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You can make no finer Forhan's YOUR TEETH ARE ONLY AS HEALTHY AS YOUR GUMS False teeth often follow pyorrhea, which comes to four people out of five past the age of 40 ' Radio Digest FOLLOW MY STARS OF YOUTH TO A P liearen fo\ter y&ia Frances Ingram herself tells how to keep the skin lovely at its 6 vital places ""V7"OU are just as young and attractive, X or just as old, as your skin looks," I told a charming woman who recently came to consult me. "Keep your skin im- maculately clean . Keep it youthful at my ' six stars . And you are youthfully lovely. Then I explained to her my method with Milkweed Cream. "To cleanse the skin, spread my Milk- weed Cream generously over your face and neck. Let it remain for several min- utes, to allow the delicate oils to pene- trate deeply into the pores, and then remove every vestige of it with soft linen. "Now—apply a fresh film of the Milk- weed Cream. With outward and upward strokes pat it into the skin at the six points starred on my mannequin. 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Won't you follow my six stars to THE forehead — To guard against lines the throat— To keep your throat from a clearer, softer, younger skin? and wrinkles here, apply Milkweed Cream, ftabbiness, cover with a film of Mill If you have any special questions to ask stroking with fingertips, outward from the and smooth gently downward, ending with about skin care, write for a copy of my center ofyour brow. rotary movement at base of neck. booklet, "Why Only A Healthy Skin Can Stay Young." Or tune in on my radio , the eyes— Ifyou would avoid aging crow's THE NECK — To prevent a sagging chin and smooth Ingram's about the eyes, stroke a lined neck, stroke with . hour, "Through The Looking Glass feet, fingertips with a feather touch outward, beneath eyes with Milku middle of chin U With Frances Ingram," Tuesdays, 10:15 and over eyelids. the tars and patting firmly all along the A. M., E. S.T., over and Associated WJZ jaw contours. Stations. the MOUTH — Drooping lints arc easily de- it feated by filming thefingertips with my cream THE SIloi i in us— To have shoulders that and sliding them upward ovt r the mouth and fr are blcmish-jrec and firmly Stm then outward toward the ears, starting at with Milkweed Cream and massage uitb the middle of the chin. palm of hand in rotary motion. oP INGRAM'S uDeeck oream Frances Ingram, Dcpt. R-110 108 Washington St., N. Y. C Nami Please send me your free booklet. "Why Onlv a Healthy Skin Can St.iv Young," which tells in AJJnst complete detail how to C»re lor the sbn and to guard the six vital spots ol youth. City. .Sun KSZnrra ^ ^OAI -2 |93|" THE NATIONAL BROADCAST AUTHORITY Harold P. Brown, Charles R. Tighe Managing Editor O «TR\0 Associate Editor Henry J. Wright, Nellie Revell, Advisory Editor Associate Editor Including RADIO REVUE and RADIO BROADCAST Raymond Bill, Editor June, ipjl CONTENTS COVER DESIGN—Portrait of Mary Hopple. Al Wilson MORTON DOWNEY—Riding the Crest with Newest Entry in the Race for Airwave Supremacy. Grenville Richards 6 LILY PONS—Baby of the Metropolitan . .How She Rose from Pride of Village to Operatic Star. Lillian G. Genn 10 THE PRODIGY WHO GREW UP—Toscha DOROTHY STONE Seidel, one Ex-Child-Genius who has Succeeded. David Evoen 13 MARY HOPPLE Jack Craw- FROM DOG WHIP TO BATON— . .is still the clever She's the Cov- daughter of Fred Stone ford, the Alaskan Troubadour who became Maestro. Jack S. Allman 14 ergirl this month, and but if papa doesn'twatch SISTERS OF THE SKILLET— Lowdown on don't you like that fan. outhemay soonbe known Biggest thrill for her was East and Dumke, by Their Own Announcer . Jean Paul King 17 as the that when Schumann Heink "Father of HELEN KELLER—She Cannot Hear, She Cannot adorableDorothyStone" ! heard her sing as a See, but she Spoke to a Nation! Anne B. Lazar 19 Both the. big networks youngster and prophe- SOUL SAVING STATION—Roughnecks and have sent her voice on sied that Mary would Millionaires Rub Elbows at Tom Noonan's Mission. coastwise air waves Dorothy Thomas 22 succeed. She has—have lately as guest artist. HOW THEY STARTED—You'd be Surprised— you heard her on the to learn Humble Beginnings of the Headliners! Evans E. Plummer 24 A rm sirongQitakerHour WUXTRY! BROKENSHIRE—Norman is Friday nights at NBC? Elected "Mayor" of Mirthquakers after Close Contest. 27 TED HUSING—Astrology Picks Him as Future President— if Mars isn't spoofing. Peggy Hull 28 WMBC BROADCASTS MURDER TRIAL— Ears of a Nation hear Windup of Buckley Tragedy. Ted Davoood 30 BROADCASTOR OIL—Ironic Nonsense in the Inimitable Style of the Prince of Pineapples. Ray Perkins 32 "DYNAMIC" RUBINOFF—Virile Batoneer Keeps the Interviewer (and his orchestra) Hopping! Harold E. Tillotson 49 TUNEFUL TOPICS—Latest Song Hits . Who T Wrote 'em and why . told by our own . Rudy V alike 53 NELLIE REVELL'S GABALOGUE—Chinfest about Babe Ruth, Grantland Rice, et al. Nellie Revell 55 AHOY, CLUB LEVIATHAN!—Nautical Nights aboard the Night Club of the Air. Mark Quest 66 CUES FOR CUPID'S CAPTIVES—How to Be- have Though Engaged—Most Discreetly, M;y Dear! Emily Post 68 HUNTING WITH THE DX HOUNDS— Plucking Distant Stations out of the Ether. Charles J. Gilchrist 74 STATION POPULARITY CONTEST WIN- NERS— 93 Coming and going (p 4) Radiographs (50) Editorial (52) V.O.L. (56) Marcella (58) Station News (begins 61) Women's Section (begins 68) Indi-Gest (72) Chain Calendar Features (75) Official Wave Lengths (80) DOROTHY DEE... Dot's in a triangle Radio Digest, 420 Lexington Ave., New York, N. Y. Lexington 1760. will Phone Radio Digest not SMITH . — be held responsible for unsolicited manuscripts received KATE not the three-sided through the mail. All manuscripts submitted had her should be accompanied by return postage. 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