget reports I didn't tabulate spending more money now than ever be- per cent of Lord's income, stocks take was theirs. Upon adding up Mike's I fore. ten per cent, insurance ten per cent, and found he was spending 265 per cent of his "Clothes for studio and personal ap- other savings total twenty per cent. income and that Herman was doing Mike pearances are a big item. I dress for "I believe," Lord my Radio audience said, "that the always, just as if preparation for a they could see me, 'rainy day' is all and I always take important, because —__ extreme care to if it is not pre- look my best. I pared for, it al- believe in insurance ways hangs over —especially for one like a gloomy women, for they fog." never have a man's Here's what an- point of view about other comedian money. or perhaps I should "But the best say philosopher investment is health believes about sav- and hard work. ing. You know Everything else him —Tony Ca- takes care of it- booch of Anheuser- self —with, of Busch, whose right course, slight ex- name is Chester ceptions." Gruber. Which statement "You ask me, proves that the what I do with my ladies, bless them, money? Well, I've have a lot of ex- provided my fam- penses we males ily with a nice cozy don't have to bungalow furnished worry about. Here's to a king's taste, Mary Charles, of bought ample in- CBS. Let's ask surance, and ex- her what she does pect to offer my with her money. daughter Florence "I save mine," (recently gradu- Mr. and Mrs.—Jo and Vi of Graybar fame,—are friends although (or maybe because) Mary answered. ated from high they're not married to each other. Here they are—Jack Smart and Jane Houston—counting "I even have a school) a college their chickens. Sometimes they count 'em before they're hatched, too. small coin bank at education. home and keep it "By applying the gifts that God has so about one hundred per cent better. Not near my telephone so that I can drop in kindly blessed me with, I am receiving a being so good at higher mathematics, I an occasional nickel. It helps to pay the princely compensation for my Radio work, couldn't reach those figures. telephone bill. I also have a checking and, you bet, I am getting a real kick out However, Mike replied seriously, "When and savings account, that works this way. of life by helping my less fortunate a man has reached my age, the thought up- I save my pennies, but am inclined to brothers and sisters. Charity has always permost in his mind is 'What is to become spend large sums without thinking. You been my middle name, for I had many a of me in my old age?'. The answer is to know—pennywise and dollar foolish." hard knock in boyhood and know just save your money, and you won't have to how it is. depend on charity or relatives—so little "After all, I would rather help someone Arthur is saving, but, at the same time, A,.FTER looking over else than amass more material things than giving a little." Jessica Dragonette's and Mary Charles' I really need. One of the most enjoyable And his partner, Herman, said, "Every budget schemes, I decided to keep them pieces of work I ever did was broadcast- now and then Herman buys an umbrella out of the "averaging". It would look ing for the St. Louis Star Clothing Relief for the 'rainy day', and he already has bad for the thrift of the airshots. But Fund last Christmas to get clothing, shoes, quite a jardiniere full of them—if his Mary Hopple has a plan. Here it is, in

food and fuel for the poor. friends haven't borrowed them and forgot her own words : —"For a year or more I've "Retire? Why I never expect to quit. to return them." been saving dimes. I don't know how When a man retires he doesn't live any Enough of the comedians, philosophers much I have saved in that time, but it more! The inspiration and cheer that I and males. What about the lovely ladies? has come to this: If I ever let a dime go get from my fan mail keeps me in con- Let's ask Jessica Dragonette, prima donna out of my hand, I'm sure I'd have to be dition physically and mentally, and you of the NBC Cities Service Concert, and unconscious. If ten cents have to be mm — —

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spent, it will be two nickels, not a dime." wee golf. Nurse it till it becomes a habit NBC staff, and an up-and-comer or I'm But she doesn't know how much she and it's practically painless. A pocketbook no prophet. Said he: has saved in silver, for she admits that with a double chin is the nicest kind of "I'm saving my money for a home as a business woman she will fall down upholstery against socks of a 'crool' world. an English cottage which I'm going to to the bottom of the list. Who then, "I'm no authority on saving. By acci- have one of these days. I know one Mary Hopple, induced you to take out dent I once saved, but the bank's blonde can't last forever. Some of these days I voice insurance? That's a whole lot more cashier got another job, and I haven't want to retire and when, or if, I do, I business-like than some of these stars saved a nickel since. Save your pennies want to try to write the 'great American admit to being. • But maybe the insurance until you have a dollar and then go out novel'. Radio is a young man's business agent was just a good persuader. and spend the dollar. There are no pock- —we all grow old—so I save." Now, for "Mr. and Mrs." of the air, ets in shrouds, as Conan Doyle used not who don't happen to be that out of the to say. The road to the hereafter carries studio. I mean Graybar's skit on CBS in passengers but no freight. Why save it H,.ERE'S a voice you which "Joe" is Jack Smart and "Vi" is and have the agony of leaving it here? know—Bill (W. G.) Hay, the chap who Jane Houston. Who's going to simonize your tombstone starts and ends Pepsodent's Amos 'n' "My husband," said Jane, "not Joe, with tears because you've left them a Andy skit six nights a week over three takes care of my finances, I being the thousand or two in your will? different chains of NBC stations. Having usual feminine dumbbell when it comes to "Save for your old age? Heh, heh, known Bill for years on end, way back business. He invests in preferred stocks I'm leffing. You can't eat caviar with from the time he began trilling the world mostly and a good deal of it is in West- china grinders. You can't see Ziegfeld's and his r's from Hastings. Nebr.. I know chester real estate. My one and only cuticle cuties with glass eyes. You can't he's not rolling in wealth. Several eastern positively my final appearance—on the make whoopee on crutches. Spend it newspapers reported he was cut in on the financial stage was when my hubby was now and have a lot of fun along with fabulous A&A income, one paper even away from the city during the Florida making the country prosper." saying he drew a third. He doesn't. In boom. I decided to augment the family After listening to Lawrence, I'm in- fact he gets not one red cent from Pep- coffers, and before my friends stopped me clined to elect him to the post of chief sodent, A&A or NBC. Hear his reply: from making further payments, I dropped advertising copywriter and propagandist "The report on my income is vastly thousand in cold cash, so now I'm the It two for "Buy Now—Give Men Work" exaggerated. I use my money to pay cured. not a savings bank hoarder, campaign. But here's a fellow won't Am who my bills so that I can look my creditors because it's too easy to get it out. It has let the moist in you forget about days in the face. Of course, I expect Mrs. to be tied up real good to keep me from the future Phil Dewey, NBC vocalist. — Hay to outlive me, so I carry plenty of spending it." does a tenor do with his money? What insurance. I said plenty, and that means "Your answer to money problem," Well, puts 7 per cent into my Dewey about that solicitors need not apply. replied Smart, "was put on the air 57 stocks Jack real estate, per cent into and "I don't own an automobile, but do try under the masquerade of Joe's troubles bonds, and 5 per cent into insurance; a to contribute my share to the charities. last December. If you remember, Joe total of 69 per cent of his income. The What is a Radio star's 'life'? Just as Green got reformed of poker because he his shows: education, rest of budget 4 long as he can shine and scintillate." lost his shirt. There was a lot of truth per cent; recreation, 3 per cent; clothes, But don't worry about Wayne Kin;;. behind that fiction. But if I was thrifty, 4 per cent; rent, 6 per cent; food, 5 per There's a lad who has it all "figgered" out. what would I do with the lucre? I don't cent; transportation, 4 per cent, and You see. King is a business man as well know what I'd put it in because bonds charities, 5 per cent. as a baton waver. He was handed a and real estate are just names to me, but C. P. A. certificate by Valparaiso Uni- I'm not worried about that because I never versity, and before playing the notes, he have any money to spare anyway." M_Y plan, endorsed by used to count and add them. The only Poor fellow! He'll have to learn the an investment service, may never make a chance Wayne has of going broke is trick from Amos 'n' Andy. But how about rich man of me," said Dewey, "but at possibly in having made a mistake in his the Crumit's Frank and Julia (Sander- — least I won't die in the poorhouse. A arithmetic. Xo C. P. A.'s ever do that. son)—of CBS and NBC? bank president some months ago said to Who could be more appropriate to con- Quoth Julia, "Would save my money, me, 'What a splendid opportunity you clude this message of thrift than Lowell think would, if the fashions didn't or I I have for building up a solid estate and a Thomas, the Literary Digest newscaster, change so often. So instead of stocks, I steady income for yourself and family. who has a habit himself of ending his put cash in (buying) stockings, and my Why, when I was your age, my salary nightly mike appearances with a "punch instead of bonds and banks, it goes into was .' He didn't consider that when line" or trick story? Thomas. America's perfumes, powders, paints and pins." While I reach his age, my singing days will be most interesting lecturer, world famous her life and Radio partner, Frank, said, "I finis. However, he was right in that I adventurer and story finder, usually takes save for about a week after every new have a chance to build up a variety of the vast fortunes he has earned and year. Why? Oh, just to buy beer when investments for that inevitable 'rainy throws them back into the next uncertain it comes back. Seriously, however, the day', and that is what I am doing—build- but alluring exploration. income outgoes into various things ing an income." The game is exciting but costly. Some- bonds, real estate, savings and insurance. Another minstrel of old-time songs, folk times the returns are good; sometimes not Of course, I don't worry about my checks and hill, is Bradley Kincaid of WLW. nearly equal to the investment. But listen when Julia can meet the mail man first." WLS and NBC. Kincaid shows about 60 to the globe trotter himself tell you: per cent savings and replied to me thus: "I hope to keep rambling along until I "Being of Scotch ancestry. I am a great go for my last trek to explore the Far Or'NE more family—the believer in the principle of saving—build- Country whence no traveler ever returns.

Smiths. By the time this article appears ing an estate. No one is fair to himself In the meantime I'm trying to sock it in print I hear rumors that the "Smith or those dependent upon him. who spends away. But I've tried that before—and Family" of WENR will possibly have all he makes. The more he makes, the I'm a rank duffer at saving gone chain. The family is a big one, more he can spend—and should save. "As for the "life" of a Radio star. I but its dad and author, Harry Lawrence, Plenty of insurance is in my estimation haven't the remotest idea, but I like to has a different slant on "rainy days". Af- a mighty good investment, but I have all think they all ought to be at their best ter explaining that he is unmarried, let's 1 can carry,—agents not wanted. when they are between sixty and eighty hear him philosophize: Now let's look over a few announcers like Chauncey Depew, Voltaire, and hosts "Thrift's a habit like cigarets or pee- Here's Jean Paul King, of the Chicago of others who are famous in history." 24 You Can /Relieve /t or

says Robert L. {Rip) Ripley

BELIEVE it or not, RADIO is ent countries, and there are still many men shall wear skirts and women trousers. not a new word. The word was foreign lands to be conquered. And we have some material for a "Believe pronounced and denned RADIO Crashing through to the remote cor- It or Not" broadcast. nearly two thousand years ago. ners of the two hemispheres, my wander- Among the South Sea Islands we learn The word goes back into the archives ings have brought me face to face with of Queen Vaekhuha, the Cleopatra and of ancient history and is to be found the Ever-Standing Men of Benares, the Helen of Troy of her country rolled into in the Talmud, the literal translation Human Inch Worms, the Hindu Faquir one, who evidently believed in trial mar- reading: "Radio ... a voice that who held his hand aloft for fourteen riages. The South Pacific queen married goes from one end of the world to the years until birds built a nest in his palm; no less than 400 husbands. Some one re- other". the Moroccan emperor, Moulai, who had lates the story of the Sultan of the Male- The ancients' prophecy has come true 83 brothers, 124 sisters, 2,000 wives, and vidians, the only person in his kingdom with the Radio now reaching far out to 888 children; nail-men whose nails grow privileged to become obese, any other the end of the world, entertaining and until they pierce their palms; and sky- subject growing fat risking immediate enlightening millions of persons of the facers, who hold their faces rigidly up- execution. two hemispheres. wards until unable to bend them back. In Switzerland we find that there really To me the Radio is a most important was a Swiss Navy, one of the oldest of medium for reaching the followers of the navies, which navigated on the lakes cov- "Believe It or Not" drawings; a vital (JETTING off the main ering three frontiers, and that there are factor in imparting a wealth of interest- highways of Greece, we find the "City yet several retired Swiss admirals. As a ing information brought down from the of No Women", a city of 7,000 where no shelf of time and history. woman has ever set foot; we find the Radio audiences today demand ac- city in which the people have been wear- curacy and reality of their performers. ing mourning for 600 years in memory So in gathering material for the "Believe of one man, and the town of 25,000 peo- It or Not" programs, I have had to ple confined in a single house. And then wander to the far ends of the earth in a some bystander reminds us that there is relentless search for oddities of an unbe- a curious Greek custom decreeing that lievable nature. My travels have already taken me through SAW THIS SADHV) AT THE DASASHWAME&H GHAT. seventy-nine differ- HE SITS LOOKING STEADILY AT THE BLAZING SUN FROM SUNRISE TO SUNSET — (^rthoot yoking his eyes legs have Withered away from inactivity

hvs eves seemed normal . Mulai Ismail (Emperor of Morocco) Sip' was the father of 888 children.

Famous Cartoonist Tells How He Collects " Queeriosities" For The Radio Audience

{Written especially for Radio Digest)

I TRAVELED through seventy- I SAW the nail-men whose nails

nine different countries . . . grow through their palms

/ SAW the city of 7,000 where I PROVED that Washington no woman has ever set foot was not first president of the United States I PRESENTED to the Radio audience theJem ale Floyd Gib- I RECEIVED a 47-word mes-

bons, who talks 8}/2 words per sage with an address . . . on the second, without stuttering back of a two cent stamp 25

John Paul Jones was not an THE ASCETIC ON HIS American citizen, that his name PEP OF SPIKES - was not Jones and that he never commanded an American ship. He has been on them, The lull in a storm of indignant letters came only after adequate for 19. years proof had been sent out.

Kalj£l»»"t Of the interesting personalities presented on the "Believe It or Not" Hour, Cygna Conly, only rival of Floyd Gibbons, ex- ponent of rapidity in speech, brought down the house. She spoke at the phenomenal rate of 8 and /il words a second, reading Lincoln's Gettysburg Address in 32 seconds.

Z-J ARO AGHA. the 156-year-old Turk, whom I discovered several years ago in my travels, was brought before the microphone and with wild gestures in AH over the world Robert L. the affirmative showed no signs of Radio Ripley pulled out his pencil, fright. rested on the nearest trunk arrives at the "Believe It or and drew "queeriosities." Fan mail Not" office at the rate of 2500 letters a day and more than one million letters, John Hancock was not the from every nook and corner of the two author; that Massachusetts hemispheres, arrived during the past year. is not a state, and that They came in batches and alone—from there are only 44 states in newspapers carrying the "Believe It or the Union. Not" drawings, from Radio fans, from the diamond mines of South Africa, from the jungle fastnesses of Brazil, from all the aNE of the great cities of the world, from towns, pet American illusions was villages and hamlets. They poured in shattered over the air only from lonely squatters and settlers in the after long research—that remote corners of the earth, from the Eu- Washington was not the ropean countries, the Far East, the lands first President of the United of the South Seas, and from the length States. The traditional story and breadth of the United States. may be all right but John Mail arrived from towns of almost un- Hanson, of Maryland, was believable names and addressed in all the first President. Al- sorts of ways. A letter postmarked Santa though there had been meet- Claus, Indiana, slipped through the mail ings of the Continental one cold December morning and almost Congress from 1774 on, it was not until broke up the equilibrium of the office, further disillusionment, I find that I will 1781, when Maryland signed the Articles while others with the stamp of Hell. Nor- have to explode the story of William Tell of Confederation that a union of all the way, and Darn, Ohio, received their share through the microphone, because we dis- original thirteen states became an ac- of comment. cover that there were never any apple tuality. John Hanson, who signed for Recently a Radio fan sent in a 47-word trees in the state where Tell lived. Maryland, was then elected President of message with an address, all written on Up through sunny France to its great the United States in the Congress as- the back of a two-cent stamp. It came metropolis we find that the original name sembled in 1781. George Washington through the mail from San Francisco to for Paris was Mudlands, so they called himself addressed Hanson as "President New York in regular order, without an the French "Frogs". More air-chatter for of the United States" in reply to the lat- envelope. This is the smallest letter I the weekly broadcasts on "Believe It or ter's message of thanks upon the occasion have ever received. Not". cf the victory of Yorktown. The Radio letters that arrive every day When I told a Radio audience some come from people in all walks of life. time ago that baked beans did not orig- Early morning strap-hangers and commut- B>Y DELVING into the inate in New England, that they had ers as well as retired business men write facts of history I have been able to gather baked beans in Egypt thousands of years in. Government officials, politicians, and queeriosities for Radio fans. And some ago, that King Tut-Ankh-Amen issued business executives as well as the labor- of the real facts of history tell us that his admonition to his priests forbidding ing man send in letters. Columbus never set foot on North or them to eat baked beans under pain of Most of the mail is inspired by questions

South America; his name was not Colum- death, it seemed that the entire popula- of a "Believe It or Not" nature, aroused bus but Colon; he was a Spaniard and not tion of Boston and environs swarmed by the declaration each week of oddities an Italian, and never wrote a word of down on me angrily, besieging me with and strange phenomena over the air. They Italian in his life so far as records and his rebuking letters, demanding proof. And .-end in their queries, thousands arriving diary are concerned. Turning a few pages once again the truth is far stranger than every week. Simple little puzzles and co- we find that the Declaration of Indepen- fiction. The same sort of thing happened nundrums receive much attention. dence was not signed on July 4th; that when I went on the air and stated that (Continued on po^c 10J) 26

Ls a / omedian .Tunny Mrs. Fred Stone Fred Stone like at WHAT'Shome? On the stage he is a bub- bling, irresistible boy, full of Opinion pranks and acrobatic tricks. A flash of of had their eyes on the theatrical firma- his smile and the audience succumbs. ment from their earliest childhood. From coast to coast, in small hick towns Then, when Fred Stone was starring as well as sophisticated, blase Broadway, with Dave Montgomery in The Wizard he enjoys magical popularity. of Oz, it so happened that he had con- mind, and a nimble sense of humor. She Comedians have a reputation for being siderable trouble with the part of the is modern and progressive in her ideas, tragedians at their own fireside. Morose. leading woman. He had to engage, in but yet she has an old-fashioned view Temperamental and bad tempered. Their of marriage. She possesses a high sense of gayety and laughter is a mask for the responsibility toward her nuptial vows. world. Their wives and children know a She has never hesitated to place her hus- different story. band and children before any other inter- But five minutes with Mrs. Fred Stone dispels this legend so far as her famous husband is concerned. Fred Stone is a happy, warm-hearted man on and off the stage, in and out of the calcium's radiant glare. He is adored by his wife and chil- dren just as much as he is by his audi- ences. When Mrs. Stone speaks of her hus- band, there is an affectionate look in her eyes. The look of a woman who not only deeply loves her husband, but is deeply loved in return. She does not say it in so many words, but it is evident that she feels she is married to one of the finest and kindliest men in the world and that her marriage is a fairy tale come true—the kind in which the Prince and Princess marry "and live happily ever after." Certainly the hand of Destiny was in their meeting. Both of them grew up in Denver. She, as Allene Crater, was the daughter of one of the most promi- nent business men in town. She knew nothing of Fred Stone, born in a log cabin on the outskirts of Denver. Each traveled a different path in life—but both

succession, seven young women. The director offered the part twice to Allene

Crater and she refused it. The third

time she accepted it, and when she stepped into the show as the eighth lead- est in life, even when it meant curtail- ing woman, she little dreamed that the ment of her career. shuttle of fate was flying fast, weaving One can readily believe her, therefore, a glittering fabric of her life. when she quietly states that there has When Fred Stone learned her name, he rarely been a word of dispute or alterca- immediately remembered her as the pretty tion in their home. That her husband and blonde girl who used to drive a pony cart she are just as eager to be together as in Denver. They talked about home and they were in the first year of their mar- the old ranch life. That night he invited riage.

her out and it wasn't long before they "Fred Stone is an intrinsically generous found that they thought and felt about man," she said when discussing the rea- each other in very much the same way. sons for their marital harmony. "It is Certainly if Fred Stone had traveled especially true where money matters are

the world round, he could n.ot have chosen concerned. There is nothing so humil- Carol Stone, the youngest of the three a more ideal mate. Mrs. Stone is a iating for a woman as to have her husband daughters, is at home with her mother. charming, cultured woman, with a tolerant dole out money to her in bits. To ques- 27 to His Wife?

Reveals Her Frank

Famous victor - Husband

Mrs. Fred Stone says that in all her years In an Interview with LILLIAN G. GENN of marriage, she has never known a bored moment.

tion her as to what she did with the last inventive ability that he exhibits in his land, a whole carload of Texas mares, and dollar and what she expects to do with the plays is just as facile off the stage. He's a stable of full-blooded Arabians. This next one. I consider Fred Stone generous always thinking of things to do. He's came to grief, through misplaced confi- not because he writes a big check. But never quiet. If he isn't absorbed in some- dence, and the next thing that engaged because he never questions me about it. thing definite, he becomes restless. That's his mind was a tree nursery. He wanted "He never interferes in the manage- why he always has a dozen hobbies in to plant a forest of pine trees and let ment of the house. He realizes that that which he's interested." them grow on his 2300 acres of land. He is my little world and I know best how Sometimes these hobbies prove to be ordered five thousand trees and for once expensive propositions for the family in his life nearly bored his family to tears

purse. For example, at one time Fred by quoting tree catalogs. Long before it Stone was imbued with the idea of raising was necessary, he hired a man to dig five polo ponies. He bought 2300 acres of thousand holes where he wanted the trees planted. "Naturally, after weeks of talk," re- lated Mrs. Stone, "we were agog to see these five thousand trees, and we all lined up on the ranch to await their arrival. You can imagine how shocked we were to see someone bring in only a bundle of little switches." Mr. Stone likes sports of any kind, and he enjoys going on hunting and fishing trips, usually with Rex Beach, his brother- in-law. When he returns he has great tales of adventures with which to regale his family. At one time he chartered a boat for the coast of Greenland and he brought back enough bear skins for every room of the house.

D.TRIXG these trips Mrs. Stone goes to the country or the seashore with the girls. Whereas other wives might harbor a grievance at being left alone, Mrs. Stone encourages her husband to

takes these jaunts. She believes it is refreshing for his mind and spirit to be

able to go oft' with other men and forget the routine of life. to run it. Similarly, I never try to dic- "I don't think any husband and wife tate to him or to control him. He may should see each other every day of the discuss the pros and cons of a problem year,'' she said. "Each should have a with me, but the decision rests with him. brief vacation to enjoy alone and when Consequently, we each live our lives with- they return, to tell each other their ex- The "Stepping Stones" left to right, the out getting in each other's way. — periences. Constant association can fre- head of the family, Paula, Mrs. Stone and " "Fred has an easy-going disposition and quently smother a marriage to death Dorothy. Since the comedian's serious air- is really lots of fun. The children adore Fred Stone was keenly disappointed plane accident, some member of this femi- being with him. There is always some- that he didn't have three sons instead of nine trio is always by his side, to pamper and thing doing when he's around. In all the lavish care on him. No wonder he's gl.nl, three daughters. He had planned a wild years I've been married to him, I've never now, that all his children insisted on being and woolly ranch life for them. But to- had a chance to become bored. The great members of the softer, more loving sex! day he thanks whatever gods there be 28

that he has three daughters. He's petted together at dinner hour. Conversation is on a high chair in her dressing-room, pin and lavished with care by them. They always kept general and light. No prob- up her golden curls, and give her the even baby him. Since he met with his lems are discussed. No arguing or bick- make-up box to play with. She adored airplane accident he has never been alone. ering is permitted. experimenting with grease paint on her At present he's on the road with Ripples, "Many people," Mrs. Stone told me, face. As she grew older, she would stand and since Mrs. Stone is at home with the "bring their worries and grievances to the in the wings and watch her parents play. youngest daughter, Dorothy and Paula table. Every meal is a scene of sad dis- After the performance she would ply take turns in staying with him. Neither cord. But our family has made it an them with questions. will ever leave him alone. unwritten law never to discuss anything One day, when she was eight years old, He's brought his girls up, however, as disagreeable at the table. The result is she put on a red shirt, a pair of trousers, though they were sons. From their earli- that our dinner hour together is the big an old pair of shoes and blackened two est days, they were taught to ride and to occasion in the day. I know that I will front teeth. She came into the breakfast swim. Out on the ranch they were rough always look back to those hours as the room, where her father was eating, and Tomboys and wore boys' clothes. But most delightful ones in my life." gave an imitation of him. There were once they were in the home, they changed tears in Fred Stone's eyes as he watched to frilly dresses, assumed their manners, his tiny daughter. He knew then that and became ladies. With such daughters, M,-R. STONE had not he could not deprive her of a stage career Fred Stone is satisfied all around. wanted Dorothy to go on the stage. She and from that day on he took her in hand He has always loved to play make- was a frail creature and he thought that and gave her the best that his years of believe with the girls. At one time, at the life would be too hard for her. But experience had to offer. the instigation of Douglas Fairbanks, they from the time she could walk, she danced. Everyone knows how Dorothy took all became Knights of the Round Table. As a baby, she traveled with her parents Broadway by storm on the day of her Mr. Stone was King Arthur and Mrs. on the road. Mrs. Stone would place her debut. She is now a star in her own Stone was Queen Guinevere. right and while she has received They addressed each other in old dazzling offers to head her own English and wrote their letters company, she will not consider on parchment. While Mr. Stone anything that will part her from was on the road, the children her Dad. However, with Paula, held "the forte" for him. When the second daughter in the cast, h; returned home, his knights, and Carol, the youngest, impa-

together with the neighbor's tiently awaiting her turn, it is children, prepared to give him a inevitable that Dorothy will have royal welcome. The expensive to go on her way alone. French dining-room was turned The three girls are very good into hall, a gloomy banquet chums. Mrs. Stone is very lighted by candles in beer bot- proud of that. For she would tles. With swords held aloft in rather they would quarrel with their hands, the knights sang the anyone else, if necessary, than Battle Hymn of the Republic. with each other. Dorothy and Fred Stone, as King Arthur, en- Paula have many beaux, but they tered with solemn dignity. He are never so delighted as when was arrayed in pajamas and a they can persuade their Dad to high top hat. On his feet were get into a dress suit and take huge rubber boots. There was them out. a rubber dagger in his belt and his chest was bedecked with medals. X RED isn't in- The knights did not giggle at terested in social life," Mrs. this sight, but the Queen had a Stone said. "He likes to enter- strange muffled expression on tain a few friends in his own her face. When called upon for home, or spend his leisure out- a speech, she could only issue doors. When we're in New York, strange sounds. he enjoys going to see the other

shows. But that's all. He's a man with simple tastes and he J.HIS, of course, leads a very simple life. He was long ago, but there is always doesn't care for anything osten- a game of some kind going on in tatious in his home. He dislikes the Stone menage. Their world formal, elaborate meals. Our of make-believe does not end menus are always plain, but with the falling of the stage cur- wholesome ones." tain. They live in all it the Another thing he dislikes is to time. shop. The very thought of go- Fred Stone has never scolded ing into a dry goods store, terri- or disciplined the children. He fies him. Once in, he would may try to reason with them; rather purchase anything the but he usually prefers to let salesman offered, than gainsay Mrs. Stone handle the job. They him. That's why anybody can have always been given every- sell him anything. He would thing they want, therefore, if like to buy a dozen suits, all the Mrs. Stone refuses them any- same material and color, and let thing, they know there must be "Fred Stone loves to see the feminine members of hi s family them do for a year. But Mrs. a good reason for it. well-dressed and pays bills without a murmur what a Stone wisely begs to go with him. They all make it a point to be husband to have! (Continued on page 100) 29

Front Centre For Radio Drama

Putting The Spotlight on Vernon

Radcliffe, Who'd Rather Starve in Dramatics Than Feast in Business

By Harriet Menken

people I meet turn deaf thumbs down on Radio drama MANY dials, ears, not to mention is, I think, the lack of knowl- to Radio drama, so that being edge possessed by cocktail- a flag waver in this field drinking, jazz-loving New necessitates a crusading spirit. I think Yorkers of what is really on this negative reaction has two funda- the air. Radio is a new art mental causes. The first is the nature and much of its drama is un- and environment of the particular in- speakably poor, perhaps even dividuals I contact in this dizzy medium a mite worse than the weak we call living. They are sophisticated sisters in plays the legitimate Ve rnon Radcliffe, power behind the scenes New Yorkers who, with a shrug of the stage gives us. Most plays, of The Radio Guild. shoulder, an incredulous lift of the eye- books, and movies fall below brow, know that after the last liqueur our desires, and the same may has been quaffed, they may bend their be said of the infant, Radio drama, but of Venice. Whoever you are reading this footsteps to the legitimate theatre at it has this advantage, that it is an infant article and almost wherever you are, you their door. And so Radio drama is for and not too young to learn. may tune in twice this week and hear

I hem a boring or non-existent factor. While there are several dramatic hours theatre at its best. And even when they become Radio-Avise on the air worthy of mention, the out- For Mr. Radcliffe gives it to you that I think the theatre of the air will only standing figure today, I think, in this way. When I've attended rehearsals I've become an accessory for these individuals. field is Vernon Radcliffe. Mr. Radcliffe watched him direct with a certain spir- I do not hold with has given you two itual, rarified quality—a trace of idealism

the little clan of ser- Harriet hours : The Radio —a spark of life—a hint of romance, that ious Radio thinkers Menken, Guild on Friday after- makes his theatre of the air glowing and whose enthusiasm peo- Author of noons at WJZ, in New alive, and gives other directors on Broad- ples all corners of the this article, is York, and the network way and off something to emulate.

earth with success for an outstand- of the National Broad- Vernon Radcliffe is tall, with acquiline Radio drama. In large ing figure in casting Company, and features, a sensitive face and a smile that the New York cities we do not need the Shakespeare Hour, illumines an otherwise serious mien. He Radio world. to resort to the air for Sunday nights, also was born in Brooklyn in L889 where, at She conducts Shakespeare and Shaw, over the National Adelphi Academy, when only tit teen, he a weekly for Barry and O'Neill. Broadcasting Company was chosen to play E. H. Sot hern's role Theatre Col- continued But no one who has umn at Sta- Chain. in the senior class play, and he Col- not read the millions tion WOR, and is on the staff of He has given you in his theatrical proclivities at Amherst of letters from fans or the Evening World. Haunts the the Radio Guild such lege, where he became president of the traveled through the studios, has interviewed almost plays as: The Climb- Dramatic Association. On leaving college breadth of the coun- any Radio star you can name. ers. 'The Importance Mr. Radcliffe took a Broadway engage- tryside knows what of Being Earnest, The ment as an actor in Life, a Brady pro- l;ood Radio drama means to the people Romantic Age, Cyrano dc Bergerac, An duction. Belasco subsequently ottered the who dwell on sunlit hills, in quiet dales, Ideal Husband, Michael and His Lost young aspirant a role, but the war thun- in torrid tropics, in desert spaces, in leafy Angel, She Stoops to Conquer. The Sea dered along and he joined the Signal forests, in struggling hamlets, in mining Woman's Cloak, Mr. Pirn Passes By, The Corps. When peace was declared, Mr (owns, and Main Streets where their only Green Goddess. Iledda Gabler. The Doll's Radcliffe entered his lucrative period Juliets and Camilles must come to them House, and dozens of others; such play- financially. He went in the advertising from the theatre of the air where the wrights as Ibsen. A. A. Milne, Oscar business and became successful, but the populace may listen to their drama while Wilde, Pinero, Clyde Fitch. Dunsany. and theatre beckoned, and when the Neigh- sewing buttons on baby's dress or smok- St. John Ervine. In his Shakespeare pro- borhood Playhouse offered him a role he ing their evening pipes, without fee, at gram you've heard Romeo and Juliet. couldn't resist. Then began a period in the turn of the dial. Macbeth, The Tempest, Twelfth Night, which the now other director decided to The other reason for the attitude of Hamlet, Richard III, and The Merchant {Continued on page oc) 30 Radio Rallies Nation to etter Times

Rich and Poor Answer Call to Fight Hosts of Fea? Millions for Defense

1ATELY America has witnessed a employment to additional thousands. been following the daily papers, there is rebound of her invincible war time Workers tithed their wages for months a tendency to think of the situation in "'spirit. The Enemy has been put to to come to share their earnings with those terms of unemployed men. We forget, rout mainly by the aid of the most pow- who had no work. "Buy now" became a perhaps, that the hardest battle against erful weapon the world has even known. battle cry to sweep the lines of mer- poverty, under present conditions, is being We were invaded. The silent hosts of chandise into action. fought by the women in the homes made Fear swept over the land from city to And what was the greatest weapon in destitute by the inability of the bread- city. Markets retreated to the trenches. the hands of the righteous? winners to get work. No markets, no production. No produc- Radio. It knocked at every door, put It is not difficult to imagine what these tion, no work. No work, no pay. No pay courage in every heart, filled the war women are up against. While their men go —destitution, eviction, hunger and the chest with ammunition and turned the out each morning to search for work, the End. breadlines into wagelines. mothers must sit at home, caring for Into the night of this tragic scene The Emergency Aid Committee or- babies and small children, nursing the crawled the Red Worms of Russia spread- ganized the country with quotas to be rapidly diminishing stock of food which ing their poison slime of hate and con- raised. Broadcast time was volunteered stands between them and starvation, pla- flict. right and left to sound the call "to arms". cating the demands of the landlord for Brave men and brave women picked up The largest cities were the ones toward the long overdue rent. the faltering banners. Rich men and which the unemployed flocked. New But even more serious than the physi- poor men stood shoulder to shoulder and York was asked to raise $8,000,000. cal needs is the mental strain which they bent to the fray. Employers pledged Almost at the first call came an answer must suffer. While their men at least to keep their payrolls intact. Many from the aged philanthropist, John D. have the activity involved in their search launched vast new enterprises to give Rockefeller and his son John D., Jr. for work, these mothers spend hours of They turned over a check the day in feverish anticipation of the for $1,000,000 cold cash. news the night will bring. Will John or Then other large donations Jim, when he returns in the evening, re- were received. The women port that he has a job? Or will he come were asked to raise $500,- into the impoverished home with the 000. Women of wealth and same despondent look on his face which personally untouched by the can mean only one thing—another fruit- pressure of the times gave less search? freely not only of their Put yourself in such a woman's place. money but of their own per- Isn't there the possibility that you, like sonal efforts. her, might gradually tend to place the In the final drive Mrs. fault for undernourished, ill-clothed chil- Vincent Astor stepped to dren upon your husband, rather than the NBC microphone and upon the economic situation that has spoke as follows: made him jobless for many months in spite of himself? By Mrs. Put yourself in the husband's place. After tramping the streets day after day, Vincent Astor without success, you'd hardly feel like returning nights to a home where your appearance would mean repetition of a I_T IS a privi- story of discouragement and hopeless- lege for me to speak in be- ness—where all you could see would be half of the wonderful un- the faces of your children and wife grow- dertaking of the Emergency ing more wan each day for lack of food. Employment Committee, Empty stomachs, heatless rooms, illness, particularly from the point despondency—these are the facts you of view of the thousands of would face. It is in the undermining of women and children whose the family morale, as much as in the husbands, long out of jobs physical want, that the tragedy of unem- for no fault of their own, ployment lies. It is in the struggle today have some reason for against both that thousands of depend- smiling in the face of the ent women today are bearing the greatest widespread economic de- burden. There is another person who cannot tors. Vincent Astor, who appealed to Radio audience for pression. aid to the unemployed in New York area. To those of us who have be disregarded in this present unemploy- man —

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Radio helped turn '^Ht the breadlines in- to wagelines at the paymaster's window. Scene on New York streets

is typical of entire country.

ment situation the woman who

herself is the bread- winner for her family. She may be a widow whose dependents are chil- dren—or she may be the old- est daughter of a family whose male head has been temporarily or permanently disabled. What- ever her relationship may be, she is the breadwinner in her own right for individuals dependent upon her. She too has been caught in the unemployment sit- uation, and has lost her job. Unless she gets one, not only herself but her depend- ents must suffer, and many are already suffering. Fifty years ago a condition similar to the present would not have affected this woman breadwinner, because she had not yet won the privilege, as a woman, of earning a salary. She has been given that privilege in more recent years. Hun- dreds like her have been thrown out of work during the last twelve months. Con- but are work- tinuing to carry the burden of caring for ing their way. themselves and their families, they have They are sober, in- been unable to find jobs. Both they and dustrious individuals their dependents are suffering accordingly. who, in the present

What is being done for women by unfortunate situation, do the Emergency Employment Committee? not want alms but only an

First of all, through the generosity of opportunity to earn hon- some 50,000 citizens of New York City, estly enough money to tide more than $6,000,000 has been contrib- them and their families over uted to date toward the $8,000,000 fund the cruel winter months when sought by the Committee to provide unemployment is most serious. In heads of families with jobs during the creating jobs for these men, and pay- winter months. More than 20,000 heads ing them for the work they do out of of families, including men and women, the fund now being sought, the Emer- momentum. Both of the two great chain have been given jobs for three days a gency Employment Committee is provid- systems gave $100,000 each in time to ing directly week at wages that will ensure an income for the relief of thousands of the drive. Following is the statement of sufficient to meet the necessities of life. women and children. the National Broadcasting Company to This number, combined with their women I appeal particularly for support of Radio Digest: and children dependents, makes a total of the Emergency Employment Committee's approximately 100,000 persons, men, effort for $8,000,000 in behalf of the and children, women who are being given women and children who will be bene- I.F THE time on the air relief at the present time. fited by the provision of jobs for their which the National Broadcasting Com- The men are working in the parks of husbands and fathers—in behalf of the pany and its vast network of associated the five boroughs, on the public docks, mothers who see their children becoming stations have donated to agencies seeking and in non-profit making institutions. undernourished and ill for lack of food, to relieve the distress of the unemployed They are cleaning away unsightly debris, warm clothes and heat—in behalf of the had been sold commercially the total improving park children paths, repairing walks, who, at a time when they should would be almost $100,000, NBC officials painting fences and rails, and doing other be receiving wholesome food essential to estimate. Talks by men and women who jobs for which the budgets of the Sanita- their growth and childhood happiness, are spoke under the auspices of President tion Commission of New York City do hungry and cold. Hoover*s Emergency Employment Com- not provide, or those of the various mittee, the Women's Emergency Aid Com- churches and hospitals will not allow. mittee and the Salvation Army Commit- The men are paid $5 a day for a three- Mrs. Astor's talk was eminently suc- tee which was responsible for the game day week. The fifteen dollars they re- cessful for the money poured in imme- between the Army and Navy football ceive weekly is enough to give their diately after. In about t/iree days New teams have been heard in broadcasts families the minimum food and heat. York had passed the $$,000,000 quota which were presented gratis by NBC These men are not receiving "charity", and the sum reached $8,250,000 from that Manufacturers of Philco batteries paid :

32 the Salvation Army committee a huge "A total of more than $365,000 has death at the hands of unknown gunmen. sum for the privilege of sponsoring this been raised by this station during such The WMBC fund is known as the Jerry broadcast. work. This has been turned to the relief Buckley memorial, presided over by Mayor "The roster of speakers who have been not only of such national emergencies as Frank Murphy and two prominent De- heard in these efforts to alleviate the lot the Mississippi flood, but also to local troit business men. According to Reg of the unemployed includes the names of conditions." Clark, station manager, approximately are nationally prominent. Ex- Seats for than spectators people who more 15,000 $10,000 in cash has been received up to were available in Governor Alfred E. Smith, Owen D. the giant amphitheater. the Christmas holidays, and more than Young, Seward Prosser, Arthur H. Leh- An admission charge of 25 cents was $20,000 worth of food and clothing sent made, all the proceeds going charity. man, Colonel Arthur Woods, Thomas W. to in to aid the cause. Lamont, His Eminence Patrick Cardinal Beginning at eight o'clock the parade "WJR, the Goodwill station of Detroit, Hayes, Grantland Rice, George Gordon of talent before the audience and the during the past few weeks has donated Battle, Lady Baldwin, Mrs. Franklin D. WLS microphones brought some twelve about eight hours of time on the air, at a Roosevelt, Gerard Swope and numerous staff acts, a male octet, two quartets, two value of $700 per hour. A midnight others have spoken. old-time dance bands, a girls' trio, and broadcast was given on Wednesday, De- a brass band. Among the popular Radio * * * cember 17th, with an appeal for funds to stars appearing during the entertainment be directed to the station. More than Similarly the Columbia Broadcasting were Hiram and Henry, comedy song- $2,100 was pledged by the listeners. Alto- System reports as follows: sters; the Maple City Four quartet, Rube gether, close to $2,500 has been contrib- Tronson and cowboy fiddlers, Arkansas uted by followers of WJR." Woodchopper, yodler; Renfro Valley Boys, JJROADCASTING time instrumental duo; Doc Hopkins, old-time worth approximately $100,000 has been ballad singer; the Cumberland Ridge Run- One of the most optimistic responses to contributed to the cause of unemploy- ners, fiddle band; the Little German Band, the Radio Digest's line of inquiries ment relief by WABC and associated Hal O'Halloran, barn dance announcer; came from E. H. Gammons, vice-president stations of the Columbia Broadcasting Swift Rangers, Ralph Emerson, organist; of the Northwestern Broadcasting Co., System during the last two months, it is John Brown, pianist; Steve Cisler, chief WCCO, Minneapolis. He writes: revealed by a survey of this voluntary announcer; Marching Men, male octet; service just completed. Charley Stookey, farm program an- "A total of nearly ten hours of Colum- nouncer; the Chicagoettes, girls' trio; and E ARE very happy to bia's most valuable periods on the air, Eddie Allan, harmonica player. W say that as yet it has been unnecessary ranging in installments from the three In the center of the big arena a stand for and a half hours devoted to the coast-to- was erected for the broadcasting. Deco- WCCO to make any particular appeal for relief for coast broadcast of the Army-Navy foot- rated with shocks of corn, bales of hay, the unemployed, for the con- ditions in Minneapolis are probably the ball game for the Citizens' Committee of and farm machinery it lent atmosphere best of any in the Salvation Army to five-minute periods to the barn dance setting. This stand was point the country as far as used by local relief agencies, has been flanked on either side by two large unemployment and actual poverty are con- donated by the system to help the un- wooden dance floors where eight picked cerned. Our Community Fund drive, employed since the national drive to bet- couples performed the old square dances. which takes care of all charities here, went ter conditions started. A loud speaker system was hooked up over its mark this fall by more than $150,- "Men and women of national promi- to carry the music and talk to every 000. Business is good out here and we nence have been enabled to voice appeals spectator. aren't crying." for aid for the cause through the coopera- tion of Columbia, among them Secretary of War Hurley, Secretary of the Navy Our Chicago correspondent investigated Reports fromWGAR, WJAY, WTAM Adams, former Governor Alfred E. Smith, the leading stations in that city and and WHK, Cleveland, and WLW-WSAI, Mrs. August Belmont, Senator Dwight W. found that all were on the firing line. Cincinnati, indicate that this and other Morrow and many others." Radio Station WENR contributed both Ohio city broadcasting stations have been cash and time. It delivered in on the alert actively * * * $7,000 cash and engaged in for- to the relief of unemployed and time tressing that sector. In Chicago practically all stations con- equivalent to $5,400, making a total of The same may be said of the St. Louis tributed liberally with time and talent. $12,400. The Daily News station, WMAQ, area where Harry L. Ford says that all One of the first reports received by in a series of 15 day and night programs stations are contributing time and talent Radio Digest was from WLS, the Prairie contributed time rated at $12,000. Sta- as well as cash. Tony Cabooch, who is Farmer station. It reads as follows: tions WIBO, WGN, WBBM, KYW with heard nationally, from KMOX, has not others have put the total well over only been broadcasting but driving around $100,000. the city picking up bundles the poor. J\. CHARITY Radio circus for In Detroit Mr. B. G. Clare writes as One thousand listeners were mar- and barn dance for the relief of Chicago's KWK follows shalled to provide assistance to one thou- unemployed was staged by WLS, the — Prairie Farmer station to an overflow sand needy persons that was a real Radio crowd, at the International Livestock army. the Coast our Dr. L. Show amphitheater, in Chicago's stock- M<.ORE than $22,500 worth On Pacific Ralph yard district. of broadcast time has been donated by Power says that broadcasting has raised "Because a Radio station like WLS the five Detroit Radio broadcast stations about $100,000 for the unemployed. He serves not only the rural people, but the in the interests of aiding unemployment, reports that conditions are apparently not city folks as well, Prairie Farmer has it has been revealed by a close check. so severe as in the East. All stations from launched this type of benefit show to "Station WMBC, owned and operated Seattle to San Diego, however, are either relieve a metropolitan situation," stated by the Michigan Broadcasting Company, donating time or have offered their serv- Edgar L. Bill, director of WLS. "In past leads the field with approximately $15,000 ices. years with certain critical periods of worth of time donated during the past 18 Thus the greatest weapon for peace or suffering among the people of the mid- months. Relief of unemployment was the for war has gone through the first test of west, WLS has turned its facilities en- aim and ideal of the late "Jerry" Buckley, its power fulfilling all and more than the tirely to the task of securing help from whose nightly broadcasts and political fondest expectations of its friends. Radio those individuals more fortunate. comments are said to have caused his is "doing its bit". Miss le gal-

LIENNE is the direc- tor and founder of the Civic Repertory theatre in New York City and frequently she is heard in not- able dramatic broad-

casts over the chain systems. You may re-

member her best as

Nora in "The Doll's House" over NBC.

Eva Le Callienne

33 Patricia Bowman

ON another

page in this Radio Di-

gest you will read about Roxy and His Gang.

Patricia Bowman (right)

is one of the members

of his gang who will fare much better when you see what you hear. She

is the premier danseuse

and Roxy often calls

her to the mike for a bow or a song.

Mary Smith

I HERE'S a name for you! But there's only ONE Mary

Smith like this Mary on the dramatic staff at WLW, Cincin- nati. Wait until you see her on your televisacle. She's get- ting ready to make her bow visually over the air in the very

near future, so just be a little patient.

34 < —

Blue Monday I '

CHECK and triple checkers for Al (Silas Solo- mon) Pearee as he shoves

William (Prof. Hamburg)

Wright into a corner during the Blue Monday Jamboree at KFRC, San Francisco.

And there's Pedro (Eugene Hawes), Lord Bilgewater (Monroe Upton) and Edna O'Keefe with two double dark blue shadows, Tommy

(Lem) Monroe and Arnold

(Lafe) McGuire, for color

effect.

Margaret Kappler

YOU just have to, that is, you

really do have to hand it to old WEAO of Ohio State U. for being the true collegiate broadcaster. And the drama

—the Scarlet Mask series, we mean

it's excruciating and everything. Peggy,

you know, Margaret Kappler, is the

sweetheart and the boys all rave about

her. Here she is as Violet Shadrowe. —

Russell Pratt Russell PRATT besides be-

ing a Radio come-

dian of the first rank

is also a very popu-

lar story-teller to the

little Topsy-Turvians

of WMAQ, Chica- go. Wonder what

he's explaining to

little Beth and Jim?

W HEN he sat down to the piano, threw his high-heeled boots under the saddle, and cocked back his big Stet nobody laughed. They knew Dave

Guiom could ride them keys from rhapsodies to ragtime like nobody's

business. You hear him freguent on the NBC range—he's a real cowboy. TOU can't keep a good

man cooped up in opera. So they took Mr. Tibbett and made

a Rogue out of him in the sing-

ing pictures—and now he has

traveled a step farther, with

mike, to become one of the Radio clan over the NBC—and how the ladies love him!

Lawrence Tibbett

38 LVERY time she sings this fair-haired Lithuanian lady of WTIC, Hartford. Conn.,

scores a new triumph. She left a successful

Anna Kaskas concert career in Europe to win America. She

has been featured a number of times over the Columbia system—have you heard her?

39 —

Richard Cordon

QUICK Watson—here he is, Sherlock Holmes in per- son. You who have heard his voice over the NBC dur- ing the series of Sherlock Holmes adventures have doubtless wondered many times about the personal ap- pearance of the famous

sleuth—here he is!

Lorraine, Erma and Thelma Ashley

YOU may know these three charming sisters as Sally, Irene and Mary at WGN Chicago. Once they were known as the Prairie Daisies at WIS. They are admirably suited for trio singing and play- ing a nd they write and take part in moving pictures too. Romeo Greene

over the YOU hear this full blooded Tuscarora Indian regularly CBS on the Carborundum program. His name comes from an an- cestor known as Green Blanket because when he came to trade furs at Fort Niagara he always chose a green blanket for compensation.

nil The Mikado

WHEN KHJ at Los Angeles presented "The Mikado" recently they selected costumes to

make the artists feel the parts they represented. They appear here—Kenneth Niles, as "Nanki Poo"; Gogo Delys, as "Yum Yum" and Lindsay

MacHarris, as "Ko Ko".

Martha, Connie and Vet Boswell

I HESE three sisters are high-lights in the Pacific Vagabonds, on the NBC Pacific network. They sing in sparkling tempo and have acquired an audience that manifests

itself through the mail enthusiastically.

Sandy MacTavish

I HIS bewhiskered gentleman of the heather- land is one of the most popular features of WCHI, Chicago. Sandy MacTavish has the real burr that denotes a broadcasting Scotchman. Thora Martens

all the ONE of the Western stations has thrown a challenge to looking as well other broadcasting stations, claiming it has the best America. In Chicago as the best sound producing feminine artists in Heavenly WENR answers the challenge with Thora Martens, their Blues singer, as a starter in the contest.

42 A

• many great NOT manufacturers are fortunate enough to have Mrs. E. H. Maytag their wives get out and boost their products. E. H. Maytag of the

Maytag company is the exception. Mrs. Maytag graciously steps up to the microphone and tells lady listeners as one woman to another how to make a pleasure out of wash day.

13 Ne'er Do Well

/\l_L up and down the Pacific Coast tens of thousands of

listeners have been asking for the

identity of the singer known as the

Ne'er Do Well of KROW, Oak-

land, Calif. He slips into a little

private studio, does his stuff all by

himself and comes back. Who is he? Ladies and gentlemen, we

take great pleasure in presenting

to you Mr. Frank Anderson, known

to Radioland heretofore only as

the Ne'er Do Well. You'll read

more about him in the article on the opposite page.

,y

""'*"" •- — ——" Unmasking 45

The Ne'er Do We 11

The Mystery Man of KROW! Who Is He? Where Does He Come From and What

is His Name? He is—but Read the Story

'-t"ea:'EARN how to be the life of the books, so I could reach as high as the party ten lessons. Be Popu- keys, and I would play some little ditty! I i in By Helen Spaulding lar!"—so read the alluring ad- In the meantime—to go on with the vertisements, but career of this amazing young fellow The "Ne'er Do Well," that mysterious time passed, to use a trite phrase—and young gentleman of Radio Station home town. The things that could be we find that he's completed a year at KROW, Oakland, California—that lazy done with music intrigued him at once. prep school and is ready for a business sentimentalist and soothing crooner, never "It took me three weeks to pick out career. Just about then the Panama Pa- had a music lesson in his life, and yet a tune on the piano," he said. "I nearly cific Exposition was being held in San he's flashed across the Radio world of drove the family wild, but I finally got Francisco, so the "Ne'er Do Well" went the Pacific Coast in a most astonishing it. Then Dad and Mother took a hand West and captured second prize in the manner. In less than a year and a half and helped me out with other tunes. You National Typing Contest, doing some- before the microphone he is probably one see, my folks were musical. Mother thing like 132 words per minute. He also of the most popular of the young in- used to sing in choirs and Dad played cornered a job and did court reporting, dividual Radio entertainers. for country dances. Sometimes he was stenographic work and became private He croons, he soothes, he sentimentalizes the whole orchestra. He could pound secretary to quite an important personage. and all but hypnotizes his auditors. He out some pretty good music on the fiddle, "When the War broke out I enlisted."' plays many programs of his own com- accordion or piano. After I learned that he said, "to go to France for big adven- positions! He fingers the keys softly ture. Somebody found out I could do while he talks consolingly to someone some fancy typing, so I was assigned to in trouble, or sends a cheery birthday duty with the General Army Headquarters greeting, or maybe bucks up someone in San Francisco." that's written him while blue and down- Someone else found out he could sing, hearted, and then, when his listeners are A CHALLENGE! and night after night he (you see he in just the right mood, he trails off into was not known as the "Ne'er Do Well" another of those tunefully caressing melo- in those days) was sent to theatres in a dies and, well—he's just about saved 1 URN to page 6? and take a radius of several hundred miles to sing. the day for at least a couple of folks and He made a great appeal, this good-looking good look at the pulchritude that sent several thousand others off, feeling youngster in his soldier uniform, and he right with the world. adorns KROW in Oakland. sang his audiences into a high patriotic The "Ne'er Do Well" is probably one pitch. Thus he did double duty. of mysterious stars. the most of Radio It is an open challenge, and no No one knows his name. He comes and stations are barred. RADIO DI- goes quietly to the studio, chats a bit, JjUT they couldn't let me smiles cheerily in a way that sends little GEST will be glad to receive the go across.'' he adds shamefacedly about fluttering thrills up and down the spines his War career. answers to the challenge and of the girls in the office—for he is Until a year and a half ago the "Ne'er young and "awfully good looking" they publish them Do Well" had never been in a Radio sta- say. Then he goes into the studio, and tion. He didn't even own a Radio. One locks the door! night a friend asked him to pinch-hit The locked studio—deep shadows and en a program. The "Ne'er Do Well" all snuggled up intimately with "Mike" demurred. The idea of playing before and there you have the setting for the first tune, picking out music came easier the microphone and to an unseen audience "Ne'er Do Well." When he plays and and I soon began to play quite a bit. appalled him. He was persuaded, how-

croons it's alone—not a soul in the room Then they put on programs at church ever, and. to tell it in his own words

—that's understood around the studio. and school entertainments and discovered "It really wasn't so bad. I just forgot

The "Ne'er Do Well" first heard about I could carry a tune pretty well, so some- there was an audience. I sort of lose

do, re, me, when he was in the sixth grade times I'd be on for a song, and sometimes myself when I play anyway. It was really in the schools of Minneapolis, Minn., his I'd be perched up on a couple of bis: {Continued on page 10 1) 46 TRIKES Lucky

of B. A. "T^olfe

IHE MAN Who's Been Havin' His Ups know Benjamin Albert benefit of the heat and I felt as — Mil- YOURolfe as a jolly, amiable and Havin' His Downs From though I were scorching. Music fellow who doesn't worry came so naturally to me, however, lionaire Down to Rock Bottom And about counting his calo- Up that I had the usual childish lack of self-consciousness and might as ries and who does a mighty good Again To Successful Orchestra Leader job of directing a most unusual well have been tooting my horn in jazz orchestra. the parlor back in Brasher Falls But if you haven't heard his so far as stage fright was con- story from beginning to end it will cerned." amaze you to know how many dif- Here Rolfe stopped, and smiled: ferent kinds of pies the adventur- "Father had the skating rink or- ous "B. A." has had those cele- chestra. At six and a half I was brated short, pudgy little fingers in. the alto horn player in Rolfe's And what he still dreams of doing. Independent Band. I must have It reads like a Horatio Alger looked like the band mascot. It story. Let's begin at the beginning was father's organization too. I and not put the cart before the played with the band three years. horse. Picture "B. A." himself, sit- "Then father decided to yank me ting back with the inevitable cigar around the country. He was then in his mouth. (Of course, it really leader of the band and orchestra should be a Lucky Strike!) with John Sparks Circus. Ah,

And picture him looking very those were the days ! Imagine how much like a beaming Santa Claus that would delight the heart of a ready to shower the world with a small boy. And those were the particularly happy present. No days when circus trouping was cir- matter how busy he gets he sel- cus trouping. dom loses that Kris Kringle beam. His story should be told as he told it —with his head back and a rem- We TOURED the iniscing look in his eyes. He began: Pennsylvania mining towns among

''I was born in Brasher Falls, N. other places. Such adventure. Y. in 1879. That makes me fifty- Life! Sometimes even yet I get one, you see. Not so young. Not homesick for the smells of the so young! Oh, well. You don't circus and life in the tents and big have much sense till you're fifty, rickety wagons. anyway. Especially sense as to "In 1891, at the age of 11, the value of money, which I have father took me to England with had much of and lost. Maybe I'll Hardie and Von Lear's Frontier learn from now on." Drama. I gave concerts in Europe too. The frontier show made a big hit in England because it was a J_ HAT musingly. Then: novelty. "My father was Albert Benjamin "The only other thing England Rolfe—my name reversed if you'll had seen at all like it was Buffalo notice—and he was a musician too. Bill. The show carried an Indian So was mother. I educated of eighteen as a special nov- was In 1885, at six years of age, little Benjamin Arthur Rolfe Band between high school in my home was alto horn player in his father's band. elty. I remember that they could town and a Catholic convent. I make more noise than a white band am not a Catholic, however. of fifty. Father got along fine "My school days were very much broken cornet—it was in Chippewa Falls, Wis. with the Indians. He is an honorary mem- up by the fact that I was one of those "It is strange that the outstanding ber of the Mohawk tribe today. pesky little nuisances known as a child memory of that eventful night at the "After we had played in England a prodigy. Believe it or not, but I was only skating rink where I made my debut is that year the folks decided little 'B. A.' could six when I gave my first concert on an alto on the table beside me were hot gas lights. do with a little more schooling. So they horn before I was large enough for a "I was just short enough to get the full brought me back to Brasher Falls."

_«i !

47 and Unlucky

®y Alma Sioux Scarberry

Rolfe stopped and shook his head solemnly: "Do you know I actually believe I might still be in Brasher Falls if I hadn't hated wad- ing in snow so much. Most kids like it. But I despised the snow and cold! I got the idea that there wouldn't be so much wading to do in New York, so I left the parental roof.

"However, it took me three years to make it all the way. I started through the medium of the Lowville, N. Y. Silver Cornet Band. Later I moved sixty-seven miles nearer, play- ing the cornet in the Majestic Theatre orches- tra in Utica. By the time I reached Gotham in 1903, the land of my dreams, I was of age.

wHEN I arrived I had little trouble getting work: I can't weave you the elaborate tale of starving in a garret. I went right into vaudeville with Ye Colonial Septet. The act ran eleven years, although I wasn't in it that long. It made plenty royalties for me, however. "Jesse Lasky, (now a famous movie pro- ducer) and I went into partnership at this point in my career. We put out vaudeville acts. Some of our presentations bore such high-sounding titles as Pianophiends, The Stun- ning Grenadiers, Ten Dark Knights." It is here that the high spot of B. A. Rolfe's career comes. This is where he made and lost a fortune. He went into the movies as a producer. In telling of it he looked highly amused. "I began in the picture game about the time Mary Pickford made her debut. Those were funny days. I can remember when we used to paint a stove on the back drop of the set because we thought it wasn't necessary to spend the money to get a real stove. "But, ah—later I was in pictures when we used to hold a set up for hours at the cost of perhaps $2000 to get a five-cent ink-well that would match the scene before it. Movies! What a racket to be in "My output was thirty-six pictures a year. In those days we worked! I produced under Rolfe Photo Plays and Columbia Pictures Corporation. Some of our stars were big names like Ethel and Lionel Barrymore, Emily Stevens, Viola Dana—Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Drew.

"If I can get hold of some of those old stills they'll hand you a laugh! In summer I ran the business in New York and in winter in B. A. Rolfe : :

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California. I was active in pictures five merry then. But luck comes and goes." "I want to found a native American years, letting my musical career slide en- It was from a friend a little later that school of music. Something typically tirely by. we picked up a thread of the Rolfe career American. Oh, of course that is a big "Then I proved fundamentally a good that he withheld during the long confab order and sounds like a foolish dream. I musician by resigning. There is some- about his life. It was that he "made a enjoy my jazz orchestra of course, and thing about a musician that makes him fortune and lost his shirt during the I wouldn't want to give it up. But, I am, love to resign. I threw it up because the Florida real estate boom." fundamentally, an altogether different company consolidated with Metro and I kind of musician. Or, perhaps I should got mad! That's always an excellent ex- say I am two kinds of musician. cuse for resigning—getting sore about JT LUNGING into it with "I realize that it took the old world something." the same gusto he plunged into movies 1600 years to develop Bach. I believe It was here that "B. A." admitted he and music, again he was the artist and America could do the same job in fifty made a fortune in pictures. He grinned couldn't hang on to his money. He could years. And Radio is the one medium. and took us into his confidence: take a dollar and make five out of it. The only really native American things "I made plenty of money—goodness But—keep it, never! we have developed are Gershwin with his still little knows ! A mint of it—and lost it. I had After that lesson the undaunted one phrase and Cadman with his no money when I left California and pic- "B. A." decided to "promote myself for American Indian music." tures and decided to try England and pic- a change." Rolfe grew a little wistful: tures. No doubt you've heard of unfor- It was then that he had the courage to "I guess, at that, it would take fifty years to develop even a foundation and I'd be a cen- tenarian by that time. But, through the medium of Ra- dio it could be done. So far we have no musical conception of what our musical ex- pression is." "B. A." has an- other dream. Quite a dreamer, heis. He has the idea that he'd like to found a whole flock of juvenile orchestras in larger cities of the United States.. Rolfe's Independent Band in 188 5. The leader in the big shako, at the left, is A. B. Rolfe, Sr. Next to him His reason is a stands A. B. Rolfe, Jr., cornetist, brother of the famous leader. Fourth is Mrs. Rolfe, mother and clarinet player, interesting and fourth from the right appears little Benjamin, dignified by the title of alto horn player. very one. In his own words tunate marriages where the girl married start a jazz band in a Chinese restaurant "This racketeer business is beginning a man because she thought he had money in New York—The Palais d'Or. He not to alarm me. Such babies as seem —and the man married the girl because only put over the restaurant but got on to be growing into outlaws! It is, he thought she had a fortune. the air and started "making an effort to undoubtedly, the small boy's love of "Well, truthfully, that's what happened make a name for myself by trying to be showing off. Turn his energy and that de- in England. I bluffed these people into different." sire into safe channels and you are all set. thinking I was affluent and they played In telling of this, the jovial gentleman "Now, a small boy loves to toot a horn. the same game on me. When it came to opined: Why shouldn't he toot a saxophone or a a show-down we made the fatal discovery "And, of course when you start trying cornet—make his noise on a musical in- that neither of us could float a picture to put yourself over people suspect that strument. My idea is to round up these financially. You can't promote a big you are after notoriety. Funny, isn't it?" bad boy gangs from the street corners

company on a shoe-string. I found that There is no doubt it took a lot of cour- and turn their desire to make a noise and out! age for the artistic Rolfe to mix in the attract attention into a jazz orchestra. atmosphere it became necessary for him Give them a public place and the lime to mix in in order to "make good." But, light to show off in." I NEVER could hang on to he pulled the restaurant up by the boot money. I was so interested in the produc- straps with him. Both became celebrated. ing angle dollars meant nothing. They And, letters began pouring in from Radio A_NDf Mr. Rolfe may be didn't even interest me. As I said be- fans. Lucky Strike tried scores of orches- right at that. It sounds rather reasonable. fore, you have to be at least fifty in some tras before selecting Rolfe. If you can't make the little rascals artistic cases before the value of a dollar begins As happy looking as appears the famous and turn them into symphony conductors Lo sink in. director he is really discontented and —make B. A. Rolfes out of 'em. "Real showmen are always gamblers, like a fish out of water. He said so him- There may be those among you who anyway. I've never known a really artis- self—then explained with his hearty feel, however, that the rat-tat-tat of a tic person to be saving. And if I hadn't laugh machine gun couldn't possibly be much joined that foolish army of independent "You know about the fellow who said worse than the toot-toot-toot of a sax. producers I wouldn't have gone under in he'd look up a steady job if his boss Rolfe is one of the most interesting 1920. I was busted higher than a kite would let him off long enough. Well, directors at NBC to watch in the studio. when I came back to New York from that's me!" I have never seen him use a baton. He merry old England. It didn't look so The Rolfe life dream is: (Continued on page 105) !

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The IVlagic (^arpet of the oz ARKS

By Alice Curtice Moyer-Wing

Alice Curtice Moyer-Wing

Dreams do come true—sometimes. And so do wishes. That is why the cities are that nobody has told so well since. When filled with eager-eyed boys girls, and men he had told us all he knew, he told and women who have deserted the isolation them over again, often adding little of farm and mountain cabin to make their way at last to the Ciy of Youthful Dreams thrilling episodes from his own imagina- and—sometimes—disillusionment. But to tion. The idea of the magic carpet ap- those thousands have who been banished to pealed to us most, and while we listened a life in the wilderness by force of necessity with squeals of delight each time he told or by choice has come the fulfillment of dreams too. Radio has wrought the miracle. it, with or without additional frills, we The letter reproduced below paints a vivid told it to each other just as often, for of picture of what Radio means to one lonely all things wished for. a magic carpet stood dweller in a remote place of the world. t at the head of the list. Indeed, it fre- MAYBE you would like to know quently had the list all to itself. how an Ozark native feels A magic carpet ! Just wish to go some about the Radio, and just what place—and there you were. Think of it! it means to the far-removed We would visit all the cities we had people of the hill country. heard about. We would see New York. Among my earliest recollections are Oh, for a magic carpet those of an Ozark homestead, where a It took many an earnest assurance husky young father cleared the land and from our parents to convince us that it a lovely young mother kept our rough was a fairy tale, so vivid a thing had it become to us. Indeed, I think we had

The Gobbler Hunter to outgrow it, and even then it was some- thing half hoped for. I was a studious girl, growing up. I plank house shining and homey for us. wanted to hear great lectures, see great The clearing was the playground for plays, hear good music. If only I had my brother and me. We watched its a magic carpet—but of course that was a growth with keenest interest, the forest babyhood tale. Still crowding back little by little and day by Time went along. Life took me to day, under the constant warfare waged different points of the globe and finally against it in the homemaking of a pio- turned me once more to the hills of my neer family. native country. Not to the spot of the We did not venture beyond the clear- old home of my childhood which had be- ing in our play. The scream of the come too sophisticated for my partner in panther and the howl of the wolf told the change, but to another portion as

us in plain terms just who it was that wild and remote as the old home site bid still claimed the forest and we did not been.

dispute with them. We even loved the And it is here that my wish his come sound of their voices and the shivery true. I have the magic carpet. I turn

feeling it gave us evenings when gath- on my Radio and the music and the ered safely in the light of the big blaze beauty I wished for in my young girl- in the fireplace and listened to the review hood are brought to the fireside of my of the day and the stories father told us: backwoods cabin— the sermons I had Tales of his trip to the city, 200 miles dreamed of, the lectures I had hoped to away; stories of his boyhood home in an hear, the songs I had longed for. except

Eastern state where he hoped to take us that the terms are reversed. I do not An Ozark Settler's Cabin to visit some day. And the fairy tales (Continued on page JOT) .

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Astrologer Finds The Firmament

Gives Dean of Elite Announcers A Break—He's Lazy but Lucky

Graham McNamee % Peggy Hull

FOLKS, meet Graham McNamee! some time, for his of Venus, Neptune Yes, I know you think this in- mind is a broad one and Mercury in Ge- troduction is superfluous but just and he isn't influ- mini. As Gemini wait a minute before you turn enced by the opin- rules brothers and the page, for I am going to tell you some ions of others and sisters and commu- things about him that he doesn't even neither has he any nication, he has lit- know himself! preconceived notions erally a great family He's lazy. about a subject. He who feel for him the Now don't get mad and bury me be- approaches any in- same warm affection neath a ton of protests. Graham just vestigation with a which harmonious can't help being indolent. His Sun is in wide open mind and kin have for each the sign Cancer and in this position, he possesses such a other. vitality is at its lowest ebb. If he had to shrewd and penetra- Venus in Gemini do something very strenuous to get before ting judgment that gives him the talent the public, it is safe to say he would be he knows he does for words which content to remain unknown, but Fate was not have to rely up- make his Radio kind to him. Radio was discovered just on others for advice. talks distinguished in time to give Graham McNamee a His moon in Saggitarius gives him that for precision in describing a situation. break. Anyone knows the easiest and alert and active personality with which When Graham gets through telling you most pleasant job in life is talking, and he is associated in everyone's mind who about a fast play on the gridiron, you for Graham it was made doubly easy with has heard him over the air. And it has have a good mental picture of what has three planets in the sign of Gemini. a lot to do with the short, crisp way he taken place. This position of Venus is Gemini rules speech and words. Its has of presenting a topic. It makes him also responsible for the even and perma- influence makes men and women better fond of animals, especially horses and nent affection of his Radio audience. conversationalists, better writers and when dogs. It increases his love for sports. Unlike Rudy Vallee, whose stars show Mercury occupies this position, it gives As a matter of fact, his success in life that people either love or hate him, extreme fluency. depends chiefly upon his association with Graham does not suffer from bitter and It makes a person fond of travel, of sporting events and if you stop to recall uncalled for criticism. If people do not change, of new things, and everyone some of the highlights of his career, you particularly like him, this feeling does knows that Graham McNamee flits back will remember that he first became well not take an active form in invectives, and forth across the continent like a flea. known for his broadcasts of baseball and they merely turn the dial and forget him,

You can be certain, there is nothing he football games. but there is no such indifference when it likes better than an assignment at the Graham can also tell you about a horse comes to Vallee. opposite end of the United States. race with such skill and vivid detail that, Remember how many people held back although you are a thousand miles from when Radio was first announced? Well, the track, your heart will beat faster, N.JEPTUNE, the spiritual Graham McNamee wasn't one of them. your hair stand on end and you will hover planet, posited in Gemini, gives Graham No sir, he stepped right up and learned over the Radio literally seeing the horses unusual mental faculties and a certain all about it from the very beginning. It come down the home stretch. amount of genius. It makes him sensitive was his Mercury in Gemini which caused Saggitarius rules distance and with the to the finer intuitional and inspirational him to do this. All his life he will be Moon posited therein it is no wonder that vibrations and gives the gift of oratory investigating anything new which makes his public extends wherever the Radio and unusual literary ability. There is no its appearance in our world. waves go. This position also tends to field of endeavor where mental ingenuity While Astrology isn't new, it is having create the feeling in people that they is required in which Graham could not its re-birth and if Graham hasn't taken know him, once they have listened to excel. it up yet, he'll be sure to investigate it him, and further strengthens the influence His Sun conjuncting Mars in Cancer 51

combines and successful corporations, makes mm fond of lively places. That is stars would indicate that he has suffered that he With Venus coming to a conjunction why he is fond of sports and horse races from a lack of nervous energy; with the in Cancer it is safe to fore- and explains the public's interest in him tires easily and when he is working, finds Sun cast an even greater popularity in the through his connection with them. Just getting on the job a trial. These condi- future for Graham McNamee than he has as Floyd Gibbons' horoscope, with the tions will pass as the planets move on yet known. He will be carried on a wave [Sun and Mars in Cancer, showed that he but in the meantime he must guard affection from the public in general would become distinguished through rev- against accidents of all kinds and should of to heights he has little dreamed he would olutions and wars, so Graham's indicates take no chances with his life or limbs. curiosity could easily lead scale. hlis fame through sports and the air. His bump of him into an unpleasant encounter with a new invention and this is no time for Graham to test out a new airplane or .E WILL have ups and jJATURN in Leo gives him H, play with electrical devices. downs throughout his life, but there are friends among people of the upper classes. which have been holding none after this particular period through Heads of governments, high officials and The aspects year will have which he is passing at present, which will men and women of the Social Register him back during the past 1931 when his Sun give him much trouble. type are drawn to Graham through these been dissipated in and affairs will vibrations and their acclaim has added conjuncts Jupiter all of his will feel better, much to the success which his popularity take on new life. He opportunities with with the masses gave him. too, and respond to year how- ASTROLOGY , one of the oldest of There are many people before the the old enthusiasm. The 1932, will bring him -^*- professions, has made gigantic public who enjoy only the plaudits of a ever, is the one which benefits. some strides since it has become better certain strata of society, but Graham's the most pronounced And in known through broadcasting. Read horoscope shows that from the masses to of the good things which come to him or fifteen months will be Peggy Hull's monthly horoscopes of their rulers, he is liked and admired. the next twelve the greater fortune your favorite Radio stars. Next With his Jupiter in Capricorn there is only the outriders of " month she will tell you what the no doubt about his future. This position on the way. forces of the sky had to do with the .of the beneficiary planet Jupiter makes Many people lose their friends when un- success of Amos V Andy. Don't Graham, self reliant, ambitious and per- der bad aspects, and they have to travel the miss your March Radio Digest. sistent. No setbacks or disappointments road of adversity alone and uncomforted. will deter him, neither can any obstacles But not Graham Mc- keep him from the limelight very long. Namee. He has a buoy- Capricorn is the sign which gives pa- ant quality which makes tience and endurance. People born with it possible for him to life conceal from even his ; their Sun in this sign can struggle a time for success. They can keep on in intimates his real feel- ( of thwarted desires, overwhelm- ings. He is not the i the face ing obstacles and they can wait for years kind who would let his

1 to realize their dreams. Graham's Jupi- troubles cast a shadow ter in this position stabilizes his ambitions over his associates. quick sym- ' and gives him a patience he would not He has dis- otherwise have. It is the guarantor of pathy for others in his future. He may get a few bad tress and is always breaks now and then, but he will have ready to help, but he trying, to stick can't be fooled. His i the tenacity to keep on until adverse intuition is too sharp I to what he is doing the It be period is past. for that. would for Of course if Graham suddenly found worse than useless himself without a spot on the air, he a man to step up to could very soon make his old audience Graham with a hard tale, made up out sit up and take notice by turning his hand luck ex- to writing, for his horoscope shows that of whole cloth, and he would be equally as successful in this pect him to believe it. tin drop in field as he is on the air.- He can hear a mile But writing is hard work. It means a proposition steady, relentless plugging every day and away. But he is sel- Graham has no disposition for such labor. dom prejudiced. It would take a tremendous amount of self discipline on Graham's part, more than I believe he's got, but if he did whip VhENUS

himself into shape . . . what stories he in conjunction with

could write! - Neptune makes him Albert Payson Terhune, who has long fond of music, the arts held the title in the dog story world and drama. Beauty in would soon run for cover. Grantland all forms appeals to Rice and some of the other topnotchers him strongly and this among the sporting writers would be eye- aspect also increases ing their crowns anxiously, for, if there his popularity with

is anything in Astrology, Graham could friends and associates. write rings around them while he was half It makes him thought- asleep. Such, dear readers, is the gift ful of other people's the planets have bestowed upon a man happiness, polite, full

who doesn't need it. of kindness and sym- It appears that Graham hasn't been pathy and inclines to Precision in announcing is Graham's middle name -that's the enjoying the best of health lately. His bring benefits from large way the stars made him. 52

Turn About's Fair Play! Radio Listeners Become CJft Q^/Ictuaily Playwrights and Fashion Thrilling Dramas for Happened Detroit Broadcasts,

WXYZ and The Free Press. The news- fused to commit himself, but we strongly "By B. G. CLARE paper started the ball rolling by running suspect that he had a real idea in the a contest which they have christened, It back of his head. Perhaps he was annoyed Actually Happened. It invites house- by the wiseacres who write to station wives, business men, "doctors, lawyers, managers and say that they "could do you a little drama stored Indian chiefs, rich men, poor men"—even better themselves with only half an ef- HAVEin your brain cells? Out in ice men—to participate by submitting fort". Maybe he said to himself, "I don't Detroit there are two impor- a true incident which they have experi- believe this particular kicker could. But tant public servitors who be- enced or witnessed. A $5.00 prize is let's give them all a chance." lieve everyone has a story to tell. They given daily for each story accepted and are making it possible for readers and printed. listeners to turn about and become writers Then Fred Roche, Publicity Director aNE of the most success- and playwrights. of WXYZ, stepped in. He offers an ad- ful of the It Actually Happened Radio The two agents who are gratifying the ditional prize of $25 for the best story dramas was written by Robert Donaldson literary ambitions of a good slice of Mich- published each week. This thriller, or sad of Detroit. This amateur made good not igan's populace are Broadcasting Station or comic incident, as the case may be, is only in the columns of a daily newspaper adapted for Radio pro- and over the air, but he also had the thrill duction by James Jewell, of seeing his play accepted for a two week dramatic director of the run as a "curtain-raiser" before the major Radio station; and under offering of the Civic Theatre Stock Com-

his supervision it is pre- pany. sented over the air by Mr. Donaldson placed his true incident members of the Civic in France, in the days when war was Theatre Stock Company. rampant and every mother knew the trag- How did Fred Roche's edy of seeing her son wrenched from her fertile brain conceive the side. It is called Vive La France! idea of this novel contest? The Radio audience, snugly ensconced When interviewed, he re- in arm chairs, sees in its mind's eye the

"Forgive me, God—It was for France—Vive La France." Jessie Bonstelle as Madame Bertrand and John Griggs as the dying Henri Bertrand. !

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The supper in the kitchen. Walter Sherwin as the Padre, Jessie Bonstelle as Mme. Bertrand and Joan Madison as Marie in the WXYZ presentation of the prize play, Vive La France.

poor and war-saddened home of the Supper is over, and the subdued duo of "Surely, Monsieur Lieutenant." answers

Widow Bertrand. It is stripped bare of visitors depart, leaving the widow alone. the mother, "search if you must, but I ornament, save in one corner a prie-dieu, A cough and a scraping of feet come from tell you Henri is not here." where the mother is accustomed to offer a dark corner of the other room, which up prayers for the souls of her two sons, serves as sleeping chamber. A light re- Jacques and Pierre, who have been sacri- veals a man's figure, clad in muddy, blood- T«.HROUGH the house and ficed that their country may live. stained rags. the barns the soldiers peered, and at last In the kitchen, partaking of a humble Madame Bertrand peered into the man's returned to the room where Madame meal of potage and black bread, are Ma- face. "Henri," she screamed. "My Henri Bertrand has hidden Henri. "What is in dame Bertrand, the old village priest, and has come back to me. God has answered that cupboard?" asks the lieutenant. Marie, the young girl who has already my prayers and sent you to comfort me. "Nothing but—some old clothes," stam- known affliction and the pang of separa- But why did you not write and tell me mers the old mother. tion from her beloved . . . Henri Bertrand, you were coming?" The lieutenant disbelieved her and made the last of the widow's three sons. Wild The man does not answer, and she sud- as if to open the door. and irresponsible as is this youngest boy, denly gasps with realization. "Oh, Henri, "I tell you there is nothing in there that he is adored by both his mother and his what have you done? You have run away concerns you," she cries. "See. I will fiancee. from your regiment-—you have brought prove it to you." Grabbing the loaded ''Oh if le bon dieu would only spare shame to the name of Bertrand, a name gun from above the fireplace, she pointed

Henri to be a comfort to me in my old respected in France for centuries." it at the cupboard and fired all five bul- age," says the Widow Bertrand. Mumbled pleas for sympathy, with ref- lets through the door. "Yes," Marie adds her plea. "It is so erence to brutes of officers, from the de- When the opened cupboard reveals a lonesome here in Chantrey." serter, brought only a resolution from the dying Henri, the mother who has killed mother to send her son back if she had her son to save him from a deserter's to drag him herself. death, prays. "Forgive me. God— Forgive o,'H, PADRE," cries the A noise outside. Madame Bertrand me. Jacques and Pierre— It was for mother, "God forbid that I begrudge any- shoves Henri into the cupboard that the France—Vive La France." thing to France, but I have already given neighbors may not be witness to her dis- A vivid, realistic play, torn from the my Jacques and my Pierre because France grace. She opens the door, to admit —an war memories of a man who now listens needed them, so please God spare Henri." officer and four soldiers to his Radio in the peace of home. May- Even the old priest, who had never ap- "Madame Bertrand, I regret that duty be you, too. have an interesting story, proved of the irrepressible antics of the compels me to inform you that your son waiting only tor encouragement to reveal

boy, was forced to take pity on the old deserted his regiment ten days ago. and it. Maybe some Radio station near your mother and the sad Marie, and join in I must demand permission to search your home will wake up to this opportunity to their prayers for the deliverance of Henri. home 10 find the deserter." bring out hidden talent —who can tell? 54 Science and

_/y e I i g i o n

Must They Conflict? A Great

Physicist Gives His Answer ...

Sir Arthur Eddington

nine hundred thousand years not combat this view, I am unwilling to into the past. base philosophy or religion on the assump- Amid this profusion of tion that it must necessarily break down, worlds in space and time, but alongside this there is another out- where do we come in? Our look. Sir Arthur Eddington, 'who as one of the 'world's leading home, the earth, is the fifth Science is an attempt to set out the astronomers, is eminently fitted to speak for science. or sixth largest planet be- facts of experience. Everyone will agree longing to an inconspicuous that it has met with wonderful success little star in one of the but does not start quite at the beginning AM speaking on the subject from numerous islands in the archipelago. of the problem of experience. the standpoint of those interested Doubtless there are other globes which The first question asked about facts I in physical science, and I should like are or have been of similar nature to or theories such as I have been describ- first to convey the setting in which ourselves, but we have some reason to ing is, Are they true? I want to em- the problem arises. If you will look up think that such globes are uncommon. phasize that even more significant than at the sky in the direction of the con- The majority of the heavenly bodies the astronomical results themselves is the stellation Andromeda and stand for a few seem to be big lumps of matter with ter- fact that this question about them so moments scrutinizing the faintest star you rifically high temperature. Not often urgently arises. The question, Is it see, you will notice one that is not a has there been the formation of small, true? seems to me to change the com-

sharp point of light like the rest but has cool globes fit for habitation, though it plexion of the world of experience not a hazy appearance. has happened occasionally by a rare ac- because it is asked about the world but This star is unique and barely visible cident. Nature seems to have been in- because it is asked in the world. to the naked eye. It is not properly a tent on a vast scheme of evolution of If we go right back to the beginning, star. We might rather describe it as a fiery globes, an epic of millions of years. the first thing we must recognize in the universe. It teaches us that when we As for man, he might be treated only world is something intent on truth, some- have taken together the sun and those as an unfortunate incident, just a trifling thing to which it matters intensely that a stars we can see with the naked eye and incident not of very serious consequence thing shall be true. the hundreds of millions of telescopic stars, to the universe. No need to be always If in its survey of the universe, physical we have not yet reached the end of raking up against Nature her one little science rediscovers the presence of such things. We have explored only one is- inadvertence. To realize the insignificance an ingredient as truth, well and good. If land, one oasis in the desert of space. In of our race amid the majesty of the uni- not, the ingredient remains none the less

the far distance we discern another is- verse is probably helpful, for it brings to essential, for otherwise the whole ques- land which is that hazy patch of light in us a chastening force, but man is the tion is stultified. Andromeda. typical custodian, which makes a great With the help of the telescope, we can difference to the significance of things. make out a great many more; in fact, a He displays purpose. He can represent w*HAT is the truth whole archipelago of islands stretching truth, righteousness, sacrifice—for a few about ourselves? We may incline to away one behind another until our sight brief years a spark from the Divine various answers: We are complicated fails. That speck of light which anyone Spirit. physical machinery; we are reflections in may see is a sample of one of these It may possibly be going too far to a celestial glass; we are puppets on the islands. It is a world not only remote say that our bodies are pieces of matter stage of life moved by the hand of time in space but remote in time. Long be- which by a contingency not sufficiently which turns the handle beneath. fore the dawn of history, the light now guarded against have taken advantage of Responsibility towards truth is an entering our eyes started on its journey the low temperature to assume human attribute of our nature. It is through across the great gulf between the islands. shape and perform a series of strange our spiritual nature, of which responsibil- When you look at it, you are looking back antics which we call life. While I do ity for truth is a typical manifestation, — !

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for commonplace conception until we have that we first come into the world of ex- walk mechanically. To adapt him forced to ask ourselves what really perience. Our entry via the physical anything else would involve wholesale re- been — is the aim of this scientific transforma- universe is a re-entry. The strange asso- construction. doctrine that things are not ciation of soul and body, of responsibility Now, to be able to put anything in you tion? The is all very well in modera- for truth with a bit of stellar matter must have a vacuum, and such a material what they seem far that whether given to us by accident or not body would not be hollow enough to be tion but it has now proceeded so we have to remind ourselves that the is a problem in which we cannot but feel a receptacle of spiritual nature. is have an intense interest, an anxious interest, I know that our conception of the ma- world of appearances the one we as though the existence and significance terial universe must be very puzzling to actually to adjust our lives to. That was of the spiritual side of experience were most people, but I have no time to ex- not always so. hanging in the balance. plain or define it. I will only say that

The solution must fit the data. We any of the young theoretical physicists _T IRST, the progress of cannot alter the data to fit the alleged of today will tell you that the basis of scientific thought consisted in correcting solution. I do not regard the phenom- all the phenomena that come within their gross errors in the commonplace concep- enon of living matter, in so far as it province is a scheme of symbols con- learned, for example, that the can be treated apart from the phe- nected by mathematical equations. That tions. We earth was spherical, not flat. That does nomenon of consciousness, as necessarily is what the physical universe boils down not refer to some abstract scientific earth outside the scope of physics and chem- to when probed by the methods which a but to the earth we know so well, with istry. It may happen that some day physicist can apply. all its color, beauty and homeliness. For science will be able to show how, from A skeleton scheme of symbols is hol- own part, when I think of a tennis the science of physics, creatures might low enough to hold almost anything. It my match in Australia, I cannot help pictur- have been formed which are counterparts can be filled with something to transform ing it upside down, so much has the of ourselves even to the point of being it from skeleton into being, from shadow roundness of the earth become part of a endowed with life, but scientists will per- familiar conception haps point out the nervous mechanism Then we learned that the earth was of this creature, its powers of emotion, of rotating. the most part we give an growth, of reproduction, and end by say- For intellectual assent to this without at- ing, "That is you." But, remember, the When From The Human tempting to weave it into our familiar inescapable test is: Is it concerned with Heart The Cry Goes Out conception, but we can picture it if we truth in any way that I am? Then I try. will acknowledge that it is indeed myself. Rosetti's poem, the Blessed Damozel We are demanding something more Is In What It the balcony of heaven than consciousness. The scientist might looks down from on "The void as low as where this earth point to motions in the brain and say all about? like a fretful midge," and perfect that these really mean sensations, emo- spins truth alone can enter her mind. tions, thoughts. let us try something fairly mod- Even if we accept this rather inade- zjYCust the man of science give answer Now substitute for consciousness as u ern. In Einstein's theory, the earth, like quate we to the man in the street . . . It is a other matter, is a curvature in space- intimately know it, while you may have universe of atoms and chaos?" A great shown us a creature which thinks and time. What is commonly called the spin British astronomer and physicist dis- is ratio of two believes, you have not shown us a crea- of the earth a the com- agrees. says that beyond the physical ponents. ture to whom it matters in any non- He I am not sure that it would be deroga- utilitarian sense what it thinks and be- side of the matter we find "a spirit in tory to an angel to accuse him of not lieves. which truth has its shrine'". understanding the Einstein theory. My It is the privilege of RADIO objection is more serious. So long as B,'UT having disowned our DIGEST to present his views, as set physics, tinkering with the familiar supposed doubles, we can say to the forth in a talk broadcast recently over world, was able to retain those aspects scientist, "If you will hand over this the British network and the Columbia which concern the esthetic side of our na- robot who pretends to be and let it ture, it might with some show of reason me Broadcasting System. be filled with the attribute at present claim to cover the whole of experience, lacking and perhaps other spiritual at- and those who claimed that there was tributes which I claim are similar on another side to experience had no sup- less indisputable grounds, we may arrive port to their claim. at something that is indeed me." into actuality, from symbols into the in- This picture omits so much that is ob-

An interesting point is that the recent terpretation of the symbols. viously essential there is no suggestion

revolutionary changes of science have It seems to me that the time has come that it is the whole truth about experi- made this kind of cooperative solution of when scientists can no longer be able to ence. To make such a claim would be the problems of experience more prac- point to the result and say, "That is you." offensive not only to those religiously in- ticable than it used to be. That really is We will say rather, "That is how I sym- clined but to all who recognize that man is my one excuse for taking part in this bolize you in my description and ex- not merely a scientific measuring machine. debate, the one side of our complex prob- planation of those of your properties If it were necessary. 1 would al this lem in which we have recently had some which I can observe. If you claim any point turn aside to defend the scientist new light. deeper insight into your own nature, any for pursuing the development of a highly

A few years ago, the suggestion of tak- knowledge of what it is that these sym- specialized solution of one side of the ing the physically constructed man and bols symbolize, you can rest assured that problem of experience and ignoring the

endowing him with a spiritual nature by I have no other interpretation of the rest, but 1 will content myself with re-

casually adding something would have symbols to propose." minding you that it is through his ef- been a mere figure of speech, a veritable The skeleton is the whole contribu- forts in this direction that my voice is vaulting over insuperable difficulties, in tion of physics to the solution of the now being heard by you. At any rate, much the same way we thought of build- problem of experience. From the cloth- there is method in his madness.

ing a robot and then breathing life into ing of the skeleton it stands aloof. The Another striking change oi scientific him. But we could not do this with a scientific conception of the world has views is in regard to determinism, the delicate piece of mechanism designed to come to differ more and more from the (Continued on page 10-4) 56 Who Knows — But YOUR

CHILD May Be One of The CARUSOS

of Tomorrow

Here 's How To Save Him From The Fate

of The Window Cleaner With the Glorious Voice Who Couldn't Make Good in Opera

sweetness. The Ambassador cation which he sponsored. He even went paused, for be it understood, so far as to bring about the erstwhile as a composer, patron of window washer's debut as the Duke in opera and instrumentalist, Rigoletto. Alas, the resplendent Duke he prided himself' on know- was soon back at his old job again, wash- ing a voice when he heard ing windows and singing while he worked, assuredly this was trifle "By FRANK LA FORGE one, and perhaps a wistfully. one. He looked about to No doubt he did have a glorious voice discover from whence such and one of exceptional promise. He might will come from homes that golden tones were being freely dispensed. even have been famous today. If this THEYdot the four corners of this broad Ah, yes, unmistakably, they were coming lad's mother had insisted on piano prac- land—our future Carusos and from a young Italian who was engaged tice, when he was a boy, his story might Pattis. They will fill the ranks of in briskly swabbing off a large front win- have been vastly different. the Metropolitan and other opera com- dow. Ambassador Dawes became all at- I have heard hundreds of beautiful panies, and the Radio will give their tention. The fellow certainly had a voice. voices, but voices unsupported by ade- voices wings. He engaged him in conversation. quate preparation in the simple rudiments. But a beautiful voice in itself is no Yes, window cleaning was his regular Some of them were indeed exquisite but more the open sesame to operatic stardom job; no, he had never studied music. He their possessors did not even know how than a beautiful face is to dramatic star- sang because of a full heart. In fact, he to read music at sight or keep time prop-

dom. It is only the beginning. Whether had always sung. It was pent up inside erly, two cardinal principles of prepared- its guardian will ever reach the bright of him and he had to get it out, so he ness that are so essential, they are taken lights and the plaudits, depends very sang. for granted. Assuredly no busy conductor largely upon the musical training that has Ambassador Dawes felt that here was nowadays will stop a costly rehearsal long gone before, training that can best be a real find and had visions of being hailed enough to point out such elementary mat- given during childhood,—and therein lies as the discoverer of a future opera idol, ters. the tragedy of the American singer. so he took the young fellow in hand and Moreover, should a singer decide to In this country there is current a ro- began a somewhat intensive musical edu- overcome this handicap at all costs, he mantic supposition to the effect that a will certainly need an iron determination. voice is "discovered", after which the He would feel like an adult who is just lucky possessor has little else to do but starting to school to learn his numbers trip gaily up the brightly studded ladder FR AN K LA and letters. These are matters to occupy to stardom. This legend probably orig- FORGE, Au- the child mind, not that of the grown inated in the fertile imagination of some thor of This Article, person. The results produced are need- has assisting press agent seeking colorful copy for his been less handicaps, tears, heartaches and often artist to Marcella prima donna client. failures. Sembrich, Mmes. A story is told of our American Am- Thus you may see why more than voice Alda, Schumann bassador to Great Britain, Charles W. Heink and many is needed to accomplish the unusual. Let is in where Dawes, whose home Chicago others. He answers us consider some further points—the idea he is one of the directors of the Chicago those many inquirers of the requirements of a singing career. Civic Opera Company. He was walking who ask "How can I When he first appeared at the Metropol- down Michigan Boulevard one day when help my child to be- itan, Lawrence Tibbett, with his glorious he heard a voice of great power and come a Radio artist?" {Continued on page 107) 57

By

Alexander Woollcott, sits in front of the mike just Alexander before he swings into ac- tion on the period of the Woollcott Gruen Guild Watch at CBS.

'Tas:'AST autumn I sent run down to Macy's and several old wives' buy them by the dozen, J-Jdales onto the air if you want to. They are -the story of the only $50.00 a volume. vanishing lady, for in- Colonel Isham used to be stance, and the story of the a newspaperman himself. dead man in the subway. In his salad days he used I prefaced each with a to be known as the mil- question. Each story had lionaire reporter of The been told to me as true. More New York World. He Was it? The question TOWN is. to my notion, the most was genuine. It was not expert and engaging ra- the threadbare device of conteur now audible at a funny broadcaster try- the dinner tables of this ing to whip up interest CRIER TALES latter-day Babylon. Like as one whips up an ome- myself, his specialty is lette. I honestly wanted twice-told tales—at least to know. I cannot con- twice told. It is his su- ceive of asking a question Have You Heard This One?—About The preme gift to pick up a for any other reason. bit of American folklore "Well, the answers came Princeton Grad and the Good Samaritan? and so sharpen and en- flooding in like pigeons hance it that it emerges homing to their comfort a gem. Speaking of twice- station — the Public Li- told tales, I have been at brary. From all the cities and towns on soon as I hear. I hope you won't think once flattered and perplexed by the re- this part of the Atlantic seaboard, from me a silly little thing if I ask you to currence of one request in the Town Quincy in Massachusetts and Metuchen send me a photograph of yourself. Cor- Crier's mail bag. From sundry and scat- in New Jersey and Timonium in Mary- dially and sincerely yours, tered listeners-in, I have been receiving land, the answers came in. This would Henrietta Peewee.' a suggestion that we celebrate Halloween be a fair sample: next fall by retelling the ghost story ''Well, that's Henrietta's letter. And called "Full Fathom Five" which I spun " 'Dear Mr. Woollcott: if that is a fan letter, I'm Rudy Vallee. over the air amid the ducking apples and "I heard your story of the murdered I need hardly add that Henrietta's cousin the grinning pumpkins last fall. I wish man in the subway. I am a school teacher in Salt Lake City never came across there was some way I could determine and I don't usually write fan letters like with the details and that I never heard how many of my audience of a year ago this one. I don't like the way you pro- again from Henrietta. would be infuriated by my telling the nounce words and I think you talk much story again. too fast, and I would much rather hear T "However, to get back to Colonel Ish- the Crockett Mountaineers. But I felt J_HE story I am going to am's yarn, it's a story about a watch. In obliged to answer the question you asked tell next is one that has come to me in a panic, I seem to hear a large part of my the other night. You wanted to know twenty different forms from as many audience beginning to growl suspiciously. if the story about the murdered man in different sources in the past two years. Your Radio addict can smell propaganda

the subway was true. I happen to know The last person to tell it and the one with a gas mask two miles off. I can

that it is true, Mr. Woollcott, but you who told it in much the same form I am hear a lot of you cagey old birds saying had some of the details wrong. It didn't using tonight is Colonel Ralph Isham of 'If the Town Crier had been engaged by happen in the subway last winter. It London and Glen Head. Colonel Isham the Camel people, this story would be happened in a trolley car in Salt Lake is that eagle of collectors who. under the about a cigarette.' My answer to that City four years ago. I know, because hooked and irate noses of all the great is: 'You lie in your teeth.' This story

it happened to a friend of a cousin of dealers in autographs, recently carried off ;.\- about a watch. It begins with a young mine. I have written out to my cousin to the greatest prize of our time. "The Princeton alumnus telephoning from his get the exact date and the name of his Boswell Papers', which are now being room at the Princeton club in Xew York friend for you and will let you know as published a volume at a time. You can (Continued on page ^) 58

Rita Bell, bewitchingly de- mure, did the Helen Kane lines and boop-a-dooping in the Radio showing of Sweeties.

cdtNation KHJ Successfully Per- forms The Noble Experiment— "On With The Show" Brings Sound Pictures To The Air

TORTURED with stereotyped of people in the cast and the Radio presentations, western lis- number of scene shifts. teners have at last discovered The picture at your neigh- something new in what KHJ labels borhood theatre showed some On With The Show, which is given each twenty-two speaking parts. Wednesday at 7 p. m., Pacific time, from But the Radio version, cut- Los Angeles. ting and doubling, reduced Several of these have taken an entire this to exactly ten. talkie feature, cut and revised, and Then again, the original brought out in a Radio version which, picture script called for ten somehow or other, never seems to lose any sequences, while the adapted of the lustre of the original production Radio script culled this to even though the time element has been only four. The screen show- considerably curtailed. ing viewed exactly 329 Besides the talkie productions, the sta- scenes, but only fourteen of tion has also put on light operas, musical these found their way into comedies and operettas during this On the broadcast program.

With The Show series which is billed to All in all, the cutters and run for a full fifty-two weeks. adapters, musicians and con- The Love Parade, Chevalier's noted tinuity men, pick out a few vehicle, was the initial attempt. In its definite "shots" and these original film version this production read- are protrayed by music, ily lent itself to numerous characters and dialogue and sound effects. many scene changes. But of course the The Love Parade went Radio adaptation reduces both the number over in a large-sized way. RADIO Impersonating Maurice Chevalier was one Charlie Carter. That's the boy's name, although some of the press insist on dubbing him "Charles By Dr. tfalph Cartier", to create an impression of French atmosphere. A San Francisco lad of sixteen, his father is a well known physician up in trance and exit of the leading characters, the San Francisco Bay region. He man- the placing of melodic symbols so that ages his youthful son and heir. For The the listener can easily orient his imagina- Love Parade young Carter did both the tion. Under the stimulus of a mere phrase lines and songs of Chevalier, although in of dialogue, and a few strains of music, some of the KHJ Radio-talkies it was the imagination of the listener creates found necessary to use two separate and within him the scene which, on the screen,

distinct casts . . . one for lines and the appears concretely before the eye. other for singing. The boy's impersonation of Chevalier was a knock-out. So far his Radio work Tk.HEN there was the com- has been confined to this one piece of plete Radio version of The Rogue Song,

acting. But he does it well and with but, instead of Lawrence Tibbett, Cali- plenty of snap and verve. fornia's proverbial playboy, the lead was The major portion of the score and taken by Pietro Gentile, young Italian dramatic action of The Love Parade was baritone, who was Tibbett's understudy left intact. Yet a tremendous amount of during the filming of the production. unique labor and ingenuity were demanded Twenty-five years old in April, Gentile of the staff in order to give the ear that was born in Foggia, Italy. His father which the screen feeds to the eye. was a dilettante musician and his mother This included the writing and arranging a noted sportswoman who was once

Ted White is another KHJ staff member of motifs and incidental music, the skillful decorated for bravery by King Emman- who has had singing roles in Radio talkies. weaving of musical themes into the en- uel of Italy, a signal honor. 59

Pietro Gentile was the swag- ger and dashing baritone hero of The Rogue Song, produced in Los Angeles by KHJ.

Rogue Song, also went over Although the three previous Radio- quite big, the staff launched talkies had used some outstanding guest out on an ambitious under- artist, they did Sweeties as an all-studio taking of talkies, operettas cast and everybody acquitted themselves and other similar features pretty well. for the coming year. For instance, there was the studio offering of Balfe's i RACTICALLY all of the The Bohemian Girl, which sound work for these Radio productions

starred Fred Scott . . . one- comes from the fertile brain of Charles time Radio singer who seems Forsythe. Not content with the ordinary to have made good with a wind machine, he makes one to operate vengeance in the movie on an electric motor that does the wind world. storm in several shades and tones, to say Young Scott's excellent nothing of sundry rain, hail and snow voice and fine dramatic abil- side-lines by way of variety. ity helped him to rise from This new Radio-talkie idea was evolved the ranks of Radio enter- by Raymond Paige, KHJ musical director, tainment to starring parts as he was riding on top of a bus out in on the silver screen and the wilds of effete Hollywood in search of talkies. ideas. While The Bohemian Girl Assisting him was the station arranger. was grand opera, the Radio Frederick Stark, German violinist, with story was so ably recon- practical experience in music arranging structed that it became for theatres on both the east and west more understandable, more coasts. He did the musical adaptation

plausible . . . sort of losing and wrote new music atmosphere to fit the grand opera curse. in here and there. Then they tried the talkie Production Manager Lindsay Mac- of Sweeties, that screaming- Harrie, one-time assistant student man- ly funny story of a boys' ager at the University of Washington,

school right next door to a collaborated in revising the script to fit girls' school. Station An- the limitations of Radio and adapting the TALKIES nouncer Kenneth Niles did talkie to the air production. the role which Oakie had in Dick Creedon, feature director, and the original. Rita Bell did Ted Osborne, erstwhile news-hound, now the Helen Kane lines. Elvia on the continuity staff, are diligently burn- Allman enacted the role of ing the midnight oil in search of brand L. Power Miss Twill; Ted White as Bigg; Lindsay new material to keep the series humming MacHarrie as Prof. Austin. along through 1931.

While in his teens, Gentile pulled away from parental ties and landed this side of the Statue of Liberty with a magnificent physique, a natural in voice, youthful fire, ambition . . . but no money. Pietro took a fling at the boxing game for awhile and then followed it up with some singing. Thus some people knew him as the boxing-baritone. He became a favorite singer in society circles and

'tis small wonder that he worked out the combination on the front doors of some of the bigger and better families in Wash- ington and New York. On Broadway young Gentile did the juvenile lead in Eddie Cantor's Whoopee. He is now doing some picture work in Southern California. Not so long ago he caught many distinguished colds while posing for famous artists who delighted in the perfection of his particular style Charlie Carter (left), who played the lead in The lore Parade for KHJ and does Maurice of architecture. Chevalier impersonations, is only sixteen. Kenneth Niles (right), regular KHJ announcer As KHJ's second talkie production, The who did a song and some tap dancing in Succtics. 60 Broadcastin from

Radio agencies, national advertisers, the Federal Radio Commis- sion, the American Federation of Advertising and the Censorship National Better Business Bureau. All of these factors have had extensive experience with regard to the practical phases

of censoring advertising copy, and it is probably on this WITH the passing of every month the discussion phase that the most important questions arise as to misrepre- about Radio censorship is growing in volume sentation. On the other hand, it would also be well to and in the number of factors involved. As mat- include individuals well versed in the evolution of censor- ters now stand, the Federal Radio Commission is definitely ship as applied to moving pictures, books, vaudeville and limited in its powers to obscenity, blasphemy, treason and the theatre. the like, although it may fail to renew the license of any It may be difficult to organize such a Board of Investiga- station which, in its judgment, is not serving the public tion and particularly to have it function effectively. Much interests effectively. As a practical matter, this means that will depend upon the selection of an able chairman. At the Federal Radio Commission can exercise little or no cen- least the effort seems justified because it is important for the sorship over individual Radio programs insofar as they con- broadcasting industry to know just why censorship is not tain objectionable quantities and types of advertising, and desirable and unnecessary, if such is the case. Again, if some involve statements which border close to, or actually con- sort of voluntary censorship seems desirable, it is vitally stitute misrepresentation. Such censorship today comes important to see that it takes form along lines that are under the sole jurisdiction of the chain or individual station sound and fair to all parties involved. It is quite possible accepting a given program. that a code can be devised which stations can ratify individ-

Certain prominent personages have been clamoring for ually on a voluntary basis, and it is also quite possible

Radio censorship and there is no doubting that as time goes that those stations ratifying such a code will win greater on this will become as much of a muted subject as it has approval with the Federal Radio Commission, with those already become in the fields of book publishing and moving who originate and spend advertising appropriations and picture production. Experience teaches that in matters of with the American public. Such a code would be revised this kind censorship must be either official, which means via from year to year as intelligent and extensive study indicated some governmental agency, or unofficial, which means via is advisable, and in this manner the need for actual censors some voluntary agency. Experience also teaches that of the or boards of censorship might be permanently eliminated. two methods the voluntary plan is infinitely preferable. Many of the individual stations and all of the leading Electrical chains are exercising a type of censorship which is highly commendable and which, in fact, often leans over back- Transcriptions wards. Nevertheless, there are a few stations that are very lax in this matter of censorship and, like rotten apples in MECENTLY the President of the National Broadcast- barrels of good ones, their practices are tending to lower ing Company came out flat-footed against electrical the high plane on which broadcasting as a whole stands transcriptions. The policy followed by other broad- today. With a view to studying this situation and also the casting chains and by many of the leading individual sta- subject of voluntary censorship as a whole, the Editors of tions indicates a similar attitude toward this method of Radio Digest suggest that a Board of Investigation be broadcasting programs. Meanwhile, however, the number created under the auspices of the National Association of of stations equipped to use electrical transcriptions is being Broadcasters which shall report its findings on this matter. steadily increased and the character of such equipment

Perhaps voluntary censorship is desirable; perhaps it is steadily improved. Also, articles are appearing in the daily not. Perhaps no form of censorship is needed; perhaps it is. press describing the progress which has been made both

The whole question should be approached with strictly in the art of making electrical transcriptions and in the open minds and the Board of Investigation should include a extent of their use. representative group. In addition to adequate representa- The answer to all this seems quite obvious. Electrical tion from the chains, the large local stations and the small transcriptions are here to stay and no doubt the character local stations, there should also be at least one well selected of programs offered through this method will be gradually individual representing each of the following: Advertising improved to a point where they will be hard to distinguish 61 the Editor's Chair

from programs presented by talent in person. In reducing dissatisfied customers sooner or later fly back against the costs of sustaining programs over local stations during manufacturer. Midget Radio sets to a considerable degree certain hours; in supplying salable programs to a certain fall in this category. While there are a few small size sets number of local advertisers, and as a means of enabling that are excellently made that sell at lower prices than these certain national advertisers to syndicate programs on a stag- encased in larger and more costly cabinets, the fact remains gered basis insofar as the time schedule is concerned—elec- that many of the midget sets which have been put on the trical transcriptions have a field. Also, the use of electrical market during the past few months fail to offer worth while transcriptions by national advertisers may be due in certain values to the public. In other words, the dollar saving cases to the fact that chains of stations cannot be lined up which they seem to offer is in truth a false economy. for a given program at an identical hour. In buying Radio sets we caution and advise our readers Nevertheless, and in spite of these things which insure to investigate intensively before deciding on which set to the future of electrical transcriptions beyond question of buy. We make this suggestion in order that no one will doubt, it is quite apparent that talent-in-person will always make the unforgivable mistake of buying a set which does occupy the premier role from the standpoints of importance not do justice to modern Radio broadcasting. The many, and public acceptance. The American people have demon- many millions of dollars which are being spent to bring strated time and time again their ability to feel personalities outstanding talent and great programs before the American brought before them via the microphone, and much of the public are largely wasted if they reach the listener through popular success of broadcasting is attributable to this inti- receiving sets that distort and ruin the actual programs. macy of relations which has been created between the artists Hence, we say be sure to shop carefully and, if necessary, and their audience. Even moving pictures do not have this spend the extra dollars asked to insure a quality result as supreme virtue of personal contact. There is also the highly contrasted with a mangled result. ray b ill important factor of timeliness and, of course, electrical transcriptions can never be recorded and delivered to the public simultaneous with an actual occurrence. In our humble judgment electrical transcriptions will always run a bad second to direct broadcasting in their breadth and intensity of appeal. In other words, they can take up part of the stage but never dominate the stage—and for this reason presentations-in-person must ever be the bul- wark of reputation and fame for broadcasting. Both methods have their place, but no one should fail to distin- guish between their relative positions and respective limita- tions.

Midget

Radio Sets

THE world wide decline in commodity prices and in manufactured goods and the lowered purchasing power which accompanied the general business de-

pression of 1930 caused many business concerns to aim at a price market for their success. There are many examples of where the public has been offered new types of products at lower prices, and of where the quality of usefulness has not been seriously affected by the reduced prices. There are

other cases where price reductions have been effected

largely at the expense of quality and utility. Sacrifices of this sort do not pay in the long run because 62 'PA D I O G R A P H s

Intimate Personality Notes Gleanedfrom the Radio

Family of New York's Great Key Stations

"By Rosemary Drachman

EVERY Friday morning Collier's are that he came from Canada to the most programs are spoiled for the listener Magazine appears on the news- United States in 1909, that he attended who hears them in the studio. Often it stands. St. Louis University, where he specialized is impossible to hear what is being said Every Sunday night Collier's in philosophy, that he married in 1916, or sung into the microphone although the appears on the air. that he has two children, that he has been performers are but a few feet away. In The Radio hour is under the direction decorated by the French and Belgian Collier's Hour one both sees and hears. of John B. Kennedy, Associate Editor. governments. The program has been on the air for And grateful am I to Who's Who, for over three years and since March 16, after my few moments talk with him 1930, its performances have been broad- snatched at the end of one of Collier's cast from the stage of the Amsterdam Radio hours, I found that I had a great Theatre every Sunday night at eight- many facts about the program but almost fifteen, Eastern Standard time. To obtain none about John B. Kennedy. seats one must write to Collier's, but so Of course I started him off by asking popular is the program that all seats have the very practical question: "Are you been spoken for for weeks ahead. getting lots more subscriptions to your magazine because of the broadcast?" Audrey Marsh "Well," he replied, "it's rather strange. We have had a tremendous increase in THE race is to the swift. And the find that Collier's has circulation, but we race is to the young. At least it grown as rapidly during the summer seems so with this group of Radiograph months when we are not on the air as people. Bert Lown, twenty-six, Lucille It during the months when we are. must Wall, twenty or so, John Kennedy, thirty- be the excellence of the book itself that seven, and here's Miss Audrey Marsh, sells it. soprano for the Columbia Broadcasting "We're in Radio broadcasting to en- tertain people, not to sell them. Our read- ers pay a nickel and they get from us two interesting shows a week, one for the mind—through the eye, and one for the mind through the ear. The good will es-

tablished by Collier's Hour is an intangi- ble thing. It cannot be measured by a yardstick. But from the piles of letters that come into my office, from the thou- sands of people who have attended this theatre to watch our performances, I'm convinced the yardstick would have to be John B. Kennedy a very large one." And then just as I was going to ask him Who's Who says that he was born in about his favorite hobbies, et cetera, he Canada in 1894. That makes him thirty- had to dash off to a previous engagement. seven. Which is pretty young to have But that doesn't prevent me from say- done all the things that Who's Who re- ing something about the way Collier's ports him to have done. For instance, to Hour is presented. It is the only program have been a newspaper man in Montreal, I know where you can both eat your cake Toronto, St. Louis, Chicago, New York, and have it, too—meaning that you watch and London. To have been a correspon- the performers as they act, sing, or talk dent during the World War. To have behind a great glass curtain which sepa- been associated with Herbert Hoover in rates the stage from the audience, and relief work in Europe. To have founded from a loud speaker you hear the pro- and edited in 1921 the magazine Colum- gram just exactly as it is going out on the bia. To have been for the past few years air. editor and Radio director of Collier's. Microphone technique, with its neces- Other facts culled from Who's Who sity for lowering the voice, is such that Audrey Marsh —

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System, who is only nineteen years old. born not so many years ago in Chicago. the theatrical one! Now I find it easy." She did get an early start. She began She didn't intend to have a dramatic ca- to sing at thirteen months. At that age reer. At fourteen or fifteen she had made Bert Lown her mother vouches she could' carry the up her mind to be a nun. But her ideas tune of Smarty, Smarty, which does seem changed and she decided to train herself MILLION dollars, and then what?" Paderewski appropriate, doesn't it, for a year-old as a pianiste. Then she heard A That was the question I asked songbird? Yes, she was quite a prodigy. give a recital. The Polish genius so Bert Lown as I sat across the tea table overwhelmed her that she gave up all am- from him in the supper room of the Hotel bition for a musical career. Biltmore. The stage intrigued her next and to For Bert Lown, leader of the Hotel this idea she brought a determination Biltmore Orchestra, and heard regularly that eventually brought her to Jane over WABC and the Columbia network, Cowl's company for a three-year engage- has admitted his ambition is "a million ment. Last year she was on Broadway dollars." in Little Accident and in The Ladder. The slender blonde young man. who She tells an interesting story about her looks like nothing so much as a young- early stage experiences. She was apply- ster just out of college, quirked up a cor- ing at the offices of various theatrical ner of his mouth. Said he. "I'm going agents asking for work. Finally one to buy an island in the South Seas." agent called her up and told her an ac- I thought that was just his pleasant tress was needed in such and such a play. way of telling me it was none of my busi- She thanked him and naively said she'd ness. So I said facetiously, "Where you let him know about it in two or three will sit and sit and sit, and rest your- " days. "All right," said the agent, and self, b'gosh.' slammed up the receiver. Taking him lit- "No. I'll probably be working as hard

erally, that it was "all right," she ap- as I am now, but it will all be construc- peared in three days to say she'd take tive work. Fifty per cent of my energy the job. "Lady," said the weary-eyed won't be devoted to fighting competition agent, "the girl who took that part has as it is in this game, or in any business already opened in it." Yet, nevertheless, in the modern world. I want to build she eventually got a part from him, and something with my own hands, to make

made good at it. Radio was just a happenstance. Over three years ago some friends told her of Lucille Wall the Collier's Hour and of its need for someone to take parts in the dramatiza-

tions of its short stories. She tried out. The breaks were with her in that both was accepted, and has been with Collier's parents were musical, her father a singer, ever since. A year ago she began the her mother a concert pianiste. Her ca- "Polly Preston" role, which is a popular reer did not have parental opposition.. All feature over NBC on Tuesday nights. through her childhood her talent was She is a tall girl, but with a sparkle fostered. In school her time was taken and vivacity that is rare in the statuesque up rehearsing for amateur productions. type. The microphone has enabled her Since she had a great deal of dramatic to take the kind of parts she prefers to ability as well as musical talent she de- play—the gay young parts—which on the cided to try for the stage. When only stage are denied to her because of her fourteen she had parts in The Prince and height. The Pauper and in Little Old New York. "Glamourous?" She repeated the After graduating from school, she took word I applied to her career. "Yes. I some special dramatic work in New York. suppose it looks so from the outside, but This didn't satisfy her. She wanted the it seems to me that all I do is to work real thing. Ann Nichols was getting and go home to rest. There is no life together a company to take Abie's Irish like the dramatic one for demanding Rose on the road. Little Audrey walked energy and vitality. There may be some into the office and said she wanted a job. professions where one can burn the can- Ann Nichols gave her the lead. dle at both ends and still do good work, For two years she was "Rosemary" in but acting is not one of them. that world's most popular play. After "Yes, I have a great deal of leisure, but that came a role in Christopher Morley's it is leisure cut up into little bits. I never After Dark, which played in Hoboken. can look ahead a week at a time. I Then came her Radio discovery. can't even plan a hair-dressing engage- Bert Lown She was at a party, she sang a few ment." songs, a Radio executive was present, he Collier's Radio Hour is broadcast from something out of nothing. I don't know arranged an audition at Columbia. Abra- the New Amsterdam Theatre with an au- exactly what it will be. But something'' cadabra, she was a Columbia star. — dience on the other side of the glass cur- —he wrinkled his brow "well, the sort of That in March, 1930. Since then she tain. thing Jim Dole did with his Hawaiian has been a featured singer over WABC. "At first this audience was terribly dis- pineapples." concerting," Miss Wall said. "I wanted It began to dawn upon me that this Lucille Wall to play to it and not to the microphone. young man was serious. Now, of course, I am used to it and it "But you don't like business, cities, tin IUCILLE WALL, who delights listeners doesn't bother me. But at the beginning hustle and bustle of modern life." Jas the Love Story Girl in Collier's it required an effort of will to keep my "Cities? I hate 'em. But they'rt Hour every Sunday night over NBC, was mind on my Radio audience instead of {Continued on page 102) —

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Little Bird Knows All— Tells All—Ask

Her about the Stars You Admire

DEARS your Marcella is Hayes who was crowned Radio Queen, Quoth Mr. McNamee to me apropos: "If MYstill almost overwhelmed with formerly of Columbia and more recently there was a change in my voice, other the affair of the month—and of NBC. (She is leaving New York as than the natural reactions to the many there have been so many these lines are written with a trainload of periods of excitement I was not aware of things this season of the year. Passing talkie people for pictures to be taken in it. Certainly I was not rooting for St. along from the quite doggy doings aboard Hollywood — dear me, I've forgotten Louis any more than I was for Philadel- the Club Leviathan under the auspices of whether it was Warner Brothers or First phia. The Radio announcer always gets the RKO-NBC my idea of the real old National.) Then there were N. T. G., it coming and going after any big game. home week was the Sunday night opening sometimes known as Nils T. Granlund, The losing side always accuses the an- of WMCA atop the Hammerstein theatre. proprietor of the Hollywood Night Club nouncer of favoring the opposition. As a Very swank for a family gathering. And and other notable ceremonial masters. matter of fact I consider that I am talk- my previous peep at the guest list con- Beautiful Nancy Carroll sat right beside ing to the whole United States. My en- vinced me that everyone who was lucky me. And you can just bet Radio Digest thusiasm is for the good plays wherever enough to get a bid simply could not was represented by four members of its they are."

it. afford to miss editorial staff (and escorts). It was an * • * . all night party, dear friends, with much I T WAS over a luncheon at Yo.OU may know that WMCA one of the women's clubhouses has been growing up. There on East 57th Street that I are two floors of studios and made the acquaintance of Mrs. the very finest of talent. It is Petch. She is a short, ener- without doubt the most pro- getic woman—just full of gressive independent station in American pep—although she New York. All due of course is English. And the remark- to the energetic enterprise of able thing about her is that Mr. Donald Flamm, owner and she was the first woman to manager. The opening was broadcast from Norway to due to the formal presentation America. You must have all of the new transmitter capable heard her here in the United of spreading a program over States for she was and prob-

half the continent or better. ably still is, on a tour of the Guest artists were summoned United States stations, deliver- from every quarter. Many of ing educational talks on various

the leading celebrities of the subjects. She is very modes' air made their start in Radio about her work and when I at the old WMCA. They call referred to the great service it their alma mater. WMCA Television Theatre, New York she was giving to humanity she said, "Marcie," that's—the short affectionate term for Marcella "I M,.R. AND MRS. GEORGE W. chatter and small talk as well as enter- don't like to be thought of as one of those JOHNSTONE, representing Mr. Ayles- tainment from the stage. I think it was dignified educators—I just love life—and worth of NBC, were in the audience of about 2 a.m. when Mr. Brokenshire broke I love the way it's lived in America—I like the little theatre into a song which sounded much like its enthusiasm, its shepherding a flock "Three cheers for WMCA—long be its verve." And as we of lambs from the wave." Over it all flowed the blessings sipped the last drop National group. of a Methodist preacher, Catholic priest of tea, Mrs. Petch

Among . these were and Jewish rabbi—who participated in the hurried away to catch Rudy Vallee, Alwyn program. a train to Toledo. Bach, Lucille Wall * ^ *

and Baby Rose • it • Marie. Ted Husing H,.ERE'S a long oVerdue reply to a and Norman Brok- letter from Mr. R. L. McEachun who X HE rolling pin enshire mastered wrote from Fort Valley, Ga., on the gen- has played many im- some of the cere- eral tendency to biased reporting of portant parts in the monies as represen- sports by broadcasters. He picks out Mr. history of many tatives from the Col- G. McNamee at the time of the World home s—b u t its umbia fold. Then Series and says there was a change in unique possibility as there was the ex- Graham's voice indicating something or a baton for con- Bernadine Hayes quisite Bernadine other when Jimmie Fox hit a homer. ducting was first Donald Flamm 65

discerned by none if you asked 'Reyn' in a real nice way he writing continuities other than Ted would give you a picture without the and directing the Weems. It was nat- Sheik's garb." Mary E. K. of Tonawanda. plays. Came the ural for Ted to trans- N. Y., asks for his photo; and E. E. D. day— (last summer) late almost anything of Buffalo wants a photo of Reyn for her he met Miss Stanis- into musical terms, scrap book. Well, here is Reynold Evans lawa Butkiewicz, or for one of his fore- —and without any of the fol-de-rols the future Mrs. bears, Angus Wemyes which he wears in Arabesque. Reyn got Wallington, which is —is said to have in- the fundamentals of readin', writin' and much easier to pro- vented the Scottish 'rithmetic at Hopkins Grammar School in nounce, and they bagpipes, and his New Haven. But the wanderlust seized sailed off upon their parents are both him and he ran away to join a New York honeymoon on an music teachers. Be- Stock company. He says he was terrible airplane trip through sides composing and in the part that he took, but it could not Canada. Jimmy music-ing, Ted took have been that as this role started him looks a bit older Gladys M. Petch excursions into the in his theatrical career. Both of his eyes than his twenty-two James Wallington literary field while appear to be quite healthy, but he almost years. He is over attending the Towne Scientific School of lost one of them in a duel with Walter six feet tall, has blue eyes, light brown the University of Pennsylvania, and con- Hampden during the first act of Cyrano hair and a close-clipped mustache. Our tributed generously to the humorous pub- de Bergerac. Reyn also played with Imperturbable Printer must have shaved lication, the Punch Bowl. To Ted Weems Cyril Maude and with Jane Cowl so he off the mustache in the process of repro- and his orchestra were paid the highest has an excellent dramatic background for duction here. tribute afforded to any musicians in our his Radio career. land—that of playing for the Inaugural

Ball of the President J_L(DYTHE J. MESERANDE in the lfflS too. is for of the United States Press Relations Department of the NBC Mrs. A. M. B. Good in Washington. And writes to Radio Digest and says, 'This evening, Ladies and so day after day, is for your little bird that knows all." —Ford Bond speak- the writer of Piccolo Please page Mrs. A. M. B. of Earlville. ing. In a Chicago Pete, and his band N. Y. James Wallington, or Jimmy as medical college where gather fresh fame. he is known to everyone, is only 22 and his parents urged Of course any little hails from Rochester. For three years him to go. Ford pre- sketch about Ted he studied at the University of Rochester ferred studying mu- would be incomplete —that is, he attended, anyway. He always sic to dissecting cats. without the mention had a charming voice, as his neighbors That's where par- Ted Weems of Art, his brother commented, and like most Radio announ- ents err—of course, Ford Bond who early joined cers, he began his public career as a singer. this column is not him in their melody journeys. Ted Weems It was at WGY, Schenectady that he for the purpose of and his orchestra are heard every week sprouted up into a full-fledged announcer. disciplining parents—but when a lad has Gladys, over the Columbia Broadcasting a singing voice, why send him to a med- System, presenting their programs direct ical college? When he was twenty-two from the Hotel Lowry, in St. Paul. he directed the community chorus and church choir at Alexandria. La., but sooner or later. Radio "gets" any ambitious per- son, and beginning at WHAS. Louisville, NcIORMAN L. of Souderton, Pa. wants pictures and sketches of Harry Vonzell, as announcer, then director of studios, Brad Browne and Al Llewelyn. And here music and general programs, he won his they are grouped in a quartet, the fourth way to New York and hied himself over the NBC. Fifteen churches in York of which is Reynold Evans of whom a New invited sing but he finally word later. Harry Vonzell started out on him to accepted Collegiate his Radio career, as a singer, believe it or the offer of the Marble Church to become a member of their choir and sing not, but is now an announcer—and over the CBS. His later capacity was discov- to the congregation. ered when he was on a program in a local station in Los Angeles. Harry was to sing, with several other artists, but as the G/HUBBY PARKER is not on WLS rapidly for the opening time approached any more. Mel. R. He is living in Chi- ap- of the program and no announcer cago, with his family, but is not connected found himself with a peared—Harry with any station. Bob Boulton is back script in his music hand instead of the at college, probably deeply immersed in sheet. He was nervous about it and higher math. Greek, literature and the thought that he had "flopped", but a week like. Steve Cisler—says that Bob was a later was surprised when he was given a live wire around the studios and quite regular job as announcer. Then in the popular with the ladies on his famous competition for announcer on the Old Town Crier Cooking school. Very young program, Vonzell chosen out of Gold was and unmarried. Eddie Allan is the Dixie two hundred applicants for the job. Harmonica King of WLS. He has six hundred tunes packed in his mouth harp. Married! More of WLS in March. Mar- A,.LMOST every day Marcella receives cella hopes. Bradley Kincaid is dividing requests for more about Reynold Evans. his time between WLW and WLS. Even Ruth A. of Akron says, "He surely is one Upper: Harry Vonzell, Brad Browne Steven himself has turned Buckeye and of Columbia's best announcers. I believe Lower: Reynold Evans, Al Llewelyn joined WGAR at Cleveland. — —

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and asks frinstance, in her very chirping letters he receives B,RAD BROWNE voice—How old is Guy Lombardo—and from all types of of Nit Wit Fame— off rushes Mr. Cant to Guy Lombardo, people in different and did you know, takes a peek at his birth certificate parts of the coun- Norman, that Harry rushes back to the telephone—28 years. try. He is now at C. Browne, director Are any of his brothers married—and off KMOX "tenoring" of Hank Simmons' he rushes again to the four brothers—and away, writes Miss Show Boat which asks each one of them if he is in bondage Junkin, program di- has seen its steenth to the matrimonial vow——hurries back to rector, "and has such hundred perform- the telephone and says "No, they're not a likable disposition ance on CBS, is married yet!" Leonore C. of Oil Springs, that he is quite ir- Brad's brother? And Ontario wants to know if Carmen Lom- resistible." would you think that bardo wrote Until We Meet Again. Did this stirrer of mirth he, Mr. Cant? Mr. Cant says, yes. and giggles once They're all four brothers—and they make Roger Bower studied law at some quartet, don't they, Christine? UH-SH-SH. Irene Ford Rush Georgetown Univer- Christine of Kenosha says that there is a Beasley is on the sity and has an LL.B.? But he didn't want resemblance between Victor Lombardo CBS, but I can't tell you a thing else to practise law—he wanted to practise on and the Prince of Wales. about it. There's a terrible secret—all the banjo—and he's some banjo strummer. that I know is that she's on an advertis- ing the Of course, it's all in the family—for the program and no one will give me father is quite at home with this instru- B,>ETTY of Stamford writes, "I think name of it. So, Maud S. of Station, ment—and in the good old days—the Roger Bower of WOR is great—he's a Texas, and Twilla of Salina, Kansas, ef'n people would gather around in the Browne humorous announcer—what I like". Ah wuz you, I'd keep a sharp ear for homestead and all would dance to the Here he is just as happy as ever. George her voice. merry tum-tums of the banjo. Brad went Roger Bower is his full name, but for overseas with the 101st regiment and as some reason or other he dislikes the personnel corporal, he had leisure to write name George. Well, George, I mean Roger, Mi-ISS VIDA SUTTON has the envi- army songs and entertain his buddies. As is a native of Gotham and even attended able task of teaching NBC Radio announ- a matter of fact, the universities here—N. Y. U., and City cers how to speak distinctly and correctly.

Brad is so popular, r: College. He's had his finger in everything It was she who coached Milton J. Cross that his picture is —farm hand, desk hand, logger, etc. He and Alwyn Bach and they both came home on the Coming and is even a Spanish interpreter. WMCA with the diction gold medals. Going page. I think is his alma mater also. Here he worked I snatched the bet- for several months as a fight announcer, ter picture, don't but he is now thriving at WOR and seems you? to be quite happy both from his picture 'EE of Newport and his voice over the telephone. D, writes a very chatty • • * letter about Paul Specht. She says, ilND here comes Ford Rush. And here Ti.HINGS looked "For those Specht is a partial list of people who have asked awfully black—and admirers who have about him: Eddie of Peoria; Mrs. Daisy it wasn't in Pitts- not had the good R. of Emporia; and Rosalind T. of De- burgh, either—when fortune to see their troit. Ford calls himself the "Pal of the Al Llewelyn's steel idol on the job, let Vida Sutton Air" and he certainly proves himself to foundry—that is he Paul Specht them visualize a be that judging from the hundreds of was the production tall, slender, good- manager—burned to the ground. But he looking young man, of fine Pepnsylvania picked up odds and ends here and there Dutch stock, tucking his violin under his and managed to calm the landlady on chin with a caressing gesture that shows stay for Saturdays with enough money to how well he loves it. He told me his two another week. At the same boarding Pennsylvania Dutch farms are his hobby house lived none other than Brad Browne and Paradise. He has managed to side- —and the only one, probably who didn't step the racketeering clutter of grafters, enjoy the merriment was the landlady etc., etc., which so often impede the traffic because the other guests never got to bed along the royal road to renown. He with these two comedians around—and speaks with the greatest reverence of his there was the candlelight bill to be paid. parents, "a pure old-fashioned mother, It was at a Newark station where Brad an industrious musical father. Paul and Al won public acclaim and as Newark Specht is a rich man—rich in the things isn't far from New York, they came to worth while, in happy home ties and as- this city and broadcast their Cellar sociations, in experiences and in accom- Knights, Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, and plishments, in character and in high other comical sketches over the CBS. ideals." Now, Dee, Dear, I think that is They now have other programs including a beautiful character delineation. Even the Pertussin Playboys which they broad- Boswell could not have done better. And cast daily at 8:15 in the morning. His I'm returning Paul Specht's pictures to success is not confined to Radio for his you. Thank you for them. golf score is in the low nineties. • *

M,-ARCELLA hears all, tells all. Write A..NY time that Marcella herself is so her a letter, ask her any of the burning busy that she can't see the Columbia Upper: Carmen and Guy Lombardo questions that are bothering your mind. stars personally, she calls up Gilbert Cant Lower: Lebert and Victor Lombardo Information is her middle name. 67

Such Pulchritude!

KROW Issues CHALLENGE

HERE'S a station that thinks it has the most beautiful staff of feminine entertainers of any broadcaster in the United States. They're KROW-ing so vigorously about it that RADIO

DIGEST thought it only fair to beat television to it and let everyone else have a look at the fair staff of the Oakland station.

They offer plenty of variety—blondes, brunettes, titian- haired entertainers ranging the gamut from the soulful, dreamy type to peppy, jazzy girls.

And so they issue a challenge to the incorporated Radio Stations of the broad, wide, U. S. A., to submit photos of their staff members to the searching eye of publicity. We'll then appoint you Radio listeners and readers as a nation-wide jury to pick the most beautiful staff.

Other broadcasters will have to go a long way to beat this array of gorgeous talent. All of the young ladies are actively associated with the station—there are no "im- ported" beauties, and all of them are well and favorably known to Pacific Coast listeners. top row, left to right—June Gilman, the girl with a smile in her voice, receptionist, has been with KROW since its opening. Jean Ardath—she's the titian-haired one! —the station's jazz and con- cert pianist. Mildred Lewis, next, passes on your request numbers to the musical director when you call—she's called "half-pint" 'cause her height is just five feet. Madeline Sivyer, the Bohemian Violinist is just nineteen, and a real artist.

Left, reading downward—Betty The Shopper, fashion dictator, who knows what to buy, -what to wear and—important—how to get it for the least money! Helen Benson, the Banjo Girl, is very, very blond and the dreamy sort of person a banjoist should be. Lillian Boyd, ravishing brunette, is 21 and has double barrelled talents—a soft contralto voice and piano fingers. Right, reading downward—Maybelle Gleeson, winsome blond wife of Bill Gleeson, general manager of KROW. Beth Chase—isn't she too demure? No, looks are deceiving, for Beth is the Oakland station's blues-singer and jazz baby—tap-dancer, too. Nola Starr has Irish eyes— is a daughter of Erin who can bring tears to your eyes with her tender, rich contralto voice. 68 Tlfingling with TJfid-^esterners By BETTY McGEE in the Civic Opera House wt over at KYW. His two greatest interests OVER Chicago Correspondent find a very versatile couple—Marion are his lovely suburban home, and avia-

and Jim Jordan . . . they bring to mind tion . . . and folks at the studio are al- the truism that versatility is a necessary played in the leading cities of both Europe ready putting in bids for rides in the requirement for every Radio artist. This and America. plane he hopes to buy soon. harmony team of WENR, formerly of And still talking music and musicians, the vaudeville stage, have a repertoire of Jules Herbeveaux is quite a character. four or five different kinds of Radio acts. He combines a polished and dignified ex- DOYLE, who is Rudolph in the First, they are both members of the cast terior with the impulses of the incorrigible BILLY WCFL team of Adolph and Rudolph, of the "Smith Family", well known com- clown. Strange as it may seem Jules tells a funny story about his partner, Ned edy sketch. Then, they sing duets to- studied to be an engineer. However, it Becker. Years ago they drifted together gether. When they solo, Marion is a was over in France that he first picked in Chicago and decided to work up a specialist in character songs, while Jim up a saxophone and he has never laid it vaudeville act, which was to include is frequently heard in the ballad type of down; and probably never can, now that "Dutch" dialect and jokes, and a little composition. Last, they present a short his syncopations are a regular feature "hoofing". Billy was a dancer, but Ned comedy and musical sketch known as wasn't, so a pair of wooden shoes was "Marion and Jim's Grab Bag" in which bought for the inexperienced member of jokes are intermingled with tunes. the team and he was set to work clogging. And speaking of artists we think of After a week or so of practice, both Leon Bloom, musical director of WBBM. boys decided their act, including the clog- Mr. Bloom is responsible for the fact ging (now they call it tap-dancing) would that though that station broadcasts a num- pass muster, so they got a job in a three- ber of the world's most famous orchestras a-day down in Paducah, Ky. Billy Doyle including Paul Whiteman's, Ben Bernie's, danced, and all was well. Then it came and Jan Garber's WBBM has to go no Ned's turn, but he stood there absolutely further than its studio orchestra to get paralyzed ... he had forgotten every step any kind of music needed and to have it that Billy had taught him! After what played in a style that takes its place in seemed like an eternity, they left the quality with the topnotchers of the world. stage, packed their properties, and tried Mr. Bloom was a concert pianist before to sneak out of the back door. But the becoming director of his orchestra and has manager caught sight of them and said enthusiastically—"Boys, you saved the show; the part where Ned makes believe he forgot his dance was a wow!" Luck

was with them . . . after six weeks in Paducah they earned a good reputation

Above—Marion and Jim Jordan and their piano, are as harmonious at home as they are at WENR studios. Both are good comedians and actors, too.

Top—Leon Bloom, musical director of WBBM, Chicago, is an ex-concert pianist.

The Radio Romeos (left) of WPG, Atlantic City, in their "Personal Appearance Regalia"—they have a memorized repertoire of five hundred ballads. 69 and played all the large circuits of vaude- ville. War separated them, but Radio reunited them and today they are one of Pacific Pick-ups the most popular features of the Chicago station.

Pancake Festival OUT in the K-call Country, where front of the microphone at the station. stations all begin with K's, Radio * * * Digest gives two stations and Held at KGBZ —KHJ Ray Bailey, debonair music conductor KROW a big splash this month, each — for KMTR, used to manage a dance hall Pancake festival at a Radio with a feature story. As for the other WHAT? orchestra up in Nome twenty-five years station? Yes—besides dispensing broadcasters . . . ago . . . later directing the Hotel Coro- York, entertainment, Station KGBZ at nado orchestra down near San Diego way. Neb., recently went into the wholesale John Mclntyre, KMPC announcer, does eating business, as witness these statistics the Sunday night drama reading for his Strock, assumes full respon- — 12 tons of pancake flour, 20 barrels of Jack who station in Beverly Hills, Cal., with organ syrup and 1,500 pounds of coffee served to sibility for KGER's Allay Oop frolic background by Leo Mannes. Mac studied over 100,000 visitors. each afternoon out in Long Beach, Cal., elocution in high school; continued at comes from a theatrical family. But he But it was all free, served through the the University of Southern California, hospitality of Dr. George R. Miller, owner never had a yearning for the stage, pre- where he was student assistant in the of the station. Invitations were broad- ferring instead to follow broadcast ways. School of Speech, and now his first job cast and folks were fed in relays of 400 Allay Oop freely translated means "giddap out of school is in broadcast. A year at a time. Members of the staff, includ- horsie," and that is what the hour is, a ago he married Gloria Quayle Montgom- ing Henry and Jerome who recently won full sixty minutes of fun and horse play. ery and the ceremony was performed in a Radio Digest popularity prize, enter- i|c sj; sfc tained in person during the eight days Purcell Mayer, KFI violinist, follows of the festival. Visitors came to York his line of Radio and concert work while distances miles from of over one hundred his sister, Mary,' tries a different angle a tribute to the originality of the plan — on the same subject. She is music critic in back of the Festival. on a morning paper in the same city . . . Los Angeles. Bobby Jones Gives Charlie Wellman, "Prince of Pep," Radio Golf Lessons packs his toothbrush and hair lotion in a grip and goes from KHJ to KFSD for His singing voice in popular IF YOU have a bad slice or put too much awhile. top on your ball or any of the other tunes of the day has been a KHJ feature faults common to merely mortal golfers- for the last three years on regular sched- prepare to correct them now, under the ule. Chuck, fifteen-year-old son, remains tutelage of Bobby Jones, who has turned in Los Angeles while dad goes to San golf pro under the banner of NBC to give Diego. The boy is studying to be a listeners lessons. But watch out, don't lawyer. drive into the china closet or the loud speaker! There'll be more about him in March Radio Digest.

Above—The principals of the WLW Canova Hour con their cues—left to right, Don Becker, Robert Brown, Harriet Wellen, Bill Stoess and Franklin Bens

Top—Dr. George R. Miller, owner of KGBZ, Pancake Festival Station at York.

Right—"Shure, Molly and it's swell coffee that you do be makin' to warm a cop's heart"—Molly and Mike, of the KFI-KECA, humorous dialect' team. 70

They're all good, but Bobby Dukes, on Stan Lee Broza's shoulder, is the youngest and cleverest of the WCAU Kiddies.

Four-Year-Old Is Star of WCAU "Kiddies"

By Kenneth W. Stowman

AS RIPLEY would say, "Believe It or ,_Not"—Bobby Dukes has appeared on the stage, screen and Radio and is not yet four. He is chief attraction on the WCAU Sunday Children's Hour. About two years ago, Stan Lee Broza of Station WCAU conceived the idea of broadcasting a children's program. Within three weeks more than a hundred kiddies were awaiting their turn to broadcast and

it became necessary to set a time for auditions to weed out poor material and to develop those which showed promise. Tackling the biggest band instrument of all The broadcasting time is Sunday morn- Nashville, Tennessee, is her home, and she —the Jumbo Sousaphone—doesn't scare ing, with auditions on Saturday, open to likes the South, says Justine Dumm, smiling Alfreda Hagen, KSTP blues singer. everyone. Thus in a nutshell the WCAU soprano of Station WSM. Children's Hour had its origin. So pop- ular has this broadcast become that mo- THE Sunshine Coffee Boys departed tion picture and stage stars await their THE dramatic sketches Abroad With from KFAB in Yankton, and then Philadelphia arrival so that they may The Lockharts, heard from WCAO they came back. Eddie Dean, the bari- entertain these kiddies. in Baltimore, are written by Gene Lock- tone of that harmony team, can also Last summer nine of the best kiddies, hart and his wife, Kathleen, who play twang a guitar, while Jimmy Dean, the headed by Bobby Dukes, made their first the roles of Mr. and Mrs. Lockhart, both in in real life for tenor, is a "harmonica-ist" too . . . stage appearance at the Fox Theatre and the microphone. Myron Woten of the same South Dakota Philadelphia, where in one week they Gene Lockhart is well known as a com- station, is six years old, assists Daddy established an all-time house record for poser, one of his most popular song hits and Gladys Woten on their program, and midsummer. They played later in New- being The World Is Waiting for the Sun-

lays claim to being the youngest announ- ark, N. J., Wildwood, N. J., Ocean City, rise. Kathleen Lockhart is also a musi- of note has appeared in a num- cer on the air . . . Earl Williams is an- N. J., and closed their run at Wilmington, cian and other old-time WNAX'er who came back Del., where they filled the house to ber of stage productions in London and after a year spent with other stations. capacity, a record for child entertainers. New York, as well as on the Radio. —

71 WLW Team Discovered Everett M. Strout

Leading Double Lives! Roamed From Spain to

Singapore to K.STP THE end men of the WLW Burnt Corkers team have another occupa- In private life Hink signs the checks tion. ISN'T often that a youngster selected of a college for which he acts as treas- IT to be a future president of the United urer, as Elmer N. Hinkle. Dink is none States turns out to be a deep-sea diver other than George N. Ross, Oxford, Ohio, but that's what almost happened to Ever- tobacco salesman, and when not blacked ett M. Strout, erstwhile diver, sailor, up, has light brown hair, blue eyes, weighs Radio technician, cook, and what not, 160 pounds and is 5 feet 6^ inches tall. who is now a member of the engineering Married and has two children. staff of KSTP. Hink has dark hair, brown eyes, is 5 Proud of her young son, his mother feet lYi inches tall and weighs about 140 boasted that some day she would be the pounds. Beats his partner by one more mother of a President. "But I turned child—has three. out to be a deep-sea diver." Strout re- lated. At the age of thirteen years he RICHLEY, xylophone player at ran away from home to start his career TOM beginning WLW, is more than conscientious. as a sailor. That step was the He won't resort to even legitimate trick- of hazardous experiences and hair-raising ery. His own arrangement of "The Ros- adventures which ended not so long ago ary" calls for chords on both xylophone with his marriage to Miss Catherine and vibraphone. Although fellow musi- Schoop of Oak Park, Illinois. cians could competently play the vibra- His stories concern: The weird music phone chords for him, Richley insists of Calcutta with its mysterious dark door- upon jumping from one instrument to ways, and how he spent a night in jail the other and doing all the work himself. there for talking back to the captain of "I'd have to do it on the stage, and I his ship; the alluring beauty of the women can't cheat the Radio audience," he says. of Spain, and particularly Valencia, the most interesting of all the places which he visited; how his hair prematurely his shoes developed "a squeak WHEN turned gray in the first storm that he just before a presentation of the encountered at sea; how his diving part- Crosley Theatre at WLW, Edward A. ner was killed while with him at De- Byron, production manager, removed the troit; the thrills he experienced as he offending shoes and directed the play in witnessed a cobra and mongoose fight at his stocking feet. Singapore; and how he was stranded at * * * Here are the end men of the WLW Burnt Lake Superior with the propeller shaft SIDNEY TEN EYCK, announcer at Corkers—Hink and Dink—otherwise Elmer of the ship broken and how his S O S N. Hinkle and George N. Ross. WLW, is known to the Radio audi- calls brought ships to the rescue. ence under more strange names than any In 1923 Strout constructed one of the other member of the staff of the Crosley first Radio stations in Illinois, a 20-watt radio stations. He gets letters addressed IT'S an extraordinary saw that Joe station at La Salle. Today he is em- to names such as these: Tenite, Kemite, Lenzer plays at WLW. Made of the ployed by one of the largest Radio sta- Tannyke, Tenike, Penite, 10 Ike, and 1-2- finest steel, copper plated, its handle of tions in the Northwest. KSTP in St. 3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10 Eyck. Robert Burdette, polished wood is decorated with ivory Paul, where he is known as somewhat of a another Crosley announcer, always intro- medallions studded with brilliants. That's magician or genius for his remarkable suc- duces Ten Eyck to listeners as Ten Itch. a record, even for a musical saw. cess on the technical side of broadcasting.

The seventeen members of the Aristocrats at WTMJ, Milwaukee, boast anions their instruments everything from an accordion to h.irp. 72

Quin Ryan, veteran WGN announcer, intro- Harry Seymour, genial announcer of the ducing Senator-elect James Hamilton Lewis WSMB Sunday night Frolics, is losing some in one of his recent Radio speeches. of his hair, it seems!

Broadcast Artists Wind Those listening in on these Sunday night Frolics miss only one thing: the Up WSMB Sunday Night sandwiches and the piping-hot coffee that is served in a small room near the main Frolic With Coffee studios. The artists on the bill, and By Moise M. Block some of the guests, make the sandwich

table their "hangout" and a bee-line is Way down yonder in New Orleans Sun- the usual order for things after one has nights inimi- day bring to Radio fans an given vent to the talent. table array of local and foreign artists. Banjoes strum—sopranos sing—pianists Elsie Craft Hurley, WCAO's star so- assail the melodious ivories—dramatists prano, has written Evangeline Adams for declaim—a real hot band burns up the her horoscope. Last summer in Atlantic ether waves—harmonica players wheeze City Mrs. Hurley was "horoscoped" and sweet notes of love—and the WSMB Sun- learned that success would attend her day night frolic is on. singing that next At 9:30 thousands of Radio sets reach and the two years would be particularly far into the air and bring in the voice of successful and eventful. Harry Seymour, WSMB announcer: However, she is taking no chances and is having another horoscope mailed "Your favorite station, WSMB in New to her. Orleans, now brings to you its regular Sunday night Frolic" and the show begins. Harry, as he is known around the studio, Jack Turner Totes Over is one of the station's biggest favorites. To tens of thousands of Radio fans he is 50,000 Fan Letters known as "The Gloomchaser", and he and his wife, the former Mina Cunard, motion WHEN Joe Eaton, chief announcer picture player, sing together and are for WHAS, addresses the micro- known as "Mr. and Mrs. Gloomchaser". phone with a soft but emphatic, "—and business ladies Turner," WTIC claims that "Tiny" Berman, 270 Harold M. Wheelahan, man- now and gentlemen, Jack in charge all hearts, too. pounder, is the biggest Radio musician. But ager of WSMB and of ac- feminine and masculine ones his big bass viol dwarfs him! tivities, is always on hand at these Sunday for that matter, skip a beat as the owners night Frolics, for he broadcasts, too. He lean a bit forward in front of innumerable specializes in duets with his brother Ed, Radio receivers. (Below) Jimmy Boyer, staff organist of singer in Orleans. career artist WKBF in Indianapolis, is popular with a of note New His as a Radio on many folks in the Hoosier country. stations is one marked by more requests than one can easily conceive of as coming to one man. As a matter of fact, Jack treasures every fan letter he has ever received and totes the whole flock of them around in several large trunks and valises completely packed with some 50,000 or 60,000 bits of appreciation from the Radio audience. Jack Turner was born in the town of Hannibal, Mo. When he was five years

old the family migrated to Quincy, 111.,

and it was at about this time that Jack's brand of holler was noticed to be far superior to the other kids. Then—to

Jack Turner, (left), veteran Radio pianist, known to many stations, seems to have settled down at WHAS after wide travels. 73

"It's coal, coal, coal, in the depths of the Ronald Jenkins (right), was born in Bing- earth," sings the Miners' Quartette, popular hamton, but Southern listeners to WBT, WGBI entertainers. Charlotte, like his "Yankee announcin' ".

La Crosse, Wis., where Jack began to Old Fiddler at KFEQ^ pound the piano and sing in earnest. It was in this Badger city that Turner Used Broom for Bow first looked a mike square in the face and sang to it. That was at station WABM, By Ada Lyon now WKBH. Also at this time they Before he was five years old John tacked on to Jack the title of "Black Key Holder, the "old fiddler" of KFEQ in St. Turner." This didn't stick, but he's been Joseph, began to play a dollar violin called all manner of things since. which his father gave him for Christmas. called, The lure of the bright lights then He played for his first dance when he was and down to Chicago where gangsters were seven years old, for a dollar and a half. a bit more scarce than nowadays, jour- The refreshments were a wash boiler full neyed La Crosse's gift to the air. Chicago of wienies and a keg of beer and the stations were not slow to recognize what dance ended in a fight. a feature Jack was and in those days he He soon learned that dances and fights was one of the most popular entertainers went together and that the best policy at WHT, Wrigley Building, along with during hostilities was to sit in a corner Pat Barnes and Al Carney, and also at where he could dodge pop bottles. Once WQJT, the Rainbow Gardens, and WTAS his bow was broken by a beer bottle and in the Kimball building. then the fight began in earnest, for the Then came Jack's two very successful dancers all said that they had been years at WTMJ in Milwaukee. But the cheated. There was no music and they old wanderlust claimed him again and he wanted their money back. The next struck out for warmer climes, intending to time, many years later, when the same make an extended tour of Southern and disastrous accident was repeated, Holder Western Stations, eventually ending up in was grown up and equal to the emergency. California—where so many things do end He used a broomstick for a bow and the up. But Jack never got past his first dance proceeded. month at WHAS, Louisville, Ky., his first For ten years he almost deserted his John Holder, the Old Fiddler at KFEQ, stop. The management of the station and faithful instrument. He became a railroad carries one thousand tunes in his head and his new and delighted public saw to that. man, but he lost more sleep railroading has won hundreds of "scrapin' " contests. Jack has been with the station an entire than playing for dances, so he has fiddled year now. over the radio for the past four years. He The Senoritas string trio at KGER (below). is now broadcasting daily over KFEQ. Left to right, Elsie Montgomery, Marie Waters, Helene Smith-—fair ones all. New England Gains New Radio Network WITH the addition of Station WICC, Bridgeport-New Haven, to the Yan- kee network, this chain now has six mem- bers ... the others are WNAC, Boston, WEAN, Providence, WORC, Worcester, WLBZ, Bangor, and WNBH, New Bed- ford. Station WICC has the distinction of being the only United States broadcaster to claim two cities as its locale. Some of its programs originate in Bridgeport, others in the city which also boasts the

Yale campus; and, of course, it also pre- sents Yankee Network and Columbia System features. 74 /uneful YoDipics a Know Your Songs 5 ?

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/. —9p Oz/Z Of A Hundred A Monthly Department In Which The flows easily from the mouth. Hence I look for big things from this song. MY Radio announcements I Famous Leader Picks The Song Hits It is published by the Robbins INhave referred to this song as a Music Corp. and must be played statistical number. It is obvi- of The Month and Analyzes Them briskly and snappily in order to do ously the setting of an oft- it justice. repeated statistical slogan to song, and the mathematical thought is lost in the pleased to associate myself with the firm 2.—Hurt romantic one that is conveyed to the lis- of Leo Feist as a staff writer after I had tener. The two boys who wrote it, Al come to New York and organized the ONE night between shows, in my dress- Sherman and Al Lewis, have been classi- Connecticut Yankees, was that fact that ing room suite at the Brooklyn Para- fied in my mind for some time as writers I had come to regard the publishing house mount, as I lay there relaxing, I had my more of quantity than quality. They have of Leo Feist as one that published only Radio tuned in to a program of organ music turned out songs the way a factory turns real hits. In fact, the slogan "You can't being played by the "Poet of the Organ," out a product; they have always had five go wrong with a Feist song" was gospel Jesse Crawford. To my mind he is the or ten songs to demonstrate every time they truth to me. I had formed this opinion greatest of all organists, at least of those have had the opportunity to display their ever since my high school days, and there who broadcast, and, too, I believe there is wares. Not that I am opposed to the pro- could be only one thing responsible for nothing more restful than the broadcast of lific writing of songs, but I do believe that this belief and that was the unerring a well-played organ. Suddenly the an- if song-writers became more critical of judgment of one Phil Kornheiser, who, nouncer told us of the appearance for the their own efforts, discarding and rejecting for twenty years, had selected their songs. first time on any program of a new song until they were satisfied they had some- But the point was that the only Feist called Hurt. The title was so odd that it thing really worth while, there would be songs that came to my attention were the brought me to attention, and I listened less ''just good" songs on the counters hit songs, and I have since found that very carefully while Paul Small, one of than there are today. Feist, like all other publishers, must in- my Paramount confreres, did full justice I have also reproached many of the clude in their catalogue many tunes that to the song. publishers for being too lax in their selec- they firmly believe will be hits, although My first reaction was disappointing, tion. "Just good" songs hardly sell I and many others call them "doggy" but upon hearing it again and again I enough to justify their publication, but tunes. learned to like it more and more. Later one manager of a publishing house replied I was very pleased, when meeting Mr. I discovered that it was written by two to my attack by saying, "We must have Sherman and Mr. Lewis again as they men whom I know and count among my a catalogue." Personally, if I were the demonstrated 99 Out Of A Hundred to friends. Al Piantadosi, one of the four judge of tunes for a publishing house, I me, to find that they were now spending Piantadosi brothers who have given their would rather that we did not publish even much more time and effort to get one lives and their musical minds to the pub- one song for the current month, than have good song than they were in turning out lishing of songs, needs no introduction to three or four mediocre tunes, and in that songs by the waste-basket full, and I be- your father or mother. He gave them way I believe that I would do away with lieve they have a natural hit here, pro- such songs as That's How I Need You; the salesmanship so necessary to convince viding that it is, in the jargon of Tin Pan When You're Playing the Game of Love; orchestra leaders and the public that the Alley, "plugged" by the various bands Baby Shoes; On the Shores of Italy, and songs are good. that we listen to on our Radios and Curse Of An Aching Heart, which they Of course, the weak point in my con- phonographs. used to sing in the days of the beer gar- tention is the fact that no one can quite The few Radio presentations that we dens and when Al Smith was just an seem to agree on what is a good or bad have given it have brought a response, assemblyman. song, and many a song has been turned not as great, but comparable to that of Although Al Piantadosi has been quiet down and condemned by one publisher as the Stein Song. That is, my barber, the for some time, he seems to be in his being bad, and has become a hit in the doorman, and others who tune in on our stride again, and is writing quite fre-

hands of another one who worked on it programs have remarked about it, and quently and collaborating with another more. Natural songs like Yes, We Have even a young society girl continued to young man, Harold Solomon, who has No Bananas; Dardanella; The Stein Song, rave about the number long after I met been kind enough to assist me in the re- and many others of that type, that be- her a few evenings ago. vision and transcription of several of my came hits through their own momentum It is lilting, catchy, and tuneful; the songs. Solomon is responsible for the

and the fact that they stood out, are the thought is good and different; there is melody of Hurt.

kind which I believe one should look for. nothing sickening or disgusting about it, Not only do I play the song because One of the main reasons that I was and the thought 99 Out Of A Hundred I like it and because I enjoy their friend- —

75

RUDY FALLEE

ship, but also because it is published by Phil Kornheiser who, as I said, di- rected the policies of Leo Feist, Inc. for many years, finally going into business for himself and getting together one of the best catalogues of songs that anyone along Tin Pan Alley has ever seen. Korn- heiser has been the power behind a throne for many years. A small man. and one who physically seems very out of place as a picker of songs, he has, nevertheless, not only picked and started on their way to hitdom many of our greatest songs over a period of twenty years, but is known to and knows every figure in the fascinating land of Tin Pan Alley. He gave such men as Earl Car- roll, Vincent Lopez, Joe McCarthy, Moss, Durante, Ernie Theodore Jimmy Rudy Vallee in a new guise—author and business man. Golden, Walter Donaldson, Harry Akst,

L. Wolfe Gilbert, Mabel Wayne, J. Har- old Murray, Fred Fisher, Monaco, — against Rose, because there is Jimmy J. When Your Hair Has Peter de Grant Clark, Joe Young, Ray Henderson, nothing new under the sun, and it is Turned to Silver and Lew Brown their first jobs, and it was quite possible to tear apart any song and through his efforts that I became asso- THERE are so many of the Tobias fam- show a similarity between its various ciated with the firm of Leo Feist. He ily that they get in your hair! There phrases and the phrases of other songs. took blindly from me I'm Just a Vaga- is Charles, and Harry, and Henry, and they The thought is very simply and sweetly bond Lover and gave me a substantial are all song-writers. Charles, I believe, expressed, and it fits the melody admira- advance without having heard the song. is the one who has been on the stage as bly. I had the pleasure of recording it Naturally, I was only too pleased, as was a wisecracker, M.C., and many other a few weeks ago and I think the record Paul Whiteman, Ben Bernie, Lopez, and all things for years; at least, I remember will be a good one. the other orchestra leaders who have a him when he came to a New Haven thea- This song is published by the firm that high regard for his friendship, to assist tre to bolster up its waning trade for a sponsored and brought to hitdom Caro- him in presenting his songs to the song- while. His younger brothers, Henry and lina Moon, namely Joe Morris. Inc., loving public, and from time to time Hurt Harry, had much to do with Miss You, whose manager, Archie Fletcher, is re- has found a place on my programs. one of my early recordings, and a beauti- sponsible for its appearance. We play it Recently on one of my Fleischmann ful song. From time to time they bring as a medium tempo waltz. Hours I seem to have presented the num- forth fine examples of the art of song- ./. Temptation ber in a way that called for applause writing; in fact I could almost say that My from the critics. Several Radio editors two out of four songs seem to have one THE few months I spent in Boston after have commented on that particular ren- of the Tobias brothers as a contributor. my graduation from Vale, before I dition of the number, which shows that In the case of this song, Charles was came to New Vork to seek my fortune, saw I have come to like the song or I could the contributor of the thought whereby me playing with several Boston orches- not do justice to it. Peter de Rose was able to express to his tras. The big number in vogue then, the As its title would convey, it is the un- sweetheart of the air. May Singhi Breen, Fall of P>2 7, was Dancing Tambourine, happy thought of the deceived one. I this promise of undying devotion. Any- written by one W. C. Polla, whose name hear the urchins outside my dressing one who knows Peter de Rose and May I had seen as an arranger of various room window whistling it from time to Singhi Breen knows that they constitute song's. Mr. Polla 's main function in

time, which indicates that it is "com- not only one of the finest teams on Tin Pan Alley life is to make orches- mercial," that is, down to the level of Radio, but two of the sweetest person- trations tor dance orchestras and bands the working masses. At the present time alities, very happy together and never of the various song hits, but he is also it has every indication of becoming a hit. apart, that one could wish to see. the composer of these various novelty

Hurt is best done at about thirty-five While the melody is reminiscent of The songs such as Dancing Tambourine, Bo- measures a minute. Blue Danube, yet no one could hold thai hemia, and Gondolier, but Dancing Tarn- — — — —

76 bourine was his biggest and most well- will bring to light one of the most de- the music, Newell Chase, is an oli Bos- known. I believe that this 6/8 song, lightful songs that she sings in the course ton pianist and fraternity brother of My Temptation, stands every chance of of the revue. In fact, I think it is one mine, and Dick Whiting has had his name becoming just as popular if the bands of the best things she does. on more songs than you can shake a stick will only play it. Harry Warren, Billy Rose, and Mort at. I met Leo Robin, the writer of the t Most bands fight shy of the 6/8 songs Dixon collaborated on a cute little lyrics, in the Paramount Studios while due to the fact that the younger genera- thought, typically musical comedy in I was making my picture. He was then tion does not care to dance to them, but vein, and yet bordering on the commer- collaborating with Whiting on a song for I believe that orchestras should remem- cial* in the dark horse song Would You Sweetie, and he certainly deserves as 1 ber that Radio broadcasts are not dedi- Like to Take a Walk ? A very tricky much praise as the other two boys in pro- cated to a dancing public but to a listen- verse precedes the chorus, and the main ducing this very cute song. ing public. I picture most of my Radio charm of the chorus lies in the first three You will find that your sheet copy con- listeners as reclining on a couch, a divan, notes of every phrase; these are to be tains only fifteen measures, and to get or a chair, in a position of relaxation, hummed, that is, "Mm-Mm-Mm, Would the right swing you should take about listening to the program in comfort, and You Like to Take a Walk?" thirty seconds to play these fifteen meas- to be soothed, and such numbers as My Then it goes on to ask the young lady, ures. It is published by the Famous Temptation and 99 Out Of A Hundred assuming that it is the boy who sings it, Music Corp. form a good stimulus throughout the if she would like a sarsaparilla, and if course of an otherwise slow-moving and she isn't tired of the talkies as he prefers 8. —Little Spanish Dancer monotonous program. the walkies. THERE are few songs today that can My Temptation is very reminiscent of Done in schottische tempo it becomes boast of having been written entirely Valencia. In fact, Mr. Polla intended very danceable, and you will find your by women. However, Little Spanish it to have that same continental flavor, feet, in spite of yourself, tapping and Dancer is the work of two female veterans that European air that we have come to yearning to dance. of Tin Pan Alley. Mabel Wayne, the associate with the Valencia type of song, Remick, the publishers of it, originally young lady who composed Ramona and In and he certainly was successful! The did not intend to orchestrate the tune for a Little Spanish Town, seems to have a song is very lilting and just as good lyri- dance orchestras, but several of us have flair for writing melodies in a Spanish cally as it is musically. made our orchestrations and have own vein, and has contributed another which Our Victor record of it is due to appear presented it on the air, which in turn will her lyrical collaborator called Little Span- on the market any day now, and is one create such demand for it that Remick a ish Dancer. Tots Seymour, who wrote of the best things we have ever done. You will probably be forced to feature the the words, was one of Tin Pan Alley's need only hear the song to like it, and song in a big way. In fact, one of their most prolific writers years ago. She re- the response to our theatre presentation directors has already told me that they tired from the game for a while, came of it and our few broadcasts has been are about to do so. Within the next back again, and her first song after her very wonderful. It is published by month you will hear it done plentifully on return was the hit of last summer, Swing- Harms, Inc.. and we play it briskly. the air, and its freshness and charm will ing in a Hammock. I know it seems odd captivate as it has me. you for a woman to write songs, but Miss 5. Blue Again I am doing it this particular week at Seymour, like Miss Wayne, knows her JACK ROBBINS, who brought the firm the Brooklyn Paramount, singing it in business, and they are both to be con- of Robbins, Inc., up to a place of great musical comedy style to Miss Groody, gratulated on this song. prominence in Tin Pan Alley, deserves and then dancing with her to a chorus of It tells the story of the Spanish dancer credit for having picked a very danceable it, and it gets a very fine hand. We play who dances her way in and out of the and singable tune in Blue Again. It was it at about thirty-five measures per min- hero's heart. It is a cute song when originally featured in the Vanderbilt ute. properly played, and one that must be Revue, which unfortunately, like the The original key of E flat is a little done slowly, at about thirty-two measures Arabs, folded up and stole away almost tiring on the voice; if you can transpose per minute. over night. The song, however, like any I would suggest that you sing it in D. The owner of the Villa Vallee comment- good thing, refused to be kept down and '—popular, i. e. liked by the great masses of people. ed on it last night, and peculiarly enough persisted on long after its sponsor had Miss Wayne was seated at one of our gone to the musty warehouse. 7. My Ideal tables with two gentlemen, having made It is gaining popularity every day, not the trip specially to thank me for my ren- HERE is another song which seems only through the cleverness of its music, dition of it on several of our previous even more admirably fitted than but for its lyric thought. It remained broadcasts. I feel it is unnecessary to be Would You Like to Take a Walk? for the for Miss Helen Groody to show me that thanked for doing a song that I enjoy schottische tempo. The sheet copies are it was a good song through her presenta- doing, and one that I know people enjoy written the way we play it, but the first tion of it nightly at the Villa Vallee. In hearing, and this is a good example. orchestration we received from the pub- my first presentation of it I played it It is published by Leo Feist, Inc. lisher made it very long and drawn out. much too fast to do justice to it. Prop- My natural reaction was to play it as it was erly tempoed, the number provides, as a p. Cigarette Lady on the sheet copies, which meant that the theatrical writer calls it, "great dansap- band played two measures where there was RARELY like to bring myself into ation." The song was written by Doro- only one in the orchestration. We call this I these pages if I can help it, due to the thy Fields and Jimmy McHugh, and you "doubling up", and we get through the criticism which is leveled at me by certain probably hear it a great deal on your song in half the time it would normally individuals, but since I am writing and Radio. We do it now at about thirty- take. I believe that the publisher has collaborating with others who have un- five measures per minute. since put out orchestrations in the shorter questioned writing ability, it is necessary way, which makes the piece seem much that I speak impartially of my own songs. 6. —Would You Like to Take more cheerful and lilting. It seems to be Back in the summer of 1924 I was a Walk? over almost before you know it, but it playing throughout the society resorts of THE daring revue, Sweet and Low makes an extremely danceable tune, and Maine with a Boston orchestra, and we seems to be a breeder of dark horses. the thought is out of the ordinary. had as our pianist a very wonderful one,

Not only will it bring to light a young While it is a trite expression, and the Carroll Gibbons, who had been pulled lady who should have come to public general trend of the idea has been done out of a local movie theatre in a small attention in a big way long before this many times, yet the writers have handled suburb of Boston by Billy Losez, direc- I mean Miss Hannah Williams—but it it extremely well. One of the writers of (Continued on page 100) 77

Little Jeanne Gifford Dante, we apologize! Mayor Mackey of Philadelphia presenting Radio Digest Diamond Meritum award to the You're with Station WMCA, not WCAU. Mystery Announcer of WPEN. Raymond Bill, Editor, at right.

AND talking about uphill struggles to Mexican Station Broadcasts ^prominence, Station KWK of St. Louis deserves a pat on the back. Found- ed in 1927 by Thomas Patrick Convey, In English and Spanish it started out with one small office, a transmitter room, a studio and three of the few truly bi-lingual stations The station remained on the air for a employees. The president himself, Mr. ONE Convey, carried opened its doors not so long ago. Its period of one hundred hours—four days, on all duties from office call letters are XED, located at Reynosa, four nights, and four hours for good boy to announcer. The total income of Tamps., Mexico, not far from Brownsville, measure. Entertainers from Mexico and the station for the first year was barely $10,000 certainly Texas. Its slogan is "The Voice of the the United States participated and an- —which stretched elas- tically Two Republics" and since it has 10,000 nouncements were made in English and to cover rent, operating expenses, watts power, Radio Digest readers all Spanish. The studio orchestra, known as talent and salaries. Today, only three over the United States have been able to the Border Charros, under the direction years later, it reports a 1930 income of tune in on its broadcasts. L. D. Martinez, of Eulalio Sanchez, kept things going a over $200,000 and an operating force of studio director, put over a novel stunt for good part of the time, and guest artists thirty-three, with a 5.000-watt trans- the inaugural program. from many near-by stations co-operated. mitter in Kirkwood. Mo. Malcolm Todd of WBAP, Fort Worth, and Curtis Leon Farrington of KPRC. Houston, were guest announcers. Tom Noel, formerly of KVOO, also officiated—

and liked it so well in Mexico that he was prevailed upon to remain as advertising manager of the new station.

ANOTHER unique station broadcast in ^the annals of Radiodom was the con- tribution of WIOD of Miami. Fla. Eighty broadcasters in the United States joined in giving a "Miami Radio Party", dedi- cating part of their programs to the Sun- shine city, and WIOD in turn took its listeners on a tour of the United States, with stops at all of the cities from which Miami programs emanated.

THE Station that came back—that title has been given to KJR. Seattle. Wash., whose hard fight against the wolf

at the door was described in a recent issue of Radio Digest. Its most recent tri- L. D. Martinez, Studio Director and Station umph was Federal confirmation of license Winston B-irron, CFCA, Toronto, Master of Manager of XED in Reynosa, Mexico. to broadcast on 5,000 watts. Ceremonies of Silver Slipper Vi'e.iscl Frolic. 78

Classical Music Simplified

William Braid White

Doctor of Music

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Dr. William Braid White

Dr. White will answer readers' inquiries I shall therefore venture to join here it aside after two movements had been on musical questions in his columns. Ad- the great army of those who during the completed, how he never took it up again, dress him in care of the Editor, 420 Lexing- last seventy-five years united never sent any of it to its intended des- ton Avenue, New York. have in a universal paean of praise for this lovely tination and, even more astonishing, never

FEW weeks ago from New York piece of inspired work. There may be a heard it played! the Philharmonic-Symphony under few readers who will like to hear about He was only twenty-five years old when the direction of Toscanini played it from my point of view; and indeed he wrote down the two movements, and A"one of those programs which there may even be some to whom it will then laid the lovely thing aside never to delight the heart of the listener. Its come as actual news. So here goes. take it up again. That was in 1822. two principal items were Schubert's It was just twenty-seven years ago that Shelley died that year, another favorite Unfinished Symphony and the Erocia I first heard the Unfinished. It was dur- of the gods, drowned off the Italian shore. Symphony Of Beethoven. For reasons ing that year (1903) when the Philhar- Six years later Schubert too was dead, which my readers will, I hope, soon monic Society in New York, not yet partly of fever, but more of undernour- discover to be sufficient, and even turned over to a group of rich guarantors ishment. Poor Schubert! He probably perhaps admirable, I shall say something but still a democratic association run by never had so much money as twenty dol- here about these two pieces of music. the players themselves, had made up its lars in his possession at any one time. It would probably be fair to say that mind to experiment with a group of guest His total effects at his death were ap- the so-called Unfinished Symphony by conductors. So it invited Colonne from praised as worth the equivalent of about Franz Schubert is the best known, by Paris, Sir Henry Wood from London, twelve dollars and fifty cents, including a name at least, among all large orchestral Weingaertner from Munich, Kegel from "miscellaneous lot of old music". Among works. The reasons are numerous. Schu- Frankfort, Victor .Herbert from Pitts- the scattered sheets of this music were bert wrote a great many songs and small burgh, Gericke from Boston, Theodore afterwards discovered, by the loving piano pieces, and among these are several Thomas from Chicago and Safonoff from hands of Mendelssohn, the immortal pages which almost everybody has heard and Moscow. Each was to conduct one con- of the Unfinished. has liked. One only has to remember cert and at the end of the season we the the Serenade, the Hark, Hark the Lark audiences were to compare one with the The Sheer Delight of the Unfinished and the Ave Maria. Everybody no doubt other. Poor Theodore Thomas died just Symphony remembers that very successful oper- before his concert, and Weingaertner, I etta Blossom Time, which toured the think it was, took his place. Victor Her- There never has been any satisfactory whole country a few years ago and which bert came from the Pittsburgh orches- explanation of Schubert's putting aside was built around the story of Schubert's tra, which he was then conducting, for his work after he had completed only two life and of his music. What turned out one concert, and he took the Unfinished of its presumably four movements. Writ- to be by all means the most popular and for his principal item. I was only a ing music was to him no task at all. He catchy of the tunes in this charming' youngster, of course, and the music came wrote down notes as you or I would write little musical play was nothing more than to me, I have to say, as if it were a letter to a friend. He wrote Hark, a slightly modified form of the second manna from heaven. If I live to be a Hark the Lark on the back of a menu theme from the first movement of the hundred years old, I shall never forget card at a tavern, and The Erlking in famous Unfinished Symphony. When I the thrill I got from it. much the same unceremonious way and at add that the modification by no means To this day I remember that some one much the same dizzy speed. Music flowed improves the theme, which, as one might had told me to be very careful not to miss from him as water from a fountain. He- expect, is much more delightful and melo- this special piece, and I can see myself was quite capable of writing down the dious in the shape in which Schubert again poring over the program notes from first two movements of his symphony and first wrote it down, the reader will under- my seat high up in the balcony of Car- the next day forgetting that he had ever stand how it is that the Unfinished pro- negie Hall, reading how poor Schubert written anything of the kind. Quite pos- vides probably the very best of all intro- wrote the glorious music as a token of sibly that is just what happened. ductions to the beauties of symphonic gratitude for having been elected to some We today are more fortunate. We are music which can be found by any unin- little footling musical society in a second- also more appreciative than his contempo- structed seeker after beauty. rate Austrian town; and how then he put raries, who let him die at thirty-one in 79 destitution, just one year after that Titan Philadelphia Orchestra under Stokowski. plishments any human being can have, Beethoven, already famous the world or can acquire. This indeed is true, in one The Musicians vs. The Engineers over, closed his earthly career in the degree or another, of all the famous or- chestral conductors weekly during the Schwarzspanier Haus not so many streets I have been listening again to broadcast who away. The two lie today almost side by music from the New York Philharmonic, season guide their great armies of highly side. the Roxy, the Curtis Institute and other trained musical artists through the meas- orchestras. It would be all ures of great music. All these gentlemen Melody, Sweet Melody symphony wrong to deny to the broadcasting art the with their orchestras either now are. or That which most attracts about the merit of excellent intention, but only a soon will be, broadcasting regularly. My Unfinished Symphony is its astonishing gross flatterer would say that the results point is that there is nevertheless some- thing more to broadcasting than the mere- melodiousness. The tunes are sweet al- are perfect. The truth is that the conduc- bringing of orchestra into a studio with most to lusciousness, the harmonies are tors of orchestras and the broadcasting an instruments and notes. The whole proc- as smooth as oil, the tone-coloring is engineers are still standing apart from ess, from the actual playing the in- shimmeringly lovely. There are no prob- each other. This indeed is a great pity. by struments under the conductor's baton, lems set to the hearer. There is no vast for broadcasting is already the biggest intellectual effort of concentration re- and most important factor in contem- to the hearing of the result at the loud speaker of each among tens of thou- quired. The listener may just bathe his porary musical activity. That is to say, end half senses in the sheer delight of lovely sound. apart from any other consideration, the sands of Radio sets scattered over the country, is in reality a single continuous I strongly recommend every Radio lis- most important, the most active and by process. Unfortunately, the present tener to be on the lookout for this music, far the biggest factor in the practical en- way of doing things tends to break it up into which is frequently played by one or an- terprise of making music and of getting it two parts. The orchestra plays. It is other orchestra each season. Those who heard is being done by the broadcasting supposed only to play. On the other hand have never heard it before can, as I said, interests. For that very obvious reason transmission of its music to the unseen simply bathe their senses in its luscious then, the men who have in their charge the the Radio audience involves a vast and elab- beauty. Those who know it and are by great orchestras which are coming more orately organized series of electrical en- now a little bit acquainted with symphonic and more into the orbit of broadcasting, gineering processes, which, very naturally, form may mark the immediate entrance ought to be getting themselves into the designed by, are under the of the main theme in the first movement closest possible relations with this new have been and of. musicians tend after the "motto" has been intoned means of extending music to their audi- control engineers. The to think that they have done their part darkly by the basses during the first two ences. when they have, so to speak, put the or three measures, the singularly lovely After all, that is what it comes to. microphones. rest is second theme from which the Blossom Broadcasting expands the size of the audi- music into the The engineers. Time tune was drawn, the clear cut and ence to which the musician plays. Ernest left to the simple form, and the charming, simply Schelling, for instance, is one of the most Technical Improvement in Broadcasting devised, and intelligible closing-piece or hard-worked conductors of orchestras that Is Needed coda. The second movement is perhaps this world knows. Last year his children's even more luscious than the first, which concerts, in New York, Boston and Phila- Now there is a mistake here, and a big in fact has its moments of passion and al- delphia attracted some 90,000 young one. The thing ought not to be quite so most of pain. This Andante is pure people of all ages from five to twenty simple. It is not quite the same thing as beauty. Note the opening tune, its con- years. Now 90,000 young people are a telephone engineering. Telephone engi- trast with the second tune which comes great many, yet they are but a handful neers are dealing with human speech, and out a little later on the clarinet against compared with the vast audience which they design apparatus to transmit that accompaniments in the strings, and the broadcasting furnishes, an audience po- speech over long distances. They wisely perfectly beautiful reiterations of the tentially of millions. do not even try to teach the telephone first tune by one and then another group Yet the fact remains that when this user to speak correctly, for that would of instruments as the movement comes remarkable man broadcasts he reaches be both impertinent and impossible. They to its quite lovely close. young people by the hundreds of thou- therefore confine themselves to discover- There is a magnificent Victor phono- sands, and does something, at least, to ing what speech sounds are and then they graph recording of this Symphony, by the teach them that early love of beautiful design telephone systems to do the best way, from the inspired playing of the music which is one of the finest accom- (Continued on page 102)

The Toronto Symphony Orchestra, which broadcasts on the Canadian National Railways Chain each Sunday atternoon, is glad of the op- portunity to doff formal concert attire and dress for the mike in shirt sleeves. Dr. Luigi von Kunits, conductor, stands in front center. 80

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says Ruth

Skimmi?ig The Winds In A Plane

Is Easier Than Fighting Traffic In A Motor Car

ANNE B. LAZAR

a record-breaking flight be- modest victor of New York's crowds. long to a young society girl! The freshness of the high-blown winds It was with a desire to was still in Miss Nichols' cheeks as she learn what part the ubiq- smiled from those kind, deep-set, gray- uitous Radio played in this blue eyes of hers. Wavy wisps of rich flight that I went to seek brown hair peeked from her little black this youthful champion of hat. Her pretty silk frock betrayed no the air. evidence of masculinity which might be The interview was ar- associated with one learned in the me- ranged by Mr. Trenholm, chanics of aviation—and there was even Public Relations Counsel the tiniest hint of jewels. for Miss Nichols. The time set was for one o'clock. Ruth Nichols, beautiful aviatrix and record-holder At ten of one I was still at A,_ND what a handclasp! I was the office answering tele- not surprised that the powerful airplane phone calls, but the merci- was reduced to a mere servitor under

I VERY woman should learn to less minute hand ruthlessly swept away that commanding, skillful grasp. And fly!" the time—and before I knew it, there there is that same commanding expres- This is the opinion of one of were only three slender minutes left. sion in her whole face. It does not cease the foremost pioneer women Now, figured I, it generally takes me a to be a wonder that the part of this busi- pilots in America—Ruth Nichols—who quarter of an hour to wade through the ness of annihilating distances should have breaks flight records with as much ease mass of scurrying train-bent beings in the fallen to the lot of this girl with such as she presides over one of those fashion- Grand Central Station. I have only three individual feminine charm! But wonder able teas that are open only to members minutes. Could I break my own record or not, it was she who outraced the prom- of the Junior League. and make it in three? It had to be done! inent air navigators of the day—Col. And what is the Junior League? It I was to meet a speed record-breaker and Lindbergh and Capt. Turner. She indeed is a closed society in every sense of those I was going to be no sluggard myself. rose to conquer, and although she attrib- two words. And you can't even buy your I puffed and fumed and fought through utes much of her success to the modern way in—no, not even in these days when the crowds and after many hair-raising Pegasus which was loaned to her by Mr. buying is so much in demand. This ex- thrills and narrow escapes from collisions Powell Crosley, Jr., of WLW, it was en- clusive organization of society's younger with travelers and suitcases, and at the tirely her own mastery and adeptness that set occasionally produces persons who dot of one, I found myself in the pres- drove her winged steed through the sky ; leave their dances, fancy balls and sports ence of Ruth Nichols. safely and surely from ocean to ocean long enough to take an active interest with such amazing rapidity. in public affairs—but never has it yielded There is even the slightest semblance quite as resolute and determined a char- Tv. WO champions meet face of a LindbeYghian expression in her face. acter as Ruth Nichols. to face—Ruth Nichols—and your hum- And like a shadow it is very evasive—for It seems almost incredible that the ble servant; one, the noble conqueror of I can't seem to remember whether it is hands which directed the powerful air- the air who almost reconciled the Atlantic in her smile or the gleam in her eyes, or plane across mountains and lakes from one and Pacific Coasts—leaving only a slight maybe after all it is only the skyward border of our continent to the other in difference of a few hours—and the other, glance that seems characteristic of all —

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Undencood & Underwood Photo Perched on the wing of the Crosley Radio plane in which she made the record. Miss earth born humans who learn to ride the critically important. First, between Co- Nichols is one of the few women pilots winds. But there is this much Lindbergh lumbus and St. Louis when I encountered competent to fly this huge racing ship. in her—she refers to her flight as "we" three heavy, blinding snowstorms which I doing this and "we" doing that. knew nothing about when I started. I Of course, the first question I asked fields are located at different points within had to bring my plane down almost to the even though I was interested in knowing a few miles of each other. treetops. When weather is against you Radio's part in this new drama of the 3. You must fly only in standard equip- like that, without a knowledge of what is air—was "Is it safe?" Back in my mind ment. Leave experimental planes to ex- ahead, one is uncertain about going ahead I had the sharp remembrance of my first perienced aviators. or turning back. But I got a report that experience at an automobile wheel. We 4. Airplanes must be daily inspected clear weather was ahead, and knowing were whizzing through the mild summer by some thoroughly reliable person in this, I was able to withstand the rigors of air at fifty—and then the—well, fortu- whom you have absolute confidence. They the storm. nately, my instructor was a Radio star should also be frequently subjected to "The second time when a Radio report no other person could have such presence government examination. helped me occurred on my way from Los of mind. 5. Be sure your pilot is both experi- Angeles to Arizona. The earlier weather Therefore, the safety of aviation enced and conservative. Not all experi- report had indicated clear weather with seemed to me to be the most important enced pilots are conservative. slight cloudiness over Arizona. But I point to be settled for those eager, would- These points followed and flying is just found very thick, instead of slight, cloudi- be fliers. That point settled, and the rest as safe and less tiresome than driving. ness. But, assured by my Radio. 1 must be easy. pressed through because I knew that clear Ruth Nichols has her Five Points of weather was ahead of me.

Safety. Of course, there may be other I PREFER flying to driv- "When I left Wichita for New York. 1 points held by other people, but that's ing any time. It is tiresome to drive for received pretty good weather reports, but beside the point. There is, for instance, any length of time through traffic." de- I encountered terrific rainfalls between on another page of this magazine a pic- clared Miss Nichols, "and I should say Wichita and St. Louis. Again the real- ture of a savage holding to his points by lhal Hying is safer. Now let me tell you ization of clear weather ahead (from sitting on them. how Radio helped me in this flight. Radio reports) encouraged me to push But back to Miss Nichols and her Pen- "It proved itself indispensable in two through. taloguc—these points should be followed ways." continued Miss Nichols, "first, in "Now. with regard to direction and by anyone who aspires to fly. They are: receiving weather reports." she nodded velocity." continued Miss Nichols. "1

1. Always fly only in good weather. her head with a twinkle in her eye. "You learned over the Radio whether I should Weather reports can always be obtained know that weather is mentioned in one fly at three, five or nine thousand feel from airports. (I would strongly advise of the Five Points I just gave you; sec- high. This advice was exceedingly help- against relying on newspaper thermome- ond, with respect to direction and wind ful because if I wanted a tail wind to ters.) velocity. blow directly behind me, I had to fly at a 2. Fly over established airlines only. "There were three instances when I re- certain altitude.

Along these regular air routes emergency ceived Radio weather reports which were i Continued on page 105) 82

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A LIST of daily home-making jobs is By Ruth Witson and better health. Foods are kept sweet /\ an appalling sight to meet three and small bits of left-overs can be utilized / \ hundred and sixty-five times a to advantage. After the supplies are re- year. To the new home-maker ceived, the storing becomes a matter of even a carefully scheduled day is quite allowed to pile up to the end of the importance. Package products should enough to be frightening, but if you were week, it makes a rushed day or two, or. be arranged on shelves in orderly rows, to write me a list indicating time spent if by chance you are prevented from putting the large boxes toward the back. on jobs at home according to your pres- doing the work that particular day, the Vegetables such as celery, parsley, and ent methods, the analysis would be whole routine for the next week, is out of lettuce should be washed and put in a startling. I venture to say, that without line. covered container with a little water knowing it, you are losing valuable time, Along with planning the day's work. in the refrigerator. We have found it money and pleas- an excellent plan ure simply because to prepare such you have not been vegetables as able to get your beans, carrots or housework down peas, ready for to a business basis .; ^ cooking and also and because you to keep these in a are not taking ad- small amount of vantage of labor water in the re- saving devices on frigerator. Of the market. I course, this time hope some morn- saver is applicable ing, you will drop only when you in at the National have some kind of Radio Home-Mak- mechanical refrig- ers' Club in New erator at your com- York and watch mand. the way we run During the holi- our kitchen and days, we kept a why we tell listen- juice cocktail, ers on the Colum- either tomato or a bia network how combination of we have made it several fruits, all one of the most made up, partially efficient in the frozen in the re- country. frigerator. This The first outline practice assures made for a work- you of always hav- ing schedule, ing some appetizer should be a rough on hand to pick one. List the up lazy appetites. A spotless kitchen is possible even immediately after cooking preparations things that must be Because almost done at a specific everyone likes a time and then build the rest of the we have allotted time to ordering, sandwich or cooky to nibble during the day's work around these items. For purchasing and storing the foods that morning or afternoon, we also kept in example, at certain periods every morn- we keep on hand. Our order list cor- the refrigerator, several jars of sandwich ing, when we are broadcasting, it is responds to your market list. filling mixed to just the right consistency impossible for any kind of work to be going and ready to spread on bread; or a roll of on in the kitchen. Consequently, we have refrigerator cookies all ready to slice and planned that water be put in the radiator T,WICE a week, we go bake at a moment's notice. Home- covers, windows dusted, flowers watered over the programs for the next three days makers can follow these before-hand and other jobs that must be done in a short and order accordingly. You should con- preparation rules. Briefly, this explains time. The heavy work is apportioned to sult your menu schedule three days in ad- why, no matter how many guests visit different days. Thursday, the door-knobs vance and buy enough provisions to last the Radio Home-Makers' Club, we are are polished, Friday, the door in the kit- for that length of time. Modern equip- always ready to serve them with some- chen is waxed and on Saturday the silver ment and machines make this labor sav- thing delicious to eat. There are other is cleaned and polished and the refriger- ing plan possible. With the advent reasons for this preparation; first, it is ator gets a thorough cleaning. Such a of the electric refrigerator, it is now a very gracious way of entertaining and system is like the old rule of, Monday possible even to add easily perishable second, if we do have interruptions, the wash day, Tuesday ironing and so on; foods to the supply of easily preserved rest of our work does not suffer. but no matter how ancient the law, it is foods. This ease in marketing, inci- I remember one cold afternoon in De- still a wise one to follow. If the work is dentally, makes for cheaper food bills cember when the kitchen laboratory had 83

made, or still better, make for yourself, GLIMPSE into National Home - Makers' a wooden rack that will support and raise the dishpan to the proper height. Kitchen Reveals Latest Housekeeping Methods, Every home-maker has a right to have sunlight and fresh air in the kitchen. The But Good Old-Fashioned Schedule Is Here to Stay smaller windows have replaced the larger ones and now windows are hung with gay thin curtains that let in light, sun and air. If you are not fortunate enough to have plenty of windows in the kit- chen, you should have some kind of a hurry call to serve tea for eight people. ferent types of food dishes. The equip- light provided. A center light is almost Because the work had gone along on ment is so arranged that there are no indispensable. There should be side schedule just as it does every day, this wasted minutes looking for anything. lights, one over the sink and a second by did not make the least bit of difference. We have made a place for everything the kitchen cabinet to give a bright light The regular day's cleaning was done, the and everything is kept in its place. The for close work. The modern home-maker one extra job of heavy work was com- equipment is so arranged that it is really pleted and everything was up to schedule. a pleasure to work in the kitchen, for a In case you do get behind in your work well organized kitchen lifts housework for one day, it is better to do a little and cooking out of the drudgery class. extra each day and keep the cleaning up to date. Accumulation of dust and dirt is cer- T,.HE method we use in de- tain to breed disease germs. This in termining the equipment best suited to part accounts for the sanitary measures our needs, can be carried out in the and precautions taken in our studios. The home. The machines are fairly light and temperature in every studio is kept at easy to operate yet durable enough to sixty-eight degrees Fahrenheit. After stand up under long wear. The original each program is broadcast, the studio is price should be considered, the price of aired to create a clean fresh circulation. operation and service or replacement of When there is scrubbing or washing of parts that may be necessary. Sometimes woodwork to be done, a little disinfec- the selling price may be a little higher tant is added to the water. Any of the than other similar machines on the mar- coal tar products can be used as well as ket, but in time the more expensive the household aids on the market. equipment may actually save you more Strong solutions of soap, soap chips and money in operation service charges or ammonia make effective disinfectants, al- food bills. though they are not usually thought of The one important feature that prac- in these terms. Ice water that is kept tically every manufacturer is taking into in every studio, is placed in covered consideration is the bending over neces- thermo jugs. Many guests have asked sary to run the equipment. This item is me if our kitchen is an efficient one be- illustrated by the fact that within recent cause we are experts in this particular years, the designs in kitchen furniture line. Well, partly; but the greatest factor have undergone drastic changes. Stoves is that we have up-to-the-minute kitchen have ovens placed at the side with a side equipment. swinging door, so that there is no need to bend over to look at the pie or cake. Refrigerators have cold controls and ma- WeHAT we have in our chinery at the top so that adjustments kitchen laboratory, every housewife can can be made without bending over. have in her home kitchen.* No matter Shelves are arranged so that foods can be what kind of equipment you are buying, stored according to the most scientific keep this one point in mind,—buy prod- laws. Shelves are adjustable to accom- ucts that are best suited to your needs, modate a number of different types of those that will give you the best service foods. The new machines are easy to and those that will be easy for you to clean. The outer surfaces are washable operate. Too often, home-makers are compositions, the corners rounded with a falsely guided by the decisions of their flat top which can be converted into an Heavy kitchen utensils are concealed in lower cupboard neighbors. Equipment that will stand up extra shelf,—a point not to be overlooked under the wear and tear of small family in this era of kitchenettes. The inside usage, may be entirely unsuited for large of refrigerators also have rounded cor- has found that in her home her kitchen family service. ners. This means that there are no cracks is, in reality, her laboratory and work- As soon as a new gadget is placed on or crevices for crumbs to hide in. Other shop. That is why she has demanded the market, we make a thorough investi- such as tables, sink tubs or equipment improvements that were once considered gation to find if that particular product service tables should be correct the luxuries. will be a time and labor saver to us in height so that the housewife will be at Every home should have a kitchen our kitchen laboratory work. If the ease while working and can accomplish library including standard books on cook- equipment proves satisfactory, it wins her tasks without bending over. ing, laundry, interior decorating, child a permanent place on the shelf or in the Some tables and stools, some stoves, care and entertaining. With new equip- kitchen drawer. Besides the tricky washing machines new and ironing hoards, can ment and research service everyone can devices, we have complete sets of bowls, raised nailing or placing be by wooden have an attractive home. pots and pans suited to every need, blocks under the legs. True, equipment • Mi, will help miKe .vitir measuring spoons and cups, so that at such as sinks cannot be raised, but you Allan be plrand to you in hounhold cqulpmom if you win *io Lviincion any time, we are ready to all dif- rtquesU lo nor In eira of Radio Dioasr, make can raise the dishpan. You can have :', AWIUK-. N, H Jortl I | 84 ^re American Women Lax in To I i t i c s ?

"Our Women Have Gone Further than Yours" Says Feminine Member of English Par- liament. But She Admits They Lag in Business. By Mary Agnes Hamilton Member of Parliament

(From transatlantic broadcast over the stations of the Columbia

Broadcasting System) Keystone Photo Mary Agnes Hamilton, M. P., and English political leader. She hopes for bigger and better things from our women.

SHOULD like to begin by saying

how real and deep is the pleasure it I gives me to have this opportunity of I yet venture to say although your it was one of your countrywomen, Lady being in a kind of contact with my women got the vote on equal terms earlier Astor! but as a matter of fact it was an many friends on your side of the water, than ours did, we have done rather more Irish woman elected in 1918. She, how- realizing how much our people have in with it. Let me remind you how it is ever, did not take her seat as she was a common, how much the whole world de- with us today. Our House of Commons Sinn Feiner. As a result, the first woman pends on our working hand in hand. includes now fifteen women, after hotly M. P. is forgotten. Such is fate. In the common cause of woman the contested elections, elections in which, as Now the women are treated exactly as will to service can be realized if a new you know, both men and women have to though they were men. We hang up our body of fully effective citizens can be cast their votes direct for the party can- hats and coats and deposit our umbrellas created which is in the power of anyone, didate. in a common cloakroom. We stand when quite regardless of sex. the Chamber happens to be full in debate. So far as women are concerned in both Our points of view are entirely in our countries, they are waking up very fast A-_T OUR General Election backgrounds. and taking a larger and larger share in seventy tried to get elected and fourteen Our sex in 1929 had ten in the Labor the business of citizenship. It may be succeeded. One woman — an English Party, three Conservatives and one in- merely a national illusion on this one peeress—once a conservative worker, now dependent. I don't think it is an acci- point, but I think the women of Britain a Labor member, was the fourth of those dent that the Labor Party has twice as have an advantage over you. Our women to sit on the benches of the House of many women M. P.'s as the others put have gone further in politics than yours Commons, the other three being Conser- together. Labor, after all, was the first yet have. When I say this I am not vatives—Lady Astor, Lady Iveagh and political party of our country to treat its forgetting the women sitting in Congress the Duchess of Atholl. women absolutely on an equality with its or the Senate or the women doing admin- At the 1918 election only one woman men. It is the party, too, which puts istrative work like Miss Perkins, or edu- was returned. Everybody has forgotten equal franchise on its party program. cational or opinion-building work like her. Nearly everybody asked, "Who was Labor led the way in admitting women Miss Addams, Mrs. Catt, Miss Morgan, the first woman to be elected to the to parties. to name only a very few. British House of Commons?" would say Their equality in the trade unions is —

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known, and as far back as 1924 Miss who believe you can't Margaret Bondfield, who was elected get men to work under Chairman of the Trade Union Congress, a woman. You can; presided with particular success over the you do. The two great- Conference of the Labor Party. It was est administers of the a great gathering. Again in 1924, the Departments of Labor Labor Party broke all records by choosing and Health are working a woman to be the first member of the under women and are British Administration. When the Con- doing it with complete servatives came back to power, they had content because their to do that as well as we did. chiefs are competent In 1929 this went further. Miss Mar- persons. The women garet Bondfield is today the Minister of are doing their share Labor. She is the first woman to be a in putting through the sworn member of the Privy Council. In House of Commons addition there are two women who are some of the biggest unpaid private secretaries to Ministers, and most difficult bills and Miss Susan Lawrence, under-secretary which the Labor Gov- to the Ministry of Health. ernment has introduced. It was Premier MacDonald, too, who sent a woman to the League of Nations in 1924. It was the first time a woman LN THE case had been a member of the British Dele- of the Unemployment gation. In 1929 and 1930 he sent two. Insurance Act, Mar- To that 1930 assembly women came garet Bondfield was representing their countries, from Great responsible for it. She Britain, Canada, Australia, Norway, Swe- was backed up in regard den, Denmark, Finland, Holland and to the Pensions and Hungary. Hungarian representative Housing Bill, The and every- Representative Ruth Bryan Owen of Florida, daughter of the was made chairman of one of the League one, I think, admits famous William Jennings Bryan and famous in her own right. Committees, and it was very well held by that in both cases the her. Lithuania, Roumania, Hungary work was done with they all sent delegates. Germany sent a complete efficiency and perfect control make their way sooner or later into the woman as technical expert. So far, you over the Parliamentary instrument. House of Commons. That is with us the will notice, the Latin countries have not I now come back to the question which royal road to effective citizenship. sent women to Geneva. I ventured in the beginning. Why is it From time to time, of course, you will Here, I think, is a complete answer to that women have been able to go further hear wails about political life not being the old-fashioned and timid-minded folk with politics with us than with you? I what it once was. People will talk loudly am assuming, of course, of their personal disillusion and will ask that I am right in you, "How can you stand it?" But al- thinking that they real- though we see lots of things in our life ly have done so, that and party organization that want altera- in politics, at any rate, tion, our notion in Britain about how to our women have gone make public life better, how to make ahead of yours. I Parliament more effective, and improve think the answer to things generally, is to take active part in this question is difficult. the political battle. If the decent people, I get the impression the people who see the faults and failings when I am in the States that, of course, exist. —if they keep out, that politics do not they fail, so we feel, in that duty. stand too high in pub- Women here are particularly strong. It lic estimation with you; is not only that they are priggish that, on the contrary, a (some of us are priggish and try to hide great many people who it) but we have an idea we have some- have a very keen pub- thing to contribute or feel sort of moral. feel that lic conscience, if I may We we ought to go in. to take our share of the rough tumble, call it that, keep out and take of active politics. Well, the rough with the smooth, and do what

it is not so with us. we can to make things better.

With us it is broadly true that any woman or man who wants to get a thing done and Women with us took dreams, seeks accord- longer to start going into polities and ing to the measure of prove themselves there than they did in his or her ability to the arts or professions, or medicine. In

help make those dreams business, of course. I admit we still lag come true. Anyone behind you. Just because Britain tends with that sort of idea, to put politics so high we expect greatly

I should think, feels of it.

the way to do it is to That women are out there in public

get it done. If they life, is counted, with us. as the present Representative Ruth B. Pratt of New York- -one example of w a n t to get their sign of the fact that the ideas the public-spirited woman whom Mrs. Hami Iton calls on us general to produce. dreams realized, they (Continued on page 10-J) 86

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Have You Read the Story about Mrs. Thompson — the Woman Who Never

Hurried? And If s Not a Fable Either!

By Frances Ingram

Consultant on the Care of the Skin Heard on NBC every Tuesday Morning

none of the conveniences He arrived in New York at the Penn- which are taken for sylvania Station. I met him there with granted today by the a taxi and dashed him across town to my women who write to me. apartment. All the way over I was on Mrs. Thompson managed a the edge of the seat, urging the taxi Frances Joyce of Earl Carroll Fame Refuses large house, eight step- driver to exercise more ingenuity in to Let Haste Rob Her of Her Beauty children, and later, two of getting through the traffic. I didn't her own—and not one of realize how much nervous energy I was MAY be true that there are less these ten children ever saw her with a expending or how foolish my attitude ITthan half a dozen people in the shiny nose, or a soiled or rumpled dress, was until after we had reached the apart- world who understand Einstein's or—and I think this is especially remark- ment and my father asked, "What do theory of relativity. I remember able—with her hair out of curl. And you have for me to do that it was so reading such a statement in one of the there were no permanent waves sixty or important to save those few minutes New York newspapers when Einstein seventy years ago, either! I do not coming across town?" Well, I had came to this country last December. I know of any woman in this generation nothing in particular for him to do and do not remember the names of the very who has as few comforts, as few con- I felt that his question was a just com- few people who were reputed to under- veniences, as few necessities, if you like, mentary on my silly striving for haste. stand the famous theory of time and as Mrs. Thompson had when she was Too often haste does not advance us space, but I do know that the women raising a family of ten in a dilapidated in our efforts nearly so fast as we like to who write to me have very curious theo- farm house. Yet Mrs. think it is doing. Con- ries of their own on the problem of time. Thompson always had Free booklets on the care of sider Lewis Carroll's "I haven't time to do the things which time for her appear- the Skin by Frances Ingram, will Alice in her hurried you suggest. I am busy every minute ance. be mailed to readers of Radio trip with the Red of the day and I have to hurry all the Another remarkable Digest. Send your request to Queen. You remem- time to do the necessary things of life. thing about this re- Miss Ingram, in care of Radio ber that the Red Queen I have no time to be attractive." So one markable old lady is Digest, 420 Lexington Avenue, and Alice were running woman wrote me recently, and so a great the fact that, accord- New York.—Editor. hand in hand and that many women seem to feel. If I were not ing to her children and it was all Alice could sorry for these women, I would be im- her grand-children, she was never in a do to keep up with the Queen who kept patient with them. For, of course, every hurry. And never being in a hurry, she crying, "Faster, faster," as they skimmed single one of them is going to suffer had time for everything worthwhile. through the air, hardly touching the from the high cost of haste. Haste has always made waste, of course, ground with their feet. Just as Alice was Strangely enough, lack of time is al- but perhaps never so much as in our thoroughly exhausted, they stopped and ways one of the results of the high cost modern civilization. We are all victims the Queen propped Alice up against a tree of haste. Women tell me that they have of haste. We hurry doing every one of —the same tree they had been under the no time to be attractive. They give the thousands of useless things that clut- whole time. For all their racing they had me long lists of reasons and I might be- ter up our lives. We hurry just as much not progressed a single step. lieve some of these reasons if I did not about non-essentials as we do about es- A good deal of our modern haste gets know Mrs. Thompson. sentials. Few of us have developed suf- us just as far as Alice's famous flight with Mrs. Thompson is ninety-two years ficient serenity to detach ourselves and the Red Queen—and not a step further. old. When she was a young girl, she to see things with a clear sense of values. Why do we hurry? We hurry because married a widower with eight children. This was brought home to me several we worry and worry arises from fear of They lived on a large farm and she had years ago when my father visited me. {Continued on page 103) — — — — — — —

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Out of the AIR Cash for Humor! TT WILL pay you to 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— incident ferred amusing and $1.00 for each amusing incident accepted and printed. It may be something planned as pari of the 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, Ratlin Digest.

VALENTINES OF A JOKE EDITOR time he wants to blow his nose. Ar- TONGUE TWISTER mando Govni, 222 Wiltow Ave., Joliet, — Driven to Desperation Say it fast: "Is this a zither" III. three times. you'll appreciate the To all those hen-track writin' blokes Now trouble a Columbia announcer had the Who expect me to read their rotten The telegram read: "Baby girl bom other afternoon. He tried three times jokes this morning. Both mother and daughter without success Mrs. Horace P. Look. All I can say is —I hope you croaks. doing well." And in the comer was a 412 W. nth St., Anderson. Ind. sticker which read: "When you want To punk entertainers who have a yen a boy, ring Western Union." Direct To see their names in print again male advertising? — Philadelphia Ledger. The tablewds fapol. to Winchell< Forging fan letters signed "Good W. Citizen" don't seem to get much gravy from WHAT MARRIAGE WILL DO TO Radio Stars. No murders, divorces, I soitenly hopes you land in the pen. ANNOUNCERS shooting matches —they don't seem to Robert Brown, WLW:—"The next agents. To ladies who think they "really can have such good press But number is one you will always remem- write" when it comes to the movies: ber. It is a number you will always Poems that tickle my ribs —I'm polite cherish —it will stay with you. The Phil Cook: "I see nearly all movie All that I wish you is poor appetite. title is 'Forgotten.' Perhaps Mr. actresses have long slender fingers. I Brown can be excused for that one, as suppose it comes from the wedding The very next fella' who thinks he can draw he had just been married a few evenings rings —slipping them on and off so before. Hull Bronson, 2220 Reading often." Carl Horn, 532 6'. Lime St., Cartoons that surely will make me — guffaw Road, Cincinnati, Ohio. Lancaster, Pa. An' shows me a bunch o' tripe —Haw Haw! I'll give him a smacker —right on the jaw! s Xio-c**

Ever since I can remember I have been receiving comic valentines —never did I get a lace-trimmed heart or even a pink heart-shaped peppermint with "I Love You" on it in purple ink. But this year I'm getting back at some of those smarties with some comics myself (see poem above — adv.). No funny pic- tures, but if I illustrated them the censor probably would revoke RADIO DIGESTS mailing privileges. But right here and now I want to tell all you contribs with regu- lar, honest-to-goodness funnybones not to pay no 'tention to my knocks—they're only for the sad guys.

SOCK ON THE NOSE Weener Minstrels on WENR: Gene: Say, Ray, is your brother hav- ing any trouble? Ray: Not lately, but one time he was a butcher in a butcher shop and while he was cutting some meat the knife slipped and cut off his toe and while he leaned down to get his toe he cut his nose off. Gene: What trouble does he have? Ray: When he picked up his toe and nose he was so excited he put his nose antique on his foot and his toe on his face ami Lady in shop: Can you show me something in an antique Radio, circa IQ21, with original cat's whiskers and crystal? now he has to take off his shoe every I —

POEM AND LAFFUSTRATIONS by in a rmmat wnb cam uHortotsynaT DON DICKERMAN (FROM THE WALLS OF THE BLUE HORSE NIGHT CLUB) He gets up in the morning and He starts a little Fight, And he doesn't stop Fighting till He goes to bed at Night.

They're very fond of Hunting and They wield a Wicked Spear, He looks like a Human with Killing oftentimes with Single Thrust A trick Head of Hair A herd of Twenty Deer. He runs around Naked and He roars liked a Bear.

The Men go to Market and They don't need any Dough. For they eat up One Another when The Food runs Low.

That's where the Jazz Originates, The Whiskey Fruit is full of Punch They play it Day and Night, The woods are full of Sprees, And where they sing the Dizzy Blues You'll find your Steamer Baskets And Shake the Shimmy Right. Growing right upon the Trees.

GOSSIP SHOP "You'll have to come and get your ABSURDITY money back," the usher firmly pro- visitors on a personally-con- Say, Indi-Gest, to kill some time Two claimed. ducted tour barged into the studio at I Thought I'd write a Jingle, "All right," was the answer, "but the other night just before On Radio celebrities, Columbia why'm'I bein' kicked out?" Seidel's concert was to begin. The Folks with whom I mingle. Toscha "You're drunk," said the usher. Only one person was in the room. "Of course I am," was the retort, "if I "This is where Toscha Seidel is going Ray Perkins hands me quite a laugh, wuz shober d'ya think I'd be at a con- broadcast, isn't it?" one of the guests Phil Cook is also funny, to shert?" asked. But count me out on Cheerio "Yeah, this is the joint," said the E'en though it cost me money. man in the room. "But take a tip from When George Beuchler, WABC staff me buddy: lay off of that program, it's So many bands have tried to ape announcer, takes time off between pro- a lot of dizzy classical stuff'" "B.A." Lombardo Vallee," grams to have dinner, he takes his stop- The speaker was Seidel himself! I wish someone would dump the bunch watch with him. Mr. Beuchler has In some deserted alley. learned to calculate to a second how much time will be occupied by each fan telegram I'd like to sing a line of praise Guy Lombardo got a dish. If you sit next to him at dinner, It For Pete and Aline Dixon, after his broadcast the other day. you hear him mumbling to himself: the Their "Raising Junior" is one act came from a neighbor living in same "Soup, two and a half minutes; salad, dial is always fixed-on. house with him. Here it is: three minutes; grilled steak, eleven My ." GUY LOMBARDO minutes . . ROOSEVELT HOTEL And here's three cheers for Arabesque, And Frontier Days are fair, NEW YORK CITY DIDN'T KNOW HIS OWN BIRTH- PLACE Then add a long huzzah! for Billy Jones and Ernie Hare. YOU SOUND MUCH BETTER The Mirthquakers, NBC:— OVER THE RADIO AT TEN "By the way, Brother Macey, where Whoa Indi-Gest, I'd better stop THAN OVER MY HEAD AT did you get that black eye?" FOUR PM While I still have my health OLIVE SMYTHE "That's a birth mark, Brother Brok- Before some reader throws a brick enshire." And ends my trek toward wealth. "A birth mark? What do you mean by that, Brother Macey?" Josef Hofmann, the famous pianist, "Well, Brother Brokenshire, I was STEW tells one on himself. It seems he was coming back from Chicago the other Indi-Gest assures you that "Stew" is. giving a concert and was disturbed by the night and I got into the wrong berth!" not the Old Soak. He is none other laughter and mumblings of a man in the — Haydon Peterson, 17 23-1 2th St., Des than Leonard Stewart Smith, popular third row front. Moines, la. Radio Digest author. — — — . —— —

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lives an dMtidL s\Qa\\£t am* noonmor

To hear a band of Hottentots A-Blattin at a Ball Would knock you for a Homer if You'd Anv Ear at All.

At futuristic Fainting they Are always at their Best, They'll slap it on your Ankle, or They'll Etch it on your Chest.

SLIPS THAT PASS THRU THE MIKE On November 30th, Mrs. Ruth Bryan I wish I were a Hottentot, Owen was introduced to us To see Life's Joys I've Striven, By John B. Kennedy on Collier's Hour thus: But those black birds enjoy it so, They Hardly know they're Livin'! (He placed the cart before the horse, And introduced her as) Mrs. Ruth Owen Bryan, of course. Mrs. M. J. Swan, 12 Northern Ave.. Northampton, Mass. CA USED B Y PATRIOTISM:— Winnipeg's CKY in Canada introduced an orchestra rendition of It Happened in Monterey with the solemn statement There are no Cops, no Courts or Jails, that the harmony boys would next play Nor Man-made Laws to Taunt-em, — It Happened in Montreal. J . P. Leith, There isn't any Income Tax, University Station, Grand Forks, N. D. Club Dues or Rent to Haunt-em. REPORTED FROM THE STU- DIO ITSELF:—WTIC in Hartford

1 ii 1 iJ made a mistake in switching programs one night. The announcer pushed the button which connects the Hartford What's the good of spending trillions "So?" said the merchant. station with the NBC Red network of dollars for wire-rights and buying While the tire was being put on, instead of the local studio. Upon hear- out a bunch of local Radio stations, if Burroughs, with his white whiskers, ing a strange voice discussing spiritual- this is all the impression NBC can leaned out of the car and said to the ism, he quickly pushed the right button make on the rising generation: — merchant, "Good mornin', sir." —but too late —here was the result of at a his mistake. WTIC Announcer: A little girl, a patient in our hospital, The merchant looked him with "Our next feature, the Travelers' Hour, wrote a letter to Phil Cook, addressed sarcastic grin and said: "If you try to is introduced Mr. Paul thus: tell me you're Santa Claus I'll crown by Lucas you with this wrench." Imp, Grosse (NBC: ) in a hypnotic trance." Mr. Phil Cook, N.B.C., — Isle, Mich. National Biscuit Company, LOWELL THOMAS MAKES A A KE. To quote him: —"A per- New York City. MIST son could go into a drug store and buy Some Cook, eh what? A. McCul- LAUGH, CLOWN, LAUGH either epizootic or asafetida." (In lough, R. N ., 43 So. 6th St., Easton, Pa. The Interwoven Pair: case you don't know it. epizootic is a A RADANECDOTE Billy Jones: Have you ever heard my disease peculiar to animals —why buy favorite piece, Lohengrin? it at all?) — Edith C. Woodbridge, 2417 Heard over WLW : — Several years ago Hare: Suiuiyside Ave, Chicago, III. Firestone, Edison, Ford and Burroughs Ernie No, but I've heard — Harold F. Baker, were touring through Cincinnati. A Minnehaha. 401 ANNOUNCER PUTS ON College Winjicld, Kans. light on their car went bad, and they Ave., RUDY VALLEE RECORD. We stopped at a little crossroad store. Mr. hear, "Click —scratch, scratch, scratch, click! Scratch, scratch, Ford went into the store. Now, isn't it a pity that Gigli, the scratch, click "What kind of automobile lights do tenor, doesn't say his name the way Silence. "Rudy Vallee is cracked!' piped young female voice. you have?" asked Ford. it looks, instead of in good old Italian, a Followed by, announcer: "With due apologies. "Edison," replied the merchant. "Zhili" (not a G in it) —so we could "I'll take one," said Ford. "And by have put him in that one. Well, now go the young huly says she was referring the way, you might be interested to ahead and get giggly over this one: — to the record!"- Edwin V. St. John, know that Mr. Edison is out in my car." 25 Whiting Ave Dcdham. Mass. "So?" said the merchant. Something for Everyone (CBS): NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH When the light was put in it was "I never thought I'd pull through. in this news broadcast from Will.

found that a new tire was needed, so First 1 got angina pectoris, followed by Announcer: "This large corporation has

Ford went back into the store and arteriosclerosis. Just as 1 was recov- been operating on a strictly profitet asked what kind of tires they had. ering, 1 got tuberculosis and aphasia." basis for twelve months a procedure "Firestone," was the reply. "Good heavens, you don't look much that has been eminently satisfactory "By the way, you may be interested the worse for it." but that has produced no profits to the

to know that Mr. Firestone is out there "I wasn't ill, you idiot! 1 was in a shareholders." lie didn't even correct in my car and I am Mr. Ford — Henry spelling bee." Florence Ilaist. Fox 15;. his mistake. — William II'. Sanders, Ford'." Lindenwold, N. J "Birchbrow," Haverhill. Mass. — — —A

90 RAH FOR HAPPY HOLLOW! HERE are a few lines I would very much like to see in print in V.O.L. But I know that what I write is never eligible for anything like that (No?—Editor). There is one station and especially one program here in the Middle West that I admire—KMBC, Kansas City, the Mo., and the program is "Happy Hollow", OlCe of written and presented under the direction of Ted M alone. Happy Hollow is the typical small town, with the general store, little red school, depot where a train comes through once a week, and man! I would rather keep my own mental Is it not essential, therefore, that for the everything else that makes a "one-horse" town. vision of him. How about the rest of the proper promotion of sales the wholesaler —The Pestication Pest (Marguerite), Hig- or "Circle"? distributor advertising the various products, ginsville, Mo. * * * Here's to Radio Digest—may it always be through the medium of the cookery talks, see to WE REFUSE TO PLEAD GUILTY as good as it is today.—Mrs. W. H. Stiles, it that recipe dictation is standardized as to Stone Harbor, N. J. time? Bessie A. Crotty, 1 Jacobus Place, New WAS first introduced to your excellent maga- York, N. Y. I zine with the September issue and now I come back for more every month. "Somebody HE STILL BELIEVES IN SANTA CLAUS or other", who stated in V.O.L. that most of YOUR December issue you have a very P. S.—NELLIE SAYS DON'T BROADCAST the news and articles in Radio Digest were IN interesting article about some of the Radio RECIPES AT ALL about Radio artists of the South and West is artists and what they want for Christmas. WISH some station or magazine would start crazy—at least as far as the West is concerned. Should Santy Claus make inquiries as to what I a movement to abolish recipes from the I haven't seen much as yet about the stations some of the listeners want, will you please tell Radio. Not one person in a thousand "gets a I usually listen to—especially about KFRC, him if we find an announcement, in our socks pencil and writes 'one teaspoonful salt, cup of my favorite station.—J. R., Sacramento, Cal. on Christmas morning, of Floyd Gibbons in his flour' " and the rest of the rubbish one is com- Not guilty this time. December, 1930, issue nightly broadcasts of news flashes, he will pelled to listen to regardless of how much one contained a story and pictures of the KFRC make the whole world happy. Thank you.— pays for a Radio. Blue Monday Jamboree—rotogravure section Listener, Dayton, Ohio. If it is boresome and nerve-racking for women this month displays a fine picture. Editor. to have to listen to a flock of uninteresting * * * recipes, how irritating and exasperating it must CHEERIO STILL ON NBC AND WDAF be to men. JIMMIE GREEN STORY COMING SOON AT 9:30 CENTRAL TIME, LITTLE If "Good English" supplanted the "Recipe a Jimmie Green fan, and wonder why he JACK LITTLE ON NBC AND AM programs" we might all profit with the time I isn't given the publicity in Radio Digest WREN 12:45 SUNDAY which is now wasted. that he rightly deserves. And Frankie Aquins, USED to get "Cheerio" through If we can't afford a cook, in this day and age, in WE one of the featured vocalists Jimmie's WDAF, Kansas City, but can't locate we eat in restaurants. PLEASE begin a move- orchestra, possesses the finest, and I think, the them now. Are they off the air? If not, what ment to eliminate "recipes" and replace them sweetest voice I have heard. I have listened to chain are they on and what station? with music or "Good English."—Nellie Mae of over and have both them WENR, WTMJ, Is Little Jack Little still on the air, and if so, Black, Miami, Florida. now followed them, via the Radio, of course, to from what stations does he broadcast?—B. R. WGY.—Lucille MacLeod, 5726 Erie Avenue, Coggeshall, Solomon, Kans. Hammond, Ind. GUESS YOURS IS "MINORITY OPINION" ON LITTLE JACK LITTLE—HE'S FOR RADIO CLUB FANS WHERE IS "APOSTOLIC CHURCH OF NOW ON NBC STARTED reading Radio Digest with the PENTECOST" BROADCASTING HAVE been reading your Radio Digest for 1040 I October issue and I find it to be the best OVER KILOCYCLE I some time and am interested in letters from Radio magazine I have ever seen. I especially STATION? your readers upon various phases of Radio enjoy reading the V.O.L. I have become ABOUT December 1st (9:00 o'clock moun- programs. I like to see friendly criticism but affiliated with two Radio clubs through reading . tain standard time) we heard a religious not daggers thrust at each other through the this column and I would like to join several service being broadcast from a station using magazine! I think each listener has a right to more. If anybody who reads this letter hap- a frequency of about 1040 kilocycles. KNX, his or her opinion, and to have likes and dis- pens to be at the head of any Radio club will Hollywood was on one side, while our local was likes. they please send me an application card and on the other side. Can any one tell me where Now I wonder just what readers think of any other information necessary to join.—Stan- this church is located? We would like to com- "Little Jack Little"? There has been a great municate with it. are sure it deal of discussion about and severe ley J. Fredrickson, 816 Macon Street, Brooklyn, We pretty was the him many N.Y. Apostolic Church of Pentecost. If possible, criticisms of his line of Radio broadcasts over we'd like to know the Evangelist's name, too. WLW. One may have a pretty accurate idea David Donaldson, 1355 McTavish Street, of the man from hearing him just once. As for ARNOLD'S letter gave me an idea. MR. Regina, Sask., Canada. me and all my family and many friends, he Why not publish the names of people could be left off the Radio entirely and not be who would like to interchange information on missed—much ! He is a natural born pianist I Radio reception and all the "whys" and RECIPE BROADCASTERS, PLEASE TALK believe, but if he would only play and not try "wherefores" of Radio? SLOWLY AND GIVE MRS. HOUSE- to talk or sing! I simply can't stand his style I would like to receive letters from listeners WIFE TIME TO WRITE of conceit and egotism and self esteem. about the distant stations they can get and the We like good poetry over the air but get little different programs their local stations have IS rather disheartening to a housewife who IT of it suitable for broadcasting. We like or anything about Radio! has listened intently to the discussion of a new "Tony's Scrap Book" now over the CBS, and I will gladly answer any letters. Mr. L. dish to find, after she has dashed around look- — J. Alice" over and so ing for a pencil "Buck and NBC, many Goulette, Route No. 2, Plummer, Idaho. and paper (and found them), others. fine pipe organ programs that the lady at the other end of the Radio The over * * * WGN, and other stations are connection is talking so fast that it is not WLW, WENR so good so are the School of the Air and Phil WANTS "CHEERIO" TO REMAIN possible to take down the recipe or instructions. — "Cheerio" over the big chains. INCOGNITO The speed at which the average cooking Cook and — I don't know what we would do without the ANSWER to Mrs. Servior Mitchell in the broadcaster delivers her recipes makes it quite IN Radio. I enjoy reading about the programs and December Digest, I want to disagree with difficult for many of the housewives to take different characters in the Radio Digest. It her about "Cheerio" taking the wrong attitude down all the information given in long hand. is fine! M. F. L. C, Indiana. in remaining "incog." Of course, the writer is taking into con- — When you hear a Radio artist every day for sideration that the time is limited in which the several years can't you just picture how he broadcaster is obliged to dictate her recipes, STATIONS LISTED ON looks? I can, and sometimes when I finally see but would it not be better if the dictator gave SEE MEXICAN his picture Oh! how disappointed and fewer recipes, enabling the housewife to make PAGE 96, RAYMOND Tampico, disillusioned I am. Imagine how many thou- a success of these, than to distribute many CAN you tell me what station in sands of folks have their own conception of recipes, which through lack of time allowed Tamps, Mexico, broadcasts on approxi- just how "Cheerio" looks,—and they can'l all are incompleted by the housewife and, as a mately the same wave as WJZ? (Probably you be right. So think what would happen if sud- consequence, unusable. mean XEM, Tampico—Editor). Also, what denly some paper came out with the picture Incompleted recipes for dishes which cooks Mexican station coming in between WTAM of a short fat man labeled "This is Cheerio" are anxious to serve means lost sales of ingredi- and WTIC sounds a cuckoo call during the and nine thousand nine hundred and ninety- ents comprising them, reacting against the program at intervals? (Probably XER, Mexico, nine people had pictured him as a tall thin manufacturer sponsoring the broadcast. D. P.).—Raymond Dessinger, Linwood, Kans. — — — — —

91 OH! IT'S a "Beauty Contest" now—well, I'll raise your two cents and have my say. Ugly features, unattractive and homely face (as Rudy's was called) never kept any good man down. How about Abraham Lincoln? And coming back to Radio, would you call Graham McNamee handsome?—Ruth Ram- istener say, Petersburg, 111. . . . Razz Rudy? .Not while I'm around. His musicians got their in- struments at some place other than the 25c to Si.00 store, as they certainly are not tin panny. —Mrs. R. Whaley, Detroit," Mich. ... To me he is a mythical knight, and Ins voice sends me Granted. GO 'WAY WID YER BLARNEY "Music soothes the savage breast." all a-twitter and a-twitch.— Yirtinia K. Hen- But a heavenly choir would fail to soothe us must have adopted M. Emile Coue's derson, St. Joseph, Mo V million i YOU during some of the long-winded and disjointed cult, as every day in every way your maga- in love with him? Why not? Hasn't a pi preambles to some of the programs. zine is growing better and better. I am sure who has gained a foothold for himself on the thinking sponsor will explain to anyone could get a greater kick out of a Mike Some day a ladder of fame some sort of right to expect ap- his announcer the Radio has and Herman program after looking at their wordy that plause? Hasn't his voice that certain some- brought out another phase in selling-psychol- pictures on page 67 of the October Radio thing that weaves romance— its' so—so—oh, ogy. He may call it appreciation it doesn't Digest. Hoping to hear more of your magic — what shall I sav?—J. M. Swanson, Ludington, matter; whatever he calls it, it is a sale made power, and wishing you all success.—Mr. and Mich. . . . extra - Mrs. Frank A. Jennings, Caro, Michigan. by his program in the way the tailor's Etc., etc., etc., from many, mam more, in care in the fitting of an altered coat brings the eluding M. E. Brown, Waterbury, Conn., Mr. man back for a new suit. R. M. Hubert, Cincinnati, Ohio . . . Valeria General Napier announced the capture of WOW! WHAT A BIG ORDER Bache . . . D. B. Morris, Huntington, L. I. Scinde and the end of a campaign by the one . . . and so on, and so on, ad infinitum. ENJOY Radio Digest very much. I would word, "peccavi"; meaning, I have sinned. O I like very much to see a write-up and pic- for the day when we shall hear, "This is Sta- tures of the WCAU announcers, and would tion BLAH Napier is your announcer." ONE VOTE FOR "JIMMIE" GREEN AND particularly like to see published pictures of "SOL" WAGNER Will the writer of this letter please commu- as many of the WCAU Children's Hour per- nicate Rudy. It really is amusing the way formers as you can secure. with the Editor? POOR Mrs. Johnson has all the Rudy Vallee fans will you permit me to talk about some- Now up in arms. To be perfectly frank I don't care thing I do not like in Radio Digest? I refer MORE WHAS PICTURES, PLEASE! for him myself. to the fiction. This feature seems to me out of The best orchestra in the country, in a regular reader of the Dices r my place in a Radio magazine. I believe it could AM Radio opinion, is "Jimmie" Green. If you haven't be used to better advantage in giving this space I and like it immensely. I have only one ob- heard him, well, you've missed a lot. to more Radio write-ups and pictures. jection—there are never pictures and write-ups I must not forget to mention artists And "Sol" If there ever was a write-up and pictures of on WHAS or announcers, where other Wagner. Tune in on WENR Chicago and if Mike and Herman and the Smith Family of stations have them two or three times a year. you're blue, you won't be for long.—"Tiny," Louie His Five of I hope we will hear a little about them soon. WENR and and Hungry Washington, Pa. Miss S. Glenn, Louisville, Ky. WGN in Radio Digest I missed it, if not, would like to see it. —Charles L. Anspach, See the picture and story about Jack Turner, Schuylkill Haven, Pa. pianist of WHAS on page 72 of this issue MORE VOTES FOR LOMBARDO AND other COON-SANDERS We've had 'em all with pictures, Charles. and pictures in the Sept. issue Editor. AM writing this in favor of Guy Lombardo Particularly—WCAU Kiddies on page 71 this * * * I and Coon-Sanders. I don't see how a per- issue, and Mike and Herman page 67, October. SPECIAL DEPARTMENT VOICE OF THE fectly good magazine like jours can harp so Check and double check on the fiction Editor. — "RUDY" LISTENER much on Rudy Vallee. Lombardo and Coon- Sanders have bands WE PUT it to a vote in the V.O.L. col- OH! THE POOR ANNOUNCER—HE IS umns—this question of the most popular that really work together to put over the whole BLAMED FOR WHAT MAY BE orchestra leader—we'll let you in to count the orchestration, not just a few pretty choruses of THE SPONSOR'S FAULT ballots—here they are: a good number. Guy Lombardo's band and Coon-Sanders' must rate far above Vallee be- THE public, have our favorite an- cause of their higher and more complicated WE,nouncers as well as our favorite stations. UNTIL I found your column in the magazine type of music. Warren Hanson, North- We are critical—we are super-critical—why I did not know the Radio listener was — J. supposed to have a voice. I thought we had to field, Minn. shouldn't we be when we are daily enjoying * * * twenty-four hours of free entertainment? take everything they wanted to hand us and seems to be so much discussion in Not one in ten thousand of us knows an an- not squawk. If you doubt this statement try to THERE the Voice of the Listener about Rudy Vallee nouncer by sight, but we know his voice and find a good program Sunday morning or after- Lombardo, I will have to "speak we form his picture for our mind's gallery from noon. I think that if they put Rudy Vallee on and Guy my the air afternoon, piece". The Royal Canadians have more it. We see a good-looking man, rather under Sunday even you ducks that are rhythm and individuality than any orchestra middle-age, in evening clothes. He is standing razzing him would welcome him with open I have ever heard. before a galaxy of entertainers in velvet and arms.—A. Curnow, Detroit, Mich. ... Is Of course, I know the men have been ac- jewels; he is the Master of Ceremonies, a per- the V.O.L. intended to be the humor depart- being jealous does sonage. ment? Whatever the intention, it has succeeded cused of of Rudy but that sound reasonable? If that were true, we would A good announcer helps a poor program. A in being the funniest spot in the magazine since jealous of the Lombardo too. All poor announcer hurts a good program. A good I have been reading it. These bombastics about be boys, Vallee three of them are good looking and I know of announcer, to our mind, is one who is not Rudy started by the eminent Mrs. John- no one that can imitate Carmen's singing. pedantic, who does not over-air his knowledge. son are the source of the amusement.— R. M. vote goes for the Lombardos. George 1'. We want our announcer to use good English Kenworthy, Chicago, 111. . . . I'll bet most of My — Kunze, U. S. Veteran's Hospital, Oteen, X. C. in a voice which is free from accent. We be- these people who do the "panning" listen to his lieve that he should use a few descriptive ad- programs. —Bca Trumble, Saginaw, Mich. . . . * * * jectives, but we do not want our announcer to I am always, like all other young people, will- ONE VOTE ISN'T ENOUGH FOR HIM stoop to cheap wit. We are fastidious. ing and anxious to read anything that -Mr. HE TAKES TEN We do not always turn to something else dur- Vallee writes.—Margaret M. Long, Chicago, TUTS is my arrangement of the ten best ing the advertising of the sponsor's wares. 111. . . . * * * orchestras. Johnny llamp. Earl Burtnett, There are only two reasons why we do not; Raul Whiteman, [sham Jones. Jack Denny, the first, we don't want to miss the beginning we studied WHEN about Rome in School, Ren Hemic. Gus Arnheim, George Olsen, of the program; the second, we are interested. we learned that Roman youths used to Wayne King, led Weems. — O. I. ]., M< The success of a station depends on how well take mud bath-- to make them more gorgeous Wis. the announcer holds our interest — will we ask (A tip for Rudy and these mud-slingei * * * for Cummer's Toothpaste when we stand Another "heigh-ho" fan. Grass Lake, Mich. before < IS the druggist's display ase? If the an- . . . He has worked very hard to put himself WHERE ROY INGRAHAM'S BAND? nouncer has told us in as many words as and his orchestra where they are today and If 1 were to name the live best orchl necessary (and no more) "(iuinmrr, the manu- deserves bit of every praise he receives. Conn- on the air I would mention — Coon-Sanders, facturer of the wonderful Cummer's Tooth- on, you Vallee fans, fifty-million of us can't be Guv Lombardo. Wayne King. Roy [ngraham paste which is so well recommended by all wrong.—Carlita M. Eialford, East Hartford, and Art Kasscl. dentists, has of ," the pleasure presenting Conn. . . . If some girls want to picture him 1!\ the way, can anyone tell me what has we shall ask for Cummer's Toothpaste. We as their dream lover, well isn't that their own happened to Roy [ngraham? We haven't can't help asking for it because the name, affair? Heaven knows it's harmless enough. heard him in this part oi the country, SUM "Cummer's" stands out. C. L., Augusta, Maine. . . . spring. -Geraldine Schuman, Milwaukee. Wis. 92 Scientific Progress

By Howard Edgar Rhodes, Technical Editor

Synchronization of Stations

next few years may see the Synchronization is a subject of that synchronization yields the following THEoperation of entire chains of broad- fundamental importance to advantages. casting stations on the same wave Radio listeners since it may have First, the entire country could be "spot- length if the proposed experi- veryfar reaching effects on broad- ted" with a number of high-powered mental operation of WTIC, Hartford, on casting. By means of synchroni- broadcasting stations so located as to sup- the same wave length as WEAF; and zation it is possible to operate on ply a good strong signal to all listeners. WBAL, Baltimore, on the same wave a single wave length any number Since all these stations would use the length as WJZ, proves successful. Nor- ofstations transmitting the same same wave length, there would be no in- mally if two stations located quite close program. Just what synchroni- terference between them. together are operated on the same wave zation is, and the effect it Second, listeners throughout the country length, serious interference is produced, will have, are described here could have available full time reception but if their operation is synchronized, it of chain programs. has been determined from experiments Third, reception would be improved, made by engineers of the NBC, no inter- since listeners now so located as to receive ference is created. In fact, it appears that a rather poor signal would, in most cases, the synchronized operation of two or more eral adoption of synchronized operation receive stronger signals under synchronized stations on the same wave length has the of chain stations probably require the re- operation. effect of improving reception for listeners allocation of broadcasting stations. Ob- Four, tuning in the chain program located midway between the two stations viously, the frequency assignments of a would be simplified since all the programs and normally receiving rather weak signals. large number of stations must be changed of a particular network would always be Such listeners will, when the stations are to make available a clear channel through- received at the same point on the tuning synchronized, receive a combined signal out the entire country on which a group dial of the Radio receiver. from both stations which will make the of synchronized stations could be operated. Synchronization will also result in the reception louder and decrease fading. The final set-up after the necessary release of a number of wave lengths now It is to test the practicability of syn- reallocation of stations, would be the as- used in the transmission of chain programs chronized operation under ordinary broad- signment of one wave length to each and these wave lengths could then be used casting conditions that the National Broad- chain and all the stations associated with to give additional programs to the lis- casting Company has requested permission a particular network would operate on tener. Channels would also be left open of the Federal Radio Commission to per- this common wave length. Whereas a if in the process of setting up a synchro- mit the operation of WTIC and WBAL group of thirty stations now require some nized network certain transmitters were on the same frequencies as WEAF and thirty different wave lengths, when syn- purchased, thereby possibly leaving open WJZ respectively. At present WTIC and chronized only one wave length would be the frequency assignments formerly used WBAL share time on 1060 kc. and oper- required, releasing the other twenty-nine by these stations. If this occurs (few ate on alternate days; when synchronized wave lengths for other programs. This seriously doubt the ultimate use of syn- both stations will be on the air full time. is an important advantage of synchroniza- chronization), and such frequencies are WBAL will operate half time on 1060 kc. tion; it makes more efficient our use of released, they should certainly be assigned and half time synchronized with WJZ on the limited number of broadcast channels. to organizations who can afford to erect 760 kc; WTIC will operate half time on Many of the chain broadcasting sta- and maintain high-powered stations, or- 1060 kc. and half time synchronized with tions are not in favor of synchronization, ganizations willing to spend time and WEAF on 660 kc. This synchronizing for as soon as they operate on a com- money to put good programs on the air. arrangement, giving both WBAL and WTIC mon wave length they lose their individ- full time broadcasting schedules, will ual identity. The chain broadcasting com- bring many new NBC features to the panies will therefore be compelled to pur- J.HE notes on synchroniza- listeners in Baltimore and Hartford areas. chase and operate their own stations or tion given on this page obviously carry Though these experiments prove en- to take full time leases on stations which the picture far into the future. Synchro- tirely successful it would not be possible can readily be changed over for synchro- nization must be brought about by evolu- to extend such operation to all the sta- nized operation. To buy new stations or tionary rather than revolutionary changes tions on the networks. For example, lease existing stations and change their in our present methods of broadcasting. KYW, Chicago, operating on 1020 kc, wave lengths involves the expenditure of Meanwhile if the proposed experiments now carries a number of NBC programs. millions of dollars. Synchronization, with- with WBAL and WTIC are successful But if this station were to be synchro- out doubt, is something that cannot be ac- there is no reason why such operation on nized with the key station, WJZ, on 760 complished over night. dual wave lengths cannot be applied to kc, serious interference would be pro- So far as the Radio listener is concerned, many other stations so located that such duced in Chicago because the synchro- what are the advantages of synchroniza- operation could be undertaken without nized operation of KYW on 760 kc. tion that would warrant the expenditure causing interference with stations on would place it too close to 770 kc. as- of millions of dollars? In what way does neighboring channels. In this manner signed to WBBM, Chicago. The only synchronization result in improved Radio many stations now operating part time conclusion one can reach is that the gen- reception for the listener? It seems to us will be enabled to operate full time. 93

of the Radio Arts

Latest Developments in Television

last few weeks of 1930 countries. When asked if he could tele- absorption of the Radio waves by steel THEbrought forth a number of im- vise an entire scene he replied in the af- structures. The shorter the wave length, portant developments in television. firmative. the more severe are such dead spots, al- During December an important With the closing weeks of 1930 there though they were not uncommon in the conference was held by all engineers work- was brought to light some data on experi- broadcast band, especially in the early ing on television problems. This confer- ments made by engineers of the National days of broadcasting before stations be- ence, called by the Federal Radio Commis- Broadcasting Company in the transmis- gan to use high power. sion and held in their offices at Washing- sion and reception of television images on Dr. Herbert E. Ives of the Bell Lab- ton, D. C, discussed various technical oratories, and one of the most prominent problems concerned with the experimental engineers associated with the art of tele- transmission of television programs. As a vision, has done considerable work on the result of the conference a number of as- transmission of television images in nat- signments were changed and the engineers ural color. Color transmission without adopted definite resolutions regarding the the use of extremely wide bands of fre- assignment of licenses and the setting aside quency has been perfected and color values of additional bands for further experi- in the case of ordinary black and white mental work. images have been improved. During the television conference, P. T. In the television demonstration given Farnsworth, associated with Television by Dr. Ives during the early part of 1930, Laboratories of California as its Technical the subject was illuminated with blue Director, somewhat startled his co- light and the photo-cells were of the type workers by stating that he had done some sensitive chiefly to light in the blue part successful work with 700 line television of the spectrum. Blue light was used, pictures and that by special processes and since the eye is comparatively insensitive tubes the transmission band required for to this color and the face of the person these pictures was no greater than that being televised can therefore be illumi- utilized by an ordinary broadcasting sta- nated with a very intense blue light with- tion in the transmission of voice and out causing the discomfort which would music. One of the major problems on be experienced if white lights of the same which the progress of television depends intensity were used. to a large extent is that it ordinarily re- quires the use of very wide bands of frequency and the transmission and recep- J. HE effect of using blue tion of these wide bands creates problems light, however, was to make the yellow difficult to overcome. and red tints of the skin too dark. In order to produce a more natural grada- tion in color values a purple light is now N

Needless to say everyone is looking for- short wave lengths. These tests were con- These notes on television make it ap- ward with much interest to this. ducted in the heart of New York City and parent that a tremendous amount of en-

Reports have reached the Department it was found that the Radio waves acted gineering thought is being devoted to the of Commerce of a successful demonstra- very much like light waves—being easily subject. What this year holds in store tion in Paris by M. Barthelemy, a well absorbed, reflected and refracted. In in the way of further television develop- known French experimenter, of a tele- other words they literally bounced around ments no one knows, but there is little vision device which works successfully on among the steel buildings in New York. doubt that tremendous advances will be an ordinary broadcast receiving set. A Reflected waves caused the television made. Farnsworth's revolutionary sys- report from the trade Commissioner in receivers to show two or even many images tem, about which no details have been Paris stated that figures were produced in instead of just one. We suppose thai in divulged, may prove to be practical and clear relief and in colors, the images were an extreme case a lone pretty girl doing television would then be "just around the not blurred and facial features were suf- ;: dance would look like a whole chorus! corner." Readers of Radio Digest may ficiently distinct to permit easy recognition With these short wave lengths many be sure that the editors of this magazine of individuals. It is understood that M. "dead spots" were found where little or will keep in dose touch with all television Barthelemy claims hio apparatus attains no signal could be received, these areas of developments and report them in these a perfection thus far not reached in other poor reception being due evidently to the pages, as rapidly as possible. 94 ^tations Alphabetically Listed

The following list has been correctedfrom latest issue of the official U. S. Federal Radio Commission bulletin in effect at the time of going to press {January 7, 1931).—Editor

KFQZ Hollywood, Calif. KGHF Pueblo, Colo. KOCW Chickasha, Okla. KTSL Shreveport, La. K 250 w.—860 kc. 250 w.—1320 kc—227.1 m. 250 w.— 1400 kc—214.2 m. 100 w.—1310 kc—228.9 m. KFRC. . . .San Francisco, Calif. KGHI Little Rock, Ark. 500 w. until local sunset KTSM El Paso, Texas KBTM Paragould, Ark. 1000 w.—610 kc—491.9 m. 100 w—1200 kc—249.9 m. KOH Reno, Nev. 100 w.—1310 kc—228.9 m. 100 w —1200 kc. KFRU Columbia, Mo. KGHL Billings, Mont. 100 w.—1370 kc—218.8 m. KTUE Houston, Texas KCRC Enid, Okla. 500 w.—630 kc—475.9 m. 500 w—950 kc—315.6 m. KOIL .... Council Bluffs, Iowa 100 w.—1420 kc—211.1 m. 100 w.—1370 kc—218.8 m. KFSD San Diego, Calif. KGIQ Twin Falls, Idaho 1000 w.—1260 kc—238 m. KTW Seattle, Wash. 250 w. until local sunset. 500 w.—600 kc—499. 7 m. 250 w.—1320 kc—227.1 m. KOIN Portland, Ore. 1000 w.—1270 kc—236.1 m. KCRJ Jerome, Ariz. 1000 w. until local sunset KGIR Butte, Mont. 1000 w.—940 kc—319 m. KUJ Longview, Wash. 100 w—1310 kc. KFSG Los Angeles, Calif. 250 w—1360 kc—220.4 m. KOL Seattle, Wash. 100 w—1500 kc—199.9 m. KDB. .. .Santa Barbara, Calif. 500 w.—1120 kc—267.7 m. KGIW Trinidad, Colo. 1000 w.— 1270 kc.—236.1 m. KUOA Fayetteville, Ark. 100 w.—1S00 kc—199.9 m. KFUL Galveston, Texas. 100 w.—1420 kc—211.1 m. KOMO Seattle, Wash. 1000 w—1390 kc—215.7 m. KDFN Casper, Wyo. 500 w.— 1290 kc—232.4 m. KGIX Las Vegas, Nev. 1000 w—920 kc—325.9 m. KUSD Vermillion, S. D. 100 w.—1210 kc—247.8 m. KFUM Colorado Springs, Colo. 100 w—1420 kc—211.1 m. KONO .... San Antonio, Texas 500 w—890 kc—336.9 m. KDKA Pittsburgh, Pa. 1000 w.— 1270 kc—236.1 m. KGJF Little Rock, Ark. 100 w— 1370 kc—218.8 m. 750 w. until local sunset 50,000 w.—980 kc—305.9 m. KFUO Clayton, Mo. 250 w—890 kc—336.9 m. KOOS Marshfield, Ore. KUT Austin, Texas KDLR Devils Lake, N. D. 1000 w.—550 kc—545.1 m. KGKB Brownwood, Texas 100 w—1370 kc—218.8 m. 500 w.—1120 kc—199.9 m. 100 w—1210 kc—247.8 m. KFUP Denver, Colo. 100 w.— 1500 kc— 199.9 m. KORE Eugene, Ore. KVI Tacoma, Wash. 100 w—1310 kc—228.9 m. KGKL San Angelo, Texas 100 w.—1420 kc—211.1 m. 1000 w.—760 kc—394.5 m. KDYL. . .Salt Lake City, Utah 1000 w.— 1290 kc.—232.6 m. KFVD Culver City, Calif. 100 w.— 1370 kc—218.8 m. KOY Phoenix, Ariz. KVL Seattle, Wash. KECA Los Angeles, Calif. 250 w.—750 kc—299.8 m. KGKO . . . Wichita Falls, Texas 500 w.—1390 kc—215.7 m. 100 w.—1370 kc—218.8 m. 1000 w—1000 kc—209.7 m. KFVS. . . .Cape Girardeau, Mo. 250 w—570 kc—526 m. KFCB Seattle, Wash. KVOA Tucson, Ariz. 100 1210 247.8 KEJK Beverly Hills, Calif. w.— kc— m. 500 w. until local sunset 100 w.—650 kc—421.3 m. 500 w.—1260 kc—238 m. 500 w—1170 kc. KFWB Hollywood, Calif. KGKX Sandpoint, Idaho KPJM Prescott, Ariz. KVOO Tulsa, Okla. KELW Burbank, Calif. 1000 w—950 kc—315.6 m. 100 w.—1420 kc—211.1 m. 100 w.— 1500 kc— 199.9 m. 5000 w—1140 kc.—263 m. 500 w—780 kc—384.4 m. KFWF St. Louis, Mo. KGKY Scottsbluff, Nebr. KPO San Francisco, Calif. KVOS Bellingham, Wash. KEX Portland, Ore. 100 w—1200 kc—249.9 m. 100 w— 1500 kc— 199.9 m. 5000 w.—680 kc—440.9 m. 100 w—1200 kc—249.9 m. 5000 w.— 1180 kc—254.1 m. KFWI. . . .San Francisco, Calif. KGMB Honolulu, Hawaii KPOF Denver, Colo. KWCR .... Cedar Rapids, Iowa KFAB Lincoln, Nebr. 500 w.—930 kc—322.4 m. 500 w.— 1320 kc—227.1 m. 500 w.—880 kc—340.7 m. 100 w.— 1310 kc—228.9 m. 5000 w—770 kc—389.4 m. KFWM Richmond, Calif. KGMP Elk City, Okla. KPRC Houston, Texas KWEA Shreveport, La. KFBB Great Falls, Mont. 500 w.—930 kc. 100 w.— 1210 kc—247.8 m. 1000 w—920 kc—325.9 m. 100 w.—1210 kc—247.8 m. 500 w—1280 kc—234.2 m. 1000 w. until local sunset KGNF.. . .North Platte, Nebr. 2500 w. until local sunset KWG Stockton, Calif. KFBK Sacramento, Calif. KFXF Denver, Col. 500 w— 1430 kc—211.1 m. KPSN Pasadena, Calif. 100 w.—1200 kc—249.9 m. 100 w— 1310 kc—228.9 m. 500 w.—940 kc—325.9 m. KGNO Dodge City, Kans. 1000 w.—950 kc—220.4 m. KWJJ Portland, Ore. KFDM Beaumont, Texas KFXM . .San Bernardino, Calif. 100 w— 1210 kc—247.8 m. KPWF Los Angeles, Calif. 500 w.—1060 kc—282.8 m. 1000 w.—560 kc—535.4 m. 100 w.— 1210 kc—247.8 m. KGO San Francisco, Calif. 10,000 w— 1490 kc—201.6 m. KWK St. Louis, Mo. City, Okla. KFDY Brookings, S. D. KFXR. .Oklahoma 7500 w— 790 kc—379.5 m. KQV Pittsburgh, Pa. 1000 w.—1350 kc—222.1 m. 1000 w.—550 kc—545.1 m. 100 w —1310 kc—228.9 m. KGRC San Antonio, Texas 500 w.— 1380 kc—212.3 m. KWKC Kansas City, Mo. KFEL Denver, Colo. KFXY Flagstaff, Ariz. 100 w—1370 kc. KQW San Jose, Calif. 100 w.—1370 kc.—218.8 m. 500 w —940 kc—325.9 m. 100 w.—1420 kc—211.1 m. KGRS Amarillo, Texas 500 w.— 1010 kc—296.9 m. KWKH Shreveport, La. KFEQ St. Joseph. Mo. KFYO Abilene, Texas 1000 w.— 1410 kc—212.6 m. KRE Berkeley, Calif. 10,000 w—850 kc—352.7 m. 2500 w.—560 kc—440.9 m. 100 w—1420 kc—211.1 m. KGU Honolulu, Hawaii 100 w— 1370 kc—218.8 m. KWLC Decorah, Iowa KFGQ Boone, Iowa. 250 w. until local sunset 1000 w—940 kc—319 m. KREG Santa Ana, Calif. 100 w.—1270 kc—236.1 m. 100 w.—1310 kc—228.9 m. KFYR Bismarck, N. D. KGW Portland, Ore. 100 w.— 1500 kc—199.9 m. KWSC Pullman, Wash. KFH Wichita, Kans. 500 w.—550 kc—545 m. 1000 w—620 kc—483.6 m. KREP Phoenix, Ariz. 2500 w—1390 kc—245.8 m. A Spokane, Wash. 500 w —1300 kc—230.6 m. KG KHJ Los Angeles, Calif. 1000 w.—620 kc. KWWG.. . .Brownsville, Texas KFI Los Angeles, Calif. 5000 w— 1470 kc—204 m. 1000 w—900 kc—333.1 m. KRGV Harlingen, Texas 500 w.—1260 kc—238 m. 5000 w.—640 kc—468.5 m. KGAR Tucson, Ariz. KHQ Spokane, Wash. 500 w.—1260 kc—238 m. KXA Seattle, Wash. KFIF Portland, Ore. 250 w— 1370 kc—218.8 m. 1000 w.—590 kc—508.2 m. KRLD Dallas, Texas 500 w.—570 kc—526 m. 100 w.— 1420 kc—211.1 m. KGB San Diego, Calif. KICK Red Oak, Iowa 10,000 w— 1040 kc—288.3 m. KXL Portland, Ore. KFIO Spokane, Wash. 250 w— 1360 kc—225.4 m. 100 w — 1420 kc—211.1 m. KROW Oakland, Calif. 100 w—1420 kc—211.1 m. 100 w — 1230 kc—267.7 m. KGBU Ketchikan, Alaska KID Idaho Falls, Idaho 1000 w—930 kc—322.4 m. KXO El Centre Calif. KFIZ Fond du Lac, Wis. 500 w—900 kc—333.1 m. 500 w— 1320 kc—227.1 m. KSAC Manhattan, Kans. 100 w.—1200 kc—249.9 m. 100 w —1420 kc—211.1 m. KGBX St. Joseph, Mo. KIDO Boise, Idaho 500 w—580 kc—516.9 m. KYA San Francisco, Calif. KFJB .... Marshalltown, Iowa. 100 w.—1370 kc—228.9 m. 1000 w—1250 kc—239.9 m. 1000 w. until local sunset 1000 w—1230 kc—243.8 m. 250 w.— 1200 kc—249.9 m. KGBZ York, Nebr. KJBS .... San Francisco, Calif. KSAT Birdville, Texas KYW Chicago, 111. 500 w—930 kc—322.4 m. 100 1070 kc—280.2 m. kc. 10,000 1020 293.9 KFJF. . . Oklahoma City, Okla. w— 1000 w —1250 w.— kc— m. 5000 w.—1470 kc—202.6 m. 1000 w. until local sunset KJR Seattle, Wash. KSCJ Sioux City, Iowa. KYWA Chicago, 111. KFJI Astoria, Ore. KGCI San Antonio, Texas 5000 w.—970 kc—309.1 m. 1000 w.—1330 kc—225.4 m. 500 w—1620 kc. 100 w.— 1370 kc—218.8 m. 100 w— 1370 kc—218.8 m. KLO Ogden, Utah KSD St. Louis, Mo. KZM Haywood, Calif. Watertown, S. D. 100 KFJM. .. .Grand Forks, N. D. KGCR w.— 1370 kc—214.2 m. 500 w.—550 kc—545.1 m. 100 w.—1370 kc—218.8 m. 100 w.—1370 kc—218.8 m. 100 w— 1210 kc—247.8 m. 200 w. until local sunset KSEI Pocatello, Idaho KFJR Portland, Ore. KGCU Mandan, N. D. KLPM Minot, N. D. 250 w.—900 kc—333.1 m. 500 w.— 1300 kc—230.6 m. 100 w.— 1200 kc—249.9 m. 100 w— 1420 kc—211.1 m. KSL Salt Lake City, Utah KFJY Fort Dodge, Iowa. KGCX Wolf Point, Mont. KLRA Little Rock, Ark. 5000 w — 1130 kc—265.3 m. w 100 1310 kc—228.9 m. 1000 1390 . 100 w—1310 kc—228.9 m. w— w.— kc—215.7 m. KSMR. . . Santa Maria, Calif. KFJZ Fort Worth, Texas 250 w. until local sunset KLS Oakland, Calif. 100 w— 1200 kc—249.9 m. WAAF Chicago, 111 100 w— 1370 kc—218.8 m. KGDA Mitchell, S.D. 250 w.—1440 kc—208.2 m. KSO Clarinda, Iowa 500 w—920 kc—325.9 m. KFKA Greelev, Colo. 100 w— 1370 kc—218.8 m. KLX Oakland, Calif. 500 w— 1380 kc—217.3 m. WAAM Newark, N. J 500 w.—880 kc. —340.7 m. KGDE Fergus Falls, Minn. 500 w.—880 kc—340.7 m. KSOO Sioux Falls, S. D. 1000 w.— 12S0 kc—239.9 m. 1000 w. until local sunset 250 w— 1200 kc— 249.9 m. KLZ Denver, Colo. 2000 w.—1110 kc—270.1 m. 2000 w. until local sunset KFKB Milford, Kans. KGDM Stockton, Calif. 1000 w.—560 kc—535.4 m. KSTP St. Paul, Minn. WAAT Jersey City, N. J 5000 w.—1050 kc—285.5 m. 250 w — 1100 kc—272.6 m. KMA Shenandoah, Iowa 10.000 w— 1460 kc—205.4 m. 300 w—1070 kc—319 m. KFKU Lawrence, Kans. KGEF Los Angeles, Calif. 1000 w.—930 kc—322.4 m. KTAB Oakland, Calif. WAAW Omaha, Nebr. 1000 w— 1220 kc—245.8 m. 1000 w— 1300 kc—230.6 m. KMBC Kansas City, Mo. 1000 w—560 kc—535.4 m. 500 w.—660 kc—454.3 m. Long Beach, Calif. KFKX Chicago, 111. KGER 1000 w—950 kc—315.6 m. KTAP San Antonio, Texas WABC New York City 10,000 w— 1020 kc—293.9 m. 100 w— 1370 kc—220.4 m. 2500 w. until local sunset 100 w—1420 kc—211.1 m. 5000 w.—860 kc.—348.6 m. KGEW . . Fort Morgan, Colo. Bangor, KFLV Rockford, 111. KMIC Inglewood, Calif. KTAR Phoeniz, Ariz. WABI Me. 100 w.— 1200 kc—249.9 m. 500 w—1410 kc—212.6 m. 500 w.— 1120 kc—267.7 m. 1000 w.—620 kc—483.6 m. 100 w—1200 kc—249.9 m. Galveston, Texas. KGEZ Kalispell, Mont. KTAT Fort Worth, Texas WABZ New Orleans, La. KFLX KMJ Fresno, Calif. 100 1370 218.8 m. 100 w— 1310 kc—228.9 m. 1000 1240 241.8 m. 100 1200 kc—249.9 m. w— kc— 100 w.— 1210 kc—247.8 m. w— kc— w— KFMX Northfield, Minn. KGFF Alva, Okla. KTBI Los Angeles, Calif. WACO Waco, Texas .... Clay Center, 1000 w.— 1250 kc—239.9 m. 100 w— 1420 kc—211.1 m. KMMJ Nebr. 750 w.—1300 kc—230.6 m. 1000 w.—1240 kc—241.8 m. 1000 740 405.2 m. KFNF Shenandoah, Iowa KGFG. Oklahoma City, Okla. w.— kc— KTBR Portland. Ore. WADC Tallmadge, Ohio 500 w.—890 kc—336.9 m. 100 w— 1370 kc—218.8 m. KMO Tacoma, Wash. 500 w.— 1300 kc—230.6 m. 1000 w—1320 kc—227.1 m. 500 1340 348.6 1000 w. until local sunset KGFI. . .Corpus Christi, Texas w— kc— m. KTBS Shreveport, La. WAIU Columbus, Ohio KFOR Lincoln, Nebr. 100 w—1500 kc— 199.9 m. KMOX St. Louis, Mo. 1000 w.— 1450 kc—206.8 m. 500 w—640 kc—468.5 m. 100 w— 1210 kc—247.8 m. KGFJ Los Angeles, Calif. 5000 w.— 1090 kc—275.1 m. KTHS.. .Hot Springs National WALR Zanesville, Ohio 250 w. until local sunset 100 w.— 1420 kc—249.9 m. KM PC .... Beverly Hills, Calif. Park, Ark. 100 w—1210 kc—247.8 m. KFOX Long Beach, Calif. KGFW Ravenna, Nebr. 500 w—710 kc—422.3 m. 10,000 w.— 1040 kc—288.3 m. WAPI Birmingham, Ala. 1000 1250 239.9 5000 1140 kc—263.7 m. w.— kc— m. 100 w.— 1310 kc—228.9 m. KMTR Los Angeles, Calif. KTLC Houston, Texas w— KFPL Dublin, Texas 100 w.—1310 kc—228.9 m. WASH... Grand Rapids, Mich. KGFX Pierre, S. D. 500 w.—570 kc. —526 m. 100 w— 1310 kc—228.9 m. KTM Los Angeles, Calif. 500 w—1270 kc—236.1 m. 200 580 kc—516.9 m. KNX Hollywood, Calif. KFPY Spokane, Wash. w— 1000 780 kc—384.4 m. WBAA W. Lafayette. Ind. 5000 1050 285.5 w.— . . . kc— m. 500 w.— 1340 kc—223.7 m. KGGC San Francisco, Calif. w— KTNT Muscatine, Iowa 500 w— 1400 kc—214.2 m. 1420 211.1 m. Denver, KFQD Anchorage, Alaska. 100 w.— kc— KOA Colo. 5000 w—1170 kc—256.3 m. WBAK Harrisburg, Pa. 100 w.— 1230 kc—243.8 m. KGGF.South Coffeyville, Okla. 12.500 w.—830 kc—361.2 m. KTRH Houston, Texas 500 w—1430 kc.—209.7 m. KFQU Holy City, Calif. 500 w. — 1010 kc—296.9 m. KOAC Corvallis, Ore. 500 w.— 1120 kc—267.7 m. WBAL Baltimore, Md. 1000 550 kc—545.1 m. 100 w.— 1420 kc—211.1 m. KGGM. . .Albuquerque, N. M. w— KTSA San Antonio, Texas 10,000 w.—1060 kc.—282.8 m. College, Worth, Texas KFQW Seattle, Wash. i 250 w.—1230 kc—243.8 m. KOB State N. M. 1000 w.— 1290 kc—232.6 m. WBAP Fort 100 w— 1420 kc—211.1 m. ' 500 w. until local sunset 20,000 w.— 1180 kc—254.1 m. 2000 w. until local sunset 10,000 w.—800 kc—374.8 m. 95

WBAX Wilkes-Barre. Pa. WDBJ Roanoke, Va. WGN Chicago, 111. WJBL Decatur, 111. WMBD Peoria Hts., 111. 100 w.—1210 kc—247.8 m. 250 w.—930 kc—322.4 m. 25,000 w.—720 kc—416,4 m. 100 w—1200 kc—249.9 m. 500 w—1440 kc—208.2 m. WBBC Brooklyn, N. Y. 500 w. until local sunset WGR Buffalo, N. Y. WJBO New Orleans, La. 1000 w. until local sunset 500 w.—1400 kc—214.2 m. WDBO Orlando, Fla. 1000 w.—550 kc—545.1 m. 100 w.—1420 kc—211.1 m. WMBF Miami Beach. Fla. WBBL Richmond, Va. 1000 w.—620 kc—267.7 m. WGST Atlanta, Ga. WJBT-WBBM. .Glenview, 111. 1000 w.— 1300 kc—230.6 m. 100 w.—1370 kc—247.8 m. WDEL Wilmington, Del. 500 w.—890 kc—356.9 m. 25,000 w.—770 kc—389.4 m. WMBG Richmond, Va. WBBM Chicago, 111. 250 w— 1 120 kc—267.7. m. WGY Schenectady, N. Y. WJBU Lewisburg, Pa. 100 w.— 1210 kc—247.8 m. 25,000 w.—770 kc—389.4 m. 350 w. until local sunset 50,000 w.—790 kc—379.5 m. 100 w.— 1210 kc—247.8 m. WMBH Joplin, Mo. WBBR Brooklyn, N. Y. WDGY .... Minneapolis, Minn. WHA Madison, Wis. WJDX Jackson, Miss. 100 w.— 1420 kc—211.1 m. 1000 w.—1300 kc.—230.6 m. 1000 w.— 1180 kc—254.1 m. 750 w.—940 kc—319 m. 1000 w.—1270 kc—236.1 m. 250 w. until local sunset 111. WBBZ Ponca City, Okla. WDOD. . .Chattanooga, Tenn. WHAD Milwaukee, Wis. WJJD Mooseheart, WMBI Chicago, 111. 100 w.—1200 kc—249.9 m. 2500 w.—1280 kc—234.2 m. 250 w.— 1120 kc—267.7 m. 20,000 w.— 1130 kc—265.3 m. 5000 w.— 1080 kc—277.6 m. WBEN Buffalo, NY. WDRC Hartford, Conn. WHAM Rochester, N. Y. WJKS Gary, Ind. WMBJ Wilkinsburg. Pa. 333.1 500 1330 kc—226 m. 5000 1150 260.7 500 1360 kc—220.4 m. 100 w.— 1500 kc— 199.9 m. 1000 w—900 kc— m . w— w.— kc— m. w— WBCM Bay City, Mich. WDSU New Orleans, La. WHAP New York City 1250 w. until local sunset WMBO Auburn. N. Y. 500 w —1410 kc—212.6 m. 1000 w.—1250 kc—239.9 m. 1000 w.— 1300 kc—230.6 m. WJR Detroit, Mich. 100 w.— 1370 kc—228.9 m. WBIS Quincy, Mass. WDWF Providence, R. I. WHAS Louisville, Ky. 5000 w—750 kc—399.8 m. WMBQ Brooklyn, N. Y. 1000 w—1230 kc—243.8 m. 100 w.— 1210 kc—247.8 m. 10,000 w.—820 kc—365.6 m. WJSV.. . Mt. Vernon Hills, Va. 100 w — 1500 kc— 199.9 m. WBMS Hackensack, N. J. WDZ Tuscola, 111. WHAT Philadelphia, Pa. 10,000 w— 1460 kc—205.4 m. WMBR Tampa. Fla. 250 w — 1450 kc—206.8 m. 100 w.— 1070 kc—280.2 m. 100 w.— 1310 kc—228.9 m. WJW Mansfield, Ohio 100 w.— 1210 kc—218.8 m. WBNY New York, N. Y. WEAF New York, N. Y. WHAZ Troy, N. Y. 100 w.—1210 kc—247.8 m. WMC Memphis. Tenn. 250 w— 1350 kc—222.1 m. 50,000 w—660 kc—454.3 m. 500 w. — 1300 kc.—230.6 m. WJZ New York City 500 w.—780 kc—384.4 m. WBOQ New York, N. Y. WEAI Ithaca, N. Y. WHB Kansas City, Mo. 30,000 w.—760 kc—394.5 m. 1000 w. until local sunset 50,000 w.—860 kc—348.6 m. 1000 w.—1270 kc—236.1 m. 500 w—950 kc—348.6 m. WKAQ San Juan, P. R. WMCA New York City WBOW Terre Haute, Ind. WEAN Providence, R. I. WHBD Mt. Orab, Ohio 500 w—890 kc—336.9 m. 500 w.—570 kc—526 m. 100 w— 1310 kc—228.9 m. 250 w—780 kc—384.4 m. 100 w —1370 kc—218.8 m. WKAR E. Lansing, Mich. WMMN.. . Fairmont. W. Va. WBRC Birmingham. Ala. 500 w. until local sunset WHBF Rock Island, 111. 1000 w—1040 kc—288.3 m. 250 w—890 kc—336.9 m. 500 w.—930 kc—322.4 m. WEAO Columbus, Ohio 100 w.— 1210 kc—247.8 m. WKAV Laconia. N. H. 500 w. until local sunset 1000 w. until local sunset 750 w.—570 kc—526 m. WHBL Sheboygan, Wis. 100 w— 1310 kc—228.9 m. WMPC Lapeer. Mich. WBRE Wilkes-Barre, Pa. WEAR Cleveland, Ohio 500 w.— 1410 kc—212.6 m. WKBB Joliet. 111. 100 w.— 1500 kc— 199.9 m. 100 w —1310 kc—228.9 m. 1000 w— 1070 kc. WHBQ Memphis, Tenn. 100 w— 1310 kc—228.9 m. WMSG New York. N. Y. WBRL Tilton, N. H. WEBC Superior, Wis. 100 w.— 1370 kc—218.8 m. WKBC Birmingham, Ala. 250 w.— 1350 kc—222.1 m. 500 w—1430 kc. 2500 w.— 1290 kc—232.4 m. WHBU Anderson, Ind. 100 w—1310 kc—228.9 m. WMT Waterloo, Iowa

. w. WBSO . Wellesley Hills, Mass. WEBE Cambridge, Ohio 100 w.— 1210 kc—247.8 m. WKBF Indianapolis, Ind. 500 —600 kc. —499.7 m. 500 w—920 kc—325.9 m. 100 w— 1210 kc. WHBY Green Bay, Wis. 500 w—1400 kc—214.2 m. WNAC Boston, Mass. WBT Charlotte, N..C. WEBQ Harrisburg, 111. 100 w— 1200 kc—249.9 m. WKBH La Crosse, Wis. 1000 w.—1230 kc—243.8 m. 5000 w —1080 kc—277.6 m. 100 w.— 1210 kc—247.8 m. WHDF Calumet, Mich. 1000 w.—1380 kc—217.3 m. WNAD Norman, Okla. WBTM Danville, Va. WEBR Buffalo, N. Y. 250 w.— 1370 kc—218.8 m. WKBN Youngstown, Ohio 500 w.— 1010 kc—269.9 m. 100 w—1370 kc—218.8 m. 100 w.— 1310 kc—228.9 m. WHDH Boston, Mass. 500 w.—570 kc. —526 m. WNAT Philadelphia. Pa. WBZ Springfield, Mass. 200 w. until local sunset 1000 w—830 kc—361.2 m. WKBO Jersey City, N. J. 100 w—1310 kc 15.000 w—990 kc—302.8 m. WEBW Beloit, Wis. WHDI .... Minneapolis, Minn. 250 w.—1450 kc—206.8 m. WNAX Yankton. S. Dak. WBZA Boston, Mass. 350 w.—600 kc. 500 w— 1180 kc—254.1 m. WKBQ New York, N. Y. 1000 w—570 kc—526 m. 500 w.—990 kc—302.8 m. WEDC Chicago. 111. WHEC Rochester. N. Y. 250 w.—1350 kc—222.1 m. WNBF. . . . Binghamton. N. Y. WCAC Storrs, Conn. 100 w —1210 kc—247.8 m. 500 w— 1440 kc—208.2 m. WKBS Galesburg. 111. 100 w.—1500 kc— 199.9 m. 250 w.—600 kc—500 m. WEEI Boston, Mass. WHFC Cicero, 111. 100 w— 1310 kc—228.9 m. WNBH...Xew Bedford, Mass. WCAD Canton, N.Y. 1000 w.—590 kc—508.2 m. 100 w—1310 kc—211.1m. WKBV Connersville, Ind. 100 w.— 1310 kc—228.9 m. 500 w.—1220 kc—245.8 m. WEHC Emory, Va. WHIS Bluefield, W. Va. 100 w.— 1500 kc—199.9 m. WNBO Silver Haven, Pa. WCAE Pittsburgh, Pa. 100 w —1370 kc—249.9 m. 100 w— 1420 kc—211.1 m. 150 w. until local sunset 100 w.—1200 kc—249.9 m. 1000 w— 1220 kc—245.8 m. WEHS Evanston. 111. WHK Cleveland, Ohio WKBW Buffalo, N. Y. WNBR Memphis. Tenn. WCAH Columbus, Ohio 100 w.—1310 kc—211.1 m. 1000 w.— 1390 kc—215 m. 5000 w—1480 kc—202.6 m. 500 w —1430 kc—209.7 m. 500 w—1430 kc—209.7 m. WELK Philadelphia, Pa. WHN New York, N. Y. WKEN Buffalo, N. Y. WNJ Newark, X.J. WCAJ Lincoln, Nebr. 250 w.— 1370 kc—218.8 m. 250 w.— 1010 kc—296.9 m. 1000 w.—1040 kc. 250 w—1450 kc—206.8 m. 500 w.—590 kc—508.2 m. WEM C.Berrien Springs, Mich. WHO Des Moines, la. WKJC Lancaster, Pa. WNOX Knoxville. Tenn. WCAL Northfield, Minn. 1000 w.—590 kc—508.2 m. 5000 w—1000 kc.—299.8 m. 100 w.— 1200 kc— 249.9 m. 2000 w.—560 kc—535.4 m. 1000 w— 1250 kc—239.9 m. WENR Chicago, 111. WHOM Jersey City, N. J. WKRC Cincinnati, Ohio WXRC Greensboro, X. C. WCAM Camden, N. J. 50,000 w —870 kc—344.5 m. 250 w—1450 kc—206.8 m. 1000 w—550 kc—545.1 m. 250 w.—1440 kc—208.2 m. 500 w—1280 kc—234.2 m. WEPS Auburn, Mass. WHP Harrisburg, Pa. WKY. . . Oklahoma City, Okla. WNYC New York, N. Y. WCAO Baltimore, Md. 100 w.— 1200 kc—249.9 m. 500 w—1430 kc—209.7 m. 1000 w.—900 kc—333.1 m. 500 w —570 kc.—526 m. 250 w.—600 kc—499.7 m. WEVD New York City WIAS Ottumwa, Iowa WLAC Nashville. Tenn. WOAI San Antonio, Tex. WCAP Asbury Park, N. J. 500 w.—1300 kc—230.6 m. 100 w.— 1420 kc—211.1 m. 5000 w.—1490 kc—204 m. 5000 w.— 1190 kc—252 m. 500 w— 1280 kc—234.2 m. WEW St. Louis. Mo. WIBA Madison, Wis. WLB Minneapolis, Minn. WOAX Whitehaven. Tenn. WCAT Rapid City, S. D. 1000 w.— 760 kc—394.5 m. 100 w.— 1210 kc—234.2 m. 1000 w— 1250 kc—239.9 m. 1000 w.—600 kc. —499.7 m. 100 w—1200 kc—249.9 m. WFAA Dallas, Texas WIBG Ellans Park, Pa. WLBF. .. .Kansas City, Kans. WOAX Trenton. X. J. WCAU Philadelphia, Pa. 50,000 w —800 kc—374.8 m. 50 w.—930 kc. 100 w— 1420 kc—211.1 m. 500 w.— 1280 kc—234.2 m. 10,000 w.—1170 kc—256.3 m. WFAN Philadelphia. Pa. WIBM Jackson, Mich. WLBG Petersburg, Va. WOBT Union City, Tenn. VVCAX Burlington, Vt. 500 w.—610 kc—491.5 m. 100 w.— 1370 kc—218.8 m. 100 w — 1200 kc—249.9 m. 100 w— 1310 kc—228.9 m. 100 w.—1200 kc—249.9 m. WFBE Cincinnati, Ohio WIBO Chicago, 111. 250 w. until local sunset 250 w. until local sunset WCBA Allentown, Pa. 250 w.— 1200 kc—249.9 m. 1000 w—570 kc—535.7 m. WLBL Stevens Pt.. Wis. WOBU Charleston, W. Va. 250 w.—1440 kc—208.2 m. WFBG Altoona, Pa. 1500 w. until local sunset 2000 w—900 kc—333.1 m. 250 w.—580 kc—516.9 m. WCBD Zion, 111. 100 w.— 1310 kc—228.9 m. WIBS Jersey City, N.J. WLBW Oil City, Pa. WOC Davenport, Iowa 5000 w—1080 kc—277.6 m. WFBJ Collegeville, Minn. 250 w— 1450 kc. 1000 w.—1260 kc—238 m. 5000 w.— 1000 kc—299.8 m. WCBM Baltimore, Md. 100 w. 1370 kc. WIBU Poynette. Wis. WLBX L. I. City, N. Y. WODA Paterson. N. J. 100 w—1370 kc—218.8 m. WFBL Syracuse. N. Y. 100 w.— 1310 kc—228.9 m. 100 w— 1500 kc—199.9 m. 1000 w.— 1250 kc—239.9 m. WCBS Springfield, 111. 1000 w—900 kc—220.4 m. WIBW Topeka, Kansas WLBZ Bangor, Maine WODX Mobile. Ala. 100 w.—1210 kc—247.8 m. WFBM Indianapolis, Ind. 1300 w—580 kc—516.9 m. 500 w.—620 kc—483.6 m. 500 w.—1410 kc—214.2 m. WCCO .... Minneapolis, Minn. 1000 w — 1230 kc— 243.8 m. 2500 w. until local sunset WLEX Lexington, Mass. WOI Ames. Iowa 7500 w.—810 kc—370.2 m. WFBR Baltimore, Md. WIBX Utica, N.Y. 500 w.—1360 kc—212.6 m. 5000 w.—560 kc—465.8 m. WCDA New York City 250 w.—1270 kc—236.1 m. 100 w— 1200 kc—249.9 m. WLEY Lexington. Mass. WOKO. . . Poughkeepsie. X. Y. 250 w.— 1350 kc—222.1 m. WFDF Flint, Mich. 300 w. until local sunset 100 w.—1420 kc—218.8 m. 500 w.— 1440 kc—208.2 m. WCFL Chicago, 111. 100 w.—1310 kc—228.9 m. WICC Bridgeport, New 250 w. until local sunset WOL Washington. D. C. 1500 w—970 kc—301.9 m. WFDV Rome. Ga. Haven, Conn. WLIB Elgin, 111. 100 w.— 1310 kc—228.9 m. WCGU Brooklyn, N. Y. 100 w.—1370 kc—218.8 m. 500 w.— 1190 kc—252 m. 25.000 w—720 kc. —416.4 m. WOMT Manitowoc. Wis. 500 w—1400 kc—214.2 m. WFDW Talladega, Ala. WIL St. Louis, Mo. WLIT Philadelphia. Pa. 100 w.— 1210 kc—247.8 m. WCKY Covington, Ky. 100 w.— 1420 kc—211.1 m. 100 w. l.s.—1200 kc—249.9 m. 500 w.—560 kc—235.4 m. WOOD. Grand Rapids. Mich. 5000 w—1480 kc—201.6 m. WFI Philadelphia, Pa. WILL Urbana, 111. WLOE Boston. Mass. 500 w — 1270 kc—236.1 m. WCLB Long Beach, N. Y. 500 w.—560 kc—535.4 m. 250 w.—890 kc—336.9 m. 100 w.— 1500 kc— 199.9 m. WOPI Bristol. Tenn. 100 w.—1500 kc—199.9 m. WFIW Hopkinsville, Ky. 500 w. until local sunset 250 w. until local sunset 100 w.— 1500 kc— 199.9 m. WCLO Janesville, Wis. 1000 w.—940 kc—319 m. WILM Wilmington, Del. WLS Chicago. 111. WOO Kansas Citv. Mo. 100 w.—1200 kc—249.9 m. WFJC Akron. Ohio 100 w.— 1420 kc—211.1 m. 50.000 w—870 kc—344.6 m. 1000 w.—610 kc- 230.6 m. WCLS Joliet, 111. 500 w.— 1450 kc—206.8 m. WIOD Miami Beach. Fla. WLSI Cranston. R. I. WOR Newark. N. J. 100 w.—1310 kc—228.9 m. WFLA Clearwater, Fla. 1000 w—560 kc—230.6 m. 100 w.— 1210 kc—247.8 m. 5000 w.—710 kc. —122.3 m. WCMA Culver, Ind. 1000 w.—900 kc—483.6 m. WIP Philadelphia, Pa. WLTH Brooklyn. N. Y. WORC Worcester. Mass. 500 w.— 1400 kc—214.2 m. 2500 w. until local sunset 500 w.—610 kc. —491.5 m. 500 w — 1400 kc—214 m. 100 w. — 1200 kc— 240.9 m. WCOA Pensacola, Fla. WGAL Lancaster, Pa. WIS Columbia, S. C. WLVA Lynchburg. Va. WORD Chicago. 111. 500 w— 1120 kc—223.7 m. 100 w.— 1310 kc—228.9 m. 1000 w.— 1010 kc—296.9 m. 100 w.— 1370 kc—218.8 m. 5000 w— 1480 kc—201.2 m. WCOC Meridian, Miss. WGBB Freeport, N. Y. WISJ Madison, Wis. WLW Cincinnati. O. WOS Jefferson City, Mo. 500 w—880 kc—340.7 m. 100 w.— 1210 kc—247.8 m. 1000 w—780 kc—384.4Jm. 50,000 w —700 kc. —428.3 m. 1000 w.—630 kc. —175.9 m. 1000 w. until local sunset WGBC Memphis, Tenn. WISN Milwaukee, Wis. WLWL New York City WOV New York Citv WCO D Harrisburg, Pa. 500 w.— 1430 kc—209.7 m. 250 w.— 1120 kc—267.7 m. 5000 w — 1100 kc—272.6 m. 1C00 w.—1130 kc—265.3 m. 100 w.—1200 kc—249.9 m. WGBF Evansville. Ind. WJAC Johnstown, Pa. WMAC Cazenovia, N. Y. WOW Omaha, Nebr. WCOH Yonkers, N. Y. 500 w.—630 kc—475.9 m. 100 w.— 1310 kc—228.4 m. 250 w.—570 kc—526 m. 1000 w.—590 kc—508.2 m. 100 w—1210 kc—247.8 m. WGBI Scranton, Pa. WJAD Waco. Tex. WMAP. ,S. Dartmouth. Mass. WOWO. . Ft. Wayne, Ind. WCRW Chicago, 111. 250 w.—880 kc—340.7 m. 1000 w—1240 kc. 500 w.— 1410 kc—212.6 m. 10.000 w.— 1160 kc—258.5 m. 100 w.— 1210 kc—247.8 m. WGBS New York City WJAG Norfolk, Nebr. WMAK Buffalo. N. Y. WPAD Paducah, Kv. WCSC Charleston, S. C. 500 w.—1180 kc—499.7 m. 1000 w.— 1060 kc—282.8 m. 1000 w.—900 kc—288.3 m. 100 w.— 1420 kc— 211.1 m.

250 w.— 1310 kc— 228.9 m. WGCM Gulfport. Miss. WJAR Providence. R. I. WMAI. . Washington. D. C. WPAP Clinside, N. 1 WCSH Portland, Me. 100 w.—1210 kc—247.8 m. 250 w—890 kc—336.9 m. 500 w.—630 kc—475.9 m. 250 w.— 1010 kc— 260.9 m. 500 w. 940 kc. 319 m. w. until local sunset Pawtucket, R. 1. — — WGCP Newark, N. J. 400 w. until local sunset 1000 WPAW WCSO Springfield, Ohio 250 w.—1250 kc—239.9 m. WJAS Pittsburgh, Pa, WMAQ Chicago. 111. 1(H) w.— 1210 kc— 247.8 m. 500 w.— 1450 kc—206.8 m. 232.4 m. 5000 w. (.70 kc. 447.5 m. WGES Chicago. 111. 1000 w— 1290 kc— WPCC Tampa, Fla. w. 535 WDAE 1000 w —1360 kc—220.4 m. WJAX Jacksonville. Fla. U'MAV St. Louis, Mo. 500 —570 kc— m. 1000 w.—620 kc—245.8 m. 1000 w.—900 333.1 m. 100 w.— 1200 kc—249.9 m. WPCI1 Not York City Newport News. Va. kc— WGH J WDAF Kansas City, Mo. . until local 500 w. 810 k^\ 370 m. . Ohio 250 w. sunset 100 w. — 1310 kc— 228.9 m. WJAY. .Cleveland. — 1000 w.—610 kc—491.5 m. 500 w.—620 kc.—491.5 m. WMAZ Macon, G.i. WPEX. .Phfladelphi WGHP Fraser, Mich. WDAG Amarillo, Texas WJAZ Mt. Prospect, 111. 250 w —890 kc—336.9 m. 100 w.—1500 kc—199.9 m. 1000 w.—1240 kc. 250 w.— 1410 kc—212.6 m. 5000 w— 1480 kc—201.2 m. 500 w. until local sunset 250 \v. until local sunset WDAH El Paso, Texas WGL Fort Wayne, Ind. WJBC La Salle, 111. WMBA Newport, R. I. WPG .v I X. 1. 100 100 w.— 1310 kc—228.9 m. w.—1370 kc—218.8 m. 100 w.— 1200 kc— 240.0 m. 100 u. -1500 kc 10O.O m. 5000 w. 1 100 kc—272.6 m. WDAY Fargo, N. D. WGMS St. Paul. Minn. WJBI Red Bank. N. J. WMBC Detroit, Mich. WPOE N. Y. 1000 w— 1 280 kc—3 19 m. 1000 w.— 1250 kc—239.9 m. 100 w— 1210 kc—247.8 m. 250 w — 1420 kc—211.1 m. 100 w.—1420 kc—218.8 m. 96

WPOR Norfolk, Va. WSMB New Orleans, La. CFNB Frederickton, N.B. CKUA Edmonton, Alta. XEL Saltillo, Coah. 500 w.—780 kc—384.4 in. 500 w.—1320 kc—227.1 m. 50 w —1210 kc—247.9 m. 500 w—580.4 kc—517.2 m. 10 w—275 m—1091 kc. WPSC State College, Pa. WSMK Dayton, Ohio CFQO-CNRS, Saskatoon, Sask. CKWX Vancouver, B. C. XEM Tampico, Tamps. 500 w.—1230 kc—243.8 m. 200 w.—1380 kc—217.3 m. 500 w.—910 kc—329.7 m. 50 w.—729.9 kc—411 m. 501 w—356.9 m.—841 kc. WPTF Raleigh, N. C. WSOA Chicago, 111. CFRB-CJBC, King, York Co. CKX Brandon, Man. XEN Mexico, D.F. 1000 w.—680 kc.—440.9 m. 5000 w.—1480 kc— Ont., 500 w.—540 kc. —555.6 m. 1000 w—410 m.—731.7 kc. WQAM Miami, Fla. WSPA Spartanburg, S. C. 400 w. 960 kc—312.5 m. CKY-CNRW Winnipeg, Man. XEO Mexico, D. F. 1000 w.—1240 kc—535.4 m. 250 w —1420 kc—211.1 m. CFRC Kingston, Ont. 5000 w.—790 kc—384.6 m. 101 w.—305 m—983.6 kc. WQAN Scranton, Pa. WSPD Toledo, Ohio 500 w— 1120 kc—267.9 m. CNRA Moncton, N.B. XEQ Ciuad Juarez, Chih. 250 w.—880 kc—340.7 m. 500 w.—1340 kc—223.7 m. CHCK, Charlottetown, P. E. I. 500 w.—629.9 kc—476.2 m. 1000. Red Deer, Alta. Mexico, F. WQAO Palisade, N. J. 1000 w. until local sunset 30 w.—960 kc—312.5 m. CNRD XER D. 250 w.—1010 kc—296.9 m. WSSH Boston, Mass. CHGS, Summerside, P. E. I. w.—840 kc. —357.7 m. 101 w—280 m.—1071 kc. WQBC Vicksburg, Miss. 100 w.—1420 kc.—212.6 m. 25 w.— 1120 kc—267.9 m. CNRO Ottawa, Ont. XES Tampico, Tamps. 300 w—1360 kc—220.4 m. 250 w. until local sunset CHMA Edmonton, Alta. 500 w—599.6 kc—500 m. 500 w—337 m—980 kc. WQDV Tupelo, Miss. WSUI Iowa City, Iowa 250 w—580.4 kc—517.2 m. CNRV Vancouver, B. C. XET Monterrey, N. L. 100 w— 1500 kc— 199.9 m. 500 w.—580 kc—340.7 m. CHML Hamilton, Ont. 500 w.—1038 kc—291.3 m. 500 w—336.9 m —890.4 kc. WRAF LaPorte, Ind. WSUN Clearwater. Fla. 50 w.—880 kc. —340.9 m. XEU Veracruz, Ver. 100 w —1200 kc—249.9 m. 1000 w—620 kc—483.6 m. CHNS Halifax, N. S., 101 w.—375 m—800 kc. WRAW Reading, Pa. WSYR Syracuse, N. Y. 500 w—910 kc—329.7 m. Cuba XEV Puebla, Pue. 100 w —1310 kc. 250 w.—570 kc—526 m. CHRC Quebec, P. Q. CMBA Havana 101 w—290 m.—1034.5 kc. WRAX Philadelphia, Pa. WTAD Quincy, 111. 100 w—880 kc—340.9 m. 50 w—1175 kc—255 m. XEW Mexico, D.F. 250 w.— 1020 kc—293.9 m. 500 w.—1440 kc—208.2 m. CHWC-CFRC, Pilot, Butte, CMBC Havana 5000 w—385 m—780 kc. WRBQ Greenville, Miss. WTAG Worcester, Mass. 100 w—887 kc—338 m. XEX Mexico, D. F. 100 w.—1210 kc—247.8 m. 250 w—580 kc—516.9 m. 500 w—960 kc—312.5 m. CMBD Havana 500 w.—325 m —923 kc. WRBT Wilmington, N. C. WTAM Cleveland, Ohio CHWK Chilliwick, B. C. 50 w—622.4 kc—482m. XEY Surerida, Yuc. 100 w.—1370 kc—218.8 m. 50,000 w —1070 kc—280.2 m. 5 w—1210 kc—247.9 m. CMBQ Havana 105 w.—548.6 m—546.8 kc. WRBU Gastonia, N. C. WTAQ Eau Claire, Wis. CHYC Montreal, P. Q. 50 w—952 kc—315 m. XEZ Mexico, D. F. 100 w.—1210 kc—247.8 m. 1000 w.—1330 kc—225.4 m. 500 w.—729.9 kc—411 m. CMBS Havana 500 w—548 m—588.2 kc. WRBX Roanoke, Va. WTAR Norfolk, Va. CJCA-CNRE, Edmunton.Alta. 50 w.—680.2 kc—441 m. XETA Mexico, D.F. 250 w—1410 kc—212.6 m. 500 w.—780 kc—384.4 m. 500 w.—580.4 kc—517.2 m. CMBW Marianao 500. WRC Washington, D. C. WTAW. .College Station, Tex. CJCB Sydney, N. S. 50 w—1027 kc—292 m. XFE Villahermosa, Tab. 500 w.—950 kc—315.6 m. 500 w— 1120 kc—267.7 m. 50 w.—880 kc. —340 9 m. CMBY Havana XFF Chihuahua, Chih. WRDO Augusta, Maine WTBO Cumberland, Md. CJCJ-CHCA. . . Calgary, Alta. 200 w.—611.9 kc—490 m. 250 w—325 m—915 kc. 100 w —1370 kc—218.8 m. 100 w.—1420 kc—211.1 m. 500 w—690 kc—434.8 m. CMBZ Havana XFG Mexico, D. F. WRDW Augusta, Ga. WTFI Toccoa, Ga. CJGC-CNRL. .London, Ont.. 100 w—1027 kc—292 m. 2000 w.—470 m—638.3 kc. 100 w — 1500 kc— 199.9 m. 500 w.— 1450 kc—206.8 m. 500 w.—910 kc—329.7 m. CMC Havana XFH Mexico, D.F. WREC Memphis, Tenn. WTIC Hartford, Conn. CJGX Yorkton, Sask. 500 w—840 kc. —357 m. 250 w. 500 w.—600 kc. —499.7 m. 50,000 w— 1060 kc—282.8 m. 500 w.—629.9 kc—476.2 m. CMCA Havana XFI Mexico, D. F. 1000 507 791.7 kc. 1000 w. until local sunset WTMJ Milwaukee, Wis. CJHS Saskatoon, Sask. 100 w—1136 kc—264 m. w.— m— WREN Lawrence, Kans. 1000 w.—620 kc—483.6 m. 250 w—910 kc—329.7 m. CMCB Havana XFX Mexico, D. F. 1000 w.— 1220 kc—245.8 m. 2500 w. until local sunset CJOC Lethbridge, Alta. 150 w—952 kc—315 m. 500 w—357 m. Nashville, Tenn. 50 w— 1120 kc—267.9 m. CMCE Havana WRHM . . . Minneapolis, Minn. WTNT Sea Island, B. 1000 w.— 1250 kc—239.9 m. 5000 w.— 1490 kc—204 m. CJOR C. 100 w.—1098.7 kc—273 m. Television 50 1030 kc—291.3 m. Racine, Wis. WTOC Savannah, Ga. w— CMCF Havana WRJN CJRM Moose Jaw, Sask. 250 643.7 100 w.—1370 kc—218.8 m. 500 w— 1260 kc—238 m. w.— kc—466 m. Hammond, Ind. 500 w.—599.6 kc—500 m. CMGA Colon Stations Hamilton, Ohio WWAE WRK 100 1200 kc—249.9 m. CJRW Fleming, Sask. 300 w.—832.8 kc—360 m. Channel 2000 to 2100 kc 100 1310 kc. w— w— WWJ Detroit, Mich. 500 w.—599.6 kc—500 m. CMHA Cienfuegos W3XK Wheaten, Md. WRNY New York City 1000 w—920 kc—325.9 m. CJRX Winnipeg, Man. 200 w—1153 kc—260 m. 5000 w. 250 w—1010 kc—296.9 m. WWL New Orleans. La. 2000 w— 1171.6 kc—25.6 m. CMHC Tuinucu W2XBTJ Beacon, N. Y. WRR Dallas, Texas 5000 w.—850 kc—352.7 m. CKAC-CNRM Montreal, P. Q. 500 w—791 kc—379 m. 100 w. 500 w.— 1280 kc—234.2 m. WWNC Asheville, N. C. 500 w—729.9 kc—411 m. CMHD Caibarien W2XCD Passaic, N.J. WRUF Gainesville, Fla. 1000 w—570 kc—526 m. CKCD-CHLS Vancouver, B.C. 250 w.—923 kc—325 m. 5000 w. w. 729.9 411 5000 w— 1470 kc—361.2 m. WWRL Woodside, N. Y. 50 — kc— m. CMI Havana W9XAC Chicago, 111. WRVA Richmond, Va. 100 w.— 1500 kc—199.9 m. CKCI Quebec, P. Q. 500 w—815.2 kc—368 m. 500 w. 50 w. 880 kc—340.9 m. 5000 w.— 1110 kc—270.1 m. WWVA Wheeling, W. Va. — CMK Havana W2XAP Jersey City, N. J. WSAI Cincinnati. Ohio 5000 w— 1160 kc—258 m. CKCL Toronto. Ont. 2000 w.—731.3 kc—410 m. 250 w. 500 580.4 kc—517.2 m. 500 w— 1330 kc—225.4 m. WXYZ Detroit, Mich. w— CMW Havana W2XCR Jersey City, N. J. WSAJ Grove City, Pa. 1000 w.—1240 kc—241.8 m. CKCO Ottawa, Ont. 1000 w—599.6 kc—500 m. 5000 w. 100 w.—1310 kc—228.9 m. 100 w—889.9 kc—337.1 m. CMX Havana Channel 2100 to 2200 kc. Waterloo, Ont. WSAN Allentown, Pa. CKCR 250 w—914.3 kc—327 m. W3XAD Camden, N. J. 250 w—1440 kc—208.2 m. Canada 50 w.—1010 kc—297 m. 500 w. WSAR Fall River, Mass. CKCV-CNRQ. . . Quebec, P. Q. W2XBS New York, N. Y. 250 w.— 1450 kc—206.8 m. CFAC-CNRC, Calgary, Alta. 50 w.—880 kc—340.9 m. Mexico 5000 w. CKFC Vancouver, B. C. WSAZ Huntington, W. Va. 500 w—690 kc—434.8 m XEA Guadalajara, Jal. W3XAK. . Bound Brook, N. J. 250 w.—580 kc—516.9 m. CFBO St. John, N. B. 50 w—729.9 kc—411 m. 101 w—250 m — 1200 kc. 5000 w. WSB Atlanta, Ga. 50 w—889.9 kc—337.1 m. CKIC Wolfville, N. S. XEB Mexico, D. F. W8XAV Pittsburgh, Pa. 5000 w.— 740 kc—405.2 m. CFCA-CKOW-CNRT, 50 w—930 kc—322.6 m. 1000 w.—450 m.—895 kc. 20,000 w. Bowmanville, Ont. WSBC Chicago, 111. Toronto, Ont. CKGW XEC Toluca, Mexico W2XCW.. . Schenectady, N. Y. 100 w— 1210 kc—247.8 m. 500 w—840 kc—357.1 m. 500 w—690 kc—434.8 m. 50 w.—225 m.—1333 kc. 20,000 w. Alta. WSBT South Bend, Ind. CFCF Montreal, P. Q. CKLC-CHCT Red Deer, XED Reynosa, Tamps. W9XAP Chicago, 111. 500 w—1230 kc—243.8 m. 1650 w.—1030 kc—291.3 m. 100 w—840 kc—357.1 m 2000 w—312.3 m—960.6 kc. 1000 w.

WSDA Brooklyn, N. Y. CFCH. . . . Iroquois Falls, Ont. CKMC Cobalt, Ont. XEE Linares, N. L. Channel 2750 to 2850 kc. 500 w — 1400 kc—214.2 m. 250 w—599.6 kc. 500 m. 15 w.— 1210 kc—247.9 m. 10 w.—300 m.—1000 kc. W2XBC L. I. City, L. I. WSEN Columbus, Ohio CFCN-CNRC. . Calgary, Alta. CKMO Vancouver B. C, XEF Oaxaca, Oax. 500 w. 100 w.— 1210 kc— 500 w.— 690 kc—434.8 m. 50 w.—729.9 kc—411 m. 105 w.—265 m— 1132 kc. W9XAA Chicago, 111. WSFA Montgomery, Ala. CFCO Chatham, Ont. CKNC-CJBC. . . Toronto, Ont. XEG Mexico, D. F. 1000 w. 500 w.— 1410 kc—212.6 m. 50 w.—1210 kc—247.9 m. 500 w.—580.4 kc—517.2 m. 2000 w—362 m—828.7 kc. W9XC W. LaFayette, Ind. WSGH Brooklyn, N. Y. CFCT Victoria, B. C. CKOC Hamilton, Ont. XEH Monterrey, N. L. 1500 w. 500 w.— 1400 kc—214.2 m. 500 w.—629.9 kc—476.2 m. 50 w—880 kc—340.9 m. 101 w.—265 m—964.6 kc. Channel 2850 to 2950 kc. WSIX Springfield, Tenn. CFCY, Charlottetown, P. E. I. CKPC Preston, Ont. XEI Morelia, Mich. W1XAV Boston, Mass. 100 w.—1210 kc.—247.8 m. 250 w.—960 kc—312.5 m. 50 w— 1210 kc—247.9 m. 101 w—300 m— 1000 kc. 500 w.

WSJS. . .Winston-Salem, N. C. CFJC Kamloops, B. C. CKPR Midland, Ont. XEJ C. Juarez, Chih. W2XR .Long Island City, L. I. 100 w—1310 kc—228.9 m. 15 w.—1120 kc—267.9 m. 50 w— 1120 kc—267.9 m. 101 w—350 m.—857.1 kc. 500 w. WSM Nashville, Tenn. CFLC Prescott, Ont. CKSH Montreal, P. Q. XEK Mexico, D.F. W9XR Chicago, 111. 5000 w—650 kc—461.3 m. 50 w—1010 kc—297 m. 50 w— 1010 kc—297 m. 101 w.—300 m.—1000 kc. 5000 w.

Radio Drama on the ether waves by such means. our twentieth century audiences—national Two years ago Mr. Radcliffe was asked audiences, who create by popular demand, (Continued from page 29) to direct the Melodrama Hour for the the theatre of the air. Great things are National Broadcasting Company and the coming of it, and greater will come." starve in the theatre rather than feast in rest is history. As he demanded better This is the opinion of an enthusiast. business. He took whatever he could get, and better plays, The Melodrama Hour To some of you Radio drama will never acting and directing with de Mille, with quietly turned into the Radio Guild, just bring this soul-reaching satisfaction, to Alan Dwan, with little theatre groups, as simply as the duchess' pig in Alice in those of you who live in big cities its notably the Comedy Club and the Snarks Wonderland turned into a baby. Now The shadow will probably never loom in such where he directed Hope Williams before Radio Guild boasts such great guest artists enormous proportions on your mental

she became famous. as Eva Le Galliene, and Dudley Digges. horizon. But to millions it is a means . During this period he was requested by "Radio drama is a natural evolution," of coming in contact with what the best the Gold Dust Twins company to put Vernon Radcliffe says. "It is the next theatrical minds have to offer, an open them on the air with a "real drama." step after the motion picture, and just sesame to illusion and romance. Mr. Radcliffe thinks that on this sketch as important a form of drama. In every over WEAF he probably put the first age the theatre adapts itself to its audi- ANOTHER discussion concerning the de- sound effects on the air. He recalls ence. We used to have it on moving Sl velopment of Radio drama will appear in the March issue Radio Digest. Many bringing vacuum cleaners in taxicabs to wagons, in ballrooms to suit the populace of authorities predict Radio entertainment will prove to the doubting salesmen that he and now we have reached the stage when flavor more of drama and speaking skits than could create the sound of an automobile Radio drama is the form most suited to ever before during 1931. a

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became the rendezvous for New Yorkers music, and like the Villa Vallee, well- opened with an entirely new policy. For seeking a Sunday evening to dine and ventilated and aired. Personally I am a a high class hotel to adopt a no couvert dance. There are few finer bands than crank on fresh air; a smoky, hot, sticky charge policy, which the Chinamen have in Hal Kemp's, and it was very popular atmosphere ruins the evening for me. I made so popular their chow mein dance- down there. must be where the air is fresh and that palaces, is revolutionary. The Paramount In the Daffydil Dickerman outdid him- is one of the things I am happiest about has taken a step that will probably help air very successful. of the self—one of the cutest, oddest, and at the Villa Vallee—the fact that our them become One quaintest places one could ever imagine, is constantly being changed and a person finest floor shows in the country, headed with great big plaster plaques of what never comes out with smarting eyes. by the able and versatile Benny Davis, Dickerman conceived the daffydil to be, with a very fine band, Florence Richard- with blinking eyes that blinked every son and her boys. From my observations time the bass drummer lowered his foot J.HERE are so many clubs of the debut, the Paramount Grill is going on the bass pedal, and with crazy Dicker- that it would take pages for me to talk to have a tremendous run. man drawings and paintings all around about them. The Central Park Casino, the room. with its gorgeous interior, its superb band, To mention Greenwich Village without Leo Reisman and his orchestra, than I SHOULD really leave the speaking of the Village Nut Club would which there is none better, Leo himself description of and location of these clubs bring down upon my head the condemna- being one of the greatest showmen that to one who makes it his business to tell tion of that very worthy establishment. ever stood before a band. And the Club you where to go in New York, Rian Every night at the Village Nut Club until Richman, where Harry intermittently James of the Brooklyn Eagle, whose little the wee hours of the morning there may holds forth (when he is there the place booklet, "Where To Go" is perhaps the be had a great deal of clean fun. The itself takes on a new atmosphere). Harry best guide to the restaurants and night crowd is very mixed, with a sprinkling Richman and George Olson have been clubs of New York City, but since I am of celebrities, day laborers, professional responsible for the tremendous run of asked to write this article I feel that I people, and all types. If you have lis- popularity at this cozy and intimate place. must at least tell you something about tened to one of their broadcasts, you get Coming from the country myself I can them. a vague idea of the way their program is speak rather authoritatively when I say There is one club in particular that is carried out each evening. True to their I know what the average small town worthy of some detailed consideration. name, everything is spontaneous, quite person's conception of a New York night It is located on the site where Texas inane, and really funny. I enjoyed my- club is. Whether his conception is due Guinan herself once held forth. Small, self tremendously the evening I visited it. to plays, motion pictures, novels, news- close and very plain, it is perhaps the Back in the center of Manhattan among paper stories, or word of mouth publicity most successful of New York night clubs the places I have already mentioned, one I do not know; I do know, however, that and is the nearest to the popular concep- of the sweetest bands in the world—Emil people in the rural districts and in small tion that people in the country have of Coleman at the El Patio, where Rosita cities conceive a New York night club, New York night clubs. It is known as and Ramon hold forth nightly. Then in its strict sense, to be a place filled the Club Abbey. there is "the sweetest music this side of with bad air, smoke and excitement, Unquestionably its easy location, near Heaven"—Lombardo's at the Roosevelt where lewd women with nothing on dis- Broadway, and its all night policy, in Grill. The Hollywood Cafe, perhaps the port themselves under the delighted eyes contrast to the two and three o'clock most unique and the nearest approach to of fat butter and egg men from the closing of the other clubs, are responsible the old night club in its success, with the Middle West, shaking everything at them for the popularity that is has been en- big butter and egg men, conventioners but the club's license; a place where, joying for some time. It has become the from out of town who come in great big from the moment one enters until the rendezvous of all the Broadway wiseacre?, blocks, wiring ahead for reservations for departure, they take everything from you columnists, and most of Broadway's rack- fifty and a hundred people; with the most but the gold in your teeth: where you eteers are to be seen there throughout daring floor show consisting of the most are liable to receive anything from a the course of a week. The central per- beautiful girls to be found in any show sandbag over the head to a Mickey Finn, sonality who dominates its dance floor or club in New York; very clever acts, which is a potent powder slipped in a between dance sets is unquestionably in the best that such a discriminating eye drink to put the victim out of the pic- a large measure responsible for the suc- as that of Nils Granlund, better known ture temporarily! cess of the club. A striking figure— as N.T.G., can find and pick. In fact, These "gyp" clubs, as they are called, tall, broad-shouldered young man who N.T.G. himself is a show all alone, and did flourish at one time in New York goes by the name of Jean Mallin. Just a man that I enjoy watching work. City, and many of our popular Broadway how to describe him is extremely difficult. entertainers today can talk for hours He has a very ready and brilliant wit, about what used to go on inside them. and permits himself to be the target for I-T IS one place where a Let me assure you that this type of club fast repartee on the part of anyone who theatrical celebrity may go without fear has gone by the board, and the only place chooses to fence with him. of being called upon to do anything, as where an out of town bumpkin might He seems to capitalize on a supposed N.T.G. has made that a hard and fast run into such a place would be in a rack- effeminacy which he accentuates and rule, never to call upon any celebrity to eteer speakeasy, and the country gentle- heightens, to my mind deliberately. My do a turn no matter how hard the crowd man who finds himself in a jam in one observation of him on the occasion of my may call and applaud for that person to of these places has no one to blame but one visit to the Abbey has led me to do so. Their bands are changed there himself! believe that he does this, realizing that

often, but there is always good music. There are a host of new places spring- he is making a living and a good one. by Then there is Jansen's Hof Brau, an ing up and closing down nightly, but I carrying out and heichteninc a char old rendezvous. The Paramount Grill hope that I am touching on the most which I believe is not really hi~. and the New Yorker, like the Roosevelt, popular ones now running. Although the rest oi the floor show is are hotel grills with hotel food and good Onlv last night the Paramount Grill quite daring, fast and full of double en- 98

tendre, yet this Mallin and his drollery fact, one of my friends, on his first night and streaks of trouble and misfortune, and facetiousness makes the Club Abbey there, was amazed on entering to see a but through it all she remains smiling, an unusual place to visit. Almost any whole troupe of African savages doing a dauntless and a hard worker. We meet night one will encounter such persons as war dance in the middle of the floor. each other at benefits at which we per- Winchell, Hellinger, and all those who Belle Livingston herself has a very form on Sunday nights for various worthy are so typical of Broadway's night life. colorful and interesting background and causes. There on the stage with her The blase out-of-towners seeking some- history, and is one of the most gracious "girls," as she calls them, she puts on a thing entirely different should try to find lady-hosts that one would expect to find show sometimes lasting for a solid hour, a member to go with to the most unique in such an unusual place. The few times one which always keeps the excitement at

establishment that it has ever been my I have been there, there have been tre- a high pitch. pleasure to visit, namely Belle Livings- mendous crowds, with many celebrities ton's place on 58th Street, between Park scattered among them, which indicates and Lexington. She has brought a Con- that if one gives the public something OHE still is, and probably tinental atmosphere into an old house. different, good business brings itself. will be for some time, the "Queen of the One of the objections she always found To close this little discussion of night Night Clubs." most people had to offer about establish- clubs and not mention the "Queen of the I have tried to give the out-of-town ments where one could eat and dance, Night Clubs," as she styles herself, that cousin an idea of what New York now was that the air was bad, so in this three- very unusual woman, Texas Guinan. holds in the way of entertainment after story house of hers she took particular would be almost a sacrilege. I have theatre. If I have omitted mention of pains to see that every room has direct found Texas Guinan to be a very human any particular place, it is done uninten- contact with the outside, thus ensuring person, one who has a great respect for tionally. I am writing this article while all her guests of that most precious stim- the feelings of others. She has become carrying the same schedule that I carried ulant to a good evening—fresh air. successful and capitalized on the adoption while writing my book—a schedule of 18 of a policy of pep, animation, whirlwind hours a day, most of which is spent in speed in floor shows, beautiful girls with the theatre, and the rest in the Villa J-HE room where one little or nothing to wear. If there was Vallee until the wee hours of the morn-

dances is perhaps the most unique, pre- ever a person qualified for a degree of ing, getting up early certain mornings for senting a Turkish Harem effect, due to Professor of Night Club Psychology, it is broadcasts, recordings, and rehearsals. the lamps which hang from the ceiling, certainly she! It is impossible to think of every spot the lighting effect, and the paintings I marvel at her audacity in calling her where one could find good, wholesome on the wall. Around the edge of the nightly audiences "suckers," as some of recreation. That is why, again, I say it room built to the wall, are luxurious them really are, but she seems to be able would be very easy to secure Rian James'

lounging places with large, silk pillows • to do it without harm to herself. She very terse booklet, "Where To Go," be- and small benches in front with ash trays. thrives on noise, bedlam, and pandemo- cause I believe he has not omitted one There is a room entirely in red, with a nium, and her opening act is to throw to place worthy of a visit, and he classifies fireplace at the rear end at which the her audience every noise-making device the eating places according to nationality,

cooking is done right before the eyes of that it is possible for her to purchase. thereby offering to the out-of-towner who the diners. It is her modern English She picks her girls with an eye to desires the food of his particular country eating room and is very attractive. beauty of face and form. Some of them the opportunity to secure it very easily,

I forgot to mention that the entrance are very clever, others merely fill out the as New York has restaurants of every into the establishment is through a large, picture. The girls who work for her say nationality of the world.

iron gate, like that of a prison. that she is a very wonderful person to If this has helped to give you a picture Upstairs are lounge rooms and places work for, very human and sympathetic, of night club conditions in New York, where one can converse without being but she is a Simon Legree for work and then the sleep I have lost by the effort disturbed by the diners or the dancers. sets a good example by her own inde- to dictate this has not been in vain. Then there is a room for backgammon, fatigable zeal throughout the course of a another one for ping pong, and a long evening to the wee hours of the and Radio Queen Writes Song beautiful, intimate golf course, with little morning. It has been my pleasure to water hazards in which, on the opening introduce her and to be introduced by her Bernadine Hayes, chosen as the most night, she had live eels—but the eels went at theatrical and charitable affairs, and beautiful star in Radiodom, numbers the way of all flesh, i.e., down the drain she has shown me the courtesy of leaving among her talents that of song-writing. pipe! me alone when I didn't want to be intro- Her number will appear some time in Her shows vary from a small group of duced, which is more than many persons April and it is expected that it will be a acts to something of a circus nature; in would do. She has had streaks of success "natural"—a success from the start.

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to the garage around the corner and leav- garage in New York would not let him that was nothing. Oh, no jack? Well, ing word that his car should be sent go out without one. He looked for it but he had a jack. It would be the work around at once. At the last minute, he everywhere—in the tool box, under the of a minute. And not only did the kindly had decided to drive down to a little cushion, under the seat—everywhere. In stranger produce the jack from his own celebration which some of the old grads a kind of sleepy half-witted helplessness car, but he did most of the work that had of his time were holding that evening at he even found himself looking in his to be done, saying that wayfarers should Old Nauseau—pardon me, I mean Old pockets for it. All in vain. There was help one another and humming a tune to Jassau. If he lost no time in jumping no jack. For all he knew, there never himself as he made his words good. into his dinner clothes, and if he was had been. He had spoiled one good din- Old Nassau didn't do much but hover lucky with the traffic lights on his way ner suit, one fairly good left hand, and around and nurse his wounded left hand. f o the Holland Tunnel, he would get one already damaged temper battling In no time the stranger was climbing iown to Princeton in time for the soup. with that spare tire only to find that he back into his own car and Old Nas- He could catch up on the cocktails as might just as well have left the darned sau had nothing to do but pick up a yew the evening wore on. Well, he did catch thing in place. He couldn't put it on tools and go on his way. He wondered up on the cocktails and was in a fairly anyway. how much time he'd lost. He ste ped rosy glow by ten that evening. His class- He was wondering whether to hoof it around in front of his lamps and reached mates, who at eight had seemed a pasty, to the nearest village or just to die for his watch. It was gone. His angei bloated and tiresome group of contem- quietly from exposure and chagrin, when was explosive. Just when he was think- poraries, had mysteriously changed in the ing what a kindly chap this stranger had intervening two hours, and by ten he proved to be, just when he was thinking

found he liked them a lot. By eleven, what a friendly ' Id world this was, after they seemed tn him the wittiest, the most all, this had to happen to him. His mind distinguished group he had ever mingled Rudy Vallee worked fast. There was not a second to with. By twelve they were all singing lose. The dirty crook was already at "The Something or Other King of Eng- his wheel. Tells Stories land" with their arms around each other. The The chapel bell was striking, it was one Back of the Songs o'clock when he slid in behind the wheel Hi.E REMEMBERED in a of his one seater and struck off along the flash that in the pocket of the door of his long road to New York. He had been in the car there had been or was a loaded re- driving about an hour and was speeding volver. It took him one second to get

along a lonely bit of road in the Raritan it. In another second he was on the River section—if I ever retell this Ten Hits running board of the Good Samaritan's story, by the way, I have some thought car, with the revolver stuck in the Good of calling it "The Raritan Samaritan" Of The Month Samaritan's startled face. "You dirty when disaster overtook him. It wasn't a bum," he said. "Wayfarers ought to help highwayman. He hadn't even run over each other, ought they? You dirty bum.

somebody. He would much rather have If I hear a word out of you I'll fill you somebody. What happened to run over Regularly in full of lead. Just hand over that watch." him was a blowout. With a sigh that With shaking hands the Good Samari- sounded like a wind from the sea, one of RADIO DIGEST tan dove into his vest pocket and came his tires collapsed. He came to a jolting across. halt and groaned. With the watch in his pocket and the pistol still aimed, our hero backed across the road, slid into his seat, and started H,E WAS miles from any- far in the distance he saw a point of his engine going. In another moment, where. It was years since he had changed light. A point that grew and grew as it his bitterness assuaged, his wounded hand a tire, and he never had been good at it. came nearer and nearer. It was a south- forgotten, the watch in his pocket, he He never had been good at anything like bound car coming his way. Perhaps it streaked off to New York at sixty miles that. All he was good at was selling would give him a lift. It was going the an hour. From time to time he kept

bonds and singing "The So-and-So King wrong way but at least it could take him to saying to himself "the dirty bum" or of England." The first thing to do was shelter. He stepped out to do a bit of "wayfarers should help each other, my to get the spare off the back. wig-wagging, hoping all the time that his eye" or once and again just those words It had been there so long that it had recent scrimmage with the spare had not "the dirty bum". It was almost six in rusted to the clamp. He engaged in a left him looking too much like a bandit. the morning and the sleepy city was stir-

Laocoon struggle with it that lasted ten He didn't want to frighten the good Sa- ring with a new day's life when he drove minutes. By the end of the ten min- maritan that was coming his way. As his car into the garage, walked two blocks utes the spare tire was free, but his the car drew close he became a human to the club, woke up the night watchman, dinner coat was a wreck and a pen- semaphore of distress. Sure enough his went up to his room, and prepared to nant of torn flesh was fluttering on his potential help slowed up, stopped. The turn in. left hand. With a few good old Prince- car was also a one seater and the driver It was what he saw when he got there

ton curses he bound up his wounds with of it, as he came forward into the light that rooted him to the spot and sent his an already muddy handkerchief and be- of our hero's lamps was revealed as a heart into his boots. The dreadful thine gan looking for his jack. He assumed he bespectacled and benevolent-looking fel- he saw was something lying on the dress- had one. low just the type to extend a helping ing table—something which, in the haste It had been years since he had had hand. Would he give our young friend a of his departure for Princeton, he had occasion to use a jack, but he assumed lift? Well, surely he would, but what left lying along with his keys and loese that even that band of robbers at the was the trouble? Just a blowout? But change. It was his watch. ;

100 Tuneful Topics really believe that I did even better on nent place on my own Radio programs. the verse than I did on the chorus, The fact that it is climbing up the list {Continued from page 76) which sometimes happens. I can think of best sellers (today I find it fifth from of several compositions where the verse the top) indicates that the public is in tor of the orchestra. Gibbons had sev- was much better than the chorus, though a receptive mood for this type of song. eral melodies and ideas, and as a result that is not usually the case. What more can be said than that? The of one afternoon's collaboration we wrote I am expecting daily to receive a copy Berlin organization has another hit on a chorus called My Cigarette Lady. The of the finished song, as it went to press their hands. tune always haunted me; we never played over a week ago. We do it quite slowly, We play it quite slowly, about thirty- it on the engagement as it was merely a at about thirty-two measures a minute, five measures a minute. song we both carried in our heads. and I find that the key of D is the best Again I want to congratulate Mr. Berlin. In the fall we went to London, and range for the voice. when I returned in the Spring Gibbons stayed on and became director, not only to.—Little Things in Life Is A Comedian Funny of a great English orchestra, but the dance recording head of the Victor Co. Amer- IRVING BERLIN offers to the world To His Wife? ican publishers published two of his the panacea (if there is any) for the {Continued from page 28) songs which you may have heard, A Gar- present large-spread depression. Some den in the Rain and Peace of Mind. people say that the depression is merely a She then sees to it that he selects some While they were not sensational, they myth in our minds which would be dis- variety in his clothes and that the sales- were pretty tunes and well-liked. sipated if we would tell ourselves that there man doesn't talk him into anything. A few months ago Gibbons passed is none. But I know that there is, and we He loves to see the feminine members through New York on his way to the find in the song, The Little Things in of his family well dressed, and pays their Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios to write Life, the solution to the entire matter. bills without a murmur. But his own for pictures. Meeting him at a party at The trouble with us is that we want clothes never mean a thing to him. Roger Wolfe Kahn's recalled to me the large, marble houses, with a whole co- He likes to consult Mrs. Stone about song we had written together, and I be- terie of liveried servants, butlers, foot- his shows, even though he knows he will gan a broadcast of the chorus, which was men, and what-not; too many empty not act upon her suggestions. It is really all we had written. The response was so rooms, too many cars, too many yachts. that he wants to think out loud and to overwhelmingly favorable that one of the Mr. Berlin expresses in song the belief see what her reaction is. He must have subsidiaries of the Radio Music Com- that the little things in life—simple a little audience for whatever he does. pany, with whom I am contracted to rooms, a little rain, a little sunshine, and Certainly he could never have a more write, namely Davis, Coots and Engel, finally the baby's cry, all these things if interested or eager one than his family. asked me if they might publish the song. taken in moderation by the little man and He's a democratic, humble man. A I found it impossible to get in touch little wife will bring the two happiness. man whom his family honors and respects, with Gibbons, so I set myself down to My first reaction to the song was un- no less than the world. He has great write the melody of the verse and the favorable. Like all Berlin songs this has reverence for women and treats his two verses themselves. The chorus, as we to be heard several times before it grows mother with rare, old-fashioned courtesy. originally conceived it, might mean that on you. When I heard the song later on It isn't to be wondered, therefore, that the cigarette lady was the girl that he the air, done to its best advantage by one Mrs. Stone said to me, in parting: "I had loved and lost, or it might be just his of the best Radio bands, I realized its could ask nothing more of life than that conception of the girl-to-be. I chose the possibilities, became one of its strongest my girls should find as good a husband latter and more happy viewpoint, and supporters, and it has found a promi- as I have."

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He was not asked to send his little black ten." He glanced at his watch. Believe It Or Not bag on a regular weekly trip to the studio "But your health," I gasped. "You cash box. can't stand up under that continuously." {Continued from page 25) Al Jolson startled even that section of "Yes, I can. I go to a doctor once a Broadway that is familiar with his huge month and have him look me over. I'm Among the latter are many epistles earnings when he received $7,500 for careful about diet. I don't drink or branding me as a colossal liar and fake. singing three songs on the microphone. smoke. It's just a question of getting this as it is a But I really don't mind There have been numerous occasions used to it. But it doesn't leave you much form of flattery. They simply didn't when the Radio men have paid enormous leisure." know the truth when they heard it. When- sums for individual performances, but no "I don't see how it leaves you any. ever they come in with a signature and single artist has yet signed the dotted But if you do get some, what do you do address, which is seldom, they are imme- line for a regular weekly salary of five with it?" verity of the diately answered and the figures. Yet I feel the day is not far off. "You'd be surprised. One of my se- have statement in question is proved. I From the standpoint of the amusement cret vices is riding a bicycle." in lie. yet to be caught a world it will most emphatically be THE So far all his heavy responsiblities have There are many incredulous tales to be DAY—Der Tag. put no mark upon Bert Lown. He's studios, of the told of the broadcasting There are on the lists of the broad- twenty-six and could pass for even daily show that goes on inside. Over a casters any number of artists who are re- younger. People, upon being introduced B. told the story year ago, John Kennedy ceiving in excess of $1,000 a week. Big to him, often think he is the son of the in Collier's Weekly of Nathaniel Shilkret. money as reckoned by Broadway, but not orchestra leader and ask for his father. orchestra While leading his forty-piece so big as reckoned on the Radio waves. All his success has come to him within Gersh- through the intricate rhythms of Big money to them means salaries of three years. Three years ago he was sell- win's Rhapsody in Blue, the lighting cur- more than $10,000 a week. The broad- ing cash registers. One of the secrets rent failed and the studio was instantly casters will be ready to pay it—and plenty of his success is his ability to delegate darkness. "Without wrapped in complete more, when they find the stars. Mean- authority. "Shil- a moment's halt," said Kennedy, while they are busy with their binoculars. He wrote those two popular numbers, kret and his carried on, in the dark- men Believe it or not. By By Blues, and You're the One I Care ness, and finished Gershwin's complicated For. His new theme song for 1931 is masterpiece without losing so much as With You By My Side. half note. From this number they a Radiographs And I, for one, hope he doesn't buy passed to others—with nothing but two that South Sea island very soon. candles stuck on the conductor's rack so (Continued from page 63) that the musicians could follow his sig- nals and his baton. The listening mil- where you make money. In four or five lions were unaware of the slightest hitch." years, if present conditions keep up, I'll Classical Music It takes about 200 Radio and telephone have my million. Then I'll step out and engineers to handle a coast to coast net- let my brother take over. He can make Simplified work program, exclusive of the engineers his pile and buy his island if he wants (Continued from page 79) in the local studios. And sometimes it is one." found more convenient for broadcasting a Present conditions are rather strenuous, program on the Pacific Coast to bring it as he is in charge of seventeen or- that can be done to transmit these sounds, all the way east and back again, crossing chestras in cities as far apart as Boston. even though they may know that it would the continent twice. Buffalo, Detroit, Los Angeles, Rio de be much better in most cases if the speak- Believe it or not, Radio listeners-in Janeiro, Paris, London. Before long he ing voices and the speaking practices of hear sound broadcast before it reaches the expects to have an orchestra in practically both men and women could be improved. ears of those persons in the studio twelve every large city in the world, working With broadcast music, the matter is feet from the microphone. For, the through the United Hotels Company. different. The object of broadcasting is minute that it gets on the wire, sound Then there is his Radio work—his sus- to convey to you and to me the nearest becomes an electrical impulse which trav- taining hours over Columbia, his com- possible reproduction of the effect which els at the rate of 186,000 miles per sec- mercial program with the Smith Brothers music has when it is heard in the right ond. —his personal appearances at various sort of concert room from the seat in that Believe it or not. according to the sta- private and public dances, his phono- room which is known to be acoustically tistics gathered by Radio Retailing, 4,- graph recordings. best situated. In order to achieve this 438,000 factory Radio sets were sold He goes to bed late and gets up early. object both the musicians and the engi- during the past year. Two or three hours sleep a night is neers have to learn that there is a great Radio is soaring skywards—ascending enough for him. He says he got his deal more to it on the one hand, than the fast, and it is my belief that the next training getting up to milk the cows. mere putting of sounds into a microphone, great star of Radio will be able to ask ''Take today; it's typical of most of and on the other hand than merely dealing and what is more important, receive— my days. It's five-thirty now. I'm here with the electrical output according to $25,000 a week for his services. I base till six, when I leave and go to my office readings on energy measuring meters. my argument on the vast economic power for dictation. Then I dress and am in It is my deliberate opinion that there of the broadcasters, glancing at their tre- White Plains for a dance at eight-thirty. is grave danger to the growth of musical mendous resources, at their possibility of I am in Greenwich, Connecticut, from ten art on the one hand, and to the artistic attracting an audience of 60,000,000 per- to ten-thirty for debutante party. Then pleasure derivable from listening to broad- sons, and safely declare they can afford I'm at Ossining for fifteen minutes at a casts of good music on the other hand, un- to pay the price. public dance. Then I'm back here at the less a study can be made, on a large scale, It makes interesting food for thought Biltmore from twelve to twelve-thirty, of the whole problem from the joint and meat for the dreamers, as it was not when we also go on the air. I'm at an- standpoints of the engineers and of the so long ago that the amusement world other dance from one-fifteen to two. I'm musical artists. I consider that the only raised an incredulous eyebrow because Sir at the Plainfield Country Club in New principle upon which any such study can Harry Lauder was able to take back to his Jersey, from three to six. I get back to be successfully made is the principle of

fortress in Scotland $30,000 for a thirty- New York at seven. I sleep till nine- equality between the musicians (produ- minute swim in the Radio sea. Lauder thirty and then get up in order to make cers) and the engineers (reproducers) of received this staggering sum only once. my appointment at the Victor studios at broadcast music. 103 Crashing Airplane worry arises from fear of what might A happen. Why do we constantly fear that are going to meet something that {Continued jrom page 19) we we cannot conquer? Haven't we managed After we all had taken long drinks from to meet what life has offered up to now? J. E. Smith National Radio the earthen jug, we piled the scattered President Institute Why should we feel that we cannot con- mail in heap. Then in a springless a tinue to meet the needs of this hour and Spanish cart, drawn by two ponies, we of the next hour, and the next? When we lam Many were hauled across the desert and over a worry and we hurry, all we accomplish is Doubling My Men bumpy road to the little town of Alcan- a tenseness of mind which prohibits the tarilla in the province of Murica, about and 'Earn ^50 accomplishment of whatever it is we want fifty miles inland from Cape Palos and to do. Therefore, one of the soundest Tripling *75,H00 the seaport of Cartagena. I had ended my mottos for us all is the old one, "when air jaunt from Paris to Fez in a lonely Salaries a Week angry, count ten"—only to this motto valley between two ranges of the Sierra should be added, "When worried and Nevada Mountains in Andalusia, land of hurried." In the time that it takes you the Moors, and within an hour's flight of to count ten, you should be able to re- ancient Granada. store order to your mental state and to When we arrived at Alcantarilla they Til Train \fru quiet your frenzied, unthinking impulses. took us to the only hotel, a little two- Without exaggeration, haste can ruin storied Spanish inn, the Hospedaje y Casa your entire life, it can spoil your chances at Home to Fill de Comidas, where they gave us each a of happiness, and, it can do more than drink of cognac and a bed. Summoned almost anything else to mar your attrac- immediately after our arrival, several tiveness. Haste dulls the eyes, wrinkles aBIOPAYJob Spanish physicians came, dressed the the face, checks digestion, causes your wounds of my companions, closed the glands to manufacture poisonous fluids, shutters to darken the rooms, and forbade inKfidio and puts you in a frame of mind which anyone to enter. TOTT ARE earning a penny less is obviously harmful to your appearance. IFthan $50 a week, send for my That was the last I saw of them. The book of information on the op- Coming back once more to Mr. Ein- portunities in Radio. It's FREE. doctors said that although Noailhat and Mail the coupon now. A flood of stein and his theory of relativity, I want gold is pouring into this new in- Broadcasting Sta- the Perpignan mechanic were quite dustry, making thousands of fine tions need trained to remind you that haste concerns time, jobs every year. My training fits men continually for gravely injured, they were sure they you for all lines—manufacturing, jobs paying $1,800 and time is, after all. relative. A woman selling, servicing sets, in business to $5,000 a year. would recover before long. They assured for yourself, operating on board in Texas with every modern convenience ship or in a broadcasting station, me they would be well cared for at a television, aircraft Radio, and many writes to me that she has no time to be others. My FREE book gives you local hospital. Some months later I full information on Radio's many op- attractive. Mrs. Thompson, raising ten portunities for big success and how heard from Noailhat. He had recovered you can quickly learn at home to children on a run-down farm without any be a Radio Expert. and all but forgotten the crash. The conveniences, always had time to be at- mechanic from Perpignan got well, too. Many Make $50 to $lOO tractive. Whether one understands Mr. a After a brief stay in Granada, I set out Week Aviation is need- ing more and more Einstein's theory of relativity or not. it go along at S25. $30 or $15 for Paris. I got there and told Why trained Radio men. When my week when you can get ready in a Operators employed seems to me that these two examples a short time for Radio where the wife what had happened in the lonely through Civil Serv- good jobs pay §50. $75 and up to ice Commission earn demonstrate more or less adequately a $100 or $200 a week. Get into this valley in the South of Spain she said: $2,000to$2,SQ0ayear. live-wire field of quick success. certain relative value time and that "How interesting. But you have arrived of they have a pertinent application to this Your Training Need Not just in time. Come down to the Rue St. article's title The High Cost of Haste. Cost You a Cent Honore with me. I want you to meet — Hold your job. I'll not only Mademoiselle Augustine and see the train you in a few hours of your spare time a week, but t lie day pretty frocks I have picked out. 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We do most of NOW,rAFREEPROO%^ our hurrying because our minds are Get jumping ahead to unfavorable conclu- J. E. SMITH. President National Radio Institute sions. However, we have a marvelous Dept. 1UR3 Washington. D. C. resilience of spirit which gets us over Dear Mr. Smith: Send me your free book, ex- Sk^^^^^ our real troubles, and very little of our Acquainted! plaining your home-study training and Radio's m>- hurry and worry is caused by actual losses fortunitics for lu^trpav. understand this places me under no oblu or tragedy. The things about which we Make new friends everywhere. Big and that no salesman will call.

worry the most are in almost every in- list of descriptions (FREE) . Send NAME ! stance but trifles which are exaggerated for them. (One) may be your ideal! by our active imaginations. ADDRESS S American Friendship Society : Hurry should be unnecessary. As CITY STATE ! BOX 100-B. DETROIT. MICH. I've said, we hurry because we worry, and 104 Science and Religion life is the familiar world and not the in the spiritual domain requires a delicate symbolic scientific universe. surgical knife, and the only knife that The man who commonly spoke of these I, as a physicist, can manipulate is a (Continued from page 55) ordinary surroundings in scientific lan- bludgeon which it is true crushes illusion guage would be insufferable. It means a but at the same time crushes everything view that the future is predestined and great deal to me to conceive of God as of non-material significance, and even re- that time merely turns over the leaves Him through whom comes power and duces the material world to a state of un- of a story that is already written. guidance, but just because it means so creativeness. Until recently this was almost uni- much I have no use for it if it is only I am convinced that if in physics we versally accepted as the teaching of fiction which will not stand close examina- pursue to the bitter end our attempt to science, at least in regard to the material tion. Can we not give some assurance reach purely objective reality we should

universe. It is the distinctive principle that there is such a God in reality and simply undo the work of creation and of the mechanistic outlook which some that belief in Him is not merely a sop to present the world as we might conceive it years ago superseded the crude material- my limited understanding? to have been before the Spirit moved on istic answer. But today physical theory The fact that scientific method seems the face of the waters. The spiritual is not mechanistic. Now it is built on a to reduce God to something like an element in our experience is the creative foundation which knows nothing of this ethical code may throw some light on the element, and if we remove it as we are supposed determinism. So far as we have nature of the scientific method. I doubt trying to do in physics, on the ground yet gone in our probing of the material that it throws much light on the nature of that it always creates an illusion, we must universe, we cannot find a particle of evi- God. If the consideration of religious reach what was in the beginning. dence in favor of determinism. experience in the light of psychology Reasoning is our great ally in the quest seems to remove from the conception of for truth, but reasoning can only start

God every attribute of love, it is per- from promises. At the beginning of the J. HERE is no tinent to consider whether something of argument we must always come back to longer, I think, any need to doubt our in- the same sort has not happened to our our innate convictions. There are such tuition of free will. Our minds are not human friends after psychology has sys- convictions at the base even of physical merely registering a predetermined se- tematized them. science. We are helpless unless we admit quence of thoughts and decisions. Our It does not fall within my scope to give also, as perhaps the strongest conviction faculties, our purposes are genuine, and the questioner the assurance he desires. of all, that we have within us some power ours is the responsibility for what en- I doubt whether there is any assurance of self-criticism to test the truth of our sues from them. to be obtained except through the re- convictions. I think we must admit that, for we are ligious experience itself, but I bid him That is not infallible, that is to say, it scarcely likely to accept a theory which hold fast to his own knowledge of the is not infallible when associated with would make the human spirit more me- nature of that experience. I think that human frailty, but neither is reasoning chanistic than the physical universe. that will take him nearer to the ultimate infallible when practiced by our blunder- I now turn to the question, "What truth than codifying and symbolizing. ing intelligence. To make sure that we must we put into the skeleton scheme It is true that in the relativity theory are not without this guidance when we of thinking?" I have said that physical we continue our attempt to reach purely embark on the adventure of spiritual life, science is aloof from this transmutation. objective truths. With what results? A uncharted though it be, it is sufficient If I am positive on this side of the ques- world so abstract that only a mathe- that we carry a compass. tion, it is not as a scientist that I claim matical symbol can inhabit it. to speak. It was by looking into our own nature that we viewed the first failure of the physical universe to be co-exten- I.N THE other great mod- Are American Women sive with our experience of reality. Some- ern development of physics, the quantum thing through which truth may act must theory, we have, if I am not mistaken, Lax in Politics? surely have a place in reality if we are abandoned the aims and become content to use the term reality at all. to analyze the physical universe into ul- (Continued from page In our own nature, all through the timate elements which are frankly sub- 85) conduct of our consciousness with a na- jective. ture transcending ours, there are other If it is difficult to separate out the sub- against our sex are really done. Nothing things which claim the same kind of jective element in our knowledge of the so definitely implies the gaining of equal- recognition—a sense of beauty, of moral- external world, it must be much more ity as the existence of women in politics. ity, and finally at the root of all spiritual difficult to distinguish it when we come to Nothing for us could mean quite so much. religion, an experience which we describe the problem of a self-knowing conscious- No woman M. P. sees herself in the least as the consciousness of God. ness where subject and object, that which as a peculiar person either in the House

I would say that when from the human knows and that which is known, are one of Commons or out of it. In fact, where heart the cry goes up, What is it all and the same. women have been in politics it is taken about? it is no true answer to look only I have been laying great stress on ex- absolutely for granted, and in that re- at that part of experience which comes perience, speaking of the problem of ex- spect, I think we have made a step for- to us through certain sensory organs and perience. In this I am following the dic- ward. If I can establish the position of reply—it is about atoms and chaos, it is tates of modern physics. I do not wish women in the life of the country as be- about a universe of fiery globes moving to imply that every experience is to be tween your country and mine, one might on to impending doom; it is about non- taken at face value. There is such a get a different picture. What I have been computated algebra; but rather it is about thing as emotion and we must try not to trying to talk to you about is the posi- a spirit in which truth has its shrine, with be deceived. In any attempt to go tion of women in politics rather than any- potentialities of self-fulfilment in its re- deeply into the meaning of religious ex- where else. Along that line I think the sponse to beauty and right. perience, we are confronted by the diffi- women of Britain have established them- It is the essence of religion that pre- cult problem of how to protect and elim- selves and now are taken for granted, and sents this side of experience as a matter inate delusion and self-deception. I are looking across with eager and hopeful of everyday life. To live in it we have fully recognize that that problem exists, expectations of finding the influence of to grasp it in the form of familiar recog- but I must excuse myself from attempt- women in the politics of other countries nition and not as a series of abstract state- ing a solution. go at least as far as it has gone in our ments. Its counterpart in our outward The operation of cutting out delusion country in the past few years. 105

Ladies Must Fly than they would drive trucks or sail ocean All Stations liners across the seas. They will find HEAR / their places in the educational, promotion Clear as a Bell / {Continued from page 81) and executive departments.

is business. "I certainly consider Radio to be an "Aviation not a profitable concluded The aerial chauffeur does not receive very Improves Tone indispensable factor in flying," Reduces Static Miss Nichols, "and I'd like again to ex- much over a hundred dollars a month Separates Stations Brings In Distance gratitude and indebtedness to and a bonus on a mileage basis. l press my Works on AH Radios, Attached Instantly. Mr. Crosley whose plane made possible "I would like to see everyone fly as Send $1 00. We pay Postage Anywhere. much as possible, but women taking up Money refunded if not satisfied this flight." DYNAFILTER MFG. CO. (Dept. R.D.) aviation should not expect to find it com- "How did you happen to get the Cros- 1022 E. 178th St., New York ley plane?" I inquired. mercially profitable, or they will be dis- "Capt. Brock was ill in the hospital appointed." and therefore was unable to operate the What other startling surprises this fa- machine. Knowing that the plane was mous young aviatrix is going to spring available, I asked Mr. Crosley if I on the interested on-lookers, remain to be seen, but this much can be surmised; might have it." Don't Take Mr. Crosley's plane, "The New Cin- that this record-smashing is not going cinnati", has written many important to be confined between the constantly chapters in the progress of aviation. It shrinking borders of our continent. It established the present round-trip trans- may be that one bright morning, Miss continental record of 31 hours and 58 Nichols will take off a few hours from her Chance daily work to fly across the Atlantic A minutes from Jacksonville, Fla. to San and return, made last June say "howdy" to Paris. Diego, Cal. and re- with Capt. William S. Brock and Ed- Make sure of ward F. Schlee as pilots. It also partici- ceiving each issue pated in the Los Angeles to Chicago non- Strikes—Lucky and stop race in August and was the official of Radio Digest Radio ship in the National Air Reliability Unlucky Tour in September. at your home. And now Miss Nichols has added to {Continued from page 48) this long list of attainments the record A year's subscrip- transcontinental flight for women which uses his fingers, nonchalantly flicking jazz she made in 13 hours, 22 minutes and 31 demons from the air, as though he is not tion costs only seconds, breaking Mrs. Keith-Miller's exercising even as far as the wrists. record by 8 hours, and bettering Col. He explains his directing thusly: Lindbergh's mark by more than an hour! "Sometimes I use a baton to shift gears. .00 is second only to Lieut. Hawks in the The original idea of the baton was to ex- *3 She transcontinental speed record. tend the arm. Imagine a conductor with a

Miss Nichols is a graduate of Wellesley wooden arm. No life! There is expres- Sometimes newsstands are where she was a bright scholar and ma- sion in the fingers. I lift a finger at the sold out and often in- She has violins. My men all know what that jored in the social sciences. clement weather makes it always taken an active interest in sports, means. I wave a finger at the clarinets. uncomfortable to visit the and still goes in for hunting, polo, swim- I make a fist and sweep at the drummers. dealer in ming, riding and other outdoor activities. "There has been a great deal of com- news time to The incident that probably first awak- ment upon my introducing everything from purchase a copy. ened her interest in flying occurred in Jew's harp, or a saw, to funny little whis- It costs you no more to Atlantic City some eleven years ago, tles in my orchestra. They create not only us when she flew off in a plane with no less melody and rhythm—but humor. A dance have mail each issue of distinguished a person than Eddie Stin- orchestra should have an underlying cur- Radio Digest directly to son, pioneer aviator. Mr. Stinson was pre- rent of humor. Humor is happiness. your home and it is a con- paring to take off in the plane when this Dancing must be happy." venience you will enjoy. young slip of a girl, as Ruth Nichols And, wow, what an opinion B. A. Rolfe must have been at that time, insisted has about setting the classics to dance Start your subscription upon going up with him. While they music. He considers it vulgar and inex- with the next issue of were up, he looped with her. Miss Nichols cusable! Sort of sacrilegious, he feels too. Radio Digest by filling in did not have her Five Points then which He has all the bound-in-the-wool, old the coupon below and include a conservative pilot, and perhaps fashioned ideas of musical traditions de-

this first experience inspired her to set spite the fact that he is a jazz artist now. send it in to us.

down this fifth commandment! Lucky is the largest dance orchestra on Miss Nichols lives with her family in the air. It takes a lot of men to play all RADIO DIGEST PUB. CO., the exclusive countryside of Rye, New the little doo-dads "B. A." drags around. 410 Lexington Ave., York and is a firm believer in a home, At first there were thirty-six men. Now New York, N. Y. marriage, dishwashing, and all the etcet- there are fifty musicians and a lot of Please enrer mv subscription for eras of domestic life, but she believes singers. Radio Digest for one year, starting very firmly that every woman should Can you help keeping an eye on this with the number. learn to fly, that is, if her health is busy fellow to watch what he'll do with Enclosed find $3.00 to cover cost normal. "As the field is limited," con- the fortune he is recuperating? Just sort of same. tinued Miss Nichols, "I don't think she of a curious eye to see what he'll tackle ought to take it up as a profession. Al- next. Name though women may distinguish them- Want to bet that he'll found that Native selves in flight-breaking records, I don't School of music and perhaps be going Street believe that they will ever drive mail- around again some day with a button City, State carrying or commercial planes any more trying to find a shirt to sew it on? 106 The Pi pes ./pan

No More Farcical Auditions for Amateurs, Please—Keep Radio Censors Within Bounds And Let Them Strike A Happy Medium

CENSORS are always a bane, to George D. Lottman grow old. There's a ripe and mellow flavor someone or another, although it to compositions of this type, which make cannot be gainsaid that they serve them delectable dainties for the ear no a useful purpose, and that, sans pirant to Radio laurels is then told to matter how hoary they may be. censors, decency and dignity might, oc- "make it snappy" and under this tre- But it's different as far as last year's casionally run amuck.* mendous nervous strain, usually is licked popular song is concerned. Nothing is so Many professional censors, however, at the very start. Efforts of the amateurs ephemeral, at best, as the Tin Pan Alley have a bad habit of taking their authority are taken as jokes by the "holier-than- product; it's usually as short-lived and too seriously, and, sooner "or later, they thou" critics who pass judgment. evanescent as a newspaper. Of course, become despots. The responsibility of It's all too pathetic—and meaningless. there are exceptions, such as Missouri passing on the mental diet of their fellow- Nothing ever happens. Let's stop it! Waltz and Three O'clock in the Morning,

is a one, and the liability, at but there are only a few such tunes in a man huge % % =K times, goes to their heads. decade. CANNOT be gainsaid that there are Take, for example, the Radio censor. IT When it comes to the tin-panny type of certain commercial broadcasts that are True it is, as the big chains claim, that song, however, its usual life is a season, widely disliked, and yet they continue on one never knows who may tune in on a if it exists that long. Next season it be- like Tennyson's brook, with their sponsors program. A little child is as apt as not comes irksome, and the following year it apparently oblivious to public opinion. to dial in the giddy comment of a careless is nothing less than painful. know of several concerning which a announcer. America's youth must be pro- We Chronic song revivalists on the air unanimity of opinion prevails, and that tected, and so on. should take this into consideration. Irving opinion is that they represent a shameful Yet we have seen specimens of the Berlin's old songs are always pleasant, but waste of air. Perhaps you, too, have a Radio censor's handiwork that would make when you attempt to resurrect the mean- pet peeve in this regard, and find, after a horse laugh. They have read evil into ingless drivel of a year back, you're an- conversation with your friends, that they harmless song lyrics, and double-entendre noying — not entertaining — your Radio concur. into innocuous "gags". They have placed patrons. The programs we have in mind are bad the stamp of smut on innocent recitations because their sponsors, instead of sticking and inoffensive continuity. to the merchandising of their own produce, Can't censors ever strike a happy me- EXECUTIVE at one of the impor- have suddenly become self-appointed mas- AN dium? .tant Radio stations discusses our ter-showmen, to the neglect of their busi- article in last month's Radio Digest re- nesses and everything else. Fascinated by ferring to the indiscriminate choice of their new power, they abuse it, and tell FLATLY and irrevocably this writer songs on Radio programs. veteran purveyors of entertainment, who herewith declares against auditions in We commented, if you remember, on stand by amused, how the public is to be Radio studios, or anywhere else, for that the frequency with which certain songs catered to. The result is more often than matter. are offered, and declared that the repetition not pitiful; again a little knowledge proves Auditions are farces—all of them. We've of the "hits" of the day gave many lis- to be a dangerous thing. attended dozens, and have yet to be pres- teners-in a sinking feeling around the We know of one internationally famous ent at a "discovery" of any significance region of the stomach. orchestra that flopped disastrously under whatsoever. Auditions, it appears, are the The executive mentioned above offers a commercial auspices, and lost considerable last resort of the untalented; when all else solution. Here's his remedy: prestige. Now on its own, the same organ- has failed, the aspirant to Radio fame "What Radio stations need more than ization offers weekly a highly commendable submits to one. anything else," he told us, "is an official broadcast, and its director explains the A person with genuine talent soon finds who could be designated a 'program difference by saying, simply: "No longer an agent to interest himself in that per- editor,' and whose function it would be are we being interfered with by autocratic son's future. Experience has shown that to prevent Radio over-doses of certain amateurs who tell us what and how to only once in a decade is a genius unearthed tunes. play. Not being troupers, the smell of at those ludicrous sessions that occur "Under this plan each orchestra and the theatre is foreign to them." regularly at Radio stations, and result in vocalist would submit their programs to nothing but a costly waste of everyone's * * # this individual, sufficiently in advance," he time. continued. "If he notes thereon any ab- WHEN is a song "old"? How long Granted that those in authority are titles, he should be per- after a ditty has passed into for- surd reiteration of qualified to pass on the merits or demerits to 'blue-pencil' them unmerci- getfulness should it again be revived? mitted of those who offer their wares. What Songs with a tradition, like After the fully." then? Nothing ever happens but the rou- this same thought, Ball and The End of a Perfect Day, never In connection with tine taking of names and addresses, and the writer is in receipt of a letter from the amateur then waits pitifully to receive M. H. Aylesworth, president of the Na- the summons that never comes. * Critics are not always right, nor are they always tional Broadcasting Co., who says, among wrong! Publishers usually place their remarks in a It's unfair to the deluded victim, to "column" where complete freedom of expression can other things: "We are doing our best to be maintained without regard to begin with. He or she must appear at the Editors. prohibit duplication and I thoroughly Through this method censorship is not allowed to some inconvenient time and waste hours dull the sharp edge of criticism and the true function agree with you in regard to the policy of critics in stimulating keener thinking is protected. waiting for The Opportunity. The as- —Editor. of overdoing music by repetition." —

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cornet should play like a sigh, the oboe Arturo Toscanini should try to laugh and the violins should be angry (and Toscanini shakes his fist

in mid-air). And so sensitive is his ear, {Continued from page 7) that the entire orchestra may play for- tissimo and yet he will know if the cor- his blankets and begins to read it as of rage, called him a rather indelicate net has played the sigh or if the oboe has though it a book. In hours, he name. But all this despotism is only were two laughed correctly. has finished reading the manuscript and because Toscanini is an artist at heart — Toscanini is a happy man if the or- he knows every note that has been writ- and in soul and, consequently, an imper- chestra plays well; he has no other hap- ten there! fection wounds him more deeply than any piness in life. At the end of the rehearsal Everyone knows, moreover, how when possible pain. he will nod with approval to his men, he first came to the Metropolitan Opera But the members of his orchestra have applaud their efforts and then leave the House in 1913, he started the rehearsal noticed that during the past two years, stage joyfully. But if they play badly, of Wagner's Gotterdammerung the most his terrible tyranny has been tremen- — then the man becomes a different person. intricate and the longest opera score in dously diminished. He has become in- He scowls at everyone, he will not look existence without the music, and that finitely more patient and gentle. He is — to the right or to the left but will furi- he knew every bar and every passage in now kind and docile. He will explain, ously leave the stage; he will not come the whole opera! But not every one even a hundred times, a certain pas- how into contact with anyone for that day. knows that his memory is phenomenal in sage should be played then, the and when For example, during the intermission of other respects too. It was in 1913, when performer makes a mistake, he will ex- one of the Philharmonic concerts last he was rehearsing a Rossini opera at the plain once again. His patience is almost year—when one of the cornetists made a Metropolitan, that the first 'cellist made a superhuman. I myself have heard him mistake—Toscanini rushed furiously from mistake. It was a slight mistake and rehearse the flute solo in Pizzetti's Con- his platform, silently walked towards his Toscanini, far from mentioning anything, certo dell 'Estate thirty-six times! Nor private room and there punched madly did not even seem to notice it. The will he stop until he has attained per- into a thin walnut cabinet until it be- maestro had evidently not heard, thought fection. speaks quietly, explains He came mere splinters. But such days are the 'cellist with relief. clearly and tersely, and seldom loses his rare, after all—for as Toscanini himself The following season when Toscanini temper. says (and who should know better than with the Metropolitan he re- Of course, there are still times his was back when he?) the Philharmonic is one of the great- again and explodes it hearsed the Rossini opera once temper and when does—every est orchestras in the world. when he came to that very 'cello passage, once in a while—his musicians feel the in which the 'cellist had made a mistake real force of the famous Toscanini fury! year before, he raised a warning finger During a rehearsal of a a modern work by OOMETHING more inti- to the musician! Another anecdote Respighi, the orchestra failed to com- mate about this man: He is married and myself heard it, know which, because I prehend a certain interpretation, and has two daughters—one of whom acts as that it is no legend but a true happening Toscanini worked faithfully and patiently his advisor, councillor and dearest friend. years is even more unbelievable. Two over it for more than an hour. At last, During one of his tempestuous tempers, the came up to Toscanini all ago, trombonist seeing that his work was in vain and they will avoid him fastidiously—until and regretfully told the maestro that he that the orchestra still did not under- Mrs. Toscanini walks into his private would not be able to play that day. stand, he emitted a heart-breaking cry of study, soothes him and finally announces

"Why?" asked Toscanini with surprise. pain and such a furious volley of impre- that "the war is over." He earns, from the "One of my valves is broken," the trom- cations and Italian oaths that the very Philharmonic Symphony Society, $2,000 bonist explained. "I cannot possibly play walls quivered. The effect of that out- for every public appearance; rehearsals, lower C." burst was electric, and when his heat however, are free. He also does not get cooled somewhat and he explained once paid for assuming the leadership of the again his interpretation, the orchestra Bayreuth Festival. lOSCANINI thought for a played as it had never played before. He has very marked penchants and moment. Then he answered: "That's all One other time I saw Toscanini in prejudices, nor does he ever attempt to discussing right. You'll be able to play. There's anger. It was in with Arbos, conceal them. Sometimes he is brutally no lower C appearing in your music for the celebrated Spanish conductor, a cer- frank. He is a dear friend to Willem today!" tain passage in the Ninth Symphony of Mengelberg, the conductor, yet when he that Toscanini is, of course, a tyrant as a Beethoven. Arbos, venturing Tos- heard Mengelberg conduct the Fifth Sym- conductor. I say "of course" because canini had missed a certain effect, sang phony of Beethoven he openly called him every great conductor must be. He will to him the passage as he thought it should a "pig". He hates Tschaikovsky violently not permit anyone to do anything which sound. Toscanini volubly and heatedly and any mention of the Russian's name he does not sanction. At the Metro- told Arbos what he thought—in not very causes him to fly up in anger; he detests politan Opera House, a famous opera- gentle language. jazz—and once at a party of a rich so- singer was imported to sing the principal At rehearsals, Toscanini works minutely ciety woman he refused to shake the hand role in Gluck's Orfeo. During one of the over each passage, each phrase, each note. of George Gershwin; he dislikes all mod- solo passages, the soprano held her high He sings continually, both while explain- ern music, too—and yet his programs are C a trifle too long to suit the maestro and ing his interpretations and while the or- cluttered with "first-performances" only so he interrupted her outburst with the chestra is playing—in a nervous and because he feels it his duty to perform orchestral interlude. The soprano rushed high-pitched voice. In explaining his in- them. He worships Beethoven with a backstage, burst into violent tears, and terpretations he also dances and postures schoolboy awe and reverence. After swore she would never again sing under and pantomimes. For a vulgar sound he Beethoven comes Wagner. such a conductor. will tell his men to play like this—he He detests publicity, applause, ovations In La Scala, especially, was he known will inflate his cheeks and kick out his he never caters to the will of his audi- for his tyranny. He was known to throw right leg—for a delicate sound he will ences; he never reads the criticisms of books and music-stands at the unpro- quiver his fingers nervously in the air. his concerts; he sticks, with scrupulous tected heads of erring musicians. At one Toscanini has a most miraculous ear for fidelity, to every desire of the composer time he almost pierced out the eye of a sounds. Each different tone has a defi- he conducts. And he loves music with romantic first violinist with the end of his baton nite meaning for him and that meaning the simple passion of a young because the maestro had, in a moment he tries to convey to his orchestra. The lover. Serving the Great Southwest

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